Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s

mietze

Which animals fart and which don’t. (for Arx)

Aria

Well, subsequent posts answered my question.

If you want the ones most likely to alarm the FBI, it would probably either be assassination attempts on Ronald Reagan or the markets for Soviet missiles and nuclear weaponry after the fall of the USSR.

If you want just straight up weird, it would probably be prehistorical tattooing or raku pottery techniques.

You’re also welcome to my knowledge of the territorial behavior of weasels and pre-Victorian literary references to dildoes if you ever need it.

Apos

@dvoraen The thing is on a MU you expect to answer sex stuff. You don’t really expect to spend time googling about the color, texture and taste comparisons of different kinds of salt. So many flavors to choose from, and I’m still salty about it.

eye8urcake

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

Okay, I need a clarification on the rules here. Are we asking what’s the weirdest thing that I’ve researched or what’s most likely to draw the attention of governmental entities? Because these are not the same question – at least not in my case.

why not both

eye8urcake

The web construction and mating habits of orb-weaver spiders.

Roz

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

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

Types of salt. Fuck you, lore questions

So you’re telling me, that in your time answering lore questions, that no one asked you about all the contraception types?

have you not seen lore birth control

Snackness

@mietze I have a whole book about that.

Roz

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

@dvoraen The thing is on a MU you expect to answer sex stuff. You don’t really expect to spend time googling about the color, texture and taste comparisons of different kinds of salt. So many flavors to choose from, and I’m still salty about it.

i don’t even see a salt entry in the lore files!!

Aria

Ohh, wait. I totally forgot about the time I had to research how many toes ungulates had entirely because of VASpider.

If you played on Haunted Memories back in the day and ever wondered why we had a very specific and obnoxious rule about having your Fang & Talon contracts labelled by scientific genus, it’s because most people would submit their request with labels like “dogs” or “monkeys” or whatever, which was easy and reasonable. VASpider, meanwhile, had a habit of submitting their requests to us with annoyingly and deliberately vague terms that would lump together what most people would consider far too broad in an attempt to game the system. Then the entire Changeling staff would spend either an afternoon arguing amongst themselves or arguing with Spider about their request.

When it reached the point that I was literally Googling the number of animal toes because they’d put in a request for “even-toed ungulates”, I finally lost my shit and decided that everyone was going have their Fang & Talon contracts listed by scientific genus now because I was not going to have this argument every single month. Loki told me I had to apply a rule change that was standardized and clear instead of telling them to just fuck off with this nonsense and that was the result.

crawfish

Mineral composition based on geographical locations and geological history.

Tori

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

Mineral composition based on geographical locations and geological history.

Saaaame.

Also, trebuchets, siege weapons, how to build, how long fire can last on something flying through the air, what to use to make fire on what things to fling, etc.

Probably not worrisome to governments but perhaps to my HOA is the aerodynamics of cows.

Roadspike

Comparisons between plastic explosives and commercial explosives/high-speed explosives and lower-speed explosives.

Which does more damage to structures, which is more likely to work as an IED, which is more likely to do more as an improvised claymore… yeeeeeah.

Roz

together, we could take over the world, guys

helvetica

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

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…