Well, I think Azrael arrived with a bang.
Also, don't feel the need to spend AP to make sure the souls of your faithful can go to a specific outer plane or something when they die; Azrael has no intention of hoarding them, but I don't think he'd know whether or not any other outer planes actually exist yet. Once he meets any of the other gods--something I'd imagine would happen soon, given his fairly significant display--he will certainly be amenable to sending the souls of their worshipers wherever they wish upon their death.
If Azrael joins the gods of the vault, we sort of have an agreement to judge followers by alignment/actions rather than gods directly.
Azrael, could you outline what ap you spent to qualify for that domain? I'm not seeing 7ap of storm stuff there.
And hey, Alathos. The god of the dead is independently judging the souls of mortals. You may want to talk to him about that. :)
Azrael would be fine either way, his decree is more that he is the final arbite of whatever judgment is passed; he has assumed there are other gods but has no idea as to other outer planes, and so has held all souls in The Shallows for now. If you all are going by alignment/acrions Azrael will simply follow suit. He would likely be interested in joining your pantheon, so that seems an obvious choice.
Cool. Zakaz will be there as soon as I rule out the other gods in the Stone Crested Incident.
Oh, I missed that on gaining a domain. I'll drop directly gaining the domain and instead craft a sanctum within The Shallows, as it's the same AP cost. It'll also push me toward the 7 I need to actually take Weather as a domain, so that works for me.
Jeez, you go away for a weekend and get beck to a torrent of new posts! - Araneae will be acting as soon as i've read through the 65 new gameplay posts I haven't seen yet...
P.S. Are we up to about 38AP total? - I've kind've lost track but now have lots to spend :)
ACTIONS:
6: Cosmic Decree: things in the heavens orbit the earth (includes sun and moon + any new creations. - 5 AP
7: Gain Domain: Heavens (3 AP -from creation of stars (2AP) and orbits (5 AP)
Oh nice! I was gonna decree the orbit thing, and now i don't have to.
Except she decreed that everything orbits the earth, not how it would be if dependent on mass.
Yes, very geocentric of her.
Therei, I think I must have posted before you were done and you didn't see it. You... might wanna edit your post, or I can delete mine and just post it after you. Azrael has... feelings about this idea.
Yeah, did a quick edit. I was typing at the same time, I guess.
Can I spend the 1 AP to keep another diety's spending secret?
Yes, very geocentric of her.
Well you created such a little sun that it seemed like the only option....
Can I spend the 1 AP to keep another diety's spending secret?
Hmmmm. Good question.
Yes, very geocentric of her.Well you created such a little sun that it seemed like the only option....
I like that the world is more fantastical than ours, even physics-wise. Thirdpapa Atheos may disagree, but as for me, I like it.
That's... surprisingly constructive, Therien. OOC, I'm suspicious. IC, Tissari is ecstatic.
Lol. "I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy, and goodness. Trust me in all things." -Corwin of Amber
This discussion about souls is very interesting.
Can I spend the 1 AP to keep another diety's spending secret?
I'm going to have to say no here. It's too easy to stockpile AP eventually, and just hide all sorts of expenditures. You would also have to get the god's express permission, and you would have to be straight up about your actions.
Would one have to spend another 5 AP on Weave Plane to further alter a plane they've already made? I'm thinking perhaps Azrael could forge different 'layers' of The Shallows and have each serve as a separate 'afterlife' for souls of differing alignments and who pass/fail/etc his judgments when they come before him. It says I could have done this when I created a plane, but could I do so now without spending additional AP? If so, Azrael will just go ahead and conjure up some sub-planes where he can send off the souls of the dead after he's judged them.
You definitely do not need to spend another 5 AP, as that's just ridiculous imo.
However, perhaps instead spend AP to alter/create land, depending on the size of the addition?
How do others feel about this? Doesn't really make a difference to me, but I want what we decide to be fair to all.
I think this is probably close enough time-wise to all fit in one action. IIRC, Forge Land (3 AP) creates new levels in a plane in general, while Create Stronghold (3 AP) claims one level as your absolute personal domain.
I'm also in the process of writing up an in-character post at the moment, in which Azrael is pitching this idea to the others. I just wanted to ask about. Looking at Forge Land it doesn't mention specifically creating new levels or anything of a plane, just actual physical land mass. I suppose that could be used, though.
If people feel it's close enough in time to call it all one action I'm fine with that as well, I just want to make sure everyone is cool with however we end up doing it. I personally agree with that assessment as in-game it's been barely any time at all since Azrael forged The Shallows anyway, it's not as if some great swath of time has passed. However, if it seems only fair to require an AP cost I will wait and do so when I have the AP to spend.
Happy to call it one action.
I'm fine with one action
I'm good with it being one action as well--feels very appropriate for such a place to have that kind of setup.
Also, I apologize for my absence here--I've been very busy and haven't had time to write up the big chunk of text I want for this (what with the Lion Tribe's last stand and all). I'm sincerely hopeful that I'll have something up later today.
BTW, as always, Aped has express permission to use the concepts Tissari/the irtara (the line is kinda blurred) created to help out the Lion Tribe. Of course, so can the Cull.
:D
Right now there are two Crested in Quarrel's End that need a friend. This is how I was gong to teach them language. I probably should have said that earlier. As the Cull in the lake region are starving they are in a place to present an unprecedented truce. :)
Cool, I'll wait for some affirmative replies in Gameplay before Azrael goes and crafts the actual afterlife.
Wait, when did new Crested arrive in Quarrel's end? Did I miss that?
Just after the first was turned to stone. And yes, you did, apparently. :)
The post is here.
I have created a SUPER ROUGH draft of the island map as it appeared in my head. Google drawings isn't the best at this, but it was easily editable by all of us so I decided to go with it at first.
Linky
It is editable by anyone, so feel free to make corrections if I have misplaced something or know more about making things pretty in Google than I do.
2(3) things:
1) Your description of what happens to the earth things is fine. I'm not as textually eloquent as you all.
2) I need a clerification (likely adjudication) on the Protean Lord ability
*) Can the Protean Lord reassign HP as well as attack and defense?
*) In combat can the Protean Lord reassign instantly? (i.e. when being attacked the Lord could reassign all to Defense and then when attacking reassign all to attack?)
Re: dice re-assign: I'm not entirely clear on this, but reassigning all my dice to one or the other feels like an exploit to me. As-written I could, I think, but I would call shenanigans on myself for it. I plan to use it to even playing fields when I fight anyone to make things more exciting (hopefully).
Feedback from others is welcomed.
By my understanding you roll both Attack and Defense at the same time, so it wouldn't qualify for being able to max them both out at the same time. You can still only ever have your total dice for combat, you can't max everything out at all times. Also, I wouldn't think HP actually works either; it technically is no longer a dice pool.
You may constantly rearrange your dice pools after combat is declared
The amount of dice by default is 10, though Relics, Monuments, and Abilities, can modify this number. For every point you put into Health, your god gains 10 "Health Points" for the fight. Every point you put into Attack or Defense, adds 1 more d6 to your Attack or Defense Pool.
So once the dice are assigned to HP they are set as that is not a pool. I may reassign my attack and defence dice essentially at will. I misunderstood this when I assigned the Monument bonuses, but I won't edit them. What's done is done. I moved one of my HP dice to defence earlier and I will now move it back.
Meaning I need to do something else to get more than 5d6 to my attack or defence.
But that 70 hp :p
I'm the god of life! It makes sense. :)
I totally plan to imbue essence to bring that up to 90, by the way. I should be able to get over 100 in a couple weeks.
I'm trying to think of an earth domain for me now as I've spent enough on earthy stuff to qualify for one...
Sorry guys. I'd like to follow up on these things, but my work is really crazy right now—10-12 hours a day continuously on my feet, and then I get home and have to do emails and things—so it might be a bit longer before I can get a proper text post up, since this is one of my games that takes a fair amount of thought per post.
If somebody tried to invade Kirtavo, the irtara's first line of defense would just to continue with normal life and wait for the environment to kill the invading army off. If that doesn't work, then they get serious.
*points towards crapton of military concepts that the irtara created in response to the blood cultists*
I'm eagre to see what Mirri does next. :)
One of the things that's essential to Mirri is that she has to remain something of a dork, even as she becomes a heroine.
That is completely acceptable. :)
Just out of curiosity, have humans been "loaned out", so to speak? As in, are other gods than the person who created them allowed to work with them at the moment? I believe the answer is yes, just wanted to check. Also, status of things like weapons/armor/other basic warfare things, has Tissari allowed all those concepts to go beyond the Irtara? I have some plans after I get my two next big AP expenditures out of the way (Reincarnation and the creation of necromancy), and I want to know if I have to convince anyone to let me use their stuff at all.
PS: Not sure how we'd want to go about it, but Azrael would love to join the Gods of the Vault. They definitely seem his style, also they didn't fight him on stuff about the afterlife all that much.
Yeah! All of Tissari's concepts are absolutely free for anybody to use. And Tissari would be totally fine with you joining.
I think you spend the 1 AP and make your mark in the Vault Stone to join.