Luminara

No need. The copperhead is the only dangerous snake where I live. There are no rattlesnakes in this part of the state, and the next runner-up is a comparatively harmless water snake. Three live in my stream. One of them lives in my water hole, and she never minded me being within 12" of her. She was aware of me, but not aggressive. We've also got some absolutely adorable worm snakes. Last autumn, I found an itsy bitsy ring-necked snake (it's body was no thicker than a 2B pencil lead, and it was only about 4" long). This summer, I found a hog-nosed snake... that was freaking awesome. Mostly, it's just black racers and rat snakes, though. They're moderately aggressive, but all they can really do is break the skin. As far as dangerous animals go, I've got very little to worry about. I've been within 20' of the bear who lives just south of my cabin. It runs away when it sees me. Couple of grey foxes, one of them came right up to the porch and let me talk to it for half an hour. Red fox that trotted along the path in front of me, completely nonplussed by my presence. There are some other spiders out here, various orb weavers (absolutely gorgeous, too), but none of them have venom fatal to humans. I even had four does standing about 15' from my cabin this spring. I didn't notice them until I finished making baby noises at Jessica and turned to step off of the porch. They all stared at me for a few seconds, then slowly turned and ambled back into the woods... like, "Ooooooookay... going the other way now so we don't have to talk to the weird person." Copperheads are the only thing that might hurt me, and if one did, it would be my fault (no snake wastes venom, or energy, on something that isn't food or a potential threat, and i'm definitely too big to be on the menu). The animals out here like me. Only the plants are being assholes.

It occurs to me that this situation is being exacerbated the fact that my fingers break out in hives when I'm stressed. Poison ivy is very stressful. I'm on my third application of diphenhydramine HCL (the active ingredient in Twhatever. i bought the generic ointment, because i make less money in a month than someone on minimum wage makes in a week). The itching isn't abating. The swelling hasn't gone down. My left palm looks like a spiky ball pet toy. I'm going to take another 1000mg of ibuprofin and try the hydrocortisone ointment that I also picked up when I went shopping. And if that doesn't work, I'll try the chainsaw.

I avoid it when I can. I can't always. Sometimes what needs to be done isn't something I particularly want to do, but I still do it. My encounters with animals and insects have been considerably better. They like me. Except the black widow that bit me... but that was three years ago and I'm positive the other black widows like me.

Nettles. I had my first encounter with nettles this spring. Grabbed the stalk to pull one out of the ground... it took an hour for the burning to stop. Damn jellyfish plants, that's what they are. There's also something out here with tiny thorns. They lodge under the skin and dig into the flesh, but they're so small that the only way to remove them is with a needle or a knife. I hate those more than I hate nettles, and almost as much as I hate poison ivy.

Hot and itchy is appropriate? I'm trying to figure out whether you're making a veiled reference to your kinks, or a veiled reference to something you picked up from a date. Or both. Veils! Veils everywhere!

Everything exists on Everlasting. Some putz has Luminara. That putz isn't me, because I'm the putz who moved Luminara over to Everlasting and lost the name because it was already taken.

If I don't heat up the kettle and make some coffee before 1:30, I'm going to be passing out anyway. I don't function well during the day time. Never have.

I was thinking something a bit more salacious would be appropriate. Asking for numbers, making suggestive comments, pausing to look up skirts, et cetera.

It looks like it requires a prescription. I've had nearly fatal responses to the last two prescriptions I was issued. I also haven't had good experiences with doctors. I'll stick with over the counter options.

I was so focused on the anti-itch medication, I forgot to pick some of that up. And I told myself to do it before I left.

Being rode hard and put away wet is, from what my fuzzy memory can dredge up, great in bed. Not so much when it's a machine weighing several hundred pounds doing the riding, and the wet is all of the coffee in your veins spilling out.

It's everywhere. Most of the properties around me and where I spend my few hours working each week are colonial or just post-colonial settlements, with poison ivy vines as thick as my arm on some trees. On my property, it's primarily confined to the north edge, but here and there it's roped it's way up trees and intruded down into the valley. Every plant has roots which extend so far that it's nearly impossible to eradicate with anything but Round-Up. I refuse to use that shit. I'd rather suffer some itching for a week than defoliate everything, and end up with cancer to boot. That's an old belief, it's been disproven. What looks like spreading is just delayed reaction in places where it wasn't evident. You could've mentioned that a couple of years ago, before I broke a collar bone and arm. 😛

I hope it's not in the United States, because that's only legal in Nevada.

61 degrees Fahrenheit. 1/4 mile through mud to the road. 30 minutes to the nearest dollar store (grocery stores are farther, pharmacies are an hour and then some). Rain could start again at any moment. And I'm on a 150cc motorcycle. Going for a ride. If anyone hears a piteous wail that sounds sort of like an ambulance giving birth to a randy squirrel, don't worry, it's just me passing through.

I saw that at a friend's house when I was cat-sitting last week. He has a bottle of it next to the back door. Neither does a wood stove. Can't warm up my hands without intensifying the itch.

No, but I had my hands in a stronger acid yesterday. Sterilizing planting trays. I've got enough raw spots to dissuade me from using acid again today.

No, no no no, use the information provided in the thread to fix the unqueue/cancel function so it can be used properly. The targeting system is crap, having the ability to unqueue a queued attack without clearing the target is important.

I've got a valley full of jewelweed. It doesn't help. Calamine lotion? Useless. Oatmeal? Sticky and useless. Hydrocortisone ointment sort of works, but not for long. Scratching is orgasmic, but futile (and it makes my hands and fingers swell, which makes the itching worse, and the swelling and raw spots are painful). It's been raining for the last three days. It's overcast but not raining right now. I think I'm going to risk the 30 minute ride on my motorcycle to get some more hydrocortisone. And maybe a 5 gallon bucket of Gojo... soap and a scrubbing pad did diddly squat to prevent the rash. Or maybe some sulfuric acid. No skin, no itch!

Hey, wait a moment... Not one person has mentioned making or playing The Power Creep. There's usually half a dozen people jumping to create a new character inspired by a forum comment, and The Power Creep would actually be a good one. But no-one's on it? Did I wake up in the Bizarro Lumiverse? Again?

Hm... no. None of my characters can even sew. I can offer them directions to the nearest Icon/Facemaker, though. I'm reasonably certain they have Council outfits in stock.

when you have a poison ivy rash on your hands. I washed thoroughly after pulling it up, and it still got me. It's between my fingers. It's on my palms. It's on my damn palms! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

It's only enforced on the default costume slot. All other slots are open to all other costume options, with the caveat that the Arachnos costume pieces are only available on the default slot. Slot 1 - Arachnos. Slots 2-10 - Everything else.

Two enormous gelatinous blobs, side by side, jiggling incessantly, bouncing, quivering... I wonder how many instances of the map would exist before the servers exploded.

After eight years on the original servers and a year plus here, no-one should be surprised when players find ways to do previously unimaginable things, with or without IO sets or Incarnate abilities. The ability isn't coming from trinkets and doodads, it's coming from knowledge of game mechanics and figuring out how to leverage them to the players' advantage.

I need to hang out with BAB more.