Quote from: tiny rainbow on October 30, 2021, 01:03:05 AM
"Mr Dalliard! We have been activated! After all these years..." (archived)

QuoteShe ruled the greatest city of knowledge. She almost realised her dream. Came so close. She raised IT from its prison. IT whispered to her directly. IT made such promises, claimed IT willingly powered the city. LIES. It promised the impossible could be accomplished if all of its fellows were freed. LIES. She was smart. She was clever. She knew there was treachery in the whispers. But she went ahead anyway, thinking she could control the pandemonium. She thought she could betray an event horizon. That age collapsed in screams under tentacular skies.

She would rather be remembered for her contributions to science. But she will proudly wear infamy as a garland and recline in furs atop a throne of those who have wronged her.

I want you to understand why she is scary. I don't want you thinking less of me. It's not power, followers, or a womb full of teeth. You got to understand. Humour me. Look in a mirror. Stare at your reflection. We've all done this. In the wee hours. Stare so long your face becomes a stranger. You lose your identity. You could be anyone.

Now, picture all the people you've been. Every different one. Maybe you think your life was short. Or uneventful. But if you look, there were many you's. We get stuck in the now and the rut. Don't we? Tunnel vision. You think you're just this two-dimensional you. But look at all those different yous. Layer them on top of each other. Suddenly, you have substance. You have the power of context. You are a multi-dimensional being. You've seen shit. That is when we are at our most powerful. When we remember all the us's. Then we are legion.

She was one of the first. She's lived longer than your beef brain can process. Unfathomable. Imagine just how many different hers she has been. Do you think the one, flat version you met was all there is? She's been too many. She gets lost in the shuffle. But imagine, imagine what happens when she self-actualises. Imagine when she takes a moment, stares into a mirror, and gains her full context.

That's when you should be afraid of what comes next.

See you.

Quote from: DATA EXPUNGEDA BROKEN SMILE BENEATH HER WHISPERED WINGS
The builders! We call upon their secret names. Human children hear our cries in their sleeping minds, and then make angels in the snow - pictographic signals aimed at the sky.

Quote from: Children of Dune"Shut up!" Idaho glared at the shocked Naib. "You wear a collar, Stilgar!"

"You are a servant," Idaho said. "You've sold Fremen for their water."

This was the second most deadly insult, the one which had destroyed the original Jacurutu. Stilgar ground his teeth, put a hand on his crysknife.

Quote from: Dune"If history teaches us anything, it is simply this:
Every revolution carries within it the seeds of its own destruction.
And empires that rise, will one day fall."
——Princess Irulan

"Who will our next oppressor be?"
——Chani

"It will take more than courage to survive what's coming."
——Reverend Mother Ramallo

Quote from: Dune Bunny on August 16, 2023, 09:07:34 PMSyl is shocked, reports the instance to a Templar as filthy magick. I felt silly from an ooc standpoint doing so, as I knew it was just stealth, but from an IC standpoint, what should she and her sister have assumed? It just simply should've been impossible for that pc to disappear like that in such a confined space, under two pairs of eyes.

So yeah, my two sids on a way to make apartment trouble less troublesome, and potentially more "realistic".

(Or we can ignore all that, and make the apartment building gate guards work like estate guards. =P )

Quote from: Kavrick on September 16, 2023, 05:47:07 AMI'd like to point out that new players have no way to know that sparring against dummies doesn't do anything for you. It's a little silly. Also, europeans don't always have he same opportunity as americans to spar on a regular basis. I do not like the sparring meta as it encourages gamey experiences over doing what is more natural to your character.

Quote from: Trevalyan on September 16, 2023, 05:32:41 AM

Quote from: Nacria on September 15, 2023, 07:54:41 PMLike do I really need to blow 500 hours on dummy training just to survive the grey forest?

Dummy training is aptly named. Your improvement would be much more dramatic with sparring against PCs, never mind actual combat. You should only be using training dummies as part of guard drills, or when your character is justifying solo training with no one else around.

Quote from: Nacria on September 15, 2023, 07:54:41 PMLike do I really need to blow 500 hours on dummy training just to survive the grey forest?

Quote from: whengravityfails on September 16, 2023, 02:48:39 AMDon't dumpstat wisdom and you'll learn at a much quicker rate. There's no reason to change anything regarding skill gain.

Quote from: whengravityfails on September 16, 2023, 02:48:39 AMDon't dumpstat wisdom and you'll learn at a much quicker rate. There's no reason to change anything regarding skill gain.