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"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source)
- PeZook
My only quibble with the scene was it was too long and dragged on a bit -- do we need to hear Asanee fire what seems like everyone in/near that CP personally?Simon_Jester wrote:That's a pretty epic failure. So I suspect that the colonel had already managed to convict themselves of incompetence before Asanee even got there.
I want to believe... but considering his do-goodery in the bible I doubt it. Especially if we take his drug antics and Yah-Yahs dissappointment into account.midnight77 wrote:Am I alone in thinking the leader of the second conspiracy is Jesus?
Presuming there would be a residue of some kind, yes, but I don't think there is.Gil Hamilton wrote:Hrm, that's interesting, because we KNOW there was a portal that directly connected Heaven and Hell, the Heavengate. They ought to investigate what made THAT one special and they might have a good answer how to get from Earth to Heaven.
That is an interesting analogy. If you would assume the energy is like way water would flow... That makes me wonder if the Heaven-Hell-Gate was self-sustaining or needed regularly new energy.Gil Hamilton wrote:<mountain metaphor>
Well, corpses anyway. Considering the thoroughness with which he kills things, do the organisms responsible for decomposition die too? If so, the corpses would be notable for their lack of decay. Of course, I also have to wonder if the survivors of Uriel's attacks end up with bad cases of the trots as a result of their intestinal flora dying off.Simon_Jester wrote:He's got some of the same psychological weirdness as Apolloin (from Armageddon); the kind of mind that will go "Look how beautiful everything is! Behold the glory of Creation!" while staring at a pile of decomposing corpses that he himself just created.
That scene did do a fair amount to establish that not everything is running perfectly in the human camp. Granted, that would be apparent from other things but all that detail did establish a fair amount of character, if Asanee is going to figure more prominently later on.MKSheppard wrote:My only quibble with the scene was it was too long and dragged on a bit -- do we need to hear Asanee fire what seems like everyone in/near that CP personally?Simon_Jester wrote:That's a pretty epic failure. So I suspect that the colonel had already managed to convict themselves of incompetence before Asanee even got there.
Aha. There might not be physical evidence left behind by the Heavengate, though there might. You'd be surprised how good scientists are good are finding physical evidence left behind by phenomena. There might be some induced radioactivity or all the clay pots in the area have their structures aligned with a magnetic field caused by the portal (this is a real technique!) because they were nearby when they were baked. Who knows? It's worth investigation. After all, it WAS the only known portal to Heaven that wasn't completely owned and operated by Heaven.Buritot wrote:Presuming there would be a residue of some kind, yes, but I don't think there is.
Keep in mind all analogies are suspect. I happen to LIKE the PES Mountain/Valley analogy, because I have a special place in my heart for spectroscopy and physical chemistry, in addition to it seeming to fit the facts that have been presented. If we go with it and call the Heaven-to-Hell Portal forbidden by Portal Selection Rules, then it stands to reason that a good way to go is to figure out what is queering the system to make the portal possible.That is an interesting analogy. If you would assume the energy is like way water would flow... That makes me wonder if the Heaven-Hell-Gate was self-sustaining or needed regularly new energy.
No, all will become clear in due course. Well, sort of.Junghalli wrote: Am I to take this as proof that the statement in Armageddon of the Celestial War being 4-5 million years ago was quietly retconned away?
Having him bring Luga to a dinner date where he's eating mushrooms and she's eating raw livestock legs while casually conversing ancient celestial atrocities is... well... so like him.Ilya Muromets wrote:Oh, and Shroom actually convinced you to put a John Baylor in The Salvation War? Man, is there no universe he won't pop up in?
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) - PeZookThough man, monster animals can apparently open portals. If Wuffles is a natural creature, or something, then that means portal-ing is actually a naturally evolved feature of Heaven lifeforms! Or, is a bodily function that can be bred into them!
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) - PeZook
When the animul was dying, it was instinctively trying to conjure up a mental image of Heaven to portal home to with its tails tucked and its flesh eviscerated by human weaponry. Too bad it died like a pussy before it could do that.
Or went to the Happy Hunting Grounds or whatever; it's strongly implied that there's at least one other group of powerful beings that have a vested interest in the fate of (some?) human souls.Junghalli wrote:Maybe that's why we haven't encountered anybody from deep prehistory in Hell yet. It was before Yahweh did whatever voodoo he did to humans that made the reincarnation system accept them. Presumably before that everybody who died would have just, well, died.
At a guess, they had to find something else to do for a living.FaxModem1 wrote:On an unrelated note, since the portal in the heavengate building closed, what happened to the heavengate, the guards guarding it, and the baldricks guarding it?
Yes, there are. Michael mentioned it in the recent chapter:FaxModem1 wrote:That just makes me keep on chuckling. So, did Yahweh only have one pet? Or does he have multiple lurking around?
And it's still unclear if these are the same beasts as in his throne room. Concerning the beasts incentive to portal to Earth - At least I would get bored of all the millennia long chanting in the throne room.Stuart wrote:Could Wuffles getting killed have knocked some sense into him. If it had, perhaps it was time to arrange for some more of his pets to be blown away by the humans.
Seems to me that the Celestial war DID happen 4-5 million years ago and many of the current generation of Baldricks are descended from proto-human draftees of that War. Then there was another conflict on Earth during semi-recorded history, with the new generation.Stuart wrote:No, all will become clear in due course. Well, sort of.
...nah. The Baldricks may be long lived but a war in times of the stone age mostly meant a few guys of rivalling tribes throwing rocks at each other. The emphasis lies on rivalling tribes. If we put it in this terms - the Heaven Tribe and Hell Tribe - a war would, from a modern perspective, consist of bickering at each other. Their longevity makes it also easy to hold grudges and voilá you have a war from their perspective and a rivalry from ours. Or trench warfare since no one was able to get a hold over the other one and the lines were pretty clear. It all depends on the Baldricks and Angels definition of war.Gil Hamilton wrote:Seems to me that the Celestial war DID happen 4-5 million years ago and many of the current generation of Baldricks are descended from proto-human draftees of that War. Then there was another conflict on Earth during semi-recorded history, with the new generation.Stuart wrote:No, all will become clear in due course. Well, sort of.
Vendetta wrote:Richard Gatling was a pioneer in US national healthcare. On discovering that most soldiers during the American Civil War were dying of disease rather than gunshots, he turned his mind to, rather than providing better sanitary conditions and medical care for troops, creating a machine to make sure they got shot faster.
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) - PeZook
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) - PeZook