Zero Divide (OOC Discussion)

[Avalon®]

I understand the intent, so I guess I should make a ruling.

Vanifae, so what's the ruling on the aura extra? It's price has been flip-flopping up and down since I brought it up?

Maybe it's better if I change the aura modifier to something else?

 

[Victim]

Spent my reserve points on Notice, Bluff, Sense Motive, and Stealth so far. I think I might want some knowledges or something in the future; Ashley doesn't have the INT-based stuff that she probably should have. Memory loss at work.

 

[Vanifae]

Vanifae, so what's the ruling on the aura extra? It's price has been flip-flopping up and down since I brought it up?

Maybe it's better if I change the aura modifier to something else?

I think swapping it out might be good, but my final ruling is the version Shalimar mentioned.

 

[Vanifae]

I've obviously got some ideas (or maybe it's not so obvious, and I just sound like I've got crazy in Alan's hip pocket), but since it sounds really, really out there even to me with so many hunches and speculations I think I'm going to sit on them a while just in case it turns out to be something completely different in an obvious manner sometime soon.

But I like wild crazy speculation.

 

[Vanifae]

So, anyone care to speculate about what's going on?

I KNOW you have ideas Victim.

 

[Avalon®]

Vanifae, I swaped the aura extra with the secondary effect extra. Is that fine?

I'll begin posting as soon as I have read through the thread.

 

[Vanifae]

Vanifae, I swaped the aura extra with the secondary effect extra. Is that fine?

I'll begin posting as soon as I have read through the thread.

Looks good we can adjust if need be.

Also my books are at home, so I can't actually make a call on the abilities changes but let's get started.

 

[Victim]

I KNOW you have ideas Victim.

Well, I was thinking that the idea might be some sort of ressurection process. The characters in their flashbacks seem older - often significantly so - than their present selves. Assuming that flashbacks and other information is legit, then there's both a sense of importance or elite skill (why someone would bother trying to get them back) and high risk - Alan's info especially mentions some sort of dangerous mission and might connect to other characters (why the character's would be dead).

On the other hand, our view of the lab section mentioned "spontaneous memory development." Not redevelopment or recovery. So that's a pretty big strike against.

 

[Shayuri]

Want my guess?

Clones.

Genetic memory.

This could be a process attempting to pry fractional memories out of bodies reconstructed from genetic material recovered from the site of some great weird mysterious incident.

Even our "powers" may not be real. Though I'm not sure why they'd be in the simulation if they weren't.

*shrug*

 

[James Heard]

But I like wild crazy speculation.

Vishnu Sahasranama means The Thousand Names of Vishnu. We were astronauts using an experimental hyperspace drive to venture...somewhere else, far away. We were only supposed to be gone for two years, but we've been away for much, much longer than that. I think the hyperspace drive operated on some weird math that relied on naming as the transformational element to get us from A to B. Like, your math declares that cats are dogs on some creepy 'everything is connected' sort of level and suddenly cats are dogs and you're halfway across the galaxy. So either we're still on the ship, in which case the whole set piece is a virtual construct designed to build broken dogs back into cats, or we've come back to Earth and we're cats again but now the folks on Earth can't figure out how to interface with our weird alien dog stuff we came back with without rebuilding us. Or, alternately, it all screwed up and they've spent all this time building copies of the cats with parts of the dog trying to figure out what went right/what went wrong/what's the price of coffee in Andromeda.

Back to Vishnu: Obviously Vishnu Sahasranama Corporation is a possibility, but that's one of those company acronyms that you'd probably need to work on - like CHUD or something. Krishna and Arjuna are like princes under Vishnu in the Bhagavad Gita, or maybe different aspects. This could mean that the dogs are constructs: agents of a larger, more complex computer. This would also explain why they're keeping us in the dark, to keep us from finding out that we're the last remnants of humanity with only the Vishnu Sahasranama Computer complex keeping up the farce that there are people left - except for us, and we're something not quite human come back from our long voyage to the stars.

Or maybe they're divine agents who eat off the floor. I'm mostly worried because Shiva is also in that mix, and I'd feel a lot more comfortable just finding out that she's a hamster or something.

Or something like that.

As I've implied, my brainstorm box is a bit on overload.