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Anonymous Coward · 1mo
Pits, Tits, Ass: William Adler, Murdoch Byrnes, Paul Frackson? all assignments are valid.
What, as in... which of them has them?
As far as I was aware, all three of them had all three. Is that not the case? Now I'm concerned.
Anonymous Coward · 1mo
Favorite guilty pleasure food?
Well, I'd deny that I feel guilt about anything I eat, but I think the thing people have most attempted to SHAME me for is putting a slice of cheddar on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
It's good!
38verisimilitude · 1mo
How would you feel about telling more stories featuring the setting and characters from The Green Night?
If the right idea ever strikes me, absolutely.
SakaraFox · 2mo
It's a "classic" Q&A question from my forum days, but: Given the choice, would you undergo a process to become your 'sona, or closest equivalent of one? The trade-off being that the company doing the process receives the rights to reproduce this character for others...
Actually that idea a tad more depressing than it did in my head.
I'd say my 'sona isn't explicitly specified enough that that kind of reproduction would be possible. With no set specified fur color, eye color, or any other definite characteristics, what would there be for them to reproduce?
Moreover, I'd argue that I've already taken all the necessary steps, none of which a company or procedure could accomplish, to become my 'sona in all the ways that matter.
38verisimilitude · 2mo
On the flip side of the earlier question about post-mortal souls joining the support network of Mare Solatium, are there any long-term retainers who've reached a point where they needed to 'move on' from the Liminal City?
That's not really the kind of thing that happens. The Liminal City has its own sort of time: think of it as complementary to Eternal. Instead of all times always being Now, forever, all times are always Yesterday, forever. Inhabitants who come there after dying on earth are still on their own timelines. For one it's the day after October 19th 823, for another the same day in the Liminal City is equally the day after January 21st 1985. But for people like Dahlen or Apzides, who are part of and have never been anywhere but the Liminal City, every day that they've lived there is yesterday, it's just that all but one of those yesterdays is also yesterday to an increasing number of those other yesterdays. Which is all to say: if it's possible, it's never happened.
38verisimilitude · 2mo
Does Mourner show up to every game of Fourth Man Left Outside, or are there other people like him who might attend a session?
I dunno! We'd have to find some other group that's played it and ask them who showed up.
Anonymous Coward · 2mo
A hyper inteligent collective of ducks has made contact with you. They have a deal for you. You can either have free lunch for the rest of your life as long as it's seafood based, on the condition that you never wear any blue clothes ever again.
If you accept the free seafood, you can pay money for for non-seafood based food at the current food price. Blue is defined as any colour where it's RGB value is highest by double in Blue over Red and Green (i.e, 20B, 10R, 10G is Blue, 10B, 10R, 10G is not)
Well, I just plain don't eat seafood at all in the first place, so this deal's meaningless to me. Sorry, DUCKS.
Anonymous Coward · 2mo
Can I pet your sona
Well not on anonymous, obviously!
Anonymous Coward · 2mo
Oh no! There's a hot guy who's willing to get as freaky as you wanna be, BUT on the condition that you help him redecorate his house! He's got a big chequebook but not many ideas. What redecorating plans do you have to seduce this dude?
I mean, it sounds like the "if you redecorate for me then we'll bang ok?" is entirely his idea, in this premise, so I don't think seduction utility needs to be a factor in the decorating decisions. So I'll probably just stick to good usable principles: keep traffic lanes clear, put light sources at or below eye level, maximize natural light, install bookshelves, get art that's by people he knows or personally relevant to him...
Anonymous Coward · 2mo
Favorite song that you've been listening to these last couple of weeks
Clean Slate by the Mountain Goats.
Anonymous Coward · 2mo
Fuck Marry Kill: Gilgamesh, Beowulf, Sun Wukong
Well, with one of those, the impossibility of his dying is very much the point of the story, and with another the impossibility of him NOT dying is very much the point of the story. So Sun Wukong has to be either fuck or marry, and Gilgamesh has to be kill.
Beowulf apparently makes a habit of wrestling men he just met and hasn't even spoken to, naked, and that's fuck behavior rather than marry.
Which I guess leaves me marrying Sun Wukong by process of elimination.
Anonymous Coward · 3mo
What's on the cards that the guy in your icon is holding?
Those are imagegrabs of the Tarot, whose colors I tweaked a little, from Where the Water Tastes like Wine (see blusky for close-ups,) because that game is way up there with Lord of the Rings and Millennium Actress and Legend of Zelda in the pantheon of stories that influenced me.
38verisimilitude · 3mo
Are there acceptable ways to play Fourth Man Left Outside without leaving anyone outside at the end? What if I invoked host rights / duties and set up the game with a total of 3 people including the visiting spirit or brought extra cards and props so everyone is guaranteed a full hand? I love storytelling and meeting new people but I'm not usually comfortable with sacrificing a person's existence.
Well, I couldn't tell you whether or not it'd work. You kin try it, f'you like. But it sure wouldn't be Fourth Man Left Outside no more.
38verisimilitude · 3mo
Could a soul in transition eventually choose or volunteer to stay as part of the welcoming committee at Mare Solatium, or is moving on the natural end point of every mortal soul that arrives there?
In theory it might be possible? The nature of the Liminal City is to give people what they needed but couldn't have, so if what a soul needed was that, then the "give someone what they should have had" function would probably take priority over the "move them on when they've had enough" function, since that "they've had enough" clause can't resolve. But as of the story, at least, that's not something that's ever happened.
Anonymous Coward · 3mo
If you write about Leo moving on from Chase and Echo into a healthier, happier life, what would that look like?
I did do that once, actually. But I think the big obstacle with Leo is that he won't do something like that on his own initiative. As of the source material, he's already convinced himself that Chase is the only chance he's ever going to get, so I think he wouldn't try again with someone else unless someone made him do so. And this might be unfair to characters we never actually see, but I'm deeply skeptical about claims that Leo's parents are in fact supportive. We really only have Leo's word for it that they are, and Leo's not a reliable source about the feelings of people he cares about, and given his conservative upbringing, and my own extensive experience with "conservative parents think that as long as they're not being as homophobic as they could technically be, then that's the same as being supportive" as a phenomenon, I think distancing him from his parents a little ought also to be a priority.