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General Earwa / Re: Musings on Techne creations
« on: February 01, 2014, 09:30:51 am »
Quote from: Wilshire on January 31, 2014, 05:21:05 pm
Quote from: Inraus Ghost on January 31, 2014, 08:55:25 am
Wow, no I had not. Thank you sir may I have another. No seriously, are there more like this in a thread I somehow overlooked? A lot of cool stuff in there. But the Tusk? Really? Balls. That has a ton of potential implications.
lmao because:
Quote from: Madness on January 31, 2014, 01:17:58 pm
There is a thread stickied at the top of all the Earwan subforums

Madness has tried so hard to make that topic easier to find  ;D
I've a mental quirk where I read things like forums, textbooks, and RPG books in bits that seem most interesting first rather a sensible order that lets me see where I'm going. So sometimes I miss the obvious, and unfortunately look the fool. :)

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General Earwa / Re: Musings on Techne creations
« on: January 31, 2014, 08:55:25 am »
Wow, no I had not. Thank you sir may I have another. No seriously, are there more like this in a thread I somehow overlooked? A lot of cool stuff in there. But the Tusk? Really? Balls. That has a ton of potential implications.


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General Earwa / Re: Musings on Techne creations
« on: January 31, 2014, 12:49:55 am »
Wutteat claims to "watching my makers decend as locusts on world after world" hence my ET assertion. How many of his progeny predate landing on Earwa we do not know.

Thanks on the female sranc part, missed or forgot that.

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The White-Luck Warrior / Re: Side Effects of Eating Sranc
« on: January 31, 2014, 12:34:54 am »


Quote from: Madness on January 30, 2014, 10:18:23 pm

 I'd just like to be able to know someone's connotations, if they have any specific passages that might have prompted their particular thoughts. Is all.

Also, admittedly, I'm a little overzealous about new membership, especially those who share in posts :).

Cool gauging new people to see what kind of mind you're conversing with is totally understandable. I was a bit defensive about it I admit.

Quote from: Madness on January 30, 2014, 10:18:23 pm

- We really don't know whether to include this, do we? I very much feel like Qirri becoming such a major part of WLW and the perversion of the Nonman Bios into Sranc by Tekne both seem to suggest that burnt Sranc will have similar consequences. I mean, I absolutely can't discount that Bakker might simply mean to do a meditation on cannibalism. But I feel like those two things give rise to the possibility of it having a perceptual or physical effect [beyond general revoltion from eating Sranc].

Ok, maybe I was being thick before, but I see your line of reasoning now. I guess it comes down to what nonmen bios was used as the template for the sranc, pre or post womb plague. While they were not encountered until after the discovery of the plague, the numbers in which they appeared makes me think their manufacture began before the Inchori made their offer. But then, to counter my own point, they did have at least Nin'janjin to experiment on.

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General Earwa / Musings on Techne creations
« on: January 30, 2014, 10:13:55 pm »
A couple things occurred to me.

The inchorai made sranc from nonmen and dragons presumably from a life form existing on one of their previous conquests. So why no human techne toys?

From where are all the sranc coming? I don't recall seeing any females and they sure ain't keeping human women alive long enough to come to term.

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The White-Luck Warrior / Re: Side Effects of Eating Sranc
« on: January 30, 2014, 09:36:02 pm »
Note:In my previous post I mistakenly said "differences between the 2 know sources of quirri and nonmen" I meant to say sranc not nonmen.

Quote from: Madness on January 30, 2014, 05:14:17 pm

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All any of us have about anything here is option and conjecture as, by the authors own admission, even our sources of Facts contain misinformation. That's not to say we should not ask "Why do you think that?" of each other. Just a reminder that even our "facts" are infirm ground.   :)

Noted, of course. But again this is simply not a reason not to follow the threads of (ill)logic where they may go :).

Let's take Chanv, for instance. Am I to assume from the consensus here that it extends lifespan by manipulating the soul rather than the body?


I brought that up because you were a bit one sidedly insistent on proof in a discussion that bears little either way. I felt, perhaps incorrectly, that you were beginning to get upset and sought to mitigate that. Being here and discussing these things(and greatly enjoying the discourse) should be taken as a willingness to follow and attempt to untangle the threads of RSBs setting regardless of the general lack of objective proof. We're all here to bullshit, brother.

As too Chanv, we've even less data on it so I say assume nothing. I think it's probably magic or techne based

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The White-Luck Warrior / Re: Side Effects of Eating Sranc
« on: January 30, 2014, 05:15:39 am »
Quote from: Madness on January 29, 2014, 12:57:57 pm

Seriously though, how is everyone so convinced that Qirri operates by metaphysical mechanism?

Convinced is a strong word in my case, but the bit of text I quoted in my previous post, combined with the settings general metaphysics is why it's my preferred theory. But I'm open to it being a side effect of the tekni, thus being a purely chemical effect. And completely rule out nothing.

As to proof, well there's as much or more than some of the other completely baseless(and sometimes really out there) theories around here. Say, sranc meat being anything other than protein. Because there are far to many physiological and metaphysical differences between the 2 know sources of quirri and nonmen to just assume you get high from both. And no, the announcement of the sranc eating at the end of a book is not evidence either. Think of the horror and revulsion the men of the ordeal must feel and the thought.

All any of us have about anything here is option and conjecture as, by the authors own admission, even our sources of Facts contain misinformation. That's not to say we should not ask "Why do you think that?" of each other. Just a reminder that even our "facts" are infirm ground.   :)

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The White-Luck Warrior / Re: Side Effects of Eating Sranc
« on: January 29, 2014, 07:20:49 am »
Quote from: Curethan on December 07, 2013, 11:54:29 pm
I'm really starting to doubt that eating Sranc would have any effects similar to qirri (whether it comes from quya or not), because Sranc have no souls. 
Therefore they can't affect your metaphysical state. 


When Akka and Mimara partake of Nil'giccas' ash it's noted "the strength that shivers thru them has a more melancholy tenor." in comparison to the ashs of CC. This indicates who it's made of effects the final product. With souls being the overriding meta physic in Earwa I feel you may be correct.

But then the immortality treatment may be the answer to qirri too, as what ever is sustaining them may have mystic residue. Either way I'm skeptical that eating sranc will have an effect on humans outside the psychological ones.

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The Warrior-Prophet / Re: His PROOF...
« on: January 28, 2014, 09:22:55 pm »
Quote from: Madness on January 28, 2014, 12:53:43 pm
Quote from: Inraus Ghost on January 28, 2014, 03:54:21 am
And yes, he is mad but that act otherwise cuts against the grain of his madness. Or my perception of it anyway.

It was all gravy until now.

I'm not sure I grok this - I liked how themerchant put it in the favorite scenes thread.

Sorry that was a poorly phrased attempt to preemptively deflect any attempts to use his "madness" as an explanation for Conphas. My preception of him was the need to not be a faggot/weeper, to measure up to his people standards, was the driving force of it. Forced buttsex like the filthy Nansur dogs, not likely.

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General Earwa / Re: Eanna and the 144k
« on: January 28, 2014, 07:51:24 pm »
The Xiuhianni had 2000 years to repopulate Eanna before the FA. With only themselves (as far as we know) to contend with for space and resources. So I think, baring major catastrophe, they could fill the empty space pretty well. But I doubt the consult has been licking their wounds for the whole 2000 since. And as the  Xiuhianni lack nonmen allies and the gnosis that's kinda what I expect as well. It'd be nice to know tho.  ;)

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General Earwa / Eanna and the 144k
« on: January 28, 2014, 02:09:03 pm »
I'm curious about what, if any actions the consult have taken against the rest of the continent. Probably not something that will ever get covered but still.

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The Forum of Interesting Things / Re: Conspiracy or paranoia?
« on: January 28, 2014, 01:18:05 pm »
Indeed they are not.

Yeah, folks like that hurt my mind.

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The Forum of Interesting Things / Re: Conspiracy or paranoia?
« on: January 28, 2014, 11:53:54 am »
Quote from: Royce on January 28, 2014, 11:38:26 am
Not any worse than anything else really. That a male god with beard hovers above us, showering us with gifts of forgiveness and love, and at the same time judges you and fill your being with hate, is just as priceless:)
I'm no religionist, but the lack of gods is not provable. The theory I mentioned is a provable impossibility. Just the action of it's atmosphere freezing and thawing as it passed thru it's orbit makes it so. Never mind the fact that we'd have seen it, or it's occlusion of bodies behind it or it's gravitational effects on other bodies in our solar system long before that git wrote his silly books. All you need is a little basic knowledge of astronomy and it sinks like the Titanic.

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The Great Ordeal / Re: Excerpt - The Unholy Consult, Chapter One
« on: January 28, 2014, 10:37:15 am »
Wow, that was a powerfully written dream. It's revelations and and the further questions they spawned made it a bit hard to focus back on Akka and Mimara. Like I'd awoke from a nightmare myself.

Edit> Ok so Ieva was working with the consult and one of NC's last memories before being buried alive was of her "plundering his loins with wild abandon". I'm wondering if the Celmoman prophecy may be a bad thing. I realize that it is highly possible that NC isn't even "of Cel's seed" but perhaps that's a red herring. Or NC's spirit, thinking himself Cel's son, would call his own issue his father's seed. Or maybe the loin plundering is just in there to illustrate her being influenced by the consult.

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The Forum of Interesting Things / Re: Conspiracy or paranoia?
« on: January 28, 2014, 04:39:23 am »
My "favorite" has to be the annunaki. A planet in an orbit like a comet that takes it into the inner solar system once every 5000 years that can somehow support life beyond the microscopic. And it is undetectable. The idea people can find that believable is priceless.

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