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etraya2024-05-31 04:01 pm
stresstokens) wrote in etraya2024-05-31 04:01 pm
Entry tags:
- baldurs gate: shadowheart,
- dimension 20: fabian seacaster,
- dimension 20: riz gukgak,
- my hero academia: izuku midoriya,
- ✘ dc comics | stephanie brown,
- ✘ dc comics | wang baixi,
- ✘ dceu | clark kent,
- ✘ dimension 20 | adaine abernant,
- ✘ granblue fantasy | sandalphon,
- ✘ original | willa lisieux,
- ✘ worm: francis krouse
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Hey. Hope everyone's recovering from that stupid maze okay.
I'll just get right down to my point of inquiry. For a place that claims that we're meant to save the universe, I've noticed a pretty dramatic human-bias around here that strikes me as kind of odd, considering how diverse the universe actually is.
So I'd like to get a show of hands. Who here is from a world where humans are the only sentient species around, and who here is from a world with more than just humans kicking around? What other sorts of species are around? I'd like to know how much of it is selection-bias based on who's running this place and how much of it is them drawing from places that just don't have any non-human populations. I wouldn't mind hearing about what sorts of non-humans you have around either, but that's probably less important, statistically speaking.
Lastly... what do you see when you look at this picture?
[ Inserted is a photograph of a suave looking goblin man in a tuxedo with a pencil-thin moustache. He's holding a champagne flute towards the camera with his arm around -- something. If you've been infected by the curse, you'll see the goblin man's arm is around a black tabaxi woman, but if not, his arm looks as though it's simply hanging in mid-air. ]
[ OOC NOTE: due to the extremely low likelihood we'll ever get kalina in-game, the picture is just for flavour! if you'd like your character to be infected by the shadowcat and thus able to see her image in the photo, it would be due to any circumstance in which any of riz's bodily fluids were absorbed into their own body in some way, i.e. blood or saliva. feel free to handwave a circumstance in which that could happen, even if it's riz's blood lingering on one of the labyrinth's traps that then got into an open cut of theirs, a glass in the labyrinth he drank from that they then used, etc., etc.! Please see this comment for more information! ]
I'll just get right down to my point of inquiry. For a place that claims that we're meant to save the universe, I've noticed a pretty dramatic human-bias around here that strikes me as kind of odd, considering how diverse the universe actually is.
So I'd like to get a show of hands. Who here is from a world where humans are the only sentient species around, and who here is from a world with more than just humans kicking around? What other sorts of species are around? I'd like to know how much of it is selection-bias based on who's running this place and how much of it is them drawing from places that just don't have any non-human populations. I wouldn't mind hearing about what sorts of non-humans you have around either, but that's probably less important, statistically speaking.
Lastly... what do you see when you look at this picture?
[ Inserted is a photograph of a suave looking goblin man in a tuxedo with a pencil-thin moustache. He's holding a champagne flute towards the camera with his arm around -- something. If you've been infected by the curse, you'll see the goblin man's arm is around a black tabaxi woman, but if not, his arm looks as though it's simply hanging in mid-air. ]
[ OOC NOTE: due to the extremely low likelihood we'll ever get kalina in-game, the picture is just for flavour! if you'd like your character to be infected by the shadowcat and thus able to see her image in the photo, it would be due to any circumstance in which any of riz's bodily fluids were absorbed into their own body in some way, i.e. blood or saliva. feel free to handwave a circumstance in which that could happen, even if it's riz's blood lingering on one of the labyrinth's traps that then got into an open cut of theirs, a glass in the labyrinth he drank from that they then used, etc., etc.! Please see this comment for more information! ]
it's ok, if they DID go for corpses that would be totally sick
[ Raiding a graveyard is one thing. Killing some dog is probably worse? ]
In that case, let's hope that he doesn't come here. I didn't actually think that the powers that be here would bring him in as a test. But maybe by mistake? I'm not sure how I feel about the screening process of bringing us in. Granted, everyone I've run into has been pretty nice. I just hope that they don't forget about screening for character if they're looking for more brute force.
How big was the army?
Re: it's ok, if they DID go for corpses that would be totally sick
I think they'd have to significantly depower him to make him viable as a subject to begin with.
There's other threats I'm more worried about turning up. Giant city destroying monsters called Endbringers. That'd be viable with our numbers and our strengths.
The numbers we had when we started were technically in the high thousands. All people with superpowers. Those numbers fragmented when people started ditching the battle to pursue pointless political aims or to go kill people they had a grudge against. At the final battle, the numbers had been rounded down to a few hundred actively on the front lines while others worked from the back.
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I'm pretty sure we could collectively deal with city destroying monsters. I'd be surprised if there's any world out there that doesn't have a city destroying monster or two, honestly, but tallying what sort of threats other worlds deal with sounds like a separate spreadsheet.
[ Spreadsheets are probably pretty useless anyway. This is quickly spiraling out of control. ]
I'm sorry about what happened to your home. It sounds like it got pretty grim. [ Some of her friends probably died. Sucks. ] You were one of the ones on the front lines?