Sandbox Discussions

[Bluelantern]

Exalted is the kind of setting where mind-controlling random peasants, but compensating them for it, is among the nicest things you could be doing. (An important note is that Creation doesn't really have the same sex rules as Earth - it's a much more casual thing. It'd be more like mind-controlling people to dance for your amusement, on the continuum of such things.)

This? Not helping.

Also, Solars are kind of contractually obligated to be awful people in at least one way. It's a thing.

Naveis Mirai would like to disagree with that last part.

Just because it's a Thing doesn't mean a Miles can't get out of it. Conversely, just because it doesn't apply to a Miles doesn't mean it's not a Thing.

I think the part Mirai disagreed with was the contractual obligation.

Huh.
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I am completely and utterly failing to figure out how a Miles could be awful. Contract obligation or not. Awfulness is a not-Miles thing. They are precious incendiary puppies that deserve ALL THE HUGS.

[Kappa]

"Precious incendiary puppies", omg <3 <3 <3

[DanielH]

If you turn up the mischief too much it might become mayhem. Imagine the Ivan attitude that Miles always gets him into Trouble and magnify that a bit.

Would a clone of a Miles raised by somebody semidecent even become a JokerSherlock?

[Kappa]

Some JokerSherlocks are raised as their Miles's sibling. The interesting question is whether one of the clones would become another Miles, and I think they might, especially if you started with three and there wasn't already a Miles in the universe where you raised them.

[Ezra]

Did I forget this third triplet from someplace before the two recent boxes League and Kystle, or is that all that we-the-audience have of him so far?

[Kappa]

That is all you have of him so far, as far as I remember.

[PlainDealingVillain]

I'm really curious what Vorkosigan-Triplet-The-Third's central character traits are. Could we convince you to have him sandboxed alone, with a little less overshadowing from his brothers?

[DanielH]

Re: The theme of the day is

What is the setting with essence nodes? I thought it was original until this box, and unlike the others does not have easily Googleable terms.

Is this only for IRL video games, or is there a chance that (eg) Cypress will show up, given that even his wife accused him of being a video game character? He even fits the theme that the characters decided was in play; he was on a quest to save the world.

[PlainDealingVillain]

I think this was based on that one text-based game ('Dreamward', maybe?) that the MWF IRC was playing for a while.

[Aestrix]

Saevetei's video game setting is actually a Feed the Beast modpack for minecraft called Regrowth, that I heavily tweaked to make more sense. It is fun to play, but not really great at making sense sometimes.

To people that follow Kappa on tumblr - this is the modpack where the pit is vast. :)