Doivid said
bump for giygas to whitelist holmes. ;x
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Holmishire said
Man, Jorick's fic was great. Ah, the good ol' days...
"Aw fuck." Liam stopped where we was as he realized he was lost. Something was clearly screwing with the building, or maybe his perception of the building. He'd walked far enough that he should have gotten to the door already, yet he was still in the dark hallway. Liam had hoped that leaving the elevator and exiting the building would stop this nonsense from happening, but clearly that hope had been in vain. Being a pessimist at heart, he was not truly surprised.
He pulled his pocket knife, a little thing with a blade no more than three inches long. It wasn't quite as good as the Swiss knives with all the gadgets, but this one had two different kinds of screwdrivers, a nail file, and a corkscrew as well, which was enough for him. Liam didn't think it would make for very good protection against supernatural bullshit that could screw with physics or his mind or whatever was going on, but it was better than having no weapon at all. He turned round slowly in the hall, staring at the dark, futilely trying to pierce the blackness of the hall in the direction he'd come from.
After a little bit of worthlessly standing there with his eyes wide open, Liam thought of a better use of his time. He brought the knife to his left hand and cut his palm open, not a very deep cut but enough to cause a rush of blood that dripped to the floor. The drops were not visible to him, but he could feel them falling from his hand and hear them hitting the ground nonetheless. With the requisite sacrifice given, he reached out with his mind to ask the first question he had paid for: Is this darkness being caused by someone or something other than Kaya's power?
Liam felt a response come to his mind, not in words or images, but rather a general sense of the affirmative. The darkness was indeed someone else's creation, though he couldn't know who or what was causing it. He felt that he could still ask some more questions, so he silently asked another: Is the source of this darkness inside the building? Again Liam got another sense of affirmation, and he asked another question. Is the professor we came here to speak to inside the building? Yet again he got the sense that the answer was yes.
That did not bode very well in Liam's mind. He felt like perhaps fate wanted to screw with him, and by extension his companions, so he asked another question that he hoped would draw the first negative response. Is the professor the source of this darkness? Thankfully, the ephemeral feeling in his head did indeed indicate that the answer was no. Liam felt he had a final question left, and he could only think of one last pertinent thing that might be answered with a yes or no, so he asked it. Is the professor in danger right now? The response came in the affirmative, that the professor was indeed in danger. After that his connection with whatever the hell had answered him faded away.
Liam cursed aloud and clenched his cut left hand over his shirt, very shoddily trying to stem the bleeding. He closed the knife with his right hand and then held his arm out as he walked toward where he thought there must be a wall nearby. His intent was to find a wall and followed it back the way he'd come, hopefully to make it back to the elevators and his companions to share this new information, but there was no way of knowing if or when he'd get there with this magical bullshit going on in the building.
He pulled his pocket knife, a little thing with a blade no more than three inches long. It wasn't quite as good as the Swiss knives with all the gadgets, but this one had two different kinds of screwdrivers, a nail file, and a corkscrew as well, which was enough for him. Liam didn't think it would make for very good protection against supernatural bullshit that could screw with physics or his mind or whatever was going on, but it was better than having no weapon at all. He turned round slowly in the hall, staring at the dark, futilely trying to pierce the blackness of the hall in the direction he'd come from.
After a little bit of worthlessly standing there with his eyes wide open, Liam thought of a better use of his time. He brought the knife to his left hand and cut his palm open, not a very deep cut but enough to cause a rush of blood that dripped to the floor. The drops were not visible to him, but he could feel them falling from his hand and hear them hitting the ground nonetheless. With the requisite sacrifice given, he reached out with his mind to ask the first question he had paid for: Is this darkness being caused by someone or something other than Kaya's power?
Liam felt a response come to his mind, not in words or images, but rather a general sense of the affirmative. The darkness was indeed someone else's creation, though he couldn't know who or what was causing it. He felt that he could still ask some more questions, so he silently asked another: Is the source of this darkness inside the building? Again Liam got another sense of affirmation, and he asked another question. Is the professor we came here to speak to inside the building? Yet again he got the sense that the answer was yes.
That did not bode very well in Liam's mind. He felt like perhaps fate wanted to screw with him, and by extension his companions, so he asked another question that he hoped would draw the first negative response. Is the professor the source of this darkness? Thankfully, the ephemeral feeling in his head did indeed indicate that the answer was no. Liam felt he had a final question left, and he could only think of one last pertinent thing that might be answered with a yes or no, so he asked it. Is the professor in danger right now? The response came in the affirmative, that the professor was indeed in danger. After that his connection with whatever the hell had answered him faded away.
Liam cursed aloud and clenched his cut left hand over his shirt, very shoddily trying to stem the bleeding. He closed the knife with his right hand and then held his arm out as he walked toward where he thought there must be a wall nearby. His intent was to find a wall and followed it back the way he'd come, hopefully to make it back to the elevators and his companions to share this new information, but there was no way of knowing if or when he'd get there with this magical bullshit going on in the building.
Elendra said
... you forgot?
We do everything via Google document. Forgetting about the thread isn't that shocking.
Card said
jorick can never do what someone else asks him because he's cool and edgy and always has his own reasons for doing thingseveryone like jorick
OK, more than one allowed
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Doivid said
Yay you're doing what I asked!
Except I'm not because I'm just giving Holmes shit rather than actually bothering to attempt to clean up the filth than now infests Spam. Big difference there, bro.
I'll go ahead and get my leveling up stuff out of the way quickly.
Kasim
Upgrade Sharp trait
Add Acrobatic trait
Upgrade Subliminal Messages: Kasim now knows how it actually works instead of thinking people just naturally love him (because I decided him being ignorant of this is a pain in the ass), and it also works on NPCs he's had prolonged contact with even if they aren't poor and homeless and such. If that's not enough of a boost to make it a legit upgrade then I guess some kind of general boost to its effectiveness would suffice. GM discretion on that, obviously.
New Unique - King Braggart: Kasim has developed his bragging and bravado into something approaching an art form. His bold declarations of skill can get under the skin of even the most stalwart opponents, his abrasive confidence can assure the fearful masses of their safety even as the city burns down around them, and his tales of his own prowess on the field of battle have a way of making women (and some men) fall head over heels in lust with him. Or at least that's how he'd describe his own bragging powers, which makes for something of an infinite recursion loop of braggadocio. Kasim is a swell guy like that. (Mechanically it's just bonuses to social things whenever he brags or talks about how great he is when trying to taunt, coerce, inspire, flirt, etc.)
Zin
Upgrade Apprentice - Illusion
Add Awakened Meditation
Upgrade Diana's Brood Vampire "unique" trait. Since I ripped this from LoR 2.0's trait system I think I'll have to rely on a GM call for how this one gets upgraded.
New Unique - Entry Artist: Being an escape artist is all well and good, but getting into locked and secured places is far more fun and potentially more rewarding. Zin has a knack for getting into such places, be they buildings or safes or small locked containers or anything else that is clearly meant to keep people out. She is quite good at spotting exploitable weaknesses like unlocked windows or rusty hinges or holes in a guard perimeter, and she's also very skilled at lockpicking and even breaking locks open while leaving the rest of the mechanism in working order when push comes to shove. She tries her best to keep quiet and unnoticed when sneaking into places or opening locks, and she's had a lot of practice at that too, but it's never a sure thing. (Mechanically it's bonuses to getting into secured places and lockpicking and such, also minor stealth bonus only when she's doing the aforementioned breaking and/or entering).
Kasim
Upgrade Sharp trait
Add Acrobatic trait
Upgrade Subliminal Messages: Kasim now knows how it actually works instead of thinking people just naturally love him (because I decided him being ignorant of this is a pain in the ass), and it also works on NPCs he's had prolonged contact with even if they aren't poor and homeless and such. If that's not enough of a boost to make it a legit upgrade then I guess some kind of general boost to its effectiveness would suffice. GM discretion on that, obviously.
New Unique - King Braggart: Kasim has developed his bragging and bravado into something approaching an art form. His bold declarations of skill can get under the skin of even the most stalwart opponents, his abrasive confidence can assure the fearful masses of their safety even as the city burns down around them, and his tales of his own prowess on the field of battle have a way of making women (and some men) fall head over heels in lust with him. Or at least that's how he'd describe his own bragging powers, which makes for something of an infinite recursion loop of braggadocio. Kasim is a swell guy like that. (Mechanically it's just bonuses to social things whenever he brags or talks about how great he is when trying to taunt, coerce, inspire, flirt, etc.)
Zin
Upgrade Apprentice - Illusion
Add Awakened Meditation
Upgrade Diana's Brood Vampire "unique" trait. Since I ripped this from LoR 2.0's trait system I think I'll have to rely on a GM call for how this one gets upgraded.
New Unique - Entry Artist: Being an escape artist is all well and good, but getting into locked and secured places is far more fun and potentially more rewarding. Zin has a knack for getting into such places, be they buildings or safes or small locked containers or anything else that is clearly meant to keep people out. She is quite good at spotting exploitable weaknesses like unlocked windows or rusty hinges or holes in a guard perimeter, and she's also very skilled at lockpicking and even breaking locks open while leaving the rest of the mechanism in working order when push comes to shove. She tries her best to keep quiet and unnoticed when sneaking into places or opening locks, and she's had a lot of practice at that too, but it's never a sure thing. (Mechanically it's bonuses to getting into secured places and lockpicking and such, also minor stealth bonus only when she's doing the aforementioned breaking and/or entering).
http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/49930/posts/ooc?page=1#post-1513872
Like seriously, get off your high horse.
Let's all make fun of her for being objectively worse than Hitler in every way.
Like seriously, get off your high horse.
Let's all make fun of her for being objectively worse than Hitler in every way.
mdk said
Another way to approach it is, 1 - 0.9999999..... = X. In this case, X must equal 0.0000.......1, where the 1 does not occur until after an inifinitely long sequence of zeroes. It's a null infinity, which can never be expressed; thus, there is no difference between 1 and 0.999... Where there is no difference, the values are equivalent.
But the easiest way to approach it is with some simple fractions. Start with 1 = 1, split one side into thirds, then turn them into decimals.
1 = 1
1 = (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3)
1 = 0.3333... + 0.3333... + 0.3333...
1 = 0.9999...
Even a middle school kid can understand it with this explanation, no wall of text or even knowledge of algebra needed.
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