Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s

crawfish

@Tori “NO YOU WOULD NOT CALL IT ‘TANZANITE’ you’d call it TWILIGHT STONE or something. GOD.”

Aria

@helvetica said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

@Roz I’m picturing the beginning of a Charlie’s Angels movie where they list each member’s specialties.

We need some good crossover with 1930s pulp novels so my obscure and otherwise useless knowledge of mummy tattoos can come into play at exactly the right moment.

farfalla

I’ve googled much worse things as a librarian than for RP. I did once research medieval instruments for a ridiculous scene with @helvetica involving a sackbut and a lot of miming.

L. B. Heuschkel

@Roz said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

together, we could take over the world, guys

And sacrifice it to the Devil while high on wolfsbane.

Kestrel

How to amputate someone’s leg if you can’t get to a hospital.

Natural abortifacients and contraceptives found in the wild.

Tori

@crawfish said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

@Tori “NO YOU WOULD NOT CALL IT ‘TANZANITE’ you’d call it TWILIGHT STONE or something. GOD.”

Damn you Tiffany’s straight to hell!
(except at C’mas time - momma needs to get the girl spawn fancy earrings)

The amount of times I’ve excitedly found a nifty blue stone name, only to discover it is found in some far-flung RL land wholly impossible to pass for or be found around Arx as semiprecious…

Herja

The exact sound a bat makes.

Close second: How did ship battles happen before cannons.

Wizz

How many live spiders could reasonably fit into a manila envelope.

Rathenhope

The most specific thing I’ve researched for RP was “the application process for a library card in the Grand County Library District in Colorado and the necessary forms of identification.”

Rathenhope

Double post to add that I was aware at this point that @Tat is a librarian and I was worried I’d get it wrong and look like a fool in front of her.

There is a reason a lot of my poses at that time were rolls Library Science, “Jonathan does library stuff.”

Third Eye

@Rathenhope
Spirit Lake was non-stop Googling small town infrastructure and businesses in Grand Lake, CO. I sometimes wonder if any tech people in that little town were ever like ‘Where the hell are these website hits coming from and why do they care about the high school marching band?’

Solstice

Plausible HVAC-related causes of death.

Testament

Yearly corn crop rotations and how that affects the surrounding wildlife during colder winter months.

Also, and anyone who knew me on the my turn while playing Magnus on Arx, I got really into being as oddly specific about wild animal herd cultivation, harvesting, and protections as it relates to mammoths.

Some of my fellow players, oddly, thought this was weird sticking point to me, to which I would reply, “THEY ARE CULTUALLY SIGNIFIGANT.”

crawfish

@Tori said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

@crawfish said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

@Tori “NO YOU WOULD NOT CALL IT ‘TANZANITE’ you’d call it TWILIGHT STONE or something. GOD.”

Damn you Tiffany’s straight to hell!
(except at C’mas time - momma needs to get the girl spawn fancy earrings)

The amount of times I’ve excitedly found a nifty blue stone name, only to discover it is found in some far-flung RL land wholly impossible to pass for or be found around Arx as semiprecious…

But then you ask me and we find one!

Aria

@Testament said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

Some of my fellow players, oddly, thought this was weird sticking point to me, to which I would reply, “THEY ARE CULTUALLY SIGNIFIGANT.”

Me. You mean me, with the number of times I went “Angel, if you want to bother staff about things that might help get the House more active, ask about plot. Please don’t send Apostate another 14 pages on the meticulous management of shaggy elephant herds to approve. He does not care.”

YetiBeard

@Third-Eye I felt a little invasive googling AA meetings in Grand Lake County. I don’t need uhm actually need this, but I’m glad it exsits for those that do? Sorry.

bear_necessities

How to perform an emergency appendectomy. What does it feel like on <insert hard drug here>. Most recently, what types of tasks do janitors do? Lol

Mourne

How much energy would a goldfish release if it were to explode via nuclear fission.

Roadspike

@Third-Eye The record of the local high school football team going back ten years (and every high school football team in Denver for a particular 4-year period and every Division II college football team in Colorado for the subsequent 4-year period).

KarmaBum

@bear_necessities said in Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s:

Most recently, what types of tasks do janitors do?

Gregory attacks Dust with Broom but Dust EVADES EASILY!
Victoria attacks Microwave with Cleanser but MISSES!