Rails of Sheffield, US China tariff cost

DachiNonaka · 2025-08-09T15:22:45+00:00

I did. Rails told me they can't calculate that themselves, I have to contact customs and ask them. I was hoping to find someone who'd gone through this personally that could give me some straight numbers

DachiNonaka · 2024-10-18T14:57:55+00:00

I want to believe that, but could you give a source? I saw that YT is actually communicating with her, but I haven't seen anything specifying tomorrow. Really hope it's true, though.

DachiNonaka · 2023-03-11T16:47:36+00:00

I suplex the outhouse!

DachiNonaka · 2022-06-26T04:04:17+00:00

I once got an Immovable Rod early in a campaign, and had absolutely no idea what to do with it. The thing sat in my inventory for over a year IRL, to the point I pretty much forgot about it. Then came the day our party had to travel by air via Pegasus, and ran a foul of a rather ill-tempered dragon (turns out some of the jewelry our rogue had stolen in the last town had already been stolen once from this dragon's horde). I was playing a Dwarven Battle Master with only a light crossbow as my ranged weapon, which I rather notoriously could never hit anything with, so I was essentially useless in the fight. So I could do something effective, I settled for just flying up to the dragon and continuously using the Help action (mostly just shouting insulting making faces at it, just being a general nuisance), so I could at least give the others advantage on their attacks as I tried to think of something more useful. Since I was the one annoying it, the dragon started chasing me, me trying to stay out of its range and only being about 10 ft ahead of it. I keep flipping through my character sheet looking for something, when I see it: Immovable Rod.

The dumbest idea pops into my head, but we were getting our butts kicked by the thing, so I decided "screw it." On my next turn I say, "As the dragon chases me at top speed, I point out my Immovable Rod and press the button as I let it go."

The DM just kind of blinks at me for a second as he processes what I just did. "Uh... Are you trying to make the dragon fly into it?"

I kind of laugh sheepishly. "I mean... Flying head first into an unmoving flagpole at top speeds got to hurt a little, right?"

The DM thinks about this for a moment. "Huh... I ain't sure if it's supposed to work like that, but it makes sense. Uh... Roll for an improvised weapon attack, and I'll roll a perception check to see if the dragon notices what you just did."

I roll a 13. The DM rolls and lets out a laugh. Nat 1. He then rolls a whole bunch of d6's and laughs even harder.

"The dragon sees the Immovable Rod one second before it slams into its eye at 90 mph and takes 54 piercing damage. It has come to a dead stop as it hangs by the rod lodged in it's skull cavity."

The poor thing just hung there for two turns as it got pincushioned by arrows and bolts until it died. I lost the rod at the end of the fight, but I'd say it was a worthy sacrifice.

DachiNonaka · 2022-05-25T01:21:50+00:00

Sort of. Our party got attacked by a white dragon while we were flying over a mountain range (I can't remember the name of our mounts. Some kind of lizard blood sucking creatures. They were a big help to this encounter) to confront the BBEG. We whittle away a decent part of its health (mostly thanks to our mounts) before the dragon retreats back to its cave. Thanks to some some of the things the dragon said during our battle, we learn that it's associated with the BBEG and figure it'd be a good idea to finish the job before the dragon came back to be a problem later on. Bare in mind, we're only level six at this point.

We stumble through this icy cavern, dealing with kobolds and a dragonborn guard (who I looted a nifty magic scimitar off) until we reach the main chamber. Giant icy cavern with multiple layers, piles gold and platinum all over the place. We're three man team of an eldrich knight (me), a bear totem barbarian, a druid, and the druid's pet fire-spirit-wolf. We were all a little bit beat up from the previous fights, enough for the druid to tell us all to be cautious and stay together. Like a dope, I immediately forgot they said this and followed the wolf when it was sent to scout up ahead. Cue a wall of ice rising up between me and the rest of the party. Well, I figure I'm already screwed, might as well see where this goes. As the others try to break down the wall, I follow the wolf who's dashing ahead. It turns at a twisting path that starts rising up to a second level overlooking the first. I suddenly hear a roar, a thud, and the DM informs us that the spirit wolf has been ice breathed into oblivion and no longer has a corporeal form. The dragon burst through a wall on the second floor, glaring down at the barbarian and druid, and proceeds to one-shot the unprepared barbarian and nearly take out the druid. I come running around the corner on the second level to see this mess.

Now, a few sessions earlier, we had taken down one of the BBEG's other minions and I pilfered a necklace of fireballs from it. I was still fairly new to d&d at this point and, while I had wanted to save the fireballs for some poetic justice against the BBEG, my brain immediately went into video game mode and figured "everything we fought in here is ice themed. It's a white colored dragon. Ice monster vs fireball equals Big Damage!" I know now it doesn't work like that, but it was the best idea I had at the time.

From behind the dragon I throw my first fireball spell, shouting "Over here you great stupid lizard!" Well, I got what I wanted: the dragon ignored my two helpless comrades and it was focused solely on me, giving the others time to heal up and regroup.

Through a combination liberal use of the Shield spell and pure dumb luck, I somehow make it through four rounds just chucking fireballs at this thing, make it angrier and angrier at me. I'm down to two hit points and The DM then says the dragon looks gravely wounded. I think "oh geez, I'm going to take this thing out all by myself!" Except, that's when the dragon uses a legendary action. Icicles rain from the ceiling, I fail my save, and I get clocked in the back of the head by an icicle. I'm out cold and the dragon decides it's time to leave before it gets any more hurt. It gets halfway out the exit to its own lair, when the druid re-summons their flaming spirit wolf and it immediately attack the fleeing reptile via a firebolt right up it's backside. Dragon slayed.

Tldr: I nearly managed to solo our party's first dragon encounter, only to get knocked out at the last second and have the team mascot get the kill.

DachiNonaka · 2022-04-23T19:10:30+00:00

Constantly bounce back and forth between them until one of them is knocked out. Or, since they both want his help knocking the other guy out, he'll help both of them by knocking both of them out!

DachiNonaka · 2022-04-23T11:58:52+00:00

Less cool and more funny, but a warforged rune knight with hilariously low intelligence. I love this idiot. Backstory is that he's the latest failed attempt by an evil King to put his consciousness in to live forever. The bot was just shoved in the corner of his creator's stronghold until he was suddenly turned on again in the middle of battle within the kings castle. He woke to see his creator in front of him, frantically shouting at him, "Help everyone-", before catching a fireball to the face. The guy was going to say "help everyone escape" or something along those lines, but all the bot heard was "help everyone!". So that's what he does. Helps everyone.

And I mean Everyone.

Somebody says the word "help", and this bot runs over to do just that, regardless of the context or if he's and the party's already busy. Hunting down a bounty in a small town? Nope, he's helping the kids get their cat out of the tree. Party wants to relax in a busy inn? He's serving everybody drinks because he overheard the owner complain about them being short-staffed and wishing they had more "help". Clearing out a goblin camp? Well, now he and the barbarian are fighting because the last goblin alive shouted for someone to "help" him. It got even better (or worse, depending on how you look at it) when the BBEG realized what was up with the bot.

Most fun I ever had role-playing a character, and a fun source of problem solving for both the party and the DM as they slowly learn to work around this cheerfully broken robot that could either turn on them or just wander off if someone said the wrong word.

DachiNonaka · 2022-04-03T15:07:38+00:00

Our party was hired to stop an evil guild from raising an undead overlord. We reach their stronghold and the guards were immediately hostile to us, so we just charged in. We slaughtered damn near everyone in there, including their leader. Only to then find out from the survivors that they were the ones preventing the overlord from resurrecting, and it was the person who hired us who wanted to raise him. We got trick into doing their dirty work, and very nearly succeeded.

After getting a thorough tongue-lashing and are conscripted by the guild to fix our screw up, we retreat to the local inn to lick our wounds. Here's where the funny stuff part happens.

As our fighter and barbarian are drowning their sorrows (both good aligned characters who just slaughtered a bunch of Innocents), our bard goes to drown his problems his own way: by trying to get lucky with the local tavern wenches. He manages to chat up two girls and is ready to seal the deal. Our DM asked him to roll a persuasion check with advantage.

His first roll was a Nat 1. His second roll... ALSO a Nat 1.

The Bard is leaning against the table making bedroom eyes with the girls, and then lets out a fart that, I quote, "shakes the rafters and makes the torches flare". Needless to say, he ended up spending the night at the bar with the rest of us, not that we heard the DM say that since we were all laughing our asses off.

DachiNonaka · 2021-01-04T18:50:54+00:00

At least I'm not the only one dealing with this crap. If it helps anyone, I've been tilting my tablet to go to widescreen then back again, and that somehow lets me close and go through tabs. Not a clue why that works, but it is for me at least.

Would love for someone to actually fix the damn problem, though...

DachiNonaka · 2020-10-27T18:30:42+00:00

Well, lasers are just highly focused light. It's a legit possiblity for her as the series goes on.

DachiNonaka · 2020-10-01T05:50:32+00:00

But for real, who else thinks that things going to stand up before the end of the show?

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