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 Jan 2 2005, 08:40 PM
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In this new age of magic there is a unchecked power....think of a horror that could manipulate the matrix. By the existince of the horrors it's very possible. From what I have read the horrors are like nightmares, like Freddy...but way cooler since they physically manifest. So if the horrors start popping up in the 6th world...and some decker somewhere has a nightmare about a horror in the matrix...KaBOOM New horror in the matrix. The G.O.D. is gonna have a field day with that thing.
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Jan 3 2005, 11:23 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,590 Joined: 11-September 04 Member No.: 6,650 |
just remember people Named hoorors and named dragins have something in common... if you kill it... it is gone.
Major point if someone finally goes and scores those 2 million Legend points for killing Verjigorm (or if someone did it last cycle) no more Verjigorm ditto for almost all the great horrors. Except Nebis but with the nebising amount of magicians with astral capabilities in SR and the sheer nebis of such adept types that can see astral, unlike in the fourth world, then even the most nebis skeptic has to agree that nebis is out nebised in this 6th NEBIS. and if anyNEBIS has the NEBIS to argue this NEBIS with me then i will NEBIS the NEBIS NEBIS **rolls on the floor twitching and drooling** |
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Jan 3 2005, 12:18 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Keep in mind that Draconic legend suggests that snuffing Verjigorm may cause the sudden and immediate termination of the world.
~J |
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Jan 3 2005, 12:35 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
Too fucking bad. When opportunity knocks, metahumanity will just have to find out.
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Jan 3 2005, 12:37 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Humanity has always been best at ensuring its own destruction.
~J |
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Jan 3 2005, 12:41 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
Then obviously we suck untold amounts of ass at everything, since we have never even come close to managing that, nor are we making any real progress towards that goal.
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Jan 3 2005, 12:43 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Really? I thought we were doing quite well.
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Jan 3 2005, 12:45 PM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
We're still here ... we still thrive despite large amounts of stupidity and self-destructive behavior.
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Jan 3 2005, 12:45 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
We are more populous than ever and we are getting ready to colonize space. I would say we are exceedingly inept at destroying ourselves.
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Jan 3 2005, 12:55 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
We're closer to rendering this planet inhabitable than ever and I'd say we're quite far indeed from colonizing space to any sustainable degree.
~J |
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Jan 3 2005, 12:58 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,590 Joined: 11-September 04 Member No.: 6,650 |
draconic legend says that and the original Hypothesis for the Manhattan project said it had a 50% chance of ignighting the atmosphere of earth, killing everything...
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Jan 3 2005, 01:20 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
Wasn't there fears about the first particle accelerators, that they might cause the university to collapse or some such BS?
Closer than ever, and yet unfathomably far away. Mother Nature is orders of magnitude better at making earth inhabitable and has proved it innumerable times. Also, consider the likelihood of global warming, pollution, starvation, nuclear warfare or any other theoretical man-made catastrophy wiping out civilization, or indeed the whole of humanity, before sustainable space colonization is achieved. |
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Jan 3 2005, 01:32 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 116 Joined: 3-January 05 Member No.: 6,925 |
Not sure if this has been brought up or not, and I'm not steeped enough in Earthdawn lore to really understand the Horrors...
But... Dissonance anyone? |
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Jan 3 2005, 02:10 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,751 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Neighbor of the Beast Member No.: 5,375 |
That's like saying "today I am closer to dying than ever before." Or that the sun is closer to dying than ever before. :) |
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Jan 3 2005, 02:12 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Both of which are quite true. The sun isn't a good comparison, though, because it isn't actively assisting its downfall (that we know).
~J |
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Jan 3 2005, 02:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 116 Joined: 3-January 05 Member No.: 6,925 |
Sure it is. It keeps burning that limited supply of hydrogen. When will it ever learn that being a fusion reactor means burning out?! Oh, the solarity.
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Jan 3 2005, 02:21 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Say ye rather, Psychotrope/Mirage. |
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Jan 3 2005, 02:29 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,751 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Neighbor of the Beast Member No.: 5,375 |
Yes. They're both technically true but not very accurate.
I could die tomorrow. Or I could get Leonization and die a century from now. Humanity could wipe itself out next week or last several thousand millenia and then "ascend" or some crap. As for rendering the planet unihabitable, I don't think that humnas could actually do that. We may be able to make it unihabitable for us and kill most of the life on the planet but eventually the planet would clean itself up and life would start over. It could take a few million years but but it would happen. |
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Jan 3 2005, 02:44 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Sure. But that helps us how again?
~J |
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Jan 3 2005, 03:06 PM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
Then the human race will be reborn.
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Jan 3 2005, 03:26 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Only this time as perfect beings with feathered and forms of pure energy?
~J |
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Jan 3 2005, 04:01 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
It seems to me to be just a general comment on humans rendering the planet "uninhabitable", not a comment on HvsH. Killing all life from earth would require us to get rid of the oceans and the topmost 10km+ of the earth's crust, and that just isn't going to happen very soon. Most life, easily. All life, nope.
[Edit]Oops, uninhabitable indeed.[/Edit] |
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Jan 3 2005, 04:06 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Again, it isn't terribly meaningful to humanity that cockroaches will survive. It isn't even particularly meaningful to them if all life survives save humanity.
Two errors in my earlier statement: first, I obviously meant uninhabitable, and more accurately I meant uninhabitable to humanity. ~J |
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Jan 3 2005, 04:11 PM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
You do know that people have always been whinging on about how civilization is crumbling, humanity is doomed, and "things today just aren't as good as they are when I was growing up," right? I mean, pretty much since the beginning.
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Jan 3 2005, 04:35 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
And if you look at history, civilization has a tendency to crumble relatively regularly. Only now we're affecting the entirety of the atmosphere/etc., not just a local area.
~J |
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