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: List of Recyclables Found on My Office Wall
: Setherick February 16, 2010, 05:05:36 PM
So a few months ago, I was working on the computer in my office at UWM. While I had the computer desk pulled away from the wall a bit, I noticed something taped to the wall behind it. It was this list:

(http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn119/Setherick/recycle.jpg)
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: Tadanori Oyama February 16, 2010, 05:11:00 PM
This makes my office's recycling policy look amateurish and reckless. We don't have a list like that at all.
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: Setherick February 16, 2010, 05:13:44 PM
This makes my office's recycling policy look amateurish and reckless. We don't have a list like that at all.

But did you? Say 20 years ago?
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: Shallazar February 16, 2010, 05:20:58 PM
I notice you are not allowed to recycle cans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AbVV8Jro1g

Keanu hates your work, sir!
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: Setherick February 16, 2010, 05:33:04 PM
I notice you are not allowed to recycle cans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AbVV8Jro1g

Keanu hates your work, sir!

But come on, we can recycle keypunch cards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch).
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: Tadanori Oyama February 16, 2010, 05:33:31 PM
This makes my office's recycling policy look amateurish and reckless. We don't have a list like that at all.

But did you? Say 20 years ago?

I didn't do much besides play outside and look for bugs under rocks 20 years ago.

With a little editting that paper would make a fun handout for a Delta Green game.
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: Setherick February 16, 2010, 06:29:42 PM
This makes my office's recycling policy look amateurish and reckless. We don't have a list like that at all.

But did you? Say 20 years ago?

I didn't do much besides play outside and look for bugs under rocks 20 years ago.

With a little editting that paper would make a fun handout for a Delta Green game.

It's all yours. Just repost when you're done with it. In fact, I'll try to scan it OCR as a PDF tomorrow.
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: Tadanori Oyama February 16, 2010, 06:36:21 PM
Sweet. I can use it for the creepy follow up to my hospital game. I was planning to use an apartment building but I might change it to an office and this would be great.
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: clockworkjoe February 16, 2010, 08:44:52 PM
Combine it with the greenbox generator for extra fun http://www.nemesis-system.com/greenbox/
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: IDaMan008 February 16, 2010, 08:58:50 PM
::Gasp!:: You mean if I throw an apple into the recycling bin, they won't be able to make it into a brand-new apple? And what's wrong with my used toilet paper? Is it not good enough for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee?!

I think this recycling sheet is a bunch of bollocks. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a pile of waxed sundries to recycle.
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: Kroack February 16, 2010, 09:06:42 PM
This list looks very obsessive compulsive. Kind of creepy. I could just imagine some tall figure in tattered clothing clenching a blood stained version of this list and eying anyone who comes close while muttering phrases like "unclean filth must die". Hm.   
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: Boyos February 16, 2010, 09:14:39 PM
::Gasp!:: You mean if I throw an apple into the recycling bin, they won't be able to make it into a brand-new apple? And what's wrong with my used toilet paper? Is it not good enough for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee?!

I think this recycling sheet is a bunch of bollocks. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a pile of waxed sundries to recycle.

Just buy a box of kleenx take the torlit paper outta the bathroom. Put this list on the door. And just let things work them self out.
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: Setherick February 16, 2010, 10:25:10 PM
This list looks very obsessive compulsive. Kind of creepy. I could just imagine some tall figure in tattered clothing clenching a blood stained version of this list and eying anyone who comes close while muttering phrases like "unclean filth must die". Hm.   

What's creepier was the fact it was TAPED TO THE WALL for 20 YEARS! If I wouldn't have moved my computer desk out of sheer annoyance of how terrible our office computer is, it probably would have been there another 20.
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: Maze February 17, 2010, 01:25:08 AM
What's a green box?
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: clockworkjoe February 17, 2010, 01:29:09 AM
It's from Delta Green: They are self storage units where DG agents store equipment and materials recovered from operations. They are loosely maintained by DG. A cell of agents might use it to store some guns and a magic tome or a box of weird old photos.

So think of it as a grab bag of random occult and espionage stuff.
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: Tadanori Oyama February 17, 2010, 11:01:18 AM
I love Green Boxes. Ross has mentioned them before. I think the last one I got have a collection of office pens, a box of .38 ammo, and a framed landscape painting among other things.
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: IDaMan008 February 17, 2010, 03:01:45 PM
It's from Delta Green: They are self storage units where DG agents store equipment and materials recovered from operations. They are loosely maintained by DG. A cell of agents might use it to store some guns and a magic tome or a box of weird old photos.

So think of it as a grab bag of random occult and espionage stuff.

I really should get my hands on the Delta Green sourcebook, if only because of the pure awesomeness of Adam Scott Glancy's AP games. It sounds like a pretty kickass variation on CoC.
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: Kroack February 17, 2010, 03:13:32 PM
This list looks very obsessive compulsive. Kind of creepy. I could just imagine some tall figure in tattered clothing clenching a blood stained version of this list and eying anyone who comes close while muttering phrases like "unclean filth must die". Hm.   

What's creepier was the fact it was TAPED TO THE WALL for 20 YEARS! If I wouldn't have moved my computer desk out of sheer annoyance of how terrible our office computer is, it probably would have been there another 20.

It was waiting for you to discover it.
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: Setherick February 17, 2010, 03:40:03 PM
This list looks very obsessive compulsive. Kind of creepy. I could just imagine some tall figure in tattered clothing clenching a blood stained version of this list and eying anyone who comes close while muttering phrases like "unclean filth must die". Hm.   

What's creepier was the fact it was TAPED TO THE WALL for 20 YEARS! If I wouldn't have moved my computer desk out of sheer annoyance of how terrible our office computer is, it probably would have been there another 20.

It was waiting for you to discover it.

Well, it's now tacked to my wall above the light switch where everyone can read it.
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: Tadanori Oyama February 17, 2010, 04:21:31 PM
This list looks very obsessive compulsive. Kind of creepy. I could just imagine some tall figure in tattered clothing clenching a blood stained version of this list and eying anyone who comes close while muttering phrases like "unclean filth must die". Hm.   

What's creepier was the fact it was TAPED TO THE WALL for 20 YEARS! If I wouldn't have moved my computer desk out of sheer annoyance of how terrible our office computer is, it probably would have been there another 20.

It was waiting for you to discover it.

It's trying to return to it's master and cover all the lands in darkness.

Keep it secret.

Keep it safe.
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: Kroack February 17, 2010, 05:01:08 PM
This list looks very obsessive compulsive. Kind of creepy. I could just imagine some tall figure in tattered clothing clenching a blood stained version of this list and eying anyone who comes close while muttering phrases like "unclean filth must die". Hm.   

What's creepier was the fact it was TAPED TO THE WALL for 20 YEARS! If I wouldn't have moved my computer desk out of sheer annoyance of how terrible our office computer is, it probably would have been there another 20.

It was waiting for you to discover it.

It's trying to return to it's master and cover all the lands in darkness.

Keep it secret.

Keep it safe.

One List to rule them all, One List to find them,
One List to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
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: Tadanori Oyama February 17, 2010, 05:16:06 PM
This list looks very obsessive compulsive. Kind of creepy. I could just imagine some tall figure in tattered clothing clenching a blood stained version of this list and eying anyone who comes close while muttering phrases like "unclean filth must die". Hm.   

What's creepier was the fact it was TAPED TO THE WALL for 20 YEARS! If I wouldn't have moved my computer desk out of sheer annoyance of how terrible our office computer is, it probably would have been there another 20.

It was waiting for you to discover it.

It's trying to return to it's master and cover all the lands in darkness.

Keep it secret.

Keep it safe.

One List to rule them all, One List to find them,
One List to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

Three Inventory Listings where forged for Accounting, the wisest of all departments.

Seven Potluck Sign Ups where distributed among the Cubicles, the sturdy foundation of the office.

And Nine Administrative Memos for the Middle Managers, who above all else, desired power.
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: Setherick February 17, 2010, 05:30:47 PM
Alright, I made these using by Blackberry Curve 8330 and MS Paint because I don't have PS on my laptop so don't rag on the quality.

The list corrupts the wall:

(http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn119/Setherick/listwall.jpg)

Books on the professors desk:

(http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn119/Setherick/BooksDesk.jpg)

More books (these are the same books, but they work as two separate pictures):

(http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn119/Setherick/BooksStanding.jpg)
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: Tadanori Oyama February 17, 2010, 05:38:31 PM
That is delightful.
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: Setherick February 17, 2010, 05:43:33 PM
That is delightful.

You can fill in the details Tad and you have your game for this week.
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: Tadanori Oyama February 17, 2010, 05:53:43 PM
That is delightful.

You can fill in the details Tad and you have your game for this week.

Perfect. I think my players know enough CoC that those books will make for a great red herring.
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: Setherick February 17, 2010, 06:02:41 PM
That is delightful.

You can fill in the details Tad and you have your game for this week.

Perfect. I think my players know enough CoC that those books will make for a great red herring.

The book that's title is almost visible in the picture with the books on the desk is Sarah Josepha Hale's _Flora's Interpreter_ (1834 edition). Here's a google books link to an 1850s edition: http://books.google.com/books?id=e7cYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Flora%27s+Interpreter&source=bl&ots=WcChUKfKgH&sig=UfZjzxzzEA6KvveIcsOWe67RPaA&hl=en&ei=cXV8S_ypCoLANpLP9ZkF&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false
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: Kroack February 17, 2010, 07:53:46 PM
This list looks very obsessive compulsive. Kind of creepy. I could just imagine some tall figure in tattered clothing clenching a blood stained version of this list and eying anyone who comes close while muttering phrases like "unclean filth must die". Hm.   

What's creepier was the fact it was TAPED TO THE WALL for 20 YEARS! If I wouldn't have moved my computer desk out of sheer annoyance of how terrible our office computer is, it probably would have been there another 20.

It was waiting for you to discover it.

It's trying to return to it's master and cover all the lands in darkness.

Keep it secret.

Keep it safe.

One List to rule them all, One List to find them,
One List to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

Three Inventory Listings where forged for Accounting, the wisest of all departments.

Seven Potluck Sign Ups where distributed among the Cubicles, the sturdy foundation of the office.

And Nine Administrative Memos for the Middle Managers, who above all else, desired power.

I can't best this. Also nice MS paint pictures.
: Re: List of Recyclables Found on My Office Wall
: Setherick February 17, 2010, 08:38:50 PM
This list looks very obsessive compulsive. Kind of creepy. I could just imagine some tall figure in tattered clothing clenching a blood stained version of this list and eying anyone who comes close while muttering phrases like "unclean filth must die". Hm.   

What's creepier was the fact it was TAPED TO THE WALL for 20 YEARS! If I wouldn't have moved my computer desk out of sheer annoyance of how terrible our office computer is, it probably would have been there another 20.

It was waiting for you to discover it.

It's trying to return to it's master and cover all the lands in darkness.

Keep it secret.

Keep it safe.

One List to rule them all, One List to find them,
One List to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

Three Inventory Listings where forged for Accounting, the wisest of all departments.

Seven Potluck Sign Ups where distributed among the Cubicles, the sturdy foundation of the office.

And Nine Administrative Memos for the Middle Managers, who above all else, desired power.

I can't best this. Also nice MS paint pictures.

The Yellow Sign turned out better than I had hoped.