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Quote from: Rolepgeek on January 30, 2013, 07:31:25 pm

Here's a compromise; turn those trogolodytes into chameleon doppelgänger things to be our spies.

but we already have a spy.  I think.

Not one that can fake humanity, let alone fake being a specific person. Which is a weakness with shapeshifters; either they show up as a stranger, or they take the place of a person who's still around and probably do a poor job of imitating him/her. The influence fungus or whatever sound more versatile.

Greetings, Avarian. How like you this jungle We have made?

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 30, 2013, 05:39:59 pm

Quote from: Jbg97 on January 30, 2013, 05:03:39 pm

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 30, 2013, 04:27:16 pm

Quote from: javierpwn on January 30, 2013, 02:28:44 pm

(Do they have the drakes attacking them?)

No more so than normal.

They can't be attacked more than normal when normal is being attacked everyday.

There aren't that many drakes!
It's a normal jungle. It has scary predators, but they're not particularly antipathetic towards dwarves.

Reputation here is key.
You have shit reputation, no offense.

True but not germane. He claimed that drakes attacked every day. IRL, big predators don't even eat every day, let alone eat the dwarves every day, which is heightened in cold-blooded predators. Since most dwarven settlements wouldn't be in the hunting range of more than a few big predators, period, drake attacks would be weekly at the very most, even assuming the drakes only ate dwarves.

Quote from: Xantalos on January 30, 2013, 05:49:09 pm

Reputation here is key.
You have shit reputation, no offense.

I think I know what the first words of the diety of death will be, "I really need to talk with Neyravah.  That Elder God has killed the most creatures on the planet, despite, maybe in spite of, having the sphere of life."

I find that claim dubious at best.

Let's set up a wargame!
Maybe scatter the troglodites through the forest for starters and have Leto catch them?

+1

This new god must not be too intelligent if he's so quick to insult a god he has little to no knowledge of whatsoever.

I suggest we show off some of our creations, such as our dragons and perhaps Leto. That'll show him...

Hate to bring it up again but please try and open up trade with Maher.  We don't need to be best buddies with him but trade would increase our wealth and remove a potential enemy.  Also at least he was respectful to us unlike this other god.  We'll see how he feels about us later, give him a chance to be a helpful or at least a respectful neighbor and if not we could always "remove" him as we grow in power.

Agreed. Just because we aren't the friendliest on personal terms doesn't mean we can't have our citizens trade. China and the US have some...differences, but they're big trade partners. Tune up the dissatisfaction and tune up the trade, and that could be us.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 30, 2013, 05:31:44 pm

Quote from: Jbg97 on January 30, 2013, 05:22:16 pm

How about we start kidnapping people, altering their minds to obey us, and send them back. Why? Because fuck being nice.

What is wrong with this argument?
Oh yeah, it's a blatant combination of the Strawman fallacy and the Slippery Slope fallacy.

That was actually a legitimate suggestion, not an argument. I thought you would know my tendecy to try and do things like that when I play god-games.

Oh.
In that case, no.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 30, 2013, 04:42:37 pm

Quote from: Brawler Mouse on January 30, 2013, 11:40:30 am

Ask why this guy seems to think you're in drag?

He knew you when you were a guy and now you are wearing a dress. Somehow, "drag" seems more likely than "postmortem Gender Bender."

Yes, but does Ciro remember being male? She doesn't seem too startled by the new body, if she doesn't know she was a guy, the whole drag statement would be fairly confusing.

Irrelevant. You were...I misunderstood the question.

Quote from: Brawler Mouse on January 30, 2013, 05:06:03 pm

Quote from: dermonster on January 30, 2013, 05:04:48 pm

I believe that Ciro just doesn't give a shit and wants to find Ritalia as soon as possible.

Yeah, but some exposition would be nice so we know how much we remember.

I'm with both of you on this one.
I do want to hear how much Ciro can remember, but more than likely she just doesn't consider suddenly waking up a different gender all that pressing of a matter, given that the option to do so was available in every shop. Besides that, she seems to be either recovering memories from before he lost them the first time and/or getting them mixed up with Mili's.  I'm guessing more of the former than the latter though.
>So yeah, another +1 to exploring the greens and attempting to get our head straightened out.

+1

How about we start kidnapping people, altering their minds to obey us, and send them back. Why? Because fuck being nice.

What is wrong with this argument?
Oh yeah, it's a blatant combination of the Strawman fallacy and the Slippery Slope fallacy.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 30, 2013, 05:18:54 pm

Quote from: scapheap on January 30, 2013, 04:43:04 pm

How about a parasitic worm that can use it host senses and take a small amount of nutriment from it host but otherwise unnoticeable. No mind control, give us spies and the other gods will be none the wiser.

Sounds good. Not ideal, but acceptable.
I think it would make sense to use fungi of some sort, since we already have made symbiotic fungus but not worms of any kind.

Yes well fungi grow on dead things and I for one would like living spies(First person who mention the zombie ants should think of what they are about to type.)

Fungi can also grow on/in live things, and worms in dead ones. Your point?