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Thread: Familicide Mega-Thread
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2012-03-06, 08:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Varsuvius' Kill-Count: Familicide By The Numbers
It seems to be you who is using a non-English billion, since that's 10^12 or approximately 2^40
EDIT: I didn't see Page 2 before posting. Perfectly explained.Last edited by ref; 2012-03-06 at 08:18 PM.
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2012-03-06, 08:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Varsuvius' Kill-Count: Familicide By The Numbers
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2012-03-06, 08:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Varsuvius' Kill-Count: Familicide By The Numbers
Ever since 1974, a "British Billion" techincally doesn't exist. Even if there are legacy bits here and there.
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2012-03-06, 08:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Varsuvius' Kill-Count: Familicide By The Numbers
Meh, have your system where a billion equals 103*3, a trillion equals 103*4, and so on if you wish.
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2012-03-06, 09:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Varsuvius' Kill-Count: Familicide By The Numbers
I expect that ref in fact uses an English billion. What he doesn't use is an American billion.
If you're still confused, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scalesCurated Thread: Gazetteer of the Stick
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2012-03-06, 09:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-06, 09:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Varsuvius' Kill-Count: Familicide By The Numbers
The child would be a blood relative of Penelope (clause 2), Tarquin however is still NOT a blood relative of Penelope (just the child) and so is still safe.
For Tarquin to be a target in the above example the description would have to have been:
(Clause 1) Every living creature that shares your bloodline is dead. (This includes the entire Draketooth line).
(Clause 2) Any living creature that is directly related to any of those creatures is also dead. (Kills Penelope through the child with Orrin and would kill any child that she could have had with Tarquin but not Tarquin himself).
(Hypothetical Clause 3) Any living creature that is directly related to any of those creatures is also dead. (If this clause had been added then if Tarquin and Penelope had a child Tarquin, Elan and Nale would also be killed as would a theoretical child that Nale might have had with some previous lover but NOT the lover herself)
Fortunately the spell limited itself to the first two clauses and thereby reduced the collateral damage considerably.
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2012-03-06, 10:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many degrees of Consanguinity?
BTW, the timeline is no indication of the age of the world.
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2012-03-07, 12:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-07, 12:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Varsuvius' Kill-Count: Familicide By The Numbers
In several of the European languages it is a billion with twelve zeros.
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2012-03-07, 01:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many degrees of Consanguinity?
However, it can be weakly corroborated by both Shojo's description of the age of the world as "a thousand years and more" in his Crayon exposition and
It's not a stretch to establish that OotSworld is less than two millennia old based on this evidence.SpoilerRedcloak's description of world history as "a few years" followed by "centuries" followed by "centuries" again.
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2012-03-07, 02:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-07, 02:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How come no one noticed Familicide?
Personally, I made death effects as your body still being perfectly functional, but your sould being torn away from your body. When a character was subjected to a death effect, he felt a vvery short but very extreme pain "as if every cell of your body was being ripped apart from any other cell", and that's the pain of the soul being ripped away from the body.
I suppose you don't know enough about fetishes then.
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Second law: if you can't think about it, then it's probably still someone's fetish.
I expect there would be plenty of humans wanting to mate with dragons. Without shapeshifting involved.
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2012-03-07, 05:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Familicide Mega-Thread
I'm sure someone posted this before somewhere in this thread, but I have a rather sure guess why Haerta Bloodsoak didn't "stay in the game", as Xykon calls it.
She used Familicide.
Once.
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2012-03-07, 06:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How come no one noticed Familicide?
I'd go for the "Harry Potter" route (same way as I describe Mana Bolt in Shadowrun): You're perfectly healthy except for the fact that you are, you know, dead.
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2012-03-07, 07:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How come no one noticed Familicide?
I'm guessing the biggest reason is that the deaths were spread around so much - no more than one or two, or one family, in a single city or village. If a thousand people in one area were all wiped out, we'd hear of it, but considering how apparently random the victims were, it's possible nobody's yet pieced together the fact that a thousand people all dropped dead at the same time for no visible reason.
On the other hand, I definitely agree that the Reptilian ambassador was telling the Empress something about Familicide. How much Reptilia has figured out (they're the most likely to have even noticed that something happened, and its possible entire villages or cities - or a lot of very important people - simply dropped dead) will be left to speculation for a while, but they might have had enough time to divine the cause.
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2012-03-07, 09:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Varsuvius' Kill-Count: Familicide By The Numbers
German is one of them, as well as pretty much any other European language except for English (I'm sure for French, and Wiki says it's also in Italian, Polish, Portugese and Spanish). EDIT: Browsing through the articles for "Billion" in the languages I can sort of understand, it seems to be the case for Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian as well.
On V's effective level: If you have a logarihmic scale, "one more than the highest current level in the Soulmeld" should be a good approximation.Last edited by Autolykos; 2012-03-07 at 09:28 AM.
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2012-03-07, 10:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Varsuvius' Kill-Count: Familicide By The Numbers
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2012-03-07, 10:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many degrees of Consanguinity?
Still, there is no direct link between age and history. History is after all a human (and goblin) concept about recording what people have done in the past.
Or to put it another way; history start with the advent of the first civilisation with interest in recording the present, and past, with accuracy. The Romans for example were less interested in precision in this area, and took liberties in their written works for various reason.
Otoh, the rocks and lavaflows of the early years in a planets forming never bothered with such things as history:) Millions of years pass with not even a footnote in a book of stone.
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2012-03-07, 10:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-03-07, 11:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many degrees of Consanguinity?
This.
It says "everyone who shares blood with the dragon, and then everyone who shares blood with them". Full stop.
It doesn't say "everyone who shares blood with the dragon, and then everyone who shares blood with them, and then everyone who shares blood with THOSE LAST ONES, and then everyone who shares blood with THOSE OTHERS, etc. etc..." for ever and ever.
Also, yeah... if it only targets living people, it doesn't go back several generations, and there isn't even need to track back to the creation of the world (although point #1 is valid as well).
/thread, yes?Last edited by ManuelSacha; 2012-03-07 at 11:01 AM.
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2012-03-07, 11:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Varsuvius' Kill-Count: Familicide By The Numbers
I don't know how we got to this tangent, but in Spanish "millón" is 10^6, and "billón" is 10^12. For 10^9, the Spanish say "mil millones," or "a thousand million." Interesting that Portuguese does not.
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2012-03-07, 12:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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This couldn't go in the main thread because...
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Last edited by Porthos; 2012-03-07 at 12:50 PM.
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