No, that was incidental. (Atheos tries to let his herald be autonomous; the Librarian is just a Librarian). I'm stealing your blood to do a different thing that will cost 2 AP.
Oh. Ok!
Edit: Yay humans! Welcome to the world!
They can be yours, Atheos. You need something on this plane to be your own. ;)
Cookies to whoever figures out who I'm basing Mirri off of. It's more and more off of one character if particular.
Yeah but I'm an Atheist. Creating life is very concerning.
Although I do currently have an entire plane, a race of giant doggies, and seem to have invented all the rules of the pantheon. Just don't want to create *too much*.
I'm loving these logs. :)
Hah, I was gearing up towards making humans myself, coming from Apedemak's thinking over Tissari and Zakaz's test--the whole "intelligent life can survive among the monstrous beasts" thing would make him wonder about creating such a race.
That said, this works well, too. Maybe Aped will make some other race of a similar nature, and we'll all have something. Or maybe I'll just make lions intelligent!
...That's probably not a great idea.
You could make catfolk!
Or just fight me for humans. Mostly it just seemed a good way to keep the game moving forward.
If you want to create Greater Life, there's always Lamia (lion centaurs), though they're *traitionally* evil. Or Lammasu, which are human-griffon hybrids, and traditionally LG.
Hey all. Sorry for the delay. Been slammed at work and now i've got a ton of posts to read through!
Yes. Much has happened. :)
Hope Mirri makes you laugh.
When it comes to domains, what are we doing/using? Anything goes or PFS domains?
Pretty much anything goes, no restrictions.
Wanna be a god of love, books, and roses?
Cool, those can be your domains.
Or war, death, and strength.
How about colors, painting and poetry?
I'm just wondering what happens when Mirri inevitably gets ascended to godhood or something.
How does everyone feel about sharing any basic concepts we come up with? Stuff like language, society, etc.
Maybe spend 1 AP to alter to your specifics, ie if I wanted to change 'common' to 'elven', which can't be reduced?
So "mundane" concepts are shared when contact between peoples occurs?
It seems to me the question can apply to all concepts. What happens when two species have long bouts of contact?
Oh I also forgot to mention about the memory mushrooms. Within their biology they contain nutrition to sustain most basic and advanced life.
Well, advanced concepts may need to be taught or granted. Magical concepts seem like they really need to be granted. Especially the ones that are literally magic. I say mundane because those seem to be the ones that are most likely to be discovered independently.
How about mundane for free, and some advanced(the ones that are super broad) can be shared for 1AP?
I just think it's silly for each of us to have to 'invent' language, writing,basic society, etc, for the races we create that could benefit from them.
Yes and no. A species that has little interaction with any others will have to develop alone. But I agree, concepts that can be shared, could be at a -1 AP cost.
The races aren't sharing the concepts. The gods are. We then turn around and share them to our people, should we so desire.
Okay, then. Tissari automatically shares all of her concepts.
Would you, and all of us really, mind adding any concepts you create(d) to your profile, for ease of access?
So far in my records:
Tissari
-Architecture
-Metalworking
-Engineering
-Mathematics
-Scientific Process
-Visual Art
-Written Art
-Chemistry
-Transportation
-Electricity
-Schooling
-Creativity
-Aetherpunk
-Written Word
-History
-Weaponsmithing
-Ranged Combat
-Gunpowder
-Stormwielding
Atheos
-Advanced concept: Animal husbandry/Domestication
I created
Advanced: Swarm/pack tactics
Magical: Hive mind
Oops forgot this..
1AP for memory shrooms +1 AP for to keep secret
Heh, seems about right on concepts.
Theoretically, gods can hoard any concepts to themselves + their followers, but others (*cough* Atheos *cough*) can fight to force them to share that knowledge.
Probably no Mirri log today, and maybe not tomorrow. I have IRL groups on both those days.
Now that we have some things going, what if we opened up recruitment. Like wide open. Like:
1) Post a proposed god profile
2) Profile is reviewed by one or two of us original gods (we would all essentially be mods with final decision power resting with Monkeygod) and parent god is assigned
3) Player joins
So there are no official recruitment periods. AP still rolls over on Saturdays.
This may make things more chaotic, but could lead to a more active recruitment cycle.
Thoughts?
(This could be a bad idea, just thought I'd throw it out there.)
Second round recruitment thread created here with Monkeygod's blessing.
Created magical concept (3AP): Divination: +2 to mortal combat for humans
Formed Order (2AP) - Webseers. Human females born with the ability to use divination
4 AP: create relic (book of history)
1 AP: to keep secret
3 AP: to Gain Domain (Divination) [Crystal Seer(5) + Book of History(4)]
1 AP: to keep secret
3 AP: to Gain Domain (Secrecy) [6x 1 AP to keep AP actions secret + 1 AP from memory mushrooms]
1 AP: to keep secret
5 AP: to Gain Ability (One with Shadows)
Hey, guys. Is there a cost involved in leveling up a deity, or is it automatic? I've never been able to tell, but now that Shess is doing it (and I'm moving in that direction), just wanted to double check.
I have never seen a mention of it. I'm not even sure if I qualify for more domains. I probably do, but I'd have to think about it.
Maybe Conflict (predation)?
I could Create mundane concept (1ap): Object lesson, teaching via structured experience... But I'm not sure what that would get me
No cost, but there is supposed to be a real life period of time you're to have been active for.
Which I think is silly.
So what we'll do instead is this: You'll need to acquire the requisite domains(4 to become lesser, 6 to go to intermediate, etc),
And you'll need to spend AP as well. As they're a mechanical representation of enacting your divine will, it shows that the deity is both active in game(which kinda replaces the IRL time requirement) but also shows the god cares enough about the universe to become more powerful.
So, we'll make it simple:
Spent 20 AP for Lesser, 40 for intermediate, 60 for greater and 80 for elder.
This is total AP expenditure by the way, not 20, then another 40, etc.
How does this sound? Willing to adjust/alter/scrap this, depending on player response.
That could work. It would also encourage people to spend the AP they have.
Which, I need to do myself. Also, I'm waiting on a response from the King Furball :P
Sounds good! I might start getting domains soon, if nobody else has a lot they want to do to humanity right off the bat.
Also, do we want to potentially message people from the initial recruitment about joining the game? Since quite a few of them seemed to be upjumped humans, we're getting to the point where that might be relevant. (I'm planning to create a city or two, sailing, agriculture, and a few other concepts by the end of this week)
So humanity is "yours" Atheos?
Nah, sort of? If you create a race, you get to equip them with your concepts automatically, and I think they can't be stolen wholesale, etc.
If I effect humans directly, will you know about it? How much are you claiming the humans as yours? I guess is my question.
Only if I'm paying attention to those exact humans. Gods don't see much without special abilities, hence me getting away with stealing Zakaz's blood (he might notice *now*). If you spend 1 AP, I can't see it even directly unless I take Knowledge Broker (which I'm eventually planning to).
I'm "claiming humans as mine" because I created them, but really I think I need to create a society, and then the society becomes mine. I think you need at least greater life to be able to direct them directly.
Also ughhhh we still need the sun, hmm.
So..I truly dislike being nitpicky. However, in the interest of staying off the radar I will make this argument. According to Knowledge Broker it says that you know everything your 'followers' know. I wonder if there is a difference between mortal races which you have created and those who are your followers.
I think there is; but I think all members of a society or greater life are expected to follow their creator unless otherwise specified.
If you wanna screw with humans without being noticed, go for it. I just burned through all of my AP (it'll be worth it when I pick up Agriculture on saturday), so I can't exactly retaliate for a while regardless, except maybe for my 1 AP demigod.
AHHH MIRRI LOG COMING SOON
BUSY WEEK SORRY
What do you do when you want domains like Ferocity or Predation? Is kinda hard to spend AP toward those
My suggestion would be to find something similar that is more broad. For example, power for ferocity or something like that. Ferocity and predation can be the themes picked up
"Domains (Portfolios): Your spheres of influence.
Themes: Archetype, concept, core. Sum up your character, give me a feel for him in a couple of words. Trickster God; Proud King; Fertility Goddess; Airship Pirate God, etc."
or in the PFS sense
"Areas of Concern"
I struggle with the same thing in respect to Ambition.
Still, how does one spend AP on "power". Maybe if I got two abilities in that vein, but I'm only showed to have one as a fledgling god... hmmm