This Bundle of Holding is for 1st and 2nd edition Paranoia. This is the stuff I remember from college and high school; it’s really old. Staples-in-the-books old. But it’s good!
Moe Lane
PS: there is one flaw in the description, though: it shamefully undervalues the importance of The YELLOW Clearance Black Box Blues. Some of John M. Ford’s best work is in that supplement. And yes, that’s a tall bar to clear.
oooh. There’s a KotDT bundle up too.
Cool. All my WEG books were destroyed when the sewer backed up into my basement last month. (OK, very nearly all my gamebooks that weren’t virtual, and a great many other books as well. I’m no longer a good resource for ACW, Idaho history, or political philosophy.)
GURK.
Ouch! That .. ahem .. stinks!
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Sterilize, burn, and best of luck to ya.
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Mew
It was storm runoff that pushed nearly 3 feet of water up through the drain in half an hour. (I’ve done the math on how many thousands of cubic feet that was. You seriously don’t want to know.) The black water component was so dilute that it wasn’t immediately evident, and only became noticeable a couple of days later in absorbent things damaged by the flood (which I’d already loaded out of the house by then. BTW, the amount of water a case of toilet paper can hold is truly amazing.)
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Yes, I dried out my books, and gave them a proper send-off in the firepit out back. Took a few sessions. Smoke got in my eyes a couple of times. (The shelf o’GURPS was a primary offender.)
But one thing that was glaringly apparent was how much the paper quality in books has declined over the past few decades. The stuff from the ’80s and earlier *almost* survived being completely immersed in water (as did things from The Archive Society, The Folio Society, etc.) But hardcovers from the last ten years didn’t hold up much better than the toilet tissue. It took three weeks to get them dry enough to burn. (Although game books held up markedly better than mass market published books of equivalent time periods.)
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Anyway, cleanup is done, and insurance covered a new furnace and water heater. Their loss did a lot to put the books in perspective. (And the drain is now sealed off.)
Free advice: get more than one quote, some contractors are evil. The first plumber I contacted saw me as a cash cow and tried to sell me things I didn’t need at inflated prices, while completely brushing off the things that I did. (Also, he blatantly lied to my face. It’s been awhile since Geological Engineering 409 whupped my butt, but groundwater simply does not work that way. And if I say I saw the water shooting out of the fricking drain, I saw the water shooting out of the fricking drain!)
My sympathies.
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And, an honest contractor is priceless. Had to replace my furnace this winter, and the first guy wanted to practically rebuild the whole house.
It was storm runoff that pushed nearly 3 feet of water up through the drain in half an hour. (I’ve done the math on how many thousands of cubic feet that was. You seriously don’t want to know.) The black water component was so dilute that it wasn’t immediately evident, and only became noticeable a couple of days later in absorbent things damaged by the flood (which I’d already loaded out of the house by then. BTW, the amount of water a case of toilet paper can hold is truly amazing.)
.
Yes, I dried out my books, and gave them a proper send-off in the firepit out back. Took a few sessions. Smoke got in my eyes a couple of times. (The shelf o’GURPS was a primary offender.)
But one thing that was glaringly apparent was how much the paper quality in books has declined over the past few decades. The stuff from the ’80s and earlier *almost* survived being completely immersed in water (as did things from The Archive Society, The Folio Society, etc.) But hardcovers from the last ten years didn’t hold up much better than the toilet tissue. It took three weeks to get them dry enough to burn. (Although game books held up markedly better than mass market published books of equivalent time periods.)
.
Anyway, cleanup is done, and insurance covered a new furnace and water heater. Their loss did a lot to put the books in perspective. (And the drain is now sealed off.)
Free advice: get more than one quote, some contractors are evil. The first plumber I contacted saw me as a cash cow and tried to sell me things I didn’t need at inflated prices, while completely brushing off the things that I did. (Also, he blatantly lied to my face. It’s been awhile since Geological Engineering 409 whupped my butt, but groundwater simply does not work that way. And if I say I saw the water shooting out of the fricking drain, I saw the water shooting out of the fricking drain!)