Shitposting Rave OOC

I mean at least this Cronus isn't at risk of dying if he fails to deliver.

 

i choose to believe that dualscars joke was a black humor/expression of severe depression suicide joke that ghb took literally. veeeery literally

 

genie does not feel like being straightforward today

 

btw all the forms cronus takes have the scars

itch just already had it and the cat was ridiculously fluffy

 

I just realized that Cronus has technically been cockblocked by a fox.

Wow.

 

so I see we're getting close to 1k pages

 

I still wouldn't advise that you eat it.

The element sulphur is found in many of the organic chemicals that are in the food you eat, and you need a certain amount of it. But you need small amounts of a lot of elements that you shouldn't eat measurable quantities of pure, and eating too much sulphur can damage your kidneys, which you need to live. It would be extremely difficult to overdo sulphur by eating normal food, but I really wouldn't recommend eating pure sulphur.

It's also probably gross.

The sulphur in eggs is what produces the terrible smell they have when they're rotten.

 

Yeah Ford will talk to her sometime when I have more free time about this apotheosis thing because he's curious about what it means.

When you've travelled through all those dimensions it becomes apparent that the only functional definition of "god" is "a being, which may or may not exist, that people worship." Apotheosis is "becoming a god". So what exactly does she mean by that?

That's another thing I mean to answer when I get a chance. It would help if canon gave us any freaking idea whatsoever why Filbrick named his sons Stanford and Stanley.

The primary reason Ford objects to being called Stan is that that is his twin brother's preferred moniker and Stan does show up in the rave from time to time. He gets on pretty well with Burlesque, he loves to give Ford the occasional ration of shit, and the kids (they're not Ford's kids biologically, but he's adopted them out of necessity since they're living with him in Dimension 52) are super attached to Stan.

If you know GF canon and don't play Weirdmageddon Tango this is probably really confusing. Particularly the part where Ford refers to Mabel and Dipper as his kids.
Sorry about that!

Spoiler: Explanation for those who know GF canon

Weirdmageddon Tango was started over a year ago when only the first part of Weirdmageddon had aired, and in our game it was NOT a localised event, it broke down the barriers between a lot of different dimensions and affected the entirety of multiple planets. We predicted that Mabel's bubble was a Lotus-Eaters land dream bubble, but in our game Bill was using her creative magical power to fuel his shenanigans. Sunshine (a troll who formerly worked with Bill who had once been Ford's kismesis in another dimension) turned Ford loose and when Dipper came back to him with Mabel -- Norm the Genie had killed Wendy during the rescue, though she did get better -- Ford took the kids home with him so he and his wife Valiska (a feline cursebreaker, not a seven-eyed oracle) could teach Mabel how to use her abilities rather than getting used for them and he could train Dipper. They also brought a bunch of other people back with them including Sev, from a post-apocalyptic world, who eventually ended up in a triad with Ford and Valiska, and Jamethiel Knorth, and three teenage troll girls. And Sans and Papyrus. And...more people. Stan had meanwhile got sucked into Dimension 52 and had actually helped Valiska escape and travel to Ford and had ended up going on a Big Adventure with Valiska's adopted sister Getheny, a six foot tall blue alien woman--they ended up in Night Vale for a while too.

Eventually we did find out what had happened to Dipper and Mabel's actual parents but we have not met their father yet in the game (their mother, unfortunately, wandered into a madness bubble and ended up at the bottom of Lake Gobblewonker).

 

That's hydrogen sulfide, though, not elemental sulfur. At least i think.

 

Right, all the sulphur in eggs is in chemical compounds. Sulphur is however in a lot of things that smell terrible and probably taste worse.

 

I am honestly waiting for the day that Abhaya can get into a fight with Ford over the whole apotheosis question. Not because Ford will actually be fighting but because Abhaya's motto is Always Be Fighting basically.

Xiaohe would calmly and carefully answer the whole question for him and go into further clarifications when needed meanwhile. Hell she'd probably try to provide the explanation in as many languages as Ford knows and make use of the vast body of translated terminology Heaven uses just to make sure everything is all neat and tidy. God and deity run together a lot in English but Shen and Tianshen are a bit more distinct. When you're a rich girl who works in Office Bonds you get the best language tutors money can buy. And you get thousands of them.

 

i am so confused by sulfur talk

 

Hahaha okay but you know Ford will back away from people who are Always Be Fighting most of the time cause he only comes to SPR to relax, feed the animals, talk to his faves and occasionally troll the hell out of people.

Oh and to flirt with Samiiiiiiiiiiira. :)

I don't have any of the Cronuses on ignore, but Ford just decided he isn't talking to them. It's a waste of energy. They never change.

 

ALWAYS. BE. FIGHTING.

Though she'd play nice with him while Xiaohe is around. Though only mostly because she doesn't feel like having to listen to another lecture about how her record of fucking up her parole is bad and she might actually get put back in PRISON. Not because she actually cares. BLAH BLAH BLAH parole violations BLAH BLAH BLAH.

if anyone has a problem here xiaohe it's you and your shit maids that don't fucking notice when i break in for visits

 

Also just not dealing with the Cronuses is probably best for him. I only really mess with them as characters I know won't be interested in trying to change their shit. Because wow are they easy to troll.

Though I do want to scold them as Porrim again sometime soon if only because I find scolding fun.

 

Undying does meet the more conventional definition of a god since she's worshipped (she and her 'siblings' created a species of merfolk from other spirit-touched and are worshipped by them) but they also became more Spirit than not and gained a ton of power when they ate bits of the god. Which they could only do because they were spirit-touched and already part Spirit.

 

Lazarae that reminds me part of why I decided to bring in the Sutra Stories fucks I have. I was like "Ok the current range of conventional definitions of god we have here is too small. IT IS BORING. WE GOT TO EXPAND WITH GODS AND HEAVEN PLAYED IMPOSSIBLY FUCKING STRAIGHT. Just from another convention."

i am still sad when i describe the setting to people and they are like "oh so you're not playing heaven straight that's lovely" and i am just like no no we are playing it straight it is literally called the celestial bureaucracy in chinese faiths

I love how defined your thing with gods are though. It's always nice when I come across very defined definitions like that? Though that's likely because I come from a religious background whose cosmology is basically as drawn out and organized as a fucking DnD setting.

 

I'm kind of reminded of an old joke idea where the Judeo-Christian heaven was a modern bureaucracy, with stuff like "angels" being a misinterpretation of "agents."

Ethus is one of my favorite settings to play with for so many reasons (schizotech! The two magic systems! What even is going on with Those Above?) and I'm always glad when other people like it ^^ One of the reasons nobody can decide if Those Above are gods or not is nobody knows if they have physical bodies, because other than Unspoken and her sibs gods don't. Also what do you call something bigger than a god?

 

Well you call them a Brahma obvs.

 

Also we should talk about magic systems. Sutra Stories' is very in the woodwork because he's not done with the setting but what is there is interesting I find. BUT WHAT ARE YOUR TWO MAGIC SYSTEMS? We have four.