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Chapter 15quote:I was docked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B53Vlje7mcM Chapter 16 quote:The game was all. It's interesting the Ketrans didn't have music I don't know why I think it is, but it seems to me that it is.
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Man, I forgot that apparently the Skrit Na have been around since before the Ellimist's ascension. That is a mind-boggling period of time to be the weird scavengers of the galaxy.
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# ? Aug 31, 2022 04:30 |
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This book is cool.
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# ? Aug 31, 2022 05:33 |
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Zore posted:Man, I forgot that apparently the Skrit Na have been around since before the Ellimist's ascension. That is a mind-boggling period of time to be the weird scavengers of the galaxy. Cockroaches always survive, I guess. (No disrespect intended to roaches)
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# ? Aug 31, 2022 05:35 |
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So the Ellimist is actually Sephiroth/Jenova?
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# ? Aug 31, 2022 05:59 |
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I really love the fact that Ellimist Chronicles is a piece of unashamedly weird science fiction.
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# ? Aug 31, 2022 07:54 |
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It's fascinating/terrifying that Father, with all his unfathomably accumulated knowledge, is a cruel god.Epicurius posted:It's interesting the Ketrans didn't have music I don't know why I think it is, but it seems to me that it is. Or, apparently, any of the thousands of other aliens Father has ever encountered! It's also interesting that in human societies, music is a universal aspect of culture. quote:Menno grinned at me, a cocky challenge. He placed his mouth around the mouthpiece and blew while strumming his fingers across the strings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tynWSAesAo (I genuinely like this song but it's also the funniest one I can think of to imagine Menno suddenly launching into and sending the Ellimist into a rhapsody) edit - or wait, maybe it's this one (I don't why but it has to be saxophone) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpuwcINDHnQ freebooter fucked around with this message at 09:49 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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that it's an instrument that has both mouthpiece/wind component and strings is interesting. makes me think.... bagpipes
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# ? Aug 31, 2022 10:33 |
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Mazerunner posted:that it's an instrument that has both mouthpiece/wind component and strings is interesting. Well, that fits with the horrible noise Ellimist made, at least
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# ? Aug 31, 2022 10:53 |
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Chapter 17quote:“Shall we immerse?” So this actually tells us something about Father, I think. Every living thing, every alien he's come across, he's killed. But he's lonely, so he kept the Ellimist alive so he could play games with him. But he's not really interested in the game. This is all about control. He's making the Ellimist play the games he wants to play when he wants to play them, and punishing him if he doesn't, and the Ellimist has to lose,, because winning means that the Ellimist knows something or is better at something than Father, and Father is the ultimate solipsist.The reason the Ellimist can win, though, is because Father has no actual creativity. He can only copy what he's absorbed from his victims. Chapter 18 quote:I thought that Father would kill me straightaway. But he didn’t. And this is how the Ellimist will overcome him. He's beating Father at his own game, because the Ellimist knows how to learn, and Father didn't realize that by binding Toomin to him, he also bound himself to Toomin.
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 04:08 |
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To quote Watchmen: I'm not trapped in the submarine extraterrestrial undying online graveyard afterlife game anemone with you. You're trapped in the submarine extraterrestrial undying online graveyard afterlife game anemone with me.
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 04:39 |
Father is a neat concept. Really neat. I don't know if I've seen anything quite like it elsewhere.
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 05:54 |
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This book is so loving cool you guys.
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 06:38 |
quote:I had devised a tactic of improvising in duet. I would offer a musical phrase, play for a few moments, then invite him to pick up the thread and extrapolate.
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 06:45 |
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I've read stories where people get absorbed into a hive mind but I don't think I've ever read one where they escape by hostile takeover. That's just the power of the arts!
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 06:59 |
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Father is a neat concept. Really neat. I don't know if I've seen anything quite like it elsewhere. Zonko_T.M. posted:I've read stories where people get absorbed into a hive mind but I don't think I've ever read one where they escape by hostile takeover. Yeah I was going to say, Father is basically the Zerg (without the ability to reproduce its members). And uh, Kerrigan kinda did that hostile takeover thing, too
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 08:03 |
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Feels good to be eleven again. I've tried to draw one of our Ketran friends
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 08:46 |
What's meant by pods?
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 08:57 |
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:What's meant by pods? No idea, and I couldn't find a way to draw "pods" that didn't look stupid. I await scholarly review.
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 09:02 |
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Probably some sort of feet, from the greek word podós meaning "foot". Feet that can hold on to stuff, obviously.
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 09:51 |
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Remalle posted:Turns out Father could only be defeated with the power of j a z z quote:But only a loser can sing the azures. the blues
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 11:55 |
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Zonko_T.M. posted:I've read stories where people get absorbed into a hive mind but I don't think I've ever read one where they escape by hostile takeover. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, depending on how you read the Transcendence ending.
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 12:31 |
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This is really great, I'm loving it so far. I might not have as a kid if I'd read it then but I'm certainly enjoying it now, god drat
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Tree Bucket posted:Feels good to be eleven again. I've tried to draw one of our Ketran friends I love it! And I want to get in on the fun, so here's more or less what I picture: I interpret "pods" fairly literally, to me they seem like bony protrusions a ketran can settle its on weight on when not in flight or docked. Nothing fancy, maybe it was more like an ankle bone when they were surface dwellers. I picture the docking talons having kind of moved backwards, so the ketrans can grip onto the structure behind them and still see forward. Otherwise, some batlike and some birdlike features. They never mention feathers, so I figured leathery wings. Quills and their coloring are prominent, so I made them into a kind of head and torso covering. I don't think they're supposed to have beaks but I always imagined them, and nothing else seems right now!
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Tree Bucket posted:Feels good to be eleven again. I've tried to draw one of our Ketran friends Neat! I always thought of them as bug people, myself. No idea why.
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Third Life Chapter 19 quote:The last mind I absorbed was Father himself. And when I took him, I took nothing. There was no Father. No mind at all. He was nothing but a sponge, in the end. A creature of the simplest biology, an accident of evolution: a predator sponge that linked with its prey. Father was nothing but his victims. And when I had absorbed and cut him off from all of his victims, Father was nothing more than so much seaweed. And Toomin isn't willing to die. Chapter 20 quote:It took thirty more years to do all I needed to do. It's sort of ironic. The Capasins, not understanding games, attacked Ket because they thought the Ketrans were manipulating other species, bending them to their wills. That action set up a chain reaction where the Ellimist is now doing exactly that. Epicurius fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Sep 2, 2022 |
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And yeah, The Ellimist is now an insanely advanced composite mind that bootstrapped itself through a technological singularity driven entirely by Toomin's refusal to ever say die.
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 03:26 |
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I can't really blame the Inner Worlders for opening fire on the eldritch monstrosity that suddenly appeared. If you're lucky you will die quickly and be spared the coming horror.
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 04:38 |
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Gotta say, from the perspective of a new reader, I was 100% expecting Menno to turn out to be Crayak, and then expected Father to be Crayak, and now they're both dead and I have no idea what the gently caress to think. So, you know, par for the course with this book, at least.
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 04:39 |
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feetnotes posted:I love it! And I want to get in on the fun, so here's more or less what I picture: Aww heck yes. I'm glad you found a solution for the pods that works biologically and aesthetically.
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CidGregor posted:Gotta say, from the perspective of a new reader, I was 100% expecting Menno to turn out to be Crayak, and then expected Father to be Crayak, and now they're both dead and I have no idea what the gently caress to think. God I remember reading as a kid and being certain of Father being Crayak too, especially with that chapter break between in Chapter 18 and Chapter 19. I love the image of this winged, technological horror emerging from Z-space and immediately talking to these warring races the way one talks to two wrestling kindergarteners.
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 05:26 |
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Hey, Ellimist, I've played this game before.
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 15:50 |
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the real comparison is the super underrated classic Millennia: Altered Destinies
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 15:54 |
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An Actual Princess posted:the real comparison is the super underrated classic Millennia: Altered Destinies In the next chapter, the Ellimist helps a race of fish people deal with the Clawfish threat.
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 16:02 |
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The Ellimist, Player of Games
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# ? Sep 3, 2022 03:51 |
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Unfortunately, we're going to have to see how they respond to his demand tomorrow. More chapters then.
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# ? Sep 3, 2022 04:41 |
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Loading screens suck, but they're a necessary evil, I suppose.
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WrightOfWay posted:I can't really blame the Inner Worlders for opening fire on the eldritch monstrosity that suddenly appeared. If you're lucky you will die quickly and be spared the coming horror. It reminds me of the biblically accurate depictions of what angels looked like. Just something Lovecraftian that blows your mind
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# ? Sep 4, 2022 01:16 |
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Chapter 21quote:Two sets of furious faces appeared to me. The Jallians were represented by a multi-armed slug of sorts. She had no name, only a title, a designation. She was Life-giver of the Jain Sea. And indeed she was giving birth as she appeared to my enhanced sight. One after another, small, squirming grubs slid gooey and red from slits arranged in a circle around her middle. The grubs were picked up and carried away by attendants - the type of creatures I’d seen writhing in vacuums just moments earlier. So, will this come back to haunt him? Chapter 22 quote:It was as if the galaxy had conspired to make sense of my disjointed, fractured, bizarre life. I have a feeling I'm going to be rapidly adding to my list of genocides in post 2.
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Epicurius posted:
Oh great, one of the minds Ellimist absorbed was Jordan Peterson
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