Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s

Wizz

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

all for a part of my character’s life that never actually came up in play.

As an aside, that part of it always cracks my shit up, how worried I’ve been about having EVERYTHING JUST RIGHT when ultimately very few people ever even give a shit. And those that do call you out on anything are typically some of the most obnoxious players in the hobby trying to pull some weird flex on you on channel where they can seem sooo smurt, not even typically in RP.

Sammich

Not necessarily weird in and of itself, but weird in the context I was doing it for. The Higgs boson, field, and bosons in general, when trying to have my science nerd character on Heroes Assemble come up with a logical and consistent (though ultimately inaccurate) hypothesis for how Pym Particles actually work.

Had a ton of fun coming up with it, and the character’s hypothesis, if true, woulda had fun implications for physics and the beginning/end of the universe. In the end though it didn’t ever come up in the little bit of RP I did, and putting so much effort into a believable hypothesis that I OOCly knew wouldn’t be accurate was probably a silly idea.

Still, it was a fun thought experiment

eye8urcake

@Sammich I love this ‘weird’ thing.

Polk

I had to spend an arguably unreasonable amount of time reading up on early renaissance sea vessels for Arx.

Upside: RAMMING SPEED

Smile

@lordbelh Honestly, I’m looking up details on financial crimes for a table top. So I’m sure this is all normal!

RightMeow

I once played an alchemist who’s most known line was: We should have tea together.

This meant (a) I would love to help you better your cause (b) I’m going to poison you with a slow acting onset so that I can be somewhere else when it happens.

Let’s just not talk about my search history and how very very oddly specific they are.

RL side note - I moved in with my sister for a hot minute in my life. I took her phone and typed in her search engine: How to murder my sister and get away with it?

When she asked why I did that. I smiled and said ‘Insurance’.

SpaceKhomeini

A comprehensive history of shipping insurance in the ancient world through the late medieval world.

Problem is? I never stopped.

Testament

New one from this past week. Helping a friend do a deep dive in the biology of the kuzdu vine and how invasive it is.

The goal is to create a plot where a kuzdu is not only overruning an area, but has also become quite the carnivore.

Ashkuri

@Testament spoilers

Tez

@SpaceKhomeini I’d actually really like to know more. THEY HAD SHIPPING INSURANCE?

SpaceKhomeini

@Tez

https://priceonomics.com/how-maritime-insurance-built-ancient-rome/#:~:text=Maritime insurance was crucial in,a population of around 300%2C000.

I can’t vouch for this site in general but the facts here are basically lined up with other trustworthy sources and condensed.

This just goes back for ages.