Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...

darkmaster · Post by **darkmaster** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 4:06 am

Why not call it Time?

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 4:09 am

darkmaster wrote:Why not call it Time?

Because Time very rarely has giant monsters inside that attack everything and everyone.

darkmaster · Post by **darkmaster** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 4:12 am

How do you know? Have you seen all of time? What about dinosaurs? or whatever ends up hunting humanity to extinction? No reason time can't have monsters. It would also explain the decay the fog causes.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 4:16 am

You could call it the Mere Anarchy if you want the literary reference.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 4:47 am

darkmaster wrote:How do you know? Have you seen all of time? What about dinosaurs? or whatever ends up hunting humanity to extinction? No reason time can't have monsters. It would also explain the decay the fog causes.

Oh. I thought you had a momentary bout of stupidity where you forgot one of the things the fog does. I see that the condition is actually permanent. I'm sorry for your loved ones.

Post by **fbmf** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 6:19 am

The Creep
The Unhappening
The Non, or just "Non"
The Dust (For from The Dust you came, and to The Dust you shall return.)
The Cleanse
The Fall
The Collapse
The Dread
The Veil

Game On,
fbmf

TiaC · Post by **TiaC** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:04 am

The shroud.

Laertes · Post by **Laertes** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:30 am

I like The Dust for a permanent "this land is now lost to humanity" feel; and I like The Veil for a temporary "there's a patch of it drifting across town, everybody lock your doors and hope for the best" feel. It depends on how it manifests in your game. It's a good idea though.

Covent · Post by **Covent** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:09 pm

The Return, or Simply Return.

Alluding to Ecclesiastes 3:20 perhaps?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:34 pm

The Mysterious Glowcloud?

Orca · Post by **Orca** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 2:41 pm

The Dream
The Nightmare
The Outside
The Void

ishy · Post by **ishy** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 6:24 pm

Chamomile wrote:I have this fictitious force that twists and corrupts everything it touches, spreading as an ominous fog. Within the fog are monstrous horrors and everything begins to decay.

The (RPG) FAQ.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:09 pm

I would pick a name that plays up the absence of civilization aspect. So shit like:
The Fall
The Collapse
The Ruin
The End
The Undoing
The Unhappening
The Unravelling

Or even:
The End
The Return
The Cleanse

Most of those were already mentioned, so here's me seconding them, or at least seconding having a name with that theme.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 1:11 am

I really like Ruin because of the civilization aspect.

TiaC · Post by **TiaC** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 3:35 am

DSMatticus wrote:The Unhappening

This sounds like a hipster club.

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Jul 14, 2014 6:58 am

Anyone else's sound drivers take a absolute shit after the most recent windows update? Or is it just me?

Pixels · Post by **Pixels** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 8:03 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Anyone else's sound drivers take a absolute shit after the most recent windows update? Or is it just me?

I have been experiencing no issues on any of my computers (all Windows 7).

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 8:22 pm

Mine's fine. Maybe your hardware is going.

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Jul 15, 2014 5:37 am

Lovely. The warranty ran out just six months ago.

Grek · Post by **Grek** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 5:41 am

The Bas-Lag novels have the Torque, a magical force that twists things into chaos and monsters. In your story, the Torque is omnipresent, but is constantly countered by the solidity of national borders and the connectivity of the social contract resulting in a stable deadlock. When social order breaks down, the Torque is free to act and everything spins out of control. People and villages are twisted out of existence (appearing to fade out into a distant fog from our limited 3d perspective) while monstrous and decayed versions of them from an adjacent slice of reality are twisted into phase along a cosmic axis of horror and decay.

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:15 am

The whole thing makes me think of Final Fantasy 9. I don't care what anyone says, that game did NOT get the credit it deserved, that game was the motherfucking SHEEIT.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:30 pm

The Eschaton.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 4:04 am

You are barefoot and running for your life. The path you're on forks - to the left, the path turns to glowing hot embers. To the right, the path turns to Lego bricks.

Which do you choose?

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 4:18 am

Lego bricks.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:56 am

Depends on if the embers are covered in ash or not, I guess. Just the same, I'd go with Lego.