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11-20-2021, 04:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-20-2021, 04:32 AM by Lilium Mortem.)
You: We sure do! What’s wrong with our new TCP? Didn’t this game get a beta? Why is a common word like ‘reset’ causing problems?
You: Shit should have been figured out by QA testers.
Monolith: It is an… edge case.
Monolith: Reset types have been spawned before, and abstract abilities have always been able to affect the players… just not usually the system.
Monolith: It had not occurred to anyone that the system would be a valid target for the ability.
Monolith: when you pulled up the Check screen, ...Null used its ability on what it perceived as the source of the command you gave it prior. Since you had the check screen up, it became a valid target for this specific ability.
Monolith: the error that allows this will be fixed, but not until this game is over.
You: I see.
You: What exactly is auotobalance? Is this a multiplayer game?
Monolith: it is. A typical session contains five players, with the goal to be the last faction standing.
Monolith: Autobalance is enabled when a player creates something that severely tips the balance in their favor, and an admin is added to the game to moderate it more closely and ally against players in the lead.
You: what did you mean when you called me godling?
Monolith: this game is meant as a learning aid for gods. Small scale creation and guidance of mortals, along with other gods that may not share the same interest.
Monolith: An unintended side effect of the system that makes these games possible is that godlings like you can spawn in a player slot. You are half formed ideas pulled together into a collective consciousness of sorts, bound by god magic.
Monolith: Your reward for beating this game is the right to exist on our world as a god. Your punishment for losing, is death.
You: DEATH!?
Monolith: Yes. It is not a pretty thing, but our world cannot afford to house any more gods that cannot prove themselves capable in godly duties of even this miniscule scale.
Monolith: I suggest you take some time to reflect. Choose a name. Choose a form. Select the domain or domains of your power as a god, they will synergize with the game.
You: this isn’t fair! You can’t just sentence someone to death for losing a game!
Monolith: Do not mistake your place, Godling. You are an intruder into our world. Any number of your kind could cause irreparable harm to our world if we let you enter freely.
You: that doesn’t make it right!
Monolith: Perhaps, but it is the reality we are faced with.
You:... Fuck.
Monolith: You have been provided with the tools for your survival, now you must use them. Show me the strength of your conviction godling. Show me your will to live, the wisdom to guide your people, and the Heart that guides your actions.
You:...I just wanted to have fun.
Monolith: I am sorry. You did not choose this path, but you must walk it.
You:...
Monolith: If you have any more questions, ask now. For the next time we meet I shall be an enemy to test yourself against.
You: Shit should have been figured out by QA testers.
Monolith: It is an… edge case.
Monolith: Reset types have been spawned before, and abstract abilities have always been able to affect the players… just not usually the system.
Monolith: It had not occurred to anyone that the system would be a valid target for the ability.
Monolith: when you pulled up the Check screen, ...Null used its ability on what it perceived as the source of the command you gave it prior. Since you had the check screen up, it became a valid target for this specific ability.
Monolith: the error that allows this will be fixed, but not until this game is over.
You: I see.
You: What exactly is auotobalance? Is this a multiplayer game?
Monolith: it is. A typical session contains five players, with the goal to be the last faction standing.
Monolith: Autobalance is enabled when a player creates something that severely tips the balance in their favor, and an admin is added to the game to moderate it more closely and ally against players in the lead.
You: what did you mean when you called me godling?
Monolith: this game is meant as a learning aid for gods. Small scale creation and guidance of mortals, along with other gods that may not share the same interest.
Monolith: An unintended side effect of the system that makes these games possible is that godlings like you can spawn in a player slot. You are half formed ideas pulled together into a collective consciousness of sorts, bound by god magic.
Monolith: Your reward for beating this game is the right to exist on our world as a god. Your punishment for losing, is death.
You: DEATH!?
Monolith: Yes. It is not a pretty thing, but our world cannot afford to house any more gods that cannot prove themselves capable in godly duties of even this miniscule scale.
Monolith: I suggest you take some time to reflect. Choose a name. Choose a form. Select the domain or domains of your power as a god, they will synergize with the game.
You: this isn’t fair! You can’t just sentence someone to death for losing a game!
Monolith: Do not mistake your place, Godling. You are an intruder into our world. Any number of your kind could cause irreparable harm to our world if we let you enter freely.
You: that doesn’t make it right!
Monolith: Perhaps, but it is the reality we are faced with.
You:... Fuck.
Monolith: You have been provided with the tools for your survival, now you must use them. Show me the strength of your conviction godling. Show me your will to live, the wisdom to guide your people, and the Heart that guides your actions.
You:...I just wanted to have fun.
Monolith: I am sorry. You did not choose this path, but you must walk it.
You:...
Monolith: If you have any more questions, ask now. For the next time we meet I shall be an enemy to test yourself against.
