Somehow, Kissinger is still alive…

BUT!

BRB making a few alt accounts to upvote all my own posts, since all you cowards refuse to give me enough microdoses of dopamine.

(:Public:) Ax (A) is curious what Kasia/Zephyr did that was bad enough to have not only her, but those people associated with her get their alts destroyed and their primary characters (some of who were on vacation) sent to the Old Guard Lounge and @passworded? Is that the new standard of dealing with people who investigate claims of sexual harassment here? Burn them and their associates? I’m just curious
(:Public:) Cujo says, “Ax, you don’t care about any of those things.”
(:Public:) Cujo says, “If you did, you’d put in a request to talk privately.”
(:Public:) Cujo says, “But you didn’t do that, you posted it publicly because you want to make a huge show of things.”
(:Public:) Cujo sayz, “So now you’re banned from this channel, well done.”

DO NOT SPEAK OUT, OR YOU WILL BE SILENCED, etc etc. Shocker.

@Pavel said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@SqeakyClean said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@DarthSmegma said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

The staff just imperiously announced ‘We’re skipping ahead fifteen years so that Rey and Ben Solo can have lots of babies! If you don’t like it, leave!’

Actually, it’s Rey and Poe’s babies on Age of Kora. Poe, played by Sumi’s player.

Still a better match IMHO.

POE IS MARRIED TO FINN, AND NOTHING JJ OR DISNEY SAYS WILL CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE.

Since Derp and Ghost keep bringing it up, I’ll repeat a point I’ve made before:

People are going to keep talking about the community being hijacked, because at the end of the day, before any of this happened, any of YOU who feel the need to talk about bullies being mean - YOU could have made your own board, and made it however you wanted.

Instead, you decided to change the rules of the board we were all on and throw anyone who disagreed out. Which is the root of it all. And you know it. Because you keep bringing up how we went somewhere else and made the rules we wanted.

And it’s pretty fucked up how you keep rewriting history to justify the decision.

Another person banned for person attacks, despite making fewer personal attacks than Ghost. Maybe it was the big words?

Of course, they had to ban @Kestrel. You showed up with receipts about their hypocrisy. 12/10. Would also upvote if I could.

@kalakh said in Bannings:

The new argument that this is merely the result of wanting more moderation and people are just mad that they are being moderated (because they’re super hypocrites and are now getting theirs), sure is a take.

People wanted moderation to fork threads or move them to different boards, and to ban the rapists or that one guy who sprouts up every couple months and tries to set everything on fire. So technically yes, more moderation was wanted.

But it is an extremely bad faith reading that the logical conclusion is ‘ban everyone who dares to speak out’. Pretty against the spirit of the job that was asked to be done, you might say.

@hobos said in Bannings:

I do care that VulgarKitten lied to those people, and I feel for them, particularly one who I personally admire who was really hurt by the lies. More importantly, she is sorry about it.

If she is actually sorry about it, perhaps she should admit that and apologize, and not pretend to be a totally different, literally new person, which fits the profile of the issues in the first place?

@helvetica said in Bannings:

@kalakh said in Bannings:

VK/Hella

I didn’t know who Hella was. lmaoooooo

Yeah, she literally changed her username and started pretending to be a new person right after the banning- spree, and nobody has called her out on it.

@Tat said in Bannings:

@Roadspike said in Bannings:

@farfalla Ares logs are system-created and (to my knowledge) can’t be edited. I would probably take a regular log too, but that would mean I was playing on a non-Ares game, and ain’t nobody got time to go technologically backwards.

Yeah, they can’t be edited unless you’re a coder, because they come straight from the database and not a player’s computer.

THAT JUST PROVES THE CODER IS IN ON THE CHEMTRAIL FLOURIDE CONSPIRACY TO MAKE PEOPLE LOOK BAD BECAUSE THEY ARE AN ENEMY OF THE CLIQUE!!!111!!1!ONE!!!111ELEVEN!

Anyway, stop making me want to run [Assorted] space game. Instead pick from the list and I will silently cheer from the sidelines and/or offer to halp with +jobwork.

@Wizz I think it was an Ares game that fizzled out, but I’m not 100% sure.

@dvoraen said in Missed Settings:

Why haven’t I seen more Stargate games?

Because the show ruined the perfectly good plot potential as laid out by the film, I will not be taking questions at this time.

@MisterBoring said in Missed Settings:

If the ship isn’t moored somewhere, the exits are just removed and the players have to stay on the ship.

This is smol boat/helicopter erasure!

@somasatori said in Everworld of Darkness:

I don’t really know enough about Demon to figure that one out.

God Machine divided by Zero and that basically nuked the Gauntlet, Demons are trying to build Infrastructure to re-stabilize things.

@somasatori said in Everworld of Darkness:

Sin-Eaters

… and Mummies, who also need the Underworld/Duat… but due to the shattered nature of reality, they are temporally locked to now, solving their time-travel shenanigans.

@somasatori said in Everworld of Darkness:

Stuff about Poles

Something something Exalted Creation something.

@somasatori said in Everworld of Darkness:

Prometheans

Always gotta do something about them tainting the land and drawing in people to kill them. It’s just the way of the MU world.

@labsunlimited said in Everworld of Darkness:

uuuuuuugh you had me until ‘oWoD fluff’

This is fair, but also… incredibly easy to shift to nWoD/CoD. It’s very wibbly wobbly. Something something someone fed the God Machine ChatGPT code tried to get the God Machine to divide by Zero, and reality is now extremely fucked up. Ancient Blood Rites for Vampires still valid, Incarna still valid for Shifters, replace Horizon Realms with something something Atlantis Supernal Realm, Fae… I want to somehow merge Dreaming and Lost, because ‘everyone is dealing with PTSD and your memory is fake’ isn’t… the best for everyone?

Also also, we wrote the original idea before Mummy the Curse, so that’s probably a factor why it is mostly oWoD coded.

@dvoraen said in Everworld of Darkness:

@somasatori said in Everworld of Darkness:

you had me at “alien gods”

Don’t we just call them eldritch horrors and assume tentacles?

I mean usually. But in reference to the book, it’s literal ‘another species from an alien planet showed up in our Old God Bubble-World, and they are mostly cool. Except they also brought their God with them, who wants to eat our Gods’.

He do be having Hentacles, though

@somasatori said in Everworld of Darkness:

you had me at “alien gods”

You don’t need this for Alien Gods, that’s stock standard Void Engineer plots!

I keep saying I’ll detail this, and maybe I have before, but I forget, so now I’ll do it for maybe the first time, maybe the ??? time, I still think this has legs for a oWoD setting.

We all know and love Trans-Ally Katherine Applegate’s Animorphs series… the anti-war, anti-authorian tale of teenagers given the power to morph into animals to be child soldiers who commit war crimes to save Earth fight off an invasion of mind controlling brain slugs from outer space.

She just so happened to write another series, titled Everworld.

Spoiler

Everworld of Darkness (sometimes called the City of a Thousand Horizon Realms, because its also a mish-mash of things like that one Valerian comic the film was based on) is not terribly different from Ascension Sojurns.

The World Ended. The End Times happened, and all was lost. Reality as we knew it is gone. There were those who fought back and most died. There were those who hid, many of whom died, but not all. Those who ran (distinct from hiding) got far and some made it far enough that Oblivion rising up and eating reality didn’t get them.

Be it through Mages doing Mage, ancient Bloodrites of the vampires, protection of the Incarna in the spirit world, dreamspun realities of the Fae, or [other spheres thematic mechanic], there are chunks of reality that still exist. These are all woven together into a new patchwork existence.

(… this is also how I picture the Matrix being laid out, singular city, specific areas, ‘Neo is in THE MOUNTAINS’, ‘Morpheus said to never get on THE HIGHWAY’, etc)

As this idea partially built out of ‘what if Darkcity WoD?’, we begin with… THE CITY. It can be as small as Manhattan or as large as Megacity 1, how big it looks, and its architecture, depend on the section you’re in. Easy enough to leave and go out to suburbs, but that’s not to say you cant navigate inside the city to other places, too.

There are different parts of the city, of course… you go far enough into China Town and you might wind up in a bit of patchwork mystic Wuxia land just as easily as you can end up in a part of THE CITY that looks like Beijing. Venture out of the city away from suburbia and into the forest and shit drifts into an Amazon zone, the barrier between a chaotic disregard for actual fauna biology. Of course there is a way to the Desert that gets you Persian or Middle Eastern or (dubious ethnicity that Eshu play off of). Somewhere there is Egypt-land, because of course there is.

Rivers can lead different places… the !Nile can get you to Nordic raiding villages just as easy as it can get you to Mesoamerica Aztec Sacrifice Land. Get on a boat and sail the sea to other places, because who doesn’t like boats. It’s all very Horizon Realm and the Dreaming and the Shadow and maybe even the Underworld, all weirdly pushed through the square hole.

While this is all oWoD terminology, but you can sub in nWoD/CoD stuff, too. Or use a clever explanation of ‘oWoD fluff, nWoD/CoD mechanics because reality is fucked’, whatever. Granted there’s less of an End Times plot, but this is a post-apocalyptic setting, so maybe details have been lost to history.

Go forth, coders, and use this idea for your own chicanery! I will probably show up at some point.

Actually, everyone in Small Town knowing about the supernatural enough that the Masq/Veil/whatever is lax, but also somehow forced to not tell outsiders about it… feels like it has legs? Now you can idly chat in the bar about your werewolf’s cool kill and maybe get looks because murder/death is gross, more so than because it’s a horror from beyond reality.

But it’s also not giving ‘reality, but secret monsters’, because the monsters aren’t really secret.

@Snackness I will math out a sheet for you, but you’ll have to figure out all the +infos and +notes and whatnot.