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Skip to comments.N.Y. Mayor Bloomberg: 'Ban' on large sugary drinks 'in the country's interest'
Posted on 03/10/2013 9:32:50 AM PDT by SMGFan
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg defended the citys new law banning restaurants from serving large sugary drinks, saying that its in the countrys interest.
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Were not banning anything, he said. Its called portion control its a typical [way] that companies use and governments use to explain to people whats in their interest and what isnt, he said.
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'Ban' on large Bloombergs 'in the country's interest'
Fixed it...
I would like to point out it started out with the smoking ban...
A sock in napoleon bloombergaparts pie hole would be in the country's best interest. What a meddlesome old biddy.
There is one rationale - and one rationale only - for the ban on large drinks, and that is clearly the exercise of Bloomberg's enormous and demented ego.
Ban sugary drinks, legalize marijuana. Moral posturing in a decadent, declining America.
what business is it of Bloomberg OR ANYONE ELSE IN GOVERNMENT !! to tell someone that they can or can't sell a legal product!!?!?!?!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I am about to explode!
and who wants to bet that this SAME freaking idiot would fight tooth and nail to allowed some poor person on food stamps to be able to buy ANYTHING that want at the grocery store!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bloomberg is nothing but a little tyrant. Thank God he's restricted by the borders of his city. Of course, the good liberals of New York City deserve whatever the hell they get out of what they vote into office....
SMGFan~:" .. how 80% recent of NYC High Schools grads cannot read? "
Hey , we have priorities , ya know !!
Its not like you have a right to a quality education which is government funded and controlled.
See what Bloomie has done to pain medications in city hospitals
See what Bloomie has done to nutrition and sugary drinks
See how Bloomie wouldn't even allow the State National Guard into the city without weapons despite looting
We have to expand government control since the public cannot be trusted with their own health issues.
Why doesn't the power hungry old fart ban Obama and his crew from coming into NYC and holding up traffic..
Why don't the people of NYC see he doesn't get reelected?
If sugary drinks are that pernicious, then just lobby the congress to outlaw them, using the interstate commerce clause. They've already set the precedence.
The idiots of NY put him in for a third term, had to change to law to do it 2 terms as republican, 1 term as independant...they deserve him....
I would like to point out it started out with the smoking ban...
As I am deathly allergic to nicotine, I was ever so grateful that smoking was banned in the workplace. But it upsets me to see the ban getting bigger and bigger. People have been ticketed for smoking in their trucks, by themselves, because that is their workplace. As this happened, my first thought was, okay, what will they ban next? The other disturbing thing is that so many people support this type of intrusion. Why? Ive noticed that these people project. Case in point, Michelle Obama. Michelle is carrying a few extra pounds in the caboose. Ive seen her pictured woofing down the very things she would ban from others. I looked up Bloomberg. He appears lightly built so he probably isnt projecting. He is, however, attempting to control activities that should be well beyond the realm of politics.
This guy just won the grand prize for oppression. No level of government has any right to tell me what legal size any legal drink has to be. This is just the stupidity of political ego and arrogance. Take your nanny state and shove it way up there but be sure to leave room for your head.
It may look crazy to the rest of us, but this is exactly the type of leadership the people of New York want. He would probably easily win a 4th term as mayor. He is probably getting close to being the most voted-for mayor in the history of any city in the country. The people are clearly telling him they like what he is doing, so from his point of view why should he change anything he is doing.
He's actually a bit wide for as short as he is.
Anybody considered the possibility that the boy has gone insane... or slightly demented?
Why do I get the feeling these laws are targeting minorities?
Since there are so many homeless, how about a ban on large apartments in NYC? Say over 1,000 sf. Nobody really needs more space than that.
"portion control".
Did they reduce the size of pizza's? No. He singled out soft drinks for some moronic reason. Even then a person can go into a grocery store, buy a 2 litre coke and chug it. So they are not implementing portion control.
A ban on Michael Bloomberg would be in the interest of the citizens of the USA, not that we really matter any more...
The guy has a Napoleon complex, and needs to meddle in ever bit of our lives, with the exception of the things that a city government is actually supposed to do...
I wish that were the case. He just dropped a chunk of $$$ into the campaign of a woman running for the Los Angeles school board, and I heard there were other campaigns he had funded. He's trying to meddle in places where he doesn't belong. California has enough problems without him. He needs to just STFU and go away.
The fool is actually driving up the cost of healthcare.
How about banning homelessness, doofus?
This reminds me of the movie Demolition Man. Bloomberg is Dr. Cacto.
This meddling,plutocrat pissant has been around far too long. For Gods sake someone please shut him up!!
I'm for smoke free zones just as long it is done by private means and not the state..
the next question is:
what will he do when this (outlawing large sizes) does nothing to slow obesity in NYC?
or is this a huge diversion?
just cuz I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
The country's interest? Excuse me, I don't recall that Bloomberg was elected President of the country, let alone King. If the people of NYC really want to put up with his nonsense it's their business, but I don't live in NYC and I don't answer to that a$$clown.
If we adhere to the Aristotelian mean and moderation in all things, then sugary drink size creep is to be shunned.
A short visit into most any public place provides views of large and extremely large people. The term is obese. They have a BMI exceeding 30 and have or are destined for poor health. One result is type II diabetes, a difficult to define disease that can be manifest in a host of minor to very serious health problems. Sugar and other carbohydrate excess over time produce the problems.
In the big picture, the problem becomes freedom, liberty, the ability to make choices. Should one be free to guzzle Coke or Pepsi while consuming mass quantities of Do Nuts and Twinkies or should all that stuff be rationed? Should one be restricted from eating a whole cake in one setting or be free to eat and suffer?
Those who tend to actually worry about the concept take both positions. Conservatives say freedom, liberty. Progressives say ration.
Under the concept of govern mandated health care the penalty for a BMI > 30 is a very unhealthy population requiring care that becomes very expensive. Such care can be considered unnecessary if there were adherence to the Aristotelian eating mean in the first place. Regulating moderation is the conclusion. The inability to moderate eating requires regulation to insure the cost of the immoderate action is reduced.
As mayor of a city that taxes beyond the Aristotelian moderation mean and still struggles, the cost of fat asses demanding city health care provided in addition to the state and federal care is a problem. The moderation penalty is not fair in the sense it affects everyone. It affects only the immoderate. Sensible people that drink only 12 oz are not bothered.
Large sugary drinks make people fat
Fat people require more healthcare and associated costs
Eliminate sugary drinks and save the budget
No. A ban on Mike Bloomberg is in the country's interest. This billionaire bozo needs to STFU and go away.
Only a liberal idiot would consider citizens too dumb to make food choices but smart enough to vote in elections.
"We're not banning anything...It's called portion control..."
Yes, portion *control*. Big Government portion control. You, sir, are powermad.
At least they tried to make smoking a "public health" issue, incantation of which words unlocks the police powers, even though they lied about secondhand smoke. But there is no such thing as secondhand large, sugary drinking. Why is it they feel no need to justify themselves anymore? Is the personal finally truly political, as the Marxist always wanted, and everything you do as an individual is now subject to regulation for the good of the whole? When did that happen?
You are in the twilight zone. How a person moderates his food and beverage intake only affects him. People try to make it out as a disease, which it isn't, even though it can lead to diseases. Neither is drug addiction. It can't be a disease, in my opinion, if the "cure" is simply to choose to do something less.
But let's say fattiness is a disease. It still isn't a public health issue. It still only affects the individual, and as such is cut off from the state's police powers. Ah, but as you point out, we now have socialized medicine. Meaning everyone's healthcare is everyone's else's business because everyone's healthcare is a financial burden to the rest of us.
However, someone's still paying for it. The money gots to come from somewhere. Mainly we decide who pays based on how much more they have than others (from each according to his abilities), or whether you buy unpopular things (sin tax), or how stupid you are (lottery). Why not make fat people lay for themselves? Or is that too much like the old system and common sense?
Here's a perfect argument for why healthcare shouldn't be socialized. Not only do undesirables cost us, we in fact encourage more fattiness, as there's less incentive not to be fat. Yet you're perfectly fine with socialism. It's the immoderate who are at fault. But I don't see why. You ought to embrace crackheads, sloths, sluts and satyrs, gluttons, and daredevils. You've guaranteed there'll be more of them.
The only apparent alternative is to come at them with theaw from the other side. If socialism has removed consequences, then prohibition can remove opportunity. And we all know how well that works.
You may be comforted by fatties getting the business. They've abandoned Aristotlean truth and the Protestant ethic, committed one of the sevenly deadly sins, or whatever. But of course we won't always go after the obviously socially unworthy. If what constitutes public health—and therefore the police powers—within a society with socialized medicine is whatever costs money to treat, or whatever can conceivably lead to costly medical consumption, then the government has power over every conceivable aspect of human life. Life is a disease for which death is the cure, as they say.
Next, we just eliminate fat people. /s
I don't disagree with you but there two thoughts expressed by my post.
The progressive thought is responsible for the conclusion one way to reduce healthcare cost is to forbid big gulps.
You are right..
What an adult puts in their body is nobody else's business, be it sugar or marijuana.
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July 15 2013 03:21PM
It starts with a few ill-timed comments on CBC, and it ends with snarky words from Chris Selley in the National Post:
"For $2,200 in total, you can buy James Reimer's pads, catcher and blocker. Any goalies out there looking for fatter rebounds? Get in line early."
(I actually like Selley and get that it's snark, but there are some people that perhaps take Selley's writing a tad too seriously.)
It's not exactly a secret that people out there don't exactly trust James Reimer's glove hand and his rebound control. The simple truth is that most goalies are weak when it comes to the glove hand and rebounds, and Reimer is just under a lot more scrutiny than a goaltender like, say, Jonathan Bernier, because he's been the most successful goaltender the Maple Leafs have had since Ed Belfour.
Yet most of the local press expressed a dissatisfaction with the idea that the Maple Leafs goaltending solution came in house, and Dave Nonis didn't otherwise have to go find a starting goaltender in Vancouver or Los Angeles. Reimer, when healthy, has been one of the best even strength goaltenders in hockey for three years now, but that wasn't enough.
No, rebounds are the thing now. It wasn't just Selley. Maple Leafs Hot Stove had to ask Justin Goldman, better known as @TheGoalieGuild, about Reimer's rebound control vis-a-vis Jonathan Bernier's. Google "James Reimer rebound control" and you'll find a litany of HF Boards threads like this one, and old news reports like this one from Mike Zeisberger. To Zeisberger's credit, he at least toys with the idea that the perception of Reimer's rebounding issues is just perception:
Sure, the Reimer bashers out there will still point out his problems with rebound control and his supposed weakness on the glove side. Still, given James Reimer's track record, don't bet against this kid — even if you think he might be an underdog in this race.
Even once you factor in Bernier's expected regression to the mean, Reimer should still wind up with a higher save rate than him over the next three years. Kelly Friesen, a co-worker of mine at Yahoo, wrote up a defence of Reimer while mentioning rebound control as an issue. He does however state that Reimer's "outstanding play against Boston in the playoffs… should have earned Reimer enough respect from Leafs management for them to put faith in him as their No. 1 puck stopper".
I agree with that sentiment, which is mostly why I'm taking issue with the Leafs spending $3.4-million in cap space, Matt Frattin and a 2nd round pick to "upgrade" Reimer. As if the Leafs' moves weren't already telegraphed through the press this offseason, the Leafs have been looking for a goaltender for years. It began with Andrew Raycroft, then Vesa Toskala, then Jean-Sebastien Giguere and Jonas Gustavsson. Finally James Reimer, a
third fourth round pick from 2006, found himself in line and he played spectacular in 2011. Lost in all the kerfuffle about how great Randy Carlyle has been for Reimer is that Reimer played at a 95.4-point pace under Ron Wilson. It's a tad higher under Carlyle, but the Leafs forwards shot better, leading to more wins, the PK improved, and there's a smaller sample of games.
Point is, over 61 decisions under Wilson, Reimer was 31-21-9. (After Carlyle came in 2011-2012, Reimer went 3-3-0.)
So what about rebounds? As much as they're joked about around these parts, Rob Pettapiece ran the numbers and found that controlling rebounds isn't exactly a sustainable talent, for one, and for two, Reimer is actually second behind Pekka Rinne in the last three seasons at controlling rebounds at 5-on-5:
I could tell you that Reimer had a 2.3% rebound rate one year, then 4.0% the next, then 6.0% in the next, but is that really telling you he got worse? (League average is around 5.2%.) Pekka Rinne was at 3.0% in 2011-12, but 4.7% the year before and 3.6% the year after. How much of those changes are due to the goaltenders themselves? [NHL Numbers]
Maybe his style looks a little hectic, or maybe fans don't like the fact that Reimer doesn't make many "great saves", merely a lot of good ones. But that's the thing—viewers only notice the flashy glove hand or the lightning-quick pad, and it's more difficult to see the set up to a shot that puts a goaltender in a better position to make the save.
Give me a goaltender that's able to stop a higher percentage of pucks. Goals against average, wins and shutouts are much more dependent on the team than save percentage. Vic Ferrari found years ago that deviations in save percentage as goaltenders change teams and teams change coaches and coaches change philosophies can pretty much be attributed to random chance.
As an example, the gap between Mike Smith's 2012 season under Dave Tippett in Phoenix (.936 even strength save percentage) and Mike Smith's 2013 season under Dave Tippett in Phoenix (.924) is larger than the cap between James Reimer's 2011 under Ron Wilson (.933) and his 2013 under Randy Carlyle (.924).
Held to a standard in Los Angeles, or Colorado, or Dallas, one might think that Reimer is the next big young goaltender, and maybe even a Team Canada candidate. In Toronto, Philadelphia and Vancouver, three markets that love to eviscerate goaltenders out of boredom, Reimer is a guy worth upgrading.
You should take a look at what the Sharks stat guys have done to analysis goalie (fear the fin).
They look at the persistence of std dev in SV% above league average. That is, does the goalie SV% have wide or small year to year variation (and what they did is look at game to game variation). And second, does the goalie have persistent SV% that is higher then league average.
There is one point I agree with in the article. Reimer is an underdog. He has always been an underdog, and he has always pulled through. He was behind Pogge, then Gustavsson, and Giguere. He has pulled ahead of them all. He has that crazy work ethic and the desire to improve himself. Just like this past season he came and held the fort. He will continue to do that this season, and improve upon his deficiencies.
I am a Boston fan so I am a bit biased here. I'm not the biggest Reimer fan but something that does not get factored into some of the rebound stats is the defensive system (something out of his control) that surrounds him. There is no doubt in my mind that Rasks numbers are a bit inflated by the help of the defensive system the Bruins play. It will be interesting to compare the stats of Reimer vs. Bernier when you start with the same base line of identical defensive systems.
Too many goalies have it in their head to make big saves every night. As a goalie I was taught to just stop the puck. If you have to make a flashy save then you were either out of position or you aren't reading the play properly. Reimer is in position more often than not so his saves usually aren't on the highlight reel unless he's battling after a rebound
Also it also matters a lot on how the team plays in front of a certain goalie.
Remember when gustuvvson and Reimer were in net a couple of seasons ago. They both had similar stats but Reimer had more wins just because the offense fired in front of him and not gustuvvson. Right now the players love Reimer and he definitely has an edge over Bernier.
*plz excuse my spelling of gustuvvson,
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Great read.
I personally have never had any doubts about Reimers game. Being a goalie is more about the mental toughness then it is how you play.
Reimer has made only a few highlight reel saves and thats because he is in position 99% of the time. This year will be interesting but leafs nation finally has no question marks in goal.
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I don't like how they are treating him. It shows they don't have faith in him IMO. He has a lot of class and so far hasn't done anything that warranted all this goalie speculation. First the talk of Luongo, then Kipprosoff, and now this. Bernier makes more than Reimer does and now he has to battle for the #1, when it should be he's #1 and if something happens down the pipes give Bernier a shot.
Not that I don't want to see Bernier do well here, it just seems shi**y to me.
There is one point I agree with in the article. Reimer is an underdog. He has always been an underdog, and he has always pulled through. He was behind Pogge, then Gustavsson, and Giguere. He has pulled ahead of them all. He has that crazy work ethic and the desire to improve himself. Just like this past season he came and held the fort. He will continue to do that this season, and improve upon his deficiencies.
I don't question that Reimer will win back the starting job. What concerns me is the question "how much of the season will the Leafs waste finding out that the goalie they had was better than the goalie they bought"? The learning process will cost games--because, come on now, Bernier will start the season as #1.
What kind of cushion do you think the Leafs have on the likes of BOS, DET, MT, or OTT? Can the Leafs afford to throw away points to find out that Reimer is their better option?
July 16 2013, 09:07AM
Also it also matters a lot on how the team plays in front of a certain goalie.
Remember when gustuvvson and Reimer were in net a couple of seasons ago. They both had similar stats but Reimer had more wins just because the offense fired in front of him and not gustuvvson. Right now the players love Reimer and he definitely has an edge over Bernier.
*plz excuse my spelling of gustuvvson,
You mean Reimer's concussion season? Because that's the only time they've been close to each other.
I like both guys.. and don't think having two is necessarily a bad thing. In 2-4 years pick one... and the other will be a good trade chip.
At 24/25 it's impossible to say who's going to be the better guy. Let them figure it out themselves.
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On Oct. 8 a drug bust involving juveniles at Emery High resulted in four arrests; one citation and the arrest of one adult at the school. Another adult supplier and user were also involved. Four of the juveniles were taken to the detention center and the other juvenile was cited and released. Emery High in conjunction with the Emery County Sheriff's Office has implemented a system called the Buddy Box. Students can place anonymous tips in this box without fear of retribution. Sheriff LaMar Guymon said, "The tip provided by one of the students gave information on students dealing drugs at Emery High. Deputy Shaun Bell, Deputy Clayton Bell and Deputy Robert Riley along with members of the drug task force including Det. Jerod Curtis and John Barnett aided in the investigation at the school. The adult supplier is one of the main sources for supplying drugs to the high school. "He is from the Salt Lake area, but he has relatives in this area. Getting him out of the picture is good for our county," said Sheriff Guymon.
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Just look at him, he even looks like a douchebag.
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Sage Mode - a way of engrossing oneself in/with natural energy.
Sage Arts - an art/technique of using natural energy.
You don't need to be in Sage Mode in order to use Sage Arts, but Sage Arts are much more effective in Sage Mode.
I'm not sure what do you mean...?
Wait, are you implying that Hashirama normally has tattoos on his forehead, around his eyes and all over his face ? He is still shown gathering energy, it's just that he has a different position, it's possible that Jiraya as well took a different position in order to gather Natural Energy, from the one that Naruto takes. Basically, it doesn't matter what position they take, as long as they are truly motionless.
...maybe, I'm not sure, since Hashirama already has the 3rd legendary Sage Mode, so well it... no I take it back . I almost forgot that each of the Sage Mode types had at least 2 known users in the series (Frog: Jiraya, Naruto; Snake: Oro, Kabuto: 3rd: Hashirama, Sakura?/Tsunade?).
I guess that the fact that Haruno clan symbol is exactly the same like the one that appears on Hashirama's forehead when he enters Sage Mode, can mean something and there might be a connection. Still, seeing as neither Jiray nor Oro had a perfect Sago Mode (though Jiraya went further with his studies in this regard) then the same would mean for Tsunade and seeing as Hashirama has a perfect one, Sakura's might not be a perfect one (I would rather like to see her Supreme Chakra Control to play again, but not like Tsunade, to heal, but one that condenses her chakra - similar like in the fist but better - into each of her cells, making her pretty much Ultra Human surpassing those with Super Human Strength).
Now that I mentioned Sage Mode types, then assuming that there are only 3 and that 4th Kazekage's marks weren't an effect of the Kekkei Genkai, then I would have to say that Garaa and his Dad are blood related to Jyugo's clan, but their effect is very limited and only effects appear around their eyes (this means that Garaa is constantly using a bit of Natural Energy or something like that, plus Garaa's red hair is a prove of being Uzumaki so this goes quite nicely with his capabilities in this department).


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hi, i think there's a reason people use the x in christmas, but i can't remember the story/reason. does anyone know/recall?
hi, i think there's a reason people use the x in christmas, but i can't remember the story/reason. does anyone know/recall?
I found this. It might help.
"Xmas is not of modern coinage. The Oxford English Dictionary documents the use of this abbreviation back to 1551. Undoubtedly it was employed before that. Now 1551 is fifty years before the first English colonists came to America and sixty years earlier than the completion of the King James Version of the Bible! Moreover, at the same time, Xian and Xianity were in frequent use as abbreviations of Christian and Christianity.
You see, the X in Xmas did not originate as our English alphabet's X but as the symbol X in the Greek alphabet, called Chi, with a hard ch. The Greek Chi or X is the first letter in the Greek word Christos. ...
Gration claims that as early as the first century the X was used as Christ's initial. Certainly through church history we can trace this usage. In many manuscripts of the New Testament, X abbreviates Christos (Xristos). In ancient Christian art X and XR (Chi Ro--the first two letters in Greek of Christos abbreviate his name. We find that this practice entered the Old English language as early as AD 100. Moreover, Wycliff and other devout believers used X as an abbreviation for Christ. Were they trying to take Christ away and substitute an unknown quantity? The idea is preposterous.
Some may use Xmas today as an unchristian shortcut for Christmas, but the ancient abbreviation by no means originated as such. The scribes who copied New Testament manuscripts had no intention of taking Christ out of the New Testament. They used the abbreviation simply to save time and space. ... I do not use it because of the possible misunderstanding it often causes as a result of its misrepresentation or abuse" [i.e., in its use for commercial purposes in modern times].
I don't know , but always assumed it was someone who isn't religious, plus is to lazy to write the whole word out. LOL. Really that's my thought process, weird I know.
you nicely explained the origin of the word Xmas.
how ever I think that it is difficult to get the exact origin of the Xmas and and we will have to depend on the theories for information.


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His Mighty Girthness Chief Rendwattle Gutwad, has called you to the moot house at the centre of Licktoad Village. Slorb, an overdressed Pompous Goblin, greets you at the door pushing his lens-less glasses up his nose as he does "Chief Gutwad waits." He opens the door and you enter a large room filled with trophies of Licktoad heroics; Stolen Weapons, Shiny treasure and the pickled bodies of small furry animals adorn the walls and shelves of the large room. At the centre of the room you see him, Chief Rendwattle Gutwad. He has squeezed his wide girth into a six foot high teeter chair. His Throne!!! The chief never speaks to anyone but his advisor Slorb and then only in whispers due to the great power of his voice.
Slorb moves over to the side of the great chair and his nasally voice rings out "Sit on the dirt!!" As you sit in front of the chief he suddenly speaks, his voice booming into the room.
"You all be heroes. Each of you. You are best Licktoads but for me. And maybe but for Slorb. That you aren't fleeing in terror from mighty sound of my voice is all the proof you should need. Yet soon, all Licktoad goblins will know your might, for I have picked you for a dangerous mission. You know about fireworks and map we found in Scribbleface's hut. Fireworks were fun. But map is more fun. It shows a route to a place near the coast where Scribbleface found fireworks. And it says there are more fireworks there!"
"I want them for Licktoads. You all go get them tomorrow. Tonight we have big bonfire to burn bad luck away from you, and we play many games. Much fun. Tomorrow you fetch me fireworks. If you meet men, you make them dead. If you meet dogs, you make them dead. If you meet horses, you make them dead. If you meet Lotslegs Eat Goblin Babies Many, you maybe should run. And if you not find fireworks, you not come back or we feed you to Squealy Nord!"
After he finishes speaking Slorb quickly leads you out of the hall giving you the map to the firework cache [/b]"Prepare for big fire now."[b] before returning to the chief.
Now is the time to make introductions talk about what just happened etc. You have until evening when there will be a bonfire held in you honour.
|Slicy 9Toe
"Me Slicy, me win, me burn fireworks" Slicy jumps up and down excited for a new challenge, she cannot wait for the big bonfire and looks at the other goblins and looks at her battleaxe, spits on it and wipes it on her dress to make it shinier... "Axe pretty, Slicy prettier, HAHAHAHAHAHA, don't you think so?" as she looks at the other goblins who left the Moot House.
The big sized Korg listened silently as the chief babbled away again. The Executioner snorted at the end of the speech, took the huuuge human cutlass he had with him -The Executioner's Blade- and checked if its clean and sharp enough. It seemed nice enough due to dragging it on the floor since two days back and forth, even the dried blood came down. He killed a wounded pirate at the shores a year ago and since then it became Korg's signature weapon. "Whatever, it just needs to be done with, right?" Another bothersome job for Korg, and this time he even had to go far away to do it, well, at least it isn't just him who gets annoyed with it this time.
Korg was no idiot, just damn easy to lose patience and usually hating to do any job because to him it looked as if most the work he gets are mundane things. He wasn't wrong with it most of the time.
The tribe often thought him to be a largest brute with a fearsome aura and a job which made getting him better avoided, but his main reason to isolate himself was that to his too high intelligence he knew how absurd and silly some things they did were.
Why fear written letters? Of course he wasn't able to read as no one taught it to him, but if humans didn't lose their souls for long-long time why would the tribe then? Not to mention the name of the tribe, Korg hated the name "Licktoad", it could have some much more awesome names, like "Kickdog" or "Dragons", no one ever thought about an unique name like Dragons.
Korg was more intelligent than even many humans but Korg didn't know it, he was more charismatic than about almost all goblins, but he thought it was just a result of his huge body and job that others acted scared near him. While mostly true it wasn't the only reason. He was usually patient with the Chieftain but it was just recently that he had to burn a hut down and kick one of the other more clever goblins so that the demands stop already. Korg's patience grew thin and he wanted to get this done with because the map he was drawing at home was almost finished, and the brown s@+* he used for the mountains will soon dry out. He wanted to avoid the s&$& to dry, as dire boar s*#& was hard to come by.
Lotslegs? Squealy Nord?
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|Darts Torchfist
Darts sneered,flashing his filed flat teeth in his bright yellow face.He swaggered out of Moot House,beady red eyes scanning the map and taking in the details scrawled across it before tossing it contemptuously into the air.
The yellow gob stood at a height of 2'8",his lithe frame taut with wiry muscles and a straight spine with shoulders back,chest out,and head high. He wore clothing taken from a halfling male he'd stripped naked and ran off laughing at his flustered victim.
He ran his filed but sharp square nails through his thick mane of wiry black hair,tied in a topknot ponytail at the top of his wide skull.Several dull grey rings hung heavily in his oversized ears.A ragged blue-green vest with pockets that showed off the X-shaped scar across his pectorals.The tattered remains of a tunic wrapped around his waist over leather breeches he wore under his leather armor.
He snatched a bloated tick that was crawling along his arm and sliced into it with his nail,flicking the bloody pulp away.He scanned the other goblins standing with him with smoldering disdain.His clothing was noticeably cleaner than anything the other gobs wore.
A satchel slung around his waist that could have been a saddlebag.A fangfile was gripped firmly in one hand that he occasionally used as a punching dagger on any gob that chose to pester him whenever he was either filing his teeth or nails.A dogslicer was stuck thru the strap of the satchel,acting like a weapons belt.
He tossed his topknot back,which caught the attention of several passing gobs that stared at him in open admiration and envy.He ignored them.
Feh! Great Chief my bum! We get this over with.Darts got things to get done.
|Darts Torchfist
Darts studied the other three goblins shrewdly as he tried to remember anything significant about any of them.
Who are youse? Darts don't know youse.
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19 Knowledge check(local)
He pointed to each in turn with the fangfile.Humph.You Slicy Nine-Toe,you Korg,and you Nuggle.Me Darts Torchfist.You all Licktoadies.Darts have no tribe.Darts only gob to be caught by Vorka and get aways.
|Slicy 9Toe
the chief didnt actually give you the map, he was to give it out either in the morning or after the bonfire
After being ignored, "I talk to you" she picks up some dirt and throws it at Darts " Lady talk, boy listen, hahahaha you dirty"
|Darts Torchfist
Darts reacted to the thrown clod of dirt reflexively,performing a nimble forward flip casually so the dirt sailed harmlessly underneath him.He landed with a sneer,pointing his fangfile at her.
Darts no listen to dirty wenches.Darts clean gob.
1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21 Acrobatics check
|Slicy 9Toe
She then touches Darts with her dirty hand. 1d20+4= 14+4=18 hmmm against FFAC 13 :).
"Hahaha still dirty, you funny jump melikes..."
She then happy about that looks at Korg and Nuggles "me pretty yess? she then sees a cricket jumping down the path and grabs it and eats in one bite. "Marsh has yummy food, yes.... HAHAHAHAHA"
|Darts Torchfist
Darts recoiled from her after she reached out and smacked him in the chest,leaving a smear of dirt across his scarred pectorals.His ears dropped to hang past his collarbone in dissapointment.
He heard her titter in amusement,simpering about how pretty she was to the other two males before snatching up a large cricket.Its loud chirping ended with a wet smunch as she happily devoured it. He scowled in irritation as he scraped away the mud clinging to his skin.
Muttering to himself,he turned to the other males.So we go into swamp find fireworks? You knows Vorka out theres huntings for any gob that go too far from village.She like Licktoadies---in bad way.
This pale goblin says nothing in the Chiefs presents nor during the little spat between the Slicy and Darts.
Decides to correct Darts. "I not Toadlick, I from Deep Dark." Pointing down at the ground. "Toadlick just let me stay."
|Chief Rendwattle
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I will move it onto the night when you guys are finished getting Acquainted. Great roleplaying by the way I am loving it!!!
|Darts Torchfist
|Darts Torchfist
Knowledge(Local) 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11
Korg just sits quietly for a while, then begins to grin when two of the goblins begin to argue that "Nooooes, they shuuure aren't part of this tribe!" and has to withstand the urge to laugh out laud on the idiocy to say these things before the two leaders of the tribe.
After waiting for a bit, assuming the Chief may ask him to kick some butt or cut some heads, he stands up and moves towards the entrance of the hut. "If tis is all I go home, will go to see bonfire later." He leaves the "building" and scratches his eggs as he thinks about how he just got into another crazy mess. Sure those fireworks were fun but making normal fire seems more effective, and not worth the loss of tribals over it.
Well, maybe something good may come out of it after all, someone here may be able to learn how to make those things on their own if enough is taken home with them.
Looks at the yellow goblin and answers, "Tribe warriors beat Nuggle all time. When Nuggle........fight back, Tribe make flee." *rubs his left shoulder unconsciously.
Knowledge: Local 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13
Hope kill Lotslegs. Useful could it be.
|Darts Torchfist
Darts watched the stout Korg warily out the corner of his eye,noticing the thoughtful expression that crossed his squashed face as he stuck a thick hand down his trousers to scratch himself.When the big gob started off from the direction of Moot House,dragging the ungainly large cutlass in the dirt behind him,Darts watched him go.
Korg be smart gob.Not stupid like rest.Keep eyes on him.Maybe...
Then he glanced sidelong at Nuggle.Nuggle be dangerous like poisonteeth snake.He leave Darts be,Darts leave him be! Watch back for knifes...
Then he regarded the female Slicy Nine-Toe.She posed and flaunted herself,twirling her axe and skirt of her filthy dress.......Meh.
|Darts Torchfist
Darts listened to Nuggle's reply,a knowing sly look creeping across his face.Bullies always thinking they right.When youse fights backs they acts all surprised...Keh heh heh! Bet youse showed thems you wrong gob to beats on,eh?
|Slicy 9Toe
Knowledge 1d20= 10
"Deep Dark no good food,no?"
She then answers Darts comment. "Bully think right but wrong, but Slicy teach all dead. Slicy no like bully, no like alligator, no like Vorka. Slicy like pretty, is pretty. No baby factory....aaahhhhhhhahahahahah" she gets worked up into a dander and fells a tree in one swing.
at GM, an alligator encounter would rock
|Darts Torchfist
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12Knowledge check
Hmph.Darts already know about stupid Brinestump swamp.Lots of places to hide---and things hiding waitings for you.Like sneaky gators. Darts find out gator can't open mouth if you close it with hands. He rubbed at a ragged scar on his side with a wry grin.
Then he frowned.Me never seens Lotslegs but seen big webs.Saw stuntie stuck in one.It must be biggun bug.
He eyed Slicy as the female commented on his conversation with Nuggle,dissolving into a giggling fit that ended with her taking up her axe and swinging it at a thin,stunted tree that was barely five feet high. His ears flapped back as her blow made the skinny trunk burst into splinters,the gnarled branches and thorny leaves toppling to the ground.
A random goblin hurried over and hauled it away to add to the bonfire the rest of the tribe were building.
Coolly,Darts brushed away stray splinters that landed in his hair.Yes,Slicy pretty fe-gob.
Pretty crazy...
|Slicy 9Toe
Slicy laughs at her morose counterparts and skips her way home to get ready for the fire. She makes her way to her home and sees her father, Hammy, working on their home.
The house is the best constructed house of all the regular Licktoads except the Moot House.
"Papa, I meet chief, he have me go mission just like mammy did"
Her father with a big green wrinkly face, scratches his melony head and says Slicy, you careful, you go swamp, watch out, dangers be there like Alligator, Vorka, Goblin baby eater"
After talking with her father and sharpening her axe, she makes her way to the fire.
|Chief Rendwattle
As night falls there are several Goblins speeding around the camp piling sticks twigs and virtually anything flammable in a heap so that they can light The Greatest Bonfire. The smell of raw fish wafts by you as the biggest and best fishies are brought out. A great feast has been planned; snails, snakes, fish, Halfling fingers, Human nuggets and much more is spread across a huge makeshift table. A hush comes over the camp as a huge keg of apple cider is rolled across the ground it comes to rest at the table. Preparations are over and the Goblins silently stand and wait in awe as their chief is carried out on his Teeter Chair by four struggling Goblins. They place him near the fire and he lifts up a strange looking candle.
He lights a match, eliciting an audible gasp and suddenly shooting fireworks fly from the candle, they blast into the Bonfire engulfing it in flame. Screams and squeals break the silence. The Party Has Begun.
|Darts Torchfist
Darts swaggered off to one of the furthermost corners of the village,to his home--an abandoned animal burrow dug into the base of a huge old willow tree that extended further up into the swollen trunk itself with a peephole and several thorny branches carefully woven into a door.Entering it was still difficult for anyone that wasn't him,and the fact it had several nasty traps to punishment anything trying to get in.
The yellow gob rummaged through his belongings,careful to select anything he might need without overburdening himself.He held up a pair of bolas he'd made himself--a pair of goblin skulls connected with a length of rawhide and hung them from his ouch strap.
Resetting his traps,the yellow gob paused to caress the stone fetish he kept on his person at all times.A forlorn expression made his ears sag as he hugged it.
Darts missings Goat...Darts finds Goat soon.First he findings fireworks for Gutwad.
Then Darts made a comically disgusted face.Gutwad and Licktoadies can suck Darts bawbles!
Shoving the fetish back down his breeches,the yellow gob squeezed out of a narrow hole in the tree's trunk that resembled a distorted mouth and scurried back to the village.
He made sure to avoid eating any humie and halfie bits offered at the feast,shoving juicy barbequed snake,snail,fish,and frog into his maw greedily.At least one thing the Licktoads knew how to do was party!
He let out a gleeful chortle at at the fireworks that scattered sparks into the night sky and sent up the pile of kindling into a blaze.
If he was going for anything,it was definitely for the fireworks!
|Slicy 9Toe
Slicy excited walks to the bonfire. She plops down and awaits for the ceremony to begin. She elbows an older goblin "This big day for Slicy, big day for Licktoads, HAHAHAHAHA"
She then eats all of the succulent morsels and has some stout Goblin Brew to wash it down. She looks around the fire for her comrades and sees them after a short while.
Every time a firework explodes a huge grin of delight crosses her face and she cannot stop smiling...
Having not been with the Toadlick very long, Nuggle goes to his 'hovel' between two huts. He makes sure everything is in order, then heads to the bonfire site.
After the ceremony begins, Nuggle makes his way to the table to view the delicacies. Most were quite familiar, but he was unfamiliar with the fingers or bits of meat. "What these?" indicating the two items to Slicy.
|Slicy 9Toe
Slicy looks down at the pieces, grins and says..."Miniman Fingers and Longshanks' arm chunks. Tasty, try one?"
Slicy grabs two of each and gives one of the fingers to Nuggle. She holds the other finger by the nail and sucks all the meat off the bone in one pull and then throws the human nugget in the air and catches it on the edge of her tongue, takes two bites and swallows.
"You try, yummy!"
|Darts Torchfist
Darts struggled to hide his disgust at Slicy's display.He simply snorted and fished a swollen appear floating in the barrel and ate it with relish,tongue swiping at the juice that dribbled down his chin.
Bad goblins eats peoples.Darts be good goblin.Goat taught Darts good.
He skewered another boiled frog with his fangfile and tore into the pale,plump flesh.He also plucked a handful of alligator eyes pickled in brine from a bowl.
Korg almost missed the beginning of the party, not that he would have minded that, but he would have certainly mind the anger of the Chief if he would do that. Korg finished up his map just before the dire boar stuff dried out. He knew that making maps is not considered writing, but it was borderline enough to avoid speaking of his hobby, not that anyone would have cared to hear about it anyway.
As he silently watched the fire and the other goblins from a corner he noticed Slicy and the others, discussing the food. Then the reaction of Darts to it. Korg wasn't that picky an eater, but he had this rule of his that if a creature could talk while alive, he would not eat it.
"Leave 'em be Slicy, there is enough food to choose for all of 'em. If you like it and they do not, just take it yourself." Korg suddenly broke the silence to speak to them. Not because he wanted some "friendly converzathiun" or because he wanted to help Darts, but because he wanted to avoid them suddenly killing each other over the difference in tastes, and because that would mean more work for Korg in a way or another.
After seeing the way Slicy ate the finger, Nuggle takes a quick sniff of the one she gave him. He pushed it away and held his nose, "No thank, smell bad." Grabs a couple of snakes and walks off into the crowd of other goblins.
Craft: Alchemy, to see if there may be enough venom left for a dose of poison. 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
Wow, just......wow.
|Darts Torchfist
Darts took notice of how neither Korg nor Nuggle ate the people-flesh and grunted with approval.He carefully took up a large shell stuffed with spicy relish and sucked the baked snail out of it.The sensation of heat and taste of brine made him snigger.
Hmm.Korg and Nuggle might be differents.Slicy no know no betters--mebbies.
He washed it down with another sodden cider-apple that burst into delicious spiced mush in his mouth.
Taking in the sight of the flickering tongues of flame that licked at the night sky,the flurry of cinders that scattered like fairy dust across the ground,even the cool swamp air made him content. And a full belly of good food certainly helped to lift the yellow goblin's spirits.
1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14Acrobatics check
He performed a simple yet clumsy cartwheeled around the bonfire,giggling.
|Darts Torchfist
Darts started to dance with enthusiasm.
1d20 ⇒ 17Perform(dance)
Several fawning females and younger males watched his performance and cheered.Many followed him around the bonfire,their shadows careening about.
Even Chief Gutwad seemed to enjoy his display.His corpulent daughter,dressed in the finest bits of piecemeal and cobbled items,drooped and clapped appreciatively.
A song started that nearly every gob pitched their voice into.
Goblins chew and goblins bite,
Goblins cut and goblins fight,
Stab the dog and cut the horse,
Goblins eat and take by force!
Goblins race and goblins jump,
Goblins slash and goblins bump,
Burn the skin and mash the head,
Goblins here and you be dead!
Chase the baby, catch the pup,
Bonk the head to shut it up!
Bones be cracked, flesh be stewed
Goblins shout and goblins cheat!
Goblins burn and goblins eat!
Torch the house and slay the beast,
Goblins kill and then they feast!
Goblins push and goblins grab!
Goblins steal and goblins stab!
Take their things and tell them lies,
Goblins knife you in the eyes!
Hack the women, gut the men!
Drag their bodies to the den!
Rend the fat and tear the skin,
Boil the pots and toss them in!
Darts tried not to sing the worst bits but found it to be irresistibly catchy.
|Slicy 9Toe
Slicy really gets into the party and starts to sing along with the rest of the Licktoads. She then finds Slorb.
Hello Mr. Slorbie, wanna dance wit me?
I don't understand why you guys refuse to eat halfling fingers, goblins aren't people, its not cannibalism. Do what you want to do
|Chief Rendwattle
Slorb stares at Slicy and her offer to dance, he gulps AHHHHH.
before holding out his hands Yes...Dance. he lets himself be led during the dance.
Afterwards he is quite smitten with Slicy and follows her everywhere, "Me like you Slicy!!!"
Later as the night carries on and after the dancing the Goblins get more and more drunk. Some of the female Goblins formed a gang and chased the males around screaming at them for "Nug nug for baby."
Several of the Goblins round the 4 of you into a corner awe is written across their faces at been given the chance to speak with great champions "You are great warriors, you bring more fireworks for even bigger party." Slorb is with them and tries to hold Slicy "You great warriors, will you dance with...Squealy Nord?" Suddenly the party goes quiet at his words, everyone is staring.
You know that Squealy Nord is a ferocious pig and to dance means to ride on him for 3 rounds.
If any of you wish to go straight away and ride Nord resolve against a ride DC of 15. You must remain on the pig for 3 rounds to win the dare.
Here is a picture of the ferocious beast.
|Slicy 9Toe
Slicy looks at Slorb and laughs "All mens like Slicy, you be chief then I like you too..." then she slaps him on the rump in a very heavy handed motion, Slorb stumbles but doesn't fall.
After Slorb says ride Squealy Nord, she grabs Slorb, pretends like she is going to kiss him and ties him to the pig with her rope. Slorbly, you ride nord first!!!! HAHAHAHA as she broadsides the pig's rear end with her battle axe. The pig runs and everyone laughs....
|Chief Rendwattle
As Slorb is dragged, kicking and screaming by Squealy Nord he shouts through a mouthful full of dirt "Chief offer big prize to one who ride Squealy Nord and NOO Fall off!!!" He manages to release himself from the pig but as he does it turns, oinks and charges. Slorb screams and runs jumping over the fence and back to the chief, he stands their shaking and muck drips from his face.
|Darts Torchfist
Darts,more drunk than sober,cackled with glee as poor Slorb was tied to the pig and carried away on a dizzying ride.As soon as he managed to free himself,he declared a prize for an
The yellow goblin did a flip over into the pen and onto the grunting pig's back.Immediately it exploded into motion,turning round and round in an effort to sling him off.
1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25
1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21
1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
Darts held on each time the furious pig switched directions before leaping off and onto the side of the fence.He pumped a knobby yellow fist,eyes shining.
Where Darts' prize?! He danced with Squealy More and wins!
|Chief Rendwattle
You here one Goblin shout out in awe "You big hero, you ride Squealy Nord with no fear." another screams "He no hero, he just Vorka's b***h!!!" A fight quickly breaks out which ends up with both Goblin's unconscious. After the fight the chief kicks Slorb in the head, who quickly picks up a strange circular object. He runs over with it and hands it over. You see that it is a glass bottle filled with a strange liquid that bubbles and froths, the glass feels warm to the touch. "This gove you dragon breath. BURN BURN!!!"
This is an elixir of Fire Breath.
|Darts Torchfist
|Slicy 9Toe
Persuasive check on Slorb, would that be intimidate or bluff 1d20=11 -2 or 3= 9 or 8. Figured it would be awesome if Slorb tried to stab Gutwad in the back for love
Slicy looks and cannot take anything Slorb says serious anyway and laughs incessantly and secretly hopes that Slorb kills Gutwad or vice versa. dance be dance, love not dance, bleh
Nuggle sits quietly watching the antics of his group and the tribe. When Darts rode the pig, he turned a bit paler than he usually is. "Rest time. Big thing next day, need rest." And heads to his, 'hovel.'
Slicy: Nuggle has never had Halfling or Human before. He's from underground remember?
|Chief Rendwattle
Slicy I would say Bluff. Have you asked him to do this? :P
As Nuggle is about to walk away Slorb suddenly shouts out "Wait me have more Dares for you all to do." He clears his throat and pulls out a strange wriggling bag from one of his pockets You must eat five Bull Slugs in one minute!!! You know that these slugs are nasty to eat even for Goblins. He pulls one out to show the ever gathering crowd, the slug is huge, deep black and incredibly slimy. Large blobs of slime drip from the slug as Slorb wiggles it in the air. He holds it their for a while before dropping it back in the bag. "Which big hero accept big challenge."
If you choose to accept this challenge there is two ways to do this. One way is to eat the slug whole which requires a DC 15 Fort save for every slug. Or spit out the slightly poisonous Slime Bladder to make it a DC 10 Fort save however this may have... Repercussions. You can apply this to each individual slug.
You have 10 rounds to eat the slugs. Attempting to eat a slug counts as a round. Failing the Fort Save means that you fail to eat the slug. If you fail to eat a slug you can try again on another round.
Is that alright? :D
|Chief Rendwattle
|Darts Torchfist
Urgh.that has got to be the most disgustingly descriptive...it was powerful imagery,DM.Gross to the point my appetite was spoiled reading it.Impressive.
Darts,although buzzed from his indulgence of fermented cider apples,wasn't nearly drunk enough to even consider eating bull slugs. He'd rather eat pines needles.
Or even hay like some farm animal.
Maybe Nuggle can use. "Let Nuggle try."
Takes the bag and plops the first one in his mouth.
Fort: DC 10 I'm going to attempt to cheek the bladders. Got to be subtle after all. 1d20 ⇒ 13
Sleight of Hand: To cheek bladder without anyone noticing. 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11
Eats the slimey thing without issue. Eats the next.
Fort: DC 10 1d20 ⇒ 1
Begins choking and coughs the slug up. Then tries again.
Fort: DC 10 1d20 ⇒ 14
Sleight of Hand: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16
"Down two." Takes out the third.
Fort: DC 10 1d20 ⇒ 18
Sleight of Hand: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12
Eats the third without issue. Pulls out the fourth
Fort: DC 10 1d20 ⇒ 17
Sleight of Hand: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14
Down it went and Nuggle pops the final one into his mouth.
Fort: DC 10 1d20 ⇒ 4
Nearly gags and spits it out, then tries again.
Fort: DC 10 1d20 ⇒ 1
Starts choking but coughs it up, and tries again.
Fort: DC 10 1d20 ⇒ 14
Sleight of Hand: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22
After eating the last slug, Nuggle looks at Slorb and says, "Satisfied?" And again begins to walk back to his 'hovel'.
|Slicy 9Toe
|Chief Rendwattle
Thanks Darts I was actually kind of Hungry when writing it ;)
As you finish off the final Slug, Slorb turns away his sick spilling onto the ground. He recovers quickly and even though he is pale he quickly retrieves your prize. The Chiefs Dogslicer!!! "Chief let you Borrow his favourite weapon, Gorge of Gluttons. Chief killed many horses with this weapon. You must bring back to chief after victory or your head will pop!!!"
Gorge of Gluttons—a +1 dogslicer that functions as a bane weapon when utilized against horses (improving to a +3 dogslicer that inflicts an additional 2d6 points of damage on a successful hit).
Roll me one final Fort save.
When he hands over the Dogslicer, Slorb is flanked by several mean looking Goblins carrying Clubs. One of the meanest ones growls We play Hide or Get Clubbed. Slorb expands One of you hide, they try to find...if they do you get clubbed. If no you win great prize.
If you want to run and hide then roll a stealth check for me please.
Nuggle if you want to return to your Hovel thats fine :P
Korg looks up. "I can do the clubbing, or just use my blade if that is easier." He hoped a bit of help may make the whole procedure quicker so he can go to sleep already.
The large goblin stands up, and looks for an easy enough opponent who may be easy and quick to find.
"Slicy, why don't you run and hide? You did already have fun with the Chief and the pig, let the Chief and us look for you now, if Chief finds he can mabbe get bonus prize from you too." Korg grins.
1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21 Diplomacy to persuade the Chief and the crowd that Slicy is the right woman for the job. And to get them think of the "bonus prize".


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An informational meeting was held on Thursday to make an announcement which could have a big impact on the city of Green River. Mancos Resources is looking at the possibility of building a uranium processing plant at the new Mancos Hills Industrial Park. Steve Glass and Greg Hunt from Mancos Resources visited Green River to tell more about the project.
Glass said Mancos Resources will be the first tenants in the new industrial park. They will be renting space from Emery County. The industrial park is located on SITLA land near the juncture of SR-6 and I-70 on the west end of Green River approximately six miles from town.
Mancos Hills Industrial Park: Mike McCandless the Emery County Economic Development Director explained the industrial park to those present. The park is composed of an area with 3,300 acres of both private and public land.
This park will provide for larger blocks of available land and stabilize the pricing of land during evaluation. A new tax base will be generated from lands that currently generate zero tax dollars. The park can take advantage of federal funds for infrastructure for economic development. The park will pave the way for the generation of new jobs to the area.
Green River City has an industrial park presently which comprises roughly 520 acres, with eight different land owners. Two-hundred forty acres are already owned/controlled by Ecodomaine/Red Leaf. Eighty acres are owned by Green River City, but obligated to High Desert Refining. Eighty acres of private ownership have expressed no interest in selling.
The advantages of the new industrial park lies in the amount of acreage available for a new business to begin. One of the disadvantages manufacturing businesses along the Wasatch Front have discovered is they are being pushed out by growth around them. The acreage available in Green River will allow a business to grow and expand without too many close neighbors.
The new park consists of 2,547 acres of SITLA trust land. Emery County will serve as the developer. There are 800 acres of private properties. Emery County will recruit potential clients and negotiate prices on SITLA land. Private lands will be handled through real estate agents. SITLA lands will be sold to the clients to creat a new tax base. New tenants of the park will construct and pay for most improvements. Federal funds will also be targeted for infrastructure.
McCandless stressed the fact that only industrial businesses will be allowed at the site no retail or hospitality businesses. The only request made from Green River City will be the request for culinary water to the businesses at the park.
The type of businesses the county hopes to attract to the park include mining, processing and transportation, rail served distribution-off-loading, oil and gas services; rigs drilling services; manufacturing/fabrication and power generation. The site is near the railroad and power substation.
McCandless said in the last 12-18 months the companies looking at Green River have expressed their need for large blocks of land. Many businesses from the Wasatch Front are looking at relocation.
McCandless said the county would like to see a revitalization of the Green River downtown. The county envisions the industrial park becoming a part of Green River so the city can realize some tax base from it.
Glass told residents he was a guide and outfitter for many years at Grand Canyon and on the San Juan river. He now helps companies with their environmental impact documents and reclamation plans for mining and related industries. This uranium mill project is the product of a global economy. The need for power generation is increasing across the world. Nuclear power is a very big part of the future of electrical generation. The plant would process 1,200 tons of uranium per day. They would bring in the uranium ore by rail and/or trucks from the local uranium mines. For every ton of ore it produces four pounds of product. The tailings would remain on site. The initial investment will be $100 million to become operational. The plant would employ 40 people of varying skill levels at competitive wages. A typical labor position could pay approximately $20 per hour.
Glass spoke much about the legacy they want to leave behind at the end of the project life and they want to plan for that. "It doesn't look like the demand for nuclear energy will go away any time soon," said Glass. The plant will be a wet crushing solvent extraction with dry tailings disposal with a composite cap of the material available on site. Nuclear energy is used all over the world. France gets 80 percent of their energy from nuclear power and the United States 20 percent. There are 438 plants worldwide and 104 of those are in the United States. There are 32 under construction now and 23 of those are in China.
There is a 25 percent shortfall in the fuel required for existing nuclear plants. In 2003, uranium was $7.50 a pound and it crept up to $140 a pound in July 2007. It has now leveled out around $125. There have been 331 uranium leases on 318,000 acres; this resurgence has inundated the Bureau of Land Management with a flood of notices of intent. The BLM has fallen behind in permit approvals.
There is only one uranium mill operating in the United States at this time and that is the White Mesa in San Juan County.
"We want to create a positive legacy where we protect the workers, protect the waters and the environment. We want to protect ground water, the surface and the air," said Glass. "We want to create a long term local and regional economic benefit and give families an opportunity to work near their home."
Glass said that in protecting workers, ventilation is important. Radon gas is by far the most abundant source of harmful radiation exposure. Radon gas causes lung cancer. Glass explained that radon gas is spontaneously generated in bed rock and soils. Radon gas is all over. Glass said they are using studies on radon gas which have been completed to help guide their ability to deal with radon gas.
Mancos Resources has been looking at sites for a year. The mancos shale is a thick hydroscopic geological unit. Mancos Resources will protect the ground water because the mancos shale will restrict percolation.
In places where there has been a problem with tailings contaminating water it was due to a leaky liner. The company will also control any dust to address health concerns. The tailings will be dry, but still have a 20 percent moisture content. Evaporation ponds will be set up and any tailings will be covered on a daily basis.
Mancos Resources was looking for a tight geographic area and the Green River site fits. The plant will be screened from the road by small hills. The proximity of the railroad and I-70 were also factors in the decision to locate in Green River. The company has filed on water from the Green River with the state engineer.
The money for the project is secure and investors are calling the company to see if they need funding for the project. Right now the company is in the design and permitting phase.
Glass said the company will be a good neighbor and they don't want to battle with the community. The company will have more informational meetings to keep the community posted as the project moves along.
Glass said the technology has improved considerably from 30 years ago before all the dangers associated with radon gas were discovered. Some people in Monticello used the tailings for cement and plaster for their walls.
McCandless said as businesses move into the industrial park they will bring support businesses with them. Green River residents wondered where the housing would come from for the workers. McCandless said he has been approached by developers who would consider doing housing if the uranium mill project moves forward. The trouble with Green River is there has been so little movement on houses in the area, with only four or five properties being for sale in the city, that it's hard to get a bank to loan money for development in Green River. McCandless said Green River doesn't have a property tax so it's hard to raise money for needed infrastructure improvements. If a company comes in and generates tax revenue then that revenue can help build infrastructure.
Glass said the plant will be two and a half years in the permitting process phase and one year for construction. Uranium is a highly regulated industry.
Green River Mayor Pat Brady said he is very aware that growing pains will accompany any new business venture for Green River. It will be three and a half years before the plant would be up and running, which gives the town time to anticipate and deal with the growth. Brady said the city will work to support housing and the development of streets and services.
Green River citizens attending the meeting still had questions which they hope will be answered as the project progresses. It was clear that Green River residents see the need for growth and development, but they don't want this growth and development to change any of the things they know and love about Green River. The quality of life and the natural scenic environment draws tourists to the area and any development must be able to co-exist with what Green River already has to offer.