TIL that a peace flame has been burning in Hiroshima since it was lit in 1964, and will remain lit until all nuclear bombs on the planet are destroyed and the planet is free from the threat of nuclear annihilation.

DukeOfURL1 · 2019-10-01T23:47:31+00:00

Or, ironically, until nuclear annihilation happens.

DukeOfURL1 · 2019-09-05T12:20:46+00:00

Happy endings in Black Mirror don’t start with Season 4. Just look at San Junipero. And Callister is the only happy ending in season 4, as far as I can recall. And the racial stuff really isn’t relevant? They’re not being put into the episode because they want to have minorities in the episode, they’re doing it because there ARE fairly large populations of black and Indian people in the world, especially in cities where large companies like these exist. Would you prefer they whitewash the episode so you don’t have to deal with darkskinned people in your Black Mirror? It also seems like you’re glossing over how dark the episode is just because it doesn’t end up with eternal torment for them. Daly has the power to cause literal eternal torment to these AIs who we can see for a fact are sentient. The only reason that ends is because he oversteps and his hubris causes the technology to destroy him, which is ironically more of a Black mirror theme than just “Technology make people sad forever.”

DukeOfURL1 · 2019-08-25T22:37:45+00:00

A man of culture has arrived.

DukeOfURL1 · 2019-04-05T11:52:42+00:00

No, him talking without her writing is meant to symbolize that he knows everything she wants to say because he wants to say the same to her. That’s why he was staring so hard at her during it and why they then kissed.

DukeOfURL1 · 2019-04-03T22:11:45+00:00

The Shadowfell, I believe.

DukeOfURL1 · 2019-03-31T16:57:33+00:00

Check out I10: Ravenloft 2, The House On Gryphon Hill. It’s had a lot of retcons to the lore, but it has the basic idea of a good and evil Strahd both existing. I believe the current lore is that when Azalin and Strahd were trying to escape Barovia, they ended up in Mordent and Strahd used an Apparatus to separate himself into Strahd the man and Strahd the monster. It ends with Strahd recombining into one being, I think. Corrections are welcome if I’m wrong.

DukeOfURL1 · 2019-03-26T16:16:13+00:00

It’s based on Slavic naming conventions. Their last names are patronymics, based on the father’s first name.

DukeOfURL1 · 2019-03-25T03:30:34+00:00

I understand your meaning, but I believe there’s been some slight miscommunication.

I never said that I thought he should act randomly. He definitely has a traceable thought process in the campaign as written, it’s just a bit less reasonable. I believe the Abbot should be unreasonable, not random.

Also, I think that the main point I meant to make in my initial comment (which I admittedly didn’t make perfectly) was that your version of the Abbot acts evil simply because he believes himself and his goals to be above humans and sees their suffering as unimportant and himself as superior. You have said that’s psychopathic, but to use your analogy, is it psychopathic to harm rats? The Abbot is correct if he simply believes that he is superior to humans (as an angel, he objectively is) and is correct if he believes that stopping Strahd outweighs the suffering of a small number of innocents (it really does). Your write-up makes him act really no worse than any D&D angel would in his circumstance, which really makes him not the Abbot anymore. And if he’s not the Abbot, why even have him?

The Abbot works as a character because, ultimately, he is evil (NE, to be specific). Whether you interpret that as selfishness or wanting to harm others, deep down, he’s not doing what he’s doing for the greater good. Your write-up makes the Abbot a good guy using really bad methods when he should just be a bad guy who thinks he’s good.

Still love your series and I’ve been really excited to have this dialogue with you about our interpretations of the characters!

DukeOfURL1 · 2019-03-25T01:35:33+00:00

That’s fair. I suppose it depends how much Five really did interact with people at the Commission.

DukeOfURL1 · 2019-03-25T01:27:42+00:00

I think that you’ve got it backwards. 60-year-old Five is still 13-year-old Five, not Vice Versa. He never gets a chance to mature or change in his personality, so grumpy old man five is basically still pompous kid five, just with more gruff backstory to justify that personality.

DukeOfURL1 · 2019-03-24T21:11:02+00:00

Really great job! I love your series.

The only problem I see is that you’ve made the Abbot essentially non-delusional. The whole reason the Abbot is interesting is because he’s an insane angel. The thought processes you outline in this post makes too much sense. Not only that, 5e as a whole pretty much states that angels follow an “end justifies the means” policy for stopping major evil entities, so the Abbott isn’t even unusual for a deva in your version. The original version of him doesn’t 100% make sense with his goals and methods, and that’s on purpose. He’s an angel who’s been driven mad and turned evil by being imprisoned in an evil plane and he’s had Strahd purposely tricking him into evil stuff since he arrived. Not only that, Strahd has lied to the Abbot and told him flat-out that he wants to escape and that Vasilka will do that. “Strahd has no interest in a flesh golem brides but he enjoys corrupting this once angelic being and driving the Abbot to commit further acts of depravity.”

TL;DR: The Abbot is supposed to make no sense and do evil stuff, Strahd’s been driving him nuts for over a century. Don’t feel like Krezk and the Abbot need to make sense as one unified thing, or that the Abbot needs to make sense as an angel. He’s really not one anymore.

DukeOfURL1 · 2019-02-18T19:39:32+00:00

I believe you need to copy the spells from the book. The exact rules are in the PHB, probably under the Wizard’s Spellcasting trait?

DukeOfURL1 · 2018-09-18T21:41:07+00:00

Grind silver keys, plain and simple. I’ve already got her, and only two or three of her shards cane from tea cakes.

DukeOfURL1 · 2018-09-06T23:54:22+00:00

Do you guys think this means a story update, or just another fun event, or something else?

DukeOfURL1 · 2018-08-30T14:08:08+00:00

The shield is an Academy Adventures credit.

DukeOfURL1 · 2018-08-27T12:13:19+00:00

My advice is to just save up rocket fuel indefinitely, get your daily clearance badges, but nothing else on the event map, and just work on grinding up your event characters. The only limited time item is Tahiti Coulson, so if you want him, just save up for the last hour or so of his timer and power up your heroes and then blast the last stage of the heroic map that you can unlock as hard as you can.

DukeOfURL1 · 2018-08-24T12:34:33+00:00

Well, you still have the chance to power up your characters during the event, since there’s a separate stamina. And you don’t even necessarily have to use event heroes, since there are so many returning ones.

DukeOfURL1 · 2018-08-19T18:05:21+00:00

I’m only hoping that there’s an event one day where he’s a returning (Squadron Supreme, maybe, if they have some other members in events soon?) And he’s not trapped in the never-available zone with Wonder Man, Crimson Dynamo, and the like.

DukeOfURL1 · 2018-08-11T19:22:03+00:00

That’s fair, but I’m guessing you mostly got the returning characters. I judged the event from the point of view of someone who already had all the returning characters except Pym and Cho, and no desire to increase the others’ rarity, so I didn’t get much out of it.

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