It absolutely does not have a hive mind. In the Carpenter version as in the original short story, every separated bit of it becomes independent and absolutely selfish, unwilling to sacrifice itself to keep another piece a secret -- this is why the blood test works, and why (in Campbell's original story) the humans manage a clean victory.
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I'm just going to recommend the original version, John W. Campbell's Who Goes There?
oh! oh! i wanna derail too.... here goes......Purple Monkey Dishwasher.... did it work?
:)>
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...Especially the one that places an embryonic aberration in its target, which gestates and eventually takes over the host from the inside out, almost like... eh, nevermind.
Yes, yes! You can say it... "like a slaad!"
Wait, aren't we still Product Identity?! Nuts. {sulks}
So I'm assuming that while running this it will be required to play the soundtracks from either the Heavy Metal or Fire & Ice movies?
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what about Transformers: The Movie, you know the animated one from the '80s with all the bad hair metal;)
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I think I'll go with:
Portal: Music to Test By
Mass Effect
Machinarium
The Megas
Protomen.
YES
The first two are definitely getting a lot of play in my Distant Worlds playlist at the very least. :D
(don't forget Faunts!)
what about Transformers: The Movie, you know the animated one from the '80s with all the awesome hair metal;)
what about Transformers: The Movie, you know the animated one from the '80s with all the awesome hair metal;)Fixed that for you
OUCH MY EARS!!!!! so painful after all these years:) please no links!!!!! lol
OUCH MY EARS!!!!! so painful after all these years:) please no links!!!!! lolwhat about Transformers: The Movie, you know the animated one from the '80s with all the awesome hair metal;)Fixed that for you
Careful there. I'm not afraid to go to prison again, sucka ;)
Careful there. I'm not afraid to go to prison again, sucka ;)OUCH MY EARS!!!!! so painful after all these years:) please no links!!!!! lolwhat about Transformers: The Movie, you know the animated one from the '80s with all the awesome hair metal;)Fixed that for you
if you're not careful i'm gonna start posting links of Miley Cyrus at the VMAs ;) i dont want to but i will lol (or worse yet, any number of her dad's videos:)
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I think I'll go with:
Portal: Music to Test By
Mass Effect
Machinarium
The Megas
Protomen.
Damn it, totally making an Android gunslinger for this one now, only question is rather I go Blue or Red... Hopefully by then there will be interesting new options for both he class and the race by then(well new android race stuff sound incredibly likely ap at least with this).
EGGS...
EGGS...
EGG...
EGGXXXTERMINATEEEEE!!!!!
Why am I reminded of this comic? http://rlfcomic.com/daleks-and-chainsaws/
Second-to-last panel, the Dalek in the background. ^^
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I think I'll go with:
Portal: Music to Test By
Mass Effect
Machinarium
The Megas
Protomen.YES
The first two are definitely getting a lot of play in my Distant Worlds playlist at the very least. :D
(don't forget Faunts!)
As mentioned upthread, most of my playlist for this will probably be Final Fantasy and Chrono games soundtracks.
Granted, that's most of my playlists for games anyway, so.... =)
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I can't believe this is actually going to happen. I mean, after they did Reign of Winter, I hoped, dearly, dearly hoped they finally had the momentum to go to Numeria. Ah, I don't even care that I'm in the "no science in my fantasy" camp. I just want to see what all this new awesome-sauce is going to be about!
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We all know who the two people to thank for this are.
Thank you Brandon Hodge and Rasputin.
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Hmmm. Not my cup of tea. If I wanted fantasy-ish sci-fi I'd run a Star Wars game. That said, I'll still keep up my subscription, because I'll no doubt get some great ideas (maybe even FOR Star Wars :) ), awesome art and maps, as well as the fiction.
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I have this horrible idea.
A leggy blond inquisitor of Brigh, sent to find out if there really are other synthetic gods.
"Are you alive? Prove it."
I'm almost ashamed to admit getting this crossed up with teenaged memories of Hajime Sorayama art when thinking about it in a Numerian context.
Almost.
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I have this horrible idea.
A leggy blond inquisitor of Brigh, sent to find out if there really are other synthetic gods.
"Are you alive? Prove it."
I'm almost ashamed to admit getting this crossed up with teenaged memories of Hajime Sorayama art when thinking about it in a Numerian context.
Almost.
These days, there's Masamune Shirow. :)
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I'm envisioning something more along the lines of Hal 9000.
And a first issue AP that opens with a bunch of neanderthals whooping and hollering around a large, black obelisk in the wilds of Numeria.
Maybe Brigh is a bigger god wherever that spaceship is from.
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Maybe Brigh is the spaceship...? O_o
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Maybe the Iron Gods are giant robot lions that form together to become.....never mind;)
I still find this AP upsetting...I Completely love the idea of it...but I am alone in my love among the people I play with...so I will never get to play it... :( . And highly unlikely ever to run it :( .
I guess I will just have to read it and live it vicariously though you guys.
Or find yet another group of RPers in my area...sigh.
Or find someone running a PbP of it on the forums. Or run one yourself.
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Or see what it's like when it comes out. We're still a long way off. After all, there were some reformed fence-riders/naysayers once Rasputin Must Die! dropped. Maybe you can convince your crew as it gets closer to release and we reveal more about it. I'm happy that you're happy and hopefully we can make your crew happy too. :)
Or see what it's like when it comes out. We're still a long way off. After all, there were some reformed fence-riders/naysayers once Rasputin Must Die! dropped. Maybe you can convince your crew as it gets closer to release and we reveal more about it. I'm happy that you're happy and hopefully we can make your crew happy too. :)
That would be nice...I proably could run it with a mix of people from my three different gaming groups.
@Orandue: While generally perfer over the table games vs online pbp...I might try it with the AP.
Maybe Brigh is the spaceship...? O_o
...yes, please.
"This alien spaceship from somewhere that you will learn where that's from, probably during Iron Gods."
Is what I heard.
I'm banking on Aballon. 3:1 odds, got my bookie lined up.
IIRC, it was said that the ship came from beyond Golarion's solar system...
I hope that's inaccurate. I've got more than $5 riding on the ship being from Aballon!
But if it is Brigh that would be pretty cool. I'm still fairly certain that at least one of the Iron Gods is Epoch, though.
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I can say this. Brigh is not the spaceship. Brigh is NOT a goddess of technology; she's a goddess of invention and clockwork and something else to be determined since deities should have three areas of concern.
She DOES have a role to play in Iron Gods though, never fear!
Nor is the ship from Golarion's system.
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Brigh reminds me of Rava, the Gear goddess in Midgard. Convergent evolution, no doubt. Though I like the idea that the two worlds share a multiverse.
The name, though, suggests Brigantia, Celtic goddess of fire, smithing, rule, and healing, known as Brigit or Bride in Ireland.
But the idea implies Galatea to me. And the uncanny valley.
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I can say this. Brigh is not the spaceship. Brigh is NOT a goddess of technology; she's a goddess of invention and clockwork and something else to be determined since deities should have three areas of concern.
She DOES have a role to play in Iron Gods though, never fear!
Nor is the ship from Golarion's system.
Going by a lot of steampunk art I've seen, can I suggest visible garter-belts as the third area of concern?
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Brigh reminds me of Rava, the Gear goddess in Midgard. Convergent evolution, no doubt. Though I like the idea that the two worlds share a multiverse.
The name, though, suggests Brigantia, Celtic goddess of fire, smithing, rule, and healing, known as Brigit or Bride in Ireland.
But the idea implies Galatea to me. And the uncanny valley.
Intriguing. With her focus on smithing and the forge, and her fuzzy ties to Brigid, a goddess of fire, poetry and inspiration, perhaps fire and creativity could be part of her 'theme.'
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I can say this. Brigh is not the spaceship. Brigh is NOT a goddess of technology; she's a goddess of invention and clockwork and something else to be determined since deities should have three areas of concern.
Trans"human"ism, in whatever form that might take? That may fall under "invention" though.