Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
That starts to drift off into miscellaneous question time so let's save that for the next session 
Last Light of a Dark Age (Warhammer 29K/Disco Elysium)
- Thread starter Cetashwayo
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I like the quest so far, but is are there novels and or sourcebooks that deal with the Dark Age of Technology? Seems like an interesting setting.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
There aren't really many. Most of the stuff in this quest is homebrew combined with taking random bits and pieces we see of the Dark Age in existing lore. It is an obscure era that is entirely legendary within both 30k and 40k, though it obviously gets more attention in 30K. Still, the 5,000 years of the Age of Strife have made it vague. There are a few short stories about entities from it in the modern 40K era like Man of Iron but these fragmentary pieces I don't really take as canon, or at least treat as vague ciphers. We're talking about the first 23,000 years of the history of humanity here after the present [With the Golden Age covering the last few thousand before the Cybernetic Wars], it's a lot of time.
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13th Bee
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- Tennessee, USA.
Also a decent amount of the weird stuff is actually present to some degree in canon 40k. I don't think the Vitae Wombs that the world Krieg uses to supply the Death Korps and generally keep their population up spit out fully grown adults, but it very much is humans being manufactured more than born. A portion of servitors are know to be sourced from vat-grown bodies. Servitors in general are just as bad or worse than all the horrible human repurposing going on on Illuminata.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
Yeah, I tried to draw a lot of commentary and connection to existing 40K societies. It's not hard because 40K tends to be a pastiche of a ton of existing science fiction so it's the same well, but I often was intentionally aware of many different 40k or 30k examples and drew those allusions.
Think of DAOT technically as incredibly advanced technology completely unshakable from morality. In the Angron Ark of Omen book, there was a DAOT device that was able to mimic and direct the power of the Emperor's astronomical that was powered by psykers that were essentially its double aa batteries. Angron's Butcher's Nails, Mimetic Annihilators are a form of fire that spreads through wireless vox, phospex, which are nanites that appear as an all-devouring fire that never dies out, and the Rift Canons of the Dark Angels, which fire a laser that opens warp rifts are just some examples found in the lore.
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- She/Her
We know that Titanagalbat practices anthroculture and that it invented the sugarspine, from the lore post on food.
From sugarspine, Nectar is made, from Nectar, Ambrosia. And these are quite central to Titanagalbat.
We saw an Ambrosia ceremony in 10.5 and it didn't seem to have any elements of honoring the dead. So I guess we don't know how they honor their dead.
I suspect we will learn these things when we see them- we will probably see our share of deaths and funerals.
- Location
- in the trash
[X] Its irredeemable cuisine.
[X] The Garden-City.
[X] Atomic Furies.
[X] Yesterday.
[X] The Garden-City.
[X] Atomic Furies.
[X] Yesterday.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
Yes, at least one. Very little is known of it beyond Dakaran legends. It is not visible - the plateshield blocks the view of it. It is sometimes said the Demiurge intentionally tinted the plateshield to block out the moon and stars to deprive Illuminata of a cosmic horizon.
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- Location
- in the trash
Knowing this planet I'd give 50/50 odds that it's actually a good thing that the local stellar neighbourhood isn't visible
The Bad: Astronomy isn't a thing on Illuminata
The Good: Astrology isn't a thing on Illuminata
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Mrl567
The beginning of the war will be secret
Dakar after his astral voyage happy the moon-bears can't gaze on Illuminata.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
From the tally, current votes ahead are:
What bigotry to adopt:
Music 32 vs Cuisine 15 vs Sophistry 7.
Where to go with Karuna:
Garden City 28 to Nanite Beach 21 to Blood-Grove 4.
What specialty to go into in the Night Witches:
Atomic Furies 23 to Vacuum Furies 16 and Polarity Furies 16.
And the thematic vote is:
Tomorrow, 41 against Today 17 and Yesterday 3.
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Some quite tight votes! Still a day and some left on it, too. And then we do some fun rolls
What bigotry to adopt:
Music 32 vs Cuisine 15 vs Sophistry 7.
Where to go with Karuna:
Garden City 28 to Nanite Beach 21 to Blood-Grove 4.
What specialty to go into in the Night Witches:
Atomic Furies 23 to Vacuum Furies 16 and Polarity Furies 16.
And the thematic vote is:
Tomorrow, 41 against Today 17 and Yesterday 3.
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Some quite tight votes! Still a day and some left on it, too. And then we do some fun rolls
In recognition of the tomorrow theme looking like a sure lock and the uncountable sacrifices Harmony will no doubt make in pursuit of her dreams, have some more music.
[X] The Nanite Beach.
beaches are nice
[X] Vacuum Furies.
jumping is fun
[x] Today. The honest truth of this moment, of what is. Everything you experience, and every second that you spend together.
this is the one option I feel strongest about voting for
this description is just written too beautifully to pass up
beaches are nice
[X] Vacuum Furies.
jumping is fun
[x] Today. The honest truth of this moment, of what is. Everything you experience, and every second that you spend together.
this is the one option I feel strongest about voting for
this description is just written too beautifully to pass up
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- He/Him
Here's a bunch of typos I think I spotted after peering through multiple updates in search of them (again).
Shouldn't the period be inside the quote marks around "Sisters." Ditto with "sincere." And the comma should be inside with "truths."
be "war-mask?"
On an unrelated note regarding Sympathy I have no idea what this failure on a Godly Sacred Geometry roll about Sympathy's eyes in 4: PUPPET LOVE signifies, at all. Since I haven't seen anything in Last Light that draws any attention to her eyes being peculiar, beyond this particular roll.
The T in "the" isn't italicized.
The underline beneath "friendship" has extended itself past the word and into the space before "plan." Not sure if it should either be cut back or extended further to "plan?"
Shouldn't the comma be inside the quote marks around "Lapsarian Lung?"
It doesn't seem intentional to me that there should be an apostrophe/single quote at the end of "middle" here.
Shouldn't the period be inside the quote marks around "age-appropriate entertainment?"
Ditto for "petriform."
Ditto for "From me, them."
Ditto a fourth time for "Melon" but "Gumdrop" has a comma outside it's quote marks instead.
Shouldn't the comma be inside the quote marks around "please don't laugh"
Shouldn't the underline under "you" that's extended into the space before "can" have been cut back? Did you @Cetashwayo miss this, when I pointed it out?
The initial quote marks beginning both "YOU" and "SUPERIOR SYMPATHY" are bolded and so are the dashes separating them from their respective quotes. Is that a deliberate choice?
Ditto and a space is separating the dash from the ending quotation mark.
The underline is not continuous between "she's" and "lying."
The dash separating "YOU" from the quote is bolded. Is that deliberate?
Shouldn't the period be inside the quote marks around "Sisters." Ditto with "sincere." And the comma should be inside with "truths."
Uh, is it deliberate that there either is an apostrophe/single quote mark before the question mark in "adult?"
Shouldn't the period be inside the quote marks around "hotelier?"
Is it deliberate that the underline beneath "you" has been extended to the question mark?
Is it deliberate that there is a hyphen between "dare" and the + sign? It feels like it should a period instead, to me.
Shouldn't the periods be inside the quotation marks around "you" and "happy ending," in both of GEN's lines?
Shouldn't the period be insidee the quotation marks around "no."
Is that a double period, a half-finished ellipses, or is there something else supposed to be there?
Shouldn't the comma be inside the quotation marks around "happy flocks?"
I think that hyphen is supposed to be a comma?
Is it intentional that there are hyphens at the end of GEN's lines here? It feels like to me they should be periods instead?
There is a space separating the + sign from the period at the end of "illogical."
In the middle line, a space is separating "to" from the hyphen before the arrow.
There is a space separating the hyphen attached to "Kora" from "mask." Also shouldn't "Kora-mask"
be "war-mask?"
Is it deliberate that the underline beneath "collective" extends to the period?
I think I missed pointing this out in my post here but shouldn't the period be inside the quote marks around "wed?"
Shouldn't the comma be inside the quotation marks around "hovertanks?"
Eh, think I missed pointing this out in my post here. But shouldn't the period at the end of the bolded be inside the quote marks?
Ditto with having missed this before. Shouldn't the period be inside the quote marks at the end of the bolded phrase?
The Underline beneath "even from the mighty." Has extended past the period and into the space before "you."
Shouldn't the period be inside the quotation marks around "human" on GEN's line? Also shouldn't the question mark outside "Machines like you" be inside the quote marks of NOOSPHERE's line as well?
Shouldn't the periods be inside the quotation marks for each bolded name?
Ditto for "Post War" and "Decade two."
Shouldn't the comma be within the quotation marks around "dirt-eaters?"
Ditto for "oorah" plus periods should be within the quote marks around "amen" and Peripatetic pep talk."
Possibly in support of this, remember the line where INFOWAR found out at who implanted GEN in 9: War Without Reason? I checked the amount of space inside the brackets. There is only enough room for a name that's eight characters long. So far we have known only two who have that amount who've meaningfully interacted with Harmony, 30 Dutiful Epiphany and 18 Immaculate Sympathy. Although if that is the case and if the number of space within is supposed to be reflective, why hasn't INFOWAR told Miss Normal this? One possible answer to this could be that whatever caused Harmony/Miss Normal's thoughforms to disappear in 11: Red Sun has maybe been subtly erasing their memory as well before hand.
On an unrelated note regarding Sympathy I have no idea what this failure on a Godly Sacred Geometry roll about Sympathy's eyes in 4: PUPPET LOVE signifies, at all. Since I haven't seen anything in Last Light that draws any attention to her eyes being peculiar, beyond this particular roll.
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Da Boyz
The Cutest Apocalypse.
idk Hyperion is eight letters long and I'd say he interacted with us very meaningfully. 10/10 would listen to his speech and be torched by a bio-plasma nuke again.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Forgot about his name being that long, admittedly.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
The characters inside that space should be ten not eight characters, fixed
Da Boyz
The Cutest Apocalypse.
I can't believe the WireMother did this to us. (wo)Men of Iron perfidy strikes again.
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- He/Him
That's a bust then, for the evidence.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
It is a fun easter egg but I wouldn't really hide critical mysteries behind the number of characters in a blanked out space. The ten is there for a reason but it is not a major clue. I dislike that kind of hyper-cryptic mystery box - something will be foreshadowed a lot more before I reveal it. It might help for a theory but there are more obvious ones.
For example, the type of autofail, and the type of brackets used, is important. That godly failure on Sympathy's eyes is important. Some other things people have picked up on in errant comments from Red Sun is important.
For example, the type of autofail, and the type of brackets used, is important. That godly failure on Sympathy's eyes is important. Some other things people have picked up on in errant comments from Red Sun is important.
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