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#0, Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by Gryphon on Oct-23-01 at 09:46 PM
(Another gargantuan thread locked and diverged by hand because people just can't seem to do it voluntarily... )

>Strange thought. What would happen if they knew the truth about Corwin? A >Demigod with Detian DNA?

I strongly suspect they, along with everybody else who doesn't have an Adaptability score in the high thousands like Utena Tenjou, wouldn't believe the truth about Corwin. As such, they would consider him an unfortunately delusional genetic aberrant, not simply a genetic aberrant like the rest of us. (And he's illegitimate - for shame!)

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/


#1, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by remande on Oct-23-01 at 09:51 PM
In response to message #0
>(Another gargantuan thread locked and diverged by hand because people
>just can't seem to do it voluntarily... )
>
>>Strange thought. What would happen if they knew the truth about Corwin? A >Demigod with Detian DNA?
>
>I strongly suspect they, along with everybody else who doesn't have an
>Adaptability score in the high thousands like Utena Tenjou, wouldn't
>believe the truth about Corwin. As such, they would consider
>him an unfortunately delusional genetic aberrant, not simply a
>genetic aberrant like the rest of us. (And he's illegitimate - for
>shame!)
>
>--G.

Quote from CoM kegger:
"Kid says he's a demigod. Of course, that's par for the course from Gryphon's son."
"In other words, Gryphon got a real human pregnant, so his son is only half Detian. Hell, if the kid says he's a demigod, he's nowhere near as arrogent as his old man."

BTW, I figure that the CoM would take ironic interest in the name "Gryphon"--a mythological amalgam creature.

--rR


#2, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by Gryphon on Oct-23-01 at 09:55 PM
In response to message #1
>"Hell, if the kid says he's a
>demigod, he's nowhere near as arrogent as his old man."

Bah! I'm better than a mere god - I'm a starship captain! :)

> a mythical amalgam creature.

Not on Titan. :)

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/


#3, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by Mephron on Oct-23-01 at 11:02 PM
In response to message #2
>>"Hell, if the kid says he's a
>>demigod, he's nowhere near as arrogent as his old man."
>
>Bah! I'm better than a mere god - I'm a starship captain! :)

True! We know about why starship captains need them.

But what need does a god have for a starship?

(GD&R)

--
Geoff Depew - Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Malakite of Lightning and Angel of Tech Support Professionals
(They won't give me LARTs, they say that's restricted to Michael.)


#4, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by Gryphon on Oct-24-01 at 01:21 AM
In response to message #3
>But what need does a god have for a starship?

According to Peter David, "to get to the other side."

And who am I to argue with Peter David?

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/


#9, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by zojojojo on Oct-25-01 at 08:43 AM
In response to message #4
>>But what need does a god have for a starship?
>
>According to Peter David, "to get to the other side."

So... a god is basically a chicken that understands high-tech next to a very wide road...

-Z

---
We are Dyslexic of Borg. Your ass will be laminated.


#10, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by Bodhi on Oct-26-01 at 02:44 AM
In response to message #9

>>>But what need does a god have for a starship?
>>
>>According to Peter David, "to get to the other side."
>
>So... a god is basically a chicken that understands high-tech next to
>a very wide road...

Just out of curiousity, what does that make Corwin?

>We are Dyslexic of Borg. Your ass will be laminated.

The mechanics of that still boogle my mind....
Still, that is a great sig line.

Bodhi
"...with a history of high speed passes over five aircraft control towers and one admiral’s daughter."


#11, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by Ardaniel on Oct-26-01 at 04:19 AM
In response to message #10
LAST EDITED ON Oct-26-01 AT 04:19 AM (EDT)

>>So... a god is basically a chicken that understands high-tech next to
>>a very wide road...
>
>Just out of curiousity, what does that make Corwin?

....a higher order of chicken, who builds a fleet of tiny robots that then build a pedestrian bridge over the road? :)

>>We are Dyslexic of Borg. Your ass will be laminated.
>
>The mechanics of that still boogle my mind....
>Still, that is a great sig line.

Brings new meaning to "crack sealer."

Ard Sumhenner
Ronin Research, Sacramento, CA


#12, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by Dreamshadow on Oct-26-01 at 06:51 AM
In response to message #11
LAST EDITED ON Oct-26-01 AT 06:51 AM (EDT)

With lines like this around, it's so hard to keep liquids going down my throat in the morning. I should have learned by now not to drink around the Eyrie message boards, or keep a spare keyboard handy.


Tom 'Dreamshadow' Tjarks
------------------------
Trainee in the way of Kawaii-fu, the way of the exploding wai.
"Wai."


#13, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by BobSchroeck on Oct-26-01 at 08:28 AM
In response to message #12
>With lines like this around, it's so hard to keep liquids going down
>my throat in the morning. I should have learned by now not to drink
>around the Eyrie message boards, or keep a spare keyboard handy.
>------------------------
>Trainee in the way of Kawaii-fu, the way of the exploding wai.
>"Wai."

Like you have a right to complain, with a sig like that... <grin>

Reminds me of an old Ranma fic, btw... I have a faint memory of a character who suffered from a variant on the nekoken called the "kawaii-ken"...

-- Bob
---------------
Please to remember
Eleven September --
Hijack, destruction and plot.
Our outraged reaction
To terrorist action
Should never be forgot.


#14, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by Blob on Oct-26-01 at 10:02 AM
In response to message #13
>>With lines like this around, it's so hard to keep liquids going down
>>my throat in the morning. I should have learned by now not to drink
>>around the Eyrie message boards, or keep a spare keyboard handy.
>>------------------------
>>Trainee in the way of Kawaii-fu, the way of the exploding wai.
>>"Wai."
>
>Like you have a right to complain, with a sig like that... <grin>
>
>Reminds me of an old Ranma fic, btw... I have a faint memory of a
>character who suffered from a variant on the nekoken called the
>"kawaii-ken"...

That's "Nuke 'em 'till they glow". It's actually a Sailor Moon fanfic.


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Cuteness ist the mindkiller. The adorable little death that brings total oblivion. I must overcome my cuteness. It will pass through me and over me and only I will remain.


#15, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by BobSchroeck on Oct-26-01 at 01:07 PM
In response to message #14
>That's "Nuke 'em 'till they glow". It's actually a Sailor Moon fanfic.

Ah. Thanks for the reference. Yeah, that makes sense, given what I can remember of "Nuke'em".

-- Bob
---------------
Please to remember
Eleven September --
Hijack, destruction and plot.
Our outraged reaction
To terrorist action
Should never be forgot.


#5, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by Matrix Dragon on Oct-24-01 at 03:29 AM
In response to message #0
(Another gargantuan thread locked and diverged by hand because people
just can't seem to do it voluntarily... )

Yeah, that's a bad habit. We really need to stop that.

>>Strange thought. What would happen if they knew the truth about
>>Corwin? A Demigod with Detian DNA?
>I strongly suspect they, along with everybody else who doesn't
>have an Adaptability score in the high thousands like Utena
>Tenjou, wouldn't believe the truth about Corwin. As such,
>they would consider him an unfortunately delusional genetic
>aberrant, not simply a genetic aberrant like the rest of
>us. (And he's illegitimate - for shame!)

Hmm, good point. I keep forgetting that most of the galaxy doesn't even know Ragnarock even happened. It's just I thought of the CoM's reaction to the news that a goddess slept with a Detian and had a child from it. Dead fanatics left, right and center.

Speaking of the Twilight, how'd you keep that one hidden? You had a few thousand freespacers, most of the bloody Autobot army, and the crews of three starships, one of which had a crew of over 100,000.

Matrix Dragon


#6, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by Gryphon on Oct-24-01 at 03:39 AM
In response to message #5
>Speaking of the Twilight, how'd you keep that one hidden? You had a
>few thousand freespacers, most of the bloody Autobot army, and the
>crews of three starships, one of which had a crew of over 100,000.

All of whom know perfectly well that nobody would ever believe them.

It's not necessary to cover something up which isn't credible to the general public in the first place. Ask the Air Force. :)

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/


#7, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by Mephron on Oct-24-01 at 11:13 AM
In response to message #6
>All of whom know perfectly well that nobody would ever believe them.

There's always gonna be SOME lunatic willing to believe anything. (Hell, there's Scientologists and the Flat Earth Society.)

I'm willing to bet there's some set of maniacs who claim there's no such thing as Omega-2 and that the entire WDF Cadre is really Buma or a set of clones or something.

Hm... and on the flip side, a cult that worships them. That may be a bit uncomfortable to some of them. (Of course, they're also useful when you need someone to do something for you for absolutely no good reason that you can think of and when going through 'channels' is not a possibility. But frankly, I can't see the WDF Core being that cold-blooded except in a major, major emergency.)

>It's not necessary to cover something up which isn't credible to the
>general public in the first place. Ask the Air Force. :)

There are those that thought the SR-71 wasn't credible once....

--
Geoff Depew - Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Malakite of Lightning and Angel of Tech Support Professionals
(They won't give me LARTs, they say that's restricted to Michael.)


#8, The Church of the Unwilling Diety(s)
Posted by remande on Oct-24-01 at 11:54 AM
In response to message #7
>I'm willing to bet there's some set of maniacs who claim there's no
>such thing as Omega-2 and that the entire WDF Cadre is really Buma or
>a set of clones or something.
>
>Hm... and on the flip side, a cult that worships them. That may be a
>bit uncomfortable to some of them. (Of course, they're also useful
>when you need someone to do something for you for absolutely no good
>reason that you can think of and when going through 'channels' is not
>a possibility. But frankly, I can't see the WDF Core being that
>cold-blooded except in a major, major emergency.)

Oh, dear. The Church of the Unwilling Diety is born anew! How often must I suffer?

IRL, Wedge Rat Kelli Clark decided to play a particularly cruel joke on me.

She declared me God.

I denied it, vehemently.

Within two weeks, I had five or six worshippers of the Church of ReRob, the Unwilling Diety.

Within three weeks, a schism had formed so that each worshipper had their own faith, each of which I was busy denying. At one point, somebody wrote up a generic excuse form (for getting out of any sort of trouble) that required "ReRob, the Unwilling Diety" to sign it. I signed no such forms.

IMHO, God can have His job! I don'wannit!

--rR


#16, RE: The Church of the Unwilling Diety(s)
Posted by Kitsune9tl on Oct-26-01 at 01:25 PM
In response to message #8
>>I'm willing to bet there's some set of maniacs who claim there's no
>>such thing as Omega-2 and that the entire WDF Cadre is really Buma or
>>a set of clones or something.
>>
>>Hm... and on the flip side, a cult that worships them. That may be a
>>bit uncomfortable to some of them. (Of course, they're also useful
>>when you need someone to do something for you for absolutely no good
>>reason that you can think of and when going through 'channels' is not
>>a possibility. But frankly, I can't see the WDF Core being that
>>cold-blooded except in a major, major emergency.)
>
>Oh, dear. The Church of the Unwilling Diety is born anew! How often
>must I suffer?
>
>IRL, Wedge Rat Kelli Clark decided to play a particularly cruel joke
>on me.
>
>She declared me God.
>
>I denied it, vehemently.
>
>Within two weeks, I had five or six worshippers of the Church of
>ReRob, the Unwilling Diety.
>
>Within three weeks, a schism had formed so that each worshipper had
>their own faith, each of which I was busy denying. At one point,
>somebody wrote up a generic excuse form (for getting out of any sort
>of trouble) that required "ReRob, the Unwilling Diety" to sign it. I
>signed no such forms.
>
At least in this case you have the rest of the Wedge Rats as an unwilling pantheon to comiserate with.
--
I'm a pan-theocratic Heretic. How may I piss off your priest hood today?

#17, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by Kitsune9tl on Oct-26-01 at 01:31 PM
In response to message #7
>>All of whom know perfectly well that nobody would ever believe them.
>
>There's always gonna be SOME lunatic willing to believe anything.
>(Hell, there's Scientologists and the Flat Earth Society.)
>
>I'm willing to bet there's some set of maniacs who claim there's no
>such thing as Omega-2 and that the entire WDF Cadre is really Buma or
>a set of clones or something.
>
>Hm... and on the flip side, a cult that worships them. That may be a
>bit uncomfortable to some of them. (Of course, they're also useful
>when you need someone to do something for you for absolutely no good
>reason that you can think of and when going through 'channels' is not
>a possibility. But frankly, I can't see the WDF Core being that
>cold-blooded except in a major, major emergency.)
>
>>It's not necessary to cover something up which isn't credible to the
>>general public in the first place. Ask the Air Force. :)
>
>There are those that thought the SR-71 wasn't credible once....
>
and the truly out rageous often gets publicized as a "ficticious account" based in reality.


#18, RE: Church of Man: the revenge continues
Posted by StClair on Oct-27-01 at 00:12 AM
In response to message #0
Oh, and despite my repeated petitioning (pestering) of Gryphon on this subject, this Church of Man isn't the Retros from PRIVATEER, either. Alas.


"Repent, and face our righteous judgment!"
"Deliver us, oh Lord, for we are in need--" *BOOM*