• Newton's First Law of Roleplaying: For every action, there should be an appropriate reaction. Half the fun of RP is seeing how others respond to you. So give them the meatiest, juiciest reactions you can find before starting your character's actions. Too often players fall into the habit of just doing doing things to you or to the plot without showing how they felt or thought about the things they're responding to.
• Respect other players' agency. This includes everything from thoughts and feelings to physical reactions. Yes, this even includes physics and other "obvious" responses. This has a twofold purpose: 1) It allows the player to control the flow of their character's story and 2) leaves them a great hook to hang a reply on. It's literally a cliffhanger, which is the kind of thing that keeps people coming back. Give them a cliffhanger, and they'll feel mysteriously compelled to respond.
• Invoke as many of the five senses as possible in your descriptions where relevant. Strong sensory descriptions have a way of making them more vivid and easily pictured.
• Show emotions, tell feelings. You've probably heard the adage "show don't tell," but I remember reading someone point out that, in their experience, physical feelings (e.g. texture) are better told than shown. This rule is a corollary to the above three, and tends to follow naturally.

@UnWorthy28 Regret is single at the moment. Her last husband passed away from old age several decades ago, and she's kept an eye out for potential suitors over the last several years. So you never know; it might pan out. (Also I'm a huge sucker for romance. I just don't get many opportunities to tell such stories in group content.)

I think Zyx was toying with a character who wanted to destroy both sides before he dipped out of the running. If you can come up with a compelling reason why someone would want to do that, I'll certainly consider it.

That's an idea. I'll mull it over. Got any pictures of potential fox goddesses?

@kitramos All three of those are unique. I like how they each bring a different theme and concept with them. I'm partial to humanoids, so pic #2 would be my choice. I also saw this while browsing the 'net for pictures of kitsune deities, though my feelings about it are mixed.