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by Shroom Man 777
Mon Feb 25, 2019 8:31 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 520254

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Huh right Apexai sorcerer ghosts and memories of sorcerer ghosts that can still wreck shit like any living sorcerer ghost... the destruction of the Oversoul probably caused a lot of gnarly stuff to bleed out back into reality. So in the occupied Apexaian parts of Bragspace there could've been all so...
by Shroom Man 777
Tue Feb 19, 2019 3:14 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 520254

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

What if Hank himself is the current incarnation but the original mind wasn't even someone we'd think of as Hank but some Earthreign continuity contingency system that beamed out hyper-capable secrets-bearing souls/beings across space in hopes of recreating the grand project. Hank became Hank after t...
by Shroom Man 777
Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:39 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 520254

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Woah my god yeah, not sure how much of it Hank himself remembers and hands-on made, but yes Sidney Hank as the immortal vizier of the Earthreign, one of the makers or even founders... is he haunted by his mistakes and wants to change and do right while using methods based on what he knew? Or is he t...
by Shroom Man 777
Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:04 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Book Thread
Replies: 203
Views: 163117

Re: The Book Thread

Been reading The Way of Kings by Brian Sanderson and despite the guy's rep among fantasy buffs... I'm kinda just whelmed? The stuff with the lords is kinda belabored, his plot is moving slower than I'd like, the book is thicker than my Earthsea collection with four stories, and I guess reading Le Gu...
by Shroom Man 777
Tue Feb 12, 2019 4:48 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 520254

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Sure, more cross-pollination of weird shit from the K-Zone. Distance shouldn't be a mega-obstacle... and there are gateways!
by Shroom Man 777
Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Games!
Replies: 57
Views: 62177

Re: Games!

Steve wrote: Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:32 am Kingdom Hearts 3 is out. 'nuff said. 8-)


:lol:
by Shroom Man 777
Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:08 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 520254

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Respiters can literally baptise people or sprinkle sacred fluid and infect people with the liquefied souls which can have psionic secondary bio-mutagenic effects... MIDICHLORIANS and MITOCHONDRIAL EVES and cue Kojima-esque ramblings of DOMINANT GENES and METALLIC ARCHEA! The biological component isn...
by Shroom Man 777
Fri Feb 08, 2019 1:44 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 520254

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

I think the ecosystem around the flames might themselves be affected over time and be "purified" to a point of combusting, maybe the Pyroprax flames can also incorporate psionically neutral matter - not as an active ingredient or fuel, but something that'll still immolate? Stuff just catch...
by Shroom Man 777
Wed Feb 06, 2019 4:13 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 520254

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Sure, Zigonian converts and apostles of the early Pyroprax decided on a new way when they were spreading the faith in the frontier - like the Nestorian Christians of Central Asia with their divergent faith. The Respiters probably wanted a Communion that didn't melt entire ecosystems - as I think the...
by Shroom Man 777
Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:32 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 520254

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Hmmm... the coding of the Hrlgtuhe may vary depending on the ancient hegemony they came from. Yes, more collectivistic/totalitarian ones probably have denizens coded to be Cold War Lemmings. Less centralized civilizations could have more fragmented, community-level neurodogma bonds... filial piety t...
by Shroom Man 777
Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:02 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
Replies: 80
Views: 43639

Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 6 - "Meta Incognita"

Unfortunately it is really hard to write a profound technological mismatch well. Blending the two plots was intended to mitigate this, and I grimaced a lot and felt like I was undercutting the Firefly characters, but I couldn't write myself out of it. In the end the result was 10,000 words longer t...
by Shroom Man 777
Sat Jan 12, 2019 2:27 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
Replies: 80
Views: 43639

Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 6 - "Meta Incognita"

But Steve, I have barely developed anything definite at all. It's all being filtered through the attitudes of people with hidden agendas and personal biases. And the Fracture itself has malleable memetics and history - but of course Imra knowing actual encrypted command thoughts makes her quite acc...
by Shroom Man 777
Thu Jan 10, 2019 12:29 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
Replies: 80
Views: 43639

Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 6 - "Meta Incognita"

There was a mystery spaceship in the Voltron chapter?
by Shroom Man 777
Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:53 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
Replies: 80
Views: 43639

Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 6 - "Meta Incognita"

You could integrate the callsigns to the cast of characters in the first page. Jeez, I do appreciate how we get fundamental multiverse-defining information disclosed in this spin-off series. Real heavy stuff. So revelations aren't just because the Chosen Ones in the Aurora happened on all the verse-...
by Shroom Man 777
Tue Jan 08, 2019 10:02 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
Replies: 80
Views: 43639

Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 6 - "Meta Incognita"

Well, she's close to Elia! And she went on leave with Fei'nur... And c'mon, no comment about the fact that Earthreign ships are controlled with encrypted thoughts ? Oh I found that quite cool, though Zhen'var having a moment of unsubdued humor was more astounding :P So if Imra has encrypted thought...
by Shroom Man 777
Tue Jan 08, 2019 1:02 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
Replies: 80
Views: 43639

Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 6 - "Meta Incognita"

That's nice - Zhen'var saying Santyanna :D

Yeah, her loosening up and becoming close to this crew would be so <3
by Shroom Man 777
Mon Jan 07, 2019 11:56 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"
Replies: 16
Views: 10984

Re: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"

The Culinary Lab isn't so much difference science as it is a reflection of a cultural approach to eating places. The Gersallian minority that the lounge's operator comes from has an appreciation for such kinds of eateries, so he implemented it on the Maimonides . I mean with super sci-fi tech it ma...
by Shroom Man 777
Sun Jan 06, 2019 6:32 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"
Replies: 16
Views: 10984

Re: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"

I love this but upon thinking about it, I think Colin came off as too much of a Manic Pixie Psychic Badass :P I mean, he's such a fun cool guy AND he likes anime and is such a polymath and a smartass... but I love the Psi-Corps action. And the nUF spinoffs are doing great exploring these aspects in ...
by Shroom Man 777
Sun Jan 06, 2019 6:26 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
Replies: 80
Views: 43639

Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 6 - "Meta Incognita"

Haha, poor Jubal. What a chump but that's part of his charm - getting taken out in all sorts of underwhelming anticlimatic ways. Imra is nuts. She's the best. ...and, oh no. :( ...and oh shit. What the hell? What the fucking hell... she even threw mass effect stuff at them! Sweet god. Incredible. An...
by Shroom Man 777
Sun Jan 06, 2019 6:16 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
Replies: 80
Views: 43639

Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 5 - "Big Iron"

I'd actually say that it's the opposite, that Zhen'var's being a hardass is a direct result of the traumatic experience of her mutiny and is not the end of her character development--but rather a realistic if sometimes problematic reaction to her trauma. Ah, yes I did get that Zhen'var's hardness i...
by Shroom Man 777
Fri Jan 04, 2019 4:57 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
Replies: 80
Views: 43639

Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 5 - "Big Iron"

JUBAL EARLY! That great man! Amazing! I'm amazed that Zhen'var's militarism makes Davies of all people come off as the laid back type. And I guess what strikes me is how... gung-ho Dilgar Zhen'var is now. I've just skimmed the previous chapters but this one has Firefly in it and more Imra, and Imra ...
by Shroom Man 777
Sat Dec 29, 2018 6:36 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"
Replies: 16
Views: 10984

Re: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"

That was amazeballs.
by Shroom Man 777
Thu Dec 27, 2018 4:07 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 520254

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

But how did the younger species even notice this weakness, given that the Apexai were already unshakably isolationist before this point? That unconsciously psychohistory's inertia drove them to attack, like over the decades and centuries the Vielre themselves became apathetic and some even just wit...
by Shroom Man 777
Wed Dec 26, 2018 11:24 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"
Replies: 16
Views: 10984

Re: "Tales from the Undiscovered Frontier"

Nice. That New Liberty councilor is totally Havokeff :P