This is where we kabitz.

Players are assigned temporary names in alphabetical order, for no particular reason.

Up to 3 players so far.
This message was last edited by the GM at 09:02, Tue 10 Dec 2019.

Hello everyone!

*tips fedora*

Howdy thar.

In reply to Brawny Player (msg # 3):


Is it really? Could it be a Trilby, or is it actually a Fedora ?

https://theidleman.com/blogs/s...fedora-how-wear-them

I find this hard to believe.

In reply to Diabolical Player (msg # 5):

Originally, I was going to insist that you post your ideas for Stage 1 in alphabetical order.

Having been on the other side of it, I do think it can affect your character designs, but really, is just there to be a placeholder.

Here you go, fixed that for you.
*snicker*

You decide...

In reply to Brawny Player (msg # 8):



For highly important and crucial decisions like this I turn to...
The RPOL dice roller.
This message was last updated by the player at 21:44, Tue 10 Dec 2019.

Well crap...

I said if it rolled a 2, it would be a Fedora... and got a 2. If I'd gotten a 1 though...

Totally and completely unrelated to my input into the story, disco Elysium is amazing.

5 players now, all from the other game!

Claiming La Lignée Illuste

In reply to Diabolical Player (msg # 14):

Clamming? Meaning what?

I'm having a hard time keeping track of what I've written up and what's still in my head.

Players will belong to Great Families, an aristocracy of mages. These Great Families permeate the various political Factions, with members of every Family in every Faction, to create an internecine pit of politics. Childhood rivalries and lingering resentment play out at every level at every level of government, with the highest courts of the land presided over by Mage Judges.

Not sure if that was clear before or not.

Also, we're up to 7 players, which I think may be the entire Comorian game! Say hello to the latest adds and give them a chance to join in on Rounds 1 & 2!

Diabolical had something in the setup about La Lignee, so i'm guessing that that is the focus he wants his family to have. :)

I got confused (unsurprisingly)



I conflated a few things. So to clarify, the bold above means that we can specify which faction is run by which Mage Family, correct?
This message was last edited by the player at 13:21, Fri 13 Dec 2019.

Hello there everyone.

If I am seeing things clearly, I am MR G ... sounds appropriate somehow, the joy of randomness sometimes xD

Let me come up with two details for the settings, coming up right now :)

Oh that's really interesting Mr G. Very flavorful, Bravo.

I also get the feeling that there's going to be an awful lot of sword nobility going around. Excellent.

In reply to Genius Player (msg # 18):


To quote Star Wars, and my eye doctor... "your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them."

In reply to Cryptic Player (msg # 20):

And what makes you think I only see with my eyes? ;)

"L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." From Saint Exupery I believe. :)

"The essentiel is invisible to the eyes" in english

In reply to Genius Player (msg # 21):


What is essential is invisible to the eyes...
so you are a fox?
And you think me a little prince?
And you think me a friend with a rose?

And from here we might have discussions about grownups and what they think are essential which might not be?

Putting all this about French literature aside for the moment,

if you don't take something in with your eyes, but from some other sensory modality  is it then sight?

Well let's consider synesthesia. If you can smell the color blue, does that count as sight?

In reply to Diabolical Player (msg # 19):

Sword Nobility?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobles_of_the_Sword

In our context I think we might have a number of Magi who hold commissioned officer ranks. Maybe Sarneth has purchased commissions.

Just food for though seeing the fleet and defense forces being fleshed out in the set up thread.

In reply to Diabolical Player (msg # 23):


Given that you have to see the color blue for the olfactory  stimulation to occur as well, then yes.  Now if you could see the smell of salt, then... you could argue that its not seen, if the ocular motor nerves and muscles don't fire. the visual center of your brain still fires,  in precise timing with the olfactory element, and while most cases, like 90% its actually more than that, but I don't have exact figures in front of me,  do have visual nerve and motor response, there is still a percentage that don't, so for the sake of purely argumentation, ... if we restrict sight to only being that related to the eye, and not to the center of the brain related to visual processing, then I shall concede  the point.
:D
Now, for a visual question totally unrelated to anything else, is therea pre-existing map?

My next possible post has something to do with land masses, or rather it is intended to, but the presence of a map might cause me to rethink that.

In reply to Cryptic Player (msg # 26):

Kovac spotted :P

Personally though, i would say that that which cannot be seen does not rely on sight to be perceived. If you close your eyes, it does not make the sea any less real, so sight isn't and shouldn't be the sole source of sensory stimuli (try saying that out loud fast!).

In fact, even without sensory stimuli it is still possible to perceive something. Closing one's eyes and imagining a hot summer day at the beach would summon the memory of sensory stimuli, which can have similar, if weakened, effects despite it being neither hot, summer or day at your current place and time.

In reply to Brawny Player (msg # 27):

Let me try this!! ... ohhhhhh ... wait ... it worked!! ... also thanks to self-hypnosis but I digress ;)

(yes, I do practice it myself, thus why I included it in the game ;) )

No, sorry, I can see how that was confusing. I meant that Factions would "own" resources, facilities, etc and that we would pick which mage-politicians from which Great Houses are at the top of the pecking order for each Faction in Stage 2.

I didn't imagine that mage families would be unified enough for a particular Great House to be associated with any one faction, but rather was interested in trying to create a second layer of relationships that lay on top of the political parties. ~shrug~ We'll see how it all works out. This setting has already vastly deviated from what I originally pictured, which is sort of the whole fun for me. :)

It's almost impossible to get ahead in local or Protectorate military without being a mage. There are different police for mages and citizens, with mages in both groups. Mages who police other mages will, as you might expect, require specialized training. Sarneth can have purchased commissions, if somebody declares them.

I've been trying to coherently organize the magic use part of the char gen for the last several days.



There is no map, and there will likely not be a GM-generated graphical map for at least several months of IRL time. I'm more of a Venn Diagram/outline kind of person for settings with sub-orbital flights and spaceships.

Making a few adjustments in orange to shift a few things in line with the original world dev rules. I believe a few other players still need to bring their contributions up to 4.

Since we seem to have a few different ideas about what Factions meant, and they're all too cool to demand you revamp at this point, if you've declared a Named Organization, please feel free to edit that post and identify the role you wanted them to have in politics.

I need to count it all up, but round 3 will most likely be only be Resources or "Factions," which I'm trying to come up with a better name for. "Politically Important Demographics" maybe?

I'll post a summary of what's been declared so far before we start the last round (and after everybody has posted 4 declarations).

Adjusted Evening Breeze to work as a political faction.

So Genius  you like William Gibson?

In reply to Cryptic Player (msg # 33):

As in "the neuromancer" ... as in the creator of the cyberpunk genre? :)

I haven't read him yet to be honest, but it's part of my (very long) reading list ;)

In reply to Genius Player (msg # 34):



He wrote a series of short stories before Neuromancer. "The Winter Market" and "Fragements of a hologram rose" in that were eventually part of that series "Burning Chrome" also one of the titles in the short series deal with dreams and electronic elements related there to.

So waiting on another post from Ebullient before the next round, correct?

I believe the cryptic player also has another shot to take.

In reply to Ebullient Player (msg # 37):



He does and is currently working on it. Shelter duties has been keeping him occupied... well, that, and having the city bus break down two days ain a row... public transport in the U.S. is not for the faint of heart.

Is new years pretty hectic for you too Cryptic?

In reply to Diabolical Player (msg # 39):



Yes, as the VP of a CIL, that's a Center for Independent Living, I'm busy beginning of jan, and then as a sub-director with no partner, or kids, I take on a bigger load to cover for those that do have families. Febuary though I'm usually pretty free as a consequence. To be honest though, October is often the busiest   month for me of the year, because  the U.S. Accounting Office has set that month as the federal operating cycle. Congress couldn't quite decide and so the GAO did it for them.

Oh, yeah, I'm also probably the slowest RPOL poster in the history of the site.
:D

I think i may have outdone myself a little on the calender suggestions, but i wanted to have something to show that we weren't just playing 'Earth in Space'.

For ease of reference, 4 Sarneth days would be equivalent to 5 Earth days.

I’m eager to see what our Munificent Leader makes of these ... ive been deliberately vague, but feeling I should have been more baroque now!!

How many entries are needed from each of us?

Officially four, but i like worldbuilding so i tend to get carried away more often than not :P

On the subject of the latest entries:

Just two words from me : Awe and some ;)

The calendar thingy with the 3 seasons is nice and, combined with the landmass entry just before it, well, I may be looking for a software to help create a map.

By the way, how was the Comorian map created? Because we know have a few nice tidbits of information to help us build it, just saying ;)

*clicks tongue*

Not sure myself, i know most of the NPC polities were actually named when i needed filler for the First Comorian Cup though, but i don't know where the original map came from.

Oh, fun fact: I actually got the three seasons idea from this:

https://www.csiro.au/en/Resear...enous-calendars/Tiwi

It's got a larger version of that chart as a downloadable .pdf too, if you're looking for some added ecological effects (like when harvest time would be etc.)

In reply to Genius Player (msg # 45):



The planet that I still have no idea of what it looks like.
:D
Thank god for puffy paint or might not know what earth looks like either.

For the Comorian map, I used Fractal Terrains 3 from ProFantasy Software; sadly I may have lost the originals and seed in a nasty disk failure that corrupted my backups ... will be trying to recover in 2020. It was then exported to SVG and adjusted to include things less easily included there, by virtue of my skills in SVG and not in FT3. I'm eagerly awaiting Project Deios for some much shinier world-building tools

In reply to Cryptic Player (msg # 47):

Don't worry about that, a lot of people still don't :D

FYI we are in round 3 of the set up.

I forgot to do my third round ? ... oups !! :O

Lemme check that right now, and correct it if necessary ;)

Fine.

I'll go for a technical knock out and quit now....
what?

I can't do that? All right, all right, I'll come up with something. Let's see... figuratively of course... since I was just through a court case that was handled poorly, let's do this.

Oooh I really like this last batch of additions!

*slaps the side of the TV to improve reception* ^^;

Are people still in this game?

I am curious and ask to see whether to wait or to join the other game mentioned in the original campaign (though truth to be told I might join it anyways :) I just wanted to know if people are still invested in this one, I know I am :) )

I'm here

Still interested here as well of course. And for the record, whatever pace the game ends up adopting, i won't mind :)

I'm back.  I thought we were finished with the initial setup though???

With this step of it, yes. I believe there should still be one after this though, but only after the lore we've written up is implemented into the setting.

I think it was supposed to be Resources, Factions and Agendas next?

Partway through Starship's Mage off the back of this!

In reply to Fabulous Player (msg # 60):



At the bright point of understanding at the  center of the universe, I'm the person furthest from.
*insert Jackie Chan's face with a confused expression here.\*

It’s the first of the series of novels by Glynn Stewart that are the basis for this setting

In reply to Fabulous Player (msg # 62): Oh, there was an image there. I see,  says the blind man.

In reply to Cryptic Player (msg # 63):

Actually, there wasn't ^^;

There wasn’t, just some italic around the book title: Starship’s Mage

Attempting to get off my back end and restart this sucker.

Nice! :)

I am hoping to see something in here one of these days. By the way, sorry I was away from this specific part of Rpol for a while ... the other game did capted my attention more lately. ;)

That being said, I am still game for this, count me in :)

Maybe we could start by a reminder of where exactly we were in teh world-building stage?

Well, still here of course, and looking forward to how the lore is getting worked into the game. :)

Konbanwa!

How's it coming, Mage King? Do you have a feel for how true to the books you plan to be? Just finishing reading them :)

*beep boop* ;)

I might actually get to those books around Thanksgiving at the rate I'm going... I'm not sure if this is a good or a bad thing.

moo moo

Well, we did talk about this enough for the cows to come home.
*goes off to get stool and bucket for milking*

In reply to Cryptic Player (msg # 74):

Alien cows?

Did someone call cyriak?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY

Alright, folks! I got tired of telling myself that I'm "running" The Mars Protectorate, when really I was spending so much energy trying to explain all the ideas in my head that I never got around to actually running the game.

So, I'm going the other way this time.

link to another game

Small Gods is a game where you will each take the role of a kami, or Small God, longing to be worshipped, in a post-apocalyptic world.

As the game progresses, you will explore mysteries, acquire Followers, protect and nourish them so you can farm your worshippers for more Belief, send squads of adventures to reclaim lost wonders/technologies/shiny things, and possibly fight for world domination.

So with the death of Small Gods, are we going to see a revival of this game?

Oh man I have no recollection of what I was doing with this character.

Nothing, as i recall we were still setting up.

If you remembered doing anything with that character, i would be worried XD