In reply to Aldous Hack (msg # 790):

Be catching up tomorrow I hope

In reply to Narrator (msg # 791):

Might be able to catch up tomorrow,  if not, Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!  Hopefully a better one than last.

One can always hope.  Powerball tickets on the fridge, waiting for the first drawing of 2020.

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 794):

If you want to win at powerball, use the money to buy shares in the company! Much better returns!

i'm surprised nobody in the road to veroigne thread, hasn't thought to simply drag the smoldering vampires outside in the sun, to crumble to dust. starting fires is kinda making it harder on yourselves, just sayin'.... xD

In reply to Grimaldi (msg # 796):

Good idea as long as that does not open themselves up to further attacks...

Yeah, but that takes more investment than I have to spare, and takes years to do anything.  This is gambling, not investing.  For the price of a flat white or a burger and fries, I have a (tiny but calculable) chance to permanently change my life.  And a near certainty of being ridiculed by my partner for buying yet another pair of defective tickets with no matching numbers...  ;)

As long as you're being honest about your reasons, have fun.

No illusions here, Jareth.  I'm capable of doing the math (or was forty years ago when we did combinatorials in high school advanced math), I know Powerball and Mega Millions are sucker bets even when the jackpot busts $200 million.  On the other hand, I'm not (and won't be) spending money I need for other things -- I don't buy tickets when I need to keep every buck to get to payday, I don't buy more than two $2 tickets at a time.

If I were serious about trying to win, I'd be doing arcane statistical analysis of every draw since the last time they changed out the balls in the machine -- and I'd know what date that was -- and I'd be buying at least $100 worth of tickets at a time, probably twice that (a Wheeling system doesn't work if you don't buy enough tickets to get some advantage from knowing the more commonly drawn numbers).

But like they say, you can't win if you don't play.  At my age, I can't wait for investments to grow -- but if I hit the lottery, I can still pass the physical for a pilot's license, at least in the USA.

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 800):

Should Hograth wait for the new thread, or wait for the others to come through the gate?

In reply to Hograth Podkarmen (msg # 801):

Also, is there any reason a Leprechaun would join those in the Mug and Cauldron? Even if she walked into the bar upstairs, not sure she could be given an IC reason to help in the raucous downstairs...

/brain shuts off at the merest whiff of higher math but nods along anyway...


I had an Uncle who went hard into all that.  He never won, let alone broke even*.

Granted he liked to do a line of coke before going out to buy his tickets... so there may have been other mitigating factors* in his life being full of failure.


* Granted, this was also in Chicago, and if you think the Lotto wasn't rigged in that town... I have a few politicians to sell you.

In reply to Aine Walsh (msg # 802):

about as much a reason as a sahudese that speaks no aralaise, or shevnian would. (Gennojo)

In reply to Chye Isuel (msg # 804):

So, just rock into the pub, hear the noise downstairs, and go to investigate?

In reply to Aine Walsh (msg # 805):

Actually, you will enter for another reason- an angry club besring crowd is running the streets, and you need to be scarce. You run into a stableyard, and spot an open door...

In reply to Narrator (msg # 806):

I fumbled something earlier in an accounting thread- solid silver objects without value for shape (ie it broke) that are specified as bring coin-pure are treated as bullion, and have a 100% resale value, unlike "items of virtue"

In reply to Narrator (msg # 807):

Hostile creatures roll reaction at -5...
An unmodified roll of 7 becomes a 2...

S'okay boss.  I completely forgot an entire amount of money we were handed.

Been hosting family for the entire break, and the family business got a bit heavy.  Apologies for letting it push this penguin off the iceberg.  Back now.

In reply to Balir Ironhide (msg # 810):

No problem. Going, as always, has been slow.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 811):

I might be a bit slow the next week...will be without computer so posts will be shorter!

In reply to Christine Bjorn (msg # 812):

Should be catching up Monday... have a good weekend!

In reply to Narrator (msg # 813):

Took my mom to see a show, will try and regroup tomorrow

Did you really just have the Ymid take a selfie with Kalina?  OMG that is frikkin hilarious.