A thread for OOC conversation and questions.

So, I know who the Judge is. Outside the game. Who's the Maker?

Boop.

Oh hi Nis.

I wouldn't have guessed that one.
I think I'm nearly done, I just need to pick my gifts. Conditional Forgiveness and Sanctified Violence are definitely top of the list, but I'm not sure what else to pick up.

Hi everyone. I'm looking forward to playing with you all.

I have to admit, at the moment I'm giving considerably more attention to aesthetics than mechanics. I probably know which gifts I'm taking but haven't given it too much specific thought.

I've picked most of my starting gifts, already. One undecided, on my end;

For the curious:

Alacrity: Walk Between The Rain
Artifice: Excellence of Artifice (Int 18), Hammerhand, Ten Thousand Tools
Night: ???
Theft: A Prowling Power

I'm not super-likely to invest in any Night gifts at present.

Short summary of what I have so far for Rashana - she's of high birth/ a family of noble standing, graduated with distinction from a Theotechnical Academy of the Arts (and might be well-known for the advanced clockwork orrary she constructed as part of her graduation project)

I am still fiddling a bit and have a fact I've not precisely pinned down, though.  She's upper class, has little contact with the undead, and while upper class, is pretty practical and down to earth, especially given the whole situation we'll end up dealing with with the Made God getting rekt :D

And for the record, I've kind of assumed a strict caste system (and the Restless would definitely be sequestered away from the high castes). Also ritual use of hallucinogens and deliriants as part of the bodhisattvas' modeling, for the rest of us unenlightened folk, how to strive toward being like Ayana and ascending to the next level of paradise where we can be with the real thing. I'm not insisting, but the opium-era buddhist Cowloon vibe seems to be working well.

La is from the lowest caste of living people, the only ones who regularly manage the Restless labor force. It's not all they do, but anyone better than them would be sullied by it. She, personally, runs a small staff of them as part of her duties tending to the needs of the Dreamers while they pursue the visions that guide their ruling.

Strict caste system works for me, so far. Unless I'm leaning into the idea  I typically don't have characters of mine use intoxicants or anything, but she might've had some at some point in her work, if it's a standard thing, but maybe part of her success is being able to make the creative connections without them.

Hit upon some ideas with the GM as well, Rashana was an individual of interest to the priesthood/ they wanted her theotechnical talent, though I'm thinking  the disaster actually occurs before she actually gets too far into that.

Oh, I imagine opium is less popular with the tech wizards.  I don't know where they rank vs. the actual priests, and I didn't want to define anything but the parts La touches directly.

Made Gods generally have a group of theotechnical priests maintaining them, so, in this particular case, there's probably a bit up there. I didn't like the idea of Rashana being a priest, but I did want to get into the technical side, and I ultimately boiled down the idea that 'they were interviewing her / aiming to recruit her to the priesthood if they could manage when everything actually crumbles' so she's very much the 'had the potential to be among them, but wasn't at the time everything collapsed' :D

I'm more than willing to try and adapt should needs be, but I've been approaching Laila as someone from a sect within the priestly caste where the prevailing doctrine is that the path to Ayana lies in seeking to reclaim memories of your past lives and through them restablish a connection built across generations, looking backward in order to move forward. While it's certainly a concept that resonates with her, and a pursuit that she's had some modest success with across the years, she's someone who's made more than a few hesitant and secretive steps outside her lane in order to do a bit of hands-on research or just get some air away from the stifling sphere she calls home.

As such I'd certainly been intending for one of her facts to stand for a connection to a group she isn't supposed to have ties to - possibly involving one of the other PCs.

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On another note, build-wise I'm currently looking at:

Night: N/a
Passion: Banner of Passion
Sun: Body of Burning Light, Purity of Brilliant Law
Sword: Nine Iron Walls, Thirsting Razor

Would it make sense to spend my sixth point on Effort of the Word so I have a larger pool to draw on for miracles and gift upkeep or would that be a bit wasteful?

Effort is always good, Especially if you have Purity of Brilliant Law.

and Laila sounds like someone Rashana would like, though I dunno about how  she looks on the memories angle :D I canimagine her disagreeing on that point but still getting along :D

Recovering past life memories and, like, reconciling all the different perspectives on wisdom totally works with where I was going.  I like variant interpretations of a faith, anyway.  It's more realistic.  But they're all digging into something immaterial that transcends this single life.

edit: Also, as a rule, an early Effort of ________ never goes awry except in some very few builds, most kind of gimmicky.  I actually like to pick up at least two of Effort/Excellence/Influence, and I think I'll do all three for this.  La isn't supposed to be (comfortable being) showy at this stage, anyway.



So it's beginning to look a lot like:
Desire: Influence of the Word
Intoxication: Effort of the Word
Shapeshifting: Fair Mortal Mien

Night: Excellence of the Word (Wisdom), A Speaker in Dreams
This message was last edited by the player at 07:19, Tue 07 Apr 2020.

Hello everyone. I'll be joining you as of today. Word-wise I've gone with Fate, Sorcery, and Knowledge. I have some putative stuff in my character sheet regarding Gifts/Invocations but I want to give the GM an opportunity to green-light it before I say too much on that front.

All said looking forward to playing with you.

Shapeshifting is a fun word, I will say.

I'm still undecided on my last gift point. I might hold it in reserve, or pick up a point of effort - there are good things accessible to me as miracles with Theft particularly.

Looking forward to more info as this gets closer to lauch. We've got a new Archivist too, apparently. Greets.

And with the addition of the Gardener, we now have a full ensemble. I'll get the first IC post up shortly and we can get this rolling.

@Bire La

Struck upon an idea working on background notes for Rashana, curious if you're interested in getting in on this.

I don't have a spare fact to dedicate to them yet but if they survive the apocalypse, I could see using one of her next ones on the group...Had an idea for a group of 'renegade artists' (Some of whom might be theotechnical/able to make 'magical' works)  who use art both as a means of challenging the existing caste system/ pursuing the memories of their past lives. I had an idea that Rashana's skill would basically have said group (and also the theotechnical priesthood that maintain(s/ed) Amaya) to want to recruit her.

seemed like that might be up your alley? just guessing, though.

And, that said, Bio Updated. It's not a final final draft yet, I feel like there's still things left unsaid in her background and personality, and I'll probably want to touch it ALL up once I have a better feel for her in play.

Note to self: Decide on the last gift point expense (if GM doesn't mind, I might hold it and either spend it in play or just hold it for level 2)

Also worth asking @ GM - should I note any access to Wealth at start, or should I just assume 'whatever I / my family had access to is probably not accessible, regardless' - I'm fine with that, just want to confirm :D
This message was last edited by the player at 13:01, Wed 08 Apr 2020.

I'm not 100% sure what you're asking me. If you say there was an art movement opposed top the existing social order, then there was, really. I'm only trying to help stitch everyone's additions together at the edges. Or were you thinking La would be involved in it?

I'm pitching it to see if it's a thing you have interest in touching on at all. ^^; And honestly, looking for feedback overall since I have a huge amount of difficulty just declaring stuff true without at least someone giving it a glance-over conceptually.

I seem to have taken on an organizer role, huh? It's a terrible habit. At least here it's effective; you should see the mess when @ylva tried this on Elliquiy! Anyway, what she told me about the philosophy that Made Anaya, when I asked for some detail, was that it focused on rest, meditation, trance, dreams, inner and outer peace, very calm and contemplative things like that. So that's what I've been rooting all my advice in.

Okay then. Rebellious art movements are pretty common during any time of high stress in a society—a war, a crisis of leadership, major corruption, a lengthy plague, you get the idea. Sometimes visual arts, sometimes musical, sometimes dance if that's important enough to a (sub)culture's expression. Honestly, if one didn't already exist, I'm sure the current events would start one up.

If they've been going for a while in opposition to the caste system, then there has likely been unrest among the lower castes for a long time, and it has spread among the educated castes who set formal culture in the past five years. Ten at the longest; something that survives longer than that and hasn't gotten any official changes made often moves to violent conflict.

Actually, I'd go for the 5-10yr range. Recruiting a theotech engineer sounds like a move toward more overt/organized resistance to the system. I can easily see Anaya falling apart as the catalyst that both emboldened them and gave them a perfect propaganda opportunity.

But La has no part in it. She had more access to the priest caste and their radius of luxuries than the large majority of other Servants. She was doing a pretty good job of inculcating herself with the orthodox theology (a rough merger of ideas from Hinduism, buddhism, and confucianism, for now).

For context, this was my RtJ. It's basically in her paradigm even when not from her perspective:

Not so much organizer as 'I thought the idea sounded at least relevant and of interest to you based on prior stuff so I mentioned you. Sorry. ^^;

I didn't get the blurb about the base ideology, but I assembled roughly that assessment through some of what was being discussed anyway, and mostly ran with it. :D

But yeah, neat idea, I was hoping it might create some clear points where maybe there was some cross-interaction going on, but not required. Sounds good, though. Glad it makes some sense to you. I didn't really have a loose fact to spend on them right now, but I like the idea that they exist and can possibly come into play later.  I've been operating on the assumption that we're starting either 'just before' everything goes bad, or right when it does, but I don't know that for sure, either.

Here is what I have so far about the Garden-Keepers of Irohn:

Although technically a branch of the priestly caste, the Keepers served Anaya through cultivation of the natural world, teaching the young, and practicing the medical arts.  They were not a warrior caste, as there was no war, though some picked up martial arts (strifes) as a means of self-improvement.  Others sought perfection in handicrafts.  Many were counselors to the people - less focused on Anaya's worship than on the people's well-being...

One could join them from any caste.  Originally, they were focused on beneficial activities.  However, as Anaya's influence waned, many turned their focus to wealth and power.  The Keepers became a path forward for the ambitious, and some used the art of cultivation to make a tidy profit from the sale of ritual elixirs and drugs. The group is or will be split between the Purists who want to turn back to the old ways of Anaya; the Joyful, who seek wealth and worldly things; and the Newborn, a group that seeks to find a new path...

interesting, Sani.

As for my post, GM: If you need me to adjust anything, let me know. But 1000 man-hours per hour when you can rapid-craft individual-portable tools and equipment goes a long way, probably enough to get some basic fortification going on for a few city blocks?
This message was last edited by the player at 22:09, Wed 08 Apr 2020.

I'd do a reply, Sani, but I think I should encourage some of the others to speak up :)

Just waiting on a response to a PM and then I will get right to it.

I have half a post sitting on my laptop waiting for me to not be tied up in endless overtime and errands. At least I'm caught up on sleep! So it'll be quick.

I'm in that horrible situation where I know exactly what I want to get down but I've been dealing with an ongoing case of writer's block that kept me from making any real kind of progress. I'd even been considering just putting bullet points for my during the fall section and writing it up properly at a later date for the sake of making some progress now as that seems to be what's holding me back.

That section isn't strictly all that mandatory and I added mine mostly because I had a good idea of what Rashana was going to be doing when it happened. You can always reveal it later or whatever ;)

I so get it, everyone.  I've been there.  I'm fine waiting.  :)

Yeah, no great rush here.

Out of curiosity 'data slate'?

Did I miss-assume the context of our various tech level somehow?

From the Game Info link, "Technology was at nearly the level of the old world," which is somewhere up around the Bright Republic or higher, no?  I'm content to wait on clarification from the GM.

May have missed that, but good to know. I was assuming lower tech, but no worries either way, word from GM would be good though ;)

I'm thinking theotechpunk anyway.  Using absurdly advanced technologies to replicate ancient tools, only more aesthetic.

I'm good with that if it's what GM wants. GM did mention to me that the Network and Engineering words weren't gonna be used, which is where my assumption came in ^^;

Since labor is provided by undead, instead of machines, I thought it was lower-tech or techno-magical?  But maybe there is technology available to the upper castes, but "it's always been there, no one can create more, and it is fixed in place."

Technology was Bright Republic level, but it won't keep working outside the world, hence why Network and Engineering aren't allowed - the devices are dependent on the realm's stability, and once you leave, the tech won't be functional.

As for why labor was undead-driven, think cultural tradition and you've more or less got it. It was driven by undead because it had always been driven by undead, and when you've got a Made God whose focus included Death to reanimate the dead, there's little cost in it. So no incentive to change.

Well, fixing Celestial Engines (or even building theric nodes) can totally be a thing ^^ but yeah. I had been planning on more magic items than advanced tech.

I feel a consensus forming. Looks that the majority is seeking to leave Irohn by Night Road and we have at least two fronts that need covering: preparing the people for the mass exodus and finding the right road to take.

Okay, so it sounds like people are ready to split up. We've got one person doing research, I think, which sounds like an Intelligence check to me - this is a difficult enough thing that it's not auto-pass for Alvatter, though it will be easier because of his Words and gifts. If you want to persuade/inspire people to leave, that's also an option, and Rashana sounds like she's making wagons and such to allow for people to travel more easily.

Does that all sound correct?

She does want to make several for the front/rear of the caravan with Balistae for defense. I wonder if I can commit influence for her to help teach some soldiers or volunteers how to operate them. No official stats exist for mounted/siegey weaponry, but I think it reasonable to mark them as 1d10 or 1d12 damage ranged weapons (or even 1d12, if you want to actually make them hit hard) with the 300 or 500 yd range.  Nonmagical, in this case (unless it's a weapon used with a gift, of course, like my Hammerhand)

Influence could definitely be used for that.

Sounds like a plan to me. I'm also going to try and convince the Order of Triumphant Wisdom to leave.

Assuming this is all stuff taking place before we go to investigate the roads and all that, Laila is committed to trying to smooth things over with the Dreamers and will probably try and investigate the city's military capabilities, such as they are, and see what assistance she can offer in terms of training and guidance after growing more familiar with her gifts.

Also should we all post in this thread or will there be separate ones for each portion.

It's probably fine to use this thread for all the setup, just be clear on where everyone is, IE Laila and Rashana in the workshop.

So, about Artifice.  Or Music, but I don't think anyone took that.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/att...599120986/image0.jpg
I'd post it, but it's pretty big.

Quite a beautiful image.

WLOP's works in general  are amaaaazzzinnngg

So I know this is never a fun thing to read, and I won't sugarcoat it. This game is great, I am enjoying it a lot. But right now, dealing with both probable-influenza and medication discontinuation, I'm in too rough of shape to realistically run games. It wouldn't be fair to you to deliver a subpar experience, and that's what will happen if I try to force it right now.

To be clear, I'm not canceling this game. I am, however, putting it on a temporary hiatus. I don't know how long this will take to resolve, but if you're still interested in playing when I'm back to a state where I can run it, I'd love to resume. For right now, I just can't run it in a way that would be up to my standards, and trying to force it will just make me feel worse without providing a quality experience for you.

Many apologies.

I hope that you feel better and we will be around when you decide to resume the game.

Best of luck for you improving, and looking forward to your return.

I'll be around. Go health yourself.

Okay, so! I'm still solidly in the thick of things, but starting to regain basic functionality. I'm easing back into normal life, and I should be able to run this (for now, at least) without straining overmuch. Might not post daily, but I'll do what I can.

Now, as far as I can tell, the current state of things looks like this. We've got Alvatter, who researched the Roads and came up with one that seems like a safe bet  (my little joke, nothing is safe with the Night Roads - but you can mitigate risks, and you can take the risk that you are best equipped to deal with). It's at least got better odds than picking one at random.

Rashana is looking at giving people training and helping them figure out how to use the weapons, possibly with Laila's help. Doing that sort of thing on such a short time limit sounds to me like an Influence task. It's solidly in your areas of power, it's not breaking any laws of nature, and it's not opposed, so the main factor on how much you have to spend is just "how many people do you want to stretch this over?" So just let me know how much of your Influence you each want to sink into that project, and I'll get a description of it up.

Bire La is managing the Dreamers, to such extent as the thing can be managed, so that they turn their attention and influence (the word, not the mechanic) to helping rather than hindering. That sounds to me like probably a Charisma check to get everyone onto the same plan of action, if you want to reach consensus quickly. Sani might also be participating in this, as well as gathering resources that will be needed during the evacuation and in the new world. Seems pretty straightforward and I don't see that a roll is really necessary - it's a simple matter of time invested to make sure that things are gathered and prepared.

That leaves only Joshua that I'm not sure what you're doing to help with the work - you have a full day's time while Alvatter researches the best Road to take. How do you want to approach the situation?

Okay, I think that's the summary of the situation. If people want to make the choices and rolls I outlined, I think I can get a post written describing how successful your efforts are and moving up to the beginning of the exodus tomorrow.

Oh! Yay! I was worried we wouldn't hear back. Glad to hear from you.

For Rashana - that sounds pretty good to me, I've got 2 Influence to put into it, and her main goal is to crash course enough people to operate the weapons in the short term - trying to make master marksmen out of them is out of the question in this time frame, but getting them competent at using it for now should stick, at least while the influence stays committed for maintaining drills and training?  Given my labor also works as 1000 workers , do I need to devote some influence to making these weapons as well? I may need to put some into that, but I should be able to split one and one and still make good progress, counting as 1000 workers?

Edit: That said, I could feasibly see 'Arm and prepare defenders for the journey to the Night Road'  as a singular 'stated action' - with the fact that she can as an action create the actual weaponry contributing pretty cleanly.  I don't... know if I need to use influence to model the use of my base crafting capabilities.  (any godbound would technically have the same influence as me, so my crafting things are kind of not the sort of thing they could replicate via influence)

This is what I mean when sometimes the dominion/influence system feels... hard to figure. I'm not very practiced with it since games keep dying before they get to this part ^^;
This message was last edited by the player at 07:08, Tue 28 Apr 2020.

Once we move past the day that Alvatter spends investigating I will speak with the Order of Transcendent Wisdom. I want to convince them to preserve themselves and transfer as much of the archive as we can but that its better to begin again to die with it.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:29, Tue 28 Apr 2020.

I can help with that.

Influence is, like, offscreen miracles and an abstraction of the character going around employing their basic abilities a lot. Crafting an absurd number of weapons is literally just a 'normal' action for you, as a god(bound) of Artifice. You do it, and it's done, with no Influence required. If you wanted to oversee a production process where mortal workers worked beyond the limits of their actual ability due to your guidance, that would require you to keep Influence committed to it or their supernatural productivity would fade away.

Dominion is for grand miracles, and can be used to make Influence-style changes self-sustaining. It's like a permanent blessing on that vast workshop so that its training program would always produce smiths capable of more than could ever be explained, or on a population so their descendants would forever be naturally gifted artisans, or however you want to explain it. Influence lasts until you focus it inv something else; Dominion changes the applicable reality until someone else counts and overwrites your change with Dominion of their own, if that ever happens.

And as an example...

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La's whole headtrip is that she has spent her entire life catering to priests who get their insights during opium dreams, and now she is suddenly able to deliver them any dreams and drugs she thinks are appropriate. So now she's supposed to tell her advisors what to do. It's disorienting, and I'm still playing her unaware of the change. Her wisdom and charisma were both enhanced a lot, but I'm holding back for a bit from the obviously supernatural.

The end result is that she has a lot of ways she could achieve getting these priests on board with the idea and stepping up as leaders.

• She could just, you know, talk them into it. With 16 CHA and a relevant Fact (she has been their trusted valet and trip-sitter for years), that attempt only fails on a roll of 1.
• She could prepare a special formulation of their meditative tonic to force 'encourage' pleasanter dreams, with the base power of Intoxication, and freely direct those "prophetic" dreams with the major gift from Night, or by a Miracle to emulate The Still Silence of Sleep, if "communicate" means less than "dictate". This is the brute force option I'm deliberately holding back from.
• She has Desire. The end.
• But seriously, it'd be pretty straightforward to make the case that these people are desperate for guidance, so she ought to be able to commit a single point of Influence to passively amp that up so they're more concerned with clinging to reasonable ideas delivered with confidence than with their own fear and dignity. Or she could focus them on a desire to be competent, respected, or whatever else they might already want that could be helpful. Anything that's a normal desire for them could plausibly become their central focus during the chaos, so that's a 1x multiplier, and 1 Influence lets you generally affect up to a thousand people. Her participation in the disaster was actually a couple Desire Miracles to make a panicked mob align their desires and let her steer those easily by 'mundane' means^*. The use of Influence here would be a subtler, slower, and ongoing version of the same thing; that's usually how Influence works. For 2I, she could produce a degree of pliability that beggars belief in that big group of people, or the subtler form in up to 100,000. At some point, I imagine this intersects with her helpful Fact as a project manager, and the exercise just becomes trivial. This is what the character is made to do.

^*—With Desire bound to her, to hear her plea is to wish to fulfill it. Her persuasion will never be mundane again. It's not possible.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:49, Tue 28 Apr 2020.

I'm not going to make you use influence to create the weapons. As I see it, you invested a Word and a gift into simply making things. You should get some return on that, it's simple fairness, and so I'm going to say that you can make the weapons simply by taking a little time to do so. You don't need to invest the weight of your attention on it if you have a little time to devote.

This is reflective of a broad tendency I try to aim for (and I won't pretend I always hit the mark, but I do try). Namely, anything you invest your points and attributes and so forth into should feel good on a roughly comparable level. If you spend a Word known or a gift point on something, then it should feel like you're getting a return on it - like your ability to make choices has expanded. That's how I think of power, is the ability to make choices. Your characters are powerful beyond the imagination of the regular folk of the realm specifically because so many more choices are open to them.

That's a bit of a long-winded explanation but the gist of it is this. If you invest actual build resources into it, I'll try to make sure you get a return on that, and if you ever feel like you simply aren't, like an investment in your build is not reaping the same level of reward that another build style choice would have, then we can talk about that. So if you have that much invested conceptually into making things then it's not a question of whether you make them, or how hard it is, or investing incredible kinds of resources into doing so.

You're a god of the craft. Craft is going to happen. The end.

Woo~!

Shi--- Craft Happens~!

In that case, 2 influence to spend educating the masses on how to shoot ballistae.

(The good thing is, while they will still probably be like basic soldier skill level, some of us can use said weapons more effectively, probably)

Yes, that's right.  Sani is making sure they have animals, seeds, medicine, wagons, farming supplies, books on agriculture, and basically anything needed to make it in the new world that she and the Keepers can think of.  She is organizing the people so they are not hiding or staying at home.  Instead of being afraid, people are actively working to prepare to escape.

soooooo apparently I did not hit [Post Message] the last time I had my laptop open, which was almost three days ago.  I think I've edited enough to not damage continuity, but let's let that be retrospective.  I'll add a current response after the HR tag soon.

No worries. Time for me to make rounds. I fell down in a parking lot this weekend and got hurt, thus the delays. (gh, getting old sucks)

Checking in~!

Ey.

Not to piss on anyone's privacy, but isolation, uncertainty, and illness are kicking the GM's ass at the mo'. That's the cause of silence on that front. Quarantine is hitting a lot of people hard, you know? Some harder than others. Glad you're still here, personally!
This message was last edited by the player at 05:44, Tue 19 May 2020.

No worries. I just wanted people to know I was still kicking and interested. No blame on the GM from me - I've been dealing with pre-existing issues on top of all that, though, I've been handling it pretty well, I think.  Just finished a replay of FF7 Classic, gonna start FF7 Remake soon.

Okay, checking in. So, I saw that Bire La provided some explanation on my behalf, appreciate that. I've been dealing with some pretty intense stuff that left me more or less nonfunctioning for a few months, to the point that engaging in hobbies and social activities just was not a thing I could do on any kind of regular basis. I'm kind of pulling out of it now, though there's a really, really good chance that I have a different kind of disaster coming up soon. Not a clue how that will impact me, this isn't something I've done before. Anyway.

There are basically two reasons for this post. The first is that I wasn't sure if I'd mentioned what was going on or told people that this was going on hiatus for a while - my memories of the past few months are pretty garbled. I know it doesn't really make up for having been so short on communication and clarity recently, but I figure an apology and explanation now is the least I can do. The second is to say that I'm in kind of a more stable place, for the moment. Again, it seems extremely likely that will change - my living situation is looking extremely likely to collapse in the near future. I don't know if I'll be able to post to things once that happens, and I don't know how long things will be in freefall for once it does.

Right now, though, I'm in a place where I'm starting to ease into posting again. So I figured I'd toss that out there. I'm not going to pressure anyone into things, I am aware that there are a lot of reasons you might not think it's worth investing into this game again, or might not be able to at all. But if people want, I can make a go at getting this rolling again. I've already talked to Joshua and he's out, but I'm not sure where anyone else stands exactly on this, so it seemed like it might be worth asking.

I am around if you are feeling up to it and will gladly return to hiatus should you require it. I will likely be here when you return.

It's all fine. Take your time and ease into it. :)

Come to mami

I'm willing to stick around. Life's been rough for me too. Hang in there asnd take care of yourself, top priority.

Okay, got a post up. I apologize for the somewhat timeskip/railroad nature of it, in terms of not being able to respond before the enemy has already managed some pretty significant things. Honestly, I did not intend to approach it that way, but I usually prefer to actually write departing PCs out of the game rather than retcon them away, and it makes more sense for Joshua to go out like this rather than by accident or environmental hazard, given his character.

So, at this point, you can describe how your characters acted during the first part of the journey, and do any character interaction you would like to during that time period. I don't really see a need to do an actual combat section with the Uncreated just yet - it couldn't conveniently start until after Joshua was removed from play, at which point there is little actual aggression taking place. It's more that the Uncreated are a presence behind you, pushing you forward. You can shoot them if you want, but that's more a matter of character description than fine mechanics - after all, even if they're gone, the fundamental nature of the situation has not changed. You are still in a situation where you have one direction to go, a clear feeling of threat or urgency in moving through the Road, and little way to guarantee safety given that you just saw another of the inheritors go down. It's more about creating a sense of tension than actually detailing a combat.

Trying to decide on Rashana's response there. I figure she's at one of her prepped Ballistae, which means she's got access to using it.  I can see her using a Corona of Fury Miracle for an area attack 'barrage' from all of the ballistae on the forward mob of uncreated, maybe, I just dislike miracling stuff like that at low levels because there's fair odds of like, 1 or 2 damage resulting for a daily effort point. Then again, no idea what the HD of those things are.  We're not really in combat as it is.

Did have an idea of using the ballistae to shatter the road under the forward mob and then use a miracle to fix it.

I'm having a hard time deciding what to say. I can't remember why I disappeared all those months ago and it feels profoundly wrong to come in all smiles like that never happened.

It's probably going to take me a little while to get my head around writing this character again but I'm definitely willing to put in the effort.

I might be able to help ease that. Give me a few minutes to finish.

Glad you're back, Laila. We're both struggling with the 'what to say' bit, I think.

So, hey Alvatter. You gonna respond, or should I just pull you along for a minute?

Sorry about that. I'll respond in the morning.

No problem bb. Just trying to help get all the parts moving together again.

Alright I've responded. I hope I am understanding what's going on here correctly.

I think you clearly understand the scene. And you understand as much of what A is doing as she does.

Uhhh, crap. I guess I didn't get a response out fast enough. I had a whole thing planned.

Oh! Sorry, did not realize you had more to say. I can delete my last post, it's not a problem for you to do your thing before we move forward.

Eh. Unexpected twist, and another grain on the pile of reasons she doesn't realize what's happened to her. That's all. She's still working the Influence hard and has effort to spare, in non-obvious ways.

Bire La with the assist and flattery.

;)

The secretary behind the throne

So...anyone going to interact with the palace here?

Alvatter is trying to talk to the others about their ideas on the palace before just running in there.

I'll make rounds tomorrow. Yay, RPOL's back~!

sorry for my delay, hope that's good. Also just noticed I'm 1 gift point underspent. I think I was saving it for once I got a better feel of what might be useful in this game? :D  Wasmaybe thinking of using it on the gift that lets me learn about obhects/structures I see, how they work, and who made them... could be useful here...  but I'll see what the int check gives me first.

Waiting for an answer to La's question, currently, before posting the opening of the doorway.

Haven't done it, yet :D

I am specificaly not, 'till people weigh in :D

Power outage nearing 24hr, no cell signal at home.

Well, Laila hasn't logged in for over three weeks. Do we still have Sani?

Still here! Just letting the others take the lead.
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Yay, glad to see you!

GM can we get the AC and worthiness of the enemy please? That should streamline a lot of things.

It is a worthy foe and is AC 5.

The GM has given me some information but I'll wait until everyone has posted to reveal it since I doubt I think faster than you all can loose some hurting on this thing.

Sani panicked.  I don't usually go in guns blazing but it felt so right this time :-p

I also thought it was appropriate. IC rationale of Alvatter's calmness is a detached intellectual curiosity. He is viewing the situation as an arcane phenomena rather than a life-or-death situation. I imagine gunshots will remove him of these delusions quickly.

Is Rashana doing anything in the opening round?

Sorry for my delay. I've had a busy week, am not used to this game going this fast (and actually, thought i made it clear I wasn't actively opening the door until everyone was ready, so I didn't expect us to have gone in already... but yeah, no harm.  GM says the passive alone is sufficient to open the door, so cool. Going to get a reply in shortly.

:D

Well...you said that you weren't opening the door until everyone was ready, but everyone had expressed readiness? Laila is out at this point most likely, I sent her a PM just to make sure but still no response. So it's just the four of you and the other three had all said they were ready IC.

Okay, a number of things are happening here. I skipped over some time in the post, because I was excited to get you into the Nexus, but you can definitely respond to Laila's declaration and the construct's death before you move forward.

When you do start looking around the Nexus, I can get you more information, including a list of the names listed beside each archway.

Also, that rewarded you with three experience and two Dominion each. This means that once you spend your Dominion, you're at level two and can increase abilities appropriately. I do need to know as part of that whether you're going to establish a cult, or be a free divinity.

Welcome to the Nexus.

So Laila is definitely bowing out? Alas, that stinks. Ah Well~!

Getting moved ahead isn't my favorite thing while trying to get back into a character's head, but, I'll try and go with it.

Apologies. And yeah, at this point Laila hasn't posted in a month, or logged in for nearly as long. Sent her a PM, no response. If she does turn up again, it's easy enough to say she survived the Uncreated and got the portal to open again. For now, I'm operating with the assumption that she's bowing out.

As for the other, again, I do apologize. I wanted to make sure that there was plenty for people to respond to, since just having it stop with Laila's declaration leaves you basically just going "okay then, guess we're going through the door to avoid death by Uncreated, walking through now" before I had to post again.

no worries, I'm writing around it.

Okay, heard back from Laila. She has to take a hiatus for the time being, unsure when she'll be able to come back, but she does hope to return in the future. So for now, we're sticking with what I said earlier - the character makes a heroic stand against the Uncreated, and if she's able to return later on, that stand was just unexpectedly successful and she survived and fought them off, but time did weird Uncreated things and so she doesn't reappear until much later. No harm done.

Do we know how to open/close these gates?

I mean, very little experimentation is needed to figure out that the lever next to each one is what controls the gate. So, yes, you do.

Oh. In that case, Artiface probably tells me outright :3  Are we assuming everyone gets through nice and quickly and we shut the gate behind us?  You've given us some more info on the area, I figure there's a bunch of time to skip in the process of getting set up. I figure there would be plenty of investigation.

If we're doing some timeskip business, there's a few things worth doing...

1) Rashana will obviously want to find/convert herself a nice workshop - not because she *needs* one, but because she's used to having one.
2) Using Artiface, she can absolutely investigate the Gates/Buildings ect and (via influence maybe) learn about the creators of this place (I might use my unspent gift on the 'Mark the Maker' gift if it might help, but yeah, I've always felt like that's more a 'minor miracle' level thing)
3) Cataloguing all of the resources and such this place has to offer, and seeing if there's any record of the former inhabitants ect. (also avoiding traps, because Theft :D)

But I'm also not sure if we're rolling into downtime yet. Figured I'd lay out what's on my mind

I was figuring on rolling into downtime, more or less. Getting everyone through and the gate closed is pretty straightforward at this point. And yeah, Artifice easily tells you how to operate the gates, though not necessarily anything about their destinations.

As for the other - a workshop is easy, there are plenty of them that are already set up. This place has some workshops for things like old theurgy, even. Investigating the buildings and gates is definitely something a miracle could do, and you could plausibly modify them with Dominion rather easily. The constructs also. For the third, I'd do that IC, but yeah, you can easily start to do catalogues and research.

Basically, what I was thinking is that the next section is a little calmer and more open ended. You have a ton of gates that you can use, and a ton of stuff to investigate, as well as the process of getting settled into your current home and researching it.

The one thing that will quickly become apparent is that the Nexus is purely urban, and has no arable land to farm at all. So while there are food stores in the city, you're going to have to figure out a way to feed people soonish.

Aha, the classic problem~!

 I can't craft that~!

But yeah, sounds good. I might sit some influence/dominion into training some Theotechnicians to help out so I don't have to solve every artiface problem the community has myself :D  Sounds good all around :D

Also. The Kissing Kingdom. That sounds entertaining and awkward :D

Alright awesome. We should probably have an Inheritor meeting after things settle down initially. Take stock and make plans. Scholar's Sanctum sounds like the first place Alvatter might travel to.

@GM I assume we are still beneath the XP threshold for Level 2?

You hit the XP threshold and have the dominion available to spend for level two, just have to invest your dominion to hit level two.

Alright awesome. I'll PM you about my Dominion spending.

Actually, regarding dominion spending, Sani, you and I may be able to develop some sort of hybrid artiface/fertility dominion project  to help the food situation.

Certainly possible!

Also, welcome to Rakhur, who will be jumping in as a replacement for Joshua. He was one of the original applicants to the game who I didn't have room for at the time, and is running a modified version of that character who is arriving in the Nexus through another of the portals shortly after you get there.

Hey guys! Glad to have made it in after all! :D

By the way, should I wait for a prompt to enter the narrative or just be present in the plaza as the refugees are entering?

Welcome Rakhur. What's is your concept and what are your Words?

I'm fine either way, Rakhur, it just depends on how you want to be introduced.

Welcome.

Welcome!

Rashana -- sounds good to me!  We can certainly invest in that.

Rakhur's a nobel turned exile from the Oasis states with Desert, Night, Moon (reflavored Sun), and Journeys. I may also drop the points for Health or just buy a gift or two out of word and then make the investment into it later on.

I'm still making exact gift selections though so I'm not sure about that. It's pretty easy to think big and then get smacked back to reality by the limited number of gift points we have.

Desert is one of my favorite words, awesome :D  So, Arcem native type, neat.

Nice. Sounds like a good spread.

Sani has Health if that makes any difference to you - no worries if you also want to take it though. :)

Posting tomorrow or the day after.
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I was mostly looking at the +2 HP per level Gift along with the Con bonus.. Which I just solved by taking Excellence of the Word for Con. No sense in overlapping out Words after all.

I'm also surprised to find myself hardly touching combat gifts. Just a 'deal magical damage as your normal attack after comitting effort' gift and then a better version of the dispelling miracle. I was expecting to be all in on that stuff when I started.

Just checking in on this since it has been a while since anyone posted IC. Are people feeling okay about the game? Is there anything I can do to make the experience work better for you? This is also a break point, which is when I would normally do a feedback survey - this isn't just because it's been a few days.

I know that there's a lot to respond to and that transitioning from the more focused scenario of the Night Road into a more open-ended downtime period is also tricky, so let me know if there's anything I can do to help on that end as well. Basically I'm here if there is any way I can be of service.

I'm feeling peachy. If no one else replies in a day or two, I'll keep going.

I was hoping to give Sani time to post :D

That and I wasn't sure if Rakhur was about to be introduced.

I've been holding off for either a better opening or to be specifically introduced.

I was hoping to get into downtime before Rakhur showed up, simply because him showing up from another portal at the exact same time that you go through this one is...stretching the bounds of convenience, for timing.

Agreed. We can move into downtime in maybe asecond thread, and if Sani wants to reply here we can keep this one open for things winding down? :D

Sure, that sounds good to me.

Making posts tomorrow. Had dentist yesterday, and despite sleeping for 12 hours since, still feeling bad.

Oh wow updates have slipped my notice. I need to get my post out.

I'm in a similar boat. I'll have a post up tonight though! That'll be probably around 12 hours from now.

Because of course La has a team of pollsters providing her with same-day survey and focus group results.  She's the goddess of Wishes!  How could she not?  For real though, her assistants and suppliers and general staff are all fervently dedicated to their jobs, and they operate just a little too efficiently to be entirely right.  I've decided to go for an absolute minimum actual displays of power.  She helps others be heroic.  Everyone around her is Better.

Got it. Will keep that in mind.

Before I reply I want to poll the group. I'm wanting to switch back and forth on Rakhur's voice when I'm trying to write him. A more serious character would fit fairly well I think.. but I could also see him as the sort of character to throw comedy at an issue to cover up his troubles. I don't want to break the tone of the game though so that's the question I have; would you all prefer a more dour addition to the cast or one that's more witty?

Still feeling rough, but I promised GM I'd try and get a post this morning. Working on it. As to the nature of our new arrival. Rashana's had to be serious of late but she is intended to have a lighter nature in general. I'm good with either, which I know is supremely unhelpful :D If you definitely want a vote from me, I'll go with dour, but I'm fine with witty :D

Well, I exploited your arrival for a comic touch, but I also don't care which, so my vote is to combine them into dry.

However you want to play it Rakhur is fine with me. Alvatter is mostly an aloof intellectual type, often found lost in his own thoughts or in a book. So his tone is very much neutral at the best of times.

I just realised we're probably waiting on me. My bad, I'm just off to work but I'll post soon as I get home!

Mm, you or the GM, and I think she's waiting to find out what's happening with Sani.

Yeah, I'm hoping for a response from Sani before I nudge things along. I'll give it a short while longer and then if I've not heard anything I'll go ahead.

As of tomorrow it'll be a week since Sani's last login, so, probably good to pick ourselves up and get moving? (Maybe I could alternately work on a version of the food supply plan using  Rakhur's aid, given his oasis ability to provide for those needs, I could see a spring like that made lasting with dominion and then used for irrigation purposes, or else to provide direct sustenance.

That makes sense. I messaged Sani and haven't heard back, but I'm also not entirely clear on what the group is...doing next, for lack of a better word. Like, I'm not sure what to post right now that you need from me. I could work on getting cults set up, but I don't know whether some of you are doing that or the free divinity route. Other than that, you haven't really picked a door or anything, so it's not like I can bump forward to that.

Now, that being said, I do have good news. Laila is feeling better and should be able to rejoin once it's a good point in the narrative for it.

Those springs are actually permanent until gift-level magic is used to spoil them, if I recall correctly.  I mean, unless you don't want the whole city's food supply dependent on one person's mood for some reason.  I'd offer to help, but La has nothing related to food unless you mean magic brownies, and we can't have everybody living on edibles.

They are indeed permanent! At least as far as my read on it goes, the power doesn't have any mention of a duration or time limit. The only thing similar to that is the note that I can use the same gift to destroy open sources of water.

On the topic of resources and gifts, it might be worth considering what the general construction material of the city is. If it's largely all marble then I can pretty well make whatever is needed for nothig more then the cost of temporarily comitting some effort.

It's a mix of marble, metal, and magically-strengthened glass, by and large.

So roughly a third of it is stuff I can mess with. Good to know!

I thought by the gift alone you could only have one such spring with the sustanance effect (but I can see making it 'permanent' with dominion, so having one doesn't count against you?) It's been a while since I  looked at it directly, so I could be wrong :D

Also, great to hear Laila's coming back~!

I'll get a proper post up tomorrow, with some rest, continuing the present scene. Wanted to give Sani a chance to pop in, but yeah :D

Well, specifically:

Summon a water source, causing a new spring to gush forth. Repeated
use of this ability can provide sufficient water supplies for almost
any number of people, or erode and destroy non-magical structures
within an hour. At the Godbound's discretion, this summoned water
is magically invigorating, supplying all food needs for those who drink
it. These springs last until physically destroyed or dispelled by the
Godbound. Optionally, the Godbound may instead instantly destroy
all open water and kill all natural springs within two hundred feet
per character level, transforming ordinary land into sandy wastes.

That seems to pretty clearly not have any limitations. Not that I mind having some put in place on it. Desert is a rather strong word after all.

Ah, I was clearly thinking of something else, nevermind~! I forgot that the spring is potentially everlasting :D  There's lots of things with odd limiting factors. Kevin's work is nothing if not sometimes inconsistent with itself~! (I say this from a place of love, but yeah...)

So, is anyone going along with La's suggestion?

X_x oof, life got busy  at the start of the month. Sorry I dropped out of reality. Posting tomorrow after I get some sleep in. I need to make full rounds as it is. Sorry. I was waiting for Sani, and I was supposed to just move on but... derp.  When I wake, post incoming from me.

I definitely missed those posts entirely. Reply is up although not very much on the substance.

I'm about 98% sure that if we don't just move on to the next scene, the game is dead.  It went from a good clip on the 21st to every three days or so, to nearly two weeks from the 1st to the 13th.  It's five days idle now.  I don't have anything to add to the current scene.  Do you three?

Not a bit.

Hi everyone.

Given the direction things have gone, I thought I would just throw it out there that I've been in a position to rejoin this game since a little before the end of last month. The GM and I had agreed to wait for things to move along a bit, both for narrative reasons and to avoid stealing the spotlight from Rakhur, but if the game could use another voice to give things a bit more energy then I'm sure we can push Laila's return up the agenda.

I'll be posting this afternoon.

Sorry about that, this month has just been *so hectic* for me.  <3

@Laila Glad to have you still with us but personally I think its better to just fold Rakhur into the party and get moving on to some more pertinent matters.

Yeah. I like all of you. I don't want this to slip away from us over basically a miscommunication.

Agreed.

Definitely. Working on my post now <3

Yeah, my hands feel a bit tied post-wise. I guess we should just agree to declare this scene resolved and move to either Rakhan's Presentation, or further~!

I know Rashana will be relieved to have Laila back. Maybe she tries opening the gate they came from  to check, or were there plans for Laila to have found another route? :D

There were plans only in the vaguest of senses. I'm actually typing up a PM right now to get that conversation going again.

I'm fairly certain she won't be coming back in through the front door though.

Sounds good :D

Sorry about all the delays on my end, life got busy.

As for the rest, I'm not really sure how to move along further. I can start incorporating cults, but I don't know whether Rashana or Sani (who has been in contact and should be able to continue) are actually doing cults yet. I also don't know which of the gates you're planning to open next - it doesn't really seem terribly interesting to spend the rest of the game in the Nexus, so you kind of have to pick one. Maybe people could mention their top couple picks OOC and we can see if there are any that stand out as having multiple people interested in them?

Sounds good to me. I'll have to look back over the list to see which ones strike me :D  Where is the list at, again, I forgot? XD

Rashana hasn't been planning to establish a proper cult, but one might spring up around her, but I did want to lean into Free Divinity for her, at least for now.  She can always establish one later, but can't get rid of one very easily.

The list is in the Setting Information thread.

La has been suggesting~  ;p
It'd be something benign and peaceful-sounding, if she were to get roped into the decision somehow.  She's trying to represent the most imperiled citizens.

Lesseee... Locations of interest, based on names alone from the list...

The Kissing Kingdom just sounds potentially fun.
The Land of Silver Rivers sounds cool.
The City of Many Daughters had been on my list but maybe not where we want to go right now.
The Steel Forest would be a good place for materials, probably :D
IMO, Things are Real Enough that i'm not sure about the Too-Real Place :D
The Glacier of Ebon Flame sounds... kind of awesome, not gonna lie. Will need warm gear probably.
The House of Forbidden Study is interesting.
The City of Angles seems interesting to a crafter?
The Walled Garden is a place that could be fun.
The Land Where Names of Power is interesting-sounding but maybe dangerous.
Scholar's Sanctum sounds distinctly different from a lot of the other locations, so could be really interesting.
The Crystal Palace sounds fun.
The Nest of Fallen Stars is... really interesting-sounding

Think that's my 'sounds remotely interesting' list, with I think the most curiosity being the following: The Kissing Kingdom, The Nest of Fallen Stars, The Walled Garden, or The City of Angles. City of Many Daughters, maybe we should hear more about it from Rakhur :D

I want to go to Scholar's Sanctum for obvious and self-serving reasons. I will gladly accompany others to different gates in order to gain their support in going to the sanctum.

I think my personal shortlist (in no particular order) would be something like:

• The Glass Cradle
• The Glacier of Ebon Flame
• The Land of Trains and Fog
• The Nest of Fallen Stars
• The Sky of Chains and Wolves
• The City of Flesh and Flowers

Really though that's mostly dictated by the "sounds cool" factor. As far as in-character goes it's very much not my decision to make, and I'm completely on board with whatever you guys happen to pick.

Perhaps we go to the Glacier of Ebon Flame since it's appeared on two short lists and I'm open to it as well.

I mean ... if you asked me for a reasoned in-character choice I would probably mirror yours of the Scholar's Sanctum, as even if all we have to go on are names that at least makes an explicit promise of knowledge.

Like I said though, Laila won't be part of that decision-making process so I think my vote should count for less.

Okay, so the short list of options:
-The Kissing Kingdom
-The Walled Garden
-The Glacier of Ebon Flame
-Scholar's Sanctum.

Die roll says the Walled Garden, so that's what's happening. I'll get the post and information up shortly.

So ... how's everyone doing?

As much as I'd like to get back into the game ASAP, I don't mind really mind waiting because I have a commission in the works and this way it might actually get finished in time for Laila's relaunch :)

I'm fine. Was planning an update for today. RPOL was acting up all weekend for me.

Glad to hear it, and yeah, I had a lot of issues with it hanging or failing to load pages at all too.
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I'm shockingly good, this week.

Should I just press on?

Ugh.  Yes.  I got sniped and I'm stumbling, and in any case it was just going to be La's behavior growing increasingly erratic.  I can do that soon.  I don't know why I'm so tripped up.

I'm sorry if I'm getting a bit ahead of myself here, but I was wondering if there were any plans to recruit new players for this game in the future?

I'd considered it. Sani said she would be able to rejoin but, considering it's been coming up on two months since her last post and a week since last login...

I've got someone in mind already for a replacement, so it would be no trouble to bring another on board most likely. I can reach out to them and see if they're still interested, if people don't want to run with the current group. I'm also going to check in on Rashana and make sure things are all right there.

Also this might be a stupid question, but does Laila actually know that Bire La is an Inheritor - or even her name?

I genuinely wasn't sure whether the PCs were supposed to recognise La for what she was in those early scenes, and with Laila being nobility (and letting power go to her head) I could absolutely see her not concerning herself with La's name if she only regarded her as an outsider to their exclusive little club. If decorum kept La from being the one to cross that threshold then it's very plausible that Laila never actually learned what she was called.
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Seems plausible to me. I'm not here to tell anyone what their characters see or know, but for my part, no. She doesn't realize. This is the most overtly any of her power has manifested yet.

Sorry for my delays. October is heck. Catching back up.

And to more directly answer your question Laila, La doesn't presume to expect anyone above the servant caste to want to bother with her name, so she doesn't offer it.
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Thanks for the clarification.

Great to have you back, Rashana!

Still keeping the full piece and bio update under wraps for spoilers' sake, but I've been sitting on Laila's redesign for long enough that it feels like I'm going to explode if I don't show off at least a bit of it:

Oooo~ <3

And there we have it: return post and bio update are live.

I've quietly retconned (?) Laila to be a few years older. I'd never been totally happy with how young the previous portrait was but liked the outfit too much not to use it.

That ... sure is a post.

I always hate making things like that. I spend forever on them and I'm never close to happy with the result. Hopefully it gets the necessary points across though and deals out pretty much all of the exposition needed to get Laila's narrative caught up with the group. I'd originally wanted to bring up some of the Walled Garden plotline but by the end it was all getting to be way too much talking XD

  Oh, no worries!  La's getting embroiled in that plotline as the others reunite.  It'll emerge shortly either way.

And on that note, please nobody wait on me.  She doesn't belong in that scene, and there are other things for her to do.

Alright I have returned from my stupor.

As an aside, any word on Rakhur and Sani's statuses? They've both been idle since mid-october, and either potential solution I could've pressed to work on a food fix involved one or the other, so I'm curious if they're around, if not, and if Rashana was actually able to assemble a temporary measure or no?

(There had been talk about using dominion to that end, but I don't think it was ever nailed down)

Neither of them has logged in for about a month. I'm pretty much inclined to call it on those two, leaving us with just Rashana, Laila, Alvatter, and Bire La. I know one person who might be interested and is a little more reliable, I'll see if they're still interested and we can go from there.

So, neither are present, and thus, neither could lend their talents to a solution. And while Rashana could probably build something to solve the problem, she doesn't have enough dominion, probably, to do so without some added support from someone else.  So, yeah, food is still an issue, then.

Just needed to get on the same page all around. Sound right?

That sounds accurate to me.

We have one more joining, who was with the exodus already but did not realize her power until recently. Please welcome Etu, the Undying.

Okay, technically only after April of 2020.

But I'm in baby!

Welcome to the game Etu. Glad to have you. With a title like the Undying I'm assuming the Death Word?

As a fellow advocate of not-dying, it's very good to have you with us :)

Could be Endurance too! It literally has the "Undying" gift that makes you ... not die.

That's very true. I totally forgot about that Gift. Very broken, very useful.

Dead giveaway (ha).

Etu will be much less subtle than other ylvathrall Godbound games I'm in. Those who recall her from EDEN remember that she was responsible for drying out and reanimating the lesser undead whose labor kept paradise going.

From Irohn?

La was responsible for managing a whole temple staff worth of undead labor for one of the city's major religions.  They likely knew each other.

Awesome.

Etu would have made monthly deliveries to you then.

Welcome, Etu.

FYI, gonna be out a lot today, so will try and post either tonight, or tomorrow <3

Character sheet done.

No good pictures for her, but the best description would be a slightly more feminine version of this



But wrapped up in a black cloud of sand and deathly miasma.

Well. It will, admittedly, be a challenge. But some of the best cosmetologists in Irohn are in La's pocket one way or another. Challenge accepted.

I'm sorry I'm not posting at the moment. I'm working through something that's causing me a lot of stress and it's making it very difficult to find the mental space for this.

No problem babe. To make coordinating not just this game, but a whole bunch of (good) Godbound players, I have a discord server running! Everyone's invited! https://discord.gg/VnfRtVSbhK

@Siobhan from Discord.  I'm not, am I?

No.  You, specifically, are not invited.

Laila, if you discord, though, you should definitely come join us :P

Yeah, I know, I just get massive anxiety over joining new discord servers. I've actually tried to do it a couple of times before now without success.

Ahh. Well, no pressure if you're nervous, but hey, I'm there  <3

Oh, twist my arm why don't you...

Just letting people know, because it's the first really individual reward - Bire La gets fancy eyes and a minor-gift artifact equivalent, as a result of consuming the flame. I can explain the rationale, but basically she just took a great deal of expended Dominion into herself, and it shaped her.

Got it.