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One crazy thing about Red Jacket

is that we have Lupin marrying not-Onassis in one episode, and courting/fighting the crime ring of not-Jackie K a few episodes later.

Two questions come to mind :

are these isolated incidents, or was Lupin trying to woo the entire Jet-Set one person at a time ?

and was, like in those two episodes, Jigen sulking and making passive-agressive remarks the whole time ? :D

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Very nice ! And so true that pure espers are powerful but sooo fragile (I currently play a relic-induced glimmer chimera, and Ptoh's hunters can't understand what befalls them)

The Esper's Last Apprentice: Prologue

A story set in the Caves of Qud universe

The Sunderlies Northwest of the Great Salt Desert Moghra'yi Jeweled Dusk of the Ides of Uru Ux, 1000 AR

Yyushur, the Quasar Mind, Slayer of the Rukhs of Ptoh and Sunderer of Space and Minds sits at the campfire with her apprentice. Her frail frame shivers in the cold night despite the fire. True Espers always tended toward frailty of the body, for all of their energy went into honing their psychic powers.

"Young one. You are not of the chrome-adulterated True Kin, nor the tangle-limbed Chimeras, nor the glimmer-plagued Espers. Many shall underestimate you for that. I see within you a great potential, however. Although you will never be able to Become as the True Kin do, you still have the potential to be formidable in both mind and body. Your mind has the spark, and your body shows signs of changing."

The apprentice listens patiently to her mentor as she eats her vinewafer porridge and cured dawnglider. Yyushur was always long-winded.

"You shall become much more powerful even than I. It is for that reason that we shall cross Moghra'yi and make for Joppa in the salt marshes of Qud."

The apprentice furrows her brow.

"Why not the Six Day Stilt? It's much closer."

Yyushur shakes her head.

"We have little to trade and less to gain there. We must merely pass it by as we make for Joppa, which is surrounded by many things we may find and hunt to trade for freshwater. Perhaps when we have more, we may stop at the Six Day Stilt."

"Won't we get lost in the desert, master Yyushur?"

"Lost? No. When we reach the desert proper, you shall be able to see the Spindle. From Moghra'yi, it appears as nothing but a fine chrome filament that reaches from the ground to beyond the sky, but it is still visible. If we make for the Spindle from here, we shall arrive at the Six Day Stilt. But we must not tarry there. We will go south by southeast from there and arrive in the salt marshes. There, we shall see Red Rock. Two parasangs due south of Red Rock is Joppa."

"But Red Rock is infested with aggressive baboons!"

"It is. But we shall give it a wide berth. I do not wish to kill anything if I don't have to. Now get some rest. We have many days of travel ahead of us."

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Joke aside, it is worth reminding that the Gyre Wights (in their actual incarnation, the old glow-wights were less defined) are probably, in their way, trying to get in the "not eaten by the Girsh" list (and for the most part, failing miserably because they only have one mouth and can't equip enough girshling fangs). It's hinted at by the 2nd edition of From entropy to hierarchy (where celebrated political scientist Q Girl revises her first draft on their subject).

A high-level chimera following the Gyre Wight method can, after all, easily equip six or eight fangs, get in range to discuss politely with the Nephilim, and end the Gyre for everyone else :)

'I never thought nephilim would eat MY young,' sobs gyre wight who voted for the Nephilim Eating People's Young Party.

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I thought the endgame of Dwarf Fortress was your dwarves recursively programming Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress isn't so baffling when you understand that there's a whole subgenre of mostly-roguelikes out there that have been in what amounts to early access since the 1980s and still have no functional endgames in spite of having been in development for thirty goddamn years, but they do have twelve distinct ways to die by vending machine, and by gosh folks like it that way.

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Finally finished the game, spoilers here

...with the bad ending since I thought *someone* had to have a change of mind just before launching the ship, right ? right ?

So, what I'm wondering / asking for in a future content patch or a mod, is Q Girl dialogue if she ascends the Spindle with you.

Because I think she might have *thoughts* about the reveal.

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Idea of fanfic for better writers than me

Camilla and Pyrrha crash land on the First House and discover that during the time John left the planet alone, whole civilisations of mutants managed to develop in the cracks he didn't watch.

They must adventure trough rusted biomes filled with everything from hyena people to huge pyramid-shaped deathbots, while discovering what happened since the last time the empire really used this land, somewhere near the Levant region, next to a dried Mediterranean.

It could be called Cavs of Al-Quds or something

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Nona LockedTomb and Nayuta ChainsawMan should talk to each other, I think they would bond over dogs and paramilitary kidnappings.

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Just lost a level 16 chimera half-human, half-plant, half-fungi, half-tortoise, half-spider with high carapace and regeneration and limbs everywhere because I didn't know that now high fascists knight commanders get the single weapon fighting package.

So I charged, got blocked and stunned, took a shield slam followed by SIX penetrating crysteel long sword hits. 130 hit points gone in one action. Lesson learnt : read the changelog ^^

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Within a Deep Forest : Metroid edition.

I don't mind that recent Metroid games have taken to providing explicit justifications for why Samus needs to re-collect all of her upgrades in each game, but I do mind that it's often for such stupid fucking reasons. Like, let's at least make it something that's commensurate with the trouble she went through to collect all that junk in the first place, you know? I think in the next game she should get blown out of the sky in low orbit and experience atmospheric re-entry without a spaceship – I'm sure there's something in her increasingly fucked up DNA that would let her survive that. Just hauling her still-smouldering body out of a twenty-meter-wide impact crater like "welp".

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I would argue that at least in recent versions, you have at least one healing item findable on the way to see him, and if you had a save prior to entering the zone (which is not a big area content-wise) you can always come back later because there's no obligation to meet this NPC day one. So to softlock yourself you would also need to have a single save in that zone, AND to use the free healing item then lose the health after. Still possible, but improbable.

Although you can also lose morale (and possibly several points) during the same conversation, so the NPC is still one of the major early game death sources (after the fan and the lightbulb) ^^

Like most old-school RPGs with unguided character creation, Disco Elysium makes it possible to softlock yourself very early by building a character who mathematically cannot survive the tutorial mission. However, unlike most old-school RPGs with unguided character creation, every way in which you can do this is objectively hilarious.

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