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Post by dungeonmistress on Aug 20, 2014 19:47:38 GMT
OK, @aj, you showed this critter on another forum ( Table Top Gaming) and I asked you to give us a tutorial. And now, I'm asking here. Please give us a tutorial, please? (Smiling and batting my eyelashes - come on, you cannot withstand my charm...) Anyone else interested in this critter?
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Post by beetlewing on Aug 20, 2014 22:40:07 GMT
Oh thanks dungeonmistress, now I'll NEVER get off my phone, haha And yes @aj, please share
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 23:16:05 GMT
I know this will be hard to believe dungeonmistress, but that is a photograph of a real, living organism called a Wolf's Milk or Groening's slime ( Lycogala epidendrum), you can find my original post featuring that and many other nefarious items here: dmscraft.freeforums.net/thread/636/cursed-item-ideas on the old DMscraft forum. As for crafting the Wolf's Milk Slime, yeah, you could use a glue gun.. I would make the body of the slime from scrunched tin foil, cover it with hot glue, then add a pink tinted brush on layer of epoxy glue.
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Post by beetlewing on Aug 21, 2014 0:38:18 GMT
Wow... And here I thought you were gonna say expanding foam insulation with dots of hot glue, lol
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Post by dungeonmistress on Aug 21, 2014 0:57:25 GMT
We, too have real Pink Slime, or we used to. It was an ingredient mixed into ground beef to make it stretch further. It was used by school districts, and major meat packing plants. I believe it was made from ground up fat, gristle, meal worms and God only what else. I wondered why when I bought prepackaged ground beef it was pink instead of red.
Then the news came out that this stuff had all kinds of nasty things in it like Bovine Growth Hormone, antibiotics and such. Then the FDA pulled off the market, thankfully!
Our Pink Slime wasn't anywhere near a cute as your Pink Slime!
I have some ideas on how to make this stuff. I'll give it a try when I have some time, and let you know the results.
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Post by indigo777 on Aug 21, 2014 3:38:26 GMT
That is an awesome creature and campaign hook, AJ. Fills a nice niche in the dungeon ecology as well. We, too have real Pink Slime, or we used to. It was an ingredient mixed into ground beef to make it stretch further. It was used by school districts, and major meat packing plants. I believe it was made from ground up fat, gristle, meal worms and God only what else. I wondered why when I bought prepackaged ground beef it was pink instead of red. Then the news came out that this stuff had all kinds of nasty things in it like Bovine Growth Hormone, antibiotics and such. Then the FDA pulled off the market, thankfully! Our Pink Slime wasn't anywhere near a cute as your Pink Slime! I have some ideas on how to make this stuff. I'll give it a try when I have some time, and let you know the results. Its making a comeback. They tried to cut its use but it just split, went away for a while and came back stronger. Ah the fools, every role player knows you use a bludgeoning weapon vs a slime. www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-laz-pink-slime-20140815-story.html
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2014 4:52:18 GMT
This is why you never shop at a goblin butchery.
Also, has anyone asked the producers of the MRE boxes if they are adding pink slime to the meal packs? Because that is probably a very large market.
Anyway, I used the Delicious Pink Slime as an adventure hook from an alchemical/social point of view in my last campaign, it was quite hilarious.. the pink slime can be harvested to produce a slightly pink powder, called "Delicious Spice", this is basically the ultimate flavor enhancer, and was being used to make this highly addictive onion dip at a local tavern, servicing the local magic academy and surrounding markets.. one of the player characters got addicted to the stuff and role played it perfectly.. it was like Onion Dip Crack, it got so bad that the local produce farmers tore out other crops in order to grow more onions, because the price for them was skyrocketing. It certainly didn't help that the tavern was now owned by the player characters, and they basically left it in charge of their goblin waitresses, who were.. well, when easy coin is involved, they don't give a damn about their moral responsibilities. So, the adventurers returned one evening to find the whole basement of the tavern was an illusion enhanced rave party, the top floor was little better than a bordello, and the local wizard guild was very annoyed that all the students had performed dismally in the end of year finals. It made a very funny backdrop for the main plot of an undead uprising going on. Sadly, nobody decided to venture into the swamps, looking for a renewed supply of the Delicious Spice Powder.. so the bottom fell out of the onion market fairly quickly.
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Post by tauster on Aug 21, 2014 6:31:15 GMT
@aj,that is simply awesome. I never thought of using shrooms as social adventure hooks. I'll borrow your idea and plant it in my underdark campaign as soon as my plot allows!
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Post by whytespirit on Aug 21, 2014 20:43:43 GMT
Yum yum, show me... show me... show me!!!!! Love to know the pink secret of its creation!
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Post by pillpeddler on Nov 29, 2014 18:09:29 GMT
This is why you never shop at a goblin butchery. Also, has anyone asked the producers of the MRE boxes if they are adding pink slime to the meal packs? Because that is probably a very large market. Anyway, I used the Delicious Pink Slime as an adventure hook from an alchemical/social point of view in my last campaign, it was quite hilarious.. the pink slime can be harvested to produce a slightly pink powder, called "Delicious Spice", this is basically the ultimate flavor enhancer, and was being used to make this highly addictive onion dip at a local tavern, servicing the local magic academy and surrounding markets.. one of the player characters got addicted to the stuff and role played it perfectly.. it was like Onion Dip Crack, it got so bad that the local produce farmers tore out other crops in order to grow more onions, because the price for them was skyrocketing. It certainly didn't help that the tavern was now owned by the player characters, and they basically left it in charge of their goblin waitresses, who were.. well, when easy coin is involved, they don't give a damn about their moral responsibilities. So, the adventurers returned one evening to find the whole basement of the tavern was an illusion enhanced rave party, the top floor was little better than a bordello, and the local wizard guild was very annoyed that all the students had performed dismally in the end of year finals. It made a very funny backdrop for the main plot of an undead uprising going on. Sadly, nobody decided to venture into the swamps, looking for a renewed supply of the Delicious Spice Powder.. so the bottom fell out of the onion market fairly quickly. ok... I hit the Exalt button on that because its freaking hilarious... and I pray its not copyrighted because I'm going to copy it shamelessly. That is some awesome GMing my friend
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2014 20:42:29 GMT
It's all my own invention Pillpeddler, feel free to use and abuse the idea to your heart's content.
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