I brought in kimchi soup to the office today.

"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem) 04/30/2019 at 15:56 • Filed to: None

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Well, actually I made it in my instant pot at work if you want to be pedantic (you know whom you are).

I ended up writing up the reci p e for some coworkers and figured I’d share with you.

Kimchi Quinoa Soup

· ½ cup kimchi

· ½ cup carrot chips

· ½ a bell pepper (I like to use red orange and yellow peppers)

· ½ onion chopped

· 2 tbsp chopped garlic

· 1 tbsp veg oil

· 2 tbsp soy sauce (You can use liquid aminos to make this gluten free and reduce the sodium)

· ½ cup quinoa

· 3 cups broth (I like to use 2 cups of chicken and one miso, but you can use whatever. If you use a vegetable or straight miso this can be a vegan friendly soup.)

In a large pot sauté the onion, carrot, garlic and peppers in the oil until the carrots get soft.

Add the kimchi and soy sauce and sauté for 3-5 minutes.

Add the broth and quinoa to the pot and let it simmer until the quinoa is cooked.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 04/30/2019 at 16:06

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What, no doenjang ? Quinoa and not rice?

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > CalzoneGolem 04/30/2019 at 16:07

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You cooked kimchi at work? Do you hate your coworkers?

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > CalzoneGolem 04/30/2019 at 16:34

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The only fermented vegetable I will eat is sour kraut.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 04/30/2019 at 16:41

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That was my thought!

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/30/2019 at 17:29

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Is that how the romanization of that looks? I’ve never seen it spelled out before. On English menus they always say some miso or fermented-bean thing. To me it always sounded more like it should be spelled dwaenjo ng , but they don’t consult me on these matters.

WiscoProud > CalzoneGolem 04/30/2019 at 17:46

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You brought an instant pot to work? 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 04/30/2019 at 17:50

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That’s the current Romanization. The current Romanization is occasionally pants-on-head stupid for speakers of European languages, because it’s based (opinion) more on Korean (mis)pronunciation of European languages (English in particular) rather than something sensible like how European languages sound - English, German, Spanish, French, pick one that’s not “English with strong Korean accent” .

McCune-Reischauer Romanization, out of favor now, was based more on English sounds and was a little more useful for someone non-native seeking to learn Korean - though it has some oddities, like more obscure diphthong use to try to express Korean sounds. Revised I think has a streak of national pride involved in that “ain’t no outsider tellin’ me how to Romanize” - in one sense, it helps a Korean learning English and other languages, and needing to be able to Romanize Korean, but it’s also crippling in that basing pronunciation of any other language one is learning on how Korean is now Romanized is a terrible, terrible idea.

Just as an illustration, an English speaker would pronounce “Busan” with something closer to a soft “P”, but in Korean they’d use a P only for something with the percussive version of P/B, if ever, and they don’t really have a hard B like English, so they use “Busan” now. Which, if said by an English speaker, sounds nothing like it should because it’s not a soft P/B. The Korean speaker used to pronouncing Roman B as soft P/B will go on to struggle with accurate English as well.

Of course, I think part of it is that the Korean speech I’ve been hearing all my life (while speaking basically none) is Southwestern (Alabama?) Korean, and for that at least the difference between Revised and McC-R is night and day as to accuracy.

CalzoneGolem > WiscoProud 04/30/2019 at 20:03

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Yeah, we were having a pot luck lunch.

CalzoneGolem > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/30/2019 at 20:04

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I mean it’s basically just sp icy Asian kraut

CalzoneGolem > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 04/30/2019 at 20:05

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They loved it they ate my soup right up.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/30/2019 at 20:09

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Quinoa and miso because I like them.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 04/30/2019 at 23:48

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Unrelated to anything other than you sometimes pen and paper rpging, tonight’s call of Cthulhu was pretty good. They had to deal with a monster possessing someone with a gaze that did sanity damage.

The y tried to subdue her by grabbing. This didn’t work. One player lost sanity four rounds running and had a brief brain vacation... immediately after giving up and coshing her nearly down with a weighted umbrella.

The entity, they know for a fact killed someone. Caution and concern for life were... dumb.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/01/2019 at 09:07

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Never played Call of Cthulhu. What’s the system like?  

I’m playing a Star Wars D6 game currently. My character is a chadra-fan. I’ve got crazy perception and technical/mechanical skills but fuck all else.

We’re on C oruscant and we’ve all been thrust into Invi sec by COMPNOR where we’ve joined a   resistance cell and I’ve personally blown up many things.

It’s a strange game. T here are four of us. One of the player’s wrote the story line, he plays a sentient gem that has force powers and can control a droid body if connected to it. There’s me, a young adult C hadra-fan who watched COMPNOR/The Empire burn everything he loved to the ground and has sworn to return the favor. My friend plays a young noble girl who managed to escape the empire and end up in my clan house on Coruscant scrounging for parts and building weird crap as my assistant. The DM plays a character who has been pretty worthless, though he did give me a blaster that I converted to be able to remotely fire it with my com puter.

WiscoProud > CalzoneGolem 05/01/2019 at 10:40

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oh okay, that makes more sense. If you had just done it on your own, that would be very weird. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 05/01/2019 at 11:05

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When you say Star Wars d6, you mean Edge of the Empire or old West End? I’m actually planning to run a Saga Edition one-off on Saturday for SW Day if things pan out - Saga Edition being a streamlined development of SW d20.

Call of Cthulhu is d100, roll-under. You make stat rolls and skill rolls both, with some skills starting at numbers based on a linked stat, but no direct connection between the two. There are penalty and bonus dice applied to the rolls, but the basic roll is to roll under your stat/skill for success, with a *hard* roll being to roll under 1/2 your stat/skill and an *extreme* roll to be under 1/5 your stat/skill. Sanity is interesting, in that you have a max number which can be reduced with permanent damage over time (or being exposed to the Cthulhu Mythos and increasing the Mythos Lore skill), and you make sanity rolls *as if* it were a stat, but it’s a depletable pool.

The entity they were facing had something called Soul Burn. First act is a compulsion to look into the eyes of the possessed person (or the entity itself, if it’s loose). Fixed difficulty POW (power) roll, extreme. (In other circumstances, there might be an opposed POW roll, with a “hard” success by one entity beating a “normal” success but being beaten by “extreme”.)

After failing the POW roll (typical character stat, maybe 50, meaning you’d need a 10 on d100), then the sanity check. Character started this with like 60 sanity, had to roll under 60 (succeeded), but the attack was bad enough it does 1d6 sanity damage on success, 1d10 on failure.

Most damage to sanity is just seeing something horribly unnatural, etc., and can only hurt your mind a certain way so much. There’s a maximum to how much you can take, and after you’ve encountered that type of bad once, it’s less the next time. Not so an attack deliberately targeting sanity like this. So, for four consecutive rounds, brain was put on the barbecue. Sanity went below 50, totaled to over 1/5 total sanity lost in one day as well as 5 sanity lost in one hit. Which means both indefinite insanity and temporary insanity - but the worse one applies (indefinite). So, for about an hour, the character sat there sharpening her knitting needles and mumbling about stabbing people in the eyes... and will experience a lingering lapse of reason, phobia, or mania.

Would have been smarter to bonk bonk on the head first, ask questions later.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/01/2019 at 11:32

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West End. O ld school, baby! It was the first system we all played together back in the day. Plus it’s all available in pdf.

One of our players wants to run a Edge campaign so we’ll do that one day.

D 100? That sounds chaotic. Sounds like your group learned the value of a stunning weapon.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 05/01/2019 at 11:47

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The funny thing is, in CoC there aren’t really “stun damage” and “normal damage”. It’s down to whether you suffer a “serious wound” or just get cherry-tapped unconscious. If you want to take someone down fast, you have to either apply some special condition (say, chloroform) or risk killing them.

If you do over half their health in a hit, they take a serious wound and have to roll CON to stay conscious. If they stay conscious, you’ll have to continue to bean them. If you then bean them to 0hp, they begin to die, because 0hp + serious wound = dying. 0hp and no serious wound, merely also unconscious.

The possessed person had 10hp. After several attempts to restrain her, she got clocked for, I think 8hp. One additional slap with a .38 in a fist knocked her out. Another NPC was at the time bleeding in the yard with a torso shot and a leg shot - the torso shot having *also* been a serious wound. So they had to stabilize two people with first aid, and then get them to medical care.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/01/2019 at 11:51

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Haha sounds like my kinda party.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 05/01/2019 at 12:05

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It’s actually one of the sample adventures in the back of the 7E keeper’s book. It’s far more freeform/DIY than the other adventure, and requires the Keeper to piece together which entity actually has custody of an item, which entities are trying to do what, and so on - it’s a LEGO kit adventure.

Basically a professor and archivist who liked his times in Atlantic City was attempting to get some papers on the trial of Keziah Mason (ref. The Dreams in the Witch House ) forged for sale to occultist buyers for mucho dinero. Said papers included a thing that was bound out of our reality, and imperfect forging set it free and drove the forger insane, and allowed the professor to become possessed. He managed to resist it long enough for it to kill him... so now there are people looking for the Witch Trial Papers, and his money - including mobsters he’d taken loans from.

His girlfriend was the one I had getting possessed, and an occultist Varsity Guy from Miskatonic they’d met earlier was attempting to raid her room looking for the papers, with a tire iron, when the party broke in. She was attempting to toast Varsity Guy’s brain, he was swinging the tire iron, and they thought to take him down first. Shot him, kept him from charging out of the room, so he did a runner out the window and got shot again attempting to sprint across the yard.

The guy who actually has the real Papers is the half-ghoul antiquities dealer. Obviously.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/01/2019 at 12:08

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Just like I always say, “Never trust a half-ghoul antiquities dealer.”  

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 05/01/2019 at 12:09

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The party is a middle-aged Irish anti-prohibitionist speakeasy owning spinster, a German medical student who does forensics for the police, and a Charleston-born bafflingly well-educated black chauffeur. The Italian mob-family soda jerk’s player had to drop out.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 05/01/2019 at 12:12

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He offered them money to find the papers, was incredibly genial... but they know he at least has some kind of medical problem. One of the funniest moments was when he (as courtesy) invited them to look at his wares, and two party members said OKAY TIME TO READ ALL HIS SKETCHIEST BOOKS FOR THE NEXT HOUR.

Their renewed suspicion in him was that an insane guy (the forger) told them he was bad news. And if you can’t trust an insane guy about who’s trustworthy, who can you trust?

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/01/2019 at 12:17

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This is legitimately some of the sketchiest shit I’ve ever heard of in a table top rpg.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 05/01/2019 at 12:41

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“This guy has been trying to buy papers that had something so bad in them a guy died in horror, his face frozen in a rictus of agony, every microbe on his body killed with etheric energy, and with his eyeballs boiled. Hey, want to see what’s in the books he has for sale?”

“WOULD I”