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Post by gabriael on May 14, 2015 7:59:48 GMT
What do you mean by “[you] got a couple black holes”? Most summoned demons would not make black holes even though they could, and you said you hadn’t actually gotten any daeva anyway. I am imagining a giant monster marching slowly, inexorably, and unstoppably towards a city with innocents dying. Even though I know those innocents would go to an afterlife in either your world or mine, that does not sound like it improves the I mean I took some no one else was using for anything. Mass is finite, but we're not yet at a point where it's a scare resource. But we WILL get there eventually unless we do something. I guess Dad could just redefine the laws of nature to use less Mass per particle and halve the force constants, but wouldn't it be better to have more stuff instead? I was exaggerating in the unstoppable part. It needs to be fair for it to be fun. Gabriael, I think most people are operating on the assumption that humans don't have souls or spirits that persist after their deaths. I am not the best at picking up on implications of things like that, but Undrained seemed to think it was a tragedy that people were killed by Endbringers. In my world, and I think probably in others, it is mean to make imitations of other people's tragedies as fun, especially if you tell them about it, even if there isn't a chance of anyone from your universe permanently dying. I think that is probably the source of a lot of the horrified reactions you are getting. That would be too horrifying to contemplate. In a spatially infinite Multiverse there ought to be some entity powerful and benevolent enough to put a stop to that. I mean if Daddy knew how he stacked up against other gods and how to target other Universes reliably like Mother Starlight does he would DEFINITELY put a stop to it. I found Prim Ael in a fridge and set him into The Waiting Room with a dossier on this Forum(And a request to put a copy of your planet into my pet Galaxy. Stay alive and I'm gonna rescue a perfect copy of you! I'll bring the booze!). He will very probably put a stop to it, IF it's not already being done. So... If you're not an Ael or Aeli death is like... You fucked up! Everything you've done in the last 100 years? Useless. You can't benefit from it anymore, unless it was so incredibly awesome you deserve Exaltation to Aelidom. You need to start over cause you're a looser! That's pretty funny. Maybe I should avoid the Term? Let's call it Game Overs! And Ael and Aeli can just mash "Continue?" Wait? Are Game Overs enough to unsummon Daeva? Well, probably. Mh... Eh, our universes are a pretty awesome place to live in, maybe Andrew could find a daeva who wouldn't mind moving in permanently and tell me how to summon specifically them? Buuut As I understand cosmology(there are contradictions in that understanding so anything is possible.) they would probably just drain SOME reservoir of Energy somewhere. Undrained: Get a daeva to turn the Endbringers into Cloud fluff, pay an open minded whore to pay them. Or just find someone who's into freaky alien sex... Uh, on this earth humans are five digited primates who have faces like my picture. I have no idea why they have their nose in their face, that seems like a choking hazard, I made myself an extra nose beneath my wing bases immediately. Oh, uh, the Wings are additions for being an Ael, stuff like that is part of the GbG body mods, you won't get them if you think they are ugly, but I really don't want to lose my third dimension and winged flight in this kinda atmosphere is really fun.
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Post by Eskay on May 31, 2015 12:48:26 GMT
Quid pro quo, my world's standard time measurements: The smallest unit is a second, of which there are sixty in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour, and twenty-four hours in a (standard) day. There are approximately 365 days in a (standard) year (it's slightly more than that, but to keep things manageable we throw in an extra day every few years or so according to an algorithm I don't know off the top of my head), and the current year is 2995 ECE (Earth Common Era). All that "standard" stuff is measured relative to Earth; other planets have different day and year lengths, but everyone keeps time according to the standard calendar in addition to whatever local measurements apply, because otherwise galactic travelers would all go insane. You've gotten people on all your planets to keep to a shared, standard length calendar for almost _three thousand_ years?! On behalf of all my world's historians, we envy your historians _so much_. My time units match yours for seconds, minutes, hours, and days. We have good clocks, so everybody can always agree on the time. The same twenty-four hours are in every day, wherever you are, from Echo to Uurwerk. But we don't have anything so obvious to standardize on for months or years. Some systems are locally popular, tracking planting seasons or terms of elected office. Most places use the same festival calendar of months, but it always takes a different amount of time to prepare the festivals, so that's no way to predict anything. The only international system of years is years after Upheaval, or AU for short. Years AU don't have a fixed length. They're assigned by academic consensus of historians, once they've reviewed the available primary sources and figured out their best guesses of what came before what else. The most recent year I've heard of is 239 AU. Frankly I'm a bit suspicious of it.
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Post by Trumpet on May 31, 2015 21:49:12 GMT
The usual name for our world is Yarth, rather than Earth, but it looks very similar. The shapes of the continents are mostly the same, and most of the big changes are something Sparky (Britain is still on the surface in your world, for example. It has been a seafloor nation for a century at least on Yarth.) The year is Anno Domini 1888, by the most common calendar where I live, though I'm not sure the churches all agree on the date of Christ's birth. Let's see, astronomy should be basically the same, yes? There was a solar eclipse visible in northern Europa this year about 60 days after the summer solstice. There was also a solar eclipse three months ago, but that was Professor Moon's attempted Permanent Astronomy project and the Baron put it down quickly.
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Post by Bronzemurder on Jun 8, 2015 14:47:45 GMT
I guess I should talk about my world a bit. I live in Seattle, one the largest sprawls on the west coast and the last city owned by the UCAS(United Canadian and American States) on this side of the country. The population is very diverse mostly a mix of metahumans and assorted others. The population is around 6 million counting the unregistered like me. The city has several districts and I live in Redmond which is the really bad side of town. By bad I mean really bad, like some parts are unlivible.
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Post by Inkspot on Jun 8, 2015 19:00:53 GMT
When you say unlivable, what exactly do you mean? Too dangerous to live, the environmental conditions are awful, the buildings are extremely badly maintained, or something else entirely?
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Post by Bronzemurder on Jun 8, 2015 21:59:19 GMT
When you say unlivable, what exactly do you mean? Too dangerous to live, the environmental conditions are awful, the buildings are extremely badly maintained, or something else entirely? all of the above. The area has been pretty much left to rot by the government and the mega corps after a meltdown and several disasters so its in a state of half slum half wasteland. The north area of Redmond is home to mad ghouls, toxic shamans, psychotic mutants, and spirits know what else. No one dares to go there and I don't want to know how those monsters survive.
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Post by Inkspot on Jun 8, 2015 22:53:35 GMT
When you say unlivable, what exactly do you mean? Too dangerous to live, the environmental conditions are awful, the buildings are extremely badly maintained, or something else entirely? all of the above. The area has been pretty much left to rot by the government and the mega corps after a meltdown and several disasters so its in a state of half slum half wasteland. The north area of Redmond is home to mad ghouls, toxic shamans, psychotic mutants, and spirits know what else. No one dares to go there and I don't want to know how those monsters survive. What a charming deadly cocktail. I'd say I was thinking of making a vacation home there, but with this forum you might think I'm serious. I'm just going to guess that there are no non-government/mega corporation efforts to restore the place?
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Post by Bronzemurder on Jun 8, 2015 23:52:56 GMT
all of the above. The area has been pretty much left to rot by the government and the mega corps after a meltdown and several disasters so its in a state of half slum half wasteland. The north area of Redmond is home to mad ghouls, toxic shamans, psychotic mutants, and spirits know what else. No one dares to go there and I don't want to know how those monsters survive. What a charming deadly cocktail. I'd say I was thinking of making a vacation home there, but with this forum you might think I'm serious. I'm just going to guess that there are no non-government/mega corporation efforts to restore the place? The gangs try to keep their stretch of the area restored and I live in the area closest to the rest of the sprawl so it's OK there. I hear rumors that some people transformed the old botanical gardens into a farming community but I've never had reason to go that deep in.
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Post by Inkspot on Jun 9, 2015 0:54:27 GMT
What a charming deadly cocktail. I'd say I was thinking of making a vacation home there, but with this forum you might think I'm serious. I'm just going to guess that there are no non-government/mega corporation efforts to restore the place? The gangs try to keep their stretch of the area restored and I live in the area closest to the rest of the sprawl so it's OK there. I hear rumors that some people transformed the old botanical gardens into a farming community but I've never had reason to go that deep in. Makes sense. I have a number of things to take care of in my own world, but once that's taken care of I'd be willing to make a trip to your world to see about improving your surrounding area a bit.
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Post by arborist on Jul 3, 2016 0:18:39 GMT
That sounds vaguely ominous! But sure, I'll explain about my world. It's weird that there are multiple Earths. It doesn't seem like anybody's from my world, because I don't think anyone's mentioned "weird increase in natural and somewhat unnatural disasters, people mysteriously Turning, people mysteriously Forming" – except Haywire? That thing seems similar except we don't class things in the same "Blaster", "Breaker", etc way. Since I haven't explained these terms – Turning is when a human gets superpowers and Forming is when a person appears with superpowers. Appears ('Forms') meaning "was not birthed in the regular way, did not go through childhood as normal, instead appeared as an adult, fully formed, with superhero (magical?) powers and also some knowledge about the world". Typically mid- or post-disaster. People often Turn before disasters, disasters range in what sorts of things they can do – I Turned like twenty minutes before a hurricane, for example. (I'm not sure this is the right place to post this? Should I copy it over here, or…?) I apologize if I made you uncomfortable. This was not my intent. Do the people who Formed into your world have any knowledge of other worlds? What is a hurricane? How well can Turning be used to predict disasters? Do any of you ever disappear in the same manner as Forming? What causes the disasters? How dangerous are the disasters, usually?Do you completely cease to exist when you die? (I am not sure where this belongs. Perhaps it would be best to continue here.)
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Post by zephyr on Jul 3, 2016 0:29:08 GMT
I apologize if I made you uncomfortable. This was not my intent. Do the people who Formed into your world have any knowledge of other worlds? What is a hurricane? How well can Turning be used to predict disasters? Do any of you ever disappear in the same manner as Forming? What causes the disasters? How dangerous are the disasters, usually? Do you completely cease to exist when you die? (I am not sure where this belongs. Perhaps it would be best to continue here.) Nope, they only have knowledge of our Earth. They have a sort of general knowledge about the current state of global affairs, sometimes get some extra national knowledge about places where they've Formed (or sometimes other places – it's a bit weird), often get proficiency at various languages (typically English and ones in the local area, various dialects of each) and also appear in relatively modern clothing (someone appeared in a kimono once though, I think? Which is a Japanese thing and not really a piece of 'modern clothing' as I mean, like jeans and a T-shirt). People don't disappear in the same sort of way, no, except in some really weird scenarios but then that's a localized event (we had one weird 'disaster' where a bunch of people disappeared, but most of them reappeared eventually). A hurricane is a bunch of wind that sort of forms a spiral and is really damaging. Turning can be used somewhat well to predict disasters, since if more than one person Turns in a single location at a single sort of time, you usually end up getting something, but people don't always Turn before every disaster. We're not sure about the cause of the disasters, and the danger level varies – sometimes it's like, a huge rock rolls down a mountain or something (mysteriously appearing rock, nobody seems to know where it came from) and it crushes a small shed or something, but sometimes it's huge things like hurricanes (these things are huge and can destroy large bits of land). As far as I know, we do cease to exist when we die. We can also die of old age, if that wasn't clear, since we're humans (is that common to all humans? I don't know).
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Post by arborist on Jul 3, 2016 2:03:20 GMT
People sometimes appear here, but from other worlds, and their appearances do not seem related to any disasters they do not themselves cause. What happens to destroyed land, is it replaced or the location empty thereafter?
Death from age is common to humans and animal-people in my world, without magical intervention, and to many of those in other members' worlds. Your world's disasters are predictable, and sound likely to be deadly. If you can arrange transport to my world, I will freely preserve the souls of any of your world's injured or despairing that I can.
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Post by zephyr on Jul 3, 2016 2:23:33 GMT
We usually attempt to fix the land that gets destroyed, but it can be difficult sometimes? Fortunately there are lots of powers, and usually they're useful.
I'm not really sure how to arrange transport to your world though – we don't even have any heroes with teleportation, as far as I know, let alone inter-world teleportation? But that seems like it would be useful, if we could do that.
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Post by arborist on Jul 3, 2016 5:07:41 GMT
The SPQR might be able to provide transportation for some of your dying, if you can pay them in food, gold, or gemstones. Do any of your abilities lend themselves well to producing these? I will be in a safer place for soul-preservation soon. I would like to reach an arrangement to help preserve your world's souls, if we can.
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Post by SPQR on Jul 3, 2016 5:18:30 GMT
It seems our teleporters might have quite a high demand on them soon.
If there is anything that can reverse aging or cause more Witches to occur, that would be extremely valuable to us.
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