Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

it’s raining in just the right way to be PERFECT John Lee Hooker listening weather

Today’s AHDH rabbit hole; trying to identify a monk’s robe (NOT a kesa) pulled up a cool guide to a monk’s traveling outfit with transliterations! But some items are still cryptic, and maybe there are military equivalents. I thought an infantryman was “heitei” but apparently it’s actually “gunjin” or “heishi.” BUT I’m not trying to learn Japanese SO I looked for the Chinese, and soldier is “shibing” which doesn’t match how -shi/zhi seems to be a profession? So I dug more and “knight” is “qishi.”

Anyway, here’s yesterday’s #drawing

Somewhere within the last 8 years a Chaos player has heavily kitbashed a Great Unclean One and/or a Trump bobblehead or something similar, but can’t actually field it with their army for fear of a long pro-Trump harangue/being accused of being pro-Trump.

FRODO OF TH’ NINE FINGERS
AND THE RING O’ DOOM
AND IT BURN BURN BURNS AS HE FLEES INTO TH’ GLOOM
AN’ IT BURN BURN BURNS
THAT RING O’ DOOM
THAT RING O’ DOOM

they say "rightie tightie leftie Lucy" but I have no idea how we figured out anything about austrailopithicine politics

but they did find that fossil in the 60s, so maybe that's it

gotta say, dreaming that I was the KaLeut character in Das Boot yelling "Nicht heute Kameraden, NICHT HEUTE!" and thinking that was a little *too* convenient (in the movie it is), then waking up with bad acid reflux again? A little too on the nose.

* Peter Steele voice *

DEAR PRUDENCE
YOU WERE CALLED TO GOOOO
DEAR PRUDENCE
TO THE CAVES BELOWWWW
TO HELP SOME DWARVES
REGAIN THEIR GOLD
THAT WAS TAKEN BY A DRAGON
IN THE DAYS OF OLD
DEAR PRUDENCE
ONLY THREE FEET TALL

AH KNEW A LADY CAME FROM DULUTH
BITTEN BY A DOG WITH A RABID TOOTH
SHE WENT TO HER GRAVE JUST A LITTLE TOO SOON
AND FLEW AWAY HOWLING BY THE YELLOW MOON

THE GRITS

A CULINARY FRONTIER

I kept picturing hominy as it moved through the diner. What did it look like? In a big bowl with butter or fried in slices like polenta? I kept dreaming of a world I’d probably never eat. And then one day… I got in.

*Daft Punk goes crazy on synths*

SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THESE
WHO AM I TO DISAGREE
(I'm your mama I'm your daddy
I'm that nigga in the alley)
TRAVEL THE WORLD AND SEVEN SEAS
EVERYBODY'S LOOKIN' FOR SOMETHING
(I'm your doctor while in need
want some coke, have some weed)
SOME OF THEM WANT TO USE YOU
SOME OF THEM WANT TO BE USED BY YOU
I'M YOUR PUSHERMAN
I'M YOUR PUSHERMAN

Anyway now’s as good a time as any for yesterday’s #drawings.

A DRAMATIC RETELLING

ME: Woo hoo beer!

MEANWHILE, IN A DARKENED ROOM, A SHADOWY FIGURE LIT BY SUNLIGHT THROUGH THE CLOSED VENETIAN BLINDS

MY STOMACH: yeh? Get Jimmy da Sphincter on the blower. I think it’s time we explained da concept of peristalsis.

Over a decade ago, I was part of a gaming group eager to play through some of the first PF1e adventures. We had a great time and made incredible memories together (the hat of disguise and the ogres! the sorceress' ancestry revealed, and the time she took to the sky in dragon form to face a marauding wyrm! the dreaded BROCCOLICH!) before the group fell apart, and naturally I wanted to get hold of those PF1e adventures (you can't capture lightning in a bottle but the bottles still have good associations...) and had good used bookstore luck

Without a good GM and the sheer chaos of an actual game, any premade adventure is gonna read as at least a little mechanistic; accepting that, these are still good modules. The tone-deaf amateurish "we wrote this in high school" material comes kinda into play in the modules, and what you'd never see while playing through them is it's baaaaad in the monster and world-building here.

Yesterday’s #drawings

https://youtu.be/f8SPwqLBwVA?si=JIZsAWg2bU8gFwrm

here, have my favorite Sword track about what's arguably my favorite REH story

https://youtu.be/5rX9zgUQxsQ?si=lRP_ePOQDagxGb73

That was… fiddly. I inked this in around an hour and that’s pushing straight through so that’s even with being in a groove. #drawing

oh yeah, THIS time the texture and flavor of my hot and sour soup is way way closer to restaurant stuff.

VERY English wargamer talking about a Wargames Atlantic boxed set of what’s either charcoal gray werewolves or possibly Japanese commoner infantrymen, as he describes them as “ashy garou.”