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Mages Guild: Missing Department Heads Edition

Archwizard Antruthius, Head of the Mages Guild and Master of all Arcane Schools Wed 10 Feb 2016 00:24:49 No.45327748 View View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Hear ye, hear ye. I hereby call to order this meeting of the most illustrious Mages Guild! First of all I would like to congratulate everyone on handling the outbreak of stray portals across over the guild. The ones responsible have been found and been dealt with. A year in the plane of bees should show them not to portal away my private stash.

Now, there has been talk lately how a lot of the department heads haven't been seen in a while, apparently it took the head of the Pyromancy department three months to return after being lost for anyone to care. The head of Divination is still on his extended vacation, the head of Illusion hasn't been seen for decades, even though her department claims she's still around, the head of Chronomancy isn't due to show up for another year or so after he jumped ahead hoping for more interesting times and the head of Entropomancy is said to have turned into nothingness or something. Anyway with the heads of Geomancy and Aeromancy both retiring today, on top of all these no-shows, people have been talking about assigning replacements. Normally I would just let the departments handle this internally but it's getting out of hand so give me some options here!

Welcome to the Mages' Guild. Pick a name and join in! Conflicts are resolved with d20s when needed, or with playing it out. When the thread dies on /tg/, we keep it going on archive.4plebs For additional resources, please visit http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Mage%27s_guild

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High Summoner Emilia Ariedaeonis

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High Summoner Emilia Ariedaeonis Wed 24 Feb 2016 00:14:28 No.45333596,11577 Report Delete

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>>45333596,11576
>Noel, what the fuck are you doing?

Illyanna, Wandering Elf Lancer

Mages' Guild

Illyanna, Wandering Elf Lancer Wed 24 Feb 2016 00:15:40 No.45333596,11578 Report Delete

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>>45333596,11577
>I don't know
>I actually really fucking don't know
>Could we just cut this last part of their meeting? My head isn't in the game

High Summoner Emilia Ariedaeonis

Mages' Guild, Archives

High Summoner Emilia Ariedaeonis Wed 24 Feb 2016 00:17:16 No.45333596,11579 Report Delete

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>>45333596,11578
>can we talk about this on steam?

Illyanna, Wandering Elf Lancer

Mages' Guild

Illyanna, Wandering Elf Lancer Wed 24 Feb 2016 00:18:38 No.45333596,11580 Report Delete

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>>45333596,11579
>sure, just send me the message I'll respond shortly

For recaping

Last call

For recaping Wed 24 Feb 2016 00:47:52 No.45333596,11581 Report Delete

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Since the new thread is already ongoing it's time to wrap up this threads recap. https://magesofaen.titanpad.com/2

So we can start on the next recap. https://magesofaen.titanpad.com/3

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Stars Without Number DM Help

Anonymous Tue 23 Feb 2016 20:06:02 No.45599622 View View Reply Original Report

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I'll be straight with you /tg/. I've rarely posted here and this is my first thread. I have been (through my own failings) convinced to DM a campaign of stars without number. I have never DM'd before, I've only ever gone through three quarter finished campaigns in various other roleplaying systems before. The bottom line is: I'm not very good at math and organization.
I can, however, tell a damn decent story. So, I humbly request any advice, tips, tools or help that anyone can give me regarding DM'ing this system and just leading a campaign in general. I will provide any information about the current story and some of the players characters involved as needed.
Pls help.

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Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2016 00:16:24 No.45604369 Report

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>>45603958

If the player is an expert who wants to be a pilot, I doubt they'll be an amazing pilot right out of character creation. My advice would be to try to give him the Han Solo path, where his piloting is really important but he also has a bunch of other stuff they can do to help the party. As an expert, hell have a tonne of skill points to throw around and have a secondary or even tertiary specialization. If the players are in an asteroid field, then that's where your friend should really be given a chance to shine. But if they go to a populated city, I recommend trying to get him to try something else like maybe being the role of conman, or computer hacker, or maybe the group's doctor.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2016 00:31:46 No.45604640 Report

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>>45604369
Ok, that makes sense. He's taken a secondary specialty in Biotech so that's going to be helpful, seeing as the party is squishy as hell right now.
>>45604301
Thank you SO much for the help. This is gonna be tough to put together on such short notice, but this site will help alot, thank you so much.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2016 00:54:11 No.45605069 Report

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Are there any other space combat rules that are more or less compatible with SWN?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2016 00:55:28 No.45605090 Report

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>>45604301
Also, this may seem like a stupid question, but on emichron.com is there a way for me to just start making a custom sector without a seed, you know, inputting planets and stars and whatnot?

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Anonymous Wed 24 Feb 2016 01:15:44 No.45605520 Report

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>>45605090
Unfortunately, you need to download a sector then make changes to the file itself with a text editor. At least that's the only way i've gotten mine to work.

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Table Rules

Anonymous Sun 07 Feb 2016 15:41:19 No.45277598 View View Reply Original Report

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At your table for in-person meet ups, what are your rules?
No Facebook, no laptops? No texting, no phones at all? What things do people do during game sessions that annoy you as a GM? If you're a player what rules do your GMs have at the table?

pic unrelated.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Feb 2016 17:02:25 No.45533974 View View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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>You happen to play a female PC
>Your party attacks the dragons lair, half othe party dies, others escape, you are left behind
>Dragon gives you a choice of drowning you in acid or insemating you, have you carry the child, then letting you go

thoughts?

Also, dragon has large groups of kobolds, orc, human and bugbear mercenaries and casters at hand to rear the child.

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Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Feb 2016 20:24:35 No.45536958 Report

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>>45536352
When has D&D ever gotten explicit about dragons fucking humans?

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Anonymous Sat 20 Feb 2016 20:24:47 No.45536961 Report

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>>45536083
Is this pun too out there?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Feb 2016 20:24:59 No.45536965 Report

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>>45536895
>what's the point of wasting your seed in a corpse?
What's the cost of wasting your seed in a corpse?
Twenty minutes and a shot of dopamine?

>Aren't dragons supposed to be full of themselves? Why would they pointlessly sacrifice a potential offspring?
They're full of themselves, sure, not the plight of their children. They have thousands of years to make more.
You're not getting the whole "evil" thing, are you?

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Anonymous Sat 20 Feb 2016 20:26:34 No.45536988 Report

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>>45536817
You don't want to die, no one does, that's the fucking point. There is no "dead" state of mind, your existence just gets removed, completely. No one wants that, because we are humans, and we can actually feel, and I'm not just talking about pleasure, I'm talking about experiencing exisntence as a human, and this concept is far beyond just being alive.

A lot of tumblr faggots would say, that termination of one's existence is a better way out. And you know what? Fuck those people, fuck those people in particular. That's why we don't have execution as a punishment in most countries, because even a life sentence in prison is better than death.

Fuck, your stupid post made me angry.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Feb 2016 20:30:28 No.45536988,1 Report Delete

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>>45536958
Thread was killed, but the answer is Draconomicon, page 27.

>Dragons are notoriously virile, able to crossbreed with virtually any creature. Among metallic dragons, crossbreeding often occurs when the dragon assumes another shape and falls in love, however briefly, with a nondragon. Chromatic dragons may simply feel adventuresome and create crossbreeds as a result. In either case, the dragon involved usually is a young adult. A dragon almost always either abandons its half-dragon offspring or leaves it in the care of its nondragon parent. Chromatic dragons typically remain unconcerned about the half-dragon’s fate. Metallic dragons believe (usually correctly) that the half-dragon will fare better among nondragons than it ever will among dragons.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Feb 2016 22:14:11 No.45519478 View View Reply Original Report

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How to do space horror good?

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Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Feb 2016 00:12:21 No.45521712 Report

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>>45519478
Depends on the setting and the attempted vibe. I ran an only war campaign involving guardsmen whose ship's gellar field flickered for a moment killing most of the crew and passengers, allowing daemons to possess many more, and fucking with the ship in general. Ended up like a cross between Event Horizon, Outlast, Cube, and Bioshock. For example I might fuck with the geometry of the ship or the passage of time, I also made various groups of survivors who had varying levels of sanity, some groups were pretty much kill on sight, some were helpful for a price, and some were outright nice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Feb 2016 00:12:57 No.45521727 Report

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>>45519478

It's not much different than non-space horror. All you really need is a sense of vulnerability.

What makes horror work in a game is if you have a limited or no way of properly fighting back. You might be very fragile, or only able to defeat minions that have no impact to the greater picture, or have no combat ability whatsoever - you have to evade or endure. The point is, the PCs are not predators like they are in most adventures. They are prey.

You may need to manage limited resources, like fuel, air, and water. You will probably, gradually, begin to succumb to fatigue, insanity, hunger, disease, and such things, especially if you fail objectives, or choose to not take chances, or push too hard.

Space allows for a few unique challenges. Air can be limited. Superscience is more plausible. Contained spaces are easier to justify without using magic. Vacuum is very hostile.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Feb 2016 00:18:54 No.45521875 Report

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>>45521303
>without putting an actual monster or just some blatant gore in front of you

Ahahaha what. Barely 10 minutes into the game, the two redshirt soldiers with Isaac's crew get torn apart in graphic fashion right in front of you, then you get chased through some corridors with flickering lights by shrieking car-crash victims. Dead Space does not start subtle, nor does it ever become so. It is shoving monsters and gore in your face right from the start.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Feb 2016 00:25:26 No.45521875,1 Report Delete

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>>45519478

The short answer is "your players". You can have the lamest scenario for the weakest game system but if the players are into it, the game will rock. On the other hand, if the players are constantly joking, distracted by their cell-phones, or otherwise not engaged in the story, you could have a scenario written by Edgar Allen Poe in a system designed by Heinlein and it'll suck. The key to running anything - horror, sci-fi, horror/sci-fi, fantasy, whatever- is knowing your players and how they behave at the table.

Horror also has a serious weakness that other RPG genres don't have; a dependency on tension....and people, namely your players, will do anything to avoid tension, especially if you're doing a good job of telling a horror story. The better you are at it the more likely they'll joke, they'll take a break, find any distraction that pulls them out of the scenario you've constructed and into the real world where that tension doesn't exist.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Feb 2016 00:37:51 No.45522269 Report

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>>45519478
Your antagonist should be extremely difficult, if not impossible to kill without massive effort and risk to the party.
The environment the party moves through, be it spess ship, station, or planet should be difficult to navigate in some way for the players. Perhaps spaceships are cramped like giant submarines, where halls are filled with pipes and cables, or hazardous moving machinery, lighting is poor.
You can do weapons one of two ways, either make them risky to use (risk of puncturing the hull, limited ammunition, monsters create hazards when they die, fighting draws more foes, ect) or impotent (monsters are resilient to conventional weapons, situation doesn't offer many potent weapons at all, monsters can only be harmed by very specific kinds of attacks).
Your monster/monsters should represent some deep seated fear or discomfort that most all people can understand. Necromorphs, Zombies, and other collective monsters represent the fear we all have of being forced to join up with groups we don't share anything with, they are the unreasonable mob, the group of others who won't take no for an answer.
Monsters like the Thing or Xenomorphs represent fears of physical violation, they get under your skin and inside you and fuck around in ways you'd rather them not do. They're also the completely unreasonable, either one is a being who's stronger than you, and faster, and they can easily sneak up on you, on top of all that they can't be reasoned with because their minds are so completely alien.

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Quest Thread General: Angel of Autism

Anonymous Thu 11 Feb 2016 13:51:51 No.45355744 View View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Helpful Links and FAQ: http://pastebin.com/x6BqaJ7r

[Spooky G] https://desustorage.org/tg/ghost (look for the latest thread)
[Spooky G Backup] http://archive.4plebs.org/tg/ghost/ (I wish we'd use this one...)

Community Communication:
[Steam]: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SpookyG
[Stream Chat] #SpookyG @ Rizon.net (Because someone's hyperpotato is too bad to run slack)
[The Cabal] #QMC @ Rizon.net (slightly related to quests; enjoys worldbuilding, mechanics and politics)
[Hugbox] #ques/tg/enerals @ Rizon.net (barely related to quests; enjoys Larro quests and anime)
[QuestMaster Directory] https://twitter.com/Eisenstern/lists/quest-runner-directory (post your twitter link in Spooky/Lively to get added; accounts that spam quest-unrelated messages may get removed)
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Anonymous Fri 19 Feb 2016 17:26:01 No.45355744,966 Report Delete

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>>45514032
>>45514032
>>45514032
NEW SPOOKY

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Feb 2016 17:27:39 No.45355744,967 Report Delete

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>>45355744,966
Not as far as I can tell.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Feb 2016 17:29:41 No.45355744,968 Report Delete

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>>45513993
>>45513993
>>45513993
>>45513993
TEST

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Anonymous Fri 19 Feb 2016 17:29:57 No.45355744,969 Report Delete

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>>45355744,960
I've actually explained my issues with him a few times in spooky before, but I'll list the ones I remember again.

The main thing I had an issue with when it came to him was that he would get really bitchy if players voted to not go for the shit he wanted, it was really obvious with the PE teacher or whatever he was where BROP started bitching in chat about how he would need to completely throw out his original plans because the players didn't want to be blackmailed. Then later, he of course brought that back by blackmailing the MC's friend into trying to get the video that the MC had so that he could once again blackmail her.

There were other minor things, but they also usually ended up being related to him trying to force things he wanted really hard. Well, there was also truth or dare that took up three or four sessions, but QMs failing to realize how terrible truth or dare is in quests isn't really especially shocking news.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Feb 2016 17:29:58 No.45355744,970 Report Delete

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>>45355744,967
>>45355744,968
Disregard that I suck cocks.

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/hwg/ - Historical Wargames General

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 16:16:56 No.44770258 View View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Anonymous Wed 20 Jan 2016 17:00:37 No.44897240 Report

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>>44897203
I suspected it would be bird guano rather than bat guano, but I just couldn't pass up the pun opportunity.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Jan 2016 17:02:39 No.44897275 Report

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>>44892681
>(I guess it's the same, but I'm not sure about how railway scales are handled there)
I believe HO is the same. N's the tricky one, because technically it's a gauge, not a scale, and the US, the UK and Japan use different scales with it.

T's the fun one, though. 1:450 trains, hell yeah.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Jan 2016 17:04:02 No.44897292 Report

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>>44897047
>reminder that it is still (I think) technically legal for private citizens to claim certain small islands in US waters as long as they mine them for bird shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Jan 2016 17:44:48 No.44897803 Report

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>>44877391
>>44877419

What miniature company are these from?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Feb 2016 04:44:03 No.44897803,1 Report Delete

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dragon rampant please

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/jrp/ -- Japanese Tabletop RPG General

Anonymous Thu 21 Jan 2016 07:43:02 No.44914846 View View Reply Original Report

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>The Imperial Treasure Chest (aka the Mega Archive. Because it's an archive. On Mega. Yep): https://mega.nz/#F!KA1DHRRL!MGkoDoBdnehHG7D2iXOwXQ
Newest addition: Zettei Raido

>Chat/Scanlation/Sharing room:
https://discord.gg/0lBHRD5AVt8nrm2Y

What are you reading?
What have you bought?
What are you looking to play?
How hard should Ouroboros players be kicked from the table?

>Which system do you wish to run
>Campaign summary?
>What's your timezone?
>Voice/Text/PbP?
>Contact info
>What do you look for in new applicants?

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Anonymous Fri 22 Jan 2016 02:04:23 No.44929037 Report

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>>44926728
Sword World, Alshard, Night Wizards and Alshard GAIA replays.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Jan 2016 02:08:01 No.44929103 Report

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>>44926728
gay furry doujins

please

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Anonymous Fri 22 Jan 2016 02:27:13 No.44929485 Report

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>>44926728
The Quickstart!! Mango

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Anonymous Fri 22 Jan 2016 03:14:18 No.44930452 Report

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>>44929485
>bluehaired girl
Who the heck is that

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Anonymous Fri 19 Feb 2016 04:12:33 No.44930452,1 Report Delete

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Wish someone would translate Zettai Reido already...

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Rising Sons GENERAL THREAD

Anonymous Wed 06 Jul 2011 08:40:32 No.15489816 View View Reply Original Report

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http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Rising_Sons

Hey there /tg/! I've been reading the writefaggotry for the Rising Sons and outside some derp shit (like "let's reference the sengoku on the companies and claim members of said company drop their surname for the company name and then let's ignore this for all our named characters")

I've decided to adopt this as my pet project, I already started to convert some marines, however...Let's discuss the colors of the chapter.

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Shock Wed 06 Jul 2011 11:40:47 No.15490830 Report

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>>15489864
>>15489880

Sorry dude, but that is pretty much the same as the Guardians Exemplar. We went with the black/blue/gold colour scheme because we DIDN'T want the chapter to be herp derp red and white.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Jul 2011 14:35:24 No.15491587 Report

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we should get someone with decent pdf-making skills to try and get all this shit together and make a big index astartes-type thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Jul 2011 15:03:30 No.15491805 Report

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>>15490830
The KKK in space, eh?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Jul 2011 15:07:33 No.15491839 Report

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>>15491805
I Think they evolved past that

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I love minecraft ,friends ands good happy past preasnt and the future

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Anonymous Fri 05 Feb 2016 23:30:32 No.45238717 View View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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What's the best place to hide your phylactery?

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Anonymous Sun 07 Feb 2016 00:58:08 No.45263514 Report

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>>45240931
>meme magic
You stupid fucking asshole

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Anonymous Sun 07 Feb 2016 01:17:14 No.45263971 Report

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WHAHAHAHAHAHA!

IDIOTS!

MY MISSION IS A SUCCESS!

SOON I WILL BECOME IMMORTAL, AND NOBODY WILL KNOW HOW TO FIND MY PHYLACTERY!

THIS THREAD WILL NOT SURVIVE, AND NOBODY WOULD WANT TO LOOK UP THE ARCHIVES TO FIND MY SECRET!

WHAHAHAHAHA!

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Anonymous Sun 07 Feb 2016 01:19:12 No.45264027 Report

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>>45252259

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Anonymous Sun 07 Feb 2016 01:35:11 No.45264524 Report

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>>45251775
HOw can you when the world is full of elves and demon sluts?

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Anonymous Wed 17 Feb 2016 16:27:46 No.45264524,1 Report Delete

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>>45263971
And yet, here I am, in the archives, watching you, skeletor

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