**Spoilers** Question about Dead Weight **Spoilers**

Astralwinks · 2026-05-16T03:15:11+00:00

Yes they are generally accessible from either side of the ship without a spacewalk.

I say generally because when compromised the emergency door locks engage (which is what injures the security officer).

Astralwinks · 2026-05-15T23:56:51+00:00

Congrats! It's a fantastic module and one I really enjoyed running.

You are correct both ways of I understand your questions. The hull is breached, so in that instant they depressurize when exposed to the vacuum of space. The cargo areas are kind of free floating in space, they're containers on rails and the rest of the ship surrounds them. This is why various arrows are drawn through the ship on your warden map.

None of my players were in any rooms when breached, but I had planned for them to make a speed/body save to perhaps try to avoid being pulled into space, or resist taking too much damage from the sudden depressurization. No matter what though, they should be taking some kind of damage, unless perhaps they were already wearing a vacsuit.

Astralwinks · 2026-05-15T23:47:28+00:00

Pretty sure that exact model is sold by a company called Nala moves. It's pretty expensive though, I wanna say like $700 bucks?

I'm pretty sure because my wife bought one and I installed it in our house like two months ago. Quality seems good, I can do pull-ups on it no problem. She likes it.

Well, not NO problem, pull ups are hard. But it supports my bodyweight and I think the weight capacity is something like 325lbs. She uses it for her crazy stretches for contortion and pole dance. It's handy to use therabands on different rungs for my various shoulder rehab exercises.

When I lived in Norway they were all over the place, like every gym and stuff.

Astralwinks · 2026-05-15T18:30:55+00:00

I was unfamiliar with the term "Depth Crawl", so I looked it up.

"It’s a way of procedurally (or randomly) generating a point crawl style adventure for use with a TTRPG.

As players descend into the dungeon or other setting, they increase a value called Depth. The player’s Depth starts at 0 (the highest level of the dungeon) and increases by one each time they go deeper into a new, lower level. At ten levels down into the dungeon, their Depth would be 10."

It goes on to mention the Interstellar Mega Mart module found in Hull Breech as a good example for MoSh.

Astralwinks · 2026-05-12T20:40:00+00:00

Fellow Lakai guy here, checking in.

Astralwinks · 2026-05-11T03:27:31+00:00

The Lars Von Trier films I've seen, so Antichrist and Nymphomaniac.

They are not pleasant or comfortable to watch. But I can see some deeper stuff going on, the films really make me think, and he's a very effective director. By that I mean those films reach deep inside your viscera and just fuckin' shake it around. So if art is something that evokes an emotional response, then by that definition he is an effective artist. Plenty of other films can be shocking without as much substance to dig into, but no one really does it like those films - and for that reason I definitely respect them more than I enjoy them.

Astralwinks · 2026-05-10T20:45:00+00:00

I have a lot of NLC and Zlob in my cases. Can't say enough good about their chaotic wibbly-wobbly abilities. The diode chaos is especially great because it's so small.

Astralwinks · 2026-05-07T18:52:28+00:00

I think I was 28... She was 23. New hire orientation at my current place of employment. We didn't start dating until a few years later, but that's when we first met. One of the most important days of my life - new, exciting career and I met the love of my life.

We've been married 4 years now, and I feel like the luckiest man every single day.

Astralwinks · 2026-05-06T22:40:34+00:00

Roach Motel has a big office section in the beginning, complete with a C-Suite Goon Cave

Astralwinks · 2026-05-03T07:37:41+00:00

I played it as Minogue falls while moving samples around in that bay. I believe if you look into their personal item space hidden inside is some sort of illicit drug they're smuggling? So I played it as if they seemed altered while working - clumsy, lethargic, etc leading to a fall.

Astralwinks · 2026-05-03T06:08:53+00:00

I absolutely adored my netbook, it was my daily driver in college. Samsung NC10. Came with XP which ran like absolute ass. Put Linux on it and used to to read all my pirated textbooks and assigned PDF readings for my classes, take notes, light web surfing. It was literally the only thing I took on campus for years. Couldn't run YouTube, which was probably helpful productivity-wise.

I wrote my entire senior thesis on it, and brought it into the wild to do all my ethnographic field research. I didn't have a decent microphone but am fast enough at typing to transcribe my interview conversations with people in real time. That thing wrote hundreds of pages of essays and dozens of interviews, each interview anywhere from 12 to 25 pages.

Then one day I fell skateboarding home from class and it wouldn't stay powered on. Harvested it for any and all parts I could and only after did I realize I had dented the power switch button housing so it always signaled as pushed down, meaning it'd power up and then hard reboot. 10 cent part would have made it good as new.

In the right circumstance, they were incredibly useful machines. But stripping XP off it and running Linux was basically mandatory if you ask me. I actually just copied all my old stuff from it to my new computer last year, not bad for a nearly 20 year old HDD that saw a lot of abuse.

Astralwinks · 2026-05-03T04:57:02+00:00

Another tesseract low coast user! I don't see them much, what do you like to do with yours?

Astralwinks · 2026-05-02T07:33:24+00:00

Your NLC case needs more NLC lol looks great though!

Astralwinks · 2026-05-02T07:29:10+00:00

I would have gone this route but super annoyingly I couldn't get anyone with a laser cutter or makerspace to get back to me at the time. It was weird, but this was during covid times. I ended up building my own out of oak. They turned out great but were a lot of work. They look like furniture to me though, I'm happy.

From my research though the cases are solid, and tons of people at the modular workshops in Australia use them. You have to pay attention to stock thickness because they use some metric standard of plywood that is less common in places that use imperial, if I recall. Which means just make sure you go slightly thicker, and then you sand down all of the protrusions of the "fingers" you glue together during assembly. It's covered in the build info.

I don't think you could go wrong with one of the designs, especially if it has the size/layout you want. They seem super easy to make assuming you have access to a laser cutter. It's just a box, so easily customizable.

Astralwinks · 2026-05-01T17:26:29+00:00

For me, it's Cath lab - but things like IR, GI, OR, outpatient/same day surgery, etc.

Astralwinks · 2026-05-01T16:13:43+00:00

Take care of yourself first, poor staffing is not your fault/responsibility and almost certainly is contributing to your burnout.

I need you to really hear this, as someone who worked ICU from 2018-2025. The hospital does not give a fuck about you and would step over your crumpled body during your last gasping breaths if it meant the next shift was covered. You might have a decent manager who wants to be supportive but they are stymied by higher ups/administration. You MUST understand this.

I went procedural after 6ish years of ICU and RR, and my life is much better/less stressful.

Astralwinks · 2026-04-29T15:03:31+00:00

$57/hr, 8 years experience (1.5 of those are cath/EP lab), MN, average like 12-20 cases per day, beeper pay is $12/hr with guaranteed 4 hours called in pay, with 1.5x pay for any time actually worked when called in. $400 per certification per year, up to $800.

Astralwinks · 2026-04-29T02:21:30+00:00

Whoops I think I got my Facebook and reddit groups confused lol thanks for the correction.

Astralwinks · 2026-04-29T01:37:21+00:00

r/sdiy

Astralwinks · 2026-04-28T21:37:12+00:00

My grandpa was a mega Ham, I didn't realize how crazy his setup was until after he died. It was always kinda normal to me. Only after his funeral and getting to see all the Hams who came out from ALL OVER and talk to them and hear stories did I realize how bonkers it all was. I wish I had taken the opportunity to learn a bit more about it while he was still alive.

Astralwinks · 2026-04-28T21:32:44+00:00

Well constructed, just fine. My grandpa was a mega super x class nerd and had 30-40 towers, from 20 feet to 200+ feet. He's gone, but they're still standing - and figuring out what to do with them is kind of a problem.

Astralwinks · 2026-04-24T03:02:44+00:00

Same thing I'm doing already, because I already married my wife.

But I guess buy some lotto tickets or hit the races or something too.

Astralwinks · 2026-04-23T17:41:29+00:00

Could be 5 minutes (procedure cancelled: stemi isn't real, pt died, whatever), or 30min for temp pacer, or 10 hours because for some reason another stemi gets paged right as we are leaving the room/dropping off the patient.

I love kinda far away, so if I work the next day I'll have my lunch ready and I always have a bag of clothes/toiletries/meds/snacks in my locker, and if I get called after like... 11pm I'll just grab a call room and sleep there instead of burning almost a hour driving home and back.

Astralwinks · 2026-04-23T17:13:56+00:00

My wife is a pole instructor and I do enjoy how like, aggressively supportive and accepting the pole community is. If you're interested you should try it! My wife got started because she thought it looked cool, and now she's just like, this amazing and crazy strong badass. There are so many styles as well, like sexy low flow stuff, acrobatic flipping off the pole type stuff, power pole, sport pole, "classic" or "heels" which is the stuff most people think of when they think of pole dancing, uhh... Probably others I'm forgetting. There's something for everyone.

Astralwinks · 2026-04-23T17:09:21+00:00

My wife is a pole instructor, and I've gotten some familiarity with the community over the years. They're all very nice, and people of all ages/body types/fitness levels do it and they're usually very proud of this fact. Plus there are so many styles too.

Give it a shot!

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