ironkobe

So I've been playing the heck out of Mass Effect Andromeda so be warned mild spoilers fallow...






















Is it just me or would this entire game have been spoiled if they had like 20 Quarians on the set up team?  "Oh, no, half of our supplies didn't make it if only we had some people with vast knowledge of how to boot strap tech, grow food in space, deal with hostile robots, scavage, help people get along when confined to a spaceship for a long period of time.  Oh wait the Quarians have been dealing with that since birth."


Also while I was very happy to see Zaeed's kid show up in game.  They kinda dropped the ball on that one.  Throw away side quest and they spent no time on his character model.  (Course you can say that about a lot of the humans)  Why not have him lead an APEX team after his minor side quest?  Or better yet, rather than have a son, why not have a daughter?  I totally would have been down for an Assari bad ass, named Jessie.  I know cannon says Zaeed was 40 but I'm calling bull on that.  I would be cool with a sassy teen Jessie, or I could see her aging in real time as part of the skeleton crew over seeing the arc.

As I slept I had dream, I was working under the table for some an elderly group of men who went to the deep wilderness to "hunt."  They had been recruiting new younger members.  Turns out they were a secret society charged with keeping, not so much an eldrich horror of an old god...  More its pet, confined deep with in the earth in an abandoned mine.  They armed themselves with guns and prayers, their prey was a difficult and dangerous quarry, the form was unknowable as it was as much an idea as a creature.  It was a perfect hunter, the creature grew stronger out of the form of people's fear, your thoughts gave the creature the shape, and each victim added to the horror. 

The hunters swore themselves to secrecy.  They knew the evil in the hearts of men, some one would try and control the beast, turn it into a weapon, but you could no more control the creature than you could the weather.  So they traveled in secrecy with their weapons and mining tools as the beast would destroy the tunnel complex that contained it and try to bring a mountain down on them both.

No one told me any of this.  I learned the hard way when I traveled down into the mines to see why all the hunters had not come back for dinner.  The effort to reseal the beast had not gone well.  Many hunters had "gotten called back home early" when in truth the monster had killed them.  The hunters felt they had cornered the beast, but lacked the man power to close their trap around it.  I was pressed into service along with some other service staff.  We swore blood oaths never to speak of the horrors we witnessed, this awful secret must be taken to our graves.  I was on the back lines, unsure of what to do.  The muffled sounds of gun fire popped in the distance.  I heard some yelling that the creature had escaped the noose, it was in hunting mode and going to rip people to shreds. 

I found myself alone wandering the tunnels looking for a creature with no shape.  I found myself singing to myself, when I heard the creature approaching, I felt its hot breath on me.  I say "Who's a little baby puppy?" as I turn around to face the horror and see what form it had taken.  The creature was transformed of a collapsible grocery cart a little old lady would use to take her shopping home with.  I was confused of course, what was a grocery cart doing in a mine?  But then the cart lashed out at me.  It was a cart of course, so while it gave me a jump scare, it couldn't really hurt me.  I picked it up and started to walk it back to the chamber where the beast would he held singing my silly song about puppies.  The hunter I backed up understood the situation, I had the beast in my arms and he stayed silent just pointing me where I needed to go.  As I went deeper into the mine I had another group of hunters pass me as they were still looking for the beast.  Their fears began to change the form of the beast.  It went from a cart to haul food to an air compressor used to power tools.  They didn't know the beast was with me and past, and once again I was alone in a tunnel with the the air compressor/perfect killing machine.  I was eventually able to seal it deep with in the earth in a chamber covered with with prayers and holy symbols as well as a note detailing that the horror was over 30,000 years old, and slammed the door behind me after telling the creature, which was back to being a cart, that I loved it.

I breathed a sigh of relief when an old time miner burst from the shadows to attack me with a pick axe, a local that was convinced the hunter has a secret gold mine.  I over powered him and escaped the mine just as I woke up.  So that was a thing.

Questions:
1. TEA OR COFFEE? NO IN BETWEEN!
Tea, coffee puts me to sleep.

2. your favorite color
Green for the money and gold for the honey.    I'll say blue however, which I never wear myself.

3 Whats your favorite DC/Marvel villains?
I would say the Shade, but I like his antihero run in 90's Starman best, so that is not his villain run.  Paste Pot Pete, who fought the Fantastic Four with glue.  Dr Doom, I'm a sucker for cocky heels fighting the devil.  Captain Boomerang, sucker for loser villains.  Best comic I read from Marvel recently was Vision, but the villain was really intolerance and bigotry.   

4. Is there is a specific cloth you like to wear in particular ( a jeans, a dress, a jacket, pyjama )?  If I could wear a new pair of socks every day I would. 


5. Who's your favourite Fantasy character?

Moist von Lipwig from Going Postal and Making Money. Honorable mention, Iron Bull

7. Do you work on a personal project? like a comics or a book? ( I'm not talking about fan comics or fanfiction. No, something very original )
I'm working on a menu.  I'm also working on a modern martial arts comic.

8. You meet a fantasy troll. What do you do?
I'm a real life minister.  That makes me a Cleric right?  I'm going to hope the Fighter/Barbarian acts first.  I'll back him up with my melee weapon, but if I have the higher iniative check I'll tell the fighter to hold back, as I'm hoping that the spell caster will throw down with a fireball.  Not sure what spells I've have gotten ready. Produce flame isn't out of the question.  I think I'll toss a small globe of fire at the troll we'll say. 

9. Medium, light, Heavy armor?
Medium, Mithryl full plate, heavy protection at medium weight. 

10. Whats your favourite RPG weapon? Axe, mace, sword?
The great axe needs more love, your d12 is lonely.  Gnome Chainsword, which is just a chain saw.  White Wolf had some good ones.  Grand Klaves, which were huge silver swords werewolves fought with.  There was a also a sword that if you drew it it doubled you hit points, but at the end of the battle you died. 

11 . Your favourite fantasy race?
Hobgoblin, without question.  Sneaky and smart, evil with a code.  Everything I'm not.

12. A rejected goblin ask you if you wish to go drink with him coz he is very lonely.......
I'll take him to my Tavern, sure.  Honestly I have an idea for a fantasy story involving a Hobgoblin cook.

13. Do you like to go outside?
The sun is evil, it will kill you.  So no.

Tagged by VikJones

Get-to-know-me Questions:

Name: Ironkobe

Star Sign: Cock in Chinese, Aquarius in Western, I think Chinese is closer to me.

Average hours of sleep: If I don't get my 8 hours I get punchy.

Last thing googled: Location of logging stands and quarries in Dragon Age Inquisition.   

Favorite fictional character(s): Batman, Horatio Hornblower, Dr McNinja, Jack Knight, Doc Savage, Mr Darcy, Ironbull form Dragon Age, Fem-Shep and Zaeed Mussani from Mass Effect.

Live Action: Jessica Jones, Luke Cage,  The Doctor, the Old Dirty Bastard, who I know was a real person but seems like he was fictional.  

Animated: The Question from Justice League Unlimited.  Batman. 

Current attire: Kicking it in a t shirt and boxer briefs, you're welcome world.

When did you start this account?: Looks like six years as of this writing.  Dec 3, 2010 was the jump off for me.

Number of watchers: 312 watchers, wow more than I thought

What do you post?: Art I commission from others. I rarely write something for here.

Do you get a lot of comments: I do alright I guess.

Why did you choose the username: I used to be efeds, which is like fantasy pro wrestling.  You make up your wrestler and you have him cut promos about the opponent.  Some one picks who wins based on your trash talking.  I had a wrestler who was called "The Iron Chef" Keiji Kobe.  I was a big fan of Luchadors and Iron Chef.  Mexico has a long tradition of masked wrestler copyright infringment.  So a masked Iron Chef wrestler just made sense.  There was a Iron Chef Kobe, on the show, he was the young guy and just the worst chef on the show.  He always has one dish that just failed.  I like that.  I was also a Kobe Bryant fan.  Keiji Mutoh is a favorite Japanese wrestler.  Long story, no?

I was tagged by VikJones, this has literally never happened before, so I just gotta respond...

Questions:
1. Do you have a theme song?

  Can't go wrong with the hardest working man in showbusiness

2. What is your favorite kind of weather?
I am going to say rain.  It is both awesome to run a 5k in, but I am a sucker for curling up under blankets and chilling at home for a nap during a storm.  This is ironic as rain will also give me a migraine.

3. Do you have a favorite kind of Philosophy or Philosopher?
Classic Hedonism is something like in theory.  Do what is enjoyable, but remember that improving yourself with mental and physical exercise is enjoyable.  Really though, I'm more a Stoic at heart.  I like suffering too much.  So yeah seek out Marcus Aurelius.  Shout out to Sun Tzu and Takuan Soho as honorable mention.

4. What is your favorite food/treat/drink to make?
To make or to have? To make:

I love cooking breakfast.  I'm a sucker for American buttermilk biscuits, corned beef hash, eggs, you get the idea.  Shrimp and grits with red eye gravy are a signature dish.

Treat...  I don't make it but I love an ice cream cake on my birthday.

Drink... Old Forester KY Bourbon with ice. 

5. Do you like camping? How much roughing it out in the woods can you take?
Humanity has spent the entirety of its existence trying to get out of the woods.  Once a year I do travel to Canada and spend a week cooking at a fishing lodge.  I have power, running water, but no cell phones, ac, or heat other than a fire.  I am about good with that.

6. Would you rather be a bird, wolf, or a fish?
Fish, specifically, a muskrat, as the Catholic church declared the muskrat, a mammal, a fish.  Really I just wanted to put that out there.  "It spends over 50% of its life in water, therefore it is fish."

7. What is your favorite period of history?
Italian Renaissance, I guess.  My favorite book series is set in the Napoleonic age, so there is that.   

8. Any accessories (rings, watches, bracelets, ect) that you are always wearing and feel “naked” without?
I can't stand wearing rings or watches or anything like that.  Same with necklaces.  I'm not even a big fan of wearing glasses to be honest.

9. Do you have a fan/tv/white noise on while you are sleeping, or do you like it perfectly silent?
I run a fan, unless it is raining, at which point I go with that thunder and all.

10. When was the last time you climbed a tree?

15 years ago we'll say.  I should do that again.

11. Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Do you know what your Meyer Briggs personality is?
I'm an introvert, being around people drains me.  Folks that don't know me that well find that surprising as I've got a big personality.  So they see me out and I'm "Party Kobe" which means I'm joking and having a good time.  But at the end of the day I have to recharge being alone. 

12. When is your favorite time to do art?
When the muse strikes I respond.  Some times the art wants to come out and you can't stop it.

I tag anyone who wants to do this I guess.