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[Zaleramancer]

Golem-Like or dummer?

[Zaleramancer]

Souls are small spirits that are smart, some of them made bodies to live in the physical world in order to avoid being eaten by Spirits, which are stupid and hungry.

The Eight most powerful become the main gods.

The types of bodies are as such: Marked One (Nearly Extinct, carefully crafted), Humans (Good match but they age), Naturals (Like beasts, but vigorous), Changeling (Spirit instead of a Soul).

Magic is manipulating your Soul, or Shoving Spirits into things.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Philote wrote

I haven't had a chance to read through everything yet, but I like the basic idea you've started with here. Tell me if I've got this wrong. There are a bunch of spirits of different sizes and some of them have entered the physical world and possessed bodies in different ways in order to stay there. There are also spirits that don't have souls and they use those in crafting. When the spirits possess things other than bodies or broken/altered bodies, that is when strange abilities start to appear.

Think of souls as just another species of spirit, a numerous but weak species. Literally the bottom of the food-chain. Other spirits are animalistic and only care about consuming other spirits in order to gain more power and not get eaten. Because they are so much smaller and weaker than other spirits they started to work together, becoming smarter and more social. Like apes. These are what is normally within a human body.

Anything possessed by a spirit get warped and changed, though in a different way. If the Spirit posses a human fetus, it becomes a changeling and gets a dose of freaky powers. If it posses a corpse, or any body broken beyond repair, it becomes a revanant, an animated husk of what used to be that creature. If it enters a Natural or an animal fetus, it becomes a Fae Creature. Of the three, only changelings aren't completely insane right out of the gate, and even they have the risk as they age.

Zale wrote

Golem-Like or dummer?

Which of those would be more like a Smart AI? Mannikins are essentially a blank slate that can be molded into whatever the user wishes.

[Zaleramancer]

Strong Vs Weak AI*

Can they learn?


Here's a nice test..

Let's say on of them is placed in a situation for which they have no orders.

Like, say, a simple one designed to sort objects by circle/cube is faced with a Tetrahedron.

Will it blue-screen and sputter?

*Is it intelligent, or simply capable of seeming like it is.~ Chinese Room Argument

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

No, I don't think it would. It's reaction would depend upon precedent.

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[Zaleramancer]

So it can learn, or does it merely rely on pre-determined orders?

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Yeah, it can learn.

[Zaleramancer]

Ok.

So would you say they are less or more intelligent than the Golems of Disc?

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

I'd say they have the same potential for growth as Disk Golems. They might end up more emotional, though. Slightly more wild. They are, after all, powered by ravenous chaotic energy beings.

[Zaleramancer]

Intriguing.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

It's not as though they all go the way of the Golem King, but the ones that freak out freak out hard.

[Zaleramancer]

Aquatic Naturals are strictly water-breathers?

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Strictly. They have to hold their breath while above the water line. They can speck fine so long as their necks are under the water line.

There are also whales, but their problem is that they're way to heavy to walk around on the land unless they're Soul Arts masters.

[Zaleramancer]

So, the Gambler's Den has Gladiators?

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Oh yes. Mostly debtors or slaves, but a fair amount of professionals as well. It's not the only place with a Colosseum, it's not even the only place in the island chain, but it's the most famous.

[Zaleramancer]

So, what's the culture of the Kiddo Islands like?

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Eclectic, to say the least. There isn't one culture. The islands have a gentlemans agreement that each island is a nation unto itself with it's own laws, and that the others need to mind their own business. It's a given that, as soon as you set foot on an island, you are under it's laws. This has lead to the area having many different cultures.

Of course, most of the islands heavily trade between one another so you can't go to extreme or you get cut off. Most of the people are very mercantile, and have a laissez faire attitude. Mostly, the place has a reputation as being dangerous. Walk onto an island ignorant of the laws, sight the wrong slip of paper, and you could wined up an indentured servant.

The only place where the State law is universal is on the water. You aren't allowed to war on one another, and if someone from outside the States starts making trouble all island are obligated to go to war against the outsider.

[Zaleramancer]

This may be of use to you.

I'm thinking of making my character for the roleplay a lower changeling gladiator from the Kiddo Islands.

His spirit would be one called a Spinning Flenser, a nasty and sadistic thing. Despite this, he retains a fairly nice and childlike, if a bit feral, personality.

Of course, when he was born his parents didn't really know what to do with him. After a few years, they gave up and sold him. After a few years, he ended up being thrown in the gladiator ring. Since he was around ten then, they thought it'd simply be something for the bloodthirsty crowds to scream at as the little freak bit the dust.

Imagine their surprise when he turned the other gladiator into mince-meat.

His physical deformities are mostly in his hands and feet. They're very leathery, and his fingers and toes are mostly encased in nearly foot long very sharp claws. He has needle-like teeth, and eyes and hair that are an inhumanly bright shade of red. He's a speedy little bugger, zipping around in a whirlwind of sharp claws and talons. Since the faster you can throw a punch, the harder it hits, he can punch very hard when he wants to.

Of course, this only applies when he has a chance to move around. Chained up or otherwise caged in, he's very weak.

Mentally, he suffers a disconnect between the act of violence and it's implications.

He's a nice kid and all.. but if you hit him, he'll slice your arm off without much thought or regret.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

How old is he, and how good is he? Is he just starting out, or does he have the star power to pull a crowed?

[Zaleramancer]

He's.. young.

While he's fairly good at physical violence, he's terrible at being a gladiator.

Because a crowd doesn't want to see someone just die. They want to see a show.

It took his owners ages to get him to slow down.

And the fact that he's far more interested in watching ants than fighting means he's not precisely.. the vicious image of a fighter.

So he's barely worth the effort they put into him. Only then because people like throwing things.