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May 22nd 2013, 04:51 AM #1966
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Male - ChristianRe: Game Thread: Elemental Truths (D&D 3.5e)
[How many ogres and humans? Is there any way to get up onto the catwalk from that room? Does the catwalk continue on past this room as well?]
"Nakonec pravda vitezi" (in the end, the truth wins)
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Yesterday, 02:56 PM #1967
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Male - Non-theistRe: Game Thread: Elemental Truths (D&D 3.5e)
[You can see four ogres and about a dozen humans. You don't see a way to get up onto the catwalk. Yes, the catwalk continues past this room.]
What the world thinks the most valuable exhibition of the Dao is to be found in books. But books are only a collection of words. Words have what is valuable in them - what is valuable in words is the ideas they convey. But those ideas are a sequence of something else - and what that something else is cannot be conveyed by words. When the world, because of the value which it attaches to words, commits them to books, that for which it so values them may not deserve to be valued - because that which it values is not what is really valuable. Thus it is that what we look at and can see is (only) the outward form and colour, and what we listen to and can hear is (only) names and sounds. Alas! that men of the world should think that form and colour, name and sound, should be sufficient to give them the real nature of the Dao. The form and colour, the name and sound, are certainly not sufficient to convey its real nature; and so it is that 'the wise do not speak and those who do speak are not wise.' How should the world know that real nature?
--Zuangzi, Way of Heaven
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Yesterday, 04:30 PM #1968
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Male - ChristianRe: Game Thread: Elemental Truths (D&D 3.5e)
[No signs of any of them being in chains or otherwise bound?]
Feluven sneaks back to the others, staying out of the light, and whispers what he saw.
Move Silently and Hide: take ten+15=25
"Ogres and humans, how could they be living this long in the same space?""Nakonec pravda vitezi" (in the end, the truth wins)
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Yesterday, 05:06 PM #1969
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Male - Non-theistRe: Game Thread: Elemental Truths (D&D 3.5e)
[None.]
Feluven sneaks back to the others. The creatures continue shuffling slowly towards the light on the floor.What the world thinks the most valuable exhibition of the Dao is to be found in books. But books are only a collection of words. Words have what is valuable in them - what is valuable in words is the ideas they convey. But those ideas are a sequence of something else - and what that something else is cannot be conveyed by words. When the world, because of the value which it attaches to words, commits them to books, that for which it so values them may not deserve to be valued - because that which it values is not what is really valuable. Thus it is that what we look at and can see is (only) the outward form and colour, and what we listen to and can hear is (only) names and sounds. Alas! that men of the world should think that form and colour, name and sound, should be sufficient to give them the real nature of the Dao. The form and colour, the name and sound, are certainly not sufficient to convey its real nature; and so it is that 'the wise do not speak and those who do speak are not wise.' How should the world know that real nature?
--Zuangzi, Way of Heaven
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Yesterday, 08:39 PM #1970
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Male - Broman CatholicRe: Game Thread: Elemental Truths (D&D 3.5e)
[they're zombies, but I'm not sure whether knowing what a zombie is crosses the line between player and character knowledge. But don't we have a cleric with knowledge (religion) to inform us?]
"Guessing by the fact that I can smell and see rotting flesh, I'd guess they technically aren't 'living.' In any case, if they can't reach us, there's no danger."
[but the catwalk will probably be busted on our way back through, so we'll have to face the zombies. Oh darn.]Disregard the above.
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