QUICK QHARACTERS

( A. Miles Davis put out a call for short character descriptions on googleplus )

Adristus the Burrower/ human gone deep/ underranger
unkempt dude, lantern hat and spiked chain, long moustaches.

Sepris the Squire/ fell halfling/ wizzard
pointed ears, long thick eyebrows. carries a wooden cage filled with trained rats.
(squire to)
Brutus, 33rd Earl of Undercity/ a dog/ noble
chain armor and tabard, a little mutt. Brutus' sigil is a triad of skulls on a field, sable. last seen when pulled into the everwomb.

Gasoline/ bottle wight and hell queen/ noble witch.
made up of a sort of black ooze that holds her together in the form of a beautiful woman, an iron mask, and a bunch of stained yellow glass bottles filled with noxious chemicals.

Drowning Willow/ human /mudfighter.
scanty hide armor, bare chest. hairy, enthusiastic. Wears a fur fox hat/scarf thing, with ears.

Walt Dederoth/ human/ Agent of the Human Government
suit. nerdy pinhead type, glasses and mullet. strong trouble sense.

Birthday/ human / thief.
strange growth on back. chain mail. flush with knives.

Gren the Younger/ ogress / gunslinger.
cloth only. wears a bandana. her sidearm is the acid storm viper death angel revolver.

Isenburg Armagnacs/ human/ parsnip farmer & thug.
scrawny guy, pockmarked, pitchfork, lots of pockets and patches, peasant hat, big nose, no shoes.

Millard Morgan Damarius/ human / Royal Philosopher (which is to say, thief)
richly attired, loves bullshit, consults on mysteries. knows science, history, forbidden lore.

Grace Cat-Catcher/ human / motorcyclist and brawler
kinda penelope pitstop/commander keen costume. short curly pink hair, pink and white plasticware armor. square jaw.

Tedlingen / human / fighter
chain+shield. sweet gold mask. his warhorse, Alexei, in chain.

Sir Robert / dog / knight.
miniature warpug.

Grizel / slimy swamp dwarf / dwarf.
stone hammer, straw boater hat, overalls, hella flies. oily beard, unkept. knows architecture as good as a next dwarf.

Spectre / human / cuberpunk agent
skinny. it's always night where he's from, so he always wears sunglasses. metal plate in head, hair kept short and scruffy. revolver. He has the augmentation for throwing heavy stuff around.

Henk / a goat.

Kepler / spider-man / prophet.
ragged robes. an evangelist.

Wilby Locust / human / cyberpunk street kid.
hoodie, sleek metal plates underneath. mouth-and-nose gas mask. pistols. a graffiti artist and rebel.

Creature / elf / wizard
skinny mohawky white elf dissident. shit-eating grin. smokes long cigarrettes, one gold earring, throws sparklies around.

Alfred Furlong / halfling / habadasher (fighter)
travelling salesman, impeccable suit and hat, d6 more in suitcase. careful thick moustache and muttonchops. curt.

Silas / human / guild beggar wizard
extremely chaos. carries a treatise on the reality of reality.

Vile Octavius / human / bandit.
a member of the terror cell APEIRON. domino mask. stealth. always has rope + stuff to make a firebomb.

THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY

i reference this book often but i rarely link it; which is a shame. You might wish to read it, it is the best book on this topic.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41006/41006-h/41006-h.htm
THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY
ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE
Romance and Superstition of Various Countries
BY THOMAS KEIGHTLEY

DRAGONS EXPLAINED

SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THIEF WIZZARD IS DEAD BUT I MET HIM AT A CROSSROADS AND HE STILL HAS SOME FLESH ON HIS BONES

http://infinitestartoad.blogspot.com.au/
GO BOTHER HIM FOR MORE GOOD D&D IDEAS

something i liek about the uni is the security is lax as fuck

just been walking into lectures i never intend to pay for and taking notes on law and economics and civic engineering

if you need free legal advice; here is some: im not a real lawyer. do not try to sue me for negligence. i don't have any money.

if you dont have any money you can't be sued, its illegal

16 minutes ago

what are the five main types of dragons?

running a thing, 2 secs

k

better not be colors again

well i'll start rambling about dragons for a bit

good. i'll not interrupt

in BRIMHOLD there are only seven dragons, anything that might resemble a dragon is actually the offspring of a dragon and a virgin princess or a dragon and a mighty she wolf etc etc

there's the dragon of the east, the dragon of the west, the hydra, the chimera, the golden dragon, the dragon of the seas

and some other ones i forget

but they all knew each other cause they were the dread children of bahamut and tiamat, and they all worshipped the great wyrm salamandus before he was slain by ygtrol

um, i think dragons are fey creatures

and their own flawlessness is their only flaw

some lesser dragons can be outsmarted by appealing to their greed or ego but true dragons long ago reached nirvana so they cant be tricked like that

i think fire breath, controversially, should be given to only one dragon

but anyway, the five types of dragons...

yeah idk

cant think of a cool gimmick

i was thinking geography might be interesting, the dragons that live in the desert are different from the mountain ones

but that's kind of plaid

yeah roll with that

deserts, mountains swamps, temples, water, and space

space being the apocryphal sixth kind

desert dragons are the smallest and have the hardest skin, they cant see or hear only detect vibrations

not flyers then

mountain dragons jump like goats

water dragons fly and hunt like birds of prey

whale-eaters yeah

temple dragons shit corinthian marble collumns and vomit out ancient runes

they cannot help but create ornate temples around them

those are medusas and shit

behiromanders

space dragons should be like really fleshy

like earthworms

but planet sized

wyrms

they know the 1001 names of jubilex

right, because space clouds

which is heavens

where are you moving to

[redacted]

near matt groves used to live

i got mates who live there

i'm there frequently

now you got one more

who?

matt rundle

!!!(!)

alright im posting this

ok time for cards math

CARDS MATH

dice math is platonic, and mostly in dice math we deal with small numbers. we dont multiply, we add and subtract. multiplication quickly gives you too-large numbers.

poker math is american, revolutionary french, mamluk - and more than this. invented by the chinese. old as paper. the poker math, its not platonic. its exponential.

exponents are hard to store on a computer, but the number 52! is actually much like the number 52. so we can do arithmetic on exponents, and we just have to remember the index.  just treat 52! as 52 for exponent purposes, you can store the number 52. easy.

do you know how data works? its a bunch of bits in a series, bits are either 1 or 0.

a 32 bit number is like

00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001

thats the number 1. the highest number we can represent is:

2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * ... 32 times. 2 ^ 32.

EXPONENTS
how many different hands are there in poker?

how big is 52! truncated to 5 cards -- i'll tell you. it's like

52 * 51 * 50 * 49 * 48 ( which is 52! - 47!, which is larger than 2 ^ 32 if i remember rightly )

cant do that on a calculator. too many numbers.  but its very easy to do with a deck of cards. a deck of cards is a stack of qbits; and more than this, a stack of any length. the quantum computer is as old as paper.

thats the number of possible hands you can be dealt in poker. it's a too-big number. doesnt fit in 32 bits. so if we wish to calculate the probabilities we will need a large number library  -- or we can use excel or something. everybody can have free spreadsheets now, through google, they probably do large exponents too, i havent checked. in any case you can do the math on the indexes themselves, often. this is probably easier.

MAPS

cards is a space, with dimensions and shit like that. its like: suits * ranks. for each suit one card from each rank. for each rank one card from each suit.

ranks are like numbers + faces

suits are like red + black,but notice that the four suits form a quadrad: its one red for each black and one black for each red. but its also one weak card for each strong and one strong for each weak. what i mean is (clubs and diamonds) are weak, and (hearts and spades) are strong. It's hard to say whether red or black is stronger though. different games rank the suits in different orders. this is fine.

 we can easily make an alternate game where diamonds are strong and hearts are weak. it really depends on what you want to do. in any case a poker deck is an easy structure to build in code. its just four ordered sets of the same 13 cards. plus two jokers lets not forget, wildcards are important too. so we get to 54! truly.  that is, if you deal out all the cards of a poker deck, you get 54! possible orders. these are permutations though, not combinations. i have been lying to you. combinations are a little bit tricky, but not really. you can figure it out. i prefer to work with permutations because i like considering the order the cards come out.

the order doesnt really matter at all: the same five cards are the same five cards no matter which order they come out. i mean maybe in texas hold em but in the other traditional poker i just deal you five cards and you bargain with them. nobody knows what you have.

next: the tarot.

ok enough words time for dice math with dog wizards

all dice have a high bias so long as we count the halfway number as high. For instance, a DC10 d20 check vs no modifier succeeds 55% of the time. if we count 10 as high - 11 numbers are high.  THIS IS GOOD THOUGH because it means we win more often than we fail. I wanted to note how often we do this mistake though, i do it constantly:

on a d12, counting 6 as high: is 58%
on a d10, counting 5 as high: is 60%.
on a d8, 4 as high: is 62%
on a d6, 3 as high: 67%

on a d4 i almost never do it. on a coin you can't.

anyway what im saying is i usuallt forget about this bias and let the last-low be the first-high. but you give the guy a slight advantage with this, larger if its a smaller dice. one of those things.

CHAOS GODS SHORTHAND

my CANON 8 OLD GODS ARE: jubar, the eye. behemoth, the beast, eris, the well, lucifer, the joker. leviathan the serpent, the PROPHET is the fool, the bird is ziz, the slave is the god in chains

anyone can be the prophet.

THESE ARE THE 8 SIDES OF THE TETRATEUCH. tiamat is the whole thing, and the void is the soul of all the gods mixed together, the zero.

CHAOS GODS RUNDOWN

chaos gods:
hastur: the shadow, the father-and-son. cthonic. metal.
eris: discord, the goddess discordia. monty python style godess. hippies.
eredis: discord+wiki. all-knowledge. esoterics.
marriage of hastur and eredis: an abusive relationship that suits noone. fills up the discourse. talks about itself. also represents vaporwave, i like vaporwave.

leviathan: for the fishes in the sea. in my model the sea is the internet.
behemoth: for the earth. meat space?
ziz: for the birds. spoken word?
the devil: in flames. cousin to hastur. paper?

EDIT: ziz is code, is language and crypto. the devil is publishing.



domogorgon; the two gods in one, drama and tragedy.
tiamat: the all gods. dragons. hates ziz.

yahoo: girl chaos.
google: boy chaos.
wiki: neutral chaos.
ur own website: null chaos.
tumblr: yahoo with a metal face
googleplus: google with a hacker face
wikimedia/wikileaks/etc: wiki with a ?????, the truth
the ultimate null website: the ideal. everyone sees but you post nothing.

metal, close to metal. the barest manliest form
rock, bedrock. similar.
hippie, idk much about hippies. theyre into flowery psychadelic girl metal
goth: being the void. screamo.
the all-metal. vaporwave. the new gods.