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[wilwheaton]

Do you dig Sentinels of the Multi-Verse? There's still a fair amount of luck involved but your card draw seems luckier than your dice...

Oh yeah I love it, but it’s not an RPG.

[theisb]

So some while ago my partner gave me a trade of one of the IDW Turtles Micro-Series, and I got really interested in what was going on there but was deeply confused about what was current canon and moved on. Today, Comixology has a sale on Turtles - so which bits should I buy?

Literally all of the IDW run is extremely worth mentioning. Can’t recommend it enough, and City Fall was maybe my favorite “event” book of the past few years. The problem is reading order -- issues of the Micro Series happen between issues of the comics. Fortunately, the Internet provides!

[wakewithgiggli]

12, 31, 34

12. Favourite Induction

I honestly dont have a favourite. Anything involving fractionation is obviously awesome, but I’m wary of calling that a type of induction - its often the topping added to other inductions. There are inductions that I can appreciate analytically - like various confusion inductions, covert and sneaky language, stories that draw me in, any kind of wordplay. But even the old classics like a smooth relaxation gets me.

Hmmm one thing i can say: the longer the better. If it’s a long induction, I’ll love it.

31. Favourite book or show that involves hypnosis:

This is a tough one. Does it have to involve actual hypnosis, or do unrealistic forms of mind control count?

I’ll name a movie - the old Dean Stockwell version of The Dunwich Horror. The hypnosis is both really subtle and really obvious. The film is a B-Move of its era - lots of psychedelics, for example. But if you like hypnosis and corruption of an oblivious innocent woman, it’s hard to do better!

(The Vincent Price Masque of the Red Death doesn’t involve actual hypnosis, but there’s a sense of mental influence and corruption that is pretty hot too!).

For books, I’ll go with a pretty obscure one: The Possession of Jessica Young, by Russ Martin. Trigger warning: it involves a rape early on, handled in a very perfunctory manner. Here’s the book blurb:

The last battle of good and evil has already begun. The Organization, corrupt, huge, efficient as only modern American management can make it, anticipates and early victory. Its members are endowed with occult strengths-among them, total sensual control over their victims. No woman alive can resist their dark authority. No woman but Jessica Young. Although she doesn't know it. Jessica is the key to the final victory. The key to all our lives and souls.

34. A fictional character you’ve fantasised about being hypnotised by:

This is a trickier question to answer than I expected. When I’m fantasising in an, ahem, erotic manner, I’m always depersonalised. I can’t remember ever fantasising as myself being hypnotised - it’s more like I’m a position removed, watching a character get hypnotised. 

I dont typically imagine the hypnotist as characters from books, movies, or some such, but the characters from those fictions inspire creations of my own characters to be the hypnotist/mind controller.

I hope those were interesting answers!