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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

I Didn't See It Coming

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

Sunday, December 28, 2025

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. 

 

Saturday, December 27, 2025

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. 
 

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

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Saturday, December 13, 2025

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 13

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

Friday, December 12, 2025

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 11

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

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Lego Advent Calendar Haiku 2025 Day 10

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

Tuesday, December 09, 2025

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Saturday, December 06, 2025

Lego Advent Calendar 2025 Day 6

Old engine rumbles
Robot vacuum whirrs, suction
Sucking vomit beans