LETS GOOOOOOOO (General hangout thread)

[Whistle]

whoosh

[Clancy]

Good afternoon, Whistle.

[Whistle]

afternoon

[Clancy]

So, I've come up with some new story ideas; even though I'm not as invested in them as I am in my more hard sci-fi concepts, I think they'd still be fun to share.

I'll be outlining them in separate posts, so in no particular order, here they are...

Supposing that God exists, why is there still evil? This story offers a solution: though our universe's God is benevolent, It is engaged in an endless battle with a malevolent God from another universe, an anti-matter universe that is a dark mirror of this one. This Anti-God was banished to the anti-matter realm at the beginning of creation by our God, but nonetheless managed to exert Its influence into our universe, where it subverted our God's attempt at a perfect world by introducing evil. It was this Anti-God that tempted Satan to fall from grace, that introduced Adam and Eve to sin, and that convinced Cain to murder Abel.

Now, because the positive-matter universe has been irreversibly corrupted by evil, God fights a losing battle against Anti-God, who is forever tempting souls into evil so that they can be drawn into the mirror realm (which in this story is the inspiration for the Biblical Hell). To make things worse, Anti-God's machinations are aided by a cult of human worshippers who believe that since Anti-God corrupted human souls with evil, that evil and cruelty are thus humanity's "divine spark" that makes us unique. Thus, the cult engages in acts of crime, terrorism, and general evil, in order to usher in the apocalypse and make Anti-God victorious.

[Whistle]

Sounds like religious sci-fi, to be honest. Pretty cool!

[Clancy]

 Yeah, it's mostly drawn from John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, with a bit of Marvel's Immortal Hulk in there as well.

[Kennifer]

someone got huggles and petting and a LOT of headsmooches and ear and chin scritches

yes

HER with the purr, SHE with the bee

[wingedcatgirl]

the kity........ :3

[Kennifer]

there are few feelings better than holding a purring cat...

[Whistle]

jupes is good

so is crying

because he sheds so much

[Clancy]

My next idea is a bit less mystical, more traditional sci-fi. It takes a bit of inspiration from Nigel Kneale's Quatermass and the Pit, Jack Kirby's The Eternals, Neon Genesis Evangelion and a bunch of other sources.

From the beginnings of human history, there have been parahumans - a divergent breed, living alongside humanity. They have been the inspiration for many myths and legends; those with great psychic power but mostly human appearance were remembered as witches, sorcerers, fairies, elves and gods, while those with monstrous appearances were named demons, ogres, trolls, vampires and were-beasts.

As human civilization rose, however, the parahumans faded away. Many pantheons left the Earth and settled on other planets, or sequestered themselves away. The monsters stayed longer, until the Middle Ages drove them to the mountains and under the ground. Soon, the world was left bereft of the paranatural, save for the occasional "changeling" child or sparsely sighted cryptological creature.

During the 19th century, however, the parahumans were forced back out of hiding as the Earth is visited by a being from another star, the creator of the parahumans, which may be planning to wipe out its progeny. Allied against this threat are the repentant original murderer Cain, the disenchanted psychic messiah Jesus Christ, the weary subterranean ruler Lucifer and the wise psychic hermit Merlin. Together they must forge a peace between gods, monsters and humans, lest the God From Space decide to exterminate all Earthly life.

[Whistle]

It kind of gives me some Neil Gaiman/Terry Prachet vibes. Really like it!

[Kennifer]

I'm on the iPad in bed.

[Whistle]

why do i feel like everything is a fucking lie

[Superjohn 2.0]

Good morning everyone (or night if you're in a different timezone).

[NebulaChimera2211]

Good afternoon.

[Cassie]

good night in here!

[Kennifer]

I don't wanna do stuff.
I wanna hug Doost instead of doing stuff.

[Superjohn 2.0]

I DON'T WANNA BE FREE!

[Kennifer]

Dusty is cute dusty is love dusty is life.

Blargh I have to get up and stuff. And work and deal with custies

Dusty >>>>>>>>> custy

[Superjohn 2.0]

Well I'm going to get my Vaccine everyone.

[Clancy]

Good morning, everyone.

Congratulations, Superjohn!

[wingedcatgirl]

*sleepy kity noises*

[Superjohn 2.0]

Got my Vaccine.

[Kennifer]

AWWW YEEEAAHHHH VACCINE :D