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

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If I had known earlier what in imminent and loathsome threat the Dreamspace was I would've gone for the option that supported it back at Roxane's chapter. It might've let us more easily seen Dreamspace influence in Titanagalbat. Where those options to prepare Miss Normal against the three main threats in the future? Architecture for the Dreamspace, cyberspace for the Daemons, and history for the Demiurge?

With Noosphere's crit, it does make me want to take it and have it try to suffocate the Shape with trivia. But ultimately, survival comes before information or playing around. Same reason I'm not choosing Glamour, even if I wonder if it would've pulled an Uno reverse and let us wear that Dreamshape. See how it feels you stupid decahedron.

Rhythm I feel Harmony has an affinity with, from her early love of music and the Chandlers, I think it was implied also that the reason the Dreamshape has had trouble subverting it was because Miss Normal want off-script with that write-in Unique Vow, even if looking back it didn't improve it. Remember the Chandlers. Meanwhile, Living Weapon was something Harmony got affinity with later on through the war, and goes well with her desire to make the cruel and powerful suffer, both traits the Dreamshape is displaying. And when you have the option to just bring a shiv, it seems like a smart idea. So I'm good with either of those. Weirdo Harmony or War Harmony, though I like Weirdo more.

[X] RHYTHMS. The tempo, in the planet's noise. Harmony with artifice.

Edit: Upon reading comments, Noosphere finding a weakpoint in the Petriform, making Harmony confront and conquer her fear, is pretty good. Removing War Harmony vote though I'm keeping Rhythms vote. Let her out, and let her in, through the looking-glass.

[X] NOOSPHERE. Taproot of the planetary datageist. Know your enemy.
Cetashwayo said:
I actually agree. Shivers is very much a "second playthrough" attribute.
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In a way, isn't this Harmony's second playthrough? Or third even?
 
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Tnoz said:
Where those options to prepare Miss Normal against the three main threats in the future? Architecture for the Dreamspace, cyberspace for the Daemons, and history for the Demiurge?
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Eh, not every option has such levels of foreshadowing. They were meaningful in the context of the moment. Sacred Geometry and Reliquary will have their day and uses too.

Also, none of the attributes are especially, specifically good at dealing with something. Yeah, Sacred Geometry can help you identify a shape, but other attributes are crucial too.
 
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[X] RHYTHMS. The tempo, in the planet's noise. Harmony with artifice.
[X] GLAMOUR. The texture of your truest self. Survive with inhuman grace
 
[X] RHYTHMS. The tempo, in the planet's noise. Harmony with artifice.

Living Weapon has its obvious appeal that other people have already gone over. We have an enemy we want to inflict violence upon, which is its whole thing. But I'm still going to pick Rhythms over it because of one very simple reason.
I like Gen, and I want to save them. They're just a little guy, they didn't know about any of this stuff and they still delayed our impending death and transformation by more than a decade. We kinda owe them, I think, even if I also just like them as a character.
Living Weapon could work as a means to inflict violence, but it also seems to me that would probably be a lot more likely to end with Gen dead as collateral to our struggle with D5h.
Whereas Rhythms whole thing is connection, and more specifically connection with machines. Which Gen is, and Gen is also where our opponent, the Shape, is.
This provides us not only a means to potentially help Gen, but also a method to actually reach the Shape through Gen, hopefully without doing too much damage to them in the process.
And maybe Gen is doomed and there is nothing we can do to help, but we don't know that for sure, and I'd still prefer to try, at least.
 
Cetashwayo said:
Oh, you're immune to petriform as a disease.

You also can't reach your null field to affect anything inside petriform. So, let's say, you put the seed of a dream inside a casing of petriform, and then put that into a staple, and then put that staple into a hylic - and then you have a bonafide backdoor, by which you influence the staple to control the hylic. It can reach out through the petriform, the same way chaos infection can, but you can't enter inside. The dream is protected from the null-field by its casing. Like a one-way mirror.

Weird construction. Apparently inspired by how abyssal nails themselves work. A vulnerability of hylics.

Must be because you're defective.
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Cetashwayo said:
GEN《AUTOFAIL》: No response save for pseudo-hawking radiation. Utterly expected, though utterly irritating. Stray observation: It is outstanding that this over-engineered and incomplete dead end remains so impossible to breach, as does any communication undertaken between it, the attributes, and the yolks. A mere beta-model, without any functional purpose, has resisted a thousand years of conscious study. The only breakthroughs not performed by demiurge-assisted chittering bedbugs have required exceedingly expensive serpentine contracts.
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*narrows eyes*
Hmm. So it seems like there's an inbuilt ability which our ethically mad scientist parents designed when they were building the nail which seemed to allow for co-existence between pneumic phenomena and the hylic nail. With someone who was either the Emperor or on the same level/wavelength devoting an enormous amount of time, necron tech, and resources to try and make this design.
Cetashwayo said:
GEN《AUTOFAIL》: The interaction of souls of the epipelegic and abyssopelagic zones of the Empyrean Sea is rarely so cooperative (and it remains strange that such a vulnerability would be built into the dead-end, a further testament to its failure). Insights will be obtained, as has become a repetitive refrain, after flaying.

GEN《AUTOFAIL》: Symmetric group designate D5h will not miss this aspect of its existence in the primary yolk, though admittedly, certain untested hypotheses do provoke intrigue. The nesting doll nature of the nail, permitting pneumatic activity and even soul-expression within the still field once having breached the outer shell of the stultifying null field remains curious. This mechanism, of course, is the very reason why COLD FUSION as an initiative is able to exist at all.

GEN《AUTOFAIL》: Lacking most of the soul-engine capabilities of the alpha test void crystal, the abyssal nail's inner still field is a completely empty expanse. The nail is unusable for anything but null drilling and dark energy extraction, once decoupled from a host. Soul-storage as practiced by aforementioned bedbugs, is incomplete, and corrosive.
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*eye narrowing continues*
Hmmm! So there's a space within the nail where there's a level of stability and co-habitation which is possible for souls within one layer, which is what's kinda allowing this entire clusterfuck we're going through to happen. Furthermore we know that souls can be stored in void crystals similar to petriform by hylics or similar even if the witches of the coast can only do so imperfectly in their crystals.
Cetashwayo said:
EVENT HORIZON: For the first time she has ever known, Sympathy reaches out to touch a hylic's hands, and they are warm. The forbidden glyphs, drawn into her hands from the diagrams contained within her manuscript of the Fifth Sun, are working.

EVENT HORIZON: She verifies then what she had just theorized, had just fantasized about before. She has found her pure land, in the spiral. And she will do anything to preserve her.
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Are we gonna have to slot our mom in like a materia? Like seriously with all the talk of people progressively getting more comfortable with our field and staying inside it the closer they are to us I'm really starting to worry that Sympathy has already started the soul transference process somehow and that's why we keep getting flashes of her thoughts and feelings. That those bits about the long spiral and us sharing one tomb are just foreshadowing as to what's either about to happen in our memories or going to happen one day; and if its already happened then I'm gonna start wondering if Event Horizon is secretly Sympathy and fittingly for the name that's a path of no return.
 
Da Boyz said:
*narrows eyes*
Hmm. So it seems like there's an inbuilt ability which our ethically mad scientist parents designed when they were building the nail which seemed to allow for co-existence between pneumic phenomena and the hylic nail. With someone who was either the Emperor or on the same level/wavelength devoting an enormous amount of time, necron tech, and resources to try and make this design.

*eye narrowing continues*
Hmmm! So there's a space within the nail where there's a level of stability and co-habitation which is possible for souls within one layer, which is what's kinda allowing this entire clusterfuck we're going through to happen. Furthermore we know that souls can be stored in void crystals similar to petriform by hylics or similar even if the witches of the coast can only do so imperfectly in their crystals.

Are we gonna have to slot our mom in like a materia? Like seriously with all the talk of people progressively getting more comfortable with our field and staying inside it the closer they are to us I'm really starting to worry that Sympathy has already started the soul transference process somehow and that's why we keep getting flashes of her thoughts and feelings. That those bits about the long spiral and us sharing one tomb are just foreshadowing as to what's either about to happen in our memories or going to happen one day; and if its already happened then I'm gonna start wondering if Event Horizon is secretly Sympathy and fittingly for the name that's a path of no return.
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We can't really be certain but I suspect that with all emphasis on spirals that the "mortal coil" might be more than just Sympathy's death or "death" or whatever her fate is going to be. Especially because this is the first time the shape has gotten to it making it pretty unknown.

Will Harmony assassinate a god? What about Elegy? Will Sympathy die? Will Pandora do it? Will Kora return? All this and more next time on Last Light!
 
Also I gotta say that after so long of Dreamspace being this ominous blank mystery of shapes, it is so funny to finally meet a Dreamshape and realize that it's just a smug asshole of a person who likes bad puns. They're awful. I love them. Which is good, because I'm convinced that if we survive character creation they're going to be stuck as an entity on our character sheet alongside with The Cost, the Demiurge's own representative in the trashfire that is our brain.
 
Wellhello said:
Now Harmony needs an attempted Hydra possession, gotta collect them all.
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Still not impossible!
Cetashwayo said:
EVENT HORIZON [Godly - Success]: From the depths, an insight floats up like a gaseous, soapy bubble: snakes are to blame for this. Spöoky snakes. Before you have even begun to comprehend the scale of your misfortune, you are absolutely sure serpents were involved.
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Cetashwayo said:
RELIQUARY [AUTOFAIL]: And I saw a beast rise out of the sea, having four heads and eight horns. Undivided.

<Undivided.>

<Wait, why did I repeat that?>

RELIQUARY [AUTOFAIL]: Just a random impulse, mistress. Nothing more.
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Cetashwayo said:
INFOWAR [AUTOFAIL]: We can conclude for sure: the warp was not involved.
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Somewhere in the forgotten depths of the planet is a lost civilization of human-fungus hybrids biding their time, the legendary Digganobz.
 
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OneCube said:
The capitalization of "She" may indicate that this is referring to a divine entity. Known female deities I can recall off the top of my head include Kora and the Mother.

Notably Kora has previously been referred to in this way:
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I'm doing a lot of nervous glancing between Harmony's fascination with Titanagalbat's culture and how she found it deeper than the Progeny's universally Kora-centric culture and how in order to create nation gods Koinon flattened their own culture.
 
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