<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=322675.msg15496662#msg15496662">Quote from: wingnut2292 on 09-07-2020, 01:34:22</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Not bad. For the record I like the idea of BESM. I have the 4th Ed. We'll need to make some templets to pattern Persona attacks. Maybe we could be the mortal children of Belladonna, the attendant of Persona 2? She is frequently portrayed as a operatic singer playing the piano in the Velvet Room.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Possibly...<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=322675.msg15496662#msg15496662">Quote from: wingnut2292 on 09-07-2020, 01:34:22</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I was working on the idea of Humanity being caught in a cognitive debate that has escalated out of control. I refer to the belligerents The Hush and The Din, for neither is completely right and neither is completely wrong, but each Entity is completely invested now in winning the fight. There is bits of Superego vs Id here, but it's just as much Echo-Boomers/Millennials vs Boomers and GenX or even City Folk vs Country Folk.<br/><br/><em>Don't move. Don't feel. Don't think. Don't live. In the silent void there is only profound peace.</em> The Hush seeks to create a world of silence. It's lonely, afraid and unable to comprehend others. The Hush seeks to understand itself. Motion, action and connection confuses the Hush so the phenomenon seeks to sever all bonds to create a world of absolute safety, where it can know itself and is everything known. Victims of the Hush become increasingly isolated and introspective, and seemingly afraid, paranoid even of loved ones and dear friends. They become listless, don't like being moved and advanced cases may not comprehend language. They slowly shut down until they become unresponsive. The Hush is classified as a new expression of Apathy Syndrome.<br/><br/><em>More! More! This is the passion of life. If only I could just really live a bit more, to feel _alive_ again."</em> The Din is the antithesis of Hush. The Din is all about making connections and engagement, but it's energy is so uncoordinated the only bonds it can make are only light superficial connections. The Din encourage it's victims to live passionately but recklessly, with no regards to consequences. While initially amped and creative, victims of the Din end up burnt out husks who can't spare the energy to make bonds or do activity of daily life. The Din is also classified as a type of Apathy Syndrome.<br/><br/><em> Everything is broken, twisted and ugly! The world is broken, my job is broken, my friends are broken. You? Ha! You're broken, our children are broken, and I'm broken too... ... ... Hey, let me show you just _how_ the world is broken.</em> The Scratch is a subtle thing. Compared to the cognitive equivalent to a long deep scratch on your favorite LP-45.  While the sensation begins small it progressively grows, warping the victim's cognition of reality. Eventuality everyone and everyone looks broken, ugly, scratched. Eventually they conceit that they are scratched, broken, worthless. At that point their personality changes, and the victims of the Scratch become nihilistic, delight in the shocking and grotesque and try to convince others that the world is worthless and broken.<br/><br/>The cause between all the is Narlyhotep. You could say the Narlyhotep as the Shadow of Humanity is having an open debate and has brought the Sea of Souls along for the ride. Where humanity should be a chorus, singing a song of ubuntu (for we all have more in common, than differences. Even the basic things like all people want peace, love, safety and fun. Yet, we are divided and in a state of severe discord. A world of neighbor vs neighbor, group verses group, faction verses faction.<br/><br/>The Scratch is Narlyhotep in his purest form. Through the Scratch, the Crawlling Chaos controls both the Hush and the Din. Either one will emerge the victor, which is interesting. Or Humanity destroys itself, which is just fine too in the Thousand Faces book.<br/><br/>Oh <em>Conductor</em>, grab your baton and lead the Chorus, least Ruin befall us all!</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Not bad! Any way to tie that in to the other idea? Or do we think one would work best independent of the other?