The Outsider would like to tell you about rare stamps.
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silver Harloe
That cool flavor conversation Josh mentions at 4:00 in? It goes rather differently in high chaos.
4:50 “is this first level with with ‘weepers’?” they’re nest keepers, and there’s one on level 2 (first Karnaca visit), but it’s kinda out of the way (also in that room is a key to the black market on that level)
8:00 is the outsider a trickster god or what? please play Death of the Outsider and get the non-lethal ending to the final mission
‘Trickster god’ is indeed an uncomfortable term for The Outsider: ill-fitting, it chafes at him: too loose there and too tight here. He’s thus an ansty one, look he.
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But as a general agent of chaos it’s perhaps a teensy bit unfair to say he just gives powers to people. He doesn’t fling ‘em out at random like you happened to get a ticket for the right episode of Oprah, but selects those operating under a geas (or possibly a small duck) so as to force-multiply their own existing inclination towards unquoing the status. (Or … possibly he just goes for those who’ve been temporarily dislocated, as without a real home to go to they’re more likely to stick around and listen to his crap for a few minutes.)
He does seem to enjoy hard-luck cases who want revenge, in at least 3 of 5 cases where we directly know for sure he granted powers. He might be trying to understand the concept of vengeance, perhaps because he never got to have it.
Good point! – so maybe a god of revenge, then? (Whilst looking up gods of revenge I discovered that the Roman counterpart of Nemesis was Invidia, so I think what this probably means is that Nemesis is both the goddess of implacable justice and also pricey graphics cards. She’s a geforce of nature.)
That cool flavor conversation Josh mentions at 4:00 in? It goes rather differently in high chaos.
4:50 “is this first level with with ‘weepers’?” they’re nest keepers, and there’s one on level 2 (first Karnaca visit), but it’s kinda out of the way (also in that room is a key to the black market on that level)
8:00 is the outsider a trickster god or what? please play Death of the Outsider and get the non-lethal ending to the final mission
‘Trickster god’ is indeed an uncomfortable term for The Outsider: ill-fitting, it chafes at him: too loose there and too tight here. He’s thus an ansty one, look he.
~~~
But as a general agent of chaos it’s perhaps a teensy bit unfair to say he just gives powers to people. He doesn’t fling ‘em out at random like you happened to get a ticket for the right episode of Oprah, but selects those operating under a geas (or possibly a small duck) so as to force-multiply their own existing inclination towards unquoing the status. (Or … possibly he just goes for those who’ve been temporarily dislocated, as without a real home to go to they’re more likely to stick around and listen to his crap for a few minutes.)
He does seem to enjoy hard-luck cases who want revenge, in at least 3 of 5 cases where we directly know for sure he granted powers. He might be trying to understand the concept of vengeance, perhaps because he never got to have it.
Good point! – so maybe a god of revenge, then? (Whilst looking up gods of revenge I discovered that the Roman counterpart of Nemesis was Invidia, so I think what this probably means is that Nemesis is both the goddess of implacable justice and also pricey graphics cards. She’s a geforce of nature.)