Test Drive 1

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Test Drive 1

Welcome to the beta test of BadgerNet, Multiversal Edition! Settle in and enjoy your posting experiences. Everything in this will be non-canon.

Here're some example prompts to play around with. You can make up your own!

1. An embarrassing moment of yours just got posted to the site. Oops!
2. Post your proudest moment to the site.
3. Hiccup Event: Vampires. Everyone affected is a vampire, your choice of what style of vampire.
4. Hiccup Event: Disney Princess. Animals just won't leave you alone!
5. Hiccup Event: Actor. You believe you're an actor playing the role of yourself as a character and you have the props and everything to prove it. Chill offstage and all that.
6. You're livestreaming a dramatic moment in your life.
7. Asking the people on the site for advice on something.

And so on. Be sure to read the rules and FAQ before posting.

Comments

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

Another example of my thesis since I was around ten years old that people are idiots.

I'm going to guess that you can't find cores, and the procedure for making new ones in my world is still basically theoretical, so describing it over the network would likely be useless - especially since I don't know if your world has Aer, since Blastia so far are unique to mine.

Given that issue, basically, you've got two options I can think of. The first is to find an alternative source of leverage. If I had any contacts in the Imperial nobility I could pass you to them for that, but honestly, I don't. Maybe another of the "gods"?

The second is to count on the fact that the "god" is going need to rely on people to find you; as I said above, people are idiots, and exploiting that to hide may be easier.

[frozenbird]

Setting the rest aside for a moment, these friends grew up in a civilization that hasn't understood the principles of the technology supporting it since the last societal collapse. It's perfectly reasonable that they wouldn't understand what nanotech is, given that context.

If you're going to call my friends idiots despite not knowing them or theire circumstances, I'd like an apology.

[Robin IS an idiot, but, well. Only his friends get to call him that.]

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

... I'm sorry.

In particular, though, I meant the people chasing you. If they go long enough with no success, they'll almost assuredly get bored and sloppy about it, especially if they have other duties that they find more important.

[frozenbird]

Yes, that idea seems like it's got legs. My lack of nanofield makes it hard for the gods to track me, so I guess their main resources will be humans. I'm no stealth expert, but maybe it's just a matter of finding a really big haystack in which to be a proverbial needle.

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

Yeah. That's a start, at least.

Long term, you'll want a stronger solution, though I have no idea what that would be if brute force isn't the key.

[frozenbird]

Mediation? I guess it would be hard to have a conversation without giving away my location.

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

Yeah, and that's unlikely to work on zealots, as I've experienced dealing with some of the Imperial Guard a few times.

[frozenbird]

I meant negotiating with Zenith, not with its underlings. Even I know better than trying to talk down true believers.

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

... I mean. That's true. You'd need something Zenith wants or needs as leverage to get to the table, though...