{"id":850,"date":"2003-11-23T07:19:58","date_gmt":"2003-11-23T07:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2003-11-23T07:19:58","modified_gmt":"2003-11-23T07:19:58","slug":"hello-clarice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2003\/11\/hello-clarice\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Clarice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got some catching up to do&#8230; <a title=\"Population: One: Monday Mashup #13: Silence of the Lambs\" href=\"http:\/\/popone.innocence.com\/archives\/2003\/10\/13\/monday_mashup_13_silence_of_the_lambs.php\">Monday Mashup #13: Silence of the Lambs<\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m combining this with Nobilis.<br \/>\nLecter is a captured excrucian, gone from cannibal to destroyer-of-bits-of-creation.  Because he has been captured by the PC&#8217;s and they have no proof that he&#8217;s actually done any harm, they&#8217;re stuck with either keeping him under lock and key or releasing him, and they aren&#8217;t going to release him.<br \/>\nHe therefore becomes a source of information &#8212; insight into the other monsters out there in the world whose motivations are beyond the understanding of normal folks but which are completely understandable to him.<br \/>\nIn the stories, Lecter&#8217;s motivations were alienation and aesthetics; he only killed the most stupid, annoying, and distasteful.   Playing around with this, you get a pretty archetypal Excrucian &#8212; they are truly alien by nature (coming from beyond Creation), and aestetically motivated, as they try to &#8216;collect&#8217; all the portions of creation within themselves&#8230; perhaps not strictly cannibalistic, but close enough.  Our little captured excrucian never expects anyone to understand him&#8230; who in Creation could.<br \/>\nUntil he begins to sense that he might have an ally (or at least willing dupe) in the form of one of the PCs:  someone particularly bright, particularly ruthless, notably pragmatic&#8230;<br \/>\nHmm.  This is an idea I might have to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got some catching up to do&#8230; Monday Mashup #13: Silence of the Lambs I&#8217;m combining this with Nobilis. Lecter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-nobilis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}