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Quote from: Harry Baldman on May 27, 2016, 12:01:29 pm

Quote from: piecewise on May 27, 2016, 11:14:10 am

Great, so despite me saying it twice, no one actually sent the guy a PM before you murdered him? Wonderful.

((We probably each individually assumed someone else would do it/had already done it.))

Goddamn Bystander effect.

((I know I assumed I'd done it for some reason but looking through my sent PMs it's obvious I never did. Not sure how I missed that.))

"That'll be the brain you ate, most likely. I can put a ward into your forehead that should help ward it away."

If baby deathclaw agrees, burn a cool-looking pattern into his forehead with a hot poker or sword or other pointy thing/carve it into his forehead with my crab claw. Make an ominous production out of it, relying on his belief to make it real. Observe the results of my first thoughtform.

Roundabout 3-4 months, with me being extremely lazy and not really working on it for multiple-week long stretches and cranking out like 4000 words at a time when I did.
Actually lemme see...
Yeah about 3 months, I started on it on January 30.

I DID IT

I FINALLY FINISHED IT

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/from-a-dead-world-skaven-ckii-quest.18770/page-27#post-6128404

"Okay. I'll keep it for later. Donuts are always wanted eventually!"

"...want sprinkles?"

Offer a donut with sprinkles!

"No really, donuts. Does it matter whether the forces or entities that control reality focus on our existences or not? Was it random chance or playful malevolence that caused me to have my organs eaten by an angry Roomba? Was it coincidence or a deliberate scheme by an effectively omnipotent-from-my-perspective being that caused me to have to fight off a pack of ferrets while ODing on thirteen different types of crystal meth and various other drugs in a back alley in Cincinnati, Ohio? Or the time I accidentally ate a baby's foot because it got stuck in a cake and I was too hungry to notice until afterward that there was an infant spurting blood everywhere? Is it fate's design or merely sad chance that I lack the empathy and emotional complexity to grasp the seriousness and consequences of all of my actions? Who cares, more importantly? I'm alive right now. I've met a new alien friend. I have donuts. So chillax and don't worry about it!"

Probably. With the amount I've used him in different games I eventually aim for Xan to be an omnipresent concept present across time and space.

well considering that everyone except you and grate only get to die once, its not actually all that ironic.

kinda makes sense actually.

There's actually one random guy from way back who the Doctor made immortal, it just locked his stats forever and I'm not looking for that kind of thing.

Unfortunately, Xan will not be killing Xan unless I stand to gain some REALLY good loot.

And I've ceded all the loot we find to Xan anyway, so it's a wholly beneficial agreement all around!