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Mote 27
Jun 26, 2017 21:17:06 GMT -8
Post by sovereigncitizenkane on Jun 26, 2017 21:17:06 GMT -8
See while it does seem very blatant, there is a huge caveat in the books that you're getting your story from a bunch of creatures that are known to be liars and most likely driven insane by their confinement. I mean how many creatures exist in the Umbra and Far Shores (that was what they were called in Wraith right?) call themselves demons? Even if it they are the true biblical demons, I find the mythology behind it all interesting and there's plenty of fun stuff to work with so don't mind it at all. I'll admit I did not think about the unreliable narrator being in effect with Demon, as that does help slightly, though I have always felt WoD were "truthful" in the "non-fiction" sections of the various WoD books. It was just that in the big three you had Judeo-Christian God, Earth Goddess Animism, and Shrug-a-palosa with the lesser lines adding in Amon-Ra et al, Dreaming, What Afterlife?, and Maybe Angels? (Did I miss someone, I feel I missed someone) Everybody had faith they were right but no one had proof. Then you have these ancient beings who created the world and have memories, sometimes, of creating it. Memories that can be found true, "Hey I remember there being a fortress here, LOOK! there is!" And I've always been a crazy that unified the sets of worlds, might be why my ears bleed at the mention of sc... DAMN EARS! Yeah, I get that complaint. Never quite having a single truth worked well for the game lines, I just never saw them as completely one universe to begin with. Never quite saw the Werewolves in the antagonists sections of Masquerade to be the ones from Apocalypse. I believe White Wolf even said something to that effect. So when I play Demon, the truth of Demon is not the truth of Vampire or Wraith or Werewolf. In Demon, Charon the Fallen angel was involved in helping create the Necropoli and the Ferrymen, but when you play Wraith, Charon was just an ancient and powerful Wraith. I guess it just comes down to how you view the separation in the game lines.
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Mote 27
Jul 6, 2017 15:29:37 GMT -8
Post by chronovore on Jul 6, 2017 15:29:37 GMT -8
Regarding staking... mmmmm stake... P.280To stake a vampire, an attacker must target the heart ( difficulty 9). If the attack succeeds and inflicts at least three health levels of damage, the target is immobilized. An immobilized victim is conscious (and may use perception powers, such as those in the Auspex Discipline), but may not move or spend blood points. hehehehehe I'd forgotten about the conscious part, that is sick! Also, since I'm at that part in the episode, if a human gets staked in the heart and screams in pain.... there's really no need to ACTUALLY SCREAM like a maniac into the mic! Just saying. Also, minor quibble that I've been meaning to bring up for a while but kept forgetting. It's Ant Ediluvian, not Ant Idiluvian. "Ante" to rhyme with Aunty not "Anti" to rhyme with Hentai. "Ante" as in preceding or coming before, not "Anti" as in opposing or disliking something. They're named that because they predate the great flood, as in "Noah's Epic Boating Adventure." The important bit is that they were there before the flood and they survived it and are still around and kicking thousands of years later, THAT'S the impressive bit that gave their generation its name. No one gives a shit if they were opposed to the flood or not, I mean they probably didn't like it but that's not really the impressive part. No one's going to name an entire generation of ancient, immortal, undead, godlike superbeings after the fact that they didn't want to get wet. I just... I mean... of all the foibles we've had in the Mote, you want to get upset over the pronunciation of a word? Yes. Yes, yes! We care about the pronunciation of a word that is the core conceit stretching over the arc of the entire campaign focusing on this one particular MacGuffin. As well as the fact that it has been corrected repeatedly. Nerrrrrrrrrd-rage! Seriously though, I once listened to an X-Files novel audiobook read by Gillian Anderson. Throughout the book she mispronounced "nuclear" as "nuke-you-luhr." It was singularly distracted. Not just because the word was being mispronounced but, because it was being read by "Scully," it seemed to me that she would be the last person to mispronounce a word central to science.
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Mote 27
Jul 6, 2017 18:17:25 GMT -8
Post by RudeAlert on Jul 6, 2017 18:17:25 GMT -8
Regarding staking... mmmmm stake... P.280To stake a vampire, an attacker must target the heart ( difficulty 9). If the attack succeeds and inflicts at least three health levels of damage, the target is immobilized. An immobilized victim is conscious (and may use perception powers, such as those in the Auspex Discipline), but may not move or spend blood points. hehehehehe I'd forgotten about the conscious part, that is sick! Also, since I'm at that part in the episode, if a human gets staked in the heart and screams in pain.... there's really no need to ACTUALLY SCREAM like a maniac into the mic! Just saying. Also, minor quibble that I've been meaning to bring up for a while but kept forgetting. It's Ant Ediluvian, not Ant Idiluvian. "Ante" to rhyme with Aunty not "Anti" to rhyme with Hentai. "Ante" as in preceding or coming before, not "Anti" as in opposing or disliking something. They're named that because they predate the great flood, as in "Noah's Epic Boating Adventure." The important bit is that they were there before the flood and they survived it and are still around and kicking thousands of years later, THAT'S the impressive bit that gave their generation its name. No one gives a shit if they were opposed to the flood or not, I mean they probably didn't like it but that's not really the impressive part. No one's going to name an entire generation of ancient, immortal, undead, godlike superbeings after the fact that they didn't want to get wet. I just... I mean... of all the foibles we've had in the Mote, you want to get upset over the pronunciation of a word? Yes. Yes, yes! We care about the pronunciation of a word that is the core conceit stretching over the arc of the entire campaign focusing on this one particular MacGuffin. As well as the fact that it has been corrected repeatedly. Nerrrrrrrrrd-rage! Seriously though, I once listened to an X-Files novel audiobook read by Gillian Anderson. Throughout the book she mispronounced "nuclear" as "nuke-you-luhr." It was singularly distracted. Not just because the word was being mispronounced but, because it was being read by "Scully," it seemed to me that she would be the last person to mispronounce a word central to science. Ugghhhhhh!!! I HATE nuke-you-luhr! Where do people even get the idea that it's supposed to be pronounced that way?
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Mote 27
Jul 6, 2017 20:52:33 GMT -8
Post by chronovore on Jul 6, 2017 20:52:33 GMT -8
Listening to this one right now, and stork is EN FUEGO on dice roll successes. Good grief, it's so unnerving that Stu Venable has called Albert as "Robert" by mistake. Even Stu knows that Stork cannot be rolling this well!
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