@Lugubrious There's very few people who I hold my writing against as a standard.
You're one of them.
Sodes, he moreso guided evolution over time and needed the Citadel to make alot of it happen. Slough simply IS Life.
@Rtron@Kho And THEN once you get there you need to get past members of a race whose sole existence is act as the first line of defense of Arcon. Chaos will be purged with white fire!
Oh, the thought of retroactively saying that Vestec had followed Logos that fateful day and has known about Arcon this whole time
Think about it: it'd be like allowing a kid to spend all day building a sand castle, just so that he'll be angrier and cry louder when you finally get around to kicking it over. But does Vestec even possess this level of forethought and planning?
@Rtron@Kho And THEN once you get there you need to get past members of a race whose sole existence is act as the first line of defense of Arcon. Chaos will be purged with white fire!
Doubt any species can really stand before a god. And that's if we're assuming the god will not use Might. If they're using Might...
Basically, the Realtos are the first line of defense unless a god comes along - then Logos is the only line of defense
@Kho Of course not. But they are absurdly powerful; if anything they'd slow Vestec down a few minutes until Logos called them back. They're limited in number, like the White Giants.
And even then, the Citadel has its owns defenses...
@Rtron@Kho And THEN once you get there you need to get past members of a race whose sole existence is act as the first line of defense of Arcon. Chaos will be purged with white fire!
Eh, those guys won't be a problem. Conceal, and then corrupt a few of them into thinking 'I MUST SERVE LOGOS BY KILLING THE TRAITORS' and that's that. Logos. Logos and Elysium are gonna be a pain.
Oh, the thought of retroactively saying that Vestec had followed Logos that fateful day and has known about Arcon this whole time
Think about it: it'd be like allowing a kid to spend all day building a sand castle, just so that he'll be angrier and cry louder when you finally get around to kicking it over. But does Vestec even possess this level of forethought and planning?
He does but I don't think it'd be fair for me to just go 'OH, LOL, BY THE WAY VESTEC FOLLOWED LOGOS'. When I didn't mention that first.
@Kho I should reiterate: the Realto are not as powerful as Gods/demigods. They still pack a helluva wallop, and by design use their numbers to their advantage. They don't reproduce and they're not immortal. Assuming Vestec isn't wiping out his Might, they might harry for a few minutes should he engage. There is 20,000 afterall...
@Lugubrious Lugu...pls...if your writing is not up to standard then I should just go hide inside a dumpster and cry my sorrows away cause there's no way in hell my posts are even close to being superior to yours.
@Lugubrious Lugu...pls...if your writing is not up to standard then I should just go hide inside a dumpster and cry my sorrows away cause there's no way in hell my posts are even close to being superior to yours.
Don't be down. You've written more and more intricate stuff in this RP so far than I have. For the last two turns I've basically been having Slough walk places and searched deviantart for cool-looking creatures. It's no great shakes.
That said, I appreciate all of you for your comments. I'm a little proud that I've been making a good account of myself with my work, however dubious it seems to me.
If just posting as Slough is getting you down a bit, then make up a demi. That way you could have another full char to post as instead of 'having Slough walk around and create life in an epic fashion like no other god can'.
@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.
Edit: even that would get confusing - how long should a divine trail remain, guys?
Two turns with a modifier based on concealment and detection, maybe?
@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?
... 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?
I can dig a two turn residue. Seems easy.
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.
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
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