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rob_donoghue

Philosophers with Kung Fu - A Mash Up on my Mind

Jul 19, 2009 20:26

The Empress of Chains is dead, and the Palace of Doors is covered in black of mourning, and will remain so until one of her heirs or other claimants to the Barbed Throne manages to raise above the pack and seize it, and in the meantime the Wheel is in chaos. Without a guardian, old locks grow weak and new doors to fresh hells open every day.

( Just getting this down on paper )

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incandescens July 20 2009, 02:05:13 UTC

Has someone been rereading his Planescape? :)

Not that I'm objecting. Nice images!

rob_donoghue July 20 2009, 02:07:19 UTC

Planescape is never far from my mind, but in this case I was re-reading Weapons of the Gods, and they just meshed.

incandescens August 4 2009, 22:33:35 UTC

I wonder if that setting is actually better suited to lore sheets than most...

rob_donoghue July 20 2009, 02:17:07 UTC

Also, I caught a few episodes of Moriboto, and it got me thinking about the utility of dynastic struggle.

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benhimself July 20 2009, 10:42:45 UTC

It took me a second to get what this was (Somewhere between the clenched fist of fate and the shattered pillars of heaven), but when I did, I loved it.

Although, hmmm, it looks like the Bleak Cabal, Free League, and Xaositects aren't represented?

rob_donoghue July 20 2009, 11:50:22 UTC

Bleakers and doomguard kind of got mashed up into the Cabal of Crumbling Sand, but you're right about the other two - good eye!

The Broken Plow are barely considered a society at all despite their great numbers, for they are made of farmers and other lowly folk, banded together for protection in these troubled times. For all their base nature, they have eyes, ears and hidey holes everywhere, and there are whispers of peasant heroes rising to challenge the other societies.

The Unspoken Question are a rough monastic order who travel the world raising questions at the temples and meetings of other groups (a practice which requires their kung fu be strong enough to surivive the answers). They are gadflies, with no ethos of their own, save to pick apart the falsehoods and contradictions of other beliefs in hopes that if they unravel enough threads, the truth shall be revealed. (Going more for the no-beliefs part than the We SPEAk FuNNeE part of things.)

benhimself July 20 2009, 13:23:52 UTC

Nice! And good call, focusing on the philosophy rather than the fishmalk factor in The Unspoken Question.

chickosaurusrex July 20 2009, 14:58:31 UTC

I am delighted! I had my suspicions, but by the time I got to the Cipher of Transcendence I was pulling my boyfriend over to excitedly show him. But, and I feel awful for asking this, I'm not sure who the Blissful Repose are...?

rob_donoghue July 20 2009, 15:10:24 UTC

Sensates. It's not a kind interpretation, I know, but I just couldn't shake the idea of them controlling the opium dens.

multiplexer July 20 2009, 22:50:57 UTC

IIIIEEEEEEEEEE PLANESCAPE WITH KUNG FU!!

*faints dead away*

It is the awesome. I am a quivering ball in awe of total awesome.