Generic Brainstorming!

[Grimm]

For some reason (politics plus a race, I suppose) this put me in mind of J.G.Ballard's short story "The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy considered as a downhill motor race".

Funny you should mention Ballard. Just the other day I ran across the original film Crash, from 1971, based on the short story not the novel, and starring the man himself. It's pretty damn good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT2eECKvdTc

[absolutego]

Then you should listen to this:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-a ... stosterone

great listen, thanks for the link (and this is probably the first time i visit this thread).
this is the third or fourth time that i fall into TAL only to forget that it exists a couple days later.

[Confidence Interval]

Funny you should mention Ballard. Just the other day I ran across the original film Crash, from 1971, based on the short story not the novel, and starring the man himself. It's pretty damn good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT2eECKvdTc

Ooh, I will check that out - though I liked the Cronenberg version, which I thought captured something of the spirit of the novel. I await the release of the big-budget Hollywood version of The Atrocity Exhibition eagerly.

[Pteriforever]

Names on graves, randomly selected from the morgue/logfile/whatever.

[Pteriforever]

Do you think rPois couild be made a 3-level thing? Like, one item grants 90% resistance, two items grants 98% resistance, three grants total resistance?

[Pteriforever]

Acquirement for scrolls.

Would grant 3-5 out of (summoning, EWI, EWII, detect curse, remove curse, teleport, blinking, amensia, identify, fear) or 1-2 out of (vorpalise weapon, enchant armour, EWIII, silence)

[Grimm]

New monster: terror skink.

[Confidence Interval]

New monster: terror skink.

How about a whole branch containing creatures once thought extinct? Terror Skinks, Coelacanths,... what else?

[Happy Corner]

Dinosaurs!

[Grimm]

New branch: the Oubliette of the Lazarus Taxa.

Monsters include terror skinks, coelacanthuses, tree lobsters, Gilbert's Potoroos (a violent variety), night parrots, and of course jellyfish trees.

Not much loot, but you get to publish your results in Nature.

[jtron]

GET OUT OF MY MIND. By which I mean to say I'm a little freaked out because I spent a lazy morning today reading about lazarus (and Elvis) taxa, including the Terror Skink.

[Grimm]

That's just what I was doing too, incited by the boingboing post about the tree lobsters. (Also looked at pictures of Ball's Pyramid, which is really something to see.) Even though the Hive is no more, the Crawl Hivemind appears to be healthy.

Happy Corner: Dinosaurs are not Lazarus taxa.

[Confidence Interval]

Nature.

This journal is beyond your current level of understanding.

How about Scientific American instead?

[Grimm]

You have 17 journal article levels left.
You haven't published any journal articles.

[Jabberwocky]

Nature.

This journal is beyond your current level of understanding.

How about Scientific American instead?

Scientific Dweller of the Dungeon of Zot.

[Jabberwocky]

Two new monster proposals.
Deep elf pretty good archer. "This elf has devoted his life to mastering archery but still has a way to go."
Deep elf bladeaverage. "This elf is okay with a sword. Not great with a sword but but at least it doesn't seem to be cutting its hand with its sword."

[Grimm]

orc defrocked priest

[Confidence Interval]

You have 17 journal article levels left.
You haven't published any journal articles.

Your articles have been cited 0 times.
Your h-index is 0.

[Grimm]

You fail to get tenure!
You die...

[Confidence Interval]

You fail to get tenure!

You eke out a living as a teaching affiliate and play Crawl in your spare time.
You die...

[Roderic]

Found an ancient bone altar of Kikubaaqudgha.
Miasma emanates from the human’s flesh.
The human is engulfed in dark miasma. The human is poisoned.
The human is engulfed in dark miasma. The human looks even sicker.
The human dies! The human rises from the dead!
The human awakes as a lifeless postdoc!

[nicolae]

"The University of Crawl is unable to offer you admission to the Gladiator graduate program."

[Confidence Interval]

Will you be the one to retrieve the fabulous doctorate of Zot from the depths?

[Grimm]

Crazy Yiuf will head your examining committee (or whatever it's called).

[Jabberwocky]

Crazy Yiuf will head your examining committee (or whatever it's called).

Crazy Yiuf might actually do well in academia checking citations. The citation form for proper papers is insanely complex and seemingly slightly random.

[Grimm]

I believe I'll start thingsnamedafteritalianrevolutionaries.tumblr.com

That thieving larrikin Randall Munroe is stealing ideas from the Tavern now:
http://xkcd.com/1025/

[Confidence Interval]

I believe I'll start thingsnamedafteritalianrevolutionaries.tumblr.com

That thieving larrikin Randall Munroe is stealing ideas from the Tavern now:
http://xkcd.com/1025/

He's notorious for it. But stealing from the Tavern is surely a new low, even for him.

[dk]

New monster: terror skink.

How about a whole branch containing creatures once thought extinct? Terror Skinks, Coelacanths,... what else?

Dodos, of course!

[Jabberwocky]

New monster: terror skink.

How about a whole branch containing creatures once thought extinct? Terror Skinks, Coelacanths,... what else?

Dodos, of course!

Dodos aren't Lazarus taxa. In order for a species to be a qualify to be Lazarus taxa, it has to be thought extinct and then found not to be extinct.

[Grimm]

Yeah, anyway the Oubliette of the Lazarus Taxa is going to branch off from the much larger Cavern of Extinction. Dodos will feature as one of the main threats there.

[Grimm]

This may bode ill for the future of this thread:

Brainstorming Doesn't Work

[Confidence Interval]

How about a whole branch containing creatures once thought extinct? Terror Skinks, Coelacanths,... what else?

Dodos, of course!

Dodos aren't Lazarus taxa. In order for a species to be a qualify to be Lazarus taxa, it has to be thought extinct and then found not to be extinct.

A living dodo would have to be found before they were eligible for inclusion in the new Lair ending. Too bad for you, dodos!

[Confidence Interval]

This may bode ill for the future of this thread:

Brainstorming Doesn't Work

And we thought we were being so productive...

[Zicher]

Suggestion: Rename this thread to "General BrainYiufing".

[Grimm]

Too bad for you, dodos!

Dodos: sucks to be you!

[Pteriforever]

New enemy ability: Paratormentbanishhellfire. This would be given to a new enemy, the hellyak, which is an upgraded death yak who appears in early Lair.

[Grimm]

Rename it the hellyeah and I'm in.

[Pteriforever]

Wands of inaccuracy and cure poison.

[Grimm]

Potion of Curing - when you drink it you grow a big mane of dyed black hair and have eyeliner appear under your eyes. You feel fey and depressed.

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

Potion of Jaxing -- your arms transform into sturdy metallic appendages. You can smack the ground to temporarily stun or scare weaker opponents.

[PerverseSuffering]

Potion of Jaxing -- your arms transform into sturdy metallic appendages. You can smack the ground to temporarily stun or scare weaker opponents.

Wassat, a potion of Blade Hands Dulling?

[Pteriforever]

New resistance: rOneshot. Ensures that no single attack can deal more than 90% of maxHP.

[Grimm]

rDeath

[Confidence Interval]

rDesire to find Orb.

[Confidence Interval]

rDesire to enter stupid dungeon in the first place.

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

You need to copyright rStuff (a GNU GPL opposite to iStuff).

[Grimm]

rCrawl

[Confidence Interval]

rCrazy Yiuf's Corner

[Grimm]

rInternet

[Confidence Interval]

rTechnology.

You smash the machine.
You kill the machine!
Your Ludditism score increases to Level 2!