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Dragon Ball: After the End

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PoptartProdigy said:
My mother-in-law is one of eight children, each of whom has produced two or more children of their own. That, plus their (multiple, for the four who've had one or two divorces ) spouses, and their children's spouses, drives the numbers up fast. And then there's the fact that my wife's generation has started spawning, so there are yet more children being added. Then you toss in the various adoptees, and things go straight to hell. Plus there are still about five people from the grandparents' generation still kicking around and throwing another straw on the pile. We draw people up from North Carolina, Florida, and (now that my wife and I live there) Ohio. In theory the family unit is based in Illinois, but they just kind of exploded to the four winds and multiplied like rabbits in the Australian Outback. And they're so clannish that anybody who can even briefly be accounted a member gets party invitations for the rest of their days.

My own family is similar but can really only muster up to the high thirties or low forties when the big reunions swing around. Fortunately they're also crazy-localized and would riot if they got invitations out to Ohio. Reduces our workload quite a bit. Also fortunately, we're just having my wife's parents, her two brothers, and the brother's girlfriend that everybody knows is going to be the next in-law. Immediate family only on this one, and my own genetic accidents now live out West and cannot attend (woo!). My sister-in-law would be here as well, but is studying in Italy. So it'll be a seven-person meal for our first hosted Thanksgiving. Much more doable than the clan-wide doomstacks.

My father-in-law, meanwhile, is an only child. Go figure.

The guest obligations are sort of similar with our families, but the host really only asks for people to bring the small stuff (wine, chips, dip, etc.), or something they simply can't make for lack of equipment or experience. I know that's not even a regional thing so much as how it expressed in our specific family units, though, so I guess that's just a highly-varied standard.
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Wow. The largest family I've ever been to had around 40, and that was both sides, and poppys(my step-grandfather) family.

...Most of my maternal family being dead, and most of my paternal family being childless might have something to do with it.
Alex pears said:
Too much food for too many people to transport without a tradgedy.

Either lost food or something worse.

Cooked birds I find are a nightmare to transport, especially if you're taking gravy.
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Really? I find it easy.
 
Gore17 said:
Wow. The largest family I've ever been to had around 40, and that was both sides, and poppys(my step-grandfather) family.

...Most of my maternal family being dead, and most of my paternal family being childless might have something to do with it.
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Got nobody one one side, but on the other I have anywhere between 50 and 100 cousins.

Admit ably I'm not really close to many of them.

Gore17 said:
Really? I find it easy.
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Must be the bumpy roads in my area, but when we tried I tend to end up covered in gravy.

Fun fun fun.
 
Alex pears said:
Must be the bumpy roads in my area, but when we tried I tend to end up covered in gravy.

Fun fun fun.
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Well theres your first mistake.

Your not meant to be carrying them around, your meant to be ensuring they are carefully stored in the back of the car, where they won't move around much!
 
Alex pears said:
Got nobody one one side, but on the other I have anywhere between 50 and 100 cousins.

Admit ably I'm not really close to many of them.
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.....Wow.
Alex pears said:
Must be the bumpy roads in my area, but when we tried I tend to end up covered in gravy.

Fun fun fun.
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The trick is to properly cover and strap them down.

...Also, I forgot my maternal great-uncle, but he usually doesn't attend. Old age and being a victim of the old "let's cut up this persons brain!" lobotomy treatments means he can't exact function in such things well. :(
 
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Gore17 said:
.....Wow.
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Isralli/American side.

You've never seen a Passover till you've crammed about 90 people around one massive table.

Sucal said:
Your not meant to be carrying them around, your meant to be ensuring they are carefully stored in the back of the car, where they won't move around much!
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Gore17 said:
The trick is to properly cover and strap them down.
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We did.

That was what made it worse.
 
As sad as I am to interrupt the family/thanksgiving derail (I am not), perhaps we should discuss something pertaining the quest? Mainly, the oozaru in the room: What do we do ifthe Senzu began a super saiyan rebellion? Do we take them down immediately or do we go looking for dad and risk them escaping? I will admit, I didn't think of that when I voted for an active ping...
 
Bakkasama said:
As sad as I am to interrupt the family/thanksgiving derail (I am not), perhaps we should discuss something pertaining the quest? Mainly, the oozaru in the room: What do we do ifthe Senzu began a super saiyan rebellion? Do we take them down immediately or do we go looking for dad and risk them escaping? I will admit, I didn't think of that when I voted for an active ping...
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Well we personally can probably beat down any super saiyan they create, but the sorcerers give me pause.

Anyone capable of removing the memories of an entire people spread over an entire planet is not someone I want to annoy.
 
Alex pears said:
Well we personally can probably beat down any super saiyan they create, but the sorcerers give me pause.

Anyone capable of removing the memories of an entire people spread over an entire planet is not someone I want to annoy.
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On the other hand, do you really want to give such a sorcerer time to prepare?
 
Bakkasama said:
As sad as I am to interrupt the family/thanksgiving derail (I am not), perhaps we should discuss something pertaining the quest? Mainly, the oozaru in the room: What do we do ifthe Senzu began a super saiyan rebellion? Do we take them down immediately or do we go looking for dad and risk them escaping? I will admit, I didn't think of that when I voted for an active ping...
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Bust out the Golden Oozaru form. It'll break through any wards they have, and alert dad and grandma.
 
Alex pears said:
Got nobody one one side, but on the other I have anywhere between 50 and 100 cousins.

Admit ably I'm not really close to many of them.


Must be the bumpy roads in my area, but when we tried I tend to end up covered in gravy.

Fun fun fun.
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Probably the same amount of cousins here. Irish, so it's a fool's errand even trying to count. Consultation of the Little Old Lady Association is required to know if someone is related to you or not. Plus my first cousins are currently spawning, somwhere between 8 - 14 kids between the four of them and still rising.
 
@PoptartProdigy
Dunno if this has been asked already, but has a seer ever been a head?

Cause being a seer is a massive advantage for anyone who is (assuming they can control the thing)

And for what the effs, since seers can see things as they really are can that be translated to a form of Truth sight?
 
Sincé we are in the subject of Seers, it was said that they are consulted to choose the Scions by seeing if they are representative of their clan's namesakes. If so, has there ever been a Scion that was not son or daughter of the previous one?
 
Alex pears said:
@PoptartProdigy
Dunno if this has been asked already, but has a seer ever been a head?

Cause being a seer is a massive advantage for anyone who is (assuming they can control the thing)

And for what the effs, since seers can see things as they really are can that be translated to a form of Truth sight?
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On occasion. The fact that they creep people out tends to handicap Seer Heads from capitalizing, though. And Truth sight is not really a thing since truth isn't visible.

Bakkasama said:
Sincé we are in the subject of Seers, it was said that they are consulted to choose the Scions by seeing if they are representative of their clan's namesakes. If so, has there ever been a Scion that was not son or daughter of the previous one?
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That's the publicity, yeah. But no, it's very strictly parent-to-child succession.
 
*Reads last pages* *Looks at tiny family gatherings of 6 or 7 at most* ... I'm a little estranged from my father, but even that would only be maybe 10 people at those gatherings.
 
Alex pears said:
From 40K.

Manifests itself as an inability to just say what's going to happen, to tell the truth, a stuck up patronizing attitude and possible abuse of people for the "greater good."

Other effects may include speaking in odd verses, but it doesn't always happen and being a shifty looking ****.
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Aha. I know it as, "Elf Syndrome." No, that's not it. It's the white eyes and the fact that Seers tend to actually be obnoxiously straightforward, especially about their Craft. Sensei is actually considered to be abnormally charismatic and well-natured by Seer standards. Knowing the future often (not always) makes you alternately bored with the discussions going on around you and wanting to skip to the end, or antsy and irritable that you don't know what's going on. There's also the fact that Seer training is time-intensive for most people; your own training has been much less so than standard since you have other duties. So from the perspective of society, the Seers take in young, happy boys and girls and spit out cranky, rude, antisocial loners who occasionally have their eyes film over before they start making pronouncements of doom.

Intimidating.
 
PoptartProdigy said:
Aha. I know it as, "Elf Syndrome." No, that's not it. It's the white eyes and the fact that Seers tend to actually be obnoxiously straightforward, especially about their Craft. Sensei is actually considered to be abnormally charismatic and well-natured by Seer standards. Knowing the future often (not always) makes you alternately bored with the discussions going on around you and wanting to skip to the end, or antsy and irritable that you don't know what's going on. There's also the fact that Seer training is time-intensive for most people; your own training has been much less so than standard since you have other duties. So from the perspective of society, the Seers take in young, happy boys and girls and spit out cranky, rude, antisocial loners who occasionally have their eyes film over before they start making pronouncements of doom.

Intimidating.
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So what are we abnormally good by Seer Standards or is our teacher just better.

In any case can't they just... turn it off. That's what we just mastered isn't it?
 
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