And so, the words were written

angry_githyanki @ 2008-04-08T22:12:00

2008-04-09T03:14:55Z

I want a game where you're a mobster. But not just some joe, you're the head of a burgeoning speakeasy, and you have to get rid of those other similarly just-starting little speakeasies.

There'd be management of your men, a crew of a driver/mechanic/machinist obsessed with his vehicle, a newsie with the fleetest feet east of the Mississippi that serves as your eyes, ears, and delivery boy, your explosives expert, a drunken bastard that spends all his pay at your own bar, a crooked cop that keeps the fuzz off your back, a chronically unlucky guy who's accidentally blown up a rival distillery more than once, a crooked French-Canadian who's clever with a knife and the brains of the operation, an Australian convict who bust out of Sing-Sing, an Austrian doctor on the lam for selling drugs, and your Strong Guy, a laconic eastern-European the size of a small horse. You got to keep them happy and loyal, offering payment or blackmailing them, giving them whores, alcohol, vehicle parts, whatever. You also gotta make sure that no one realizes that they're in your gang- get them fronting jobs, barman, soda jerk, whatever you need.

And then there's the running, the gunning, the barreling down the road roaring bloody murder and getting the newsie to toss the Molotovs your explosives guy's making in the backseat of your driver's car- emptying the bottles as he goes, of course. There's the B&E of the rival speakeasies and their owners' homes, the enticement of enemy gang members to join you instead, the blackmail, the runs up to Canada to get the alcohol yourself because the delivery's slow this month.

There's also the management of your speakeasy. Keep it pretty, make sure the staff knows what they're doing, get good entertainment. Not hard, but not shallow. Some of us like the prettyan gaems.

You 'win' when you control the whole city, but then you have to keep hold of it. Upstarts, police, suppliers being finicky- the life in the mob isn't easy.

angry_githyanki @ 2008-01-30T15:51:00

2008-01-30T21:51:54Z

I'm gonna be a good Engy and be productive.:x

Let's skip the mechanical problems of female classes (doubling what you have to remember, eating up space, etc.), because you already talked about that on the Steam forum, and look at the designs.

Scout's is easy. People don't dress like that for Cricket. Cricket whites are a very recognizable uniform, and if you want her to be a brit and refer cricket like Scout does baseball, then she'd better refer the uniform. Same thing with the tattoo. It doesn't jive with the setting of the game.

TF2 draws very specifically from certain designers, with J. C. Leyendecker, Dean Cornwell and Norman Rockwell being named. The TF2 world is a stylized one, much more idealized than the actual year it's 'set' in, 1968 (the calendars say the year). It's a really simple style that uses few patterns (Spy's, I want to say is the only one, with his pinstripes), instead using shapes and porportions to tell everyone apart and make them unique. Your designs, while not bad, are really complex. KISS, you know?

There's also how their designs don't really spell out their ethnicity. you don't know Engy's Texan until he talks, and then you notice the extention cable's a lasso. You hear Demoman and THEN you notice the bombsquad vest kinda has a kilt thing going on. Sniper's the obvious one here, with his hat, and even then.

That and the Engineer needs some sleeves and proper headgear. There's a reason welders have sleeves. :x.

angry_githyanki @ 2008-01-27T21:49:00

2008-01-28T03:49:53Z

Download spray file: http://www.jasonmitsios.com/Misc/TF2/medicheal.vtf

angry_githyanki @ 2008-01-12T02:52:00

2008-01-12T08:52:36Z

http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=26

angry_githyanki @ 2008-01-11T22:38:00

2008-01-12T04:38:25Z

Jean Genet, in his autobiographical novel, Thief’s Journal, states this premise in bold prose: “Acts must be carried through to their completion. Whatever their point of departure, the end will be beautiful. It is (only) because an action has not been completed that it is vile.” When orienting and defensive behaviors are carried out smoothly and effectively, anxiety is not generated. Instead, there is the complex and fluid sensate experience perceived as curiosity, attraction, or avoidance. It is only when these instinctive orientation and defensive resources are interfered with (‘thwarted’) that the experience of anxiety is generated: I am not afraid of snakes or spiders, but of my inability to respond effectively to these creatures. Ultimately, we have only one fear, the fear of not being able to cope, of our own un-copability. Without active, available, defensive responses, we are unable to deal effectively with danger and so we are, proportionately, anxious.

angry_githyanki @ 2007-10-09T01:03:00

2007-10-09T06:04:43Z

01 +1 C-LVL or BF*, Apply Mods, +1 Aeon, Call, Sending 10' 02 Bolster 03 +1 C-LVL or BF*, +1 Aeon, Sending 04 Bolster 05 +1 C-LVL or BF*, +1 Aeon, {special call 1}, Sending 06 Bolster 07 +1 C-LVL or BF*, +1 Aeon, Sending 08 Bolster, Double Mods 09 +1 C-LVL or BF*, +1 Aeon, Sending 10 Bolster, Quick Call. 11 +1 C-LVL or BF*, +1 Aeon, Sending 12 Bolster 13 +1 C-LVL or BF*, +1 Aeon, Sending 14 Bolster 15 +1 C-LVL or BF*, Triple Mods, +1 Aeon, Grand Call, Sending Odd levels: +1 C-LVL or BF. +1 Caster level or Bonus feat. If Monk, these levels stack with Monk levels. If Pseudocaster, these stack with it. If you have a specific Bonus Feat List (see: Fighter, Wizard), you may choose one from those lists, according to the rules for choosing them in your class. Even levels: Bolster. Give each aeon you call +2 to a stat. Any stat, these can stack, you cannot change these when chosen. 1/8/15: Apply Mods. Apply own stat modifiers as bonus to Aeon when summoned. Only if positive. Evens: +1 Aeon. Gain one more Aeon. Special: Must commune with and earn Aeon. 1: Call. Summon an Aeon. Lasts {Some Number}+3 rounds. Only one Aeon out at a time, must Concentrate to maintain. Can only make Move actions when Aeon is Active. Cooldown period of 1 round between summons. Full round action. 5: {special call 1}. lol i unno v(._.)v 10: Quick Call. Summon as Move-equivalent. Lasts {Some Number}/2+3 rounds. Standard Rules. 15: Grand Call. As Call, but all of the Aeon's abilites are affected as if by the Maximise and {that other good one :V} Metamagic feats for 1 round after calling. Lasts {Some Number}+3 rounds. This may only be used 1/week. Even levels: Sending. {Mechanics here.}. Range increases e/o level.

Githyanki and Battle

2007-08-17T03:44:06Z

lakidaa: To a githyanki, a war is merely a whole lot of duels in a row.

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Githyanki on Classes and D&D things.

2007-08-17T03:08:08Z

lakidaa: Githyanki on Illusionists: useless :V
edward_hyde: Necromancy? :o
lakidaa: kickass :D
edward_hyde: Enchantment?
lakidaa: Useful, but not AWESOME KICKASS.
edward_hyde: But it is handy for lol subjugation XD
lakidaa: Look.
lakidaa: A fireball is just plain COOLER AWESOME KICKASS.
edward_hyde: Trans...transi...that school that changes things? :V
lakidaa: It's cool because it's got Polymorph, which is ttly broken.
edward_hyde: and the buffing spells
edward_hyde: bull's strenght >:D
lakidaa: Githyanki = min/maxers.
lakidaa: So far:
lakidaa: Like: Evokers, Necromancers, Transmuters.
lakidaa: Dislike Enchanters, Abjuration...ers, Illusionists.
lakidaa: Especially Enchanters.
lakidaa: When they manifest magic, it's always sharp and silvery, harsh and angry. >:(
lakidaa: And when they summon things, they summon especially fine specimens, all sharp and angry. >:(
edward_hyde: They summon only the most hardcore scary things, even if something less scary is more powerful XD
lakidaa: Yeah >:(
lakidaa: They suck at illusions :B
lakidaa: yanki: ... ._. *spooky....ghost? boo.*
edward_hyde: yanki: ...oh, screw it :V *stab*
lakidaa: Exactly.
lakidaa: Also, Abjuration spells are for pussies. :V
lakidaa: I DO NOT NEED YOUR CIRCLE AGAINST EVIL.
lakidaa: I AM THE EVIL.
edward_hyde: *DED*
lakidaa: A whole race of Dinobots, but evil :V
edward_hyde: Evil-ER, thank you B|
lakidaa: oh rite of course.
lakidaa: Psionics are different, because you can't help that like you can magic :V
lakidaa: All sorcerers are, well. Pretty much all Draconic Heritage.
edward_hyde: Sorcs therefore are the BEST B|
lakidaa: They's pretty pimp.

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Githyanki and Personality

2007-08-17T02:58:49Z

lakidaa: The XPH has the Githyanki personality pretty much right. :V
lakidaa: 'Even the most open-minded githyanki is smugly convinced of his own abiliy to handle any kind of trouble that might arise on whatever backwater plane he happens to be travelling through, and many are bitingly sarcastic and rude to those they percieve as their lessers.'
edward_hyde: ie, everyone :D

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Githyanki and Language

2007-08-17T02:32:10Z

lakidaa: s there's a real Gish class in 3.x e. :V
lakidaa: Rrakkma means "vengeance" in the Githzerai tongue. The hard-hearted githzerai go on rrakkma to slay illithids in punishment for the mind flayers' enslavement of their people eons before. Rrakkma refers only to illithid hunts, not raids against the githyanki, which are gith-attala.

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Githyanki and the Lich Queen, Vlaakith

2007-08-17T02:15:04Z

lakidaa: That never made sense to me. ._.
lakidaa: Why kill off the strong? .--.
edward_hyde: I think I read somewhere she uses their xp to power Wish spells to...keep her immortal or something
lakidaa: But isn't she a lich?
edward_hyde: I have no idea XD
lakidaa: Yeah she is. B|
edward_hyde: She's trying to ascend to godhood? :V
lakidaa: hence, LICHQUEEN B|

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Githyanki and relationships of all kinds

2007-08-17T02:06:55Z

edward_hyde: You know all their erotic poetry reads like Art of War. Or a description of managing armies on the battlefield. :V
edward_hyde: Non-yanki: *must make some sort of very high check to realize what it's actually about*
lakidaa: Yanki: Oh, you. *blush.*
edward_hyde: (Kind of like you'd have to make an even higher check to realize 'zerai poetry isn't actually about whateverthefuck XD )
lakidaa: they consider the Art of War to be some hi class erotica :V
edward_hyde: HA

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Githyanki and appearances

2007-08-17T00:26:13Z

lakidaa: I always liked the 'We're Githyanki, and we SHARPEN OUR TEETH'
lakidaa: *click click*
lakidaa: Yanki are crazy :V
edward_hyde: Don't they, like, serrate the backs of their ears too?
lakidaa: Yep.
lakidaa: They cut notches in their ears to show badassitude.
lakidaa: To the zerai, red hair is a bad omen, while red hair is much more common in yanki.
lakidaa: I bet there's a mirror prejudice for the Yanki
edward_hyde: I thought it was the other way round?
lakidaa: Every githyanki in art now: *RED HAIR*

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Githyanki and Children

2007-08-17T00:25:47Z

lakidaa: Fact: Githyanki lay eggs. That's why they raid normal worlds so much.
lakidaa: Can't hatch shit in the Astral. :V

Githyanki on afterlife

2007-08-16T23:58:23Z

lakidaa: Just becase Githyanki don't have a firm view on the afterlife. :V
lakidaa: Yanki: We'll worry about where our souls go later :V
lakidaa: Yanki: I mean The Lich-Queen (eternal may she reign) kills us off when we get too strong anyway, so why worry?

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angry_githyanki @ 2007-04-27T04:18:00

2007-04-27T09:19:27Z

LET ME TELL YOU

About Nyss-K'kar, Githyanki Paladin of Tyr.

Race: Githyanki. Githyanki are a Humanoid race, as in they have the same number of parts as a human, and that's about where the similarity ends. They could be described as anorexic, jaundiced elves with a severe attitude problem. But then you'd be gutted and made into a paste for the comparison :V

They're tallish, with 6'3" being average for men, and ridiculously under weight. Their skin is yellowed and with brownish spots on the cheekbones, arms, legs, and occasionally the chest. Where freckles tend to show up. Githyanki hair starts at a plummy red, passes through rust-red and almost-yellow orange, and ends up in black. Most Yanki have red hair; black is for Githzerai :V. Their faces are pointed and triangular, with teeth sharpened to points for various reasons, and have long, pointed ears with notches cut into them to show deeds and maturity. Facial hair is rare.

Githyanki bodies are ruthlessly efficient. They have virtually no bodyfat (and women have no breasts either. So Nyeh.), and have strong, knobbly joints, bony and with almost-spikey growths on them. They're efficiently muscled, thick cables of the stuff easily visible below the skin, like something (or someone, :V) had about half as much muscle as a creature that size is supposed to. Despite their extreme appearance, Githyanki are more dexterous and have a better constitution than humans do.

Githyanki culture is as ruthlessly efficient as their bodies are, wholly focused around the massive warmachine that is the Githyanki Empire, lead by the Lich Queen Vlaakith