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Wizards see gods about the same way most people see chairs- they exist, and you can generally expect to find one when you need it- but there's no reason to go around encouraging or worshipping them or anything.
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Bacter posted:I didn't get the impression that any Discworld wizards or wizzards were particularly religious By some quirk of the universe Mustrum Ridcully's brother is high priest of Blind Io.
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Dec 11, 2014 18:02
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And priests and wizards aren't exactly on the... friendliest of terms.
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Dec 11, 2014 18:04
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anilEhilated posted:And priests and wizards aren't exactly on the... friendliest of terms. No one is on friendly terms with wizards, not even fellow wizards.
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Dec 11, 2014 18:11
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Alhazred posted:No one is on friendly terms with wizards, not even fellow wizards.
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Dec 11, 2014 18:23
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Poil posted:You mean, especially not fellow wizards. They can get on each others nerves at opposite corners of a big field.
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Dec 11, 2014 21:46
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Doing the recording soon - does anybody remember if I picked up some bandages? And talked to Nobby about them? If I don't get the answer soon we MIGHT see some repeated content nooooooo Edit: Awesome, thanks! Bacter fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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Dec 12, 2014 04:32
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Bacter posted:Doing the recording soon - does anybody remember if I picked up some bandages? And talked to Nobby about them? If I don't get the answer soon we MIGHT see some repeated content nooooooo I don't think we've seen this happen.
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Dec 12, 2014 04:35
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It's a little longer, this one, but there wasn't a good breakpoint between where the last chapter left off and where this one does. Brace yourselves, goons, the veils are being lifted! 
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Dec 12, 2014 08:00
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Bacter posted:We're pooched! You don't say. 
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Dec 12, 2014 10:10
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Well, it's good to know that everything turned out peachy. Also, never summon anything bigger than your head.
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Dec 12, 2014 10:49
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Well, at least this isn't unprescedented, taking Moving Pictures into account, anyway.
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Dec 12, 2014 11:42
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Yes, called it! On both Therma and Anu-anu being a dog god! Go discworld detective! Erm. Anyway, the plot seems to be going into overdrive, but some references: I already talked about how the fate Mr Hong is the standard case in the books for not summoning supernatural horrors, now it kind of makes me want to check when that joke appeared first. I definitely remember it being in Jingo, which I think came out after the game - either way, it's a nice reference. Especially since it's the book that covers the Leshp issue... Hmm... Also, as much as I dig the whole discshakespeare angle, they kind of undersell it: Hwel was capable of way more terrifying stuff, among other things he invented the Marx brothers.
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Dec 12, 2014 12:43
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Bruceski posted:Well, it's good to know that everything turned out peachy. Yeah the problem with that is people who would even think of summoning these things invariably have big heads. If you're going to go nuclear and summon a world-ender, you REALLY need to do your homework. Also, further congrats are due the thread, and anilE in particular, for top-notch detectivism! Asking the actor about Carlotta was yet another thing I hadn't done until this play through, and his answer should have more or less cleared up any doubts about Thermas identity. That said, I don't know if theres a way to make Lewton piece it together before Carlotta tells you. It would be neat to be the all-knowing detective, but then it IS supposed to be a big reveal. So the plan is to replicate Small Gods, and have Anu Anu save the day in front of a bunch of people, propelling him to the upper echelons of diety. Come to think of it, this is basically Small Gods mashed up with Guards! Guards!
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Dec 12, 2014 16:04
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Bacter posted:Asking the actor about Carlotta was yet another thing I hadn't done until this play through, and his answer should have more or less cleared up any doubts about Thermas identity. Bacter posted:Come to think of it, this is basically Small Gods mashed up with Guards! Guards! And in case anyone missed it, the eight great tragedies were:
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To be fair, the bunch from Guards! isn't a cult, it's a secret society. IIRC they were very careful about not drawing the attention of any god.
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anilEhilated posted:Anyway, the plot seems to be going into overdrive, but some references: I already talked about how the fate Mr Hong is the standard case in the books for not summoning supernatural horrors, now it kind of makes me want to check when that joke appeared first. I definitely remember it being in Jingo, which I think came out after the game - either way, it's a nice reference. Especially since it's the book that covers the Leshp issue... Hmm... The first reference I've found from flipping through my books and Google is Men At Arms.
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Dec 12, 2014 19:55
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Well, according to wiki Men at Arms came out in 1993 so it's not based on this game. Oh well.
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Dec 12, 2014 19:59
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I seem to remember Mr Hong being mentioned in one of the Rincewind / Wizards books as well, but I couldn't say which one. The story is definitely older than the game, though.
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anilEhilated posted:Erm. I already talked about how the fate Mr Hong is the standard case in the books for not summoning supernatural horrors, And for not naming your restaurant after the Lady.
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Dec 12, 2014 21:17
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Yeah, the full deal with Mr. Hong seems to be that he built a fish shop on the exact site of an ancient temple to a fish god (the kind FISH pray to, not the kind people pray to), on some absurd combination of sacred days - solstices and midwinters and etc., and the things that happened to him are.... difficult to describe for sheer awfulness. This would presumably leave the abandoned fish shop full of wiggly occult energy, perfect for stuff like this. So this section is a whole hunk of plot, and there are hits and misses, no doubt there, but I do want to go on record as saying that the whole group meeting in the ToSG to pray, thus empowering their "assassin", is one of the cooler ways to combine motive and method.
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Dec 12, 2014 23:50
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Unrelated to all the other stuff going down, but I assume Death admiring the 'you dirty rat' line is a reference to the fact that that was supposedly the line James Cagney was most famous for, despite him never saying it in any film.
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Bacter posted:So the plan is to replicate Small Gods, and have Anu Anu save the day in front of a bunch of people, propelling him to the upper echelons of diety. Come to think of it, this is basically Small Gods mashed up with Guards! Guards! I really did like that part of Small Gods, but I think that part of what made it work was that it was just such an absurd way to have things happen that it couldn't have been anything other than faith. Giant jackalman with a golden sword fighting a monstrous horror? Yeah, that's about what they do. Anu Anu was just going to kill the Laddering Horror and eat the resulting power crunch.
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I caught up on this just in time to see the second time an eldritch horror has been summoned into Ankh-Morpork. This game is great  Makes you wonder what the Patrician thinks of this.
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Probably doesn't think anything, knows everything, and is plotting with Vimes to make Lewton solve the whole thing.
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anilEhilated posted:Probably doesn't think anything, knows everything, and is plotting with Vimes to make Lewton solve the whole thing. More like plotting to make Vimes make Lewton solve the whole thing. Vimes doesn't willingly go along with the Patrician's schemes, Vetinari just knows what buttons to push to make Vimes do what he wants under his own free will.  Granted, Vimes has wised up to this somewhat over the course of the series, but not enough to avoid it.
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I might have missed it, but why were the actual murders based on the murders in the plays?
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According to Lewton, there were similiarities.
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Shei-kun posted:I caught up on this just in time to see the second time an eldritch horror has been summoned into Ankh-Morpork. The second time? In the first books this happened on a pretty regular basis (Bel-Shamharoth for example is in all likelihood still in his temple). Alhazred fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Dec 17, 2014 |
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Mraagvpeine posted:I might have missed it, but why were the actual murders based on the murders in the plays? Because the plays were (unknowingly) about the first Octogram of Murders that summoned the Laddering Horror, as Lewton found in the summoning area when he plotted them on the map of the circle sea.
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On another note, does anyone know why Nylonathatep is called the Laddering Horror? Is that a British phrase for runs in stockings that's just completely opaque to Americans, like my grandmother's first time being offered a napkin (diaper in England) in an American restaurant?
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Bruceski posted:On another note, does anyone know why Nylonathatep is called the Laddering Horror? Is that a British phrase for runs in stockings that's just completely opaque to Americans, like my grandmother's first time being offered a napkin (diaper in England) in an American restaurant? Well, as far as I can figure, it's a kind of play on the original alternate title and a rather obscure joke. Nyarlathotep, the original Lovecraftian outer god Nylonathatep is based on, is also known as The Crawling Chaos. Obvious framework. Laddering is an investment technique based around investing in financial products and the gradual freeing up of the assets bound up in these. Laddering also describes a process where, in order to buy something (like stocks) at a low price initially, you have to agree to pay for more of it at a higher price later. Take your pick. Now, Nylonathatep's 'Godly' powers is... making stockings and tights disappear and unravel in its presence. Every cry of "But I only bought this pair yesterday! or "I don't believe it! That's the third pair this week!" or "That was my last pair! Now what do I wear to this job interview/promotion board/big date?" are as prayers to it. So. The Laddering Horror = "That feel when your stock(ing)s disappear overnight". 
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Bruceski posted:On another note, does anyone know why Nylonathatep is called the Laddering Horror? Is that a British phrase for runs in stockings that's just completely opaque to Americans, like my grandmother's first time being offered a napkin (diaper in England) in an American restaurant? Laddering is indeed a phrase meaning runs in your stockings yes. Also what kind of restaurant did your grandmother go to where they use the term diaper? It's not a phrase I've ever heard used napkins are just napkins and I've never heard them called anything else. 
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Ferrosol posted:Laddering is indeed a phrase meaning runs in your stockings yes. Also what kind of restaurant did your grandmother go to where they use the term diaper? It's not a phrase I've ever heard used napkins are just napkins and I've never heard them called anything else. It was when Grandmum first immigrated to America, and apparently her generation in England called diapers napkins. I wasn't born at the time so I only know it through stories. E: I may be saying it wrong, but what she was asked at the restaurant was "ma'am, do you need a napkin?" Figured things out rather quickly, she was a smart girl, but there was the initial shock as the brain tried to catch up.
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Ugh. UGH. Yet another thing I didn't get until just now. "laddering", in addition to being that investment thing, is also just another word for runs in stockings, since when they bunch up and get those little holes all in a row it looks like a ladder. PRATCHETT! 
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Next ep. Is recorded and up soon - happy hogswatch, all!
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Dec 24, 2014 17:40
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HO HO ERM... HO WAS IT?
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Dec 24, 2014 17:41
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anilEhilated posted:HO HO ERM... HO WAS IT? COWER, BRIEF MORTALS
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I am attempting a new Let's Play: "Let's Play Make a Buche de Noel". Update 1, the only update, is to come.
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Hogswatch level:  Buche de noel. Happy Hogswatch to all!
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