May do an update for the other groups, but his has the most progress to go until it's over anyway, and I'm kind of trying to keep everything synched up.
There are actually some neat parallels with Halo, particularly the "giant calamity gets twisted into a religion to worship said calamity"
interested to find out what happened during the first Crash
I'm curious about that
but I'm more curious about what happened that's required a second crash
I mean, going off the Bible, a rough outline would be something like
-Crash happens, Moses is the first person to make contact with MAIN, becomes a freaker and liberates the Hebrew people
-Various freakers appear throughout ancient history, praised as prophets and people blessed by god (basically just put a RADlands lens over the entire old testament)
-Jesus shows up. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus was just another manifestation of the archangel Micheal, so it's possible that he was a BP. Strange method of creation may have gotten twisted into "virgin birth." was executed, his resurrection and ascendance to heaven might be a fancy way of saying that he was fully reincorporated into MAIN. A promise was made that he'd return.
This raises a lot of questions though.
Why was the Crash so much more localized than it was this time? Assuming that MAIN is only the Abrahamic God then why would the Crash only affect the middle east? Are other ancient religions separate interpretations of the Crash? Was there a pantheon of BPs that lived up on Mount Olympus? Were sacrificial rituals done in South America and elsewhere to offer people to be incorporated by carbosillicate gods? If that's true then why is it that this time they've only taken on Judeo-Christian characteristics? Why did they wait this long to mass-assimilate people? Couldn't MAIN have created something that duplicated Lucifer's method to some extent? Spreading the idea that you need to unquestioningly allow God into your heart makes a great deal of sense, but what's the point of preaching that if Lucifer keeps siphoning all your souls? Why say that only unbelieving souls get cast into hell when in fact everyone does, and regardless they can and will assimilate you even if you don't believe? How is it that a place that no man has ever seen before matches as a rough analogue to the hell that Dante describes in the Inferno (actually that one's probably just for aesthetic flair on DE?AD's part)?
I'm definitely really interested to see where things go. If I had to guess I would say that MAIN used to be significantly weaker, only able to cause a fairly localized crash and not able to run as extensive of processes in our world. Jesus was /10000 in his first carbosillicate body, but it lacked the strength to overpower people and was destroyed. Since then MAIN's just been sitting back, gathering power and observing humanity, priming as many people as possible to welcome it with open arms before coming back with a vengeance.
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Someone needs to explain how if the Crash happened a few weeks ago and the angels only formed due to the use of people's personalities, how they're a few centuries old?
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What spring does with the cherry trees.
It's also important to remember that, while the Bible does seem to, basically, be a record of the First Crash, it's been told, re-told, rewritten, translated, and retranslated. It's a massive game of telephone, and, as such, not necessarily perfectly intact or at all in-context.
Still, some of the other questions Speed brings up actually will be addressed by the end of the game.
Uh... The First Crash was mentioned quite a few times.
Remember when Micheal was talking with you, and he showed you the creation of his Shell? Remember that the dudes were wearing robes and sandals in a earthen hut? Yeah.
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ah well, my bad
I'll write something up right now
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"Bring it!"
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nothing quite like that nuclear fire
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I'm curious about that
but I'm more curious about what happened that's required a second crash
I mean, going off the Bible, a rough outline would be something like
-Crash happens, Moses is the first person to make contact with MAIN, becomes a freaker and liberates the Hebrew people
-Various freakers appear throughout ancient history, praised as prophets and people blessed by god (basically just put a RADlands lens over the entire old testament)
-Jesus shows up. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus was just another manifestation of the archangel Micheal, so it's possible that he was a BP. Strange method of creation may have gotten twisted into "virgin birth." was executed, his resurrection and ascendance to heaven might be a fancy way of saying that he was fully reincorporated into MAIN. A promise was made that he'd return.
This raises a lot of questions though.
Why was the Crash so much more localized than it was this time? Assuming that MAIN is only the Abrahamic God then why would the Crash only affect the middle east? Are other ancient religions separate interpretations of the Crash? Was there a pantheon of BPs that lived up on Mount Olympus? Were sacrificial rituals done in South America and elsewhere to offer people to be incorporated by carbosillicate gods? If that's true then why is it that this time they've only taken on Judeo-Christian characteristics? Why did they wait this long to mass-assimilate people? Couldn't MAIN have created something that duplicated Lucifer's method to some extent? Spreading the idea that you need to unquestioningly allow God into your heart makes a great deal of sense, but what's the point of preaching that if Lucifer keeps siphoning all your souls? Why say that only unbelieving souls get cast into hell when in fact everyone does, and regardless they can and will assimilate you even if you don't believe? How is it that a place that no man has ever seen before matches as a rough analogue to the hell that Dante describes in the Inferno (actually that one's probably just for aesthetic flair on DE?AD's part)?
I'm definitely really interested to see where things go. If I had to guess I would say that MAIN used to be significantly weaker, only able to cause a fairly localized crash and not able to run as extensive of processes in our world. Jesus was /10000 in his first carbosillicate body, but it lacked the strength to overpower people and was destroyed. Since then MAIN's just been sitting back, gathering power and observing humanity, priming as many people as possible to welcome it with open arms before coming back with a vengeance.
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Not speed
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Please don't think about it
I don't need another block of text
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What spring does with the cherry trees.
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In other news I never thought I had it in me to be such a fanboy. It's like looking into the dark side of my being.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
I love it when players do that.
why don't you just go
suck
a
lemon
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let's have a party
more interesting that way
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Still, some of the other questions Speed brings up actually will be addressed by the end of the game.
There was a crash before this?
Are we getting into some Assassin's Creed stuff now?
What spring does with the cherry trees.
Remember when Micheal was talking with you, and he showed you the creation of his Shell? Remember that the dudes were wearing robes and sandals in a earthen hut? Yeah.
I'm dumb.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
is lemon a code word for dick?
I think DE?AD has plenty more for you
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He's trying not to metagame.
no it's not
and I don't even understand your comeback so there
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It's too late to argue now.
wait then did he just say you have a bigger dick than him
trying to diffuse this sexually tense situation with deflective questions
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