tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post9093007275326423913..comments2023-09-02T14:13:10.364-07:00Comments on Mouse's Musings: X Gon' Give It To YaMousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11936002393931074811noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-38327478867335021012017-02-27T07:47:43.386-08:002017-02-27T07:47:43.386-08:00Clearly, this will not do, so Tsion prays for the ...Clearly, this will not do, so Tsion prays for the Ten Plagues to once again strike what was called Egypt!<br /><br />One of the early chapters in the story is all about how the Ten Plagues strike and how the Omega assists the government in dealing with them by deploying civil servants, various technologies, and the nascent Legion of Light (although it won't be called that for many years!) to handle the issues that the plagues cause.<br /><br />This works fairly well for the first nine plagues, of course - most of them are about insects, and so Cairo becomes the city of a thousand Tesla Coil bugzappers - but the tenth and last plague involves Azrael, the Angel of Death, personally slaying all the firstborns of nonbelievers... Azrael moves at almost the speed of sound, and has a scythe made of the longest-lasting isotope in the universe, that never needs sharpening...<br /><br />And this is the first major challenge that the Omega have to face. How do you even stop an Angel? The technology just isn't there yet!<br /><br />Well, Omega are an amoral not-quite-AI, so they saw it coming and decided to use the power of narrative causality against the Angel of Death.<br /><br />It was able to kill about three quarters of the firstborns of Misrayim.<br /><br />But after that, the Omega had set up a trap of sorts for Azrael, by building a bunker in which to try to protect the country's most precious treasures, its newborns.<br /><br />It was heavily armored and armed with LRADs and radiation emitters. Not much of that worked against the Angel of Death.<br /><br />Then, it came face to face with a new mother and all her love and fury.<br /><br />There were few survivors. Rachelle and her child were among them. Azrael was not.<br /><br />Of course, the situation had been engineered, the new mothers given martial arts training and fire support, and so on. On the odds, one would succeed.<br /><br />And the Ten Plagues never again visited the land, thanks to a mother's courage, as far as the people know.<br /><br />And so, the good (and not-so-good) people of Misrayim got their national holiday, the Day of Perseverance, a day of both mourning and pride.<br /><br />And the Omega got precious data to be used the next time they would have to fight an Angel.<br /><br />Basically, I wanted to keep the Awesomeness By Analysis that is the hallmark of "The Salvation War", but while sticking closely to premillennial dispensationalist canon. As to who wins, you'll have to read it :)<br /><br />http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=left%20beyondspiritplumberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11103152769766633350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-86441407424037591382017-02-27T07:47:31.853-08:002017-02-27T07:47:31.853-08:00Probably the last time I spam about Left Beyond si...Probably the last time I spam about Left Beyond since the story/game is now over, but the Angel of Death does get theirs, in chapter 7.<br /><br />When the Omega takes Osaze (Not by force: instead, they manage to influence the parliament, exactly like The Other Light does in +93) and renames it Misrayim, which is the proper Hebrew name for Egypt to start with anyway, the country is subject to a drought, again exactly like in Kingdom Come.<br /><br />However, the Omega turn this into an advantage: they build desalinators to make sure that after the first two-three years the people of the country suffer no hardship, and while they allow missionaries to drive around and preach if they want, they also allow the country's original desertic ecosystem to reestablish itself. This gives people somewhere to go that looks at least a little different than the rest of the Earth. Since buying food isn't a problem given that every other territory wants to have an export market, Misrayim becomes a tourist destination once again, and the dry Nile delta is excavated and turned into a port.<br /><br />The cities turn towards building an industrial infrastructure, the various places like the Sphynx and Pyramids are once again a tourist attraction, and the outer desert becomes the home of people who choose to live as their ancestors did, or that simply want to live in a hard environment in order to challenge themselves.<br /><br />In addition, new varieties of plants can be developed that can handle a mixture between the standard Millennial Earth ecosystem and the newly reintroduced desert ecosystem: a good way to generate new flavors... so while Misrayim imports food, it also exports spices, which as a rare commodity can be sold at a premium.<br /><br />Within four years, thanks to careful management, the drought has actually brought Misrayim extra prosperity, rather than damaging it. The government is secular but allows full freedom of religion: Christians from abroad can continue to practice missionary activity (which the government likes because it means that they come in and spend money in the country!) and a few people go back to worshiping the traditional Egyptian deities.<br /><br />spiritplumberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11103152769766633350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-40099806774508845172017-02-27T04:16:37.247-08:002017-02-27T04:16:37.247-08:00It's not Heaven, it's the Millennial Kingd...It's not Heaven, it's the Millennial Kingdom... this is all still happening on what's left on Earth after TurboJesus razed all the mountains and blotted out the night sky.<br /><br />Also, that does look like an indoctrination session. I'm at this point 50/50 on whether Kingdom Come is a parody of the preceding books.<br /><br />spiritplumberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11103152769766633350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-59322343699171277102017-02-27T02:17:27.123-08:002017-02-27T02:17:27.123-08:00Thousands of voices in perfect unison? Sounds like...Thousands of voices in perfect unison? Sounds like video out of North Korea to me. We started with twenty thousand, and the ones who didn't learn were shot, but if they get it right their families get to eat for a week. Actually and more seriously, these children have been raised by religious nutters their entire lives, and denied contact with anyone outside the cult. It's not surprising that they behave a bit strangely.<br /><br />Speaking as a 14,609-day heretic, I'd just like to say…<br />Firedrakenoreply@blogger.com