X-COM RP THINK TANK (part2)

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ZombieSplitter53

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And I expect questions! Here, or privately. So please, ask anything you want. Remember... there are no stupid questions, only stupid people. So ask!

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...ask!
 
DarkGemini24601

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>mfw Taxor arrives and freaks out at the new thread with copious info.

Also, incase you are wondering: you are allowed to create and submit to the GM (1) race of your creation if you so desire, but it has to be approved before its posted. (And we won't post other custom races until putting other lore stuff in that thread)
 
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DarkGemini24601 said:
>mfw Taxor arrives and freaks out at the new thread with copious info.

Also, incase you are wondering: you are allowed to create and submit to the GM (1) race of your creation if you so desire, but it has to be approved before its posted. (And we won't post other custom races until putting other lore stuff in that thread)
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Well, one more might be posted if its finished tonight.
 
Dahlexpert

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So, this is a twofer, one how many years have passed since X-COM saved the world. And what's the plot of the new story?or do we have a plot.
 
DarkGemini24601

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Dahlexpert said:
So, this is a twofer, one how many years have passed since X-COM saved the world. And what's the plot of the new story?or do we have a plot.
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Current date will be 2044, 25 years after the end of the war in 2019. The plot isn't completely ironed out yet, but we're going to be defending an elerium colony from a new faction, and possibly other threats and complications.
 
DarkGemini24601

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Hold on a minute here. A lot of the questions you guys are posing will be answered when we post the other lore, Zombie meant questions about alien races, not all this stuff. There's an age-slowing serum invented by Elene in 2022 that halves the rate of aging. So Atka, who was 25 when that was invented, will age (physically) 11 years instead of 22 visibly. She'll look 36 but actually be 47.

*This only applies after reaching age 18 though.*
 
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DarkGemini24601 said:
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Hold on a minute here. A lot of the questions you guys are posing will be answered when we post the other lore, Zombie meant questions about alien races, not all this stuff. There's an age-slowing serum invented by Elene in 2022 that halves the rate of aging. So Atka, who was 25 when that was invented, will age (physically) 11 years instead of 22 visibly. She'll look 36 but actually be 47.

*This only applies after reaching age 18 though.*
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Making Morrigan appear around... 52. No spring chicken, but could still kick my ass.
 
Adrammalech

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Likely the way of Starbound and Mass Effect, magic nano-translators embedded in all skulls.

In terms of our Ethereal lore, they have their own language, but their psionic abilities allow them to copy knowledge of a language with an invasive read (which they can then share with anyone who asks for it). This could work for any species with the Gift.
 
Taxor_the_First

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DarkGemini24601 said:
>mfw Taxor arrives and freaks out at the new thread with copious info
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... nah, I'm joking. I'm getting pretty hype now.

DarkGemini24601 said:
Also, incase you are wondering: you are allowed to create and submit to the GM (1) race of your creation if you so desire, but it has to be approved before its posted. (And we won't post other custom races until putting other lore stuff in that thread)
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Is that so? There is only one course of action.

...Spore, my old friend. It is time to dust you off. I require your services once again.


EDIT: Also I've decided to go ahead with my own little thing in the short story thread later for Isaac hunting down Lester, which I will be treating as "canon" for whatever I do for the one we're planning now. Which means I want to make it conform to the ideas everyone else has about what happens between the end of SoD and the beginning of whatever we call the next one.
Put it this way. What I'm doing will take place roughly six months after the end of the war, and will end about six months after that. If there is anything that any of you want to happen during this year after the war, then alert me to it and when it happens and I will fit it in at the appropriate date. For example, say that, midway through that timeframe, Cross Tech moves into Russia. I can reference that. You get the gist.
 
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Dahlexpert

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So, this is off the topic of the next RP. But this I fell like I need to show you guys. So I personally, don't any of your lives I don't know what you guys did when you were in school, or what your doing in school now since the majority of you are still in high school. But i'm going to take a guess and say some of you guys were bulled,(you can call me out if i'm wrong.) And when we were bulled you had teachers that did nothing. Well I foud a story were a teacher actually did something, and got fired for it. Just take a look.

 
Adrammalech

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Yep, this is how it works. Like you said, I was bullied from elementary to my senior year (I was 4'11" until 17), but the two or three that did were remarkably helpful. It inspired me, and I felt like I could be that beacon of helpfulness like my favorite teachers and reduce the tolerance of bullying within reason. I signed up for the education major the second I went into college and took the introduction first. The next few months taught me amazing facts about life and human decency that I never knew: i.e. if you are a white teacher, you will innately feel compulsed to hold black students back, no matter what, because your white blood demands it; not being able to teach students that do not speak English is considered offensive, even if you don't speak their language; and that you must leniently grade kids if they don't like and have no interest in school. Then, the teacher asked the class a very simple question.

If you see a child being beaten up by another child, what should you do?
  1. Physically stop the assailing child
  2. Verbally stop the assailing child and then tend to the beaten one
  3. Call the authorities and stay by the beaten one to support them
  4. Call the authorities and do nothing
Now I know what you're thinking. There's violence in front of you! It's obviously 1: well, I don't think so friend. Restraining or even touching a kid is a good way to get sued and fired. Well then, it must be 2. No, no, yelling at kids could damage their psyches, think of the bullies! Also, are you a doctor? I think not, it's not your job to help the other kid. Well, 3 at least, clearly. Wait, are you a psychologist? You don't want to get too close to the kids, someone might think you have other designs after all, especially if you're a male (my professor literally told me this one because I said no decent human would sue me for morally supporting a student). No, the answer is obviously 4, call the security and the clinic and have them fix the problem while you "monitor the situation."

I am no longer an education major.
 
DarkGemini24601

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Adrammalech said:
Yep, this is how it works. Like you said, I was bullied from elementary to my senior year (I was 4'11" until 17), but the two or three that did were remarkably helpful. It inspired me, and I felt like I could be that beacon of helpfulness like my favorite teachers and reduce the tolerance of bullying within reason. I signed up for the education major the second I went into college and took the introduction first. The next few months taught me amazing facts about life and human decency that I never knew: i.e. if you are a white teacher, you will innately feel compulsed to hold black students back, no matter what, because your white blood demands it; not being able to teach students that do not speak English is considered offensive, even if you don't speak their language; and that you must leniently grade kids if they don't like and have no interest in school. Then, the teacher asked the class a very simple question.

If you see a child being beaten up by another child, what should you do?
  1. Physically stop the assailing child
  2. Verbally stop the assailing child and then tend to the beaten one
  3. Call the authorities and stay by the beaten one to support them
  4. Call the authorities and do nothing
Now I know what you're thinking. There's violence in front of you! It's obviously 1: well, I don't think so friend. Restraining or even touching a kid is a good way to get sued and fired. Well then, it must be 2. No, no, yelling at kids could damage their psyches, think of the bullies! Also, are you a doctor? I think not, it's not your job to help the other kid. Well, 3 at least, clearly. Wait, are you a psychologist? You don't want to get too close to the kids, someone might think you have other designs after all, especially if you're a male (my professor literally told me this one because I said no decent human would sue me for morally supporting a student). No, the answer is obviously 4, call the security and the clinic and have them fix the problem while you "monitor the situation."

I am no longer an education major.
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Reverse discrimination is fun!

*tapping it until I get home, out of battery, stupid dad took my charger out. Goodbye for no-
 
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Two percent battery remaining, but my tablet is at 80% power. Can't access this website on the latter since the school wifi censors both this site on 'games' grounds and vpns because 'proxy evasion and anonymity.' No, really, they act like the latter is a sin. The hell has the world come to?

I'll be on my doc. If anyone wants to help out with making sure the rules don't forget to cover anything, head over there.
 
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