- Location
- Somewhere in the area
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
[X] A Sensitive Body, attuned to itself and the world around it [+2 to all Appetite Attributes, +1 to all Form Attributes].
Last Light of a Dark Age (Warhammer 29K/Disco Elysium)
- Thread starter Cetashwayo
- Start date
- Sci-Fi
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
@Cetashwayo The vote tally's borked. Because you used the [brackets] element in a manner not consistent with [Task] vote sorting, the tally has decided that all custom votes are now [SUNRISE PARABELLUM] votes. And I cannot find a way to separate these votes out again.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
Hmm. What would fix this?
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Never use [brackets] in your vote options. Ever. Don't even look at them funny, or they might attack.
(No idea. Either do a manual count or restart the vote. That said, I've never figured out what the tally's "Categories" options even do, but I'm not sure much of anyone else has, either.)
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
That's fine. I'll just do the vote manually.
- Location
- France
[X] A Sensitive Body, attuned to itself and the world around it [+2 to all Appetite Attributes, +1 to all Form Attributes].
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
Okay, I do want people to know what custom options are winning so I think I'll do this instead.
1. If you voted for Sunrise Parabellum, please change your vote as it contains an attribute which cannot be increased right now.
2. Everyone else, please exchange your brackets for parentheses, so the vote tally doesn't treat all your votes as the same.
My apologies for the tags, but I did want to make sure everyone was aware of the issue and could distinguish their particular votes.
I think I had an issue like this in KoG once come to think of it. Brackets: not even once!
1. If you voted for Sunrise Parabellum, please change your vote as it contains an attribute which cannot be increased right now.
2. Everyone else, please exchange your brackets for parentheses, so the vote tally doesn't treat all your votes as the same.
My apologies for the tags, but I did want to make sure everyone was aware of the issue and could distinguish their particular votes.
I think I had an issue like this in KoG once come to think of it. Brackets: not even once!
- Location
- boundless optimism
ooopsie
bracketed my vote soz cetash
bracketed my vote soz cetash
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
Yeah you just need to remove all the brackets and replace them with () because the tally is freaking out and transmuting everyone into Sunrise Parabellum. Which is pretty cool. Note to self: create vote-tally breaking vote options in the future to represent infohazards!
- Location
- boundless optimism
so you're saying that if i want my vote to win, I just need to edit the vote i need to win with an open bracket before the votes close?
delightfully devilish
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] A Really Specific Type of Body: A beautiful body. (+3 GLAMOUR, +2 BIOMECHANICS, +1 all others.)
You were a child, really. Just born and ignorant. You appreciated the surface understanding of things: The pretty image of your smiling face, the happy feelings of your living flesh. What did you know of the substance of things? The danger outside yourself? There was not one thought in your head that was prepared for when it all came crashing down.
(Since we're just getting started with our stats, I felt like telling a tiny story rather than trying to balance stat levels. I'm sure it's a terrible plan on a game mechanics level, but really, what even is minmaxing, and can you eat it?)
You were a child, really. Just born and ignorant. You appreciated the surface understanding of things: The pretty image of your smiling face, the happy feelings of your living flesh. What did you know of the substance of things? The danger outside yourself? There was not one thought in your head that was prepared for when it all came crashing down.
(Since we're just getting started with our stats, I felt like telling a tiny story rather than trying to balance stat levels. I'm sure it's a terrible plan on a game mechanics level, but really, what even is minmaxing, and can you eat it?)
[X] A Really Specific Type of Body (MULHOLLAND DRIVE) (+3 RHYTHMS +3 BIOMECHANICS +3 MOTION BLUR)
Honestly I like most of the options, but Mulholland Drive is a great film so why not!
EDIT: Adding in an approval vote because why not:
[X] A Really Specific Type of Body (MOVEMENT OF THE SPHERES) (+3 RHYTHMS +2 MOTION BLUR +2 GLAMOUR +1 INFOWAR +1 BIOMECHANICS)
Honestly I like most of the options, but Mulholland Drive is a great film so why not!
EDIT: Adding in an approval vote because why not:
[X] A Really Specific Type of Body (MOVEMENT OF THE SPHERES) (+3 RHYTHMS +2 MOTION BLUR +2 GLAMOUR +1 INFOWAR +1 BIOMECHANICS)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Analysis and questions on the process of the birth:
First memory:The soul.(How does the marrow know, was it there for this? Did this event really come first, might it not have co-occurred? How and when did the soul come meet to the body? Why is it produced? Would it not be more natural for the body to shape, incubate the self and therefore the soul? What's up with souls?)
We begin with an amoeba of conscience, already bearing the abyssal nail, on a slate. (What about the before? How was the amoeba sourced? How was the nail produced?)
The breath of the Father is applied, producing an anthropomorphic effect upon the soul. (I question the logistics of the caged breath. Is it produced by the Lapsarian(from latim lapus, meaning fall) Lung? Perhaps this strategic resource has been stockpiled, only used when necessary. Or perhaps the empty slates are the ones produced.)
Next memory:The Chandlers.
Wax is poured on vapor, the soul, granting it definition. (I question if this is not figurative, 10,613 candle makers expired coding the wax, did they code it by literally pouring wax on a soul? Probably not.)
For the next step we have a slate of wax, the amniotic print-slate, the body to be. (Is this the empty slate upon which was the soul, now filled?)
The soul steps into the printer and meld with the wax.(Probably an artifact of the narration and not a real step.)
Then in time the amniotic wax grows into a fully adult print ready to enter the Prelapsarian nursery. (No childhood? What's the Prelapsarian nursery? It is a piece of infrastructure that predates the fall. But is a specif place, a series of legacy infrastructure or is it a design?)
After the amniotic printer there is a whole gene-kiln process. (Is this part exclusive to the Progeny of Kora?)
Additional questions:
Rule #1 of the law of gnosis: Never, ever, ever, answer the question of a speaking machine.
(How Butlerian. What's so bad about speaking machines?)
Exception to rule 1#: There are two machines that are beloved by the law. (Hypocritical? Presumably they are the engineers of life and the lattice of heaven. But what's the lattice of heaven deal?)
Who killed the creatures?
The omniphage. The eater. The demiurge. The source of the Hylic's temptation, as opposed to the machine's. A nanoplague. (The plakton, one presumes. Was the plague itself the demiurge? What was so tempting? What was the machines temptation, what was their betrayal?)
It was a plague of locusts sent by a slavering false god.(Who was the god? Necron? C'Tan?)
First memory:The soul.(How does the marrow know, was it there for this? Did this event really come first, might it not have co-occurred? How and when did the soul come meet to the body? Why is it produced? Would it not be more natural for the body to shape, incubate the self and therefore the soul? What's up with souls?)
We begin with an amoeba of conscience, already bearing the abyssal nail, on a slate. (What about the before? How was the amoeba sourced? How was the nail produced?)
The breath of the Father is applied, producing an anthropomorphic effect upon the soul. (I question the logistics of the caged breath. Is it produced by the Lapsarian(from latim lapus, meaning fall) Lung? Perhaps this strategic resource has been stockpiled, only used when necessary. Or perhaps the empty slates are the ones produced.)
Next memory:The Chandlers.
Wax is poured on vapor, the soul, granting it definition. (I question if this is not figurative, 10,613 candle makers expired coding the wax, did they code it by literally pouring wax on a soul? Probably not.)
For the next step we have a slate of wax, the amniotic print-slate, the body to be. (Is this the empty slate upon which was the soul, now filled?)
The soul steps into the printer and meld with the wax.(Probably an artifact of the narration and not a real step.)
Then in time the amniotic wax grows into a fully adult print ready to enter the Prelapsarian nursery. (No childhood? What's the Prelapsarian nursery? It is a piece of infrastructure that predates the fall. But is a specif place, a series of legacy infrastructure or is it a design?)
After the amniotic printer there is a whole gene-kiln process. (Is this part exclusive to the Progeny of Kora?)
Additional questions:
Rule #1 of the law of gnosis: Never, ever, ever, answer the question of a speaking machine.
(How Butlerian. What's so bad about speaking machines?)
Exception to rule 1#: There are two machines that are beloved by the law. (Hypocritical? Presumably they are the engineers of life and the lattice of heaven. But what's the lattice of heaven deal?)
Who killed the creatures?
The omniphage. The eater. The demiurge. The source of the Hylic's temptation, as opposed to the machine's. A nanoplague. (The plakton, one presumes. Was the plague itself the demiurge? What was so tempting? What was the machines temptation, what was their betrayal?)
It was a plague of locusts sent by a slavering false god.(Who was the god? Necron? C'Tan?)
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
The closer you approach full awareness, the less figurative it becomes.
- Location
- an unseen void
- Pronouns
- Any
[X] A Really Specific Type of Body (MOVEMENT OF THE SPHERES) (+3 RHYTHMS +2 MOTION BLUR +2 GLAMOUR +1 INFOWAR +1 BIOMECHANICS)
there are secret rhythms in the world, and we can dance to them, and the people will be amazed
there are secret rhythms in the world, and we can dance to them, and the people will be amazed
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[x] A Sensitive Body, attuned to itself and the world around it [+2 to all Appetite Attributes, +1 to all Form Attributes].
[X] A Really Specific Type of Body (MOVEMENT OF THE SPHERES) (+3 RHYTHMS +2 MOTION BLUR +2 GLAMOUR +1 INFOWAR +1 BIOMECHANICS)
Honestly anything with good RHYTHMS sounds good but more INFOWAR is a bonus.
Honestly anything with good RHYTHMS sounds good but more INFOWAR is a bonus.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
I believe the voting tally is now mostly fixed (and thank everyone for their edits to make it work). You can now see your particular custom option 
If you check in the tally and you are still listed as parabellum, then you still need to fix yours!
If you check in the tally and you are still listed as parabellum, then you still need to fix yours!
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[X] A Really Specific Type of Body (MULHOLLAND DRIVE) (+3 RHYTHMS +3 BIOMECHANICS +3 MOTION BLUR)
[x] A Really Specific Type of Body (MOVEMENT OF THE SPHERES) (+3 RHYTHMS +2 MOTION BLUR +2 GLAMOUR +1 INFOWAR +1 BIOMECHANICS)
Upon further consideration, I realized that I want to look good while also going really fast so I switched my vote to movement for glamour.
I feel the need. The need for speed! A Shivers, Savior Faire/Reaction Speed, and Physical Instrument/Electro Chemistry build sounds incredibly interesting. Now if only we could find a way to increase Living Weapon and Info War.
Alternatively, I hope the movement of the spheres plan wins if this one does not. No offense to the strong body plan but I think a body type that is crafted with love would be better than a predetermined plan. Not to mention that depending on the type of stats we pick will influence the body's physical appearance. To me, the Mulholland Drive will result in a more deceptively fast and wiry body like a coiled sprinter whereas the strong body would be more generic big strong human fighter. See below.
Strong Body
Mulholland Drive
Upon further consideration, I realized that I want to look good while also going really fast so I switched my vote to movement for glamour.
I feel the need. The need for speed! A Shivers, Savior Faire/Reaction Speed, and Physical Instrument/Electro Chemistry build sounds incredibly interesting. Now if only we could find a way to increase Living Weapon and Info War.
Alternatively, I hope the movement of the spheres plan wins if this one does not. No offense to the strong body plan but I think a body type that is crafted with love would be better than a predetermined plan. Not to mention that depending on the type of stats we pick will influence the body's physical appearance. To me, the Mulholland Drive will result in a more deceptively fast and wiry body like a coiled sprinter whereas the strong body would be more generic big strong human fighter. See below.
Strong Body
Mulholland Drive
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MULHOLLAND DRIVE and MOVEMENT OF THE SPHERES both be like:
View: https://x.com/rissaoffline/status/1873226714513588373
View: https://x.com/rissaoffline/status/1873226714513588373
nachtingale
20. On that "honk, mimimi" type beat everyday.
- Location
- Malaysia
- Pronouns
- He/They
[X] A Sensitive Body.
The pneumatic cabal needs to know that you have a vast, oceanic soul.
The pneumatic cabal needs to know that you have a vast, oceanic soul.
- Pronouns
- Ze/Hir
[X] A Really Specific Type of Body (MOVEMENT OF THE SPHERES) (+3 RHYTHMS +2 MOTION BLUR +2 GLAMOUR +1 INFOWAR +1 BIOMECHANICS)
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
End-date of the vote has been set. Sensitive body has the lead right now.