The parasites are a possibility, which is why i am considering having a full physical + blood work done if this doesnt improve soon.
As far as Anorexia, its not likely, while the sympthons would fit, you have to understand Anorexia (like Bulimia) is rooted on a mental disgust or disapproval of one self, I on the other hand do not find disgust or disapproval in my physical state, nor do i find my current or previous weight a benefit or hindrance to leading a happy life, as such Anorexia doesnt cover it.
Still i appreciate the concern.
I meant anorexia as a symptom from the parasite, it's on the wikipedia list after all.
Phantasmal Killer or Harm wouldn't work if it were an animated object. What you could do is use the Life seed in conjuction with a few other things, give it rudimentary sentience, and then kill it using any number of things...but why?
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To affect something that big that's going to be one hell of a Spellcraft check.
Now, do you mean, animate the Earth itself and kill it, or just maybe exterminate all life from it? I whip up a spell that'll do the latter in five minutes, but calculating the probable Hit Dice of something that would end up Colossal++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ is not going to be easy.;)
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I suppose it's true. Though the logistics implied in a human/Great Wyrm Prismatic Dragon pairing makes me shudder.
...Something tells me that even should all arcane casters in the world unite, that the Grease spell would NOT be sufficient.
Phantasmal Killer or Harm wouldn't work if it were an animated object. What you could do is use the Life seed in conjuction (sic) with a few other things, give it rudimentary sentience, and then kill it using any number of things...but why?
...that's a question for them, not for me. I just thought it would be an interesting discussion topic, and definitely more appropriate than their alternative use of epic-levels in Escape Artist...make your own conclusions
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Also, maybe Anorexia, if you normally would eat more than you do. I don't really know how much you normally eat.
yeah, Anorexia isn't something you just "come down" with. It's a mental illness that is rooted in some pretty long running issues. It isn't just something that makes you eat less. It's an illness that has more in common with body dysmorphia and self-abusive behavior than it is with tapeworm.
The parasites are a possibility, which is why i am considering having a full physical + blood work done if this doesnt improve soon.
They are, and if it keeps up, definitely get checked out. But don't fret yourself over it. Jumping to the conclusion of parasites is extreme, particularly if you live in a civilized area. Worrying about parasites when you lose some weight is like getting a headache and assuming you have botfly larvae eating your brain. It's a possibility, but it is one with fairly outside odds.
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Anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder in which people do not eat correctly due to the obsessive fear of weight gain.
Anorexia mirabilis, referring almost exclusively to women and girls of the Middle Ages who would starve themselves, sometimes to the death, in the name of God.
Sorry for the misunderstanding, I didn't mean Anorexia as the sickness, but Anorexia as a symptom. I feel like correcting this might be good thing, because 2 persons already have been mislead by my use of the words.
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Okay, that much is true. There is a difference between anorexia and anorexia nervosa, although the common use of the term denotes the latter far more than former in lay conversations. Sorry, Amadi.
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yeah, Anorexia isn't something you just "come down" with. It's a mental illness that is rooted in some pretty long running issues. It isn't just something that makes you eat less. It's an illness that has more in common with body dysmorphia and self-abusive behavior than it is with tapeworm.
Well, actually, Anorexia just means you aren't eating or are not eating enough. It could be because you are feeling sick and can't eat without throwing up. Anorexia, in the literal context, means "without eating" or "not eating."
Anorexia Nervosa is the mental illness/eating disorder.
It may seem like splitting hairs, but there is a big difference.
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Everything scares me... kitties scare me... squirrels scare me... corpses....corpses bring forth a pletora of confusing feeling which i prefer not to dwell on...:p
It may seem like splitting hairs, but there is a big difference.
It would be if 99% of the time when people said "anorexia" they weren't referring to the eating disorder, anyway. Besides, even in the correct context the comment makes little sense, anyway.
"Oh, I'm not eating much."
"Well, you may be suffering from a condition that means you aren't eating enough."
That would be like if I came in and said "I have a headache!" and someone responded with "Well, it's possible you have cephalalgia!" Only in this case, headache doesn't have a different, but widely used secondary meaning that applies to an entirely different condition altogether. Furthermore, anorexia within the context he's presented is symptomatic of something else anyway, it doesn't really provide any helpful advice or identify the cause of his symptoms at all. Telling someone you hurt and having them respond with "I think you may have what they call... PAIN!" is more than a little off the mark. But hey, at least he was trying to be helpful.
So I have a conundrum: heading out to the movies today, and trying to decide between Get Smart and Wall-E. Keep full in mind, though:
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3. EEEK, OMG WALL-E!!!
you go to sleep that night thinking "i killed Earth, i feel good about myself"
You must be really, really, really, really bored to do that. I mean, eesh.
Take into consideration for a moment the size of a great wyrm red dragon. They're not tiny, and they have somewhere around 40 HD. Now, how many dragons do you think it takes to make Earth? A lot.
If I had to guess, probably a million. A million is a good number, and I'm bad at math anyway.
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I suppose it's true. Though the logistics implied in a human/Great Wyrm Prismatic Dragon pairing makes me shudder.
...Something tells me that even should all arcane casters in the world unite, that the Grease spell would NOT be sufficient.
At a scale that high, hit die isn't really that kind of an issue. You'd have to increase the scale of the game--you know, make everyone start with divine rank 1 and go from there.
Well, assuming that the earth and an elephant have the same number of hit dice per pound*, the earth would have around 6.5x10^19 HD. It also has some hardness as an animated object, so you should prepare "Soften Earth and Stone" that day, which should be able to soften the Earth. If the Earth is a creature with the Earth subtype, then a Cleric with an incredibly high turn check (help here, Amadi?) and the earth domain could command the earth.
Another strategy would be to somehow dominate the Earth for an extended period of time, get it to gain psion levels and a few feats, and then prestige into Elocater. At Elocater 1, the Earth gains the Scorn Earth ability. This allows the earth to float a foot above itself, which might not really kill it, but counts as winning in my book.
Another thing worth considering: as an extremely large object, the earth only hits with attacks when it rolls a 20. It is much better off grappling.
* I think we can all totally agree that this standard is totally fair and not at all arbitrary.
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I suppose it's true. Though the logistics implied in a human/Great Wyrm Prismatic Dragon pairing makes me shudder.
...Something tells me that even should all arcane casters in the world unite, that the Grease spell would NOT be sufficient.
I'm told it happens fairly often during Airborne School.
Anyone play White-Wolf systems in here at all, by chance?
I think there have been a few people who were into White Wolf here who haven't been around in some time. If anyone else is, they haven't been very vocal about it. Joyd is playing a VtR campaign currently, only it seems more like he's less playing and more sticking around out of morbid curiosity based on his accounts.
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And yes, no incantatrix for you. Or anyone. That class makes puppies cry. Mostly because they are the former Big Bads who have been Baleful Polymorphed into said puppies. By you. Because you're an incantatrix.
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I suppose it's true. Though the logistics implied in a human/Great Wyrm Prismatic Dragon pairing makes me shudder.
...Something tells me that even should all arcane casters in the world unite, that the Grease spell would NOT be sufficient.
Through damage alone? I can do that. He'd come up with a way to do it using only a level 1 commoner, a basket, and a roll of duct tape.
I can do it without the Duct tape and the Basket as well. However, what's the point of killing earth with DAMAGE? I just fail to see the point. Save or Dies mean that earth still fails on 1/20 of them, assuming you can use powers that it isn't immune to. For example, if you can cast Animate on it, followed up by Awaken Construct, you can Psychic Crush it enough times for it to roll a natural one. Now, it goes to -1 hit points, and as a construct it dies when below 0.
Counting CR by HD, earth would have what? (6.5x10^19)/3 CR? Now, the real guestion here is if how much XP would you get from killing the earth?
Honestly, though. When you are in situation with awakened animated earth you know what you want to do.
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Nipple clamps of exquisite pain, my foot.
There is something to be said for being an entire planet, though...
I made a spell called Animate Earth once, but it wasn't exactly intended to animate the entire planet...just a small part of it. It was based after the spell in Valkyrie Profile 2.
And yes, no incantatrix for you. Or anyone. That class makes puppies cry. Mostly because they are the former Big Bads who have been Baleful Polymorphed into said puppies. By you. Because you're an incantatrix.
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I suppose it's true. Though the logistics implied in a human/Great Wyrm Prismatic Dragon pairing makes me shudder.
...Something tells me that even should all arcane casters in the world unite, that the Grease spell would NOT be sufficient.
I'm not actually in the Vampire campaign any longer; it was based in Minnesota, and when I graduated, I came to Wisconsin to work. Yes, I am living in my parents' basement, but at least I work full time (usually; sometimes they have to give me a day off because there aren't enough hours).
The Vampire game was interesting primarily because the too-large collection of players included some of the most dysfunctional humans I've ever run across. (That said, I don't think I'd play in another game; the mechanics of the system are interesting, but the world backdrop is not only unappealing, but seems to encourage poor table dynamics.)
I meant anorexia as a symptom from the parasite, it's on the wikipedia list after all.
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Teaching without verbosity,
producing without possessing,
creating without regard to result,
claiming nothing,
the Sage has nothing to lose.
Now, do you mean, animate the Earth itself and kill it, or just maybe exterminate all life from it? I whip up a spell that'll do the latter in five minutes, but calculating the probable Hit Dice of something that would end up Colossal++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ is not going to be easy.;)
Edit: WTF@ True Mind Switch with Planet Earth.
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yeah, Anorexia isn't something you just "come down" with. It's a mental illness that is rooted in some pretty long running issues. It isn't just something that makes you eat less. It's an illness that has more in common with body dysmorphia and self-abusive behavior than it is with tapeworm.
They are, and if it keeps up, definitely get checked out. But don't fret yourself over it. Jumping to the conclusion of parasites is extreme, particularly if you live in a civilized area. Worrying about parasites when you lose some weight is like getting a headache and assuming you have botfly larvae eating your brain. It's a possibility, but it is one with fairly outside odds.
and acts without effort.
Teaching without verbosity,
producing without possessing,
creating without regard to result,
claiming nothing,
the Sage has nothing to lose.
Well, actually, Anorexia just means you aren't eating or are not eating enough. It could be because you are feeling sick and can't eat without throwing up. Anorexia, in the literal context, means "without eating" or "not eating."
Anorexia Nervosa is the mental illness/eating disorder.
It may seem like splitting hairs, but there is a big difference.
EDIT: Bloody computer. I click "Go to last page" but it takes me to page 41 instead of 42. Amadi beat me to the punch.
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"Oh, I'm not eating much."
"Well, you may be suffering from a condition that means you aren't eating enough."
That would be like if I came in and said "I have a headache!" and someone responded with "Well, it's possible you have cephalalgia!" Only in this case, headache doesn't have a different, but widely used secondary meaning that applies to an entirely different condition altogether. Furthermore, anorexia within the context he's presented is symptomatic of something else anyway, it doesn't really provide any helpful advice or identify the cause of his symptoms at all. Telling someone you hurt and having them respond with "I think you may have what they call... PAIN!" is more than a little off the mark. But hey, at least he was trying to be helpful.
So I have a conundrum: heading out to the movies today, and trying to decide between Get Smart and Wall-E. Keep full in mind, though:
1. Josh has been badgering me to see Get Smart for weeks now.
2. I have an unhealthy crush on Steve Carell.
3. EEEK, OMG WALL-E!!!
I bet the President does this a LOT.
anyone up to the challenge of calculating earth's hit dice?
Take into consideration for a moment the size of a great wyrm red dragon. They're not tiny, and they have somewhere around 40 HD. Now, how many dragons do you think it takes to make Earth? A lot.
If I had to guess, probably a million. A million is a good number, and I'm bad at math anyway.
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Another strategy would be to somehow dominate the Earth for an extended period of time, get it to gain psion levels and a few feats, and then prestige into Elocater. At Elocater 1, the Earth gains the Scorn Earth ability. This allows the earth to float a foot above itself, which might not really kill it, but counts as winning in my book.
Another thing worth considering: as an extremely large object, the earth only hits with attacks when it rolls a 20. It is much better off grappling.
* I think we can all totally agree that this standard is totally fair and not at all arbitrary.
Grappling? Personally I've never seen anyone try to grapple the ground and loose.
But to be fair, I've never seen anyone try to grapple the ground at all.
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I'm told it happens fairly often during Airborne School.
Anyone play White-Wolf systems in here at all, by chance?
I think there have been a few people who were into White Wolf here who haven't been around in some time. If anyone else is, they haven't been very vocal about it. Joyd is playing a VtR campaign currently, only it seems more like he's less playing and more sticking around out of morbid curiosity based on his accounts.
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I can do it without the Duct tape and the Basket as well. However, what's the point of killing earth with DAMAGE? I just fail to see the point. Save or Dies mean that earth still fails on 1/20 of them, assuming you can use powers that it isn't immune to. For example, if you can cast Animate on it, followed up by Awaken Construct, you can Psychic Crush it enough times for it to roll a natural one. Now, it goes to -1 hit points, and as a construct it dies when below 0.
Counting CR by HD, earth would have what? (6.5x10^19)/3 CR? Now, the real guestion here is if how much XP would you get from killing the earth?
Honestly, though. When you are in situation with awakened animated earth you know what you want to do.
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Teaching without verbosity,
producing without possessing,
creating without regard to result,
claiming nothing,
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Nipple clamps of exquisite pain, my foot.
There is something to be said for being an entire planet, though...
I made a spell called Animate Earth once, but it wasn't exactly intended to animate the entire planet...just a small part of it. It was based after the spell in Valkyrie Profile 2.
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The Vampire game was interesting primarily because the too-large collection of players included some of the most dysfunctional humans I've ever run across. (That said, I don't think I'd play in another game; the mechanics of the system are interesting, but the world backdrop is not only unappealing, but seems to encourage poor table dynamics.)