Bob Schroeck Wrote:I suspect my cast and the Grover's Corners just don't come into play in this variant at all. The GC relies a bit more on the super-wow side of the equation than this setting uses.

Quote:Sometime later, after Sora was well and truly sloshed, the blindfold was pulled away and she saw the members of the Order of St. Grimace standing in front of her, all dressed in identical black suits and wearing gorilla masks, the eyes glowing with hellish red light. The lead gorilla spoke in a voice that she dimly remembered as Mal Fnord's.

"Okay, rookie. It's time... to teach you about the SYSTEM." he intoned, and the other gorillas nodded gravely.

"What th'hell are you talk'n about," Sora mumbled.

"A great man once told us," the gorilla declaimed, ignoring Sora's interjection, "that our consumerist society runs on greed, and on inferior products that we are expected to be thankful for. This man was wise in the ways of the world, and he imparted his wisdom to us. The people bleat and feed at the trough of mediocrity, allowing themselves to be led like cattle, like sheep! In these dark times, we must be their champions. No, we must be their saviors!"

The Mal-gorilla reached out and grabbed Sora by the shoulders. "We who live in outer darkness are the heroes the world of Light needs, rookie. We will reach out and bring the revolution to them. This is the great task of our generation. It's up to us! And we shall begin our long march along this path..."

The gorilla paused dramatically.

"...by knocking over an Olive Garden in Irvine."

M Fnord Wrote:

Bob Schroeck Wrote:I suspect my cast and the Grover's Corners just don't come into play in this variant at all. The GC relies a bit more on the super-wow side of the equation than this setting uses.

You say things like this and I'm tempted to try and find a place for them, just because they said it couldn't be done.

Bob Schroeck Wrote:Oh, please do.  I expect that I will be pleasantly surprised and maybe even boggled if/when you succeed.

M Fnord Wrote:...what do you think, sirs?

Proginoskes Wrote:(Bob and the Warriors cheated to actually build the GC's Marble, but the material itself is almost hardtech).

Bob Schroeck Wrote:Well, initially it was a kind of cheat -- I never said how the dome was grown, just that it was done "with handwavium".  I have of late decided that they used the handwavium not directly, but to create nanoconstructors which themselves built the dome (and laced it with handwavium and 'wavium-enhanced mechanisms, as well as the sensor cameras and whatnot).  Regardless, I had always envisioned the hull -- at least the top -- starting out flexible, in two accordion-folded halves grown and situated underground that then unfolded and met in the middle to form the upper dome, essentially curing to final hardness upon exposure to air.   Which isn't typical behavior for simple fused silicon.

Proginoskes Wrote:(There's another set of replacement errors for the thread in the Fanfiction forum: silica is silicon dioxide (SiO2: quartz and the main ingredient of glass); silicon is a semiconducting metalloid; silicone is an extremely broad category of compounds (polymers with the general formula [R2SiO]n, where R is any organic group), the most familiar of which to most people would be silicone rubber.)

Quote:Since the discovery of Strangelove, Convention gate authorities have been reevaluating all their data on past "alien" civilizations and are finding that yes, some of these may indeed have been human. The further discovery of Tellus Secundus (again by the Order) has thrown pretty much everybody for a philosophical loop. Who built this duplicate of Sol system? Why did they build it? How in the hell did humans show up in the network? And the $64,000 question: are there more duplicates out there?

M Fnord Wrote:Now, the question of namespaces. I'm not opposed to the idea, though if we want to make actual seperate namespaces and not just fake ones I'll have to engage in a little server-side cocking about with config files to make it work. So not quite as simple as all that but hopefully easy enough.

DeputyJones Wrote:Gotta say, even though I have no voice on it, I agree with the idea of giving seperate space on the wiki for the alternate versions Fenspace that have been fleshed out a bit. It just seems wrong for all that good material to just be discarded. Heck, maybe during my aforemention upcoming break I could write something to the effect of having the folks at Pavonis Arcology welcoming and interacting with the spindizzied Mormons...hmm...

DeputyJones Wrote:*pauses* After reading that, I had a rather dark-ish thought. What if that universe is an 'amalgam' universe where an Infinity/Centrum-style multi-worldline civilization had swiss cheesed the interdimensional boundries so much that a number of them had collapsed together?

robkelk Wrote:If we're going to go with real namespaces (as opposed to heavy categorizing of pages in the existing namespace), then yes, you're going to have to do the initial work.

DeputyJones Wrote:Maybe give Infinity-syle designators to the alternate versions of Fenspace just for convenience's sake? Fenspace-1 (mainline), Fenspace-2 (Gernsback-2), Fenspace-3 (Candle in the Dark), etc. Or maybe something more colorful, like Fenspace-Prime, Fenspace-Dixie,...

Quote:You created Pavonis, which is more than enough to give you a say in what happens here. We're all in this together.

Proginoskes Wrote:Er, Gernsback-2 is Mainline Fenspace, if I understand Rob Kelk's writings correctly.

M Fnord Wrote:

robkelk Wrote:If we're going to go with real namespaces (as opposed to heavy categorizing of pages in the existing namespace), then yes, you're going to have to do the initial work.

Well I just checked the manual and it's not too much of a pain to build a new namespace. I'm thinking we do one namespace for the alternates as a group, then we can category-spam the breakdown however we feel fit from there. Sound like a plan?

robkelk Wrote:Sounds like a plan.