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Teehee

Howdy guys

Theeheehee?

Lol, hello.

Heyheyhey

Oh! Let me know if you want a solo adventure or a group quest.

If you start off in one and want to move over to the other, just say the word and it can be done.

I think I'll be ready to start later today. just finishing up reading the source materials.

Uziel would probably seek out Azraile as a fellow "changed being" looking to understand how magical power can influence flesh and bone.

Not comfortable Returning to his faily's sphere of influence Uziel will be looking for the chance to explore magical incidents and enigmas.

He knows enough to know he isn't a researcher or explorer and will gravitate to following and supporting a more practiced individual. though He won't take orders.

Az is not in cannon game but i'm working on another, and when the main story stuff moves over here I got Aflae.... she's deffently a 'changed' being.  Second generation of experimental shard-fordged. (name she coined... as opposed to shard-born for people born with weird Balur realated powers, shard-fordged where infused with weird Balur abilities... first one by necessity, second generation by force in exsperimentation, and third volintarely with some acidents, now fourth where they know what causes rejection and how to do it (slowly) with out causing problems.  Still it's painfull, at the best your looking at tattoo's.... at the worst your looking at shoving Balur into your body and your body regecting such a large amount painfully, then doing it again a few times till you reach the needed level of balur in the body.)

Second generation involved babies >.< and a like 200 horrible deaths.
This message was last updated by the player at 14:31, Fri 23 Sept 2016.

Well I'm ready for anything.

Aflae is a bit OP at the moment, but any combat that involves an OP player and a regular player will have at least two enemies, where the OP player is kept busy. Everyone will have something meaningful to do.

I think it might be best if we start everyone off in a solo, just to get a feel for posting rates etc. But let me know if you want to join with someone else.

I'll start a thread for each player.

Aflae worked very very very hard though ^.^ hehe

All these crazy magic people and I'm just a floating eel-squid-balloon-thing with a robot.

Just kidding guys you're all cool :)

*Gives ell-squids a hug* soo cute!

boooo forget the currupt old nexus... come to Auraluna!

if an adventure doesn't have use for a robot driving air squid and a down cycled fallen angel, i'm not sure what the point would be?

and I was most interested in Cenotaph

(moved over stats for Aflae... not items though... just to see.)

Not so much OP as far away from starting point.

OOC though if Aflae hurd about his story she would be interested in it. But the fact she is running a company, dealing with personal problems, and atleast three potential multi-world ending disasters ....... um good luck getting a hold of her.

LOL

Poor girl needs a vacation but every time she looks to find one something else pops up.... she's going to just have to get a place with time flowing difrent so she can MAKE time off.

well honestly Uziel might make a good "trouble shooter" for Aflae. I'd be willing and happy to do a solo adventure on the payroll of Your PC and eventually bring the stories together.

Well, if you want someone to get into the nuts and bolts of things, Kuruno's a real gearhead. Just ask!

Well The hook I just threw out for a story was hunting a ghost ship that was lost inside a colapsing portal. I thought it fit the mix of PC's on the page. Uziel is making inquires and if you want in on the thread (and the Narrator goes for it) it would be fun.

if your PC has a backstory I would be happy to join in a story thats focused on another pc as well.

I'm open to that. I have an Idea

So this means Kuruno can join Uziel

That would be the most likely outcome if he could get in touch with anyone in the company... a reasonable pay and set amount of exspences covered to help him find out what happened to him, maybe a small reasearch team.

But getting a hold of her would garter more because she would be interested in anything sustaining itself outside an oner as that could allow a ship to travel outside the bounds of time and space into the void between realities.

Meaning a ship could literally go anywhere/when.... wouldn't work, but wouldn't stop her from investigating it.

But the company itself wouldn't show much interest as they already are making prototype portal ships, and portal space bubble ships would not be woth the cost and risk for the advantages.

As for Kuruno... her company is paying healers and gear heads to get crystal-forge tattoo's to give them crystalsmithing skills and work for them. Just to see what they can come up with and work in R&D.

Though i can't remember who is in charge of the engeneering/crystalsmith R&D or if a NPC was ever assined ether way he could aim to work his way up and be in charge of his own department.


AATF is another company they could look into for the same stuff.

Though
......

Can you even tattoo an ell/squid /alien/balloon?

Most likely. Nurelians are fragile but they're not paper thin. As for the whole job deal with those guys, Kuruno didn't study in magic; but his clockwork experience is what he prides himself in

Thats what there looking for very good mechanics and the like.

Just looking for ones willing to undergo painful surgery or tattoo application to be able to do stuff like make self aware clockwork automatons and light cannons. Lol

Something to consider... but even if the char CAN do it though there is still the fact it will hurt a lot and take time to recover from.

It would be like getting a tattoo with stuff that burns and that gives you an infection. The body regects the balur at first (which is why some people can't get them because the regection/infection will kill them)

Nurelians can heal faster than others on a natural level (else a popped gas sac would permenantly cripple one), so he probably would be like "sure, I'll get over it". Thing is he probably won't be aware just how bad/painful/etc of a thing he was getting in to was
This message was last edited by the player at 18:44, Fri 23 Sept 2016.

They can lesson the pain but it still sucks, not interested in full on forging

Also yay for a gm not afraid of mentally unstable chars!

Maybe I'll add my ratkin engineer Glitch next.

Nothing like having a shaman/engineer thats just as likely to tair you ship appart as she is to supe it up with spirit magic and engineering that probably wouldn't work if not for the spirit magic behind it lol

I already submitted a picture... if some one don't have plans on doing so could you submit this one:

http://img13.deviantart.net/ec...bion_art-d9w6vc1.jpg

@Gamma; Lost and Found

If you're waiting on me, don't. I'll make my post after the next.

not - was at work. Thanks though!

So who gets to set me free?   :3

Help is on the way!

Just FYI for everyone

If you are looking for items you can buy, a list of a few of the near infinite available items is available in the Notice thread "Market"

Item prices are based almost completely on their gameplay functionality. If it alters your roll, it costs a set amount.

The "Make Your Own Item" Notice Thread gives a detailed method on how to create your own item.

Ultimately, if there is something you might want to own, consider how expensive it should be and how good of an item you want it to be. Let me know these things, and we'll work together to design the item.

To give you an idea of some items that would be common:

Anything available in Victorian England - and its magically enhanced version.
Fireblade
Sharpest Steel Blade
Shotgun
Energy Shotgun
Elfen Sword
Projectile Deflector
Forcefield
Laser Pistol
Mechanical Swordgun
etc

computeresk devices made of microscopic gears.

On the scale of personal finances then I take it there is no problem with having a former soldier assumed to have background appropriate body armor, and a side arm, basic non modifier providing obviously.

You are correct!

How do you feel about these?

Obsidian Sword ((this sword will change over time)) current estimated value: c165
  +1d6, Drop lowest 1 dice and +1d6, +1, reroll 1s

Basic Soldier's armour: c1
  deflects some projectiles, dampens blunt force trauma, prevents laceration and puncture

Sidearm: c100
  +1d6

works for me. and thank you. Also, thank you again for letting me join. I hope to be able to post once or twice most days. But IRl my job is crisis oriented, so if i'm gone a day or two it's likely that.

No problem. My ideal post rate for myself is twice a day for each thread, but I'm in a bit of a RL situation. I won't be posting tonight in all likelihood. If you want to interact more with each other, feel free.

Post moved for clarity and thread width
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:58, Fri 07 Oct 2016.

So when you are ready to roll for advancement, you will first want to check out your character sheet. I will keep the CS info up to date as much as I can. But I'll leave your inventory up to you to look after.

So let's say I am the PC: Barbarian Barb and I have the following cliches
Barbarian Berserker [5/5]
Willful Woman [3/3]
Gambler (2/2)

I check my CS and I have

******Barbarian Berserker [5/5]
*Willful Woman [5/3]
***Gambler (1/2)

And I want to roll for advancement. I need to have all evens to advance.
I will spend one * in the cliche I want to attempt to advance first.

This is pretty good for an advancement roll start, as long as I have at least 3 more *.
I still have 5 *s so I'll spend one to try to make an odd number even.

That didn't work. I'll try again since I still have 4 *s. This time, since I need to roll at least 2 evens, I'll spend 2 *s at once.

That worked! Now my advancement roll has 5 even numbers 2,6,2,4,6 and I advance to Barbarian Berserker [6/6]

I didn't even spend all the *s so I have
**Barbarian Berserker [6/6]
I'm probably not going to succeed another advancement roll now, so I won't try yet. I'll save up my *s in BB for now.

Should I try for an advancement with Willful Woman? I could and it might work (12.5% probability of success), but I'd rather save up *s in WW for now. Even though the first number is 5, I can't use it for an advancement roll. I have to go with the number on the right.

Now that works in my favor for ***Gambler (1/2). I still get to roll 2d6. There is a 25% probability of success on the first try, and I have 3 *s. I could save up, but I want to try anyway. I'll spend 1 * for an advancement roll.


Not bad. I'll spend another * to change the "1" I rolled.

And it worked! I end up with

**Barbarian Berserker [6/6]
*Willful Woman [5/3]
*Gambler (2/3)

**********Analytic Spy [4/4]
*20:24, Today: Kantoku rolled 10 using 4d6 ((3,2,1,4)).
**20:24, Today: Kantoku rolled 7 using 2d6 ((6,1)).
*20:24, Today: Kantoku rolled 1 using 1d6 ((1)).
*20:24, Today: Kantoku rolled 2 using 1d6 ((2)).

******Cartographer (4/4)
*20:27, Today: Kantoku rolled 17 using 4d6 ((5,5,6,1)).
*20:27, Today: Kantoku rolled 15 using 4d6 ((6,5,2,2)).
*20:27, Today: Kantoku rolled 3 using 1d6 ((3)).
*20:27, Today: Kantoku rolled 1 using 1d6 ((1)).
*20:27, Today: Kantoku rolled 4 using 1d6 ((4)).


***Rogue Ace [3/3]
Waiting for one more * before risking it.....
This message was last edited by the player at 00:29, Sat 08 Oct 2016.

Uh, guys? What happened to my description?

sight wide error

Ah, thanks. I was wondering about that.

is everyone ok?

The election results caused both a lot of celebration and turmoil from various different people. Give it time, things'll return to normal.

Yah lot of realy pissed of people not wanting to talk to anyone over here.  >.>

Yeah. That and Leonard Cohen dying have me down a bit. But I always get up again.

Motto for 2017-2020; "Until the bombs fly, the end is only nigh."

Everything ok?

Yeah, just really busy recently

ok

Finally a few hours to use as I want!

hazah

oh if anyone is on steam got the same name there.

Sorry about the inactivity. Holidays have me busy. Will try to reply tomorrow.

*Edit*

There was a fire and I'm trying to get things back in order. Might be today or tommorrow instead. Sorry
This message was last edited by the player at 13:25, Wed 14 Dec 2016.

Ok, no prob.

I'm sorry to say due to a death in my immediate family. I'm going to need to bow out for the foreseeable future. My apologies.

sorry to hear that *offers hugs*

I'm also sorry to hear that.

Unless Kuruno returns, we'll leave the rest of the thread on pause.

Kantoku, there are two ways off of the thread for you. Death makes the most sense and will require the least retroactive gaming.

If Kantoku dies somewhere in the arc before they escape the planet, he will be reborn in Stellaland with no memory of anything that happenned after he lost contact with his meta-self. The arc can be temporally (that is the correct spelling) concluded at any time since they are in an unconnected universe. They could escape in 30 seconds from where we left off and not arrive for thousands of years, or they could take hundreds of years to escape and arrive right now.

Would you like to take that course of action? It will just mean sacrificing Kantoku at some point if the thread picks back up. Then Lantoku could start a new arc or join an existing one.

I am neither gone nor forgotten. I've had some fairly major repressed memories surface, and I'm sorting them out. Be back soon.

*offers hugs*

Huge one revealed in the last few days. I feel like I'm a straight monogamous male human version of Az
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:51, Sun 28 May 2017.

Well that's confusing....ly diffrent chars than you started out with XD

Hey Az,

I want to focus on one storyline primarily. I'll still GM the others, but I wanted to really press through them one at a time. Which one is your favourite at the moment?

I guess alfea

any thoughts on another GM and more players maybe?

also thoughts.....

Parking problems - when you ride is a planet.

Yeah, alright. I could deal with that. If you want to GM a few players I'd be cool with that. I'd have final say on if something could happen, but you'd have free reign within the current framework.

I'll start focusing on Aflae.

Interesting thought about the planet. But with portals, you don't need to factor momentum.

anyone alive?

I live, but rarely come here now.

Thank you for playing with me for so long. You have been a very fun player and I learned a great deal from you.

aw this was a nifty game *pouts*

I meant what I said in Aflae's thread.

*ponders fish out of temporal water and the psychological impact of a 'modern' society on someone from a medieval stasis/theme park setting*

Try pondering that same fish when the first computer was invented 111,500 years ago, and every bit of tech above steam engines and clockwork was rendered useless 12,250 years ago.

Hehehe.

hi everyone, I'm new here looking forward to this!

Although looks like the narrator boss mispelt my name in my thread, this is a good omen :P

In reply to Ceryni (msg # 78):

Ty! I totally missed that. Fixed

no worries, I feel appreciated now

*shrug* He did the same to my job/role in my thread's title and on my character sheet. I understood what he meant.

Lol, I sure did. Sorry about that, fixed now.

Just started a short fast, last night I couldn't put 2 thoughts together, but I hope to post a reply to everyone tonight. If anyone is interested in joining their storylines with anyone else, please discuss this between yourselves here or in PMs. If I get two or more people who all want to be in the same story for a bit, I'll arrange the stories to fit those characters being together.

*wonders who the Narrator had in mind to pair him with in Tine's adventure*

*wonders whether he ought to brush up on babysitting and chaperoning tropes*

A question about Magem and Balur:
Are they the same thing? I can't quite figure what Balur is from the posts I can see, but the description of it as an entity which has power over physical things made me wonder if Magem (which grows like a living thing and also has power over the physical) is another name for it.

Superb observational skills. Magem is the common word for Balur. Balur is its name, but only the people who know its history and origin know the word Balur.

In general gameplay, I'll ignore any use of the word Balur and just mentally replace it with Magem. Except for those characters who are aware of its actual name. The problem is, it is an entity which doesn't want too many people to know about its existence, or its purpose. It finds that people who believe it to be inanimate are more likely to use it without hesitation, while people who know it is conscious try not to use it because they don't want it to spread faster. Before Balur was introduced into the primary universe (Oner 0), Portals were extremely difficult to create. Once Balur discovered the existence of Portals, it simultaneously discovered that it couldn't create them without the conscious will of another.

I should get to writing responses.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 86):

Actually, I can think of a number of ways to make portals through other forms of magic. One game system in my collection actually has creation of pocket universes as a beginning level spell (although the duration is quite short), and the upper levels include a spell for resurrecting a recently destroyed (full size/infinite) universe.

There are, of course, an infinite number of ways. But Balur won't open portals to universes where those spells would work. Balur is a living entity with motivations and controls the most potent form of magic in the known multiverse.

Of course, there has been a monkey wrench thrown into Balur's plans by another living entity who didn't want Balur to succeed. Now Portals are opening to all kinds of Oners with all kinds of magics.

Magics that are based in the physical realm or use some non-sentient form of mana, are easily adapted to Balur influence, and Balur will usually take control of them, causing itself to become the mana of that magic, and learning how to do that magic in exchange for more powerful results.

Magics that are based in the spiritual realm or use soul/spirit or sentient mana, are more easily adapted to Magus influence, and Magus will usually enhance those magics, and protect them from Balur.

And I would say that the Oner that Bozon is from (as well as the neighboring one that the Pavaric followers came into his world from) would probably have been Magem-free until it was discovered and tourism began.

Stands are an exstention of peoples souls...... there are PLENTLY of people able to see spirtual stuff.

In the anime there are even people with out stands that can see stands, think animals could too.



There are ways for people with no balur in there system to use it.... it just requires getting it into your system.  Aflae figured out a few safe ways to do this quickly.

Including surgery to give you full on balur powers by implanting crystals into your body.  (though thats costly as it's surgery lol)

Basicaly people that can use shard magic are shard-born (have a high consentration of balur in there body)...  she perfected creating shard-fordged which some psyco came up with subjecting her and 300 some odd other people to cruel experiments (most of whom died) ... he wanted to make himself super powered, and got killed for his evil crazy ways..... but they used his research mainly to create shard-fordged healers, because shard-born healers are such a rare gift.

make a better world and all....that and money >.>

she wants to make a better world... but you need money for that.. XD
This message was last edited by the player at 14:45, Tue 28 Jan 2020.

(has both az and aflae) ^.^;

ACTUALY now that I think of it......  kinda hard to shard-fordge a ballonie!.... XD

However she did come up with shard tattoo's too.... which are similar and are a lesser version shard-fordging.... cheeper too.

His 'skin' could be infused with lines of balur.

In reply to Aflae (msg # 91):

He's not fundamentally a balloonie, that's imposed on his flesh and blood self via his people's sort of magic. But I think that I'd rather than Bozon works with being an outsider with his style of magics than taking on either of the major, mainstream magical ways quite yet. As a beginning apprentice, he has a lot to learn.

I'm combining magic systems and pantheons from several published sources in cobbling together Bozon/Hergot's world. Gods such as Gruganu, Ksarul, Dra, Hnalla and Thumis are from the best-known of those gaming sources, while other elements of his world are from more obscure games. I also pulled in themes from the novel Dark Lord of Derkholm.

I can see it now..... an experimental correctional planet in StellaLand, so far away from anything else the only stars in the sky are just there so there are stars in the sky. Surrounded in an impenetrable barrier separating it from the rest of StellaLand, only accessible by directly shifting people in and out by the Star Lady. A massive world made up of continental plates floating around in the sky... each with there own gravity... each there own world totally different from each other, different rules, different everything all tailor-made to there inhabitant.   Each plate shifting and changing to suit the needs of the inhabitant, all run by the core of the planet, a sefisticated AI made to help them.

And now the more I think of it the more it sounds like a cross between Septerra Core and Infinity Train with hardened criminals. >.<

XD lol
This message was last edited by the player at 16:40, Tue 28 Jan 2020.

Your GM's GM has finally broken through a wall in my will.

Eh?

Eh is right.  O.o

Why does one number on my character sheet keep rising?

It was a [2/2] cliché originally, then became [10/2], and now I see [21/2].
I'm confused.

It's my way of keeping track of your mana. The mana of Hergot's world interacts strangely with the Magus of this universe complex (all the universes connected via Portals). Whenever you use magic, I roll according to the rules I established at the creation of your character, using up some of that mana. The mana increases according to my assessment of your description of Hergot's emotional pain.

He's still a level 2, but the extra mana adds power erratically to your spells.

Ah. I begin to grasp it.
Like the remarkable pie.

Precisely

Also, just an OOC hint, Magus is completely uninhibited by metal

In reply to Narrator (msg # 101):

Not that poor Hergot/Bozon has the slightest knowledge of that. Wouldn't you be operating on the assumptions of your native culture, with such a short time since having been brought to a new place?

Especially since no one has told him anything about Magus yet.

Precisely. Nor about Magem, so he just knows that those gems are worth a lot of money.

So if he sees some form of earth magic in use, he's more than likely going to be thinking about in terms of what layman's knowledge he has of the brotherhoods Osdez-Gozrol & Felekan-Gozchaal, not the terms and understanding that the elf children would have. Fire magic, he'd be thinking in terms of the brotherhood Faani-Avaia, Pavaric wizards whose magic is rooted in Vimuhla, or priests of Vimuhla or Bssiro. Etc.

More of a magical paradigm mentally than a scientific one translated into magical forces, perhaps?

I can tell you white and black ones arn't normal.... lol

Aflae is rediculously rich and she's only got one white one and like two black ones.  (though her white one is pretty big ^.^;)

Though now that I think of it...... she could look into buying more >.>

*face palm*

Though getting one from anyone who knew what they where would be stupid expensive, if they where even willing to part with them.

Won't say what they do as not to spoil anything, but they are exspesnive..... normal magum colors though:

WATER - a real dark blue
FIRE - a bright firey red, go figure
EARTH - a vibrant green
AIR - a light airy blue
VOID - a deep purple

I wonder... seeing as Balur/Magem is fairly common in some of these worlds, what pests consume it as food? Can a Magem crystal get a disease?

*ponders the Sathid crystals of the Cycle of Fire novels, which are individually sentient psionic/magical power sources rather than a collective consciousness, and what kind of chaos they might cause for both Magem and Magus*

Gamma, Lost and Found....while never finished.... was about 'sick' Magem lifeforms.

A whole planet of them.

Also.... the fact that there are so many black/white crystals kinda scares me. >.<
There are just way to many of them for how they are created.

.......

O.o

I had more to say but I got compleatly distracted by hairy black holes on TV.....

I know it's not actualy hair ... .but thats a distracting thing to say....  LOL

Was that played in one of the inner groups? Or as another game board, now deleted?

AH, yes sorry it was a group 1 thing... sorry. It might have spoilers too if the GM wants to finish that mission as it never got finished. I don't remember exactly what happened there I would have to read it over myself but yah something was wrong with magem life there.

All I remember is the creatures where eating other forms of magem like crazy and we where using are emergancy MAD units to form a trap targeted to suck up all the creatures and contain them.

Matter Accumulation Devices suck up a targeted form of mass and store them in 10 or 100 gallon capacity void magem marbles. Together between the lot of them and the emergancy shelter they had like 24 or so marbles that only conained air.... and a total of 50 marbles if they dumped all the food and water in them. So 2400~5000 gallons worth of volume to suck up as much as they could and wait for help.

lol

may or may not have worked being MADs arn't ment to work that way, they arn't weapons and have lots of things build in to prevent them from being used as weapons.

It was in another group, but I've put it in the main group to let you read it.

The crystals were supposed to be Void and Air - I just forgot that they weren't black and white. It's basically just a psionic arm using Magem. In my mind's eye that pirate originally had one regular arm and one arm with a hook, but since I typed it wrong, I liked the idea of him having a magic invisible arm and so I just went with it.

So... balur isn't just a single mind, if parts of it were consuming other parts. Unless that was its' immune system?

There goes the idea of somebody trying to pull a Grand Theft: Me on Balur by pulling a mind/body switch with a large quantity of it.

Some one kinds did that. >.>

It didn't end well.

Thats why we have shard-fordged, part of his exsperements was making himself more and more Magem by just shoving large amounts of it into his body.... and he was testing it on other people first. After he figure it out, he did it to himself.... big time.

And then went further.....  when a macro version of the gray goo scenario by making thousands of magem clones of himself that could make magem clones of himself that could make .... well you get it.....

Blech.

I would think that you need some kind of finite or slow-renewing resource essential to the magem lifeform to stop something like that. There are other ways I can think of, but my mind isn't in a great shape for explaining them at the moment.

It broke down magem to build the magem parts of it, and broke down flesh to build the flesh parts..... and other meterials to build felsh to ... and just.... it was not fast but it wasn't much anything could be done about it.

Spoiler for how they fixed it.

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Magem ended up using princess bubblegum style time travel to send Aflae back in time to fix things after a hundred years or so of trying to stop it and failing.

IE - The used the power of an star sized chunk of magem collapsing into a singularity to rearrange the molecules in the oner back the way they where before it all happened.

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Oh while I'm thinking about it..... You may notice I have some very odd ship names.

I get them from the Culture books... or just use a similar naming style. XD

So don't be to supersized if you see weird ass ship names pop up around from Aflae's company.

Her first ship is called the "Funny, it worked last time...", and her flag ship is the "All The Same, I Saw It First".


I've always loved how they name ships.... Like a first contact ship named the "So Much For Subtlety", the "Bad For Business". or the "Synchronize Your Dogmas" XD

https://theculture.fandom.com/...n_the_Culture_series

there is a list
This message was last edited by the player at 05:46, Fri 31 Jan 2020.

Odd naming doesn't surprise me very often. I've heard of The Culture, but never actually read any of the books.

I love the Culture books.

Regarding Balur, I'll OOC clear some things up before it gets out of hand.

The self-replicating guy was using Magem as power and mass, but didn't "become" Magem's mind in any way. If I remember right, Magem stopped him, not because he was harming Magem in any way (he wasn't) but because a universe filled with just one person copied over and over is just boring, and Balur was bored so it reset all the matter that he was connected to and have Aflae the opportunity & motivation to kill him before he got started.

Balur is one single entity (as long as a connection to the Oner containing that Balur exists). In the Oners where Balur evolved, there are Balur eating creatures of multiple varieties. The Balur-eating creatures in Gamma were originally sentient, but the mind destroying spell created by the planet's ghost devolved them into mindless Balur eating worm-things. Balur hates anything that threatens it and works hard to eliminate threats.

ah I thought that they where balur too.

*puts the discussion of Balur aside and resumes pondering ways to entertain and be horrified*

*wonders if balloon pirates get drunk on helium*

Well they would get light headed

So what ever happened with Stella trying to find a way to feed the warden's roots with out help from a spirit that wants blood sacrifices >.>

Also post 1000!  ^.^

*boggles and tries to guess how a 2 die cliché resulted in a 44d6 roll*

*fails to comprehend*

Intentional exaggeratedly easy spells. Magus is studying you and trying to understand your understandings of magic. Each spell you cast will make it a little bit smarter about your intentions and how to interpret them, as well as how to interpret your mana. It's learning your mental magic code language so that it can effectively assist your magic in the expected way, only enhancing things a little. But for now, it's way misinterpreting you to your advantage.

Scuttlebus… reminds me of The Crawling Castle from the Infernum rpg books. City-sized cockroach that someone had built their citadel inside the (still living) exoskeleton of.

Yeah, Scuttlebugs don't survive the process.

Though most shells are scrounged from their natural corpses, they are also hunted for their meat.
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:20, Wed 05 Feb 2020.

The Crawling Castle most certainly did. Its' chirping was one of the more feared things on the circle of Hell it roamed.

building in the exoskeleton kinda indicates it's A BIG BIG bug....lol

Mr Narrator

Sorry quick question before I post. I assume my 'thief' abilities are still reduced after the fight so I would need to rest before I could attempt anything with them at their normal level?

Full power. It's been long enough since the fight, and Diffle did heal you most of the way back to full recovery, so full levels in all cliches.

Just a reminder, Ceryni, DD and Shadowjak are all welcome to join the 0C. thread.
This message was last edited by the GM at 06:38, Sun 09 Feb 2020.

Well they are machines made with technology and magem so who knows what that spell will show.....

In reply to Aflae (msg # 132):

Dunno. *shrugs*

*reads the latest post in Salphron's thread, and ponders making a second character with necromancy... now where did I put that Domovoy's character background?*

I considered making a good necromancer.... but desired to play salphron instead..... antihero's are fun from time to time.

He can be kinda evil at times.... he had considered killing a young lady to empower his sword. But instead desied to try and turn here elemental nature to darkness first and get her to bless the weapon to see if that worked........ then if it didn't he could kill her.   Because having a dark-sun celestial queen as your ally is a lot better than having half the celestial kingdom out for your head.

(but didn't happen because the chick litteraly PAYING the dm money got her favor, because the story keep getting put off and off till she had cheesed her way to power and by that time she was way more powerful than salphon.... when the story had first started it was the other way around)

I'm debating about which big-bad to introduce next. Which Evil would you be more interested to see:
-Ancient Sangwen
-Malemagus Wizard
-Kami (kind of like a rock golem, but fully sentient)
-Dragon
-Joe

None of the above?

Motivated by a desire to see something completely different? Or by a desire to avoid conflict?

Something completely different. Plus, I'm not a big combat player.

*wishes he was at his own lair, since he doesn't have his copy of "Bob, Lord of Evil" here where he is*

And some music from various cultures around the world...

Turkish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZscWQdztSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2kBNb79bN8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZHP6a7ULr8

Israeli:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bds3FALcR7M

Kurdish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPZApB00ASM

Tunisian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2rKORvyOcM

Armenians (in exile):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsmmQ1EqSIc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkPbJIlEXow


Russian (also Belarusian and Ukrainian):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXJWNfcnvAc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcjNIjZSjoY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QopDnWOBcuM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOtEC4wCA40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZALtzTmPz-E  (actually a Slovakian band, but a Russian folk song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqfrljOcUIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu0G_9x-6-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAGXQLim75w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba5RbR_igbQ  (shot in Israel by a Ukrainian band)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNpLuXOg7xQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7KkitOhppY


And a few musical performances which are just plain unusual...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNgkxyMMfiE  (classical with a twist)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2NgAWLe7x8 (Australian video arcades seem to be a bit different)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU (A Dwarf band? It's not just the one song, either.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9B9pvdtuns  (They're not Russian...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf--ISBmLno  (The last nightclub that most multiversal travelers would be expecting...?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNENVZFHutQ  (The song is well-known, but the presentation is anything but normal)

*ponders a MMORPG in which the newbie mobs drop wallets when killed... some of which have personal effects such as crayon drawings from the monster's kids expressing love for their mommy or daddy who the player just slew*

Oh btw may I suggest nfs018 for the narrator portrate? (Under neutral spell caster)

Mr Narrator, quick extra, he didn't answer if the job needed doing immediately or if Cery has time.

I find it funny it's only been a few years and despite the relative cost of a marble. (i mean the 10 gallon ones are cheep, but the 100 and 1000 gallon ones are EXPENSIVE... the more mass youre storing in a small space the more costly it gets)

But everyones using them and people are using them for smuggling.

How quickly is shard metal/wood/plastic/glass items spreading?  o.o

Considering they can alter there shape.

Guessing other corporations are using them to make weapons? >.<

In reply to Aflae (msg # 144):

It also says that you should be getting enormous amounts of business, if not royalties, for your company.

*eyes that metalwood fruit salad that Jen had on the Scuttlebus*
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In reply to Ceryni (msg # 143):

Hey Cery, all the time in the world.

Aflae: let the CASH FLOW!!! You's rich!

These bad things! lol

oh well.... everything gets missused >.<

You can't prevent it. u.u

*ponders the potential insane abuses of turning people into balloon buffoons, and other cases of more primitive societies' magics coming into corporate mass production and ease of consumer access*

There are so many things you can build with materials like that.

*contemplates gnat lasagna*

Aflae or Az, go ahead and reroll according to the advancement rules that Bozon used. I like them better, anyway.

I reconsidered how I've been treating double pumping, and I'd like to put it back to the way it was but modified: (3/3) pumped to (2/3) rolls 4d6 but if it is a success in combat, the enemy takes damage equal to the amount pumped +1. [3/3] pumped to [2/3] rolls 5d6, but also increases damage by 1 if successful.

How do you all feel about introducing triple pumping {3/3} pumped to {2/3} rolls 6d6?

I'm keeping double the opponent's roll to double the damage.

I feel there may be unanswered questions, so I'll try to answer them if you resend them.

I'm ready to bring Kantoku back, since I know where everything is going, and he should be alive for this. Also Lugosi survived Gamma. I'll post to Gamma after everyone else is updated.

Can existing clichés be upgraded to a higher pump level, or to larger dice through advancement?

triple seams like a lot o.o but if you want that..... dose that mean aflae's
Renaissance Scientist and Crystal-Fordged Polymancer become tripple pumpers?

actually come to think of it shouldn't Vagabond Halfbreed Elfin Scavenger  be a dubble pumper?

and as for me rolling I am going to wait till I got more *s .... high level stuff is hard to level =p

Even if your still alowing the dice+1 *s = auto level I still need more *s

Going from ()'s to []'s use to be halfing your dice number or combining two cliche's.... not sure if that is still the case....

wich is why I ask because SEVERAL clishes whent into making renaissance scientist, crystal fordged polymancer had 3 or 4.... and the scavenger had aleast 2
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18:18, Today: Azraile rolled 9 using 2d6 with rolls of 6,3.  *Kinaari Royal [2/2]***.

18:17, Today: Azraile rolled 9 using 2d6 with rolls of 5,4. Shadow of a 'man' (2/2)**.

where already rolled I'll re-roll the odds...

21:47, Today: Azraile rolled 6 using 1d6 with rolls of 6.

21:47, Today: Azraile rolled 3 using 1d6 with rolls of 3.

Giving *Kinaari Royal [3/3]*   (though don't know what is with the * before the cliche)

21:48, Today: Azraile rolled 2 using 1d6 with rolls of 2.  Shadow of a 'man' (2/2).

Giving Shadow of a 'man' (3/3)*

The old way of combining cliches gave unfair advantages when they were combined from a lower level.
So I'd like to do it the following way, but I'm open to suggestions.

To combine two cliches, all *s must be used up & they both have to be 6 or higher, but not both the same.
Swimmer (6/6) + Cyclist Runner (8/8) = ***Triathlete [6/6]
*s are here given 1* for the first level over, 2* for the second & so on

To take one cliche to the next pump, halve the level like this
Triathlete [7/7] can then be upgraded to *Triathlete {3/3}
1 * is given for odd numbers halved.

Azraile, I've been putting the *s before the cliche lately instead of after.

what about spending *'s to level with out rolling? that still done?

 I don't remember the reasoning I had for whatever formula before, but it seems to me that going for chance should be rewarded. If I had (100/100) I'd need to reroll about 50, then 25, then 13, 6, 3, 2, 1. So, 1+2+3+6+13+25+50+1=101. But there is a chance that I'd roll worse than that, so 1.25x current level would be close to a guarantee. If you didn't want to bother rolling the die, I'd be happy to auto upgrade with 1.25x current level. So, from (4/4) you'd need 6*s to auto upgrade. That way, there is still incentive to roll. I'm fine with you rolling d2 instead of d6 since we're just looking for even numbers anyway.

well i might do it if i get a really good roll one of my free advancement rolls but otherwise with some large numbers I just don't get good luck with dice rolls to try it. lol

Sorry mr narrator I wasn't clear, I don't want to buy the storage marbles, what I want to  buy are regular marbles of a similar size as in the kind of marbles that exist in our world and kids used to play with.

The cost of those would be negligible, but they would be completely unhelpful. The customs officials would be scanning for void marbles and checking their contents since void-marble smuggling would be common. Regular glass marbles would just be ignored. But Cery can have marbles for free. If he played with them growing up and if he's nostalgic, he'd likely have a bunch already.

If he's got $400 he could get a flight harness and emergency kit.... not only are they useful but they come with 5 20-gallon marbles and wouldn't be uncommon for people to have.

If he's planning on trying some slide of hand to hide the marbles he's smuggling while there checking the other 5 those would be right on his harness for all to see.


rechargeable battery (25/25), flash light and lamp, space heater/cooler. Produces water, air, and a nutrient paste storing it in V-marbles and is able to use shard plastic to produce mask/tubes to use them. Has a spot to hold healing pills and comes with 10, and an Anima version of a M.A.D. Included for clearing rock-slides. Can hold 5 marbles for water/air/food/MAD storage and includes 5, 20 gallon ones.

Emergency Shard Skin Space Suit and flight harness (5/5) Provides air/heat and protection from the void of space, has flight capabilities and a self recharging battery.

Standard marble set up is one nutrient paste, one water, one heat, and two air, but it can be set up by the supplier and the self recharging battery will re-fill anything used up over time.

They have proably seen people try and use those kits to sneak some in.... maybe even being sneaky and putting marbles in marbles if you can. Like having a food marble also hold a smuggling one.  (don't see why not a 20 gallon could hold a 10 gallon)


Down side is if you ever work for Aflae you would probable get one for free with a better flight harness/suit =p  lol

*wonders if marble-created food pastes have the same drawbacks as spell-created foods*

drawback is the food has a high magem content as while it can acumulate water out of the air it can't make food out of stuff in the air easly so there magem fenangling done there for the food....but for some people thats a pluss.

But it is meant to be emergency food... it don't exactly taist amazing or anything. Think the blandest of oatmeal... it's not grate, it's not terrible, but it will keep you alive.

Could have probably made something nicer but it would drain the battiers a heck of a lot more and it's hard to make something that taist good, give you all the nutrients you need, and comes out in a consistent paste.

In reply to Aflae (msg # 163):

I wasn't thinking in terms of taste. But rather, what kind of long term side effects can it have if you are eating nothing but this for an extended period?

Example: The Nutrification spells of the Pavaric temples provide sustenance, but the foods are slightly toxic in a way that the body cannot easily eliminate. Eating them for a week or more results in enough poison building up that it can harm or even kill, while dining on normal food gives the body a chance to slowly leech away the accumulated spell toxins.

Other methods of magic might lack some vital trace nutrient(s) while having enough of the basic needs to sustain over an emergency, resulting in malnutrition from deficiencies if they cannot get normal food. Or the magical food might be inherently temporary, and the substance self-dispels after a while causing greater hunger than it satisfied.

And is the paste suitable for all carbon life forms, or are there some it is hazardous to due to biochemical differences from the human standard?

They have to be customized to your species needs when you buy them.  So spiecies that don't need food or water can get something else in them if they want too. =p

But yah like I said the foods are just high in magem content. For some one from a world that has had no exsposure to magem it might make them sick as there body fights the infection. (people would be warned of this though.)

People preparing to get shardfordged or tattooed to gain new magem abbilities probably are put on a diet of food made like this, though likely better tasting than nutrient paste.

The only possable side affect I could think of is maybe your body might become dependant on magem rich food and have altered to digest it better, and you might have to be weened off it with less magem rich foods till you could eat normal again while magem is removed from your body maybe..... if you where forced to survive on it and nothing else for a months and months maybe?

Maybe you become some weird version of shard-fordged from eating it for years? XD

You eat SO much you gain magem abilities.

They tested it and it was safe, but it's still heavier in magem than any natural food would be because it's created by it rather than in a magem rich environment.

I wonder how Balur would react to a race whose immune system is completely incompatible with it?

They would probably die....

Same way the body reacts to having blood incompatable organ transplant.... it will attack it to the point of the bodies own determent and even die fighting it off.... even if the organ isn't harmful.

However i think it can addapt and become compatable because don't seam to be anyone incompatable.... just less compatable... some people died figuring this out in anima... they tried the magem tatttoo's to help spread magem healing skills because they where rare and healing skills in general are rare-ish and Anima was trying to cerate a start for a health care system of healers and stuff....

but well it didn't turn out well a few volunteers died even though the process for getting the tattoo's where rather safe....

It turned out some people are not very comparable with magem and there body reacts baddly to it.  These people have to be exposed to magem very slowly for some time before they can get a tattoo, and I don't think they can get shard fordged at all.... they may not have been able to get tattoed even..... but there was tests set up to check for people like this and only like one or two people died..... likely a nice monument to them at the R&D lab hospital grounds. Kinda a "to the people who's sacrifices made this all possable" kinda thing...... along with the monument to the people who unwillingly where killed by the guy who they got the research from..... x.x

Balur adapts to the needs of any sentience it encounters. It wants to be used so that it can spread and eventually convert all matter in ever universe into Balur. The bigger it is, the more intelligent it is. Although it is all one entity, larger nodes are more able to compute information and run its sentience programming. It's like a naturally evolved AI - just doing what makes the most sense for it's longterm goal of being everything.

But it currently considers other forms of magic to be rivals to be defeated. High-technology and Magus were both identified as enemies.

Therefore when it is introduced in large quantities into a person who is heavily saturated in Magus, there is a violent reaction.

If there was a creature that simply couldn't use Balur and live, Balur would weigh the rate of self proliferation in two scenarios: delete all of that species from history or adapt and change to make it work.

Long term effects of eating Balur based or rich foods, would be to have all of your Balur based abilities increased, and your Magus based abilities decreased.

I forgot what was the name of the counterpart to Bonhemotin? And what happened when you mixed the two together. I remember she tried it I just don't remember what happened.

Malhemotin. They mix like oil and water. Bonhemotin floats above malhemotin.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 170):

Why is it that they do not mix, when the components used in making them (if I understand the metaltree process Aflae put together properly) react to form magusstone?

And I take it nothing came of mixing them futher with good/bad blood or more of themself from another heart sorce (ei 4 good hearts of blood mixed) not that she has that many hearts but she has all those blood samples from multiple sorces. Or mixing them with magus stone....

I remember her doing a LOT of tests XD  I just don't remember if anything came up with anything useful. XD

They just got interupted when a guy poped out. o.o

Which reminds me.....  beleave he grew out of heart cells or something?

What happened to the heart the cells where taken from?
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Also, what happened to the guy and what was his story?

Long story short?  He helped her out, checked up on whats been going on sense he was reduced to just a heart, and Aflae gave him a ship to go explore whats change in the multivurse encouraging him not to return to his sleep right away. She did't pry why he placed himself asleep but just was like.... why ever you did it... give the world a chance first before you go back under.

oh the guy fromed from a heart..... I got that wrong....

It's been a while and I forgot. >.<

I need to read up on some of this stuff. x.x  I'm such a slow reader.

I forgot there is apparently some necromancer and black winged person that are antagonists?  They totally got forgotten by me.... there the only reason Aflae hasn't gone off and searched out some time differance place to spend some time studing and trainning in Formagus and Unimagus. So she can under go full body mitosis and open magus portals.

I looked it up skimming through things....

Apparently the necromancer only showed up a few times though some one said he changed bodies and Aflae saw this but she's not sure when she saw another body..... the body she saw was who they thought the BBGs exsperimental test subject..... but turned out not to be a powerful necromancer and possably was the whole reason the BBG was experimenting with shard fordging in the first place to make bodies for the necromancer.

The black winged angle was poping up around the BBG a lot, and turned out had his soul and no one else but aflae could see him... but he was there.

So they are separate beings that might be related to eachother... and both quite possably a serious threat.

Good blood is blood drawn from a willing Sangwen donor.
Bad blood is blood taken from an unwilling Sangwen victim.
The blood of a Sangwen obeys the will of its owner.
When blood is willingly given, once it leaves its owner, it seeks to improve whatever it comes in contact with. It turns poison into medicine, water into wine, makes rotten food edible, dry leather strong again, corroded metals restored, dirty clothes clean, etc.
While Bad blood seeks to make things bad in some way. It turns water into poisonous acid, medicine into addictive toxins, good food poisonous, good leather disintegrates, metals corrode, clothes dry-rot, etc.
Once the blood changes from contacting another substance, it is changed and stabilized.
Good blood mixed with good blood creates Bonhemotin which heals and has helpful effects on Magus skills.
Bad blood mixed with bad blood creates Malhemotin which kills Sangwen, and corrupts others.
Bonhemotin mixed with Malhemotin creates a mixture of the two substances. A Sangwen exposed to this would experience a long, slow, painful death. The Bonhemotin would keep him alive longer while the Malhemotin would eventually kill him.
Good blood mixed with Bonhemotin creates more Bonhemotin.
Bad blood mixed with Malhemotin creates more Malhemotin.
Bad blood mixed with Bonhemotin creates a nutritious sludge and releases unusable Magus into the ether.
Good blood mixed with Malhemotin creates a poisonous sludge and releases unusable Magus into the ether.


Do you remember what threads the black-winged angel is found in? I was looking for him for reasons, and I couldn't remember where to look.

Hmm.

*ponders the effects of a Potion of Inversion on any such blood products, as well as whether a visit to The House of Renunciation might be able to save terminally-poisoned Sangwen and cure Malhemotin addicts as part of the spiritual reversal that the House brings about*

Typically, Malehemotin addiction is cured by any enlightenment event, so it probably would work. As for the poisoned Sangwen, any unrepented wrongs would fuel the Malhemotin enough to kill the Sangwen, so a Malhemotin poisoned Sangwen would have to renounce the consumption of blood as well as their wrong deeds (though not necessarily specifically list them all). So it would be possible to save a Malhemotin poisoned Sangwen, but they'd have to be willing to change quite alot. The good religion of this Oner has cured a number of poisoned Sangwen in this way. Sangwen can consume blood or food, but not easily both. If they consume food regularly, the artery that goes from their stomach to their heart closes itself off. If they consume blood regularly, the tube from their stomach to their intestines closes itself off.

I was reading something about Bonhemotin or Malhemotin coming in contact with good blood crystalizing rapidly and Aflae considering this as a last resort weapon.

Though i think it involved one of them mixing with the blood of another species first.....  like some one having malhemotin injected into there blood streem.... then having good blood injected in after it.

o.o  *shrugs*

I can try and find it again.

The black winged guy was just showing up at a lot of events where Scilick was... he showed up several times and was just in the background.... though his presence drew aflae's attention one time like heavly.... she was drawn to look at him... and then he was gone almost imedeatly after that.

He keep showing up though usaly around stuff having to do with Scilick or Cosmodomini family.

When she got a look at him in a play back or looking into the past.... and looking at him spiritaly she saw he had a halo of thousands and thousands of screaming tortured souls... and Scilick's was one of them. (even though he was 'alive' in the orb)

Well... a Potion of Inversion isn't an enlightenment or corrupting effect. It reverses the nature or polarity of other magic.

The House of Renunciation, on the other hand, can certainly cause enlightening experiences... or the reverse, depending on the person and which room of the House they enter.

I figured out how we can convert his body ^.^

Sharp Magem-glass Body Chasis (in inventory)
[#/#] Multi-array scanning unit  (low)
[#/#] Cloaking shell and feathers (high)
[#/#] High capacity micro omni-drive (medium)
[#/#] Knife-missile feathers (low)


interaction mode
-# to cloaking
-# omni-drive (most of it)


Stealth mode
-# omni-drive
-# knife-missiles

High speed flight mode
-# like all of cloaking
-# scanning
-# knife-missiles (more than stealth)

so he can't use the bonuses in some forms if there damaged and even if they arn't they are weaker in those forms...

*ponders what might happen if some bizarre creature were to grant Kantoku earwax*

ear wax?  O.o

You haven't seen the second character I submitted to the GM yet. It's within his potential to do.

Kantoku don't have ears per-say.

That doesn't stop a Raksha from bestowing a mutation on it. A madness elemental doesn't follow the normal principles of the surrounding reality.

How to be horrible... in infinite easy lessons.

https://killsixbilliondemons.c...elder-of-names-2-34/

Yah I remember saying before base 13 for music but it would be base 12.... now though I got the image of like some future of Anima where they have base 12 computers but they run off there Oners version of musical scales XD

there like what time is it?  oh it's  D#,A past C,C#

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Found the last thing there was on the black winged man....

Before the game ended Kantoku had just send Aflae a feather from him at the site of the scuttle bug explotion... it had dirt on it from Grolms' private island on the nexus... it had gone dark, and drifted away from the city not that long ago.

She would have checked to see if it was an angel feather.. and if there was any precivable difference between it and the other angel sample she had been allowed to inspect... if not an angel... try an analyze it's DNA.

*wonders whether the feather shaft is hollow or solid, recalling a certain race in fantasy novels*

Answers to the last few queries in Anima.

Please post the names of any NPCs you'd like an entry for in the NPCs thread.

Aflae,
  I think that the GM's link was pointing to Agarator in the old game, though I had to tweak what was given a little to find it.

Sorry, yes, that is true

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Seeing what Azraile just tried reminds me of the 3rd edition of Nobilis, where the difference between the Angels (of Heaven) and the Fallen Angels (of Hell) was that the Fallen ones dared to love everything, not just what was beautiful. And since things such as sickness, cancer, corruption, etc. often had nobody else to love them, they got more attention and care from Hell than the things which Heaven adored.

well just because you love something don't mean you want it to hurt people, because you love them too
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In reply to Azraile (msg # 197):

Possibly. *recalls "Papa" Nurgle of the Warhammer universe, the god of disease and also of love*

*baps* ok love can be twisted in evil ways I get it hush you. *huffs*

In reply to Azraile (msg # 199):

*pulls out his copy of Hubris, and looks up the clergy of The Stillborn Unwanted Child*

*bap bap bap*

In reply to Azraile (msg # 201):

Don't worry. It's in my character's nature to be horrible.

seams like his nature is to be scared of his own shadow and needing a good hug

In reply to Azraile (msg # 203):

That could be true, too.

I fear that you left me scratching my head too, with "Write" as a cliché, Azraile. While I can envision what "Echo of the First Word" might entail, include, and permit, the name Write for the daughter cliché seems too simplistic to explain what it is doing beyond literacy.

yah maybe it was a bad idea x.x

It was kinda intended to stay there just as a thing that use to be and might gain access to again anyway but shi's being pushed into an emotional corner
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Mr narrator, I apologise for my absence things have been absolutely hectic at work recently. I hope you'll be patient with me for a little longer and I'll do my best to compose a post at some point during the week.

Ceryni, as far as I'm concerned, real life aleays takes priority. Cery's storyline isn't directly intertwined with the others, so going at a slower pace is really no problem.

Az, good to know Az would be feeling cornered.

I'm holding back on replying as Bozon, trying to think up a good piece for first impressions of such a king as he's just met.

Although... that stated age made it hard to hold onto suspension of disbelief OOCly, since the same time frame showed up in another thread so very recently.

There is an IC reason for it - all sentient species who originated in Oner 0 are about 130,000 years old. All Djin are cousins or siblings and were born within 1000 years of eachother. Anyone from Oner 0 claiming to be as ancient as possible, can't exceed 130,000 years (unless they've time-travelled).

In reply to Narrator (msg # 210):

*ponders the ~200 year old pair that Bozon saw on the Scuttlebus*

I take it that Oner 0 is not where our Earth is/was, than.

There's Djin and then Djini. Djini are comparably weak infants against Djin. Djini are Giants with a little Angel heritage while Djin are 3 parts Angel 1 part Giant.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 212):

So, Giant is somehow more powerful than Angel in this multiverse?
How much stronger than a Djin is a full-blooded Giant?

I'm not being clear. Angels are far more powerful than any other race.
Giants are basically really tall humans with longer lifespans
Djini stronger, taller, smarter, lazier & more magical than Giants
Djin are nearly pure Magus and spirit magic and only slightly flesh. Djin are WAY more powerful than Djini or Giants. Angels are way more powerful than that.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 214):

Angels being vastly more powerful makes sense.
But why would being 3/4ths Angel be so much weaker than 1/2th Angel or whatever the Djin are?

Angel > (3/4 Angel) Djin > (1/2 Angel) Djini > Giant

I'm getting confused as to which is the first generation and which the second here.
Time is a dodecahedron rather than an arrow?

I've posted the list of original sentient species from Oner 0 in the Lores and Oddities thread.

After reading that list of races, I'm getting Synnibarr vibes. Farmer? Soldier? High Priest? Those sound like professions, not races, to my ear.

I'm not committed to the names. I've switched Farmer over to simply Mankind or Man in most of my documents. I must've missed a spot. Soldier also, I couldn't think of a fantasy race that fit that description. The names also fit what their oldest ancestors did for a living in the case of Priest, High Priest, Soldier and Farmer.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 220):

I know how that is, missing things when changing terminology :> I see another search/replace spot missed with "gnomic" as opposed to "Ngomes" which was used elsewhere - by the way, the term "gnome" goes back to the Middle Ages and isn't copyrightable or anyone's trademark that I know of. They were elementals, alongside the undines, salamanders, and sylphs.

Now, Gearfs, Narfs, and Dragons fall into what or where in this family tree of races?

Gearfs and Narfs are dwarfs with a time-period of divergent evolution on the planet Djunk. Like Chinese vs Native American. Not that different, but a little different.

Dragons are a totally different species which have the ability to self-manipulate their DNA. Their DNA works it's way into the human species through various corridors by this point in history, but they started from a completely different heritage.
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As bad as it would be for her to be right...... i half sorta kinda want her to be right....  >.>

Just for the reaction from the dragon at how much she can and will cuss when things go bad.

I'm assuming you read the post in Bozon's thread?

Well, I definitely see something that will make Bozon useful for Aflae… now, what kind of act does he put on for the big King? Oy vey.

yah but already suspected as much, but like she said... thought he was working for himself or another company and things where to hectic to do anything about it at the time..... gama WAS a shit show

No one suspected or thinks it was sabatoge though.... the only reason why alfae even suspects something now is the fact all this talk about bad things, and suffering, gama exploding everywhere.... being asked about it by wise types in a have you thought about what this means kinda way.....

*ponders The Belt of Genre Changing, and wonders whether it brings part of the nature of the Sideways into normal places in how it functions, if made by non-Raksha?*

*considers turning into The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, 83rd Edition, as his next book of disturbing choice*
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I wonder... If he turned into such a book, wouldn't it be horrible if those discredited diseases suddenly became too real?

EDIT:

Well, not quite. Remember the mysterious follower the three had when going through Stellaland? That was Agarator hiding in a golem.
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:46, Sat 07 Mar 2020.

Considering that they are imaginary to begin with, it would be completely in character for his powers to do just that. And there are some doozies in that book.

If you decide to go that way, give me an option of at least 2 diseases and I'll roll the dice to see which one 'accidentally' becomes real - unless Horror decides for himself which one to make happen.

One of the concepts I utilize in this game is that of the hive-person - a person whose body is made up of many different smaller bodies. So every disease has a spirit-person associated with it, and as that person changes over time (even becoming 3 people if 2 significantly different strains develop [the original disease who incorporates all descendants, and the 2 strain-persons which make up its hive-person]) the spirit-person changes too. Therefore, Horror could become a disease for a time, and if he re-condensed into a single body either he'd have control over the evolution of that disease and how it affected people, or they'd all be suddenly cured. The result would depend on a roll of the dice and his intentions. If he wanted it to happen, it would be more likely, and if he didn't care or decide, it would be 50-50.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 231):

Reminds me a bit of one of the demons in Exalted... she's a sentient, contagious emotion that can be summoned, bargained with, bound to service, etc., but requires someone feeling her in order to be present even in spirit.

Although the term "demon" as used in that game would not be appropriate in the Oners, since Exalted's demons aren't fallen angels or anything close to them.

Interesting. I'm a cure for Badblood addiction. Of course, the replacement addiction may be even more disturbing for the neighbors.

Actually demons in this world aren't all fallen angels. Fallen angels are often called demons, but true demons are just unclean spirits. There are different kinds of unclean spirits, and the most common is probably dead people. Ghosts who do more harm than good are demons. Ghosts that consume others or try to kill the living become Shadowmen. People who are addicted to something, become the hive-body of the things they were addicted to in life. There are certain demons (who were never humans) who would manifest in exactly the way you described, needing someone to feel them in order to be present. One of the spirits that doesn't need others to feel it is actually an extinct virus that wiped out the first form of sentient life - a super-complex multi-species ecosystemic organism which had spread throughout the ocean and surface of the planet, and gained sentience as a unit. That life-form became the spirit of Pskaena. The virus that killed it had gained sentience as a by-product of the first sentient being and saw that it could replicate more quickly if it attacked its host instead of working with its host to transmit DNA from one organism to another. It began as one of the vehicles of communication, and it became the spirit of sickness and disease. By killing its host, it died. It's host was resurrected through its survivors and became an even more complex and robust organism, now partially spiritual in nature. One of its children created an auto-looping sequence of emotions in its host's mind which evolved into the entities that need to be felt in order to be present.

Ah, I see a bit better now.

The demons in Exalted were/are the component souls of the Yozis (imprisoned titans) and the offspring of the souls. Thus, you get a soul hierarchy within each Yozi, each soul having their own body, name, personality and powers while also being part of the greater soul above them. The lowest level ("First Circle Demons") are spiritually independent beings capable of reproducing their own kind (often in extremely bizarre ways).

The emotion demon I'd mentioned is a Second Circle Demon, the lowest level in the actual hierarchies, and the level that spawns new First Circle races. I'd have to look up just who is directly above her (Third Circle) and which Yozi they are part of.

The gods in the setting were originally creations of the titans, and used mankind to overthrow their creators, casting the surviving/surrendering titans down to become the Yozis or demon princes. The titans who actually died in that war... became something far worse as well as spawning the art of necromancy.

*the player wonders what a bowl of Strawberry Smiggles would do to the evil, necromantic leprechaun if tricked into eating it*

had some time to think and I might have struck gold for you bozon.

In reply to Aflae (msg # 237):

*listens like a good barbarian clown*

The kids have given him a few things that are sentimental to him that could be given as gifts. ^.^

Figure Bozon is kind enough to forgive an evil person for evil actions knowing evil done on them brought them to this path and maybe some good on them could start leading them away from it..... or least brake some necro's control.... still be evil guy but maybe a little less? *shrugs*

In reply to Aflae (msg # 239):

Kind enough, yes. But what sentimental gift could he give that would be meaningful to a Djin, other than his life and freedom? The igil? The carpetbag? Friendship? I don't know...

*checks The Elder Sister-like One for ideas*

Think it's more a thought that matters thing.

How many years you think it's been sense he's gotten a censer gift that wasn't trying to buy his favor?
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Hmm. Good point.

Very good point. Bozon's magic allows him to power up through misery, and he's about to get some misery. Stall with attempts & power up, and if he laughs first, great. But if not, release a big spell to look strong & gain his respect.

The next post in Bozon's thread will shed some light on possible aids. Bozon, Tine's father, Az & hir sword (works with Echo too), the Dragon avatar with Aflae, Annabelle's twin, Reuel, the old man by the fire with Az's girlfriend, Kantoku, Patrus, and more will all be involved in the planned resolution.

I can think of warp drives of non-tech origin in a number of different novels and webcomics. The Sheewash Drive (the one that you do it with yourself) from The Witches of Karres in particular comes to mind.

And I think that I just figured out two different ways past Dragon's immunity to Magus, permitting wizards to attack them with it.

1) Enchant their surroundings to produce a non-magical effect. Explode the air beneath their wings, for example, or transmute it into lead to weigh them down.

2) The immunity is based on their ability to observe, therefore, come in a fashion that needs weird methods to detect. Such as a spell attached to a Then-When Circle, so that the incoming effect is orbiting "now" at a radius of half a second, making it extremely hard to spot before it slathers greasepaint all over the dragon's face and puts a teeny-weenie, yellow, polka dot bikini on them.

Hmm? Charmed Lap Pillow Ear Cleaning?
Not my style of horror, but I will say it's a decidedly different concept for defeating someone.

*ponders comical insanity...*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JPoVtF1Fcw
An insanely complex dish that has to be defeated in thumb wrestling as the final step before it can be served.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J6_YCLj5zg
Hidden clowns...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdEo_t-iVbM
Villainous dating practices backfire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeVPaxfNsKQ
The title says it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k76IGLi6jWI
An oft-forgotten holiday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiV9uwJkRNM
Art strikes back?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A139AHfWVIw
Stand up comedy, the old-fashioned way.

Regarding Dragons, there are ways. Mostly it involves throwing things with Magus. All a Dragon has to do is look at Magus and it dissipates, but if a boulder has already been thrown at you before you notice, you better just dodge. Physics doesn't mind maintaining momentum when you look.

Decided to try and make the young him laugh? Nice xD

Nice, and very interesting. I'm not sure how Joe will react to this- young or old Joe.

I'm half wishing I had more time right now, but I'm in the food supply chain so my job is still fully active. I hope all of you are doing well right now and staying safe

I'm ill in my den, with a nasty, juicy cough and bringing up globs of discolored junk regularly. Plus I'm stuck in my father/owners isolation as per the pandemic response because of his age.

I was on dissability already.

The way people are handling things and the way stuff is working out is making me awfull depressed though......

Hopefully this leads to positive change though.

I think it will all lead to the best possible outcome, but it will take awhile to get there.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 254):

Best possible outcome? In real life or in the game world(s)?
In-game I can accept that as a possibility, but real life is so screwed up...

It's part of my faith that everything is working out toward the best possible outcome for the greatest possible portion of people.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 256):

It's very hard to see what kind of choices and paths will lead that way, Scord. I'm seeing far, far more of Thagirion's imbalance than I see hints of Tipheret's glory in the socio-political landscape. I may personally strongly favor tikkun olam and the path towards healing and reconciliation of darkness with light, but I gather that it is far more common among Eve's descendants (who outnumber us greatly) to see it in terms of one crushing the other completely.

In the immediate, I see difficult times ahead. In the end, darkness is not the absence of light, but the absence of something to reflect that light. Just as in the vacuum of space where rays of light are passing through nearly every point (if not actually every point), there is light in the darkness, but all light is from one Source, and all dark is simply the absence of the Source. As long as a thing retains some aspect of the Source, it retains existence. The things that identify themselves with darkness, have light in them, but that light is not retained.


Do you mean the Semitic peoples? I've recently learned that Adam means humanity and Eve means life.

Light crushes darkness by allowing darkness to have its way and the consequences of its actions, while not holding it against anyone who accepts that they can't produce their own light & regrets their darkness.

Would you mind telling me more about Thagirion's imbalance, Tipheret's glory and tikkun olam?

In reply to Narrator (msg # 258):

I'm descended from Adam through Lilith rather than through Eve.

Tipheret is the portion of the Tree of Life most closely corresponding to Christ's home, the splendor of God, and its' position on the Tree places it on the direct line between Malkuth (Earth) and Keter (where God's throne could be said to be). Or, in the structure of Adam Kadmon, Tipheret is his heart while Keter is the crown of divine light (halo?) surrounding his head.

Thagirion is Tipheret's counterpart in the Tree of Death, a center of Christ's power but not a healthy one. It is... associated with those who create ugliness in the name of God, then groan about the hideousness of their own making. Each vessel of the Tree of Death is a flawed, distorted, warped version of the matching perfection on the Tree of Life. The same principle, but woefully out of balance with each other.

Tikkun olam is the process of repairing the damage of the first Fall. Seeking to restore the intended order to God's creation, healing the broken vessels and letting them merge with and be absorbed into their counterparts. This Fall is the one that happened in the earliest stages of Genesis, at the "Let there be Light" level or thereabouts, not the later Fall caused by the Serpent.

Long time ago I had a werid prophedic thing about things to come leading up to a big change and that change leading to really good things or really bad things and I think that's here now and I can only hope that change still leaned tourge the good outcome like it was way back then..... but a lots gone on sense then that makes me think otherwise  u.u

It's both. Worse things are to come, and things will get to a point where people from 1 month ago would look on the world of 1 year from now with confusion and disbelief. But things will get unimaginably better in the end.

Yow! A roll of 834 and he didn't laugh?
What the HECK? Did someone cast The Green And Purple Postponement Of Joy on him at a cosmic power level, in addition to that curse?!?

Notice how I purposely haven't revealed King Joe's levels yet? I've just implied them by what he effortlessly accomplishes.

he's older thand old

A quick side-not side-note for Aflae, Stella-land could house a virtual Balur, but if they tried to have a real one there that the mages couldn't directly attack, they'd simply destroy Stella-land, which they could do since it was made with Balur. It's a good idea, but too dangerous. Also, do you really think mages are their only weapon?
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I figured they could just destroy the entrance at worce destroying an inter univurse seams a little hard to do......  though they could always just have joe do it I guess >.<

Well anyone have any better sugestions where to store a back up node?   Or that just not an option?

Destroy an entire universe? Ask Horror. He has a spell for that in his matrix, though vastly beyond his personal potential to ever do.

It's the highest complexity (level) spell in the rpg World Tree. "Destroy Universe."
There's also a counterspell that works if used within a few hours, resurrecting a recently destroyed universe, of the second highest complexity in the book.

The thing about Stellaland, is that it's a personal Oner, and personal Oners are only as real as their anchor - that is, their Portal or their creator if the creator is in the Oner. If the Portal is destroyed and the owner of the Oner is away, the Oner goes with it. That was always a BTS flaw in the personal Oner thing that I never had a reason to reveal before now.

EDIT: I'd allow it if you could come up with a way to do it so that King Joe couldn't do anything about it. There are ways, but I'll leave that to you. Whether you figure a way out or not won't prevent the better endings.
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In reply to Narrator (msg # 268):

And do anchors for Djin work similarly? I think that I'm about to find out... Hergot isn't called "the Ox" for just his muscles alone.

stella has permeated herself across the intire owner..... then how can you destroy her?   o.O

if she is everything in the owner..... you would have to destroy everything wouldn't you?

everyone ok?

Got a new phone and had to update everything. Also life got really busy.

Djin's anchor is kept in existence by the Djin itself. For practical purposes it's impossible to destroy the anchor or the Djin. But it is possible to steal an anchor.

If I remember correctly Stella was created in the oner as a copy of Estella, and is therefore part of it. If it is destroyed, she is destroyed.

Dealing with pandemic-related crappiness and mental health issues offline. People have gotten crazier than usual, and my owner doesn't help. Wuf.

*hugs* Hope things work out.

I thought stella was derect copy of stella and was a part of the univurse.... because i remember her being the creater of the univurse and the one who had to set the rules and everything.

And you're probably right about Stella.

I hope things go well for you and your owner. Good dogs always think of the happiness of their owner above their own happiness. But if good dogs aren't happy themselves and in of themselves, it is difficult to be a good dog.

On a different note, you mentioned being a child of Lilith. Without my Googling that, could you give me a little more background on that? I love studying different faiths, and understanding what they have to offer.
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*ponders whether a wish pronouncing Magus and Balur man and wife, and decreeing the marriage be a happy and joyous one for both would be too much for a Djin's powers to grant*

lol yes lets marry them, why not... stranger things have happened.

*ponders paradoxical wishes, such as "I wish I may, I wish I might, not be granted the wish I didn't wish tonight."*

*worries about Hergot's wife, kids, and court back home if he gets tossed into the future*

Player question:
Comnet crystals are strictly one-to-one communication? No general broadcast or reception modes?
No storage and sharing of data files through this method?

I suppose that I'll find out in-universe whether their minds can be (collectively?) traumatized with extreme horror.

Comnet crystals are highly customizable. The user can leave them open to reception at any time, or leave them only open to reception at specific times. There are spammers, so privatization options have been included. Some people leave themselves open to specific users, and closed to all others. Most people leave themselves open to emergency News broadcasters, family, friends and work; remaining closed to all others.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 280):

*the furry player eyes his copy of Cryptomancer thoughtfully*

The commnet Crystals are sentient beings, so theoretically they could be communicated with directly, and traumatized without ever notifying their users.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 282):

*ponders what kinds of nightmares undead Comnet crystals could become*

*ponders Comnet crystal culture & religions, and takes a few steps back, recalling the Jemima's Witnesses of the world of Mutha Oith*

*gets a nasty grin*

Some music & videos for the Day of Laughter holiday... with a theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXSlkFRKas0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPxozEMBA3w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl-Ylb7NlCY  (lyrics are rather on the naughty side)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11CKOAQDsbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsnllRXdjvI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-puiI2d_yL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW2yff3su0U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4azillbpqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NmkzklLdnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHZHtthbxw  (don't ask... )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8O1LpzC1Po
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n7JOj8G-rk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nex0ETJ1Dgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6MqiPM_i3Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Q0ycK06is

Narrator, I'm confused.

First we had

Then,

Now, Theb's description seems to be stating very clearly that the deceased was a member of the Pirate Guild because she carried such a medallion. Which seems to be the opposite of what Beth said when the dress-a-like was first brought in.

2 possibilities, 1 truth. Either Beth was lying the first time, which is entirely possible, or she was wrong about her information. Now here's the truth: I forgot I had said she wasn't in the guild, and I wanted a convenient way to explain how to tell if someone was in the guild or not. I'd like to keep the texts cannon as they are, and let it reveal that Beth was either lying or wrong.

Now I know for certain that you do not understand either of my characters, Scord.

While I could understand Bozon being drawn into the existing threads of story and Aflae's prophesied involvement with the end of the Balur war, the way that you just railroaded him into a death that he explicitly cannot survive through the ordeal enchantment is rather dismaying. Particularly in light of his having freely offered up his life to protect the others earlier in the scene and been flatly denied.

Likewise, Horror seems to be being parsed as a midnight messiah figure, rather than as a seeker of enlightenment himself.

Neither were intended to be powerful or influential individuals, as described in their RTJs, either, yet that seems to be the direction they are being swept in despite their personal stories. Are you familiar with the term "Monty Haul" in gaming?

Bozon is in the arc of his story where he is being denied what he wants and forced to make difficult decisions which will change him. Every post, I've been giving him tests and choices. The natural consequences of those choices are playing out. Holy flame seeks mercy and love, but will allow justice when mercy and love are rejected. If Bozon had tried to discippate the spell instead of turn it around, (I should've told you that was possible, neglecting that fact was my mistake), Joe would've laughed, thus winning freedom for Bozon, Tine and Jen. Joe has laughed. Besides, though he has no reason to know, my understanding is that he can survive being popped if the pieces are gathered up and somehow reformed. Additionally, Aflae cast a spell on him to save him should he be popped by pulling him into the sideways. No matter what, Bozon survives.

Horror is a human given a Raksha body. In this Onerverse, Raksha are higher beings over humans, but humans have power over Raksha. By having freedom of will, he is by nature the 2nd most powerful kind of creature possible, and he bridges two realms. He is in the part of his story arc where everything is going his way. He is a perfect storm of innocence and power which is reflecting and magnifying the deepest truths of those around him. By accepting the evil in his followers, he addicts them to his approval. They make assumptions about what will bring his approval, and seek to act accordingly. If he seeks enlightenment, then hopefully at some point he will see that he has become the thing he hated (which is the first step on the road to enlightenment), and reject his existing ways. For now, he has gathered about as much power as he needs to be able to explore what it brings with it, so that he can ultimately reject it if it isn't satisfying. I had no intention of allowing him to get this powerful, but he kept doing things that make it easy. Music is powerful magic.

Yes, you should have. The two choices you gave both emphasized, very specifically, turning the spell around.

And Bozon's protection from death by popping is only by literal popping, such as being overinflated. Not protection from being burned to death or blasted with raw destruction.

As for Monty Haul, I just looked it up. It's not the purpose of what's going on. Magus has almost learned Bozon's magic, and his overpowering is ending soon. Horror's followers are all free-will following. The moment it becomes obvious he will no longer feed their needs, they will abandon him.

That's good to know about Bozon's death vs popping. I'll keep it within those parameters. Heat causes gas to expand, and if the heat is magical, it might heat up gas before heating up rubber.

Yes, I know that was a lot.....

But Salphon dose not have the energy, or temperament, to pack up and move again. He don't want to in-inadvertently fuck up his new home.

He's tired of looking for a new home.

myah?

Real life is being, well, real life. Blech.

Real life is keeping me stuck indoors.... lol

I haven't seen Scord log in on any of the three games we have in common. I'm getting worried about him. I hope he's all right.

*pouts* That is worrisome

I found one game where Scord had a login in early July. It's a start.

You guys are awesome. Thank you for being concerned. I'm okay and life is starting to show down again, so I should be able to start moving things forward again soon.

I had a second job that started in February and got really busy, but it's over now.
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Have you heard from Az lately?

In reply to Narrator (msg # 299):

No. We aren't in any other games together that I am aware of. Unlike sharing Worldwalker like I do with you.

Carl?

Correct.

Because of Bozon's cliche increasing with emotional pain, he'd gain quite a bit of Mana from being kept in the future. So if I'm choosing for Bozon, I'll use the dice roller and flip a coin to decide.

Unless as the player you'd rather choose for yourself. If you choose to stay in the future, I'll roll a D3 with the odds in your favor. If you choose to go back into the past, you will do so.

As the player, I would rather that he go back to the past (and the hope of maybe surviving to see Havony and his loved ones again) rather than have power.

But his being permanently separated from Tine and Samhradh is not something I'd care for, either, so it remains in your hands.

Question: Tine is not going to the special tree-school he was being sent to when he first received Bozon as a gift?

Do you mean the one where Bozon first got the instruments? The one with the teacher that got a massive pie in the face? Our the one he was going to be sent away to?

The away school was the school of hard knocks. He's had enough hard knocks for now, but things may change depending on what happens next.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 306):

I'd meant the one he was going to be sent away to.
So, he's attending normal elf school with Jen, than. Got it.

I find it interesting that Bozon is never the main character, even when he is. In real life, I have a tendency to see myself as the hero of whatever story I'm in. But reality is that I'm usually a minor NPC. Even when I participate in something heroic, I'm one of many and not the main one. Do most people clue in to their insignificance?

I doubt it. The human psyche seems to be geared towards a self-centric viewpoint by default, at least from what I see in America.

Do you feel okay with leaving Bozon where he's at for now? My plan including

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getting him popped ASAP so he could wake up alive and find out the whole truth about his bursted friends.

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In reply to Narrator (msg # 310):

Yes, I'd be okay with him staying where he is. I was trying to decide what he might be doing when Tine comes and asks about the trip with the delegation.

And thinking over how he, a king, might view such a diplomatic exercise and the pros and cons it might have for a child.

I'm alive.

My this sounds familiar......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g1-uJnSToQ

Did I just see the narrator stop by?

Yes, but I'm trying to leave RPOL for awhile again. If I come back in the future, I am probably going to start up in link to another game and continue games from there. You are welcome to transfer Bozon to that game, or start a new character. If you like, I could start a campaign for you from that game even now. I can't promise to finish the game any time soon, and my posting frequency isn't very high right now, but you are a good player and I like writing stories with you.
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In reply to Narrator (msg # 315):

Appreciated. I've been going through some tough times with depression, myself.
I have another barbaric clown in mind, if starting a new campaign, one who is more of a deliberate sorcerer.