On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 20:52, < xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

If it has a shower, it has a laundry :)

Let's roll some more:

- A set of bagpipes in pristine condition (no instructions as to how to play them)

- An 'Imperium's Most Wanted' card deck (the 1120 versions would vary by location)....

- A Marine Cutlass with Imperial Guard trappings (looks valuable, is actually a high quality movie prop)

- A 3 ton hydraulic jack (Is the jack sound? 1 on a D6 while under load means the seal gives and the load settles on top of the jack)

- A stole (wrap) that appears suspiciously like it is made of Vargr fur (it is synthetic, but it has been dosed with Vargr scent)

- A large durasteel chest with a very high quality lock (nobody knows what is in it or how to open it and it is very hard to crack with Intrusion or brute force)

- A flak vest that has a hole in the upper left chest portion (about a 10mm size)

- A small paperback version of the Solomani Manifesto, with cryptic marginal scribbles

- A bound research paper "A longitudinal study of the increased risk of injury and death for left-handed sophonts"... and it is bound for a left handed reader

- A framed, preserved poster of Zid Rachelle

- A small gold(!) cylinder with a fine parchment with an Imperial Seal on it... the seal has cracked with age.... Appears to be an Imperial Warrant... "The Bearer of this warrant has and will do that which must be done. You are to aid him in anyway required. - Cleon Zhunastu" (not real, but it looks pretty good)

- A glass biohazard storage container with several warning stickers and the text "Danger: Virulent Plague"... and upon close inspection, you see a hairline crack...

- A laser welder and powerpack.... but no cables or electrodes

- A how-to book on Vargr Infighting by Gaarvaz the Marauder

- A first aid kit that's about half full and still has what appears to be dried blood on the outside of the hard case

- A prayer mat (or maybe it's a yoga mat? or maybe its a door mat?) - colour is a lovely brown with hints of darker brown

- Manual X-3791-41/B-14995-v153 : The Hostile Environment Vacc Suit - Repair and Maintenance (the overview diagram is missing but everything else is there)

- A recording of subsector's worth of filk tunes

- A set of makeup kit, a red nose, a coverall in many different patterns, and some shoes that look to be about size 15 (Terran standard) and are bright red and a bright green frizzy hair wig

- A small book featuring a glyph with a set of dividers and a square titled "Book of the Work, 951 edition' that appears to be related to some esoteric fraternity

- A plastic dispenser with the head of Strephon Alkhalikoi which, when opened, disgorges compressed sugar pellets (Pez!)

- A portable 6" circular cutter with a metal cutting blade with the safety guard removed and the cutter has some notches on the disk (but it will still cut)

- A titanium trident, 6' tall

- A lamp that has a heating element in its base that causes heated oils to float up the column of the lamp giving and interesting bubble stream. When it cools down, they settle back down. (Lava lamp)

- A strange galley tool... when you depress the large pushbutton on the top, a wavy blade of exceptional sharpness drives out of the opposite side (Slap Chop)

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:52 PM Cian Witherspoon < xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

On the subject of more anti-genius, Tim started collecting some of our ideas.

So I sent him more. Here’s that list:

-faux-ceramic coffee mugs, personalized with obscure names

-a popcorn maker that smell vaguely of an illegal drug

-two 500g boxes of Imperial Army Tea, loose leaf, one is partially used but the freshness seal is working. Warning: may contain low-grade doses of combat drugs and other stimulants (Note: it does. Got to keep those sleep numbers down!)

-one 200-bag box of Imperial Navy Tea, with 130 bags left. The box says it’s fortified with extra nutrients and stimulants to “hold its own against coffee” (Don’t ask what’s in the Navy coffee that requires tea to be modified this way)

-a 4-serving rice cooker, currently holding 3 cans of high-quality spam (Or other spam-like substance)

-a set of mismatched silverware, enough for five people to approximate a formal dinner

-four sets of what looks like travelling dinnerware, each set holds; 3 nesting bowls, a utensil set of spoon, chopsticks, and knife, some sort of wooden spatula covered in cloth, a placemat that’s part of the folded carry case, and a cleaning cloth. (It’s modified Oryoki; Japanese Buddhist eating set, the spatula is used for cleaning the bowls, and the knife was added)

-a spare motor assembly for the ships laundry (does the ship even have a laundry?)

-a small collection of Vargr feminine hygiene products

-a board game, missing three pieces. You need them to play the game.

-a box of miniature bottles of body wash. Roll 2D; 11+ means somebody onboard is allergic

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 10:38 Bruce Johnson < xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

That is a stroke of anti-genius (or maybe Wile E Genius)

On Oct 12, 2020, at 9:58 AM, Cian Witherspoon < xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

-a book on improvising a machine shop that was obviously written by a non-machinist. It not only forgets about lathes, it goes out of its way to poorly-replicate the output of a lathe with multiple overly-complicated machines that won’t actually function, and can’t be built without a lathe.