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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

So what you're saying is we have orcs and elves, And... We are the demigods?

Oh Lords. When we pour the liquid metal into an ant colony to get its shape?

Man now I kind of want to run a campaign treating the gods as if they thought of us as literal ants and termites.

And... That gods that work with clerics and stuff are etymologists... And such...

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Do you mean entomologists rather than etymologists?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The typo kind of makes sense though. The Gods are etymologists who study the language of the bugs. It's why they understand prayer. Entomological etymologists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Entomolinguist

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

i suppose insects are entomonolingual

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Entomologist: From French entomologie, from Ancient Greek éntomon (insect) + -logie (from Ancient Greek -logía (from "lógos" - explanation)).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly as asked. The etymologist to explain the etymology of entomologist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Of course there's an xkcd for everything!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

You know how we like put shoes on ants right feet and it makes them go around in circles because they don't understand what's going on. Like "Normally when I walked like this I get home just fine "

Now That's a fun curse

Seems almost Fey.

As you walk home your mind drifts to thoughts of what you want to do when you're home. And of your previous battles, you walk the path that you've walked everyday since your childhood.... You end up miles to the West

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Here's a relevant post

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

It mises the "good enough" human approximations of the "true names" when the latter is impossible for humans to pronounce: it doesn't have to be the exact correct pronunciation. If the Ants can't make the -lk- or -nt- sounds of my screen name and chant "Lennivekat", It's close enough that I get they mean me. I might try to teach them the correct pronunciation, then probably give up and ask what they actually want.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

It's like that movie vivarium or the show from, you keep driving trying to leave but keep passing the same houses after hours of trying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

honestly i feel like an even more fey curse would be always ending up only slightly to the left of where you intended, cursed to never enter a doorway successfully.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Really really like that very true.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

That's a story element in Babylon 5. Some of the ancient alien races had evolved to the level of gods. One of them guided several alien races, in our case creating the myth of angels.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Piquing a demigods's curiosity, returning to your home city and finding it's been turned to metal and everyone is fused into the walls/floors.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

shows the cruel indifference of many of the gods

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.