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[Azint]

Lividity Jones wrote...

Yesss...

Yeeesss...

Yeeeeeesssss...

Jones knows.

[Andaius20]

nice one Buddah

[NuclearBuddha]

Runescapeguy9 wrote...

Lividity Jones wrote...
Yesss...
Yeeesss...
Yeeeeeesssss...

My thoughts.

I would not have taken you for an HPL fan.

[NuclearBuddha]

Runescapeguy9 wrote...
Mostly skim over the passages. Started actually reading 5 or 6 ago. Still a little shaky on the main plot. Just trying to guess where its goin [not the end, the path]

It's the plot of Mass Effect 1, more or less.

Modifié par NuclearBuddha, 18 juillet 2010 - 06:38 .

[Azint]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

It's the plot of Mass Effect 1, more or less.

With some liberal breaks to convey a proper Mythos story.

[FatherNestor]

Just before I go back to Call of Pripyat:



So... what next after Lovecraft, Buddha? Cyberpunk? Or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (hell yeah!)?

[Andaius20]

Ok I relayed the plan to her and she said a group sanctioned model is a good Idea. We have plenty of time to put forward a shot, the one I picked can be a plan B if no one can agree.

[NuclearBuddha]

FatherNestor wrote...
Just before I go back to Call of Pripyat:

So... what next after Lovecraft, Buddha? Cyberpunk? Or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (hell yeah!)?

Oh God.  Shepard as Case and Tali as Molly?  I don't even know what to say other than:  "The sky above the Flotilla was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel..."

[Azint]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

FatherNestor wrote...
Just before I go back to Call of Pripyat:

So... what next after Lovecraft, Buddha? Cyberpunk? Or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (hell yeah!)?

Oh God.  Shepard as Case and Tali as Molly?  I don't even know what to say other than:  "The sky above the Flotilla was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel..."

Neuromancer in my Mass Effect? Why not?

[FatherNestor]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

FatherNestor wrote...
Just before I go back to Call of Pripyat:

So... what next after Lovecraft, Buddha? Cyberpunk? Or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (hell yeah!)?

Oh God.  Shepard as Case and Tali as Molly?  I don't even know what to say other than:  "The sky above the Flotilla was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel..."

Lol, whut? I don't even... Forget what I said about Cyberpunk.
And... about STALKER?

[NuclearBuddha]

FatherNestor wrote...
And... about STALKER?

I hate to point this out, but STALKER, Stalker (the movie), and Roadside Picnic are all bigger sausage-fests than even Lovecraft's work.

I wouldn't even know where to begin.

Edit:  Tali:  "The whole world is a prison."

Modifié par NuclearBuddha, 18 juillet 2010 - 06:49 .

[Someone With Mass]

Runescapeguy9 wrote...

Out for tonight. Have to read reckoning and the rest of LC tomorrow.
Keelah se'lai.

Just a bunch of mooks. Or as I like to call them: Meat shields.

[NuclearBuddha]

So greatly was I soothed by the simple pleasure of sharing an intellectual challenge, I must have allowed sleep to take possession of me for I slipped, nearly without transition, into the most curious dream. In it, I hurried along the labyrinthine stone passages of a cyclopean watch-tower, much as I had made my way so laboriously through the twists and turns of that ineffable Prothean text. I knew, in that strange surety that accompanies dreams, that I must hurry to the summit of the tower, for an astronomical event of remarkable singularity was soon to occur. I reached the zenith, finding the tools of an astronomer's craft awaiting. Among these were represented both the most ancient tools, such as silver mirrors, astrolabes, horologia and palms, and pieces of equipment more advanced than I had ever seen. Though I should not have recognized such implements, I knew them somehow, identifying among them devices such as etheric neutrinometers and subtle apparatuses for measuring the minute impingement of gravity upon light. Notes were scattered about on thin slips of a metallic substance, and I understood that these writings were somehow what I was now reading in Miss Zorah’s book!

I paused before the silver mirror, thinking for some reason that I should adjust my robes, which were disarrayed from my precipitous rush to the pinnacle of the watchtower.  What part of me retained volition in this uncanny trance was unaccountably frightened to see my reflection, so I quickly turned away. I was not swift enough, however, to miss several peculiar and altogether shuddersome anomalies in the form I had glimpsed so briefly.

My dream-self had little time to spare for such alien aversions, readying tools for what was sure to be an observation momentous in rarity. By the calculations inscribed on those sheets of metal, the predicted occlusion of the beloved pole-star by the movement of the until-now only inferred black sun was an occurrence repeated only once every quarter of a million solar cycles. There were those, I somehow knew, who predicted dire things of this phenomenon, pointing to evidence of great extinctions in almost unfathomed past ages, but similarly I knew that these were the ravings of the unhinged. Was I not a rational being, a devotee only of science? And so I began my vigil, watching the sky and waiting, ready to etch all that I witnessed onto new sheets of metal so that a record would be made for all time.

[Azint]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

And so I began my vigil, watching the sky and waiting, ready to etch all that I witnessed onto new sheets of metal so that a record would be made for all time.

I actually had a similar experience, believe it or not.

[FatherNestor]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

FatherNestor wrote...
And... about STALKER?

I hate to point this out, but STALKER, Stalker (the movie), and Roadside Picnic are all bigger sausage-fests than even Lovecraft's work.

I wouldn't even know where to begin.

Edit:  Tali:  "The whole world is a prison."

Well, dunno... Perhaps have Shep working in Zone as Guide? And Tali posing as a average stalker with gasmask put on non-stop to hide her gender? After all, no womens so far were seen in STALKER- Wait, actually in Clear Sky one of the guys in Agroprom mentions his girlfriend working with him...

[NuclearBuddha]

Azint wrote...

NuclearBuddha wrote...
And so I began my vigil, watching the sky and waiting, ready to etch all that I witnessed onto new sheets of metal so that a record would be made for all time.

I actually had a similar experience, believe it or not.

Polaris, though it's a little overshadowed by all his other stuff, was strangely affecting to me.

[RiptideX1090]

You know Buddha, I've tried reading Call of Cthulhu, and have only managed to get so far, but I find your stories very enjoyable.

[NuclearBuddha]

FatherNestor wrote...
Well, dunno... Perhaps have Shep working in Zone as Guide? And Tali posing as a average stalker with gasmask put on non-stop to hide her gender? After all, no womens so far were seen in STALKER- Wait, actually in Clear Sky one of the guys in Agroprom mentions his girlfriend working with him...

I recall that.  I remember thinking, "holy sh*t is there actually going to be a woman in this game?"

The idea with the gas mask is kinda clever, though.

[NuclearBuddha]

RiptideX1090 wrote...
You know Buddha, I've tried reading Call of Cthulhu, and have only managed to get so far, but I find your stories very enjoyable.

Thank you for the kind words.  You should give it another go.  I'm just a shallow imitator.

Here's a quote by HPL I saw the other day that kinda struck me:

"Even when I break away, it is generally only through imitating something else! There are my "Poe" pieces & my "Dunsany" pieces -- but alas -- where are my Lovecraft pieces?"

[Azint]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

Azint wrote...

NuclearBuddha wrote...
And so I began my vigil, watching the sky and waiting, ready to etch all that I witnessed onto new sheets of metal so that a record would be made for all time.

I actually had a similar experience, believe it or not.

Polaris, though it's a little overshadowed by all his other stuff, was strangely affecting to me.

During one of my little escapades, I went to the mountains for a trip and one of the things I brought was a sketchbook. I remember sitting on a precipice during the night, it was very cold, but I spent most of that night sketching the mountains and stars. Sirius was up then, and that was the focal point of one of my sketches.

[RiptideX1090]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

RiptideX1090 wrote...
You know Buddha, I've tried reading Call of Cthulhu, and have only managed to get so far, but I find your stories very enjoyable.

Thank you for the kind words.  You should give it another go.  I'm just a shallow imitator.

Here's a quote by HPL I saw the other day that kinda struck me:

"Even when I break away, it is generally only through imitating something else! There are my "Poe" pieces & my "Dunsany" pieces -- but alas -- where are my Lovecraft pieces?"

Good artists borrow ideas.

Great artists steal them.

[Azint]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

Thank you for the kind words.  You should give it another go.  I'm just a shallow imitator.

I assure you, you are marginally better at this most others I have read.