I Didn't See It Coming

One more day left in this all-around terrible year. 
 

A Manhattan Gorilla at Pisew Falls

Gorilla and canoe are not to scale. 
 

Bush League

In Villains and Vigilantes, you create characters by assigning a certain number of character points to your primary attributes (strength, endurance, agility, and so on) and by rolling on a series of tables to randomly determine your age, background, species (!), sex, super powers, and weaknesses. Then you're given some flexibility to change the results around a bit to create a hero that fits a certain theme. 

For the next V&V campaign I'll be participating in, I've created Bush League. Fresh out of high school, Preston Spender is a tall, strong, good-hearted kid; he's a natural athlete and enjoys spending time as a volunteer for  local search and rescue services. But then, one day, everything changed...(I don't know how Preston got super-powers; that will be revealed by the game master). 

Preston rolled the following powers and weaknesses: 

Experience levels (gives him an edge in succeeding at certain tasks) 
Heightened endurance
Armor
Willpower: pain resistance (difficult to knock unconscious) 
Physical ability: inertia (can't be knocked backward, so I made him a catcher on his high school team) 
Special weapon: baseball bat
Prejudice (many of his peers think he's a dumb jock)
Poverty 

The combination of my random dice rolls have resulted, I think, in a potentially interesting and capable hero. Maybe he's bush league for now, but he's just getting started; the big leagues might not be far off. 

 

The Annual Holiday Overeating Coma

Actually taken a few days before the holidays, but the sentiment holds. I don't remember Gemini being involved in this image, but there's the watermark in the corner . . . must have used it to add the Zs. 
 

Boxing Day 2025

 

Christmas 2025

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 24

BB-8's beeps
Announce Santa's arrival 
Ice patronus glares
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 23

Bitter mandrake frowns
For Christmas, garbage and junk
Roots of his evil
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 22

Cedric Diggory
Needed a medical droid
Mournful train whistles
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 21

Heart-shaped box chimes out
Mrs. Claus, coming to town
Floating robot drones
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 20

 

Chocolate spider
Creeps toward the droid's treat cart
Cannibal Christmas

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 19

Blaise and a snowman
Quiet as a holiday 
Mouse droid on the morn
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 18

Christmas mad science
Gurgling potions make monsters
A yuletide nightmare
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 17

A droid on a wing
Squeaks "Roger, roger," noting
Christmas tree cosplay
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 16

Beep-blooping Treadwell
Chasing Luna's toy robot 
Night cacophony
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 15

Two aliens gather
Around a butterbeer keg
To drink to Christmas
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 14

Christmas: Day 14
Spider in a spaceship plant
Invasive species
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 13

Two giggling gals love
Spreading joy with their green pal
Singing "Peace on Earth" 
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 12

Green potion fuels
Plucky skateboarding robot
Four wheels whiz on ice
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 11

Poor Boo Boo Kitty
Christmas treat for beast or droid? 
Plastic tongue flicks out
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 10

Whirring wheels on soft
Snow-white carpet, Hannah's gift
With tool rack bathos
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 9

 

Four golden compasses
One box of droid parts and a 
Girl in a deer suit

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 8

A blade scraping snow
Electric robot hum sparks
The hippogriff's rage
 

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 7

"Unhappy Christmas,"
Snarls Malfoy; R7 trills
A hymn for Rover

 

Lego Advent Calendar 2025 Day 6

Old engine rumbles
Robot vacuum whirrs, suction
Sucking vomit beans