Re: [spoon-discuss] Fwd: RE: [Thermo] Proposals File

["Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >>>>>-"So fix it" is answer one. Answer two is that, in my mind, an army
> >of
> >>>>>faeries has always been a couple thousand (they're really small),
> >elves
> >>>>>number about two, three hundred, ogres number about twenty, and the
> >Borg
> >>>>>are one. Well, one mind. Hundreds of bodies.-
> >>>>
> >>>>And three hundred elves can fit in a space that, if I'm in it, can't
> >even
> >>>>fit two elves?
> >>>>
> >>>>To "fix it", as you say, could be done in a couple of ways, none of
> >which
> >>>>are entirely agreeable:
> >>>>1) Repeal armies. In general, I dislike repealing things until we're
> >>>>certain nobody uses them anymore.
> >>>>2) Move armies to a separate grid. This would require a new Ministry,
> >>>>which would probably land on Dave, who wouldn't want to deal with it.
> >So
> >>>>this would get vetoed.
> >>>
> >>>-I meant fix the other thing. Let players occupy the same space. It's
> >been
> >>>proposed a couple of times. Third time's the charm! Seriously, it is
> >>>ridiculous. A player needing all the space in an Elbonian Airways to
> >>>themselves? Not right.-
> >>
> >>But that doesn't change the fact that the Grid is scaled differently. We
> >>have things like Balls of Wax, Big Sticks, Speeders, etc. all of which
> >are
> >>based on the player-sized squares. Even if I can stand next to you, that
> >>doesn't mean the squares are bigger. And there's not a lot of space at 
> an
> >>Elbonian Airway - it's just a slingshot in the mud (and maybe a Pig or
> >>two).
> >>
> >>Perhaps it's just my mental image, but I always pictured the grid as
> >being
> >>not all that much larger than it appears on Orc's renderings of it, 
> maybe
> >a
> >>hundred feet to the side of a square, at most; to fit armies into it
> >>requires rescaling by a factor of around a hundred, maybe more if you
> >>really want to fit a thousand faeries in. Many things would cease to 
> make
> >>sense at all - can I really run 3000 miles in a day (That's 128 mph)? 
> And
> >>how can I hit you with a Big Stick when you're so far away?
> >>
> >>Armies, as they are, just don't fit in.
> >
> >-Then go with us being huge, or scale them down in your mind - maybe it's
> >only a platoon of faeries, a squad of elves, two Ogres. Whatever. Or
> >imagine
> >everything as pieces on a game board, and we, the demigoddic Players,
> >hovering above, controlling it all.-
>
> Actually, the demigoddic Players are so big, so badass and so powerful that 
> none of them would tolerate another of them being in the same square.  It's 
> not actually a size thing as it is a power thing.  Think of it as godlike 
> body odor.  Fortunately it's cosmic godlike body odor, so the armies that 
> navigate through the same space, lacking in godlike sense of smell, aren't 
> slain by our sheer presence.
>
> 						Glotmorf
-It's too bad we don't have a hall of quotations or something. The second 
half of what you just said would go in it, I'm sure. Hmm, maybe we should 
have one. It could be a ministry.-

[[BvS]]

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