Recent content by Seffix

Player got a Lab ship at the start of the first adventure. We just finished adventure 7, and they haven't even visited the starship. The pinnace has not left the pad in the downport, but one of them is using it as her apartment.

DriveThru just told me that JTAS #1-12* were updated today, so this sort of counts as a release in 2025. How significant are these updates? *(But #3 x 2, and not #4)

Last episode featured a tragic visit to the planet's only (known) Daryen, who happens to run a quirky gastrocloset (because it's that kind of campaign). Some Daryen food and drink currently available on Emerald Kemehm -- Like tea and comes in three different buds (types). Nonggikehm is for the...

I've used: Zethdo aeldhoeo alkhoe tuedh ouzdhagzang — (i. vg.) (S)He smells like (s)he thinks (s)he has to sell (her)himself (for a blustery sort) Gnangkaeak — (a. gv.) Fur-soft. An undesirable quality in meat or mates Grra – (n. gv.) Mom Gveak aeagz — (n. gv.) “Paper Fang” One night stand...

Even if one's mouth and ears can handle the different sounds, it doesn't mean their mind will easily distinguish between different phonemes. American English has vowel sounds that Castilian Spanish does not. Conversely, Americans have a Dickens of a time distinguishing between long and short...

Transponders, insurance, and bureaucracy, the things adventure is made of.

The couplet after the paragraph about gravity winning warmed the cockles of my wizened heart.

It's all in Google Docs (regularly saved to PDF, JIC...) I only get to play by post, which generates its own history, divided by episode/adventure I also have a few docs of character information (I include their term history in their info so I know roughly where they were and what they were...

Kfedzlloron — That burnt fur smell Vargr associate with home cooking. Enkfou — A pattern style popular with Vargr. Something like jagged paisley. Daghehdhabhehl — The Te-zlodh word for mouthfeel, the tactile component of the experience of eating a food (e.g. crunchy vs. chewy).

In the alternative Pushmi-pullyu gambit, the bombers are not starships, using the saved tonnage for extra munitions, sensors, maneuver, and fire control. Then, instead of jumping out when their individual missions are done, they perform high-velocity coordinated overrun actions that place them...

There must be an alien faction that favors that mechanical action.

But once again, they left out slithering.

I'm sure they can be made to produce a comforting cooing sound by TL9.

Some Vargr places: Chomper Alley — 1 block of small eateries in Vargtown Ekuerrg’s burger stall — In Chomper Alley, on the northern side. Best part is the sauce with chiddles for a special texture. Spinning neon magsculps of three Vargr with battleaxes… It’s next to the Starcandy joint...

Slitherbots and the urge to develop another mode of locomotion. Slitherbots