Not Thou Shalt Not. Say I WILL not.(He/Him)

What is your opinion on the Sub-Chapter, where the Family tries to get help from the Second Inquestion, as this episode has bureaucracy talk and shows the coalition bickering and other things.

Thank you!

Sorry about that, but yeah! It was interesting!

First off, let me just say that I'm SO glad that they didn't end up getting in bed with the Wyrmeffers.

Seriously, frick that noise!

And as awful as it is that Occam ended up in the situation that he did, for the moment, it's at least better than dealing with the Wyrmfreaks.

But good gravy! That Blacklaw chick was an absolute battleaxe! Yet somehow, I disliked the woman with the shades SO much more.

Liked the Union dudes, though. Just a bunch of normal guys trying to survive the nonesense that the world throws at them & being unfortunate enough to have to be on a leash held by the Coalition.

But beyond that, the family should've come in with intellectual ammunition. In a world like WoD where information isn't just power, but even a cause for murder, you don't just walk in without a means of gaining the advantage.

Yet, the only one there who did was Door & he let it go far too freely. That sort of info could've been utilized as leverage.

It's part of why I think D really messed up. Had he kept his cool half as well as Door, he could've utilized that well of information that he calls a noggin far better. If nothing else, he could've had the witch in the shades eating outta his hand had he applied the right preassure. *sighs* Truly disappointing.

But then, I can't exactly blame him. His son's life was on the line after all.

In very understandable ways, they were in a horrible situation.

But starting negotiations by insulting everyone at the table, and then telling them you are desperate enough to take any deal they might offer... is... uh... a choice.

As certain as I am that negotiations would have been the right choice, I am also fairly certain that the D-Family could have gotten the Union, the Swedes, and probably the Newberg Group to a reasonable deal. Definitly the Union and the Swedes.

Well, barring Pentex under Blair didn't come in there with a full plan to fuck over the D-Family, but I honestly doubt that. Before today, they were too small fries to really register for Pentex.

But uh... Door did not really get an advantage. I feel like he really painted a target on the family's back. Because Pentex and subsidiaries do not want anyone to know they worship the wyrm. That is high-level stuff, and more importantly, it hurts profits and the doomsday deadline. And Door very handily implied he knows they worship the wyrm. There are very likely corporate death squads in the family's future.

One thing you did not mention was how the D-Family also completely disregarded their allies. Occam was clearly on their side, and Blacklaw, despite his issues, had aligned interests. Yet every use of those resources was a courtesy extended towards the family, and not a discussed and bargained-for advantage. If Blacklaw was willing to pay for the Union for nothing in return and Occam was willing to invoke Treaty and Marriage, how much could the family have gotten out of him had they been willing to join forces, and essentially work the room together with their allies?

What is your opinion on the Sub-Chapter, where the Family tries to get help from the Second Inquestion, as this episode has bureaucracy talk and shows the coalition bickering and other things.

Thank you!

Sorry about that, but yeah! It was interesting!

First off, let me just say that I'm SO glad that they didn't end up getting in bed with the Wyrmeffers.

Seriously, frick that noise!

And as awful as it is that Occam ended up in the situation that he did, for the moment, it's at least better than dealing with the Wyrmfreaks.

But good gravy! That Blacklaw chick was an absolute battleaxe! Yet somehow, I disliked the woman with the shades SO much more.

Liked the Union dudes, though. Just a bunch of normal guys trying to survive the nonesense that the world throws at them & being unfortunate enough to have to be on a leash held by the Coalition.

But beyond that, the family should've come in with intellectual ammunition. In a world like WoD where information isn't just power, but even a cause for murder, you don't just walk in without a means of gaining the advantage.

Yet, the only one there who did was Door & he let it go far too freely. That sort of info could've been utilized as leverage.

It's part of why I think D really messed up. Had he kept his cool half as well as Door, he could've utilized that well of information that he calls a noggin far better. If nothing else, he could've had the witch in the shades eating outta his hand had he applied the right preassure. *sighs* Truly disappointing.

But then, I can't exactly blame him. His son's life was on the line after all.

I've been thinkin a lot about Falin's weight journey over the course of dunmeshi lately so I wanted to compile my thoughts into a reference for myself :3 Cropped individual drawings under the cut!

Fatphobic comments will get you blocked immediately - reflect on internalized fatphobia privately, my notes are not the place for that.

Jean still did leave Harry to die prior to the game.

And how you as a fanfic author or fan, really, chose to interpret that and how you sell it to others, that is up to you.

Narratively Jean is the final boss fight. That's game mechanics. And the freaky thing is no matter what you say, the outcome has already been decided when you enter that conversation.

But you can't write fanfic like game mechanics. Then you need to figure out how Jean would rationalize his behaviour as a human, to be able to sell his character as believable and not cartoonishly evil.

Because no character really is.

It seemed pretty clear to me that Jean at no point expected Harry to be in actual deadly danger. He thought Harry was throwing an angry fit and essentially went. "Yeah, I am not getting paid enough to deal with this. We'll be back in a few days when he has cooled down to a level where you can actually work with him again."

As for the two times during the game itself? Before the tribunal, its clearly Judith who makes the call, based on the fact that it doesn't look like anything is going to happen today, and they have other stuff to do as well.

i do not think those people know what artificial intelligence means.

Because no definition I ever heard specifically excluded sentience.

i do not think those people know what artificial intelligence means.

Because no definition I ever heard specifically excluded sentience.

i do not think those people know what artificial intelligence means.

Because no definition I ever heard specifically excluded sentience.

i do not think those people know what artificial intelligence means.

Because no definition I ever heard specifically excluded sentience.

i do not think those people know what artificial intelligence means.

Because no definition I ever heard specifically excluded sentience.

I know that there aren’t really specific rules(?) to them because they can’t be confined to boxes, but I struggle to define some of them.

I can point out the Beholding the easiest, it’s what calls to me, and I can understand the concept of it well enough to know how to pick it out in a crowd. I can go into the Beholding and why it calls to me in another post if anybody wants to hear.

The second Fear that I can spot easiest would be the Lonely, it’s a concept that doesn’t have much to differentiate, of course some of it can fall into Vast territory, but it’s easy enough to point out.

The third would be the Spiral, which, I actually do have a lot of issues with when I have to point it out. It’s confusing, and I like that a lot. It’s fun to write, but I struggle to see where some of it branches off into the Stranger.

The Stranger and the Flesh are probably the hardest for me to define. I dunno why, they just are.

So you can often just say "Yeah, this could be the stranger, but here and now its the spiral."

I understand that it isn't all that helpful, but there is overlap and connection and muddled things that don't fit anything, really.

So to differentiate... if it helps you, think of what kind of supernatural phenomenon you want to write, and then decide "What fear vibes do I want it to have in my story." And go of that, even if another fear could fit just as reasonably.

As for the Stranger and the Flesh?

The Stranger is about the fear of the other. This person isn't quite right; this person has been secretly replaced by something else. As well as the fear of becoming the other. Losing your personality, your sense of self, your face.

The Flesh is the fear about being reduced to your meat. Humans treated like livestock raised for meat, cannibalism, body mutiliation, body dysphoria. When your mind does not match your meat and everyone treats the meat as more important, or you yourself can only treat the meat as more important.

Here they are! 15 Tactical Breach Wizards themed tarot cards out of 22, not bad! Anyways there's a LOT of text about the thought process of choosing each character below the cut, so, enjoy! And Happy Holidays, everybody!

*: Reroll open ocean results. Let's assume the teleporter has the decency to at least deposit you on solid ground.