"The Imperium of Man comes to Gensokyo" Discussion thread.

(Said demon introduces itself with "I am destruction. I am genocide. I reduce all to nothing." What could possibly go wrong indeed.)

edited 7th Jun '13 12:16:33 AM by Chabal2

^^ Yeah, we really don't know anything more about that game except that Reimu, Marisa and Sakuya's weapons start acting weird and at the same time some Youkai are rebelling. So we'll leave that alone until we've got more info.

Here's a thought, if Futo and Indis do get caught by Arcturus, would Futo be able to use her knowledge on how to become a shikaisen as leverage? Zee wouldn't have to experience Arcturus' death well before her own if Arcturus were to become a shikaisen.

Ooh, that's a good point. Shikaisen immortality have few of the drawbacks that other Canon methods of immortality have. Then again, the ritual in itself is very complicated and includes cutting all ties with family and friends, so it won't really be able to help Arcturus.

...Shikaisen?

Also I'm still working on Iron Peak, I've just run into writer's block.

Also also I wonder what Bickerstaff Snr. and company have been doing in the interim...?

Plus it involves sealing your soul in an object, it also means you have to fight off shinigami and kishin at regular intervals.

She can still mention it, and just omit some of the less savory details.

Edit: Shikaisen is what Futo's brand of immortals are called

edited 7th Jun '13 10:31:21 AM by joergenjetsam

Shinigami and Kishin will probably only come after him only when he's near Gensokyo. You know, what with the Warp and Daemons that would try to do the exact same thing.

Hmm, I don't think so, since you have to seal your soul into an object, wouldn't that mean that Arcturus' body would become a blank?

edited 7th Jun '13 11:06:28 AM by joergenjetsam

^^^^ Plotting the demise of Team Burnprayhappy, of course. Loading up on holy water and assault pistols◊, armor-piercing bullets, rabbit poison...

^ No, blank-ness depends on a gene. He'd be recycled as a servitor at best.

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Dammit, this came out after the era where game developpers took a player winning as a personal affront, it should not take 35 hours to obtain the multiple-target heal spell!

edited 7th Jun '13 11:13:09 AM by Chabal2

Oh, but wouldn't the effect be the same? No soul, no warp presence.

Well, he'd have a soul, just somewhere outside his body.

EDIT: Ah, I think I get it now, just ignore what I just wrote

edited 7th Jun '13 11:21:18 AM by joergenjetsam

@Jørgen: Yeah, it would have to be something like that.

@Flanker: It's a type of hermit-hood. You use Taoist magic to enchant an object to fake your death, draw your soul out of your body, enchant the body so that it will not decay and then reawaken when it's safe for your body to reawaken without being figured out by the powers that govern death. You basically "trick" the spirit world into thinking that you've already passed, and you can only keep living for as long as you can fend off agents of death.

@Chabal: Yeah, the Dragon Quest heal-several-people spell is notoriously high-level in all the games. Very annoying. :|

Ah, I understand.

That whole process makes me think that we need to create someone who pulls off these kinds of stunts 40K style (manipulating souls and keeping the body fresh via extensive sacrifice to Tzeentch and Slaanesh, etc.), with all the hilarity that implies.

I.... liiiiiiive!

Welcome back, master. Er, before I release you from the sarcophagus, you should know there were a few... complications...

Explain yourself, servant! Has my soul not been kept safe from the Judge of the Dead?

Er, yes, master, but...

Is my body not as young and energetic as it was before?

Er, even moreso, master, which is sort of what I'm trying to get at, as it were.

Explain.

Well, master, it seems that while the Ruinous Powers agreed to keep your soul safe from the Yama, they had a slight disagreement over who had responsibility of the body.

Meaning...?

Well, if you'll just let me open the sarcophagus here....

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If I may say so, you are far more attractive now, master- er, mistress. And I'm sure there are those who can appreciate the beauty of a shoulder-mounted claw or two on a-aaacknomastercan'tbreatheaaaiieeee!!!-

While an interesting idea, Arcturus can't really afford to become a hermit at this point - unless absolutely necessary.

So they turned him into a female Genestealer hybrid?

Better, a Jeanstealer!

Gentlemen, I have discovered something both incredibly perverse and incredibly funny. Probably not worksafe.

"My god, man, that sounds horrible! What in the hell do you call this product?!"

"The Aristocrats."

^^^ No, the claws are Gifts of Chaos.

In the same vein, allow me to present to you that rare occasion when the company Just Doesn't Care, the employees Just Don't Care, and the resulting product does not result in dead or maimed customers and lawsuits.

Behold, that tale of horror, hijinks, and homoeroticism... The saga of Johnny Turbo.

Was there ever an explanation given for how the Pre-Heresy armour varied?

Perhaps Roboute Guilliman standarized space marine armor post-heresy, while pre- it was more up to each individual primarch?

edited 9th Jun '13 4:27:18 AM by joergenjetsam

I'm not sure there was, though since the Imperium was pretty much wrecking the shit of everyone and everything they came across during the Crusades and the fact it was a golden age, I presume that they had the cash (and will) to let SPEHSS MEHREEN armour vary.

Then again I'm still the IG guy not the Adeptes Astartes guy so I might be lying out my ass.

Plus since the Primarchs were still around, they could customize their armies however they wanted.

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Killer beavers.

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DQ 6 update: There is a section where you are forced to participate in a beauty contest, not once, not twice, but thrice to advance the plot. Imagine your team, which you have painstakingly equipped to become the most devastasting of killing machines, forced to discard sensible shields and protective amulets for fishnet stockings and bowties. And if that wasn't enough, they stick a creep in the audience who admits upfront he's only there for the panty shots. Some philosophizing on All Men Are Perverts ensues from your female teammates.

But this I forgive, for one reason: one of the later characters is a Tyrannosaurus.

A Tyrannosaurus that breathes fire.

A Tyrannosaurus that breathes fire and uses an axe.

And is, at level 5, already outclassing level 30+ characters.

Her name is Lizzie.

edited 9th Jun '13 7:13:21 AM by Chabal2

And let's not forget the fact that whenever a Space Marine Legion found their Primarch, they invariably set up shop on that planet and absorbed at least some of the local populace's cultural mores—hence why Pre-Heresy Thousand Sons looked more like they should have been called the Bluhd Skarribs.

I wonder why they turned blue? Was it because Tzeentch?

Probably, though Khemri Egyptian decorations seem to go in for a lot of blue as well.