Your OTC Representative [Multiversal Capitalism]
- Thread starter Evenstar
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Evenstar
Triple Jump Unlocked
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Waiting on more votes at the moment.
Aoinfinity
Unlimited Blue Works
- Location
- a blue Infinity
[X] x1.25: Counterspell! COUNTERSPELL!
For the record, my not voting up to now was because I have no clear idea what is going on in-Quest, not because "it's just too weird a setting" or whatever. Still, panicking productively is more likely to help right now than asking "What happened?"
For the record, my not voting up to now was because I have no clear idea what is going on in-Quest, not because "it's just too weird a setting" or whatever. Still, panicking productively is more likely to help right now than asking "What happened?"
[X] x1.25: Counterspell! COUNTERSPELL!
If a counterspell can reasonably be done *while* running away, *also* [x] x1.00: Run away! Run away!. Since it is lightning and presumably very fast, we probably want to prioritize doing things it might not be smart enough to follow. It went through the rifle instead of around it, and this apparently slowed it down on chasing us enough for us to do an action? If it still behaves lightningishly, we might want to try to avoid being on top of a building, but all of our stuff *is* up here and probably if we leave it something horrible will befall it, and it is probably too complicated and slow to *actually* get down in time?
If a counterspell can reasonably be done *while* running away, *also* [x] x1.00: Run away! Run away!. Since it is lightning and presumably very fast, we probably want to prioritize doing things it might not be smart enough to follow. It went through the rifle instead of around it, and this apparently slowed it down on chasing us enough for us to do an action? If it still behaves lightningishly, we might want to try to avoid being on top of a building, but all of our stuff *is* up here and probably if we leave it something horrible will befall it, and it is probably too complicated and slow to *actually* get down in time?
Rider 4/Prime 7
Evenstar
Triple Jump Unlocked
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Rider, 34578/3/1, 16:24 OTC
You flick out your will, scattering the lightning apart, tearing at the structure of it, trying to unmake it -
But something pushes back. The very strength you put into dissipating it turns back against you, smearing it out across the rooftop, crackling and hungry and far too close now. You pull your athame, in the vain hope that the rune-cut rock will ward you -
And then everything is heat and light and pain.
It's kind of nostalgic, really.
Prime, 34578/3/1, 16:24 OTC
A quartz crystal drops out of the air above your new pet's head, falls through them, and thunks heavily onto your desktop.
[[Fork RIDER was terminated by an uncontrolled electrical discharge, possibly the result of hostile magic. Per the established contingencies, the RIDER selfstream has been retrieved at a total cost of 1.26 seconds. We are sorry for your loss.]]
You pick up the crystal by its leather cord, and sigh to yourself.
[ ] Reinstantiate Rider immediately.
[ ] Lay your deceased fork to rest first.
You flick out your will, scattering the lightning apart, tearing at the structure of it, trying to unmake it -
But something pushes back. The very strength you put into dissipating it turns back against you, smearing it out across the rooftop, crackling and hungry and far too close now. You pull your athame, in the vain hope that the rune-cut rock will ward you -
And then everything is heat and light and pain.
It's kind of nostalgic, really.
Prime, 34578/3/1, 16:24 OTC
A quartz crystal drops out of the air above your new pet's head, falls through them, and thunks heavily onto your desktop.
[[Fork RIDER was terminated by an uncontrolled electrical discharge, possibly the result of hostile magic. Per the established contingencies, the RIDER selfstream has been retrieved at a total cost of 1.26 seconds. We are sorry for your loss.]]
You pick up the crystal by its leather cord, and sigh to yourself.
[ ] Reinstantiate Rider immediately.
[ ] Lay your deceased fork to rest first.
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What This Quest Is About
Evenstar
Triple Jump Unlocked
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- She/Her
((This quest is not exactly fair, just like real life. You will encounter threats you don't understand on a near-daily basis. You will lose forks. You will lose forks and have no idea what happened to them even after you review their selfstreams. The gameplay of this quest is about figuring out what killed them, why, and then outright exploiting it.
Make it through the year without running out of Wish Time, and Greater You will survive. Only die a few times, and Greater You will be profitable. If you somehow manage not to die at all, a promotion may be in the offing.
To steal a phrase from another Quest: Knowledge is payment for power.))
Make it through the year without running out of Wish Time, and Greater You will survive. Only die a few times, and Greater You will be profitable. If you somehow manage not to die at all, a promotion may be in the offing.
To steal a phrase from another Quest: Knowledge is payment for power.))
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- Location
- Sol III
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Well, fuck.
[X] Lay your deceased fork to rest first
And then, I think, review/integrate the info/memories/self we got back. (I'm not sure that reinstantiating her – even here where it's cheaper – is the right choice just yet. She's over budget, and Othala seems to be on time-out following something similar. On the other hand, if the standard procedure for getting that info is – instantiating her, running the crystal – then by all means let's do that.)
[X] Lay your deceased fork to rest first
And then, I think, review/integrate the info/memories/self we got back. (I'm not sure that reinstantiating her – even here where it's cheaper – is the right choice just yet. She's over budget, and Othala seems to be on time-out following something similar. On the other hand, if the standard procedure for getting that info is – instantiating her, running the crystal – then by all means let's do that.)
[X] Lay your deceased fork to rest first
(... did we not successfully send the supplies, or not vote to, or just not in time? I guess looking back it looks like we did not vote to, oops. For some reason I thought we had.)
Retrospective , in terms of understanding what went wrong- we tried to scry with crows, and so were attacked with magpies, attacked the magpies with lightning and so it turned on us, we threw the rifle in its path and so it was melted (I'm not sure if that counts - it seemed more - expected? from throwing a thing in the path of a dangerous spell), we tried to tear apart the lightning which spread it enough that we couldn't avoid it. Everything we tried was turned to harm us.
We should make sure that the bad luck hex ended when Rider was brought back, before letting her do much and definitely before integrating any of her. Also, merging may be expensive, and I'd want to compare the expense of reinstantiating her vs. reincorporating her first.
(... did we not successfully send the supplies, or not vote to, or just not in time? I guess looking back it looks like we did not vote to, oops. For some reason I thought we had.)
Retrospective , in terms of understanding what went wrong- we tried to scry with crows, and so were attacked with magpies, attacked the magpies with lightning and so it turned on us, we threw the rifle in its path and so it was melted (I'm not sure if that counts - it seemed more - expected? from throwing a thing in the path of a dangerous spell), we tried to tear apart the lightning which spread it enough that we couldn't avoid it. Everything we tried was turned to harm us.
We should make sure that the bad luck hex ended when Rider was brought back, before letting her do much and definitely before integrating any of her. Also, merging may be expensive, and I'd want to compare the expense of reinstantiating her vs. reincorporating her first.
Evenstar
Triple Jump Unlocked
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The supplies were sent successfully, but not in time. Rider didn't witness them showing up, because she was kind of busy with the ball lightning.
Presumably Eva would know the cost of each option. Can we be informed about those costs?
Evenstar
Triple Jump Unlocked
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Reinstantiating her is a fork. (A bit more than a tenth of a second.)
Reincorporating her is a merge. (Around half a second.)
- Location
- Sol III
- Pronouns
- She/Her
...yeah, I'm thinking reinstantiate. Cheaper, safer re: hex, and we can share information by talking with words. Unless "review their selfstreams" refers to something significantly cheaper than either of those two options, in which case do that first second (after the funeral).
Evenstar
Triple Jump Unlocked
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I thought I had fixed that! I'll deal with the issue as soon as I'm not on mobile.
Prime 8/Cassandra/Rider 1
Evenstar
Triple Jump Unlocked
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Prime, 34578/3/1, 16:40 OTC
The crystal settles onto its cushion, pressing your fingers down against the smooth silk. Slowly, you let it go.
"... rest in peace, Cassandra. I hope your daughter will live longer than you."
You close the glass door of the display case, and rest your head against its cool hardness. The thunk echoes in the silence.
It always hurts when you die. You remember a lot of deaths - not all of them, thank You, but a lot of them. You would think it would make you cocky.
You find it does the opposite. It's hard to laugh at death when you know that you've choked to death just trying to eat. It's hard to laugh at death when you know how many of you have wasted away, far from help, dying of one incurable disease or another. It's hard to laugh at death when you know you're so, so fragile.
That's why you name them. Those that die - they aren't you. They can never be part of Greater You again. Their thread has been cut.
And yet, they were people who served Greater You faithfully, right up until the end. They were you. They were closer than anyone else could ever be. They deserve to be remembered.
You slide the stiff latch shut, and cast one last look around at the rows and rows of shelves.
Then you leave.
"OTC?"
[[Yes?]]
"Get me Rider."
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[ ] Attempt another jump into the world where Cassandra died.
[ ] Abandon it as a lost cause.
The crystal settles onto its cushion, pressing your fingers down against the smooth silk. Slowly, you let it go.
"... rest in peace, Cassandra. I hope your daughter will live longer than you."
You close the glass door of the display case, and rest your head against its cool hardness. The thunk echoes in the silence.
It always hurts when you die. You remember a lot of deaths - not all of them, thank You, but a lot of them. You would think it would make you cocky.
You find it does the opposite. It's hard to laugh at death when you know that you've choked to death just trying to eat. It's hard to laugh at death when you know how many of you have wasted away, far from help, dying of one incurable disease or another. It's hard to laugh at death when you know you're so, so fragile.
That's why you name them. Those that die - they aren't you. They can never be part of Greater You again. Their thread has been cut.
And yet, they were people who served Greater You faithfully, right up until the end. They were you. They were closer than anyone else could ever be. They deserve to be remembered.
You slide the stiff latch shut, and cast one last look around at the rows and rows of shelves.
Then you leave.
"OTC?"
[[Yes?]]
"Get me Rider."
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[ ] Attempt another jump into the world where Cassandra died.
[ ] Abandon it as a lost cause.
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Aoinfinity
Unlimited Blue Works
- Location
- a blue Infinity
[X] Debrief Rider.
We might have played through the circumstances immediately around her death, but there's a lot more about that world that she witnessed before the narration picked up. Things like the mentioned magitech, supernatural beings, and any specific prospects she witnessed would be important information to decide whether this world is worth it.
We might have played through the circumstances immediately around her death, but there's a lot more about that world that she witnessed before the narration picked up. Things like the mentioned magitech, supernatural beings, and any specific prospects she witnessed would be important information to decide whether this world is worth it.