When the Storyteller takes something mentioned in your backstory and allows it to become the starting point, you aren't sure if you should be flattered, or concerned.

The problem with memory loss  when its the consequence of direct damage, isn't what you can't recall, but the bits you can, but can't say why.  Yes, I'm running with that.  Don't worry, my character will recall who he is, or was, and why he's a ghost eventually, but that bit of useful info escapes him at the moment.

It's just the first piece that's been revealed. There's stuff from everybody's brief backstories.

 No, no, Fate, play up the fear factor.  Sit back and grin, and let your players sweat  a little.

I'm mostly joshing though.

Game map uploaded. Not my best painting, but it passed the time.

Yes, that's how big the city ruins are. As far as your eye can see, at your current level.

Better than i could manage, anyway.

Are we at the Father of Otters or the beach peninsula right now?

You've entered the sewer outlet pipe that leads to the Father of Otters. Unfortunately the Road With No Name is way too small to be seen at that scale, meaning it's a much larger map than I intended. I might paint a zoom in of that area.
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:18, Sun 13 Feb 2022.

 Fate, my next post will contain strong elements of memory,  reality might paint a very different picture.   Meaning, there might not be any water processing equipment left when   I get where I'm going.

Skelos, that's perfectly fine. Please be sure to describe any industrial process as necromancy, or make up your own magical words to describe any industrialized process.

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Apologies for the delay in replying this weekend. My friends have been having Valentines drama, and it has eaten up all my interest in being online.



You'll be able to pick their physical form, within reasonable limits. Players will not get a choice in their cultural habits and beliefs before getting adopted. I expect a lot of early game conflict to be between who these people were before entering the story, and who you shape them to be.

There will be ways to alter their physical appearance with Miracles after the fact, for substantially reduced Belief cost.

 Power has been having fits for the past couple of days,  and its the whole area: working on a post, which I hope to have up later today.

Knock on wood, and all.

Figured i'd share a nice webnovel to help get us in the mood:

https://tiraas.net/2014/08/20/book-1-prologue/

What does the skeleton look like btw? Just human skeleton or are there any different traits?

So, one of the things about this game is going to be that as Small Gods, you "know" what a thing is, with an extreme bias, and will need to make a concerted effort to look at things. Vision is not your primary sense, Belief is.

I've already spilled the beans about how "necromancy" actually means "industrial process." There's going to be a few others like that, though having started you near a major ruin, it may be a while before you find any of the others.

Since Grootwithaai is "contemplating the skeleton," I'll be posting a visual description of it, probably sometime after midnight CST, when I'll have time to do a proper bit of creative writing.

How I picture grootwithaai

https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/File:Nightwave.jpg
This message was last edited by the player at 05:24, Sat 19 Feb 2022.

We have faith points?

I'm using one point of belief, I think I said faith, which was wrong, and since I have zero idea how much anything costs, I'm experimenting.  My ghost is fixated on the city, because well, he's a ghost, and the city is what he recalls.

Ah gotcha! I know I have a habit of skimming past important posts or information so I just wanted to ask in case there's a post detailing mechanics that I missed.

Right, we have a few problems.

1. We blind folks can't use discord.
   
2. We blind people can't use Google maps. 

So, how you want to do this boss?

Oh, just as a headsup, and I'm not sure about others, but you need to give me permission to edit my sheet. checkboox associated with that.

Right. Sorry about that. You see how quickly I forget important details?

Do you want to use a real world location that you've been to or can easily reference? Or you can describe the sort of neighborhood you're thinking of.

I originally wrote a "4 block radius," but then I remembered that I was thinking of Chicago city blocks, and that not everybody lives in that particular flavor of urban sprawl.

The map, incidentally, is based off the Gulf of Taranto in Italy, which is where the "heel" of the boot meets the sole. Plus two visible rivers, the location of the 3rd river is still unknown. The ruins sprawl across approximately 12 square miles. The Sky Whale Corpse is about a mile long, with a half-mile wide diameter. The local terrain is hilly.

You should all now have edit access to your character sheets.

This message was deleted by the player at 03:16, Thu 24 Feb 2022.

OH MAN! I Totally a missed opportunity to play Calcifer from Howl's moving castle or a soot sprite! I would have loved it!!

But I am shark and the shark is me, and this is alright with the world
This message was last edited by the player at 20:21, Fri 25 Feb 2022.

You can always try to find a soot sprite in the world and make him your friend.

 Or try and create one.

I don't mean now, but later.    After you've got some worshipers, or something.

I do like the idea of the moon being blown apart and the Tides no longer being a thing.