Dave Lester @ 436
I assume that *Libertarian IN "NH"/USA fell apart because of petty faction-fights & "MAH_Rights! & zero consideration for balancing "Obligations", yes?
Yeah, pretty much. In all my experience dealing with "Libertarians" they never acknowledge any kind of obligations; especially any kind of obligation to the surrounding society.
That's somebody else's job, but they will complain bitterly when that "somebody else" doesn't do the job to their satisfaction.
]]>what of 3-D printers of magic items?
spellcasts prepared within a self-contained bespoke CPU/pentagram?
bespoke elf armor? with full wards and clever stealthing? embedded inside layerings of kevlar?
dwarfen swords with custom crafted grips and a nano-edging of synthetic diamond capable of smiting with each swing a blistering 53-D6 hit points
god-slaying by way of squadrons of cheap drones (thank you Ukraine) deploying mass produced but precisely customized widgets... "give me all variants of spellcasts between 0.00600 and 0.0069 for deployment on a Tuesday night comma moonless against a squid deity massing 19,000 tons"
]]>So long as the story of Bob and Mo is resolved – maybe not happily, but given some sense of closure – then I'll be happy. Anything else is gravy.
]]>I guess some alignment for the Godlike equivalent of a gravity slingshot would work - presumably around somewhere with a magic-capable population.
Hm. Maybe it means "you apes are the energy supply for this particular slingshot"?
]]>Or perhaps the presence of those two species may be exactly the reason the Matrioshka has to be built using the Moon - their (sensor?) reach just doesn't extend that far.
]]>Somewhere in the New Management world there will be a climate activist with more charisma and energy than mathematical ability promoting the idea of fighting global warming by importing already frozen blocks of ice from parallel worlds. A TEU sized block of ice could be plopped down in any open space in London and people would immediately notice it. And the annoyingly hot Tube tunnels have rail links; just plop down a TEU of ice onto a flatcar and roll it into any overheated station with a siding! Entire train loads of ice blocks could be delivered to deserts, providing both coldness and water.
Surely there would be a market for lumber once the dead trees were defrosted a bit, too.
The bad ideas are endless!
]]>Already answered above, comment 291 and preceding.
JHomes
]]>all manner of fictitious reference works
"Dummy's Guide to Fighting Elder Gods" by John Doe
"Bad As It Is, Could Be Worse: Jewish Wisdom and Wit For Surviving Yet Another Apocalyptic Shitstorm" by Rabbi Zvi ben-Yisrael
"Necrotelicomnicon: Guide To Contacting Gods and Supernatural Entities" by Sir Terry Pratchett
"H.P. Lovecraft's the Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers" by R. J. Ivankovic
"Ludvig Prinn and his De Vermis Mysteriis" by Robert Bloch
"Liber Paginarum Fulvarum" annually published by Barbarus Magicis Communicationis
("Book of Yellowish Pages" by Barbarian Magical Communications AKA British Telecom)
"C Is for Cthulhu: The Lovecraft Alphabet Book" by Jason Ciaramella
"Mediterranean Magical Leftover Dishes: 120 Bold and Healthy Recipes For Unicorn, Dragon, Elf, and Whatever Other Incidental Roadkill You Run Across Post-Singularity"
]]>ShotSpotter for magickal 'incidents'
]]>ShotSpotter for magickal 'incidents'
and a mage-based means of actually getting ShotSpotter to work effectively in identifying gun play fast enough to arrest thugs
]]>I might add more but, as far as I can remember now, some questions occur to me. One was more-less answered, I was curious about the ruins of orbital factories floating around the world where the Sleeper lies, but there's a few others.
I already know we won't be getting anything actually set there, but of course I'm quite interested at what's going on in Eastern Europe with the vague mention of a cult of Chernobog? How does he fit into the cosmology that's being described here? (what with St. Ppilimtec and other elder gods)
I can't recall if I mentioned it in my comments but the keyword-initiated checkup by auditors intrigues me. What would be the circumstances where an operative actually fails a self-check i.e. "subjective tampering" mentioned. Who employs such methods?
Related to point 1 - admittedly, it has been to some extent my quiet headcanon that since NATO has extensive relations with BLUE HADES, there might have been efforts by Soviet leadership to contact DEEP SEVEN , and that the Darvaza burning crater as well as several soviet deep-drilling projects were related to this. Will they make more appearances? (As well as ANNING BLUE SKULL, the race that generated shoggoths and left ruins all over the polar caps)
There's a passage in Nightmare Stacks where the 'elven' scout reports the dire state of their neighbouring kingdoms not involved in the war, some of the menaces being identifiable (the sleeper at least if I recall right. I can elaborate when I get at home and get the book in hand.), others, not so easily... will this be relevant in our world's future too?
If I remember anything else, I'll mention it! And of course I fully expect the answers to my questions might be banal.
Best regards!
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