ALWAYS RECRUITING!
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NOTE: NEW RULES ABOUT THE MAP!
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NOTE: NEW RULES ABOUT THE MAP!
MAP RULES
We are going to be using the Maplib tool to monitor the state of the world and the location of things like resources and other such items of interest. When you create a race, or a resource, or a landform, please go to maplib (you can just click on the name of the map that is embedded within the reset posts [top left]) and put a pushpin where you want your new creation to be located (otherwise, I'll do it for you). Thank you.
We are going to be using the Maplib tool to monitor the state of the world and the location of things like resources and other such items of interest. When you create a race, or a resource, or a landform, please go to maplib (you can just click on the name of the map that is embedded within the reset posts [top left]) and put a pushpin where you want your new creation to be located (otherwise, I'll do it for you). Thank you.
God Level, PP Record, etc... Here.
Week 1:
The world is brand new, and as the Elder Thing stops in the heavens to watch, the first Gods appear, birthed due to a fissioning of nothingness into the opposites of Life and Corruption. Within moments, the Gods fight, and Krulsk wounds Ikola and sends her fleeing, but not before they together bring forth Death, a corruption of Life itself. Death follows Life and after a short conversation begets Nos as the secret knowledge of Death is revealed for the first time. Elsewhere, Umi, a god of tentacles and the ocean, forms itself from nothingness.
Week 2:
Life refuses to believe the secret of Death, and in response creates a massive being of electricity in the void beyond the planet to declare that Life will be present forever. Krulsk creates mountains which shoot forth toxins and poisons the newly-made sea of Umi. However, Omus, God of Time, awakens in the heavens above and works to counteract his dangerous power. Nos discovers the realms of the mind, and forces Life to choose a name: Ikola. Together, Ikola, Nos and Death form a God of Nature in the form of a large seed. Death also creates The Architect, a god of punishment. Finally, far away from the world in the void, Luxia appears and forms the first stars..
Week 3:
Krulsk and Omus enter into a debate over why the latter interfered with the former's actions, with Krulsk arguing that the Gods shaped reality while Omus declared that Time was the ultimate tool. Ultimately, Krulks storms off and is met by Nos, who proposes several interesting means of proving Omus incorrect.
Falrn, god of protection, pulls himself from his birthplace beneath the earth and meets Ikola, recent creator of the mother of all Oozes deep below the surface of the ocean. The two Gods conspire to create the God of Order, unaware that not far away, Nos and Krulsk are creating a god of Chaos, Loki. The two groups of gods meet, and conflict is narrowly avoided due to the mediation of Umi.
Elsewhere, Death creates a god of Metal to help as Death takes on the aspects of the never-alive Earth and the tumultuous War. And Punishment establishes the Law atop a black spire in the middle of the ocean. Finally, the first sentient life, the Sahaguin, emerge due to Loki and dissapear into the depths of the sea.
Week 4
Krulsk realizes that he faces a significant dillema. While he is able to create, he is unable to corrupt to his liking without some sort of raw power to corrupt, specificaly that of his great enemy, Ikola. He sets out into the world to find the God. Ikola, however, had found Death, along with Falrn. Ikola and Death fall into a heated discussion about forms and shapes, which culminates in Death creating a massive not-living continent. Ikola grows angry and eventually gives the continent life, turning it into the mighty Mahzvara (which looks like a massive dinosaur made of stone). As Death leaves, suddenly Krulsk finds Ikola and the two fight a bitter, long and vicious fight, tearing a canyon in the earth and dousing the land with their blood until a strange place known as the Mirage Valley comes to be. Ikola barely escapes with its life, and will sport a long scar on one wing for some time, while Krulsk is distracted by his truest mortal enemy: trees. Falrn arrives to protect Ikola, and a new God, born from the energies of the fight and named Proprietas approaches the two of them.
Meanwhile, Loki works to create Dagon, while the sentient races of the world begin to take shape, specifically the Sahaguin spreading and growing in size and number, and the Kalamar race appearing deep beneath the ocean surface, and Nos discovers the spiritual realm and raises mountains of water in the ocean depths.
Week 5 and 6
Krulsk flees the scene of his and Ikola's fight, eventually coming to a stop far from the forest. Here, he fries the earth, creating 'The Fields of Fire' and populating it with life. Eventually, flowing through lava, he comes back to the ocean. There, he finds a Sahaguin mage, and, through his power, injects corruption into Magic itself. Anyone who draws too heavily on the powers of Magic, who is too filled with lust for power and hatred of others becomes a Voidling, a horrible monster.
Back at the Mirage Valley, Ikola, Proprietas and Falrn begin to form an alliance to control the actions of Krulsk and Loki. Ikola also creates the afterlife and sentient trees known as the Aspa.
Elsewhere, Magic flourishes, as the Sahaguin learn chaos-magic while the Kalamar are gifted by both Umi and Nos with Cyromancy and Hydromancy, respectively. These Cyromancers become the leaders and priests of the Kalamar nation. Nos also creates the basis of magics to look forward and backwards in time, although these actions come with a cost.
Umi leaves the oceans and finds Order, and encourages him to choose a name. As they approach Loki, Order takes his leave, not wishing to fight with his opposite. Instead, the God travels upwards tohis moons, discovering to his surprize that he had accidentally ascened the God of Dreams within one of the orbs.
Nos and Omus begin to speak. Nos wishes to know Omus' name, and, as usual, EVERYTHING about the other God. Omus tries to answer, but Nos keeps interrupting, to Omus' consternation. Eventually, the two notice that they are not, in fact, alone. Far above, a watcher watches. Suddenly, Death appears in the form of a man carrying an umbrella. After a short conversation, Nos warns Death that Omus lies, then leaves the two of them to speak as he travels upwards to the Elder Thing. Omus then reshapes the world into a new image, smoothing mountains and epanding the seas as grasses and forests spread across the remaining earth. Omus also nullifies some of the scariness of the Mirage Valley by creating a magic hourglass which displays how much time is left before the watcher dies. Of course, with all the trees in the way, this is often a bit tricky to ascertain when, exactly, the switch will occur.
Elsewhere, Loki creates a home for the Sahaguin and Sons of Dagon, ringing it with many dangers, and a large series of caverns opens up under the earth, filled with deadly things.
Finally, War war comes to the afterlife as Death plants the sleeping God of Metal into the plane, creating new enemies for the angels and sparking a conflict.
Week 8
Omus creates Maiten, god of Fire and Altuna'Rhai, god of storms, while beyond the boundaries of the physical realms, the war in The World Beyond rages onward. A myriad of races appears in the south of the world, primarially of the giant and golbinoid extractions. Under the sea, Ikola, Nos and Umi speak, and Ikola takes on the role of protector not only of life, but of civilization.
Turn 9.
Omus meets his children, Altuna'Rhai and Maiten. Tensions rise between the Mazunit and Qib Atha and an exarch of Umiemerges from the kalamar. Ikola and Nos visit the egg races, and Nos grants them Ikola-based magics, but accidentally also gives them Krulsk-based magics as well. Distressed by the fighting, Ikola sends the egg races far away from one another, founding three cities and a fourth small village of those among the races that are willing to work together. On the moon, Order is awoken by an Exarch of Ikola, who begins to terraform the moon, much to the God's dissapointment.
Turn 10
Goblins strike out at the human race, who flee into their city and bar the doors. Vamprie squid prey on the Kalamar. Ryndell, Lord of Tea, ascends accidentally to godhood. Umi grants the sea itself a conciousness and the sea acts by throwing rivers over the face of the earth. Maiten and Altuna'Rhai continue to speak.
Turn 11
Falrn creates a massive beast, the Leviathan, on accident. A shard of his own being, it rampages in a forgotten corner of the world. Nos attempts to heal Ikola from the scar generated by Krulsk, but inadvertantly causes Ikola to instead transfer the wound to the god of knowledge. As Ikola's wing heals, it spawns guardian spirits and titanic beings which guard the forests, mountains and oceans of the world. Ikola and Order begin to discuss the nature of Life and Death. Ryndell begins to wander the world, and creates a magical concoction (of Coffee). Omus awakens from a short slumber, and, reaching his 'arm' out over the world, causes a myriad of effects to occur. Notably, a new mage-breed emerges from the Qib-Atha, a chain of islands appears, and a new plane, the Eternal Sea, is created. Finally, Maiten and Altuna'Rhai head out together to explore.
Turn 12
Order attempts to end the argument between him and Ikola by creating a monster, The Void, which destroys everything it touches. Enraged, Ikola retaliates by creating an entire moon made of living matter, which traps the Void within itself, constantly growing to counteract the activity of the beast within. Ikola leaves, and soon finds itself in a similar argument with Omus. The hole of Falrn is expanded, forming a (second) underdark, to which the goblins scurry, bullied by their larger kin. The war between the Pixies and the Hobgoblins escalates, with the Pixies using their magics to fight the hobgoblins to a standstill. The Fields of Fire lose much of their... fire, as the volcanic activity moves to create more islands. Ryndell comes to a curious conclusion: No other Gods exist. Monks proclaiming this teaching spread into the world. Falrn, however, approaches to make conversation. In the Oceans, the Sahaguin are thrown back to their island after a short and ill-fated campaign against the Kalamar. However, the Kalamar are thrown into disarray as their leader renounces his faith.
Name: Ikola
Symbol: A flowering Branch.
Appearance:
Name: Falrn
Holy Symbol: A dragon wrapped around a gem in a circle, with his head chasing his tail.
Appearance: A dragon of massive size, proportions, and many colors. He is able to look like any style of dragon at any given moment, of any size, or color.
(Proposed) Domain: Dragon
Misc: going to be a god of protection and dragons. How his dragons accomplish that is irrelevant, but their duty is to protect the world to which they are born in.
Name: Krulsk
Holy Symbol: A white orb being overrun by red tendrils.
Apperance: Numerous tiny tendrils of flesh pink ooze that congeals together to form larger blobs and take numerous forms. The most common is a hulking, vaguely humanoid monstrosity. Bizzarely, despite being nothing more than the tendrils, random juts of solid bone, teeth, and milky white eyes can appear and dissappear depending on the form he takes.
Domain: Corruption
Misc: Krulsks motives and teachings are simple: every good, pure thing must have an evil, dark equivalent. This should preach balance, but Krulsk obviously has a strong bias towards the latter to the extent that he relishes in turning the good pure thing itself into a twisted inverse of its original intent, even if it means there is no longer a pure equivalent to be found.
Holy Symbol: Followers of He Who Has Been Thrown Out are not very picky about what they use as a holy symbol. An old sock or tatyered wig nailed up over the door usually suffices.
Appearance: Followers of The One Who is Trashed deign not generally to give their god a physical manifestation, he's a god for god's sake. Besides, if they did, he'd probably look bloody well like they did, thank you very much! They suppose to other gods he's got to look somewhat impressive. To them he looks like the biggest and most impressive golem you've ever seen, probably all moss-covered and weathered because he's old and weathered. And he's probably got a whole family of dormice in his stomach who use shoeboxes for beds and a wash-cloth for linens. And they'd have you over for tea any day of the week.
Domain: Civilization (people make trash, okay?)
Misc.:
EDIT: Wow, way to count, Ara! Four! Four!
EDITEDIT: Where did my misc go? Damn! I shall correct that once I have access to a better computer.
EDITEDITEDIT: Switched my domain. I'll get to that misc soon though...
Name: Nos
Holy Symbol: Either three eyes arranged in a triangle, or a carrion-eater (such as a raven) with three eyes.
Appearance: Nos is humanoid in the loosest definition of the word. He has three head arranged back to back, and each head has three eyes. Each face appears diffrent, although the specific features change from time to time. These heads sit on a bulbous body, vaguely in the shape of a bean, from which hundreds of arm-like limbs spring in every direction. These limbs have varying numbers of joints, but each ends in a hand with two thumbs and a variable number of long fingers. He has only two legs, though. Nos appears dressed in a simple outfit that appears to have been black at one point but is now a dull grey.
Domain: Knowledge
Misc: Nos is a god of obtaining knowledge. He is curious and spends much of his time investigating the realms. He does not horde information but shares it freely with all who seek it. However, he tends to be guileless and has difficulty comprehending that someone might use knowledge for evil purposes.
Edit: So, Ara, is your god going to be a trash-talker?
Holy Symbol: Four circles of metal joined a diamond shape. The topmost circle is of gold, silver on the right, iron on the left and copper at the bottom.
Appearance: His appearance tends to mirror whomever he is interacting with, except being made of highly polished liquid metal.
(Proposed) Domain: Metal
Misc: Also known as The Master Molder, The One who Gives Form and The Great Smith. Aurum is a creative god, widely respected by crafters and builders.
I like tea! WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL???
That said, I could pull a total 180 and completely change my god by the time we start. Just informing y'alls.
Ara, it kind of looks like TrashMan would be begetted, is that right? I mean, if he's called He Who Has Been Thrown Out (or HWHBTO), then presumably someone had him in the first place to then throw out. Or were you thinking of something totally different? Also, since you are all civilizy, were you planning on entering after civilizations get started, or were you planning on starting the first civilizations? And finally, any particular kinds of tea that TrashMan is a fan of?
Joran, it sort of looks like you might be going for a kind of Io-like god, is that a fair assessment? That is, a really early creator deity along the same lines, so probably self ascended (or maybe begetted by the elder thing)?
Kal, cool concept. Are you sort of going for a Hephaestus or Aulë sort of god? Do you envision him as sort of... creating the clockwork of the spheres, as it were?
Edit: Ah, ninja'ed by... several minutes. I blame the fact that I had thought I hit the submit button a while ago. This wasn't in response to Toph's post, I'll get to that eventually, after I don't fear a double-post.
You're welcome, Thought.
. Even so I picture Krulsk being a relatively early god, either being created as a mirror to Ikola or being created somewhat later as a 'seeking of balance' so to speak. I do picture him being self-adcended for that matter. As for plans, hm... well he's the god of Corruption, so that sort of speaks for itself. I don't really see him as a 'grand manipulator' though. He'd love to, say, split the elves to create the drow or split paladins to create anti-paladins for instance, but I'd see it as much more goading and offering power than outright manipulation. Honestly, personality wise I picture him having ogres as one of his favored races for what that tells you about how blunt he is XD
Also... I'm thinking that perhaps you might corrupt me over time... I imagine that 'strangling the world' isn't going to be my *first* priority :D
That's how my first god I ever played came to be, divine battle, one god ripping out the other ones heart and cast down on the earth where it later evolved into my deity
As for the plan, that sounds good to me. The obvious god to ascend is of course Death, as Life and Corruption are pretty much on opposite ends of the spectrum with Death being smack bang in the middle being the end of life but not a mockery of it. Also, corrupting over time does sound fun ;)
BTW tea is awesome!
Anubis, its more like life/death, justice/corruption would be the opposites, but this could work out very well also!
Name: Three (or Four or Five or Nine or whatever number he enters the game at)
Symbol: A black umbrella. Often depicted on a white backdrop with a white root system extending from where the handle should be into black ground.
Appearance: Three has a few aspects which are, for all intents and purposes, all him. It can be speculated that he is, in fact, not these forms themselves, but actually the black umbrella they all carry. The form he takes depends on who happens to be looking at him at the time, and he can look differently to multiple viewers at the same time. The first is a man dressed all in black. No part of his body is actually visible for he wears black gloves, a black bowler hat and his face and neck are wrapped in black bandages. Three will appear this way to female observers. The second is a young, beautiful woman in a black dress with a full skirt. She too has no part of her body visible, for she wears gloves and a heavy black iron helmet obscures her face. Three appears this way to male observers. The third is a young male child wearing very formal black dress clothes. His black hair is slicked back, and though his body is not obscured, every inch of his skin is covered with what appears to be an elaborate skeleton tattoo. Three appears this way to those who are neither female nor male.
Domain (Proposed): Loss (this is more a placeholder, though)
Misc.: Using a suggestion of Thought's, Three has become more a god of the things we have lost or left behind, like forgotten memories or lost records. He is god of nostalgia and rejection. He is prayed to when we wish to retrieve something we have misplaced, or when we have something that we wish we didn't anymore. I like this because it can reconcile the things I was going to do with Three originally, and the things I was starting to think I'd rather do, which were of a far more grim disposition. I think Three can do that balance better like this. Though I'll probably bring the other version back as a creation of some sort.
EDIT: I think we should brainstorm a bit here. We probably don't seem very inviting to newcomers, and also what was the point of having the OOC open for a while before the IC if we don't use the OOC to talk about stuff?
EDIT: And maybe something that says ALWAYS RECRUITING. One LoC had that in the title. Maybe it's not clear enough here.
For the former: Here is a prior LoC to read.
And here is the end result of an LoC (the linked LoC, to be precise)... a history of a nation that was created by the conflicting actions and designs of multiple (I think at least a dozen Gods feature in this history) players.
Casaka, the Nation of Glass
Casaka is the name of one of the more powerful nations in the universe of LightVoid as well as the name of its capital, which also goes by the moniker 'The City of Glass'
History
Founding
Seeds of Conflict
A New Home
Culture
Notable People, Locations and Artifacts
Nation Statistics
Total Nation Power: 27
Techs: 15
Casaka is the name of one of the more powerful nations in the universe of LightVoid as well as the name of its capital, which also goes by the moniker 'The City of Glass'
History
Founding
On the desert world of Yrie, the God Grawlf read from theCodex of Thinking Things, filled with the combined musings of the Gods on the nature of intelligence and how to create a being that was neither God nor brute animal. When he had finished reading, he summoned forth the Sun Worms, who tunneled through the desert and turned the patch he floated over molten. Here he began to work, fashioning a tall glass being named Karhedron. From his template came the other Glass Titans. After realizing that most of Yrie was unable to sustain their forms, the Glass Titans resolved to form a military state called Casaka to extend their lands to encompass all of the desert and Karhedron was chosen to be its leader. After Karhedron ripped a tusk from the Tarrasque, driving the beast deep underground and away from the first huts of the Titans, the Casakan peoples, now grown to include other forms of titans such as Meteoric Titans and Salt Titans, were given the chance to grow without any enemies to hinder them. Soon from out of the desert appeared the City of Glass itself, spires of twisted glass reaching up into the skies and shining like a beacon across the southern continent of Yrie. The City also began to encounter its neighbors and trade sprung to life.
Seeds of Conflict
As Casaka grew in power, it began to attract the attention of other gods. After Karhedron and several warriors rescued the Dhorem from the [[Blood Trolls], the patron gods of both races visited Casaka, both damaging the city and demanding that the Titans mind their own business. Upset and frustrated, the Casakans began to expand their military and fortify their borders, turning away all Trolls specifically. Still troubled, Karhedron asked the Spirits of Nature if their brethren knew of other places, other worlds, that had deserts like their own and was informed that the Isles of Wonder had many desert worldlets. Karhedron tasked a secret group of Titans to begin devising a way for his people to leave Yrie and set up colonies on other worlds with deserts. Over time, a firm alliance with the Dhoremi was achieved, leading to increased animosity directed towards the City from Ymalos. As the years progress, the secret project, a starship, is completed by Samtaana while, despite their best efforts, the Dhorem are slowly but systematically hunted to near extinction until as a last ditch effort to save the remnants of the population, the Casakans move the remaining Dhoremi into Casaka itself as Karhedron approaches the Blood Trolls one final time to sue for peace.
The Undead Invasion and Escape from Yrie.
However, the Blood Trolls were nowhere to be found, their villages empty, their fires doused and signs of struggle evident. He returned, disconcerted, to find Yrie beset by an undead army of Trolls and other spirits moving towards the borders of the desert. An unnatural chill fell over Yrie as a cloud moved before the sun and the deserts of Yrie were covered with snow. Freezing, the titans could not hope to hold the horde of undead for long until they summoned forth the sun worms to form pools of molten glass around the city, heating the area and allowing the titans to set up a new perimeter of defense. At this point all work turned to the completion of the Ark and the sending off of the first colony. As the cold and undead moved closer to the city and few of their allies stirred to aid them, the Casakan people were determined to see at least some portion of their civilization survive them. However, an unexpected push of undead separated those working on the Ark from those in Casaka. Moments before their position was overrun by undead, the Ark labored into the heavens and away from the planet as the Titans from Casaka cheered. On board, leading the expedition, was Kythandrin, Karhedron's son.
Eventually, the Titans were confined in their city by a besieging army of undead. In desparation, the Worm-handlers of Casaka summoned up the sun worms once more, causing them to create a moat of molten glass that surrounded the city and, aside from a few flying assaults, brought the attack to a halt. Beneath the city, the workers that had been tasked long ago by Karhedron to find a way for his people to leave Yrie labored at a feverish pace to hammer together an escape mechanism before the inhabitants of the city succumbed to hunger.
It is at this point that the Gods step in. Grawlf and the Harbringer force the Undead out of the desert for a time, giving the people of Casaka a reprieve to sortie out and gather more food and supplies. However, it is at this time that the Tarrasque returns and Karhedron engages it in single combat to prevent it from disrupting the sun worms. The Tarrasque is driven away once more, but Karhedron is left broken and dying as the protective spell on the desert fails and the undead swarm back over the dunes.
As Karhedron crawls towards the City, the Doom of Yrie occurs, and Karhedron watches as Casaka drains the moat and with a pillar of blinding white light, blasts free of the planet, the secret designs of Titans finished at last. Kardedron dies, but is reborn as an Exarch of Grawlf for his long service and stewardship of Casaka. He leaps up and rejoins the city as it pushes towards the Isles of Wonder and as Yrie shakes itself into pieces behind them.
A New Home
For a long while the City of Glass floated in the void, traveling towards the Isles of Wonder. Eventually the city arrived and landed on an uninhabited planetoid, using the Lens of Casaka to turn much of the surface into a sandy desert. The four Sun Worms that had powered the city were freed, and soon life began to have a sense of normalcy about it, even with the great gas giant dominating the sky. They called their home Maru and began to reconnect with their old trading partners as well as the dominant nation on the Isles: The Quori. As the Vok'Dar Apocolypse occurs on Lor'quhan and Vedra, the Glass Titans begin to go to war with the Quori at the urging of Ravnos(the exarch posing as Grawlf) as Karhedron blasts off in a new ship to attempt to find his son.
Culture
When speaking of the culture of Casaka, there are two major things to discuss. The organization of its people and what its people found important. The long (nearly immortal) lives of the Glass Titans themselves significantly influenced both aspects of Caskan culture.
In the begining, Casaka was ruled by popular acclaim by Karhedron, the first of the Glass Titans and the one selected to lead by Grawlf. However, as the number of Titans grew and the City grew larger and larger, Karhedron soon realized that it would be impossible for him to lead all by himself. Casaka then transitioned into a civilian-led government, with elections held every fifty years to nominate four leaders, who sat with Karhedron in the Casakan Conclave, which met for one month every year to discuss policy for the year to come.
At the present moment, a power struggle is underway as the Cult of the Eye, led in secret by the rebel Exarch Ravnos has replaced many of the members of govenrment with their own members and Karhedron is nowhere to be found.
Casaka are master glassworkers, and their city reflects this, with impossible spires reaching towards the heavens and arcing gracefully over the streets. Most of the artistic expression of the Titans takes the form of architecture, and buildings in the City tend to last only as long as the owner is entertained by its shape. In recent years, statuary of fallen heroes has begun to crop up around the city, although most Casakans view this as fooloshness.
Notable People, Locations and Artifacts
People: Karhedron, Kythandrin
Places: Casaka, the City of Glass
Artifacts: The Lens of Casaka, the Star Drive
Nation Statistics
Total Nation Power: 27
Base Power:1
Nourishes: 11.
Techs: 15
Taught Directly: Architecture,Mining, Divine Magic, Literacy, Void-Engines(F)
Through Trade: Shamanism, Nature Magic, Agriculture, Philosophy, Hunting, Warrior Skills, Domestication, Ritual Magic, Literacy, Shipbuilding
I suppose it's sort of like, what can we talk about that doesn't just turn into preplanning? I guess it might be helpful if people discussed their gods and, like, ideas they have and stuff?
Maybe this is a good time to talk about who'll get ascended and when. That's usually the thing, isn't it? Choose people that make sense to be ascended early, or together, like Toe and Anubis.
And also I'm open to suggestions about my Domain. :D
Oh! And a question for the admins: you can use your domain to flavour your actions, but can you also use your domain to flavour actions sort of opposite to the domain? For instance, a god of Loss seems like the sort of god you'd pray to to get back things you've lost, but does it count as a domain action if I give people things? Or can I only use my domain for taking things away? And Toe, he'd be manipulating Life if he killed something, but could he take advantage of the domain benefit in that instance?
Life
Dragons
Corruption
Knowledge
Metal
Loss
So, assuming we have life/corruption self-ascend (hey, Anubis... want to be siblings?)
Loss seems a natural follow-through of Corruption. I've got a fun idea forming about knowledge coming to being as Life and Corruption conflict... knowledge being that which life uses to stand against corruption by remembering and thinking about that which has been lost.
Dragons... well, they're a form of life
And Metal... mmmm... not sure what to do about metal. Thoughts?
Ara: I think it depends on what you are giving them. Giving someone the severed head of their teddy bear is giving them something, but its to promote a feeling of loss. I *guess* that giving someone a puppy is technically priming them for a loss when the puppy dies, but thats starting to go a little *too* far. Giving someone a debilitating disease would work nicely, though
In a like manner, I think that my killing something to allow other life to flourish as a *direct* consequence of my action would be allowable.Basically, the rule is this: If you think it might be borderline, write an explanation in your expenditure. If the admins read it and go '?!?!?!?' then... we'll talk about it.
And now a question to all of you. We're going to be setting up another thread to have the actual homebrew creations that we're putting together. How do we want to go about doing that so it doesn't end up completely unruly?
Camu... lets get this show on the road!
On the one hand this could make the opening fairly unique, but on the other hand there just seems something a little strange about it... I'm tempted to change my god entirely just so we can fill out earth for instance, if only because earth seems like something very important to have early on when the world is being forged, so to speak. Don't get me wrong I love my god, but we do have to think at least somewhat meta.
However, that said, we could accomodate a bit of other stuff if we include "Portfolios" for our gods. For example, Io was a creationary god that happened to be in the shape of a dragon, and to create other dragons. It might fit Joran's idea a little better if he could be a god of Dragons, but not necessarily have Dragons be his domain (especially at the start of the game, where it will be his only one).
As for who to ascend, if Ara is good with it, I'd say that she and I could "share"the knowledge domain, or something like that, and she'd represent the loss of knowledge, while I would represent the discovery of new things. How does that sound, Ara? Anyone feel like having their head cracked open to brith us :P
EDIT: In that case, I might actually switch to the Death domain. I'll find some other way to fit the garbage people in. I like the idea of being a sort of foil to Thought's Knowledge, but I feel like Loss is too restricting as a domain.
@Ara, a shame but understandable. Perhaps "Loss" can be your death god's hobby or something :P
@Toph, perhaps move that LoC sample to the original post, so it is easier for people glancing at the game to find it? Also, if there is need for other samples...
Homebrewed god(s)
Khravus Rein, the goddess of Fire and Ice
At the dawn of creation there was Agrilnost, the eldest god and father to the rest. His first children were desired and obedient, but in time he unknowingly gave birth to Khadesh, the true name of fire, and Pravus, the lord of ice. Agrilnost accepted Pravus as a true god, for ice is stable and constant, which the eldest liked. Fire, however, consumes, and the eldest would tolerate it not. He set his might against the newborn god, and called his other children to help him capture and kill her. However, the lord of beasts, Thrael Kriss, defended Khadesh, believing that all life had a right to earn its place in the world. The master of the hunt and the lord of creation clashed, and Agrilnost was slain.
Perhaps Khadesh and Pravus, siblings though they were, could have come to love each other if it were not for this event, but the slaying of his father for the sake of his sister divorced love from Pravus' heart. Though years passed, ice waited. Eventually he went to war against fire. The two fought and though neither could best the other, neither would surrender. Both were on the verge of death when Pravus, as his only act of love for his sister, decided to let her live. Their power was to entangled to flee, so he gave his heart to her. Khravus held both fire and ice within her, and the two obliterated the god that once was, but she was reborn as Khravus Rein, who held the two elements in balance.
Khravus Rein, the goddess of Fire and Ice
At the dawn of creation there was Agrilnost, the eldest god and father to the rest. His first children were desired and obedient, but in time he unknowingly gave birth to Khadesh, the true name of fire, and Pravus, the lord of ice. Agrilnost accepted Pravus as a true god, for ice is stable and constant, which the eldest liked. Fire, however, consumes, and the eldest would tolerate it not. He set his might against the newborn god, and called his other children to help him capture and kill her. However, the lord of beasts, Thrael Kriss, defended Khadesh, believing that all life had a right to earn its place in the world. The master of the hunt and the lord of creation clashed, and Agrilnost was slain.
Perhaps Khadesh and Pravus, siblings though they were, could have come to love each other if it were not for this event, but the slaying of his father for the sake of his sister divorced love from Pravus' heart. Though years passed, ice waited. Eventually he went to war against fire. The two fought and though neither could best the other, neither would surrender. Both were on the verge of death when Pravus, as his only act of love for his sister, decided to let her live. Their power was to entangled to flee, so he gave his heart to her. Khravus held both fire and ice within her, and the two obliterated the god that once was, but she was reborn as Khravus Rein, who held the two elements in balance.
Oh! Unless Thought meant we would both have the Knowledge domain, but we would just handle it differently. Is that what you meant?
Exactly. Although, if you don't like knowledge, perhaps some other domain that would still encompass the general themes of discovery and loss?
I'm sure I return the favor, though.
Not really, actually. I just like coming up with "wow, it would be really cool if..." situations and leave it up to the admins to figure out how such things might actually work. Bwahahaha
Symbol: A Human Heart That Is White on the Left Side and Black on the Right Side
Appearance: The Architect appears as a copy of the last person the viewer has wronged, but the Architect's clothes, hair, and eyes are black. The viewer may not realize that they have wronged the person. For example, the Architect might appear as a person's wife because they told her that that dress doesn't make her look fat even though it actually does.
(Proposed) Domain: Punishment
Misc: The Architect's goal is to teach others how to grow from their shortcomings. Such "lessons" can take many forms. Sometimes it may be the reanimated victims of a murderer coming back to kill them. Another time it may be a glutton begins to starve the more he eats. The only constant is that the lesson is costly and ultimately fatal if the student cannot learn what they're suppose to learn from the Architect's game.
Also, can I have Time?
And I like tea, too (though I like real tea, not these herbal infusion things).
Time is one of the ones that has slight limitations on it to make it reasonable for a forum game (basically, you don't know what everyone else is doing before they do it, even if you do know the future in a fashion)... we tend to attempt to avoid omniscience whenever possible. Beyond that, I don't see why not!
*looks at the rules*
Oh no, you're right. We don't actually describe how the game runs. We were so busy making rules that we forgot the most basic example of them all.
I'll add this to the rules in a moment, but it goes as such: Each Turn (Usually defined as ~1 week, but it might be faster at the beginning as we have fewer gods and less PP to spend and might be longer later on when we have many gods and a lot of PP), you get PP for the week, divided up as per the rules. At that point, we RP as in a play-by-post forum game, but instead of skill checks or attack rolls or what have you, when you wish to perform an action that has a lasting effect on the world, you spend your PP. Other players react to your action, you react to their reactions, and away we go. I linked to an old game that had a slightly different ruleset (you gained a slow drip of 1 PP/day instead of a reset giving you XPP/turn), but if you read through it, thats basically what you can expect.
Welcome!
Speaking of which, is there an actual mechanic for what the domains do, or do you just RP it? For example, I presume everyone can use creation powers even if you don't have the Creation domain?
Yeah, no.
Right, you just RP it. We're going to be trying to give people a lot of leeway with the domains... basically, as long as you don't have the other players scratching their heads and wondering how in the world making the world have great tea is related to the domain of say... Evil, all will be well.
Holy Symbol: usually a fang or claw of some dangerous predator, or a feline head sculpted in wood.
Appearance: a large predator common to its worshipers lands, usually some cat like creature, some time as an humanoid with a feline head and features.
(Proposed) Domain: Nature
Misc: to the primitive tribes that worship Ytzal it represents the wonders and dangers of the wilderness, the ferocious beasts, poisonous fruits, natural pitfalls of the untamed lands, hunters pray Ytzal for an abundance of preys, explorers for the safety of their travels, isolated communities to be kept safe from the roaming beasts or from the natural disasters. To civilized people Ytzal also represent the feral desires buried within the hearts and minds of the sentient races, the drive to survive, mate, eat, subdue, the release from social pressure to fulfill the base needs and desires, druidic cults are common among his followers as they are mysteric and hedonistic ones.
Ytzal is both an hunter and a shepherd of nature, it protects and nourish the wildlands and their creatures, yet it hunts down and culls the weak to produce stronger generations, the god does not despise civilization, as it sees it as a natural evolution of sentient races, yet it does not consider it as an excuse for mortals to grow weak and confident in their inventions...
The rituals of worship is rarely peaceful, usually they involve some kind of sacrifice or celebration of the bestial aspects of nature, the god's needs are the same of its creatures, offerings of food, a share of the hunt are not uncommon and usually enough to satisfy Ytzal, but some even sentient creatures are sent to its altars, some are even directly claimed by the god never to be seen again.
Well that sounds fun!
I'm assuming that's about the Architect? lol
Okay. We're starting on Thursday, everyone!
For people that know, what skills are you planning on working on primarially?
I'm, obviously, going to be going for Generate with a side order of Empower
Question.
For people that know, what skills are you planning on working on primarially?
I'm, obviously, going to be going for Generate with a side order of Empower
At the moment I'm going to say Generate and Empower for my character as well, but I haven't decided about Impose.
And then probably add in a decent amount of Impose for funsies.
... basically, as long as you don't have the other players scratching their heads and wondering how in the world making the world have great tea is related to the domain of say... Evil, all will be well.
This one's easy. In American films (which is most of them), the bad guys are always British (or maybe the only British characters are the bad guys). British people drink tea. Thus, villain = tea.
... basically, as long as you don't have the other players scratching their heads and wondering how in the world making the world have great tea is related to the domain of say... Evil, all will be well.
This one's easy. In American films (which is most of them), the bad guys are always British (or maybe the only British characters are the bad guys). British people drink tea. Thus, villain = tea.
Alas, you logic is flawed. Doctor Who is undeniable good. Doctor Who (10th Doctor) was saved by tea (yes, really). Therefore, tea=good and yay.
Anywhom silliness aside, I've been wondering if you might be willing to share with us some ideas of what your wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey god might do/create in game. There aren't that many time gods in RW mythologies, so I have little to no clue what sort of awesomeness to expect.
... basically, as long as you don't have the other players scratching their heads and wondering how in the world making the world have great tea is related to the domain of say... Evil, all will be well.
This one's easy. In American films (which is most of them), the bad guys are always British (or maybe the only British characters are the bad guys). British people drink tea. Thus, villain = tea.
Alas, you logic is flawed. Doctor Who is undeniable good. Doctor Who (10th Doctor) was saved by tea (yes, really). Therefore, tea=good and yay.
Time_Lord agrees. lol
The answer is yes, we have room! :P
Welcome to godhood 101!
IC thread is going up soon. Then Camu will post as the Elder Thing, and we'll get this show on the road.
Ya'll still have room for one more?
We're always glad to have someone join. Do you have an inkling of what sort of character you might want to play?
I want to play.
Name: Umi
Holy Synbol: Three horizontal, squiggly lines of equal length
Appearance: A large, orange squid that appears to 'swim' through the air. Rather than the standard eight tentacles and two long ones, he possesses twelve tentacles and two long ones. These are are incredibly dexterous, making him a master of multitasking.
Proposed Domain: The ocean. Kind of generic, but not, IMO, overly so.
Misc: Umi is telepathic, all of his verbal communication consists of unintelligible gurgling. He is a benevolent god, although slightly eccentric and easily distracted. He has an extreme fondness for clams, particularly when they are deep-fried.
)Outside: Psionics would work just fine. We often have gods of Magic... "Space"... *shrugs* yeah, that should work as well.
Tea = Good.
Tea = Time (Time Lord).
Thus, by starting with Tea, it's actually feasible to become a god of Good AND Evil, as well as Time, from whence collecting the rest of the universe's divine power should be easy.
I terms of what a god of Time would do.... well, I don't really know. I suppose I would have to Craft time itself before we could have turns (since weeks and suchlike don't exist yet). After that, Guiding the development of Time Travel is probably the best bet.
;)
Does that sound at all interesting, Fred?
If so, Toph, might I suggest Salmon, Fred, and Outside as entering sooner rather than later, to represent the earth, sea, and sky? Very fundamental things, those.
Name: Omus
Holy Symbol: None. Omus was around before holy symbols were invented, and he'll be around afterwards, too. His followers usually use an hourglass, a clock or a wheel to represent him.
Appearance: Omus' most natural form is that of a hulking bald man with black, empty holes in place of eyes in which the vastness of the universe can be seen. He has been known to appear as a man of any age - often changing over the course of a single conversation - though he prefers an old, bearded form with a staff. He usually carries a sickle or scythe and an hourglass.
Proposed Domain: Time
Self-Ascended or Begotten: Self-Ascended seems to make most sense.
Misc: Omus represents the passage of time in all its forms. To tribal folk, farmers and country-men he is the god of the harvests and the seasons. To some he is a god of technology, advancement and progress, whereas to others he is a god of age and decay. Many philosophers consider him to be something even more, something less tangible and more primal, the very force of the cosmos itself.
(Or at least, that's what his followers like to think)
That said, I do love the description of your god.
Salmon, ocean is a fine domain to have. I suppose it might be generic when compared to, say, the domain of parbaked sourdough bread, but oceans have a long and proud godly tradition, from Poseidon to Sobek to Mazu to Aegir. That's good company to be in
Seeing as the IC thread has just starte and I don't need to wait for someone to beget me, should I be waiting for someone to tell me to post still?
Holy Symbol: None. Simply Luxia has never understood the concept of holy symbols and various other trinkets as these. To him, if someone wants to pray or try to communicate to him all he needs to do is look up at the stars.
Appearance: Luxia appears as a being of pure energy. What shape that energy takes depends on what he mainly feels like. Sometimes he appears as a humanoid being or a spherical shap similar to a star. When dealing with mortals or other gods though he will appear humanoid out of respect. Although regardless of shape, the color of the energy changes with his mood. For instance, if angry he is dark red, when mellow a greenish color. In all cases he is always seen in with an aureola at his back and small rays of light encircling him like planets to a sun.
Proposed Domain: Aether, in the context of outerspace. (Stars, comets, ect.)
Self-Ascended or Begotten: Self-Ascended
Misc: To many mortals, Luxia is many things associate with the "sky" beyond a world. Primal mortals see him as lord of night and day, in part to the moving of the stars and sun. It is also believe Luxia was the creator of worlds, caused in part to such things as comets hitting their world. Other associate him as a god of goodness driving back the evils of night and vice versa. Higher civilizations regard him as a patrion of astonomy and navigation. Mortals associated with the occult believe such divination abilities as astrology came into being because of him where as more scientific mortals try to classify Luxia as simple forces of nature like gravity. Whatever the take, Luxia doesn't care as he rarely engages in the affairs of mortals. Though despite his lack of participation, he has a presence on mortals every day of their lives.
Can I get everyone's preferences for begetting/ self-ascending?
Here's what I have now:
Toph -Self
Anubis -Self
Ara - Beget
Thought -
Kal -
Nerdzul -
Shadow - Beget
Joran-
Salmon -Self
Outside -Self
Fred- Self
Anyone else that I'm missing?
So... lets start self-ascending!
Salmon, Outside, Fred... you're cleared to post.
Thought... You're getting begetted very soon, so... be ready.
Time_Lord: Whoops, knew I missed someone. I could see you self-ascending as a correlary to a desire for vengance... coming into existence to fulfil a fervent wish on the part of a God or the like.
Other self-ascenders (of whom I don't see anyone...) Lets wait a day or two to self-ascend some more... give these gods a little bit of time to get their... 'god-legs' as it were.
Thank you. We'll probably have our first reset tonight or tomorrow, depending on how quickly our new self-ascenders join us.
For ease of keeping track, maybe we should keep a small track on each post, stating your gods name, PP pool and such?
What do you guys think.
Now to figure out how I want to go about keeping this PP tracking handy.
Oh, a request. If you beget someone, can you put in that expediture where you want to put the bonus XP?
Anubis, Ara, feel free to just put it here in the OOC. I'm putting mine in generate.
If so, I should probably be spending mine, right?
On a related note, the command action states that different PP costs cover different sized areas. If I spent 2 PP to make an ocean, how big would it be? Like, Pacific Ocean size? Or closer to Carribean Sea size?
And... lets say...
1 PP is a lake/river
2 PP is a large lake/small sea (say, the dead sea or the black sea)
3 PP is probably the size of the carribean
and the pacific is... more
Thoughterston, I await a post from you!
Time_Lord: Whoops, knew I missed someone. I could see you self-ascending as a correlary to a desire for vengance... coming into existence to fulfil a fervent wish on the part of a God or the like.
I could play it out that way if people are cool with it.
Time_Lord, if you'll wait until after the reset, I'd be more than happy to ascend you. I think god of Death-god of Punishment makes somewhat sense.
That could work too. lol
He is A god of protection, not the only one, but one of at least, and while that maybe his scope (portfolio) his primary focus is dragons. His thing is back up on the first page again. and I think I'll self ascend. I have a few ideas on how I am going to do it, and I think it'd be easier to accomplish than by being begetted.
So, once I have the clearance, I'll post in the IC. Until then.....game on!
and if anyone asks, yes you are a god!
Thoughterston, I await a post from you!
Be careful of what you ask for, you might just get it.
In general, if that post is too long, just read the short paragraphs.
Joran, it makes sense for you to show up in conjunction with Time Lord's God... protection against his punishing. Are you planning on self-ascending?
Thought... okay
As a side note, if it is so necessary, I'll be reserving my PP for next turn. For a plane, actually (yes, I have a plan for a plane that my domain PP would legitimately apply for).
I'm assuming that everyone is saving their PP if they post in the week involved without spending PP
I don't know if I did that right, or if it's necessary (or possible) for me to create Time, but hey.
Let me know if that's OK.
Anyone know a good monster builder? My old computer had the adventure tools one which I liked pretty well, but I can't download it again as it doesn't exist, and I don't play nearly enough DnD to warrant actually getting a DnDI subscription again.
D&D 3.5 or 4th?
OK, I've posted.
I don't know if I did that right, or if it's necessary (or possible) for me to create Time, but hey.
Let me know if that's OK.
Time is your domain, right? If so, no, you don't need to "create" time, at least in the sense that you have to spent PP on it. Your god might still "Create" it in game, but that would be a free action.
Short answer: more PP for you to spend!
Anyone know a good monster builder? My old computer had the adventure tools one which I liked pretty well, but I can't download it again as it doesn't exist, and I don't play nearly enough DnD to warrant actually getting a DnDI subscription again.
D&D 3.5 or 4th?
4th, ideally, but at this point I'd take either :D
0.
Joran, it makes sense for you to show up in conjunction with Time Lord's God... protection against his punishing. Are you planning on self-ascending?
Thought... okay
I plan on self-ascending. and in fact it might work out better than one would think! Just let me know when I got the green light!
The 'spawn' action explicitly creates monsters. The 'guide' action influences mortals. I can't figure out how to create intelligent races. Humans, elves, dwarves, *cough*hyper-intelligent squid*cough*, etc. How would I go about doing this? Should it just be a spawn action? Do intelligent races just crop up on their own, put into play by the elder thing or whatnot? This isn't something I feel is appropriate for where we are currently, but it's going to have to happen eventually.
Shape (3PP) - This creates a sentient race that is native to the plane and environment it was created in. For example, Angels created in the prime material plane are, for the purposes of this setting, normal, mundane creatures. At this level, races are relatively average. At lower levels, they tend towards having larger populations but are individually weaker, and vice versa at higher levels.
On that matter, though... we should probably make some rules regarding the superior spawns I plan on spitting out on a weekly basis for the next few weeks. How to direct them and the like. *ponders*
Oh, and yes, you have 4 PP.
I was thinking about doing it this turn if I could scrounge up people to contribute the remaining PP, but if you want to wait... :PThat being said......Game on!
On that matter, though... we should probably make some rules regarding the superior spawns I plan on spitting out on a weekly basis for the next few weeks. How to direct them and the like. *ponders*
Command, I'd assume. Guide is for smarty pants thingies, and since it was a spawn, your big ol creature wouldn't count, hence Command.
In other matters, Nos would be happy to help ascend any gods that need ascending. More being in the world, more knowledge there is for him to discovery. It's a win win situation.
Joran, makes perfect sense. Still, hopefully other people will generally look to the OOC thread to voice those concerns in the future.
yeah, that works
You want Shape:
Shape (3PP) - This creates a sentient race that is native to the plane and environment it was created in. For example, Angels created in the prime material plane are, for the purposes of this setting, normal, mundane creatures. At this level, races are relatively average. At lower levels, they tend towards having larger populations but are individually weaker, and vice versa at higher levels.
How did I not see that? Thanks.
Now reply to me in the IC!
Or make an ocean... thats cool too.
Time is your domain, right? If so, no, you don't need to "create" time, at least in the sense that you have to spent PP on it. Your god might still "Create" it in game, but that would be a free action.
Short answer: more PP for you to spend!
It seemed like time would have to exist for it to be my domain anyway, but I wasn't sure. Still, I can't complain if it means I can do more stuff.
There. More PP for you!
(oh no! I gave it away!)
Also, is it customary to bold the names of gods? Lots of people are, and it does seem like a good idea.
Nice opening post, Outsider. I think its a great opening for what seems likely to be an interesting character.
Many thanks Thought! Like where yours is heading to!
Incidentally, Salmon, I'm not *techincally* Ikola... yet. Haven't given myself a name (even thought it *will* be Ikola)... haven't even *thought* of a name... in fact, I don't even *know* what a name is... well, perhaps I have an idea because of Thought just now... but...
Anyways, you can't know my name because I don't have one yet! Also, while i don't care in the slightest, there are some other players who might grouse about you reading their minds, so... fair warning
Anubis... that PP expenditure breaks my program :P (I fixed it
) Actually, filling it with corruption sounds like it'll make interesting things happen...
And yes, corruptuion on land on sea could make fun things happy
...incidentally, does anyone else notice that my character seems to be coming across as less as a god of evil and more as a Captain Planet villain? >.>
(and I *do* check, so don't worry *too* much about it )I DID notice that!
Nerdzul... how much do you like Captain Planet?
Time Lord... err... soon? Ara told me she was having interent troubles earlier, so perhaps that is why nothing quite yet.
In fact, I know she was planning on doing it last night, but your ascension post got eaten and she didn't feel like replicating the post on the spot
(facepalm) That's magical. lol
Umi now has no PP to deal with the filth fish, and I think helping ascend Nature would've been fun too...
Yeah, do the former, as that way my program just says 'oh good, 2 PP was spent' and doesn't give you 1 PP and ignore the other one
I DID notice that!
Nerdzul... how much do you like Captain Planet?
Time Lord... err... soon? Ara told me she was having interent troubles earlier, so perhaps that is why nothing quite yet.
Captain Planet! hehe
anyway my internet is down for the next 4 working days... 6 including the week-end bah... I can check the forum with my phone and reply from time to time, but I guess I'll not be that active for the next few days...
You should put it into the form, though
Yes :D
Also, can you rework your creation of the algae to be a little more... explicitly related to time? There's absolutely nothing wrong with the idea of cycles (I think its a great direction for you to go in, personally), but a sentance or two about the hows and the whys of the toxin-eating algae's creation would make that more explicit. Thanks!
Oh, I don't think I mentioned this, but I'm traveling until sunday... so my internet access will be diminished.
Fred, create circadian rhythms! If that is a basic aspect of life, you can totally use your domain for everything! bwahahahaha!
Well... I guess we don't have a day-night cycle, yet, so maybe that wont work...
Also, can you rework your creation of the algae to be a little more... explicitly related to time?
Oh, OK. I was kind of going with the idea that time causes the toxins to break down (the algae were just the method) but this sort of stuff is a bit hard to do when there's only one kind of fish and a kind of acid-spitting volcano in existance. Presumably if I have more PP I can still do it without the domain, though?
As for Time, I think you could just add a line about 'as the wheel of time turned, algae appeared below in the wake of the toxin-fish, restoring the balance over time...' or something like that.
Okay, battery dying. Hope I remembered my charger!
Umi has created a buch of different sea creatures, so far, so there's more than one kind of fish and a toxic mountain... :P
Shadow and Kal... are those who are left. So we'll get them in this next week.
I'm going to be really busy tomorrow and flying early sunday, and as we're all out of PP... I'm going to do the reset tonight instead of tomorrow. So... you are warned!
Everybody: As long as your action has to do with your domain, its a 'domain action', so you can count it. I've gone back and given people credit for things for this week
EDIT: Might I recommend these blurbs be put in the first or second post of the OOC thread?
..."window.parent.tinyMCE.get('post_content').onLoad.dispatch();" contenteditable="true" />History, Week 2.
Life refuses to believe the secret of Death, and in response creates a massive being of electricity in the void beyond the planet to declare that Life will be present forever. Krulsk creates mountains which shoot forth toxins and poisons the newly-made sea of Nos. However, Omus, God of Time, awakens in the heavens above and works to counteract his dangerous power. Nos discovers the realms of the mind, and forces Life to choose a name: Ikola. Together, Ikola, Nos and Death form a God of Nature in the form of a large seed. Death also creates The Architect, a god of punishment. Finally, far away from the world in the void, Luxia appears and forms the first stars.
Also, presumably, this would be the newly made sea of Umi, not Nos.
EDIT EDIT: Oh, also put me down for Impose
I've been counting your actions that I think make sense, so those have counted
(same for everyone else)Also, check the 3rd post... I've been putting them there because the first post is just rediculously long with all of the rules and the second... every time I edit it, the PP form gets broken and I have to replace it. So... its the 3rd post. And Impose it is! (you also gained a domain AP, incidentally)
Fred: Yes.
Salmon: K
As for my domain, I'll go with travel (figured it would be good to say sooner rather than whenever a good posting opportunity arises).
Everytime you get a domain attribute point, you can either get a new domain (you have to create it, first) or you can increase the bonus from one you already have.
Does that make a semblance of sense?
Thanks.
If I have this right, you initiate combat by using Harm, and then whoever has the highest score (according to that formula) wins. However, can one use more PP to make their attack more powerful? E.g. could I use a 3PP Harm to attack someone who might otherwise be too powerful to beat?
Also, what does "Related PP from appropriate domains" mean? Does this mean that I can add PP as above, but only from an appropriate domain? Or does just having such a domain count? (I can imagine that someone with, say, Destruction, might be better at attacking people)
Also, presumably, this would be the newly made sea of Umi, not Nos.
Actually, Thought caught the mistake back on page 19.
The map sounds awesome.
And... no, its just an initiation cost, so a 3 PP attack would be the same as a 1 PP attack. If someone is too powerful... find some allies :D
Found CC3, so the map will happen. I hope I can get maplib to work with these forums...
And creating a domain and taking it gives you the PP from it right away? That would be handy.
(this is what I get for posting, then reading my PM, then editing my post)
Mountains of Mashed Potatoes topped with Gravy Lava, the lake of Beshamel, The Remoulade River. We could even have, like, Gravinians, made of congealed gravy and are the best chefs in the world. The possibilies, Joran, the Possibilities.
Shadow, prepare thine delicious self!
Name: Loki the Trickster God
Holy Symbol:
See Spoiler for symbol:
Anyways, you have many questions, we have many answers! They might not all be the answers you look for, but answers they are nonetheless. So, on that note, yes we are a bit crazy. I heard it might be a pre-req to being a divine being known as a god. If you aren't crazy yet, we have training courses for it. Have fun and game on!
BTW shadow, gravy is a wonderfully delicious domain to have! We all look forward to your work from atop the mashed potato peaks! Lets order some up!
Welcome, Tech-Priest!
Joran is right... 'Change' has the potential to be a bit broad with the current way the rules are designed. After all "I created a mountain" is making a change to the world. "I told them to go over there" is changing the direction they were moving and "I created the God of Gravy" is changing things as a God of Gravy did not exist up until that moment.
Perhaps something... more... non-universal in some way? We're about to ascend Order... you could be Chaos
Or Progress or... well, something? Works for me!
How do I get involved?
Is there a list of the deities and their info anywhere? Just curious.
Tech, given that you are the only player we have waiting, your spot is fairly secure.
Deities... yeah, I should get to making that list. For now, every deity is in this thread, just not... in a unified format.
TEST: IFRAME
TEST: FLASH
TEST: STATIC
www.maplib.net/static.php?id=13389&lat=-...
Okay, Maplib is functional. We'll have maps this weekend.
Do you need me to flesh out like, a realm or anything, or how's it work?
As for like, my divine rank and whatnot, that all comes into play once I'm created, right? Then I can choose my abilities and stuff?
No need to flesh out a realm or anything pre-game... just, RP out how you think your God would react to what is thrown at him/her/it, and react to the reactions to your reactions as we put this whole thing together!
So, I've come up with a cool feature for the world to have, but... have run smack into a bit of a rules conundrum that I figured I'd bring to the group.
I want to make living islands. Not the classic Turtles or Whales or Turtles that have eaten Whales, but like... physically animated rocks which, say, breathe lava and move of their own volition over the earth and oceans.
Is this a command or a spawn? Or is it some unholy combination of both? 2 PP spawn + 1 PP command? or more?
thoughts?
I guess it doesn't really fit (though Change would), Chaos is more up Krulsk's street at the moment.
ff6shadow, be something time-y so I can beget you (I haven't begotten anyone yet, I want to get on the band-wagon)
Well, the one thing I'm unsure of is how exactly to jump into the setting...it's not like Poof! New Deity. Unless of course, that's how it happens...big bang theory and all that, lol! Honestly though, While Change is an encompassing Domain, it's not as hard as it may seem...It's simply the mutable force behind all things. Free will, fate, whatever you wanna call it. Someone/something could be one way, then a split second later contradict themselves, it's the nature of things.
Actually.... as long as one got the ok, yea! It can be just like that! I once had a god that was pulled from a hat! What made it funny was that I was at least 300x the size of said hat. Hows that for being born!?
Fortunately for you though, it seems like everything is in place for you to be joining us IC very soon, and no worries about hats either!
......No hats. No lords of gravy. what is this world coming to? Toph? Are we at least going to get our cotten candy clouds?
If you are going to be begotten (which you may as well, tbh), someone has to create you. How is kind of up to them I guess.
Is the reset weekly, btw?
My personal thought is that if you already have someone willing to ascend you... by all means be ascended by them! It gives both you and that player an advantage.
Reset is (for now) weekly, usually saturday night or sunday morning.
Joran: I think we'd need to recruit the god of confections to create those clouds... so once we find him/her/it... yes.
As for the Evil Villain group, sign me up Krulsk! Lol!
That being said, I would like to use my 2PP for the Spawn action, to create Loki's monstrous wolf-son, Fenrir.
As for the other PP I have remaining, I'm not sure what to use it for- can it be held until I gain more?
Also, do I have an AP that I can assign? If so I'd like to assign it for Generate.
Welcome Tech-Priest! Have fun playing this wonderful game. Pity it makes less than zero sense for me to ascend you, or shadow for that matter... Actually, gravy does have salt in it, and it is a liquid... But I digress.
@ Toph, if they reproduce, then definitely a spawn. If they don't, I'd actually go with a command (you're telling earth to form an island and to live: living is a very valid command). Forge would sort of make them divine-ish. Besides, if you wanted something living that was also divine, that would be a beget (like for an exarch).
On a more general note, yeah, we totally need Chaos. And maybe some other "evil" gods (looks at Shadow).
Where, when, and how should I jump in? From my point of view, Loki's a bit of an observer, interjecting himself on a whim, so I would think he can be tossed in wherever is fitting.
**EDIT** Thanks to all for the welcome!
Tech: Yes, you can hold PP over resets (which we should perhaps rephrase as 'refreshes' given that change to the rules from a prior version), as long as you post in a given week, you can do this.
You start with 0 AP, but it doesn't take long (usually less than 2 weeks) to gain one.
Jumping in... you should talk to Anubis about that, as he's going to be ascending you
Anubis- what's your plan here, how're we going about the ascension?
But hey, if we have more evil gods, maybe I'll be able to watch some awesome divine battles. Note that I intend to stay solidly neutral (which means that, like Switzerland, I should probably surround myself with mountains and get a lot of guns)... even if I do interfere now and then (um... I think Krulsk doesn't like me now...).
Also, Chaos should totally get in on begetting Order. Why? ... because there's order in chaos! Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
In more serious matters, as might be noticed, I am currently suggesting IC the creation of a sun. I thought it might be good to ask if anyone has requests, or ideas, or wants to get involved. In the past we've had normal suns, giant pillars of dark-fire, divine jellyfish, a really large tree, and an HBO series logo. Do we want something normal, something creative?
The two ideas I currently have is either two artifacts, one for Ikola, one for Krulsk, representing the sun and moon (the sun being the prey of the moon), or a single artifact that either turns into the sun or moon depending on... something (good evil balance among the gods?). Thus, days might last years, and nights decades, etc.
I think that Fenris probably is more Exarch (powerful unique being who acts in service of the God) than spawn (group of relatively normal beings that pose a risk to adventurers). As such, a 2 PP Beget action is more appropriate than a 2 PP Spawn.
Speaking of which, Toph, if you and Joran need an extra PP, I have one to spare. Order seems like it could benefit from knowing something.
Oddly enough, Nos is quite neutral as well, even though he's currently plotting with Krulsk. He's too naive to understand the difference between good and evil, right and wrong, etc.
It might be something valueable for the god of Knowledge to learn about.
In more serious matters, as might be noticed, I am currently suggesting IC the creation of a sun. I thought it might be good to ask if anyone has requests, or ideas, or wants to get involved. In the past we've had normal suns, giant pillars of dark-fire, divine jellyfish, a really large tree, and an HBO series logo. Do we want something normal, something creative?
I was thinking about this, but now we have glowing stars.
I guess I wasn't clear - I'd intended for them to glow to sun-like (or close) brightness, or enough that the planet is lit to at least a dim twilight. I figured why have a sun when we could have lots? But hey, a waxing/waning sun artifact with non-constant day/night durations sounds pretty cool too.
Begetting Chaos could be an interesting experiment for one seeking knowledge. My impression was that, if anything, Nos would err on the side of good... but there're a lot of dubious thinks done in the pursuit of knowledge, so who knows?
Even Corruption can be good if it is the erosion of a rigid, stifling governmental system, after all
Fair warning: At some point my god is going to go a little bonkers and try and strangle the world in vine-y goodness. You are all warned.
Anywho: Alas, Fred, that wouldn't really help much. While Nos might learn the difference between good and evil, there's no guarantee that he'd understand that difference. You might be wanting a god of intelligence, or wisdom, or something like that :P
Check my OOC box if someone doesn't mind, just need clarification.
As for creating humans, that could be a 2pp: such humans would be weaker than the average race, but more numerous. However, something to consider is that things created in an environment are, for the purposes of this setting, best suited to that environment. For example, if I created angels in the prime material plane, they wouldn't be supernatural beings but rather natural ones. Or, if I created dwarves in a desert, then deserts are their natural habitats (rather than under mountains). Or, in this case, humans created in a world lacking most forms of plant or animal life would be very different humans that one is normally used to.
Also, Tech-Priest, I would suggest waiting on humans, if only because their only source of food right now is grass, and I doubt you want humans to be grazing mammals.
You might be wanting a god of intelligence, or wisdom, or something like that :P
That's point. These second-rate "Knowledge" gods are a bit of a poor substitute.
Also, Tech-Priest, I would suggest waiting on humans, if only because their only source of food right now is grass, and I doubt you want humans to be grazing mammals.
Yeah, I think we could use some animals first. Get going, god of life! (Actually, I would be up for doing a bit of Nourishing myself, but I have like 1 PP left I think... he's me wasting it all on showing off to Krulsk)
If anyone would like to get things rolling in that direction, let me know, and I'll donate my other PP. If not, does anyone have a suggestion on what to use it on?
Hopefully Nerdzul gets back soon and he can start joining me in creating more... interesting things
Shadow! Hurry your order'd self up and get posting!
Hm?
*blink*
Oh. I missed the post. Guess I should get to work.
Is the ocean in a corner? I was under the impression it was... ocean like. It has gotten a lot of attention though, which is a welcome change compared to a bunch of LoCs I suppose. Actually come to think of it the ocean does tend to get a fair bit of attention, it got some action in World Warp too... hm.
Sentient... Grass... sounds... awesome. Lets talk.
Though, a world with too little water might be interesting. Or, a world with too much.
Tech-Priest, I'm not critizing your decision making, but you do realize that even if you spend any amount of PP now that you'd have enough after a single reset to shape humans? That and it may take a long time for there to be enough animals and plant life to support any kind of humanoid, let alone humans which are notoriously squishy.
So, what'll I have upon reset, 2 PP plus 1 Generic PP, right? Sorry the Rules were a tad foggy on this.
Since Krulsk donated 1 PP for me now, I've got 2, correct? Is there anything useful you guys can think of that I should use it for?
The way I plan on playing Loki, is as a being of magical prowess, he'll be summoning things often, creating Chaos through any means necessary, and prowling around with Fenris, sort of like the Most Dangerous Game...he'll be hunting pretty much whatever strikes his fancy for sport....
Edit: nevermind, foun d where you are keeping it.
That being said, I will await further actions In-Game before making a choice of either stockpiling or spending them.
EDIT: Into Earth, more specifically, but I figure that's more for my purposes than your own.
I have to admit, I think I jumped the gun a bit going with a humanoid appearance before any humanoids exist, but I suppose any humanoids who read this history would just assume that's the way it was without worrying about it so hey. It's metaphorical.
I was kind of under the impression that the sea was a bit bigger, but never mind. Perhaps Umi will enlarge it, in an attempt to drown the whole world.
Man, even the "good" gods are a bit crazy in this universe (if this planet survives being drowned, choked in vines, experimented on by a mad god of knowledge, corrupted by Krulsk and thrown into chaos by Chaos, I'll be more than a bit amazed)
But this begs the question: what makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were we just born with a heart full of neutrality?
Being a very small aquatic race that can live in a world both choked in vines and swamped by the ocean is seeming more and more appealing...
Hmm, perhaps Loki will create something to play in the water...
Did I go too far? Asking if we should make two worlds? One would be all happy and safe and orderly, and the other would be all corrupt and scary. I think that be cool, but might cause problems...
There is no such thing as 'too far'
Can you imagine if the god of knowledge was left thinking that all forms of hurt were tantamount to a light slap? That... probably wouldn't have ended well.
By the way, what level of Spawn are the Sahaguin? If Spawns are 1PP cheaper, they could be 1PP or 2 (I would think, as the first remotely intelligent life, 1PP, but they could be 2 just as cheaply).
I'm thinking of possibly creating Dagon as another Exarch, to lead the Sahaugin after the refresh.
its within reason I think. Btw I'd have them as a shape as opposed to a spawn. IMO a 2PP shape would give you a large amount of them, still mostly intelligent, yet a bit weaker as a whole.
I did use Shape. Fenris was my Exarch I Spawned Begot - Loki's Son
Wasn't Fenris Beget?
Yes, he was, I'm clueless today. Lol!
Anyway, seeing as Nourish isn't needed, I'll spend the PP elsewhere.
Would a 1 PP Guide be needed to teach them to be predators/hunters/etc?
"Spawn" basically creates non-intelligent, non-nation-building creatures.
"Shape" basically creates intelligent, nation-building people.
So the fish-men are a 1PP shape. That means that they aren't too threatening individually, but that there are a large number of them (and, over the course of the game, they'll become even more so, having the advantage of high fecundity)
EDIT: Tech, actually, you don't need to spend a guide PP to make them hunters. Generally speaking, you are free to say that they have any skill or technology up to an age limit (for the first age, that's "classical"). You can use a guide to signal that they are particularly good at something (dwarves who have a guide: mime action performed on them make better than average mimes, for example, but any race could produce mimes). Techs outside that age limit can still be taught, but not for free.
EDIT: Tech, actually, you don't need to spend a guide PP to make them hunters. Generally speaking, you are free to say that they have any skill or technology up to an age limit (for the first age, that's "classical"). You can use a guide to signal that they are particularly good at something (dwarves who have a guide: mime action performed on them make better than average mimes, for example, but any race could produce mimes). Techs outside that age limit can still be taught, but not for free.
OK cool, I'll just hold off on spending it for now then, it'll come in handy after the refresh.
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Hmm... Anubis. How long do you think we can go without ever actually talking to one another? :D
Krulsk talk with fists!! ...but seriously I don't know, he just doesn't seem the sort of god to hang around about five or six others when he has no power to defend himself or bully them with
Hmm... Anubis. How long do you think we can go without ever actually talking to one another? :D
Krulsk talk with fists!! ...but seriously I don't know, he just doesn't seem the sort of god to hang around about five or six others when he has no power to defend himself or bully them with
I am now imagining oozy hands with mouths on them and deciding that once again you need to stop creating my nightmares.
Yeah, thats it. Goodnight :P
Salmon, you made... non-whale whales? I'll try and keep that straight :D
Yes. Aren't they beautiful? Also, is it okay that I made twelve of them? They're meant to be a greater spawn, and the spawn text says there's 'few.' But all of your spawns have been lone creatures...
twelve is a fine number... so is 100
Given that its friday, I see two options.
1) reset tonight.
2) reset tomorrow night.
I have company staying at my house tomorrow night, so I'm leaning a bit more towards the former, but we're at least *trying* to get to a regular schedule, right?
Tech: One of the... interesting... things we're trying out in this iteration is that you can't *directly* nourish a population, but you have to do it indirectly. Your options are two-fold. You can either teach them a technology that will increase their overall ability to survive, or you can create some deposit of natural resources that they can use to do the same. The first is a guide action, the second is a nourish action. You're actually nourishing the land and creating a physical item that can be, potentially, contested by other nations and players.
Also, unrelated note, but you're not putting your expenditures into the PP-recording form on the first page of the OOC. I do my best to make sure everyone's contributions are counted at the end of the turn, but the safest bet is to record it yourself just in case. Thanks!
Name: Zeym
Holy Symbol: A thought bubble, filled with random colors.
Appearance: A shifting array of fantastical images and events, usually featuring a humanoid female.
Domain: Dreams
Misc: Zeym seeks to make dreams a reality; the good ones to bring joy to her beneficiaries, and the nightmares to help them overcome their fears. As a subset of this goal, she also works to make mortals dream brighter, darker, and/or more fantastic dreams.
Edit: Should have finished reading IC before posting this... Curse you, hindsight!
Ara just took war as another domain, so you'll have to either negotiate with her or pick something else
Good to see you again! Thought, I agree we probably want a reset soon. I think we're all out of PP save Shadow, and maybe Fred... and Outside Thinker, but... we may have seen the last of him.
I think I have 1 domain PP left, but I was thinking of saving it so I can do more. A single Nourish or Harm is not so glamourous. Still, faster resets = more PP = better, right?
Tech: One of the... interesting... things we're trying out in this iteration is that you can't *directly* nourish a population, but you have to do it indirectly. Your options are two-fold. You can either teach them a technology that will increase their overall ability to survive, or you can create some deposit of natural resources that they can use to do the same. The first is a guide action, the second is a nourish action. You're actually nourishing the land and creating a physical item that can be, potentially, contested by other nations and players.
A related question - I gather that weaker spawns overpopulate towards the end so they become more powerful, but if I were to, say, Harm the area in which they lives so they had a hard time gathering food, would their numbers dwindle?
I will say that its nice being able to reset and people just carry their PP over than worrying overly muchly about whether or not people are going to have their PP cut off.
And... yeah. I guess a harm is an anti-nourish in that sense... you're creating an... anti-resource, in a way.
For clarification, after the refresh, I'll basically have 3PP again, right? 2 Generic/1 Domain?
Also, do I have any APs? If so, I'd like to assign mine...
Did Begetting Fenris give me XP? As I said, I also plan to Beget Dagon as an Exarch for the Sahaugin after the refresh.
Yes, that should be accurate after the reset... you might gain an AP depending on how things worked, but... probably thats what you'll have.
No, begetting Fenris gave you no XP, nor will Dagon, for they are exarchs and not gods, and we're trying to incentivize people spenging PP to create new Gods. That said... we've got a wizdude now wanting ascension as something or other...
Or, if he's interested in something Loki would support, I'll Beget him.
Aside from that, Loki's plotting on some more crazy 'children' to bring to the table- we've got a forested region, mountains, grasslands, and an ocean now, correct?
GOt your expenditures.
I'm down to the 1 extra PP that Krulsk donated me, but I'm not sure how to list that.
Anyway, we all know I have it, so I'll just remember.
Shadow: Yes, the stars are there. I just looked and they were there. Only action of the god Luxia so far, soo...
Also, no, you don't have 1 AP, you have 0 AP
You'd have 1 AP if you became a level 2 god from being a level 1, but... you didn't That said, I'm personally fine with that forge being a 3 PP action if you'd like. As I'm resetting now... I'll... record it as such. And... as I don't have a name for you, you get to be 'Order'
Please see an addendum to the first post regarding the map... if this is going to work, I'm going to need your help... otherwise, I do not take responsibility for how things end up looking :D
So... my instructions on how to use maplib... were... not good.
What you want to do to edit the map is click the NAME OF THE MAP in the upper left corner. That should open up a new window in maplib itself, where you can place pushpins and label them accordinly. Going to go modify those instructions now...
**EDIT** Btw, Krulsk, it's Chuuls, not Chulls lol!
**EDIT 2** Found my new race, Fish-Men of Dagon, similar to Sahaugin, but more akin to Dagon himself. (From Dungeon 156)
Thought, I may have missed something. I'm sure you are correct
Also, can I associate an action with two domains (or is that asking too much)?
Well, it seems like most of what I would associate with Evolution, is the sort of stuff I was already associating with Time. It seems a bit of a cheat to get double the credit for the same actions, though.
Keep shaping and begetting, and you'll get APs for... shaping and begetting things (Generating and Imposing, specifically)
I'm a tad confused about the expenditure table. I gather that if you spend enough PP on an action, it goes up a level, but after level 1, do you need to expend PP to get an XP in it, then collect multiple XP to get a level? I'm just wondering what role the XP play (and does the number of XP required depend upon your divine rank, or on the level of the attribute - e.g. if I am super-powerful but still have a 0 in something, does it take longer to level it up than if I had started building it up when I was a mere demigod?)
Also if someone would be awesome and develop an island near the mouth of the large river or whatever it is, but far enough from the coast, I'd be greatly appreciative, as Dagon and his people need somewhere to call home...and I plan on using them much like the movie Dagon...
At higher levels, its 3 XP per AP, or 5 XP per AP or (at the highest level) 7 XP per AP.
Also, as 'domain' is just a category of PP-spending, anything you do that involves any of your domains goes into that single category... so... no, no double-counting
Basically... yes. The longer you wait, the harder it is to level up an attribute. which is not *exactly* Skyrim-ish in implementation (as that was our initial model we based the AP system on)... but the headaches involved in trying to calculate a level based on differing values of skills and etc seemed... too complex for a forum-game
Tech, you'll have to register at maplib if you want to move markers (not my choice, theirs...). If you'd rather not, I can do it for you if you tell me what you want moved where.
So, the difficulty in levelling up an attribute depends on the divine rank, not the attribute itself? OK.
If you want the details, its in the FAQ of the rules on the first post.
The rationalle is that if we did it the other way, we'd promote spreading out your expenditures evenly, as each AP gives you another effective PP to spend, and we calculated some ungodly number of PP that you could get by spreading them out (like... 30 PP/week or so). As we're hoping to promote a multitude of playstyles, we... did it the way we chose now.
. It's just good to know. If I spread out too much, though, presumably that will slow things - if I get 1 XP in each, say? Although, if those XP added up, would I be counted as a higher-ranked deity, just with fewer PP from having lower-level attributes?So yeah, if you *Really* want to min-max, focusing exclusively on a single type of action gains you the quickest leveling increase... but then you... don't really have a nice ability to do... stuff.
*blink*
Well, this is running again? Cool.
I won't be able to join right away, since I'm posting this on a laptop that I unpacked about 2 hours previously, and thus I will be spending time getting this up and running. Plus a job that I may be starting tomorrow (and certainly by next monday).
So I'll be coming back in, sometime.
Yay! Good luck with the new job!
Also, Fred, Nos is looking for your god, as an FYI
Also, Toph, regarding maplib, mwahaha!
Also, we really should be building the map on maptools, so much nicer...
Your maptool-fu must be much stronger than mine. While I love maptools... I was unaware it could be used to create from scratch a map. Place markers on a predefined map, yes... make a coastline.... no. How do you do it?
It's fairly simple...if you have skype, add me. I'll pm you my username, and we can discuss things there.
Now, keep in mind, I'm not sure how we'd link maptools to this forum, but if you have a group you play with, it's an interesting way to make the map. Plus you can add tokens for the gods, creatures, etc. and build stuff into them, like you could click a button and display all your actions taken and stuff.
Its the.... making coastlines and realistic looking things that I'm not sure of how to do with the token-system that it uses.Now, it could be awesome to have a constantly running remote server that people can log into to see where all the gods are at a given time... uploading a map background to maptools is simplicity itself. THAT... oh, so many possibilities
Then again, I know that certain of us... *cougharacough* have had issues installing it in the past...
And Joran, when did Falrn show up? I thought Ikola left to come talk to me. I probably would have mentioned him if I'd known Falrn was there.
Well, I know how to use maptools... I've DM'd a few games there myself
Now, it could be awesome to have a constantly running remote server that people can log into to see where all the gods are at a given time... uploading a map background to maptools is simplicity itself. THAT... oh, so many possibilities
Then again, I know that certain of us... *cougharacough* have had issues installing it in the past...
Mapping on there can get pretty in-depth, I've seen 3D maps with breakaway building levels where you could see each floor and all kinda cools stuff.
For the remote server, everyone would need Hamachi to connect together, and then someone would just host it, and we'd join a maptools campaign with their IP.
As for issues with maptools, use version 1.3.b87, best one I've used with no problems.
Check ur PM Toph.
Tech: Will do.
Water. Mountains. I mean... *sigh* Okay, I'll figure that out... somehow.
Heh. Though, honestly, I didn't just do that to make your life difficult. Given that the ocean has received more attention this go around, I thought I'd give it even more, with water mountains, caves of air running through those mountains, "kelp" forests that cover their sides, and maybe eventually some schools of metalic fish to mine, for our sea-based civilizations.
Also, Nos' form will make more sense when there are books, and he is holding one in each hand (and reading one with each head).
Brilliance, Thought. I love it. You might want to involve Kal in that... if he ever shows up again.
Also, Toph, are you renaming phoenixes as "Phoeni," or are you trying to go for a Latin plural there? If so, it would be phoenices, I think.
That is all. Joran is with me, I think :D I was going to wander off momentarially, though!Regardless... onto the planned festivities!
Mmm...
Tired. Nevermind!
Falrn knew something was wrong, and found it was Death. When Death left, he thought trouble was over and he left sorta.
This time I'm commiting!
Name: INGENIUM
Holy Symbol: A wolf devouring a rabbit
Appearance: Ingenium appears as a tanned man, somewhere between ripped and scrawny, who wears a loincloth, and wraps vines around his major joints (Neck, hips, shoulders, knees, ankles, and wrists).
Proposed Domain: Nature
Misc: Tends to avoid civilization, if it doesn't work in the favor of either him or nature. Ingenium is trying to make nature perfect. He is also extremely selfish, and greedy, sharing only with nature.
Nerdzul already took Nature (and was ascended) Have another idea?
Symbol: A bald, tan man, with a halo
Appearance: Whatever He wants u to believe Often compared to Hitler, (But I'm keepin the vines =P)
Proposed domain: control
Misc: Refuses to obey. Wants complete and utter control
mmmkay. Control worries me a little bit as a domain, but... I think its okay. Self-Ascend or Beget, Timmy?
Anubis, I'm going to give you the points for the 'harm' part of what we just made... I know I changed... things a bit
HAHA! BEAT YOU WITH TREES!
Joran, think you got Ninja'd. I'll let you edit and then reply
There an appropriate edit, still an epic return, and a show of concern.
Are we still doing mibbit? I liked mibbit. Mibbit was fun!
Just so you guys know, i am hopin to eventually take control of one of u, and sell u for something. But Who? When? How? and for what?
So yeah, if you *Really* want to min-max, focusing exclusively on a single type of action gains you the quickest leveling increase... but then you... don't really have a nice ability to do... stuff.
Well, that's hardly any fun though, is it?
Also, Fred, Nos is looking for your god, as an FYI
I figured it wouldn't take long. I've been busy for the last couple of days though, and had internet problems to boot - will try and catch up with the IC thread!
So yeah, if you *Really* want to min-max, focusing exclusively on a single type of action gains you the quickest leveling increase... but then you... don't really have a nice ability to do... stuff.
Well, that's hardly any fun though, is it?
Exactly. You *could* game the system, but you'd create a really boring god doing it.
Requesting permission to ascend, sir!
... Sorry, I just had to say that.
Go to 35,000 ft and maintain altitude. Engage enemy at will.
Permission to be a god has been granted! :P
My posts consist of
Italics: My thoughts
Bold: what I say
Quotations: What others say
Plain text: Something neither said nor thought
For future reference, how do you do the
E.G. PP Expenditure Show
Type [ SPOILER = whatever you want it to be called, most use "God Block" ] then [ /SPOILER ]
Remove spaces.
Profit.
[SPOILER=Spoiler]Thank You. Only took me 50 tries!
Like So
See?
In the 'keeping people informed' department, I'm also gone starting the sunday after that until that friday.
*watches the joke soar over his head, waves*
Clearly, you need to play more beach volleyball.
**EDIT** Kinda unsure where to go/what to do next in-game, things're kinda quiet...
Seriously though, I'm out of PPs ans quite unsure of how to proceed. There's really nothing to do, and Loki's not in the mood to go mingle at a deific cocktail party.
Also 50th post
wat about deific social gathering?
Also 50th post
Nothing, just referring to all the deities meeting up and whatnot...Loki's not in the mood to smooze.
There's really nothing to do, and Loki's not in the mood to go mingle at a deific cocktail party.
Well, if you were going to make him more like the Loki of Norse mythology, I read there was a story where he did just turn up to a party, though I think he then started slagging everyone off and trying to stir up arguments with them all.
It's weird, because there are other stories where Loki is practically Thor's sidekick. Then there are ones where he's horrible.
I was unable to check the forums for a week and now I'm 100 IC and 140 OOC posts behind...Better catch up my reading
And wow, I have loads of PP!
I'm not sure what to do with my domain. I would just put it in Time, but I want to pick up a new one and if I have this system right I would have to spend a lot more PP to get a fourth domain point (so it might be a couple of resets). Depending on how this week plays out (whether we see any interesting developments or I get some IC chat) I might do one or the other.
Incidentally, if I put the point into Time, do I get the extra Time PP right away too, or do I have to wait until next cycle for that?
There's really nothing to do, and Loki's not in the mood to go mingle at a deific cocktail party.
Well, if you were going to make him more like the Loki of Norse mythology, I read there was a story where he did just turn up to a party, though I think he then started slagging everyone off and trying to stir up arguments with them all.
It's weird, because there are other stories where Loki is practically Thor's sidekick. Then there are ones where he's horrible.
To be fair, he DID only start slagging one guy. And the only reason he started slagging that one guy was because he objected to Loki being there since he wasn't invited. Also also to be fair, the reason he wasn't invited was because he's an a**hole who, among other thing, tricked a god into killing Baldur out of spite of his practical invulnerability. And he did storm out in a hissy fit to start the apocalypse, so... yeah. Norse mythology often reads as less like a religion and more like a comic company with multiple writers and cross-overs sometimes :/
I certainly hope we can use the carried-over PP, because I just assumed we could and went and carried it over anyway.
Also, welcome Timmy.
Also, I'd like to create the domain of ice and put my point there. I'll do that IC... tomorrow maybe?
**EDIT**
I plan on playing Loki as a bit of a prick, but also somewhat as a mad scientist kinda vibe, as I plan on shaping/begetting/etc a lot of stuff to cause problems
**EDIT 2**
You mentioned a bonus PP for everyone...is that Generic or Domain?
BTW, I think creating a demiplane is Forge (probably just 2PP). If you want to make an island too, that would be Command (I think - as a single island, you might get away using a 1PP Command). Don't quote me on that, though.
Just so you know, I think Loki wound up chained to a rock whilst a poison snake dripped venom into his eyes.
BTW, I think creating a demiplane is Forge (probably just 2PP). If you want to make an island too, that would be Command (I think - as a single island, you might get away using a 1PP Command). Don't quote me on that, though.
I thought Demiplanes required a bit of domain influence, hence adding the Chaos PP?
If not, hell, I'll gladly save up some PP
If someone knows the official ruling on this, let me know please.
For now I went with the big 3PP expenditure to create it
Salmon, yeah, that does seem to be stretching it a little bit. I mean, it involves 'the ocean' but... seems a bit off-topic. (Now, had your domain been Water... :D)
Fred is right about the plane... and all costs involved. You *can* add your domain PP to it, but you certainly don't *have* to.
There's really nothing to do, and Loki's not in the mood to go mingle at a deific cocktail party.
Well, if you were going to make him more like the Loki of Norse mythology, I read there was a story where he did just turn up to a party, though I think he then started slagging everyone off and trying to stir up arguments with them all.
It's weird, because there are other stories where Loki is practically Thor's sidekick. Then there are ones where he's horrible.
That is because Loki was a god of fire.
The useful, happy Loki is the Loki that represents the tool of civilization. The hearth fire, the smith's forge, etc. Sure, he was still a trickster god, but that is only because fire is tricky. The fire you use for warmth and for lighting your house CAN still burn it down, if you aren't careful. Oh, and that crackling that logs make as they're burning? That's Loki smacking his wife and children (because appartently domestic violence is in line with his character).
The evil, insane Loki is the wild fire, untamed and uncontrolable, the fire that destroys everything, consumes everything.
EDIT: Joran, did I read that right? It looks like the god of protection is trying to throw others to the wolves to save himself! Shouldn'y Falrn want to protect Krulsk and Loki just as much as he wants to protect Ikola? :P
Aside from that, I edited Loki's last post, could someone clarify if the newly added stuff would work?
Option 1
1PP Command (1 Generic) - Island: Loki creates a small island, large enough to hold and support a modest sized village.
2PP Forge (1 Domain-Chaos, 1 Generic) - Ring of Twisted Ways: Loki creates a mobius strip out of bone. This artifact repels Lawful auras. The more lawful a creature is, the stronger this force is. Lawful creatures that somehow force there way in are crushed by this, causing ongoing damage as long as they remain in the field of effect. Neutral creatures are also repeled, though not damaged, by this effect.
1PP Command (1 Generic) - Island: Loki creates a small island, large enough to hold and support a modest sized village.
2PP Forge (1 Domain-Chaos, 1 Generic) - Ring of Twisted Ways: Loki creates a mobius strip out of bone. This artifact repels Lawful auras. The more lawful a creature is, the stronger this force is. Lawful creatures that somehow force there way in are crushed by this, causing ongoing damage as long as they remain in the field of effect. Neutral creatures are also repeled, though not damaged, by this effect.
your action is correct. Just mention that you're using a domain PP next time
For example, a user could fairly easily disintegrate a small dirt clod, and as a price they'd burn up the personal connection they made when they chatted with that guy on the corner.
But let's say that someone wanted to disintegrate a microchip. They might have to burn up their connection to a close friend. And if someone wanted to disintegrate a small building, that might require that the burn up their connection to their mother.
What burning a personal connection means is that neither individual has any emotional attachment to the other. Both will remember the various events that the other was involved in, but they wont be able to make the connection that the other person is still that old person. To be specific, lets say that a disintamancer burns the connection he had with his mother. He still has memories of his mother, but he couldn't pick her out of a line up, and, even if he could, wouldn't have any attachment to her (good or bad).
Trying to use disintimancy without any connections to burn (or, attempting to use it on something too complex/too alive) results in the magic user burning themselves up, causing either drastic harm or death. One of the reasons why it isn't good to use it against things still living: that would require a lot of fuel, and would usually overwhelm the magic user. But disintegrating a sword, wall, armor, etc, would definitely be doable.
No, just lazy
I'll do it now. Wizdude, you still around?
Tech, if you are curious, the starfish is offering the Sahagin a form of magic.
Ok, I'm assuming by teaching one, the race as a whole would be produce practitioners of the art? Like there would there just be certain 'priests' within the culture capable of the magic? I'd rather the latter, as the entire race knowing it would be a bit overdone.
That said, I'm all for it.
If it's OK with you, I'd rather some form of aquamancy, as Sahuagin priests can contol water, and the race as a whole would benefit from it more. Also, I need to work up something for their 'feeding and bloodlust.'
While it is, of course, perfectly fine for you to teach the Sahagin aquatic magic, that isn't really something that Nos would be particularly interested in, nor would it really strike my interest either. The reason for this is quite simple: your god isn't aquatic.
One of the things I would like Nos to do is to make unique magic systems for each god. The reason that I had Nos "discover" the cognitive and spiritual realms is to give a sciencey explanation for his magic. Energy is drawn from the spiritual, shaped by the cognitive, and manifests in the physical. Specifically, that energy comes from divine essence of a god. So I suppose you might call it "domain" magic. Like with the realms, this wouldn't so much be something that Nos creates and something that he discovers and wants to share.
I would be happy to try to come up with a different chaotic magic system, and would be happy for input, but aquatic magic, from Nos' perspective, would need to be related to Umi, not Loki. I have a few ideas for that, but, well, the Sahagin were here first. Makes since that they'd be the first to get taught how to channel their god.
Anywho, if you aren't really interested in this, then I'd just say change your post and have the young Sahagin refuse. There's no reason he has to forsake his god and give in to temptation. It would give a different twist on the "garden of eden"esq story.
Man, you guys and your magics! Now it's going to look like jumping on the bandwagon when Omus releases Chronomancy (though Chronomancy will clearly top pretty much everything else).
Thought- is your spiritual realm an afterlife?
The answer is: muffin.
It isn't the ultimate end of souls/spirits/ghosts/conciousness/your mom, if that is what you are getting at. But, it could be possible for a spirit to linger there before moving on. Possible, but not common.
Man, you guys and your magics! Now it's going to look like jumping on the bandwagon when Omus releases Chronomancy (though Chronomancy will clearly top pretty much everything else).
Actually, I have a few ideas of Omus-specific magic, too. Hmm... maybe it would be good for me to post my ideas, and see if people are interested in having those ideas associated with their gods. I'll work on that and see what I come up with, but for now, where is the idea I had for you:
Omus Based Magic - histosophy
My idea here is that magic users can temporarily summon the future or past version of something into the present. However, to keep things balanced, a present version of something has to be sent into the past/future (respectively). The two objects must be of similar "temporal weight" (couldn't send a random pebble into the past in order to summon up the Lost City of Atlantis, for example)
As it might be applied in a game, a user could touch a foe's armor and summon up a future version of it, in which the armor has rusted away into uselessness. Or if a door is rusted shut, summon up a past version that was well oiled. Needless to say, this wouldn't work beyond when the object was ultimately created or destroyed (so no touching a sword and turning it into dust or raw ore, for example).
My idea here is that magic users can temporarily summon the future or past version of something into the present. However, to keep things balanced, a present version of something has to be sent into the past/future (respectively). The two objects must be of similar "temporal weight" (couldn't send a random pebble into the past in order to summon up the Lost City of Atlantis, for example)
As it might be applied in a game, a user could touch a foe's armor and summon up a future version of it, in which the armor has rusted away into uselessness. Or if a door is rusted shut, summon up a past version that was well oiled. Needless to say, this wouldn't work beyond when the object was ultimately created or destroyed (so no touching a sword and turning it into dust or raw ore, for example).
Now I am, but I'm going to be away for a few days.
*lurker mode reactivates*
RE Omus magic - I had some thoughts that, at its basic level, it would just involve stretching an manipulating time a little, which would equate to speeding yourself up or slowing others down. More advanced users might be able to age things (rusting a suit of armour) or see a short way into the future or past, etc. I do like the idea of a trade-off, making one thing younger as another gets older, but that might need some more thought.
Finally had enough time to get THAT monster down on the page.
Sorry its so long... important stuff is in the expenditures.1) Full Reset tonight.
2) Partial reset tomorrow night (same as last week)
3) Full Reset Sunday night.
Also is it OK if I have my desert band around the middle of the world? I'm not quite sure how to use these map tools.
Oh I should probably check making the "Chronomancy" domain is OK, too.
Thanks.
B) Well, I'm not conciously doing that, but I *am* the one writing it
I'll try to do better :D C) Yes and Yes... although would 'chromomancy' be functionally different than 'time'?
B) No worries, I'm only being a nuisance
C) Chronomancy is time-affecting magic, so I guess it wouldn't mostly be functionally different as far as domain actions go (since anything which works for one you could probably argue would work for the other). That said, I would probably use Chronomancy more for creating magic ("Chronomantic") items, Guiding people to become Chronomancers, etc. rather than large-scale timey stuff.
Thought, I tried to work a bit of Histomancy in but I'm not sure I'm 100% happy with the result. I may play around with it a bit more.
Speaking of roads, I've just now arrived in New Orleans. Gonna try and get as much of the reset done before dinner as I can, so this might be another one of those slow resets... Next week will be back to normal... the week after that... will be like this one
And then we'll be just fine until like... november! Also, Tech, just realized you never put in your expenditures for the last... two weeks? 5 minutes till dinner... lets see if I can get all your expenditures in so we can see if you gained any AP... I bet you did.
Also, just remember everyone that Wizdude is ready to play... if you approach him, you might be able to get an extra XP from begetting him.
As expected. You have a new domain and an Empower AP.
Also, just remember everyone that Wizdude is ready to play... if you approach him, you might be able to get an extra XP from begetting him.
Wait, what?
Also, I put it in the previous week, just not this past one, it's 2 Generic/1 Chaos. (which was actually in the last god-post, btw)
Regardless... you've gotten PP!Actually, caught up now. So either or.
What're you coming in as again, Wiz? Totally forgot.
**EDIT** I'm actually planning on Loki sort of fusing with Dagon anyway because I'm just gonna stick more with the island and the stuff I've been working on.
As I read it, the voidling effect applies to all sentient creatures (of which there are 5 races). It targets specifically those individuals of a race already suffering from mental illness, so those members of a society subject to this are those who are marginalized anyways. As for magic users, it specifically targets those who, in a normal fantasy setting, would have merely killed themselves with their power. Thus, instead of these magic users going to Toph's plane, they get turned into monsters. With or without the voidling effect, though, the specific indivduals wouldn't be part of Sahuagin society (or, indeed, counted among the normal living things).
All things considered, I'd expect that the Sahuagin would only be loosing a handful of undersirable members to the voidling effect each year (and probably only one or two magic users a decade).
Actually, this seems like a wonderful RP opportunity. If you don't like the voidling effect, perhaps the Sahuagin start a Spanish Inquisition to drive out those who would be most likely to succumb (why a Spanish Inquisition? Because no one ever expects it, which seems like something Loki would prefer). Or maybe Loki and Krulsk will directly fight over this (I could see Ikola or even Order supporting you), culminating in a Loki victory and the Sahuagin being cleansed of this taint (but it remaining on the rest of the world). Perhaps it will just drive the Sahuagin to savagery, causing them to turn on and devour those who become weak enough to succumb to the Voidling-oning. Maybe the Sahuagin actually turn to hunting Voidlings for sport, honor, and prestige. Etc.
Or would you rather other players not meddle with the Sahuagin at all?
Then again, those voidlings are equally awesome. Nice, Anubis!
Tech - yeah, its a separate race, just using the Sahaguin as an RP starting point but affecting everything. I don't think he intended it to affect more than a few... unsavory souls :D
The Umi magic is amazing Thought. Way better than boring old hydromancy.
I think you should bring in "Hydrosympathy", the principle that all water is somehow connected (and all the stuff you can do with that).
Also, is the IRC chat being used again?
Err... probably the best place to look are the weekly resets, as those are updated each week with the appropriate domains that people have claimed/been given. Only updates from last week are that Ara has claimed Metal, Wizdude is Dream and it appears that Shadow is going to claim Moon. Nerdzul was technically ascended as Nature like... three weeks ago, but he's been AWOL and never posted an opening post. As such, he's kinda forfited the domain a bit. So if you want to be nature, its open (and ascended, actually).
As for mibbit. Not... really. I'm (coincidentally) on it right now, but We haven't had much activity there for a long time.
SHADOW: Where do you want your extra XP for ascending Wizdude?
Shape is for sentient races (in the current system, totally not actually important... but eventually I'm going to be creating populace statistics, and I might get confused!)
Ok, I believe I am ready to rejoin this series. So where is a way to easily take a look at which domains have been taken? Because that seems to be the one thing I can't find.
Also, is the IRC chat being used again?
You could take Loki and my other creations if you'd like, I'm stepping out for a while...he's part of the Chaos domain.
Life, Corruption, Death, War, Earth, Ocean, Ice, Knowledge, Travel, Punishment, Time, Evolution, Chronomancy, Space, Protection, Chaos, Order, Moon, Control, Dream and Nature.
It would probably make more sense for someone to beget you if you're slightly related to something someone already has, but I don't think it really matters.
That hourglass thingy. How... err... certain... is it? Like, are we talking an object that ALWAYS knows when you are going to die, regardless of your actions? Or is it such that if you make some really idiotic error, like deciding the fall asleep next to an adder's nest, it might suddenly change? Have an interesting idea that I want to play around with in the future, and the answer will... change the nature of the story.
Camu:
Age change soon, you think? Or wait a bit?
Map outline is finished, putting things on it now. Should be up in the next few hours.
Timmy, did you just put a MOUNTAIN in the middle of the drainage system for an alternately flooding and sand-filled land?
This'll get good.
Map is *finally* up.
RE the Age thing - how many sentient races do we have? They seem mostly quite aquatic. It feels sllightly premature to move on without a well-populated world. Just my 2p's worth (I don't know how you have done this in the past).
Oh, I'm not thinking we should switch ages *now*... just that we might want to start thinking about it. I agree that we're a little race-light at the moment... something which I intend to remedy!
BTW, I feel kind of guilty about it, but the map looks awesome now! I should do this kind of thing more often. (I had actually envisioned a whole band of desert directly beneath the stars, a la the tropics, but that looks pretty cool as it is)
Ara: Looks like we need to talk... I think you'll like my idea. Also, your floating mountains aren't there because I lost the tileset when I got my new computer. I'll try and find it this week.
The Map: OH. THATS what you meant. That makes a ton more sense. And we can redo it as often as we want... but lets have it be a... rare... occurance :D
I will have you know that the new map's official name is 'World Map - Post Omus' :P
RE the hourglass - I don't know if Ara actually wants it, but yeah it's meant to be a "magic item" type of artefact rather than a location or feature or whatever.
And just to be clear, there is no "post Omus". He's the god of Time, after all - he wouldn't be a very good one if he didn't keep happening.
Don't worry, I'm joking. I don't plan on doing anything too drastic too soon. I'm actually feeling more like branching into Shaping/Spawning (though I'm trying to play Omus as someone who works with what he's got rather than creating brand new stuff).
First, map is looking awesome.
Second, regarding the history, Nos didn't really teach "hydromancy." It's more of "current-mancy," I guess, but mainly, it sounds like others have a plan for creating actual hydromancy, as so we might as well leave the name to them. What Nos taught the Kalamar is "Unami."
Three, out of curiosity, am I close to a new domain? I had thought I might have gotten one by now, and I've been wanting to claim "Magic" for a while (as might be indicated by all the magic's I am creating :P)
And yeah, you should hit it this week.
Don't worry, "Magic" fits Nos (just remember, muck about with my Chronomancy too much and you'll find yourself sucked into a temporal anomaly!)
Mmm... not... sure... what to take as my other domain. I guess I could take, like... 'civilization' or something. Anyone have some interesting suggestions for me?
Either way, due to not spending much PP over the past two weeks, I have a total of... 16(?) PP saved up. And no idea what to do with it. Suggestions?
Yes, as always. Room for at least a dozen more, I'd say
as always. Room for at least a dozen more, I'd say
As always
Skimmed through the IC thread and noticed that the method for tracking PP has changed somewhat.
Also, I will warn you all ahead of time that I've been out of the D&D loop for some time, so I may be a bit rusty when it comes to monster/ creature generation. I'm sure I won't have too much of a tough time though
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Name: Altuna'Rhai (Short: Altu)
Holy Symbol: Lightning Warhammer upon a Cirrus Cloud
Appearance: A tall, slender humanoid with hair that trails off into sparks of lightning. His garments appear as an ordinary golden toga with black embroidery on the seams, but then it trails off into arcs of blue lightning as it approaches his feet. He has an exrpession of doubt and concern, but he usually keeps a relatively straight head. He carries two golden bracelets around his left arm that glow with energy. A tattoo of his symbol can be found on his shoulder on the same arm.
(Proposed) Domain: Lightning
Misc: He uses the clouds as a focus for his creations and he can sometimes be found sleeping among the clouds.
I hope to do a drawing of him at some point.
[edit] Lightning!
Tech: Err... whatever it says on the last reset? :P
Level 3, 2 chaos 1 storm (when you create the domain, that is), 1 generate, 1 impose.
Xeadin: Yeah, the rules are *quite* different than before. We debated and refined them over the course of a month... so... things are very different.
Tech: Err... whatever it says on the last reset? :P
Level 3, 2 chaos 1 storm (when you create the domain, that is), 1 generate, 1 impose.
And what, 3 Generic right? How would I go about 'creating' the domain?
Its a craft action.
We could totally use a god of Fire, too. It's well past time, and this would could use like a Prometheus or something.
I call dibs on begetting! (If I can find a way to rationalise it...)
Holy Symbol: A line shaped into a spiral
Appearance: A cloud, usually shaped into a vague approximation of the body shape of the entity talking to Maiten. However, if no form presents itself, or there are multiple body shapes present, it will take the shape of a very large humanoid.
(Proposed) Domain: Air. Later going onto evolution/exploration/adventure.
Misc: I'll put a little more effort into this tomorrow when I'm not dead tired. This is the jist, though. This concept could be turned into the fire god mentioned above though without much effort. Basically a god whose philosphy is "If you want something, go out there and get it!" taken about as far as one can go.
We could totally use a god of Fire, too. It's well past time, and this would could use like a Prometheus or something.
I call dibs on begetting! (If I can find a way to rationalise it...)
Wonderful. Use your imagination and take your time. We've got plenty of time
Oh, one more thing: I noticed that there isn't a Wiki link on the first page. Just curious on whatever happened to the wiki. Are we still using a wiki, or is all of the gameplay mechanics gonna remain on the OOC thread from now on?
I think Fury might be more up Loki/Dagon or Krulsk's street to be honest. I could possibly do Fire (though Nos would probably be more appropriate for this, or Krulsk again with his Fields of Fire - and he hates trees). I think Air could work quite well with Time, though (cycles or air currents, winds of change, etc).
Toph, when will the next reset be? I don't know about everyone else but I have the PP to do one or maybe even two Begets right now (though I was going to Shape something, too).
I think Toph is meant to OK domains though or I'd get right to it (though I doubt there's be anything wrong with "Air").
Actually, why don't you just create and claim Water? You were saying you had too many PP. You could always then branch out into slightly wider water-related activities.
Remember that broader domains have a much greater effect on the flavor of anything created since Broad domains affect the world in a wider aspect, but they don't have as much of an influential effect as the narrower domains do.
Think of it in terms of a lightbulb and a flashlight. You can see much more with a lightbulb than you can with a flashlight, but a flashlight is much brighter.
With a broad domain, it pretty much solves your issues with the "too much PP" issue, since you'll have more motivation towards creating things reflecting not only the oceans but with water as well. Just remember to control that flow, else you may find yourself with too little PP instead. It's not always about creating things at all times.
Remember that the roleplaying aspect is an important part of the game as well. If you want to dedicate an entire post to be an interaction between different populaces without any PP guidance or influence, go for it. Posts aren't just restricted to the gods and their interactions with other gods and/ or the world.
Sorry for the long disappearance, but had some serious problems with my computer internet, preventing me from visiting the forums and keep track of the game.
Hope I didn't miss too much (although more then 50 posts i've missed)
BTW, I realised that not only do I have left PP than I though, Begetting is 3PP, so someone's gonna have to help me out here (if you guys both want to get begotten this week, that is - though Toph normally updates at the weekend).
Tech, you can't use impose PP for a forge
Sorry Thought... thought you were still up by Camu. Sure... I went up and up and up... until I hit the ocean again.
Ready for ascension when somebody wants to beget Maiten.
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Meant to write Craft, fixed it. It was just so I could use it to make the new Domain.
...I don't suppose I can rationalise that as a domain action, by the way?
Fred: Errr... no :D But if you want, you can put your bonus XP for ascending Maiten into domain... thats like... a bonus 6 PP for you :D You'd also gain a domain level... then again, you're probably going to do that anyways if you just... spend your PP this week, so... up to you. My thought would be to put it in generate, then spend 4 PP this week generating stuff and doing domain stuff and you'll gain a domain, a generate and go up a level, to boot.
Edit: You *REALLY* don't like mountains, do you? :D
Umi already has the ice domain, but if he's okay with it, thats fine.
Went back and changed domain to Lightning. Goin' back to old times.
Xeadin, looks good. Ascend/Beget when desired!
Edit: You *REALLY* don't like mountains, do you? :D
Well, OK, let's just say that flattened like... one mountain. I have nothing against mountains, but I mean, I figured something as dramatic as this should entail some impressive landscaping.
OK I will have a quick brainstorm regarding begetting... get it? Brainstorm?
That felt a bit forced, coming so soon after the other one, and me with not enough PP to do it properly (Maiten got a mountain-flattening explosion, after all) but hey.
Also, just to let you folks know, I will have a period of total inactivity for the next few days. It's the annual family reunion, so I will be gone between Friday and Sunday. Tomorrow, I will be packing up, but may still have time to post between.
if so, what kind of action would it be?
would surrounding my mountain with a cosmic whodeewhatnow that senses somebody's intentions when they come into sight, changing the environment to either mentally guard or slow the person when walking in the area. As this is mental, if two people are in the area, one might see a magical meadow of unicorns, while the other might see nothing but thick thorn bushes for miles. Obviously intentions are based on me, so if me and Ikola are plotting to defeat Krulsk, while from Krulsk's standpoint, they are bad, but they are good from my point of view, so the walk would be gumdrops and cookies (possibly literally).
if so, what kind of action would it be?
At best, what you've described might be best suited as an Artifact (Forge), since it has special qualities to be used by and to affect other beings. Artifacts don't always have to be corporeal objects-- they can be magical fields with special conditions as well.
It was going to be my project for the weekend, so... lets hope I get through with it!Just pointing out to you that if you *really* want some mountains to erode, there are like... mountains literally sitting in water that you could act on.... for funsies.
My mountains, you mean? Not really sure how you'd errode mountains made of water. I mean, I wouldn't expect rain to really do the trick. Would water run off water mountains, or would they just replenish them? I suppose the mountains might dry out, but presumably that would really require general sea levels to drop, and I suspect Umi might have a word or two to say about that.
Shadow, sure... looks like most of us haven't spent their PP yet, so delaying seems reasonable.
It does seem to have been something of a slow week, though. At least it'll let Camu catch up, I guess.
Well, Fred, this means we must plot about... something.
Have Omus and Ikola ever met? I don't particularly feel like checking, so I'd figured I'd ask as I don't... recall... that happening yet (and I think it might be fun!)
You get 2 bonus XP for ascending two gods. Where do you want those XP to go?
Looking at the numbers, one in both gnerate and empower would get you to two new PP/week fast. Both in Impose would also get you one quickly. Domain seems silly at the moment, as you're going to level up in that probably this week anyways... Combat... well, if you want :D
Also, not sure what's going on, things've been slow, and there's not much interaction...most are sticking with their own cliques...
As for whats going on... I'm really not sure. Either everyone just snuck out without telling us, or we're the only survivors of a worldwide cataclysm. I'm hoping the former. Regardless... I'd go say hi to you, or others, but both me and my exarch are waiting on replies... so perhaps you have to come visit us!
It's a shame things seem to have slowed down so much, but maybe it's better that they're not still hurtling along quite like they were before. Omus is just not really the sort of guy who goes out to chat with people so much. Call him a bit reclusive, I suppose.
Which, I am sorry to announce, will be tomorrow afternoon. Something came up at work that... well, I'm not going to have any time, or sleep, likely, until tomorrow afternoon.
To clarify, I have 2 general PP, and 1 Domain PP, right?
If not, I will probably notice you eventually.As for the map. I think there are a bit of forestation and desertification going on, but nothing Omus-y world-reshaping.
I seriously have no idea what to spend it on.
you can *both* claim water
How so?
**EDIT**
Still have no clue where else to spend PP...
Make sentient sandstorms. That might be fun.
The... same way you'd claim it separately? With a craft action?
Make sentient sandstorms. That might be fun.
Gimmie a list of ideas, I have a lot of PP to use, lol.
Also, I'd rather do sentient thunderstorms...elementals basically.
Last committe meeting before I defend and graduate in an hour and a half. Wish me luck, folks! I'll start the reset when I get back.
Make sentient whirlpools, which eat people (and when they're invented, ships). That way you don't step on the toes of the new god of Lightning - and besides, whirlpools are cooler. They could have big scary teeth, too.
That could work, though I need a list of actions to do since I have a bunch of PP.
Oh man, whirlpools with teeth. Thanks for that. *shudders*
I passed! Reset prep commences now. T minus... well, end of the day... eventually going to go celebrate.
Err... isn't... that what we've been giving you? :D
Oh man, whirlpools with teeth. Thanks for that. *shudders*
I passed! Reset prep commences now. T minus... well, end of the day... eventually going to go celebrate.
No, I meant like X amount of PP for this, X amount for that, etc...
I'm just not in the creative mood today.
And congratulations!
I passed! Reset prep commences now. T minus... well, end of the day... eventually going to go celebrate.
Awesome!
By the way, I think I will just put my new domain point into Time. You can't have enough Time.
Have Omus and Ikola ever met? I don't particularly feel like checking, so I'd figured I'd ask as I don't... recall... that happening yet (and I think it might be fun!)
I missed this before, but no, I don't think they have.
And Time it is!
Once you gain 2 more PP/week from...whatever source, then you hop up to level 5 and join Ara and I in having to spend... 45 PP in a single activity in order to gain a single new PP :D
And also, I spent no PP yet, so I shouldn't be maxed out.
Still waiting on a PP expediture, if anyone's got ideas...but I need the actual values (ie X generic + Y Domain, etc) cuz I literally have no idea right now. Been a fuzzy week.
Thought: As per the egg-races... just a note that while I haven't described it at all yet, there is something deeply connecting the three races that I made that hatched from the eggs. Not sure what yet, but... if you're thinking of magics, keep that in mind.
Generic: /3 Domain: Chaos: 0/2 Storm 0/1 Skills: Generate: 0/1 Impose: 0/1 Empower: 0/0 Combat: 0/0
to spend, and no idea what to spend it on.
I've got my god and 2 sentient races (Sahuagin & Locathah), both educated in warfare and prepping for such, and aided by war machines/siege engines, and boats, even though they dont need boats.
I also have a large storm encompassing Dagon's Maw, and the gulf to the north of it (which I would appreciate having large stormclouds added to the map, as well as having the settlement on the island pretty much encompass the island, since I did that a while ago...)
I like the idea of storm elementals...that's not a bad idea...anything else would be very helpful, but I need to know how many PP to spend on actions.
Ie. X amount of Generic/Domain/whatever PP for this effect, and Y amount of PP for another effect and so on...
You didn't spend enough PP in generate last turn :D Spend 4 PP in it this turn and you'll make it.
But... I want to Generate...
Tech, make a giant whirlpool which sucks you into the caverns below the world (could be a demi-plane) which it's impossible to escape from (unless you're like... viking heroes).
BTW, Toph, at the moment we have each species as a race. Will we get them splitting into nations, and would that require, say, a Guide?
To answer your question, though, yeah, a guide would be most appropriate. In general, each nation gains the technologies (guides) of the race it splits off from, but the resources (nourishes) will probably need to be divided between them.
As for toothed whirlpools, 3 or 4 would be plenty. We're still in age 1, although I want to draw it to a close pretty soon as we're starting to develop more and more sentient races, so all spawns still have a 1 PP discount. A giant, toothed whirlpool seems about as powerful as the Mother of All Cubes or... whatever I called my plasma-whale or... that third superior spawn I made.
Anyways, 3 should be plenty. Unless you want like... several of them, in which case 4 would be more appropriate.
In other news, I'm going to be away for a while, so I may be spending a lot of PP on different things concurrently this weekend. If anyone wants to chat to Omus much, well, he might have to come back in time to do that (well, I'm still here for a couple of days).
OK, can someone help me out here? I've got:Generic: /3 Domain: Chaos: 0/2 Storm 0/1 Skills: Generate: 0/1 Impose: 0/1 Empower: 0/0 Combat: 0/0
to spend, and no idea what to spend it on.
I've got my god and 2 sentient races (Sahuagin & Locathah), both educated in warfare and prepping for such, and aided by war machines/siege engines, and boats, even though they dont need boats.
I also have a large storm encompassing Dagon's Maw, and the gulf to the north of it (which I would appreciate having large stormclouds added to the map, as well as having the settlement on the island pretty much encompass the island, since I did that a while ago...)
I like the idea of storm elementals...that's not a bad idea...anything else would be very helpful, but I need to know how many PP to spend on actions.
Ie. X amount of Generic/Domain/whatever PP for this effect, and Y amount of PP for another effect and so on...
This. Again. Since I've yet to get a full answer.
In other news, I will be vacationing in FL for a week starting saturday, so I doubt I'll be posting until I return.
The blattia in question gnawed hopefully on a what appeared to be an unusual kind of rock, testing to see if it was in any way edible. Determining that it wasn't good for eating, and therefore junk, the cockroach man tossed the rock onto his growing collection of oddities on the treasury of his fair town, which to the untrained eye would look very much like a crude sled designed for sliding through bog. But he knew better, this was his town, and he... was it's mayor.
The blattia's chest swelled with pride at the fact, glancing over the residential district and it's fair citizens. To someone who didn't know his town, it would look to be a simple weapon rack with numerous weapons stuck in it. A gigotaur battleaxe, and orcish corrupted steel sword, a yuan-to dagger with poison still on it... but he knew that these were the proud citizens of weapon town. And he was their mayor, with a record holding 100% percent of the voters behind his back. Most of those voters didn't have mouths or hands, but he knew who they voted for, and it was him, their esteemed Mayor! He even had a sash, an old scarf with the word 'Mayor' written on it. Of course blattia couldn't read or write, but if he COULD write, that aimless smudge on his scarf he scribbled in with gunk would definitely have said 'mayor'.
Never before has 'intelligence' been more subjective.
"Good citizens of Weapon Town," he began auspiciously in an address that would forever stir the edges and hilts of his fair towns folk. "Today we have added another item of importance to our treasury! Due to this unexpected income boost, I am lowering taxes by-"
A movement caught his eye, causing him to turn in the middle of his fantastic speech to see... an odd stackey thing! Which was... wait, what the heck was it supposed to be anyway? And how did it eat? Wait, eat? If it could eat, it must be a visitor! And something so able to eat could be nothing but a mayor from another town! What an auspicious occasion!
"Ah, good citizens of Weapon Town, we have a visitor, another mayor!" he proclaimed proudly, before sticking his hand out for the traditional handshaking mayors do when they meet for whatever reason. He had four hands, and it had... none that it could really see, so it should balance out to just one hand shake. "Nice to meet you, Mayor of... stackey.. ville," he hazarded a guess.((...dear god I love these guys
))
Tech: 4 PP: Spawn Beast: Whirlpool Dentata. A whirlpool with Teeth! RAAAAARGH!
For sentient elementals, I would just make that a 3PP Shape or Spawn. I guess for giant toothed whirlpools, maybe even 4.
Thats a kinda cool idea, mostly because I want to see Ocean-exarch and Continent-Spawn duke it out.
It seems... big... to me... just wondering... this exarch... what would it, err... *do*? Crushing things within itself might get a little... overpowered. 'Being able to converse' and basically being a sentient body of water... that would work jjust fine.
Edit: Because I just remembered. I applied to the LoC group about 2 months ago and never got accepted. :P Is that still a thing?
I recognize the magic system, Thought. Highly appropriate! Brea-err... Sparks are fun! Thanks :D
Has there been any talk of publishing the rules for this amazing game? It might attract players from the real world, and would potentially add LoC to libraries of nerd folk (how I love them) the world over. It's been years since I played, but I keep coming back to my time here. So much creativity and fun... we need to share this.
That said, 3 observations.
1) You're going to join us, RIGHT? *nudge-nudge* Creativity and fun live on!
2) I'd be all for that, but I imagine we'd have quite the debate about exactly *which* set of rules to include... the set we're working with right now is fundamentally distinct from prior ones, and there are parts I love, parts I... really don't like in the end, and the knowledge that the stuff I love from this version and the stuff I love from prior versions would absolutely not go together :D
3) We'd have to come up with a different name... boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8/lords-of-c...
But in the end... Yes. Its definitely something I've been playing around with at the back of my mind.
Reset is commencing after I spend my PP, which will be quick.
Second...
You know, the Mazunti have come a pretty long way north. They must be rubbing shoulders with the Sahaguin and the Kalamari as well as the Qib. Why don't they just go south?
Maybe we are envisioning different areas? I'm thinking the qib are on the penisulaish like thing near the Maw and the Law (essentially, right next door to the seamounts, where the Mazunti were created). So, that really isn't that far north for them, and as far as dry land goes, its the closest for them. But don't worry, I'd love to give the other races some attention too.
As for the Kalamar specifically, they sent emissaries, but I think those have gone unnoticed. And the Sahaguin are protected by a good bit of a storm. So until they make it out far enough to get past the Qib, there really aren't others for them to interact with.
Oh, and unless you intend to make the humans *really* good builders, then a guide to create the stronghold in the Hole would be better, as that would be more in line with all/some of them migrating there.
We used to have it such that you had to teach everyone *everything*... but people got a little annoyed with the mindless PP-sink to teach races to be more than, well, animals, and so we've scaled it back such that everyone knows how to do everything... just some people are much better at it as a species than others.
Holy Symbol: A Warm Cup of Tea
Appearance: Average Human (for now)
(Proposed) Domain: Tea
Misc: Ryndell Marten is a human born and raised within the wall. After brewing a particularly wonderful cup of Goblin Ear Tea (Not truly made of Goblins ears, but of an herb that looks about as gnarled and flamable) he suffered a stange transformation: With every sip, a divine spark further fused with his soul. Every mouthfull of the strange tea wiped away some of his memories but every taste imbued his spirit with a deeper understanding of the universal workings. By the end of the pot he found himself fully transcended from the mortal coil. Ryndell Marten is unsure of who he is, where he should go in the world, or what his new found mastery of all things tea means, but he knows he cannot remain among his peers.
Also posted in Next Rules and Design Ideas...
We used to have it such that you had to teach everyone *everything*... but people got a little annoyed with the mindless PP-sink to teach races to be more than, well, animals, and so we've scaled it back such that everyone knows how to do everything... just some people are much better at it as a species than others.
In other words, a particular race that is created knows the basic survival skills such as building make-shift homes and tools. That can be easily understood, and it also saves us the PP resources to further educate them in skills they already know but don't know how to implement those skills until they are ready.
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Also, needed to add a little comedy relief before my tagging of The_Fred and Krika
Matt... if you want tea, you can have tea. I wish you the best of luck.
Ninja-Toph strikes again. Clear to post?
I want to know more! *twiddles fingers waiting for Thought to reply to him. Or Shadow. Or Timmy. Or Ara, for that matter. Not picky, really... :P
Maybe. I'll give it a few more hours, and then you might get to help me introduce a character.
There is only one solution: Take a break from life and focus on LoC for a day or two. Yes, that'll do quite nicely...
Now post, before you are the Death of me!
Give me a moment to Order my thoughts, and I'll reply.
Anyways, where are the Mazunti on the map? I thought they lived under the seamounts, but I can't seem to find said seamounts. Are they those little green triangles in the ocean south of The Law?
And I'm done now, I promise.
And... ten miles isn't that much, so... no, thats probably not too much. 3 PP if you really wanted to be sure.
OK, can someone help me out here? I've got:Generic: /3 Domain: Chaos: 0/2 Storm 0/1 Skills: Generate: 0/1 Impose: 0/1 Empower: 0/0 Combat: 0/0
to spend, and no idea what to spend it on.
I've got my god and 2 sentient races (Sahuagin & Locathah), both educated in warfare and prepping for such, and aided by war machines/siege engines, and boats, even though they dont need boats.
I also have a large storm encompassing Dagon's Maw, and the gulf to the north of it (which I would appreciate having large stormclouds added to the map, as well as having the settlement on the island pretty much encompass the island, since I did that a while ago...)
I like the idea of storm elementals...that's not a bad idea...anything else would be very helpful, but I need to know how many PP to spend on actions.
Ie. X amount of Generic/Domain/whatever PP for this effect, and Y amount of PP for another effect and so on...
This. Again. Since I've yet to get a full answer.
Still need answers here.
And I'll restate: LOKI/FENRIS ARE GONE. It's ONLY DAGON now.
There are 2 races created by Dagon, The Sahuagin, and the Locathah. (The settlement on Dagon's Maw needs to be MUCH bigger, as they now encompass the entire island.)
The storm Dagon created should shroud the island as well as the gulf to the north of it.
Both races are prepped and ready for war, and will be striking out soon.
I NEED SUGGESTIONS (AND PP-BY-PP EXPEDITURES) FOR ALL MY PP I'VE GOT SITTING AROUND, PLEASE.
So, am I understanding you correctly that you want another player to basically play your god for you and decide exactly what you should spend your PP on? Also, please read up. I did give you a suggestion, in the format you desired.
Everyone:
I was planning on resetting today, but my afternoon plans turned into dinner, evening and late-night plans. I'll do it tomorrow morning.
Just a reminder to please put your expenditures into the form, otherwise I have to do it and I'm more likely to miss something!
Reset is commencing.
Edit: I now see that you have already entered Umi's PP expenditures. Thanks for that, and sorry again.
Also, if I could use my new domain to claim water, that would be great.
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I mean, how interesting. Do go on!
Dagon:
So, am I understanding you correctly that you want another player to basically play your god for you and decide exactly what you should spend your PP on? Also, please read up. I did give you a suggestion, in the format you desired.
No, I meant based on what I had spoken about before I left (ie, the storm elementals and such) what would I need to spend out of the PP I had to make it happen. A suggestion of 3 or 4 PP helped, but doesn't really answer the question of what types of PP needed to be spent/how many of each.
As you wish. Giant map changes incoming! :D
Speaking of... you want a map of the moon(s)?
Thought: I am taking my God elsewhere later today, so... if you're going to answer, please do so soon!
Tech:
Tech: 4 PP: Spawn Beast: Whirlpool Dentata. A whirlpool with Teeth! RAAAAARGH!
Tech: 4 PP: Spawn Beast: Whirlpool Dentata. A whirlpool with Teeth! RAAAAARGH!
Got it, but what PP does is need?
Like, 2 General + 1 Chaos + 1 Storm?
Sure, Tech, why not?
Tech: 4 PP: Spawn Beast: Whirlpool Dentata. A whirlpool with Teeth! RAAAAARGH!
Got it, but what PP does is need?
Like, 2 General + 1 Chaos + 1 Storm?
Yeah, that sounds pretty good. A storm-born, chaos-filled toothy whirlpool of doom.
Well, you have until the end of the night, you slacker. Then I'm spending all my prodigious PP to do lots of interact-y things.
Now I just need to figure out who to send my creations after...
Wait. Thought... was that a 'posting soon' or a 'I'm out of here, suckers!' alons-y?
It was an "I'm posting soon," but then more things came up. Start of term's never a nice time, it seems.
*mutters fitfully about someone stringing me along with declarations of postings...* :D
You'll note, I haven't declared once that I was about to post. So, presumably you are talking about Shadow, right? :P
I don't think I declared I was going to post anywhere either.
Sic them on each other?
/facepalm
No.
There's no reason for them to turn on each other.
Oh ye of little faith, we can come up with 'reasons' for anything!
That said, feel free to attack any of my guys.
I would say set them on the Mazunti, of course. Those pests are annoying my lovely frog-men!
Wow it looks like I have some catching up to do!
I would say set them on the Mazunti, of course. Those pests are annoying my lovely frog-men!
You've got frog-men, I've got pirahna/fish-men...I see a likely alliance here
As for attacking the Mazunti, approach the idea in-game...send an envoy to my people and we'll see if you can sway them to your cause.
"Ooh I'm going to have fun, but this can wait until tomorrow."
You make me... anxious :D
Oh, wait. I do, don't I *rummages*
Uh.... nine. Nine resets.
Keep in mind you only get PP for a week if you post in that week, though, so presumably you don't have a bajillion PP
Incidentally, do I now have an exarch... on your exarch?
Also, are we going to continue the conversation? Or have I struck him speechless? :D
I'm out of town at a wedding, which is why I haven't replied yet... but I'll do one now.
Just remember when it comes to dragons, be very careful because you are tasty and go well with tea!
"Ooh I'm going to have fun, but this can wait until tomorrow."
You make me... anxious :D
Omus has evolved quite a lot of life and suchlike in his time. I feel I'm not representing the true balance of light and dark. Toph, didn't you make dryads or something recently? I need something to wither and kill with age...
Any ideas on who to sic the Sahuagin, Locathah, and Storm Elementals on? I'm not sure who they'd really have an issue with aside from the other sea-dwelling humanoids, but that's too generic...
I *think* the Sahuagin only have a power-score-thing of 3, and I don't see the Locacath or Storm Elementals being much higher. They'd have to all be fighting the same thing to win.
Either way, I apologize for not posting much. School starting up again makes it hard to post. I'll get something up soon-ish, I promise.
Any ideas on who to sic the Sahuagin, Locathah, and Storm Elementals on? I'm not sure who they'd really have an issue with aside from the other sea-dwelling humanoids, but that's too generic...
I *think* the Sahuagin only have a power-score-thing of 3, and I don't see the Locacath or Storm Elementals being much higher. They'd have to all be fighting the same thing to win.
Either way, I apologize for not posting much. School starting up again makes it hard to post. I'll get something up soon-ish, I promise.
Um, what?
And they were boosted in my last bit of actions by storm/chaos energies.
Someone else has storm.
The populaces are taking me long enough as well :D Teaches me to procrastinate this badly!
I would say set them on the Mazunti, of course. Those pests are annoying my lovely frog-men!
Come come now, the frog-men are over reacting. A single psychopath who happens to be a turtle-dwarf goes nutters on a village, and the entire race prepares for war! Well, okay, I guess the nation proper also did abduct a few froggies, but the rest of them wouldn't know that. And they are being treated as nicely as scientific specimins could be hoped to be treated.
EDIT: Oh, that reminds me, I had paid for other magic systems to start having costs, which includes cryomancy and chronomancy, I believe (I think those are the only two magic systems Nos didn't create)?
Chronomancy actually seems simple, considering that Nos already connected knowledge of the future and past with temperature. To use Chronomancy, I'd propose that one must first store up the appropriate temperature, in order to access those powers. For example, to use powers related to the past or the slowing down of time, one must store up coldness, while in order to produce powers related to the future or speeding up time, one must store up heat. When the powers are expended, the temperature is released as well, with all the normal effects that temperature might cause. Or, in other words, release too much heat at once, and you might combust. Release a lot of cold all at once, and you might get frostbite (or you might freeze yourself).
Cryomancy, since it is based on bubbles, might require one to store up one's ability to speak. And, while expending the powers, one has visions of the past (since, again, the cold is related to the past).
Thoughts?
EDIT EDIT: Ah, I just saw Hobcraft. I'll have to think on that one for a while.
For Chronomancy proper, I was going to go with it having an inherant danger rather than a cost, but hey. I guess I should detail the subschools more, too - what I was calling "Histomancy" I think I'm not calling "Remembrancy", with Histomancy being a bit more like your suggestion for it. Actually, there is quite a bit of overlap between the two, but I guess that's not unlike real life.
RE Hobcraft - it is meant to be less of a magic system as per say and just something they do. I mean, if life magic? Hard to say. Is Hobcraft magic? Hard to say. In this case, though, it is all coming from within the Hobgoblins, so it would probably just make them tired, which seems fair. It would mostly be limited to illusions and glamers, so it's not like they need to expend the energy to blow things up or anything.
Oh, Xeadin. Just a reminder. There is no molding of land anymore. Now we 'command' it :D
Oooohh, that's an interesting twist
I've done a lot in the IC thread to no avail, and none of the stuff I mentioned several times was added to the map. Plus, everyone's off in their little god-cliques, so I'm just going to bow out.
It was fun in the beginning, then it just didn't quite do it for me.
docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq2...
Basically... synergy bonuses are propelling the Mazunti and Kalamar above everyone else.
Edit: Also, Fred... I apologize, but a few of your expenditures weren't being caught properly by my code, so you should have reached level 5... oh... a week or so ago. Everything is fixed now.
Also, Tech-priest, stick around. I've ben busy but I'm just starting to get rolling and I intend to visit every active god in the near future.
Anyways, question for you. If I were to react with great anger and shatter one of your moons into an asteroid belt... would that be okay with you? I have a few alternatives I'm weighing in my head about how to react to what you did, and thats the one that I think might be most interesting.
Answer me that, and I'll post!
Also, Fred... I apologize, but a few of your expenditures weren't being caught properly by my code, so you should have reached level 5... oh... a week or so ago.
I knew it! Ikola is trying to keep Omus back for her own gain! I will be the Overgod!
Do I get some sort of "PP rebate" for that, then?
Plus, everyone's off in their little god-cliques
You should just mess with their stuff. Send your guys to war and throw like a bazillion Harms on everyone else. Then they'll start paying attention to you, the fools!
tracking things backwards, you should have leveled up 2 turns ago, so sure, take 2 extra generic PP.
Shadow:
Duly noted. Alternate plan #34 activated.
Populaces are finally being tracked. There are some surprizes :D
docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq2...
Basically... synergy bonuses are propelling the Mazunti and Kalamar above everyone else.
Edit: Also, Fred... I apologize, but a few of your expenditures weren't being caught properly by my code, so you should have reached level 5... oh... a week or so ago. Everything is fixed now.
How come I don't need a Google account to view the god PP spreadsheet, but I do for this one? It works fine if I use the link in the reset post.
Also, preparing an IC post now, about time. I don't get PP from the past week, because I never posted, right?
And yeah, thats the way it goes...
docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq2...
Fred:
tracking things backwards, you should have leveled up 2 turns ago, so sure, take 2 extra generic PP.
Yay!
Try this one?
docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq2...
It's the same.
The Ala-Qib were meant to get Chronomancy, not the Qib-Atha.
-I may have made a mistake, but the Vampire Squid were meant to be spawns, not shapes. -I guess they could be either, though.
-I think I did this after you wrote it so no worries but Hobs get Hobcraft too.
And a question: does Harming the Silverfish have an effect on its resource value? And BTW where is the iron? (OK, two questions I guess)
Boo Toph. No response to me :P
Also, Tech-priest, stick around. I've ben busy but I'm just starting to get rolling and I intend to visit every active god in the near future.
Plus, everyone's off in their little god-cliques
You should just mess with their stuff. Send your guys to war and throw like a bazillion Harms on everyone else. Then they'll start paying attention to you, the fools!
I'm recuperating from the flu(?) or something...soon as I'm feeling better, I'll get on it....if someone would like to assume command of the Sahuagin/Locatha/Storm Elementals, be my guest. I was in the worst pain of my life last night, kidney stones were a walk in the park compared to this...
-Will fix that.
-Yeah, wasn't sure myself... you said shape, but they seemed 'spawny'
-Yeah, that'll get added at the end of the week.
And yes, it did have an effect. It cost 2 PP to make the resource, so your 1 PP harm reduced its value by half (so thats why the races with access to it now have strange half-points).
According to Ara's post... the iron is just liberally sprinkled about the world. So pretty much anyone who wants it can just pick it up and use it. (maybe a 1 PP guide describing the creation of mines or the like?)
Not sure if people have seen this or not, but if you like RTS games... this is worth a look.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/659943965/p...
Although I will have you know that I did at one point consider accidentally dragging the Void over accidentally.
Also, hilarious. You left me and walked right into a god calling himself death :P
Oh, yeah... we'll just say its the center... just put something indicating... this.
Also, is the nature domain claimed? I don't beleive it is but I'm not sure.
Nature domain is... sorta claimed, in that Nerdzul was ascended as it, but never posted... that said, no rules against two people having the same domains, so... regardless, go for it.
Yep. But yeah, no reason *not* to have it. How Nature and Order are going to play nicely in your psyche is something I just have to see.
Hmm, a world where "natural" looks ordered and almost manufactured... that could be cool. Kinda like Fibonacchi numbers showing up in nature in our world, right-angles could show up in this world.
Anyone's welcome to assimilate/kill/etc Dagon, his minions, and the Chaos/Storm Domains.
And hope you get better, Tech
Ara. Grim Reapers. Lets do them. Counterpart to the Angels, which are like... 'friendly' reapers, I guess.
(Been kinda busy, will try and post a reply to that tomorrow)
Toph, what do I need to do (mechanically) to make this seed sprout, btw?
I'm going to be setting up a cult in the next few days (swamped at work, or I would have done it already) whose goal is the sprouting of the seed. I'm thinking that the secret to getting it to sprout is the gathering of special ingredients to make some uber-powerful fertilizer... moss from the underbelly of the walking continent, slime plucked from the Mother of all Slimes, stuff like that. So I'll be making those resources as well...
Then, I guess... mechanically, if you wanted to sprout the plant, all you'd need is to have an organization have a) the desire to sprout the plant (a guide) and posession of the seed itself and all of the resources necessary to sprout it.
Honestly, I was planning on this being less of an in-game event and more of an actual potential campaign for people to run, but if you want to have some fun doing it here... well, I'm up for that! Poor world.
It would make a pretty cool (and slightly unusual) campaign story - I might even try running that sometime.
However, increase it change, right? Entropy tends to disorder and all that. Thus, as the God of Time, I'm quite up for you trying to choke the world in plants.
I was thinking it fell into one of the permanant Oases of the Mirage Valley. That should be complicated enough trying to reach it and make it... difficult to remove, as any living object found outside said oases is killed in moments when things change from forest to desert.
And excellent! Begin the descent of Ikola into madness and evil!
No one (except for me) has spent any PP this week, as its been a slow week. We *could* reset, but I'm leaning towards just waiting till next weekend. If anyone has strong objections, let me know.
Also: Thanks Fred, that was fun
I was kind of hoping that seed would just sprout on its own. Well, perhaps given a little Time... I can wait, though.
Omus is sad that non of the other gods are as intelligent as him.
EDIT: Epic post s up! And I continue to taunt Ikola just a little bit :D
We don't have ice caps. We don't... actually... appear to have any *ice* at all except the orb of everlasting ice (which does not appear to create ice... at least not without direction) and the effects of magic exploration of the past. Ergo, while I completely agree that putting a sun hovering above the earth *would* melt the ice caps... as before we had a fairly uniformly heated region and no ice caps were ever mentioned... I call shenanigans that they now both exist *and* are now melting
However, it has nothing to do with ice caps. The sea level rises because the water in the oceans expanded with the heat. Only slightly, but there's a lot of sea to expand.
Even on our planet, arctic melting ice doesn't do much for the sea level I believe since it's mostly underwater anyway, and it shrinks when it melts, though antarctic ice would contribute.
Since I'm bored at work, I did some calculating (helped by the internet). On your average backyard pool (12x24) by say, 4.5 feet deep on average, if you raise the temperature by, say, 13 degrees, the pool level rises by about 0.1 inch. This is equivalent to a change from 1296 cubic feet to 1298.4 cubic feet, or a % change of (rounding up) 0.2% by volume.
Using our oceans as an estimate, we have... 1.3 billion cubic Km of water on earth (never actually looked that up.... thats an impressively large amount!). Lets assume that instantaneously, we increase the temperature of that water by 13 degrees (Farenheit). This would increase the volume of the ocean by 0.2%, expanding it to... 1.3026 billion KM cubed of water. Or a change of 26 million cubic kilometers. The area of the ocean is 361 square KM. So those extra 26 million cubic KM equate to an increase in the height of the ocean by .072 meters at every point of the ocean, or... about 3 inches.
A catastrophic flood
But okay. Why not. You spent the PP, so it counts. Time to make a post-post-Omus map!
Edit: hmm. I failed to take into account other parameters. You may be right after all.
And anyway, who said this water doesn't expand more than our water?
And yes, that would be what I wasn't keeping in mind... differential expansions at different temperatures.
And of course I could very well be completely wrong and be pulling all of this out of my bum.....you decide! :P
I'll post IC one more time, to tie up loose ends and dissolve Umi into water or something.
One question before you go - is the sea salt water?
Aww man, that's tough.
One question before you go - is the sea salt water?
Yep. And the rivers are fresh water.
Looks like we could do with recruiting a few more people, too (now we can have gods of ale and washing up and all sorts of civilisation-based things!)
Ara posted. Woooooooow :P
Now... what to have happen...
I feel we should either wrap this thing up or try and 'relaunch' it. In terms of wrapping it up, having the WorldSeed sprout and start spreading over the world only to be stopped at the last minute might do. If we want a relaunch... well, then that might take some more planning.
), and having some new baseline, then going and finding everyone who has dropped out or... never started... and inviting them back in on an even playing field. And then we see where this seed takes us. I've never played forum games before and I might be a bit slow at starting out, but if anyone would'nt mind PMing me with an explanation of the rules or a link to a simpler explanation then I'd love to give this kind of game a try.
In essence, you get a certain number of "PP" each turn which you can spend as outlined in the rules, to do stuff. That's pretty much the crux of it.
Toph - it actually occured to me that if anything, we should have more PP at the start, when the world is young, to do things like shaping continents, and less later. I can almost imagine adding a "Primal Age" before the existing three ages where everyone gets an extra PP per round or something.
The main complaint we all had in the end was that... it got kinda desolate. By the time the game ended, due to player attrition, we had like... one player per planet, and it was... difficult... to start any sort of interactions. Its why, ever since, we've had a push to try and make it HARD to create competely distinct landmasses. Part of me is wondering if we were missing the point
I have many thoughts about this iteration, and what worked and what... well... didn't. I think I'll open up a post on the group about it: community.wizards.com/lordsofcreation
But I think the main issue is just overall critical mass of players. The Forums are in a strange place at the moment, where 4e is kinda... old... but 5e isn't yet on the horizon. Assuming things follow the same pattern for 5e as they did for 4e, the forums will get a lot busier, and therefore more potential players will show up, and we can get the proverbial ball rolling and keep it going with new blood.
Which, speaking of... Hi Jamespies! I'm going to stop navelgazing now.
We'd love to have you join. Fred summarized it fairly well, and your feel of it is exactly right. Each week you get a certain amount of 'power' to spend that week on a variety of actions, such as creating a moutain range, directing the dwarves to delve deeper into said mountain range. Creating something to emerge when they delve TOO deep, and then harming the dwarves as they flee in terror from that which was Deep.
In reality, though... Player X creates a mountain Range. Player Y moves his dwarves into said mountain range. Player Z says 'there's a Balrog in that mountain range, and its now attacking you' Each player does that for their own reason (World Beautification, Race Stewardship and vendetta against Player Y and all its creations, for instance), and in the end, you get something cool.
For instance. In Lightvoid (linked in the first post), the Goddess of Light creates a world from the corpse of a dead starbeast. Its true nature is forgotten, and the beast is eventually petrified and turns into a standard world named Yrie. Eventually, several races and mighty nations appear on the surface, and they begin to grow and fight and flourish. One, a nation of titans, grows very powerful, and becomes one of the dominant powers in the entire universe. A series of 'evil' Gods approach the patron of this nation (me) and propose to put it to the test (very Job like). I agree, and they begin sending armies of the undead against the city, which devolves into a protracted siege. Eventually, an alliance of 'good' Gods intervene and drive the undead from the deserts where the titans lived. In response, the evil Gods create a spell that raised ALL of the dead on the planet. Including the planet itself, which, over the course of a week or so of posts, shakes itself to pieces, killing everyone except for the Titans, who had fitted a rocket onto their capitol, and flew it away to a new world. There was a tarrasque and a religious cult and a few other things as well.
Anyways. Its late tonight, but I'll PM or post here tomorrow and try and explain the rules!
Basically, the game is this: You start off with a domain. This can be anything... water, fire, civilization, plants, gnomes... something that you are the god of. This domain gives you the ability to spend 1 point of power towards any action that involves that domain.
So, for instance, if I was god of water, I could make water soldiers (a shape), or make a tsunami (a command) or provide healing springs to the gnomes (a nourish) with the power from my water domain.
In addition, you'll have other sources of power... some general (you can spend it on anything) and (eventually), some specific, which can only be used on a subset of actions.
Each week, you get a certain number of power points (PP) split across your domains, your general and your specific pools. From these, you spend them to perform actions in the course of your PP (If you play 4e, its kinda the equivalent of the psionic pool of mental power that you use up slowly over the course of a day to do things that have lasting effects). When you are out of PP, you can keep RPing, but until the reset, you can't do large actions.
As you perform actions, your amount of PP will go up. We adopted a sort of Elder Scrolls approach to it for the game... if you do something more, then you'll get better at it and be able to do it more often. So if you do, say, 'Generate' actions: creating monsters and forging divine artifacts, then you'll slowly gain additional power in that category. The easiest one to level-up is the Domain category... just keep doing things that are appropriate to your domain, and you'll gain additional points that you can either use to become stronger in that domain or claim a new one.
So my God is the god of life (and civilization). As a God of Life, the way I've been playing it is a god that is creating species all the time, and helping them to grow. So I have a lot of points in generate and empower, as those are the two categories I've been doing the most things in. On the other hand, I have very few points in Impose, as my God isn't doing that. If I had wanted to be another sort of Life God, one that, say, is interested in maintaining and manipulating the ecosystem. I might impose my will more often, but nourish less often, so I would have a lot of Impose and Generate instead.
In all honesty I don't like the idea of joining an already existing game, but if a new game will be started anytime soon I'd love to join as a god something like this:
(My apologies if I haven't used the template correctly)
Name: Pruinus
Holy Symbol: Snowflake
Appearance: Priuinus takes the form of a beautiful women whose body is entirely composed of ice. She appears as if she has been carved from ice perfectly, with not a single flaw or rough patch. Upon her shoulders are a set of beautiful angellic wings, these wings are made of pure white snow. It is said she creates mighty blizzards simply by flapping her wings. Despite her entire body being composed of ice, her movement, expressions and actions all appear to be those that a normal human could do.
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For those having trouble envisioning this, my god likes very simillar to ice sculpture in the link above, but with the addition of angellic wings.
Domain: Cold.
(For what I envision my god doing, I thought it would be best to use a very general term for her domain, which is why i picked Cold but lesser domains could include Winter, Snow, Frost and Ice.)
Misc:Pruinus believes that by creating a tougher environment for things to live in, the creatures within will adapt, survive and ultimately, improve into new beings. She also believes that simply by lowering the temperature in an area, new forms of life can arise that would never be possible in lukewarm or hot tempearatures. Therefore, Pruinus see's it as her duty to spread snow & ice throughout the world, challenging life to overcome these obstacles and change for the better because of it. She is benevolent god and by no means wishes to encase everything in ice, she respects the right for life to flourish in environments other then harsh cold, but she is by no means a pacifist and will fight to claim what she see's as a fair portion of the world for the creatures of Winter. Ultimately however, everything Pruinus does is to encourage, sustain and improve life in any form.
If I've gotten anything wrong or left any vital info on my god out, I would much apreciate if you could let me know.
Thanks guys, look forward to creating a universe with you.
If you like what you have seen, please join us! If you have friends, have them join us also! This is one of those games where, the more people there are, the more fun it really is. really.
Thanks for your help
Guess that means I'll start working on some summary posts for the game, and then start loading everything into the wiki for posterity. Not sure when it'll happen though. In the meantime... everybody head to the group http://community.wizards.com/lordsofcreation and we'll start talking about the next one.
Thoughts?
Holy Symbol: A Vaguely feminine outline that suggests pleasant curves and sinuous lines that seem to dance as the eyes stray across them.
Appearance: Gian appears to be a succubus-like figure, with sharp backwards curving horns, black lucious hair, and a very curvy frame. She does have wings of a span of 60 feet, but they are covered in downy black feathers.
(Proposed) Domain: Pleasure/Seduction/Lust.
Misc: She is a wild kind of person, favoring freedom and love over most other values.
What is the nature of the creation/discovery of the planet the game will take place on?
Do the Gods merely find a blank planet, and start to shape it as they see fit, do they create a new planet entirely out of nothingness or some other option?
Reading through the previous games, it seems different each time, and I'd just like to know how we'll come across the planet which we shall shape.
Thanks in advance for replies.
We often try and come up with some sort of motivating story... for this latest one, we had a barren world come upon by an Elder God that prompted the de novo creation of new divinities.
For the one before that, the entirety of creation was a game of hide and seek between two gods who had grown bored with the normal ways of life (really a shame we didn't see that one off properly)
Another was two opposite planes colliding together after some time.
And for (many) others, its 'the universe was null and void, and lo! a Spark!' and away we go.
If you want amusement at how convoluted that could get, take a look at Aetheric Realms, or LoC2. Early on in the game, the entire world changed shape (in dramatic ways) several times over the course of a week or two. Thankfully we didn't have any mortals at that point, or they'd be VERY confused.
Gin and Gray, sadly you appear to have caught us *between* games, as we've just drawn the curtain (as it were) on this current iteration. We'll start another one up soon, though.
By the way all material we make here is open game use, so if you wish please use any and all material in the LOC universes for your own homebrew games! And if you do, let us know about it in the group forums, I know Topheh, the others and I love to hear stories about that!
Still need to put this game on there. loc-central.wikia.com/wiki/Lords_of_Crea...
There's probably an invite floating around there somewhere
You are now a member!
I've created a Doodle poll to see when people are availible the next few weeks. Hope to see everyone there!
www.doodle.com/2vb9x8iimis4k29f
As is, I'm going to be hanging out in mibbit all week, and lets try to meet up there this thursday and saturday evenings. Looking forward to talking to everyone!
We have an important announcement. We are going to be starting up a new LoC near the start of the new year! Please come on Saturday to the mibbit chat to discuss the proposed rules and talk to one another about your plans!