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builds character posted:They probably wouldn't have been afraid of a girl who could control mosquitos either. yeah but that changed pretty fast.
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I think Ur probably has something to do with the region not collectively trying to poo poo on Blake. Well. Any more than they were already doing.
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Tollymain posted:yeah but that changed pretty fast. See, e.g., Alexandra. 
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man that was such a loving stupid set of decisions by the prt folks. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, especially when the goddamn bird in the hand has the ability to inject you with deadly venom using little more than its mind 
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I wonder if it's possible to split good and bad karma. Instead of going into one big pool that cancels out good and bad, store good karma separately so that it can be passed on to a different person from the bad karma. Certainly could explain why the Thorburn heirs have had such monumentally lovely luck while Blake lately seems to be catching a lot of breaks for a Wildbow protagonist.
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Grundulum posted:I wonder if it's possible to split good and bad karma. Instead of going into one big pool that cancels out good and bad, store good karma separately so that it can be passed on to a different person from the bad karma. Certainly could explain why the Thorburn heirs have had such monumentally lovely luck while Blake lately seems to be catching a lot of breaks for a Wildbow protagonist. Karma manipulation is definitely possible; see The Benevolent, but I think it was stated that Blake's karma got reset after falling into the Abyss.
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Tollymain posted:man that was such a loving stupid set of decisions by the prt folks. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, especially when the goddamn bird in the hand has the ability to inject you with deadly venom using little more than its mind In fairness, Alexandria was completely immune to poison. Just... not to having her lungs literally filled with insects. 
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Namarrgon posted:Karma manipulation is definitely possible; see The Benevolent, but I think it was stated that Blake's karma got reset after falling into the Abyss. Was it explicitly stated? I dont remember it. But, it is definitely a theory I ascribe to. It only makes sense since his Other side has almost completely taken over. His negative thorburn (human) karma doesn't apply to him anymore. Actually it is probably still on Rose. So, good luck to her if she tries to directly act against Blake.
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Tollymain posted:speaking of karma i'm confused; jeremy is saying that the karma hit for attacking blake now would be less than turning on the duchamps. now he's turning on the duchamps? He's telling Blake that he's betraying Sandra
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ah, i read it as "if i let you go i'm betraying my wife in doing so"
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He's saying that he doesn't give a drat about Karma at the moment, since what he's about to do is even more costly in that regard than attacking Blake would be. Speaking of Karma, I'd say that 'People actually listen sometimes when you try to convince them of something' certainly seems like the biggest advantage of not having a giant Karmic debt so far.
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Any idea why he's turning on Sandra? I'm not entirely clear on that, is it so Blake can finish breaking the family like he proposed? Does he want to be Lord? Does he want Sandra to be free of the family? Ahaha holy poo poo I just realised Evan killed the pyromancer with the bucket trick. Could this be the beginnings of FLAME SPARROW. Saros fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Nov 20, 2014 |
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Saros posted:Any idea why he's turning on Sandra? I'm not entirely clear on that, is it so Blake can finish breaking the family like he proposed? Does he want to be Lord? Does he want Sandra to be free of the family? Someone in the comments suggested it's because Jeremy thinks breaking the Duchamps, and thereby freeing Sandra, is worth the greater karmic hit of turning on his wife. Seems legit to me. The Duchamp family rules broke up their marriage, and he says he truly loves her. If those things are both true, he's trying to break the Duchamps to save her. Pretty epic.
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and i imagine dionysus is glued to the loving screen of this soap opera now when is hero historia making its triumphant return?
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Soon! I'm hustling to get my current novel ready for a holiday release. The next HH chapter will start as soon as the revisions are done, mid-late December.
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Well that seemed a bit too easy.
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Fellwenner posted:Well that seemed a bit too easy. I agree. Something seems fishy.
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Nah. That guy is really loving dead. The guy who practices Karma just got stabbed in the chest by a dude who basically is walking talking Karma.
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It would be pretty awesome if The Benevolent just assumed a Bogeyman can not possibly have enough positive karma to harm him.
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Anyway, so I think I might know what Grandma Rose's objective is. She wants to change at least one of the rules that govern this hosed up universe. My guess is specifically the rule about anything damaged, changed, or destroyed by a demon being unfix-able. I think this world is governed not so much by it's rules, but by the belief of mortals (and others) in those rules. The problem being that belief in those rules reinforces belief in those rules. So if you wanted to change on of these rules we'll it'd be drat hard, you'd have the weight of hundreds or thousands of years of tradition reinforcing it. You'd have to do something really flagrant and public and it'd take a poo poo load of power, likely more than any single individual could bring to bear. But what, on the other hand, if you just tricked a whole lot of people into thinking that you broke one of these rules without actually breaking it. Like by convincing people you used a demon to split a single individual into pieces and then you put that individual back together again, but you never used a demon in the first place, everyone just thought it was a demon because, c'mon your a diabolist of course the scary bound horror you made use of is a demon right? And while I'm sure the demons would like to stop your plan from working, because lets face it they probably know about it somehow, they can't exactly come out and tell people that their "prized" diabolist who increased their cache in the world wasn't actually making any use of demons in the first place can they? Wouldn't want to diminish themselves by association. Well then, they'll still try to gently caress this up, but at least they have to do it on the down low, meaning we can at least try and deal with it. My biggest question at this what effect on this plan did the Lawyers (and thus the demons) conspiring to get Blake killed have? Did Granny actually want the Lawyers to lead Blake to Urasur? Did the individuals the Firm employs conspire to lead Blake to Urasur instead of simply getting him killed as a gently caress you to the demons? Can Humpty Dumpty still be put back together again when some of the pieces are no longer, strictly speaking, pieces of the original?
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What about the seal of Solomon? If I had to guess I would say that she wanted to break or modify it in some fashion. How exactly is still kind of unclear.
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Grandma Rose has/had never expressed concern about the Seal of Solomon, at least as far as we know. She does however express concerns about both Tradition and humanity, or maybe the whole of realities, chances against the Demons. And, being as the damage done by demons can never be healed or truly reversed, her concerns bear some weight I think.
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Milky Moor posted:gently caress SAINT please elaborate
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Blasphemeral posted:That's very likely. Knowledge of that fact, however, does not further our understanding of his or her boner (or anti-boner, depending on the usage of "gently caress") for Saint. It kinda does. Saint does that thing shutting down Dragon when mankind is literally fighting for survival.
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Namarrgon posted:It kinda does. Saint does that thing shutting down Dragon when mankind is literally fighting for survival. Ok, if that's actually where he is. If not, talking about that spoils the end. Hence people asking him to clarify what he's talking about. I mean, thinking "gently caress this Saint guy" before then is totally a thing you could do.
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So what's left? Wrapping up the lordship, the resolution with Rose and then a boss fight with Urasur is pretty much it.
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Conquest and the lawyers also.
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hollylolly posted:Maybe he still has plans to use them. I'm sure he does, he never let any plot thread dangle in Worm.
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