OMG! Like, what a huge dick...Fuck him, he can go suck a dick!
This might be a good time to bring up that Kyle (as well as Angel, Selina, Maria, and an absentee character named Matt) are world-famous celebrities due to their pivotal role in driving off a recent alien invasion.
Sen mutters something about "if you lay a hand on me" and "a cold death in ice". Sen's hand is reflexively getting ready to slap Kyle.
About time she started learning.
"I'm gonna like, go to sleep. Goodnight!"
Bethany fucks off so I can sleep.
It's the afternoon.
Just do what Cado and I do: Retcon your character into scenes after-the-fact.
[ROLL: 28 + ?] Shis'm Caes fails to find Ester somehow. Don't ask me why.
She has a terrible sense of direction. Why do you think people need to find God rather than the other way around?
Okay, sorry. The joke was right there.
"Then you are in luck, if we hurry that is. The medicine of my people is much further advanced than it would seem. There are well over 2000 accupressure across the body, along 20 meridians, resulting in several billion combinations. Give me 20 minutes with him, and I'll strengthen his vitality, and put him in a regenerative sleep. If we come in time that is, so where is he?"
"Barring magic, acupuncture is good for pain relief at best. With magic, it isn't called medicine.
"Also, it's not advanced if people have been doing it for thousands of years."Sadly, Will isn't there to say this, but eh.
"I've had a glance at giant doctors work, their knowledge of anatomy is appalingly bad."
Oh dear.
((I hope I am not totaly overstepping my boundaries by the conjuncture "extensive knowledge of anatomy + incredible precise needle work = can be combined to perform surgey))
When combined with her belief of "Thousands of years of experiments, autopsies, and whatnot have given modern doctors a terrible knowledge of anatomy," I'd say she'd be better at doing surgery on another mouse-person.
"Oh you giants, will you once just let me do my handywork. Just look at those stitches, so unprofessional, but leave it as it be, time to set some needles on him"
Did you have a bad experience in a hospital as a kid, or is Hai just being an ignorant mouse-person?
Seriously, all this distrust for modern medicine.
"I get it, you are all happy to be alife, but enough with the hugging for now, you shouldn't move, and rest. I'll see if i can get some alcohol and some cotton, light a little fire on the needles, that gives them the real kick. Giant doctors only ever just...sorta clumsily sew things back together, and then leave the actually *connecting* things back up to the body. That takes way too long. I bet they threw the arm away too, I am sure it was salvagable.
No, seriously, doctors know what they're doing. Stop screwing with it Hai. You don't even have any understanding of human anatomy from what previous dialogue shows. You can't even acupuncture drugs out of his system!
Also, those drugs were probably important. Idiot.
"Bah, pomegrenade-lead-paste and snake oil! Trying to heal the body is almost just a cosmetic procudure. That matters is the severed meridians you quack!"
Chiron taught
the god of healing medicine. Why the feck is Hai calling him a quack?
This girl grates on my every nerve.
"Thank Miss Belladonna and the little one. Their healing has done more than my Panacea to fix him up."
BS. The intended effect of the acupuncture was to clear his system of drugs, and that didn't even work!
"If he is that experienced, he should know that regrowing stuff is never a full replacement. The new limb is devoid of the meridians, and they stretch to accomodate, making them thinner. It's fast, but a short-sighted practice, which shorterns your lifespan. What is cut off must be reattached, or at least be substituted with an equal replacement, re-growth takes too much substance. Several millenia, sure, several millenia of doing it all wrong."
...Does Hai even know what Chiron was doing? Did Chiron explain to her how his miracle paste worked in some post I missed?
"Science has some applications, but in the world of the supernatural, sometimes science can't explain everything."
My nerves having been grated...
"Science" isn't a static thing. Give it time, and if magic isn't based too much on belief and doesn't change itself specifically to confound science (always a possibility), science will figure it out. Just like quantum mechanics and whatnot, except that matter-waves will never regrow an arm or summon a fireball.
"Call me Mister Nancy."
First name Ann?
Cyrielle sighs at the difficulty to figuring out yet-to-be-defined matters. She heads out alone to eat.
"Bah, screw the lovey-dovey ones, eating alone is boring, may I accompany you? I believe we haven't met yet, I am Hainuwele."
Accuracy, acupuncture, now multipresence? Op plz nerf.
I don't think Cyrielle has left California since...ever?
If it helps, Abraxas looks less like an old fifty and more of a youngish thirty-five.
Oh, good, it looks like he's going out with someone
slightly older than half his age.
Still fails the "0.5
a+7" rule.
((not knowing what day it is sounds perfectly student-like to me))
Don't be absurd. I have a watch that tells me the day.
Abraxas is still oblivious.
((Oblivious to what?))
((To Cyrielle's slightly amorous behaviour.))
You need to say that?
Camille presents Richard with a large wristwatch cast in shining brass. The inside is covered in a layer of soft....hold on, is that ermine fur? It might be ermine fur. Seems no expense was spared here, and it's certainly quite comfortable, easily clipping on to his wrist. On the outside, each band features a different piece of artwork by Camille, all cute and catgirls and all that. The watch itself has a centerpiece of Camille and Richard holding hands, and the actual face above those hands has a lovely display that not only shows the local time, but unfolds into an impressively large display that shows the phases and positions of various moons, planets and stars in three dimensions. The whole thing is self-winding and oh yes. Doubles as a smartphone on the opposite side of the planet display.
That is...awesome. Like, in the original sense of the word.
((Tempted to timeskip to next-yep.))
It is now the next morning.
Which pretty much nixes the interview. Ah well. Exposition on magic elsewhere in the world may have to wait.
I'll figure something out.
...wait Nuriel propositioned him yesterday so...Yeah.
Wait, did I forget something?
((I have no idea why I utterly hate having my characters talk to each other.))
I feel the same way.
Personally, I especially dislike having one of my characters praise or otherwise compliment another one of my characters as it's rather mary sue-ish, hence why my characters generally interact through either snarking, trolling or hostility towards each other.))
Agreed. This is why Nuriel/Angel and Nuriel/Will interactions are so much more common than Angel/Will ones--Angel and Will might get along.
Also, Angel is in the same body as Nuriel and Will doesn't needle Angel.
More recently, someone spawned in a well of blood, that someone else misread as a wall of blood and then shenanigans involving a misread mass of blood ensued.
...
Okay. Sounds... Offputting.
Agreed.
He is, but he doesn't have fertility powers which is the main reason I dislike him.
Why are the fertility powers that bad? Personally, I'd dislike him more from his repeated attempts to use them (ie, his promiscuity/constant attempts to hit on some girl or another, or multiple).
Just remember that she has a long knife that can easily go into groins and she isn't afraid to use it.
The Horseman of Pestilence has a very big axe tainted with various fast acting plagues. She's still being pursued by Kyle.
Eh, Bethany doesn't really do "realtionships" you know? She just wants to be like a wild and free spirit and live like god intended her to, you know.
Horsewomen of the Apocalypse aren't exactly sluts, you know.
Wait a moment, if Anansi is a spider and god of all knowledge of stories, does that mean he can inject people with bad fanfiction? Also, is he partially comprised of code?
Given his name, I'm guessing he's more like the
American Gods version.
Hinduism laughs at your tiny pantheon of only 8 or however many gods.
Not every pantheon has to be Hindu-sized.
Besides, factor in Shys'm Caes, other gods like Aedan, and the quite high probability that still other pantheons and gods exist elsewhere in the world...
Linking to this since I said I would. And people can add to it.
No, we can't. At least, I can't.
Bethany is going to try her best and not be left alone with Kyle. Her mind is full of learning and fuck right now.
Then she's going to end up alone with Selina, who has an even bigger harem.
Good thing Bethanys not a lesbian.
What about Saint Cuthbert*?
*That's not his name, but I can't remember it.
Why do I keep reading Sen's voice in a british voice.... It fits too well T.T
Woteva floats yer boat, guv'na!
I don't think I hit "Cockney" very well, but I think my point is clear: "Brittish" is pretty vague.
The wata in Majoca don't taste loik it oughta. No, that's not right...
Bethany is going to try her best and not be left alone with Kyle. Her mind is full of learning and fuck right now.
Then she's going to end up alone with Selina, who has an even bigger harem.
Good thing Bethanys not a lesbian.
Then she gets left with Richard, who has neither a harem nor attempts to hit on her.
THE SHIPPING WILL NOT CEASE IN MY DOMAIN, ANGRY ONE
Then they will just chill and be platonic with each other?
Almost.
She wasn't going to jump off a building! She was going to simulate herself doing that, wander somewhere quite and then explosively rupture everywhere.
Well, Kyle thought she was going to...actually, that's much much worse.
this is getting ridiculous
we are playing a game about super powers and magic, where pretty much not a single character makes sense.
Explain.
For all intents and purposes, the ruleset of the game is almost entirely freeform, and since rolls can mostly even be made up by the player in question to suit the flow of the narrative, it's bordering on self-GMd.
Yes. So?
yet I am endlessly picked upon by GWG because my fucking magical character with fucking superpowers is not scientificaly correct. are you fucking kiodding me?
...Dude, you don't know me, do you?
I'm more focusing on everything except the magic. Note how I haven't complained about that the enclave is magically hidden, only what the inhabitants do in said enclave. And how many people somehow run across the enclave.
I'd be picking on others, but their stories are consistent with themselves and the setting. Yours? Not yet.
Also, I like scientific debate.
It's entirely fine in-character, because I get it, your character is an asshole that does nothing all day but give everyone crap. sure, enjoy your character.
Hey, don't be absurd. He is trying to be better, you just don't notice because Will doesn't like people who murder ~40 innocent travelers, assist in the murder of countless more, and then blame it all on the travelers. Especially when he suspects these murderers of lying, and
knows they're being illogical.
And on that note, at least Will isn't a racist murderer.
GWG, my character is not based on hard science. Get over it.
Well, at some point we have to admit that your character's entire race is a bunch of inexplicable beings inexplicably doing inexplicable things.
Lilliputians? Alright, I can live with that. Lilliputians that are
so fast they can't be easily grabbed, but still capable of interacting with humans? Bit of a problem.
Hidden enclave? Fine. Hidden enclave that at least one person a month, and probably more, accidentally wander into, disappear in, and no one notices? No way. These murders are completely overlooked? HELL NO.
why's the spirit of creation going around killing things?
I really shouldn't be this annoyed that you didn't read when I explained it, considering that was... a thread ago.
Before creation, there were two spirits, her and her brother/husband/lover/Shadow (terminology, as one would expect, doesn't work too well with this kind of thing), Void. Because Creation exists, she can never see him again. She's ah... gone slightly psycho over this.
why's the spirit of creation going around killing things?
Because she's a giant bitch.
That's literally the best fitting answer.
Although technically she only created everything ever in the RotMG multiverse due to conflicting canon.
Hey, she was perfectly nice at first!
It was only after eons of not being able to be with the one person that actually mattered to her that she became the psycho bitch you all know >_>
Being bound probably didn't help her mood.
Especially since she would have to answer at least one person a year asking how an omnipotent creator managed to get bound. That seems like it would get annoying after a while.
yeah, that whole creation thing was a step in the wrong direction as a whole, brought more problems than it solved
Much like saying your character killed 30-odd people?
Seriously. That called into question how that many travelers are "accidentally" coming to the enclave, how they aren't getting noticed, and
holy crap your character is a freaking serial killer what the hell?
or just make your own plot! with blackjack, and hookers!that might even work, just approach a female character and offer them money for sex, and just see where that leads
...
No.
well, it's not like every character has to be there.
Well...
Players are scattered across the globe. They each have their own schedules. Those in college, like yours truly, have particularly patchwork schedules, but even the more consistent schedules aren't going to be perfectly aligned with anyone else's. That's not taking into account things like clubs, hobbies, meals, special events, and spur-of-the-moment things like me watching Frozen earlier this evening. And when people
are online...well, I'm pretty sure everyone else here is in at least a few other games, and most of us(?) are running one. And sometimes people get distracted doing something else.
If we could accurately predict when two players are online and able to IRC at the same time, let alone two specific players...it would be a miracle.
Anyways, *bops the everyone not in IRC with the Twi and Mcclay and Projeck in IRC*
*growls*
And since you have managed to eat up my entire day and night in free time that my computer wasn't dying without a cord, except a little time in the morning, putting me nearly a day behind on
everything...I will subject you to my Facebook Frozen review.
Frozen over. Kinda disappointing. Spoilers for Frozen ahead, but I'll start with the non-spoilery stuff, so the spoilers should be hidden behind "Read More".
The music was apparently done by someone other than the guy who was doing it for most of Disney's history, and it shows. The music was lower-quality than what I was hoping, and sometimes cropped up in places it seemed...off. I wondered if there was a song quota or something.
I'll give a quick summation of some plot elements to make the rest make sense. The beginning of the movie showed a king, a queen (who would herein be referred to as "the old queen" if she ever came up again, since the bulk of the movie takes place after her daughter takes power), and their two daughters, the elder of whom had some kind of ice magic, which lead to her being secluded in her room after she came this close to killing her sister on accident. Needless to say, the younger sister had her memory wiped of the incident. It skips ahead in a montage of sorts to when the elder sister is being crowned queen. During the party, the younger sister meets the prince of the southern islands, who she falls in love with and gets engaged to. The new queen does not give her blessing to the marriage, on the basis that they just met. They get into a fight, with the younger sister releasing her irritation at never having spent time with her over the past several years. The older sister loses control and inspires fear from everyone at the ball, especially the Duke of Wesselton, the biggest trading partner of...I forget the name of the kingdom or city or whatever. Anyways, the queen flees, and her sister chases her. She meets Cristof, an ice harvester or something like that, a bit worried about his job vanishing since the queen's loss of control has caused an endless winter. Did I forget that? Anyways, the princess (Ann-something?) convinces Cristof to help her, since her own horse ran off a while back. This horse made it to town, which inspires the prince to send a party of people to capture/deal with the queen (it's not made clear what his plan was); the Duke has a couple of his men sent, with orders to kill the queen and end her "sorcery". This ends badly, things get worse, and I don't think the ending needs to be explained for the rest to make sense so I won't. Also, a living snowman joins the princess's party.
The plot was predictable. Once everything was set up, the only real questions were how the love triangle would be resolved (already pretty heavily weighted in one direction--the correct one, it turned out), how the movie wouldn't end as the prequel to Ice Age, and when the comedic relief snowguy would come in. And this was after a couple hope-inspiring subversions, like when the newly-crowned queen DIDN'T approve of her sister marrying a guy he met that day.
On the subject of the plot...even leaving out the princess's swift romance with the prince, things happen quickly. The queen changes from a dour secluded person to a cheerful exiled woman in an ice palace within minutes of finishing her run from town, and then once her sister mentions that she caused winter everywhere she quickly breaks down into an uncontrolled wreck. Cristof was initially annoyed at the princess for being an annoying, impulsive girl (she told him about the whole got-engaged-before-knowing-him-24-hours-or-learning-his-last-name thing, shortly before setting fire to his bedroll to drive off some wolves--it makes sense in context), but before long this...kinda gets forgotten, and he decides try and provide an act of true love to fix the princess's frozen heart within a couple days of meeting her, because you only need to wait 2-3 days before deciding on a true love. And so on.
The snowguy was annoying. I'll let this pass due to target audience, but still.
The characters, for the most part, acted like idiots. The worst was the aforementioned snowguy, which contributed heavily to his annoyingness, but I'll give that a pass since he's supposed to be a moron. I'll also give the princess's recklessness and naievity a pass for the same reason. However, there is no justification for the people enabling her recklessness, or the slow, weak reaction to the queen nearly killing people directly (with spikes of ice and a block shoving one off a ledge--they started it, but still, you'd expect a strong response), to the prince revealing his original plan to get power by marrying the princess (he's the youngest of 13 brothers and the queen wasn't likely to ever get married), then how it got derailed so he was going to let the princess die and kill the queen to end the winter and get power from fame from heroics, instead of giving her the kiss and expressing regret when it failed (that one irked me), to said prince claiming the princess was dead when she was dyING as opposed to making sure she was dead before saying so (Did this guy study under a Bond villain?), to the complete lack of diplomatic skill that I'll get to when I explain how the ending is about to turn bad. Really, the only rational character was the Duke, who wanted a swift end to this; his only screwup was agreeing (explicitly) to the princess running off after her sister.
There were moderately strong incestuous undertones between the queen and her sister. They were mostly only noticeable if pointed out for the most part, but if you noticed them, they made the "act of true love" that saved the princess all the more jarring, since it was the queen crying on the princess's suddenly-iced body. And this was the first time non-romantic true love was thought about...or was it? Try not to think too much about it.
And now, the ending. The queen has discovered that love could restore the frozen everything, which is something she should have thought of since the quote that made her realize this was also told to her when she was told about how dangerous her powers were, when she was learning how to control it. You'd think it would come up some time, perhaps around when it was mentioned that gloves would also help? Anyways, she removed the winter...that occurred in the middle of summer, and so probably killed crops and livestock around the kingdom and however far the winter reached. But, surprisingly, the famine is probably not going to be the queen's top worry. See, at the end of the movie, the princess punched the prince of the southern islands into the (recently-unfrozen) ocean; he was then tossed into a brig to be brought home, and the princess promptly began a romance with Cristof, a mere peasant--a further insult, since they were engaged. Sure, he acted like a jerk and admitted to planning to leave the princess to die and kill the queen, but the former was (apparently) beyond saving, the latter was in the process of escaping imprisonment and avoiding execution--not to mention adding more ice and causing a blizzard to further the freeze--and who do you think the southern islands are going to believe, the prince or the people who locked him in a brig? Moreover, the queen ended trade with Wesselton, their biggest trading partner, which will doubtless damage their economy AND clearly made the Duke furious. Between a duke and what is probably a foreign king, the queen will have quite a force angry at her for not only the winter, but other slaps-to-the-face. Oh, and the queen is using her magic for such "important" purposes as not letting the annoying snowman melt and letting people ice skate in the middle of summer, which should make it clear that she is still practicing sorcery, which towards the beginning (both in the exposition and when the queen loses control) is implied to be at least as feared, if not more, than it was in real-world medieval times. This means that there won't be a lot of opposition from the starving peasants of the kingdom, at least the ones that aren't ice skating. In fact, the prince would probably be welcomed; they probably don't know about how he deliberately chose to take the lives of both the queen and princess to increase his own fame and power, instead seeing a man who offered them hot soup and broth, cloaks, and tried to end the winter, shortly before the queen figured it out. And given that some of their queen's first acts as queen will lead to economic devastation...
Wow. That's a lot longer than I intended.
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