And the Xerxes co. Tauga is finding a good workaround to Teknall's curse single-handedly, like the wonderful and competent general she is. I am very impressed with the guerrilla warfare solution.
Fixed that for you?
Also those of us that haven't can finally get around to making a bunch of creation sheets.
(cries)
SO.
Who wants to be the next contestant on Feature God weekly?
I've recently had an idea for a kind of story-independent group thing we could do that might be easier, if a little more reliant on numbers. Introducing...
Termite's Secret Santa Arcane Prophesy Raffle!A thought I've had for a while is that it's hard for prophesies to exist in a roleplay because we don't actually know what's going to happen. That said, all of us
do actually (probably?) have plans for our own characters in the future. So we can, in fact, write prophesies, so long as they're for our own characters.
Obviously nobody wants the future development of their or other characters to be spoiled (shhhhh
@Poog the Pig our conversations don't count). What makes a prophesy click, though, is that
nobody knows exactly who or what it's about. So if prophesies are cryptic enough (by which I mean really, really fucking incomprehensibly cryptic), and they're not posted by the author of the characters/events they relate to, they can exist without anyone but the author knowing who the hell the hint applies to.
That's the secret Santa part of it- A couple of people all write the words of their own prophesy, each one gets another prophesy anonymously, writes a two-paragraph scene for it (did someone meet Fate in a dream? did a shaman suddenly cry out and speak in tongues? were there words written in the ash of last night's fire?), and submits that (possibly also anonymously). They're all bunched up in a single post. Nobody knows who wrote which scene or which prophesy, but each has a grain of truth.
This was literally a shower thought (my hair hasn't even dried yet), but any opinions?
ed:
Chiral Phi is an independent avatar of Jvan. She has no power of her own, but manipulates mortals into doing her will through beneficial guidance, and calculating their actions. She does not actually care for their wellbeing.
I see
A boy from the village.
He walks
On the shore
And in the flotsam
Finds an abacus
That burns with blue flames.
Now the boy is a man
And he uses the abacus.
He is a scholar
And he is rich.
Every day he uses the abacus.
Now he is old
And his back is hunched
Over the tool.
He tries to put it down
But his fingers have seized up
With blue flame
And he cannot let go.
The old man burns in the fire
Still holding the abacus.
In hindsight that looks too obvious, and, shit, it probably is. But long before CP existed, say back when everyone was visiting the Oath of Stilldeath, this would have made very little sense. There are hints there (abacus? mathematics? Jvan maybe?), but also false leads (The colour of Jvan's magic is carmine, not blue).