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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #40 on: June 05, 2009, 02:46:17 AM »
Right now, I think it's at the point of just tossing a match and a bottle of oil and seeing if we get along like a house on fire.
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"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."

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"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #41 on: June 05, 2009, 03:08:45 AM »
I might have to quote you on that Veekie.

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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #42 on: June 14, 2009, 01:21:47 AM »
Maybe a dream sequence where we all see each other in our dreams (naturally those that do not know the others would remain so) and we can interact in dreamscape as an introduction. Would be a good sign/omen of things to come.

Plus in dreams, nobody can hear you scream/moan.
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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #43 on: June 14, 2009, 01:57:24 AM »
Fine, bad future is up.

Prophetic dream/shared hallucination/enemy mindtrick... whatever.
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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #44 on: June 14, 2009, 11:46:48 AM »
Naturally, just as I was going to make another last-minute change to my sheet (I love doing my stuff at the last minute). My timing is impeccable. Oh well.

EDIT: Actually, since this is just the introduction and no actual "roll-play" is going on yet, I'm just gonna make the change and if the DMs don't like it, they can just yell at me.
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It's all about vision and making reality conform to your vision. By dropping a fucking house on it.

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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #45 on: June 14, 2009, 03:04:10 PM »
Revamped my opening post and added a bit at the end.
It always seems like the barrels around here have something in them.

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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #46 on: June 14, 2009, 03:14:11 PM »
It's all about vision and making reality conform to your vision. By dropping a fucking house on it.

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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #47 on: June 14, 2009, 03:52:24 PM »
Lookin good so far.
The mind transcends the body.
It's also a little cold because of that.
Please get it a blanket.

I wish I could read your mind,
I can barely read mine.

"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."

[spoiler]
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill

To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #48 on: June 14, 2009, 05:31:14 PM »
Well, you've confused me at any rate. ???

I'll just see where you guys take this.
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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #49 on: June 14, 2009, 11:55:38 PM »
By the way, I actually know exactly what I'm doing with this.  In fact, I'm going to put down a hashed version of the reveal just to prove it later on.

The big secret is:

3ccb49075fe818ccc7581555d26c5fc7


EDIT: Darn it, lemme retry.  Stupid online checker, hashing "" instead of my real reveal.  I knew putting escape characters in was a bad idea.
« Last Edit: June 15, 2009, 01:15:15 AM by The_Mad_Linguist »
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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #50 on: June 15, 2009, 12:01:11 AM »
Now that just cruel man.
The mind transcends the body.
It's also a little cold because of that.
Please get it a blanket.

I wish I could read your mind,
I can barely read mine.

"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."

[spoiler]
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill

To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
[/spoiler]

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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #51 on: June 15, 2009, 12:18:25 AM »
Now that just cruel man.

You're welcome to try to crack it.  I'll even toss you a bone - here's every single letter in the reveal.

Every last one.

And punctuation

In alphabetical order
[spoiler]
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
bbb
cccc
dddd
eeeeeeeeeeeee
f
gg
hhhh
iiiiiiii
k
llll
mm
nnnnnnn
ooooo
ppp
rrrrrrrrrr
ssssssssss
ttttttttttt
uuuu
v
ww
x
yyyy
..
,,
""
                             
[/spoiler]

I have a tendency to pull plot points out of my... sleeve, so I'm hoping this will keep me (mostly) honest.
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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #52 on: June 15, 2009, 01:01:41 AM »
Out of curiousity, I researched how to crack it, but I don't consider the process itself to be worth my time investment.

Edit 1: I have determined that either no character names are mentioned in your plot summary or very few are mentioned.

Hmm...hard to say, but the odds of "treasure" being a word aren't bad.
« Last Edit: June 15, 2009, 01:18:21 AM by skydragonknight »
It always seems like the barrels around here have something in them.

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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #53 on: June 15, 2009, 01:16:06 AM »
Ooops, in my haste I accidentally gave the hash value of a completely empty file!  Boy is my face red.

Here's the real thing

3ccb49075fe818ccc7581555d26c5fc7
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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #54 on: June 15, 2009, 01:25:01 AM »
Interesting...with the single 'v' and 'f', "save the world from ____" is improbable.

At least it won't be completely cliche. :)

Oh...and there's a good chance "ar" is relevant somehow-perhaps an abbreviation or acronym?
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It always seems like the barrels around here have something in them.

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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #55 on: June 15, 2009, 03:50:30 AM »
My guess:
[spoiler]We're looking at TML's character's homeworld, and in the end we're supposed to help him fight off the invasion of the evil positive energy creatures. Or, conversely, help the evil positive energy creatures attack the negative energy beings.
It's all about vision and making reality conform to your vision. By dropping a fucking house on it.

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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #56 on: June 15, 2009, 04:44:09 AM »
My guess:
[spoiler]We're looking at TML's character's homeworld, and in the end we're supposed to help him fight off the invasion of the evil positive energy creatures. Or, conversely, help the evil positive energy creatures attack the negative energy beings.


You are exactly[spoiler] perpendicular  :p to the answer.  I've thrown out a few red herrings, and despite my signature I do like me some multiple meanings, but I doubt that the eventual explanation will seem asspullish.  Oh, and the thread title is almost completely irrelevant.  I just named it that because I was replaying Chrono Trigger.  That's the one red herring I feel a little bad about, but with a bit of a lateral reading it still works.[/spoiler]

Anyway, the page or so of backstory should be enough justification for any number of giant mechas, monster infestations, mad villains, espers, aliens, sliders, and spiky-haired henches.  I'm initially leaning a little more on classic sci-fi from the nineteen hundreds than anime to be honest, but if the first one who complains gets the job foisted off onto them  :evillaugh.

Not that I'll be DMing full time, of course.  I fully expect to badger other people into action.


Also, I think I may have been doing too much work with The Holders series.  It seems to be infecting my writing.


Anyway, I'm figuring on another set of reactions, before you all get unceremoniously dumped back where you were.  Well, mostly where you were.

Shame about what happened to the Nanohan's ship, though.
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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #57 on: June 15, 2009, 10:41:43 PM »
Toss out your red herrings. I'll completely latch onto them, further misinterpret them, and send the plot into a long protracted tangent. ;)

Edit: Lucky for you though, I CAN write my way out of a paper bag.
« Last Edit: June 16, 2009, 12:08:26 AM by skydragonknight »
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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #58 on: June 19, 2009, 06:06:11 AM »
If you wish to linger for a few rounds and examine it, make a will save and don't roll a one.  Otherwise, welcome to where you just were.
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Re: What do you want to see?
« Reply #59 on: June 19, 2009, 06:24:07 AM »
That was one of the oddest, most fucked up acid trips I've had to deal with for a long time, and I both went to art school and love FLCL. So, is it over now?