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Back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, I got started with writing online on the Spore forums. Man, those were the days. We're talking like 12 years ago 2010-ish!

I've been here on and off for almost as long, and have GM'd a bunch of different things to varying success.

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@Buddha@Ryuzaki@Cyclone@frapet

This is getting awfully quiet...


Got some PM interaction going on with Flynn as Chugo talks to the king.

Nothing for me to post about on the IC until that's done and/or something new comes up. Feel free to approach Chugo and talk to him or something if you want some interaction.
I can handle introducing horse riding. I intended for that spot on the map called the Golden Barrens to be populated by people descended from Primus' happy following, only they found their way to those steppes and eventually became nomads instead of farmers along the Mahd River Valley. So they'll eventually develop horse riding and such on their own and then be those silly Mongols that always forget that this is Divinus and that trying to sack cities in the nearby ogre empire is ill advised.

Maybe they'll just stick to raiding their distant cousins over in Vetros.

Edit: Also, the ogres already have cave-painting to store knowledge in the form of pictures. Don't make the ogre hieroglyphs be the only form of writing; otherwise Lazarus will have to live with the fact that the only scholars that worship him are a bunch of bloodthristy ogres that just want to figure out how to make new weapons so that they can enslave more people.
@Antarctic Termite

Some of your posts really strike a chord with me and I devour every word. In a lot of them though, I think some of the subtlety flies over my head and I miss the point. Except for when it hits me in the face like a stone!

"Forgive me some old emotions, Énas, but seeing you, seeing what you do, it's... Pleasing. There are many Chaotic gods. One has rebelled against the rest of us, sowing destruction prematurely. Another is an- Abomination, that has invaded this world from elsewhere, under a divine guise. A third is wise, but has made certain... Dangerous mistakes.


Is she trash talking Zephy?! Said he made a mistake? What is perfect can never succumb to flaws!

I actually sat and thought a little bit about the abomination that she talked about as well in that quote. Does she mean Vowzra?
Zephyrion - big bag o' wind so basically Bag of Lays (really well written, love reading Zeph posts)


<3

The Bard [NPC] - did he appear yet?


IIRC he's had minor appearances in a few of Kho's posts. He plays a more major role and gets into a pissing contest with Zephyrion in a collab that we've already written. Said collab is just delayed until I can get the ogres and Vetros plots chugging along more smoothly.

@Kho
Ull'Yang and Teknall
sitting on a tree,
K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
First comes love,
then comes marriage,
then comes baby
in a baby carriage!


Sucking his thumb, pooping his pants
Trying to do the boogie dance
and that’s not all, that’s not all
he’s also drinking alcohol!
I actually intended to level Astarte up a couple times and get her to create a race, but the turn's end caught me before I could finish that post


Turn passing doesn't change anything; by all means feel free to just finish it and post it whenever.

@Cyclone damnit, update the map XDDD
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3358007


Telling your new fascist dictator how to live his life is ill advised!
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Zephyrion was angry enough to be ready to fight Vulamera over some blood.

That was probably because of M.A.D No one God tried anything because the Gods were all relatively balanced in Might. Everyone had enough might to go 'Hmm, maybe I shouldn't try to destroy this guys things who can easily destroy my stuff.' Now we have most people who really don't have to worry about that.

IC and OOC often don't match up. You really think if Toun or Kyre know that they can eradicate Vestec and his creations there will be a valid IC reason for them to not go to town?

Regardless. We'll see how this pans out.


Fair point and good example, though Vulamera could (and would have, according to Hael) have just fled from Zephyrion and that would have been that. The IC can be written in such a way as to not violate another RPer's wishes, within reason.

But I suspect that I might be alone in the mentality that any influence of importance upon another's stuff should be done with permission. Maybe it's just because I like to plan ahead and having huge curveballs can sometimes torch a story that I was going for. Out of curiosity, what do the rest of you think about the degree to which we should require OOC permission to do destroy each others' stuff IC? Other than the fair warning rule, I don't think the OP's rules address this.
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Don't worry about somebody just randomly deciding to blow up all your stuff just because they can, they said.
Dragon god blowing up Orabil? Why ever would that happen?
Vestec tearing apart Vowzra's Victors? Oh c'mon now, that's not gonna happen...
Ialu pummelling Thulemiz all the time? Why would Ialu even do that? He's just a fluffy teddy

To anyone who is about to take Cyclone's advice, take this from me:
Speaking as the player who has had the most stuff randomly destroyed: Stuff will get randomly destroyed.


The bottom two were done in collabs IIRC, with you within, and you didn't object ;p

I forgot about how Sauranth torched Orabil but honestly, if I had been Co-GM then I would have said WTF and raised hell about it. Not only because it was done to you without permission, but also because that rampage was completely out of character for Sauranth, had no logic to it, and Act apparently didn't even know that the tree was a Holy Sight that prevented Galbar's eternal darkness.

As I recall, you didn't let Mirtagn torch the Strong Tribe's village, so there's precedent to not letting someone randomly destroy stuff.
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If it was normal amount of might difference, it'd be different. 'Oh, okay, I spent Might, they didn't, it'll be made up for next turn.'

This isn't a normal amount of might difference. You either have below twenty because you did things or you have above thirty because you didn't do things for a long time. There is no way to make up this difference normally. Unless everyone with the large amount is gonna spend all a bunch of might now...which I doubt, those of us that have the less might will have two choices; Do nothing for several turns until we can hopefully get enough Might to balance things out, or just pray that people won't do anything with all that might that we have to react against.

Because currently, if Zephyrion gets angry at the Angels and does retribution, Niciel can't put up much of a fight. If Logos wanted to, he could go and wipe out all of Vestec's creations and heroes. If Teknall was so inclined, he could purge the world of Jvan's creations or take them over himself. Illunabar's phantasma and Mannequins could be destroyed.

There's normal consequences for our actions, which we accept. But then there's 'did a nothing for a long time and now have insane amounts of might to play around and be unstoppable with' Most of them, I suspect, weren't even planned periods of doing nothing.


*waves hand in dismissal*

I wouldn't worry about somebody just randomly deciding to blow up all your stuff just because they can. I'd remind you that despite the two confrontations with the Dragon God and others in the last RP, there wasn't a single outright fight between two gods nor an utter annihilation of someone's creations and heroes.

Sure, if you only look at Might then Zephyrion could probably overpower Niciel and kill all her angels and blow up the Nice Valley, but first there's the question of how that could be justified IC and secondly there's the issue of permission. Nothing of that magnitude should really happen without an OOC discussion first

It feels like you're being punished for enriching the world.


Now here is where we might agree. Those of us with a lot of Might really should be spending it. I can only speak for myself, but I will say that I've already figured out how I'm going to spend a great deal of Zephy's Might in my next posts. Either the other characters with a big stockpile will spend their Might and just enrich the world at a later date than you did, or they'll simply put it in a Holy Site/level up and get even more Might with which is later enrich the world...

The objective of Divinus isn't to just amass an arbitrarily large amount of Might for no reason, so I'm sure that everyone here will eventually spend their Might on something and enrich the world or storyline. Otherwise I'd be curious to know what they're even doing here.
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CYCLONE HAS BEEN REVEALED AS MIGHT COMMIE SCUM. GET THIS RED THREAT OUT OF GALBAR


AHA! FOOLISH MORTAL, MY PLANS ARE FAR MORE SINISTER THAN YOU COULD HAVE IMAGINED!



Under Fascist Divinus, all your Might are belong to ME! There shall be no equality! Only me as your Supreme Leader!
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