Antarctic Termite

I don't like April Fools on the internet.

Just leave it to Google ffs.

@Awson

Next thing you know, even Google starts giving people problems with a failed joke.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

@Muttonhawk The Rovaick are said to be cavern dwellers along that area, but I'm not sure exactly where they're most concentrated.

Also, Insidie are desert dwellers somewhere-or-other.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

Idea for elaborating further on Hain expressions- Because the default hain conversational stance is with the head posed sideways, they might be able to add nuance to their expression based on which eye is narrowed or closed, since their 'left' and 'right' eye at any one point isn't just a symmetrical reflection. While looking directly at someone, hain have a fore and aft eye, with the fore-eye closer to the beak and the aft-eye closer to the back of the skull. They are meant to focus together, so controlling the direction of each eye is like going cross-eyed for humans, but presuming that their eyelids move independently, narrowing each eye might have a different effect on the overall expression.

It might change across cultures, but my suggestion is to make it a simple intensity modifier, say, the aft-eye closes more easily than the fore-eye, so if the two are closed, narrowed, or widened equally (in the case of great surprise or fear), then the hain is more emotional than usual, because one of the two eyelids is unconsciously being worked harder in order to match it with the other- Fore-eye in case of narrowing, aft-eye in case of widening.

There are probably more creative ways to go about this, and it's pretty clunky to write into a sentence outside of insertions like 'both her eyes were narrowed harshly' or 'despite his cautious words to the excited hatchlings, his aft-eyes didn't widen quite so much when he pulled the viper from its basket', implying stronger anger and weaker fear respectively. But it might be useful.

There, Gerrik is now a Hero.

@BBeast

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

Flexible as a boneless elastic band on Saturday night.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

My personal take on the language sphere issue is that splitting language into portfolios in different domains is only necessary because of the limited cast of gods we already have. The whole idea of linguistics is more than broad and adaptable enough to occupy an entire domain of its own- Language (Symbolism), Language (Song), Language (Incantation), Language (Debate), Language (Diplomacy), Language (Script), Language (Cryptography)... All of which are significantly different in connotations and would suit different gods.

Damn, there goes another good set of ideas for a divine character.

@Antarctic Termite In my recent post about languages I left the sculptors out (meaning they still speak the root language of the gods, thus can understand all languages) in case you decide to go with the wanderer race thing.

@Double Capybara

Thanks! Just for clarification, I'll note that Sculptors inherit whatever mortal language they had when they ascended, but aren't very vocal outside of their dancy body language deal. The more codified sign language they now share with Urtelem will definitely diversify into dialects along with other languages once I get down to spreading it. The idea that they pick up 'unmortalised' speech through singing to Jvan is definitely something I'll keep, though. I like that.

It's official. Fire has been invented by the Hain.

@BBeast

IT BEGINS

Crazy, odd, weird and downright strange song titles

Modest Mouse- The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box
Currently indomitable at the top of my list of favourite songs.

Nero's Day at Disneyland- Human Artifacts Found Underwater, Best Dressed Lists
Slightly chaotic glitchcore by Lauren Bousfield, who to this day pumps out a lot of cool songs with odd titles. Catchy if you're into this stuff.

Malcolm Brown- Pumpkin Party In Sea Hitler's Water Apocalypse
Cute little instrumental dance tune. Title is from Homestuck context.

Dethclock- I Ejaculate Fire
Neo-absurdist heavy metal? The lyrics follow along pretty closely to what you'd expect from the title.

DRUGSCHOOL64- Ghost Mountain Snowboard Adventure
...Some kind of bouncy electronic track with a bunch of different vibe changes.

Toby Fox- Bird That Carries You Over A Disproportionately Small Gap
Half-minute worth of Undertale OST.

Touhou Project OST- U.N. Owen Was Her?
Everyone knows this one but I still can't figure out what it's named for. Still one of the catchiest energetic OSTs I know.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

Hmm... what shall I do this turn....

@Scarifar

Give agriculture to the angels? Make them a whole array of animal resources with the same angelic aesthetic scheme. White flightless birds with long, delicate feathers to form thread for clothes. Trees that can be trained into house-shapes, forming orchards that hold towns. Animals that stand on stilt-like legs that appear delicate despite their ability to lift hundreds of kilos of supplies.

I'd be doing so much agriculture this turn if I didn't have plans to blow most of my Might elsewhere, honestly.

what would you do if

Wait, is the usual Astroturf floor of the playground included, or is it just a maze of vibrant tubes stretching infinitely in depth, width, and height, with small portholes showing only more tubes reaching into the distant fog? Do the slides have a bottom end or do they just go on and on? Clock has the right idea, this is one of the best claustrophobic weird-fantasy prompts I've seen.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

@Cyclone Only if the Holy Site takes the form of something fragile and easily lost for comedic purposes, say, a Christmas bauble, or perhaps Zephyrion's temper,

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

so much might points flying around right now whaaaaat aaaaah I get the feeling we're going to see some huge cities and nations real soon.

BUCKLE UP, BITCHES. WE 'BOUTA SEND THESE MORTALS INTO THE FUCKIN' SPACE AGE.

Also this is going to be a super long turn.