[SILLY] 42

by **Jutsa** » Tue Jan 15, 2019 7:03 pm

I. Don't. Know.

Title: 42
The Issue: You've waken up in an infinitely dark room. The only thing you can see is a man in sunglasses sitting across from you, lit by something that you can't make out.

Option 1: The man holds out a small, blue pill in his left hand. "You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your office and believe whatever you want to."
[effect] @@LEADER@@ dozes off regularly

Option 2: The man holds out a small, red pill in his right hand. "You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep government corruption goes."
[effect] half the government has mysteriously vanished

Option 3: Make a run for it?
[effect] there's a creepy and dark room in the capitol building that nobody talks about

by **USS Monitor** » Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:46 pm

It's bending some rules, but it's kind of interesting.

by **The Free Joy State** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:18 am

Not sure what I just read... @@LEADER@@ in situations (as long as player autonomy is maintained) is interesting.

Kind of feel the red-pill Matrix idea has been totally ruined by MRAs, though...

by **Candlewhisper Archive** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 2:48 am

I don't like it. I see what you're aiming for, but I don't feel it's NS.

Having said that, I think there's some fun satire possible targeting an MRA type doing the whole red pill blue pill thing, while looking nothing like Morpheus (for example, being an overweight middle-aged neckbearded caucasian man in a fedora). That could lift up a different issue about mens rights, for sure.

by **Trotterdam** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 6:25 am

Why would I trust the man that the pills do what they say they do?

by **Jutsa** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 7:26 am

I have no idea. :rofl:

Eh it's fine, I really just wrote this for fun when the idea hit me like a train. :lol:

by **Darmen** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 4:27 pm

Accepting the blue pill should totally result in having your nation deleted

by **Chan Island** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 5:22 pm

[option] Suddenly a thought pops into your mind. The sacred words of, "What about the droid attack on the wookies?"
[effect] wrong movie bro

by **Cross Me and Watch Yourself Perish** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 6:33 pm

This is an excellent draft!

by **Australian rePublic** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:41 pm

USS Monitor wrote:It's bending some rules, but it's kind of interesting.

Exactly! I always wondered why NEO took Morpheous seriously

by **The Free Joy State** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:55 pm

Australian rePublic wrote:
USS Monitor wrote:It's bending some rules, but it's kind of interesting.

Exactly! I always wondered why NEO took Morpheous seriously

Because the filmmaker wanted to make his trilogy, dammit

"I'll take the blue pill, thanks," would have made for a very short movie.

by **Australian rePublic** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 4:54 am

The Free Joy State wrote:
Australian rePublic wrote:Exactly! I always wondered why NEO took Morpheous seriously

Because the filmmaker wanted to make his trilogy, dammit

"I'll take the blue pill, thanks," would have made for a very short movie.

No, it's more like "who the f$$k are you and why the f##k are you giving me strange pills? Why should I trust that these pills do what you say they do?" That would have actially made a good subplot

by **Frieden-und Freudenland** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:05 pm

The Free Joy State wrote:
Australian rePublic wrote:Exactly! I always wondered why NEO took Morpheous seriously

Because the filmmaker wanted to make his trilogy, dammit

"I'll take the blue pill, thanks," would have made for a very short movie.

Why do you have to take the pill, to begin with? It's been a while since I've watched Matrix, but did the Red Pill do anything to Neo? Physically, I mean? Was it what woke him up?

And if so, how did it do that? Who engineered that pill?

Too many questions.

by **Jutsa** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:50 pm

I think the red pill was a sugar pill and the blue pill was basically a knockout anesthesia or something.

by **Australian rePublic** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 3:03 pm

Frieden-und Freudenland wrote:
The Free Joy State wrote:Because the filmmaker wanted to make his trilogy, dammit

"I'll take the blue pill, thanks," would have made for a very short movie.

Why do you have to take the pill, to begin with? It's been a while since I've watched Matrix, but did the Red Pill do anything to Neo? Physically, I mean? Was it what woke him up?

And if so, how did it do that? Who engineered that pill?

Too many questions.

I read this somewhere, but apparently, they're two different lines of computer code. One line allows you to exist the matrix, and other line makes you jump back in time to before you encountered Morpheous. The pill you swallow is the line of code which interacts with you

by **Candlewhisper Archive** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 3:54 pm

Plus, it's a good way of formally indicating consent.

Mostly though, it's just rule of cool. The first film was better than the later ones, because it was all about rule of cool. It's only when they started trying to lay down the groundwork rules of the films' realities that the whole thing began to fall apart,

by **Hamstan** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 3:58 pm

This is the best thing. I think what would make it better is that it would only affect one stat no matter what choice.

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