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A dangerous servant and a fearful master. Freedom, joy, choice, consequence. Teneo ea quae fūror.

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One of the Major advances for the Gloaming, a pilot archetype haunted by an old pre-giant-robot-piloting crime or non-criminal-but-still-awful-fuckup (the referenced Albatross).

#amwriting
ULTIMA NECAT: _The last one kills._ **Prerequisite**: *Vulnerant Omnes*. Add the following choice to the list of options in 'When your life becomes untenable': - [ ] Wake up at Base Medical with the *Karmic Crater* Major fallout. You can't use this option if you already have *Karmic Crater*. Handle your imminent death like anyone else would. *KARMIC CRATER*: When you take an action, the GM chooses one: * 1d6 Mind stress on failure. * Change a Normal roll to Risky, or a Risky one to Dangerous. * -1 forward to your next fallout check. Spend 3 hold from *Albatross* to clear KARMIC CRATER. >SUSURRUS: Remove the 'Change a Normal roll to Risky, or a Risky one to Dangerous' option from *Karmic Crater*. >EREMITE: While you have *Karmic Crater*, +1 to Body, Mind, and LINK protection, and if you started the session with *Karmic Crater*, gain +1 hold for *Albatross*. >IT FEELS MORE LIKE A MEMORY: While you have *Karmic Crater*, when you take minor fallout, take 1d6 Mind stress, -1 forward to your next fallout check, then clear *Karmic Crater*.
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
palecur.bsky.social
sorry to steal @rincewind.run's bit but this is too apposite to not do
"Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you *have* to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to *know* you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you *squirm*. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word." Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
palecur.bsky.social
working in a Powered by the Resistance system means coming up with fallout results, and oof finding interestingly novel mechanical penalties for injury is some brain work. but hey, i'm 20% of the way through this section; specifics folded in because no way i'm typing in all that alt text #amwriting
# Body fallout Holes, breaks, burns. What's inside coming outside, and what's outside venturing inside. The entropy of the flesh. ## Minor These won't kill you. Not right away. * bleeding (laceration) * stunned * scraped meridian (arm) * scraped meridian (leg) * perforated eardrum * rattled * dislocation (shoulder) * dislocation (hip) * burn (surface) * shock (limb) * fracture (minor) * weary # Major Crushed and shattered. Vision dims. Horizons shrink. The debt everyone owes, coming due. * blackout (brief) * exhausted * ruptured ligament * burn (full-thickness) * shock (torso) * fracture (limb) * fracture (flail chest) * bleeding (profuse)
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
palecur.bsky.social
Impossible not to hear this in the subtle, menacing tones of a Hitchcock villain
You've read your last free article.
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
palecur.bsky.social
same energy
Roast Beef Kazenzakis, in a tuxedo: "Yahoo! has a regrettable logo, but Google, your mom made your logo. You were running late that day, and she drew it in the car on the way to the meeting."
October 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
palecur.bsky.social
how your email finds me
quique the dog, or at least the tip of his snoot and an inch of tongue. the rest is under a soft blue blanket.
October 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
palecur.bsky.social
No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about.
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
palecur.bsky.social
No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about.
October 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
palecur.bsky.social
macOS Notes: launches
me:
Guy in driver's seat looking back: "HOP IN WE'RE GONNA GO FIND OUT WHO TF ASKED"
October 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
palecur.bsky.social
when she texts 'u up'
a finger hitting the SUBMIT key on a keyboard
October 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
palecur.bsky.social
Han
Handling: General considerations The cat is faster and has sharper teeth and nails than you do. It has no 'code of ethics' or considerations for its own future. In a fair fight it will win. 1. DON'T FIGHT A CAT 2. USE YOUR BRAIN 3. USE DRUGS
October 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
palecur.bsky.social
found it!
David Simon to Stephen Miller: "Speaking as another Jew: You're a fucking shanda and if there were only nine of us gathered and it was the morning of my father's yahrzeit and you stumbled in and promised to just sit in the corner and shut up, I'd say, sorry, no, we don't have a minyan."
September 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
palecur.bsky.social
Unmissable. A genuine artistic triumph.
NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU
September 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
palecur.bsky.social
yet again,
A panel from the comic Preacher. The main character, Jesse, is berating a guy. Jesse: "Why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it? YOU!" guy: "wh- wh- wh--?" Jesse: "WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR CHIN?" (the guy does not have a chin)
September 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
palecur.bsky.social
Gina Schock, because I'm friggin ancient
Gina Schock is the drummer for the Go-Go's and House of Schock, her post-Go-Go's project what had one album and then went poof. "Middle of Nowhere" isn't terrible honestly.
September 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
palecur.bsky.social
Rat meme. 1. Person: "Get away rat^WSTATE you carrier of disease^WVIOLENCE 2. Rat says "I also carry presents^WCIVIL ORDER" 3. Person: Aww 4. Rat: It's disease^WBASED ON THREATS OF VIOLENCE Person: GOD DAMMIT
September 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
palecur.bsky.social
ZEKTOR
ZEKTOR
August 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
palecur.bsky.social
fuckin XYBOTS
a human faces a robit down a corridor in simple pixel grafx
August 31, 2025 at 1:19 AM
palecur.bsky.social
once again tapping the sign
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis
August 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
palecur.bsky.social
A cheerful star with eyes and a big grin, party horns, and balloons, emblazoned OFFICER DOWN!
August 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
palecur.bsky.social
tl synchronicity
screenshot of my timeline where the post I'm responding to is immediately followed by a post from clove.bsky.social which reads, in its entirety, "biiiiiitch"
August 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
palecur.bsky.social
let's find out if you can:

www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/pardoned-off...

stop being a rube.
a pardon does not expunge your record
July 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
palecur.bsky.social
I'll expect you to do your own homework after this.

legalclarity.org/if-pardoned-...
while the conviction remains on an individual's criminal record...
July 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
palecur.bsky.social
feels bad tbh
Screenshot of Baldur's Gate 3 downloading on steam at 5mbps. The indicator says it'll be done in 2 days and 15 hours :(
July 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
palecur.bsky.social
Looks like it's gated behind login -- anyone with an account that's logged in can see it.
itch.io search results for Consentacle showing the Print & Play edition. this is from logged-in account. when logged out, this search does not return the main game.
July 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM