Oath Mystery deck #2: DAMASK

[Bikefanatic]

I think it's mostly old women who like wallpaper. Getting rid of it is irritating. Best to just paint over it.

I wonder if however many decks lotrek brings to the convention will be completely sold?

[Bradius]

NB A holiday to your cellar sounds like fun if it’s full of your cards, when do the tours start?

I have been trying to find a picture of Lotrek's celler. I thought it was on this website, but it was on Kickstarter. Here you go. Some pictures of Lotrek's cellar:

[Lotrek]

IT'S OFFICIAL:

The packages will be full of your beloved Hellenic Post stamps!

Damask will be sent from Greece.

[portcullis]

NB A holiday to your cellar sounds like fun if it’s full of your cards, when do the tours start?

I have been trying to find a picture of Lotrek's celler. I thought it was on this website, but it was on Kickstarter. Here you go. Some pictures of Lotrek's cellar:

I wonder if it comes with a welcome basket of Lotrek goodies on the bed or a mini-bar-please-leave-your-credit-card-details at the door type situation?

[Lotrek]

This is not my cellar... This is the working space in my home. You don't want to see my cellar. Really!

[PipChick]

This is not my cellar... This is the working space in my home. You don't want to see my cellar. Really!

If it's anything like the state of chaotic mess that mine's perpetually in, I suggest just backing slowly up the stairs, close the door, and never speak of it again... the solution always works for me lol

[Adonael]

As an Aussie, I'm really quite jealous of other countries and their basements and cellars, seems like such a useful space to have (for dumping all your crap)!

[PipChick]

As an Aussie, I'm really quite jealous of other countries and their basements and cellars, seems like such a useful space to have (for dumping all your crap)!

do y'all at least have attics to store crap?? otherwise, I could imagine that'd be really problem-attic... lol

[Merlebird]

As an Aussie, I'm really quite jealous of other countries and their basements and cellars, seems like such a useful space to have (for dumping all your crap)!

Is there... some reason you can't dig into the ground in Australia?

What's down there?!

[PipChick]

As an Aussie, I'm really quite jealous of other countries and their basements and cellars, seems like such a useful space to have (for dumping all your crap)!

Is there... some reason you can't dig into the ground in Australia?

What's down there?!

don'tcha mean "down under" lol

[Lughnasadhuk]

As an Aussie, I'm really quite jealous of other countries and their basements and cellars, seems like such a useful space to have (for dumping all your crap)!

Is there... some reason you can't dig into the ground in Australia?

What's down there?!

Surely if he digs down he will end up coming up into your basement?

[Bradius]

In Houston, we have a different name for a basement It is called and underground pool.

[MagikFingerz]

As an Aussie, I'm really quite jealous of other countries and their basements and cellars, seems like such a useful space to have (for dumping all your crap)!

Is there... some reason you can't dig into the ground in Australia?

What's down there?!

Maybe they just figured since most of the wildlife living above ground can kill you, the stuff living below the ground is probably even worse.

[theCapraAegagrus]

As an Aussie, I'm really quite jealous of other countries and their basements and cellars, seems like such a useful space to have (for dumping all your crap)!

Is there... some reason you can't dig into the ground in Australia?

What's down there?!

Maybe they just figured since most of the wildlife living above ground can kill you, the stuff living below the ground is probably even worse.

This. Australia is basically the 7th Circle of Hell. You really want to get closer to the center!?

[ICantShuffle]

Where I am, most houses don't have basements. There are some that do, but that's mostly because they were built pre-1900/early 1900s.

I think it has to do with a number of things: the weather. Most of Australia is similar to the Southwest coast of the United States: hot and dry. We don't get Tornadoes or Hurricanes or severe weather conditions such that a basement would really be necessary. Also the clay and loose topsoil present challenges to residential buildings with perimeter foundations, compounded by Earthquakes-- that's why most of the houses here are "stick built" they will flex, unlike masonry construction.

[/autism]

It's also just cheaper to not build houses with basements, and land development is all about profit here. Build it quick, build it cheap, sell it for prices your momma wouldn't believe.

[rousselle]

The Seattle area doesn't have much in the way of basements, either, which is very sad. I miss the basements of my youth. (Don't go there.)

[Adonael]

do y'all at least have attics

Don't have those either! If you're lucky you have a small storage cupboard, a garden shed, or a garage. I think the problem is we have to try and keep the hand-sized spiders (mostly huntsmans come inside) etc where we can see them, so on the walls (regularly), in the drawers (happened to me), and on the shower curtains (oh you bet), lest they overrun us.

I once went to pick up the insect spray to deal with a large spider, my hand wrapped around an even larger one chilling on the insect spray! I may have screamed. I once woke up because I felt tickling on my shoulder, I couldn't see but I knew it was a huntsman crawling on me, slapped it off in panic and it landed on my husband's chest, who's way more scared than I am of spiders but was too sleepy to realise what it was and brushed it off, we eventually had to go back to sleep not knowing where it was. One of them jumped off the wall and ran at me once when I tried to throw something at it. Some old relatives of mine when I was little had a huge huntsman that lived in the toilet, often on the back of the door, needless to say I only remember visiting once. I had a job for a very short while where one of the other guys would pop the red back spiders between his fingers . During summer if you look up at the power lines leading to the house, you'll see giant webs all along it connected to the bushes covered in about 20 long thin spiders silhouetted against the sky, and I'm currently in an inner suburb of a city. Now lets talk about snakes..

[Bradius]

That is scary stuff indeed. When I was a pre-schooler, I stayed at my great-grandparent's ranch in North Texas (you could see Oklahoma from her ranch house about 3 miles away). In the morning I would regularly jump over a number of rattlesnakes warming up laying across the road and thought nothing of it. Tarantulas would also occasionally get in the house or get in the way. Luckily none ever actually crawled on me (that I know of at least). Those stories of the Huntsman spiders give me the creeps though. Spiders in general don't worry me, but those are a different story. You all can keep your dang snakes too. At least rattle snakes try to warn you and don't want to mess with people if they can avoid it.

[ICantShuffle]

We have cockroaches that will bring you your coffee cup in the morning.

But, giant spiders? I think it's time to move.

[PipChick]

do y'all at least have attics

... Now lets talk about snakes..

ya know, I love that it seems every time I've ever have and/or overhear a conversation about Australians and/or Australia, it somehow always goes something like this:

someone : "Is it true that [ insert any absolutely outrageous stereotype about Australians and/or terrifying trivial fact about deadly animals/insects/arachnids/snakes that no one could possibly believe to be true ]?"

any Australian in the vicinity : "Why yes! and let me also tell you 15+ other things that are absolutely, 100% guaranteed real/authentic activities that Australians do and/or about more deadly animals/insects/arachnids/snakes along with detailed personal stories of their abundance to further horrify & shock!"

lmao



Now, having never been myself (hopefully someday though), I prefer to imagine Australia as a paradise full of half-naked, free range Hugh Jacksmans, Hemsworths', Margot Robbies and Ruby Roses just sexily roaming about in the wild.... *sigh* I wouldn't mind being viciously mauled by any/all of those beautiful beasts lol

[Magistrate1500]

+1 Ruby Rose.

[Lughnasadhuk]

Now, having never been myself (hopefully someday though), I prefer to imagine Australia as a paradise full of half-naked, free range Hugh Jacksmans, Hemsworths', Margot Robbies and Ruby Roses just sexily roaming about in the wild.... *sigh* I wouldn't mind being viciously mauled by any/all of those beautiful beasts lol

I tried to go once on a gap year between finishing school and starting university, but it turns out that the world is flat and Australia does not exist. It is just a fabricated advertising campaign for all those nut jobs that try to convince us all that we live on a rotating ball!

[Merlebird]

I tried to go once on a gap year between finishing school and starting university, but it turns out that the world is flat and Australia does not exist. It is just a fabricated advertising campaign for all those nut jobs that try to convince us all that we live on a rotating ball!

Don't be absurd, of course the earth isn't flat.

Everybody knows it's hollow and Australians live inside it. That's why they can't have basements.

[Lotrek]

I love that conversation around Damask. Ooops, sorry! Around Australia I mean

Never been there and definitely nothing against the continent but I find really hilarious the statement: "Every creature there is trying to kill you."
I thought the main danger would be the sharks...

[ICantShuffle]

I thought the main danger would be the sharks...

Until evolution grants them legs, we're safe... for now.

This conversation is really just a placeholder until we know more details regarding "Damask." I guarantee you, we will be Sunday Quarterbacking every niblet of detail you provide once let.

In the meantime, Land Sharks... do they present an existential threat to the people of the Pacific Rim? Discuss...

[portcullis]

Land sharks? I'm more worried about the potato-in-chief and drop bears

[rousselle]

Quite frankly, as long as they don't have lasers, landsharks are a completely manageable threat.

Squirrels with jet packs is a completely different matter.

[CupcakeBaron]

I'm really okay with both options because at least they are less horrific than the spiders that currently do exist.

[Bradius]

Humm, sharks with spider legs. While that might look a bit comical, I am definitely not liking that combination. Best keep that off the mad-scientist gene-splicing program.

[Eric Lee]

Well, whaddya know? 2 , yes TWO movies were made based on the land shark theory.
Sand sharks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iqIGJ9HdeM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
and
Land Sharks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHlIUXBLLTw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Now what was the topic of this thread already?