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DHS Tries to Safeguard Against Giant Monster Attack
KnightShift writes "Earlier this month the Department of Homeland Security halted the publication of the Monsterpocalypse Series 3: All Your Base Strategy Guide due to 'national security concerns.' In a statement on its website Privateer Press, which publishes the popular kaiju-inspired collectible miniatures game, reported that 'Homeland Security pulled the shipment for an intensive examination last week when it arrived in the United States. While no comment was made to the nature of the investigation, several crew members within Privateer Press believe the government became concerned over some of the more radical ideals espoused by several factions within the Monsterpocalypse game.' Privateer Press Chief Creative Officer Matt Wilson added that 'I am confident that the investigation's outcome will reaffirm the rights of free speech and protest of the radical environmental group Green Fury at the perceived devastation man is having on our planet as well as the freedom of people to practice religion without governmental oversight — even those religions which may very well bring forth the minions of the ancient Lords of Cthul.'"
At least Homeland Security didn't raid their office and confiscate their printers and eat their jelly beans.
Sure, you say that now, but you'll appreciate the DHS when they protect you from whatever unthinkable things come forth from R'lyeh...
It might have had something with the expansion's title that was clearly displayed on the side of the shipping boxes.
The name: "Radioactive Waste"
right, g-men let king kong, son of kong, godzilla and who knows what else wreak havoc on nyc for some 80 years with nary a peep (when was the last time you saw flame throwers on park ave eh?) but pasty bureaucrats pounce on some stupid kids' toy? meanwhile i heard giant ants are infesting l.a. storm drains and there is a huge saucer sitting on the mall right on home-plate! color me disgusted.
Where is the monster DHS bureaucrat - the monster that takes two hour lunch breaks, goes to conferences, and whines about their pay? I checked the monsterpocalypsegame site and found no mention of it.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is usually crucified.
It is an Easter Egg. To get the bureaucrat, you must buy two complete sets, and combine a monsterpocalypse customs officer, TSA-thug, wetback chaser, drunk coast guard sailor and SS guy into one figure, and equip them with a geiger counter, a 24-hour count-down flashing digital clock and a large, gold-plated badge that says "SAVING LIVES".
Oh that's easy. You tell them you are Lord Beelzebub - Master Of The Underworld and then roar really loudly at them.
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In the meantime, 23 shoggoths, led by Nyarlathotep, will wreak havoc carrying plastic letter openers onto commuter trains, and dangerously opening envelopes with them.. . . .