(Can of worms mode alert!)

*Klaxxon sounds*




CHIM: The secret syllable of royalty.

This is the subject of considerable controversy. It is apparently a state of being, in which one is able to understand the terrible, and alien consciousness of God, behold their place within that consciousness, and retain their personal identities. It has been likened to being a flea of assertion on a wolf of nothing. A dawning that the world is a lie, but having the mental strength to prevent that dawning from destroying themselves. It is many things, and not easily explained. It is at its heart an obscure, abstract concept.


Having it means that you have the greatest possible understanding of the world, and the whole of the universe, and through that knowledge, have some power over it, or the power to gain such power, and use it rightly.

I agree, it could be a different thing that he used, although the fact that it does state CHIM as what allowed Cyrodiil to be unjungled, but I do agree.

Did all those people and gods go through all that trouble simply to be a kaleidoscope being for a few seconds? Or do they want want permanent command of the Tower?

Seems like Talos may have mantled his way in, accidentally brought about climate change while complaining about a bug bite. Vivec rhymed his way in, shoved some things down Azura's throat and cast an invisibility spell to keep on tricking people. The Crowned Tower keeps breaking apart because that's what it does. Even the creation of Nirn wasn't enough for Lorkhan, and he was a few steps up the ol' subgradient.

Sometimes, CHIM can be http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showforum=31.

But... but... I very often DO want to destroy the authors of some of those fan fics!

I managed to do exactly that, and, wonder of wonders, my souffle didn't fall! It might have been the tilting and the sighing and the lifethroes of the universe, or it might have been that I used enough egg white this time.

Oh, sorry, I'm dead.

(exeunt)

You're not alone.

I think Solin once used the metaphor that CHIM is like a fictional character realizing that he is just that: a dream of the Godhead but at the same time, self-aware. Or am I wrong in this?

NO YOU'RE NOT!

Yes but it goes a little beyond that in that you realise you are a part of your creator but you have the ability to act independantly from the creator. The best example of this is http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=550458&st=0. Vivec writes a birthday letter to MK, signifying that he can act independantly from the one who created him.

Damn right. You're washed up, old news. All the cool kids are into the Shezzarine now.

The shezzarine is BORING!

I WUVS you Shiggles!

Crazy? Certainly--- Sometimes a bit dystopic? For sure! But BORING!?

CERTAINLY NOT!

You can take the Order out of the Madness, but you can't take the Madness out of Order. I strongly doubt we've seen the last of Sheogorath.

Personally, I hope the events of Shivering Isles were just part of some plan to permanently do away with that crystalline [censored] come TES V.

He'll get bored eventually.

*ponders making Knights of Order by dipping GI Joe figures in heated sugar solution.

That would ruin perfectly good sugar, and melt perfectly good GI Joes.

Better is to visit Dollar General, and get a set of cheap action men, and then pick up some http://www.midwayautosupply.com/pc-1665-163-bondo-marine-epoxy-stick-2-oz-3101.aspx, and an X-Acto knife.

The epoxy sets up permanently hard, bonds to most any surface, including smooth plastic, and can be sanded and drilled. (WAAAY better than sculpey!)


Then you just paint them with silver paint, followed by acrylic clear.

Yeah, but then you can't smack them around and watch as they shatter in broken crystalline fashion. Anyway, way off topic. XD

Lorkhan is busy eating new Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos!

One of these days I will save up and buy one of those http://www.zcorp.com/Products/3D-Printers/Spectrum-Z510/Technical-Specifications308/spage.aspx and when I do, I will import the oblivion mesh models for our friendly crystalline knights, and modify their mesh pieces so that they are fully articulated, and print out some poseable action figures.

I could never sell them, but I bet some gamesas employees would love a set. (I would gladly give them to them too, if they didnt sue. )

If you succesfully makes them without being sued to your trousers then I would gladly buy some from you.

After you make Knights of Order, you could make a battle by spray-painting some barbie dolls gold or purple.

An Elder Scrolls game universe with the little miniatures? Like Warhammer?

Yeah! THe PC can be a big question mark on a plastic stand.

And if you use the pieces, it's okay - it'll come with a hell of a lot of yellow plastic exclamation marks.

Sounds like incomplete Meshes or Textures.

Considering that all I need are the raw 3D models, and that I will be articulating it myself so that it has more "barbie and ken" type joints, I wouldnt worry about the big yellow exclamation marks.

However, I dont have 50 THOUSAND dollars to blow on a prototype printer. I have to finish paying for my house first.