im still around!

I am back and around, I would enjoy returning when we kick back up!

I have to admit I have been having the urge to restart doing updates all week but I know the timing is not the best (summer plus I need to make sure time will be constant for updates which I can't for next 2-3 weeks).

So let us get some preliminary stuff out of the way instead:

1) It has been a while since we had the game running but everyone seems to be on board for a return to normal. Shall we continue with the current campaign or do we want a restart? I know that continuing after a long delay is always hard at first as people (gm included) need to get back into the beat of things and remember what happened beforehand etc. Also some players sometimes want to change something or other about their characters due to events or moods outside of the campaign that occured during that time.

Personally I am ok with it either way. The set up was going into stage 2 for the Dakalnar realm while personal realms had gotten some set ups which can easily be picked up by myself. The question is more for you all

2) if we opt for a continuation but some gods may wish to change their current gods we can do a start over for the individual vs the whole campaign as well if it is only for 1-2 gods or so. If 4 of you want to change then we would do a full restart but if 1-2 of you or so want to switch their gods up we can have them start a new god and get them into the campaign now. We are still early enough in the whole storyline that it would not be an issue for either Dakalnar / Nexus.

Let me know your thoughts. This will allow me, if need be, to get preparations done if any need to be done before we start.

Continue, for me! I've really enjoyed the interactions with his nemesis

Kairos: Yes, I admit I would hate to lose out on the potential your nemesis can/will bring to the table. Recreating that dynamic would not be one that would feel genuine if we had to redo.

It is/was awesome! Happy to bend over backwards to keep it

I'm good with continuing as is as well. Think it was reaching a point that some interesting things might be happening in the near future. Hopefully good at least, but definitely interesting! :)

In reply to Overlord (msg # 378):

(1) Personally I'd rather stick with things as they've been going. I've been looking forward to engaging with the Maridon -- high stakes, high rewards! (At least, I hoping!)

(2) If others want to swap out, though, I'd be fine with that as well.

Ember has had a bit of a rough start in some respects that makes me maybe a little nervous, but I also don't want to go through another reset, I would rather stick with it through thick and thin

I've played with the idea of restarting or making a new character, even possibly rehashing old OCs. I would be interested in these options and am to some extent already. Though not for everyone to restart considering how many want to trek forward.

I'll continue with Anastaria though for now but might kill her off later as I'm not asking for any favors or special treatment such as a restart later in the game or a reiteration of the same character as I don't want to change her too much at the moment. So I'll probably just give Anastaria a trial return to test the waters and if I'm not feeling it. I'll just go the full on antagonistic 'good guy' route to try killing her off so I that I can make a new character.

The rest here is just to air my thoughts entirely on the matter for future reference if I do:

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At current I do want to move forward with Anastaria and her story as I am invested in it and the struggles she has and will have between other characters considering her high morality. Definitely the type of character I imagine to butt heads with others and stand her ground on her morals. I might add a bit of negative trait development or purposed mistakes to flavor her up if the rp narrative I have in my head and pen for her gets too boring. Possibly trying to enforce her morality and views on others in a more toxic way. Maybe give her something she will feel the need to redeem herself of or by making hard choices throughout gameplay as they come up naturally.

Anastaria isn't an overtly powerful god nor do her powers exactly win her many favors outside of combat without some decently balanced stipulations or chance for backwards progression.  I am invested in the power climb in both aspects of non/combat as I chose the powers I have for this exact reason, but it leaves me to worry. Especially in comparison to what others might be packing and their current progress so far.

Though I believe this stims from my own power choicing and discrepancies on some scaling and rulings for secondary domains. As I see, it scales the importance of a very integral part of the gods down just a lil bit too much, at least not without an aired and open path of progression to make your secondary at the level of your primary throughout time and trial in game (though that might clutter the rulings more anyway). So it makes the single domain option a bit more streamlined and viable in comparison. Though that is part of the charm of this Theogenesis iteration, so this isn't a complaint just something I fully realized a bit late as mine is already a strongly tied narrative for the character and their development.

Also, inheritly Redemption is a tricky domain in my opinion. I find it has a harder to nail stipulations of what can or can not be redemption when it is so synonymous with absolutuon, vindication, and reclamation. As it ties a moral narrative down on a person either from Anastaria's perception, the society/god around a person's perception, their own perception of self, or that of an inplace system of good & evil. Without an inplace system of Karma to be indebted to or the idea of Sin to be saved from. Could characters even be redeemed if they fully accept and believe they dont need to be (probably not considering the negative side of my Brightside power pushing them away from guilt)? Would she be able to oppose other gods granted protection and redeem their devote mortals via her own moral view point or that of an inplace system, allowing her to strip them away from them via her saving them. Or would she have to put in place the concept and scale of karma or sin into the worlds for that to work outside of her granted view and abilities. Are the ideas of reclamation of self and absolution of guilt as far as it goes or? It just seems to leave me in a big grey area of unsurity at current.

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So based on current inputs we'll be keeping the current campaign going and continuing from where we left off.

May have one restart for a deity or so but for the rest of it will be a continuation.

Excellent, so we'll wait to hear from Xeslin as well but we have some time.

I'm good to keep playing Xeslin.

Alrighty so we should be going ahead with all players intact as is so less work for me hehehe

I will be bringing one aspect of another campaign into the current campaign setup and that is setting up a "goal" for level up in the PERSONAL REALM. So when you hit a marker where a task is presenting itself that will be "god level" setting I will specify it in the thread and post what must be accomplished to consider it complete and allow level up.

I think that will take some of the ambiguity of certain "storylines" away and give a specific goal.

For Dakalnar, such things will not be put forth but actions taken there in certain cases can be brought forth as EPIC enough to validate a god-level raise.

Same for other realms. Especially as your levels rise your objectives will grow grander and may require multiple objectives to hit your target of a level raise.

So kudos to PNVQ12 for that. I like it :)

Alright so I'll admit: Having pvnq's campaign restart has gotten me wanting to start updating again more and more. The "forever-GM" effect is to strong and I do like this campaign to much.

Now I can't update daily as I used to at the moment but I will work on two updates a week. That should be easy enough. I'll do more if I can but don't expect it to often.

There are some that I may update more quickly (ex: Elise's Dakalnar thread to catch her up to the rest in that realm) but for the rest it should be a 2-update per week.

So I'll work on updates this week (won't say when to avoid disappointments). They may be short ones at first as we get back into the campaign and the flow get back to normal.

So expect some updates this week.

Squeee!

Also, I am out of practice, I think...

Ok going to go for a walk. So much for "small updates" :)

I'll continue updating some more when i return from walking the dog.

Updated Realm & Essence spreadsheet. Note that I had forgotten to update FAITH DEV RANK for the races on Dakalnar so I did so now. This changes the INTAKE of Faith every week accordingly.

Note that due to the pause I granted the GAINS of FAITH POINTS for the week but did not remove FAITH POINTS if you had a NEGATIVE usage (so no loss for those that are overspending at the moment) as the pause was not your fault.

Alrighty, Dakalnar threads are updated. Will work on personal realms next update.

Alrighty all personal realm threads updated. Nexus will be updated next round.

Will be updating Dakalnar threads tomorrow evening. Will also try and get Nexus thread in as well.

Personal realm threads should be in by thursday.

Trying to keep it steady for now so updating all threads once a week should be the "norm". Only one I will try and update more to have it catch up is the Dakalnar-Arokin thread.

So how is everyones weekend looking?

Ember: Busy busy busy.

Montreal is living an increased tourism level vs expectations so we have been feeling it in our downtown restaurant. Been quite a journey.

All:

So for Essence/Faith I will be giving out the Faith weekly when I update as normal (when a god does not post anything for the previous week though they gain no essence/faith).

But for faith I will only increase/remove faith when I update Dakalnar threads for now as those are the only place players have FAITH USAGE for now and if I don't update the Dakalnar thread in the current week I don't want to penalize players who are using more faith than they make as it would be unfair.

Just a note that I have added GRAND ACTIONS to the list of action points used. A Grand Action takes all Action Points for a round. Thus far only an action such as an INCARNATION falls into this category but others may do so as well such. These are actions that will require all of your attention to achieve or manifest.

Well that was a nice turn of events. The Maridon was a hell of a beast and while I expected elise to win it in the outcome through others she actually limited casualties at a large cost to her while showing off her divine might. That gave her the points to gain rank 3 so congrats to her at being the first to achieve it.

So that all understand: Each event (and how they are handled) grants POINTS. As you go for the next rank, the cost in points to achieve the next level is increased in increments. Your actions and how you handle the situations will vary the points you gain. Lower ranks cost less points, higher ranks more points etc etc.

Some events I put at the ready for you to gain a rank (as I calculated the point gain accordingly) but in this case this was not an expected gain for Elise, for example, as I expected her to take on the Maridon with her warriors being on the forefront but her actions changed the point gain and thus here we are.

(PS: Had the Maridon not been taken down her show of power would have definitely sent it on a rampage towards her for a very costly few blows which Elise would have not liked the outcome of hehehe so good job to Kalok and the gang for finishing it off. )

In reply to Overlord (msg # 399):

Not just a new rank, but even added a new kind of action! Woohoo!

*collapses*