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Post by uncommonman on Mar 27, 2017 7:55:22 GMT -8
There is the obvious caveat - Arthur is 'the once and future king'. He didn't die in his final battle rather he sleeps, because of his part fey parentage, in Avalon til Albion's hour of greatest need. Whence he shall return and bring Camelot back to Albion to restore order and civilisation. In some versions of the legends Morgan le Fey watches over the sleeping Arthur in lieu of the missing Merlin - to advise and assist when he awakes (so where is Merlin now and will Morgan le Fey stay the course, her own Fey parentage making her unpredictable at best?) Aaron Cryogenic sleeping Arthur?
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Post by Wakefield on Mar 27, 2017 8:06:05 GMT -8
There is the obvious caveat - Arthur is 'the once and future king'. He didn't die in his final battle rather he sleeps, because of his part fey parentage, in Avalon til Albion's hour of greatest need. Whence he shall return and bring Camelot back to Albion to restore order and civilisation. In some versions of the legends Morgan le Fey watches over the sleeping Arthur in lieu of the missing Merlin - to advise and assist when he awakes (so where is Merlin now and will Morgan le Fey stay the course, her own Fey parentage making her unpredictable at best?) Aaron Cryogenic sleeping Arthur? That, or a cloned, vat-grown Arthur, or the entire brain scan of Arthur downloaded into a robot, or the spirit of Arthur possessing an able-bodied youth...
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Post by Forresst on Mar 27, 2017 8:08:01 GMT -8
Morgan le Fey is the control interface for Arthur's sleepytube.
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Post by Wakefield on Mar 27, 2017 8:13:34 GMT -8
Morgan le Fey is the control interface for Arthur's sleepytube. Between the original concept for the Lady of the Lake as a satellite OS and Morgan le Fey as the guardian program for Arthur's sleepytube, the Enchantresses are all shaping up to be computer programs or AI. And that is amazing.
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Post by Kainguru on Mar 27, 2017 8:29:52 GMT -8
Merlin is a self aware construct - a rogue, autonomous AI independent of any given mainframe. Basically the internet as AI, that's why he's 'missing' - until the network is re-established Merlin is missing, as more and more nodes come online so does Merlin's self awareness. Aaron
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2017 9:44:35 GMT -8
For the record I totally want to play in this setting, it's shaping up to be frikking awesome.
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Post by sbloyd on Mar 27, 2017 9:48:52 GMT -8
Maybe the Merlin AI specialized in predictive algorithms, which is why he has a rep for "remembering the future".
Merlin was imprisoned in the Crystal Cave by Nimue, right? According to Wargames, Crystal Palace is the callsign for Strategic Air Command's base under Cheyenne Mountain, right? So Merlin has been cut off from the outside networks, in a base under a mountain.
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Post by Kainguru on Mar 27, 2017 10:01:55 GMT -8
For the record I totally want to play in this setting, it's shaping up to be frikking awesome. It's also a totally open IP so one could, quite legitimately, do anything they wanted with it - including publishing . . . Aaron
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Post by D.T. Pints on Mar 27, 2017 10:05:11 GMT -8
Aside from making the comparison to knights and gunslingers (ala Dark Tower Trilogy) a modern take on Excalibur could be my favorite hand gun...I own two! Call them my Bear pacififers...skip to 3:55 to get to the bone shattering action.
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Post by sbloyd on Mar 27, 2017 10:16:53 GMT -8
Isnt that the revolver given to Dresden in Skin Game?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2017 10:57:59 GMT -8
For the record I totally want to play in this setting, it's shaping up to be frikking awesome. It's also a totally open IP so one could, quite legitimately, do anything they wanted with it - including publishing . . . Aaron Don't tempt me, I already have too many unfinished projects. Though for this I'd need to do some serious research, I don't know enough of the details from Arthurian legends to do it justice.
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Post by Wakefield on Mar 27, 2017 13:50:12 GMT -8
For the record I totally want to play in this setting, it's shaping up to be frikking awesome. Unless the theme prohibits it I'll try to run it at Jackercon XIII!
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Post by sbloyd on Mar 27, 2017 13:53:02 GMT -8
Throw themes to the wind.
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Post by Forresst on Mar 27, 2017 19:59:59 GMT -8
SLEEPYTUBE! SLEEPYTUBE! *rabble rabble rabble*
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Post by Wakefield on Mar 27, 2017 20:25:46 GMT -8
SLEEPYTUBE! SLEEPYTUBE! *rabble rabble rabble* "Ranked #1 in customer satisfaction over other leading brands of cryogenic stasis pod." (Really, it's a matter of branding. For some reason Coma-Can just never performed well in the markets.)
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