Holla! Welcome back.

I'm going to be reading through everything, summarizing events, and then archiving the old threads and making new ones, depending on how many old players stick around and what they want to do!

I do actually have a plot this time :)

I was going to say...I was reading some old threads and it was fun, but they really do need archiving to de-clutter the game. :P

Agreed. I've removed all threads besides the old OOC.

Hey empress? Can you please activate character sheets for our profiles? Thanks!

Done~!

Hey hey!

So how is this reboot/continuation actually playing out? Did we settle on system/freeform? Are we submitting new characters?

Greetings and Salutations.

What might I want to be putting in my character sheet? Or is it just for notes and what have you?

Put your entire RTJ in your character sheet for our mutual ease of reference, yes.

Yes, we're going 'freeform', in that we're going with a system that isn't wholly visible to the players - for example, most of you aren't going to know until later how your domains have increased some of your hidden stats, or how you're assigned a class that affects how easily you perform certain actions.

The main 'stats' in the game are determined by your equipment, and your abilities are determined by a mix of your domain choices and your feats/triumphs.

Like, Aran for example has a build that is highly resilient to psychological manipulation despite being a brawler (think Juggernaut from the X-men comics), and that extends to his realm being resilient to invasion by madness-cults. He's going to have an easy time finding Geists to battle and turn into strong Arms and Raiment, but isn't gonna have as much access to improvements to his Staff/Wand, Gauntlet, or Aegis.

Most of what your starting character sheet tells me is for Fire Emblem style leveling where you're going to have certain tendencies to advance some stats over others, but can also make unconventional choices if that's how you swing.

Like, when I'm looking at your character I'm counting up how often certain subjects are mentioned in your Feat/Triumphs/Domains and assigning rankings to your stats like:

ARAN

FIGHTING/ARMS: S-RANK
UTILITY/RAIMENT: A-RANK
KNOWLEDGE/AEGIS: C-RANK
MAGIC/STAFF: D-RANK
DEFENSE/GAUNTLET: D-RANK

If Aran fights a dude, and that dude is of the same tier, he's going to win flawlessly, barring a difference in equipment. Lower tier mooks? He's gonna cut through them. If you've seen his backstory, the guy is basically Guts from Beserk.

But he's not like Halley with her S-Rank in Aegis where he's gonna have more allies and lore thrown at him than he can really handle. That's not how he has built himself up.

Ok cool. I'm thinking I may come up with something new to start fresh. I did enjoy Threlody, but it's been a little while :P

I'll see about getting a new RTJ in today or tomorrow :)

The Kupli are definitely still around and so is TUOS, but I strongly approve of you going with a new character instead of reprising Threlody :) It will be lovely to have you back.

Hello there, a god of festivities and masquerades here looking forward to partaking in our little cosmos!

Interesting points about the stat examples you game for Aran, I was wondering how exactly our Feats and Triumphs would tie into our characters, but I'm content leaving that magic up to the Empress to sort out! Looks like we have an interesting mix of folks here, Caerden will be looking forward to hosting a soiree for everyone to get to know one another! (Once he learns he's a god for one thing and that there are others for a second matter!)

Hey, quick update:

I'm working on the new character idea, but have hit some creative snags. It's still coming though :3

I'm unsure if it was somehow unclear in the rules, but *you* actually can decide what powers your Feats and Triumphs provide. They're equivalent to the Minor and Major powers of other Theos, just served with a good chunk of flavor text for my enjoyment and grounded in the world. I am equally happy to determine them for you, though!

Edit 1: Awesome, Threlody. I'm looking forward to reading your worldbuilding.

Edit 2: it's pretty cool that we've got a rogue, fighter, and warlock so far XD

Edit 3: Also, in case you're curious, the picture in my character description is me :P I model as a hobby.

Edit 4: stat advancement tendencies (SATs) for y'all:

HALLEY

FIGHTING/ARMS: C-RANK
UTILITY/RAIMENT: D-RANK
KNOWLEDGE/AEGIS: S-RANK
MAGIC/STAFF: A-RANK
DEFENSE/GAUNTLET: D-RANK


CAERDEN

FIGHTING/ARMS: D-RANK
UTILITY/RAIMENT: B-RANK
KNOWLEDGE/AEGIS: A-RANK
MAGIC/STAFF: C-RANK
DEFENSE/GAUNTLET: C-RANK
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:17, Mon 17 Dec 2018.

Oh, I'll have to brainstorm about what precisely each of my Feats and Triumphs actually does in that case! I'll message you tomorrow with my initial ideas.

It greatly amuses me that I'm only certain of who is playing the fighter and the fact I'm not sure if I'm considered the rogue or the warlock!

In reply to Caerden Reveler (msg # 15):

She's probably calling me the warlock, given how intimately tied my character is to the primordials, Myriad, and the void itself.

Correct! <3 with your patron being the Hierophant, naturally.

In reply to The Empress (msg # 17):

Naturally. :P

Exciting mix of folks we have here!

Halley already seems to be doing quite godly things as she hammers out existences, weighs the life of powerful beings, and negotiates with primal forces!

I'm looking forward to getting the chance to see everyone mingle!

Everything Halley is doing is mostly happening because she left the "moon' portion of her RTJ with just the comment 'no moon yet'. I played that out into a little minigame :P

Once she's done with the Valley, people should be ready to start mingling!

You could say that I'm a sort of vice president to the storyteller's CEO for this game. Halley had lots of background she's drawing on front multiple other Theo games. We're using what's going on now to develop the lore for this game.

The Divine valley will be the games central meeting hub soon, but we're still creating it. She had special death circumstances in another game that rippled to this one. But it's also why she doesn't have a moon, as the Divine valley is also technically her godrealm as much as myriads central sanctuary, and she draws power from that connection.

That's why she's so mega powerful inside of the Divine valley. Although just to let you all know she only is as strong as you guys outside of the valley though.

Sounds tasty ;)

Empress, I need to edit my post. I see you edited yours but I'm at work so had to leave it in post typing mode for a bit so missed your edit.

That's perfectly fine!

Ok edited!!!

Quick question, was that RP Secret realm supposed to be secret? because it looks like it's in Group 0, which is fine! Just wanted to make sure it wasn't an oversight.

RP SECRET means you can't directly portal into that realm without knowing the secret.

To elaborate:

OOC: Out of character.

RP: In character. You may only maintain and instance of yourself in one RP at a time.

RP NAME: The named person can always maintain an instance of themselves there.

RP PUBLIC: Anyone may maintain an instance of themselves here.

RP SECRET: You cannot enter without knowing the secret, but if you do, it works like an RP PUBLIC.

RP ALTER: A place separated from the main timeline. Death here doesn't count, your self here is not aware of information they gain from outside after entry, and other people in the same thread are not in the same place unless you entered at the same time. Works like an instanced dungeon in a MMORPG, basically. Every RP ALTER has a powerful being that temporarily change the rules, and they are the only being that can get you out if you don't find an exit. Otherwise works like an RP Public.
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:29, Sat 22 Dec 2018.

Ah, thanks for the clarification!

Also very interesting to see that Character Progression thread. I'm intrigued to see how things proceed, looks like everyone has very different starting circumstances (Including that crazy dude who decided to up and die first thing!)

Ahhhh!

I finally finished my new RTJ ><

So hopefully I'll be joining soon :D

Very cool, Threlody, it will be fun to have more folks to interact with once we get to that point.

I'm glad to see how excited and engaged you all are so far for the game.

This isn't obvious in-game, but sign language is universal among humanoids. It's sort've like the Supernal of older games. Sign language is also used because speech is considered somewhat intimate in many cultures, and is also used frequently for magic. It's also a safety measure - if someone is signing with you, you can always see their hands.

I am wondering, but is Dacthu mad or MAD, with a capital M?

Is he a Mad god, or "merely" a normal god with a domain of madness (small m)?

For those of you who are unaware, Madness (with a capital M) is an actual metaphysical force that is sort of an antithesis to the Trees and primordial. Mad gods are things like Cthulu or lesser but still potent beings. It has nothing to do with "mere" insanity or "norman" madness.

He's thematically Mad, but in terms of backstory he's descended from Myriad's friendship with Asat, who is like the Paarthunax of the Old Ones - one that sought a path of peace and enlightenment, and the originally developer of the Dharma of Eleven Doors that was passed down to trusted tree-beings and created the Virtuous. Asat was not descended from Azathoth - he's the 'silence from which all sounds spun,". He's Nyartholotep but benevolent, basically, and the reason she was able to handle her madness as well as she did.

He could decide to go Mad - his Aegis is a Mad being gifted to him by Asat so that he would have that choice - or he could just do his own thing, or pursue something unique by hanging out with Myriad and learning about how she's handled her own partial maddening.

Ultimately, he was born of the Tree though, albeit from the Waking Night. So he's not currently a Mad being. More like one of the Sane gods from Dust.

That's as far as I've thought about it.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:42, Mon 24 Dec 2018.

That's all I really needed to know. And my next question was about that aegis as well given that Haley is an archon and managing them is sort of part of her stick. Haley will be keeping a close eye on that aegis but as long as the God himself doesn't give himself over to true madness then the aegis should stay under control enough where Haley won't want to come hunt it down.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:24, Mon 24 Dec 2018.

I've updated progression.

Given that you make at least one IC post a week, you get 10P and 100p.

A Feat gets you a bonus of 20P.

100P is used to advance a 0-star item to 1-star, and with enough money you can but mythcrafted equipment.

A cheap way to advance your character is to buy up cheap mortal-made gems in the market, use a couple of your Holy Pearls to mythcraft them into a higher grade gem, and then use that to make new equipment or modify what you have for the situation. But . . that's kinda subject to market availability and might not get you the exact stuff you're looking for immediately.

Oh nice! Always cool to see progress!

Though it looks like an extra digit got hit, a 4 got added to the front of Halley's Petal count!

Happy Christmas Eve to those who celebrate it, hope everyone is enjoying themselves!

In reply to Caerden Reveler (msg # 37):

I think it's because she found a treasure trove at her temple in game so she has more spending money currently than normal.

Merry Christmas, fools :)

Yeah, Halley got a lotta money from her worshipers. Getting those little buggers to give you cool stuff is the #1 way to get money and resources that can be turned into money.

I'm still hoping we can get up to ten players, because once everyone gets settled we're going to move into the meat of the game ^_^

Now I've got to think up some gifts for y'all . .
This message was last edited by the GM at 09:19, Tue 25 Dec 2018.

Side note - each of you is getting a Cool Thing for christmas, called a Charm. A Charm is not part of the usual equipment list, because Charms are *always* Tier 1 items, but you can also kinda have as many of them as you want. They're like, brooches and hat-pins and rings and stuff.

Charms grant a single ability of minor-power strength, but you can't make them or buy them - Charms are always gifts, and the minor power they grant is based on who gave them to you.

I will be opening a get-together thread tonight, where your characters will be given the opportunity to make friends with each other and make each other little gifts if you want!!

(A Charm also grants the ability to travel to another God's realm, and grants you safety from that person - if someone who has given you a Charm attacks you, the Charm will negate the attack before shattering shatter. This gives you enough time to 'portal out'.)

Each of you will recieve a charm from Myriel via standard postage, along with an invitation to a dinner in honor of her first birthday)

Ah very cool, thanks! Looking forward to mingling with everyone! And the idea of Charms as gifts are a fun concept, nice natural way to encourage player interactions.

Speaking of character interactions - Aran is going through a rough patch IRL and it will be a little while until he'll be active again. In the meantime I'll be NPC'ing his character.

I would like a few more players however. Caerden, I saw that you ran another Theo game, and that there are players with good RP/writing skills there looking for a GM. If you would like, I'd love it if you could extend an invitation for them to come play with us! I'd prefer to bring in more people already on-board with Theo before bumping the ad again. One of them has already played with me before!
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:07, Mon 07 Jan 2019.

Hm, I could maybe do that? I know they're more excited to play a continuation of their current characters than to start fresh. Maybe bump the current ad and if there isn't much interest I'll let them know.

Sure :) They could also continue their old characters as well. While this game is centered on Myriad, it's generally accepted that all Theo games occur within the same multiverse, called the Great Forest, and I could pretty easily just include threads for their Tree as well within this game. They could even make a Virtu on Myriad and continue their old character simultaneously, whatever floats their boats. I know how frustrating it is to have a good game die after you've invested so much in a character's story.

I read through some of the other game and it looks like they are looking for a GM, so I've popped over to their discussion game and offered to run a reboot of their game coterminously with Myriad over here. I've wanted to run a multi-tree game for awhile - Myriad is named that because the game was originally gonna be about the Great Forest - myriad trees - rather than Myriad specifically.
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:03, Mon 07 Jan 2019.

Just to be clear - the Sanctuary is an IC Chat thread for mingling and whatnot. You're always allowed an instance there (even if you're dead!) and you don't really need to wait on me to reply if you're talking to other players, even if you're also talking to NPCs.

Example:

Myriel says to Caerden: "Oh, you came!"

Myriel says to NPC #1: "Are you still interested in those stockpiles of wood I'm selling?

Caerden: *replies*

Myriel: *replies*

Caerden: *replies*

Myriel: *replies*

NPC #1: "Oh, absolutely! I can offer X amount per log."

That fact that you're having other conversations doesn't mean you have to wait on me for your conversation with an NPC to continue. We'll just assume you and another instance of you in the Winter Court or whatever had the NPC conversation while you were chatting with another player.

Once you get a rose-gold ring, you're set to enter the party.

*waves*

Hey folks, looking forward to joining you

Got swamped with some life events, I'm eager to post tomorrow to start mingling with this colorful menagerie of NPC gods, but it gives other PC deities time to arrive at the party I suppose!

Nice. I really only need one post a week per player, but I do like updating everyone daily :3

Hello everyone. I am Theadeacus, God of Death. Seems I'll be joining your game as a part of a revival of an older Theogenesis game. Looking forward to, potentially, playing with you all.

Technically again as I was previously a member of this game prior to the reboot.

In reply to Theadeacus Aso (msg # 49):

Hey! I’m the newcomer, so welcome ... back :)

Hello all, I'm Bezaleel! I'm God of Shadows, Darkness, and Undead. I hope that I can catch* some play with you all eventually! I'm also from a revival of a different older Theogenesis game along side Theadeacus!
This message was last edited by the player at 15:19, Fri 11 Jan 2019.

Hi all, and welcome :)

Hey, I'm Anna. I'm the gal who scored... what's the GM going by in this one? The Empress? Should I be refering to the GM with female pronouns? Well anyway, I'm the gal who brought these two darkbutts together for a sequel to our own world tree's adventures. I'm not sure how much I'll be interacting with ya'll and I'm still a little on the fence about The Empress but let's see how this goes! Since you're in an entirely different world tree I'm pretty sure you don't need to worry about Bezzybutt eating you (it's a serious concern) or getting sucked into Anna's Collateral Damage Field. Deekin's probably fine though!

whee rambling us fun

I'd suggest putting a hyphen or a backslash or something between our god's name and their people, but the last time a GM messed around with character names mid-game we lost most of our private lines. Maybe best to leave it...

Yeah my companions are more....disaster prone than myself. They mean well so if any shadow gates or reality breaks appear in your Realms only panic a little. I'll be sure to use a proper entrance tho.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:07, Fri 11 Jan 2019.

Psh, spoilers much? Anna over there is actually the Goddess of Collateral Damage lol

>,> I don't plan to eat anyone... Yet.

Edit: Ayyye post 400
This message was last edited by the player at 16:07, Fri 11 Jan 2019.

Think of it as a preview of what is to come! =P

In reply to Anathema Viese (msg # 53):

I'm a girl. The picture in my description is me, from my last photoshoot.

The Fool is my old GM name that I was given when I was 15, and since I liked the Tarot correlation I kept it! I think the Empress is a better Tarot for me nowadays, though.

I like using the people name as a last name and providing your domain using the character tag function. This represents that you are the paragon and mythic progenitor of your people! Domains, divine status, etc all can change over time with gameplay, but who your people are is pretty much constant :)

I dig the short hair! I trust you to give me lots of cute clothes! =3

I'm probably the Hanged Man, though my character Anna is more of a Moon girl.

That's a great shoot!

Tbh, it's a bit hard for me to relate to a tarot card, but I'd have to say the hermit.

I couldn't begin to tell you what Bezaleel would be more like lol.

^_^ Why thank you! And yea, perks of the jobs is that I get to wear cute tailored stuff. Like I had a shoot that was for a halloween dealie where I was a blind girl who had cut out her eyes, and holy crap I got to wear the CUTEST jeans that fit me PERFECTLY and I later bought three pairs of the exact same jean because mm, my fiancee strongly approved. Since I was blindfolded for the shoot (new experience!) she helped me move around the set. The fake blood they used was the high quality stuff and it kinda ruined the shirt and pants so I didn't keep them.

I recently got a tailored bright red peacoat that really goes with the gold tones in my skin and hair and makes me feel like a classy Gryffindor XD It kinda floats at my waist though cuz I was not blessed with hips but I think it's kinda supposed to do that? I'm jelly of curvy models >.>

Bezaleel feels to me like he'd be a good Chariot, to be honest.

"The Chariot Tarot card shows a brave warrior standing inside a chariot. He wears armour decorated with crescent moons (representing what is coming into being), a tunic with a square (the strength of will) and other alchemical symbols (spiritual transformation). The laurel and star crown signals victory, success and spiritual evolution. Although he appears to be driving the chariot, the charioteer holds no reins – just a wand like the Magician’s – symbolising that he controls through the strength of his will and mind.

The charioteer stands tall – there’s no sitting down for this guy, as he’s all about taking action and moving forward. Above his head is a canopy of six-pointed stars, suggesting his connection to the celestial world and the Divine will. In front of the vehicle sit a black and a white sphinx, representing duality, positive and negative and, at times, opposing forces. Note how the sphinxes are pulling in opposite directions, but the charioteer uses his willpower and sheer resolve to steer the chariot forward in the direction he wants.

Behind the chariot flows a wide river, symbolic of the need to be ‘in flow’ with the rhythm of life while also charging ahead toward your goals and intentions."
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:32, Fri 11 Jan 2019.

I take back everything I said, I'm sure you and I are gonna get along just fine! Fashionistas forevah~ \m/^_^\m/

Eheh, Anna found a new friend so quickly.

Tbh, the way you nailed that pin on the board Empress is 10/10 because I really have to agree
This message was last edited by the player at 16:43, Fri 11 Jan 2019.

Colour me intrigued: what tarot card would you place Ulfur as?

Oh, the Devil, easily.

"The Devil card shows Baphomet, or the Horned Goat of Mendes, a creature that is half man, half goat. Baphomet originally represented the balance between good and evil, male and female, and human and animal; however, more recently, this figure has been linked to the occult and has become a scapegoat for all things considered ‘evil’.

The Devil has the wings of a vampire bat, an animal that sucks the lifeblood out of its prey, symbolic of what happens when you give in to your raw desires. He has a hypnotic stare which ‘magnetises’ and entrances those who come near him, bringing them under his power. Above him is an inverted pentagram – a sign of the darker side of magic and occultism. He raises his right hand in the Vulcan Salute – a Jewish blessing, later made famous by the film series, Star Trek. In his left hand, he holds a lit torch.

At the foot of the Devil stand a man and a woman, both naked and chained to the podium on which the Devil sits. They appear to be held here against their will – but look closer, and you will notice that the chains around their necks are loose and could be easily removed. Each has small horns on their head, like the devil’s, a sign that they are becoming increasingly like him the longer they stay here. Both have tails, a further symbol of their animalistic tendencies and raw instincts, and the grapes and the fire on their respective tails signify pleasure and lust."

I would add that the Devil signifies embracing the bestial elements of one's nature, uniting the shadow-self with the ego. In attempting to behave higher than he is, man reduces himself to a flawed imitation of imagined purity, doomed to flounder in guilt and recrimination, imprisoned by chains of his own manufacture that he constantly repairs even as he bemoans his state.

Freedom, strength, power, and effortless self-acceptance and acceptance of others as they are. That's Ulfur.

Ohhh, the can of worms has been opened.

Blimey Empress, was amaranthing Skeles really necessary? He was a former PC, show some respect. x.x

I love Skeles!!! He's absolutely adorable, and his people are MARSHMELLOWS.

It's not really an ulterior thing - it's just part of my characterization of Ophelia - but also like, I wanted to at least give Skeles a cameo, but didn't feel super comfortable taking over a PC character without permission (I consider your character your intellectual property, given how much writing goes into a Theo character), but also didn't want to pretend he didn't exist.

It's a pretty savage way to go, but y'know, not really any way to kill someone nicely with a scythe - and since her mother wields a scythe and her dad wields kusari-gama she's kinda stuck using the general idea of one.

But he was my favorite flaming metal tree, I was going to hang ornaments on him when Anna reincarnated! D=

But even putting that aside, it seems like a very abrupt way to greet Bezaleel. Eating people's souls is his thing and Skeles was a... actually, Skeles was before Bezzy's time wasn't he? That might make it less personal for him. Still... uncomfortable.

He’s not DEAD. I mean, he’s lost one life. I think he still has two more.

Bezaleel and Skeles competed for Ophelia’s mother’s affections, if you recall, so they were around at the same time for awhile.

I think I do vaguely recall that now that you mention it. The Tattered Valley was a mess of confusing timelines and tended to get left out of my occasional archive binges. I should probably rectify that.

However, I do think this is an important point of discussion.

I'm a romantic - I love strongly emotional stories, and I tend to focus on the bonds between players and NPCs and other players.

However - I don't extend that romanticism to violence. Violence is ugly, brutal, and short. It's something horrific, and while sometimes necessary, it's never celebrated, and I make sure to neither gloss over it, or wax poetic about it. (In comparison, I can wax poetic about a vista, or about a character's feelings for another, or how it feels to be held.)

You should be offended by Skeles death, but the question shouldn't be "Is the Empress intentionally being a bitch?" but rather "Given what we know of the characters involved, does this make sense, and does it serve a narrative purpose? Is it compelling?"

In this case, yes. I know exactly why Ophelia is doing this, why it had to be Skeles and not another character already in canon, and it does serve an important narrative purpose - it at once creates two conflicts for Bezaleel (Skeles isn't gonna be very friendly, and his daughter to just performed a pretty goddamn amoral act, partially in his image as a soul-stealer) and advances characterization for Ophelia, resolves the established issue with the Gilded Dead (those purity folks), and gives a space for other characters to react to what occurs.

I could say more, but that would kinda ruin the storyline I have roughed out! And y'all already communicated you prefer to find stuff out for yourself rather than being told OOC :)

If, having said all that, it still just really disturbs you and reduces your enjoyment of play, then of course I will retcon it and come up with something else. My player's enjoyment of the game is why I expend the effort in being a GM :)

Oh, it is absolutely a foreseeable action for Ophelia. It was a little shocking to see it happen so abruptly and right at the beginning of the game, in a period where I'm still evaluating the GM I'd just signed up with and know nothing about, but it's not shocking in an absolute sense. In my surprise my fingers may have gotten a bit ahead of me. Besides, it's not really my place to get annoyed by what's happening in Bezaleel's realm; that's his job!

So don't mind me, please continue!

Opening up with some violence being done to an adorable character is also what happened in your realm. Taltenin was being tortured and about to be eaten before you intervened, remember?

It's still okay for your express the way you feel about any part of the game! I love when players are emotionally involved and lose sight of the big picture. That's what can produce really good roleplay moments.

The post is also still in progress, the Betrayal of Skeles won't be the first thing once I'm done; it's gonna be a pretty long post, because this minigame also gives me a chance to move all the pieces in play in your realms and get acquainted with the balance of power and general milieu.

Well, Ophelia just poked one of Bezaleel's no no buttons. One of the very few things he detestes more than anything is betrayal, especially of trust. The fact that it was done to someone he saw as an Ally and even a friend, in his name. Will have him burning mighty cold flames.

Wait a minute now.

I was waiting for your comment on that lol

It was a lot and I was still processing her killing Skeles. Not sure how Theadeacus feels about that.

Well, I defer as a, like mother like daughter. I plan to bring her to Skeles after giving her a rough fussing. She committed the act to him, only he can deffer the punishment. Given his nature it may be lite, but with her actions it most possibly isn't.

I almost entirely forgot my ward to keep her from harm. So I shall have to undoubtedly bring her to the Pantheon.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:59, Sun 13 Jan 2019.

Heh, I just realized I need Skeles' character sheet. And I just re-read the rules for Aramanth and holy dang she might pull two rank ups and a new major out of that hyperviolent mugging.

This is gonna be interesting.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:45, Sun 13 Jan 2019.

Got to love it when your god-spawn outranks you in a mass power move.

RIP. My own daughter gonna be disciplining me instead.

It looks like he only got up to Neonate, but he was Neonate for awhile. I'm going to go with her getting a Minor from one parent and a Major from the other (in this case, she's been far more strongly influenced by Erebus, so she's gonna grab one of Bezaleels' majors and a Garden minor), snagging Skeles minor ability to manipulate matter and the flow of things, and ranking up to Neonate and two-thirds towards Ancillae. (She had five spheres to start with, got 20 from Skeles' rank worth, and I'm assuming Skeles had at least 15 spheres towards his next rank by the end of Act I.)

If I do obtain Skeles' sheet, I'll publish his powers here and one of y'all can roll a 1d4 to see which power she gets, since it's determined at random :)

Bezaleel its your daughter, you roll for her.

Sweet, well I am majorly curious as to which of my majors she grabbed.

I just rolled for it - 1d3, using the order that you presented your major powers in your sheet.

She grabbed your one-time power.

:)

Wait a minute now.

Kidding. That'd be dumb. But can you imagine?

Holy fuck balls if she got my one year. You pulled that on me. I was making a post of all the dates and shit, like WAIT A MINUTE

But I have 4 total powers? When I made her, I had just two. She was made on 9/10/2017, born on 10/16/2017 I got my third major on 11/20/17, got my year one on 12/29/2017

idc about her grabbing my third power though. It'd be interesting to say the least.

I mean, there aren't any set rules for how divine kids go. Could be she's mostly a blank slate until she ranks up for the first time and come into her power, in which case she could reasonably nab your one year.

But as a reasonable GM, one-time abilities are outside the scope of either amaranth or inheritance or anything. They are one-time, we can't have them happening twice.

How about you pick which power she gets, Bezaleel?
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:34, Sun 13 Jan 2019.

Definitely, I enjoy the fact you're a reasonable gm in that matter lol.

I would like that, but I guess at the same time I would end up a bit more biased about it I guess. I mainly don't want her to have my control over shadows. Out of the other two, just roll a die or flip a coin to decide which she'll have. I feel like as goddess of anything but shadows, having my main ability is too much of an inherit without taking it from my death directly.

She'll grab your third power, since you already mentioned you wouldn't care, and also it can easily be re-flavored to her Harvest domain - she dissipates into a flurry of leaves and cold light.

I completely had forgotten about this or missed it in my half awake phase, but definitely cool. I will definitely definitely be pulling on this plot point.

That sounds perfect! It is very befitting in theme tbh since it can be re-flavored!

Oh btw, speaking of character sheets and powers... I got a new title and minor power. Do I pick the power, or do you? And is my character sheet supposed to be unlocked?

You do choose the new power. Yes, it's supposed to be unlocked. just write your new power into your sheet; it's mostly for your own use as a quick reference. One of the perks of Myriad's system is that powers are associated with events, so they're easy for me to recall.

In reply to The Empress (msg # 95):

Can you unlock my character sheet plz? :3

Done.

Is Theadeacus resurrected?

In reply to Theadeacus Aso (msg # 98):

What do you mean? What happened with your realm only affected the mortal living. Pretty sure you're amortal.

Did Theadeacus die his last death at some point?
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:36, Mon 14 Jan 2019.

I mean resurrected subjectively. I was asleep and now I am awake (?).

You can exit the minigame if you want, or play more rounds and get more boons for your peeps, at the cost of maybe getting another minor bane + not being able to help in resolving the conflicts that develop. You can play up to five rounds. You're on Round 2, you're next step is deciding to direct the essence that has welled up, or let Erebus do what it wants with it. If you exit Geogenesis now, the Realm will still do what it wants with the essence.
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:43, Mon 14 Jan 2019.

Will I'd love to see how you play things out I can't in good conscious ignore a holy war and the suffering of my children, Aso and Ettin. Its time for Theadeacus to enter the fray.

Excellent - the just describe yourself returning to your body, waking up in the Pool of Creation. At the same time as you exit the minigame, you can still Whisper to up to five folks  on the way down, so to speak, as Bezaleel did.

Bomb defused. Mission success boys, evac inbound.

Roger command. Eagle has left the nest, over.

What a happy family, indeed :P

Jesus christ think what carnage would happen if we actually made a child Anna.

Please don't give Bezaleel anymore children.

If I could go back in time. At the very least I won't be making children with any more gods. Ophelia the first and last godling offspring of Bezaleel. Goddess of the Harvest... And artifice.

It will be interesting to see how Bezaleel informs Anathema and I of this. I imagine on the Buoy were there can be no...drastic responses.

Dude, tbh. It'll be fucking wild to say the least. The type of shame and dishonor it brings on him and mainly her is huge. His main concern is finding a solution to it with Skeles.

Like no one is going to be trusting of her in the slightest. One thing to say the least though, she definitely hates the Pantheon. So no worries about her being a spy. Ammirite?
This message was last edited by the player at 04:59, Mon 14 Jan 2019.

Idk if there is a solution. We only get three lives and Skeles spent decades in a rather peaceful stasis before being awoken and then killed in the land of his once ally. Not only that but he was harvested for power.

I bet she'd be such a sweet and tender young girl who'd constantly wonder how her parents kept ruining everything. =P

Either that or the World Tree itself would stage an intervention for fear of its own existence. I still intend to go full Bathomancer on this shiz!

I can only hope to make or find one. It is quite the shame it happened.



We can hope right? I mean shadows and reflections aren't far off in a way. So I am curious what the domain would be. The thing would probably be a ditty, dress loving, reality breaking, people eatter.

Hey Anna, I went ahead and fixed your post for you. RPOL won't allow players to directly display images, so a GM just had to go into the edit screen of the post to make it display properly :P
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:32, Mon 14 Jan 2019.

Huh, that's weird! Displayed fine for me! You'd think that if I wasn't allowed it'd show me that. x.x

Does Ophelia's plan involve artificing up an apology cake? I want cake too...

Shh . . what plan? I didn't mention any plan!

Mmmhm.. I just hope it isn't too shameful lol

Post #500, snipeddd

I still own post 1337 from Age of the Lost so I win forever... unless this game goes on long enough to have 31337 posts...

Fair enough. I might beat you to 1337 here :P

I realized the old OOC was still around, irrelevant, and artificially boosting our post count :P so I deleted it, busting us back down below 400 :(

Ulfur I apologize in advance but Theadeacus is going to meet your existence with suspicion.

@Empress

For those Myriad gods who come to the Buoy. Are they under Taeltresin's law? I only ask because I feel like Bezaleel is going to challenge Ulfur to a fight in the arena. I'm not sure how their Equipment converts to Artifacts and how their Titles change to Powers.

No problem, Theadeacus; I appreciate the heads-up OOC :)

Not sure why Bezaleel will be looking for a fight, but intrigued now!

Edited: Going to tweak my entry post slightly, since I had forgotten the richness/colour/shadows of Myriad natives
This message was last edited by the player at 15:49, Tue 15 Jan 2019.

Two things about Bezaleel, when isn't he looking to eat things, and when isn't he looking for a type of fight. Plus your shadow is a different color. Which is all in itself going to cause it.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:49, Tue 15 Jan 2019.

Ha, fair enough!

Like, that's some real unsettling stuff to him. Can't just go oh now looki here, your shadow is ~ color. Cool!

If anything it'll remind him of the mad and blight.

Sorry in advance!

No problems, though I will ask for a little leeway OOC (not IC) as Ulfur is two posts in and I'm not sure he even realises he is a God/Divine/Virtu yet.

Edit: Leeway, in terms of knowing what the rules are rather than giving me a free pass :)
This message was last edited by the player at 15:57, Tue 15 Jan 2019.

Got ya! I'm not that harsh though so no worries. Bezaleel hasn't really noticed Ulfur yet, nor the unusual characteristics of Myriad being in effect on you.

As per Empress' tarot card earlier, Ulfur embraces passion so it will be an interesting event when it happens

Indeed it will be. I have to say though, having two gods of the forge in the Bouy is gonna be preeeeetty nice.

Once Theadeacus stops having his emotional moment he would detect Ulfur. His senses have yet to fail at detecting a being; living, undead, animated construct, or god.

Certainly, he's not trying to hide!

Yes, the Buoy is under Taeltresin's rules.

Ulfur, if you end up wanting to interact with Taeltresin in any way besides talking in the Buoy, you'll have to create Ulfur using the original character creation rules over in that game. link to another game

Once you do, submit the same RTJ from there in your PM thread to me here :)

While you won't be nearly as powerful as you are in Myriad, Taeltresin also is much more level playing field - but also unlike Myriad, if you die it's real shit, not the Tree patting you on the back personally and commiserating with you before sending you out good as new :P

Basically it's going to online multiplayer when you're used to playing the story mode.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:06, Tue 15 Jan 2019.

Yeah welcome to the real world Myriadian. We play for keeps out here.

Colour me intrigued; would Ulfur exist as a God/Virtu in both ... err, Trees? Or would one replace the other? If the former, how would that work? If the latter, is there a significant narrative difference given he won't have been around for very long in either? Either way,  what would tempt me over to that side rather than continuing to play in Myriad?

It's a whole "Was I man that dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I butterfly dreaming of being a man?" deal.

From the perspective of Taeltresin, Myriad is Faerie. It's an idealized fantasy world full of invincible tricksters with strange ideas of hospitality.

You would be creating Ulfur's "real" self, which can be very much the same or very much different. You retain both characters, and they share consciousness.

Being young in both is probably a good thing, honestly, less shock to an established system.

All of the cool people on this side of the Tree. Plus there are a bunch of worlds without gods on our tree. Plenty of opportunity to double dip into the realm building aspect. Maybe get another species started and be a god in two realities? How many people can say that am I right?

Definitely interesting. Let me take a poke at Talon's rules

They are pretty balanced. I like them to say the least.

Alsssso post #400 :P

@Anathema Go visit Theadeacus' parents. Tell them he is powerful and defeated the Blight.

Excitement wanes as I read more closely and remember that they are dead and gone.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:43, Tue 15 Jan 2019.

She can still visit their reflections, same as she is interacting with her own. It wouldn't be them, but . . . she'd be able to tell you how'd they react, how they felt about you, knowing who you had become. She also has explicit permission to return to the Buoy while she's visiting the Far Shore.

It wouldn't be like having them back, but it would be closure.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:46, Tue 15 Jan 2019.

My parent's shadow of a being became my twisted demon and won't tell me a thing. So it'd be better than what I could get at least!

Well we never actually meet. My parents were the God of Life and Goddess of Ruin. They died to the Blight but birthed me as their last hope. Its their conflicting natures that bring about Theadeacus' nurturing and war-god sides respectively.

Now that we have our tenth and last player in the process of creating a character, the game is now closed to applications. Two players have gone inactive, so we're running with eight, spread between two trees. That's the maximum amount I can comfortably handle, given that all of you are fantastic writers and make GMing a large game rewarding, and coincidentally 7-10 players is, in my experience, about how many you really need for the game to feel expansive - it's enough player gods that you can sometimes forget about the ones you aren't interacting with, but not so many that feel lost or irrelevant.

How has everyone been liking the game so far? Does anybody have any tweaks to suggest - what they'd like more focus on? Less focus on?

Also, in case anyone was wondering about the weird update times and rapid frequency, I'm a housewife-to-be / sometimes-model with no kids, which translates to having a lot of time to think about writing :P I do have a final interview for a full-time position at a corneal transplant place in store, which sounds rad and lines up very well with my resume, but even in that case I'll still have plenty of time to play with y'all.



Oooh, tell me more?
This message was last edited by the GM at 10:46, Wed 16 Jan 2019.

I hadn't really explored much of my history of Bezaleel. I had decided that he was a new reincarnation of a primordial God of Shadows and Darkness.

I believe aside from Bezaleel being a new reincarnation, that his new domain of undead/undeath was due to the original lacking that capability and when his world eclipsed the undead lost all control entirely.

I dubbed the old one as Erebus same as the Realm.

But I have to say I definitely do find myself intrigued and interested with your writing and where things are going. I am enjoying it so far. I can't really say what to tweak as it sort of all fits together in a way I'm just not fully used to yet.

There is a lot more momentum though from what I have seen, yet still enough narrative for good rp play.

I'm used to getting a rolling pin beating down on me though in Theogenesis! So can't say I'm all to surprised with how Ophelia sits into play and even the rise of Marilla's efforts in my realm.

Do have to say though. Ophelia is almost as brash as Bezaleel, which I like because it definitely makes sense. She doesn't have as much of a calm temperament as what Bezaleel holds most of the time though. Definitely has some insane power though. 10/10. Glad she loves me, good thing Bezaleel has a paternal side lol.

Loving it, especially keen to explore the real-self/wolf-self boundaries and overlap for Ulfur in particular

Given I'm new to Theogenesis, I'm still finding the boundaries of what's possible within the rules and expect that to continue where there's differences between Divines and Virtu

Before I respond to the scene in the Buoy, some questions @Empress:

• Is Ulfur aware he is a God? In either Tree?
• Do you have concerns if both of him appear there?
• Is he aware of the limits imposed by the Buoy, i.e. violence, powers?

Great, thanks

Oh my, it appears I have missed a fair bit in these last few days -- and indeed will continue to miss more as much of my day today is spoken for! Empress sure seems to be enjoying having Ophelia make mockeries of gods. I sure hope the pretty lady stays on our side!

In terms of Magic: the Gathering, Ophelia is a solid, dependable black/red/white aggro deck. If you try to take her on, you either need to be like Skeles and straight up negate her initial onslaught with total defense before delivering a killshot, or you need skillful control with enough aggro to whittle her down, something any of you three could manage.

Her powers are listed in her description, she's under NPCs in the cast list.

I do agree to that statement. I find there to be no reason for her not to stay though. She seems to be exactly where she wants for now.

Bezaleel's future regret will be letting her go from his home, to what realm she makes her home realm.

Though, if anything, her major power boost of being alloyed is what gives her a strong diversity. Seeing how it is done, brings Bezaleel to inquire doing it himself.

I have to say though. Her holy reaper power. Is gorgeous, in the way it let's you choose, and the lack of karmatic costs.

Wooo, first person to be ate that isn't blight.
_{~nom, nom~}

Somehow I feel challenged by Ophelia's power list. So many powers involving reaping. You would think that she was the god of death lol. I suppose it makes sense given her parents and the amaranth that she performed tho.

We should just leave her in the Pantheon worlds and let that sort itself out. With the old magics dead most gods would have to rely on their powers and combat; should be a disadvantage for them.

Bezzy... did you just form a tunnel into the River Styx?

I thought I was fairly ambitious in my plans to break the tree, but in that simple act you've probably done more to break the natural order than anything I could've done. o.o

Haha, well he has been wanting to for some time. As well as to talk to Charon. He wanted to see if there could be something he could do with forgotten dead of the river in particular.

But now he has a strong incintive to do so, plus he is only really doing this all to get you back. He could care less about Marilla or her vision.

Plus, it's one that when you go to the River Styx, you aren't exactly going to look for it or know it is there. Nor will it he easily discovered.
This message was last edited by the player at 18:55, Thu 17 Jan 2019.

Y'know, when the possibility was first broached I was fairly certain that Anna would never seriously consider trading her memories for becoming a tree-dragon. Buuuut, with all of the craziness that has been going on, I'm vaguely of the notion that I should make an attempt at MAXIMUM CHAOS and go for it. What do you guys think?

I think I can't turn my back to you all for five seconds without you trying to rip the tree apart.

Go for broke I suppose. I'll hold the line as usual.

Also, tree-dragons are part of Taeltresin lore! There's a baby one protecting the World-Seed in the Eternal Hunting Ground :)

Gonna put it to a vote what Ophelia does while daddy isn't watching:

1. Does she visit Hell and try to eat a Devil? (In which case, which thread has the info on how that went down? I can't find one for Trial and Tribulation?

2. or does she visit the Eternal Hunting Ground looking for a Hunter vs. Reaper winner-take-all deathmatch?

Given that time is about as slow in the River Styx as you can get, she's got time for a spot of cannibalistic delinquency.

=

Also, I swear to god if you drain the river Styx and recover the riches of lost empires and artifacts of untold power sunk into the river of the dead that I included as mostly-fluff I'm gonna flip a nickel ok.

I saw #1 for the sole purpose of having her stay away from any potential demonic powers she might pick up from such a trip. Also isn't hell filled with Primoridals or some other such beings?



If this isn't bait I'm not sure what is.

I thought the Eternal Hunting Ground dragon was just a normal if very planty dragon. Admittedly I didn't get as close a look at it as Deekin did, but I wouldn't have thought Talon would put something so (presumably) powerful in front of a god that at that time was practically still a child.

There is no thread for Trial and Tribulation; we were all too busy and the reward too meager for any of us to bother with. Anna might've eventually once she unlocked mythcrafting; I'm sure the hells have all sorts of interesting specimens.

In any event, I say she should try to fight the Hunter god. If they don't mutually annihilate each other I'm sure both of them will have interesting words to share over the eating of gods. Maybe over a nice Chianti and lima beans...

I would not put draining the Styx below Bezzy =P

It's bait. But it makes me wanna do it lol. I wouldn't put draining the River Styx under me either though lol

I would have hoped behaving yourself means don't do option one or two lol. I personally wanted to take on the hunter God in hopes he was a beast god. See if I could start working on unlocking being a silver-beast God from it.

Personally I vote 2 though. I don't see her and demons working out well as she is unadvised.

@Anna,I don't know how turning into a dragon would fit with Anathema personally. But I say go with whatever option you see fit.

I'm abstaining because all that talesein stuff is confusing me. :)

Also...What's with Theadeacus calling himself the Hierophant in his profile? That's a good way to get a certain all-powerful primordial to get pissed at him. Or is is a small-h Hierophant title?

The title is a rank of the God. He is currently one above me and my title rank.

There's not any details on it, but it makes sense the world-seed would produce a dragon-whelp to protect it, and Taeltresin itself would produce a proper dragon, simply adjusting for scale :) I'm doing my best to hook my ideas into lore / things that are already present (for example, Taeltresin has no fusion, but it does have VERY strong artifacts, and y'all had already discussed IC the idea of trading powers, so I could follow that into the invention of a kind of fusion, rather than modifying the rules as written. Equally, Anathema is getting a choice here, with choosing the larger power options for drawing power coming with larger banes, as always, and she having earned it by saving the universe at immense cost.)

Hierophantasm rank from Dust, Halley. Taeltresin adapted stuff from various available Theo lore, and per the GM of Taeltresin, he doesn't want it hooked into the overriding Theo lore, so the Hierophant isn't part of Taeltresin canon. He's just a memory of the dream-world of Myriad from the perspective of Taeltresin :P
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:46, Thu 17 Jan 2019.

Abstaining too, since this is my first exposure to Theogenesis and the Ulfur's are themselves mere neonates. Just please don't break either Tree ;)

OOOH it's a reference to Hierophantasm! LOL!

Wow talk about an old skool trip down memory lane!

Between Anna, my daughter, and myself. No promises.

P.S. AVOID MY DAUGHTER. More likely to eat you than me.

Sorry to all the Myriadian's if the Taeltresin thing is confusing to you. We are just a triumvirate of different gods that people can choose to ignore or involve yourselves with. At current we have no means of entering your world so no worries there.

No worries, I'm loving the richness and especially the Divine/Dream crossover opportunity; I'm just unfamiliar with the mechanical side of things and, I imagine, woefully underpowered :)

Bezaleel's capacity for collateral damage nearly exceeds Anna's! Almost. On the borderline, really. At the very least he hasn't smeared someone's essence across seven different realms yet.

I don't even remember what Anna's divine rank is lolz

@Ulfur Underpowered is relative really. For example Bezaleel is a combat oriented god. His attributes, powers, skills, and artifacts all reflect that. He isn't the person to take on a straight up fight.

Theadeacus is a magic focused god. With my staff alone and my skills I can bath entire squadrons in necrotic fire. My personal growth outside of that is marginal because I focused on building up my people. Hence my army professional army of several thousand souls and flying war-fortresses.

Anathema is a science focused god and a secretive one at that. Not a single clue what her focuses are or are not and only a descriptive understanding of her powers (some of them).

@Anna Mine was just on my sheet. We started at the same time so you should be Hierophant too.

I mean, if Anna comes back not as a dragon. She'd go up three ranks.

This is technically true.

Very true!

Actually not true, all that power was burned up in the Blight-heart. Anna got basically nothing out of it except a two-way ticket to the afterlife and a couple marbles. She knew this would be the outcome when she did it, but still SO SAD WAAAAH

Well Anna. It wouldn't have been. If you shared the burden with me and Theadeacus.

But you were all the way over there, on the other side of the room!

That's no excuse!!

Just know. You have two hard slaps coming for you. One from me. One from Theadeacus.

I'm not really a slapper but expect a nice firm shaking.

I'll slap for Theadeacus then. So two from me

Slapping and shaking, understood. Go for it! *Thrusts rear end outwards*

*crackes knuckles* Don't mind if I do

I think we have enough god-children running around and I'm not spending Essence on divine contraceptives.

I'd spend an essence on that. Just not per.

You know it's a good game when we're talking about divinely-infused condoms in the OOC.

That is really true though lol. I mean who is to say that act brings children among the gods and the way I made Ophelia is the only way.

Edit: not post 500 because I won't double post :c
This message was last edited by the player at 22:48, Thu 17 Jan 2019.

Haha #500 >:3

Looking forward to getting out into the branches and meeting everyone IC soon!

I'll be visiting every myriad godrealm soon-ish. I may crash the birthday thread as well.

Have we played a Godbound game together?

It's possible. I've joined a few, though none ever went anywhere :/

Possibly. I did have a version of Halley in one short-lived god game where we were like these weird ascended humans that escaped a pocket dimension and were trying to take over a world-ship after dodging lightning storms on this moon sided thing with little cute sentient thingies and turrets.

I definitely wasn't in that one :P

The only ones I can think of that were here on Rpol are this one prior to the re-boot, one that was played in the default setting called 'The Word and the Way', and another one in a custom setting where we were playing fallen gods in a pseudo-exalted kind of setting that didn't get much past character creation.

No I wasn't in either of those two, but have been in other short lived ones.

I have played with you both then. I was the soft spoken techwiz in the pocket dimension one and the rebellious slave in the exalted-esque one.

Man, Theadeacus been around on Rpol lol.

I feel so small with my tiny amount of games.

Awww! I think I remember Halley being protective of you if you are who I think you are.

She had the bow, alacrity, and journeys word (the closest I could estimate to being comet-ish lol).

Yeah we are buds back then. I had thought that you might be the same person.

For y'alls interest:

Chaotic Evil:
Ophelia

Neutral Evil:
Diadea
Hayl

Lawful Evil:
Bezaleel
First Half of the Pantheon

Lawful Neutral:
Theadeacus
Second Half of the Pantheon
Taeltresin

True Neutral:
Anna
Lysandre
Ulfur
Caerden

Neutral Good:
Skeles
Komatas
Petra

Lawful Good:
The Comet-That-Watches

Chaotic Good:
Myriad

Chaotic Neutral:
Dacthu
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:51, Thu 17 Jan 2019.

In reply to Theadeacus Aso (msg # 198):

I was Katazastris in that one, assuming we are in fact remembering the same one xD


Also, Petra is definitely pegged correctly at NG :3

Mmm, I figured Bezaleel more neutral evil or neutral considering he can be quite nice or kind depending. But I guess it makes sense considering his nature and acts thus far.

Naw Bezaleel. The Empress got you to the nines. Me too.

>~> I just don't wanna admit I'm lawful.

I think of Anna as more Chaotic Neutral! She may have played along partially with the pantheon when the world tree was under threat, but don't forget who the only new Taeltresin god was to tell them to take their tithe and shove it! Now that she's free and clear, you all are gonna see a side of Anna you never did before!

As soon as she gets out of the afterlife anyways.

I'd think Halley is chaotic good initially, although after becoming the architect of the divine valley she probably became neutral good as she had to guide people and things far more than before.

Now Halley's PLAYER is definitely more lawful good despite trying to act more free spirited. That lawfulness always tugs me back. :(
This message was last edited by the player at 00:31, Fri 18 Jan 2019.

I only listen to the Pantheon out of idle wait. Do as I have to so no skin off my back. It leaves me more Lawful considering.

Bezaleel is one to tear things up but have order in ways. Be reserved when it is useful.

Anna is definitely Chaotic Neutral. She isn't good or evil. Nor are her actions.

After consideration, Anna IS chaotic neutral. My understanding of chaotic neutral comes from my own temperament - when you're Chaotic Neutral, your moral compass always appears to be pointing north for you, but it's spinning wildly for everyone else. I think a Chaotic Neutral person is someone who has values, but who sense of which value is most important varies with mood and context. So Anna's honorable, but also intensely curious, and can be other-sacrificing or self-sacrificing depending on whether her curiosity overruns her her honor. And then sometimes she just does things for the aesthetic that have nothing to do with her honor or her curiosity. A Chaotic Neutral is someone who lacks the cognitive dissonance that others get when they do something at odds with the person they have previously been presenting themselves as.

Like partly I think she saved the tree by sacrificing herself - thinking she'd die her last death - because it seemed cool at the time.

Ophelia is Chaotic Evil because her sense of self is pretty undefined, and she defines herself according to her desires alone, and does whatever she feels will fulfill them regardless of others. It's the most hedonistic alignment, which exactly why a Chaotic Evil person can be an excellent ally so as they're intelligent enough to forestall satisfaction for the present in exchange for a bigger feast in the future. Ophelia doesn't love Bezaleel for being Bezaleel; she loves the way she feels when Bezaleel approves of her, and because he provides her a sense of safety and belonging, and because she sees the Bezaleel in herself and so extends empathy to him, insofar as he is 'her'. She may be a monster, but she's not a lone wolf; she'd prefer to part of a pack, and she has emotional, human needs as well as needs for asserting the superiority of her self over others to continuously cement and reinforce her completely narcissistic worldview.

However, Bezaleel is also building 'walls' for her. By agreeing that she's a monster and respecting her, while not engaging with her chaos, he's teaching her to see herself in a social context and have concern for allies, which may eventually move her to Neutral Evil if he plays his cards as well as he has been - and keeps granting her an outlet.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:07, Fri 18 Jan 2019.

Whoo, psychoanalysis! I love hearing how people interpret my characters, because while I try so hard to bring them to life I am always worried I'm not doing a good job. It sounds like you have Anna's number alright though!

On a totally unrelated topic, I just bought some new boots! Look! Do you see? DO YOU SEE WITH YOUR EYES?!? https://www.amazon.com/Susanny...ize_46/dp/B01LETRNFK

I love the depth you've given her so much already. It definitely has given me more immersion to it and her. Also, wooooo, Bezaleel's parenting skills aren't total shit!!

The way Bezaleel sees her is a lot like he views himself in manors. He sees a lot of himself in her. Her hedonistic nature, her lax care of others (to some extent), he can understand why she does things and can resonate with that. To watch over her, care for her, and have a daughter. Has thrusted a different type of being on himself. So he feels he needs to help direct her to a better future and security of her actions. He doesn't want the world targeting her, or her actions to be her undoing. He accepts her for her because she is, who she is. To deny her, would be the same as denying himself.

Bezaleel feels love for the child, because at the end of the day, she is part of his pack. She will always be his daughter, part of his creation and existence. plus the way she romantized the killing and eating of Marilla was 10/10 good fucking stuff to him. If it wasn't for being his daughter, he might have changed what he spent that essence on

What he is doing now with her, is making sure she understands that he does love her, she is safe with him, he will be there for her, he will help guide her on the path she takes and walk along side her. That whoever she is and chooses to be is cared for by him and that those things won't change. But he has to iron that there are consequences for her actions, that making enemies can be quite unwise. That allies and others who fight tooth and nail beside you are important. That you must treat them with a mutual respect.

I'm quite curious as to what her analysis is currently on Bezaleel.

@Anathema Those are some super pretty boots! Very nice!

:) Thanks! I think creating three dimensional characters is my strong point.

@Anna: I love the price on those!! So worth. ALSO I JUST GOT THESE BOOTS OMIGOD

I just wanna leave this as a bit of a reminder. Because it leaves me highly curious. Does this mean he believes Ana will become a dragon or, that even if she goes to the afterlife and leaves a hollow memory of herself in existence. That the real her in the after life could be called back to the shore of the Styx, just like that?

Charon will ferry her back across the Styx, since you can't portal out of the Far Shore. Otherwise gods would never die for reals.

Anna being able to see her reflection and interact with it has to do with her domain. In reality, she's seeing her future self, as she'll find out in my next update. The Far Shore is timeless - from the perspective of anyone else, she got of the boat, walked thirteen steps, flickers, and comes back to the boat - because her time in the Far Shore occurs outside of normal flow of time.

I see, even far outside of the River Styx...

Wait..does that mean that by putting a portal in the River Styx. If someone were to by a super small chance find it by looking for an exit rather than crossing with Charon. They would, essentially cheat death in a way?

Or would that be true, only to the Far Shore.
This message was last edited by the player at 04:15, Fri 18 Jan 2019.

I'm pretty sure after your last death you're essentially just a ghost, and if you exited the underworld at that point, you'd still just be a ghost rather than a living god.









Bezaleel has earned a new title: Xvaetvadatha
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:21, Fri 18 Jan 2019.

Why do you think I was so worried when you did that?

Well, fuck.

Guess if it'll be any game this one would be the best considering it was a common act in many mythos of gods.

Edit:


Cause they're worse!
This message was last edited by the player at 04:32, Fri 18 Jan 2019.

I won't say I'm judging but I'm also not saying that I am not.

Tbh at this point in time, I feel like the only creation I have that reflects well on me is Syoku. At least you get to see that Theadeacus.

But I jumped on this train so I might as well see where it goes. Whole new writing experience here I come.

Guess this is what I get for having a strong vision of a character and sticking to it to a fault. Because it isn't outside of his character sadly.


This message was last edited by the player at 04:41, Fri 18 Jan 2019.

Don't jump on this train Bezaleel. Do not jump on this train.

Why not? There are very few good combinations of trains and jumping, and jumping onto a train is one of the few positive ones! Much better than jumping off moving trains or jumping in front of trains.

It's too late. Damage is done. Gotta roll with it. Already jumped on the train. So refer to Anna on this one.

Didn't we have to invite other gods in order for them to visit our realm? I thought I read that somewhere.

Halley is different. She doesn't have her own godrealm per say, but instead she sort of counts the Realm supernatural as her godrealm and can thus move around to the other worlds within it freely. She can't trump your influence over your own realm though - she only has that type of influence in the divine valley. In exchange, she doesn't have true dominion over any people and place besides her own person save for some special instances within the divine valley and even then she isn't micromanaging it like you get to with your godrealm. She's like the silver surfer to Myriad's Galactus.

Plus, she made a deal directly with myriad to go around to the god-moons and announce herself to the PC gods we wanted to start with you as the firstborn of the gods. She's not there to fight you or anything nor is it my intention OOC to bully anyone. But as the firstborn of the gods (Halley isn't technically a god although she is divine) Myriad and Halley have decide to give you some special considerations hence her visit to you first. And she has a special connection to aegises so Xixi definitely knows what's going on.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:18, Fri 18 Jan 2019.

That's true! That's why you needed a rose-gold ring to travel to the Sanctuary. It was mentioned here in the OOC.

Halley, let me look over that post you made. It looks like you jumped the gun on some things.

Also, there weren't updates this morning / there were less updates yesterday because my fiancee has been home sick and I've been caring for her, in case that was noticed :P
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:13, Fri 18 Jan 2019.

Whoot, it's my birthday. Don't feel 23 lol.

Young pup

You're only a year younger than me!! Happy Birthday!!

In proud Theo tradition, +1 Birthday Wish to Bezaleel

A Birthday Wish can do anything an Essence can, and some things it can't - go for broke :)

I get a wish, whuuuuut. That's cool! Thank you very much!

I no longer feel like I'm overly young compared to the rest now though! Aside from Myriad players whom I don't know, Anna is pretty young :P

I turn thirty-one in May actually!

A young thirty-one.

I'm 34 in may -_-

Quite young indeed. *nods*

I remember when your birthday is Anna from when you posted it in the OOC of The Age of the Lost.

If I only I could remember things that would be on tests tho

In reply to Petra Filfeex (msg # 234):

A vibrant 34.

*is 84*
Theadeacus: a fine wine

Lol I am 24 actually.

It's cool guys. I was 15 when I started playing Theo: Dust. I was 13 when I started my first theo-ish experience. Try being 8-10 years younger than everyone else! Hell of a crash course in writing.

^ I know those feels
I've been writing and rping since I was 8 online. And since 6 I was doing d&d

Also I wasn't saying you were 84 Theadeacus but I'm honestly surprised you are also a year older than me.

Why is that?

Idk, I guess I just held this image of a guy late 20's has a maturity in his writing well past that.

I guess it's because of how traditional Theadeacus is, and because Richard is a lot more relaxed human adventurer feel.

Ah I see. I suppose my characters do give off that vibe. It probably just comes from my gaming experience. I've been roleplaying since I was about 13 although I've only been on rpol for a few years now, 3 or 4.

Yeah, and it's not a bad thing. Everyone has different characters and writing styles for what ever image they are going for in that setting.

Anna breaks reality, seeks knowledge, and fluxes mood depending what is going on. I eat people, kissed my daughter, and can be unwittingly rash.

Theadeacus holds his wisdom, expands his magic and has much more of a tradition God role in his realm. He hides his flaws and emotions for the most part.

I find because of these things, there is a bit of a lack in knowing what your goal is as a character and player both. (on my part at the very least)

I could try to guess Anna's but I think it'd be best if I don't. Might leave my head spinning.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:33, Fri 18 Jan 2019.

Well Theadeacus' original intent was to unify his nation, build up a grand army, scour back the Blight, and then use that reputation to lure the Blight's master organism or what have you to attack Eros. From there I was going to orchestrate a planet-wide evacuation and sacrifice myself and Eros to make it a tomb-world that the blight could never again escape from.

The Aso would be orphaned but I was going to leave my staff to my heir so that they would inherit my legacy and maintain my memory.

That's pretty grand tbh.

I'm pretty sure though that the blight stem from the mad gods that lie outside of the realms, that they have their own hierarchy as well as chain of command. As well as some even having companion ship considering those in the realm supernatural.

It's a super feat and goal. Their master is a very Cthulhu-sk being if I recall.

Yeah it was a grand goal. Talon told me that with Level 4 magic and the right artifacts I could turn Eros into a tomb-world. The issue was luring the big-boy's to my world. Thought I might be able to make my world a large enough threat to come and take it out themselves.

Awww c'mon~!

In my thoughts, it would seem to be a big threat enough to them would be gaining more levels in other-wordly knowledge and becoming mad as well yourself. That way you impose your will to move your realm from the tree to them outside of it. Trapping them in the nothing forever with the rules of reality entombing them, lost forever.

All I know is that Anna better make good on her promise to tell me about what secret she is keeping from Theadeacus. Death doesn't excuse you lol.

@Bezaleel Perhaps. We never really got into the thick of it. I really wanted Theadeacus to deal with both hands and pull on every power source he could. Sort of like how Twenty-Fifth Baam from Tower of God [spoilers].

In reply to Anathema Viese (msg # 248):

I mean, it'd take me a while to deduce it aside from you traveling your realm and self outside of the world tree.

Also, you best tell me too, especially after all the efforts I'm making into bringing you back!

Edit: @ Theadeacus

Yeah you are right, we never quite did. I saw the end of act 1 sort of like the door opening up to everything being much bigger and just getting started. Our act one was like our prelude.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:04, Fri 18 Jan 2019.

Still updating. I've wrapped up and closed the creation-romance of the Valley Divine, and I'm thinking of posting the finalized Valley Divine thread and also posting the Tattered Valley.

However, I haven't seen much interest in actually entering the Valley, so show of hands if your character is presently interested in visiting the Valley. If there aren't many, I'll wait until everyone is ready to move towards that / engaging more directly with main plot stuff before I make the thread.

Anna plans to enter the Tattered Valley eventually; there's a lot of loose ends to wrap up there, plus shiny gems and metals that could be valuable mythcraft filler, but she'll want to assess the situation in Arthos first. No rush.

Mmm, I'm not yet interested to go to the Valley. I want to wrap up Marilla and my talk with Charon. After that I will probably see to the witch in my realm. From there I'll go to the Valley with Ophelia.

Caerden isn't really planning to leave home till he makes some meaningful steps towards getting his home Realm under control. He's quite freaked out by the notion of the cosmos being full of beings with monumental powers, so he's on a bit of a militaristic streak till he feels his own Realm is more secure. While a social butterfly, he also knows intrigue is dangerous. He's only stayed at the party scene because it came with a ring that promised to protect him for a few moments in case the host turned sour.

On a more metagamey note, I've steered clear of the Valley as it was run by super powered entities who could squish me if I offended. I've seen quite a few RPGs where players have squished one another for giving offense... so discretion is sometimes the better part of valor.

The Divine Valley is meant to eventually be a "main activity hub" for you guys. I personally will be retiring this character from full PC status as I completed my job of creating the valley and helping get initial valley plots going. You guys will eventually want to come in though - this is a sort of switzerland of the gods if that makes sense, and also is a good meet up if you guys want to go to other worlds and dimensions and go questing and such.

I'll not be "squishing" anybody over casual offenses. My valley powers are more as a means of enforcing you all to get along and not rampage or kill each other while in the valley as it's supposed to be a sort of neutral safe space. But I will 99% of the time be super distant from just about everything, and Myriad also is drawing back her direct presence too.

We don't want people afraid to come to the valley. You should be more afraid outside of it, not within it. But this is one reason I'm putting this character into retired NPC mode for now so you guys can do your thing and the game can focus more on you guys now.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:24, Fri 18 Jan 2019.

Cool, given that, I'll run another show of hands at 2k posts. If I have unanimity at that point, I'll post.

Another idea I have that y'all might like - before the thread goes totally live, I'll ask each player to contribute to the lore of the Valley - basically what the embassy for your realm looks like and how the members of your people bring their culture to the Valley, what their part of town looks like, whether there is a city in the valley that is mostly made up of your people, etc.

I think that would help make the Valley feel like a meeting ground, and help show how the little adventure with saving the Tree has caused Taeltresin to imprint on the Three Little Gods and shaped how it looks as the mist recedes and the Tattered Valley becomes the Valley of Banners.
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:33, Fri 18 Jan 2019.

Intending to head everywhere once I figure out where the boundaries are

I really like the idea of Taeltresin imprinting on us and being the Valley of Banners.

I purposefully have set aside large exotic domes and other spaces within Bolide as well to be used for divine beings and their organizations once things develop in that direction.

I've been playing Petra as being pretty ignorant of everything outside of Forterra itself and even her own god-hood so far. That's partly because that kind of isolationist contentment seemed to fit both her and Forterra at the start, and also because I don't actually have *that* good of a grasp of Theogenisis past the basics, which allows for more IC exposition. Which I have been getting some of, and it is appreciated :3

So right now Petra hasn't thought about going to the valley, because she doesn't really know about it. Once she does though, she would be interested in visiting.

Well now.

All for Bezaleel as 2k19's worst dad?
This message was last edited by the player at 01:20, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

I mean. Can't say I deny that. But honestly in those regards she stated he is the same reflectively.

Kinda surprised it happened so suddenly. Guess I'll end up down the road with her eventually.

Edit: I mean, in that nature he is the same as her. Predator and prey is his game. Bloodlust, devouring, nashing of flesh, the arousal it brings him and his way more beastle urges and instincts.

I mean, when he got in a serious fight in his realm. His valley self mindless because of his concentration elsewhere looked at Anathema as he was going to eat her, that she was food.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:37, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

In terms of OOC, I saw your comment on wanting to unlock being a silver beast god, everyone voted that she should pursue Hayl, and then stuff happens, and well . .

She's not a Beast God yet - she's just started down the path to becoming one, which is going to be harder 'cuz she's kinda has to blaze the path on her own. With your help, maybe :P

Her development is occuring during the years you're away down in the Styx. So it will be sudden for you, but uh, a long time of coming around and introspection for her.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:37, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

I see, well that definitely makes sense. It also does make sense for it to happen. With Bezaleel being more reserved to keep those urges in, she is accepting it as part of her and processing everything.

I'm still unsure what the process to being a silver beast god is, as I have a lack of material for it.

My only regret is that in character, Bezaleel has no idea this could have happened or taken place. Or that this was possible. Otherwise he would have kept a better eye on her, or brought her with him

I'm not surprised at all; "suddenly" seems to be a thing with Ophelia. While it might not be sudden in pure chronological perspective -- to the extent that chronology even exists across realms -- it is very sudden from a narrative viewpoint. Ophelia's grown more over the span of maybe a dozen posts than any one of us did over the entirely of Age of the Lost, and that makes me very concerned. That said I encouraged this madness by suggesting she go after Kayl knowing full damn well that there was basically no other outcome; either she'd inherit his hunger or embrace the growing madness in herself.

At least it gives us all a clear threat to shore up our defenses against until the next big thing rolls along, and something for Anna to make a Stress Mess over when she's finally reincarnated; "What have you darkbutts been doing while I was out?! AAAAAA!"

I also don't have anything on how Beast or Silver Beasts worked. They're before even my time, but since you mentioned them I'm guessing they have been mentioned somewhere in the Taeltresin lore. So, I'm inventing new stuff!

To become a beast god, you have to:

- consume the blood of a one betrayed (Skeles!) (tests your amorality)

- consume the blood of a one willing (Marilla!) (tests your seduction)

- consume the blood of a one akin (Hayl / any other god-eater) (tests your strength)

Once you've done two of those three on your own, you get a sense of the third test if you accept what's happening to you. Or you can reject the beast-blood, and try to find a cure for it.

Yeah, she actually has a Power on her sheet that influences her suddenness. She learns very quickly, and her steady diet of gods is pouring accelerant on the fire.
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:00, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

Omfg I'm just imagining Bezaleel slunked down in darkness with his ears down and tail hidden. "... I uh..... Kissed Ophelia.... Now she is um... Eatting everyone? I mean... I have been toooooo, buttt-

But other than that. It is narratively speaking. She has been awake and conscious for over 20 years. Where as none of us can really say that about ourselves in game.

Most of Bezaleel's growth as a character was because of being around you guys some, his death and loss of almost all the shades of his realm, the thrusted responsibility of having to watch over Ophelia, and then Anna's disappearance suspected entirely utter demise.

One of the things Bezaleel will have to address though when he returns is what happened between them. Because he can't be both as she stated.

I mean. You are quite literally her father. I traded my life for yours when you had her.

No no, quite literally he is and has been.

That you did, still today I really do feel bad that you traded your life for one of mine. Out of character and in character. He has a problem with the Pantheon because of that, and it is more severe because you did that and it was your life instead.

Since it's your birthday, I'm gonna toss you the free tip that telling your proto-beast daughter that she can't kiss daddy anymore after they murder people because it's kissing that's wrong might be a little unpersuasive and also make you look inconsistent and therefore weak.

Ophelia's opinon of Bezaleel trying to get off the train
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:36, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

Don't feel bad Bezaleel. Everything served a purpose in the end. We learned a lot and I got to meet Charon. Had a nice pleasant ride down the River Styx. Idk why you all make a mess of something that is supposed to be peaceful lol.

That's not what I was planning to do. While out of character morally speaking, it's not okay. I could personally care less for it being in writing and fictional.

I'm playing him as he feels and sees, the twisted personality he has.

He hasn't been thinking about what happened. Not yet. But the way he feels towards her, has been perverted by himself and her. He wants it discussed, if that is what she actually wants, if it is, he'll embrace it. If she wants him to continue his role as father with those things happening. Or for it to not. Or if she even needs to figure it out.

For him, it's a complicated matter, and one that is delicate. He feels like he can trust Ophelia but at the same time she can turn on him in a second's notice. He feels that way about everyone now because of what happened with Diadea and Theadeacus's death. He doesn't want someone else to die because of someone else betraying him.


Also, I make a mess out of everything if you have yet to notice lol

I joke about Anna being a goddess of collateral damage but Bezzy is far worthier of the title. I often wonder if you're trying to one-up me. =P

Maybe that's how his poor courting skills are trying to attract you :P
This message was last edited by the player at 02:54, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

Make a baby God of Collateral Damage between us. We just leave it with Theadeacus far from us both

Hehe, yes, Deekin's having entirely too easy a time! Let's add a little spice!

Sounds like a plan. One full of chaos!

As y'all have probably figured out, I play a lot of 'personality games' with player characters (tarot, alignment, etc)

One of the games I play is "What would the kid look like?"

In the case of Shadows + Reflection, my prediction would be a God of Distortion.
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:03, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

That sounds full of collateral damage if you ask me.

Please do not leave the god(dess) of distortion with me. I don't want any parts of that.

Whaaat, we wouldn't do that. *puts them in a large basket, inside your realm. Whistling as I walk far away*

Besides what better way to keep them in line than leave them with good old reliable Death

I would most certainly place the whole basket into my hell-prison and wash my hands of it.

No I wouldn't but still.

Could always return em. Just make sure when you hand em to Ophelia to tell her, "Its not delivery, its digiorno" cause we all know what it'll happen to them lol.

Actually, I've always wondered what's stopping us from just popping out a unit every nine months and then eating it for new powers.

_{I mean, besides, ethics.}

Well you would need at least two gods to go alone with that plan and you'd have to wait to gestate the godling and then consume them when they emerge. Perhaps you succeed a few times but I can't imagine the tree or Pantheon would turn a blind eye to that sort of thing.

Then there is the 3 lives thing. 1 murder isn't enough and its unlikely even a new god is going to run back to their murderer on respawn.

You know it's a good game when we can have a serious talk about eating our own babies.

The heroes of this tale are an ethically unfettered scientist, an incestuous, cannibalistic shadowgod, and Death as the only sane man . . .
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:25, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

I have to be sane. Death is the great equalizer. Everyone meets the reaper in the end. Mortals, gods, and even trees. Death will claim them all.

I mean if anyone would be down to do that. It'd be Bezaleel.

But eatting something so very innocent and something from his own being is outside of his conscious decision.

I mean, the tree may be neutral. But it has it's laws and would definitely look down on it. Even if we could get rid of the karma in the way Ophelia's holy reaper power does. It still would be bad for us.

I mean, death has to be reasonable ya know?

Bezzy, stop making messes everywhere you go! If Marilla comes back as a tree-dragon 'cause of what you just did I am not gonna get in the middle of that!

I'll eat her again. You don't know me
knows me

Besides, why would she become a dragon? You were given that offer strictly because of your self sacrifice to save the entire tree.

She is trying to break the very laws of the tree as well as it's cycle by eliminating death entirely. Getting killed by another God in rapid succession doesn't grant her dragon status or the tree might be covered with them everywhere lol.

That conversation not only didn't happen IC but also not even in this game, so I'm double uncertain it counts.

Yeah. That is fair.

But in character, those who touch the river are lost. So just gonna toss that loose end in there.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:19, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

Then she'll just end up in Lysandre's realm eventually! =P

...wait. Does that mean I could create an eternal cycle of God-snacks by eating them and tosing them in the River, then eating them again. If there was a sure fire way to make them land in her realm every time?

I dunnoooo, I guess it depends on how much Taeltresin hates you. =P

And d'aww, you just missed Anna! It's almost like I'm faking my death on purpose or something. =P

Almost :P

Though, I guess if you are perceptive enough you could mention the spilled blood on the shore and start poking at that. Bezaleel is strolling out as his teeth are bothering him. Maybe you can catch up?

It seems the Empress has edited out that possibility, and in fact the edit is more consistent with how we were told time works. So, nope, no blood to perceive!

Oh shoot, I just remembered that the Far Shore is timeless! So in terms of time, Charon returned Anna to shore before Marilla arrived. Otherwise, he would have been waiting for Anna at the Far Shore, and you wouldn't have encountered him.



Yeah, woops, had to fix that continuity blip!
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:11, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

He couldn't just be like. She is alive. Noooo, 'I can't do that' lol

Oh man, left me with a nice sized post to get to before I headed to bed. I'm so tired it took me forever to get a post out. I had no concentration or focus at allll.

Just a heads up to Empress that most of these links have been 403ing on me.

Whaaat . .  right, these images are behind a wall.

I'll go back through and directly link them.

And the Empress claims post 666!

Oh, woot.

Bedeviled is right. The character I use for Ophelia is unnamed OC of a really talented chinese artist. I can't link his older images because they're not publicly viewable without an account for the site.

I'll have to download and re-upload the images to tinypic . . that's gonna be a bit of work.

Here's the image for Marilla: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pi...amp;s=9#.XEMGDFxKiUk
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:13, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

I ATE SOMETHING SO CUTE.

Oh noooo
This message was last edited by the player at 12:23, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

She's fricking adorable and you ate her. Twice. Look at her and deny her the right to unbalance the cosmos by killing Atropos. You can't.

Also, the in-line links for Ophelia checking her teeth and lying on the bed are fixed, go look at cha gal.

Ophelia's disapproving look when it was thought that Bezaleel might be trying to get off the train :P
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:43, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

Fuck, those are all cute too. I'm so tired, I can't handle all the cuteness.

She looks like something from Subnautica's lost river biome! So creepy-cool! I wonder what sort of viese phenotype would arise from pollinating one of those roses clinging to her. Sadly she is rather lacking in petticoats for my liking.

If sleepiness impairs your ability to handle cute then clearly the Way Of The Cute is not for you! I would offer to drown you in adorable but I require my images to be at least slightly on topic. =(

MIRROR TALE?! Awesome, that means Anna's gonna rule this show! ^_^

In reply to Anathema Viese (msg # 314):

You might be right, on reflection!

Well, whenever they are relevant. Link em!

Personally I have a large failure to find the right pictures for what i want to show. So instead I am thinking of having a friend draw a bunch of Bezaleel chibis and realistic reactions. For general use.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:06, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

Well, here's something cute and vaguely relevant to Anna I guess!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals...934cd32e6a3b4025.jpg

(I do not know why RPoL does not recognize that as a link)

It is pretty relative to Anna! I like it a lot.

Myr-Tael, yes :P I found it a cute and apt name, considering the 'two sides' dynamic as well.

I'm sick with the same thing my fiancee had, so while I will get through a full round of updates today it's gonna be less than I would usually do on the weekend.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:28, Sat 19 Jan 2019.

Aww, sickies! Anna shall modify your theodynamic waves to remedy your ailment; it's like crystal healing except with 100% more side effects! In seriousness, get well soon!

My shoes arrived today, a whole six days ahead of schedule! I'm not an expert in shoes (YET!) but I can tell they're not the highest quality. Even so they're pretty comfortable despite not being in the wide size I usually wear, and for a sub-forty-dollars price point that's all one can ask for really. I am happy with my purchase!

Oooof, the sickness progressed D: I hope you feel better soon!

I'm glad you are happy with your shoe purchase Anna!

I am... and, uh, wow, the viese are unspeakably badass. You sure you don't want to plant a garden of shadow-flowers, Bezzy? Might be good to have a local staff of bathomancers given all the crazy shit you get up to!

Question for Empress: Is that Myriad talking to Petra, or Myriel?

Just wanna double check for typos before I have Petra get confused about who the apparent hostess is vs who she got an invitation from :P

They're the same person - it happened in a formerly secret thread (The Romance of Petal and Comet, I think?) but she elected to stop having different names for her different levels of expressing her power.

Also, whoosh, Arthos is a weird realm, but I think I've got in on a good start.
This message was last edited by the GM at 10:48, Sun 20 Jan 2019.

Quite the dress, indeed Anna! I like it.

I wouldn't mind a few void flowers by all means. I just don't want a bunch of bathomancer undead running around when I'm gone. God forbid what terror that would hold!

If your Nyxies die though, you can always gift them to me. My third power is to ressurect the dead as undead.

So you see a race of people who use their reality bending magic cautiously and dutifully and your eyes glaze right over to their destructive and ethically unbound cousins? I was suggesting a solution to your problems, not trying to give you exciting new ones. Also I don't think the void flowers can be moved, since they're grown under very specific circumstances unique to Arthos.

And yes, it is a very nice dress! I bet those nyxies would say it interferes with magical movements and is therefore useless. They don't understand anything at all, really! =P

Why wouldn't I go for them! My realm is entirely unethical already lol

Nyxies just wanna get shit done fam, why you gotta hate. It's not like their alliance with ascended and access to god-touched research facilities is gonna result in them discovering something they shouldn't, and them opening a certain vault to get the one artifact still roiling with mists, no sirree

Ain't gonna be no containment breach and subsequent forcible conversion of the Ascended into deep-magic riddled void-touched automata lead by a Nyxie cloaked in mist bearing Umbra

That's not a potential outcome at all

Of course once Marilla kills Atropos and whatever it is that's in Theadeacus's realm succeeds in fully corrupting the Font of Brutality so that the aso children it's kidnapped can be converted into true horrors, one Nyxie with a god complex and a couple glitchy machine men isn't gonna be that big of a deal, relatively

hahaha

Y'all got this :3

:D we break the tree by existing

Don't mix well with crowds! Oh, the ignominy!

You're a wolf that lives by the ocean. You smell like wet dog my good dude :P

Dammit.

You have a point

*sigh*

*lolls tongue*

;)

A salty wet dog. I'm genuinely not sure whether that's better or worse. At least Bezzy won't need to bring his own salt, right?

He doesn't even know what salt is yet. Ulfur is gonna end up being the tastiest meal he had lol

Oh man. Ulfur.

Also one of my shades went renegade? And said he would deliver people from slavery....

I don't even care what my people do. I just oversee the realm's safety and development. Jesus (thanks for killing him I guess)
This message was last edited by the player at 23:13, Sun 20 Jan 2019.

It's possible I may have over-reacted

I mean, possible? They spoke of wounding you first in confidence.

Rule of thumb incase everyone hates you. You don't need followers to be a God. Can wipe the realm clean and start again.

I really need to read everyone else's threads sometime when I'm not struggling with constant sleepiness.

Arthos' world description didn't get carried over from Age Of The Lost so I added it to Anathema's character description! It's an utterly unique place that makes Avatar's Pandora seem dull! Please give it a read, you won't regret it.

Ooo, I forgot my realm description as well.

He was a half-shade, ok, did you even read his tortured, angsty backstory??

I didn't see it. I'll look for it now.

Can't find it lol.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:58, Sun 20 Jan 2019.

It's not mentioned. It's like the whole 'half-drow', 'half-demon' thing for 'edgy' characters :P
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:31, Mon 21 Jan 2019.

I see what your saying lol.

Well I was never really one of the half type characters.

Hey, do you or anyone else remember how quickly you earned spheres / essence in Taletresin?

I have to give y'all Taeltresin peeps two weeks worth of progress tomorrow :P

I disappear for two days and I feel like the world has passed me by lol. What is going on?

It was 500 souls per week. The spheres depended how we role played and interacted with the world. I can't remember what the base was though. But this seems a lot more fast paced than his game.

It was Base 1 at the beginning I believe and then increased by 1 per Divine Rank so people wouldn't be spending all year trying to get to a new Rank. All the same I can't remember the exact details myself.

Also I have no idea how many souls per week people were gaining. It could have been different for each because 500 sounds wrong to me.

- Bezaleel took Ophelia as his consort after pursuing and betraying the Goddess of Antideath within the Rivery Styx. Erebus created her realm, Hemera. They're both turning into beast gods, maybe.

- Anathema incarnated in her realm, and shit got real as the Viese devised a way to make Void-touched Viese (Nixies) when then crossbred with one of her Myths as a catalyst and the realm's  Essence as a power source to create nine mysterious void-touched demigods of ambiguous loyalty called the Vix.

- Ulfir's Taeltresin version killed the half-shade hero Kral, much to the lament of his people, his friends, his family, and his loyal dog, Cleo.

- Ulfir's Myriad version is presently embroiled in a custody battle with a race of god-eating wolves.

- Petra slept with Amitoj, platonically. It was a good snuggle after a nice party.

- Halley turned into a literal comet, and their player is making a new character.

- The Deity of Intrigue disappeared . .  mysteriously.

- Your people are waiting with bated breath for a rousing speech.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:23, Mon 21 Jan 2019.