Scottish Dwarves?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:51 am

well, it'd mean they're really good at agriculture, this could take the form of cultivating large forests full of trees they like to eat, clearing out toxic plants, and ensuring hardy growth of things that they and all of the other herbivores in the forest can eat. One way you could conceivably tell if elves have claimed a forest is by the conspicuous lack of poison ivy and pine trees, and an over abundance of nut bearing trees, fruit trees, and any tree with large, plentiful leaves.

Agrinja · Post by **Agrinja** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:06 am

That makes a lot of sense...and makes a nice place to hold an adventure in. Say the PC's chase some monster in there and fire up some killing, and the elves show up and are like "WTF dude, this is were we eat and shit and you're just shooting fireballs and acid globs and spells of Poison Elf Food. Gah! Going to have to go kung-fu on you if you don't appease us. *Assumes Horse Stance*"

violence in the media · Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:35 pm

Judging__Eagle wrote:I personally am going with "eats leaves of trees, or grass".

How about, "Eats, shoots, and leaves."

That seems to accurately sum up the elven situation.

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:43 pm

Haw, haw, ViTM. Haw, haw.

That's viable, but only as a non-elf joke, about elves.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:11 am

Pine trees are nut bearing trees.

-Crissa

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:26 am

ok, good point. I don't know how edible the needles are, but I imagine that, if you're specifically picking the trees you culitivate, pine trees aren't high on the list.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:34 am

Pine trees generally grow where others do not. And no, you don't eat pine needles, that's where it stores the most sap and we get turpentine from. But some conifers have edible bark or roots. You can also make clothes and armor and boats and baskets from the bark and fibers; and they grow where hemp or cotton cannot.

-Crissa

PS, the war on the pinyon pine in the American SW has reduced the supply of pine nuts in the US to the point that we no longer have that sort of industry.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:37 am

ah, ok. So they're not necessarily a food tree for elves, but elves could use them in other ways. Didn't think about that.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:45 am

This thread is great if you assume "agrinja" means "agriculture ninja"

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:37 am

I know, I read it as 'agri-ninja' the first time I saw it.

-Crissa

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:16 am

A "scotch dwarf" would be when you roll a dwarf in sausage meat and then deep fry it. It's more likely than you think.

Agrinja · Post by **Agrinja** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:23 am

CatharzGodfoot wrote:A "scotch dwarf" would be when you roll a dwarf in sausage meat and then deep fry it. It's more likely than you think.

I suppose they -are- almost the right shape....Though I imagine dwarves as having the same problem bears do. Delicious, but stringy as all hell.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:54 pm

A Scotch Dwarf is your usual run of the Mill Dwarf filled with Scotch.
Hence your usual run of the Mill Dwarf ^^

K · Post by K » Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:59 pm

Stahlseele wrote:A Scotch Dwarf is your usual run of the Mill Dwarf filled with Scotch.
Hence your usual run of the Mill Dwarf ^^

Am I the only one that thinks of butterscotch dwarves?

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:51 pm

K wrote:
Stahlseele wrote:A Scotch Dwarf is your usual run of the Mill Dwarf filled with Scotch.
Hence your usual run of the Mill Dwarf ^^
Am I the only one that thinks of butterscotch dwarves?

seeing how i don't even know what that might be, probably.

Agrinja · Post by **Agrinja** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 4:28 am

Orion wrote:This thread is great if you assume "agrinja" means "agriculture ninja"

Crissa wrote:I know, I read it as 'agri-ninja' the first time I saw it.

-Crissa

Random throwaway name for a demon from the Belgariad. Which book, I forget. Important at all? Not really, name just stuck with me as kinda cool. Agri-ninja kind of amuses me if only because I'm picturing someone doing a whole lot of asskicking with a hoe, or a rake, or maybe even one of those metal spikes with the forked end you use to pull tough weeds...

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 4:40 am

Agrinja wrote:...one of those metal spikes with the forked end you use to pull tough weeds...

It's called a "lawn weasel".

Quantumboost · Post by **Quantumboost** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:10 am

Agrinja wrote:Agri-ninja kind of amuses me if only because I'm picturing someone doing a whole lot of asskicking with a hoe, or a rake, or maybe even one of those metal spikes with the forked end you use to pull tough weeds...

Or maybe one of those modified rice-threshing tools, what were they called? Nuncha-something?

Agrinja · Post by **Agrinja** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:09 am

I always thought those were some kind of modified horse bit?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:57 pm

no, basically you'd be a ninja who almost exclusively used Okinawan weaponry.

...which my college district offers as a class... I've been meaning to take it...

Agrinja · Post by **Agrinja** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:32 am

....Where are you going to school? That sounds pretty kickass!

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:51 am

The Los Rios Community College District in Sacramento.

The problem is they keep offering it at like 730am... only.