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Kurieg posted:The early to mid 2000s must have been an The world needs more of this.
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Doodmons posted:Yeah there is. As of Requiem 2nd edition, torpor dreams don't just scramble all your old memories and give you Fog of Ages, they also give your weirdly prophetic visions of what the world is going to be like when you wake up that make it very easy to adapt to whatever time period you end up in. There's a fiction piece written by an ancilla whose job it is to help torpored elders adjust to the modern world once they've woken up and she's like "this job is easy as gently caress, the elders pop out of their coffins and within a day or two they already know more about the modern world than I do. I still don't get Twitter and they're happily tapping away on smartphones." There's also a bit in Ancient Mysteries that covers how an elder's mental malleability in coming out of long-term torpor actually makes them ripe for indoctrination and brainwashing by anyone less-than-scrupulous who just so happened to find them as they were awakening (assuming that one party didn't instead immediately try to eat the other, of course).
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Jun 20, 2016 19:33
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"Somebody's going to have to explain to Aloysius that the term "deathmatch" isn't literal." "Not it."
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Kurieg posted:The early to mid 2000s must have been a terrible time then. Somewhere there's a Mekhet Elder obsessed with finding out the truth behind the stupid pendant in Dark Souls. It must mean something!
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Somewhere, deep in the bowels of the Ordo Dracul sanctum, lies a forgotten mausoleum lain dorment for untold centuries. Suddenly the sealing stone shatters as it's inhabitant breaks it in a fit of rage. It howls, screeching in a long forgotten tongue with vocal cords too dry for coherent speech, but somewhere buried in the noise are two intelligible words. "NERF BASTION!"
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Jun 20, 2016 20:34
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I think it was Yawgmoth in some iteration of this thread years ago that discussed a bunch of decrepit old vampires making friendship bracelets and declaring each other "besties" with the utmost gravity and gently caress me if I can remember the context for it but that mental image has stuck with me. This sort of thing is why y'all are still good people even if we'll argue over the same bullshit until the end of time 
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Jun 20, 2016 21:40
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Daeren posted:I think it was Yawgmoth in some iteration of this thread years ago that discussed a bunch of decrepit old vampires making friendship bracelets and declaring each other "besties" with the utmost gravity and gently caress me if I can remember the context for it but that mental image has stuck with me. A group of elders awakens, and gather to discuss how the world has changed in their absence. They absorb the culture of the time, through blood and nightmare, and the majestic band, enslaved to the will of these darks gods of the night and equipped with the most valuable of antique instruments, begins playing Justin Bieber to set the mood.
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Jun 20, 2016 21:43
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Latest Network Zero is up where we look at Vampire the Requiem 2nd edition and do our best to talk as little about Masquerade as possible. http://networkzero.podbean.com/e/network-zero-2/
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"In the depths of torpor, I heard much of the title, "Bae". Tell me, neonate, is "Bae On Fleek" of a higher rank than a "Woke Bae"? *Blood runs out of eyes and ears.*
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I think the elder who believes the Moon Landings weren't fake would be the exception rather than the rule.
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gtrmp posted:There's also a bit in Ancient Mysteries that covers how an elder's mental malleability in coming out of long-term torpor actually makes them ripe for indoctrination and brainwashing by anyone less-than-scrupulous who just so happened to find them as they were awakening (assuming that one party didn't instead immediately try to eat the other, of course). Ooh yeah, there was a story seed where a bunch of Carthian neonates got their claws on one and now Duke Von Sieur de la Graf is talking about the upcoming revolution but getting more and more confused as to why, in fact, he is supporting this cause, and will probably try to kill all of them once he realizes what happened.
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Kavak posted:"In the depths of torpor, I heard much of the title, "Bae". Tell me, neonate, is "Bae On Fleek" of a higher rank than a "Woke Bae"? This is pretty great. Now I actually want to run Vampire just to play this out and see how magical it can get.
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I'm closing in on the end-game of the Project, at least for the original run of the World of Darkness. There are a few more titles for 2003, and then just 13 titles total in 2004 and a few novels I need to catch up on, and it'll be done to-date.
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Loomer posted:I'm closing in on the end-game of the Project, at least for the original run of the World of Darkness. There are a few more titles for 2003, and then just 13 titles total in 2004 and a few novels I need to catch up on, and it'll be done to-date. Madman. A completely awesome madman, but a madman.
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Loomer posted:I'm closing in on the end-game of the Project, at least for the original run of the World of Darkness. There are a few more titles for 2003, and then just 13 titles total in 2004 and a few novels I need to catch up on, and it'll be done to-date. So when Australia sinks into the ocean and a new sea of boiling blood forms we can safely blame you, then. I'm sure the tabloids'll blame the boats though 
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You're going to post it somewhere for us, obviously, right?
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Daeren posted:So when Australia sinks into the ocean and a new sea of boiling blood forms we can safely blame you, then. It'll be our turn to face the consequences of our misdeeds, as thousands of terrified white people stream to other nations babbling about the Blood Gods only to be met with furious crowds made up of the people we locked in torture camps screaming 'stop the boats' at us while armed with torches and pitchforks. Punting posted:You're going to post it somewhere for us, obviously, right? The plan is to send it to Onyx Path or White Wolf first as an unsolicited submission, and if they don't want it (which is like, 100% certain), to post it up somewhere. I'm expecting people will be more interested in the lineage charts and demographic information than the raw name lists so those'll be 'consumer facing', so to speak, though if OPP or WW for some bizarre reason (perhaps pity, or fear I will come to their offices in person?) want it I expect they'd be more interested in its ability to act as an index for quick reference.
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Is it bad that I want to run machine learning at The Project and just see what happens? (Loomer, what format is it in right now? Can I read it into python without too much of a hassle?) Also, to everyone doing Elder chat a few days ago : read The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross if you haven't.
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The Kickstarter for Beckett's Jyhad Diary is up, including a good chunk of text on Google docs. So far I've read chapters involving current events in Milwaukee, the Black Monastery, the Endless Night, and what the hell actually is under New York. All good stuff.
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Now that we're looking at new V20 stuff, it reminds me: Have we heard any word about what Paradox is doing with the license yet? Mendrian fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Jun 24, 2016 00:44
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What's the Project, some vampire thing?
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Nomadic Scholar posted:What's the Project, some vampire thing? Trying to catalogue the genealogy of every single vampire mentioned in Masquerade material, back to Caine. Loomer is quite insane, you see.
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Mendrian posted:Now that we're looking at new V20 stuff, it reminds me: None that I know of. I can't imagine they're going to squat on it until Obsidian has cleared its schedule (Assuming they want them to do Bloodlines 2 or whatever), but so far it's just been local LARP stuff. Kavak fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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This sounds like work for a team. Not just just one lone goon. Godspeed you crazy soldier. (I should probably play that masquerade game)
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Daeren posted:Loomer is quite insane, you see. New thread title?
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Xiahou Dun posted:Is it bad that I want to run machine learning at The Project and just see what happens? It's in doc files rather than something sane like an excel spreadsheet, mostly for ease of use though it means I'll have to import it into the database formats later. Fortunately, it all adheres to coherent internal logic, including the signifiers of generation, age, nationality, etc all being in the same place 90% of the time which means it should be easy to automate and just clean up mistakes. Nomadic Scholar posted:What's the Project, some vampire thing? It started out as what Daeren said, but it's since become an encyclopedic listing of each and every supernatural (and some of the mortals) in the oWoD, along with associated companies/fronts/products. There's also a comprehensive timeline that, once I'm done, should list every major event of the oWoD (not minor poo poo like 'oh this is when some random vampire got embraced, but stuff like the Praxis of a city changing hands or major conflict between Garou tribes.)
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Loomer posted:It's in doc files rather than something sane like an excel spreadsheet, mostly for ease of use though it means I'll have to import it into the database formats later. Fortunately, it all adheres to coherent internal logic, including the signifiers of generation, age, nationality, etc all being in the same place 90% of the time which means it should be easy to automate and just clean up mistakes. Shine on you magnificently crazy bastard.
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Loomer posted:It's in doc files rather than something sane like an excel spreadsheet, mostly for ease of use though it means I'll have to import it into the database formats later. Fortunately, it all adheres to coherent internal logic, including the signifiers of generation, age, nationality, etc all being in the same place 90% of the time which means it should be easy to automate and just clean up mistakes. Have you seen Ahistory: An Unauthorized History of Doctor Who? It's basically the same kind of insane quest, except it attempts to make a coherent chronology out of every Dr Who story EVER in EVERY medium, which is trick because Time Travel.
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I think the difference between these two things is that one will be an undecipherable mess while the other is the Project.
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You'd think the Project would make Loomer Awaken. You'd be wrong though. He's become an OWoDomancer Adept, oddly enough.
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Loomer posted:It's in doc files rather than something sane like an excel spreadsheet, mostly for ease of use though it means I'll have to import it into the database formats later. Fortunately, it all adheres to coherent internal logic, including the signifiers of generation, age, nationality, etc all being in the same place 90% of the time which means it should be easy to automate and just clean up mistakes. Huh. .doc of all things, really? You could probably just reg-ex/string process at it and clean it up pretty easily. Would you be okay with PMing me like a sample just so I can see the formatting? I've known about The Project forever, but now that you're actually wrapping up I've rapidly gone from "Wow, Loomer is insane" to "Wow, holy poo poo I want to look at this".
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fez_machine posted:Have you seen Ahistory: An Unauthorized History of Doctor Who? It's basically the same kind of insane quest, except it attempts to make a coherent chronology out of every Dr Who story EVER in EVERY medium, which is trick because Time Travel. THIRD EDITION
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Nomadic Scholar posted:
fez_machine posted:Have you seen Ahistory: An Unauthorized History of Doctor Who? It's basically the same kind of insane quest, except it attempts to make a coherent chronology out of every Dr Who story EVER in EVERY medium, which is trick because Time Travel. I have not, but god speed them. I'm pretty sure they've picked a much, much harder windmill to tilt at. JohnnyCanuck posted:You'd think the Project would make Loomer Awaken.  ? I think?Xiahou Dun posted:Huh. .doc of all things, really? Sure thing. Loomer fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Jun 25, 2016 |
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Nines and Bloodlines are finally canon 
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Kaza42 posted:THIRD EDITION Well there's also the Addendum to the Third Edition: http://www.madnorwegian.com/1029/books/ahistory-an-unauthorized-history-of-the-doctor-who-universe-2012-2013-update/
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You know that Mage illustration of the Free Council guy in a Geek Squad vest standing with a pile of random computer parts in a village? I can never find it when I need it (always). Does anyone have it or know what book it's in?
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Kellsterik posted:You know that Mage illustration of the Free Council guy in a Geek Squad vest standing with a pile of random computer parts in a village? I can never find it when I need it (always). Does anyone have it or know what book it's in? freecouncil.jpg  it's in legacies of the sublime in the transhuman engineers section btw
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NutritiousSnack posted:Nines and Bloodlines are finally canon Weren't the bloodlines anarchs left out of anarchs unbound?
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