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Christmas Chicanery v2 [message #41721] Thu, 16 June 2011 15:46 Go to next message
tensai is currently offline tensai
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Forums died, topics ceased to exist, etc, etc.

So, discussion thread recreated. Let's roll.

Story's here if you have trouble finding it.

[Updated on: Fri, 17 June 2011 05:17]

"It took her some time to accept that with such wings, her soul would never soar--but the fact that she could kick a man's lungs out through his spine was ultimately some small consolation." -ursulav
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Re: Christmas Chicanery v2 [message #41727 is a reply to message #41721 ] Thu, 16 June 2011 16:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
oljak.eru is currently offline oljak.eru
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Well, I guess the obvious question: What is your progress with a continuation? Part 1 left us with a cliffhanger...

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Re: Christmas Chicanery v2 [message #41728 is a reply to message #41721 ] Thu, 16 June 2011 16:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
tensai is currently offline tensai
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Right now, it's kind of on the backburner; I'm doing a fair bit of development work on some stuff for the IRC roleplay crowd.

"It took her some time to accept that with such wings, her soul would never soar--but the fact that she could kick a man's lungs out through his spine was ultimately some small consolation." -ursulav
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Re: Christmas Chicanery v2 [message #41746 is a reply to message #41721 ] Fri, 17 June 2011 03:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It might be wise to include links to stories that these posts are about in the OP thread.

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Re: Christmas Chicanery v2 [message #41750 is a reply to message #41746 ] Fri, 17 June 2011 05:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
tensai is currently offline tensai
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Ah, fair point. File hierarchy has been a little weird.

"It took her some time to accept that with such wings, her soul would never soar--but the fact that she could kick a man's lungs out through his spine was ultimately some small consolation." -ursulav
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Re: Christmas Chicanery v2 [message #41776 is a reply to message #41721 ] Fri, 17 June 2011 15:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re reading it I wonder why Greasy didn't just say, "Yes, it's a collapsible bo staff" rather admitting it was meant to be a stripper pole? I mean it would have been dishonest but honesty was likely to get him beat with a big metal pole. Very Happy

[Updated on: Fri, 17 June 2011 15:33]

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Re: Christmas Chicanery v2 [message #41805 is a reply to message #41776 ] Fri, 17 June 2011 19:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Odin wrote on Fri, 17 June 2011 12:32
Re reading it I wonder why Greasy didn't just say, "Yes, it's a collapsible bo staff" rather admitting it was meant to be a stripper pole? I mean it would have been dishonest but honesty was likely to get him beat with a big metal pole. Very Happy


Greasy has no qualms about being dishonest. Unfortunately, he has to use his brain for that, and he's a teenaged boy. A teenaged inventor. He only accesses his brain when he's in Workshop.

Diane

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Re: Christmas Chicanery v2 [message #41811 is a reply to message #41721 ] Fri, 17 June 2011 20:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
tensai is currently offline tensai
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Not to mention that saying 'Yeah, it's a bo staff' will in the end raise -more- questions. Everyone knows what Greasy makes, and it's definitely not extendable staves for hand-to-hand fighting. Especially not ones that go out to about twelve feet long and have high-friction contact patches on each end.

If you wanted to look at it on a metasyntactic level, Greasy's honesty here is actually representative of the learned helplessness that he's internalized as a result of his life experiences; nothing he does ever works out, so why bother lying in the first place unless there's something more to it that fails to reinforce this prevailing worldview?

"It took her some time to accept that with such wings, her soul would never soar--but the fact that she could kick a man's lungs out through his spine was ultimately some small consolation." -ursulav
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Re: Christmas Chicanery v2 [message #41814 is a reply to message #41721 ] Fri, 17 June 2011 22:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ok, thanks!
That was my only question. Smile
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Re: Christmas Chicanery v2 [message #41818 is a reply to message #41721 ] Fri, 17 June 2011 23:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I just figured he decided that as long as he was honest, he'd be less likely to be hurt in the long run.
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Re: Christmas Chicanery v2 [message #42364 is a reply to message #41811 ] Fri, 24 June 2011 17:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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tensai wrote on Sat, 18 June 2011 02:45
nothing he does ever works out,

I thought that Greasy was actually a good deviser.
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Re: Christmas Chicanery v2 [message #42368 is a reply to message #42364 ] Fri, 24 June 2011 17:41 Go to previous message
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Greasy is a good devisor, it is just that nothing he does ever works out the way he wanted it to. That has nothing to do with his skill as a devisor, and everything to do with his life sucking.
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