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[Glass]

So, in other terms, contractual genre blindness until such time that we're back in charge? Sounds good to me.

[Paxiecrunchle]

Yeah we should join the rebels the republic really must be un-salvageable when the kick out one of their most loyal supporters who was doing his very best to salvage things.

[blueturtle1134]

Yeah we should join the rebels the republic really must be un-salvageable when the kick out one of their most loyal supporters who was doing his very best to salvage things.

Well, to be sure, this is just Padelheb's doing. One bad apple ruining the whole bunch. The rest of the Republic's admin isn't that bad.

And they didn't kick him out... they want him executed for treason.

If you don't know who Lord Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish is, you'll want to find out so you know what you're up against. Also, here's the original "chaos is a ladder" speech and Littlefinger's death scene.

[Paxiecrunchle]

I know who he is, he will be a huge pain in the buttocks to deal with.

[blueturtle1134]

I've come to realize that if Erin joins the rebels against Padelheb, that fits a common plot cliche.

The somewhat mad but moral scientist is rejected from the empire and joins the band of heroes against his former employers.

The fact that an amoral man is in charge of the Republic shifts the tone of the series to white/black morality rather than grey/gray. Padelheb being so bad means that killing him will serve as a logical conclusion to a novel and the rebels will not feel pressured to destabilize the wormhole as well. Conversley, Quill's joining makes the heroes a Five-Man Band (Leader Jacob, Lancer Andrew, Smart Guy Erin, Strongman Sam, Chick Anna).

So now I've talked myself into a pretty mouthtrap. I promised that this series is based on the idea that cliches must be followed and tropes decide who wins.

However, there is now an easy to invoke set of tropes that includes you joining the heroes and the heroes winning along with your goals.

Meaning that you have a straightforward, easy to follow win condition that I cannot author-edit out.

Meaning that you win.

Meaning that I lose.

...Tee hee hee, i'm transparent text!

CARP.

[Glass]

[omada]

*evil laughter*


Until when we get back to the power we start conquering the entire world

[Glass]

I've come to realize that if Erin joins the rebels against Padelheb, that fits a common plot cliche.

The somewhat mad but moral scientist is rejected from the empire and joins the band of heroes against his former employers.

The fact that an amoral man is in charge of the Republic shifts the tone of the series to white/black morality rather than grey/gray. Padelheb being so bad means that killing him will serve as a logical conclusion to a novel and the rebels will not feel pressured to destabilize the wormhole as well. Conversley, Quill's joining makes the heroes a Five-Man Band (Leader Jacob, Lancer Andrew, Smart Guy Erin, Strongman Sam, Chick Anna).

So now I've talked myself into a pretty mouthtrap. I promised that this series is based on the idea that cliches must be followed and tropes decide who wins.

However, there is now an easy to invoke set of tropes that includes you joining the heroes and the heroes winning along with your goals.

Meaning that you have a straightforward, easy to follow win condition that I cannot author-edit out.

Meaning that you win.

Meaning that I lose.

...Tee hee hee, i'm transparent text!

CARP.

Just to make sure you can't get rid of what you said here.

[omada]

I've come to realize that if Erin joins the rebels against Padelheb, that fits a common plot cliche.

The somewhat mad but moral scientist is rejected from the empire and joins the band of heroes against his former employers.

The fact that an amoral man is in charge of the Republic shifts the tone of the series to white/black morality rather than grey/gray. Padelheb being so bad means that killing him will serve as a logical conclusion to a novel and the rebels will not feel pressured to destabilize the wormhole as well. Conversley, Quill's joining makes the heroes a Five-Man Band (Leader Jacob, Lancer Andrew, Smart Guy Erin, Strongman Sam, Chick Anna).

So now I've talked myself into a pretty mouthtrap. I promised that this series is based on the idea that cliches must be followed and tropes decide who wins.

However, there is now an easy to invoke set of tropes that includes you joining the heroes and the heroes winning along with your goals.

Meaning that you have a straightforward, easy to follow win condition that I cannot author-edit out.

Meaning that you win.

Meaning that I lose.

...Tee hee hee, i'm transparent text!

CARP.

Just to make sure you can't get rid of what you said here.

Nice

[blueturtle1134]

You mean my admission of defeat? No, I'm working on ways to subvert what I just said. But the annoying fact is that the series is based on three things:

• Heroes win
• Villain loses
• Everyone else can choose at will

So by introducing a bigger villain, I made it easier for you all.

[Glass]

Well, you can't get rid of Game of Thrones man now.

[blueturtle1134]

Well, you can't get rid of Game of Thrones man now.

That's what I've been considering. Kill him off early on so you can't use him as a scapegoat to divert heroic/plot attention from yourselves.

But I put so much EFFORT into his intro scene...! Tee hee hee there's now transparent text that you can CLICK!

[Glass]

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/emoji_sports.png

Yeah, no.

[blueturtle1134]

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/emoji_sports.png

Yeah, no.

More serious stuff will be hidden texted later! That was just a test of your finding abilities. And a dry run of my plan to use goo.gl links to track your clicks so I can be sure what's been seen and what hasn't.

[omada]

The only thing I can think is to make him less detestable or to have a really good hand in administration giving a "golden age" to the people.

Or whatever, there is always that scene where the heroes and the villians beat a worse villian and then they go back to usual agenda of screwing each others lifes as sam would think that we would allow him to have his monarchy (no way, execute him now) that the aristocracy would be gone (not our job, let's go back increasing the sizes of ants and giving it sentience so we can use them as cheap labor) and that we would not want to suffocate every country in our order creating by consequence a bunch of rebels on the entire world because nobody likes a huge government (who don't want to rule the world?)

(these are the only thing I could think of)


My finding abilities failed. DAMN

I want to play consequence golf, but right now Erin is playing hell escape