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Temporal Anomaly: I've got a baaaaad feeling about this
Pathos:
--- Quote from: Soadreqm on May 11, 2010, 02:04:42 pm ---I think The Pale white shadow is about the Moon. Starting with The Transcendent man sounds good.
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You might have a point, there. Then again, studying a book about the moon might give us something interesting about how they're behaving. Lunar cycle altering brain chemistry etc.
piecewise:
--- Quote from: smigenboger on May 11, 2010, 01:53:05 pm --->Added to Patho's idea, absorb matter from your thighs and add to your brain's ability to process and store information. While reading, eat some of the bread in your briefcase, if there's still some left.
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You could do that, though it might be a bit risky. I'd have to adjust the probability scale for this specific event because of the delicacy and complexity of the task. Its much more difficult to effect your own brain because you're essentially operating one the thing which tells you how to operate. Side effects may be unpleasant should you fail. However, should you practice on other human subjects your chances of success may increase.
Transcendent man seems to have won the poll
You open the worn cover of The Transcendent Man and find a very different book then what you expected. Rather then some trans-human dream it's a book of philosophy, specifically a philosophy glorifying war and violence. Its pages are thick with graphic depictions of battle and detailed analysis of the virtue to be found within murder. Beyond it's violence it also supports a type of extreme but unfocused Xenophobia, consigning a plethora of bizarre attributes to it's unnamed enemies and hinting that these attributes could be used against any group regardless of circumstance. Outside, the bombs are still falling.
Soadreqm:
Conclusions: These people are crazy and you are probably their karmic retribution for millenia of pointless warfare.
>Please don't start messing with your own brain just yet. We need it to perceive the books.
>Read Father of the Titans next. Essays of Peace after that.
Pathos:
--- Quote from: Soadreqm on May 11, 2010, 03:10:12 pm ---Conclusions: These people are crazy and you are probably their karmic retribution for millenia of pointless warfare.
>Please don't start messing with your own brain just yet. We need it to perceive the books.
>Read Father of the Titans next. Essays of Peace after that.
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So... Pretty much like the modern world? I don't mind, as long as it means we get to kill everything.
>Father of the Titans IS probably a safe bet, although it'll more than likely be a history of the modern world with all the major factions being influenced by the writings (or whatever) of a guy called Alexander Moench.
piecewise:
On to the next one eh?
You open the next book, a hard back with a black and white image of a rather serious looking man on the front. The book is a combination biography and history text chronicling the life of Alexander Moench and his effects on science, specifically his work on military tech. Moench was captured by allies in may of 1945 and after several months in a POW camp was whisked back to America to work on project TITAN, the next in a line of military experiments taking place after the failure of the Manhattan project. His work brought about the maximization of military technologies and the creation of ever larger instruments of war to use against the constant Russo-Japanese threat which had immerged soon after V-E day. Considering the book continues on to the death of the scientists 34 years after his capture its clear that it's that the current date is at least 1980, if not later. The bombing has begun to lighten, but are still going on.
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