There's that guy who always eats Doritos and gets cheese dust on everything.Sinder wrote:1. Pete
2. Spirit Dragon
3. Great Kitsune
4. Teoxihuitl?
5. "Spookmaster"?
He's a human.
There's that guy who always eats Doritos and gets cheese dust on everything.Sinder wrote:1. Pete
2. Spirit Dragon
3. Great Kitsune
4. Teoxihuitl?
5. "Spookmaster"?
Also I'm holding out some kind of hope that there is a good reason for them to be playing so maybe I will stop feeling like the 3 (now possibly 5) of them deserve to be punched repeatedly in the face for basically forcing an entire world (or at least Babylon Gardens anyway) to live action role play because they got bored one day.Dissension wrote:Could it be 'cause they were bored and had nothing better to do?
Kitsune never told Pete to leave King alone. In fact the only one he told to leave King alone was Dragon not Pete, Pete could still have tried to get him as an Avatar he just went about it by trying to steal his fate; likely because he knew that going up to King would have been completely pointless.RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:aww, but where's the fun in that. Despite the fact that Kitsune already told Pete to leave him alone and the others never messed with him to begin with, so not much will change.
well, he did say hereIceKitsune wrote:Kitsune never told Pete to leave King alone. In fact the only one he told to leave King alone was Dragon not Pete, Pete could still have tried to get him as an Avatar he just went about it by trying to steal his fate; likely because he knew that going up to King would have been completely pointless.RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:aww, but where's the fun in that. Despite the fact that Kitsune already told Pete to leave him alone and the others never messed with him to begin with, so not much will change.
I read this as essentially cutting Pete from even talking to King without a full avatar, meaning he couldn't get King as his avatar unless he could get him to agree without actually interacting with him directly. Essentially, he said to leave King alone, but Pete found a loophole. So essentially, ordering them to leave King alone, unless the whole game is forced to move from Babylon Gardens, would not be that different from what's going on now.Kitsune wrote:You're forbidden from doing anything more to King or entering the arena until you have a full avatar
Well "entering the arena" was never defined so he could have still talked to him though dreams and stuff assuming it only means Pete can't physically be in BG. (also it would have to mean that because if he couldn't talk to anyone else he can't ever get an Avatar.) And "doing anything more" more likely then not only means no changing him further, like from a Dog to a Cat.RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:well, he did say hereIceKitsune wrote:Kitsune never told Pete to leave King alone. In fact the only one he told to leave King alone was Dragon not Pete, Pete could still have tried to get him as an Avatar he just went about it by trying to steal his fate; likely because he knew that going up to King would have been completely pointless.RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:aww, but where's the fun in that. Despite the fact that Kitsune already told Pete to leave him alone and the others never messed with him to begin with, so not much will change.I read this as essentially cutting Pete from even talking to King without a full avatar, meaning he couldn't get King as his avatar unless he could get him to agree without actually interacting with him directly. Essentially, he said to leave King alone, but Pete found a loophole. So essentially, ordering them to leave King alone, unless the whole game is forced to move from Babylon Gardens, would not be that different from what's going on now.Kitsune wrote:You're forbidden from doing anything more to King or entering the arena until you have a full avatar
This assumes King has any significance beyond a toy Pete wants to play with; that he is, in fact, important to a bunch of high-order beings. The general attitude of the court so far is that low-order beings ("mortals") can be used as desired, provided they are not prevented from passing into the next life.IceKitsune wrote:So what do you guys think the outcome of this trial will be? I'm guessing the most likely outcome is that everyone in The U&U game will be ordered to leave King alone.
Well considering that Pete turned him into a Dog, I would consider that not "Unmolested" (since he now has to go to a different Heaven then originally intended.) therefore making him clearly guilty of that (plus the B&E) in the least. And since he did that and stole his Fate, telling everyone involved to stay away from him in order to not mess King up more (and to stop causing problems for Heaven which both things did) seems appropriate.Dissension wrote:This assumes King has any significance beyond a toy Pete wants to play with; that he is, in fact, important to a bunch of high-order beings. The general attitude of the court so far is that low-order beings ("mortals") can be used as desired, provided they are not prevented from passing into the next life.IceKitsune wrote:So what do you guys think the outcome of this trial will be? I'm guessing the most likely outcome is that everyone in The U&U game will be ordered to leave King alone.
Kitsune said that Pete could reverse it with Magic, him stealing the fate wouldn't have reversed anything and two there is more to a persons soul then just his or her fate as we've seen so he would have needed to steal quite a few orbs. Plus if he was needed to return it to human heaven to reverse the spell why not just ask, it would have made everything a million times simpler on him.copper wrote:Why he is on trial, I guess...
Pete stole it from pet heaven, did he not? That Heaven was fully occupied by animals from what I saw. Perhaps Pete was stealing it from there to put it in the Human Heaven, as a way to reverse what he had done or something? it is a possibility....
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NEVER underestimate a good lawyer.PhoenixAsper wrote:Yeah, good luck proving that's NOT malicious in SOME way.
You'll need to adjust your expectations of what the court is looking for. They aren't (at least to a legal degree) interested in personal and highly fleeting feelings of individual mortals. Bahamut said that celestials are allowed to do as they see fit on mortal worlds.PhoenixAsper wrote:They want to determine if his actions aren't malicious.
Let's see: he irrevocably altered a man's life (perhaps erasing or ruining his existence as a man entirely), treated him like most people would treat their pets outside BG (to the point of extreme humiliation), almost always spoke in a condescending, arrogant manner to the "lesser being" (with a mean-spirited grin on his face oftentimes), and then stole HIS fate specifically (even if it WASN'T to threaten him).
Yeah, good luck proving that's NOT malicious in SOME way.
That's................................. kind of upsetting and disturbing. (For clarification, I meant the "do-as-see-fit" part, mostly.)rickgriffin wrote:You'll need to adjust your expectations of what the court is looking for. They aren't (at least to a legal degree) interested in personal feelings of individual mortals. Bahamut said that celestials are allowed to do as they see fit on mortal worlds.PhoenixAsper wrote:They want to determine if his actions aren't malicious.
Let's see: he irrevocably altered a man's life (perhaps erasing or ruining his existence as a man entirely), treated him like most people would treat their pets outside BG (to the point of extreme humiliation), almost always spoke in a condescending, arrogant manner to the "lesser being" (with a mean-spirited grin on his face oftentimes), and then stole HIS fate specifically (even if it WASN'T to threaten him).
Yeah, good luck proving that's NOT malicious in SOME way.
It was meant in context of what Bahamut was talking about--King's soul. Not his body.IceKitsune wrote:Well unless we are changing the term unmolested to mean something else here they clearly have him on that considering Joel now has to go to a different heaven then intended (and an easier one at that).
Ok then he gets off on this case, unless B&E is also a charge which there is no way he could possibly get away with that. (out side of time served)rickgriffin wrote:It was meant in context of what Bahamut was talking about--King's soul. Not his body.IceKitsune wrote:Well unless we are changing the term unmolested to mean something else here they clearly have him on that considering Joel now has to go to a different heaven then intended (and an easier one at that).
Actually ruining a mortal world is kind of overkill and unnecessary, but from heaven's perspective, mortals who die are simply sent to judgement and then the next world, so nothing but matter is lost in the long run, and there's infinite amounts of that. As long as that process is not interfered with, along with it remaining in the mortal's agency to ultimately decide their morality for themselves, they can pretty much do as they like. Since King hardly has it the worst of anyone in the world (not by a LONG shot), coercion is not going to be a factor.PhoenixAsper wrote:That's................................. kind of upsetting and disturbing. (For clarification, I meant the "do-as-see-fit" part, mostly.)rickgriffin wrote: You'll need to adjust your expectations of what the court is looking for. They aren't (at least to a legal degree) interested in personal feelings of individual mortals. Bahamut said that celestials are allowed to do as they see fit on mortal worlds.
I don't understand. <sigh> And please remember, and I will make no excuses here: I am NOT being impartial. I am speaking from the perspective of someone who is really anxious to see how this turns out for King, and whether I will personally be okay with it in the end.rickgriffin wrote:Actually ruining a mortal world is kind of overkill and unnecessary, but from heaven's perspective, mortals who die are simply sent to judgement and then the next world, so nothing but matter is lost in the long run, and there's infinite amounts of that. As long as that process is not interfered with, along with it remaining in the mortal's agency to ultimately decide their morality for themselves, they can pretty much do as they like. Since King hardly has it the worst of anyone in the world (not by a LONG shot), coercion is not going to be a factor.PhoenixAsper wrote:That's................................. kind of upsetting and disturbing. (For clarification, I meant the "do-as-see-fit" part, mostly.)rickgriffin wrote: You'll need to adjust your expectations of what the court is looking for. They aren't (at least to a legal degree) interested in personal feelings of individual mortals. Bahamut said that celestials are allowed to do as they see fit on mortal worlds.
I thought it was Joel's.rickgriffin wrote:It was meant in context of what Bahamut was talking about--King's soul. Not his body.
Um, nobody is exactly the person who they used to be in the past. Some people want to be firemen and grow up to be corporate cogs. Some people are drafted into the army and develop PTSD. Some people are turned into corgis.PhoenixAsper wrote: Which brings me back to what I said earlier: Pete practically ERASED a human being, Joel, and as we knew him, he could only be a memory in King's head. As far as I'm concerned, most of the time, Joel does not exist. In the past, that's the sole way I've been able to keep up on this without getting more upset.
This whole thing can be an existential nightmare at times.
Hardly comparable, wouldn't you say? Ergh, I give up!rickgriffin wrote:Um, nobody is exactly the person who they used to be in the past. Some people want to be firemen and grow up to be corporate cogs. Some people are drafted into the army and develop PTSD. Some people are turned into corgis.PhoenixAsper wrote: Which brings me back to what I said earlier: Pete practically ERASED a human being, Joel, and as we knew him, he could only be a memory in King's head. As far as I'm concerned, most of the time, Joel does not exist. In the past, that's the sole way I've been able to keep up on this without getting more upset.
This whole thing can be an existential nightmare at times.
Not for me. Sorry.Obbl wrote:Considering it was just a physical transformation, the is no existential question at all. King is just a name. Just like Joel is a name. They both refer to the same person, the same soul. Joel has not been replaced. His body has had extensive plastic surgery, but he is still the same guy.
I didn't spoil the ending. I told you what was happening so you could keep up.IceKitsune wrote:So since the end of the trial has been basically spoiled I wonder if anything other then Info Dumping will happen in this arc perhaps Pete will finally get an Avatar or something.
Considering this is a fact, I am confused where we have a difference of opinion that causes you to respond in such a manor.PhoenixAsper wrote:Not for me. Sorry.Obbl wrote:Considering it was just a physical transformation, the is no existential question at all. King is just a name. Just like Joel is a name. They both refer to the same person, the same soul. Joel has not been replaced. His body has had extensive plastic surgery, but he is still the same guy.
that happened to me oncerickgriffin wrote:Some people are turned into corgis.
I thought that as well, but I kind of doubt it.RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:
Is that Joan of Arc?