IRC log for #cyrannus on 20150916

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07:49.10Liquid_InkHello
07:53.42GhelaeHello.
07:53.58Liquid_InkHow are you?
07:55.38GhelaeI'm okay; how about you?
07:55.55Liquid_InkMeh
08:10.25Liquid_InkI've been thinking about precursors
08:13.36GhelaeOkay.
08:14.00Liquid_InkThe Milky Way appears to have a wide variety, and I was thinking of throwing in a new set. The Venhokwe and the Sequence, as dear as they are, effect my modern fiction minimally, as I've said
08:17.38GhelaeDo you have any further ideas about this new set, besides the implication that they will affect your other fiction more?
08:19.04GhelaeAnd the Lovecraftian theme you mentioned.
08:19.58Liquid_InkMostly, the Golden King will be one of them.
08:20.25Liquid_InkI'm not going to make them Lovecraft's things, but they will definitely draw inspiration from the Great Old Ones
08:23.41GhelaeThe current Milky Way Precursors, excluding Vida'Rra, span times from 65 million to a few tens of thousands of years ago. Even within that time frame there's plenty of room for other species.
08:23.52Liquid_InkOf course
08:25.21Liquid_InkWait, weren't the Vida'Rra Borealis precursors?
08:28.45GhelaeThey're basically everywhere Precursors, but their empire started in th Milky Way.
08:29.07Ghelaethe*
08:29.57Liquid_InkI love how Cube Worlds were canonised.
08:32.42Liquid_InkI also don't want my precursors to end up like the others with ascension and wars and being eaten by a bigger fish
08:32.59Liquid_InkPerhaps a variation of war, of a distinctly different flavour to everyone else
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08:38.11Liquid_InkHey
08:38.13Liquid_InkHow's bridging?
08:38.18WormydroidHi
08:38.31WormydroidLast day of itctoday
08:39.06WormydroidA bit boring, being taugh things I already know
08:39.36Liquid_InkI see
08:40.08WormydroidReport writing, harvard referenci bbc gx mind mapping etc
08:40.20WormydroidBut tutorw are nice
08:40.26WormydroidTutors
08:40.57WormydroidHarvard referencing and mind mapping
08:42.17WormydroidHave to be up early as well
08:42.39WormydroidWhich is a shock after a summer of staying in bed till lunchtime
08:44.59Liquid_InkI imagine it would be
08:47.35Liquid_InkGhelae: I think that at some point they all go mad and start killing each other in an orgy of freedom and ecstasy, and somehow absorb each other's strength while doing so, leaving just a handful of super-beings at the end of it.
08:50.40GhelaeI'd say that's original enough, yeah.
08:51.09GhelaeIt should suffice to leave the mechanics of strength-absorption undefined, too.
08:51.18Liquid_InkYeah
08:53.08Liquid_InkAlso I think they'll be shapeshifty sorts of beings with no fixed forms. Like the Oikoumene but without the preference for Saurians. Much more tendrils and mouths and hooves
08:54.59Liquid_InkI was more thinking Octocattle.
08:55.27Liquid_InkOf course, some may take human shape, or avian, or saurian, whatever.
08:56.07WormyawayI see
08:57.17Liquid_Inkhttp://tentaclesandteeth.deviantart.com/art/Shub-Niggurath-Model-Sheet-447926634 Wormyaway
08:59.00Liquid_InkInstead of going technology so advanced it looks like magic, I'm going to leave it very ambiguous on whether it's superscience or genuine magic.
08:59.07Liquid_InkStill need some sort of pre-maddening culture for them.
09:00.47WormyawayMagic is in the mind
09:01.14WormyawayEven tech can be magical in the most mundane sense
09:02.20WormyawayLiquid is it NSFU at all?
09:03.57Liquid_InkNo.
09:15.29Liquid_InkI'll probably have a Lovecraft feel all the way through
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11:21.27Gaseous_InkOne of the more interesting aliens in Lovecraft are the Great Race of Yith. Although looking them up gives a distinct appearence, this is not their true form. They are minds that can swap bodies with any other being, regardless of space and time.
11:30.06Gaseous_InkThey've used this to escape extinction several times, destroying whatever species whose bodies they steal
11:30.23Gaseous_InkAnd they're considered the closest thing the Cthulhu mythos has to a "good" race.
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11:35.52WormydroidHi
11:36.01Gaseous_InkHey
11:36.39WormydroidI need to change my phone settings to browse DA
11:36.47WormydroidJust post it to me tonight
11:38.01Gaseous_InkHmm?
11:38.24WormydroidThe art you triedto show me
11:39.14Gaseous_InkYou want the link again?
11:39.49WormydroidLink it to me when I log on in my night time
11:40.16WormydroidI need to change by phone settings
11:40.22Gaseous_InkThat'll be a while. I'm not going on tomorrow morning.
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11:41.09WormydroidPost it to me on the wiki if you desire to
11:41.30WormydroidHi
11:41.33GhelaeHello.
11:42.00Gaseous_Ink[21:21] <Gaseous_Ink> One of the more interesting aliens in Lovecraft are the Great Race of Yith. Although looking them up gives a distinct appearence, this is not their true form. They are minds that can swap bodies with any other being, regardless of space and time.
11:42.34WormydroidWell that would be useful
11:42.45GhelaeYes; the form that they're most commonly depicted as is actually another species whose minds they swapped with.
11:44.22Gaseous_InkAnd at the end of that story they swap with giant beetles in the far future
11:44.31GhelaeWormy: Orion's Arm has rewritten the "Nanodisaster" into a horrific "Technocalypse" filled with all kinds of ways for our civilisation to self-destruct - http://orionsarm.com/eg-article/559d3b5ae17aa - but they've also provided a new way of making self-replicating nanobots safe - http://orionsarm.com/eg-article/55eaeffea8a81 - make them incapable of holding their self-replicating programming.
11:44.34GhelaeBRB
11:45.54WormydroidIll read thqt later
11:46.42WormydroidIn thw book, Im a strange loop, Hofstadter argues other strange loop souls can become embedded in ones own
11:47.22WormydroidBut im out of time tp talk about it now bbl
13:16.59WormydroidTesy
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22:28.21Wormy_awayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdMzngWchDk + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2IZ1qsx4CM   and also  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My8AsV7bA94  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOwFvytK5K0
22:28.24Wormy_awaydrom_
22:50.56The_Randomness<PROTECTED>
22:53.42Wormy_awayAlso I'm getting absolutely squashed everytime I try to contribute.  Meh
22:56.11Wormy_awayI have a hard time believing that the lancers could get through tanks
22:56.43Wormy_awayI mean, they'd be knocked off their horses, and even modern day tanks have torpedo defenses or even electric armour
22:56.49The_RandomnessYeah
22:56.54Wormy_awayWhat if the lancer gets it stuck in the tank?
22:57.05The_Randomness<PROTECTED>
22:57.22Wormy_awayThen if they are charging at full momentum, they'd go flying
22:57.27The_RandomnessYeah
22:57.58Wormy_awayRandom:  Electric Armour at work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7rxBifd0cY
22:59.06The_Randomness:o
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23:04.00The_Randomnessbrb dinner
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