Mistiel

DnD 5e - Beginner's Game

So umm....are we three group 2 slowpokes good to go yet @Ermine?

What Are You Listening To?

Words Are Oxygen [Hardcore]

There's body language and then there's growling....

Growling would be a sound. Reading their body language and acting accordingly based off that, so long as it produces no sound, is coatally fine with me. Then again, it's fine with me even if you did produce sound.

By the way, it's worth noting that keeping track of everybody's "word count" would be on an honor system. Just periodically mention in your posts what your character's number is. It's entirely unreasonable that either the player or GM would be expected to physically count every word (especially considering a lot of those words are probably from histories). >,>

Greetings to All

^ Kuroyomihime....

<<< Kuroyukihime....



Lol 'sup other Hime? :D

Words Are Oxygen [Hardcore]

@Mistieloops, I meant that he would use sounds to communicate with animals. I wrote that weird.

@TheUnknowable

The second version would not happen. In this world, that would be a colossal waste of words since the animals can't answer back. :/

(As much as I would love to be able to commune with skunks, it's sadly not to be.)

Ravnica: A Magic RP

I'm sorry mates. I'm going to have to bow out of this one. This is not really my cup of tea. :(

Words Are Oxygen [Hardcore]

@Mistiel@BrokenPromisekind of on topic, I was actually wondering if animal sounds counted as words, as I thought a vet would be fun to play, and animals have sounds to communicate simple messages.

*Growls*

@TheUnknowable

If it's based off of a collar or a neurolinker like from Accel World (or even a brain chip), then I would guess that it measures all sounds indiscriminately as words. I would think that such a device would measure sound wave resonance (you know, like the bass vibrations?). Correct me if I'm wrong scientific people!

EDIT: I'm pretty sure animals would not be under the same restrictions as humans. They're animals. That'd be ridiculous lol.

Words Are Oxygen [Hardcore]

And then of course, there's always blink code with your eyes (Morse code even). Would it be realistic and/or fun to have an entire society that's forced to be in wheelchairs? That would definitely solve the foot problem. O,o

Of course it would mean that the farmers are even more reliant on the Progenitors' machines for farming tasks. The only problem for city folk, though, is the fact that it's Seattle and they live in high rise apartments. If for some reason the elevators aren't working, then God forbid getting a thousand people in wheelchairs up multiple flights of stairs.

As far as the learning thing goes, a brain chip does make the most sense (to me at least). If it's implanted deep enough (and at birth) it could affect the human body's development in such a way as to keep people grounded or with certain medical conditions like lupus, arthritis, etc.

Words Are Oxygen [Hardcore]

I could take a page out of the Accel World anime playbook and have everyone installed with neurolinker technology at birth. They learn silently, but really, only the Progenitors know WTF is in the neurolinker programming. For copyright and RP reasons, I'd also think we should invent a new name for the neurolinker device in question. Perhaps this device is a sort of mask or implant that acts as makeshift lungs, but it has the counter that counts how many words you've spoken? When you reach the ten thousand word limit, the mask or implant emits some kind of chemical or shock that instantly kills you. NOTE: I would have to disable everyone's ability to communicate via thoughts or neural link though. That would definitely NOT be in the spirit of the RP. Telepathy OP

@TheUnknowable

I like this idea. The Progenitors should probably specialize in some form of bioengineering. There could be a page pulled from Divergent and Brave New World where there is some other sort of societal tier structure. Perhaps a simplified version where the people in the apartment high rises, who don't usually have as much to offer as the farmers, differ from their farmer counterparts mentally? In my head, the Progenitors are a cross between the Divergent Erudite faction and the Brave New World scientist people, at least in casual appearance.

Maybe there is also a way to set the Progenitors even further above the common people mentally? Perhaps there is some sort of reward for speaking your mind? The idea in my head is that the Progenitors, and most people, are pro-speech because they consider it living life to the fullest. Only the Tacuit Autem are truly ANTI-speech. (If there was a resistance group to develop though, I'm pretty sure it would develop separate from the Tacuit Autem since I've already stated that the TA are "total pusses". However, like Firefly, I don't see why a resistance or rebel group looking to expose the Progenitors of something couldn't have a couple former members of the Tacuit Autem among them.

EDIT: @BrokenPromise I like the song idea. That's a very interesting premise. How complicated a song are we talking here? Like Twinkle Twinkle Star and Yankee Doodle, or something more complex? Maybe something comparable in length to Katniss Everdeen's "The Hanging Tree?"

And considering how I WANT there to be a resistance group formed against the Progenitors, the latter has to have quite a bit of control so as to make some of your charries displeased with the way things are run. The system is DESIGNED around flaws TO be flawed if that makes any sense.

@TwelveOf8 Really? Just "Lily?" as in her name? Surely you can spare more than just ONE word even in their world lol. "Lily, I love you" would be perfectly fine in my opinion. (Damnit, now I want a love story! :( )