TheMushroomLord

From goblins to godhood (re:monster rp)

Aya

Aya had been too hasty with her planning and ended up making a fool of herself. Why hadn’t she just tried to take things a little slower? Part of Aya felt like crying from the shame she felt while the rest of her just wanted to curl up into a ball and disappear, or maybe just run away. Still, neither of those plans seemed like valid options right now or in the long term and with no better plan in mind, Aya realised she’d just have to try again.

Forcing the tears she felt beginning to well up back down Aya began to analyse the situation. For now, it appeared that Kir was interacting with the others rather than sneering at Aya in disgust, so that was probably good sign at least, though the thought did little to alleviate Aya’s worry. It seemed that in addition to her seemingly reality-defying power Kir was a rather crafty goblin. In that case, pitching her plan as the clever path was probably the smart way to go, not that that wasn’t already her plan to begin with. Then again was anyone likely to listen to a supposedly clever plan pitched from a goblin that had already proved herself an idiot? Well, Kir had already proven herself to be clever, certainly more so than Aya, so she should be able to see the plan for its merits regardless of who was pitching it. Right?

It appeared that there was a break in Kir’s conversation with Yzzi, a chance for Aya to butt in and present her own plans, properly this time. Then again on second thoughts, she didn’t want to bother anyone so maybe she should just leave and come up with something else… no that was just an excuse.

Attempting to calm her nerves, Aya took a deep breath, letting it back out in the form of a laugh, beginning at a shaky giggle but quickly rising in intensity to an almost cackle, before reapproaching her sisters. “I- I’m ready to talk now!” Aya realised she was speaking too loud so she hushed her voice to an almost whisper as she continued, “You’ve probably noticed that the rabbits here have some pretty scary looking weapons and I’m guessing that means that the actual predators out there are even scarier. Given that they’re probably better armed and more practised than us newly born goblins, wouldn’t it be smarter to minimise our chances of being killed by setting traps or something?” The too-wide smile Aya had maintained up until now gradually faded away as she got lost in explaining her ideas. “I was thinking that's what we could do. Maybe dig a hole or something, cover it in leaves and lure something inside to poke to death with weapons? We could try to compact the walls some to make it difficult for anything to escape while getting poked and I think that...” Aya’s voice trailed off. Was explaining in too much detail a bad idea? Probably. She wanted to show she’d thought things through, but the further she went the more likely that cracks would begin to show in her plans. Best to try and get her sisters on her side before delving into the details then.

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Aya panicked and planned before approaching Kir and Yizzy with a plan to set traps in the forest.
Still in church.

From goblins to godhood (re:monster rp)

I'll also try to post later today. I'm pretty sure there are a couple of people that have only made a single post or otherwise haven't posted at all yet, but given the speed, others are moving I think I'll move on anyway.

Akasha Agency (Tentative interest check)

@RoflsMazoy I'm pretty sure most largely knowledge-based fields end up being like that to a certain extent. Highschool tends to teach things that are for the most part correct but it definitely tends to simplify concepts and it can take a bit to adjust to proper methodologies and all the rules that you weren't told about or else the exceptions to the ones you were taught about. Using a similar analogy to yours, there is a very similar complexity jump between highschool biology and university biology.

I'm not actually sure if one could expect the same degree in development as seen in computer. Time frame wise yes they're only 20 years apart but you'd also need to take in complexity and how well they build off existing fields. Computer hardware for example while substantially different from physics still builds off of physics in terms of its basic function. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure each of the example schools violates a modern understanding of physics in some way. Then again, that's ignoring the yokai which already had arts to study so maybe that equalises things.

I've also been assuming here that the Yokai didn't really have knowledge of the scientific method and arts were developed through trial, error and extrapolation from observations kind of like how alchemists are thought to have made most of their discoveries or how I assume martial artists developed and refined their skills.

One last question for the time being. Too what extent is culture and society in this setting different from real modern world culture?

Akasha Agency (Tentative interest check)

@RoflsMazoy That makes sense. I was more thinking along the lines of human knowledge of arts, or at least the basics that are taught to everyone, practitioners or otherwise, being more likely to be derived from a scientific breakdown of arts and whatever got officially recognised by humans during the war and thereafter, rather than whatever methods the Yokai used to cultivate their knowledge and from that perspective 50 years being a relatively short period of time for those more niche specialised fields to develop. Especially considering that without a decent understanding of how arts work it makes little sense to group them into fields that may not actually be correlated.

On the other hand, this way makes more sense if human knowledge of arts has since its discovery been more been derived from being taught by or directly copied from Yokai, which looking back now seems to be how it's done. So ignore me I'm an idiot.

Just to throw an idea out there, I still think it makes more sense for members of the agency and probably to a lesser degree the general public to have been taught a little about arts and yokai from the perspective of human scientific breakdown as well as some specific examples of arts. Simplified stuff in similar to the sort of things one might learn in basic highschool science. Hence one of the first things new recruits into the Agency or practitioners of any form of art would need to learn would be to abandon their oversimplified preconseptions.

Akasha Agency (Tentative interest check)

It's always been a pet peeve of mine when in science fiction and some fantasy when people seem to have figured nearly everything about the fantastical elements of the setting with absolute certainty and seemingly at no point in all that figuring out do any new questions crop up. For whatever reason that's one area I really struggle to suspend my disbelief in and it happens all the time so it's nice to see you just flat out say there's a lot that just flat out isn't known yet.

Honestly, it could be cool if you run with the idea of the schools of magic. Maybe something like those 5 schools of magic are the ones that have thus far been officially classified. Not that anyone thinks that all arts fit within those, just those are the only ones well enough understood to properly group together into categories. Or maybe those are the broad strokes primarily used when teaching about arts leading to a common rookie mistake of trying to overbroadly apply that knowledge to entirely inapplicable situations.

Akasha Agency (Tentative interest check)

I like the look of this!

From goblins to godhood (re:monster rp)

That’s perfectly understandable, I usually use google docs for that but I recall you saying you couldn’t copy paste so I made an assumption about your methods. My mistake.

In any case I don’t think anyone is annoyed, but for those of us that check the notification when you first start writing I think it’s pretty easy to miss when you finish as there’s no new indication to say it’s done. I know I’ve missed one of your posts like that so I figured I’d make the suggestion.

From goblins to godhood (re:monster rp)

@Dark Cloud I'm assuming your weird posting method is because you're using a switch but have you considered explicitly mentioning here when you finish a post? I keep on missing when you post because I don't get notifications for them after you first put them up and I wouldn't be surprised if other people were missing them like this in the same way.

From goblins to godhood (re:monster rp)

More like I just can't read properly. In any case as unfortunate as it is I am 100% convinced that they are the enemy and no amount of evidence will change my mind.

From goblins to godhood (re:monster rp)

You can't trust the vets. We're nothing but livestock to them. Stepping stones to total world domination. Any advise or help you receive from one is just a ploy to screw you over.