Re: Godbound!! - So what are we playing?
Oh lord, something inspired by FFV-VII? I'm the one who suggested Scion-in-Godbound (definitely engineering over artifice, yeah) and I think this is way better.
The Bright Republic is invading the mainland. They've found some way to operate their tech outside of their infrastructure range, and the results are brutal. They're hungry for resources, expansion room, and a docile labor force. The few instances of captured equipment won't operate except for the Republican soldiers, and no one can solve the riddle, especially with the ordinary problems still going on. They first made a beach head in the Golden Wastes last year, and Vissian patrols have been reporting armored giants leading squadrons of infantry, all with alchemical or even more mysterious weaponry. Lom cut off all outside trade and closed its borders three months ago. Caravans passing through the Red Desert have been turned away from what looked like mining operations by Republican mechanical cavalry.
What's really (probably) going on is that they've found either a way to trap parasite gods or a secret cache of them already in stasis chambers from before the sundering, and they developed a technology to infuse normal mortals with a fraction of the power there. Not enough, in theory, for them to become inhuman, just a few drams of divine essence to let them operate essence cannons and magitech outside of the island. The military and political leaders *may* have taken slightly-too-large doses, personally. I'm sure it'll be fine.
(This is 100% ripped from FF6. It could use some elaboration, but the idea of BR overcoming its cage and starting to annex the rest of the world is juicy. Nezdovha and the Iron Tsar are almost certainly involved somehow.)
This message was last edited by the player at 13:56, Fri 05 Oct 2018.