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Post by BlueLoneWolf on Oct 5, 2012 0:51:38 GMT -5
Okay. Interests of full disclosure; most of you already know this; but I've never seen a digimon series. Most of my information comes from CS. Whatever isn't I research as needs come around. Of course, the D-Reaper has never come up in anything he and I have done.
So of course the D-Reaper is a result of an effing DOD PROJECT. Any idea on how I'm going to explain this away? Because I was operating under the assumption that there wasn't anything ELSE done with the DOD and a digital world! So that premise being blown to heck, anyone want to help me figure out how to not completely lose face? Because at the moment I'm looking at several dozen crates of eggs thrown at my face that I didn't expect coming; I wouldn't've even done the DoDDW or involved the US military at all if I had known about this.
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Post by kelik on Oct 5, 2012 1:03:08 GMT -5
The D-Reaper seems to be a security system that only goes vicious when the Digital World exceeds a certain number (if I remember correctly, from what few memories I have from Tamers and the wiki). But, I think it was only placed on the first Digiworld. Maybe the D-Reaper's program doesn't apply to the second one?
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Post by BlueLoneWolf on Oct 5, 2012 1:17:26 GMT -5
Oh, no. The issue is not whether or not the D-Reaper affects the second digital world. It doesn't, the second isn't connected to any external network, therefore, it's fine.
The issue is that, at present, I've kind of been given control of canon/control over the US government. I had no idea the D-Reaper existed or that it was even created by them/the DoD. The DoDDW is supposed to be the ONLY involvement the DoD has with any digital world. That's how I wrote it. If I had known that there was going to be an issue with the fact that a kill program was set on the old one by them in the first place I wouldn't've said half of what I've said and most of my characters wouldn't've existed as they do. The DoDDW wouldn't exist in the first place.
So now I've got the fact that all of the DoDDW stuff is in place there are characters there and it is RP canon moving against the fact that there's DoD involvement elsewhere that I had no concept of nor any control over. When the fact that the D-Reaper is a DoD thing comes out, guess who's going to get hammered about it? None of my characters have any knowledge of this because I didn't know about it. So now they all look like imbeciles, or at the very least two-faced. All because I had no frigging idea about this D-Reaper and its DoD ties. Awesome.
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Post by kelik on Oct 5, 2012 1:22:44 GMT -5
You could edit what you said?
I mean, I would find it very very hard to believe that would be the only project they attempted. Or at the very least, maybe it was done by a seperate branch in the DoD? I honestly don't think editing a few things here and there will completely destroy the project you've been working hard on. In fact, I think trying to reverse EVERYTHING would be harder.
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Post by BlueLoneWolf on Oct 5, 2012 1:26:36 GMT -5
True, but in the interests of full effing disclosure like I had intended, they're giving access to EVERYTHING they were supposed to have. I can set something up wherein, yes, there was another project that my particular team didn't know about, but when the orders are coming right from the president and they're currently trying to save the other digital world, don't you think they'd hand over the information on a certain program they had supposedly put in place?
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Post by Candescence on Oct 5, 2012 1:28:17 GMT -5
The thing is, the D-Reaper was a "garbage collector" (a rather common function/program) for a completely unrelated DoD project that VERY badly coded, ended up in the Digital World due to unexplained reasons, and evolved into some kind of abomination.
It was never a 'kill program' to begin with, it was a horribly programmed garbage collector program that is simply following its programming to the letter. It was an accident that just happened to be related to a DoD project that ended up becoming a complete disaster due to a few very incompetent programmers.
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Post by kelik on Oct 5, 2012 1:31:24 GMT -5
I had to read that line a few times before it clicked for me. XD;
I think the D-Reaper is more or less...not hostile? I can't think of another word for it. So maybe they wouldn't think much of it till it's too late. As such, they probably wouldn't rate the information TOO highly. And by the time something does go wrong, it'll be too late...I might be talking out of my butt right now though, I am tired. XD;
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Post by Candescence on Oct 5, 2012 1:35:37 GMT -5
The D-Reaper is the result of unforeseen consequences of very bad programming related to a DoD project that had nothing whatsoever to do with the Digital World. As far as the DoD are concerned, they are only indirectly responsible in a rather minor way, and in a way that they had no way of rectifying once it was too late, and nobody had any idea that a seemingly harmless program would become something like THAT.
End of story. So says the GM.
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Post by kelik on Oct 5, 2012 1:37:43 GMT -5
Whatever works, I'm good with it.
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Post by BlueLoneWolf on Oct 5, 2012 1:42:27 GMT -5
As long as a stupid miscommunication and innocent lack of knowledge by the writer doesn't come back to bite me or my characters in the ass when it comes to knowledge or blame in-universe, I'm fine with whatever. It being a completely unrelated accident that they have no real knowledge of is fine. Doesn't change much of anything as far as I can tell; still have to deal with it.
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