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Grrl Power #1050 - The one with the list
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Deus: We're the two most attractive people in any room.
Max: You wildly overestimate yourself.
Deus: I notice you didn't disagree about your comeliness.
Max: I know what I look like.
Deus: Pamela Anderson crossed with Xena.
Max: ... }sigh{ Right. Besides, it's hardly a reason for us to date.
Deus: Between your physical might, military position, and fame, and my own economic, political and technological resources, we would redefine the term "power couple."
Max: Again, hardly a reason to date.
Deus: It would make couples comprised of actors and/or musicians feel downright silly by comparison.
Max: Hmm. I suppose that would be amusing.
Deus: I challenge you.
Max: You aggravate me. Did you know your new buddy enslaved Dabbler's sister?
Deus: That was a tad petty, but for demons, I think it's roughly equivalent to pulling on a succubus's pigtails. Regardless, Parfait is going to get quite an education, tagging along from world to world with Thoth. I would expect the move was designed to make Dabbler envious of her sister's incipient adventuring career, but I don't know what Thoth and Dabbler's early years were like.
Max: I can't help but picture them sharing an efficiency with furniture found on the sidewalk just before trash day.
Dues: Hah hah hah hah! I was just about to say the same thing! With a bunch of pizza boxes stacked up on the wobbly kitchen table, Thoth running a kickstarter to get his "sweep the chaos from your world" business going.
Max: And Dabbler trying to save enough to get her "Adventurer's First Kit" with the fifty feet of rope and the ten foot pole.
Deus: I never understood that. How do you maneuver a ten foot pole through a dungeon?
Max: Maybe it was collapsible?
Deus: Maybe.
Max: I'm still not dating you.
Deus: I have a really nice caaaaar.
Max: Hah hah hah! That wouldn't have worked on me even if I was still in high school!
Deus: "Makes Maxima laugh." Check.
Max: Are you seriously putting this on the whiteboard?
Deus: We're making Pro/Con lists.
Max: }sigh{ Oh my god. Add "You exhaust me." to the Cons.
Comments
akrasia
I have yet to see an author write 'inscrutable' characters in a way that makes for good storytelling. If there's no way to relate, there's no way to empathize, or even justifiably hate them. They become indistinguishable from random events, and at that point it's on par with hating a hailstone that broke your car's windshield. In the context of storytelling there has to be something relatable about any story agent.
Person
My own theory is that inscrutable beings capable of patching PHYSICS are going to have motivations that are similarly inscrutable. "Do that which one cannot do" I believe is how the quote went when Cora was explaining to Sydne how the Nth occasionally interacted with Normal Folk. Dave has already established that there is a major gap between Us and Them. Communication? Motivation? They Just Like To Fuck With US? My money I on the last one.
akrasia
...I wonder if the "make Terrans supers" modification to reality is just priming the conscript pool? Wondering why anyone would do that + noting that supers are hiring out as mercs now = somebody waaaaay higher in the foodchain than Deus wants super soldiers?
Harmony Petersen
XD
Dave Barrack
Turns out the only thing Dues isn't smug about is insecurity about not being smug enough.
Harmony Petersen
Con list => Pro list With Deus, any pro list item can have "You are so smug about... X" added to the front, and it becomes a con. Therefore, Con list is always at least match the Pro list in size.
