#rotsee

[nikkeisimmer]

Now we are about to set up the Happiness points for Careers now that our individuals here have retired. Hey, they were in the military – they deserve some happiness. Yeah, Admirals get a lot of happiness points – that’s from their gigantic monthly salary and being able to be in command of things of strategic importance.

If you’re wondering why Ensigns (2nd Lieutenants, USMC) through Lieutenants (Captains, USMC) don’t get any happiness points, well, 2nd and 1st Lieutenants (Ensign and LTJG) are too junior to have earned any happiness – they’re still trying to figure it all out while getting caca dumped on their heads and well Captains (LT, USN) are pretty much unhappy because they don’t have any power at all like the senior and flag officers, and they’re just in charge of scut-work. OK...maybe I’ll give them SOME happiness at having their rank and all that, like maybe about 10,000 happiness points. Maybe I’ll give 1st Lieutenants and Lieutenant Junior Grades about 2,500 happiness points...y’know, they’re happy that they’re no longer butterbars and politely told by non-commissioned officers to shut up and listen you Academy or Rotsee puke.

Earlier that morning, Animal decided that he was going to put the RGB Gem Cutter to good use after conjuring a few gemstones.

And Mac and Jugs decided they were going to work on the potion tables – hopefully they would come up with something useful rather than stink potions.

Keeter headed to the dumpsters to look for things. Hopefully he would find things more useful than maggots or roaches. At least roaches could be turned into some pricey plasma bugs if someone was able to get their science skill level high enough.

Meg was busy harvesting the lettuce and wondering why she wasn’t gaining any experience in the gardening skill. Well, it’s because harvesting doesn’t take skill. So better pull out that gardening skill book you bought and start reading up as well as doing your daily requisite handiness and inventing skill reading.

Meg: “Jeez, you’re pushy, Narrator!”

Narrator: “Well someone has to keep ya’ll motivated.”

Metalman started working on an invention, not aware of the fact that these things can potentially combust and turn him into a flaming torch, though he would find out eventually…

Meanwhile Animal decided to head for the elixir shop to consign his gemstones.

Animal (thinking): Jeez, civvie pukes are weird, sunglasses inside?

Maegyn was working on the science station trying to get her skill level high enough that she could turn bugs into plasma bugs. Goodness knows that bugs don’t like being bombarded by radiation which is one of the key elements of turning an onrdinary insect into a radioactive super-bug.

Maegyn would find out they have a propensity to escape.

Narrator: “watch it...they bite”

Jugs was trying her level best to ignore Maegyn.

Well Monday didn’t start off great for Metalman. In a fit of rationality, went and paid off the semi-weekly bill (yes, that is the correct terminology, though we do not hear it very often – we have heard of the term semiannually – which means something that happens twice a year)

Animal had also returned and was working on the second inventing table.

Metalman: Help, help...I’m on fire…

Animal: Go take a cold shower, Metalman.

The second attempt didn’t fare much better.

Mac: That’s the second time he’s set himself on fire, sir. Is he normally that clumsy?

Animal: I presume so, Major, it’s not for the lack of trying. His last fitrep came in as. This officer has amazingly attained new heights of ineptitude never seen before in an officer of his calibre.

Mac: Please don’t give him a command position, sir.

Animal: Not my call, if he gets recalled. That’s on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Metalman: I think I’m going to go read a book.

Instead of making himself an incendiary for the third time in as many minutes, he decided to park his butt in a chair and read the inventing book. Hopefully it will help him to not set himself ablaze, but well…that might be hoping for too much.

Animal: Try reading your handiness skill book. Commander, maybe that might help in keeping you from lighting yourself in flames a third time.

Metalman: What’s that saying about...oh, I forget.

They say three times the charm, but Metalman wasn’t about to take that risk – not if Animal could help it.

Animal: I wouldn’t count on that.

Metalman: Hold on, I need to take a phone call. Oh, you need some plumbing cleared out? Sure, I can do that. Narrator (picturing a deluge thanks to a cracked water-main): Oh God...

Animal: Bloody HELL! Keeter. How in the flaming blue blazes did you set the damned table on fire!

Keeter: I don’t know, I don’t know...it just went kablooey on me.

Harm (speechless)

Maegyn: Animal’s gonna go kablooey on you too in another minute! Haven’t you read the MSDS safety data sheet on Working With Combustibles?!

Keeter: Too many big words? Maegyn: How in the hell did you get through flight school?

Jugs: That’s the last friggin’ time you get assigned to fly with me as my wingman, Keeter. I probably would end up getting my ass shot off.

Keeter: Aren’t we retired?

Jugs: I meant in the colloquial sense of the word.

Narrator: Yeah, after that, pretty much everybody decided that working at the Scraptonics Incendiary Workbench wasn’t the way to go to increase their invention skills though they’ll need it in order to put windows and doors in. Well hopefully no-one sets themselves on fire yet again.

[tagesnotizen]

10.7.2023 | Luzern | 15.35h

Es ist heiss, der Zug fährt noch nicht, die Klimaanlage wird ihn erst später kühlen. Eine Frau ranzt einen Mann an, der sich zu ihr ins Abteil gesetzt hat: „Arrogantes Arschloch!“ Er ranzt zurück: „Schlampe!“ - „Zuhälter!“ - „Schnauze!“ Die Szene ist sehr unhelvetisch. Die anderen Passagiere schweigen betreten. Auf der Höhe des Rotsees hört das Gekeife auf.

[cyanidesymphoniesxylophones]

Revisiting old concepts, HASO but aliens find out humans can be mithraditic, part two.

Landing on a planet is always fun for your resident poison checker, since he gets first dibs on EVERYTHING the crew finds or thinks is edible. Even if some things are edible, they might bring about a side effect unrelated to harmful poison, like mild paralysis or extreme gassiness.

Crews usually have one Axtor'aax, a biological furnace of a behemoth, to test if the foodstuffs are poisonous, but the SS Kalayaan has one cheeky Filipino and a handful of scientists monitoring his vitals to test for poison.

"Tell me again why we let the human eat poison as much as he wants?" Aaret, sighing from both their mouths, asks. "I mean, no offense to the other humans, but most of our sister crews know Xy simply as "The Human."

"Good, then they should know how hard it is to find an inert and nonvolatile mithraditic body composition that's acquired and not natural." Olivia Deusa snaps back, without looking up from her status board of her pesky crewmate. "Ready if you are, Xy. Start cooking up some grub."

"Don't mind if I do!" And as always, Xy snaps up the ingredients raw first, one by one, as he ponders on what to do with them, then in a flash Aaret would have thought to be exaggeration if they didn't see it first hand, sorted them into poisonous, toxic and edible. "Some of the toxic ones are edible, and this one is only mostly poisonous. The core is safe to eat once you boil it, I think. It has that jimmyweed taste."

"Hm, and what's your conclusion, Xy?" Olivia asks over the barking of data.

"We're on a garden planet for a more advanced palate. These flavors locked behind poison is a strange kind of irony, but give me two minutes and I'll have antitox for most of them."

"Most? Don't tell me..." Aaret palms his face with his multiple hands.

"Chill, Art. Most of these are like rotseed levels of toxic. Mostly. There's one I'm actively trying to fight right now. New experience to try and actually be immune to a poison that's stronger than my immunity."

"Your temp's rising, Xy, we have emergency stabilizers ready too."

"Fries, my sauce and a hug? Thanks, Liv."

"Shut it. This is only because you proved a point."

"Don't worry, I'll ask for the chef to cook y'all a pizza for stabilizing too." Xy winks at the human crew, who groans in collective cringe.

After the tests, Aaret finds the strange smaller human, chewing on one of the poisonous subjects absentmindedly. "Xy, if I may?"

"Shoot, Art, you've been meaning to ask that question for a long while."

"Uh. I'll go ahead and fire off then, why do you eat poison?"

"Anything is better than starving, Art. Pain of poison is temporary, but the pain of starving goes forever. I'm never truly full, so I eat everything." Xy says, a surprisingly somber tone awash over his voice. "Poison checker lets me eat anything and everything, and I get paid for it. Some of my money goes to a personal farm I have, where some of my friends grow non-poisonous variants of my favorite nutritious plants to feed hundreds, maybe thousands of starving kids." He smirks. "Most of it goes to paying back Liv and her potatoes, as well as more food, obviously."

"Huh." It's never east for Aaret to understand the humans, but now, for just a tiny smidge, he became closer with the strange hungry human.

HASO but aliens find out that some humans are mithraditic

Mithraditism, by definition and simplified, is immunity to poison.

"Aaret, have you seen my potato plants?" Human Olivia asked her alien crewmate, as she looked around the greenhouse.

"It seems human Xy has taken them a while ago and replaced then around sector E3 afterwards. Is something the matter?"

"There's a lot of matters. Those plants were flowering, and Xy likes eating the flowers."

"? Pardon, but aren't potatoes edible?"

"If you count the greeneries and the flowers as edible, you'd be as good as if you ate the rotsack seed fresh and undiluted."

"What?! Then shouldn't we stop--?!" Aaret was stopped by the sight of the Human Xy in question, walking in with a handful of fried flowers, and a platter of fried potato. "Made snacks. Want some?"

"Human Xy, you musn't ingest those flowers!" Aaret's voice coming out of their two mouths was rising due to concern. "They're highly toxic!"

"... So is your cuisine to normal humans, Aaret. Have I refused your food ever?" Xy chuckled.

"See, 'Ret, Xy can eat whatever he wants. He's mithraditic."

"What's that?! Some sort of... Genetic mutation that allows humans to just not be poisoned?!"

"Yes and no. It's eating enough poison to not be affected by it."

"WHAT?!" Aaret was shocked by very little things, but every new thing they learned about humans just took off the calm face they had.

"Remember the tha-kari you use to cook, Aaret? Why around a day or two's worth disappeared?"

"I-I chalked it up to vermin from my homeworld."

"Well, Xy's legally classified as a vermin from your homeworld then. That's why he was sick for half a day." Olivia sighed.

"Listen, new encounters, new food. And speaking of, eat up, Liv. I promise there's no funny business in the fries."

"You used up 5 of my plants to snack. I'm taking your next salary."

Aaret has never seen Xy distressed until his food money gets threatened. Humans are... Strange.

[drewginn]

Harmony on the Rotsee A Crew's Quest for Flow in Lucerne (Sympatico)

“Simpatico,” which derives from the Greek noun “sympatheia,” meaning “sympathy,” was borrowed into English from both Italian and Spanish. Sympatico is a word of Italian origins. Its definition means like-minded or likable. Meaning “sympathetic” in both Spanish and Italian, sympatico is rooted in the Greek sympathes, “fellow feeling. “sympathetic, understanding, congenial,” 1864 (in fem.…

[biberklaus]

Kajak Rundfahrt auf dem Rothsee in Bayern/Franken ( Gumotex Seawave,) i.. Kajak tour  mit den beiden Luft / Schlauch  Kajaks  Gumotex Seawave und einer Itewit X500auf dem Rotsee in Franken beim Main-Donau- Kanal  höhe  schleuse Eckersmühlen  .Mit Klaus Wojtek  und Jürgen Teusch.  Der Start auf dem See war von der Segelschule Rothsee aus . Wo es auch ausreichend  Parkplätze vorhanden sind . Die Fahrt erfolgte rechtsherum  um dem See im anfänglich dichten Morgennebel .  Am oberen Ende  vom See haben wir noch einen schönen Biberdamm entdeckt . Anschließend wollten wir noch in den kleinen Rothsee umsetzen  . Der aber wegen Umweltschutz grünen fast Komplett gesperrt ist . Durch den Umstand haben wir das Umsetzen der beiden Schlauchboote bleiben lassen . Auf der Rückfahrt mussten wir weit vom Ufer wegbleiben weil die Gestaden aus Vogelschutz gründen Gesperrt is

[thespecialview]

Heute ein fotowalk um den Rotsee gemacht #rotsee #luzern #ebikon https://www.instagram.com/p/CSSV0DcjnRM/?utm_medium=tumblr

[artundfoto]

Wasserturm ... #rotsee #rotseeregatta #turm #architektur #architekturfotografie #architecture #architecturephotography #stilleswasser #steg #artundfoto #sbf_member (hier: Rotsee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA9gjazDwZj/?igshid=xhfnb7y6dksh

[commander-coppercogg]

How about 💤🤥🌪 for Gharavain!

@mystery-salad

Honestly I don’t think I’ve ever really talked about Gharavain before. He doesn’t get a lot of play time these days but he’s still around.

💤 SLEEPING - do they fall asleep easily? what helps them sleep?

Gharavain is the kind of person who rigidly goes to bed every night at 10:30 sharp with a cup of tea and then lies there struggling to fall asleep for an additional four hours. He usually gets up again after a while and works on paperwork until he literally can’t keep his eyes open anymore.

🤥 LYING - are they good liars? do they have tells to show they're lying?

Gharavain is honestly a really good liar and is very good at keeping his true emotions close to his chest. His one tell would be he tends to tap his foot if a lie goes on for a while.

🌪️ TORNADO - what is the biggest change you've ever made to them? how have they changed from their original version?

This is a bit tricky since Gharavain’s my boyfriend’s character buuuut Gharavain was originally just created to play through Heart of Thorns with Wynoc. He didn’t really have much else going on besides just being a sylvari dude. So the biggest change would be the creation of his backstory and him evolving into a foil for Wynoc. Really quick backstory rundown: Gharavain’s pod on the Pale Tree was caught up in a Risen krait attack and flooded with water. He almost drowned in there before being rescued but it had some side effects. Gharavain is quite small and a bit…well soggy in comparison to other sylvari. Where other sylvari are vibrant plant grow, he is still water and stagnation. Because of this he was assigned as Trahearne’s squire while the Firstborn was exploring Orr. Gharavain was…less than thrilled by this and felt that the position,instead of an honor, was restricting and thankless. A bit of an “always a squire, never a knight” vibe. Which is where he starts the events of base game.

[happy-little-elf]

Himmel über Rotsee by  sacha woodtli

[arc-hus]

Finnish Tower, Rotsee, Switzerland - Andreas Fuhrimann & Gabrielle Hächler

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[studebenaumm-blog]

FS Atelier Meister >FS20 Bistro, Schauplatz, Badi, Rotsee, Luzern  Weiterentwicklung, Modulare Bauweise - Geschosshöhen  #20200417 >diu

[rowingpost]

#lucerneregatta 13.-15. july 2018 // #wrclucerne #luzern #rotsee #worldcup #worldrowing #swissrowing #rowing #rudern #aviron #canottaggio #rowingrelated #rowingcelebration #just_rowing #rowingispassion #totalrowing #sportfotografie // © Bernhard Marbach Via @fotomarbach.ch__schweiz #rowingpost #rowingchannel

[dezeriell]

Sunday walk... so pretty! ☀️ . . . #sunday #april #nature #rotsee #luzern #instasunday #berlingirl #haveawalk #springhasarrived #sunny #lovely #thankful #missdeecee #spring #countdown (hier: Switzerland)

[deintrainerdave-blog]

www.deintrainer.ch 076 320 50 50 #rotsee #sursee #kriens 💪Zeit für veränderung💪

[olivierwalther]

Morning Walk at Lake Rotsee with my Canon 1n and Kodak Portra 400

[spacedreamermx]

ZIELTURM

Rotsee, Lucerne, Switzerland

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2013