fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
I know that I really shouldn't, but I have to ask @DragonParadox What language is Molly speaking here?
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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- Crossover Fantasy
Good for Leech. The face is boney, and can hurt your hand. Punch bullies in the throat.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Honestly championing anti-bullying is rather hard from our position without applying a level of power that sort of seems like bullying in it's own right. I have only been bullied once back in high school and it was resolved fairly quickly by my getting the guy to punch me in the face in a public area and quickly reporting it. Which seems like easy mode compared to what I read about.
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BoredMan
Dinosaurs came in many flavors. Like potato chips.
Overall I'd say we did as well as possible after everything kicked off and the speech went rather smoothly thanks to the rolls and @CuriousQuasit well worded stunt. I'm still surprised by the sudden Angel summoning earlier. I wonder if we should be reading into that?
Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
- Location
- ALSO SCREAMING.
Man, anti-bullying is one hell of a windmill to tilt at in today's climate. It was bad enough when I was a kid in the nineties and the first few years of the millennium and, from looking at the shit with the few relations I have born to this generation, it hasn't gotten much better. From above there is this pressure to not rock the boat, bullying being some flavor of 'boys will be boys' but reacting to bullying being a dangerous and intolerable precedent. In the trenches, well, schools are pretty much prisons writ small and everything is the worst possible mix of helplessness, meaninglessness, isolation in a crowd, and rules being so arbitrary or at least arbitrarily enforced that they become something you weather rather than abide by. Its just year after year of 'the beatings will continue until morale improves' with everyone outside somehow acting shocked when morale doesn't improve and instead you get a slideshow of tragedies.
Its one of those godawful messes where most campaigns to fight it are going to end up just giving hollow platitudes before whitewashing the problem so a few people can feel good about themselves. The system needs its guts ripped out and replaced rather than getting a solid coat of paint.
If I was fortunate enough to have the heartache of children myself I'd probably feel more comfortable having them tutored in the tunnels beneath Chicago alongside assorted recovering cannibals than in your median public school. Their company would be far better adjusted people. And my answer is that problem is to subsume the crap out of the diseased hulks of this failing world and do it better.
[X] Take Hank to the part, it's been a while since you spent time with your littlest brother
The youngest are the easiest to miss while being those with the greatest potential, almost by definition.
Its one of those godawful messes where most campaigns to fight it are going to end up just giving hollow platitudes before whitewashing the problem so a few people can feel good about themselves. The system needs its guts ripped out and replaced rather than getting a solid coat of paint.
If I was fortunate enough to have the heartache of children myself I'd probably feel more comfortable having them tutored in the tunnels beneath Chicago alongside assorted recovering cannibals than in your median public school. Their company would be far better adjusted people. And my answer is that problem is to subsume the crap out of the diseased hulks of this failing world and do it better.
[X] Take Hank to the part, it's been a while since you spent time with your littlest brother
The youngest are the easiest to miss while being those with the greatest potential, almost by definition.
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You could also try punching the local school god, the god of social dynamics, and finally (not advised) the fate of children involved.
Anyway,
[X] Leech is trying to figure out the best way to champion anti-bullying in her school. She has reluctantly struck out 'punch them in the face'
All of these are really, really tempting, but here is where we seem to be needed most. Hank is a mystery option, of course.
BoredMan
Dinosaurs came in many flavors. Like potato chips.
Say it again for the people in the back!!
Also wasn't Hank used as bait for Lashiel's Coin? I be worried about him sometimes.
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Latin, everyone's been speaking Latin, it's the language of the Council.
May I propose the patented Yoko Hiromine method?
I can guarantee no bullying from the same source after that!
BoredMan
Dinosaurs came in many flavors. Like potato chips.
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The issue with bullying is that we can most likely solve it with one inspirational speech. Those are children. Getting 20+ successes is quite doable. If we want to go overboard, a 1 dot splendor, if barely that, with fortuitous reprieve could be made (for example, by enchanting school gates) that would grant each student a day long dot of allies: other students of the same school. With everyone being allies, there would be no bullying.
We can ridiculously overperform this in a hundred ways. The complicated part is getting Leech thr help she needs instead of taking over.
We can ridiculously overperform this in a hundred ways. The complicated part is getting Leech thr help she needs instead of taking over.
A Shin player? Here?
A baby one, I have only played vengeance after trying persona 4 and bouncing back hard at the time management gimmick (and false difficulty of the hardest mode making you obtain almost no xp or money from fights).
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[x] Leech is trying to figure out the best way to champion anti-bullying in her school. She has reluctantly struck out 'punch them in the face'
To be fair it was designed to educate as many people as possible as fast as possible. The people who designed the modern educational system were in many ways visionaries who helped usher in what might be the greatest increase in quality of life in human history... but they weren't exactly experts in child psychology. 'But how are the kids going to treat each other?' was hardly a thought passing though their mind when beatings were still considered sound pedagogy.
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[X] Take Hank to the part, it's been a while since you spent time with your littlest brother
RATIONALE
Molly has six siblings
Daniel – 16. Harry thinks's he's "maybe old enough to take a driver's test." According to Jim, he was conceived 2-3 years after Michael rescued Charity. He's thin, and both he and Matthew share Michael's dark hair and solid, sober expression. Based on his reaction to the fetches in PG, we know that he's definitely his father's son!
Matthew – 13-14, between grade school and pimples.
Alicia ("Leech") – About 11. Short dark hair, black-rimmed glasses, and a serious expression. (With her dark hair, she is the only Carpenter that doesn't follow the Brady Bunch coloring scheme of blonde girls and brunet guys.)
Amanda – almost 9, as she's 5 1/2 (and a princess!) in DM. She has curly blonde hair and a fondness for bright-colored clothing. In DM, she wears a pink dress with a clashing orange sweater, bright purple shoes, and a red coat.
Hope ("Hobbit") – 6 or 7. Also blonde.
Harry ("Hank") – 4 1/2. Dark hair, like his brothers.
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Not only am I uninterested in addressing the emotionally fraught issue of bullying right now?
Id like Molly to spend some (onscreen) time with her other siblings.
Leech can spare some of the spotlight.
And yes, Hank is named after Harry. He was born at the end of Grave Peril.
I think the last time he had a speaking role in the quest was at the beginning of Arc 2, immediately after Molly bought +1 Appearance, and he commented about Molly being different/less creepy?
[X] Take Hank to the part, it's been a while since you spent time with your littlest brother
RATIONALE
Molly has six siblings
Daniel – 16. Harry thinks's he's "maybe old enough to take a driver's test." According to Jim, he was conceived 2-3 years after Michael rescued Charity. He's thin, and both he and Matthew share Michael's dark hair and solid, sober expression. Based on his reaction to the fetches in PG, we know that he's definitely his father's son!
Matthew – 13-14, between grade school and pimples.
Alicia ("Leech") – About 11. Short dark hair, black-rimmed glasses, and a serious expression. (With her dark hair, she is the only Carpenter that doesn't follow the Brady Bunch coloring scheme of blonde girls and brunet guys.)
Amanda – almost 9, as she's 5 1/2 (and a princess!) in DM. She has curly blonde hair and a fondness for bright-colored clothing. In DM, she wears a pink dress with a clashing orange sweater, bright purple shoes, and a red coat.
Hope ("Hobbit") – 6 or 7. Also blonde.
Harry ("Hank") – 4 1/2. Dark hair, like his brothers.
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Not only am I uninterested in addressing the emotionally fraught issue of bullying right now?
Id like Molly to spend some (onscreen) time with her other siblings.
Leech can spare some of the spotlight.
And yes, Hank is named after Harry. He was born at the end of Grave Peril.
I think the last time he had a speaking role in the quest was at the beginning of Arc 2, immediately after Molly bought +1 Appearance, and he commented about Molly being different/less creepy?
