@Kho How good is concealment? If I invest points in it does it mean Ilunabar can do stuff stealthy? How easy is for a god to notice her? And her avatars?
It means that she is nigh undetectable to gods of inferior detection. Unless they can see her with their two eyes or sense her (smell, hear, touch...taste O.O) she cannot be detected, even if she was hiding under a rock right in front of them.
Avatars not so much - though if the god's concealment is really high...
Would it be a great blow to either @Kho or @Antarctic Termite if either the big ant or Navy were cut into tiny, tiny pieces?
Eh, I believe the 'big ant' was in fact The One By Immortals Altered - i.e. a hero. If you do want to cut it up, you'll have to spend at least 1 Might since Vowzra created it with 1, though if you want to kill it you'd need to spend 2. If you have a reason for cutting it up (plot of some kind) let me know and we can work it out. As for Navy, she escaped the Deepwood already. (edit: after reading your post, I have a slight suspicion you were pulling our legs - what could be more beautiful than giant ants and hairballs? XPPPP)
And Termite, just read all of your post - I actually love it. Cyan's bit was particularly fascinating. I had intended for the aversion to develop naturally over time, but I guess overnight is fine too xDDD and creates for (heartbreaking?) twists like that
@OldManWong@poog the pig Humans exist now. But not on Galbar. Not sure how you guys want to do things - maybe Acron is more the 'One Empire' kind of planet?
Oh yeah, I should probably mention that white giants might not have a problem with sculptors until they are fully transformed. Then again, if there are enough vestiges of natural or Tounian life in a subject, then the white giants might not attack anyway. It's Termite's call as to whether the sculptors count as losing their touch of Slough and Toun. Still, with the infrequency of sculptors in the first place and the fact that they are going to be persecuted by hain now, I don't think that it'll matter too much either way.
I was under the impression that Sculptors are unnatural - but Termite can confirm what they are
@Dawnscroll Goodness grief. That is a hell of a good read you just wrote up there. Elly's going to be such a fun idealistic blank-slate kind of character to mess around with.
As for Slough Week- I think I'll opt in for some paragraphs about Slough and the Deepwood split between a few posts. I have a whole bunch of things to do creation-wise this turn, but limited time.
Mechanics-wise, with regard to Sculpture, does the new hain instinct respond to:
-Being aware that the art has been created by a Sculptor, -The artwork itself, -Some kind of residue left by the Sculptor, or -The Other polyp that resides within the artwork?
The first option is the only viable one if you don't want to immunise the hain to implantation. It's hard to like something that you instinctively hate, and both implantation and incubation relies entirely on the individual's love of what they've seen.
Of course, if you do want to sterilise the Sculptor's ability to reproduce using hain, that's fine too, but they'll have to respond to something other than the artwork itself, because that would stunt their artistic and cultural development completely. The only two things separating Sculpture from any other strange, emotive art is the polyp that lives in it and the Sculptor that created it. The same instinct causing them to reject the artwork would trigger in the weirdest variations of their own art and stop them from experimenting with complexity or abstraction.
I'd prefer it if we did immunise at least most of the hain via the first option, because that most smoothly opens up the way for a whole new idea that I'm about to set in motion.
Similarly, as to the widespread rejection of Jvanic life, does it apply only to Other and hybrid organisms, or to anything that Jvan's edited? Right now the south and east of the Fractal Sea is teeming with life that's entirely natural in constitution but has been designed by Jvan, so the latter option will prevent hain from forming coastal communities on the Fractal Sea. The only unnatural things she's made so far are her major races and envoys; The rest is strange and detached from the Rottenbone's evolutionary tree of life, but is entirely natural.
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Two turns with a modifier based on concealment and detection, maybe?
It was not really meant to immunise them to implantation, but, as the first option suggests, create an inherent aversion to art that has been created by a Sculptor - an instinct, like fear of death, or heights etc. which can be willfully overcome if one puts their mind to it. The fact is they may still admire the artwork itself but destroy it anyway.
As for natural Jvanic life, as suggested in the IC, there is still an aversion to them, but nowhere as near as the aversion for Sculptors and Fibrelings/ things Other or hybrid. If the aversion for Sculptors is an instinct like fear of death, then the aversion for Jvanic creatures would be akin to fear of spiders - except that in both cases rather than fear it is aversion. So natural Jvanic life would probably be treated normally, eaten etc. but on the side they may be hunted more often for the sake of it rather than any real need.
Ants will be different though. They will go out of their way to hunt down and destroy Jvanic life within their territory, putting aside rivalries with other ants etc. but they wouldn't leave their colony's territories specifically to go out and hunt Jvanic creatures. The only exception is The One By Immortals Altered because she is a hero xP
And regarding trails...hmm, that might be the best way of going about it. Simple and leaves no place for doubt. What does everyone else think?
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