03-23-2021, 02:21:49 AM
Wait wait wait, this is all some kind of scheme to destroy a hyper powerful being with the power of harvested memories?... and this pink person didn't even think to just hire an adventuring party just starting out their careers? Or... they have demiplanes, why not fill one entirely with computronium and set it to simulate trillions of minds all being tortured forever and create endless reserves of negative memories?... I mean, that's my idea. I didn't tell them that because bargaining chip, but I think it's a really good one, so I don't care anymore... though that's only advanced magical theory. You'd need to have a grasp of computronium or some weaker pseudocomputronium at very least. But I'm sure if you can scour the inter-hyperplanar-network rifts for people, you can find at least a couple who would be willing to help make pseudocomputronium and torture it forever. Actually, Vels is supposedly searching for people to make pseudocomputronium back home. She talks about it... not infrequently. Though she'd use it to automate support networks or something. Torture really isn't an optimal way to fuel divinity, not since she upended the market by not including a torture plane in her cosmology.
Kellensea's weird tangent at the end and lack of explanation of what the fuck she's talking about somehow doesn't downplay the fact that she's just said some stuff that based on the "trillions of minds being tortured forever" thing, is presumably at least somewhat horrifying.
But yeah, what's preventing you from creating life? Like, in the past, that hasn't ever really been an option. Haven't met a deity yet who really understood all they needed to to do it, and wizards can't do that normally either, but like... oh, I guess that's the bottleneck in my idea. You'd need machines to automate the process of making better machines which could try to make life and at that point you're just asking for one of them to come out sapient and an adventurer, and then, you'd need adventurers to shut your whole project down, and you'd have to start over a bunch and by then you'd probably be dead.
She sounds slightly disappointed, before abruptly falling silent for a few seconds, before her monotone comes back.
Anyway, yeah, everyone else here is really weird and I hope they realize how weird they are instead of just deciding "we outvote the adventurer therefore we aren't weird." Which, I guess in theory that's how weirdness works. Also, an adventuring party is a far more optimal solution than this retaliatory dark lord route, but I'm sure sunk costs and all will be the thing preventing switching to the responsible solution, as always.
Kellensea's weird tangent at the end and lack of explanation of what the fuck she's talking about somehow doesn't downplay the fact that she's just said some stuff that based on the "trillions of minds being tortured forever" thing, is presumably at least somewhat horrifying.
But yeah, what's preventing you from creating life? Like, in the past, that hasn't ever really been an option. Haven't met a deity yet who really understood all they needed to to do it, and wizards can't do that normally either, but like... oh, I guess that's the bottleneck in my idea. You'd need machines to automate the process of making better machines which could try to make life and at that point you're just asking for one of them to come out sapient and an adventurer, and then, you'd need adventurers to shut your whole project down, and you'd have to start over a bunch and by then you'd probably be dead.
She sounds slightly disappointed, before abruptly falling silent for a few seconds, before her monotone comes back.
Anyway, yeah, everyone else here is really weird and I hope they realize how weird they are instead of just deciding "we outvote the adventurer therefore we aren't weird." Which, I guess in theory that's how weirdness works. Also, an adventuring party is a far more optimal solution than this retaliatory dark lord route, but I'm sure sunk costs and all will be the thing preventing switching to the responsible solution, as always.
I am the They who says it!