 January 4, 2012 - 10:59am | Check out this link and then open up with your ideas. Remember to think Vrusk first but then expand. http://news.yahoo.com/zombie-fly-parasite-killing-honeybees-230200867.html Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 January 4, 2012 - 1:38pm | Pretty creepy, stock up on spore kill in your Med kit! I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
January 5, 2012 - 5:46am | There has always been some talk about some kind of bug taking over a body. Starship Troopers 2 was a pretty good example of this. But wondering how much people would try a session with NPCs or PCs being taken over and whether there could be a chance for getting the character back. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 January 6, 2012 - 12:15pm | It's not really that it takes over the bee's body.
The parasite only disrupts the bee's nervous system, maybe even causing it pain. It doesn't actually control it. The hive rejects the erratic behavior of the bee, kicking it out of the nest, so that it has to fly away, and then it dies. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
 January 6, 2012 - 2:02pm | That must be the parasite thing that they talked about in Zebs guide's timeline... 110FY A human assassin fails in his attempt to shoot Queanee Kloonanu, chairman of the Council of Worlds. A small bioform is found attached to the human's back. Scientific studies show it to be some kind of intelligent, parasitic organism with the same genetic make-up as Sathar specimens. Authorities believe it to be a new Sathar method of controlling agents. See-through apparel becomes fashionable almost immediately. "Hey guys I wonder what this does"-Famous last words "Hey guys, I think it's friendly." -Famous last words "You go on ahead, I'll catch up." -Famous last words "Did you here that?" -Famous last words |
January 6, 2012 - 3:01pm | Sorry, miss, I need to check if you have a parasite under your bra...No, no, the front. You over there, miss, you can go through. I can see everything. -- Nooo. Thank yoouuu. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
January 6, 2012 - 5:33pm | Sorry, miss, I need to check if you have a parasite under your bra...No, no, the front.
No checking necessary, see thru clothing became the rage after that.You over there, miss, you can go through. I can see everything. -- Nooo. Thank yoouuu. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
January 6, 2012 - 10:08pm | A rage doesn't mean everyone does it. It means a lot of people, usually younger people, do it. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
January 6, 2012 - 10:19pm | 110FY A human assassin fails in his attempt to shoot Queanee Kloonanu, chairman of the Council of Worlds. A small bioform is found attached to the human's back. Scientific studies show it to be some kind of intelligent, parasitic organism with the same genetic make up as Sathar specimens. Authorities believe it to be a new sathar method of controlling agents. See-through apparel becomes fashionable almost immediately. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
January 8, 2012 - 12:02am | "Fashionable" is even less than a "rage". In other words, it's an accessory for some. Baggy pants hanging around the butt is technically "fashionable" in the hood, and is even a "rage" in the hood, but you're not going to catch me walking along holding my pants up with one hand while my butt hangs out the other side. And I'm sorry, but I'm not going to depict see-through clothing in a Star Frontiers image anytime in this life. We can count that one as a fly-by-night fashion like pants with the see-through butts from the 70's. It would be more likely that skin-tight clothing becomes the fashion. And don't forget one important thing: it's Zeb's. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
 January 8, 2012 - 12:35am | And don't forget one important thing: it's Zeb's. Just a late night bizarre thought. I wonder if the writers put it in as poke at their president and CEO being a parasite and that she we stripping their work naked. -iggy |
January 8, 2012 - 7:17am | And don't forget one important thing: it's Zeb's. Just a late night bizarre thought. I wonder if the writers put it in as poke at their president and CEO being a parasite and that she we stripping their work naked. A parasite trying to kill their work as the parasite controlled assassin tried to kill the President in the setting. Not sure I'd want to see her in see-through clothing, I've seen a picture of her at a ground breaking ceremony and I'll just take a pass on that. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
January 8, 2012 - 10:20am | One thing about that little remark was it had to be about humans only. Yazirians are known for thier capes so they might just stop wearing them. Vrusk might be a different problem since they have such a long back it might be possible they have to go without. Dralasites could conceivably hide a parasite in a fold or a specially constructed limb and even naked go unnoticed. Somebody else do the Zeb races. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
January 10, 2012 - 9:40am | The more ostentacios the clothing the more the osakar like it. Most artwork suggests that humma and ifshnits wear clothing. EDIT: leakage for osakar? damn you autocorrect I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 January 10, 2012 - 7:54am | When I was a randy teen, the idea of transparent clothing appealed to me. Now that I am older, I have come to believe that most of us look better with our clothing on. |
January 10, 2012 - 10:19am | I think the transparent clothing was a nod to Bladerunner...but that's just my opinion, and Inigo, you know that in the Frontier everyone but the villanous are well toned and muscular, that's how you can always tell who's the villain or pulling the strings, they're the puggy ones (looks at malthar). "Hey guys I wonder what this does"-Famous last words "Hey guys, I think it's friendly." -Famous last words "You go on ahead, I'll catch up." -Famous last words "Did you here that?" -Famous last words |
January 10, 2012 - 1:18pm | Chubby villians? does that go back to Al Capone who was a little stout or just Jabba the Hutt? Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
January 10, 2012 - 2:23pm | Well there it is. Im a villain. But a fully clothed one. Though I have threatend neighbors that I would start mowing the lawn in a speedo. Hmm. that does sound kind of villainous. Maybe that would be a good SF community mook pic? |
January 10, 2012 - 6:57pm | ROFL. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
January 11, 2012 - 9:42am | Well there it is. Im a villain. But a fully clothed one. Though I have threatend neighbors that I would start mowing the lawn in a speedo. Hmm. that does sound kind of villainous. Maybe that would be a good SF community mook pic?
I'm fine with it of you want to mow your lawn in a spedo, I do draw the line at playing a table top RPG with you in a spedo! EDIT: Ooops auto correct changed spedo to speck and sleep apparently it doesn't want to see you in one either.I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
January 11, 2012 - 7:44am | Inigo you must be a Yankee cause mowing in swimwear so you can tan at the same time is a Southern tradition. But yes we pray some people will drop the tradition and save our eyesight. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
January 17, 2012 - 7:09am | Perhaps a pseudo-Yankee. My parents fleed from below the mason dixon line a few years before I was hatched. I spent 8 years back down there until recentlly. I don't even go to the public pools in fear of causing a scene and starting a riot of young people chanting "free willy". |
 January 28, 2012 - 11:22pm | I spent time in Germany when I was in the Air Force and there are some there that choose not to wear anything while out at the public pool. Soooo, NOT all humans are good looking. :) I think I saw a very large dralasite related to the Malthar there. But every culture has it's own views on what is appropriate. |
January 30, 2012 - 3:51am | Also spent some time in Germany (Army) and remember the differing customs. Sometimes you wish life was more like the movies. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
January 30, 2012 - 4:22am | This talk about gaudy clothing made me think about how badly Lorraine dressed. It makes me think about the Zeb's races in a whole new light. The Ifshnit had the same description as the dwarfs in D&D. The Osakar were ostentatious/gaudy dressers with no ability to distinguish one from another. The Humma were uncouth vermin, and the Mechanon were rebots of which there was a thinker class and a warrior class. I think the Osakar, being humorless, bland and unoriginal with bad taste in clothing represents Lorraine. The Ifshnit, being industrious tinkerers with good business sense connected directly to D&D was Gary Gygax. The Humma, being mangy hoppers with bad attitudes was Brian Blume or possibly some other cantankerous git, and the Mechanon who went off to find their own planet was everyone who left TSR, while the Mechanon who stayed behind are those who stayed behind at TSR. Check it. That fits pretty nicely. But if that were true, what other part of the story might be being told in Zeb's? Might the timeline also be relating the events at TSR as suggested earlier? View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
January 30, 2012 - 6:30am | Actually the ifshnit's description has them nothing like dwarves it was really poor artwork that got included. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 2, 2012 - 7:44pm | Actually, the first paragraph of the description in Zeb's is exactly identical to the description in the original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons PHB. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
February 2, 2012 - 8:28pm | Actually, the first paragraph of the description in Zeb's is exactly identical to the description in the original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons PHB. Interesting, I only have the digitally remastered Zebs not the original seeing as when I was actively trying to buy one on ebay the price was quite a bit high. So I dont know if there is any divergence between the remastered Zebs and the original. However I just pulled out an original PHB for AD&D and checked the racial discription for dwarves and it reads nothing like what you'd expect to find in a space genre book, In fact I noticed a complete lack of any actual physical discription for Zebs to copy. Each paragraph goes into what they do and how to roll one up and only artwork and the fact they are a fairly well established archetype tells you what they should look like. While Zebs describes a miniature completely covered in hair saquach with a bald dome on top of its head. The written description is nothing like a D&D dwarf. I'm curious as to which books you are actually comparing? Again the written description in Zebs does not match the artwork at all and calling the ifshnit dwarves in space is a disservice that the lousy artwork perpetrated at best their character would make them space gnomes but even then they are different. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 3, 2012 - 6:29am | How about Gnomes in Space or Brownies? Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
February 3, 2012 - 7:33pm | I could have sworn I compared the two. I'm going to have to find my digital copy. I'm certain I saw the bald pate and braided body hair by tribe description in the original PHB. When someone else mentioned it, I looked it up and found it. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
