01:22:36 Devastator: Nah, I just thought it'd be worth trying. Even a moral organization can make mistakes.
01:22:54 Devastator: and it can cause a lot of problems.
01:23:10 Devastator: No offense, but sometimes calling the cops doesn't make a situation better.
02:02:46 Piecewise_:
ER "Maybe we should call the cops?"
02:02:56 Piecewise_:
dev "Snitches get stiches"
02:06:46 Piecewise_: We're in the timeline where
ER is acting as the voice or reason
02:35:13 Devastator: It's not unreasonable.
02:35:25 Devastator: but yeah, you know me and my anti-authoritarian streak.
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04:51:02 syv: Right now it is 12° C, which isn't so bad usually, but also a nine knot wind. Aaaagh I hate winter. ;-;
04:51:18 Devastator: it's still uncommonly warm.
04:52:46 syv: It's amusing to see
Piecewise complaining about someone making turns that are *too short*.
04:52:57 syv: I absolutely understand it, but it's still amusing.
04:56:00 Piecewise_: I've gotten use to your girth baby~
04:58:04 syv: I also haven't posted a ten-point action in awhile.
05:04:25 syv: Should I RP Ekrov panicking over Saeko blowing off her fingers, or should I RP over Zavi refusing to lie to the magebreakers?
05:04:38 syv: Both of these seem mildly immediate.
05:06:27 syv: Oh, and we've got a dark something fucking churning in the distant sky, perfect.
05:06:36 Devastator: might be like a bunch of dragons.
05:06:49 Devastator: the last one was a distant glowy thing too, right?
05:07:16 syv: By the "lines of light" description, I'mma guess it's more of those sky critters, like the one we avoided.
05:07:25 syv: Clearly this encounter is too good to not reuse.
05:09:43 Devastator: well, we could try to hide again.
05:09:50 Devastator: but I think
ER wants to stab something.
05:10:08 syv: Functionally I think we *are* hiding by default.
05:10:13 Devastator: so just make like a bigger machine gun this time?
05:10:20 Devastator: and use the force-shield device?
05:10:26 syv: There's little reason to have our basecamp outside the ruin.
05:10:38 Devastator: Yeah, it's in the ruins.
05:10:40 syv: Somehow I doubt the forceshield will be more helpful than the walls of the ruin.
05:10:52 syv: It's made of Minecraft obsidian or something.
05:10:53 Devastator: I dunno, those are all sideways.
05:11:11 Devastator: I'd expect we're camping outside, because that's where the transport vehicle is.
05:11:14 syv: Walls tend to be like that, yes. ;p
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05:20:39 Elastic_Ridicule:
Piecewise_ still here?
05:21:23 Elastic_Ridicule: Could I use explosion to pulverize a large amount of magicoal at once?
05:21:41 Elastic_Ridicule: Would I blow myself up or lose a lot of mana that way?
05:22:30 Piecewise_: I'd say maybe test it on one piece of magicoal
05:23:24 syv: How about maybe just punching it?
05:23:52 Devastator: I think we have tools.
05:23:56 Devastator: just say we have a mortar and pestle.
05:26:54 syv: Do I need to put in an action to regenerate Saeko's fingers?
05:27:36 Devastator: Be a good idea, yeah.
05:27:49 Elastic_Ridicule:
Piecewise_ right, and can I estimate if I could knock down the wall or door for the king key?
05:28:06 Elastic_Ridicule: Otherwise Ekrov needs to scry for the key.
05:28:28 Devastator: like really, really sad.
05:28:32 Piecewise_: You want me to roll your Know for if you think you can knock it down?
05:28:55 Devastator: that's Return True. ;-p
05:32:57 Piecewise_: Zavi thinks that she MIGHT be able to blast her way in. But doing so is going to have a tremendous amount of collateral damage and use a lot of mana. You'll basically have to nuke the place.
05:33:19 Piecewise_: This is assuming she doesn't mess up
05:33:27 Elastic_Ridicule: okay, please start trying to find the key then.
05:34:20 Devastator: Might want to do something about the invaders first.
05:34:26 Devastator: we're kinda under attack.
06:14:06 Piecewise_: saw you guys having fun
06:14:22 Devastator grumbles about getting forced into the party.
06:14:57 Devastator: I ever tell you what my Alleg squad said about me when my joining was propsed to them?
06:15:19 Elastic_Ridicule: 110% goblin, do not trust
06:15:40 Devastator: It was exactly what you'd expect they'd say about me.
06:15:44 syv: "He's good, but I don't think it's worth the constant complaints?"
06:17:07 Devastator: "Good all-round pilot." "Wins games with bomb runs, does many roles, probes when no-one's looking." "Great team player who plays on his own."
06:17:55 Devastator: not so much in alleg.
06:18:12 Devastator: too many players there who kicked my ass.
06:18:37 Devastator: I sucked waaay too much at dogfighting for that.
06:19:00 Devastator: Nah, I didn't have anything I could do uniquely myself, like a good many players.
06:22:42 Piecewise_: are you familiar with the unibomber?
06:23:21 Devastator: I know he was some kinda intoverted creepos.
06:24:03 Piecewise_: He also did bomb runs and worked well on his own. And had a pretty big anti-authority streak
06:24:17 Devastator: welp, it made sense in context.
06:24:43 Devastator: I mean, if I was known for anything it was looking at an attack and figuring out if I needed to help out on that or if I could hit a different target..
06:24:50 Elastic_Ridicule: I mean, who's ever heard of a goblin who's *not* a terrorist?
06:24:57 Piecewise_: Is that I would not be surprised if you blew up alkahest and left a manifesto about how the trader's guild is anti-human
06:25:25 Elastic_Ridicule: I did joke about her nuking everyone
06:25:32 Piecewise_:
Dev works best as a lone saboteur
06:26:01 Devastator: I mean, you know that. I did write up some ideas about how to derail Hephaestus should an escape happen.
06:26:25 Devastator: of course, in that case it was mostly because "Attempt suicide" failed, somehow.
06:27:02 Piecewise_: whats that bond villain?
06:27:29 Piecewise_: the one that tried to use a cyanide capsule but it only disfigured him so he came back to dismantle MI6
06:29:32 syv: (
Piecewise_)
Dev works best as a lone saboteur
06:29:51 syv: Lucky for Alkahest, his char has a clingy admiring tinkerer.
06:30:42 Piecewise_: Are you the Yoko Ono to his bomber ambitions?
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06:31:37 Devastator: didn't you say you'd cheer her on? ;-p
06:32:55 Elastic_Ridicule: I'm just glad that they're giving me a weapon which can probably kill kaiju with enough juice put in it
06:38:02 Elastic_Ridicule: I feel like it's weird that my monster adventurer is horrified by the deaths of the multiple people she's killed
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06:41:51 syv: Clearly your necromantic abomination has empathy and feelings still.
06:41:51 Elastic_Ridicule: I think it's fine~
06:42:20 Elastic_Ridicule: empathy and feelings? in MY dwarf fortress?
06:42:30 syv: It's 10°C now, but at least the wind's gone down. Only *seven* knots yay.
06:43:21 MidJag: It's been 40F the whole day today here.
06:48:46 Elastic_Ridicule: this game is jank
06:49:04 MidJag: I feel like DF is always jank. Just varying degrees of jank.
06:49:10 Elastic_Ridicule: I went to the city which I've been told is the capital of the entity I belong to
06:49:16 Elastic_Ridicule: I went into the keep
06:49:28 Elastic_Ridicule: everyone is yelling at each other to identify themselves
06:49:49 Elastic_Ridicule: someone asks me to identify myself. I do so. Someone else asks and I do so again.
06:50:22 Elastic_Ridicule: I walk three steps forwards and lose my chance to catch someone else demanding that I identify myself and dodge a crossbow bolt for it
06:50:55 MidJag: So the entire keep is made of that dude from memento.
06:51:46 Elastic_Ridicule: the person who shot at me was the guy who I had just recruited
06:52:02 Devastator: a bit miffed at the turn results in Cabal, but it's nothing i won't survive.
06:52:09 Elastic_Ridicule: a crossbowman who was hanging out outside
06:53:16 Elastic_Ridicule: I accidentially slapped him because I was trying to walk through him and I thought he was freindly
06:53:27 Elastic_Ridicule: and he's at no-quarter escalation for no reason
06:53:40 Elastic_Ridicule: nobody else in the room is hostile right now
06:54:20 syv: These are all goblins, right?
06:54:33 syv: Also, is your weapon sheathed?
06:54:44 Elastic_Ridicule: the guy who's shooting at me is a human
06:54:52 MidJag: maybe he's just racist?
06:54:55 Elastic_Ridicule: there seem to be humans here
06:55:05 Elastic_Ridicule: racism doesn't exist yet. :P
06:55:36 Elastic_Ridicule: My weapon is in my hand, but I think if they're upset about that they complain about it specifically?
06:55:54 Elastic_Ridicule: and this guy was just having a pleasant conversation with my outside the keep
06:56:06 Elastic_Ridicule: with my sword in my hand the whole time
07:01:39 Elastic_Ridicule: well, I cut his leg off, then I stabbed him in the gut, then I choked him to unconsiousness
07:01:49 Elastic_Ridicule: maybe now imma head out
07:01:59 MidJag: so what kinda combat monster are you
ER?
07:04:30 Elastic_Ridicule: A feathered humanoid. It has a long, swinging trunk. Its eyes glow golden yellow. Its black feathers are long and narrow. This night creature was first created by the humans necromancer Ethlal Spiralscar of Blushedlakes after horrible experiments on the goblins Stokzu Helltundras in Coloredchestnut in the year 64.
07:05:01 Elastic_Ridicule: She is also large, seems to one-hand a two-handed sword
07:05:07 Elastic_Ridicule: so bigger than human
07:05:08 MidJag: so your playing a crow thing with an elephant trunk
07:05:22 Elastic_Ridicule: and a crow is balanced on my head
07:06:31 Elastic_Ridicule: he's blocking the door out. Is there some way to walk over unconsious hostiles without hitting them?
07:07:00 Elastic_Ridicule: alt-move just gives the option of hitting him
07:07:36 Devastator: can you pull the guy out of the way with grapple?
07:07:41 MidJag: I thought as long as they were on the laying down you could do it.
07:07:49 Devastator: and yeah, what
MJ said.
07:08:16 Elastic_Ridicule: he's on the ground
07:08:27 Elastic_Ridicule: oh well, I could just behead him
07:08:33 Elastic_Ridicule: I'm feeling that, actually
07:09:29 MidJag: beheading is always an acceptable motion
07:09:47 Elastic_Ridicule: and so easy with this character~
07:10:19 Elastic_Ridicule: I have pretty much inhuman strength and an exceptional bronze twohander
07:10:30 Elastic_Ridicule: if I hit someone's neck, it's popping off.
07:10:58 Elastic_Ridicule: only trouble I had was with a giant alligator, and ended up piercing its skull with a stab
07:11:23 Elastic_Ridicule: haven't even taken any damage yet, but that my be because my pet bear absorbed fire
07:11:45 MidJag: Man I need to play this new verison
07:17:52 Elastic_Ridicule: I like how it shows the law-giver as having a neutral mood to me, but is afraid in general
07:18:26 Elastic_Ridicule: you'd think if I just decapitated someone in their doorway they would be afraid of specifically me, but I guess that's not hooked up~
07:20:27 Elastic_Ridicule: maybe the reason I couldn't start in the human city was because depite being the capital of my playable civ, it's actually controlled by a religion called uh
07:20:35 Elastic_Ridicule: the doctrines of lust
07:20:51 Elastic_Ridicule: dammit, how did
aigre get in my game
07:21:42 MidJag: Do you have a spicy sword?
07:23:40 Elastic_Ridicule: okay, now I gotta talk to the abbot
07:24:07 Elastic_Ridicule: luckly he's in the same room. :P
07:25:30 Elastic_Ridicule: "ask to be made a performer for The Doctrines of Lust"
07:29:50 syv:
Aigre seems to mean something like "sour" or "acidic", but could also mean "eager", going on the first result for an idle google search.
07:30:15 syv: So Eager Sword, or Sour Sword. One seems rather suitable, the other does not...
07:30:18 MidJag: damn, for some reason I thought
Aigre meant spice
07:30:50 Devastator: that's a loose enough translation it could be spicy sword.
07:30:58 MidJag: what langue is it anyway? French?
07:33:15 syv: Heeeeyyy, we got a Canadian right here.
07:33:32 MidJag: And he's on the french side as well.
07:34:02 Devastator: I only know a tiny bit of french.
07:34:15 MidJag: The name of the place itself doesn't make for being french
07:34:19 Devastator: no, different word.
07:35:57 MidJag: Like all good frenchmen
dev knows how to curse in french and nothing else :P
07:36:41 piecewise: French canadian curse words are just church words
07:43:15 Elastic_Ridicule: thought I might buy some clothing from this goblin, see
07:43:34 Elastic_Ridicule: I ask him about it, he says "excellent! please come closer and ask again"
07:43:49 Elastic_Ridicule: I get closer and start to ask about trading, and he bites me
07:44:27 Elastic_Ridicule: and again at no quarter
07:44:48 Elastic_Ridicule: oh well, guess this guy doesn't deserve to have a head either
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09:28:11 Devastator: talked with
PW some.
09:28:16 Devastator: just confusion, mostly.
09:31:38 Devastator: infinite confusion.
09:32:58 syv: Indeed. But, where reason dies, imagination lives.
09:41:08 Devastator: You think Kaz is going to drop the game in Prequel?
09:43:56 syv: It'll just be late, as always.
11:02:31 syv: I don't know. Tomorrow? That's the eternal answer, in my mind.
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19:03:27 Devastator: any less confusion today?
19:03:51 piecewise: I did make a game called perplexicon
19:10:12 Devastator: I tied up my bag of gummy worms and now I can't untie it.
19:11:49 piecewise: Next time tie it up with a gummy worm so you can eat the knot
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19:53:46 er: Now, rather than feeling creatively exhausted
19:54:00 er: I just feel creative, and exhausted.
19:54:18 piecewise: They ironically go together like that a lot of the time
19:55:49 er: Do you think a surreal horror RTD would work?
20:01:00 piecewise: Depends how its handled
20:01:18 piecewise: this issue with surrealism is the difficulty in knowing what to do when you're in it.
20:02:44 piecewise: A lot of things are taken for granted in most fiction and that is a stable base on which to act
20:03:03 piecewise: but in a surreal world basically anything can happen which can make it hard to feel like you're in control
20:03:19 piecewise: Sort of like how alice in wonderland was just her bumbling around through things
20:03:41 piecewise: Her agency was very minimal, other than to occasionally walk somewhere
20:04:18 piecewise: WIZARDS! might be the sort of way to do it
20:04:56 piecewise: world with surreal elements where humans are, at least to start, the island of normalcy and rationality.
20:05:20 er: It would be based on the real world, except things change inexplicably.
20:06:04 er: So try to do something normal > things don't behave right > try to deal with that.
20:06:28 piecewise: The issue with that is that people would probably feel like they couldn't do anything reasonably.
20:06:51 piecewise: Like, if the outcome is effectively random nonsense, why put anything but nonsense in?
20:06:59 piecewise: I'd say you'd still need a logic to it
20:07:00 er: And hopefully each day would have rules consistant with itself, so you have time to figure it out before it changes again
20:07:30 piecewise: I'd say maybe don't do it by day, do it by area? Easier to handle GM wise that way
20:07:51 piecewise: and gives you the chance to explore the sort of worlds and societies that emerge in these altered rules
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20:09:43 er: Well... it's supposed to be sort of a mandala effect thing? Things seem to change for you, but however things currently are really is "normal"
20:10:23 er: So it's like moving between areas with their own rules involuntary?
20:11:57 er: I'd say that if you have the option of staying in just one reality, then players might be prone to take the boring option of finding a stable niche rather than exploring.
20:14:25 er: Do you have opinions to share with the IRC community?
20:20:42 parisbre56: i dunno, the mandalorian is kinda fun
20:21:14 parisbre56: now downloading magia record to see if it's any good
20:26:26 Devastator:
syv was watching that.
20:28:49 Devastator: I think he had low expectations.
20:29:10 Devastator: which seems about right, considering the outfits seem somewhat.. sketchy.
20:29:16 Devastator: but that's not conclusive.
20:31:04 parisbre56: well, it's based on a game I think and things based on games usually don't turn out well, so...
20:31:11 parisbre56: yeah, I understand that
20:31:19 parisbre56: but still, doesn't hurt to look
20:34:21 er: There are totally things it can hurt to see~
20:34:36 parisbre56: like a nuclear explosion
20:35:19 er: That will probably burn your eyes out even if you're not using to perceive, really
20:35:54 parisbre56: oh, you meant sanity damage
20:36:11 parisbre56: like looking into
Aigre's mind
20:42:53 parisbre56: I've also been watching the Oscar-nominated movies to see if there's anything good, but not much has impressed me
20:43:45 parisbre56: 1917 had good tension thought the film and left me with the urge to write about trench warfare
20:44:17 parisbre56: once upon a time in Hollywood was classic Tarantino, good thing to watch with friends and snacks
20:51:16 parisbre56: you watched Re:Zero
ER? Crunchyroll's been showing the director's cut so I've been rewatching it
20:51:53 er: I don't really watch anything but youtube without prodding...
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20:54:34 parisbre56: well, it's got good characters, time travel and a lot of suffering, you might like it
20:54:59 parisbre56: heard the manga is good to, should try it when I have more time
20:58:34 parisbre56: anyway, gonna go eat something. later
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