[OOC] Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

[Dawnscroll]

@Kho How did you do that with the gif? Adding the text I mean.

[Kho]

@Dawnscroll It was @MuttonHawk
He worked some black magic and whispered some of @BBeast's elvish

[Lauder]

@Kho

So, would you allow me to join in once more?

[Kho]

@Lauder that all depends on whether you'll stick with it this time. Else you'll not have the honour of both being our OOC stalker AND an IC stalker xPP

[Double Capybara]

@Dawnscroll
You mean like this?

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[Vec]

[Lauder]

@Kho

I solemnly swear im up to no good that I will stay in this RP until my dying breath!

[Dawnscroll]

@Double Capybara Yes. Genuinely how do you do that?

[Double Capybara]

@Dawnscroll I do it with Fireworks, but adobe discontinued it I think, I never truly updated from the 2003 version I have.

[Double Capybara]

The chronology of my posts is currently very messed up. I wanted to have Makeda's posts before this one, but it couldn't be helped, feeling a bit ill and writting just isn't pumping out. Now Scarifar is going to wonder what Ilunabar is up to (nothing serious, see bellow)

Outside of that... Once again I discover that I can't play the griefer/troll role. Had 42 differents ways to use beauty/color/stories/aesthetic to mess up xerxes (all whimsical, from making all girls lesbians to creating stories with the purpose of erasing and twisting Amartia's legacy to some stuff I don't want to spoil) but I always feel bad when it comes to putting stuff into motion.

And, uh, Loki, I think you forgot to add the might summary to your post, since its unclear how much you have spent to create the stuff.

[lif]

From what I've seen, @LokiLeo789 used 1 might to create all that mumbo jumbo.

[Muttonhawk]

@Kho How did you do that with the gif? Adding the text I mean.

@Dawnscroll

I found a gif, and then googled 'caption a gif'.

You could open it up in GIMP and manually put the text in particular frames, but that's reeeeeealy tedious.

[LokiLeo789]

The chronology of my posts is currently very messed up. I wanted to have Makeda's posts before this one, but it couldn't be helped, feeling a bit ill and writting just isn't pumping out. Now Scarifar is going to wonder what Ilunabar is up to (nothing serious, see bellow)

Outside of that... Once again I discover that I can't play the griefer/troll role. Had 42 differents ways to use beauty/color/stories/aesthetic to mess up xerxes (all whimsical, from making all girls lesbians to creating stories with the purpose of erasing and twisting Amartia's legacy to some stuff I don't want to spoil)

And, uh, Loki, I think you forgot to add the might summary to your post, since its unclear how much you have spent to create the stuff.

@Double Capybara

From what I've seen, @LokiLeo789 used 1 might to create all that mumbo jumbo.

@poog the pig

I gotta go back and add that. Rushed on the summary. In honesty though, most are technically power used from the stone.

[Muttonhawk]

...-Back outside, Amartía creates a second avatar named Aleph (.5 Might used) ...

@LokiLeo789

Avatars have set might costs, Loki. I'm afraid they're more than 0.5.

...He creates the Babylon Engine, and black hole powered matter converter/basic computer powered by Microsoft Human souls....

@LokiLeo789

It's okay, we can hack this.

[WrongEndoftheRainbow]

Gimmick's introductory post should happen today, if you even remember who he is. That's right, it's finally happening. And dorf fort post too.

[The Irish Tree]

Gimmick's introductory post should happen today, if you even remember who he is. That's right, it's finally happening. And dorf fort post too.

@WrongEndoftheRainbow

Was wondering if he was still around. And, oh boy, is it time to have fun losing?

Also, finally got inspiration for a post. Maybe.

[Lauder]

ITS TIME TO PUNCH CHAOS IN THE FACE!

[Antarctic Termite]

@LokiLeo789

So I'm not sure what just happened exactly because the post was deleted before I could read it and I only have a copy of the summary to work with. But.

I feel like there's some fairly serious issues to be addressed, even if nothing in that creation post is kept. The underlying problems that caused that post to be the mess it was were issues of understanding and attitude towards this whole project, and I'd rather not see them come to the fore again in the way they did.

I tried to run through my thoughts fairly quickly as explanations or questions, but after messing around for like 40 minutes I couldn't figure out how to do it concisely. I really don't want to fill anyone's life with bad vibes, but for the sake of being quick and simple I'll just drop things in as blunt a way as possible.

So, at the risk of being the jerk who brings up old mistakes.

The summary.

Work. Within. Your. Means.

Limitations are not a bad thing. Limitations are a problem that needs thinking about. Thinking makes things interesting. Mistakes make things interesting. Characters trying to figure out ways to get by without resources is fascinating.

We're not playing Warhammer, despite all the jokes and references. We're not playing to win. We're playing to make the story as interesting as possible. Characters and stories can be interesting even if they lose- Sometimes especially if they lose. Characters can be interesting even if they're dead. Pick a saintly martyr, any saintly martyr, and look at how loss influences their story.

Avatars cost more than that, details about them are in the mechanics section. If you're pulling something weird with temporary avatars, that's fine, but read, compare, and run that through other people first. Weird shit is fine. We love weird shit. Unexplained shit is a different story.

Technology costs time and Might. We're in the bronze age. Yes it's fine to try and speed up our advancement every once in a while. No it's not ok to bring about AI, starships, stargates, Cosmic Knight ripoffs, and fuck-knows-what-else in a single post, with no precedents, no outside help, and no resources spent.

Consider the following.

Hider

-It took 1 Might just to make the baby arks, 1 Free Point to make them able to grow up (already something pretty unique to Jvan as a portfolio action), and four posts just to grow them up into maturity. The whole time, they've been made using Jvan's own inherent powers and style.

-The Cosmic Knight factory was made by four gods and a demi through a huge display of teamwork, using 6 Might points and an Ark. The ark in question was almost destroyed in the process.

-Teknall's workshop was made in a personal plane, within which he is far more powerful than normal. It was made with the help of another demi. It cost 16.25 Might and a lot of detail of Teknall doing what's been his thing since the start.

-Jvan's satellite factory was made inside her body, and cost 12 Might.

-Heartworm's lab was salvaged out of pre-existing materials and cost 2 Might. Everything that goes on in there has been done with the help of hundreds of engineers, dozens of cultists, and within Heartworm's own personal powers. Still gets no Might discount, though.

-Arksynth took a Might point, the death of the god, and a big subplot just to create what Jvan could technically have done for free.

-Major portals cost 1 Might each unless you're Belvast.

I'm not trying to say that Might is everything. It really, really isn't. But it's important to how the game is played.

What's even more important is character themes and nuance. What other characters have been doing fits in with who they are and how they're developing. Jvan does Jvan things, Teknall does Teknall things, Ilunabar does Ilunabar things, Lifprasil does Lifprasil things.

Amartia does everything. And that's boring. Because what Amartia should be doing is Amartia things. Not Jvan things, or Teknall things, or Full Metal Alchemist things, or whatever.

Logos gave you a power-up? Cool! Amartia is changing as an individual? Nice!

It doesn't mean he won't lose. And losing doesn't mean he's not cool.

Now do something interesting. I know you can.

[Cyclone]

What Termite said.

In my eyes the spaceships were wildly inappropriate. I'd go so far as to say you lit the setting on fire with that post.

Teknall has made railguns and such, but they're confined to his personal usage and are essentially indistinguishable from magic. Whilst I'm not a big fan of Jvan's spaceships either, the fundamental difference here is that they're not some sort of widespread technology among mortals that just popped up. The point is that despite those things, we're still in the Bronze Age here for our setting. With that post, you singlehandedly advanced Xerxes from that technology level to some sci-fi far future. It was absurd.

I didn't write that with the intent of coming across as angry or abrasive; hopefully my wording wasn't too harsh. I just want to be clear with my reasoning and the extent to which I feel that post's content was a violation of the current technology level and Amartia's limits.

[Dawnscroll]

@Antarctic Termite@Cyclone@LokiLeo789

Okay, I'm gonna clear this up right now. Didn't have the chance to read the post as it was deleted long before I got here. But I'll just jump in with this.

The stone is NOT that powerful. It let's you bend your personal gravity, it let's your transmutation of transmutation of elements occur, and you could use it as an energy source. 1 Might is nothing to sneeze at. But it's only 1 Might. The things you described, they might be under the laws of physics, but even Logos hasn't carte blanched advanced his humans to space age stuff.

If anything, think of the Stone, and Logos's blessing as Promethus giving humans fire. The potential you now have is extreme. But humans didn't go out the next day after that and make an atomic bomb.

Hell, I'm the God of Physics and I still worried about abusing my power from writing. You think Logos needs this invasion? Boom, electrons stop spinning around protons. GG.

And the best part; Logos is going to lose this invasion. And then Vestec is gonna come to Arcon and [redacted for spoilers].

You came to me for an alliance. Great, I accept. That doesn't mean you joined the winning side. That doesn't mean just cause you received a power up from me and got a 1 Might Stone that you can win against the Pantheon without breaking a sweat.

Logos has a 10 Might Sword. He is going to fight Lif to a standstill, and he has less zeroes for his sword. Plot should triumph over any numbers we throw around or any abilities we claim to technically have.