[@BBeast] Thanks for opening up Jvan's feature week! [quote=@Dawnscroll] [@Antarctic Termite] I don't day this often: but that most recent post? That was sexy. Twisting Notte's mind for Elysium, finding Arcon in a way Logos could approve, even name dropping the Realta there. Thumbs up from me. Expect Logos to have a chat with a certain.goddeas about air dropping a giant fucking ant though.[/quote] [hider=WHEN SENPAI NOTICES ME] [img]http://i.imgur.com/XP7FKV3.gif[/img] [/hider] [quote=@Dawnscroll] [@Kho] Also, I should be thrilled I didn't make the dinosaurs first... Toby's ding could be an extinction level event. ...how the hell is he even going to survive impact, let alone the Realta? [/quote] I didn't intend for the poor lady to have much difficulty landing; The post mentions that she was safely deposited onto the surface. You and Kho can feel free to interpret the arrival however you wish, though. [quote=@Kho] [@Antarctic Termite] I'm assuming that the First Sculptor is not a hero. If it is, let me know. [/quote] Correct. Fishbones was just the first member of the species; Given their tiny maximum population and means of reproduction, making a bunch of them seemed unnecessary. If you'd like to rate his section of that other post anyway, though, that would probably be useful critique. Anyway, at the rate we're going now he'll probably exhaust even his immense lifespan and die sometime soon. I'll probably slip it into my next post somewhere. [quote=@BBeast]If Grot can pick up a Brush Beast in his hand and bite its head off, and we estimate Brush Beasts to be around 50-100m tall, then Grot comes out to be somewhere between 1 and 2 kilometers all. We're going to need to rethink David and Goliath for this. [/quote] We can do that cliche they eventually do in every cartoon and have an adventure inside Grot's body. It'll be educational. [s][i]Also think about how many adjective-riddled descriptions of flesh you could slip in there.[/i][/s] I have an addiction. :dreamy [quote=@Cyclone] Even if you don't use that sentence, consider comparing Galbar to a rock. Consider comparing anything to a rock, actually. Elaborate metaphors involving rocks make me happy. :lol [/quote] I'll put some nice ones into my next post, just for you. [quote=@Hael] We should totally do a parody collab where you play as Vulamera and I do Zephyrion. It would be legendary. [/quote] i would [i]pay[/i] you [quote=@Hael]I still see many more creative and interesting ways of doing anything an Avatar could do, though. But I suppose it's up to personal opinion- for me, Avatars seem [b]incredibly[/b] boring and shamelessly uncreative, except for maybe those of Illunabar, since they have a personality.[/quote] This is a critique-friendly forum, of course, so for improvement's sake can I ask explanations of what kind of creative and interesting writing techniques you'd use to replace an Avatar? My own views- Deities are pretty big characters concept-wise. They're diverse and have significant interactive relevance across the entire setting. Most of them try to embody nuanced ideas (order, chaos, life, beauty) in a single character. Taking all this into account, the ability to separate a single deity concept into two characters that are thematically cohesive but have different modes of operation is extremely valuable, because then you can construct a narrative of their actions from different sides of them. There's no point in creating an avatar that's not noticeably different in description and function from the 'main' representation of your deity character, and nobody in this roleplay has done that, either. They're a narrative device we use to write about elaborate characters in an increasingly massive setting. If anything, I think it's more creative to design an avatar as a reinterpretation of your 'main' deity than have that character constantly alternate between different personalities and styles of action/creation in order to fulfil the complexity of their original vision. In my case, Jvan fulfils my fantasy of playing something sessile- A deity that is its own temple, a towering god whose body is something stable that can be touched and climbed and lived in despite its strangeness. Heartworm meanwhile sits much closer to the original vision. It's quiet, less emotive, and curiousity-driven, a tiny wandering scientist with a closer relationship with mortals and a more conventional take on 'flesh' and body horror. Anyone else have thoughts?