Erfworld Thread X: A Series of Unfortunate Cliffhangers

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Does it get multiple characteristics if the ruler sleeps around?

What happens if ruler doesn't sleep around? E.g. Slately doesn't seem to be sleeping around. Neither did Overlord Firebaugh. Did Wanda get her Signamancy from the Overlord? It didn't seem like it.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

What happens if ruler doesn't sleep around? E.g. Slately doesn't seem to be sleeping around. Neither did Overlord Firebaugh. Did Wanda get her Signamancy from the Overlord? It didn't seem like it.

There's always Adoption?

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There's always Adoption?

Yeah, if you don't sleep around, Titan's force you to Adopt. Also Adopt from where? The Void? The Glam Bottom?

[guttering flame]

What happens if ruler doesn't sleep around? E.g. Slately doesn't seem to be sleeping around. Neither did Overlord Firebaugh. Did Wanda get her Signamancy from the Overlord? It didn't seem like it.

Wanda got her father's genes + her father's ideals and ambitions I'd guess. She was and is the last hope of the Croatian tribe crystallized.

[JavaScribe]

Yeah, if you don't sleep around, Titan's force you to Adopt. Also Adopt from where? The Void? The Glam Bottom?

This is a game universe. Sleeping around at all is probably entirely optional to pass on one's Signamancy, no adoption necessary. Sleeping around probably just gives "Fate" or whatever intelligence automates Erfworld more information to work with.

[hajo]

What happens if ruler doesn't sleep around?
E.g. Slately doesn't seem to be sleeping around. Neither did Overlord Firebaugh.
Did Wanda get her Signamancy from the Overlord? It didn't seem like it.

See also Banhammer - he got Jillian, who turned out to be completely different.

[Kantaki]

But...don't you want to know what Ansom is doing right now?

Nah, what some random CC or Faq unit* in the field thinks about the changed situation would bw way more interesting.

*Or maybe a completely new side that got a eccentric Tower too...

[Aquillion]

No, no, let's go back to Parson. I mean, you realize where he is right now, right? You realize what it means?

That's right! He's standing in front of a portal! See you six months from now, people, when we can discuss whether he's considering maybe stepping through or not.

When we get to the end of this thread, we should definitely name the next one "step through the portal already" or something.

[Jasdoif]

No, no, let's go back to Parson. I mean, you realize where he is right now, right? You realize what it means?

That's right! He's standing in front of a portal! See you six months from now, people, when we can discuss whether he's considering maybe stepping through or not.

When we get to the end of this thread, we should definitely name the next one "step through the portal already" or something.

We already had "Finally thinking with portals, over a year later", though. "Step through the portal already" would lose a lot of the effect.

[Whispri]

We have SKIPsign.

[Aquillion]

We already had "Finally thinking with portals, over a year later", though. "Step through the portal already" would lose a lot of the effect.

"Not the portals again?"

"A Song of Standing In Front of Portals?"

We should probably think up something, because at this rate he's still gonna be in front of that portal when we reach the end of this thread.

[Jasdoif]

"Not the portals again?"

"A Song of Standing In Front of Portals?"

We should probably think up something, because at this rate he's still gonna be in front of that portal when we reach the end of this thread.

Hmm. "No Thinking, Just Portals"?

[guttering flame]

"3 Towers of sneer in the park
3 Towers of sneer.
You take one down,
and pass it around,
167 Towers of sneer in the park."

[TheWombatOfDoom]

Hmm. "No Thinking, Just Portals"?

For Gilmore Girls fans -

"Oy with the Portals Already"

[Chromascope3D]

Erfworld XI: The Ride Never Ends

[TheWombatOfDoom]

Also -

Date	# Skipped
10/6/17	1st
10/20/17	2nd
11/7/17	1st
11/14/17	2nd
11/21/17	3rd
12/5/17	1st
12/19/17	2nd

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Also -

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Didn't Rob said he'll take extra days off for Christmas? It's one time of year, I don't hold a grudge against him for skipping.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

Didn't Rob said he'll take extra days off for Christmas? It's one time of year, I don't hold a grudge against him for skipping.

I don't believe he mentioned, however I'm just tracking the skips. If he skips the day after Christmas I'd still mark it, but if you want I can comment on Christmas with an *. Then again, he skipped around another holiday as well - American Thanksgiving.


*Holiday.

[JavaScribe]

The latest.

If there's a good spot for the plot to explode, this would be it.

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We've got our first caster link with a non-caster. Assuming they fail to send Parson back home, I imagine this will be the most consequential side effect of their gambit.

[guttering flame]

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it's Roger, Vanna and Bill (+ Charlie and Shirley) against Jack, Maggie and Maggie-doll (+ Jed and Parson)

[Miklus]

What was that about Jack being barred from Banhammers court? I can't remember hearing about that before.

[lord_khaine]

What was that about Jack being barred from Banhammers court? I can't remember hearing about that before.

It was a inconsequential detail, mainly part of the explanation for how being decrypted had changed Jack's memory.

[Yana]

Well, it also gives us another reason to dislike Betsy.

[JavaScribe]

The latest.

[guttering flame]

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and... And... And! We're still just about to, further the plot a smidgeon. Next page: Moneymancer Bennie's impressions from the moments before the event.
Erfworld XI: Into the Event Horizon

[Welf]

There's a Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea once formulated a paradox about movement (dichotomy paradox):

Suppose Homer wishes to walk to the end of a path. Before he can get there, he must get halfway there. Before he can get halfway there, he must get a quarter of the way there. Before traveling a quarter, he must travel one-eighth; before an eighth, one-sixteenth; and so on.

So in the example Homer an never reach his destination since he has an infinity amount of tasks ahead.

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This was a filler update, completely pointless. The entire text can be summed up to "Parson is ready to finish the spell. The golem moves." In the last text update we at least get filled in what Jack did in the meantime, and it's revealed to Maggie and Jack that Charley is manipulating events.

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If there's a good spot for the plot to explode, this would be it.

Oh, sweet summer child.

Erfworld plot hasn't exploded in years. It usually just spreads around like tumorous plot growth, that somehow manages to get slower, the more there is.

Also Rob Balder is master of wheel spinning (imagine a rear tire stuck in the mud). What I mean by that is there is plot direction A, but then he makes it go into direction not-A, only to return to plot A, because not-A failed. So you are in same place you would be if you took route A, but it took longer to get there.

[guttering flame]

So what did Jed the tower say exactly?

[DigoDragon]

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This was a filler update, completely pointless. The entire text can be summed up to "Parson is ready to finish the spell. The golem moves." In the last text update we at least get filled in what Jack did in the meantime, and it's revealed to Maggie and Jack that Charley is manipulating events.

Yeah, I am really tired of the concept of decision trees and how many times it made for filler. Come on, someone die or explode already!

[super dark33]

There's a Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea once formulated a paradox about movement (dichotomy paradox):

Suppose Homer wishes to walk to the end of a path. Before he can get there, he must get halfway there. Before he can get halfway there, he must get a quarter of the way there. Before traveling a quarter, he must travel one-eighth; before an eighth, one-sixteenth; and so on.

So in the example Homer an never reach his destination since he has an infinity amount of tasks ahead.

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This was a filler update, completely pointless. The entire text can be summed up to "Parson is ready to finish the spell. The golem moves." In the last text update we at least get filled in what Jack did in the meantime, and it's revealed to Maggie and Jack that Charley is manipulating events.

Wasnt it about how Achilles could never beat a turtle in a foot race if the turtle was allowed to start halfway there?


I have no complaint about the page. literally one thing happened in it but im sure it was better to explain everything that went through everyone's heads before it all explodes in brutal fashion.