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rex monday posted:You really think he doesn't know? I think it's reasonable to believe he knows, but then why mention it at all?
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I think Tudiya is more than smart enough to know that mom will tell us if and when she's good and ready to tell us. He's not going to undermine her wishes on this.
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Am I the only one who thinks the king really copped out on that offering? He came back with nothing. Kinda lame.
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WhiteOutMouse posted:Am I the only one who thinks the king really copped out on that offering? He came back with nothing. Kinda lame. I said the same thing in the IRC tudiya is a punk
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Tudiya is the biggest loving fantasy nerd clicheDiogines posted:You tell Ishamal. You tell him of all of the visions you believe you have had, but not of the strange structure in the forest. Ishamal listens to your story, mostly quietly, he asks a few brief questions but otherwise does not interrupt. When you finish, he takes another sip from his cup and says to you "I would be tempted, in other circumstances to say you were surely making this up, or possessed of a demon" he lets out a large sigh. Diogines posted:You have to think about it for a moment and are uncertain but then say, "I want to be a great explorer, like Zepa" you tell your mother "I wish to see the world and climb the mountains Ishamal spoke of and sail the seas, to see all the wonders he spoke of!" I feel that people are missing important stuff because of the length of this CYOA. So I just bolded the important stuff that's pretty relevant to this discussion and also sandal chat. Lanky Coconut Tree fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Sep 25, 2013 |
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Lanky Coconut Tree posted:Tudiya is the biggest loving fantasy nerd cliche Yes? And? We're in a nerd fantasy.
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So are we Danal's half brother or something? That would mean mom has the blood of Labaras like Bareen. Do we bear any resemblance to Danal at all? Some feature of mom that shows up in both of us?
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my dad posted:Yes? And? We're in a nerd fantasy. And it's funny. The big bad king, guy who likes ripping legs off things and beating them up with their own leg, did a major copout for his sacrifice. Imperialist Dog posted:So are we Danal's half brother or something? That would mean mom has the blood of Labaras like Bareen. Do we bear any resemblance to Danal at all? Some feature of mom that shows up in both of us? No, we don't know anything about this yet. But what we should do in the future, is spend more time with our mother. Not only because she would love it and we should make her happy, but because we can find out more story about our past.
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Your skin is much darker than that of anyone else in Zepath, but lighter than anyone in Athar. Your hair is a different color. Your mother told you she was from Baitel, far to the northeast, not Zepath.
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Every individual in Zepath, except for you, appears to be from the same ethnic group, including Ishamal and your mother.
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Is Ishamal from Baitel?
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I really don't get where all the Tudiya hate is coming from.
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Dude killed our father and enslaved us. Why would we like him?
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Lanky Coconut Tree posted:Is Ishamal from Baitel?
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paragon1 posted:I really don't get where all the Tudiya hate is coming from. A Rich White Man and I are joking about how his offering is a cop-out and we should one-up him if possible
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Lanky Coconut Tree posted:A Rich White Man and I are joking about how his offering is a cop-out and we should one-up him if possible Place our other head on the altar and pledge that El may service it as long as we breathe.
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"El, I vow my children to your service, now if your Elness can excuse me I have to go find some women of easy virtue and make good on a promise"
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Almost zero chance Sushem is our dad seems to me. How would that work? Jalitha washes up on shore. Sushem perhaps saves her from a storm and enslaves her. Fruits of Asherah and all. He then impregnates her? She is pregnant with us for 9 months or some such. No one in the village notices that she is pregnant and all assume that we are Nami's son? Seems unlikely. Must be more like: Nami is already pregnant. Jalitha washes up on a 'dark and stormy night' already in labor, lightning crashing, etc. Nami is also in labor at the time. Something goes wrong. Nami loses her child. (Sushem revealed in a flash of lightning throwing a small corpse into the sea.) But lo, Asherah has provided and here is Jalitha delivering us. Amidst storms deciet, enslavement and treachery Og is brought forth into the world. Boom, we become the child of Sushem and Nami, an enslavement ad deciet in its own right. Sushem was a harsh and pious man unwaveringly devoted to his insatiably hungering, merciless deity and the survival of his people, should his god allow it. We were simply necessary to him to serve his god. He would have killed Jalitha when she first cut our hair if Jorah had not interevened. If we had died along the way he would simply replace us. If we had failed to be priestly material it is entirely unclear how he would have responded. He rarely, if ever showed us any affection and beat us regularly... For our own good and the service of Asherah and whatnot. My question for Mom is 'how the hell did you get from Baitel to Athar alone and pregnant'? This means either larger boats than we have ever seen or some sort of intervention. If boats, why was she on a ship that far away from anything? Zepath is the most remote city. It is three months walk further to Athar. If she was not alone, but brought to Athar by men, what happened to them? And most importantly why did she flee Baitel while pregnant? That is not something you do on a lark or of your own free choice. Most likely it means we are a bastard of some sort and would be killed once born. What does that imply about Jalitha or our unknown father? This means that there is somebody out there now who if they knew we were alive would immediately try to kill us for some reason. This means not knowing is a danger to both her and us and also why it is fine with her for us to be a slave in Zepath. This is is how it seems to me. Meanwhile, the minds of most men (and presumably women) are open to Kings and Tudiya has other plans for us. Does he know who Jalitha is or the story of how she ended up in Athar? He must have thought about it and likely knows. If he does not, why isn't Jalitha's mind clear to him? I don't know how much of this we might have thought through, but we have been training our brain as well as our body for some time, including listening to many, many stories, counsel given to others, math, law and language to name a few. We are curious and stubborn and often work at a thing until we work it out or make some progress. And this is something that might really be important to us, so we might think about it a great deal off and on, gnawing at it to work it out. We have probably at least speculated down some of these roads without knowing anything in particular.
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We have darker skin than everyone in zepath. We have lighter skin than anyone in athar. We are very likely a mix of Baitel and Athar ethnic groups. Someone rescued mommy and then got her preggo. This is the most likely explanation.
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Basscop posted:We have darker skin than everyone in zepath. She ran away from Baitel because she was preggo, presumably because it was a big scandal. Being seduced by person of another race might be a big deal.
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Lanky Coconut Tree posted:She ran away from Baitel because she was preggo, presumably because it was a big scandal. Being seduced by person of another race might be a big deal. Race? 
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my dad posted:Race? Don't start. Edit: Ask Tudiya to tell us of the geography around Zepath. Who are our neighbors? Are there nomads? Give us their story of each of the neighbors Lanky Coconut Tree fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Sep 25, 2013 |
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Most cultures seem to consider other cultures demon worshipping cannibal heretics. There is some exception with respect to Baitel and some nomads. That would be enough in itself though to create threat associated with certain parentage. Baitel is also the Holy City for El/Labarians and might be highly political as well. I do not believe we have met any of the nomads as of yet.
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I guess we just have to spend some more time with our mom if we want to find out, our dad must be some kind of big shot though seeing how large we are.
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Didn't jalitha say she fell into a river and washed up in a beach near athar? I'm suspecting this is what actually happened, and the reason she isn't dead is due to some form of divine intervention. This may also related to why we sometimes hear voices and don't appear to be a normal boy. In any case, once we get back, we really need to start spending more time with her.
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Rahul posted:Didn't jalitha say she fell into a river and washed up in a beach near athar? So she fell into a River near Baitel, which is weeks (or months?) away from Zepath. Zepath is also a few weeks from from the ocean. I can't imagine she survived for weeks or months as flotsam. Even if the river flows quickly, a months long journey by foot is still going to take weeks by river.
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Regarding the sandal discussion, we should just have it as our own offering to El.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:So she fell into a River near Baitel, which is weeks (or months?) away from Zepath. Zepath is also a few weeks from from the ocean. I can't imagine she survived for weeks or months as flotsam. Even if the river flows quickly, a months long journey by foot is still going to take weeks by river. I've got one word for you, just one word: El.
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Carving out praise of El on a big rear end rock and hauling it back to the city is a good plan and we should stick to it for now.
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Tomn posted:I've got one word for you, just one word: El. Nah, Asherah. She prefers her delicacies well cooked in the fires of domestic violence, slavery, and religious intolerance. Bonus points when the morsels are forcefed minotaur hearts and genitals. vvv Sea-weed cakes with liver on top. The liver is flash-seared to give it that outer crunchy taste while keeping the inside moist and tasty. Sprinkle on some grated heart mixed with pepper, coca leaves and onions. Og's favorite! Slaan fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Sep 25, 2013 |
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If we'd stayed in Athar we'd be spearfighting the other kids(you know, those ones that excluded and probably made fun of us 24/7) on a floating canoe to the death for our manhood ritual- Way cooler than walking around being bipolar about whether shoes that let us walk good give us an unfair advantage in a literal monster infested wilderness. And probably closer to an actual nerd fantasy too  Although I suppose we would have ended up arguing about how Og wants his first human steak prepared. alpaca diseases fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Sep 25, 2013 |
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maxhush posted:Although I suppose we would have ended up arguing about how Og wants his first human steak prepared. medium rare, obviously.
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maxhush posted:If we'd stayed in Athar we'd be spearfighting the other kids(you know, those ones that excluded and probably made fun of us 24/7) on a floating canoe to the death for our manhood ritual- Way cooler than walking around being bipolar about whether shoes that let us walk good give us an unfair advantage in a literal monster infested wilderness. And probably closer to an actual nerd fantasy too I was honestly surprised there weren't at least a few more votes for the axe, a chance to return to our original destiny as a crazed axe-wielding fish-god viking raider-pirate, plundering the world atop our fire-breathing, lazer-shooting land-sea-lightning-shark mount. I hoped it was because of the obvious superiority of the staff, but whatever.
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I've got an itch to read similar things to this, do you know where I could find more CYOA that are written based on the choices? This is awesome by the way, I'm really enjoying it.
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Theglavwen posted:I was honestly surprised there weren't at least a few more votes for the axe, a chance to return to our original destiny as a crazed axe-wielding fish-god viking raider-pirate, plundering the world atop our fire-breathing, lazer-shooting land-sea-lightning-shark mount. Let me repeat the point I made earlier in the thread: The only kind of pirate we'll get to be is the pirate who invents a bronze age printing press.
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Lazaruise posted:I've got an itch to read similar things to this, do you know where I could find more CYOA that are written based on the choices? If you've not read it, you should enjoy Land between the Rivers, also by Diogines. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3529830 There's also the Viking CYOA which is a personal favorite, as well as OhYo's abduction simulator (where is my cat OhYo). http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3560142&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3552885
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There's Stellar Missionary too, which started about the same time as this and is ongoing, but Panda seems to have disappeared.  http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3553574 Nettle Soup fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Sep 26, 2013 |
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maxhush posted:If we'd stayed in Athar we'd be spearfighting the other kids(you know, those ones that excluded and probably made fun of us 24/7) on a floating canoe to the death for our manhood ritual- Way cooler than walking around being bipolar about whether shoes that let us walk good give us an unfair advantage in a literal monster infested wilderness. And probably closer to an actual nerd fantasy too Yeah, hitting some tent dwelling savage with a pointy stick is way cooler than training to be King Superman's recon sniper. Look at our attributes, we've got awesome eyesight and hearing, well on our way to mastering the best long range weapon of our era, we're about to learn wilderness survival (and camouflage if we don't want to be eaten by monsters) we even have our awesome dog to spot for us. So snail collecting cannibal vs Iron age sniper with world's smartest dog and future king best bud. Yeah, I regret leaving too.
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