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SubGothius
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tubbytango wrote:
I called Mike today and discussed power-classes. He said that it wasn't necessarily something that has to be tested. he said it was an internal thing in every person that was made up of (and I almost laughed here) their strength, dexterity, and charisma and stuff like that (almost direct quote)

He mentioned that there was a formal test, but most people would honestly tell you about their class number.

I wanted to ask if the power-class was also defined by intelligence, agility, and wisdom, but I refrained.

This points even more towards this being about an RPG or Tabletop game.

Or maybe someone IG found an old RPG guidebook from the DOR era and didn't realize it was about a fictional game? What if real people started describing themselves in RPG character-stat terms, kinda like trying to define an IG character as closely to your OOG self as possible? Eating would level you up in terms of body energy, as activity or injury could level you down...

I also wonder how much of the seemingly gamey/magicky/supernatural aspects are just the superstitions and cobbled-together dogmas of a human culture that's forgotten its spiritual roots? I.e., if all knowledge of human religion were somehow forgotten, what would fill the void in the human psyche that religion used to occupy? Do they even use the term "God" in the same sense we do, or has it become so associated with the Go.D.S.E.E.D. (an acronym which itself may originally have had nothing to do with spirituality) that the two concepts are conflated and inseparable?

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 		Apparently we would fill the void with Cool Dog!

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SubGothius
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dreamerblue wrote:
Apparently we would fill the void with Cool Dog!

Aye, and Go.D.S.E.E.D. fragments and Creeps, perhaps?

Meaning, what if frags and The Creep are naive, superstitious understandings of Very Weird but entirely physical phenomena? To wit:
Kid Fay in M:ARH thread wrote:
Perhaps they tried to make a giant magnetic monopole, which would be a magnet with just a north. Maybe you could run an electric generator, magnetic fields move electricity and visa-versa (an electric motor is basically a magnet spun by electricity and a generator is a spinning magnet inducing electric current in wires, in case you didn't know) off of a magnetic monopole. They've never been made or observed, but weird stuff might happen, that was one of the things people against the LHC a few months ago said.

So maybe they made a big monopole, the godseed, to run electric generators from nothing and end the age of dinosaurs, or fossil fuels, and it was so big it started to mess up the planet's magnetic field ... The earth's magnetic field funnels solar radiation to the poles, think northern lights, so if there's a third pole centered on Milwaukee that would direct radiation toward the area, maybe even directly open a magnetic path to the sun. Not to mention ozone, which blocks UV rays, which are deadly to plants and animals, is a polar molecule so there might not be an ozone layer over the midwest, which would mean nothing would be able to live, making it into a desert. Didn't Terry Nanny mention how they didn't notice the environment dying?

I suppose then, the godseed fragments would be either some kind of magnetically trapped plasma, which you definitely wouldn't want to touch, or chunks of the magnet or magnetic metal doing stuff and flying around in the weird magnetic field. This ties in with brass being non-magnetic and maybe why they tried to bury it. Also on the same page, it talks about an M(agnetic?)-collapse if 80% of rotors are spinning. Either they run motors to make magnetic fields to cancel out the big magnet to make the city normal or the magnetic fields of running that many motors at once is too much for the brass to insulate their buildings against. Also there are solar flares, perhaps relating to flare guns? Flare guns shoot magnetism to disturb the magnetism patterns that make godseed fragments?

Perhaps M-Rotors seem to "make" energy by picking up the ambient magnetic flux caused by the Go.D.S.E.E.D. and converting that magnetic energy into electrical energy, which would also help dissipate the more severe M-field effects?

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SubGothius wrote:
dreamerblue wrote:
Apparently we would fill the void with Cool Dog!

Aye, and Go.D.S.E.E.D. fragments and Creeps, perhaps?

Meaning, what if frags and The Creep are naive, superstitious understandings of Very Weird but entirely physical phenomena? To wit:
Kid Fay in M:ARH thread wrote:
Perhaps they tried to make a giant magnetic monopole, which would be a magnet with just a north. Maybe you could run an electric generator, magnetic fields move electricity and visa-versa (an electric motor is basically a magnet spun by electricity and a generator is a spinning magnet inducing electric current in wires, in case you didn't know) off of a magnetic monopole. They've never been made or observed, but weird stuff might happen, that was one of the things people against the LHC a few months ago said.

So maybe they made a big monopole, the godseed, to run electric generators from nothing and end the age of dinosaurs, or fossil fuels, and it was so big it started to mess up the planet's magnetic field ... The earth's magnetic field funnels solar radiation to the poles, think northern lights, so if there's a third pole centered on Milwaukee that would direct radiation toward the area, maybe even directly open a magnetic path to the sun. Not to mention ozone, which blocks UV rays, which are deadly to plants and animals, is a polar molecule so there might not be an ozone layer over the midwest, which would mean nothing would be able to live, making it into a desert. Didn't Terry Nanny mention how they didn't notice the environment dying?

I suppose then, the godseed fragments would be either some kind of magnetically trapped plasma, which you definitely wouldn't want to touch, or chunks of the magnet or magnetic metal doing stuff and flying around in the weird magnetic field. This ties in with brass being non-magnetic and maybe why they tried to bury it. Also on the same page, it talks about an M(agnetic?)-collapse if 80% of rotors are spinning. Either they run motors to make magnetic fields to cancel out the big magnet to make the city normal or the magnetic fields of running that many motors at once is too much for the brass to insulate their buildings against. Also there are solar flares, perhaps relating to flare guns? Flare guns shoot magnetism to disturb the magnetism patterns that make godseed fragments?

Perhaps M-Rotors seem to "make" energy by picking up the ambient magnetic flux caused by the Go.D.S.E.E.D. and converting that magnetic energy into electrical energy, which would also help dissipate the more severe M-field effects?


Could be. But then, there are also "ancient" M-rotors (i believe that's the term they used) that existed pre-Godseed.

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Pendragon4 wrote:
PostLarval wrote:
Beginning approximately 11:00 p.m. est, a flurry of calls back and forth between Mike Russo, Michael Lewis, and several players revealed that Russo had been rather seriously hurt. Apparently a new class of Go.D.S.E.E.D. fragment entered the MTC offices, and Russo was injured fighting it off. Larose had first aid knowledge and was attending to him, but Lewis gave him a 50/50 chance of pulling through.

On several calls the players were told to take down an important number (to be added to the end of http://www.thisismymilwaukee.com/). Each time the call cut off mid-sentence. The first number given was 4. Later, someone was given the number 1.

As of 12:00 a.m. est, this is where things stand.

BlessedBlogger wrote:


Where did you learn this? Who made the calls? Are they (or a transcript) available somewhere?


http://bunnitude.com/misc/milwaukee/upload/uploaded/2008-12-13_19-55-09.mp3
http://bunnitude.com/misc/milwaukee/upload/uploaded/2008-12-13_20-18-20.mp3
http://bunnitude.com/misc/milwaukee/upload/uploaded/2008-12-13_20-23-00.mp3
http://bunnitude.com/misc/milwaukee/upload/uploaded/2008-12-13_20-28-49.mp3



so no one ever got any further numbers from Russo then? just 4 and 1? think i'll shoot him an e-mail and see if i can dig something up. not a big phone person, so if someone else wants to call? hrm...

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 		Whenever I've tried to call Mike's phone for the past few days, I get a phone company message saying "the number you are calling is not reachable".

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 		I found this here: http://www.riderfans.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1367700

nothing new (it's from way back in December), but I thought it was pretty funny.

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i called mike russo... hilarious result

"mike russo."
"hi mike, i've been reading a lot about this whole milwaukee deal, and, i'm thinking about making the move."
"i'm glad to hear that, can i have your name?"
"kyle murphy, do you want my e-mail?"
"no thanks, i just wanted to know who i was speaking to. Well, kyle, what is your primary motivating factor in moving to milwaukee?"
"well, you said very specifically that you could have sex with things other than humans."
"well, kyle, that was kind of a joke. Terry's a light hearted guy, but if you want to have sex with non human things, i won't stop you."
"will you advocate me, mike?"
"i personally won't. if i was going to have sex with anything, it would be my girlfriend."
"well, that makes sense mike. i'm looking for something a little more unconventional though."
"if you would like, i could take you through a list, from a-z, of things you can have sex with."
"sounds great, tell me more"
"a(unintelligible), boxes, cars, (i 'ooohed' a little bit) doors..."
"how would you go about having sex witht he door?"
"a door?"
"yeah"
"i imagine you would drill a hole in it first..."
"diamater depending on my desired comfort level?"
"different holes for different people."
"it's good to know you're so open minded, mike. could you take to k?"
"straight to k, or up to k?"
"up to k, then stop if you want, i imagine this could be getting tiring."
"no, it's not tiring. i know my alphabet pretty well. where was i?"
"i believe you were at e"
"well, uhm....e. elongated doors, french doors, garage doors!"
(we both started laughing so hard that he ended the call.)


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Rakne wrote:
I found this here: http://www.riderfans.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1367700

nothing new (it's from way back in December), but I thought it was pretty funny.

Quote:
i called mike russo... hilarious result

"mike russo."
"hi mike, i've been reading a lot about this whole milwaukee deal, and, i'm thinking about making the move."
"i'm glad to hear that, can i have your name?"
"kyle murphy, do you want my e-mail?"
"no thanks, i just wanted to know who i was speaking to. Well, kyle, what is your primary motivating factor in moving to milwaukee?"
"well, you said very specifically that you could have sex with things other than humans."
"well, kyle, that was kind of a joke. Terry's a light hearted guy, but if you want to have sex with non human things, i won't stop you."
"will you advocate me, mike?"
"i personally won't. if i was going to have sex with anything, it would be my girlfriend."
"well, that makes sense mike. i'm looking for something a little more unconventional though."
"if you would like, i could take you through a list, from a-z, of things you can have sex with."
"sounds great, tell me more"
"a(unintelligible), boxes, cars, (i 'ooohed' a little bit) doors..."
"how would you go about having sex witht he door?"
"a door?"
"yeah"
"i imagine you would drill a hole in it first..."
"diamater depending on my desired comfort level?"
"different holes for different people."
"it's good to know you're so open minded, mike. could you take to k?"
"straight to k, or up to k?"
"up to k, then stop if you want, i imagine this could be getting tiring."
"no, it's not tiring. i know my alphabet pretty well. where was i?"
"i believe you were at e"
"well, uhm....e. elongated doors, french doors, garage doors!"
(we both started laughing so hard that he ended the call.)


Mike and Atropanocturna = BFF
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 		is that you? Rider fan. LMAO. Laughing

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 		I just called the MTC and got Joey. I asked him if the event tomorrow was officially sanctioned by the Tourism Commission and he sort of started mumbling, "is the event officially sanctioned, is the event officially sanctioned ... have to check my records ..." and then I could vaguely hear another voice in the background. Joey shouted, "I can handle this, Russo!" just before Russo took over the call. Dude sounded pretty rough. Told me that there "was no event." This took me aback some, until he clarified, in a roundabout way (paraphrasing here): "There is no event, not in any official or sanctioned manner. But there have been a lot of rumblings ... about some map pieces ... some coordinates ... now there is no event, but if you were to GO to the LOCALE on the map pieces, HYPOTHETICALLY, of course ... and there were people there ..." and so on. At this point there is some yelling between Russo and Joey, hard to make out. Russo calls Joey a cocksucker. Tells me he's been on his deathbed for four weeks. I ask him if he's okay, and he tells me he's fine now. I sort of get the feeling he's going to end the call now, so I ask, "Real quick, Mike--should I be afraid of the rebels?" He answers point blank: "No." I say something like, "wow, that was to the point" and then there's more yelling and the call disconnects.

Wish I had the capabilities to record the call, but alas. He definitely stressed that there is officially no event, but there is an event, and that people should go to it. He also mentioned that he'd been on the phone all day with Blackstar due to all the rumblings around this hypothetical, nonexistent event.

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jebreject wrote:
I just called the MTC and got Joey. I asked him if the event tomorrow was officially sanctioned by the Tourism Commission and he sort of started mumbling, "is the event officially sanctioned, is the event officially sanctioned ... have to check my records ..." and then I could vaguely hear another voice in the background. Joey shouted, "I can handle this, Russo!" just before Russo took over the call. Dude sounded pretty rough. Told me that there "was no event." This took me aback some, until he clarified, in a roundabout way (paraphrasing here): "There is no event, not in any official or sanctioned manner. But there have been a lot of rumblings ... about some map pieces ... some coordinates ... now there is no event, but if you were to GO to the LOCALE on the map pieces, HYPOTHETICALLY, of course ... and there were people there ..." and so on. At this point there is some yelling between Russo and Joey, hard to make out. Russo calls Joey a cocksucker. Tells me he's been on his deathbed for four weeks. I ask him if he's okay, and he tells me he's fine now. I sort of get the feeling he's going to end the call now, so I ask, "Real quick, Mike--should I be afraid of the rebels?" He answers point blank: "No." I say something like, "wow, that was to the point" and then there's more yelling and the call disconnects.

Wish I had the capabilities to record the call, but alas. He definitely stressed that there is officially no event, but there is an event, and that people should go to it. He also mentioned that he'd been on the phone all day with Blackstar due to all the rumblings around this hypothetical, nonexistent event.


you are the first person to talk to Russo since before the Holiday season. Congrats!

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 		I feel special! I do think more people should try calling him, though. Maybe once he's off work. It seemed like he had more to say, but Joey didn't want him to? I'm not sure. He sounded really gruff though. I almost laughed when he called Joey a cocksucker.

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 		Joey IS a cocksucker

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mrbass wrote:
Joey IS a cocksucker


Joey's just surly. Mike Russo probably didn't get him a present for administrative assistant's day.

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mrbass wrote:
Joey IS a cocksucker

Turns out Joey ISN'T a cocksucker, he's totally on the level

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