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Feb. 5th, 2012 01:28 pmOh boy, I have plots and ooms of gloom and doom to get done before the move to DreamWidth. But joy! The thing that is distracting me is a job for which I am getting paid! It is a minimum wage, hourly job, and only half time, but it is good to be employed again. It is with people I have worked with before at a place I had to leave because I had graduated and they were overjoyed to have me back. They don't need to train me!
Well, they did a bit, just because the office got rid of its ancient multiline telephones and replaced them with something more foolproof. Actually, I had to be detrained. Yay technology!
But yes, the ooms and plots. It has gotten me to revisit astrophysics and cosmology, my old buddies. The End of the Universe, as seen from the Observation Window of Milliways, has struck some muns as the Big Crunch. The idea of Big Crunch, though, was rejected by cosmologists some time ago. To me, what is actually on the other side of the window is the end of the Luminiferous Era and the beginning of the Degenerate where all familiar existence is torn apart by that mysterious force that lies in the spaces between everything else. Yeah, Dark Energy. That good 70% percent of existence that no one can pretend to understand yet except for the fact that whatever it is, it is pushing everything away from everything else. In a way, this fits with the way I have been playing Amascut. She is philosophically motivated by mercy, but more immediately by grief. The Big Crunch would be devastating for her, as it is the mark of a cyclic universe, something she would have been more comfortable with in her former role as a goddess of death and rebirth. She has been trying to break the cycles of what she sees as perpetual suffering since her awakening and I think she will be pleased if she discovers she is doing that in a way at the end of the universe. She is not destroying lives; she isn't destroying happiness. She is showing mercy; she is sparing all but the truly unfortunate endless from the horrible loneliness that is the Degenerate Age.
Speaking of the Endless, they have begun sneaking into my plans for the end of the universe OOMs. First it was Desire, who was to be the Great Enemy that Future Amascut and her Future Comrades where struggling against. Then it was Destruction (Described as a redhead!!! Yay coincidences! Well maybe not. It may be an allusion to the Egyptian god Setesh, whose mythology may have influenced Runescape's developers when they drew up sketches for Amascut), who has finally returned to his role, and under whose banner Future Amascut fights. Then Despair, then Delirium, then Destiny, then Death. Then Dream. I have less of a clear idea of where Dream fits, but that's Dream for you.
It has been fun writing cosmological descriptions using the language familiar to someone who would would be an exobiologist/glorified extrerminator in a more technologically advanced world.
There is also a pending adventure with Ako that will alert the Abyssal Services Department and the Zanaris fairies that Milliways is about to move to the next universe over. It is not like that there is a timetable for this stuff yet, but I suspect that once this thing gets rolling, shit will hit the fan. Well, that is sort of the idea. I just want to get these done so that I can throw my shit at the fan too.
The adventure in the Half-Life Universe probably won't happen until the dust settles somewhat, but Cam is making me nervous by writing Adrian as being antsy about it. It all depends on what Leesha wants to do. I think right now the plan is for everyone to be riding up in the voltron lion and aerial bombardment stuff. Amascut + Giant Robot Flying Lion = BAD, so she'll be coming in from the ground, barring any lulz. I think KD also stated that Felix would like to not leave the ground. If Amascut and Felix do get paired up, I expect much awesome in the form of many lava bombs and explodious spells. Goodbye, worrying about conserving stored up earth magic. Unless Felix has a limit on how much earth magic he carries around. Huhm.
SO MUCH PLOT
Well, they did a bit, just because the office got rid of its ancient multiline telephones and replaced them with something more foolproof. Actually, I had to be detrained. Yay technology!
But yes, the ooms and plots. It has gotten me to revisit astrophysics and cosmology, my old buddies. The End of the Universe, as seen from the Observation Window of Milliways, has struck some muns as the Big Crunch. The idea of Big Crunch, though, was rejected by cosmologists some time ago. To me, what is actually on the other side of the window is the end of the Luminiferous Era and the beginning of the Degenerate where all familiar existence is torn apart by that mysterious force that lies in the spaces between everything else. Yeah, Dark Energy. That good 70% percent of existence that no one can pretend to understand yet except for the fact that whatever it is, it is pushing everything away from everything else. In a way, this fits with the way I have been playing Amascut. She is philosophically motivated by mercy, but more immediately by grief. The Big Crunch would be devastating for her, as it is the mark of a cyclic universe, something she would have been more comfortable with in her former role as a goddess of death and rebirth. She has been trying to break the cycles of what she sees as perpetual suffering since her awakening and I think she will be pleased if she discovers she is doing that in a way at the end of the universe. She is not destroying lives; she isn't destroying happiness. She is showing mercy; she is sparing all but the truly unfortunate endless from the horrible loneliness that is the Degenerate Age.
Speaking of the Endless, they have begun sneaking into my plans for the end of the universe OOMs. First it was Desire, who was to be the Great Enemy that Future Amascut and her Future Comrades where struggling against. Then it was Destruction (Described as a redhead!!! Yay coincidences! Well maybe not. It may be an allusion to the Egyptian god Setesh, whose mythology may have influenced Runescape's developers when they drew up sketches for Amascut), who has finally returned to his role, and under whose banner Future Amascut fights. Then Despair, then Delirium, then Destiny, then Death. Then Dream. I have less of a clear idea of where Dream fits, but that's Dream for you.
It has been fun writing cosmological descriptions using the language familiar to someone who would would be an exobiologist/glorified extrerminator in a more technologically advanced world.
There is also a pending adventure with Ako that will alert the Abyssal Services Department and the Zanaris fairies that Milliways is about to move to the next universe over. It is not like that there is a timetable for this stuff yet, but I suspect that once this thing gets rolling, shit will hit the fan. Well, that is sort of the idea. I just want to get these done so that I can throw my shit at the fan too.
The adventure in the Half-Life Universe probably won't happen until the dust settles somewhat, but Cam is making me nervous by writing Adrian as being antsy about it. It all depends on what Leesha wants to do. I think right now the plan is for everyone to be riding up in the voltron lion and aerial bombardment stuff. Amascut + Giant Robot Flying Lion = BAD, so she'll be coming in from the ground, barring any lulz. I think KD also stated that Felix would like to not leave the ground. If Amascut and Felix do get paired up, I expect much awesome in the form of many lava bombs and explodious spells. Goodbye, worrying about conserving stored up earth magic. Unless Felix has a limit on how much earth magic he carries around. Huhm.
SO MUCH PLOT
