Mortasheen: Difference between revisions

* [[Action Bomb]]: [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/whumpling.htm A] [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/whumplet.htm fair] [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/whumplord.htm# few].

* [[Adorable Abomination]]: Played straight in general terms, but inverted in how it's used—the monsters have hideous appearances and adorable personalities rather than the other way around. It's interesting to contrast this setting with ''[[Pokethulhu]]'', which uses the more common adorable-appearances evil-personalities combination.

** {{spoiler|Further, ARE has discovered that its own AI is a crapshoot, as several of its Celestial Engines have developed odd quirks that ARE finds really weird, ranging from the merely weird- Engines assigning genders to themselves- to the worrisome- like survivor guilt.}}

* [[The Alliance]]: Wreathe's trying to start one in the human nations. Mortasheen can do the same, and not just with the human nations!

* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]]: Laverne loves doing this, and in Mortasheen itself, it's considered a totally valid method of advancement.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Humanity! Also deconstructed; the main reason Wreathe is so dangerous is because the humans there are so sick of getting kicked around. The culture there is based on both vengeance against the entire world and utopian society. {{spoiler|Wreathe was secretly started by a supercomputer in Wreathe, which named itself ARE, because it loved humanity and hated seeing it suffer so.}}

* [[Cloning Blues]]: Averted. Mortasheen views clones as the same person as the original, which is good, because it's teleportation and resurrection systems both rely on quick cloning. So most people in Mortasheen are, in fact, clones. But they still consider themselves to be the original, because they are such a perfect copy. Culturally, it's no more interesting- or looked down upon- than someone drinking tea. Wreathe, meanwhile, finds this horrifying, and refuses to use clones no matter what.

* [[Confusion Fu]]: a Harlequeen seems to act completely randomly, but her random actions always yield brilliant results.