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Cup Runneth Over posted:They're thralls, not ghouls, no? Ghouls are another form of undead Vampire the Masquerade thing. Mortals who exchange blood with a vampire become ghouls, who are still humans but have heightened abilities, health, and regenerative powers, and also are under that vampire's thrall.
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Was re-reading earlier chapters looking for brotherhood stuff and this comic comments gag gets me every single time
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Oct 19, 2019 01:05
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Mystic Mongol posted:Vampire the Masquerade thing. Mortals who exchange blood with a vampire become ghouls, who are still humans but have heightened abilities, health, and regenerative powers, and also are under that vampire's thrall. everything else just calls that 'thrall,' because ghouls are a different thing
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Oct 19, 2019 01:25
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good luck getting people to stop using it that way lmao
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Oct 19, 2019 01:40
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Patware posted:everything else just calls that 'thrall,' because ghouls are a different thing Really? I've never seen a ghoul, hook me up.
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Oct 19, 2019 05:28
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I have only ever seen Ghoul in the context of eaters of human corpses. I've always liked when thralls get called Renfields though.
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Oct 19, 2019 06:09
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ghouls are corpse-eaters, graverobbers, cannibalistic scavengers they tend to be depicted as feral, physically degenerated humans. they can be highly aggressive or just scavengers that avoid trouble. often associated with disease. sometimes theyre just fantasy superzombies, sometimes theyre cursed people. i think the myth originates from arabia
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Oct 19, 2019 06:22
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Well, to turn down the snark a bit, I was failing to communicate that there's nothing that ghouls "are" because they're not real. The Arabian origins of the word tie in pretty tightly to their VtM depiction... humans who have fallen due to an obsession, often sexual, with the dead, gripped by greed and gluttony, needing to drink something specific, lusting after power and immortality. The halfway step between kindred and kine are a huge part of a very popular RPG. D&D ghouls have 13 hit points and are boring. Elves used to be immune to their touch, but that got dropped after designers realized no one cared about ghouls. Forget they exist, and be richer for it.
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Mystic Mongol posted:Well, to turn down the snark a bit, I was failing to communicate that there's nothing that ghouls "are" because they're not real. would you use this same argument if someone said 'vampire' and was referring to an angry walking tree V:tM uses a lot of weird terminology that is unique specifically to it. if you go around saying 'ghouls' in mixed company, yeah, you're gonna get a bunch of people thinking you mean a lot of other poo poo hell the few V:tM players i know also just say thrall
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Oct 19, 2019 07:17
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world of darkness is pretty big in the cultural vampire-related landscape
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Oct 19, 2019 07:20
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Patware posted:would you use this same argument if someone said 'vampire' and was referring to an angry walking tree No, because the definition of vampire as an angry walking tree isn't significant as opposed to the constantly evolving monster that represents our sexual inadequacies, the fear of aging, the hatred of the rich, and the body horror that has evolved alongside our culture for centuries. Also your VtM buddies may have been talking about thralls in general, not all of whom are ghouls. There are lots of ways to get mortals to do your bidding! You could own their business, for example. Or have mesmeric powers, or just frame them for crimes and then take all of their stuff and dogs.
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Oct 19, 2019 07:29
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I hope you guys get this figured out because it's obviously a very important distinction
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Oct 19, 2019 07:59
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This is the only kind of ghoul that I will accept as canon.
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Oct 19, 2019 08:21
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People get so confused these days when I bring up zombies and ghosts and I'm like, how have you heard nothing about Kingdom Hearts yet?
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Oct 19, 2019 08:51
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Anyway these guys are clearly Familiars, ordinary humans serving a vampire in the hopes that he's eventually going to make them immortal by turning them into vampires.
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Oct 19, 2019 10:42
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the correct term forMystic Mongol posted:humans who have fallen due to an obsession, often sexual, with the dead, gripped by greed and gluttony, needing to drink something specific, lusting after power and immortality is "cops"
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Oct 19, 2019 12:00
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:the correct term is "cops"
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:the correct term is "cops" Edit: Looking at the last panel, with Davy Superman-ing, this means that he was wearing a mascot costume with an inflatable suit, over a police uniform with a bulletproof vest, over a pinstripe suit. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 12:18 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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Patware posted:would you use this same argument if someone said 'vampire' and was referring to an angry walking tree
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Brought To You By posted:Blood sucking trees are a thing in a couple of culture's folklore and urban legends. Add mobile roots and yeah, I'd accept a walking angry tree as a vampire.
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looking for "waking tree vampire" I found stuff about real-world walking trees, which are quite cool.quote:“As the soil erodes, the tree grows new, long roots that find new and more solid ground, sometimes up to 20m,” said Vrsansky. “Then, slowly, as the roots settle in the new soil and the tree bends patiently toward the new roots, the old roots slowly lift into the air. The whole process for the tree to relocate to a new place with better sunlight and more solid ground can take a couple of years.” Also things about purported real-world man-eating trees, there's a lot of them, but none that have a documented actual existence.
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Oct 19, 2019 21:47
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rannum posted:Don't be ridiculous Who are these weirdos and how do they relate to our dog/conspiracy theory based comic known as Paranatural?
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Capfalcon posted:Who are these weirdos and how do they relate to our dog/conspiracy theory based comic known as Paranatural?
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Oct 20, 2019 01:57
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How long has it been since we saw Max's dad and sister? 10 years? 20?
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Oct 22, 2019 18:31
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T-man posted:How long has it been since we saw Max's dad and sister? 10 years? 20? I think it was there and a little bit of the next page. Last appearance of the dad was there. Then there's a lot of nonsense at school for the rest of chapter 5, and chapter 6 focuses on Steve so we don't see any of Max's family.
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Oct 22, 2019 19:08
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Max and his dad appeared in RJ's nonbinary epiphany flashback at the Insolent Children concert.
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T-man posted:How long has it been since we saw Max's dad and sister? 10 years? 20? It's been about 300 years but Zack keeps resetting our memories so they can alternate between redrawing everything and letting his wrists heal
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Renaissance Robot posted:It's been about 300 years but Zack keeps resetting our memories so they can alternate between redrawing everything and letting their wrists heal Curse that muscle memory
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Fortis posted:Max and his dad appeared in RJ's nonbinary epiphany flashback at the Insolent Children concert. http://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-5-page-187 oh hey you're right, i hadn't noticed that
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T-man posted:How long has it been since we saw Max's dad and sister? 10 years? 20? They were also at the start of the chapter when Stephen went to Max's dad's store
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Cup Runneth Over posted:They were also at the start of the chapter when Stephen went to Max's dad's store If y'all were looking for the page.
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Apropos of nothing while we wait: anyone else notice that the leaders of both youth gangs in the story have red hair? You think Paige dyes it too? Think it's normally black?
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Apropos of nothing while we wait: anyone else notice that the leaders of both youth gangs in the story have red hair? You think Paige dyes it too? Isaac isn't the leader of the Paranatural street gang, though????
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Who What Now posted:Isaac isn't the leader of the Paranatural street gang, though???? That's a club, not a gang. I'm talking about Johnny's and Paige's.
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A distinction without difference!
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Oct 23, 2019 22:34
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johnny doesn't have a gang, he has a stack
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Apropos of nothing while we wait: anyone else notice that the leaders of both youth gangs in the story have red hair? You think Paige dyes it too? Paige's ominous blue eyes did have me thinking of a certain class president, yeah.
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She'll turn out to be Johnny's sister and Steven will be embarrassed as gently caress to have not recognized her.
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I'm pretty sure it's implied in Chapter 3 that Johnny and his gang have fought them before. Or at least Johnny and Ollie have.
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http://www.paranatural.net//chapter-6-page-39 its vampires all the way down folks
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