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    Weirdest Things You've Researched for MU*s

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    • RozR
      Roz
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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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      • L. B. HeuschkelL
        L. B. Heuschkel @Roz
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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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        • Duke WhiskyD
          Duke Whisky
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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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          • helveticaH
            helvetica
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            Bleach-based carcinogens. shifts eyes

            Street Cred

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            • AriaA
              Aria
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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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              • Third EyeT
                Third Eye
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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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                • AposA
                  Apos
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                  Types of salt. Fuck you, lore questions

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                  • KarmaBumK
                    KarmaBum
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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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                      dvoraen @Apos
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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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                      • shit-piss-loveS
                        shit-piss-love
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                        The complete history of undergarments.

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

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                          • AriaA
                            Aria
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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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                            • AposA
                              Apos @dvoraen
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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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                                eye8urcake @Aria
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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.

                                why not both

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                                  eye8urcake
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                                  The web construction and mating habits of orb-weaver spiders.

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                                  • RozR
                                    Roz @dvoraen
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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

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                                    • SnacknessS
                                      Snackness @mietze
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                                      @mietze I have a whole book about that.

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                                      • RozR
                                        Roz @Apos
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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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                                        • AriaA
                                          Aria
                                          last edited by 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.

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                                          • crawfishC
                                            crawfish
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                                            Mineral composition based on geographical locations and geological history.

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