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Apprentices are supposed to be your children or in some limited circumstances, the children of your cloae relatives. Usually siblings.
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Diogines posted:Apprentices are supposed to be your children or in some limited circumstances, the children of your clothes smell relatives. Usually siblings.
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Oct 16, 2018 15:03
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I know I’m repeating myself, but seriously, we aren’t talking nearly enough about this. Kothar has an El approved Battle Gundam. Can you imagine Enkidel piloting a mecha to go fight a Doom? Sci fi all over your Mesopotamian game. I’m not sure the suit would be the best choice for the best fighter though. It may work as a force multiplier for a Mighty man or something. Edit: interesting how thereMs no mention about where Leviathan or Ogar were slain. I think I remember Ogar being the father f orcs and giants, fighting with a club or something. Leviathan is a big mystery...Probably the underground presence? Double edit: kothar’s door picture has gears in it! It could even be as good a place as the Academy to learn about science and weapons of war. But horses and risking DOOM are cooler apparently. Mr. Nemo fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Oct 16, 2018 |
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Oct 16, 2018 15:10
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Zodiac5000 posted:Also it's probably super obvious to all the other potters whether or not you actually have apprentices or are just buying slaves to dig clay. Nobody gets fooled by buying slaves and calling them apprentices. I bought my adopted sons on the open market. All thirty of them. Hey kid! Get back to work!
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Oct 16, 2018 15:22
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Oct 16, 2018 15:26
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Mr. Nemo posted:I know I’m repeating myself, but seriously, we aren’t talking nearly enough about this. As to your actual question, no. Supposedly after he finished building it he left the climb the mountain.
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Oct 16, 2018 15:32
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So.... We need to steal this robot suit. Is that what I'm getting from this? We desperately need to steal this robot suit.
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Oct 16, 2018 15:38
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Diogines posted:You thanked Amos for what he shared with you and snuck out of the city without incident... until you reached the top of the city wall and caught a glimpse of a perfectly common and ordinary soldier on a distant tower making direct eye contact with you despite the fact it was (1)the dead of night and (2)there was no light to illuminate either of you but those of the heavens and (3)it was too far for a person to do such a thing with you anyway. The perfectly common and ordinary soldier said not a word except to watch as you descended, very clearly seeing you despite the distance and darkness and showed no sign of alarm. Did we get the feeling this was a Melachim posing as a human, or just a human demonstrating the supernatural influence of probably-a-Melachim? The only thing I can read from this is a Melachim sending a message of “we’re watching you,” but honestly that seems kind of redundant. Unless this is meant to be a revelation that there are literally Melachim watching the walls around Amos’ temple.
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Oct 16, 2018 15:52
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I think it's probably just them sending the 'we see you, we aren't going to do anything to you, be on your way' signal. When have they ever forced a regular human to do something instead of just appearing as a completely regular human?
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Oct 16, 2018 15:54
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Force? Much too heavy handed. Mess with environmental factors in such a way that they get the same effect? Plausible.
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Oct 16, 2018 15:58
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I definitely took that as a sign of "Yeah, we know you visited. Just be cool." Because the melachim was cool. The whole "perfectly common and ordinary" bit about the soldier reeks of melachim in human form. I wonder how we explained to Uriah about the delivery bird with healing salve from Amos. "Uhh, I got it from a merchant."
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Oct 16, 2018 16:05
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Maybe it is the ghost of Da Muzi watching us. Some say he still stands vigil on those palace walls of Kitron to this day, waiting for the rains to end. And if you look close enough at your own walls on a pale moonlit night, you might just find him standing watch....over you. Nah he's dead and in a giant fish orb
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Oct 16, 2018 16:08
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Man gently caress the numidium nothing good could lead up to or proceed from its activation
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Oct 16, 2018 16:09
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Dr Subterfuge posted:Did we get the feeling this was a Melachim posing as a human, or just a human demonstrating the supernatural influence of probably-a-Melachim? The only thing I can read from this is a Melachim sending a message of “we’re watching you,” but honestly that seems kind of redundant. Unless this is meant to be a revelation that there are literally Melachim watching the walls around Amos’ temple.
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Oct 16, 2018 16:17
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Potters are supposed to dig up the clay themselves, or have their apprentices do it. So why aren't we forcing all the traditional smiths and their apprentices to dig up their own ore from the mines, too?
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Oct 16, 2018 16:19
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Well obviously that's not tradition 
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Oct 16, 2018 16:20
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I'm certain it was a Melachim, sending the general message of "we know you were talking to Amos, don't do anything stupid", but there's a nice easy way to double-check: Diog, can we recall the soldier's features beyond a general sense they were ordinary?
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Oct 16, 2018 16:33
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Diogines posted:Do not read a single thing Into the image. It was meant for flavor. We could not find a good picture of really big metal walls. That was the best one that we came across. Dude built a giant battle suit and didn’t even use it? What a nerd, I bet he called he called us toys “action figures”. Huh. KOthAr built a giant bronze suit for battle? Was one f his wives named Susan by any chance?
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Oct 16, 2018 16:34
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Olothreutes posted:I definitely took that as a sign of "Yeah, we know you visited. Just be cool." Because the melachim was cool. The whole "perfectly common and ordinary" bit about the soldier reeks of melachim in human form. I wonder how we explained to Uriah about the delivery bird with healing salve from Amos. "Uhh, I got it from a merchant." Also recall Amos's "If I tell you this, they may take you away" vote. The soldier could be interpreted as that they would have taken us if we learnt that knowledge. kalam fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Oct 16, 2018 |
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Oct 16, 2018 16:53
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pumpinglemma posted:I'm certain it was a Melachim, sending the general message of "we know you were talking to Amos, don't do anything stupid", but there's a nice easy way to double-check: Diog, can we recall the soldier's features beyond a general sense they were ordinary?
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Oct 16, 2018 17:08
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I thought we did learn it? No heaven but for the blooded.
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Oct 16, 2018 17:11
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kalam posted:Also recall Amos's "If I tell you this, they may take you away" vote. The soldier could be interpreted as that they would have taken us if we learnt that knowledge. But we did tho.
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Oct 16, 2018 17:12
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A completely normal and unblooded soldier somehow saw us, a master of stealth, in the middle of the night, and was looking at us dead in the eyes from way too far way for a common person to be able to do so. He is described in a manner completely in keeping with every other Melachim we have ever met when they have taken human form. Which is more likely: A: A regular citizen saw us in extremely unlikely circumstances, looked us in the eye, and made absolutely no reaction at all or B: It's a "Hey, we're here, we're not taking you, but we know what went down. Be on your way now, citizen." Not sure why it needs to be more complicated?
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Oct 16, 2018 17:18
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Polgas posted:I thought we did learn it? No heaven but for the blooded. Magnusth posted:But we did tho. Yeah I misremembered. We did learn it. We did decline the knowledge, though he told us anyway. Maybe intent mattered?
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Oct 16, 2018 17:25
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Zodiac5000 posted:A completely normal and unblooded soldier somehow saw us, a master of stealth, in the middle of the night, and was looking at us dead in the eyes from way too far way for a common person to be able to do so. He is described in a manner completely in keeping with every other Melachim we have ever met when they have taken human form. Which is more likely: A: A regular citizen saw us in extremely unlikely circumstances, looked us in the eye, and made absolutely no reaction at all or B: It's a "Hey, we're here, we're not taking you, but we know what went down. Be on your way now, citizen." I was the only one entertaining the possibility that it was more complicated, but it seems pretty clear now that it was a Melachim. I got the "we see you" part but didn't appreciate the subtext of the "but we're not doing anything" part. Thanks thread!
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Oct 16, 2018 17:37
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Volmarias posted:This isn't some second string donut city, Diogenes said that the MM would be a pretty big problem for us to try to handle. The king could probably paste us. Huh, right, as the direct offshoot of a Great City I should probably be thinking of this as in the Tanaach-Ibleam range. Also we're not willing to use our bow against humans. That could actually be pretty rough to deal with if we piss them off. I wonder if they'd send MM after us even if we run.
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Oct 16, 2018 18:04
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I mean, a mighty man of Uriah's bloodedness being charmed by a demons is the kind of thing that any self-respecting mighty man of Ur would need to correct at all costs, one would think? Especially if they pass by your city. Figuring out a way to resolve this dorkery is probably important for not getting harassed.
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Oct 16, 2018 18:08
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A. is for Assholes.
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malbogio posted:Huh, right, as the direct offshoot of a Great City I should probably be thinking of this as in the Tanaach-Ibleam range. Also we're not willing to use our bow against humans. That could actually be pretty rough to deal with if we piss them off. I wonder if they'd send MM after us even if we run. No promises of an update tonight but if you want the chance for one, we need a count up soon. If you volunteer to count, please post to let everyt know you are doing so, thanks.
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Oct 16, 2018 18:30
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I can count
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Oct 16, 2018 18:53
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Patrick Spens posted:I can count My hero!
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Oct 16, 2018 19:07
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Count is up. Looks like some poor bastard is going for a ride.
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Oct 16, 2018 19:16
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The smart money is that the perfectly normal and ordinary guard was a Melachim. I mean, poo poo, who else is gonna make sure that a fellow abomination like Amos stays in his self-built jail cell?
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Oct 16, 2018 19:18
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Surprised J has so little support, killing people is probably not a very good way to endear ourselves to the locals. Like, yeah, take a hostage just to make everyone calm down, that's smart and I voted for it. But actually killing or at least severely injuring anyone is probably going to backfire and get extra backup called in on us and/or make them start playing serious and try to kill us harder, especially if the hostage doesn't work. Also with our luck, the guy we paste is gonna be the son of the head of the local Smith's Guild and he's gonna make sure nobody lets us learn anything and then tell us to get the gently caress out and never come back to his city again you murderous rear end in a top hat. Crazycryodude fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Oct 16, 2018 |
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Oct 16, 2018 19:27
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Mostly I think that trying to get too cutesy with not hurting anyone is going to lead to us getting seriously attacked and having the kill more people than just the one dude.
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Oct 16, 2018 19:29
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Actively starting to kill them isn't gonna make the soldiers hate us less, if we kill their friend they're just gonna be even more convinced we're a dangerous monster that needs to be put down with everything they've got whereas if we try and play nice they might not escalate to breaking out the Shouts or calling in Mighty Men or whatever.
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Oct 16, 2018 19:31
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Diogines posted:Yes. They were very plain and typical and common for the city were in. He looked like a totally common soldier. Ok but what if we *really* looked? Studied that face like we were gonna paint it later or if we wanted to pick him out of a crowd? If you say "he looks plain" then we're not looking hard enough
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Oct 16, 2018 19:31
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You clearly remember what he looked like. He had black hair and a beard and square jaw. If you need a more detailed description, ask Bone Monkey to draw a picture of a typical Sumerian man. Giving him no additional information. What he draws will br accurate z whatever it is.
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Oct 16, 2018 19:35
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All we're doing is punting a man very far away, right and grabbing a hostage, right? It'll probably hurt the guy, it *might* kill him but probably not, and these people are actively trying to kill both Uriah and Enkidel in a situation where they tried to de-escalate by retreating and the soldiers followed. If he dies, it's on these idiots heads for throwing the first stone. These idiots tried to kill two renowned demon slayers who made no aggressive moves to start things off other than refusing to be taken prisoner. I don't know exactly how much leeway we'd have culturally to demand some sort of recompense but we should go for all we can get at this point. Diog, does Enkidel have kind of cultural knowledge or context from living his life in the ancient bronze age for the kind of recompense that would be involved in this if we demanded it? It's not exactly.... completely unprovoked from their perspective, since Enkidel does look like a cannibal monster, but it's sure as poo poo still them trying to stab the two of us to death.
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Diog, what if instead of straight up apprenticing more craftsmen we let it be known we will give advice on their trades, Ishamal style? We're great at almost everything we try, and we can just give people pointers now and again, particularly with metal crafting. It'd be a good multiplier for Kavodel's productivity. We should also consider making equipment specifically for our balls. Using our BBronzecraft and experimentation with styles, we develop a panoply specifically tailored to each ball's strenths and abilities while still being somewhat standardized. Eventually get our team of Super Elite Men at Arms What Hunt Genuine Demons kitted out as best we can. Join the Balls, get the iconic set of +3 Adamantium Scrote. E: or if Scrote is too heretical, we call it the Jock, and makes entensive use of Straps. Blasphemaster fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Oct 16, 2018 |
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