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Experience massive, crippling cognitive dissonance at the notion that questions could be anything less than the most important thing ever "I bet it'll be a good life-changing event," they said.
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Consider what would happen to Snarls if we disappeared on this mission, he'd be in the same position as the Orm is right now. We wouldn't want Snarls spending all his time in a cave somewhere crying until the end of days because Fare captured us while we were searching for Mrs Snake.Ralith posted:Experience massive, crippling cognitive dissonance at the notion that questions could be anything less than the most important thing ever It was not a good life-changing event. It was a great one.
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Jun 16, 2017 07:37
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RESIST The only thing we seek is the glorification of EL! And we find it every day!
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I still think we can totally do this without being mind controlled, all we need is to dig out the other passage and then bring Snarls to her chamber to pick up the scent. Still need to focus on not being controlled first. e: and now I need to stop posting as I've already posted way too much this update.
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gently caress u snek, u r a good snek but we is our own man ... creature. I AM ENKIDEL & I AM THE GREATEST, U DON'T COMMAND ME SNEK losing ormwife sux tho, tell u what snek give me sum more info then I'll ask this old guy I know
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super sweet best pal posted:I still think we can totally do this without being mind controlled, all we need is to dig out the other passage and then bring Snarls to her chamber to pick up the scent. Still need to focus on not being controlled first. pretty much yeah, i'm totally down with ormquest but i really, really don't want to forsake everything for ormquest particularly since i suspect we will be much, much more efficient if we are able to act in our usual manner? like, why isn't having Snarls get a scent of the Orm and the Orm-wife's chambers, an option here? because we are so filled with an overwhelming need to act now that we aren't thinking.
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I'm also kind of realizing this might be what happened to Barkof. Not necessarily the Orm, but rather a similar entity, possibly Fare or Mokt. A similar date might have befallen Amok, and likely us had we been captured. Except it wouldn't be accidental, and we'd have no chance to resist. Edit: gently caress you phone.
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FaustianQ posted:I'm also ki d of realizing this might be what happened to Barkof. Not necessarily the Orm, but rather a similar entity, possibly Fare or Money. A similar date might have befallen Amok, and likely us had we been captured. I like to imagine the Money typo is meant to be Monkey, Danal's old pet.
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Jun 16, 2017 07:52
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SerSpook posted:I like to imagine the Money typo is meant to be Monkey, Danal's old pet. Arghh this what I get for being bed ridden and posting from a phone. Edit: send help my phone is killing me.
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Jun 16, 2017 07:53
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No matter what happens I demand to know how the Melachim can be ultra powerful beings and leave this for loving creature to weep a river of tears for a thousand years. MERCY YOU FUCKS, DO YOU SPEAK IT! HOLY COCK BAG gently caress YOU! Right up your backside. This is unconscionable. I'm mad. The more I think about this the madder I get.
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Arkanomen posted:No matter what happens I demand to know how the Melachim can be ultra powerful beings and leave this for loving creature to weep a river of tears for a thousand years. What if snek is actually an incel stalker, and lady snake was never his girlfriend? He had people paint all these pictures of her and stuff to try to convince her what a good guy he is, but she never wanted anything to do with him?
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Z. "... I'll get right on that" Time to see just how much the old man knows.
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Arkanomen posted:No matter what happens I demand to know how the Melachim can be ultra powerful beings and leave this for loving creature to weep a river of tears for a thousand years. what if lady snake is dead and this is an impossible quest
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But for real Orm Bro how exactly do you misplace a giant rainbow colored snake? Not calling your lady fat or anything, she fine as hell based on the mural, but she ain't exactly pocket sized, you feel me? You sure he didn't leave you due to you being clingy as gently caress? Maybe she decided to move with that 7-bird guy, I hear he has reptile people, with get this, legs! That's so much cooler than slithering everywhere. Seriously, how did she get killed without him realizing? What happened to all his people? Where are the bodies? So many questionsz. That will probably never get answered. the_steve posted:I'm inclined to disagree. If anything, it would have spurred the wrong voters on to dive headfirst down the Ormhole even faster. That makes no sense. Based on our information there was no reason to believe the Orm was completely closed to diplomacy. And we had been voting to avoid direct confrontation, except for the dumb people voting to shout. Exploring this place was in no way wrong voting.
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Mr. Nemo posted:Exploring this place was in no way wrong voting. Word.
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Mr. Nemo posted:Seriously, how did she get killed without him realizing? What happened to all his people? Where are the bodies? So many questionsz. That will probably never get answered. His civilization got wrecked like a thousand years ago. The bodies are dust, dude. Or just unseen under rubble and Lake Grief. Given the proximity to the ocean they could also have been eaten by sea demons. Maybe that's why he was willing to splat a Doom to save the souls of Taanach. I wonder what his interaction with Zepa was like? He didn't want to step on Zepa's turf, which implies they must have met but not killed each other.
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Arkanomen posted:MERCY YOU FUCKS, DO YOU SPEAK IT!
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Have you heard? The Cannibal King of Kavodel has finally ssssnapped! Now he ssspends hisss daysss in sssearch of ssserpentssss, assssaulting passssersss by with endlesssss ssssnake related queriessss! Sssssmythossss pressserve! Issss thissss what the world issss coming too? Asss for my vote, i ssssugessst we Resssisssst but go along with it anyway, finding ssssnakewife isssss a noble causssss. Z. We do our bessst thinking when we can actually think. Isssshamal probably knowsss where to sssstart looking, but he isss more powerful than ussss and would kill ussss if we flew, so letsss jussst run to him insssstead.
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SerSpook posted:what if lady snake is dead and this is an impossible quest BLASPHEMER!
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Alternate history speculation time! Asherak, totally male. Zepa stone says female. Zepa claimed these lands after defeating Asherak the "whore of desolation" and throwing her into the sea. So Zepa strolls up to this area, finds it occupied by a bunch of snake people (nagas), and defeats their lady ruler, casting her into the ocean. Then he claims the land forever, having tossed the Orm's mate into the sea. Someone made a deal with the Orm to keep him from going on a berserker rampage, thus the whole "did they send you" stuff. We should definitely find out who "they" are. Resist. Ask questions, questions are love, questions are life. Who are "they? " What is her name? How old are you? Do you know Amok? Damat? Faramu?
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SerSpook posted:what if lady snake is dead and this is an impossible quest Then wipe out its memory or give it something that was just like her or put it in a blissful slumber. Its clearly a child like intellect. There's free will and then there's An Rand Bootstraps and then to go a level beyond there's the Melachim.
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Arkanomen posted:No matter what happens I demand to know how the Melachim can be ultra powerful beings and leave this for loving creature to weep a river of tears for a thousand years. Angels are dicks. One wing dipped in blood, the other eternally sliding a pair of shades on as they say "deal with it" in Enochian. Olothreutes posted:Alternate history speculation time! Asherak, totally male. Zepa stone says female. Zepa claimed these lands after defeating Asherak the "whore of desolation" and throwing her into the sea. Also, do this
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If it's not the demons but the Melachim / Trio / Jael etc.. that have hosed up things like Amok's civilization, hostilized to the point of insanity 7-bird, and made the Orm so sad... Somehow this is what I get as a feeling/plot-twist. That El is not the good guys. This sneaking suspicion, perhaps totally unwarranted, at the back of our mind. Like a perpetually gnawing light hunger...
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Ubern00b posted:If it's not the demons but the Melachim / Trio / Jael etc.. that have hosed up things like Amok's civilization, hostilized to the point of insanity 7-bird, and made the Orm so sad...
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It's going to be funny if we DO find Her and she tells us to gently caress off. "Do you have ANY idea how many strings Azz and I had to pull, how many loopholes we had to twist through to get me out of there in the first place!? YOU think he was overbearing? Imagine living with it for the past 10,000 years! I needed space! Did he even read the letter I left behind?"
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I haven't voted in a while (because working for the NORCs exhausts me) but there's not a better time than now. RESIST
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Ubern00b posted:If it's not the demons but the Melachim / Trio / Jael etc.. that have hosed up things like Amok's civilization, hostilized to the point of insanity 7-bird, and made the Orm so sad... Maybe they did, some time in ancient history. I'm betting 75% odds on "some angels hosed poo poo up", leading to the extremely hands-off stance they have now. But that doesn't mean they're not humanity's best hope right now. Every other civilization we've met has been a sick joke, and the punchline has consistently been "humans are delicious". We need a patron, unless we're going to Stop Living as a Man, and El 's servants seem to be the only ones that give a poo poo about people.
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Eat the Black Goop. The black goop's squirming within Enkidel's body as it tries to break free, and the effort and concentration required to hold it in, will distract Enkidel from the Orm's psychic aura and break Enkidel free of the snake-geas.
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UppaTree posted:Every other civilization we've met has been a sick joke, and the punchline has consistently been "humans are delicious". We need a patron, unless we're going to Stop Living as a Man, and El 's servants seem to be the only ones that give a poo poo about people. Snekbro doesn't think humans are delicious. Nor Accotopus. Nor Once-Consort and his bug civilization. His wife or whatever probably got snuffed out ages ago, and he's still in the Denial stage of grief. Hence why he's looking for her.
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We need to remove our Laurels. The blast of our sudden presence may make the snake aware of what we are. Currently to it we're a divine being able to hide its presence, like a melachim. Once it sees we're a proverbial loser on the power scale it may realise the effect it has been having on us. EDIT: This is not a vote. BoyG fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Jun 16, 2017 |
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I normally just read this thread, but I figured I'd suggest the following, since it seems pretty obvious to me, but I didn't see anyone else suggesting it: Enkidel cannot be claimed by anyone unless they want to piss off Zepa, something that this depresssssed snake was very clearly unwilling to do the last time it came up. It isn't just a matter of resisting, it is also a matter of reminding the snake of all the "Don't touch my loving stuff!" metaphysical legalese that Zepa was big on. Calling to El might do some of the same, but reminding the snake (and Enkidel himself) that Zepa's claim includes his lineage, and that it was FOREVER, seems like the right choice here. Also, a lot of people in this thread get overly emotional about just about every little thing that happens, and the constant blame-game atmosphere that results from it makes the thread very unwelcoming and unattractive to anyone who just wants to help figure out the larger mysteries of the game. It is your game, so I wont tell you how to play it, but it is probably worth considering - at least in terms of the types of participation that the thread encourages. Azram Legion fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Jun 16, 2017 |
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Azram Legion posted:I normally just read this thread, but I figured I'd suggest the following, since it seems pretty obvious to me, but I didn't see anyone else suggesting it: I really like this point. If we manage to shake off a little bit of this effect, just bringing in the Zepa claim is probably enough to stop a serious enthralling attempt. And if we agree to help find snake-wife, it probably won't just eat us. It might even tell us some cool stuff!
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Resist. We worship only El and Questions.
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Lanky Coconut Tree posted:Snekbro doesn't think humans are delicious. Nor Accotopus. Nor Once-Consort and his bug civilization. The Orm no longer HAS a civilization, so we can't say we've interacted with it. Accotopus was a single creature - we have no idea what else is there. Once-Consort admitted that humanity is incompatible with its thinking. We have no idea how the rest of the bugs would react to humans - one grief-stricken and terminally lonely outlier isn't much to go on. There are some beings of great power other than El's servants who are not actively malicious to humanity, but they all seem to be various flavors of unable or unwilling to aid us. We can't uproot our family and march them all toward the Mountains of Fare until we hopefully meet non-dickhead bugs. If we want the people we care about to survive the coming (slowly ongoing?) Storm, El seems to be the only decent option.
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We didnt smell any lemons? Btw azz probably told pimpsnake that his girlfriend was in Tanaach. Im guessing that they arent friends in a typical way.
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RESIST + by: Azram Legion posted:"...reminding the snake (and Enkidel himself) that Zepa's claim includes his lineage, and that it was FOREVER, seems like the right choice here."..
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AJ_Impy posted:Resist. And dance.
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Yeah while this sounds kind of a neat direction to go on, we should probably RESIST
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Also invoke or call for aid from El, in addition to my previous vote. But seriously, the Orm needs to settle it's poo poo a little because Enkidel is in fact probably the only person who would willingly assist it.
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Facebook Aunt posted:What if snek is actually an incel stalker, and lady snake was never his girlfriend? He had people paint all these pictures of her and stuff to try to convince her what a good guy he is, but she never wanted anything to do with him? Did he ever carry a printer miles to her bong shaped house? 
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