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[quote=LCSpartan051;5180]Imagine Knightly Saints/Holy Knights are the nukes of godly warfare. Now imagine that the Unlife are the terrorists of the Astlanian localverse. The threat has to reach a major threshold before they could be deployed, like having an entire continent solely populated by the Unlife. [/quote]
Exactly. Or, the big knights are, saintly knights who were once human are fine. But the guys in the palaestra are the nukes.
A lot of this is what Tom needs to figure out.
1) What was it that Orcus and Tartarvardenennead were really up to.?
2) What exactly was Orcus role in the multiverse? And what will his be?Things that are not yet questions for Tom but will be:
3) Why did Net/Storm Lords/Lilith/Sentir Fallon all join up to kill Orcus? (This will start to become clearer to the readers in alpha 1 and in this book)
4) Who is the Dark Apostle? And who is this god of his? (see alpha 1) How does that god play into things? I.e. who is the other player in the Net/Storm Lords/Lilith/Sentir Fallon group?
5) How does Exador fit into all of this? Ramses? Bess?
6) How do the Lords of Chaos fit into this? What exactly is Lilith’s relationship with them?Upcoming question for Talarius and Tom
7) What caused the corruption of the Church in Astlan?
8) Why did they try to exterminate the Nyjyr Ennead?The answers to all the “upcoming” questions are related.
We will not get answers to these in this book, we will simply start asking the questions.
Oh yeah…. And one more question–>
What is in that stupid book and why does everyone want it?
The Inferno has a whole bunch of different hiding spells built into it.
These are separate spells to mask different things. Getting them all coordinated and working together is quite complicated.
Normal “rings” or “Cloaks” can typically only block one or two things, maybe 3. For one thing you can’t get enough runes on a ring to do it all.
Some things you have to deal with.
Pass through/distortion of reflected and refracted light of all frequencies (including micro waves, radio waves, etc) body heat, animus, mana, aetherial presence etc.
OH!!!
Interesting point.
Hmm
Well, apparently, given what has been written. No.
However, that doesn’t mean that at some point in the near future he might put one and one together. Even as Jenn will be doing.
Jenn revelations will probably get inserted into where we are now, and the following…
I would think Maelen would need, say, one more catalyzing input. However, this is an interesting line of thought that I want to ruminate on.
I think the point to remember, as Maelen might say, at this point, the future is not set in stone. Thing can, have, and will change.
Most of which comes from Beta Demons giving me ideas and pointing out, or re-pointing out things already there.
Something key to remember is that this story is somewhat complex, driven by ideas I have at certain points. However, I sometimes forget, at least consciously, those ideas.
Barabus’ speech about Talarius being one. It had slipped my mind that he’d said the stuff about leading men into the Abyss, until it was just recently brought out again. At the time, I knew what I planned, but so much time has passed that, while I remembered the core and kept it true, some of the groundwork got lost in my mind. I.e. He said that because of what I planned, but I forgot that he said it, even though plan continued. Does that even make sense?
There is a grand storyline and plan, but the details are very subject to change, as are the order of events.
I said this a lot in the HH Beta. I know where it is “supposed to go” how we get there is up for a lot of discussion.
I’m hoping the alpha’s have a better plot than coding books. Majority vote was for Sunday night release (overnight your time)
I have never been able to read documentation on languages, or much of anything. I read it in reference mode, on an as need to know basis, but I don’t have patience for textbooks and manuals.
I think the only textbooks I really read were biology (because there was no other way I was getting through all that memorization) psychology books (because I actually enjoyed them) . Math and Physics book I read enough to figure out how to do the problems. History…I’d read it, but then forget it, so I kept repeating the class. :d/
But, because I was a bibliophile, I bought crap loads of textbooks, both physics and programming. In grad school, we measured “prowess” as how many books you had. In part because we used them as reference manuals for solving assigned problems. OK, I did actually have to read large chunks of graduate physics books but did not enjoy them.
I continued to buy programming books, but again mainly as starting points/references. Then they finally got decent online help and have bought any in 15 years.
Although, now that I think about it, in HS, I did enjoy hour upon hour perusing the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
[quote=Korwin;4102]PDF, Page 14
PDF, Page 55, Chapter 122
He was surprised to see Boggy, Reggie, Estrebius and Talarius playing whist at this late hour.whist? A card game?
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Yes, it’s a precursor to bridge and other card games the employee “tricks” (no, not magical tricks).
Like poker, there are many variants so I use it as a generic term, although not a lot of people do so today.
It’s a four player game that requires a fair amount of strategy between partners.
I think I first encountered it with the Horatio Hornblower books when I was in junior high. Pretty sure that was what all of Jane Austin’s characters played as well.
It’s a rather complicated story, and the real tie in is Aodh and Net.
He was working with Aodh, Aodh basically drags the others in. Or more precisely, Aodh and Sentir Fallon go looking for a way to kill Orcus. And Danu is out there as well…
The patsy master is Sutakh, aka Set, the Baron(ess) and some other Chaos Gods . Set in particular wanted to take down the Nyjyr Ennead and Orcus.
So they got themselves a solution, but such solutions require some compromises, some one might be aware of and some one might not be.
[quote=Giwdul;4639][quote][quote]?)While Edwyrd was surprisingly skilled, he did have Rupert’s trust, but like Gastropé he was young and inexperienced.
*)Seems off
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Yes, I can feel it. She is suprised at how skilled he is given his age.
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[quote]She was not sure who she was more upset with, Gastropé, Edwyrd, Damien or herself for being blind to these shenanigans. While Edwyrd was surprisingly skilled, he did have Rupert’s trust, but like Gastropé he was young and inexperienced. Damien, a Councilor of Wizardry should have had more common sense than to continue any sort of cooperation with the demon Tom.[/quote]Here is a rewrite of the paragraph. Hope you like it.
She was not sure who she was more upset with, Gastropé, Edwyrd, Damien or herself for being blind to these shenanigans. Probably Edward. While Edward was surprisingly skilled, he was, like Gastrope, still young and inexperienced. Taking a little kid like Rupert plane hoping with what now turned out to be a demon prince was stupidity on a scale that she could hardly even comprehend. And as for Damien, a Councilor of Wizardry should have had more common sense than to continue any sort of cooperation with the demon Tom[/quote]
Looks good, small edit I think? I believe this is correct semi-colon.
She was not sure who she was more upset with, Gastropé, Edwyrd, Damien or herself for being blind to these shenanigans. Probably Edward: while surprisingly skilled, he was, like Gastrope, still young and inexperienced. Taking a little kid like Rupert plane hoping with what now turned out to be a demon prince was stupidity on a scale that she could barely even comprehend. And as for Damien, a Councilor of Wizardry should have had more common sense than to continue any sort of cooperation with the demon Tom.
Yes, it makes sense that the Forces of Darkness would use Team Foundation Studio…and they are an all MS shop.
The Forces of Light use github for all their projects, in many ways Mount Doom is like github and the doomalogues are local repositories…and they are all open source
Now, the Forces of Law on the other hand, they use all Apple based products, because they like things very tightly controlled and micromanaged
The Forces of Chaos keep their source code on a random assortment of thumb drives with different versions on different drives and scattered around. They have also been unable to settle on a single platform so they use a combination of linux, macOS, Windows–(they really like Vista the best because nothing works reliably–but Windows 8 is also popular, Win95 was big for a very long time) and DOS, with a little VMS and even CP/M. They finally gave up on PrimeOS, but have some AS400’s z/architecture boxes floating around. Just so they can deal with EBCIDIC translations…really don’t want anything too convenient.
[quote=GameGraphix;4576]Quick question – do Denubian Demons have genders???? or at least as we know it??
[b]In Chapter 139 (Alpha 2)
Section: Courts of Chaos: Late Fourth Period[/b][color=blue]Asmodeus grimaced. “Odd sort of thing, rather explains the [b]man’s[/b] squeamishness in turning her over but Melissance is Hesseforthalus’ wife.”[/color]
Just wondering if Asmodeus would actually refer to the Denubian Hesseforthalus as a man?
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Well, I think it’s a very different case than the Baron of Chaos. Hesseforthalus has been working for Asmodeus for a long time so I assume they have come to an understanding on gender.
The Denubians can have whatever body parts they want, when they want, as many as they want, they are hermaphroditic but they do take on gender roles within relationships.
So my thought is that Hesseforthalus is currently identifying as male because he is “married” to Melissance who is female.
Actually, I don’t think the fixed it.
The problem is that the Holy Ciphers are just exactly that, ciphers, encryption.
They would have to rekey their entire everything which would be a huge and massive undertaking, not something they could have done in 30 days.
So if I never actually said the “fixed it” and I hope I wouldn’t have…we are safe on that.
The whole lich in the Abyss thing….I thought about that…when I wrote this.
What the abyss does is puts an “absolute value” function on antimus and animus, so there is no difference.
Thus a ghoul would be cured, as long as they stayed in the Abyss.
A lich’s phylactery is in the material world so links are fine.
However, that being said, it would really probably screw with the lich’s ability to do anything and probably wouldn’t be able to survive long.
My thought would be to alter the discussion where they talk about it and have Exador say he estimates the Unlife would have “X minutes” before the damage would be irreparable.
They actually don’t have any ghosts,ghosts are just a type of spirit on the aether, they aren’t necessarily Unlife, in fact, most are not. They are animus of dead people that make it to the aetherial plane where they can survive without disintegration.
Now that being said, there are some Unlife that use the aetherial plane, however, I expect that to be no different than what happens with unicorns.
I could see that happening. Must have killed a lot of early settlers off.
Think the rest of the world got proof of how tough the fauna of Australia really is when Steve Irwin, with all of his experience got taken out.
I had heard that Koala’s were not that cuddly.
One interesting thing that you mentioned about the Roos was the disembowling. Cats, large and small, do the exact same thing. Cuddly little kitty with a tennis ball is channeling a large wild cat disemboweling their prey.
So when we see those pictures of Roos running around a neighborhood, what do people do? Call animal control or just go inside and stay inside until they’re gone? Or does that happen less frequently than the Internet suggests?
If I trusted the Internet, I would think that cats were the dominant species on earth, or at least the principle users of the Internet.
It’s the latter. They store their memories and experiences for later generations to learn from.
That’s their “library” if you will. It’s basically a racial memory that they can access/search. And they have to train to do it well.
But the originators are defunct as operating individuals, they are just memories of life. In a sense, because later generations can share their memories they have a form of immortality….
If I go too far thinking about it and how this ties to the Phoenix Cycle and bringing back memories–we start having interesting overlap.
