01:19:13 Devastator: You got Xan? Nice work there,
ER.
01:19:37 Devastator: posted to watch your game.
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03:47:10 Devastator: I don't know why
syv did that.
03:47:29 Devastator: IT WAS A STRANGE AND HORRIFYING FEELING!
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04:05:24 Devastator: looks like I'm working for the duration of this crisis.
04:05:36 Devastator: essential industry and I'm covered by three specific exceptions.
04:05:53 Devastator: Yeah, I'll be careful. We're handling about 25% our volume, and it'll be much less, so only a few people around.
04:06:22 syv: So far, it seems like I'm in the same boat.
04:06:44 syv: I don't handle external material though, so I'm at much less risk.
04:07:36 Devastator: I also thought you worked alone.
04:07:47 Devastator: which helps, really.
04:08:12 syv: It does. Only see people at shift change.
04:17:32 Piecewise: The nice thing about medical is we're always needed
04:17:38 Piecewise: the bad thing is we're always needed
04:18:25 syv: Are you employed, or still in training?
04:22:34 Piecewise: I'm in a bunker in the nevada desert
04:23:37 Piecewise: Like most nevada residents right now, I'm stuck inside, doing not much
04:23:55 Piecewise: The wife works right now though, so we're fine
04:27:49 Devastator: well, good luck with that.
04:29:09 syv: I would miss your games if you died. :(
04:35:00 Piecewise: I can't have lung problems with no lungs!
04:37:27 Piecewise: The chances of me dying of the disease are relatively low, statistically
04:37:48 Devastator: yeah, but good luck.
04:37:55 Piecewise: So chances are you'll be stuck with me for years
04:38:07 Piecewise: or until you gnaw your foot off and escape
04:38:29 Devastator spent two real-time years in jail.
04:38:36 Devastator: foot chewing is unlikely.
04:38:51 syv: I am suddenly filled with questions,
Dev.
04:39:08 Piecewise: Is this why those hornets are taking so long to show up~
04:39:26 ER: just wait till I find a soulstone,
PW. We'll be stuck with you *forever*
04:40:21 Piecewise: all together in the same rock
04:40:34 Piecewise: making up dumb stories for all eternity
04:40:55 Devastator: about idiots in space.
04:40:58 Devastator: or idiots with magic.
04:41:26 syv: It might be fun to be stuck in a rock with Dubs.
04:41:36 syv: I'd be able to yell at him about his systems in realtime.
04:44:02 Devastator: Oh, updated k-com
Piecewise, speaking of hornets.
04:44:17 Devastator: you have them, but you need more flesh if you want anyone but you to use them. Gotta build a permanent hive.
04:44:57 Piecewise: I look forward to being effective sometime in 2023
04:47:12 Devastator: won't be that much longer. You need five more chunks.
04:48:12 Devastator: ugh, whatever in the update.
04:48:13 ER: get this man some bloodstone chunks
04:49:12 syv: Is there lore in Cabal about angelic beings?
04:49:26 syv: Like people with bird wings who have any special cultural meaning?
04:50:22 Piecewise: Well, the people up in Kaolin would be able to tell you more, but I can lay out the generally understood mythology of the world, at least around here, if you like
04:51:08 Piecewise: The short answer is that there are some powerful entities that are seen as humanoids with wings, but they're not like a ...class of beings
04:51:26 syv: I want information that would be know by an educated person in Alkahest, specifically.
04:51:39 syv: I want to know whst my char would think of somebody with angel wings.
04:51:49 syv: 'Cause
Dev's gonna make his char have them.
04:52:28 syv: Religious symbolism is fun, but I figure Cabal-world has very different religous history.
04:53:28 Piecewise: Well, in terms of mythical beings with wings, The Daughters of Telcal and his sister are generally regarded as being winged humanoids
04:53:45 Piecewise: as are the various lesser spirits associated with them
04:54:02 Piecewise: Gods and goddesses and spirits of wind, rain, storms, etc
04:55:52 syv: I'd be very curious to hear about these daughters of Telcal. Sister too.
04:59:34 Piecewise: Well, the general mythology is that there is one Allfather god, The Sun, and Telcal is his third born. Telcal had children with his sister, who is known as the goddess of Ocean and just water in general. Their children are associated with Rain, Clouds, Storms, Lightning, etc. The children of those children are seen as the gods of specific geological sites. There is a god or goddess who oversees each of the major rivers for
05:02:53 Piecewise: Essentially, you start with Sun, source of everything, and dilute and specify down via generations until you get the little weak spirits you guys interact with
05:03:40 Piecewise: Telcal is the only "First generation" god still around, as far as we know. The others are silent, haven't been seen in a long time
05:03:55 Piecewise: the lesser gods are still around though, though rarely glimpsed
05:04:14 Piecewise: I think the strongest remaining is....where was she..
05:05:14 Piecewise: That or the Alizarin Plains
05:05:38 Piecewise: both are still relatively vibrant in these times so they're still strong enough to hold considerable sway
05:05:56 ER: gods fucked off when magic died
05:06:16 Piecewise: Lenglon actually meat a third generation god way back in Lake Limus
05:06:47 syv: How about monstrous animal/human chimeras, like the Sphinx? Is there any cultural history of those, and if so, are they considered evil? Neutral animals? Divine or otherwise positive?
05:07:04 syv: Also, I haven't read most of the thread, what was this god she met?
05:07:49 Piecewise: She met a god imprisoned deep in the lake, who was impaled on the sword she now has
05:08:31 syv: Aaand now she's wandering around healing people of fish parasites.
05:08:40 Devastator: of course, with an omnisword.
05:08:51 Devastator: maybe I'll steal it or buy it off her if Saeko finds out.
05:08:55 syv: Is that the magic sword that controls anything with water in it?
05:09:34 syv: ...Does Leng *realize* how ridiculously overqualified her char is for low level missionary healer work?
05:09:49 Piecewise: I impressed it upon her a few times
05:10:18 Piecewise: but then again she wielded it with whats his face and he refused to use it in combat, preferring his club.
05:10:31 Piecewise: A very
Dev thing to do, honestly
05:11:13 ER: I think she just doesn't want to fight because of d4 strength.
05:11:28 ER: Which wouldn't be a huge problem with some reinforcement
05:12:10 Devastator: Yeah, but in my case I'd do just as much with the club as I could do with the sword. ;-p
05:12:32 Piecewise: Chimeras exist, both as "monsters" and as more divine beings. Often times spirits connected to natural, living things had aspects of those things in their make up
05:13:26 Piecewise: Forest related gods might have aspects of forest creatures, the lesser spirits might be fully or partially animals
05:14:01 Piecewise: And there are also just the chimeras made by magic, like Benedict
05:14:33 Piecewise: Many "Monsters" are rumored to be unnatural creatures created for some purpose long ago and now just living wild
05:17:25 syv: How widespread/ubiquitous is religious belief among the well-educated upper classes? Is it just taken for granted by everyone that Telcal is a god, and the sun's son? Or is there some degree of general disbelief?
05:21:16 Piecewise: So...back in the day belief that Telcal was literally the living embodiment of Fire, third born of the all father of the world, and unchallenged divine being was basically universal. You've seen the volcano and the scar of ash and melted metal that he created in the last major conflict he participated in. Those who saw that, even in the age of magic, had little doubt of his divinity. But he's been in seclusion for decades,
05:21:17 Piecewise: only spoken to by the Breakers and a precious few others. A generation or two has had time to grow up without anything but stories. As such, the younger the person, the more likely they are to be at least a little suspicious
05:21:58 Piecewise: Some think he's been dead or missing all this time
05:22:17 Piecewise: others that he was just a very powerful wizard who lost his powers like the others
05:25:04 Devastator: well, maybe the elf ears are new ground at least. ;-p
05:25:22 syv: Welp. Are elf ears new ground,
Piecewise?
05:28:12 Piecewise: Hmmm...probably for the majority of people
05:28:54 Piecewise: There are pointed ears in myth and in the age of magic body modification was rampant, but these days they're not well known if known at all
05:34:22 syv: I'm out of questions. Thanks.
05:34:31 Devastator: eh, it'd eventually be out of line, no matter what the norm is. ;-p
05:35:13 Piecewise: Insert Dick Naga joke here
05:39:38 Devastator: shouldn't use suck then.
07:03:19 syv: Yumyum, tasty armor fungus.
07:05:35 syv: Oh, mollusks? Thought they were shrooms. Oh well.
07:06:28 ER: yeah, it's a community of mollusks woven together which mimick human musculature inside of a metal shell shaped like a suit of armor
07:11:53 ER: I enjoy the mixture of being serious and being one big dumb joke this comic strikes
07:19:43 syv: Hey,
ER, how do you pronounce "knowledge"?
07:19:57 syv: Also, do you just not have any ideas on stuff to do in Cabal?
07:20:47 ER: I pronounce knowledge like knowledge
07:21:52 syv: But does it rhyme with fridge?
09:13:22 Devastator: it's probably just barking to annoy the dog down there.
09:13:43 ER: I haven't heard of cats mimicking other animals like that
09:13:49 ER: must be a pretty smart cat.
09:14:13 syv: I kinda wonder if it was acoustics, though I could also see a cat just barking.
09:14:20 syv: Cats can make all kinds of odd noises.
09:15:15 ER: someone claimed that meowing is cats trying to mimick human speaking, but that sounds pretty pseudoscientific
09:15:41 Devastator: the bit where it faces the camera seems pretty convincing.
09:18:43 Devastator: I am convinced that ducks can hold conversations.
09:19:15 ER: I don't want to hear what they talk about
09:19:53 syv: Also no, meows aren't mimicking humans.
09:22:34 Devastator: ducks are horrible, but they have collective child care.
09:22:44 Devastator: so you can have like fifty ducklings and one duck.
09:26:28 syv: I guess that means ducks are still better than humans.
09:27:02 ER: humans are pretty awful, to be fair
09:39:59 ER: Goose has become a lot more popular recently, thanks to the goose game with the goose in it
09:47:13 Devastator: that's why it has 6 of them. ;-p
09:47:43 ER: still, that survival rate doesn't bode well
09:48:18 Devastator: lay them every year.
09:48:53 ER: 50% is pretty bad if it happens, say, once a month and they have a few years to grow up
09:52:11 Devastator: they're birds. They grow up in a matter of a couple weeks.
09:52:22 Devastator: or at least enough to not worry about that.
09:57:58 Devastator: a lot of them, yeah.
09:58:17 Devastator: it's eagle webcam time around now, actually.
10:02:21 Devastator: ok, not linking that one.
10:05:17 Devastator: maybe I should look for a nest around here. I know there's some.
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21:26:10 Devastator: no pictures of a magical girl wearing a white mage robe? ;-p
21:30:12 Piecewise: Its how SHE sees saeko
21:30:16 Piecewise: and I assume thats close
21:30:26 Devastator: yeah, it not unreasonable, really.
21:32:50 Devastator: looks like it's not going to be simple to get the key.
21:32:59 Devastator: unless I'm ok with just knocking the house over and taking it by force.
21:33:01 Devastator: I'll think of a plan.
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22:53:25 Devastator: can he use magic with ashes? I thought he'd have to eat someone to use magic.
22:53:47 parisbre56: he can try to use Burn Self and hope to get lucky
22:55:22 Devastator: will he have better odds having tried that once already?
22:55:41 parisbre56: better plan than exploding an unknown grenade while underwater
22:56:10 parisbre56: but yes, better odds
22:56:43 parisbre56: he just has a better idea how to do it
22:56:52 parisbre56: but he hasn't really been practicing
22:57:08 Devastator: someone suggested that?
22:57:33 parisbre56: that's what the email notification says, unless nature girl edited that
22:58:23 Devastator: eh, not that much time has passed.
22:59:16 Devastator: Hell, getting me to argue against grenade use is a rarity.
23:01:34 Devastator: well, we could also sleep and try to open the topside door again. Stronger every day, after all.
23:02:22 parisbre56: just get a crowbar and Gordon-Freeman it up
23:02:46 Devastator: there should be some chunks of metal around.
23:03:27 parisbre56: or you could always just use the normal unlocked door
23:04:25 Devastator: Oh, there's one of those?
23:05:28 Devastator: Right, the lit-up one.
23:05:34 parisbre56: hmm. maybe I didn't describe it right. I always feel I'm describing things wrong.
23:05:41 Devastator: eh, don't want to go in there because it seems likely we'll have to eat someone if we go that way.
23:05:58 Devastator: I'm in favor of eating people in general, but if we do it too fast we might get owned by our hunger.
23:05:58 parisbre56: maybe I should make a map but maps always feel like too much effort
23:06:14 Devastator: ..you are talking about the lit-up one outside, right?
23:06:40 parisbre56: yeah, that one, the one someone already opened
23:06:43 Devastator: Also, dang, draggy's impressive. Swimming in oily, tainted water for what seems to be minutes at a time and only being worried about bad taste. Poison resistance was a good thing.
23:08:15 parisbre56: well, dragons are supposed to be tough
23:08:35 parisbre56: and you have magic to take care of things that could poison you
23:08:42 parisbre56: assuming you can get it to work
23:09:57 Devastator: ahh, I thought it developed some invisibly from what Eiwhyl said.
23:10:27 Devastator: just not listed because draggy doesn't know he has it.
23:11:08 Devastator: does seem like we should be able to get the upper door open with a tool.
23:11:22 Devastator: should bring our stuff in if we go in that way, too.
23:13:39 Devastator: if it fails, well, time to think about burning self.
23:14:05 Devastator: probably won't take that many practice runs until it gets somewhat controllable. Two? Three more, if they fail?
23:17:32 Devastator: also, dirty dragon.. again. ;-p
23:17:36 Devastator: he seems good at that.
23:18:07 parisbre56: dunno, depends on how it goes. last time you got some ideas about how to turn it on but not much else, you still had no control over it. you'd need to roll better or maybe do something else that could help. Eating someone would definitely help, since it would give you more time to practice without worrying about hurting yourself but that has other
23:18:30 parisbre56: and last time it was "smelly dragon", I think
23:19:06 parisbre56: this time it's your beautiful scales that are suffering.
23:22:07 Devastator: probably don't want them to stay dirty for too long.
23:22:14 Devastator: our body might think we want them to be that way.
23:22:25 Devastator: eh, I doubt it, he too obviously cares about it.
23:22:35 Devastator: but we can live with it for now.
23:24:40 Devastator: yeah, was smelly dragon.
23:25:02 Devastator: (unforunately, dirty, toxic dragon is indeed a valid type of dragon, so can't say he wouldn't become that way.)
23:27:00 Devastator: of course so is cute shiny dragon, which seems more likely from the showers and petting.
23:31:10 parisbre56: the dragon will always be the best and most beautiful creature. the dragon pities all those ugly humanoids that will never be as beautiful as the dragon
23:32:13 parisbre56: the dragon hopes those creatures of lesser beauty will find some comfort in admiring the dragon
23:32:54 Devastator: despite it being terribly ugly by their standards or terribly not ugly. ;-p
23:33:15 Devastator: but nah, makes sense, Eiwhyl was teaching him to keep scrupilously clean.
23:39:35 parisbre56: I dunno, when you're living in a world with thousands of alien races you probably get over your "feeling alien things are disgusting" thing
23:39:57 parisbre56: unless you're a wealthy human, of course
23:40:29 parisbre56: or living in one of the racially segregated lower levels of the city
23:40:37 parisbre56: which is a thing in legends
23:41:05 parisbre56: lower levels are apparently mostly led by single-race gangs
23:41:21 parisbre56: which makes you wonder how the entire place hasn't collapsed
23:44:15 Devastator: It's a city-planet.
23:44:18 Devastator: that ship has sailed already.
23:44:55 Devastator: I'm still pretty sure some things are disgusting, even if you're used to a lot of strange races and such.
23:45:36 Devastator: like how I get incredibly unconfortable about the idea of my fingernails being peeled off, or how other people can't stand blood.
23:50:57 Devastator: but yeah, in general, much less.
23:54:03 parisbre56: anyway, just finished watching Magia Record. sadly I found it kinda boring. first episode had a good fight and a good mystery. last episode had an awesome fight and a villain with sensible motivation. everything else felt very much like filler
23:55:12 Devastator: should other people watch it?
23:55:32 parisbre56: and even if it was good, it doesn't reach the level of the timestop battle in PMMM3
23:56:03 parisbre56: eh, I'd say watch it if you want some interesting ideas and some nice visuals
23:56:28 parisbre56: but skip most of the character interactions because they really don't seem to go anywhere
23:56:30 Devastator: PMM was also like really good.
23:56:35 Devastator: mmm, so skip the talking.
23:57:24 Devastator: that's good to know.
23:57:29 Devastator: so watch first and last episode, then?
23:58:18 parisbre56: eh, yeah. they're the only ones that matter.
23:58:34 parisbre56: dunno, maybe it would make more sense to me if I had played the game
23:58:49 parisbre56: but if I wanted to play the game I'd play the game
23:59:00 parisbre56: if you make an anime, make it a standalone thing
23:59:08 parisbre56: don't make it an advertisement
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