OOC The Blades in the Night {Working Title}

[The OP3RaT0R]

I'll take this for Aradriel. Also, I'll probably post sometime soon, I just kind of want to wait for the recruits to be inducted, so there's some kind of context for the group relations.

 

[AS88]

I'll take this for Aradriel. Also, I'll probably post sometime soon, I just kind of want to wait for the recruits to be inducted, so there's some kind of context for the group relations.

Yeah, it's only natural that the two interim leaders of the company would post first anyway, for sake of showing their personalities a little for you guys to work with.

I'm looking forward to this one, I was very pleased with how the planning stage went, Aerin

 

[The OP3RaT0R]

Wow. So, I just read up a little on the mythic origin of the creation of Mundus, finding some information that suggests that basically, reality in Mundus might be real, but everything might be the imaginings of a being called the Godhead which created Mundus - but then, anyone might be the Godhead, and everyone else is just a hallucination, and out of this comes Boethian philosophy, which says "It doesn't matter if you are the Godhead and you say I am not real, because I have the will to exist." Just, wow. Now I am considering having Aradriel progressively turn to this philosophy and become more of an assassin.

 

[Aerin]

Wow that's really cool smooth.

So, could that apply to every fictional world? Because if the mass effect universe exists I'm going to have a fit.

 

[The OP3RaT0R]

Exist... Within the context of the game, or within our reality? Because that theory just applies to the creation of Mundus within the lore

 

[Aerin]

Ah fine, must have misread your post and got far too excited before I realised damn night shifts messing with my mind.

 

[Daryl Dixon]

Okay I'd hate to delay further but I'm leaving for Bathurst now, races are on, will be away for 4 days.

Sorry for not posting earlier, I've had 4 anxiety attacks this week and a lot of **** has been going on. I've written 3/4 of a post and I'll write some while I'm away, but won't be able to post until I'm back.

 

[Ponder]

Have you started getting into CHIM yet, Smooth? Because that's where things get even more meta.

A lot of that stuff is very closely related to the plot planned for the Industrial RP. In a sense. Although I took my lorehammer to it

 

[The OP3RaT0R]

I actually might have to go the Boethian route for my character for that RP, which I have had on the far back burner for a while. I do indeed want to get into CHIM, because I'm intrigued and from what I can glean it's really pretty wild and crazy

Your delay is probably fine, Daryl, considering that this is off to a slow start anyway.

 

[Delusional]

CHIM? And what's new regarding your the Industrial RP, Ponder?

 

[Ponder]

CHIM? And what's new regarding your the Industrial RP, Ponder?

CHIM is kind of hard to explain without all the surrounding contextual information, but essentially it's a kind of enlightenment within the Elder Scrolls universe. A character achieves CHIM through a two-step process. First, they realize they are simply a figment of the Godhead's imagination--that they do not, in fact, exist. Then (this is the important part), through a force of will, they decide that they do exist, and they make for themselves a reality within a state of unreality.

Sort of. I doubt I'm explaining it right, but this is the stuff that the loremasters write dissertations on. It's like the character decides that -1+1 does not equal 0, and through doing so becomes something more. Once a character achieves CHIM they can alter the world of the Godhead (everything in TES universe) however they please, effectively becoming a god.

This is why I argue that Vivec is a god--because he has achieved CHIM and has thus ascended to the realm of godhood within TES universe.

It's all stuff which breaks the fourth wall. The way some see it, Vivec was an NPC who realized that he was in a game, and decided to become active within that game. Theoretically, he alters the world through the use of the Morrowind creation toolkit... thing.

 

[Ponder]

As for the Industrial RP, it's still there, but I've put on hold. Between school and our other RPs, I wouldn't have the time to really get anything going there.

Although it's not totally a bad thing. All this extra time has left the ideas percolating in my brain, and there's a few things I hadn't thought of that I'll probably include.

 

[Delusional]

Ah, alright. That makes sense. Interesting.

 

[AS88]

10 days since I posted. If you applied with interest and a CC I think it's reasonable to expect a post, right?

 

[The OP3RaT0R]

Yeah, I really should. It's been hard to think of a good intro post but you're right, it's been long enough and I'll get one up this afternoon.

 

[Delusional]

Should I post again? Gattuso is waiting for Tristan, but I wanted to let others *cough* OP *cough* post their intros first...

 

[The OP3RaT0R]

About to start writing mine, but it won't really involve any of the others.

 

[AS88]

Should I post again? Gattuso is waiting for Tristan, but I wanted to let others *cough* OP *cough* post their intros first...

By all means! While our characters are separate I'd say it's better to have the RP active even if there's only a few of us posting to start with.

About to start writing mine, but it won't really involve any of the others.

That's fine. Like I said, while people are doing their own thing, it makes sense that we might not all be posting all the time, although that is obviously the aim.

 

[The OP3RaT0R]

So, it's almost done. A little dark, a little weird, and I think it fits Aradriel pretty well.

 

[Aerin]

If you can post, then post. I would but I find myself waiting on Daryl. I'm only able to get online via my phone atm so I can't see when he was last online, but for the sake of getting this RP off the ground, if he isn't online in the next few days I may just write Jax as considering Daud a no show and get him back to HQ so we can move things along, does that sound fair to everybody?