uh oh. OP Found a Denarius while walking the dogs
Posted Jun 21, 2019, 7:43 PM UTC
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I gotta be honest, as a vanilla mortal I'd be extremely tempted to pick up one of the Denarii, even knowing the risks. Granted I probably wouldn't get much of a choice, it's not like I could just automatically roll with Lasciel, so it might suck.
Seems like picking up a coin and then willingly giving it up bumps you into a higher tier as a character though, and I certainly wouldn't mind that. Most of the Denarians seem like idiots anyway, pride goeth or whatever, but I'd be a way better Denarian than some of the mooks we've seen like Crassius.
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Lasciel would've had me in 3.5 seconds. :-)
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0.04 seconds for me, pretty sure.
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Right? I still can't see a downside.
#lascieldidnothingwrong
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Eternal damnation when you eventually bite it? Seems pretty rough in a world where the White God definitely exists
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One of those dilemma for sure.
"Live the rest of my life, as a boring, mundane average Joe mortal, working the 9-5 until I die without ever accomplishing a single thing of interest, or risk becoming the bad guy and gain super powers"
I think I would retain my pretty strict moral compass, but I guess everyone thinks that. I'm already bad about sympathizing with the "bad guys" and saying there is no good and evil, only moral greys and believe in doing things for the greater good . . .Oh no, I'd literally be Nicodemus lackey wouldn't I
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You're just the sort they want.
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I kinda want to pick up a handful and see what happens.
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I think there'd be like a microsecond of you touching one over another, and first one in wins.
What I want to happen is that you just get a crowded brain, and they'd first have a battle royal in your mental landscape, perhaps driving you loopy.
If there are multiple winners who prefer to do things in a more cerebral (heh) fashion, they debate their individual benefits, but really just hound you and each other until you break down and choose a coin just to make the voices stop arguing.
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Yeah, the Fallen definitely have both the capacity to measure down to the picosecond and the nature to abide by the letter of the law, assuming "first come first serve" is how they settle these things.
In the crowded mind option is the one I'd prefer too. Especially if it's like the Mister Burns has all the diseases episode of the Simpsons, where they just keep blocking each other. Especially if I could still have access to their abilities. 😄
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Not blackened, you good.
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Just so I’m understanding correctly…are they blackened like they’ve been scorched, or more like they’ve corroded over time due to exposure to the elements?
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Quoting from Death Masks, page 430:
"I heard a clinking sound. Something shining landed in the grass by little Harry . . ."
Then the next paragraph:
". . .slapping my hand down over a polished silver coin . . ."
And the next:
"Laciel's blackened sigil lay before my eyes."
Thus we can surmise the coins are still polished silver as a whole, except for a single spot. On each of the 40 pieces, there is a scorched section where the Fallen's sigil is located. This sigil, and the Fallen it contains, is what makes the coin a Blackened Denarius.
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30 coins. 30 pieces of silver was paid for the king of the jews.
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Whoops, you're right! Good catch.
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Ah, ok. Got it now. Thank you. 🙂
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Certainly the blackened sigil on the coin represents corruption, but it's interesting to note the coins are polished when it would seem likely they would be of tarnished silver after such damage and time.
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I would imagine that’s part of the magic of the Fallen sort of “inhabiting” the coin.
Also, being shiny would be more likely to catch someone’s attention, I think, as opposed to being tarnished.
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I’ve always imagined them as scorched like someone tried to throw them into Mt Doom and it didn’t work
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That makes sense, considering the source of the beings “contained” within them.
After I asked the question, I also thought that corrosion would make sense as a metaphor for their corrupting influence on any and all that touch/pick-up the coins.
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Silver doesn’t really corrode or oxidize. Usually it’s the impurities in with the silver that does it or oils and such on the outside. Makes it easy to polish.
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More like someone was holding them when he fell into a field he bought and exploded.
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Natural reaction: pick it up and touch it.
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It's not blackened, you should be fine....should
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All jokes aside, that's a hell of a random thing to find while out walking a dog.
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Yes we want more details. Is this a joke for the Dresden folk or was it really found? Is the OP in Italy where that might actually happen? Otherwise there is a neighbor wondering where his prized coin is.
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Happens to the best of them!
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But is it blackened 🤔
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I talk to/argue with myself plenty enough. Don’t think a fallen angel would have any luck if I happened to pick up their coin. Hell, I’d argue/annoy em for the fun of it.
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Say Hi to Lash..
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Definitely Namshiel - watch out!
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Is it Magog, Lachiel, Ureal or Anduriel?
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RIP to the OP
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So much luck
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And they’re touching it?!?! RIP
... You wouldn't‽
Eternally young and winning trivia most nights? You drive a hard bargain.
And a best freind that always has time to hang out, although sometimes he's a little pushy on certain topics.
I mean of course he doesn't like being in churches. He was probably a Roman pagan while alive and he just has some hard feelings about the whole affair. What else would inhabit an old Roman coin?
An interrobang in the wild!
Honestly, I use it every now and then just because I like the name.