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The Herculean 12 Labours

 
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PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2010 8:26 pm    Post subject: The Herculean 12 Labours Reply with quote

According to wiki, in ancient Greek they would be called Δωδεκαθλος, (dodekathlos) and they were the (self-imposed?) punishment for Herakles's deeds, killing his own family... Has your conworld, conmyths, conreligion or conphilosophy anything similar to these labours? Has any of them such a (heroic) character in any of their stories? Do they think it's fiction or reality?
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PostPosted: Sat May 15, 2010 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would someone who did all those be a dodecathlete?
Any chance the dodecathlon could become an Olympic event?

There are biathletes and triathletes and pentathletes and decathletes; this says there are also tetrathletes, heptathletes, octathletes, tetradecathletes, and icosathletes.
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PostPosted: Sat May 15, 2010 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

eldin raigmore wrote:
Would someone who did all those be a dodecathlete?
Any chance the dodecathlon could become an Olympic event?


Sure, along with the slaying of the Minotaur. Going down to the Underworld and returning could also be an event.
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PostPosted: Wed May 19, 2010 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aeetlrcreejl wrote:
eldin raigmore wrote:
Any chance the dodecathlon could become an Olympic event?
Sure, along with the slaying of the Minotaur. Going down to the Underworld and returning could also be an event.
Going to the underworld and coming back could easily become an Olympic event, I'm thinking; after all, the Marathon did. But there's a problem with slaying Minotaurs (as an Olympic event); and that is, the limited supply of Minotaurs available. Would ordinary bullfights do instead? (Though I think the IOC would be against any event that involved killing; even the riflery events use clay pigeons instead of the real thing.)
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PostPosted: Fri May 21, 2010 3:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm surprised to see how easy this turned out to be a very good example of OT hehehe...

Maybe they should just kill any monster like Medusa, the Minotaur, etc.
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PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 11:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lately I started staring at Pacman as it were a suspicious game... I mean, it lets me think Pacman itself is actually a depiction of the Minotaur and the ghosts nothing else than his sacrificial victims... I'm not the first person who think this might be possible, anyone who has played any Japanese game might already know they've made several videogames based on Indoeuropean mythology, a more recent example would be Final Fantasy with the characters like Ifrit, Odin, Titan among many others...

Of course, some people will say that the ghosts or monsters are the evil guys there, but if Pacman dies, the game ends. I guess that's because it finally met a Theseus who could get rid of the maze real monster. If Pacman kills a ghost, it can still eat another one if it want to and this actually resembles the way the Minotaur treated his "guests"...
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PostPosted: Sun May 23, 2010 4:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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We don't have to use real Minotaurs, of course. Surely a team of our best engineers can design a Minotaurbot.
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PostPosted: Sun May 23, 2010 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you sure it won't become a spam bot at some point?
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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2010 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In that case, would it lure people in it's Labyrinth of Spam&Death instead of spamming everywhere else?
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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2010 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aeetlrcreejl wrote:
eldin raigmore wrote:
Hier ist meine Antwort
I did? I don't even remember writing "Here is my answer", much less "Voici ma réponse" or so on.

Aeetlrcreejl wrote:
We don't have to use real Minotaurs, of course. Surely a team of our best engineers can design a Minotaurbot.

Like Keith Laumer's "Bolos" or Colin Kapp's "Gottlos" or Steve Jackson's "Ogres"?

Anybody who took down one of those really would deserve a medal!

What kind of equipment could they have? And could it be a team event?
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PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2010 1:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

But how could they make sure the contenders won't die while trying to hunt the Minotaurbot or the Medusabot or anything else?
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PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2010 2:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Perhaps the culture wouldn't mind - they might consider death a proper reward for failure.
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PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2010 11:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

eldin raigmore wrote:
What kind of equipment could they have? And could it be a team event?


A ball of string and a sword, at the very least.

Nope, although one idea is that as well as slaying the Minotaur, one would have to get people out of the labyrinth as well.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

At what point will we be, and how close are we to being, ready to present this idea to the International Olympic Commission?
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