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The Ultimate HLA: "Plot Device"

YgramulYgramul Member Posts: 1,060
in General Discussion (Spoiler Warning!)
This fiendish Major Artifact appears to be employed by so-called "Developers" (extra-planar beings that have supra-causal connections with the way reality unfolds) to forge the destiny of the Hero.

It is said the sage Gorion fell not under the blade of the Villain, but rather the extra-dimensional powers of... Plot Device.
[Everytime I start the game, I expect the Big G to maybe *win* this time around and walk with me to the Friendly Arm. Well, maybe next time...]


It is said that the Villain's exact moment of death is similarly shaped by this high level ability.
[What if you just killed Koveras at Candlekeep and the plot reformed itself anew around you afterward in chapter 5?...]


Let Sages of the Ages document the passing of this mysterious Device through our fold of space & time in the Planes.
[Every contributor bringing in a use of Plot Device will be given a plot-cookie. (*)]


(*) Consider this like that episode of Doctor Who with the absorbaloff ("Love & Monsters") where a bunch of enthusiasts try to determine the Doctor's intervening hand across time and space by collecting his known acts.

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  • SCARY_WIZARDSCARY_WIZARD Member Posts: 1,438
    Ygramul said:

    CrevsDaak said:

    Actually, in unpatched vanilla BG1, there where chances of Gorion killing Sarevok and the game crashing.

    Awesome!
    Imagine a universe free of the Plot Device.


    What if God has unplanned bugs left in Actual Universe (TM)?
    For example, if you slap Ronald Reagan's ashes with a cucumber while reciting Bene Geserit litany of fear the Universe crashes, requiring a restart, whereupon we reset back to the Fall of Troi from scratch.
    VACUUM METASTABILITY EVENT!
  • CrevsDaakCrevsDaak Member Posts: 7,155
    Ygramul said:


    What if God has unplanned bugs left in Actual Universe (TM)?

    Well, you have Time Bandits there :P
    And, that movie inspired BG2's main plot.
  • CorvinoCorvino Member Posts: 2,269
    CrevsDaak said:

    Well, you have Time Bandits there :P
    And, that movie inspired BG2's main plot.

    Or at least Irenicus' voice actor and costume...
  • YgramulYgramul Member Posts: 1,060
    I wish there was a series of movies where he is always a different character, but always says:

    "You shall suffer. You shall all suffer."

    (which is then ensured later in the movie by the use... Plot Device.)
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    Ygramul said:

    ... if you slap Ronald Reagan's ashes with a cucumber while reciting Bene Geserit litany of fear the Universe crashes, requiring a restart ...

    Yet in spite of the risk, we'll go ahead and test this, because "fear is the mind-killer".
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    SCARY_WIZARD said:

    VACUUM METASTABILITY EVENT!

    If Actual Universe(TM) were in a false vacuum state (and thereby susceptible to vacuum metastability collapse), it'd surely have already happened by now and we wouldn't be here to discuss it. On the other hand, of course, since the propagation of the collapse would be limited to lightspeed, the true-vacuum disruption bubble could already have started billions of years ago on the other side of Actual Universe(TM), and only now be about to reach us, which we wouldn't know until it got here, so there'd be no w
  • CrevsDaakCrevsDaak Member Posts: 7,155
    Corvino said:

    CrevsDaak said:

    Well, you have Time Bandits there :P
    And, that movie inspired BG2's main plot.

    Or at least Irenicus' voice actor and costume...
    The plot too. Evil charms Randall & Co. to make them go to the Castle (Spellhold), making them see as if there was a huge amount of treasure (Imoen), and then Evil takes away the Time-holes Map (Charname's Soul).
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