Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s
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What would make the FBI do a double-take at your search history? I think this is particularly common for GMs looking up stuff for story purposes.
Mine is Russian nuclear security!
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I’ve got some research on natural poisons and satanic rites that ought to draw a bit of interest.
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What is the average amount of time someone can remain under water until they drown?
What happens when you are nearly drowning?
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Bleach-based carcinogens. shifts eyes
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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.
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The easy answer is bioweapons and what they’re actually capable of/how they work, because a player was once really enthusiastic about using them in a PrP and their pitch seemed technically wrong in several regards (spoiler: it was). Also the standard ‘how to make an explosive device’ that comes up so often in this hobby of ours (not hard!).
Though I think the thing I spent the most time Googling and being vaguely stressed about was basic car knowledge when I played an auto mechanic, because 80% of players actually do no more about this shit than I do. But I kind of understand what a clutch does now.
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Types of salt. Fuck you, lore questions
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Waaaaay too many searches for “how to make chloroform” and “how much chloroform does it take to kill a person.”
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@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?
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The complete history of undergarments.
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Which animals fart and which don’t. (for Arx)
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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.
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@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.
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@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.
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The web construction and mating habits of orb-weaver spiders.
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@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 -
@mietze I have a whole book about that.
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@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!!
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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.
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Mineral composition based on geographical locations and geological history.
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