3/21/07 Cubi: Are You Lost, Little Girl?

[Ted Schiller]

Oh man, I feel a new fetish coming on. Yeah baby, you can burninate my thatched roof cottages any day, big white dream eating mythos. Gotta write a slash-fic.

[sing]
Burninate, they want you because of the pride that gives,
But Burninate, I want you because I need you to live.
But while I live only to hold you,
Some other men, they long to control you.
But how can they control you Burninate,
when they can not control themselves, Burninate,
from wanting you, needing you,
But darling you belong to me.
[/sing]

With apologies to Holland, Dozier, and Holland; The Four Tops; and to the rhinoceros sales lady.   ;

With regards,
Ted

[Lushin]

All I can say is those two would hate going into any of my dreams. Well maybe not, maybe they could actually make them make sense. I haven't had a nightmare in a while but what I am having would surely make those two go "Oh great I just had to end up in another one of these guys. This is gonna be a long night"

[FlameSword]

" Ok put the gravestone over there, make that pit a little bit deeper, make sure there's plenty of room for the remaining blood to flow. "

[Tapewolf]

Further to my wittering about Arx Fatalis this morning, here are some screenshots.  It actually looks a bit more like the Summon Undead spell:


http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k216/tapewolf/scraps/summon1.jpg

Here's the Summon Demon spell, but I'm going to hyperlink the rest:
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k216/tapewolf/scraps/summon2.jpg

The demon itself is here, two shots of it.  It doesn't really resemble the Mythos as much as I thought, but it's kind of interesting to compare.
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k216/tapewolf/scraps/summon3.jpg
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k216/tapewolf/scraps/summon4.jpg

[The LizardKing]

You're lost little girl....great song by the Doors.
and it's so shiny! and so many eyes.....
I see you........

[Alondro]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees a resemblance to Digimon. 

*Violet Dusk is also assassinated!*   

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

(Hurrah for backwards swearing!)

*cough* Erm. Yeah. Don't do that again, y'hear? :-P

[Yukifox]

(Hurrah for backwards swearing!)

*cough* Erm. Yeah. Don't do that again, y'hear? :-P

Hey!  I misspelled the bad bad words. =P  Censorship is stupid!  *takes off tie and runs around*

((Okay okay... XP))

[Manawolf]

Flex your 1st Ammendmant rights, just don't be a dick about it.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Hey!  I misspelled the bad bad words. =P  Censorship is stupid!  *takes off tie and runs around*

((Okay okay... XP))

Yes, it is. But this particular board is PG rated, and those words aren't.

While we're mostly reasonably adult, those of us in charge have a responsibility to keep the non-PG words to a minimum. So I'm asking, politely, if you wouldn't mind perhaps following the rules you agreed to when you signed up. Or, at least, that you agree to by posting here. :-]

... hey, at least I'm asking. I -could- just get out the stompy boots, but if I did that, I'd end up banning myself, after I removed everyone else, for breaking the rules myself... :-]

Flex your 1st Ammendmant rights, just don't be a dick about it.

Likewise. Shush, Manawolf. Some of us aren't in the States, and don't have a First Amendment to flex.
We're stuck with having to be reasonable and thoughtful and sensible.

What a pity.

[Doraion]

o_o;  Ok that would scare anyone.  I really hope it's not a dream larva.

Ace: "Hmph, I can handle that thing since I am too hard to scare even with my worst fear."

Me:  Ace I told you to stop being so arrogant! V_V;

[Manawolf]

Hm...

[superluser]

Sigh.  Looks like the post I quoted has been removed during the time in which I posted this message.

[Manawolf]

So because I hold an air of confidence is why I'm pissing you people off?  Seriously, I take a stab which even I know is probably wrong by Amber terms.  If you'd stop taking things so seriously people might be able to have some fun around here instead being huffy all the time.

Lighten up, it's better for your health.

[Jigsaw Forte]

So because I hold an air of confidence is why I'm pissing you people off?  Seriously, I take a stab which even I know is probably wrong by Amber terms.  If you'd stop taking things so seriously people might be able to have some fun around here instead being huffy all the time.

Lighten up, it's better for your health.

The problem is you do it with so much confidence that random idiot walking in thinks you know more than the average forumgoer, and that what you know is either canon or spoiler.

Which, quite frankly, you don't, and is neither.

That said... WOW, did anyone just look at the screen at an odd angle and see all the barely-visible shading Amber did on this beast? That's just whole new levels of awesome.

[superluser]

The problem is you do it with so much confidence that random idiot walking in thinks you know more than the average forumgoer, and that what you know is either canon or spoiler.

Yup.  It makes it more difficult for us to lighten up when you act like you know everything and that speculation is meaningless.

That said... WOW, did anyone just look at the screen at an odd angle and see all the barely-visible shading Amber did on this beast? That's just whole new levels of awesome.

Ho-lee crap!  That is astounding color work, Amber.

[Valynth]

Likewise. Shush, Manawolf. Some of us aren't in the States, and don't have a First Amendment to flex.
We're stuck with having to be reasonable and thoughtful and sensible.

What a pity.

Acctually, you're forced to and those who don't want to be are thrown in prison....

Therefore anyone who pulls enough strings in your society can force you to live by whatever proganda they wish you to live with, regardless of how you feel about it and if you try to speak the truth, you get yoinked to prison.

Do I love my constitution?  yes, very much so.  It keeps me free a lot better than a knife.

anyway, this is a interesting development.  Has there been records of a being sheltering/appeasing such a mind-thing in order to prevent 'cubi from entering the dream/mind?

[Manawolf]

I'd think it to be a dangerous proposition.  It's kind of like putting a guard dog inside your vault, he can protect your stuff from intruders, but he might also end up tear apart your valuables himself.

[Valynth]

You forget that these are sentient people, I'd like to think they're a bit better than dogs....  No offense Fa'lina....

[Zedd]

You forget that these are sentient people, I'd like to think they're a bit better than dogs....  No offense Fa'lina....

*cough*

[Manawolf]

Sentient, but many that could possess a possible evil or flighty attitude.  As the saying goes, "It's so hard to find good help these days," and even those who are willing to do an honest job may charge you quite a bit for it.

That's just how I think it would work, anyway.

[Valynth]

It could be a symbiotic thing like "I feed you my emotions/whatnot or I give you a place to hide-out if you guard the areas of my mind" situation. 

A situation it which it is actually beneficial for the creature to defend the being's mind.

[Netami]

Like a symbiont?

LIKE VENOM?

Dude, cool, I want one.

[Anri]

Wait. Uhm. What? At the risk of continuing a derail, first amendment rights don't extend to private message boards anyway.

[Valynth]

never said it did, just pointed out the pro's of having a constitution.

Anyway, no, not like Venom.  Venom was a suit designed to fight cancer that developed a mind of its own.

one word does not a concept make

[Tezkat]

anyway, this is a interesting development.  Has there been records of a being sheltering/appeasing such a mind-thing in order to prevent 'cubi from entering the dream/mind?

Hmm... some kind of dream-protecting mind shield, either as a spell or artifact, would strike me as a simpler solution. Nonetheless, evidence thus far suggests that Cubi require contact with or at least close proximity to a person in order to surf their dreams. Thus, someone concerned about personal safety while they sleep would probably want to invest more in physical defences than oneirological ones.

Having a pet Squishy rolling around in one's dreams would be a neat way for Beings to ambush unsuspecting Cubi, though. Enough cases of that happening, and simple "Beware of Squishy" signs could be enough to ward off Cubi intrusion. 

[Alondro]

one word does not a concept make

*Fidel Castro*  Communism rocks!  Ha!  That R 2 wurds American pig! 

*Charles retaliates!*  Communism sucks badly.  Three words; hence better argument.  I win.

*Castro*  Damn American with big voca.. vocab... big list of words to use!

[superluser]

Communism sucks badly.

Er... does that mean it fails at sucking, and thus is good?

I'd prefer this phrasing:

2-4-6-8 Marxist crimes are very great!
Great meaning large or immense.  We use it in the pejorative sense!

[GabrielsThoughts]

see,for me it looks like a dragon, with many eye stalks and tentacles and we do know that Cubi and Dragons have a long standing feud for some unknown reason.

[Brunhidden]

What the kcvf is this gothic tihs now?

(Hurrah for backwards swearing!)

I thought it was something from the Neverending Story, but let me check...Hmm.  Doesn't seem to be that.

Also, I'm not sure if backwards writing is encouraged here.

actually i think the idea was used on an episode of 'red dwarf' where they took a trip through someones mind- most of the 'good' characteristics were in a graveyard with pathetic tombstones and self loathing had a castle complete with a harem

and if he gets to write backwards i start speaking in norwegan and vote whose posts hurt your eyes more

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.