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[Naturegirl1999]

(silently wishes that startrek would cameo how awful early voice-controlled star ships would have been, when the ship's computer totally gets what you said wrong, in just the most horrible way possible.)

Spoiler: I really want to see a slapstick "history reel" with stuff like this in it (click to show/hide)

The setup-- Your "totally not Montgomery Scott" character is attempting to help load cargo supplies using an airlock door into a cargo bay. He is safely secured to the deck in the airless cargo bay by a heavy rope tether.  He instructs the ship to close the cargo bay door.  It slams shut violently, catching the rope in the door with perhaps a single foot of slack for him to turn to one side slightly. He utters incomprehensible epithets in Gaelic, before using his communicator to raise engineering, demanding to know what monkey last serviced the cargo bay door. Meanwhile, the cargo bay atmospheric controls are dutifully repressurizing the bay.  Just as our "Not Mr Scott" is loudly berating the crewman underling that performed the service, and shouts the phrase "Rope in the damned bloody door!", the computer helpfully interperets the statement as "Open the cargo bay door".  Which it does.  Suddenly, and forcefully. Before depressurizing the room. 

Cut to scene of Not Mr Scott being shot out of the cargo bay like a bullet, and doing a horizontal bungee jump as the tether runs out.  The shot is eerily quiet, 2001 space odyssey style.

Havn't watched Startrek, but this still sounds interesting

[MadMonkey]

You materialize back outside the pyramid and exit the structure.



Mathias sees you.





You defiantly say, "I thought you said there was no way off this plane."

He replies, "I said that if there was a way off this plane I would know it..."

"But why haven't you left this place after all these years? Haven't you achieved your goal and killed everyone?" you ask.

"What greater hubris is there than to play god. To hop between planes defies the laws of the universe. It is blasphemy and I will play no active part in it."

[MadMonkey]

I moved all the images from Imgur to my own server, at least for the site and for the thread going forward though I don't think I will update the older images urls on the thread unless Imgur shuts down.

I also added an rss feed. The link is losingisfun.com/feed

On my Instagram story I am taking suggestions for what I should doodle for #octobit. I am also planning to start a dwarf fortress 4 panel comic series on my instagram. https://www.instagram.com/AKAMadMonkey/

[wierd]

Religious contradiction alert!

If doing that is blasphemy, where is Armok?
Did Armok himself not send US here, at least in spirit form?

Who is this angel to presume the will of a god?  Is that not the very blasphemy he condemns?

(muahahahah)

[MadMonkey]

If doing that is blasphemy, where is Armok?
Did Armok himself not send US here, at least in spirit form?

Who is this angel to presume the will of a god?  Is that not the very blasphemy he condemns?"

You say, "Armok left this place and he sent me here."

He replies, "It is different when Armok wills it. I-"

You interject, "Who are you to presume the will of Armok?"

He says, "I survived the bloodshed. I am the peak of the blood hierarchy or would you oppose me?".

[King Zultan]

Lets not oppose him as that's a good way to get killed, but we should try to talk about the way out we found.

[Superdorf]

I'm thinking this is a point we don't yet want to press. Let's back down a little, find out what Mathias knows about our new planeship... maybe get him to expound a little on his philosophy. Perhaps we can arrive at some sort of understanding.

Apologize. Explain that we were just looking for a good hiding place... we didn't realize what we'd stumbled on until it zapped us into itself!
Ask Mathias what he knows about Clara's original owners.

[1freeman]

I'm thinking this is a point we don't yet want to press. Let's back down a little, find out what Mathias knows about our new planeship... maybe get him to expound a little on his philosophy. Perhaps we can arrive at some sort of understanding.

Apologize. Explain that we were just looking for a good hiding place... we didn't realize what we'd stumbled on until it zapped us into itself!
Ask Mathias what he knows about Clara's original owners.

+1

[Naturegirl1999]

I'm thinking this is a point we don't yet want to press. Let's back down a little, find out what Mathias knows about our new planeship... maybe get him to expound a little on his philosophy. Perhaps we can arrive at some sort of understanding.

Apologize. Explain that we were just looking for a good hiding place... we didn't realize what we'd stumbled on until it zapped us into itself!
Ask Mathias what he knows about Clara's original owners.

+1

+1

[Dunamisdeos]

I'm thinking this is a point we don't yet want to press. Let's back down a little, find out what Mathias knows about our new planeship... maybe get him to expound a little on his philosophy. Perhaps we can arrive at some sort of understanding.

Apologize. Explain that we were just looking for a good hiding place... we didn't realize what we'd stumbled on until it zapped us into itself!
Ask Mathias what he knows about Clara's original owners.

+1

+1

+1.

I'd advise against the first thing we do being a challenge to a 4 billion year old immortal's views on his chosen object of worship. He's probably put more consideration into it than we have. He's at least fully committed at this point.

Anyway, point out that he clearly achieved the task that Armok set him to do long ago. Describe the circumstances that led you, by a coincidence that defies probability, to touch the amulet and end up here. Postulate that Armok sent a single mortal to him, and by a similar sheer coincidence you touched the ship. Perhaps Armok wanted Mathias and Craig to meet, and for Mathias to learn about other things than blood.

Perhaps it's time for Mathias to seek out a new purpose, on his own terms.

We have all this demonstrated skill at oration, let's use it!

[gcus]

I'm thinking this is a point we don't yet want to press. Let's back down a little, find out what Mathias knows about our new planeship... maybe get him to expound a little on his philosophy. Perhaps we can arrive at some sort of understanding.

Apologize. Explain that we were just looking for a good hiding place... we didn't realize what we'd stumbled on until it zapped us into itself!
Ask Mathias what he knows about Clara's original owners.

+1

+1

+1.

I'd advise against the first thing we do being a challenge to a 4 billion year old immortal's views on his chosen object of worship. He's probably put more consideration into it than we have. He's at least fully committed at this point.

Anyway, point out that he clearly achieved the task that Armok set him to do long ago. Describe the circumstances that led you, by a coincidence that defies probability, to touch the amulet and end up here. Postulate that Armok sent a single mortal to him, and by a similar sheer coincidence you touched the ship. Perhaps Armok wanted Mathias and Craig to meet, and for Mathias to learn about other things than blood.

Perhaps it's time for Mathias to seek out a new purpose, on his own terms.

We have all this demonstrated skill at oration, let's use it!

+1. YES.

[Ultimuh]

I'm thinking this is a point we don't yet want to press. Let's back down a little, find out what Mathias knows about our new planeship... maybe get him to expound a little on his philosophy. Perhaps we can arrive at some sort of understanding.

Apologize. Explain that we were just looking for a good hiding place... we didn't realize what we'd stumbled on until it zapped us into itself!
Ask Mathias what he knows about Clara's original owners.

+1

+1

+1.

I'd advise against the first thing we do being a challenge to a 4 billion year old immortal's views on his chosen object of worship. He's probably put more consideration into it than we have. He's at least fully committed at this point.

Anyway, point out that he clearly achieved the task that Armok set him to do long ago. Describe the circumstances that led you, by a coincidence that defies probability, to touch the amulet and end up here. Postulate that Armok sent a single mortal to him, and by a similar sheer coincidence you touched the ship. Perhaps Armok wanted Mathias and Craig to meet, and for Mathias to learn about other things than blood.

Perhaps it's time for Mathias to seek out a new purpose, on his own terms.

We have all this demonstrated skill at oration, let's use it!

+1. YES.

+1 I agree.

[Superdorf]

I'm thinking this is a point we don't yet want to press. Let's back down a little, find out what Mathias knows about our new planeship... maybe get him to expound a little on his philosophy. Perhaps we can arrive at some sort of understanding.

Apologize. Explain that we were just looking for a good hiding place... we didn't realize what we'd stumbled on until it zapped us into itself!
Ask Mathias what he knows about Clara's original owners.

+1

+1

+1.

I'd advise against the first thing we do being a challenge to a 4 billion year old immortal's views on his chosen object of worship. He's probably put more consideration into it than we have. He's at least fully committed at this point.

Anyway, point out that he clearly achieved the task that Armok set him to do long ago. Describe the circumstances that led you, by a coincidence that defies probability, to touch the amulet and end up here. Postulate that Armok sent a single mortal to him, and by a similar sheer coincidence you touched the ship. Perhaps Armok wanted Mathias and Craig to meet, and for Mathias to learn about other things than blood.

Perhaps it's time for Mathias to seek out a new purpose, on his own terms.

We have all this demonstrated skill at oration, let's use it!

+1. YES.

+1 I agree.

Interesting narrative... I say we go for it! +1
But be sure to back down if it looks like we're really making Mathias angry with our pontificating.

[Dunamisdeos]

Yeah with the revelation that he is an angel the last thing we need to do is actually fight him.

[Naturegirl1999]

I'm thinking this is a point we don't yet want to press. Let's back down a little, find out what Mathias knows about our new planeship... maybe get him to expound a little on his philosophy. Perhaps we can arrive at some sort of understanding.

Apologize. Explain that we were just looking for a good hiding place... we didn't realize what we'd stumbled on until it zapped us into itself!
Ask Mathias what he knows about Clara's original owners.

+1

+1

+1.

I'd advise against the first thing we do being a challenge to a 4 billion year old immortal's views on his chosen object of worship. He's probably put more consideration into it than we have. He's at least fully committed at this point.

Anyway, point out that he clearly achieved the task that Armok set him to do long ago. Describe the circumstances that led you, by a coincidence that defies probability, to touch the amulet and end up here. Postulate that Armok sent a single mortal to him, and by a similar sheer coincidence you touched the ship. Perhaps Armok wanted Mathias and Craig to meet, and for Mathias to learn about other things than blood.

Perhaps it's time for Mathias to seek out a new purpose, on his own terms.

We have all this demonstrated skill at oration, let's use it!

+1. YES.

+1 I agree.

Interesting narrative... I say we go for it! +1
But be sure to back down if it looks like we're really making Mathias angry with our pontificating.

+1