Tread carefully Bezaleel. I hold your fate in the other game lol.

Indeed you do lol

Sorry that I've left you guys in the dark and have been slipping so hard :(

I don't have to work tomorrow, so I'm gonna be staying up tonight to keep the inertia from growing any further :P tonight's plan, in order:

- Update everyone, Done!

- then finish condensing Dust's stuff, which will let me - Done!

- finally update progression. Given that pretty much everyone is owed two month's of progress, that should give you guys something to chew on.

- Update everyone again, if possible, so we can get momentum back.

I am not doing well, as Anna has helped me realize, but I'm also not getting any better, and things are likely to get harder, so I just gotta deal. Letting work and love monopolize all my time isn't exactly healthy, even if it feels like adulting. I guess I didn't realize how much you have to struggle to preserve your spirit once you're coupled and working full-time and trying to exercise and cook at home and get sleep and . . .

. . .

Anyway!

Stiff upper lip and nose to the grindstone ^_^
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:23, Wed 13 Mar 2019.

You have to definitely give yourself time to relax and just rest up! Even if it can be things you enjoy, you'll over work yourself and feel closed in. Again, if you need anything I'm always around!

Thank you for all the updates as well! Make sure you get some rest, Empress.

In reply to Bezaleel Shades (msg # 754):

Good bout, Bezaleel, congratulations on the win

You too Ulfur. You definitely would have gotten me with that last one if I wasn't in wraith.

Predicted my retreat on the last one as well as a few other actions.

I'm finally done with the Dust stuff, too. Next is progression, then updating anyone who's posted since I finished the first round, and THEN bed.

You best go to bed after that!!! I'll go fight you if you don't.

I just finished reading all the circles and fields.

Definitely very glad I could predict things :)

His last move was entirely to try and pull off a draw ... but that was to encourage Bezaleel to think about cost, so I will play with that in the Buoy thread

Progression is established, although it is still uncertain how many spheres each of the Taeltresin players had at the end of their campaign. For simplicity, each Taeltresin player, including Ulfur, should advance their character up a rank, so we can start with a clean-er record, and to reward the completion of Act I (for the veterans) and because you earned enough spheres to advance over the month+ (for Ulfur)

Going forward, everyone is guranteed an income of 10,000 souls per month, which will be updated on the 1st of each month. $5000 = 10 spheres, so you should advance by 20 spheres per month if you choose to dump all of your soul income into progression, rather than building stuff and blessing folks and buying things.

In-game, this sudden increase in the number of souls per month is a result of Taeltresin's recovery from the Blight.

I'd like some folks to be within spitting distance of Ascension by the end of the year, since that's about when I hope to wrap up act 2 and head into act 3 in 2020, and we'll finish the game that year.

I will be PMing Myriad folks with details on converting your characters tomorrow. My eyes are bloodshot and I've drank too much coffee so I'm gonna crash.

I love you guys.
This message was last edited by the GM at 09:29, Wed 13 Mar 2019.

Thanks for the updates and rules clarification; I believe that shifts Ulfur to Neonate, with a burgeoning of his magic and a +1 to one stat. Will PM you on both

Sleep well, thank you!
This message was last edited by the player at 09:41, Wed 13 Mar 2019.

Sleep well, thank you very much for your hard work c:

Take all the time you need to do all that you need to do, real-life and otherwise, but please keep us more informed in the future. I cannot speak for everyone but I am nothing if not patient.

I feel like ten thousand souls a month might be entirely too much, even with the ability to buy spheres with it. The currency we gods have always been short of was time with which to use our souls, rather than the souls themselves. Anna has kept on top of her spiritual dragon's hoard by popping dragons and mythcrafting but that's not an option we all have. If we're to get so many souls it might be best to suspend regular sphere gain entirely. That said, less frequent soul updates are something I wholeheartedly support if it means lessening your workload.

I'll have to look over all the new rules once I'm a little more awake and fed.
This message was last edited by the player at 10:13, Wed 13 Mar 2019.

I find that many souls comparatively would be favor from the tree in a way. But we wouldn't have that upsurge for very long at all considering all of the worlds.

I am not down for a suspended regular sphere gain though. At the least we can do it monthly? I agree though for the less frequent soul gain. I don't mind getting them all at once and it being the allotment. But it goes to be dependent on how much we post in that month. If we don't post so much, I don't think we should get the same amount of souls.

If we each make about 2 posts in a week every week for the month. It wouldn't make. Sense to get about 10k which is a surpluses additive to our original soul gain where we would post multiple times a day everyday and get about 1k for that week.

It also disincentives us from bartering our services for souls, which is definitely something Anna wants to do... along with another plan I want to keep close to my chest for now.

10k souls per update. I'm not sure how to apply that one way or the other. Theadeacus abandoned his mythcrafting endeavors to allow Anathema to specialize and focused on magic. Magic doesn't require a massive influx of souls so he had always had a surplus. If I get that much I will always dump it into spheres, at least 90% of the time.

That said were the ranks from the previous game even transferred? I have no idea what my new rank is supposed to be or its benefits.

In reply to The Empress (msg # 760):

Having a good balance in your life is important.

Don't neglect work ever. You need to work to eat.

Give your lover your attention, but realize that you need some Em-Time as well.

Balancing spending time on your lover and your writing/RPOL/Hobbies/Furry ventures/ETC. is important. Don't neglect either.

Theadeacus, you switched over your character sheet and we had one week or two I believe with sphere updates here. All of the ranks transfered over, it is in one of the rules pages here.

There is one major issues with souls:

- You don't feel a need for more. Slight spoilers, but even in all the reading I've done, you've never had to fight a full-scale war. You will. Soon. You'll be getting 10k souls per month per realm you control.

- Sphere gain won't be a regular thing. You'll be awarded with bonus spheres pretty much whenever you accomplish something, usually between 3-5 for a defeating personal threat, 6-10 for a major one, like defeating a realm threat.

- At the rate of getting 10k souls per month, trading them all in for spheres, AND achieving something small every single week or something large every other week (unlikely), it would still take you well into 2021 to reach the maximum rank. Reaching Master is something I want everyone to potentially be at before Christmas this year, if I manage to keep things moving at a good clip from now on, figuring in that we'll have death-ranks mixed in unless you guys are really good at tactics. Just 10k a month is still not enough to do that. You will need more.

- If you guys don't find yourselves running dry on souls pretty soon, I will make and consume an edible hat. 10k souls makes 50 heroes, and you are going to be fighting wars where 50 heroes would be something you'd reasonably want to throw out every week. You guys also now have access to creating Pilgrim Heroes, several varieties of demigod, and even raising folks up to full god. You are going to need all of that.

However, another option would be 5000$ per month from your realm, and a flat 10 spheres for being active, plus any bonus spheres you earn from accomplishments.

 Does that sound more reasonable?

Oh boy, more wars. And from the sound of it, a war even crazier than the one against the Blight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G9CPZ8Zd7k

I'll wage war
I hate war
They say fight for peace, but what is that?

I really don't like the idea of popping heroes to go fight wars for us. A hero should be like a Great Person in Civilization; a great general or tinker whose accomplishments will go down in your realm's history, not the main means by which you get things done. Fighting wars is what Anna's myths are for! ... huh, I suspect Anna will be getting more business than she expected.

Buuuut... it sounds like you've crunched the numbers and come up with something that worked. I'll defer to your judgement.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:21, Wed 13 Mar 2019.

Yeah I agree with Anathema. That said I dedicated my entire gameplay to building my realm-nation so I could amass a powerful army. I have that to an extent but not nearly big enough to wage a massive war. I suppose since I have Raasiel as a vassal I'll kick those numbers up and start conquering some vassal realms.

More souls to the fire.

That's actually exactly the reason the game grabbed 1,000 souls and made Liusna a Pilgrim Hero when you meant to make her an Infinite like your previous ones; the equivalent of an Act I Hero in Act II is a Pilgrim Hero. As Anna correctly commented IC, Taeltresin responds to be the spirit of your intent.

A regiment of 5k mortals = a god-touched battalion = a heroic platoon (maybe we should call them something different from now on, when they aren't named Heroes, given that they're midway between Mortals and Demigods?) = a squad of Pilgrims = a fireteam of Demigods = One Bezzyboi, Annagirl, Theadeacusi, or Ulfurkin.

I actually do prefer 5k souls and 10 spheres a month, so going forward that's what we'll be going with.

I also like the idea of each of you having a special heroic-tier unit that's unique to your domain, since named heroes get unique abilities and I have zero interest in keeping track of 500 unique abilities.

So yeah, Anna, you won't be making gobs of unique Heroes for fighting, you'll be turning mortals into mirror elementals to do your serious fighting :3 you'll probably even get a discount; I'll probably make them cost 250 each but have the stats of a 500 soul Myth, but you won't be able to just pop them - you have individually boop them into being.

We'll call them your Anointed, since they'e a step up from God-Touched.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:13, Wed 13 Mar 2019.

Being partially decoupled from the world tree must be hurting its ability to understand Anna's intention. Hopefully it got what it wanted out of the experience, since I don't think Anna heard anything Nyx was trying to tell her due to Stress Mess.

Anna would probably stick to making myths for the war effort since viese are horribly ill-suited to open warfare no matter how many souls one stuffs into their tiny little bodies. I better start having her train up as soon as possible. Then again, depending on what we are going to be fighting Anna might just Game Genie the entire war. It wouldn't be the first time Anna cut out an enemy force's heart.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:04, Wed 13 Mar 2019.

I'm curious why it is Can't Stop Won't Stop lol

All I know is, is that if I ever wanted a Nyxie, I do not now lol.

Anna had the whole Nyx thing happen (which was pretty insane imo). Theadeacus had a fracture of reality that split him into multiple instances of his own being in different times or occurrences. While gaining his own vassal who is attached to him at the moment. I discovered my mom is a princess of hell and her witch probably has her own version of hell burning up underground a province in my realm.

Like things just ramped up. I'd say a few hundred pilgrim-heros and demigods doesn't quite hurt to have. They will end up being useful in someway even if not designated for combat.

Hell I'm still dealing with the fact I pissed off a different Pantheon of gods who are allied together. I don't even know what they are truly after. Not to mention I still have Ophelia with beast blood and two kids on the way. On top of the fact I have beast blood and demonic heritage. My kids might be devils considering the fact I made them with Ophelia who inherited the same demonic blood I have.

Like even if we aren't looking for trouble, it's coming for us. We may very well need those souls as stated. Even if not for warriors exactly.