Been working on digitalizing my sketch. The lineart is not very good but I don't worry too much about that, since nearly all of my paintings end up line-free eventually.

@Dawnscroll
The area inside the glowing circle is currently part of a post chain by me, so please don't explode it or anything.

@Lugubrious Just a heads up that I've already used 'Have a Heart' as a reference for Sweethearts, which still only exist in Lex.

They'll have their sentient species creation sheet eventually.

Question t the class; anyone know if a full infection event of a city for Jvan's fleshiness is possible?

You mean by Acalya? The closest thing would be lens groves, which are more like way stations for Urtelem. Sculptors are nomads without the numbers or motivation to form communities, though they can integrate into them. The Sculpture infection rate is too low to take control of a sizeable village, let alone a city (~1 / 10,000 before taking into account killings by Djinni, Hain and Rovaick).

That said, there's a messy, sporadically used art studio temple to Jvan in Amestris.

Most of Jvan's unwilling followers don't build cities and her infection works differently than say, the Ashlings

Shhhhh, most of them go willingly, even before they finish ascending. Sharmen certainly seemed to find comfort in Jvan before conversion.

Flux is an exception because most djinni find it really hard to accept change in their identity or that of other elementals. See Slag- All the elementals hated him just because he was different, even though Char made him that way.

@Antarctic Termite

EVEN IF THEY GO WILLINGLY WHILE THEIR BEING TRANSFORMED, IT'S STILL AN UNASKED FOR PARASITE CHANGING THEIR MINDS, EMOTIONS, AND BODIES.

Also.

Ovaedis is an orbital weapon.

I would just like to remind everyone of that. (Jvan's favorite places are far away from Vestec's things. Definitely out of orbital strike collateral damage range. >_> )

@Antarctic Termite

EVEN IF THEY GO WILLINGLY WHILE THEIR BEING TRANSFORMED, IT'S STILL AN UNASKED FOR PARASITE CHANGING THEIR MINDS, EMOTIONS, AND BODIES.

This is 100% true. It's also very painful.

Ya gotta open your mind, man.

@Lugubrious Just a heads up that I've already used 'Have a Heart' as a reference for Sweethearts, which still only exist in Lex.

They'll have their sentient species creation sheet eventually.

Oh. Poo.

Yo, anyone a fan of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure?

Oh. Poo.

i see it's been replaced by something cool, though, so you could almost say there are

plenty more fish in the sea

ba dum tss

Shhhhh, most of them go willingly, even before they finish ascending. Sharmen certainly seemed to find comfort in Jvan before conversion.

Flux is an exception because most djinni find it really hard to accept change in their identity or that of other elementals. See Slag- All the elementals hated him just because he was different, even though Char made him that way.

Yes, also see Slag because I had him survive Char's nuke for a reason...

He'll be back!

@Dawnscroll
The area inside the glowing circle is currently part of a post chain by me, so please don't explode it or anything.

Where is Alefpria on the map?

@poog the pig It's marked 'Capital', just west of Shalanoir.

@Lugubrious haven't seen it, is it any good?

@Lugubrious haven't seen it, is it any good?

It comes very highly recommended, from what I've heard.

@Frettzo

Mind if I see a few of your paintings?

I did a thing! Namely details on Sweethearts once I spend another Might point on them. It's way long, again, and honestly does not affect anyone yet. Eventually they might be a useful-ish resource, though.

Open to lots of suggestions or interpretations on the drug mechanics, it's meant to be whatever you all find potentially interesting.



ed: oh yeah and they have a theme

drug time

I did a thing! Namely details on Sweethearts once I spend another Might point on them. It's way long, again, and honestly does not affect anyone yet. Eventually they might be a useful-ish resource, though.

I kinda want one as a pet. I like 'em.

Their presence'll be a bit dangerous if their narcotic effect doesn't have any physiological drawbacks (apart from wanting to go do it again). The reason I say this is because there'll be a competitive edge to any population on sweethearts. That'll eventually spread to become the norm and then -- poof! -- every mortal on Galbar is a depraved, superintelligent nihilist. Probably not my favourite prospect, to be honest. What you've basically made is coffee except it's far stronger and it affects people's personal morals and ethics.

I saw that you included the way it escalates into foods but I'm not sure if that'll really be enough of a buffer.

Could I recommend something like...say...off the top of my head...motor-neuron damage as a long-term side affect? Like, after one month of heavy use?

@Muttonhawk I guess poohrennialism doesn't go hand in hand with nihilism :C

@Muttonhawk I guess poohrennialism doesn't go hand in hand with nihilism :C

Pooh is always watching.

Don't let him catch you...

...or he'll throw the earth into deep space to punish us.

The sun will fade...*rocks back and forth in foetal position*...the sun will fade...

Their presence'll be a bit dangerous if their narcotic effect doesn't have any physiological drawbacks (apart from wanting to go do it again). The reason I say this is because there'll be a competitive edge to any population on sweethearts. That'll eventually spread to become the norm and then -- poof! -- every mortal on Galbar is a depraved, superintelligent nihilist. Probably not my favourite prospect, to be honest. What you've basically made is coffee except it's far stronger and it affects people's personal morals and ethics.

I saw that you included the way it escalates into foods but I'm not sure if that'll really be enough of a buffer.

Could I recommend something like...say...off the top of my head...motor-neuron damage as a long-term side affect? Like, after one month of heavy use?

Good call! We don't want these guys to be everywhere.

A weak 'buffer' could be scarcity, maybe some three or four doses per two-year sweetheart, though that's hardly interesting to read. I could beat the dead horse a little further on their hearts theme. After too many uses, the same substances that allow them to integrate into a host as a larva messes with circulation, threatening cardiac arrest or haemorrhage- Especially if they keep abusing the mental rush, and their head keeps pounding for more oxygen.

Keep 'em coming, guys, I don't want to work out this idea's myriad kinks and flaws on my own. I'm a lazy bastard.

I could beat the dead horse a little further on their hearts theme.

ISWYDT

@Antarctic Termite How about this:

Hmm, how about: being nihilistic and superintelligent is all good, but combined they drive you into a mega-existenial crisis meaning that you just end up moping around on the ground doing nothing 'cause it's all so f**king pointless. so pointless.

So you're in the odd position where your hormones or whatever are exploding and giving you positive feelings, but your newly acquired nihilism and intelligence makes you super-depressed. Conflicting feelings are so intense that they can lead to various psychological conditions, amongst them: permanent personality change (it's an actual thing, I read about it in one case...), schizophrenia, PTSD (and anything else that can develop from severe psychological shock)