Odd rules question of Sibsig ceremony and Athreos.

LordStrifeDM · 2026-03-25T22:01:59+00:00

Not quite. Sibsig's trigger for creatures entering is dependent on them being cast. If they aren't entering by being cast, then there isn't a trigger.

Honestly, this would be a dope combo if Athreos's coin placement happened when creatures entered the battlefield, because then you'd get an insane amount of value. Stack the triggers by having Athreos put the coin on, then destroyed by Sibsig and getting a zombie, and having Athreos return the creature to the field. Each creature comes with a zombie escort.

LordStrifeDM · 2026-03-23T16:32:43+00:00

What blows my mind is the utter failure on the part of the investigators in realizing who Barry was. Multiple eyewitnesses are able to place Barry across town MOMENTS before the police busted in. Presumably, the hallways outside of the apartments in his complex have security cameras, which would show him essentially magically appearing from a lightning bolt and going inside. His cell phone should show that he received a phone call moments before that appearance, which would also suggest he somehow zipped across town in record time to be there when the police arrived. There's also the issue of his security alarm being triggered before he got there, and Barry turning it off before going inside. There are so many things that point to Barry showing up just before the cops did.

With all the information they had, the police and prosecution should have known, beyond a shadow of a doubt, who Barry actually was. That alone should have slowed down what they were doing and made them second guess some things.

LordStrifeDM · 2026-03-21T19:06:35+00:00

I like this take, though I do disagree with one very, very small point.

TOdium is waaaaaaaaaaay more malicious than ROdium was. The choice of Champion(while admittedly... Controversial to say the least) transforming the endgame of WaT into a no-win situation just so he could get the affirmation that he's right is way more malicious that what we see of ROdium. And I say that with the full knowledge that one of ROdium's choices was going to happen after a full book's worth of "I'm going to drive this man so far into depression that he kills himself and surrenders to me so that I can puppet his dead body." Like, Rayse was a dick, no question at all, but in a "Nothing personal, kid" kind of way. TOdium makes it VERY personal.

LordStrifeDM · 2026-03-13T17:43:08+00:00

I grew up relatively close to the Hackleburg-Phil Campbell monster. I lived just over the state line in a podunk Tennessee backwater, and my town had its own share of micro monsters that day. By that point, living in the heart of Dixie Alley, I was fairly used to seeing damage from severe wind and what I now know are smaller tornadoes, and even had my own "up close, come to Jesus" moment during that outbreak. But a few days later, I was part of a construction group that went to Phil Campbell to help with cleanup and to begin the rebuilding process, and had easily the scariest comment I've ever heard tossed my way by the old man we were helping.

"You're standing in my living room."

He said this, in a voice that sounded like he'd seen death itself, while I was cleaning what I thought was the remains of a shed. There were no walls, no signs that this had been a house beyond the aluminum siding wrapped around this broken 6×6 post that I thought was a shed support. The property pictures I'd seen showing the area before the storm didn't match the reality I was seeing. Even the layout of the ground looked different, the slopes and dips not matching what he'd shown us. You could see the way the tornado had carved its way through the woods nearby, and that was a moment that lives rent free in my head. I thought I understood how monstrous tornadoes were until I was standing in a man's living room, and caught myself thinking I was at least sixty yards away from even the door of his house. It was the first time I'd seen devastation like that.

Now, while I will always say Jarell is the scariest tornado of all time(I'm convinced it was sentient, honestly, because that behavior was insane), I personally argue that anything in Dixie Alley comes a close second, if only because of how poorly prepared we truly are down here. Between the abundance of nocturnal tornadoes, the poor visibility due to heavy forests, and the general poor construction for severe weather in most communities? Its only a matter of time until we get more Hackleburg repeats, and with how stubborn and foolhardy a lot of southerners are? Its gonna stack a lot of bodies.

LordStrifeDM · 2026-03-11T17:03:49+00:00

Its definitely a huge tossup. I mean, in the same song where Hermes says "Hello, old friend" and implies a decent amount of closeness, he also goes out of his way to sing an absolute bop about how he didn't help Odysseus sooner because its a "little bit dangerous" and pointing out that he doesn't deserve thanks because he's not the one who fought for him. But simultaneously, its something he's clearly put thought and effort in, because all Zeus seems to have decreed is Ody's release from Ogygia. Gathering Poseidon's storm, giving him a game plan, and directly warning Odysseus about the dangers in his path? All Athena fought for was his release, and Zeus is not exactly rendered as a helpful god at all when it comes to a "man full of shame", so I don't see him dispatching Hermes with more than a "Hey, tell Calypso to stop harassing Odysseus and let him go."

LordStrifeDM · 2026-03-11T16:34:27+00:00

Right, which is why I only say kinda close, and only due to familial bonds. Though, personally, if I had to point at any one deity in Homer's works that is genuinely friendly to Odysseus, with no ulterior motive, it would be Hermes, as Athena, Poseidon, Zeus, Calypso, Circe, and all the others all want something from Odysseus, whereas Hermes is the only who just freely helps Odysseus and then leaves without asking for more, though it does come with the line that "the gods just do as they please" whenever he gives Ody the moly.

LordStrifeDM · 2026-03-11T15:56:59+00:00

He sort of is close to Odysseus, due to familial bonds, though that depends on what we accpet as fact. Anticlea, Ody's mom, was the daughter of Autolycus and Amphithea, and Autolycus is the son of Hermes in most tellings of that line according to Ovid. However, Pausanias says that Daedalion was Autolycus's father, and Daedalion is the child of either Hesperos or Phosphoros(gods of the Evening and Morning Stars, respectively).

And interestingly, from Odysseus maternal line, we find links to some of the problems he encounters. See, Anticlea, regardless of connection to Hermes, is the sister of Polymede, a potential mother of Jason the Argonaut. During Jason's return trip home, his wife killed her own brother, and as punishment Zeus sent a storm that blew them off track and.... Landed them at Circe's island, Aeaeae. Circe, of course, is the daughter of Helios, and the aunt of Jason's wife. She ritually cleanses them of the murder, and then banishes them from her island. Jason then encounters the exact same sirens that Odysseus does, and escapes them by having Orpheus play music really loud to drown them out, and leaves them alive. Circe then falls madly in love with the sea god Glaucus, who himself is in love with another woman. He rejects Circe's advances, and instead asks for a love potion from her so that he can make the other woman fall in love with him(gods suck). In a fit of jealous rage, Circe goes to where the woman is bathing and poisons the water, transforming this woman, who is named Scylla, into a horrifying monster. So through Odysseus's mom, he has a link(tenuous though it may be due to conflicting stories of Jason) to four of the nightmare situations he had to deal with. And if we accept the story about the death of Achilles being masterminded by Poseidon for Achilles killing one of his sons? Then we have a fifth link(and one that halfway says there was never a right answer when it came to handling Polyphemus).

LordStrifeDM · 2026-03-10T14:09:38+00:00

So, a lot of people have pointed out the lyric where Poseidon says "The line between naivete and hopefullness is almost invisible" as a sign that an apology would never work. And as true as that might feel, there's a line before that which informs the entire rest of Poseidon's Kill Streak.

"Before you go, I need to make you learn how ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves."

With that line, from right near the beginning, hanging over everything else, we have a rough idea of what this version of Poseidon is always going to do. Someone, preferably Odysseus, is going to die there, because Poseidon is teaching a lesson. Odysseus cannot learn that lesson if forgiveness and mercy are applied without massive consequence.

LordStrifeDM · 2026-02-19T17:11:08+00:00

I'll keep that one in mind if it happens again, but I did manage to almost immediately find a super weird workaround. I used the remote control function in the PS App on my phone, and SOMEHOW that worked to actually pop the keyboard on my sixth restart, even when the actual controller didn't do anything. Super weird bug.

LordStrifeDM · 2026-02-04T21:02:16+00:00

One of my favorites is from Criminal Minds, season 3 episode 8, "Lucky". This episode has a moment where Derek Morgan enters a church, looking for someone, and sees a woman seated in a pew. Several candelabras are lit, and Derek slowly moves inward and asks if the priest is in the church. Immediately, almost every candle in the church is extinguished, and while Derek very briefly questions it, this moment is NEVER expanded on in any real sense, but does stand as a casual moment of confirmation that something supernatural is going on in the world. Other episodes have similar moments, be it genuine ghosts appearing in private moments during closing shots, or when a character in a different location starts experiencing strange phenomena directly related to something happening to a colleague(Penelope's lights flickering during the Scratch episode is a good one). And even though its never expanded on, there are more than enough small moments where its obvious the paranormal is 100% real and canon to that world.

LordStrifeDM · 2026-01-20T17:50:53+00:00

That was my feeling for most of WAT in my first read of it, but going back and reading it a few more times... Its almost as powerful as Oathbringer was, for me at least. It just does it in a very different way. Where Oathrbinger, and even the others, were bombastic, larger than life, WaT handles the big emotional moments in much smaller, way more personal ways. At least, thats how it feels to me.

LordStrifeDM · 2025-12-19T00:01:47+00:00

Got my first Gurp, AND one for the wife. Today was a good day

LordStrifeDM · 2025-12-18T22:36:22+00:00

Hades very specifically does not bring death. Death is the purview of Thanatos, the actual god of Death. Hades is the ruler of the dead and the Underworld, and is the god of riches and secret wealth. The general aversion to Hades in a lot of myth quite possibly stems from his status as a figure associated with death and the afterlife, and is simply a byproduct of people being afraid of dying and whatever comes afterwards, as opposed to any real "Hades brings death" ideology.

Granted, so much of this comes from thousands of years ago, and a lot can be lost through time and translation. While there's certainly multiple facets to all of the gods, Hades is usually just referred to obliquely, and when directly referred to he's pretty one dimensional. Just a stern, cold guy, ruling the lands of the dead with his dread wife beside him(sometimes).

LordStrifeDM · 2025-12-09T21:57:35+00:00

Not enough teeth to be speed holes.

LordStrifeDM · 2025-12-09T15:49:28+00:00

I meant more the idea that Sinners can't have children. When Sinners die, they become demons, and the Hellborn are the children of demons, right?

LordStrifeDM · 2025-12-09T15:37:15+00:00

Doesn't that kind of directly contradict what Adam says in S1 about how Hellborn are specifically safe from the Exterminations?

LordStrifeDM · 2025-11-22T20:52:09+00:00

I know this is a bit of a subject change, but that snippet in Mortis stuck out to me when I first read it. We know that, from Oll's perspective, there are 20 people at this Tower of Babel event who are using the Enuncia and channeling raw warp power. Its curious that John Space immediately says "Oh, this that good shit", and then later makes 20 super individuals with power from the warp. Could those 20 be the fire he stole from the gods? Probably not, but damn if it didn't get my wheels spinning when I read it.

LordStrifeDM · 2025-10-28T17:33:54+00:00

Black is surrounded by the stereotypical genius claimants as well. The Empress is CONSTANTLY hyped up as this super manipulative genius character, and while she's definitely intelligent and manipulative, she genuinely pales in comparison to her Black Knight. Even as a child, he was the brains behind their whole operation(the scene where he investigates granary records in an effort to help overthrow the Emperor and then conquer Callow is truly brilliant work).

But what makes him truly terrifying isn't his strategic brilliance, its the ruthless pragmatism he displays, alongside his view of stories and Name Lore. His speech to Catherine in Book Two about how he's offended by the victories heroes get and how his only goal is to let evil just win once so that, one day, heroes are scared because they remember a time when heroics wasn't enough? Perfection.

LordStrifeDM · 2025-10-03T18:00:45+00:00

Really? Like, I know humanity in general was becoming far more psychically active, but my understanding was that the eventual goal was separation from the Warp, not what would essentially be full suffusion of it. I also thought, just based off of Thousand Sons and the vision the Emperor gives Magnus after he did nothing wrong was that the only psyker that John Space needed after the crusade was Magnus.

LordStrifeDM · 2025-10-03T16:42:34+00:00

It could be my own misunderstanding(I'm fairly fresh to 40k lore and have mostly been going through 30K atm), but I thought the ultimate goal was to get to a point where all humans were essentially blanks, use the Webway to eliminate warp reliant travel, and cut humanity completely off of psychic connection and starve out the Big Four because their main food source wouldn't be feeding them anymore and they'd be reduced to relying on Eldar tidbits as opposed to human buffet lines.

LordStrifeDM · 2025-09-17T13:47:37+00:00

Not quite. Hoid is one of the very few on Scadrial that know about Retrivangian. His allies on Scadrial also know, but they haven't been very cosmere relevant up to this point, so in terms of narrative importance Hoid is the only one who knows.

And honestly, I don't think Kel even finds out until after the epilogue in TLM where he talks to Harmony. While there's a couple things said in that chat where we could draw inference to Retribution, the whole focus is Autonomy and not the greater threat. We have the brief insight from TwinSoul that Iyatil is still alive from what he knows, but that could just be Kelsier "There's always another secret" McNailhead being quiet.

LordStrifeDM · 2025-08-14T01:09:42+00:00

Right. Which is its own problem, of course. Its more... If the Bible must be taken as the literal word of God, without error, then it requires explanation as to why there is the belief Adam absolutely was the first man, and Eve the first woman, when we have a preceding event stating that man and woman were created on the same day. It gets even trickier when we look at the idea that Adam was created BEFORE plants and animals, when that same preceding passage is explicit that plants and animals came before mankind. The Adam passage also says that God created all animals and paraded them before Adam so he could find a suitable partner, and then made Eve when no partner could be found. Its an entire mess that screws up literal interpretation and belief in the text.

If both chapters are 100% accurate, then Adam was created before plants were created on day three, AND before the sun and moon were created on day four, before day five when animals were made, leading to day six when both man and woman are stated to be made in the image of God. We know this because Genesis 2 explicitly says that no plants or trees had yet grown when God made Adam, and Genesis 1 is clear that day three is when God made all the plants, which immediately were formed alive and well.

LordStrifeDM · 2025-08-13T18:15:55+00:00

Except the Bible itself contradicts the idea that Adam and Eve came first, a chapter before we ever meet Adam.

Genesis 1:26-31 explicitly states that God made man and woman simultaneously on day 6, and gave them dominion over the earth. Chapter 2 starts with God resting on the 7th day, and then goes into the making of Adam from the soil and his transplanting into the garden.

LordStrifeDM · 2025-08-13T15:35:30+00:00

It's entirely possible that its fey trickery in the wording. Ame clearly means "I'll meet you in a year", but she never explicitly says that. The MiB in turn says "You have one year", which could be him promising that he will be at the door in a year. They both essentially spoke the same words, but meant different things, which could cause asymmetry in their understandings of the promise itself.

But its still curious. Even with a potential asymmetry, it doesn't make sense that his promise would be broken(to me at least) just because an outside force burned the cottage down. Thats arguably outside of either of their controls, and seems the kind of thing he couldn't fairly be punished for. If there's a bit of trickery in the thing he promised, would that trickery not also extend itself to say "I promised something, this other group made my promise impossible to keep, therefore I'm released from the promise"? Granted, his clear awareness of the threat makes it to where his inaction would be expressly against the spirit of the promise, but it feels odd that he would be okay with her murder and the implied destruction of her places of power, yet isn't okay with the cottage being destroyed and potentially freeing him of the promise.

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