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@Miakardia Question: how common are powers?
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@Thundercrash they're not common. Consider them to be a genetic mutation. It gets passed down and tears is head occasionally. Like one in every 10000 people have them. There's about 500000 in Logaris, and another 500000 across the other three nations. So of the million people there's about 100 people with powers besides the Gods. A few work for Cacus, he has one that has the power to detect other powers, which is how he tracks down people.

Of the 10 taken, our 5 characters have powers and the other 5 don't. The power-finder has like a 10% success rate usually, so this is a good year for him. Which is how we'll escape. They're used to one or two powered people a year, most of whom will be children. Won't be prepared for us five
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Okay. Thanks.


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Bio is good :)
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@Miakardia How graphic are we allowed to get? Because I have an idea for how to start, but it could be a pretty serious trigger for some people.
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I will try to get a post up tomorrow morning.
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@Thundercrash I have no issue with graphic. To be fair, I'll likely post worse at some point. So if anyone does have an issue with graphic scenes of any nature, they should turn back now :')
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I usually put a trigger warning up at the top when I do something that I think would be pushing it for most people. Then they read at their own risk.
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Anyone gonna post?
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@Miakardia I have mine in progress right now, should have it finished up today.
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@Miakardia I have mine in progress right now, should have it finished up today.


me too
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If anything is wrong with my writing, just let me know. I'm a bit out of practice.
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It's good :)
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Been in Amsterdam over the weekend, will post IC as soon as everything is done, either late today or tomorrow
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@Miakardia - Some questions:
Are you okay with first person IC?
What sorts of weapons do the Legion/Royal Guard typically use (spears?)?
How common is crime and how effectively is it fought?
What is the general public opinion about Cacus?
Is the calendar in Logaris (Logarisian? Logarese?) the same as the real one?
If any of these vary throughout Logaris just say what is most common, or in the capital if each area's different.
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@Miakardia - Some questions:
Are you okay with first person IC?
What sorts of weapons do the Legion/Royal Guard typically use (spears?)?
How common is crime and how effectively is it fought?
What is the general public opinion about Cacus?
Is the calendar in Logaris (Logarisian? Logarese?) the same as the real one?
If any of these vary throughout Logaris just say what is most common, or in the capital if each area's different.


@JaceBeleren Will answer these here and then add them to the first post as well as more written out info. Good questions, I hadn't thought about a couple.

1) I'd prefer 3rd person, as that's what the rest of us are doing, and if we all write the same it flows better, plus we might all end up using multiple characters over time.

2) The Royal Legion typically use swords, whilst the Royal Guard use and are trained in a variety of weapons. For ceremonial purposes, the Guard use spear-staffs, which are effectively long staffs with a short-sword at the tip, though they'd carry other weapons into battle. I'll make a proper post about the Logari military branches in soon. Just also slipping in there that the adjective form of Logaris is Logari.

3) Crime is fairly well managed, in the streets of the large towns and cities there are thieves and pickpockets, as you'd imagine, and they get away with it on a day-to-day basis. The Legion acts as the investigation, prosecution and execution in many cases, so have a very high 'success' rate in catching those who commit big crimes, AKA if someone is murdered, someone is caught and executed for the murder nearly every time. There's more of an illusion that crime is well handled, than a case of it actually being handled well. The further you get from the centre, the less the presence of the Legion is prominent, so crime gets worse, with the exception of Southport, which has its own city watch, as mentioned in the Cultures of Logaris piece.

4) The nations all generally view their leaders differently, again will make a proper thing about this. But in Logaris, Cacus is quite machiavellian. He prefers to rule through fear than love, and as a result, the majority of the populace have grown up believing he is actually far more powerful than he really is. They consider him to be a God, he rules because has the right to rule, because if he chose he could destroy them all with no more than a click of his fingers (general consensus, not fact). Others view him as a necessary evil, because it is he that commands the Legion, and as such maintains order - they think he's a tyrant, but it doesn't affect many of them on a day to day basis, because he keeps the streets clean.

5) For ease of use, Nerthus has a similar calendar system as us. There are 360 days to a year, split into 12 months of 30 days each. The months roughly align with our own in the Northern Hemisphere, so new year is in the middle of winter. Their weeks consist of 8 days though, so there are exactly 45 weeks in a year. The Nerthese Calendar however, puts new years eve as the shortest day of the year, making the longest day of the year (AKA The Day of the Chosen, when the taken are presented to Cacus) the last day of the 6th month, which will be the date when all our characters meet in the dungeon. The year, is 4999, so the date of the Day of the Chosen will be 30.06.4999. The year is measured from the year that Joro broke away from the rest of Nerthus, AKA the end of the war between Cacus and Oxylus.

(Let me know if you want me to elaborate on any point now)
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@Miakardia@JaceBeleren One thing that I'd like to point out for consideration, is that the use of a calendar would depend on how wealthy, and therefore how educated you are. From the looks of things Logari society is generally of a Medieval level, which implies an agrarian society in which most of the population has minimal, if any education. So for most people, especially from smaller towns and villages outside the main cities, the most people would use is what season it is and possibly what phase the moon is in.
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@Thundercrash@JaceBeleren I had taken that into consideration, so when I was brainstorming names for the months, they were going to have strong ties to the time of year, so people will have a rough idea of what time of year it is based off the name of the month, for ease of communication between the uneducated and the educated. There's also the link between the calendar and the shortest/longest days, something which the commonfolk will be able to track.
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I've added info on the military orders and the calendar to the first OOC post for ease of reference in the future.
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I'll have my post up Monday, hopefully afternoon.
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