Well Fuck. Reeling from the twin blows of realizing there will be no power lock and getting sealed, I just sit down somwhere on the floor dejected, and....... start writing erotic fanfiction involving seals? Might as well try to see if I can learn something about that SEALED status without getting myself or others killed.
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Defeat The Godmodder
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Yep, definitely should have collected the unneeded attack shields and attack redirectors from my entities. Bringing the Temporal Guardian would have also been great but I certainly should have taken all those defensive measures. Oh well, still lasted two turns with without being Sealed...
Anyway, like the self-centered individual and waster of actions, I give myself an attack shield....wait, hold that thought. Items are currently unable to be created...but effects are clearly not. Just look at how attack shields can be made! It means I have a way to be self-centered but only somewhat waste my actions on pointless stuff!
Conjuring up emerald tinted energy I cocoon myself in a series of layers until my figure is thoroughly obscured by pulsating energy. A barrier that perfectly encased my form and even stretches partially into nearby dimensions for extra security.
Yet, that's still not enough energy. Fortunately, this place has so many defenses and 'systems' I'll just steal some with a quiet replication of the Power Cosmic. Hmmm, that dimensional barrier looks useful. Reach out into the natural flow of energy, overload the overlapping dimensions with astral energy, and immediately drain to reinforce the energy surrounding me.
I think I'll call this effect I've created...Emerald Cascade.
The effect of this...effect is simple. Calling back to the thorns that once coated the Wall, it provides a form of punishment for those attacking. Melee attacks find themselves scorched by touching the energy, ranged attacks attach a surge of emerald lightning that retraces the attack's route back to the sender, and weaponized sandwiches get through, successfully smack me, and then get launched back. Thus, the effect Emerald Cascade can be compared quite strongly to that one, old mechanic where attackers received damage after attacking that particular entity.
Of course, to manage this effect will need more than just this Ruth's actions, especially if the energy draw drawn from the local dimensional barrier will continue flowing. Sadly, this means I won't have any actions without sacrificing this effect. My three actions will automatically be used up to maintain this effect barring the cancellation order, leaving me with no action(s) to take. No usable idea Player power, no actions for me to use. Oh well, I can accept the inability to use actions for the time being.
Even though I'll die painfully, a effect I have no control over and that automatically uses up my actions will leave my foes with bruised knuckles and a stubbed toe! (x3)
"You know, it's really fortunate that none of us have entities with a variety of ways to escape from their current location and actions spent giving them the ability to act within their current confines that could come aid us against these Player specific Unsealed Bosses. Cue excessive coughing."
Anyway, like the self-centered individual and waster of actions, I give myself an attack shield....wait, hold that thought. Items are currently unable to be created...but effects are clearly not. Just look at how attack shields can be made! It means I have a way to be self-centered but only somewhat waste my actions on pointless stuff!
Conjuring up emerald tinted energy I cocoon myself in a series of layers until my figure is thoroughly obscured by pulsating energy. A barrier that perfectly encased my form and even stretches partially into nearby dimensions for extra security.
Yet, that's still not enough energy. Fortunately, this place has so many defenses and 'systems' I'll just steal some with a quiet replication of the Power Cosmic. Hmmm, that dimensional barrier looks useful. Reach out into the natural flow of energy, overload the overlapping dimensions with astral energy, and immediately drain to reinforce the energy surrounding me.
I think I'll call this effect I've created...Emerald Cascade.
The effect of this...effect is simple. Calling back to the thorns that once coated the Wall, it provides a form of punishment for those attacking. Melee attacks find themselves scorched by touching the energy, ranged attacks attach a surge of emerald lightning that retraces the attack's route back to the sender, and weaponized sandwiches get through, successfully smack me, and then get launched back. Thus, the effect Emerald Cascade can be compared quite strongly to that one, old mechanic where attackers received damage after attacking that particular entity.
Of course, to manage this effect will need more than just this Ruth's actions, especially if the energy draw drawn from the local dimensional barrier will continue flowing. Sadly, this means I won't have any actions without sacrificing this effect. My three actions will automatically be used up to maintain this effect barring the cancellation order, leaving me with no action(s) to take. No usable idea Player power, no actions for me to use. Oh well, I can accept the inability to use actions for the time being.
Even though I'll die painfully, a effect I have no control over and that automatically uses up my actions will leave my foes with bruised knuckles and a stubbed toe! (x3)
"You know, it's really fortunate that none of us have entities with a variety of ways to escape from their current location and actions spent giving them the ability to act within their current confines that could come aid us against these Player specific Unsealed Bosses. Cue excessive coughing."
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Feeling fairly sure that Alpha is about to go down thanks to the other players attacking them I decide I'll go after Beta and attempt to weaken them if not take them down.
Closing my eyes I focus my energy onto another wish. 'I wish to teleport right next to Beta!' It takes a few moments but then suddenly a red flash of light consumes my vision and I am standing right next to Beta on their left. Quickly I start striking at them with my combat knife attempt to get a good stab or two in them. (3 CP)
Closing my eyes I focus my energy onto another wish. 'I wish to teleport right next to Beta!' It takes a few moments but then suddenly a red flash of light consumes my vision and I am standing right next to Beta on their left. Quickly I start striking at them with my combat knife attempt to get a good stab or two in them. (3 CP)
I wanna try something out
I poke myself with a bone needle
Wonder what's gonna happen
I poke myself with a bone needle
Wonder what's gonna happen
It's a long time siince I have done sports so here are my special ''triathlon'' :
1. Bowling : I guess you don't mind being the pins
2. Archery : Or the targets...
3. Baseball : Without the ball or the bases... in fact, it consists only of me beating you up with a bat.
1. Bowling : I guess you don't mind being the pins
2. Archery : Or the targets...
3. Baseball : Without the ball or the bases... in fact, it consists only of me beating you up with a bat.
All Actions: I get mad at General_Urist for whining about not having a stupid, crappy Player Power Lock and smash my fist into his skull in rage. I then walk off to be grumpy in a corner and kick a rock. Now my foot hurts.
The Ruins - V
Your intent was to do nothing! Instead, you do something, by writing a treatise on why bagels are the best breakfast food!
Intention break! 1% damage to each of the three assassins! One ends up focused on the flashbang, the other two on you!
You use 3 of Ultimo Durana's remaining power! 5% damage to all three assassins! They try to cover their ears, but its too loud! Doesn't help that you don't know how to play the lute, and you think you're playing Through the Tables And the Memes but are actually just plucking random notes!
You expend actions with no further explanation!
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Intention Break! Beta is sent reeling, having lost 20% HP! However, the Curse of Repetitiveness won't let that happen again!
Beta: Indeed we have. Of course, resisting the Godmodder is futile.
Beta: If we have a finite amount of time before Reality ends, then, well...
Alpha: I can't think of any better way to spend it than this.
Your intent was to mind control yourself to hate and want to kill all the Player's enemies. However, you do the opposite: Mind control the enemies to hate and want to kill all Players!
...They were going to do that anyway, so no change.
Hmm...
7% damage to Alpha!
You scream, run in circles, and slam into things!
You make badger noises! Badgers are the natural predators of seals, right?
You buck up, put a brave face on, and smile!
-2% Alpha HP! They just stuff a tissue up their nose.
-3% Beta HP!
Gamma can't read what you wrote. He takes 2% not being able to read damage.
You are preparing for an important attack...
3x: The man in MTF uniform throws Alpha into a pit.
As Alpha falls, he notices a spiral staircase winding around the edge of the pit.
Alpha falls deeper and deeper, and starts to see a light coming from deeper in.
The light gets brighter and brighter, and just as Alpha reaches terminal velocity...
His foot catches the spiral staircase, and he smacks into the wall.
"Hey, you. You're finally awake."
Alpha slaps themselves until they wake up from their dream. 8% damage!
Your intent was to... not... hurt... confusion...
Intention Break! 25% confusion damage to Beta!
The CSW is locked behind everything-proof glass, in suspended animation at the center of a chamber. The smoke momentarily obscuring thing, you get close enough to see it floating, but... you can't make out anything on it.
2% damage to Gamma!
Your brain conjures up the entirely of Shrek 2 and plays it on x10 speed.
6% damage to Gamma! Alpha is sent stumbling! He totally forgot about you!
You write totally ordinary fanfiction about badgers. While standing. On the ceiling.
7% damage to Gamma! Your final smash is so unspeakably epic, everybody looks away as you use it, including yourself! ...Now nobody knows what it actually does.
You create a thorns effect that deal damage to attacking Assassins!
Alpha: Hmm...
6% damage to Beta! Some of the damage spreads to Gamma!
Gamma: Oh no! You two are at 0% HP? Whatever shall we do!?
Beta: Careful, we're cutting this one a bit close. No matter, we'll be fine.
You didn't really have any intention at all, so you just poke yourself with a bone needle!
...It hurts.
7% damage to Gamma! You win all the games and declare yourself the master of sports!
Your intention was probably to heal General Urist. So instead, you really DO smash your first into his skull! General Urist is now moderately injured!
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Beta: Right. Strike fast.
Alpha swipes twice at a flashbang, before realizing what he's doing and refocusing! He then stabs Daskter, rips off Gnich's recharging Thorn Shield device and shatters it in his hands, and stabs captain.cat and flaming flapjacks! All hit with the stab are injured and sealed!
Beta: You see, the three of us share HP. Until we all hit 0, its as though none of us hit 0.
Beta: And you're just about to run out of Damage Per Turn.
Beta stabs That_Random_Guy, Piono, The Nonexistent Tazz, CaptainNZZZ (taking 2% damage), GoldHero101, and The Quiet Watcher!
Beta: Gamma. This group is good. We need you to get them all sealed right now. We can't leave them unsealed any longer.
Gamma: Fine, fine, good, yes, if that's what it takes to dish out the pain! But there's only 7 turns left for me to be alive, so next turn, next turn, next turn is the timew!
Beta: Yes, we all will, just keep us safe now.
Gamma stabs Bill Nye, The_Two_Eternities, and JOEbob, making them slightly injured and sealed! Finally, he punches Dangan_Machin in the face so hard he needs to replace it! DanganMachin is moderately injured!
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Beta: Good try, Players.
Alpha: Yes, very good try.
Beta: With your entire group sealed, your damage output is now functionally 0. We may not have much health between us, but what does it matter to us when you can't deal a lick of damage?
Alpha: You're welcome to try! Please! We appreciate it!
Player Power: [IIIIIII] 35%
FINAL ROOM:
[PG]Alpha, Unsealed Sealer: 0% HP! (Boss)
[PG]Beta, Unsealed Sealer: 0% HP! (Boss)
[PG]Gamma, Unsealed Sealer: 61% HP! (Boss)
Players:
ExoSkeletal (moderately injured)(SEALED)
DragonOfHope (Goopcalibur - 28+15 Power + Goop/Poison effects!)(Extra Goopcalibur power is used when attacking)(moderately injured)(SEALED)
Daskter (slightly injured)(SEALED)
Eyowe (moderately injured)(SEALED)
Strider (slightly injured)(SEALED)
Gnich(preparing...)
Crusher(moderately injured)(SEALED)
ParadoxDragonPaci(moderately injured)(SEALED)
DanganMachin (Uno Reverse Card Protection)(moderately injured)
Captain.cat (moderately injured)(SEALED)
FlamingFlapjacks (has nine-sided die gun)(D U C K)(slightly injured)(SEALED)
Eternalstruggle (slightly injured)(SEALED)
ThatRandomGuy (slightly injured)(SEALED)
Alastair Dragovich(slightly injured)(SEALED)
Piono (slightly injured)(SEALED)
The Nonexistent Tazz (slightly injured)(SEALED)
CaptainNZZZ (has Entity Loyalty Punch Card - redeems one disloyal entity, Remnant crypt energy, Godmodder Tracker V1.0, always-hit-Monocle)(Emerald Cascade, hurts attackers!) (slightly injured)(SEALED)
General_Urist (moderately injured)(SEALED)
GoldHero101 (has Ultimo Durana(1 power left)) (slightly injured)(SEALED)
Replica Player (slightly injured)(SEALED)
Karpinsky (slightly injured)(SEALED)
The Quiet Watcher (Antimatter bullet)(slightly injured)(SEALED)
JOEbob (has Something)(Second body)(slightly injured)(SEALED)
Cephalos Jr. (moderately injured)(SEALED)
Bill Nye(slightly injured)(SEALED)
Ranger Strider (slightly injured)(SEALED)
Winkins (moderately injured)(SEALED)
The_Two_Eternities(slightly injured)(SEALED)
Player Inventory:
Celestial Guidance(1 uses left)
Powerful Callback Greatsword
Ore of Orichalcum
Godmodder Soul Orb
Cybil's blood sample
Shadow Agitator
So not only do you have a gimmick worse than Chara's, but you even stole Chara's gimmick of not dying at 0% HP?
Time to die.
No, it's not time to attack yet.
It is very much time to attack.
Let's hold a vote between us. Vote YES if you want to attack now, vote NO if you don't. I'll start by voting NO.
YES.
NO. Bad idea.
She has a plan. YES.
I'm abstaining, I'm not intelligent enough for this.
So, we have a tie. Which is going to turn into-
Do I count as a vote?
Do you?
I'll allow it.
Good. According to my analysis, the correct order is to not attack. I'm voting NO.
Alright, the vote is done. I will give the order.
Free Action: "No one is to attack Gamma. Do anything that is not attacking Gamma instead. As your actions, do nothing other than stating that you follow this order."
As a side note, I now have a really major headache. Thankfully, I believe I have assured our success.
Well, I don't care about your vote. I'm going to try to beat the inversion with math and logic.
Core Issue: Let's express the Utility of an attack as a variable U. This is the net positive effect for the Player team of performing this action. An action that harms the overall AG cause would have a negative total Utility.
In general, the utility of a player's action follows the following formula:
U = P * I
P in this case is player power, a normally-fixed value that can potentially be increased through investing Charge (at least it could when Charge still existed). I represents for Intent, a value that is normally 1 but increases when the action is creative or particularly invested (notably, Pionoplayer has achieved incredibly high Intent values of 10+ in some circumstances).
The Sealing effect inverts the Intent value if the total Utility of the attack would be greater than zero.
For instance, if I shot Gamma, that would result in an action with positive total Utility, and thus the Sealing would take effect to invert my Intent.
If the effect was simply inverting actions based on their listed actions, it would be almost useless. I could say that I shoot myself (an action that would normally have negative total Utility), and it would invert to me shooting Gamma. However, with the Sealing effect, as shooting myself has negative Utility, it does not get inverted again.
I could try some conventional trickery by claiming a different intent from my actual action, but it's generally obvious that any action that would have a negative Utility is a stupid action that we don't actually want to take. Thus, it seems impossible to make an action with positive Utility.
But there is an exception. Sometimes the action inversion is not an inversion of effect power. For instance, one individual attempted to attack one of the Sealers with a sword. The inversion of Utility would involve him attacking another player, but instead he attacked the ground, an action with an effective Utility of zero. That complicates things.
If I had been lucky enough to discover the nature of the effect before it happened, I could have put up my mental barriers beforehand and blocked the effect outright. But now an attempt to purge the effect with simple mental willpower would turn into me having a lack of willpower and failing to block the effect. It's incredibly frustrating, but I still have options.
Luckily, I have two secret weapons. Firstly, I have complete control over my own mind, and can manipulate my own intentions (at least, if I can get the intention for those actions). And secondly, I have Omega, an alternate personality that is identical to my own in every way except for not being in control of my body.
So, how do I use that to overcome the sealing effect?
Supposed my action was "I heal Gamma, and I manipulate my own mind so that my intention of this act is truly to heal Gamma." If it worked, the healing would be a true intention (causing it to be turned into damage), but the intention of my action to manipulate my own mind would be inverted, causing it to not happen. At best, it might be chance to manipulate Gamma's mind so that Gamma heals himself instead of attacking.
But I wouldn't do that anyways. I'm adopting the Chara playbook here, the playbook used against dirty scumbag bosses who use tricks to become harder to kill than the Godmodder that summoned them. Granted, that playbook was built to fight a bastard who was powering herself with raw DETERMINATION to resist death, but it's entirely applicable here.
But first, some Thought Experiments. None of these are actions that I actually take.
Though Experiment 1: What if I were to intentionally drop myself to Mortally Wounded status? On the surface, such an action would have negative net Utility for the team, and would be unchanged. But, dropping to Mortally Wounded opens up the option to execute a Mortal Blast, an incredibly powerful action that would likely be able to override the Sealing effect.
Of course, it probably can't override the Sealing effect, and would likely get everyone to die alongside me. Thus, it would have negative Utility, and would be allowed if and only if a Mortal Blast would be inverted in intention.
Thought Experiment 2: I do something, and have Omega do the opposite of that thing.
If Sealing was simple, this would result in that thing occuring, either because I did it or I did the opposite and Omega did the opposite of my opposite. However, what would actually happen is that we both end up doing the opposite of the thing we want to do. If I did the negative-U action, I would do it and Omega's intent would be inverted to make her do the same thing I do. If I did the positive-U action, my action would be flipped so that I did the negative-U action, and Omega's intent would be inverted so that she also did the negative-U action.
If I had Omega attempt to take the same actions I did, the same thing would happen, with Omega's intent being selectively inverted every time.
Thought Experiment 3: I throw out a distraction drone armed with a gun. It's unclear whether the drone's intent is to distract or shoot.
According to my current theories, this would result in a null case, meaning nothing happens. But yet, a similar instance was just employed, and it did not hit a null case, and achieved results.
Why did this not trigger a null case? If I could figure out how to employ an attack that sticks the enemies between one bad things and another, I could practically ensure something bad happens to them.
Thought Experiment 4: I have the ability to manipulate my intentions. I manipulate my mind so that any actions I take are actions that I intend to take.
Obviously, what would happen here is that I end up manipulating my mind in the opposite manner, to no effect. Assuming it doesn't stop me from mind manipulation outright.
But yet, that seems promising. Maybe...
Thought Experiment 5: I talk to Gamma, with a good enough speech to convince him to defect.
Theoretically, would be inverted to either rambling irrelevantly or pissing Gamma off, enraging him. That might be marginally useful to draw his attack, but it would likely also raise his attack value.
Except, talking isn't inverted. We see this with EternalStruggle's post, which was clearly intended to cause confusion damage, but yet did not cause confusion damage.
Alright, this is the best bet to attack with.
Focused Action: I start talking (or whatever it is you call sending messages telepathically) to Gamma.
So, you're really unlucky that your Sealing power only works on Players. If a Godmodder was affected, they would die instantly as every effort they took to defend themselves backfired. I wonder how difficult it would be for a Player to give you the ability to Seal the Godmodder, if all of the players weren't Sealed at the moment. Then you'd be able to win outright.
You do realize they are arbitrary Godmodder constructs, right? You'd have better odds mind-controlling them and implanting your own personalities into their minds than convincing them with any form of persuasion.
Even with the Sealing effect?
Yes.
Talking is the only thing unaffected by the Sealing. You saw the thing EternalStruggle did, even though his intention for talking to Beta was to cause confusion damage, the talking was not subverted and turned unintelligible.
It's not going to work, and I refuse to allow you to waste this action like this.
I mind-control my main personality to force her to start attempting to mind-control Gamma.
You do realize that I have perfect defenses, right? I defend against the mind-control by Omega with all of my ability.
I create a diversion by making your body spin clockwise at high velocity.
But I'm in control of the body, not you.
One, I still have access to telekinesis. Two, by your acknowledging my maneuver, you've made my diversion effective, even if my intent is inverted and it fails to be a diversion.
And what is that supposed to accomplish?
I send a dagger into your back.
What?
There's one of the Sealers' daggers that was removed from captain.cat earlier, and then discarded for being irrelevant. I pick it up with telekinesis and stab it into my back.
Why do I feel like I've entered a Jojo fight scene?
Maybe it's because you literally attempted to call me your "Stand" on multiple occasions. Fun fact, if I'm your stand, that means that you can't beat me without another stand. You can't exactly kill my user without killing yourself, now can you?
Except you aren't a Stand because I only ever sent you after the enemy users directly. Turns out Killer Queen can't protect its user against being crushed on all sides.
Anyways, as for that dagger, I knew it was coming with my precognition, and I deflected it with telekinesis.
Exactly what I was counting on. While you spent a millisecond doing that, I had an open window to hijack your telepathy channel and start mind-controlling Gamma directly.
That left a window for me to begin mind-controlling you.
But I have the same defenses you do, because we're both the same person. So, it doesn't work.
Now I get to unveil my own diversion!
Wait, what's that?
This is the PSR, or Prototype Soul Ripper. When fired at something, it turns their body into a laboratory and executes millions of tiny experiments over the course of a second, millions of unique attacks that each have a chance of triggering the target's Critical Soul Weakness.
You do realize that's not how finding a Critical Soul Weakness works, right? If something like that could actually work, we wouldn't be in the Ruins right now.
Yeah, hence why it's the Prototype Soul Ripper and not the Completed Soul Ripper. It was originally devised to prepare for a recurrence of Chara, but it's no more effective than a normal weapon at such a task. However, a notable property of it is that the millions of experiments performed in an instant cause an immense amount of pain (in addition the immense amount of physical damage inflicted).
You aren't-
I'm going to use it on Gamma to cause a massive spike of pain input, enough to overload your control.
That's torture. You would die before committing an act of torture. It's kinda an Intrinsic Vow on your part.
But you have control of Gamma, and since you're like me, you have the same complete immunity to torture that I do.
But what if I don't have control of Gamma? What if I merely claimed to have control of Gamma to make you adjust your attack patterns, but didn't and actually saved my energy for something else?
Did you?
I'm not going to say.
...
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Damn you. I put down the Prototype Soul Ripper.
Excellent. Now I have full control over Gamma with no interference. I force Gamma to intentionally get hit by all player attacks this round.
Time to die.
No, it's not time to attack yet.
It is very much time to attack.
Let's hold a vote between us. Vote YES if you want to attack now, vote NO if you don't. I'll start by voting NO.
YES.
NO. Bad idea.
She has a plan. YES.
I'm abstaining, I'm not intelligent enough for this.
So, we have a tie. Which is going to turn into-
Do I count as a vote?
Do you?
I'll allow it.
Good. According to my analysis, the correct order is to not attack. I'm voting NO.
Alright, the vote is done. I will give the order.
Free Action: "No one is to attack Gamma. Do anything that is not attacking Gamma instead. As your actions, do nothing other than stating that you follow this order."
As a side note, I now have a really major headache. Thankfully, I believe I have assured our success.
Well, I don't care about your vote. I'm going to try to beat the inversion with math and logic.
Core Issue: Let's express the Utility of an attack as a variable U. This is the net positive effect for the Player team of performing this action. An action that harms the overall AG cause would have a negative total Utility.
In general, the utility of a player's action follows the following formula:
U = P * I
P in this case is player power, a normally-fixed value that can potentially be increased through investing Charge (at least it could when Charge still existed). I represents for Intent, a value that is normally 1 but increases when the action is creative or particularly invested (notably, Pionoplayer has achieved incredibly high Intent values of 10+ in some circumstances).
The Sealing effect inverts the Intent value if the total Utility of the attack would be greater than zero.
For instance, if I shot Gamma, that would result in an action with positive total Utility, and thus the Sealing would take effect to invert my Intent.
If the effect was simply inverting actions based on their listed actions, it would be almost useless. I could say that I shoot myself (an action that would normally have negative total Utility), and it would invert to me shooting Gamma. However, with the Sealing effect, as shooting myself has negative Utility, it does not get inverted again.
I could try some conventional trickery by claiming a different intent from my actual action, but it's generally obvious that any action that would have a negative Utility is a stupid action that we don't actually want to take. Thus, it seems impossible to make an action with positive Utility.
But there is an exception. Sometimes the action inversion is not an inversion of effect power. For instance, one individual attempted to attack one of the Sealers with a sword. The inversion of Utility would involve him attacking another player, but instead he attacked the ground, an action with an effective Utility of zero. That complicates things.
If I had been lucky enough to discover the nature of the effect before it happened, I could have put up my mental barriers beforehand and blocked the effect outright. But now an attempt to purge the effect with simple mental willpower would turn into me having a lack of willpower and failing to block the effect. It's incredibly frustrating, but I still have options.
Luckily, I have two secret weapons. Firstly, I have complete control over my own mind, and can manipulate my own intentions (at least, if I can get the intention for those actions). And secondly, I have Omega, an alternate personality that is identical to my own in every way except for not being in control of my body.
So, how do I use that to overcome the sealing effect?
Supposed my action was "I heal Gamma, and I manipulate my own mind so that my intention of this act is truly to heal Gamma." If it worked, the healing would be a true intention (causing it to be turned into damage), but the intention of my action to manipulate my own mind would be inverted, causing it to not happen. At best, it might be chance to manipulate Gamma's mind so that Gamma heals himself instead of attacking.
But I wouldn't do that anyways. I'm adopting the Chara playbook here, the playbook used against dirty scumbag bosses who use tricks to become harder to kill than the Godmodder that summoned them. Granted, that playbook was built to fight a bastard who was powering herself with raw DETERMINATION to resist death, but it's entirely applicable here.
But first, some Thought Experiments. None of these are actions that I actually take.
Though Experiment 1: What if I were to intentionally drop myself to Mortally Wounded status? On the surface, such an action would have negative net Utility for the team, and would be unchanged. But, dropping to Mortally Wounded opens up the option to execute a Mortal Blast, an incredibly powerful action that would likely be able to override the Sealing effect.
Of course, it probably can't override the Sealing effect, and would likely get everyone to die alongside me. Thus, it would have negative Utility, and would be allowed if and only if a Mortal Blast would be inverted in intention.
Thought Experiment 2: I do something, and have Omega do the opposite of that thing.
If Sealing was simple, this would result in that thing occuring, either because I did it or I did the opposite and Omega did the opposite of my opposite. However, what would actually happen is that we both end up doing the opposite of the thing we want to do. If I did the negative-U action, I would do it and Omega's intent would be inverted to make her do the same thing I do. If I did the positive-U action, my action would be flipped so that I did the negative-U action, and Omega's intent would be inverted so that she also did the negative-U action.
If I had Omega attempt to take the same actions I did, the same thing would happen, with Omega's intent being selectively inverted every time.
Thought Experiment 3: I throw out a distraction drone armed with a gun. It's unclear whether the drone's intent is to distract or shoot.
According to my current theories, this would result in a null case, meaning nothing happens. But yet, a similar instance was just employed, and it did not hit a null case, and achieved results.
Why did this not trigger a null case? If I could figure out how to employ an attack that sticks the enemies between one bad things and another, I could practically ensure something bad happens to them.
Thought Experiment 4: I have the ability to manipulate my intentions. I manipulate my mind so that any actions I take are actions that I intend to take.
Obviously, what would happen here is that I end up manipulating my mind in the opposite manner, to no effect. Assuming it doesn't stop me from mind manipulation outright.
But yet, that seems promising. Maybe...
Thought Experiment 5: I talk to Gamma, with a good enough speech to convince him to defect.
Theoretically, would be inverted to either rambling irrelevantly or pissing Gamma off, enraging him. That might be marginally useful to draw his attack, but it would likely also raise his attack value.
Except, talking isn't inverted. We see this with EternalStruggle's post, which was clearly intended to cause confusion damage, but yet did not cause confusion damage.
Alright, this is the best bet to attack with.
Focused Action: I start talking (or whatever it is you call sending messages telepathically) to Gamma.
So, you're really unlucky that your Sealing power only works on Players. If a Godmodder was affected, they would die instantly as every effort they took to defend themselves backfired. I wonder how difficult it would be for a Player to give you the ability to Seal the Godmodder, if all of the players weren't Sealed at the moment. Then you'd be able to win outright.
You do realize they are arbitrary Godmodder constructs, right? You'd have better odds mind-controlling them and implanting your own personalities into their minds than convincing them with any form of persuasion.
Even with the Sealing effect?
Yes.
Talking is the only thing unaffected by the Sealing. You saw the thing EternalStruggle did, even though his intention for talking to Beta was to cause confusion damage, the talking was not subverted and turned unintelligible.
It's not going to work, and I refuse to allow you to waste this action like this.
I mind-control my main personality to force her to start attempting to mind-control Gamma.
You do realize that I have perfect defenses, right? I defend against the mind-control by Omega with all of my ability.
I create a diversion by making your body spin clockwise at high velocity.
But I'm in control of the body, not you.
One, I still have access to telekinesis. Two, by your acknowledging my maneuver, you've made my diversion effective, even if my intent is inverted and it fails to be a diversion.
And what is that supposed to accomplish?
I send a dagger into your back.
What?
There's one of the Sealers' daggers that was removed from captain.cat earlier, and then discarded for being irrelevant. I pick it up with telekinesis and stab it into my back.
Why do I feel like I've entered a Jojo fight scene?
Maybe it's because you literally attempted to call me your "Stand" on multiple occasions. Fun fact, if I'm your stand, that means that you can't beat me without another stand. You can't exactly kill my user without killing yourself, now can you?
Except you aren't a Stand because I only ever sent you after the enemy users directly. Turns out Killer Queen can't protect its user against being crushed on all sides.
Anyways, as for that dagger, I knew it was coming with my precognition, and I deflected it with telekinesis.
Exactly what I was counting on. While you spent a millisecond doing that, I had an open window to hijack your telepathy channel and start mind-controlling Gamma directly.
That left a window for me to begin mind-controlling you.
But I have the same defenses you do, because we're both the same person. So, it doesn't work.
Now I get to unveil my own diversion!
Wait, what's that?
This is the PSR, or Prototype Soul Ripper. When fired at something, it turns their body into a laboratory and executes millions of tiny experiments over the course of a second, millions of unique attacks that each have a chance of triggering the target's Critical Soul Weakness.
You do realize that's not how finding a Critical Soul Weakness works, right? If something like that could actually work, we wouldn't be in the Ruins right now.
Yeah, hence why it's the Prototype Soul Ripper and not the Completed Soul Ripper. It was originally devised to prepare for a recurrence of Chara, but it's no more effective than a normal weapon at such a task. However, a notable property of it is that the millions of experiments performed in an instant cause an immense amount of pain (in addition the immense amount of physical damage inflicted).
You aren't-
I'm going to use it on Gamma to cause a massive spike of pain input, enough to overload your control.
That's torture. You would die before committing an act of torture. It's kinda an Intrinsic Vow on your part.
But you have control of Gamma, and since you're like me, you have the same complete immunity to torture that I do.
But what if I don't have control of Gamma? What if I merely claimed to have control of Gamma to make you adjust your attack patterns, but didn't and actually saved my energy for something else?
Did you?
I'm not going to say.
...
...
Damn you. I put down the Prototype Soul Ripper.
Excellent. Now I have full control over Gamma with no interference. I force Gamma to intentionally get hit by all player attacks this round.
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Edited, had a better idea. I mind control gamma into attacking me.
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[1x] I Wish the Salad would Dog into the cat my disappearing face-tooth!
[1x] I start talking. In order to figure out my actual intention, you're going to have to read the entirety of my upcoming ramble.
I hope you're ready, mate.
"This battle is nearing its end, or it seems like it, anyway. It won't be much longer before I either end up one of the sole remaining cosmic powers in a pseudomultiverse ripe for improvement, or dead, given the probalistically foolish decision of the other players in order to- Ah, come to think of it! given my intended length, I should pro-"
"Phase Ten, Section Fifteen, Subsection Five, Iteration three, Codename, JOEc."
"Tutorial // Introduction"
">For ease of reading, I've decided to implement a color-coded header system. The color of the header for a section, subsection, or phase will be color-coded, in a manner that may or may not change every time it occurs, but always relates in some unspecified way to the content of the section."
">This Tutorial sector has been inserted here as it does not become relevant until this point."
">Due to the complexity of this system and the possibility of edge cases, This tutorial will often be updated. However, for posterity it is best you, dear reader, be aware of all past versions."
"> When a Tutorial//Introduction Update occurs or is thought up, the old version will be inserted at the current bottom of the document. This allows for relative chronology to be preserved in as unintuitive a manner as possible."
">>Such insertions may occur in the middle of a sentence, paragraph, word, or other literary construct. Depending on memory, it is possible the argument will continue unabated, or that I will insert tarrying amounts of male cow excrement and pretend that's what I planned all along."
">>When a Tutorial//Introduction is inserted, There will be a color-coded header of the gold-grey-gold-brown-gold-pink-cyan-variable color-cyan color sequence, unless I change my mind."
">>>I have already changed my mind at least once, but possibly more."
">>>At the end of the Introduction, there will be no header, as the header for the relevant section has already been shown, And it would be repetative. While lengthening the post is desired, doing so with repeated, copy-pasted text would surely be annoying to slog through, and not interesting nor convenient whatsoever."
">The Tutorial will separate sentences and ideas using right angle-brackets. These are located after each time the enter key was used, unless they aren't."
">Now then, what are the divisions I'm using? Well, a subsection is generally a single argument or paragraph, such as the Tactically initial summarization.
">A Section is a
">set of subsections which shares the same theme, such as Section one, which consists of all literal interpretations of Pionos initial request on discord. "
">A Phase is a larger combination of Sections which serve the same purpose, like Phase one, where I summarize my major, non-hidden arguments for any given point. "
">>It helps make the rest of the post more monotonous to read, raising the likelihood that Moniker will miss one of the hidden linchpins of an action, allowing me to extend the debate over multiple posts."
">>>>>The Phase-Section-Subsection listing at the beginning of every tutorial are nonsensical; their numbers are the position in the alphabet of the letters J, O, And E."
">>>>>> If I were to somehow reach phase ten, I would add 26 to each number, indicating capital. If I were to reach Phase thirty-six, I would simply stop... Hahahaha no I would add another 62 to indicate the question of bolding."
">>> which buys me time to lengthen my responses overall, thus making the entire process more enjoyable for everyone, which means Moniker has even more reasons to give me what I want"
">>>>>> after all, think of all the fun times he gets, free of charge!"
">>>>Posts. Given that this action is, in fact, an amalgamation of several seperate actions, and is powered by more then one actions-worth of action, It can be spread across multiple posts."
">>>>> This may occur for any number of reasons, Including but not limited to: reducing complexity, raising complexity, responding to current events, making it look like I should be responding to current events but not doing so, making jokes about this very concept, annoying the Godmodder, entertaining moniker, justifying another tutorial, Allowing someone else to make a post, surprising the Godmodder, being confusing, allowing for further jokes about the Tutorial through methods other then additional tutorials, being the last person to post, being the first to pass the post, complaining about internet problems, lengthening this particular list, and more."
">>>>>>The 'and more' is of course unnecessary due to that I already said 'including but not limited to'.
">>>>>As I have put this in another post, it gets 'Post x' added to its dividers. However, since there have been several posts in between this post and the previous post, I shall instead place the absolute value of the post number."
">>>>>>Additional sections beyond the point of time wherein I wrote this may or may not be completely unrelated to the rest of the post. Or they might tie into the rest of it in a way nobody could have guessed.
">>>> I intend to include this phase in all future posts of length greater then one computer monitor height."
">Subsections, Sections, and Phases will tend to be in a simple and intuitive ascending order, unless I don't feel like it."
">>One possible reason for Order changes from that of intuition is that, during the writing of a Phase one section or subsection, I might get too into the writing of the logic and arguing."
">>>This would result in an overly long subsection or section which clearly belongs in Phase two, possibly having its own articles (which are like subsections of a subsection)"
">>>>However, depending on the state of the post at the time, the time of day, what color the last non-cyan color was, whether I've scratched at my forhead recently, the state of my desk, what food is available, the price of a Popsicle, and the current chance of rain, the bloated subsection and its Articles may remain in its original position, resulting in a skip forwards in the attack, though the skipped text will be added, eventually."
">>>>Articles will be common in phase two and, if I get around to it, Phase three, due to Phase two being an expansion on all concepts introduced in Phase one."
"-bably update the tutorial. Hm, come to think of it, I should make a note th-"
"Phase Ten, Section Fifteen, Subsection Five, Iteration four, Codename, JOEd."
"Tutorial // Introduction"
">For ease of reading, I've decided to implement a color-coded header system. The color of the header for a section, subsection, or phase will be color-coded, in a manner that may or may not change every time it occurs, but always relates in some unspecified way to the content of the section."
">This Tutorial sector has been inserted here as it does not become relevant until this point."
">Due to the complexity of this system and the possibility of edge cases, This tutorial will often be updated. However, for posterity it is best you, dear reader, be aware of all past versions."
"> When a Tutorial//Introduction Update occurs or is thought up, the old version will be inserted at the current bottom of the document. This allows for relative chronology to be preserved in as unintuitive a manner as possible."
">>The Document in this case actually refers to my most recent relevant post, where relevancy is ill-defined."
">>Such insertions may occur in the middle of a sentence, paragraph, word, or other literary construct. Depending on memory, it is possible the argument will continue unabated, or that I will insert tarrying amounts of male cow excrement and pretend that's what I planned all along."
">>When a Tutorial//Introduction is inserted, There will be a color-coded header of the gold-grey-gold-brown-gold-pink-cyan-variable color-cyan color sequence, unless I change my mind."
">>>I have already changed my mind at least once, but possibly more."
">>>At the end of the Introduction, there will be no header, as the header for the relevant section has already been shown, And it would be repetative. While lengthening the post is desired, doing so with repeated, copy-pasted text would surely be annoying to slog through, and not interesting nor convenient whatsoever."
">The Tutorial will separate sentences and ideas using right angle-brackets. These are located after each time the enter key was used, unless they aren't."
">Now then, what are the divisions I'm using? Well, a subsection is generally a single argument or paragraph, such as the Tactically initial summarization.
">A Section is a
">set of subsections which shares the same theme, such as Section one, which consists of all literal interpretations of Pionos initial request on discord. "
">A Phase is a larger combination of Sections which serve the same purpose, like Phase one, where I summarize my major, non-hidden arguments for any given point. "
">>It helps make the rest of the post more monotonous to read, raising the likelihood that Moniker will miss one of the hidden linchpins of an action, allowing me to extend the debate over multiple posts."
">>>>>The Phase-Section-Subsection listing at the beginning of every tutorial are nonsensical; their numbers are the position in the alphabet of the letters J, O, And E."
">>>>>> If I were to somehow reach phase ten, I would add 26 to each number, indicating capital. If I were to reach Phase thirty-six, I would simply stop... Hahahaha no I would add another 62 to indicate the question of bolding."
">>> which buys me time to lengthen my responses overall, thus making the entire process more enjoyable for everyone, which means Moniker has even more reasons to give me what I want"
">>>>>> after all, think of all the fun times he gets, free of charge!"
">>>>Posts. Given that this action is, in fact, an amalgamation of several seperate actions, and is powered by more then one actions-worth of action, It can be spread across multiple posts."
">>>>> This may occur for any number of reasons, Including but not limited to: reducing complexity, raising complexity, responding to current events, making it look like I should be responding to current events but not doing so, making jokes about this very concept, annoying the Godmodder, entertaining moniker, justifying another tutorial, Allowing someone else to make a post, surprising the Godmodder, being confusing, allowing for further jokes about the Tutorial through methods other then additional tutorials, being the last person to post, being the first to pass the post, complaining about internet problems, lengthening this particular list, and more."
">>>>>> In addition, since this latest edit is five tribulations in the future, several parts of this description are no longer accurate, and furthermore I would like to motion for the formation of a committee to analyse whether or not the maintenance of the out-of-date tutorial is a form of penalty-worthy falsehood in light of its being out of date, or simply a historical relic for chronology preservation."
">>>>>This tutorial will also apply to indirectly-related uses of the post-phase-section-subsection-article system in other posts, and not just the original post in which case the original version appears. Some parts may not apply, see JObobobob for details."
">>>>>>The 'and more' is of course unnecessary due to that I already said 'including but not limited to'.
">>>>>As I have put this in another post, it gets 'Post x' added to its dividers. However, since there have been several posts in between this post and the previous post, I shall instead place the absolute value of the post number."
">>>>>>Additional sections beyond the point of time wherein I wrote this may or may not be completely unrelated to the rest of the post. Or they might tie into the rest of it in a way nobody could have guessed.
">>>> I intend to include this phase in all future posts of length greater then one computer monitor height."
">Subsections, Sections, and Phases will tend to be in a simple and intuitive ascending order, unless I don't feel like it."
">>One possible reason for Order changes from that of intuition is that, during the writing of a Phase one section or subsection, I might get too into the writing of the logic and arguing."
">>>This would result in an overly long subsection or section which clearly belongs in Phase two, possibly having its own articles (which are like subsections of a subsection)"
">>>>However, depending on the state of the post at the time, the time of day, what color the last non-cyan color was, whether I've scratched at my forhead recently, the state of my desk, what food is available, the price of a Popsicle, and the current chance of rain, the bloated subsection and its Articles may remain in its original position, resulting in a skip forwards in the attack, though the skipped text will be added, eventually."
">>>>Articles will be common in phase two and, if I get around to it, Phase three, due to Phase two being an expansion on all concepts introduced in Phase one."
"-at the most up-to-date tutorial is always going to be in the original instance of the tutorial, and the pseudorandom popups are examples of the version Before the latest change, in order to- as stated- preserve relative chronology in as unintuitive a manner as possible."
"...Hm... I used a foreign alphabet to make my link look more exotic there, I should make a-
"Phase Ten, Section Fifteen, Subsection Five, Iteration four, Codename, JOEd."
"Tutorial // Introduction"
">For ease of reading, I've decided to implement a color-coded header system. The color of the header for a section, subsection, or phase will be color-coded, in a manner that may or may not change every time it occurs, but always relates in some unspecified way to the content of the section."
">This Tutorial sector has been inserted here as it does not become relevant until this point."
">Due to the complexity of this system and the possibility of edge cases, This tutorial will often be updated. However, for posterity it is best you, dear reader, be aware of all past versions."
"> When a Tutorial//Introduction Update occurs or is thought up, the old version will be inserted at the current bottom of the document. This allows for relative chronology to be preserved in as unintuitive a manner as possible."
">>The Document in this case actually refers to my most recent relevant post, where relevancy is ill-defined."
">>Such insertions may occur in the middle of a sentence, paragraph, word, or other literary construct. Depending on memory, it is possible the argument will continue unabated, or that I will insert tarrying amounts of male cow excrement and pretend that's what I planned all along."
">>In retrospect, it may have been even more unintuitive to have the original be the newest, and the most recent version be the oldest- So that only the original text of the tutorial spontanously appears, and gradually is replaced with newer versions as other popups appear, requiring a greater quantity of analysis to discern the update changes."
">>>However, this would require additional work to maintain and a significant up-front cost to switch to."
">>>>>>Additionally, since the majority of the Tutorials are located in posts read long ago, the benefits would be sparse were the change implemented at this juncture."
">>When a Tutorial//Introduction is inserted, There will be a color-coded header of the gold-grey-gold-brown-gold-pink-cyan-variable color-cyan color sequence, unless I change my mind."
">>>I have already changed my mind at least once, but possibly more."
">>>At the end of the Introduction, there will be no header, as the header for the relevant section has already been shown, And it would be repetative. While lengthening the post is desired, doing so with repeated, copy-pasted text would surely be annoying to slog through, and not interesting nor convenient whatsoever."
">The Tutorial will separate sentences and ideas using right angle-brackets. These are located after each time the enter key was used, unless they aren't."
">Now then, what are the divisions I'm using? Well, a subsection is generally a single argument or paragraph, such as the Tactically initial summarization.
">A Section is a
">set of subsections which shares the same theme, such as Section one, which consists of all literal interpretations of Pionos initial request on discord. "
">A Phase is a larger combination of Sections which serve the same purpose, like Phase one, where I summarize my major, non-hidden arguments for any given point. "
">>It helps make the rest of the post more monotonous to read, raising the likelihood that Moniker will miss one of the hidden linchpins of an action, allowing me to extend the debate over multiple posts."
">>>>>The Phase-Section-Subsection listing at the beginning of every tutorial are nonsensical; their numbers are the position in the alphabet of the letters J, O, And E."
">>>>>> If I were to somehow reach phase ten, I would add 26 to each number, indicating capital. If I were to reach Phase thirty-six, I would simply stop... Hahahaha no I would add another 62 to indicate the question of bolding."
">>> which buys me time to lengthen my responses overall, thus making the entire process more enjoyable for everyone, which means Moniker has even more reasons to give me what I want"
">>>>>> after all, think of all the fun times he gets, free of charge!"
">>>>Posts. Given that this action is, in fact, an amalgamation of several seperate actions, and is powered by more then one actions-worth of action, It can be spread across multiple posts."
">>>>> This may occur for any number of reasons, Including but not limited to: reducing complexity, raising complexity, responding to current events, making it look like I should be responding to current events but not doing so, making jokes about this very concept, annoying the Godmodder, entertaining moniker, justifying another tutorial, Allowing someone else to make a post, surprising the Godmodder, being confusing, allowing for further jokes about the Tutorial through methods other then additional tutorials, being the last person to post, being the first to pass the post, complaining about internet problems, lengthening this particular list, and more."
">>>>>>The 'and more' is of course unnecessary due to that I already said 'including but not limited to'.
">>>>>> In addition, since this latest edit is five tribulations in the future, several parts of this description are no longer accurate, and furthermore I would like to motion for the formation of a committee to analyse whether or not the maintenance of the out-of-date tutorial is a form of penalty-worthy falsehood in light of its being out of date, or simply a historical relic for chronology preservation."
">>>>>This tutorial will also apply to indirectly-related uses of the post-phase-section-subsection-article system in other posts, and not just the original post in which case the original version appears. Some parts may not apply, see JObobobob for details."
">>>>>> Regardless of the number of updates that occur to the tutorial, the most up-to-date version will always be found ЛИНК; any pop-up is of the Previous version, and will not contain any mention of the cause for its updated state. To remain up-to-date, keep using this link!"
">>>>>As I have put this in another post, it gets 'Post x' added to its dividers. However, since there have been several posts in between this post and the previous post, I shall instead place the absolute value of the post number."
">>>>>>Additional sections beyond the point of time wherein I wrote this may or may not be completely unrelated to the rest of the post. Or they might tie into the rest of it in a way nobody could have guessed.
">>>> I intend to include this phase in all future posts of length greater then one computer monitor height."
">Subsections, Sections, and Phases will tend to be in a simple and intuitive ascending order, unless I don't feel like it."
">>One possible reason for Order changes from that of intuition is that, during the writing of a Phase one section or subsection, I might get too into the writing of the logic and arguing."
">>>This would result in an overly long subsection or section which clearly belongs in Phase two, possibly having its own articles (which are like subsections of a subsection)"
">>>>However, depending on the state of the post at the time, the time of day, what color the last non-cyan color was, whether I've scratched at my forhead recently, the state of my desk, what food is available, the price of a Popsicle, and the current chance of rain, the bloated subsection and its Articles may remain in its original position, resulting in a skip forwards in the attack, though the skipped text will be added, eventually."
">>>>Articles will be common in phase two and, if I get around to it, Phase three, due to Phase two being an expansion on all concepts introduced in Phase one."
"-Note about that."
"Well, that should be all the tutorials for a little, so let's get this post Started!"
"Phase one, section one, subsection one, article... oh, who am I kidding, I don't plan to be anywhere near that organized this time. dunworryaboutit."
"so hey the power lock that's a thing everyone seems to have decided against huh? Well, I don't really see why. Sure, players powers have downsides. if you use them to conjure things wholesale. But a smart player can avoid that by only conjuring kinetic energy or things that it's ok for them to stutter to a stop. Like, a single background-free no-context laser gun. Instead of a society. And... even if the creation stutters to a stop, what's wrong with that? It was probably good while it lasted, right? Well, I think so. And, without the power lock being constructed, I think I'll get the last laugh. anyway, the power locks primary morality issue is the claim that nobody deserves to have player powers except to kill the godmoddder with- a claim i vehemently oppose. Why only for killing the Godmodder? Why not for dealing with the shadow the Godmodder cast on the world? Why is the Godmodder worse then the misery of chance, of satan, of evucorp- of every failure there has been? Some players don't deserve player powers. For example, Hungry Visitor- oh don't look at me like that, he tortured infinity souls in his heyday. I think those are free or gone now, but... I don't know. Anyway. Some people, they don't deserve player powers. Some. people. Some do. I think I do, personally- by my own morality-one which does not give me primacy- I may very well be the most potent force for good in the war, by sheer dint of Bothering to make the eternal stasis machine a nice place to be. Just that, and I think it enough."
"Yes, even though I'm [N]. after a trillion years of good life in the simulation, I imagine all of the machines inhabitants would forgive me for any accidental slight, even if I were the one to kill them, which is only true for a tiny few."
"The power locks morality is, in my mind, not up for debate- but I doubt I could convince you with words, with your opinions on the matter so set in stone. Perhaps, yes, perhaps some players would, with their eternal power from the lock which i contest your contesting, create something bad. Like a real version of 1984. I've been reading it recently- not by choice, mind- and I would just like to say that it doesn't really make a lick of sense. I've got some things in particular to point out, but there's probably about five times as many later in the book, since I've read at most a fifth of it. First of all, the Minute of Hate. this is one part which really ought to require player powers to bring about, because- here's a quote, and if you don't think its odd, I don't know what's up with you:"
"The next moment a hideous, grinding screech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. It was a noise that set one's teeth on edge and bristled the hair at the back of one's neck. The Hate had started.
As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed onto the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience. The little sandy-haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear and disgust. Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago(...) had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counterrevolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The program of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Parties purity. All subsequent crimes against the Part, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. somewhere or the other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters; perhaps even- so it was occasionally rumored- in some hiding place in Oceania itself.--- Ech, there's too much, I'm skipping ahead here a few times----'Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. The self-satisfied sheeplike face on the screen, and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army behind it, were too much to be borne; besides, the sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically (...) In a lucid moment Winston found that he was shouting with the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung of his chair. The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretense was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's own will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.'."
"-Bolding mine. Thirty seconds or fewer of exposure to an expected and repetative stimulus, being invariably among all societies members capable of forcefully enraging them into physical action even should they be actively attempting to remain calm and avoid becoming angered and even with the physical action entirely futile. Purely audio-visual stimulus, too- no drugs or anything. 'The Party' has access to this power, and yet- it hasn't won? If you can force emotions in unwilling members should you not be able to brainwash them simply? Force the emotional equivalent of acceptance of your terms or statements onto them, perhaps. I won't go into that in detail, since I'm no burgeoning dictator (it would be rather immoral to become one, in my view), but it seems like it would be simple enough, if you can override your targets will at any moment."
"If I may digress in my analysis for a moment, I believe the presence of Godmodder Logic is similar to The Two Minute Hate. While there may not be a surface similarity, I can explain. The Two Minute Hate is an addition that, at my current vantage, appears to not have been fully thought out in terms of its implications and its conceptual difficulty- possible due to a difference between my perspective and Orwells, I suppose, given our different societies and such-but I digress on that. The Two Minute Hate seems insufficiently thought out from an internal-consistency perspective, and so seems Godmodder Logic, for it allows the deduction of the highly specific scenario of our attempting to escape and me trying to channel too much stuff through a dreamself to try to save morpheus through hiding him and whatever else happened, it was a while ago. Point is, just that I had a fading body there isn't enough to figure it out. It doesn't descriminate between what happened and, say, me trying to plead morpheus into not committing suicide, and then trying to keep him from doing it by force, or something. So, how does Godmodder logic work? I don't know how the Two Minute Hate can coherently be inserted into a 1984-world without giving The Party the power to just sorta... win... (it would be a great negotiation infoweapon and is probably some variety of memetic hazard, so they would be able to beat the other two countries or convert them.), but I know how Godmodder Logic can be coherently inserted. Simply put, it's not Logic, but rather a form of pseudo-autonomous, possibly passive or active, Godmodding-powered observation-focused scrying spell with a wide range and access to past data. Those sure are words, right? Well, I'll need to use more words in order to clarify what I mean, after a quick commmerciallllllll brrrreak!"
"Uh... where was I? I forget. Hmmm... oh, that reminds me about the entomology of words. You see, 'hm' refers to considering something or being in thought, and hmmm- as defined by the great journal of the forgotten cactus beast dragon kings- is "to collect the aforementioned material". so, Knives hmmm would mean collecting all the knives in the vicinity. by interpolating the trend, 'hmm' would be something which is less severe, in terms of efforts and effects, then collection, but more severe then simply consideration. From there, we can conclude it refers to something which does involve doing something, but has effects smaller then relocation. refining or using would have more severe effects, so those are out. After a full consideration of factors, I believe the most consistent meaning would be something with an indirect effect... like, protecting. if you protect a material, you don't move or affect it initially, but if something else was going to affect it, it won't any more. so, "Hm" is consider, "Hmm" is protect, and "Hmmm" is collect- but what is Hmmmm? Hmmmm, as implied earlier, is when you actually make use of the afforementioned material. So, Rocks Hmmmm might indicate that you are throwing them as projectile weapons, or perhaps crafting them into tools if you're in minecraft- but I digress."
"The entire purpose of this complicated discussion is to fully elucidate upon my companians, compatriots, and competitor combatants my intended utilization of my limited resources with the purpose of producing possible potentialities into plausibility where the potential i intent to prevaricate my plan to produce by pontificating pointlessly for a perceptibly over-large period of time in order to protect my principal physical potential to produce the paramount preparations and productions of conjunctions for subjunctions about injunctions which functions to produce malfunctions and dysfunctions with no compunctions. in truth this previous sector is of rather low clarity and importance both, due to my intention of incidentally inducing unawareness of my intent,бут И шалл, ин тхе фуллнесс оф тиме, wхен тхе момент ис рипе, онце тхе препаратионс аре цомплете, ин а мост реасонабле анд реасонед маннер, wхен ит ис qуите цертаинлы тхе пропер момент, анд wхен алл хас беен саид анд доне, стате тхе аппроприателы аппарент планс wхич И професс И wилл потентиаллы нот провиде поинтед поинтерс провинг мы планс примары ресиденце ас ит ис qуите парамоунт фор тхеир плаусибилиты тхат тхеы бе примарилы предицатед он пассивелы имперцептибле портионс. то тхис енд ит wоулд бе бест то форм а цомитее wхич ин тхе фуллнесс оф тиме анд wхен тхе момент ис рипе цоме то а цонцлуссион wитх регардс то тхе еффицацы оф мы интентед проминенце процуремент планнинг то продуце а план wхич wилл бе мост реасонабле анд ундерстоод бы тхе реадер ас беинг ентирелы анд фуллы сатисфацторы фор тхе примары пурпосе оф продуцинг принципаллы перфецт мотионс wхич ис оф цоурсе тхе оптимал тхоугх нот нецессарилы ачиевабле оутцоме."
"in short, I yeet a notable quantity of a disk of matter from Gamma's neck into a gun, which- Say, that reminds me of a dream I had! You see, I was inside a house wherein i possessed an ability known as a domain. it had a power counter known as 'influence', measuring the power of my domain, And I could make anything happen in my domain as long as I had enough "influence", even if that anything didn't make sense, by saying what I wanted. Like, for example, I could make someone named steve die by saying 'Influence - Steve dies.' , or if I'm talking to them, 'Influence- you die.'. maybe even 'Influence- Death to steve'. It was more efficient to pick things like 'your neck vaporizes itself', though . Anyway, I just remembered what I was talking about before the commercial brea-
"Phase Ten, Section Fifteen, Subsection Five, Iteration four, Codename, JOEd."
"Tutorial // Introduction"
">For ease of reading, I've decided to implement a color-coded header system. The color of the header for a section, subsection, or phase will be color-coded, in a manner that may or may not change every time it occurs, but always relates in some unspecified way to the content of the section."
">This Tutorial sector has been inserted here as it does not become relevant until this point."
">Due to the complexity of this system and the possibility of edge cases, This tutorial will often be updated. However, for posterity it is best you, dear reader, be aware of all past versions."
"> When a Tutorial//Introduction Update occurs or is thought up, the old version will be inserted at the current bottom of the document. This allows for relative chronology to be preserved in as unintuitive a manner as possible."
">>The Document in this case actually refers to my most recent relevant post, where relevancy is ill-defined."
">>Such insertions may occur in the middle of a sentence, paragraph, word, or other literary construct. Depending on memory, it is possible the argument will continue unabated, or that I will insert tarrying amounts of male cow excrement and pretend that's what I planned all along."
">>In retrospect, it may have been even more unintuitive to have the original be the newest, and the most recent version be the oldest- So that only the original text of the tutorial spontanously appears, and gradually is replaced with newer versions as other popups appear, requiring a greater quantity of analysis to discern the update changes."
">>>However, this would require additional work to maintain and a significant up-front cost to switch to."
">>>>>>Additionally, since the majority of the Tutorials are located in posts read long ago, the benefits would be sparse were the change implemented at this juncture."
">>When a Tutorial//Introduction is inserted, There will be a color-coded header of the gold-grey-gold-brown-gold-pink-cyan-variable color-cyan color sequence, unless I change my mind."
">>>I have already changed my mind at least once, but possibly more."
">>>At the end of the Introduction, there will be no header, as the header for the relevant section has already been shown, And it would be repetative. While lengthening the post is desired, doing so with repeated, copy-pasted text would surely be annoying to slog through, and not interesting nor convenient whatsoever."
">The Tutorial will separate sentences and ideas using right angle-brackets. These are located after each time the enter key was used, unless they aren't."
">Now then, what are the divisions I'm using? Well, a subsection is generally a single argument or paragraph, such as the Tactically initial summarization.
">A Section is a
">set of subsections which shares the same theme, such as Section one, which consists of all literal interpretations of Pionos initial request on discord. "
">A Phase is a larger combination of Sections which serve the same purpose, like Phase one, where I summarize my major, non-hidden arguments for any given point. "
">>It helps make the rest of the post more monotonous to read, raising the likelihood that Moniker will miss one of the hidden linchpins of an action, allowing me to extend the debate over multiple posts."
">>>>>>>Other ways of making the post more monotonous or difficult to read include the use of simple ciphers, odd fonts, strange colors, or non-english languages."
">>>>>>>> These will generally be used sparingly if I possess a desire to be comprehended, which is not the case as of the edit that added this tutorial (which you can find by finding the tutorial where this showed up, and working one backwards, of course.)"
">>>>>The Phase-Section-Subsection listing at the beginning of every tutorial are nonsensical; their numbers are the position in the alphabet of the letters J, O, And E."
">>>>>> If I were to somehow reach phase ten, I would add 26 to each number, indicating capital. If I were to reach Phase thirty-six, I would simply stop... Hahahaha no I would add another 62 to indicate the question of bolding."
">>> which buys me time to lengthen my responses overall, thus making the entire process more enjoyable for everyone, which means Moniker has even more reasons to give me what I want"
">>>>>> after all, think of all the fun times he gets, free of charge!"
">>>>Posts. Given that this action is, in fact, an amalgamation of several seperate actions, and is powered by more then one actions-worth of action, It can be spread across multiple posts."
">>>>> This may occur for any number of reasons, Including but not limited to: reducing complexity, raising complexity, responding to current events, making it look like I should be responding to current events but not doing so, making jokes about this very concept, annoying the Godmodder, entertaining moniker, justifying another tutorial, Allowing someone else to make a post, surprising the Godmodder, being confusing, allowing for further jokes about the Tutorial through methods other then additional tutorials, being the last person to post, being the first to pass the post, complaining about internet problems, lengthening this particular list, and more."
">>>>>>The 'and more' is of course unnecessary due to that I already said 'including but not limited to'.
">>>>>> In addition, since this latest edit is five tribulations in the future, several parts of this description are no longer accurate, and furthermore I would like to motion for the formation of a committee to analyse whether or not the maintenance of the out-of-date tutorial is a form of penalty-worthy falsehood in light of its being out of date, or simply a historical relic for chronology preservation."
">>>>>This tutorial will also apply to indirectly-related uses of the post-phase-section-subsection-article system in other posts, and not just the original post in which case the original version appears. Some parts may not apply, see JObobobob for details."
">>>>>> Regardless of the number of updates that occur to the tutorial, the most up-to-date version will always be found ЛИНК; any pop-up is of the Previous version, and will not contain any mention of the cause for its updated state. To remain up-to-date, keep using this link!"
">>>>>As I have put this in another post, it gets 'Post x' added to its dividers. However, since there have been several posts in between this post and the previous post, I shall instead place the absolute value of the post number."
">>>>>>Additional sections beyond the point of time wherein I wrote this may or may not be completely unrelated to the rest of the post. Or they might tie into the rest of it in a way nobody could have guessed.
">>>> I intend to include this phase in all future posts of length greater then one computer monitor height."
">Subsections, Sections, and Phases will tend to be in a simple and intuitive ascending order, unless I don't feel like it."
">>One possible reason for Order changes from that of intuition is that, during the writing of a Phase one section or subsection, I might get too into the writing of the logic and arguing."
">>>This would result in an overly long subsection or section which clearly belongs in Phase two, possibly having its own articles (which are like subsections of a subsection)"
">>>>However, depending on the state of the post at the time, the time of day, what color the last non-cyan color was, whether I've scratched at my forhead recently, the state of my desk, what food is available, the price of a Popsicle, and the current chance of rain, the bloated subsection and its Articles may remain in its original position, resulting in a skip forwards in the attack, though the skipped text will be added, eventually."
">>>>Articles will be common in phase two and, if I get around to it, Phase three, due to Phase two being an expansion on all concepts introduced in Phase one.-ak!"
" I was talking about the similarities between Godmodder Logic at first glance and the Two Minute Hate on further analysis. This reminds me of that because my dream was similar. the Influence ability really ought to have been an instant-win ability- I had a rather large though indeterminate stack of points and knowledge of how to use the ability efficiently, and that's not even mentioning the utility of nanotech and so on. But, the dream- or, the part of me that thought the dream- or, reality itself, since player dreams are generally Prophetic dreams- hadn't considered those implications. Not even the simple 'make someone dead by force' one. So, soon enough, I ran into someone who was immune to death."
"Also, to having their limbs cut off, their eyes sewed shut, and a disk of their neck removed. The only thing they weren't immune to was nulling their senses to run. Anyway point is this is a pretty common problem and uhhhhh right I was explaining how to coherently integrate Godmodder Logic into a world where the Godmodder hadn't instantly one well thennnnnn"
"like i said before,"
"Obviously, Godmodding-powers implies that it makes use of the Godmodder as a power source (and possibly a way of retroactively being capable of circumventing any counters made against it, as a godmodder would), Wide Range means that it doesn't have a problem with the subjects of the scry fleeing unless it's been a long time and they ran far, and "it's not logic" means its not logic."
"Since I've finished that section I should move on to other languages. You see, alpha, beta, and gamma are greek letters, and we face them in combat. well, not necessarily we. I wouldn't be fighting if they just left me alone but one of them already tried to kill me. twice? I'm not sure. Anyway. Alpha, Beta, Gamma are greek, yes, but they are not the only set of A, B, G letters. For example, Aleph Bet Gimel (Daled, Hei, Vav). Similarly, in greek, the sequence is Alpha, beta, gamma, delta... etcetr-a. The point being here that Delta sounds like a good name for something just as important as the 3 Unsealed Sealers. Now, while my choice for what to refer to may be met with a notable quantity of displeasure, distrust, disagreement, disbelief, and even some words that don't start with 'D', like... annoyance!, I believe that in the long view of the future after this godmodding war concludes, it will be among the most important creations throughout it."
"my Second Body. you see, while most players will likely revert to baseline humans upon the loss of their player powers, my second body is optimized to function without them and be useful anyway. It's a powerhouse of collected technology and mundane capabilities based in systems aside from player powers, at least, compared to other mundane beings. In addition, due to the absence of such player-power style abilities when all is said and done, it will be capable of far more then the average inhabitant. Even leaving aside the benefits of rational debate (which really deserve their own post of clarification), Delta will be a quite important addition and allow for the Eventually saving of most of reality from badness. Except all the parts that are lost before I can get to them due to the short-sightedness of the anti-power-lock lobbyists. While my forward-thinking nature shall put me quite ahead of the other players (especially with my powers of rational debate), I still would much prefer a higher level of objective power. Power has meaning seperately from whether you can force everyone to listen to you, after all; the power to conjure everything you want for a life of luxury is a power even if you can't force anyone to tend to your grounds for you with it."
" Imagine, if you will, a Godmodder who became a very specific flavour of tyrant. One which hid from the world, and never attacked any of its planets... but let me tell you a story."
"First, there was nothing.
Then, there was a banana.
Great chunks flew from the sky, and slammed into the bottom of the Blender. The Blender was reality.
Slowly, life evolved. There was a quiet bubbling, popping, flowing sound from outside of it, but it was calm. Life evolved, slowly. land life, with no fluid for oceans.
Then, a massive Can crashed from the sky, cutting into bananas. Those on the top layers were fearful. those on the bottom, confused, but safe. truly, only a fraction died, but this was the first sign from the gods since life evolved.
Slowly, white goop dripped down from the Can's interior. It was life-giving. nutritious. The Inhabitants drank from it. Life was good.
Some hypothesized existance beyond the blender. There was no evidence. Others thought in the depths of The Can would be salvation. They explored it.
The Can was brought into the sky. A four-pronged wall of metal swept through it regularly, sweeping off what remained of the goop within and pouring it into something beyond. Many died. Some past explorers, now trying to survive, ducked into hills the Wall glided over. Fewer reached the edge.
Only one managed to reach the blender, speaking of the outer world they'd seen, The Wall, everything. There was a time of peace, for thousands of perceptual days. generations passed. Primitive ocean Life evolved in the streams. Great Thinkers knew of the Metal Blades attached to the base of the Land of the Blender. Were they, too, designed to scour a land of its fluid and life? But those the Explorer spoke of were four-pronged... What was the meaning of life, others wondered, if there are such weapons to scour it? The Explorer must have simply been mad, They reasoned. Who would bother?
There was a Grand Flood. the Nutritious fluid poured from above in a steady spout, drowning land after land of bananas. Only the very highest were spared.
This was viewed as a lesson from the Progenitor that things are unpredictable, as the last two cullings struck only the highest and loftiest. At least, by those that survived. There was a time.
The sea life at the bottom of the World saw a shift. It turned black. Those atop the bananas saw as well, a shell of black atop the Land of the Blender.
Then, there was a thunderous click, or snap, or whatnot, and the Blades beneath the land began to churn, to spin, to swirl. Every Banana was buried in a tide of swirling fluid. Only sea life (and pictograms at the Blenders walls to tell the tale) remained, and of those, only the ones who stayed high. There were no landmasses left. Only a Vast Ocean. Sea life Thrived.
The black ceiling disappeared, but not the floor. more of the Nutritious white fluid sprinkled from the sky- seen as an apology by God for the devastation. Some called it too little, too late. Others thought they should be thankful for even this much, given their insignificance. Others did not think. They were too stupid for that.
There were long years of nothing. A somewhat high-pitched sound in the background, but soon it was a constant. Sea Life grew more adapted to the status quo. smarter.
Then great chunks of frozen material fell from the sky. Blue, Red, even black, bulbous lumps fell. They Floated on the worlds Oceans. Land life began to evolve again on these Berry islands.
There was a time, and then cracking for years, then a snap for but one, then a pause. Then, great yellow-orange chunks fell from the sky. The Mangos, in truth, changed little. But life did spread, to them as well. Where there is potential, it goes.
Then a black shell covered the sky. The Saviest Scholar of the Land had read the pictographs, and understood them somewhat. He thought the time had come for a Cataclysm. But one of Blades or Sky? Reasoning the Sky was blocked, he traveled to the Mango Layers for safety. Sadly, he was of a Land-bound species. So he climbed. He reached the top, and just in time. The Rumbling started with a click, and the water churned. The Waters species died in droves, then adapted. The Berry isles largely were sucked into the ensuing whirlpool. The Mango Layers, however, simply shook back and forth with vigour, slamming into the walls of the Blender. Some thought it would dent. It did not.
The Mangos too fell, soon enough, But Four remained. The thickness of the newest Iteration of the Seas meant one was actually surrounded by curved walls of water on all sizes. The Scholar had fallen. A disciple of his had not. The pause was seen as mercy.
How wrong they were.
Years later, there was yet another Cataclysm. The Blades began, and did not stop. In fact, they ramped up in intensity, then decreased, and increased again! dark rivers formed. It seemed clear this was a different, less level-headed Deity. then it was stopped. and it began oncemore! more violent then ever, the fluid swirled.
And then it was over. the shell vanished. people thought they were safe!
but they weren't.
The goop pours out into other containers. little is left within the blender, but people assume they're safe. It is millenia. Tens of millenia. Maybe hundreds.
Then they all get eaten.
"Were a Godmodder to enforce this tale upon their dinner, who would be the wiser? Nobody. it is Tiny, and the relevant Godmodder wouldn't even feature in it. Nobody would notice the tormented blender lives, and the tormented would view their fall as natural disasters, perhaps. being Godmodder constructs, they may even have been incapable of becoming players. And yet. And Yet."
"Would this Godmodder not be more terrible then many before them? For every dinner they ate, untold trillions would die. all unsung, for they were tiny, and nobody the wiser. The Godmodder would need precious little power for this, for a single player could do so just as well in a side note. I have not done so. I speak only of the possibility, to emphasise- It would be better for us all to have more power, for while it could be easily used for great evil, it could be just as easily used as a force of good. And this is a quality seldom shared by other sources."
"Player powers can summon an entity just as easily as destroy one, heal as readily as they harm. and yet, to quote HPMOR..."
"Destruction is always easier than creation. Easier to tear things apart, to disrupt, than to put them back together again. If I have the potential to accomplish good on a massive scale, I must also have the potential to accomplish still greater evil... But I won't do that."
"And yet, we are the exception. Player powers are the exception. The Godmodder is an exemplification of this trend, due to the inherent corruption of Godmodding, but players do not need to be able to destroy more easily then create. Even a novice, a weak player, can hold off a more dedicated one through the power of Attack Shields, of which three actions worth will block three actions. Player powers are, if anything, among the safest powers, for simply not being so biased."
"moving on, the globglogabgalab is a fascinating amalgamation of language. They love books, you know. Now, to a simple mind they may appear to speak nonsense, but the first two lines, I have already decoded... the first two ones below 'treasure trove', I mean.
"They are the globglogabgalab- that's just their name, nothing odd there. But they are also the shwabledauble, waublegauble, flibberblaublebub! now, what does this mean? I've afraid I've lost track of my notes on the subject, but flibber is a word for home, so flibberblaublebub is means they are the home of the blaublebub. So, the globglogabgalab has some form of parasite. also, either shwabledauble or waublegauble is similar to the name of a heroic pilot of some plane and the other one includes a type of bicycle tire, meaning both indicate the Globglogabgalab as being significantly better-equipped for movement then he appears, and possibly capable of flight. From here, we can move on to their being 'Full of Shwibleglibberkind' and 'the yeast of thoughts and minds'. Yeast makes things rise, so they make thoughts and minds rise. Shwibleglibberkind, from here, can be assumed to be a particular yeast-like substance, which may be part of how the globglogabgalab is able to move around deceptively quickly- the rising-effect of Shwibbleglibberkind could be neutralizing the mass of their massive bulk. Sadly, however, there is no clear subject for any of the remaining lines of the globglogabgalab song, meaning that I cannot continue to extrapolate specific meanings, so I think I'll move on to IAMTHATIAM- a being which doesn't exist. there was this one thing called 'Destroy ME' which was actually run by a guy who also doesn't exist, anyway. After the conclusion of Destroy ME, the guy who doesn't exist didn't say 'I AM THAT I AM. I do what I must because I can'. something about this phrase has stuck with me, and I've decided to take a moment to analyze what it really means. The being 'I' has some things that they have to do. They do these things. But why? because they can; Not because they must. this suggests 'Must' is not being used as 'cannot avoid doing', but rather as 'if I don't do it i'll die' or something. So, that I AM THAT I AM, assuming I AM THAT I AM is being treated as synonomous to the second phrase, implies someone who is exceptionally uncaring of their death, and very daring. When asked 'Why did you do [thing]', The answer is not 'because I had to' but rather 'because I Could', which reminds me of undertale and sans because at some point he says 'but because you can. And because you can, you have to.'. I wonder how common that kind of sentiment is? doing something because you can, and for no grander or other reason? but even if that sentiment is common, doing something when not doing it would kill you, and yet doing it just because you could... That, I think, would be a much rarer sentiment. Now, i figure I should mention- what I'm actually going to do to Gamma. See, I'm going to give him a hug made of salads. This is going to confuse him so much, he'll retroactively not have stabbed me. That is, of course, a paradox, because if he hadn't stabbed me, I wouldn't be writing this or giving him the hug. Since it causes a parasocks, I can take that parasocks. while Gamma's still busy trying to shake off all the salad bits (I made sure to include fruit in the salad, especially gooey ones, so it's going to take ages to get it all dry-cleaned), I put on those socks, and this allows me to finally put on some shoes. You see, in this fight, it's implausible for my shoes to really survive any length of time unless they're durable. Durable shoes are possible, but durable socks aren't. socks have to be flexible. So, I need something that won't get broken for my socks, before I can put on some proper shoes. After a long time of trying to find them, I've finally gotten myself some Parasocks, and as soon as this round ends it becomes an unresolvable parasocks, since it'll be too late to justify me doing this without neutralizing the justification. this makes the Parasocks indestructible, making them durable enough for me to put on some shoes, which i've been trying to do the entire war"
"Yep, definitely."
"Now, remember the Truth About JOEbob? Well, that guy who was yelling 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA' reminds me of another story which didn't happen. In it, there was a guy called AAaaa, AA aa AAA, Aaaa aaaa. They were known for yelling. Their strategy for everything in life, in fact, was 'Initiate Screaming'. they screamed louder then a dog and so loud reality exhausted itself and accepted their dominance. And that person? who doesn't exist? was also me. because I'm a multifaceted sort. While I do of course understand the impressive powers of rational debate (and they are an immutable fallback), I also recognize the advantages possessed by being unpredictable, such as an increased ability to avoid other people properly understanding what your plans are which is of course the entire purpose of this post, which I've color-coded to make it weirder. But I digress; My plans post-game are more important. As soon as all player powers drain away completely, I intend to make use of the nanofactories embeded in my second body (which, if I neglected to mention them, I shall of course use the power of rational debate to argue into retroactive existence, due to the obvious utility of nanotech over most other things of the minimum scale to add them.) in order to take over the remnants of many of the non-populated planes (and the lava the Godmodder left behind. From a truly adult perspective, it's a pile of useful materials that just so happens to be on fire). Having not harmed anyone due to those planes being Non-populated, I will have gained a significant power base in non-reality-warping capabilities, which I will use for the primarily benign purpose of slowly taking over all reality and ending Death. Also, ending badness. This is because badness and death are bad, and if I can stop them (Which will be trivial with a combination of rational debate and nanotech), i should, if I conceive myself as a moral person, which I do. One section I will especially focus on taking over is the Anti-JOEbob facilities, because having an army fighting me every step is inconvenient, and honestly, I don't understand why they so despise me. After all, my brethren were a godmodder of long life but relatively low power for a time, followed by a 'normal' human which took over, what, one planet? Total? That's miniscule on this multiversal scale. In order to defeat the Anti-JOEbob facilities, I will lead with a proof of my status as the conceptual heritage of AAaaa guy, shaking their resolve, and use this gap in their mental preparedness to convince them of the moral righteousness of my plans. Furthermore, I will add nanotech to their bases and consume them while they are fighting the obvious threat and/or agreeing with my righteous righteousness. This leaves a few possibilities. Possibility one, they ignore me completely to defend their bases, in which case they've let me win the argument, so I win. possibility two, they listen to me, are not convinced, but leave their bases alone long enough for the nanotech to eat, in which case they don't have resources, and so I win. Possibility three, they listen to me, are convinced, and I eat their bases, so they're on my side, and I win. Possibility four, they are incapable of being convinced and skillful at rational debate, in which case I debate them for a time, which will be an enjoyable passtime on the path to taking over the universe, and I eat their base, so they have no resources, and I win. Possibility five, they run to save their base while yelling counterarguments over their shoulders, in which case they will preform poorly both at arguing me and defending their base, leading to a significant loss of resources on their end, an amusing passtime for me, and my winning the argument, so I win. As you can see, I've planned a flawless Xanthos Gambit. Except, mines better. Let's call it a JOEbob Gambit, to make it clear unequivocally how superior it is to the standard variety...
"This is now complete. In conclusion, I do the thing I said earlier that I'd do."
"Why did I make this post? Not because I had to, but because I could. So I did."
[1x]Having done all that, I summon Gamma over to me so I can shake his hand and pat him on the back for being so clever. having done that, which isn't an action since it does nothing, I Delta Hmm, Gamma Knives Hmmm, Delta Gamma Hm, Knives doubleplusHm, Knives Hmmmm Delta. And, if that doesn't work, I plusHmm Gamma, then doubleplusunHmm them.
[1x] I start talking. In order to figure out my actual intention, you're going to have to read the entirety of my upcoming ramble.
I hope you're ready, mate.
"This battle is nearing its end, or it seems like it, anyway. It won't be much longer before I either end up one of the sole remaining cosmic powers in a pseudomultiverse ripe for improvement, or dead, given the probalistically foolish decision of the other players in order to- Ah, come to think of it! given my intended length, I should pro-"
"Phase Ten, Section Fifteen, Subsection Five, Iteration three, Codename, JOEc."
"Tutorial // Introduction"
">For ease of reading, I've decided to implement a color-coded header system. The color of the header for a section, subsection, or phase will be color-coded, in a manner that may or may not change every time it occurs, but always relates in some unspecified way to the content of the section."
">This Tutorial sector has been inserted here as it does not become relevant until this point."
">Due to the complexity of this system and the possibility of edge cases, This tutorial will often be updated. However, for posterity it is best you, dear reader, be aware of all past versions."
"> When a Tutorial//Introduction Update occurs or is thought up, the old version will be inserted at the current bottom of the document. This allows for relative chronology to be preserved in as unintuitive a manner as possible."
">>Such insertions may occur in the middle of a sentence, paragraph, word, or other literary construct. Depending on memory, it is possible the argument will continue unabated, or that I will insert tarrying amounts of male cow excrement and pretend that's what I planned all along."
">>When a Tutorial//Introduction is inserted, There will be a color-coded header of the gold-grey-gold-brown-gold-pink-cyan-variable color-cyan color sequence, unless I change my mind."
">>>I have already changed my mind at least once, but possibly more."
">>>At the end of the Introduction, there will be no header, as the header for the relevant section has already been shown, And it would be repetative. While lengthening the post is desired, doing so with repeated, copy-pasted text would surely be annoying to slog through, and not interesting nor convenient whatsoever."
">The Tutorial will separate sentences and ideas using right angle-brackets. These are located after each time the enter key was used, unless they aren't."
">Now then, what are the divisions I'm using? Well, a subsection is generally a single argument or paragraph, such as the Tactically initial summarization.
">A Section is a
">set of subsections which shares the same theme, such as Section one, which consists of all literal interpretations of Pionos initial request on discord. "
">A Phase is a larger combination of Sections which serve the same purpose, like Phase one, where I summarize my major, non-hidden arguments for any given point. "
">>It helps make the rest of the post more monotonous to read, raising the likelihood that Moniker will miss one of the hidden linchpins of an action, allowing me to extend the debate over multiple posts."
">>>>>The Phase-Section-Subsection listing at the beginning of every tutorial are nonsensical; their numbers are the position in the alphabet of the letters J, O, And E."
">>>>>> If I were to somehow reach phase ten, I would add 26 to each number, indicating capital. If I were to reach Phase thirty-six, I would simply stop... Hahahaha no I would add another 62 to indicate the question of bolding."
">>> which buys me time to lengthen my responses overall, thus making the entire process more enjoyable for everyone, which means Moniker has even more reasons to give me what I want"
">>>>>> after all, think of all the fun times he gets, free of charge!"
">>>>Posts. Given that this action is, in fact, an amalgamation of several seperate actions, and is powered by more then one actions-worth of action, It can be spread across multiple posts."
">>>>> This may occur for any number of reasons, Including but not limited to: reducing complexity, raising complexity, responding to current events, making it look like I should be responding to current events but not doing so, making jokes about this very concept, annoying the Godmodder, entertaining moniker, justifying another tutorial, Allowing someone else to make a post, surprising the Godmodder, being confusing, allowing for further jokes about the Tutorial through methods other then additional tutorials, being the last person to post, being the first to pass the post, complaining about internet problems, lengthening this particular list, and more."
">>>>>>The 'and more' is of course unnecessary due to that I already said 'including but not limited to'.
">>>>>As I have put this in another post, it gets 'Post x' added to its dividers. However, since there have been several posts in between this post and the previous post, I shall instead place the absolute value of the post number."
">>>>>>Additional sections beyond the point of time wherein I wrote this may or may not be completely unrelated to the rest of the post. Or they might tie into the rest of it in a way nobody could have guessed.
">>>> I intend to include this phase in all future posts of length greater then one computer monitor height."
">Subsections, Sections, and Phases will tend to be in a simple and intuitive ascending order, unless I don't feel like it."
">>One possible reason for Order changes from that of intuition is that, during the writing of a Phase one section or subsection, I might get too into the writing of the logic and arguing."
">>>This would result in an overly long subsection or section which clearly belongs in Phase two, possibly having its own articles (which are like subsections of a subsection)"
">>>>However, depending on the state of the post at the time, the time of day, what color the last non-cyan color was, whether I've scratched at my forhead recently, the state of my desk, what food is available, the price of a Popsicle, and the current chance of rain, the bloated subsection and its Articles may remain in its original position, resulting in a skip forwards in the attack, though the skipped text will be added, eventually."
">>>>Articles will be common in phase two and, if I get around to it, Phase three, due to Phase two being an expansion on all concepts introduced in Phase one."
"-bably update the tutorial. Hm, come to think of it, I should make a note th-"
"Phase Ten, Section Fifteen, Subsection Five, Iteration four, Codename, JOEd."
"Tutorial // Introduction"
">For ease of reading, I've decided to implement a color-coded header system. The color of the header for a section, subsection, or phase will be color-coded, in a manner that may or may not change every time it occurs, but always relates in some unspecified way to the content of the section."
">This Tutorial sector has been inserted here as it does not become relevant until this point."
">Due to the complexity of this system and the possibility of edge cases, This tutorial will often be updated. However, for posterity it is best you, dear reader, be aware of all past versions."
"> When a Tutorial//Introduction Update occurs or is thought up, the old version will be inserted at the current bottom of the document. This allows for relative chronology to be preserved in as unintuitive a manner as possible."
">>The Document in this case actually refers to my most recent relevant post, where relevancy is ill-defined."
">>Such insertions may occur in the middle of a sentence, paragraph, word, or other literary construct. Depending on memory, it is possible the argument will continue unabated, or that I will insert tarrying amounts of male cow excrement and pretend that's what I planned all along."
">>When a Tutorial//Introduction is inserted, There will be a color-coded header of the gold-grey-gold-brown-gold-pink-cyan-variable color-cyan color sequence, unless I change my mind."
">>>I have already changed my mind at least once, but possibly more."
">>>At the end of the Introduction, there will be no header, as the header for the relevant section has already been shown, And it would be repetative. While lengthening the post is desired, doing so with repeated, copy-pasted text would surely be annoying to slog through, and not interesting nor convenient whatsoever."
">The Tutorial will separate sentences and ideas using right angle-brackets. These are located after each time the enter key was used, unless they aren't."
">Now then, what are the divisions I'm using? Well, a subsection is generally a single argument or paragraph, such as the Tactically initial summarization.
">A Section is a
">set of subsections which shares the same theme, such as Section one, which consists of all literal interpretations of Pionos initial request on discord. "
">A Phase is a larger combination of Sections which serve the same purpose, like Phase one, where I summarize my major, non-hidden arguments for any given point. "
">>It helps make the rest of the post more monotonous to read, raising the likelihood that Moniker will miss one of the hidden linchpins of an action, allowing me to extend the debate over multiple posts."
">>>>>The Phase-Section-Subsection listing at the beginning of every tutorial are nonsensical; their numbers are the position in the alphabet of the letters J, O, And E."
">>>>>> If I were to somehow reach phase ten, I would add 26 to each number, indicating capital. If I were to reach Phase thirty-six, I would simply stop... Hahahaha no I would add another 62 to indicate the question of bolding."
">>> which buys me time to lengthen my responses overall, thus making the entire process more enjoyable for everyone, which means Moniker has even more reasons to give me what I want"
">>>>>> after all, think of all the fun times he gets, free of charge!"
">>>>Posts. Given that this action is, in fact, an amalgamation of several seperate actions, and is powered by more then one actions-worth of action, It can be spread across multiple posts."
">>>>> This may occur for any number of reasons, Including but not limited to: reducing complexity, raising complexity, responding to current events, making it look like I should be responding to current events but not doing so, making jokes about this very concept, annoying the Godmodder, entertaining moniker, justifying another tutorial, Allowing someone else to make a post, surprising the Godmodder, being confusing, allowing for further jokes about the Tutorial through methods other then additional tutorials, being the last person to post, being the first to pass the post, complaining about internet problems, lengthening this particular list, and more."
">>>>>> In addition, since this latest edit is five tribulations in the future, several parts of this description are no longer accurate, and furthermore I would like to motion for the formation of a committee to analyse whether or not the maintenance of the out-of-date tutorial is a form of penalty-worthy falsehood in light of its being out of date, or simply a historical relic for chronology preservation."
">>>>>This tutorial will also apply to indirectly-related uses of the post-phase-section-subsection-article system in other posts, and not just the original post in which case the original version appears. Some parts may not apply, see JObobobob for details."
">>>>>>The 'and more' is of course unnecessary due to that I already said 'including but not limited to'.
">>>>>As I have put this in another post, it gets 'Post x' added to its dividers. However, since there have been several posts in between this post and the previous post, I shall instead place the absolute value of the post number."
">>>>>>Additional sections beyond the point of time wherein I wrote this may or may not be completely unrelated to the rest of the post. Or they might tie into the rest of it in a way nobody could have guessed.
">>>> I intend to include this phase in all future posts of length greater then one computer monitor height."
">Subsections, Sections, and Phases will tend to be in a simple and intuitive ascending order, unless I don't feel like it."
">>One possible reason for Order changes from that of intuition is that, during the writing of a Phase one section or subsection, I might get too into the writing of the logic and arguing."
">>>This would result in an overly long subsection or section which clearly belongs in Phase two, possibly having its own articles (which are like subsections of a subsection)"
">>>>However, depending on the state of the post at the time, the time of day, what color the last non-cyan color was, whether I've scratched at my forhead recently, the state of my desk, what food is available, the price of a Popsicle, and the current chance of rain, the bloated subsection and its Articles may remain in its original position, resulting in a skip forwards in the attack, though the skipped text will be added, eventually."
">>>>Articles will be common in phase two and, if I get around to it, Phase three, due to Phase two being an expansion on all concepts introduced in Phase one."
"-at the most up-to-date tutorial is always going to be in the original instance of the tutorial, and the pseudorandom popups are examples of the version Before the latest change, in order to- as stated- preserve relative chronology in as unintuitive a manner as possible."
"...Hm... I used a foreign alphabet to make my link look more exotic there, I should make a-
"Phase Ten, Section Fifteen, Subsection Five, Iteration four, Codename, JOEd."
"Tutorial // Introduction"
">For ease of reading, I've decided to implement a color-coded header system. The color of the header for a section, subsection, or phase will be color-coded, in a manner that may or may not change every time it occurs, but always relates in some unspecified way to the content of the section."
">This Tutorial sector has been inserted here as it does not become relevant until this point."
">Due to the complexity of this system and the possibility of edge cases, This tutorial will often be updated. However, for posterity it is best you, dear reader, be aware of all past versions."
"> When a Tutorial//Introduction Update occurs or is thought up, the old version will be inserted at the current bottom of the document. This allows for relative chronology to be preserved in as unintuitive a manner as possible."
">>The Document in this case actually refers to my most recent relevant post, where relevancy is ill-defined."
">>Such insertions may occur in the middle of a sentence, paragraph, word, or other literary construct. Depending on memory, it is possible the argument will continue unabated, or that I will insert tarrying amounts of male cow excrement and pretend that's what I planned all along."
">>In retrospect, it may have been even more unintuitive to have the original be the newest, and the most recent version be the oldest- So that only the original text of the tutorial spontanously appears, and gradually is replaced with newer versions as other popups appear, requiring a greater quantity of analysis to discern the update changes."
">>>However, this would require additional work to maintain and a significant up-front cost to switch to."
">>>>>>Additionally, since the majority of the Tutorials are located in posts read long ago, the benefits would be sparse were the change implemented at this juncture."
">>When a Tutorial//Introduction is inserted, There will be a color-coded header of the gold-grey-gold-brown-gold-pink-cyan-variable color-cyan color sequence, unless I change my mind."
">>>I have already changed my mind at least once, but possibly more."
">>>At the end of the Introduction, there will be no header, as the header for the relevant section has already been shown, And it would be repetative. While lengthening the post is desired, doing so with repeated, copy-pasted text would surely be annoying to slog through, and not interesting nor convenient whatsoever."
">The Tutorial will separate sentences and ideas using right angle-brackets. These are located after each time the enter key was used, unless they aren't."
">Now then, what are the divisions I'm using? Well, a subsection is generally a single argument or paragraph, such as the Tactically initial summarization.
">A Section is a
">set of subsections which shares the same theme, such as Section one, which consists of all literal interpretations of Pionos initial request on discord. "
">A Phase is a larger combination of Sections which serve the same purpose, like Phase one, where I summarize my major, non-hidden arguments for any given point. "
">>It helps make the rest of the post more monotonous to read, raising the likelihood that Moniker will miss one of the hidden linchpins of an action, allowing me to extend the debate over multiple posts."
">>>>>The Phase-Section-Subsection listing at the beginning of every tutorial are nonsensical; their numbers are the position in the alphabet of the letters J, O, And E."
">>>>>> If I were to somehow reach phase ten, I would add 26 to each number, indicating capital. If I were to reach Phase thirty-six, I would simply stop... Hahahaha no I would add another 62 to indicate the question of bolding."
">>> which buys me time to lengthen my responses overall, thus making the entire process more enjoyable for everyone, which means Moniker has even more reasons to give me what I want"
">>>>>> after all, think of all the fun times he gets, free of charge!"
">>>>Posts. Given that this action is, in fact, an amalgamation of several seperate actions, and is powered by more then one actions-worth of action, It can be spread across multiple posts."
">>>>> This may occur for any number of reasons, Including but not limited to: reducing complexity, raising complexity, responding to current events, making it look like I should be responding to current events but not doing so, making jokes about this very concept, annoying the Godmodder, entertaining moniker, justifying another tutorial, Allowing someone else to make a post, surprising the Godmodder, being confusing, allowing for further jokes about the Tutorial through methods other then additional tutorials, being the last person to post, being the first to pass the post, complaining about internet problems, lengthening this particular list, and more."
">>>>>>The 'and more' is of course unnecessary due to that I already said 'including but not limited to'.
">>>>>> In addition, since this latest edit is five tribulations in the future, several parts of this description are no longer accurate, and furthermore I would like to motion for the formation of a committee to analyse whether or not the maintenance of the out-of-date tutorial is a form of penalty-worthy falsehood in light of its being out of date, or simply a historical relic for chronology preservation."
">>>>>This tutorial will also apply to indirectly-related uses of the post-phase-section-subsection-article system in other posts, and not just the original post in which case the original version appears. Some parts may not apply, see JObobobob for details."
">>>>>> Regardless of the number of updates that occur to the tutorial, the most up-to-date version will always be found ЛИНК; any pop-up is of the Previous version, and will not contain any mention of the cause for its updated state. To remain up-to-date, keep using this link!"
">>>>>As I have put this in another post, it gets 'Post x' added to its dividers. However, since there have been several posts in between this post and the previous post, I shall instead place the absolute value of the post number."
">>>>>>Additional sections beyond the point of time wherein I wrote this may or may not be completely unrelated to the rest of the post. Or they might tie into the rest of it in a way nobody could have guessed.
">>>> I intend to include this phase in all future posts of length greater then one computer monitor height."
">Subsections, Sections, and Phases will tend to be in a simple and intuitive ascending order, unless I don't feel like it."
">>One possible reason for Order changes from that of intuition is that, during the writing of a Phase one section or subsection, I might get too into the writing of the logic and arguing."
">>>This would result in an overly long subsection or section which clearly belongs in Phase two, possibly having its own articles (which are like subsections of a subsection)"
">>>>However, depending on the state of the post at the time, the time of day, what color the last non-cyan color was, whether I've scratched at my forhead recently, the state of my desk, what food is available, the price of a Popsicle, and the current chance of rain, the bloated subsection and its Articles may remain in its original position, resulting in a skip forwards in the attack, though the skipped text will be added, eventually."
">>>>Articles will be common in phase two and, if I get around to it, Phase three, due to Phase two being an expansion on all concepts introduced in Phase one."
"-Note about that."
"Well, that should be all the tutorials for a little, so let's get this post Started!"
"Phase one, section one, subsection one, article... oh, who am I kidding, I don't plan to be anywhere near that organized this time. dunworryaboutit."
"so hey the power lock that's a thing everyone seems to have decided against huh? Well, I don't really see why. Sure, players powers have downsides. if you use them to conjure things wholesale. But a smart player can avoid that by only conjuring kinetic energy or things that it's ok for them to stutter to a stop. Like, a single background-free no-context laser gun. Instead of a society. And... even if the creation stutters to a stop, what's wrong with that? It was probably good while it lasted, right? Well, I think so. And, without the power lock being constructed, I think I'll get the last laugh. anyway, the power locks primary morality issue is the claim that nobody deserves to have player powers except to kill the godmoddder with- a claim i vehemently oppose. Why only for killing the Godmodder? Why not for dealing with the shadow the Godmodder cast on the world? Why is the Godmodder worse then the misery of chance, of satan, of evucorp- of every failure there has been? Some players don't deserve player powers. For example, Hungry Visitor- oh don't look at me like that, he tortured infinity souls in his heyday. I think those are free or gone now, but... I don't know. Anyway. Some people, they don't deserve player powers. Some. people. Some do. I think I do, personally- by my own morality-one which does not give me primacy- I may very well be the most potent force for good in the war, by sheer dint of Bothering to make the eternal stasis machine a nice place to be. Just that, and I think it enough."
"Yes, even though I'm [N]. after a trillion years of good life in the simulation, I imagine all of the machines inhabitants would forgive me for any accidental slight, even if I were the one to kill them, which is only true for a tiny few."
"The power locks morality is, in my mind, not up for debate- but I doubt I could convince you with words, with your opinions on the matter so set in stone. Perhaps, yes, perhaps some players would, with their eternal power from the lock which i contest your contesting, create something bad. Like a real version of 1984. I've been reading it recently- not by choice, mind- and I would just like to say that it doesn't really make a lick of sense. I've got some things in particular to point out, but there's probably about five times as many later in the book, since I've read at most a fifth of it. First of all, the Minute of Hate. this is one part which really ought to require player powers to bring about, because- here's a quote, and if you don't think its odd, I don't know what's up with you:"
"The next moment a hideous, grinding screech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. It was a noise that set one's teeth on edge and bristled the hair at the back of one's neck. The Hate had started.
As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed onto the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience. The little sandy-haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear and disgust. Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago(...) had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counterrevolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The program of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Parties purity. All subsequent crimes against the Part, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. somewhere or the other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters; perhaps even- so it was occasionally rumored- in some hiding place in Oceania itself.--- Ech, there's too much, I'm skipping ahead here a few times----'Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. The self-satisfied sheeplike face on the screen, and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army behind it, were too much to be borne; besides, the sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically (...) In a lucid moment Winston found that he was shouting with the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung of his chair. The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretense was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's own will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.'."
"-Bolding mine. Thirty seconds or fewer of exposure to an expected and repetative stimulus, being invariably among all societies members capable of forcefully enraging them into physical action even should they be actively attempting to remain calm and avoid becoming angered and even with the physical action entirely futile. Purely audio-visual stimulus, too- no drugs or anything. 'The Party' has access to this power, and yet- it hasn't won? If you can force emotions in unwilling members should you not be able to brainwash them simply? Force the emotional equivalent of acceptance of your terms or statements onto them, perhaps. I won't go into that in detail, since I'm no burgeoning dictator (it would be rather immoral to become one, in my view), but it seems like it would be simple enough, if you can override your targets will at any moment."
"If I may digress in my analysis for a moment, I believe the presence of Godmodder Logic is similar to The Two Minute Hate. While there may not be a surface similarity, I can explain. The Two Minute Hate is an addition that, at my current vantage, appears to not have been fully thought out in terms of its implications and its conceptual difficulty- possible due to a difference between my perspective and Orwells, I suppose, given our different societies and such-but I digress on that. The Two Minute Hate seems insufficiently thought out from an internal-consistency perspective, and so seems Godmodder Logic, for it allows the deduction of the highly specific scenario of our attempting to escape and me trying to channel too much stuff through a dreamself to try to save morpheus through hiding him and whatever else happened, it was a while ago. Point is, just that I had a fading body there isn't enough to figure it out. It doesn't descriminate between what happened and, say, me trying to plead morpheus into not committing suicide, and then trying to keep him from doing it by force, or something. So, how does Godmodder logic work? I don't know how the Two Minute Hate can coherently be inserted into a 1984-world without giving The Party the power to just sorta... win... (it would be a great negotiation infoweapon and is probably some variety of memetic hazard, so they would be able to beat the other two countries or convert them.), but I know how Godmodder Logic can be coherently inserted. Simply put, it's not Logic, but rather a form of pseudo-autonomous, possibly passive or active, Godmodding-powered observation-focused scrying spell with a wide range and access to past data. Those sure are words, right? Well, I'll need to use more words in order to clarify what I mean, after a quick commmerciallllllll brrrreak!"
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"Uh... where was I? I forget. Hmmm... oh, that reminds me about the entomology of words. You see, 'hm' refers to considering something or being in thought, and hmmm- as defined by the great journal of the forgotten cactus beast dragon kings- is "to collect the aforementioned material". so, Knives hmmm would mean collecting all the knives in the vicinity. by interpolating the trend, 'hmm' would be something which is less severe, in terms of efforts and effects, then collection, but more severe then simply consideration. From there, we can conclude it refers to something which does involve doing something, but has effects smaller then relocation. refining or using would have more severe effects, so those are out. After a full consideration of factors, I believe the most consistent meaning would be something with an indirect effect... like, protecting. if you protect a material, you don't move or affect it initially, but if something else was going to affect it, it won't any more. so, "Hm" is consider, "Hmm" is protect, and "Hmmm" is collect- but what is Hmmmm? Hmmmm, as implied earlier, is when you actually make use of the afforementioned material. So, Rocks Hmmmm might indicate that you are throwing them as projectile weapons, or perhaps crafting them into tools if you're in minecraft- but I digress."
"The entire purpose of this complicated discussion is to fully elucidate upon my companians, compatriots, and competitor combatants my intended utilization of my limited resources with the purpose of producing possible potentialities into plausibility where the potential i intent to prevaricate my plan to produce by pontificating pointlessly for a perceptibly over-large period of time in order to protect my principal physical potential to produce the paramount preparations and productions of conjunctions for subjunctions about injunctions which functions to produce malfunctions and dysfunctions with no compunctions. in truth this previous sector is of rather low clarity and importance both, due to my intention of incidentally inducing unawareness of my intent,бут И шалл, ин тхе фуллнесс оф тиме, wхен тхе момент ис рипе, онце тхе препаратионс аре цомплете, ин а мост реасонабле анд реасонед маннер, wхен ит ис qуите цертаинлы тхе пропер момент, анд wхен алл хас беен саид анд доне, стате тхе аппроприателы аппарент планс wхич И професс И wилл потентиаллы нот провиде поинтед поинтерс провинг мы планс примары ресиденце ас ит ис qуите парамоунт фор тхеир плаусибилиты тхат тхеы бе примарилы предицатед он пассивелы имперцептибле портионс. то тхис енд ит wоулд бе бест то форм а цомитее wхич ин тхе фуллнесс оф тиме анд wхен тхе момент ис рипе цоме то а цонцлуссион wитх регардс то тхе еффицацы оф мы интентед проминенце процуремент планнинг то продуце а план wхич wилл бе мост реасонабле анд ундерстоод бы тхе реадер ас беинг ентирелы анд фуллы сатисфацторы фор тхе примары пурпосе оф продуцинг принципаллы перфецт мотионс wхич ис оф цоурсе тхе оптимал тхоугх нот нецессарилы ачиевабле оутцоме."
"in short, I yeet a notable quantity of a disk of matter from Gamma's neck into a gun, which- Say, that reminds me of a dream I had! You see, I was inside a house wherein i possessed an ability known as a domain. it had a power counter known as 'influence', measuring the power of my domain, And I could make anything happen in my domain as long as I had enough "influence", even if that anything didn't make sense, by saying what I wanted. Like, for example, I could make someone named steve die by saying 'Influence - Steve dies.' , or if I'm talking to them, 'Influence- you die.'. maybe even 'Influence- Death to steve'. It was more efficient to pick things like 'your neck vaporizes itself', though . Anyway, I just remembered what I was talking about before the commercial brea-
"Phase Ten, Section Fifteen, Subsection Five, Iteration four, Codename, JOEd."
"Tutorial // Introduction"
">For ease of reading, I've decided to implement a color-coded header system. The color of the header for a section, subsection, or phase will be color-coded, in a manner that may or may not change every time it occurs, but always relates in some unspecified way to the content of the section."
">This Tutorial sector has been inserted here as it does not become relevant until this point."
">Due to the complexity of this system and the possibility of edge cases, This tutorial will often be updated. However, for posterity it is best you, dear reader, be aware of all past versions."
"> When a Tutorial//Introduction Update occurs or is thought up, the old version will be inserted at the current bottom of the document. This allows for relative chronology to be preserved in as unintuitive a manner as possible."
">>The Document in this case actually refers to my most recent relevant post, where relevancy is ill-defined."
">>Such insertions may occur in the middle of a sentence, paragraph, word, or other literary construct. Depending on memory, it is possible the argument will continue unabated, or that I will insert tarrying amounts of male cow excrement and pretend that's what I planned all along."
">>In retrospect, it may have been even more unintuitive to have the original be the newest, and the most recent version be the oldest- So that only the original text of the tutorial spontanously appears, and gradually is replaced with newer versions as other popups appear, requiring a greater quantity of analysis to discern the update changes."
">>>However, this would require additional work to maintain and a significant up-front cost to switch to."
">>>>>>Additionally, since the majority of the Tutorials are located in posts read long ago, the benefits would be sparse were the change implemented at this juncture."
">>When a Tutorial//Introduction is inserted, There will be a color-coded header of the gold-grey-gold-brown-gold-pink-cyan-variable color-cyan color sequence, unless I change my mind."
">>>I have already changed my mind at least once, but possibly more."
">>>At the end of the Introduction, there will be no header, as the header for the relevant section has already been shown, And it would be repetative. While lengthening the post is desired, doing so with repeated, copy-pasted text would surely be annoying to slog through, and not interesting nor convenient whatsoever."
">The Tutorial will separate sentences and ideas using right angle-brackets. These are located after each time the enter key was used, unless they aren't."
">Now then, what are the divisions I'm using? Well, a subsection is generally a single argument or paragraph, such as the Tactically initial summarization.
">A Section is a
">set of subsections which shares the same theme, such as Section one, which consists of all literal interpretations of Pionos initial request on discord. "
">A Phase is a larger combination of Sections which serve the same purpose, like Phase one, where I summarize my major, non-hidden arguments for any given point. "
">>It helps make the rest of the post more monotonous to read, raising the likelihood that Moniker will miss one of the hidden linchpins of an action, allowing me to extend the debate over multiple posts."
">>>>>>>Other ways of making the post more monotonous or difficult to read include the use of simple ciphers, odd fonts, strange colors, or non-english languages."
">>>>>>>> These will generally be used sparingly if I possess a desire to be comprehended, which is not the case as of the edit that added this tutorial (which you can find by finding the tutorial where this showed up, and working one backwards, of course.)"
">>>>>The Phase-Section-Subsection listing at the beginning of every tutorial are nonsensical; their numbers are the position in the alphabet of the letters J, O, And E."
">>>>>> If I were to somehow reach phase ten, I would add 26 to each number, indicating capital. If I were to reach Phase thirty-six, I would simply stop... Hahahaha no I would add another 62 to indicate the question of bolding."
">>> which buys me time to lengthen my responses overall, thus making the entire process more enjoyable for everyone, which means Moniker has even more reasons to give me what I want"
">>>>>> after all, think of all the fun times he gets, free of charge!"
">>>>Posts. Given that this action is, in fact, an amalgamation of several seperate actions, and is powered by more then one actions-worth of action, It can be spread across multiple posts."
">>>>> This may occur for any number of reasons, Including but not limited to: reducing complexity, raising complexity, responding to current events, making it look like I should be responding to current events but not doing so, making jokes about this very concept, annoying the Godmodder, entertaining moniker, justifying another tutorial, Allowing someone else to make a post, surprising the Godmodder, being confusing, allowing for further jokes about the Tutorial through methods other then additional tutorials, being the last person to post, being the first to pass the post, complaining about internet problems, lengthening this particular list, and more."
">>>>>>The 'and more' is of course unnecessary due to that I already said 'including but not limited to'.
">>>>>> In addition, since this latest edit is five tribulations in the future, several parts of this description are no longer accurate, and furthermore I would like to motion for the formation of a committee to analyse whether or not the maintenance of the out-of-date tutorial is a form of penalty-worthy falsehood in light of its being out of date, or simply a historical relic for chronology preservation."
">>>>>This tutorial will also apply to indirectly-related uses of the post-phase-section-subsection-article system in other posts, and not just the original post in which case the original version appears. Some parts may not apply, see JObobobob for details."
">>>>>> Regardless of the number of updates that occur to the tutorial, the most up-to-date version will always be found ЛИНК; any pop-up is of the Previous version, and will not contain any mention of the cause for its updated state. To remain up-to-date, keep using this link!"
">>>>>As I have put this in another post, it gets 'Post x' added to its dividers. However, since there have been several posts in between this post and the previous post, I shall instead place the absolute value of the post number."
">>>>>>Additional sections beyond the point of time wherein I wrote this may or may not be completely unrelated to the rest of the post. Or they might tie into the rest of it in a way nobody could have guessed.
">>>> I intend to include this phase in all future posts of length greater then one computer monitor height."
">Subsections, Sections, and Phases will tend to be in a simple and intuitive ascending order, unless I don't feel like it."
">>One possible reason for Order changes from that of intuition is that, during the writing of a Phase one section or subsection, I might get too into the writing of the logic and arguing."
">>>This would result in an overly long subsection or section which clearly belongs in Phase two, possibly having its own articles (which are like subsections of a subsection)"
">>>>However, depending on the state of the post at the time, the time of day, what color the last non-cyan color was, whether I've scratched at my forhead recently, the state of my desk, what food is available, the price of a Popsicle, and the current chance of rain, the bloated subsection and its Articles may remain in its original position, resulting in a skip forwards in the attack, though the skipped text will be added, eventually."
">>>>Articles will be common in phase two and, if I get around to it, Phase three, due to Phase two being an expansion on all concepts introduced in Phase one.-ak!"
" I was talking about the similarities between Godmodder Logic at first glance and the Two Minute Hate on further analysis. This reminds me of that because my dream was similar. the Influence ability really ought to have been an instant-win ability- I had a rather large though indeterminate stack of points and knowledge of how to use the ability efficiently, and that's not even mentioning the utility of nanotech and so on. But, the dream- or, the part of me that thought the dream- or, reality itself, since player dreams are generally Prophetic dreams- hadn't considered those implications. Not even the simple 'make someone dead by force' one. So, soon enough, I ran into someone who was immune to death."
"Also, to having their limbs cut off, their eyes sewed shut, and a disk of their neck removed. The only thing they weren't immune to was nulling their senses to run. Anyway point is this is a pretty common problem and uhhhhh right I was explaining how to coherently integrate Godmodder Logic into a world where the Godmodder hadn't instantly one well thennnnnn"
"like i said before,"
"Which means that Godmodder Logic isn't a mental algorithm the Godmodder follows. Instead, the Godmodder- possibly without conciously trying to do so as a result of his nature as the Godmodder, and without needing to be able to react in time- possibly even without being able to actually turn it off, just ignore it- "scrys" the area surrounding a specific focus using his godmodding. A scrying focus is generally an object which bears the brunt of the ability and is related, though not Only, to the subject of the Spell, which somehow makes it work better. So, Godmodder Logic possibly uses the Godmodders own observation of things as a focus to do the scrying; The Godmodders observation is related to what he's looking at, after all- and indirectly related to whatever the thing he's looking at is related to. Using his observation of things as a Focus, the Godmodders Scrying Spell 'logic' finds a large amount of information- scrying being a form of a magical observation which can search for people or objects on vague descriptions, and either give you information about them or a live feed- including Past information. That is, the pseudospell is probably capable of either magically looking into the past similarly to one of somno's abilities, or somehow processing the immense amount of data and winding back the clock of physics to find a sort of causal shadow any absent beings cast upon the air and substance of an area, and then using contextual information to fill in the gaps."
"Obviously, Godmodding-powers implies that it makes use of the Godmodder as a power source (and possibly a way of retroactively being capable of circumventing any counters made against it, as a godmodder would), Wide Range means that it doesn't have a problem with the subjects of the scry fleeing unless it's been a long time and they ran far, and "it's not logic" means its not logic."
"Since I've finished that section I should move on to other languages. You see, alpha, beta, and gamma are greek letters, and we face them in combat. well, not necessarily we. I wouldn't be fighting if they just left me alone but one of them already tried to kill me. twice? I'm not sure. Anyway. Alpha, Beta, Gamma are greek, yes, but they are not the only set of A, B, G letters. For example, Aleph Bet Gimel (Daled, Hei, Vav). Similarly, in greek, the sequence is Alpha, beta, gamma, delta... etcetr-a. The point being here that Delta sounds like a good name for something just as important as the 3 Unsealed Sealers. Now, while my choice for what to refer to may be met with a notable quantity of displeasure, distrust, disagreement, disbelief, and even some words that don't start with 'D', like... annoyance!, I believe that in the long view of the future after this godmodding war concludes, it will be among the most important creations throughout it."
"my Second Body. you see, while most players will likely revert to baseline humans upon the loss of their player powers, my second body is optimized to function without them and be useful anyway. It's a powerhouse of collected technology and mundane capabilities based in systems aside from player powers, at least, compared to other mundane beings. In addition, due to the absence of such player-power style abilities when all is said and done, it will be capable of far more then the average inhabitant. Even leaving aside the benefits of rational debate (which really deserve their own post of clarification), Delta will be a quite important addition and allow for the Eventually saving of most of reality from badness. Except all the parts that are lost before I can get to them due to the short-sightedness of the anti-power-lock lobbyists. While my forward-thinking nature shall put me quite ahead of the other players (especially with my powers of rational debate), I still would much prefer a higher level of objective power. Power has meaning seperately from whether you can force everyone to listen to you, after all; the power to conjure everything you want for a life of luxury is a power even if you can't force anyone to tend to your grounds for you with it."
" Imagine, if you will, a Godmodder who became a very specific flavour of tyrant. One which hid from the world, and never attacked any of its planets... but let me tell you a story."
"First, there was nothing.
Then, there was a banana.
Great chunks flew from the sky, and slammed into the bottom of the Blender. The Blender was reality.
Slowly, life evolved. There was a quiet bubbling, popping, flowing sound from outside of it, but it was calm. Life evolved, slowly. land life, with no fluid for oceans.
Then, a massive Can crashed from the sky, cutting into bananas. Those on the top layers were fearful. those on the bottom, confused, but safe. truly, only a fraction died, but this was the first sign from the gods since life evolved.
Slowly, white goop dripped down from the Can's interior. It was life-giving. nutritious. The Inhabitants drank from it. Life was good.
Some hypothesized existance beyond the blender. There was no evidence. Others thought in the depths of The Can would be salvation. They explored it.
The Can was brought into the sky. A four-pronged wall of metal swept through it regularly, sweeping off what remained of the goop within and pouring it into something beyond. Many died. Some past explorers, now trying to survive, ducked into hills the Wall glided over. Fewer reached the edge.
Only one managed to reach the blender, speaking of the outer world they'd seen, The Wall, everything. There was a time of peace, for thousands of perceptual days. generations passed. Primitive ocean Life evolved in the streams. Great Thinkers knew of the Metal Blades attached to the base of the Land of the Blender. Were they, too, designed to scour a land of its fluid and life? But those the Explorer spoke of were four-pronged... What was the meaning of life, others wondered, if there are such weapons to scour it? The Explorer must have simply been mad, They reasoned. Who would bother?
There was a Grand Flood. the Nutritious fluid poured from above in a steady spout, drowning land after land of bananas. Only the very highest were spared.
This was viewed as a lesson from the Progenitor that things are unpredictable, as the last two cullings struck only the highest and loftiest. At least, by those that survived. There was a time.
The sea life at the bottom of the World saw a shift. It turned black. Those atop the bananas saw as well, a shell of black atop the Land of the Blender.
Then, there was a thunderous click, or snap, or whatnot, and the Blades beneath the land began to churn, to spin, to swirl. Every Banana was buried in a tide of swirling fluid. Only sea life (and pictograms at the Blenders walls to tell the tale) remained, and of those, only the ones who stayed high. There were no landmasses left. Only a Vast Ocean. Sea life Thrived.
The black ceiling disappeared, but not the floor. more of the Nutritious white fluid sprinkled from the sky- seen as an apology by God for the devastation. Some called it too little, too late. Others thought they should be thankful for even this much, given their insignificance. Others did not think. They were too stupid for that.
There were long years of nothing. A somewhat high-pitched sound in the background, but soon it was a constant. Sea Life grew more adapted to the status quo. smarter.
Then great chunks of frozen material fell from the sky. Blue, Red, even black, bulbous lumps fell. They Floated on the worlds Oceans. Land life began to evolve again on these Berry islands.
There was a time, and then cracking for years, then a snap for but one, then a pause. Then, great yellow-orange chunks fell from the sky. The Mangos, in truth, changed little. But life did spread, to them as well. Where there is potential, it goes.
Then a black shell covered the sky. The Saviest Scholar of the Land had read the pictographs, and understood them somewhat. He thought the time had come for a Cataclysm. But one of Blades or Sky? Reasoning the Sky was blocked, he traveled to the Mango Layers for safety. Sadly, he was of a Land-bound species. So he climbed. He reached the top, and just in time. The Rumbling started with a click, and the water churned. The Waters species died in droves, then adapted. The Berry isles largely were sucked into the ensuing whirlpool. The Mango Layers, however, simply shook back and forth with vigour, slamming into the walls of the Blender. Some thought it would dent. It did not.
The Mangos too fell, soon enough, But Four remained. The thickness of the newest Iteration of the Seas meant one was actually surrounded by curved walls of water on all sizes. The Scholar had fallen. A disciple of his had not. The pause was seen as mercy.
How wrong they were.
Years later, there was yet another Cataclysm. The Blades began, and did not stop. In fact, they ramped up in intensity, then decreased, and increased again! dark rivers formed. It seemed clear this was a different, less level-headed Deity. then it was stopped. and it began oncemore! more violent then ever, the fluid swirled.
And then it was over. the shell vanished. people thought they were safe!
but they weren't.
The goop pours out into other containers. little is left within the blender, but people assume they're safe. It is millenia. Tens of millenia. Maybe hundreds.
Then they all get eaten.
"Were a Godmodder to enforce this tale upon their dinner, who would be the wiser? Nobody. it is Tiny, and the relevant Godmodder wouldn't even feature in it. Nobody would notice the tormented blender lives, and the tormented would view their fall as natural disasters, perhaps. being Godmodder constructs, they may even have been incapable of becoming players. And yet. And Yet."
"Would this Godmodder not be more terrible then many before them? For every dinner they ate, untold trillions would die. all unsung, for they were tiny, and nobody the wiser. The Godmodder would need precious little power for this, for a single player could do so just as well in a side note. I have not done so. I speak only of the possibility, to emphasise- It would be better for us all to have more power, for while it could be easily used for great evil, it could be just as easily used as a force of good. And this is a quality seldom shared by other sources."
"Player powers can summon an entity just as easily as destroy one, heal as readily as they harm. and yet, to quote HPMOR..."
"Destruction is always easier than creation. Easier to tear things apart, to disrupt, than to put them back together again. If I have the potential to accomplish good on a massive scale, I must also have the potential to accomplish still greater evil... But I won't do that."
"And yet, we are the exception. Player powers are the exception. The Godmodder is an exemplification of this trend, due to the inherent corruption of Godmodding, but players do not need to be able to destroy more easily then create. Even a novice, a weak player, can hold off a more dedicated one through the power of Attack Shields, of which three actions worth will block three actions. Player powers are, if anything, among the safest powers, for simply not being so biased."
"moving on, the globglogabgalab is a fascinating amalgamation of language. They love books, you know. Now, to a simple mind they may appear to speak nonsense, but the first two lines, I have already decoded... the first two ones below 'treasure trove', I mean.
"They are the globglogabgalab- that's just their name, nothing odd there. But they are also the shwabledauble, waublegauble, flibberblaublebub! now, what does this mean? I've afraid I've lost track of my notes on the subject, but flibber is a word for home, so flibberblaublebub is means they are the home of the blaublebub. So, the globglogabgalab has some form of parasite. also, either shwabledauble or waublegauble is similar to the name of a heroic pilot of some plane and the other one includes a type of bicycle tire, meaning both indicate the Globglogabgalab as being significantly better-equipped for movement then he appears, and possibly capable of flight. From here, we can move on to their being 'Full of Shwibleglibberkind' and 'the yeast of thoughts and minds'. Yeast makes things rise, so they make thoughts and minds rise. Shwibleglibberkind, from here, can be assumed to be a particular yeast-like substance, which may be part of how the globglogabgalab is able to move around deceptively quickly- the rising-effect of Shwibbleglibberkind could be neutralizing the mass of their massive bulk. Sadly, however, there is no clear subject for any of the remaining lines of the globglogabgalab song, meaning that I cannot continue to extrapolate specific meanings, so I think I'll move on to IAMTHATIAM- a being which doesn't exist. there was this one thing called 'Destroy ME' which was actually run by a guy who also doesn't exist, anyway. After the conclusion of Destroy ME, the guy who doesn't exist didn't say 'I AM THAT I AM. I do what I must because I can'. something about this phrase has stuck with me, and I've decided to take a moment to analyze what it really means. The being 'I' has some things that they have to do. They do these things. But why? because they can; Not because they must. this suggests 'Must' is not being used as 'cannot avoid doing', but rather as 'if I don't do it i'll die' or something. So, that I AM THAT I AM, assuming I AM THAT I AM is being treated as synonomous to the second phrase, implies someone who is exceptionally uncaring of their death, and very daring. When asked 'Why did you do [thing]', The answer is not 'because I had to' but rather 'because I Could', which reminds me of undertale and sans because at some point he says 'but because you can. And because you can, you have to.'. I wonder how common that kind of sentiment is? doing something because you can, and for no grander or other reason? but even if that sentiment is common, doing something when not doing it would kill you, and yet doing it just because you could... That, I think, would be a much rarer sentiment. Now, i figure I should mention- what I'm actually going to do to Gamma. See, I'm going to give him a hug made of salads. This is going to confuse him so much, he'll retroactively not have stabbed me. That is, of course, a paradox, because if he hadn't stabbed me, I wouldn't be writing this or giving him the hug. Since it causes a parasocks, I can take that parasocks. while Gamma's still busy trying to shake off all the salad bits (I made sure to include fruit in the salad, especially gooey ones, so it's going to take ages to get it all dry-cleaned), I put on those socks, and this allows me to finally put on some shoes. You see, in this fight, it's implausible for my shoes to really survive any length of time unless they're durable. Durable shoes are possible, but durable socks aren't. socks have to be flexible. So, I need something that won't get broken for my socks, before I can put on some proper shoes. After a long time of trying to find them, I've finally gotten myself some Parasocks, and as soon as this round ends it becomes an unresolvable parasocks, since it'll be too late to justify me doing this without neutralizing the justification. this makes the Parasocks indestructible, making them durable enough for me to put on some shoes, which i've been trying to do the entire war"
"Yep, definitely."
"Now, remember the Truth About JOEbob? Well, that guy who was yelling 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA' reminds me of another story which didn't happen. In it, there was a guy called AAaaa, AA aa AAA, Aaaa aaaa. They were known for yelling. Their strategy for everything in life, in fact, was 'Initiate Screaming'. they screamed louder then a dog and so loud reality exhausted itself and accepted their dominance. And that person? who doesn't exist? was also me. because I'm a multifaceted sort. While I do of course understand the impressive powers of rational debate (and they are an immutable fallback), I also recognize the advantages possessed by being unpredictable, such as an increased ability to avoid other people properly understanding what your plans are which is of course the entire purpose of this post, which I've color-coded to make it weirder. But I digress; My plans post-game are more important. As soon as all player powers drain away completely, I intend to make use of the nanofactories embeded in my second body (which, if I neglected to mention them, I shall of course use the power of rational debate to argue into retroactive existence, due to the obvious utility of nanotech over most other things of the minimum scale to add them.) in order to take over the remnants of many of the non-populated planes (and the lava the Godmodder left behind. From a truly adult perspective, it's a pile of useful materials that just so happens to be on fire). Having not harmed anyone due to those planes being Non-populated, I will have gained a significant power base in non-reality-warping capabilities, which I will use for the primarily benign purpose of slowly taking over all reality and ending Death. Also, ending badness. This is because badness and death are bad, and if I can stop them (Which will be trivial with a combination of rational debate and nanotech), i should, if I conceive myself as a moral person, which I do. One section I will especially focus on taking over is the Anti-JOEbob facilities, because having an army fighting me every step is inconvenient, and honestly, I don't understand why they so despise me. After all, my brethren were a godmodder of long life but relatively low power for a time, followed by a 'normal' human which took over, what, one planet? Total? That's miniscule on this multiversal scale. In order to defeat the Anti-JOEbob facilities, I will lead with a proof of my status as the conceptual heritage of AAaaa guy, shaking their resolve, and use this gap in their mental preparedness to convince them of the moral righteousness of my plans. Furthermore, I will add nanotech to their bases and consume them while they are fighting the obvious threat and/or agreeing with my righteous righteousness. This leaves a few possibilities. Possibility one, they ignore me completely to defend their bases, in which case they've let me win the argument, so I win. possibility two, they listen to me, are not convinced, but leave their bases alone long enough for the nanotech to eat, in which case they don't have resources, and so I win. Possibility three, they listen to me, are convinced, and I eat their bases, so they're on my side, and I win. Possibility four, they are incapable of being convinced and skillful at rational debate, in which case I debate them for a time, which will be an enjoyable passtime on the path to taking over the universe, and I eat their base, so they have no resources, and I win. Possibility five, they run to save their base while yelling counterarguments over their shoulders, in which case they will preform poorly both at arguing me and defending their base, leading to a significant loss of resources on their end, an amusing passtime for me, and my winning the argument, so I win. As you can see, I've planned a flawless Xanthos Gambit. Except, mines better. Let's call it a JOEbob Gambit, to make it clear unequivocally how superior it is to the standard variety...
"This is now complete. In conclusion, I do the thing I said earlier that I'd do."
"Why did I make this post? Not because I had to, but because I could. So I did."
[1x]Having done all that, I summon Gamma over to me so I can shake his hand and pat him on the back for being so clever. having done that, which isn't an action since it does nothing, I Delta Hmm, Gamma Knives Hmmm, Delta Gamma Hm, Knives doubleplusHm, Knives Hmmmm Delta. And, if that doesn't work, I plusHmm Gamma, then doubleplusunHmm them.
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Crusher's orders are followed.
Crusher's orders are followed.
Ranger_Strider_
The one who does lots of Striding
I am a man who follows the orders of crusher.
The man in MTF uniform grins. "As they say: Logic out of illogic."
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She/Her
I decide to start driving my car around Gamma without hitting him. I do all kinds of tricks: wheelies, donuts, upside-down roof sliding...
And I don't hit Gamma. I'm trying to show off to him, and you can't very well show off to a dead man.
And I don't hit Gamma. I'm trying to show off to him, and you can't very well show off to a dead man.
pionoplayer
The Destroyer
MUAHAHAHAHA YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD!
My callback was to...
Let's take a look shall we?
Beta attempts to stab me, but thanks to the MAGIC OF INVISITEXT, instead stabs the highly explosive DECOY DUMMY I prepared two rounds ago and then kicked into Alpha without detonating.
Because of the shared HP this deals massive damage to Gamma instead!
FOCUS ACTION:
While Gamma is still reeling from the explosion damage dealt through Beta, I snap his neck. You should've kept a better eye on me fool.
"You know for a trio on the verge of death that just finished taking oodles of damage THROUGH the sealing you'd think that you three would be a little less pointlessly cocky. Enjoy dying. Or don't, not really my concern either way I suppose."
My callback was to...
Let's take a look shall we?
Beta attempts to stab me, but thanks to the MAGIC OF INVISITEXT, instead stabs the highly explosive DECOY DUMMY I prepared two rounds ago and then kicked into Alpha without detonating.
Because of the shared HP this deals massive damage to Gamma instead!
FOCUS ACTION:
While Gamma is still reeling from the explosion damage dealt through Beta, I snap his neck. You should've kept a better eye on me fool.
"You know for a trio on the verge of death that just finished taking oodles of damage THROUGH the sealing you'd think that you three would be a little less pointlessly cocky. Enjoy dying. Or don't, not really my concern either way I suppose."
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The quiet watcher
Verified Old One
The quiet watcher smiles as he feels the knife in his back. He'd explicitly chosen to do nothing earlier for this sole purpose, as unlike the others, he had a move that was guaranteed to work in this state due solely to how the sealing effect worked.
His stand, [MINOR MINNIE], activated its Requiem power. As explicitly mentioned during the fourth trial, it's requiem ability was to amplify the gravity around an allied target's heart within its targeting range to over 10,000 times the normal gravity, instantly obliterating it and killing the unfortunate victim no matter what, as stated by the Moniker. However, due to the sealing effect, it must now find a completely different target, one not a member of the players. A target like Gamma, who had been standing too close to him after he'd been sealed.
His stand, [MINOR MINNIE], activated its Requiem power. As explicitly mentioned during the fourth trial, it's requiem ability was to amplify the gravity around an allied target's heart within its targeting range to over 10,000 times the normal gravity, instantly obliterating it and killing the unfortunate victim no matter what, as stated by the Moniker. However, due to the sealing effect, it must now find a completely different target, one not a member of the players. A target like Gamma, who had been standing too close to him after he'd been sealed.
Exoskeletal65
Guardian of Time
He/Him
All actions:
I follow Crusher's orders.
I follow Crusher's orders.
I'll follow Crusher's Orders to the letter. (3 CP)
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I blink. I blink harder. I blink hardest of all.
"You... you're not going to try and save yourselves?" I murmur. "You're just going to lie down and die?"
Something inside of me snaps, and I Unleash all three of my Actions on the trio.
"I WILL SAVE YOU FROM YOUR OWN DEATHS WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!!!!!!"
"You... you're not going to try and save yourselves?" I murmur. "You're just going to lie down and die?"
Something inside of me snaps, and I Unleash all three of my Actions on the trio.
"I WILL SAVE YOU FROM YOUR OWN DEATHS WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!!!!!!"
"Well I'm fresh out of ideas." ES admits. "I mean I should be able to come up with some kind of new gambit but I sorta blew my inspiration load. Amelia?" She shook her head. "Well then. Want to tell a story? These fine folks don't know much about us other than hints, so while I recharge the ol' thinking juice we may as well give them a tale. Make it an action too, see what happens. It'll be a data point if nothing else."
FOCUSED ACTION - HISTORY
"Of course, sir." Amelia nods. "Let us make this swift and efficient. First of all, myself. I was born in the Plane of Zombie Apocalypses. Roughly the size of a medium continent, such as Earth's North America, it was cyclical in nature. We are unsure how it began, but at the beginning of a cycle a new civilisation is brought to its knees by an outbreak of zombies, and various phases are then gone through by rote. The initial collapse, initial rebuilding, long term rebuilding, and finally the elimination of the zombies via cure, military force, or simple time. This entire process could take generations, or the third phase could be skipped entirely as it takes a mere handful of years, or theoretically even months. Once the undead are destroyed, a band of survivors finds a cache of hypertechnology. This cache allows for flash cloning and construction of early 21st century cities in mere weeks with construction nanite swarms. However, it is a poisoned pill. Those same nanites will cause a successful zombie outbreak after a few years, and the cycle repeats. It was not known in the Plane that this is the case, as I only learned this via atemporal analysis using Player powers in down-time earlier during the conflict. I am not a flash clone, but rather was born in a very late rebuilt society as part of a century long cycle that saw the last zombies defeated with strength of arms. I then lived a few years in the new society, before being caught in the middle of the next cycle. I was infected, alone, and surrounded."
"That's where I come into the picture, but let's rewind. I'm not from Earth Prime either, I'm from the Plane of... I don't know, Interplanetary Cyberpunk? It's not really that simple though. It's an alternate Earth of the early 23rd century, about two hundred years from where Earth Prime is now. I'm not from the future though. Well, I am, but not from an objective standpoint. My plane is just further along. Anyway, long story short, technology advanced much faster from the 19th century onward. Actually, knowing how long he was around, I think that might have been Verrad trying to accelerate things and fund a proxy war, probably because he figured conquering a full Earth was too many players. Actually no, that would explain a lot. Huh.
Either way, long story short, a superpowered British Empire leads to a very weird 20th century that ends in, uh, it's complicated to explain to Primers, but basically imagine the Cold War, but with a pan-asian communist league winning out in Europe and marginalising, but not dismantling, the USA. Again, complicated, but if I had to summarise I'd blame the French for that.
So more long story, two centuries later Mars is colonised en mass and it's a cyberpunk hellscape, blame the Americans for that. Them getting exclusive access to space over the commies was definitely Verrad's fault, and I should know because that's where I come in. This was very recently and thus after he, as we now know, shifted tactics to trying to get the Set of Seven. Nevertheless, that didn't mean he would just let other Planes go to waste. After all, they could be a source of hiding places for the Set if he needed, and recruiting grounds for allies for the First Tribulation... or competent Players, which was also good for him as it turned out. Anyway, as I was saying, there was some weird conspiracy going on that I, revolutionary mastermind and hero of the people, noticed after, uh. The revolution. Yeah I kinda skipped the revolution to make things Not Cyberpunk, but if we covered all my glorious victories we'd be here all day. Full disclosure, I may not have had that much to do with it, really. But still. I did discover some weird goings on, and encountered a weirder robot. It was probably only some 1000 HP 500 Attack "who cares" throwaway Entity, but whatever its stats I was a lowly human and was thus about to get incinerated.
Then Player Powers kicked in. Maybe the Godmodder was passing through for a defence, attack, or just plain check-up, but I had superpowers. Not that I understood it at the time, I just thought the robot wasn't proof against sidearm bullets and I got a lucky shot. The extent of the issue only became clear as I looked in further and found indescribable technologies, including more robots.
I spent some time clearing house and setting up an interplanar drive on an orbital superfortress I, ah, commandeered once I figured out that's what I needed to do. Naturally, the powers faded after a while, but I'd accidentally made the drive a proper Entity, so it kept functioning, at least while I was around to use it. I went on a couple of adventures, mostly irrelevant, but two stand out. One, I got this sweet sword that's genuinely a legendary weapon. Sadly, lower case. I'd gotten a whiff that legendary weapons were somehow relevant, but I didn't at that point figure out what that actually meant, more's the pity. Two, I went to the Plane of Zombie Apocalypses on a hunt and ended up saving a certain innocent woman."
"He descended from the heavens with steel and fire. And a lot of smug arrogance." Amelia neutrally said.
"It was extremely sick." ES added, or maybe countered.
"From then on, I decided to help him out as a military aide on his quest. It was the least I could do, having been saved from certain death."
"Yeah and it was a sick save." ES once again added. "Anyway, after that I did a bit more stuff nobody cares about, because while I was extremely awesome you all already know that, before I ended up arriving at the centre of it all in the Plane of the Full Universe. Earth Prime. Where a fair few of you probably come from, where the Godmodder mostly was, and where I died. I picked a terrible time to show up, because this was in the middle of the Charmzard debacle. As some of you may remember, I kinda showed up, helped stabilise the situation, and then died super hard. It was extremely unfair, but oh well, I was just that much of a priority target. And nobody question that."
"I also died. It was very scary, being vaporised by a huge laser."
"But obviously that wasn't the end. I showed up on the scene in the Hexagonafield with my memories wiped, and knew the Godmodder was pretty serious business but not in what way. I decided to have some fun and see how life was like from the side of the Evil Lieutenant, and then obviously the rest is history for those of you who have been around long enough."
"Any questions?" Amelia asked.
FOCUSED ACTION - HISTORY
"Of course, sir." Amelia nods. "Let us make this swift and efficient. First of all, myself. I was born in the Plane of Zombie Apocalypses. Roughly the size of a medium continent, such as Earth's North America, it was cyclical in nature. We are unsure how it began, but at the beginning of a cycle a new civilisation is brought to its knees by an outbreak of zombies, and various phases are then gone through by rote. The initial collapse, initial rebuilding, long term rebuilding, and finally the elimination of the zombies via cure, military force, or simple time. This entire process could take generations, or the third phase could be skipped entirely as it takes a mere handful of years, or theoretically even months. Once the undead are destroyed, a band of survivors finds a cache of hypertechnology. This cache allows for flash cloning and construction of early 21st century cities in mere weeks with construction nanite swarms. However, it is a poisoned pill. Those same nanites will cause a successful zombie outbreak after a few years, and the cycle repeats. It was not known in the Plane that this is the case, as I only learned this via atemporal analysis using Player powers in down-time earlier during the conflict. I am not a flash clone, but rather was born in a very late rebuilt society as part of a century long cycle that saw the last zombies defeated with strength of arms. I then lived a few years in the new society, before being caught in the middle of the next cycle. I was infected, alone, and surrounded."
"That's where I come into the picture, but let's rewind. I'm not from Earth Prime either, I'm from the Plane of... I don't know, Interplanetary Cyberpunk? It's not really that simple though. It's an alternate Earth of the early 23rd century, about two hundred years from where Earth Prime is now. I'm not from the future though. Well, I am, but not from an objective standpoint. My plane is just further along. Anyway, long story short, technology advanced much faster from the 19th century onward. Actually, knowing how long he was around, I think that might have been Verrad trying to accelerate things and fund a proxy war, probably because he figured conquering a full Earth was too many players. Actually no, that would explain a lot. Huh.
Either way, long story short, a superpowered British Empire leads to a very weird 20th century that ends in, uh, it's complicated to explain to Primers, but basically imagine the Cold War, but with a pan-asian communist league winning out in Europe and marginalising, but not dismantling, the USA. Again, complicated, but if I had to summarise I'd blame the French for that.
So more long story, two centuries later Mars is colonised en mass and it's a cyberpunk hellscape, blame the Americans for that. Them getting exclusive access to space over the commies was definitely Verrad's fault, and I should know because that's where I come in. This was very recently and thus after he, as we now know, shifted tactics to trying to get the Set of Seven. Nevertheless, that didn't mean he would just let other Planes go to waste. After all, they could be a source of hiding places for the Set if he needed, and recruiting grounds for allies for the First Tribulation... or competent Players, which was also good for him as it turned out. Anyway, as I was saying, there was some weird conspiracy going on that I, revolutionary mastermind and hero of the people, noticed after, uh. The revolution. Yeah I kinda skipped the revolution to make things Not Cyberpunk, but if we covered all my glorious victories we'd be here all day. Full disclosure, I may not have had that much to do with it, really. But still. I did discover some weird goings on, and encountered a weirder robot. It was probably only some 1000 HP 500 Attack "who cares" throwaway Entity, but whatever its stats I was a lowly human and was thus about to get incinerated.
Then Player Powers kicked in. Maybe the Godmodder was passing through for a defence, attack, or just plain check-up, but I had superpowers. Not that I understood it at the time, I just thought the robot wasn't proof against sidearm bullets and I got a lucky shot. The extent of the issue only became clear as I looked in further and found indescribable technologies, including more robots.
I spent some time clearing house and setting up an interplanar drive on an orbital superfortress I, ah, commandeered once I figured out that's what I needed to do. Naturally, the powers faded after a while, but I'd accidentally made the drive a proper Entity, so it kept functioning, at least while I was around to use it. I went on a couple of adventures, mostly irrelevant, but two stand out. One, I got this sweet sword that's genuinely a legendary weapon. Sadly, lower case. I'd gotten a whiff that legendary weapons were somehow relevant, but I didn't at that point figure out what that actually meant, more's the pity. Two, I went to the Plane of Zombie Apocalypses on a hunt and ended up saving a certain innocent woman."
"He descended from the heavens with steel and fire. And a lot of smug arrogance." Amelia neutrally said.
"It was extremely sick." ES added, or maybe countered.
"From then on, I decided to help him out as a military aide on his quest. It was the least I could do, having been saved from certain death."
"Yeah and it was a sick save." ES once again added. "Anyway, after that I did a bit more stuff nobody cares about, because while I was extremely awesome you all already know that, before I ended up arriving at the centre of it all in the Plane of the Full Universe. Earth Prime. Where a fair few of you probably come from, where the Godmodder mostly was, and where I died. I picked a terrible time to show up, because this was in the middle of the Charmzard debacle. As some of you may remember, I kinda showed up, helped stabilise the situation, and then died super hard. It was extremely unfair, but oh well, I was just that much of a priority target. And nobody question that."
"I also died. It was very scary, being vaporised by a huge laser."
"But obviously that wasn't the end. I showed up on the scene in the Hexagonafield with my memories wiped, and knew the Godmodder was pretty serious business but not in what way. I decided to have some fun and see how life was like from the side of the Evil Lieutenant, and then obviously the rest is history for those of you who have been around long enough."
"Any questions?" Amelia asked.
Another 3 actions is used to prepare myself. The gun starts whirring as I dual wield it with my sword. The inside of the barrel sheens a great light as I take a stance in front of gamma. Pressure starts building as my stance exudes the aura of anime, building up a small layer of plot armor, not large enough to matter much, but still able to influence the tide of battle. I await my opponents next move. (If they attack, I counter with all of my prep actions in an epic anime battle sequence. If they don't, I continue my preparations)
Paradoxdragonpaci
Schrödinger’s Dragon
(x1)Shrek 2 is...a good movie isn't it ?? I'm personally a fan.Thus I show them Shrek 2.
(x1)everyone is so glum to be sealed, let's have a tickle party !!
(x1)I reluctantly follow Crusher's Orders
(x1)everyone is so glum to be sealed, let's have a tickle party !!
(x1)I reluctantly follow Crusher's Orders