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krouse ([personal profile] equivo) wrote in [community profile] etraya2024-05-01 08:15 am

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Before we all head into the labyrinth, I figure we should have a level playing field for making calls about risk.

If you die here, apparently you don't stay dead. You're down for two days or so, then you resurrect wherever your body happens to be. So it's probably a nice gesture, if you see a corpse in the maze, to drag them somewhere not totally inconvenient to wake up.

The temporarily dead also come back fully healed of injuries, but the penalty is some kind of personal loss. Think scars, tattoos, a digit, possibly more intangible qualities, etc. I have no idea what the rules are on that, so if anyone has any useful speculation, consider the floor open.

In fact, if anyone is familiar with this kind of thing back in your universes, you're invited to share with the class. The more we know about resurrection in general, maybe the more we can figure out about how it works here. Bonus marks if you have first hand experience.
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[personal profile] counterstep 2024-05-01 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
does it?
I think taking down a minotaur could actually be kinda fun


might be worth asking if we can go back in for stragglers if we make it to the end too quickly
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[personal profile] counterstep 2024-05-01 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
frankly, given the nature of these missions, a minotaur really seems like the least of our worries
there are others here who wouldn't really have trouble with one either, so I wouldn't really consider myself Theseus unless no one else stepped up to the plate


you don't plan on doing that, sounds like
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[personal profile] counterstep 2024-05-01 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
dunno what the last two are so I can't really comment on them
def would wanna see that dragon at least


once we're in, it'll be hard to know how many are behind too so that could pose a potential problem

yeah it would be a dick move
but we've already established that people are stupid so I was trying to gauge where you preferred to place yourself
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[personal profile] counterstep 2024-05-01 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
what's fiction for you could be real in another universe, especially here
I wouldn't discount the possibility so readily, if you want to be prepared


yeah it would be nice if people were actually reliable as a whole, wouldn't it

yeah I get you
and they should as it's the best strategy to save your own skin in all this anyway
especially because the nice helper lady likes leaving out details while pretending she's only trying to help us
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[personal profile] counterstep 2024-05-02 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
( what. )

what

well
I guess it takes all kinds to save a world


yeah definitely not suspicious or weird at all how she always shuts down conversation when you ask something she doesn't want to answer too

honestly, with it being a labyrinth 'filled with challenges', I dunno if it's even gonna need much of a twist
this kind of stuff is so popular in books and movies that the twist basically writes itself into the whole scenario
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[personal profile] counterstep 2024-05-02 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
may I ask who this person is?

if she's being exactly what she was programmed to be, I'd still say it's fair to be critical of her for it
her functioning exactly as she's meant to mislead and manipulate, and we can't assume that everyone's going to be able to see through that when she persists in asserting authority


yeah, feels like it
though I dunno if only humans are the ones that get stuck here either
I'm sure there are some universe that are only aliens
in their case
just the name of whatever they call themselves cause they wouldn't be aliens to themselves
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[personal profile] counterstep 2024-05-02 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
hell of a name, that

yeah, I understand
I don't entirely disagree, but considering she's still effectively acting as propaganda, I think the moral weight still ties directly with her existence as a whole


we're lucky if Echo is really some sort of AI
but who really knows
it's the multiverse
anything can happen, apparently
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[personal profile] counterstep 2024-05-02 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
( ...yeah, that's kind of funny. )

she hasn't, but the regular implication that Echo is an entity that is wise beyond any of our cumulative years is persistent with everything she says about him
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[personal profile] counterstep 2024-05-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
can it really be a battle royale if the key they keep trying to impress is teamwork?
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[personal profile] counterstep 2024-05-02 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
movie reference?

( that was a movie reference??? /old )
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[personal profile] counterstep 2024-05-02 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
dunno if that exists in my world

( it does. )

I'm not exactly a resource of modern culture where I'm from either though
at least not in terms of pop culture
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[personal profile] counterstep 2024-05-02 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you said it cause I was definitely thinking it

( people get so defensive about pop culture mattering, too. it's weird, when the next new fad is always bound to come along in another couple weeks. )

let's just say I'm much more familiar with black and whites, but I have tried my hand at familiarizing myself with what younger people consume to better navigate online conversations and understand modern norms

( he trawls reddit, in other words. )

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