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I have no idea what's going on.
Also, Technocracy is a shit.
Also, Technocracy is a shit.
Advance Australia Fair [Old World of Darkness]
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So, what's the plan? Join the glorious Technocracy who is our friend?
Actual Cannibal Meghanada eh. Well I suppose that explains everything here.
[X] Force him to tell you where you came from.
LaRed
Are you stupid or something
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- Mou Ikkai hell
Think it's safe to say at this point the Technocracy can go sit on the world's tallest cactus.
And by sit I mean have it shoved where the sun don't shine.
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...do you actually know what's going on?
Well, if you had a psychotic cannibal with literal superpowers in custody, would you want to let them run amok?
Yes, the plan should be to get the Technocracy to cure us, because that would proooobably be better than you know, being an endless hungering cannibal.
Ah yes, protagonist centered morality. The best sort of morality.
Olive
Silent Princess
I wandered in here on Zerban's name knowing nothing about the oWoD and precious little about nWoD.
So no, not really.
Edit: I mean, I've got a pdf copy of the Ascension core book, but uni takes priority over working through that at the moment.
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Deadly Snark
Tryhard As Fuck
Hey look if Tokyo Ghoul has taught me anything is that Cannibalism gives bitching superpowers.
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We managed to not be a cannibal for literally our entire life up until now.
I have no idea what happened, frankly.
And don't pretend that this sort of thing isn't fucked up. It's unlikely to gain even the remotest speck of trust considering the fact that Meg has apparently been acting almost completely like a human for his entire life...which hints that, you know, there might be some way back and that maybe you shouldn't lock him in a box and make him more and more angry, desperate and afraid.
At most you can say that their immoral shit makes sense because cost-benefit analysis, dude, but don't pretend it ain't at least a little fucked.
LaRed
Are you stupid or something
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- Mou Ikkai hell
They've been hiding shit since we got here, Dad didn't want us to end up here and is pissed that they're fawning over Lakshmi, and they've been keeping us in isolation without saying why.
Look I know fuck-all about WoD, so I'm not even gonna push Traditionists for summerslam, but these guys aren't exactly 'team-up' material.
We also didn't have superpowers for literally our entire life until now. Nor did we fantasize about eating people. Like, even our dad is talking about the Rakshasha and how they devoured their own parents. I mean, it's pretty rare that getting superpowers in the World of Darkness is going to let you suddenly get 'some way back.'
Putting people who might, you know, seem on the constant edge of flipping out is not, I would say, "fucked." Like, there's no actual mistreatment going on when you're considering that Meg is both incredibly dangerous and incredibly unknown. If they wanted to just get rid of him, they've had access to him for a while. They could have just outright killed him at some point, and I don't think even dear old dad thinks that's the winning possibility.
Right now I think we're too valuable to kill and too dangerous to leave outside.
Dad was willing to have them save us and still works for them. As to why Meg's still in isolation, I suspect it has something to do with the whole "psychopathic cannibal" thing which dad was telling stories about. You know, the creatures which tried to eat the god which birthed them? The Rakshasha?
They're fawning over Lakshmi because she's probably a lot more controllable and less likely to flip the fuck out and murder everyone. Now isn't that an interesting consideration?
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Let me be frank, literally the best case scenario you're painting here seems to be the Technocracy using us as another one of their weird agents/monsters on a leash/assets.
We're not a Mage. We're not even a fucking person, or so it seems. (If you actually know what we are in the context of the oWoD and not the myth, I'd love to know.)
Literally the highest we can hope for if we stay is 'semi-disposable asset.'
Now, that said, the Traditions are probably just as much asses as an institution, but there might be individuals that are less likely to use us within that structure, because it's a weak enough structure to have random people go off and do random things.
Though, some of this is just thinking narratively. If there was no way for them to use us, then either we get broken out or the Quest ends in two updates with 'and then they shoot you in the head, that's the world of darkness, thanks for playing.'
...admittedly, that'd be oddly appropriate in a way.
Deadly Snark
Tryhard As Fuck
I think that it is quite telling that our subconscious mind instinctively knew that what we were eating was human flesh and that we'd find humans to be absolutely delicious. Despite the fact that we were never told that beforehand, nor had we ever knowingly eaten humans before.
It is quite troubling and has terrible implications for us, our family and what exactly our parents did. And even the real reason behind the attack on our house.
It is quite troubling and has terrible implications for us, our family and what exactly our parents did. And even the real reason behind the attack on our house.
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I think everyone is focusing too much on the WoD themes, and not enough on the Indian mythology themes.
Currently it seems that Meg is indeed the reincarnation of Meghanada/Indrajit. So it makes sense that he's a Rakshasa, since Indrajit was also one.
Also, this seems to have been ignored in favor of the man-eating revelation, but...Uncle Valmiki?
Currently it seems that Meg is indeed the reincarnation of Meghanada/Indrajit. So it makes sense that he's a Rakshasa, since Indrajit was also one.
Also, this seems to have been ignored in favor of the man-eating revelation, but...Uncle Valmiki?
Revlid
blob of bugs
- Location
- England
It's called "Mind rotes" and "welcome to the Technocracy".
A good round of
[X] Force him to tell you where you came from.
"Answer my fucking question!"
You've been this angry before, you know you have. This is just the first time you've felt it like this, in your bones and in your teeth, like your gums could split open and your lips could shrivel with the heat of your anger. Your grip tightens on his collar, and you're sure you could rip the silk like cheap paper.
"What am I?! You've never told me anything, now it's all werewolves and robots and fucking demigods and demons? What am I? What did you do?!"
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Deadly Snark
Tryhard As Fuck
Obligatory WoD Comment: "How Fucking Deep does this Hole goes?!"
LaRed
Are you stupid or something
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Doing a google hunt brings up that Rakshasa are a subclan of Nosferatu vamps, but I doubt we're that since I'm not even sure they can have living kids, which Lakshmi kinda(?) is.
To the other side of the planet and back again.
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So, we probably have to eat human meat to survive. We do know, however, that we can eat things that are not human meat (the dishes from before we were locked in a box included things that weren't human meat), and so it's possible that we don't actually need it to survive. I'm going to assume we do, though, until evidence says otherwise, or at least that the Technocracy thinks we do or else it wouldn't go through this much trouble.
We've had one fantasy of tearing out and eating the throat of a person who killed someone we loved, and we're otherwise a bit of an angry wreck.
It might have something to do with being locked up in a box and being constantly sedated and experimented upon and forcibly fed human flesh when we resisted eating.
Thus far the only crime we're guilty of is cannibalism (is it a crime? We're not killing the people ourselves and it's probably vat-grown or something), and considering they force-fed us it when we stopped eating it...
Also, we haven't seen a lawyer or been tried, charged, or accused of anything. Nor been told anything at all until Dad broke in just to talk to us.
We've had one fantasy of tearing out and eating the throat of a person who killed someone we loved, and we're otherwise a bit of an angry wreck.
It might have something to do with being locked up in a box and being constantly sedated and experimented upon and forcibly fed human flesh when we resisted eating.
Thus far the only crime we're guilty of is cannibalism (is it a crime? We're not killing the people ourselves and it's probably vat-grown or something), and considering they force-fed us it when we stopped eating it...
Also, we haven't seen a lawyer or been tried, charged, or accused of anything. Nor been told anything at all until Dad broke in just to talk to us.
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TenfoldShields
Lounging on a Hoard of Words
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...ahaha
So. Mother's Indian yeah? And Dad was in Bangladesh in '99. We were born in the Summer of 2000 which means that they, uh, got down to business Fall-ish of '99.
Which puts it squarely in the aftermath of Ravnos's awakening and the Week of Nightmares. There is a story there and it's a pretty complicated one. Dad used to be a field agent which means that, if he was in Bangladesh, he was likely hunting Vampires because there was a fucking war going on at that point and Mom was probably a Traditionalist working in the same area. Which means they met on opposite sides in a context that really heavily encourages cooperation.
Something else interesting:
Bastille Day, 2000
On the day Meghanada was born there was a massive solar flare. And this is oWoD so celestial phenomenon are pretty, um, significant.
I bizarrely like the idea that a member of a secret, globe spanning conspiracy used his shady connections with the economic elite to get genuine Netflix in Australia. It's so petty.
He is a Mage. If he wasn't human entirely we'd know it, mostly because reality itself would be trying to vent us into the Umbra or some shit like that. And that was an Awakening he had and willworking that he used. So...he's human. You have to be human to do that. But there's a gradient and there's degrees and the way dad talks about it?
We're more like a thin sack of human-ness around something very very alien.
Which is what rakshasa likely are in the oWoD cosmology. Intensely powerful aliens/spirits/EDEs. And I mean like...some shit. They're shapeshifters and maneaters and herokillers. Ravanna, their king, ripped out his own nerves and played mad power chords for the glory of Shiva. Like the update says the moment they came into being they attempted to devour god himself. They don't fuck around.
I don't think we can be cured. Our Awakening seems tied to a pretty intense emergence of our inhuman side, in the buildup up to it we had that invisitext going on and in this update we had
This.
Like @Enshuu said we're likely the reincarnation of Indrajit and that, more than anything, explains the treatment.
When he was alive Indrajit he defeated the devas in their heaven and took their celestial weapons for his own. In the war between Rama and Ravanna he personally slaughtered hundreds of millions of Vanaras (supernatural monkey-men warriors) and nearly exterminated their entire race. He is the only one in all of the Hindu canon to wield the three ultimate weapons, each which was capable of incredible (and in one case literally universe ending) power.
Even his name means Conqueror of Indra. The deva of rain and thunderstorms and a lord of heaven. Indrajit brought him back to Lanka lashed to the front of his chariot.
The Union is almost certainly fuckterrified of us.
That said they've drugged us and locked us in a cell and we're not even dreaming out the outside anymore, when we dream we dream of being in the cell and we can't even tell if we're awake or not.
Which, y'know, is pretty fucked but in character. The Union generally finds it pretty easy to dispose of things that it doesn't consider human. Constructs are one. Monsters are another. Semi-divine god-eaters from ancient myth are probably a comfortable third.
I don't think he's pissed that they're fawning over Lakshmi, I think he's feeling absolutely wretched because he's getting high-fives for providing the Australian Union with such a choice asset while one of his kids rots in a windowless hole where no one will ever find him.
Which sorta brings me to another point:
We have always been different from Lakshmi. Always. To the point that people didn't even think of us as twins. So...yeah. She gets to be the demigod and fawned over and we get dick.
Also
[X] Revlid
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I forgot to vote:
[X] Make him get you out of this cell. You don't care how, or what happens next.
We've been going crazy in a box for who knows how long, and the security breach might be detected any moment. These questions can be answered once we get out, either by Dad if he survives the breakout or by Mom/Uncle Val later.
Hitting the man might be more in character for Meghanada, judging by the camping scene, but... We can apparently now punch holes in solid concrete, or whatever the walls are. I don't want to add "killed our father" to the trauma train.
[X] Make him get you out of this cell. You don't care how, or what happens next.
We've been going crazy in a box for who knows how long, and the security breach might be detected any moment. These questions can be answered once we get out, either by Dad if he survives the breakout or by Mom/Uncle Val later.
Hitting the man might be more in character for Meghanada, judging by the camping scene, but... We can apparently now punch holes in solid concrete, or whatever the walls are. I don't want to add "killed our father" to the trauma train.