Parabolan War

arosaren · February 22, 2021, 9:09pm

Discussion go here.

arosaren · February 22, 2021, 9:09pm

Reserving for the nearest content update.

arosaren · February 22, 2021, 10:10pm

Judging by the wording, it will be rolled out somewhere in April.

PJ · February 23, 2021, 4:06am

…by which time this thread will have most likely fallen off the front page, so someone will start a new one once there’s something to talk about.
edited by PJ on 2/23/2021

arosaren · February 23, 2021, 4:52am

I’m a necromancer, I’ll bring it back.

ragnardegenhand · February 23, 2021, 8:18am

And then someone will complain about necro’d threads…

arosaren · February 23, 2021, 8:30am

Let it be their little problem, not ours.

kaunisenkeli · February 23, 2021, 9:59am

And then someone will complain about necro’d threads…[/quote]
No, because it will be relevant. Necroing a thread that hasn’t seen a single post in four years is an entirely different situation.

tsarkoschei · February 23, 2021, 1:00pm

Time to set up the snake targets in the back yard again. Gonna need to train for this one.

ragnardegenhand · February 23, 2021, 4:11pm

Ha, ha. You sound like someone who complains about necro’d threads…

PJ · February 23, 2021, 5:16pm

I dunno, it might be nice to have a new thread for discussion of the actual parabolan war content, separate from any pre-war speculation that might accumulate in this thread.

winthropx · February 23, 2021, 6:38pm

I’m hoping the nemesis affiliation will get a use in the war.

kaunisenkeli · February 23, 2021, 7:55pm

Ha, ha. You sound like someone who complains about necro’d threads…[/quote]Yeah, I do, because it’s generally considered bad form on any forum on the internet. It raises irrelevant topics the community stopped caring about some time ago for no real purpose.

ragnardegenhand · February 24, 2021, 7:20am

Let me offer my abject apology for triggering you in this devastating fashion. And what’s worse, either not having been on &quotany forum on the internet&quot for long enough to realise what &quotbad form&quot looks like, or alternatively not giving a damn.

plynkes · February 24, 2021, 9:25am

There are plenty of places on the net where you will get jumped on for starting a new thread instead of necroing an old one on the same topic. You really can’t please everybody. Either way, it doesn’t seem worth getting in a tizz about to me.

Sir_Reginald_Monteroy · February 24, 2021, 11:34am

Indeed, it seems that the influence of the Fingerkings has already sparked a conflict in our little forum-corner of the Is-Not, and a month before the actual start of the official hostilities at that :)

From the blog post, it would seem that the Parabolan War might be slated to start sometime at the turn of March/April. Plenty of time to speculate :)

What are your ideas/guesses at the other &quotvarious powers of the Parabola&quot beyond the Cats, the Snakes, and the Incarnadine?

tsarkoschei · February 24, 2021, 1:50pm

[quote=Sir Reginald Monteroy]What are your ideas/guesses at the other &quotvarious powers of the Parabola&quot beyond the Cats, the Snakes, and the Incarnadine?[/quote]Those three certainly seem the most obvious. Arbor is also not unlikely to have some stake in it. Could the chessboard come into play? Perhaps some infernal interest?

captainbloodstorm · February 24, 2021, 1:56pm

Indeed, it seems that the influence of the Fingerkings has already sparked a conflict in our little forum-corner of the Is-Not, and a month before the actual start of the official hostilities at that :)

From the blog post, it would seem that the Parabolan War might be slated to start sometime at the turn of March/April. Plenty of time to speculate :)

What are your ideas/guesses at the other &quotvarious powers of the Parabola&quot beyond the Cats, the Snakes, and the Incarnadine?[/quote]

Everyone who can potentially pitch in or contribute during the dream battle from Ambition: Heart’s Desire seems like a shoe-in. So other than the Beleaguered King and Bloody-Handed Queen, Spices/Wines and Storm the thunder dragon seem like potential powers. There’s also the Fingerkings’ &quotgift&quot from Go Tell The Kind of Cats assuming it’s something more than merely a Fingerking puppet, knowingly or not. Oh, and one of the Duchess’ sisters rules a sort of settlement of the 2nd City manned by ushabti servitors.

…I’m really curious about players who finished Ambition: Bag a Legend players and obtained The Long-Dead Priests of the Red Bird as their prize. Because the circumstances (either chaining up what’s left of Veils, or picking and eating him) and the God-Eaters’ response seems to imply you’re considered at least a minor power of Parabola by default.

psgarak · February 24, 2021, 2:29pm

The Rubberies have an unclear relationship with Parabola, which could be something that’s explored. My understanding is that they have a different “entry point,” whereas humans use the Viric Jungle, and that somehow relates to a different Power.

I think we’ll also start seeing the Fingerkings as less homogeneous, and possibly even start to know some by name. I think the ones from Lost in Reflections where some particular genus of Fingerkings (Orts?), and Light Fingers lets you know of a special one called the Boiling of Calamaties.

Also, Reflections. Reflections, reflections, reflections. I don’t think that’s a “power” per se, but I would be shocked if we don’t start uncovering that topic, and its relation to the hybrid orange-apple. The kitchen at Station VIII is on my mind for that one.

elderfleur · February 24, 2021, 2:50pm

My money’s on a Whitsun tie in. Spontaneous eggs appearing all over London? Who’s to say some of those eggs might not be a bridgehead of Dream Eggs, laid by Dream Snakes? Or Dream Bees, I suppose. 80% certain they won’t be Cat Eggs.