>Ask Ergusen: So Mortmain... MORTMAIN, like void main(){}... is he... some sort of... war algorithm? Some propaganda algorithm for city administration run amok? We are fighting some incarnation of a machine algorithm that endlessly hallucinates war??(You think back to your first glimpse of the War Room...)
>>5683931The druids are like environmentalism corrupted by war propaganda? But why does that (gesture at the gargantuan grinding juggernaut machine-city) need the Odalisque?
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/mortmain>Oh wait, I get it now..., the endless references to Tiktok, spells that are like googl maps, phone cameras and gifs / zoetropes; a clock with hands, AI-generated images with their hands fixed with inpainting, "Clock Tree", Foundry, Mask Of Light etc... Mortmain wants some sort of semiconductor foundry? He is some sort of distributed machine consciousness? How did the pretty corsets and bonnets and the 19th century setting turn into the Spirit Of Motherwill battle from Armored Core?!? (Rage and seethe at QM)>You should probably flee the massive crushing machine leviathan, Algorismus. There is no way you can destroy it... run away now>Wait, I thought we were the Empire? Which Empire is fighting which Empire? In which war? Are we actually the vassals and slaves? Try and explain to the advancing machine leviathan, you are actually on their side...?>Ask Ergusen: er... is the lost empire Khimaire, like khimaira, chimera... Chimerica? Ialle Ergusen, the insane "moneyer-sorceror", are you like... Niall Ferguson? (QM unleashes horrifying vampire sorcery)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimerica>>5684318>Chimerica is a neologism and portmanteau coined by Niall Ferguson describing the symbiotic relationship between China and the United States, with incidental reference to the legendary chimera.https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=36970>The End of ChimericaFor the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a world economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with US over-consumption. The financial crisis of 2007-2009 likely marks the beginning of the end of the Chimerican relationship.
>Well this exposition is very interesting, very timely... just as you and your artillery are about to be mangled and pulverised by the grinding crushing juggernaut machine-city. Shout a defiant war-cry as you fire all the cannons (QM: you may write in a battle-cry)>Something else...? Clearly, the Herculean feats of these posts
>>5702161>>5702163>>5702164>>5702166drove the QM insane
QM: you will see the result of these targeting rolls
>>5703947>>5704014after you make this choice...
