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Last Light of a Dark Age (Warhammer 29K/Disco Elysium)

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Chehrazad said:
I think personally that the narrative of Kora's Progeny will work very well here, which seems to be all about alienation from the people around us? Titanagalbat and Koinon have another theme going around, but Kora's Progeny seems to specifically focus on the experience of profound loneliness in a world where everyone else is connected on a level you never can. There is a vibe I feel myself there, of course, as an asexual woman in a very sexualized culture, where everyone else seems to get this fundamental thing, but even more so, right? Everyone looks the same, but everyone else seems to get something, to know something, to feel something that we don't, that we can't. There's almost something autistic, to that kind of vibe? I think that would be be really fun, but also make a great narrative point to work off for this kind of transcendence narrative.
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I have been thoroughly convinced.

[X] Kora's Progeny
 
Wow, it's getting pretty neck and neck. I encourage more discussion, commentary, reactions. I don't expect to close it soon - it's too close, and it's Christmas Day so I expect there will be more votes coming in. All three are in spitting distance of each other.
 
[X] Titanagalbat.

I HAD THE SERVERS OF THE LAND OF CARNOSA UTTERLY DESTROYED AND I COUNTED ITS HEROES AND CHAMPIONS AS GHOSTS

I DESTROYED AND DEVASTATED THE STORES AND SAVE STATES OF THEIR EARLIER AND LATER GENERATIONS AND TOOK THEIR FILES TO TITANAGALBAT I IMPRISONED THEIR SPIRITS WITHIN BODIES OF FLESH AND KEPT THEIR SOULS FROM RETURNING AND DEPRIVED THEM OF THEIR SANCTUARY

ON A MARCH OF ONE WEEK AND THIRTY FIVE HOURS I DEVASTATED THE DISTRICTS OF THE LAND OF CARNOSA AND SCATTERED THEIR NETWORKS AND DISMANTLED THEIR SATELLITES

AS FOR THE REST OF THEIR PEOPLE THOSE STILL ALIVE I MYSELF NOW RENDERED INERT THOSE PEOPLE NOW THERE AS A FUNERARY OFFERING I FED THEIR DATA TO THE FLICKERING BEASTS WITHIN THE MACHINES AND GROUND THEIR DRONES BENEATH MY TREAD

I CUT THEIR CABLES LIKE MENIALS I CUT OFF THEIR PRECIOUS SIGNALS AS ONE CUTS A STRING LIKE THE MANY WATERS OF THE STORM I MADE THE RUINS OF THEIR STEEL WARRIORS RUN IN A RIVER OF BLACK INCHOR

THE FEET OF MY GOD MACHINE WHICH BRINGS LOW THE WICKED AND EVIL WERE SPATTERED WITH THEIR WRACK AND RUIN

I HUNG THE DATA SLATES OF THEIR GREATEST CHAMPIONS UPON THE SHOULDERS OF THEIR ENFLESHED NOBLES AND PARADED THEM WITH SONG AND MUSIC THROUGH THE STREETS OF TITANAGALBALAT
 
she interrupted our legends of the galactic heroes watch and made me wait 20 minutes in the middle of an episode so she could write this. vote kora's progeny for reliable friends who dont desert you in the middle of episode 20
 
Chehrazad said:
she interrupted our legends of the galactic heroes watch and made me wait 20 minutes in the middle of an episode so she could write this. vote kora's progeny for reliable friends who dont desert you in the middle of episode 20
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vote titanagalbat if you are desirous of a friend who will stand shoulder to shoulder in the MECHAPHALANX for you in my lords conquest of all the lands between the oceans
 
Cetashwayo said:
For now, the very best currency I can obtain is commentary and enthusiasm. Time has always been a greater issue for me than money, and I would hate to ask for money when so little has been written.
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Rarely do I put my foot in the door at ground level, but I strongly suspect this quest is going places.

I have a question, and feel free not to answer if it would be a bit too meta, but are you differentiating nulls, pariahs and blanks? Is a hylic someone with no warp presence, or a negative warp presence?
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I want our character to diverge as much as possible from baseline human.
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Honestly I think that theme resonates pretty strongly with Koinon too. A polity which by my reckoning appears to exist to de-speciate posthumanity by means of common cause and creed, and to harness those who are psychically awakened towards constructive purpose. Their society is structured to impart the pneumatic caste a sort of noblesse oblige, while meeting their material needs and training them in a sort of stoicism/zen. In such a system, it's no wonder that we would be sent to live in isolation, because what role is there for one who can (at best) never connect psychically to the pseudo-gestalt? At worst, our very existence is actively disruptive to that society's cohesion through no fault of our own, and yet rather than simply putting us to death or casting us out, they've gone to the trouble, in an already very troubled world, to provide us some sort of existence.

In such circumstances, there is no choice but to change, and to change radically enough to fit into a niche within that kind of society.
Laplace said:
vote titanagalbat if you are desirous of a friend who will stand shoulder to shoulder in the MECHAPHALANX for you in my lords conquest of all the lands between the oceans
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I'll also admit that I'm a bit tempted by Koinon as they're one of the two polities most likely to have an interesting conflict of interests with the emerging Imperium, I think. They already have a pair of messianic figures, they've openly confronted the reality of a psychic awakening rather than trying to bury it and hope it goes away, and they're in a sort of open conflict/cold war with a polity in contact with some form of the proto-mechanicum.

Cetashwayo said:
The plankton is friend-shaped. It envelops the entire supercontinent like a liquid hug. Go deeper into the ocean so the plankton can be your friend and the friend of all your individual morsels of matter.
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Ah, I see.
Hello there pattern-juggler, I see how it is.
 
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HungryHamadryad said:
I have a question, and feel free not to answer if it would be a bit too meta, but are you differentiating nulls, pariahs and blanks? Is a hylic someone with no warp presence, or a negative warp presence?
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The blank lore in 40K is a mess. It's been swapped around in different editions and by different authors. Since blanks don't have a faction to represent them and because it's been so subject to change in origin and function, it's an extremely malleable category of being. I have created or picked apart interpretations to build my own lore for this, because they are going to feature more and be more active and I need consistency. I have tried, wherever possible, not to outright homebrew things, and instead build off a web of different existing interpretations. That's my general approach to 40K - I try to reconcile and collate contradiction into something more interesting than any of the individual options.

What I can say is that on Illuminata, there is only one kind of blank/null/pariah, and the terms are interchangeable, and all mean the same thing. I recommend consulting Event Horizon and the Abyssal Nail's description for hints. It is specifically an inverse soul.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by Waith on Dec 25, 2024 at 8:00 PM, finished with 110 posts and 51 votes.
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[X] Carnosan Freescape

I am going to fight with all my guttering, slowly-waning soul to force Miss Normal to be the most trans yuri possible.

we gotta kiss girls and become more girl every single vote or I'll cry. Destroying the Bronze King and usurping the Monad is essential to this.
 
Chanceseal said:
antephagic networkWhat phage was this that marks history? The plankton?
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The Antephagic Web is colored as a wasteland on the map and seems to begin in the Tetras Connection before crossing the border into the Carnosan Freeshard where it may also connect to the wasteland territories running though the Binar Nightcities and ending at the southern tip of the Cybaris Company.

Coupled with mentions of 'uploads', 'the Cosmos Virtual', 'digital immortality' and 'server-cities' in the Carnosan section of the post and I feel like it may be both a digital and geographical phenomenon.

[x] Kora's Progeny.
 
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Oh this is so cool, Cetashwayo creating bangers as always
 
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