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Taylor Varga (Worm/Luna Varga)

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Doesn't a Restraining Order have to list what is not allowed? How would that restrain someone as creative as Saurial?

And... Have they a restraining order for that cute little dragon-lizard? The one sitting on the shoulder of that apparently empty Cloak? :)

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Yeah, I do like this artwork. The notice is obviously being served to Saurial by someone who plans to keep an eye (or a few dozen) on her. :)

BTW, I had to look at the filename to realise that the server was... a somewhat notable personage. *cough* Azathoth *cough*.

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Yeah, and I re-posted the image. Because it was worth it. And, really could do with an edit, so a small black dragon-lizard on Saurial's shoulder is also reading the notice.
 
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Guyman said:
"B-but I'm just a lizard!"
"Bruh, you invaded my personal space for the last time. Also the lobes of my ocular cortexe's resonant and buzz unpleasantly when I look at you through your stealth."
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"And, you're bigger than I am. That's just not allowed."
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"The blind idiot god who dreams all reality, and if awakes and stops dreaming, then reality ceases to exist."

Does rather suggest that the entity serving the order is the dreamer walking in their own dreams...
 
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Considering that the Varga originates from The Everything which, by definition, encompasses everything, including this thing you know as 'reality', Azathoth has a perfectly good reason to not want to cause trouble. Because a Varga is from outside mere Reality...

He is not. Not as much, anyway.

Bubbles in the The Everything, you know.

A Varga can pop a bubble. This one wouldn't, of course, but he could... :D
 
Popping onion layered overlapping bubbles... how hard is it to not cause a chain reaction when you only want to pop one?
 
Darn book flex... still rebuilding my collection now I actually have somewhere to keep it. Had to involuntarily reduce what I had so I could transport it in one pickup truck load a few years back, so a lot of my collection now is epubs on hard drives. Trouble with physical is the price per copy being rediculous for some of what I want to replace, not to mention the irreplaceable illuminated texts from family history.

Also, Saurial as a Digimon would break that world...

Digital worlds don't really handle OCPs very well.
 
Tucker986 said:
Also, Saurial as a Digimon would break that world...

Digital worlds don't really handle OCPs very well.
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"I'm not an OCP, it's just... you are implemented in machine-code, I'm written in microcode. And, bits of me are running on a different processor, with a different architecture. Say, have you heard of the Simulation Hypothesis?" :)

(Do you think that Saurial could speak in a language with clickable hypertext links in it? :) )
 
Ace Dreamer said:
Makes you wonder if The Family could spoof someone into thinking they've become The Gamer...
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Not sure why, but I imagined a different take from there. A bit of bait and switch, I suppose, where instead of that webcomic's version of 'The Gamer', something else. Namely some 80s style arcade 'Gamer'.

Or I suppose, 80s in general. I think there were a few settings that would fit that. Just not a 'have a HUD' kind of deal. Which leaves either 'in the real world with video game elements', or 'go into a virtual world'.

Veering off from there, I can see The Family creating a 'fake Tron' setup. More creating a more immersive version of the film sets, ie having 'practical effect' versions of the cgi, and actually having everything walkable. I guess something like Westworld, but themed differently. Or an entirely different version of the 'Wizard of Oz' omake set (minus the 'no one recognizes the setting' bit of memory suppression, outside of the person or people running it actually not being familiar with the setting.)

Not sure who would end up going through that kind of spoofing, even if it was done without actually mimicking the plotlines, and more have the setting. Perhaps finding someone who wanted to run around the Tron world, and getting that from it. That or something to entertain someone who needed to be moved out of an area for reasons of safety or something else. And doing a bit of pranking from there.

With maybe at the end, a big production of everyone getting off their shift, and the set pulling back out, to the utter confusion of the one being pranked.

Would kind of give the impression of it being a reality show, or one of the 'prank people' shows. Except on a more massive scale. But hey, it's not to the extent of The Truman Show.

Could completely see The Family messing with that setup. Conveniently where Truman doesn't see. Messing with the 'plotlines' they come up with. With after the ending of the show, giving Truman a ride to a different Earth. Given that setting has him having celebrity status, that he is completely unused to. And the level of obsession doesn't seem that great for him to have to deal with either. Plus it'd get him away from the people that thought what happened to him was perfectly okay. Newly Lizard!Truman helping out his alternate selves seems like a possibility there as well.
 
ForwardRewind said:
I can see The Family creating a 'fake Tron' setup.
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Yea, TRON (1982) is early enough it probably appeared on Earth Bet.

Hmm. I don't know if it would even be worth it as a running joke, but someone (Saurial? Varga?) keeping insisting it was 'TRON', not 'Tron', because you have to get the programming terminology right when you are hacking reality? And, you could tell they were talking in ALL CAPITALS.

('TRON' (the character) is sorta revealed at the end of the (1982) movie to be so named because of the TRON keyword in an at-the-time well-known variant of the BASIC programming language which meant 'TRACE ON', a built-in BASIC tool to help debug things. Which it really looked the 'reality' needed.)

Being able to (just) say 'TRON' (and the reverse, 'TROFF') and get to see debugging info (on a pop-up screen) for the local reality, and be able to show this to other people, could have a certain... entertainment value...
 
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Ace Dreamer said:
Being able to (just) say 'TRON' (and the reverse, 'TROFF') and get to see debugging info (on a pop-up screen) for the local reality, and be able to show this to other people, could have a certain... entertainment value...
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And yes, Taylor could have a 'rezzing up' trasformation special effect suddenly giving her the glowing blue Program lines. Which probably would make Armsmaster INCREDIBLY jealous. His armor does have some TRON influence.
 
Ok, I had to rant somewhere so this stuff below is not about this thread and is not important at all. Just need to get it out before I explode.
Rant removed, I've saved it on my tablet instead. I have simmered down a bit by now so I'm not angry anymore at least.

Edit: I'll leave this here for a while, I'll remove it tomorrow. I need to sleep on it.
Edit2: I've slept on it.
 
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Ravenwood240 said:
According to my insurance, I have 567 hardback books of average quality, 341 assorted autographed and or first editions, and 13,985 paperback books that they'll have to shell out replacement value for, if anything ever happens to them.

Of course, that was surveyed nearly a year ago, so it may be slightly out of date.

Other than that, we have 1,359 technical manuals, for my SO's job, or for mine.

The rest of the house is an adrenaline junkie's wet dream. I have two parachutes, scuba gear, spelunking and rock climbing gear, hunting gear and we have hiking, camping and mountain biking gear. The skiing gear is mostly an afterthought.

Oh, and I have enough tools to do all the repairs on my Harley and most of them on my truck.

So, a library/sports shop/garage?

PS. I apparently need more books.
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Where do you live? At least name the city. Just in case of a zombie apocalypse
 
STokun said:
Where do you live? At least name the city. Just in case of a zombie apocalypse
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City? I understand the concept, but Montana doesn't do a lot of them. My entire county has less than 30k people, which makes us fairly large. Montana has at least two whole counties under 1k population, and one under 500 people in the entire county.

Although, if you were to look around within a 100 miles of Kalispell, you might be in the right area.

But if you bring your zombies with you, I'm going to be upset. It's very hard to do my job when my clients keep getting up and running off.
 
Ravenwood240 said:
City? I understand the concept, but Montana doesn't do a lot of them. My entire county has less than 30k people, which makes us fairly large. Montana has at least two whole counties under 1k population, and one under 500 people in the entire county.
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Is that because it's a nice enough place to live that people spread out, or because there aren't that many people there to start with?
 
Prince Chrom said:
Is that because it's a nice enough place to live that people spread out, or because there aren't that many people there to start with?
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Montana just broke one million people people in the last census for the first time.

With the amount of space we have and the lack of people, it's not really surprising that most towns are pretty small compared to smaller land area states.

Plus, many of the cities were started back in times when travel, especially during winter was a great deal harder that it is now.
 
Prince Chrom said:
That's less people in one state there there are in the City of Perth in Western Australia. Near half as many, given that we're at a population of 1.95 million. And sure, that's most of the population of WA, but still.
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Doesn't help that the state is big enough in area that if you spread them out evenly, there would only be one person every five miles.

I'd very much like to know if the fact that the government was going to put seven Native American reservations in Montana had much to do with its size when the state was formed as a territory, or if it was an effect of being decent herd lands for cattle and sheep.

Either way, it led to huge lands for a vert few people. I like it, personally, even if it means 90 percent of the people I interact with regularly are online.
 
Ravenwood240 said:
But if you bring your zombies with you, I'm going to be upset. It's very hard to do my job when my clients keep getting up and running off.
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Pickle (to preserve them) and borg-up the zombies, then send them out to rejoin the workforce? Create a special 'e-zombie tax', so all the money* that doesn't pay to help keep them working, and not falling apart, goes to a healthcare fund for non-zombies?

OK, say 5% goes to fund free, public, libraries.

Is that OK? :)

Will the Lizards approve? :)


* Zombies are 'paid' say $20/hour for their work, and the IRS will employ (e-zombie?) staff to ensure no one cheats** on this.

** Yeah, there'll probably need to be laws introduced to stop people mistreating zombies... Burning them to ashes, then burying the ash, for 'religious reasons', or somesuch.
 
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