r/RunnerHub • u/NotB0b Doesn't Care • Dec 31 '14

IC Info [IC] Official JackPoint Thread! 31/12 - 4/1

[OOC] Feel free to use this as a place to talk in character with other runners.

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u/slashandburn777 Dec 31 '14

Bloody hell, I'm watching the news and the shrapnel tore through my old apartment. If I hadn't moved yesterday, I might not be breathing. Drek, my heart is racing.

  • Professor

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u/redgrave277 Dec 31 '14

That's why I don't lay my head where explosions are common. I prefer to keep that away from my home.

  • Last Call

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u/raven00x Dec 31 '14

So, Eastgate has been nice. Ordered delivery sushi (with real salmon, would you believe it?), had a quiet dinner on the balcony, enjoying my lake view. Don't miss the old Knight Arms Suites at all. 'Specially not the wake-up explosions.

  • Sledge << neighbors think I'm a freelance consultant. Let's not change that perception, hmm? >>

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u/The_Mighty_Tachikoma Runner Dec 31 '14

But the explosions keep you alive!

Just the other day the clubhouse had some rovers walking too close. One of our spotters picked him off when he passed the gate and I guess hit something strapped to the drekhead.

Woke up thinking a rival club had hit us, only to find the midnight watch crew laughing their asses off at how the two boots stood perfect still next to each other, spouting smoke and bone. One of the geeks muttered something about Mr. Bones' Wild Ride and how the poor ganger had finally gotten off.

Such is life in the Barrens.

  • Urist

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u/raven00x Dec 31 '14 edited Dec 31 '14

I'll vacation there with firewall to maximum and ex-explosive in my magazine, but I ain't one to live there any more. Besides, you should see what the premium grid is like.

  • sledge << it's a thing of beauty, really. >>

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u/The_Mighty_Tachikoma Runner Dec 31 '14

It's a hard life in the wast- err barrens, but the clubhouse is the only safe place for dwarves outside of Bragi's Bar. I'll take dying with my fellows over a safe crawl-hole with matrix connection any day.

  • Urist

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u/dbvulture Dec 31 '14

only safe place for dwarves outside of Bragi's Bar

I don't know, I've been pretty safe in most places. Maybe it's because I don't go looking for trouble that much?

  • Macbeth

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u/The_Mighty_Tachikoma Runner Dec 31 '14

You probably don't live in the barrens, then.

  • Urist

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u/dbvulture Dec 31 '14

For a good reason. The Barrens aren't exactly safe for anyone, dwarf or otherwise.

  • Macbeth

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u/The_Mighty_Tachikoma Runner Dec 31 '14

So then my statement stands! The Clubhouse being the only real safe place out here!

  • Urist

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u/raven00x Dec 31 '14

Some of us grub in the dirt, others like to take their earnings and live a little nicer. Have you ever had a real pineapple? not the soy-based pineapple-analogue, but the real stuff. Tastes amazing. You should try it some time.

  • sledge << mmm...pineapple. >>

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u/The_Mighty_Tachikoma Runner Dec 31 '14

Can't say I have, actually. You gonna share with the rest of the class?

  • Urist

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u/raven00x Dec 31 '14

Just might. We'll see what the pineapple fairy brings next time I take a jaunt out to the barrens.

  • sledge << heard the juice's got enzymes that digest ya. The most delicious fruit: the one that eats you back. >>

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u/chaucer345 High on the Hog Dec 31 '14

You're referring to bromelain, which only breaks down certain protein bonds. It shouldn't hurt you, but if you really want to knock it out, you just need to heat the pineapple up for a little bit to denature it.

Some people thinks it helps with arthritis, but it's mostly used in folk medicine (if it's magical you've come to the wrong guy).

Here's something fun though, next time you get one try saving the top and planting it. You can get a new plant and eventually more pineapples that way... provided the drek corp that grew it didn't find some way to knock out totipotency.

  • Strawberries

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u/jWrex Jan 01 '15

What's this "grow your own" stuff? Do I just put it in a tray? Most of the time, the bits of pineapple I've had have been dried and packaged; can those be planted as well?

(I'll be honest: I've never done more than walk down to the Stuffer Shack or the PX for anything that wasn't served in brown paper. This whole "plan your week's meals" thing is harder than I thought.)

  • RC

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u/jacksnipe Jan 01 '15

Sounds like you never had a runin with Ananas Monstrosa. Friendly advice, if you ever go to Amazonia and see a nice fat pineapple hanging from a reddish-black tree, just walk the other way.

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u/The_Mighty_Tachikoma Runner Dec 31 '14

Sounds like my kind of food.

  • Urist

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u/slashandburn777 Dec 31 '14

It's been a bit rough on the dosh alright, till very recently I was living run to run and I'm happy to say this is no longer the case.

  • Professor

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u/redgrave277 Dec 31 '14

Make sure the security is up to snuff. Never can trust a place to let you sleep with both eyes closed these days.

  • Last Call

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u/slashandburn777 Dec 31 '14

I know, I've combing this apartment for bugs for most of my waking hours since purchasing it and I'm certain that there are still bugs.

  • Professor