Mr. Skeltal and his kalcium-clad bois shamble toward the Unkonstruktion fuckbois, intent and eviserating the rest of them.
Miraculously, nothing happens. The sledgebros shrug off the damage and continue sipping their cheap coffee.
"Bah!" Jeered Mr. Skeltal, "Time to make you lazy orange fuckbois dance!" He pressed his dooter against his bony lips and tries to rouse a skeletal band from the grave.
But his efforts fall upon deaf/super dead ears. "You bastards have no taste in music," he mumbles while hiding under his hat.
Zupponn reaches the foot of the building and squints up at the top of the roof as if cacluating a way up.
Feat success! The two pumpkinsmen immediately stop their resistance and sit down, staring expectantly at the Apostles.
He then sets his sights on the peaceass below while slowly drawing a dagger. "I'm either a little drunk, or you're very blurry. Good thing you stick out so much."
Another just barely survives being shot point-blank. This dimmy alone has survived getting shot on two seperate accounts now.
The explosion destorys the ramp, kills the mechanik who had just recently caught on fire, and disrupts the other mechanik.
Meanwhile the PumpKing lands just in front of the generator, dully noting the dust that appears in front of him. "Just how long has this pocket 'verse been suspended in time?" He wonders to himself.
His buddy comes into the cottage and nails the mimic to the wall. "That's the ugliest chest I've ever seen," he grunts.
"Hey you stud-heads, quit screwin' the pooch and give this thing a shove!" Orders UnBuilder Bill. The Sledgebros realize their break was over anyway and casually stroll over to the Studlift.
UnBuilder Bill revs the studlift's 1 horsepower engine as the sledgebros behind give it a good push. "Ramp or not, this wall is goin' down than the time I have to retire!"
The impact creates a large opening in the wall and weakens it even further. It won't be able to take much more after this.
The kultists must clear the dead trees in order to continue and need at least three minifigs to complete the summon, otherwise whatever sort of creatures they rise may not be compliant.
I know this battle's aging toward a year old, but I'm just waiting on orders from Bookwyrm, Scratch, Zupponn, and Motorhead Fan. I'll probably send those chaps a message, but if they don't reply/don't wanna, I might have some openings.
The ranged Skelebois move up and take aim and combine their fire on the studlift. One of them critfails so bad he falls over disrupted.
Mr. Skeltal and his boneherder beast scuttle up toward the UnKonstruction Krew’s frontlines and rises his dooter.
“Ho-ho-ho, he-he-he! Dem UnKonstruction bois are eatin’ beans!” He sings aloud, attempting to demoralize the krew.
Heroic feat failure! The UnKonstruction Krew has taken a lunch break instead and have gained a +1 bonus to all their rolls until the end of this turn.
The Studlift lowers its dekonstructor-arms onto the tower. The tower starts to creak backward, its foundations already comprised.
The tower winds up killing two of Ken’s Scream Team (a bitchin' witch and Funkenstein who probably wishes he hadn't taken the lumber under the tower), the kannon operator, as well as crushing the catapult.
Bill the UnBuilder climbs partway out of his Studlift to shout at the Skelebois, “Hey boneheads, why don’t you make yourselves useful and tear down this wall?!”
The nearest three boneflingers turn around and stare at the fence but have already used their attacks for the turn. “Wait… what were we supposed to do?” Needless to say, the feat doesn’t do much. Feat Success??
Meanwhile one of the nailgunners shoots at the disrupted pumpkinsmen, but his armor deflects the attack.
The ex-studlift operator finally gets up after being disrupted and wonders what in the BrikHell is going on.
I dunno what happened to rest of the pictures for the Kultists, but to sum it up the melee troops moved up to engage the skeleboys after Kath used his SN dice to boost their attacks. One skeleton goes down. The ranged kultists tried to shoot at Mr. Skeltal and his steed, but were just an inch or two out of range.
“Fight on my children, peace will be upon you soon! One way or another.” He chants and manages to grant them a +1 bonus to their attacks for the turn.
The rest continue pouring into the alley. They swing their picket signs madly but their damage is tanked by the Vampire Knight.
But he’s just short of dislodging part of the roof. “Dangit. Wait did that really just make a dong sound effect?”
Another pumpkinsmen fires at the dimmy who had just speared one of his brethren but fails to damage the seemingly impervious protestor.
The PumpKing grasps the keg of Maniac Beer and considers taking a swig, only to realize there wasn’t a tap on it. "Bah, perhaps its better that way."
The PumpKing creates a wall of pumpkin vines to cut anyone else off from the generator. Feat success!
Persistently, the bitchin’ witches continue following Zupponn up the building, one of them magiking up the door.
But the witches weren’t having it. One of them throws her bottle of potion at Zupps, but he easily parries it.
"I've fought countless undead, golden-armored elves, and now you creepy, flowery clowns. What's next?" Ken said as the TruceAss's life force ebbed away.
BrikWars 2010 Rules wrote: BrikWars ... stands in pretty direct opposition to many fundamental elements of the LEGO® philosophy, such as "Not Teaching Kids How Funny It Is to Set People on Fire."
blub, sorry guys, someone can sub in for me on scream team if they want. been kinda distracted with new job
How to buy Bristlenose Catfish might seem like a strange title for an article. After all you can buy Bristlenose Catfish from nearly anywhere. Aquariums, Live Fish Stores, Pet Shops and of course private breeders.
Therefore if you’re just buying Bristlenose as algae eaters for your Community Tank then in most cases it’s just a matter of buying some from a reputable source, placing them in the tank and that’s it. This certainly was the case for me when I first bought Bristlenose Catfish for my Bettas tanks.
What I discovered later on though, was that if you’re buying Bristlenose to breed then there is a little bit more to it than that as after I bought my first two pairs I discovered that there was another consideration as well that very few take into consideration. In fact I think this consideration is so important I’ll write about it later in this article as in the long run it might just save you a whole lot of wasted time going down a path that comes up fruitless (or maybe fryless?).
First of all though, if you are buying Bristlenose to breed then there are probably two major ways in which you can go about it.
You can buy a group of juveniles, place them in you community tank, give them some favourable conditions, then sit back and wait for them to mature and let nature take it’s course. This of course works for many and how well it does work can be a little bit “hit and miss”. Juvenile Bristlenose are difficult to sex and of course it’s not until they get older that the male grows his bristles and it then becomes obvious. Therefore, this is the reason why many “would be breeders” buy several juvenile Bristlenose, as it increases the likelihood of at least getting one male or female to form a breeding pair amongst the group.
The next method many new Bristlenose breeders use to buy Bristlenose Catfish, is to go out and buy a specific Bristlenose pair or trio. Either method has it’s advantages. Having a trio of one male and two females increases the likelihood of a successful spawn while placing a pair together does ensure you know the genetics of the fry. So I suppose whichever method you decide on can simply come down to personal choice.
Next up is to select your actual breeding pairs and this is where many new breeders make their first mistake. You see sometimes breeders sell a whole spawn at an early age to another party to raise and then onsell again as they come into sexual maturity, when the sexes are just becoming more distinguishable. These Bristlenose can become good breeders as they are young, healthy and virile but here’s where the first mistake in often made by the new breeder.
They buy a pair or trio of these Bristlenose and then try and breed them. This can be a mistake. You see you can breed brothers with sisters from the same spawn and you can do it successfully but what you will find is that “you” as a the buyer won’t know how many generations back these Bristlenose have been interbred. And of course the reason why is because the seller probably won’t know either or in some cases he/she might but because he’s/she’s got an investment that he/she wants to sell, you may find you won’t get the full story anyway. Therefore you won’t have any idea what their linage is.
Therefore diversity of genes with Bristlenose , just like with any species is important. It ensures strong healthy offspring and in this case fry that are stronger, more disease resistant and more likely to survive and grow to adulthood. So if you like you can try breeding Bristlenose from the same spawn and maybe you’ll get away with it but then again maybe you won’t. You may find that your Bristlenose will spawn, produce lots of eggs and fry and then slowly the fry will die and you’ll be left with just a handful.
Then you’ll probably sit back and wonder what went wrong. Was there a problem with the condition of the water? Were the parents inexperienced or is it just a case of second time lucky? Was there interference from some other fish in the tank? You may be just left scratching your head.
Therefore you could then spend a whole lot of time trying to remedy all manner of suspected issues only to then try again and suffer the same result the second time. Then at the end of the day the real cause was simply the fact that you chose to breed a brother and sister that had come from a long line of interbred Bristlenose.
Therefore if you want to save yourself the hassle, the easy way around it is to simply still buy the same amount of pairs you’re after from the same spawn but then go and find another spawn from a totally different source, buy the same amount of Bristlenose the second time and then swap them around. If you want you can then sell the excess Bristlenose pairs/trios you don’t want and advertise them as having diverse genes and hopefully they will be more attractive to a buyer for that very reason.
Then of course the other way is to buy Bristlenose Catfish individually from different sources to ensure their genetic diversity. At the end of the day though, how you go about it is up to you.
So there you have it, if you want to buy Bristlenose Catfish for the purpose of breeding look for diversity of bloodlines and buy from a different source.
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Athur Conan Doyle was the son of Charles Doyle a Civil Servant from Ireland and an alcoholic and Mary Foley. He was one of ten children. His grandfather was John Doyle a famous caricaturist.
At home and then a local school in Edinburgh. Jesuit Preparatory School in Hodder, Lancashire. Stonyhurst, a Jesuit Secondary School nearby. University of Edinburgh. Helped fund his course by working as a surgeon on ships such as the “Hope” which was then bound for the Arctic and the “Mayumba” bound for West Africa where he nearly died of Typhoid).
Whilst studying he worked as a medical assistant to Dr Richardson of Sheffield which only lasted three weeks. He then moved to Shropshire working for Dr Elliot and then to Birmingham where he was treated like a son by Dr Reginald Hoare and his family.
1882: Doyle set up as a Doctor in Plymouth with a fellow student from Edinburgh Dr George Budd but it was unsuccessful and the two did not get on. Doyle then set up in Elm Grove, Southsea near Portsmouth but had very few patients and therefore little money. He subsidised his income writing detective stories. His first story was accepted by Chambers Journal in Edinburgh.
1887: Arthur Conan Doyle published the first of his Sherlock Holmes story “A Study in Scarlet” in Becton’s Christmas Annual and had enough money to give up medicine. Holmes was reputedly based on one of his medical school lecturers Doctor Joseph Bell. His Short Stories about Holmes where published in the “Strand Magazine” from then on. Became a member of the Portsmouth Literary and Scientific Society.
Statue of Sherlock Holmes in Picardy Place, Edinburgh Donated by the Federation of Master Builders near Conan Doyle’s birthplace (copyright Anthony Blagg)
1893: Holmes is killed off in “The Final Problem” and the reading public were horrified. His pregnant wife was weak with tuberculosis and so they went to Egypt to effect a cure. Unfortunately war broke out between the British and the Dervishes but not to be outdone Conan-Doyle become a temporary war correspondent for “The Westminster Gazette” newspaper.
1897: Arthur Conan Doyle meets Jean Leckie and continues a platonic relationship during his wife’s illness.
1899-1902: He served as a doctor in the Boer War with a hospital paid for and organised buy John Langman.
1914: Attended the meeting of writers called by the Liberal politician Charles Masterman who wanted to form a Writer’s Propaganda Bureau at the start of the First World War. Conan-Doyle wrote the pamphlet “To Arms!” as his contribution. He also wrote many articles about the war for the newspaper the “Daily Chronicle”. Although well into his fifties he served as a private throughout the war in the Crowborough Company of the Sixth Royal Sussex regiment.
1916: Doyle became a convinced Spiritualist, a cause to which he would spend the rest of his life often working with his friend Sir Oliver Lodge.
1917: Death of his son Kingsley Conan-Doyle in October who died after being wounded and contracting pneumonia.
1922: Doyle declared the “Cottingley Fairy” fake photographs to be genuine and was ridiculed in the press.