Operation Weihnachtswunder (A CK2 Style Quest to Save Christmas!)
- Thread starter Novus Ordo Mundi
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Good Morning! It's time for a story!
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I think I'm about to write something either insanely brilliant, or insanely stupid, and I'm not sure which. Let's find out, shall we? 
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LETS GO!!Let's find out, shall we?
KlavoHunter
THOU SHALT WORSHIP NO GODS ABOVE ENTERPRISE!
I mean, why not have us start with our story, Then Krampus Interrupt out of nowhere! ?
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Here's a preview!
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"You know, you remind me of another inventive soul I helped some time ago. Over in America, in fact." You say, as a memory comes back to you. "One who had a similar situation of their inventions being used by another by an evil he could never have expected! Would you like to hear about him?"
Obviously, what Cecilia needed was a story about someone who was in a similar position as her. While it wasn't one for one - she was betrayed by a businesspersion, not an evil side of the inventor inspired by a paranoid writer's crippling fear - it was still the same in nature.
And sure enough, Cecilia perked up. "Oh! Can I meet him? I've never actually met another inventor outside of the North Pole. Okay, I've actually never left the North Pole before…"
"I'm afraid his spirit has already left the Earth…" you start. Cecilia slumps back down in disappointment, before you finish. "Oh, he didn't pass on. He literally left the Earth to track down a message from Mars he had heard in life."
Cecilia looks disbelieving at you "Ghosts can just do that?"
"Usually, no. But he managed to."
For a moment, Cecilia doesn't say anything. She looks at the schematics for the Joulupukki for a second, before rolling it up. "He sounds pretty awesome. Let's hear about him!"
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"You know, you remind me of another inventive soul I helped some time ago. Over in America, in fact." You say, as a memory comes back to you. "One who had a similar situation of their inventions being used by another by an evil he could never have expected! Would you like to hear about him?"
Obviously, what Cecilia needed was a story about someone who was in a similar position as her. While it wasn't one for one - she was betrayed by a businesspersion, not an evil side of the inventor inspired by a paranoid writer's crippling fear - it was still the same in nature.
And sure enough, Cecilia perked up. "Oh! Can I meet him? I've never actually met another inventor outside of the North Pole. Okay, I've actually never left the North Pole before…"
"I'm afraid his spirit has already left the Earth…" you start. Cecilia slumps back down in disappointment, before you finish. "Oh, he didn't pass on. He literally left the Earth to track down a message from Mars he had heard in life."
Cecilia looks disbelieving at you "Ghosts can just do that?"
"Usually, no. But he managed to."
For a moment, Cecilia doesn't say anything. She looks at the schematics for the Joulupukki for a second, before rolling it up. "He sounds pretty awesome. Let's hear about him!"
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As a Chargers fan, I feel this happened just to mock me.
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As a 49ers fan I laugh.
As a Chargers fan, I feel this happened just to mock me.
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You know, since this is my quest, reality can be whatever I want it to be...
(Switches the two scores around)
Ah, good to know the Chargers won, 25-12!
Obviously, kidding. More seriously, I'm working on college homework and some IRL stuff. I'll probably not have the update up until Tuesday. That being said, I will try to have an Omake Policy / How Bonuses Work up a little sooner. Also, as you may have noticed, when I use this color, I am generally speaking ex cathedra as QM.)
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Okay boss. good luck with real life stuff.
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What could be fairer?
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So, this update is changing from what I was originally thinking. I'm probably going to have to change that first bit. But, have some more! Just a heads up, two things. You are not the only one who Lives In Their Story, and not everything is as dire as it may seem...
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You are Silas Windlass, and you were once a promising inventor.
And as you look up at the top of New Wardenclyffe Tower, your mentor stands on top of it. He's taken on more Egyptian motifs now, and you can't quite see his face. But more importantly, he has taken control of what had once been your prized invention: A way to broadcast messages upon spiritual wavelengths across far distances.
You were shocked by the many ways this so-called "Unseen World" was behind mortals in technology. At the same time, the many abilities you'd seen from the supernatural far surpassed what you'd seen during your life.
So like any good man of science, you went to work… [Still Writing]
"Nikola, stop this at once!" Ebenezer Scrooge - yes, that Scrooge - yells up at the man. No, no longer a man. More than a man. "You do not know what chaos you'll unleash!". Another man in chains - this must have been Jacob Marley - was already preparing to launch one of his chains.
Chaos? Oh, I know all about Chaos, oh Spawn of Dickens. Something warps, and you now see your mentor's face clearly. Or rather, the man he'd once been: Nikola Tesla. It's so interesting how much Chaos one invention can bring. Nikola knew it. And so did Howard. He looks at you. And for a moment, you see your mentor's face being proud of you. And so do you, Silas. You were so eager, so teachable…
You… you were. You had died rather young, but your love of learning seemed to keep you from moving on. And somehow, Mr. Tesla had found you and took you under his wing. Guided your every step to this moment.
Just so he could take control the moment it was ready.
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You are Silas Windlass, and you were once a promising inventor.
And as you look up at the top of New Wardenclyffe Tower, your mentor stands on top of it. He's taken on more Egyptian motifs now, and you can't quite see his face. But more importantly, he has taken control of what had once been your prized invention: A way to broadcast messages upon spiritual wavelengths across far distances.
You were shocked by the many ways this so-called "Unseen World" was behind mortals in technology. At the same time, the many abilities you'd seen from the supernatural far surpassed what you'd seen during your life.
So like any good man of science, you went to work… [Still Writing]
"Nikola, stop this at once!" Ebenezer Scrooge - yes, that Scrooge - yells up at the man. No, no longer a man. More than a man. "You do not know what chaos you'll unleash!". Another man in chains - this must have been Jacob Marley - was already preparing to launch one of his chains.
Chaos? Oh, I know all about Chaos, oh Spawn of Dickens. Something warps, and you now see your mentor's face clearly. Or rather, the man he'd once been: Nikola Tesla. It's so interesting how much Chaos one invention can bring. Nikola knew it. And so did Howard. He looks at you. And for a moment, you see your mentor's face being proud of you. And so do you, Silas. You were so eager, so teachable…
You… you were. You had died rather young, but your love of learning seemed to keep you from moving on. And somehow, Mr. Tesla had found you and took you under his wing. Guided your every step to this moment.
Just so he could take control the moment it was ready.
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I can't help but think; 'Alas, poor Tesla. The stories of him always were so much more exaggerated than the reality in their madness.'
Real Tesla was somewhat bombastic and eccentric but wasn't nearly as dangerous as his many fictional portrayals. Mostly he got stuck trying to figure out wireless power transmission with tools that were hopelessly incapable of achieving it.
The depictions of Tesla Coils as implements of electric killing only came after his death.
Of course, Mad Scientist Tesla is so much more fun to tell stories about.
Real Tesla was somewhat bombastic and eccentric but wasn't nearly as dangerous as his many fictional portrayals. Mostly he got stuck trying to figure out wireless power transmission with tools that were hopelessly incapable of achieving it.
The depictions of Tesla Coils as implements of electric killing only came after his death.
Of course, Mad Scientist Tesla is so much more fun to tell stories about.
Sirrocco
Pedantic
Weirdly, all of the depictions I've seen of Tesla (prior to this) were maybe a little Mad, but mostly very sympathetic.
...and I've only ever seen Tesla Coils as implements of electric killing in the context of defensive emplacements against invading armies.
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Well, it was this or a Lovecraft protagonist. Although given the "Egyptian motifs," it might be both?
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I might change that to Pharonic Nemes instead of Egyptian motifs.
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Not beating the allegations in the slightest
Ah, what a shame a Goa'uld got ahold of poor Mr. Tesla, he must have made a pretty good host.
The Black Pharaoh?! The Crawling Chaos?! Hopefully I'm wrong about that, because the God of A Thousand Forms tends to hold grudges.
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Good morning! Can Novus get the update done today! Does he have the skill and the speed, or will he get distracted by his search for good food?
I need to watch the Stargate series one of these days.
I need to watch the Stargate series one of these days.
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A thought occurs. As a character of the English literary canon we may have acquaintances, enemies and allies from throughout it as much as from the Christmas mythology, but especially if they got up to Christmas-related escapades. From Holmes and Watson on the Christmastime adventure of the Blue Carbuncle to Jadis who once blockaded the Sleigh for a millenium.
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