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SR3NORMANDY Problem Child from N/A - In constant flux Since: Jul, 2012
LatverianBadger Calamity is a housewife from gacha hell Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
Calamity is a housewife
#116702: Jun 3rd 2013 at 6:51:31 PM

YOOU GUUUYYYYS

NEW MEEEEME

Before you ask Jam, no I will not stop fanboying over Rising.

edited 3rd Jun '13 6:51:44 PM by LatverianBadger

"Shake the dust." - Anis Mojgani
thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#116703: Jun 3rd 2013 at 6:52:21 PM

It really does, Badger. [tup]

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI
Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#116704: Jun 3rd 2013 at 6:53:25 PM

-immolates self-

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LatverianBadger Calamity is a housewife from gacha hell Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
Calamity is a housewife
#116705: Jun 3rd 2013 at 6:53:36 PM

And before you ask, no I didn't make that.

But the person who did, whoever he/she is, is pretty cool by my book.

"Shake the dust." - Anis Mojgani
GlobsterAGoGo from Mobile Leprechaun's alt account Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#116706: Jun 3rd 2013 at 6:53:39 PM

@Fancy: Shoot, man, there's clips on You Tube. You can do eet.

@The whole Random and Prom thing: Can we please proceed with these discussions civilly and not have the umpteen-gillionth shitstorm in here? Quite frankly, I am sick of things always going the route that they've been going, and I'm about ready to put my foot down here. Are we no longer allowed to air grievances without them turning into personal feelings-hurty stuff? People should be allowed to say their opinions without shit going all pear-shaped.

/my $.02

and then they fricked in the booty
rockmanx Since: Jun, 2011
#116707: Jun 3rd 2013 at 6:54:39 PM

Can we have one civil discussion instead of turning it into an argument, please? This is a discussion thread, after all.

fancywig ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ from heckie Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: It was only a kiss
⋆ ⋆ ⋆
#116708: Jun 3rd 2013 at 6:55:07 PM

... Okay, I'm risking it.

fufufufufuuuu!!!

GO AHEAD .... MR. JOEHSTUR .......
Randomman5 "The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-" Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
"The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-"
#116709: Jun 3rd 2013 at 6:55:33 PM

My problem is that he claimed I don't listen to or acknowledge criticism. Like, seriously?

LatverianBadger Calamity is a housewife from gacha hell Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
Calamity is a housewife
#116710: Jun 3rd 2013 at 6:55:58 PM

Oh yeah Mobile said something about that thing I didn't want to bring up again for everyone.

(ahem)

What Mobile said. Things need to be discussed civilly, or else we'll never get anywhere. And I have a brief feeling Prom mistook Random for Napkins.

"Shake the dust." - Anis Mojgani
Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#116711: Jun 3rd 2013 at 6:59:40 PM

Wait, I apologize, I may be mixing people up.

I've just received many complaints from here about perceived godmodding, sue-ishness, and banal writing. If I confused you, Random, with someone else, I sincerely apologize, though I'm not sure if you'd accept it or not.

What does matter to me is that one or more people is/are not listening to the GM. If it was ME, if the GM was saying to me "please change your behavior, it's disrupting the RP" I would make myself change. I don't know if it's Random or Napkins doing this, but honestly, this is mostly an outsider's perspective looking inwards.

War is God.
Randomman5 "The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-" Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
"The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-"
#116712: Jun 3rd 2013 at 7:00:20 PM

The FG has no GM, though.

SR3NORMANDY Problem Child from N/A - In constant flux Since: Jul, 2012
Problem Child
#116713: Jun 3rd 2013 at 7:01:20 PM

There is no GM.

We're a democracy.

And the main problem with an outsider perspective is that it's an outsider perspective.

edited 3rd Jun '13 7:02:08 PM by SR3NORMANDY

What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?
eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#116714: Jun 3rd 2013 at 7:02:11 PM

I stuff the ballots though.

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#116715: Jun 3rd 2013 at 7:02:18 PM

Thanks.

Point two:

Actually, just in case any of you were confused, I'm going to copypasta this here so we can clear up any questions:

The "Suits" were a race that were nearly extinct. They were studying humans, who have individual identities, as opposed to their hivemind, figuring that this must be their secret to survival. In order to narrow down what made an individual an individual, they would change the city (a copy of Vegas, made by the Auditor) every night using their reality warping abilities, as well as a machine that amplified them, and implant different memories into the populace frequently, seeing what changed and what didn't with what were essentially different souls (brain patterns, but whatever). They had a special interest in Cloud, who had his own hivemind, and yet an identity separate from then, and the ability to intercept and interact with all those memories and maintain his sense of self, for the most part. Studying and experimenting on him was what helped them perfect the process, since their data is largely chemical, in contrast to our electronic machine-based tech, and on top of that, they needed a human-like mind that was still slimilar to their own, to learn how to bridge the gap. Cloud was perfect for this. Win-win. Except for Cloud, whose life is in a perpetual state of suck, but whatever.

They stop time and shift all the clones in the city and themselves to another plane of existence to do their thing. These were the times when the city was "empty", yet moved occasionally, and could be changed. Cloud himself was aware of this, but did not mention it for fear of the "don't think about pink elephants" effect. All it would take was one person panicking about their abilities to rip the whole place to bits by thinking about ripping the whole place to bits.

The un-timestopped phase was what the city was like normally, and what the party experienced until Cloud was awakened and unconsciously took them out of it.

The emergency phase was the third timeline, and the one swarming with Suits. It's so they can fix things in case someone gets out, like the party did.

Cloud was made into Dave when he got caught and implanted with fake (and ironically, happier) memories, bombarding him with the same injection repeatedly until he was ovewhelmed by the new information. They changed his eyes because that's all they could manage, and hid him in plain sight in the city.

The Doctor and Cloud were cloned due to, again, their unique minds. Cloud, so they'd have a backup in case the original, er, "broke" during testing, and the Doctor because he's basically the smartest thing ever, and a Time Lord. Cloning something with genes as complex as Cloud and the Doctor didn't quite work, though, especially when everyone in the city wasn't meant to live long, anyway. The Doctors died (hence their regeneration into Ten, and he didn't last long, either), and the Cloud they made wound up blind, and emotionally closed off due to being messed up in the brain (even moreso than the real Cloud).

The Auditor made them this city, and maintained all three timelines/planes in exchange for a few tests of his own.

So.

Point two:

  • Due to the nature of the city in the second "stopped" timeplane, things would wind up manifesting just from worrying about them too much — including inner demons. This was going to be the Silent Hill-y portion I was so looking forward to... that unfortunately got excercised once, and cut immediately afterwards due to there being a giant clusterfuck full of people. Originally, everyone was going to get their own little mini-arc as the in-between city got more and more unstable, forcing them to answer questions about themselves, blah blah blah character development that you all found annoying when I did a test-run with Cloud because none of you were there for his arc and I had to have him start spelling things out. No way in hell am I giving twenty-two people their own mini-arc. So unfortunately, that was a good chunk of the plot gone right there, as the character development between the characters was meant to open up more information about the city as they saw it change. Plus, I thought it would've been fun...

Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#116716: Jun 3rd 2013 at 7:02:19 PM

Its not really something to get mad over Rando. Instead of getting butthurt which is what you did. You could have assured him that you do.

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GlobsterAGoGo from Mobile Leprechaun's alt account Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#116717: Jun 3rd 2013 at 7:03:04 PM

What Jam said. He's apologizing to you, too.

Mistake or not, what he said was not an attack on your character as a person or an insult to your intelligence. It was a critique in good faith, and a critique about an internet game at that.

edited 3rd Jun '13 7:05:19 PM by GlobsterAGoGo

and then they fricked in the booty
Trip Since: Mar, 2012
WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#116719: Jun 3rd 2013 at 7:04:21 PM

@Jam: That's because Ten was going to be a GM-controlled character originally. I had to adapt, and that was the result.

rockmanx Since: Jun, 2011
Randomman5 "The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-" Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
"The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-"
#116721: Jun 3rd 2013 at 7:04:38 PM

Okay, sorry for freaking out.

SR3NORMANDY Problem Child from N/A - In constant flux Since: Jul, 2012
Problem Child
#116722: Jun 3rd 2013 at 7:05:43 PM

I had a pretty similar theory towards what it was all about by the end of the plot, and this pretty much confirmed most of it.

And I didn't realise that bringing in the Doctor would cause hiccups, but at least now we get an even more emotionally screwed up Nine who watched himself die three or four times.

Yay.

edited 3rd Jun '13 7:07:13 PM by SR3NORMANDY

What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?
LatverianBadger Calamity is a housewife from gacha hell Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
Calamity is a housewife
#116723: Jun 3rd 2013 at 7:06:45 PM

And I'm glad we've cleared this up.

@ Spaz: On the mini arcs thing, that actually sounds really interesting. No joke. It's a shame it didn't work out, really.

"Shake the dust." - Anis Mojgani
Randomman5 "The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-" Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
"The Perfect Villain Doesn't Exi-"
#116724: Jun 3rd 2013 at 7:06:55 PM

Irony - I literally asked Spazz what the hell was going on in Deluge yesterday, because I was archive-binging it. And now she's doing the same for everyone anyway.

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#116725: Jun 3rd 2013 at 7:07:35 PM

Yay.

Also getting ninja'd. What Jam said.


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