How would a verser stop versing? There is a magic skill 15@10 Do Anything. Why could a verser not use that to stop themselves? To go home, and stop versing? Is there a limit to the number of verses? I just had a thought. The versers pick up more scriff every time they verse, right? What if after you get a certain amount of scriff on you, you woke up in the hospital, from a coma. Back at home, with your family standing over you. You can either believe that it was a dream during a comatose state, or that you really were a verser. That could be really wild.
How do versers stop versing? Theories?
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johnosevens
MemberI had an idea one time about a sort of storage plane, where Versers go who want to stop Versing. They don't actually die, but they're put into a sort of hibernation. They don't experience anything - after all, some Versers have met gods, seen paradises, slain demons, and wouldn't be impressed any more - and time simply passes with them no longer in it, the closest Versers can get to true death.
And yes I suppose M15@10 Do Anything is the key to ending your Verser-ness. Or a slightly lower M or P Manipulate Scriff. Simply banish all the Scriff out of yourself. Maybe bottle it and hand it off to the next poor sap who's in for the ride of a thousand lifetimes. Then you just go native whereever you were when you did that, and live until you die.
(With my luck I'd hand it off to somebody, turn around with a contented smile, and get shanked in the parking lot walking home.)For one version of temporary Verser retirement, go read Hephalaestron. (I don't think I'd like to spend 4000 years quite the way he did.)
Thu Jan 17 2008 6:26 am # -
JohnA1nut
MemberOsevens: I can come to a compromise with you here. I like that hibernation idea, but suppose you could come out of it? Say, hibernate for 10,000 millennium. By that time, there would be new verses to go on. They could be reborn, reincarnated, however you say it. Onto new challenges beyond even their comprehension. Man, I love thinking about this.
Thu Jan 17 2008 6:51 am # -
johnosevens
MemberPersonally I think it would get tired after a while. Just look at "God Emperor of Dune" for an example of why immortality is bad. Eventually you've seen and done everything and you just go stark raving nuts because nothing has any meaning any more.
That's why I think ultimately M15@10 Do Anything used to kill a verser permanently really is the only way out.
To hibernate... eventually there's no such thing as a long enough hibernation to come up with things you haven't seen already.
We as players will probably never play long enough to get to that point, but a Verser who lived long enough might - like that crazy bugger who's been through so many Verses he takes his star destroyer and its entire crew with him every time he Verses out.Thu Jan 17 2008 7:04 am # -
JohnA1nut
MemberOsevens. You're forgetting something. God is All-Powerful. Your piddly little imagination is nothing. God could imagine things beyond anything you could dream of. What does a radio signal look like? What color is it? You can't see it. God can. What color would that be? It would be more blue than anything anyone has ever seen. Imagine that color. God can. If God is truly infinite, why not? I don't think you're even starting to grasp the concept of infinity, my friend.
Thu Jan 17 2008 7:10 am # -
johnosevens
MemberAnd with infinite time on our hands to 3@10 everything the game can put a skill to, do I really have to? I think I would exhaust my own sense of wonder vs boredom long before I exhausted God's. The question isn't, can he come up with something I haven't seen before. The question is, will I still care by the time he does?
It's all well and good to Verse me to a world where everything is in radio waves, but if I've had P5@1 Enhanced Sense: Ultraviolet 3@10 since my 13,409th Verse... haven't I see what all of those very-blue frequencies look like already?
I'm not really trying to be contrary by saying this, I'm only saying that the possibility of a final ending is a good thing. If there were no point in ceasing to be a Verser... why would we be here, discussing how to stop being a Verser?Thu Jan 17 2008 7:56 am # -
I think to remove all the scriff from your body you would need 100% chance of success and a roll of 100 to get 100% of the scriff out; but it could be done.
The referee's rules mention a much easier way: enter the deep supernatural, in a place affiliated with your beliefs. You can visit the border supernatural and stay there for what seems like time, because border supernatural areas have something like time and space to make them comprehensible to mortals; but within the deep supernatural there is neither time nor space, in any comprehensible way, so unless there is some reason you can't be there (e.g., alliance people cannot be held by anarch realms unwillingly; anarch people cannot remain in alliance realms unaided) once you're there, you're there, and there's no going back.
If you've read The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle, it's always been my contention that any verser who steps through that door has stepped into a border supernatural realm, and if he goes "higher up and further in", as the call goes, he will eventually reach the place where he cannot go back. That's the idea of the deep supernatural. It's like death, but it's really life.
--M. J. Young
Thu Jan 17 2008 10:19 pm #
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