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Mizhara Del'thul Coreli Corporation Mercenary Coalition 1885	Posted - 2017.05.21 03:47:01 - [331] - Quote Someone's never tried a snifter of engine degreaser. A cheeky little vintage dating back to night before last, aged nicely in an oil pan. Mmm. That fragrant aroma you get a hint off before it shuts down your olfactory senses, that lovely complexity of flavors you'd surely explore with joy if you weren't too busy fighting off both your survival instincts and gag reflexes to notice. Pairs wonderfully with solvent fumes, I hear. On a serious note, the Gripdjur aren't exactly famed for the distilleries, but I'll pit our clan brew - be it beer or meads - against your equivalents any time. The blend of old rediscovered craftsmanship with the finest Sebiestor engineering on the continent (bloody come at me, Elsebeth) and what may as well be eldritch sorcery from the nanotech and microbiology scientists has yet to be matched.
Aria Jenneth Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque 3908	Posted - 2017.05.21 06:24:43 - [332] - Quote Mizhara Del'thul wrote: On a serious note, the Gripdjur aren't exactly famed for the distilleries, but I'll pit our clan brew - be it beer or meads - against your equivalents any time. The blend of old rediscovered craftsmanship with the finest Sebiestor engineering on the continent (bloody come at me, Elsebeth) and what may as well be eldritch sorcery from the nanotech and microbiology scientists has yet to be matched. Even leaving out rediscovered craftsmanship, it seems a little likely that pretty much everything the Amarr knew about brewing, the Matari now also know. Probably the opposite is sometimes also true, but it seems like that might only be in a few places...?
Gaven Lok'ri PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris 664	Posted - 2017.05.21 06:26:00 - [333] - Quote Mizhara Del'thul wrote: Someone's never tried a snifter of engine degreaser. A cheeky little vintage dating back to night before last, aged nicely in an oil pan. Mmm. That fragrant aroma you get a hint off before it shuts down your olfactory senses, that lovely complexity of flavors you'd surely explore with joy if you weren't too busy fighting off both your survival instincts and gag reflexes to notice. Pairs wonderfully with solvent fumes, I hear. On a serious note, the Gripdjur aren't exactly famed for the distilleries, but I'll pit our clan brew - be it beer or meads - against your equivalents any time. The blend of old rediscovered craftsmanship with the finest Sebiestor engineering on the continent (bloody come at me, Elsebeth) and what may as well be eldritch sorcery from the nanotech and microbiology scientists has yet to be matched. "Beer or meads" is all I need to hear to know that the Lok'ri Orisian estates are an order of magnitude or three better quality booze than the nonsense you are describing. A taste of Lok'ri Extra Ancient and you will never want to touch a grain or honey based drink again. Admiral of the Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris Divine Commodore 24th Imperial Crusade Holder. Vassal of the Emperor Family
Aria Jenneth Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque 3908	Posted - 2017.05.21 06:30:30 - [334] - Quote Miz? My lord? Maybe it would be interesting to have a battle between Amarr and Matari nobody has to die at? (... unless it's of alcohol poisoning ...) Pretty sure it's a subject that'd inspire wide interest, and not just from the usual parties.
Valerie Valate Church of The Crimson Saviour Sani-Sabik 2198	Posted - 2017.05.21 09:15:26 - [335] - Quote You punks miss the whole idea of thousand-year-old alcoholic beverages. The point is not that it tastes good, or is super strong, or whatever, because it probably isn't. The point is that it is irreplaceable, and demonstrates that the owner has the wealth and prestige, to be able to afford a beverage storage room large enough and well-engineered enough, to be able to keep beverage bottles and barrels in drinkable condition for thousands of years. It's like wearing a dress that pre-dates Amarr space travel. it probably won't flatter your figure, or look particularly fancy, but the point is that you own it, demonstrating a level of wealth and prestige that puts social upstarts in their place. "Oh, my dress is older than your Holding", and so on. Doctor V. Valate, Professor of Archaeology at Kaztropolis Imperial University.
Arrendis GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation 3791	Posted - 2017.05.21 10:14:53 - [336] - Quote Gaven Lok'ri wrote: "Beer or meads" is all I need to hear to know that the Lok'ri Orisian estates are an order of magnitude or three better quality booze than the nonsense you are describing. A taste of Lok'ri Extra Ancient and you will never want to touch a grain or honey based drink again. Well, I'd offer you some Hug Juice, but I don't really think you can handle the sheer amazingness of it. I brought a jug to the Order of Jamyl fortizar in Safiron once, but none of the three Amarr in the room (Mitara, Aldrith, and Lyse) had the courage to try. It's not Mizhara's engine degreaser... but it is illegal in all four empires for internal consumption. We make it on Huggar station, and last I checked, it's marketed as an industrial cleanser. So there are similarities... though of course, we age Hug Juice very carefully for six weeks in the finest handcrafted bilge pump outflow tanks.
Haru'kai Vidaraltyr Tribal Liberation Force Minmatar Republic 34	Posted - 2017.05.21 10:17:13 - [337] - Quote Mizhara Del'thul wrote: On a serious note, the Gripdjur aren't exactly famed for the distilleries, but I'll pit our clan brew - be it beer or meads - against your equivalents any time. The blend of old rediscovered craftsmanship with the finest Sebiestor engineering on the continent (bloody come at me, Elsebeth) and what may as well be eldritch sorcery from the nanotech and microbiology scientists has yet to be matched. Have you tried araka? The quick fermentation of milk from the single-toed ungulates found on the edge of the north Sobaki (tabuni in our dialect - I think the nearest common-experience species is horse) results in a mild, very social beer-like concoction. It has lots of names - among the Vidaraltyr it's known as tsegee. Takes about a day, depending on the length of the ride (the milk is put in tabuni skins, slung over the saddle and the motion swills the drink around so it ferments rather than coagulates. If you ride like a warrior, you end the day with alcoholic pleasure for the camp fires. If you ride like a farmer, you get butter). The elders of the clan have the right and knowledge to distill this into araka, a very much more fiery beverage that requires a sharp winter and quite some courage. The name is reputed to be onomatopoeic in origin, being the hacking, coughing sound the newly initiated make on first consumption. Like most good booze, it gets smoother the more you drink. Unlike tsegee, it travels very well and when our clan began to trade across the seas, the drink became almost mystical. It also helped significantly in 'enhancing' trade deals with the Brutor of the Mioar islands, so the gift of a bottle is seen as a very generous blessing for a colleague or kinsman. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Arrendis GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation 3792	Posted - 2017.05.21 10:25:53 - [338] - Quote Valerie Valate wrote: You punks miss the whole idea of thousand-year-old alcoholic beverages. The point is not that it tastes good, or is super strong, or whatever, because it probably isn't. The point is that it is irreplaceable, and demonstrates that the owner has the wealth and prestige, to be able to afford a beverage storage room large enough and well-engineered enough, to be able to keep beverage bottles and barrels in drinkable condition for thousands of years. Eh, if I wanna get pretentious like that, a thousand-year beverage is nothing. I can head on down to any of a hundred fat asteroids within a few jumps of me and drink four-billion-year-old water. Complete with natural minerals and painstakingly left completely unspoiled by the touch of modern technology. It's preserved exactly the way our ancestors swam in it when they were fish. We Matari even have a special word for the special, ultra-traditional blend of life-sustaining fluid and precise minerals, carefully stored in the original packaging since before life as we know it existed! We call it "Dirty". Dirty WaterGäó! The ultimate beverage for snooty people who think something is amazingly valuable just because it's old enough that it probably should've been reprocessed for the component atoms several times over now. GET YOURS TODAY! Dirty WaterGäó is a Registered Trademark of Yeah I Went There LLC d/b/a Whatcha Got To Say About That?, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Matari Smartassery Inc, Patent Pending.
Che Biko Alexylva Paradox 995	Posted - 2017.05.21 13:05:04 - [339] - Quote Halcyon Ember wrote: [..]Or that he's been staring longingly into the eyes of Aria's portrait. I can't really fault him for that. And I'm sure there's worse things he could be doing. Coordination Channel for Consolidated Space Rescue Cooperation Open Letter to the Aidonis Foundation Directorate
Elmund Egivand Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic 2392	Posted - 2017.05.22 01:43:16 - [340] - Quote Arrendis wrote: Gaven Lok'ri wrote: "Beer or meads" is all I need to hear to know that the Lok'ri Orisian estates are an order of magnitude or three better quality booze than the nonsense you are describing. A taste of Lok'ri Extra Ancient and you will never want to touch a grain or honey based drink again. Well, I'd offer you some Hug Juice, but I don't really think you can handle the sheer amazingness of it. I brought a jug to the Order of Jamyl fortizar in Safiron once, but none of the three Amarr in the room (Mitara, Aldrith, and Lyse) had the courage to try. It's not Mizhara's engine degreaser... but it is illegal in all four empires for internal consumption. We make it on Huggar station, and last I checked, it's marketed as an industrial cleanser. So there are similarities... though of course, we age Hug Juice very carefully for six weeks in the finest handcrafted bilge pump outflow tanks. There's always this brew that tastes like anti-freeze with some hops in it during the Winter Solstice festival. Yes, I had tasted actual anti-freeze before, and before you ask, I didn't chug the whole thing down. A couple drops touched my lips, that's all. What my Clan is actually obsessed with, however, is coffee. We have this one portion in Hydroponics specifically dedicated to coffee and, funnily enough, one of my assignments for the Clan beyond the occasional shipments of off-world materials and being around looking frumpy during negotiations, is to catalogue coffee. However, I hadn't really been diligent at this. A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.

Arrendis GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation 3826	Posted - 2017.05.22 02:29:10 - [341] - Quote Eh, coffee's just a placebo for self-destructive behavior, anyway.
Elmund Egivand Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic 2394	Posted - 2017.05.22 06:29:15 - [342] - Quote Arrendis wrote: Eh, coffee's just a placebo for self-destructive behavior, anyway. If you consider pulling all-nighters for days at end to be self-destructive, yes. A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
Loai Qerl Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque 315	Posted - 2017.05.22 19:34:46 - [343] - Quote Today has gone from a very nice day to a day to hide in your pod and cry until it puts things in the goo or whatever to calm you down again. I know I'm not the only one who does that. Admit it.
Halcyon Ember Repracor Industries 337	Posted - 2017.05.22 20:08:56 - [344] - Quote Loai Qerl wrote: Today has gone from a very nice day to a day to hide in your pod and cry until it puts things in the goo or whatever to calm you down again. I know I'm not the only one who does that. Admit it. I'm sorry to hear that Lorl. You should stop by sometime and have some chocolate
Arrendis GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation 3841	Posted - 2017.05.22 20:23:04 - [345] - Quote Elmund Egivand wrote: Arrendis wrote: Eh, coffee's just a placebo for self-destructive behavior, anyway. If you consider pulling all-nighters for days at end to be self-destructive, yes. No, actually... see, here's the thing: coffee, as normally prepared, is extremely bitter. That's because of which chemical receptors in the mouth and on the tongue coffee triggers and interacts with. Those specific chemical receptors are read by the brain as 'THIS IS BAD'... because that's actually why they're there. Most extremely bitter natural compounds are highly toxic. So we've got taste buds that interact with them expressly so the brain can go 'this is poison!' So, when we drink coffee, there's a level of 'this is poison!' going on in the back of the brain. But we know, consciously, that coffee's safe to drink (it's actually not, especially for the young, but only in the same way the arsenic in apple seeds if technically not safe). As a result, there's a kind of mental clash between the conscious mind and the lower-order processing that basically places coffee-drinking in the same experiential category as... well... any inherently dangerous behavior that still triggers (as coffee's smell and caffeine both do) positive brain-reactions that result in a release of dopamine. Coffee is literally a placebo for high-risk self-destructive behavior. It fools the brain into that same chemical chain of 'I'M DEFYING DEATH!!!' experience.
Aria Jenneth Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque 3918	Posted - 2017.05.22 21:10:48 - [346] - Quote Arrendis wrote: Coffee is literally a placebo for high-risk self-destructive behavior. It fools the brain into that same chemical chain of 'I'M DEFYING DEATH!!!' experience. Only, under that analysis, can't basically any spice be described the same way? We take stuff that's evolved a defensive characteristic that makes it taste bad (only, I think, not necessarily poison-like, but really really strong?) or causes inflamation (hot peppers, for example), and used them to make food more interesting. I don't think you get the same kind of buzz out of those as out of, for example, eating a kind of fish that'll do you right in if you don't prepare it just so?
Ria Nieyli Amok. Goonswarm Federation 50652	Posted - 2017.05.22 21:13:25 - [347] - Quote Arrendis wrote: Elmund Egivand wrote: Arrendis wrote: Eh, coffee's just a placebo for self-destructive behavior, anyway. If you consider pulling all-nighters for days at end to be self-destructive, yes. No, actually... see, here's the thing: coffee, as normally prepared, is extremely bitter. That's because of which chemical receptors in the mouth and on the tongue coffee triggers and interacts with. Those specific chemical receptors are read by the brain as 'THIS IS BAD'... because that's actually why they're there. Most extremely bitter natural compounds are highly toxic. So we've got taste buds that interact with them expressly so the brain can go 'this is poison!' So, when we drink coffee, there's a level of 'this is poison!' going on in the back of the brain. But we know, consciously, that coffee's safe to drink (it's actually not, especially for the young, but only in the same way the arsenic in apple seeds if technically not safe). As a result, there's a kind of mental clash between the conscious mind and the lower-order processing that basically places coffee-drinking in the same experiential category as... well... any inherently dangerous behavior that still triggers (as coffee's smell and caffeine both do) positive brain-reactions that result in a release of dopamine. Coffee is literally a placebo for high-risk self-destructive behavior. It fools the brain into that same chemical chain of 'I'M DEFYING DEATH!!!' experience. Why is clean air tasteless them? The oxygen in it is slowly setting your lungs on fire, doesn't get much worse than that.
Elmund Egivand Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic 2403	Posted - 2017.05.23 01:32:33 - [348] - Quote Arrendis wrote: Elmund Egivand wrote: Arrendis wrote: Eh, coffee's just a placebo for self-destructive behavior, anyway. If you consider pulling all-nighters for days at end to be self-destructive, yes. No, actually... see, here's the thing: coffee, as normally prepared, is extremely bitter. That's because of which chemical receptors in the mouth and on the tongue coffee triggers and interacts with. Those specific chemical receptors are read by the brain as 'THIS IS BAD'... because that's actually why they're there. Most extremely bitter natural compounds are highly toxic. So we've got taste buds that interact with them expressly so the brain can go 'this is poison!' So, when we drink coffee, there's a level of 'this is poison!' going on in the back of the brain. But we know, consciously, that coffee's safe to drink (it's actually not, especially for the young, but only in the same way the arsenic in apple seeds if technically not safe). As a result, there's a kind of mental clash between the conscious mind and the lower-order processing that basically places coffee-drinking in the same experiential category as... well... any inherently dangerous behavior that still triggers (as coffee's smell and caffeine both do) positive brain-reactions that result in a release of dopamine. Coffee is literally a placebo for high-risk self-destructive behavior. It fools the brain into that same chemical chain of 'I'M DEFYING DEATH!!!' experience. You do realise that there is more to coffee than just extreme bitterness and extreme wakefulness, right? A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
Arrendis GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation 3860	Posted - 2017.05.23 01:36:14 - [349] - Quote Elmund Egivand wrote: You do realise that there is more to coffee than just extreme bitterness and extreme wakefulness, right? I do! But those two elements (Well, the bitterness, really, the caffeine's just a contributing factor) are the crux of the 'stand-in for self-destruction'.
Elmund Egivand Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic 2404	Posted - 2017.05.23 01:57:51 - [350] - Quote Arrendis wrote: Elmund Egivand wrote: You do realise that there is more to coffee than just extreme bitterness and extreme wakefulness, right? I do! But those two elements (Well, the bitterness, really, the caffeine's just a contributing factor) are the crux of the 'stand-in for self-destruction'. You might also want to recall that some of us really hate the bitterness and proceed to practically drown the thing in sugar and creamer. Though screw that, I like mine black, to ensure I could actually taste the subtle flavours and smell the aroma. A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.

Arrendis GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation 3862	Posted - 2017.05.23 02:22:39 - [351] - Quote Elmund Egivand wrote: You might also want to recall that some of us really hate the bitterness and proceed to practically drown the thing in sugar and creamer. Sure, but that's the funny thing about chemical receptors like taste buds: you can mask the bitterness, and you can make sure the amount of noise from the sugar and creamer overwhelms the conscious mind's ability to pick up on the signal of 'bitter!', but you can't block the taste. Those chemical receptors still get triggered, and the lower-order functions of the brain aren't fooled.
Arrendis GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation 3867	Posted - 2017.05.23 13:51:34 - [352] - Quote And continuing the culinary vein... Casserina Leshrac wrote: Valerie Valate wrote: Bloody war of the Blood Age of Blood day 1.9 log Operation Cheese Sandwich Debriefing A Cheese sandwich was consumed. The sandwich consisted of 3 slices of bread with two slices of cheese. It was quite good. Two quick questions. What kind of cheese? And what kind of bread? Very important questions. There's also the issue of if it was a 'normal' cheese sandwich or a grilled cheese. Of course, she's already got the balance completely off with the extra wad of empty carbs in the middle, but maybe the cheese slices were each 5mm thick...
Jev North Anshar Incorporated Monyusaiya Industry Trade Group 1006	Posted - 2017.05.23 15:42:17 - [353] - Quote Just remember to dip in ketchup as you eat to keep your Blooder cred. Even though our love is cruel; even though our stars are crossed.
Casserina Leshrac Sanguine Illuminations 201	Posted - 2017.05.23 16:53:39 - [354] - Quote Jev North wrote: Just remember to dip in ketchup as you eat to keep your Blooder cred. Better with a Tomato Bisque I think. *We stand at the Abyss, drawing the Patterns of Fate - Casserina Leshrac, Savant, Sani Sabik.*
Casserina Leshrac Sanguine Illuminations 201	Posted - 2017.05.23 16:54:57 - [355] - Quote Arrendis wrote: And continuing the culinary vein... Casserina Leshrac wrote: Valerie Valate wrote: Bloody war of the Blood Age of Blood day 1.9 log Operation Cheese Sandwich Debriefing A Cheese sandwich was consumed. The sandwich consisted of 3 slices of bread with two slices of cheese. It was quite good. Two quick questions. What kind of cheese? And what kind of bread? Very important questions. There's also the issue of if it was a 'normal' cheese sandwich or a grilled cheese. Of course, she's already got the balance completely off with the extra wad of empty carbs in the middle, but maybe the cheese slices were each 5mm thick... Hence the question about the cheese and the bread. And now was is one type of cheese or two. A cheese sandwich is a complex issue. *We stand at the Abyss, drawing the Patterns of Fate - Casserina Leshrac, Savant, Sani Sabik.*
Valerie Valate Church of The Crimson Saviour Sani-Sabik 2219	Posted - 2017.05.23 17:09:00 - [356] - Quote Arrendis wrote: And continuing the culinary vein... Casserina Leshrac wrote: Valerie Valate wrote: Bloody war of the Blood Age of Blood day 1.9 log Operation Cheese Sandwich Debriefing A Cheese sandwich was consumed. The sandwich consisted of 3 slices of bread with two slices of cheese. It was quite good. Two quick questions. What kind of cheese? And what kind of bread? Very important questions. There's also the issue of if it was a 'normal' cheese sandwich or a grilled cheese. Of course, she's already got the balance completely off with the extra wad of empty carbs in the middle, but maybe the cheese slices were each 5mm thick... OPSEC Doctor V. Valate, Professor of Archaeology at Kaztropolis Imperial University.
Casserina Leshrac Sanguine Illuminations 204	Posted - 2017.05.23 17:36:31 - [357] - Quote I hate when that happens. *We stand at the Abyss, drawing the Patterns of Fate - Casserina Leshrac, Savant, Sani Sabik.*
Arrendis GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation 3869	Posted - 2017.05.23 18:33:13 - [358] - Quote Alright then, I'll just have to review the miniluv kill logs to see which types of cheese have been getting shipped in that direction.
Neph Crimson Serpent Syndicate Heiian Conglomerate 785	Posted - 2017.05.23 22:48:59 - [359] - Quote ((@kul Shaishi: Sorry to bring it up again if somebody's already mentioned it, but: I just read through Nauppy's latest thread. We get it. You like your modern Chinese history. It doesn't belong in Eve RP.)) ~ Gariushi YC110 // Midular YC115 // Yanala YC115 ~ "Orte Jaitovalte sitasuyti ne obuetsa useuut ishu. Ketsiak ishiulyn." -Yakiya Tovil-Toba-taisoka
Arrendis GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation 3882	Posted - 2017.05.24 04:08:06 - [360] - Quote Silas Vitalia wrote: That's rich talk about ego from someone with what, six different titles after their name? Actually, those aren't titles. She had her name legally changed to all that. It's why they call it a 'Long-form certificate'



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