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

[Lauder]

Dickbutt

[Frettzo]

I'm way too fucking busy these days, guys. I'm gonna have to put myself on hiatus for a while. Still in, just count me as inactive. I'll finish one thing I have to do and then I'll go dark for a couple months most likely.

[Kho]

@Frettzo Thanks for letting us know. Either way, I'm planning on declaring a 'limited hiatus' from 1st March until 1st June.

[Muttonhawk]

Hey! I'm moved in. I'm exhausted. I still don't have that map with the Rovaick settlement names...

@Muttonhawk Shrinking back to the old map sizes would be interesting, but I think the main problem in here is that Inkarnate is a pretty map make that is actually very trashy mechanic wise.

We also need a larger map because soon we will have more and more named important cities.

And what is up with you and the creation of more and more oceans? Are you team aqua?

If anything we need islands is the seas (exception being Jvan's since she is a islaphobe.)

@Double Capybara

We can try! Really, the map's scale as it is functions fine as an abstract representation of the main things on the planet. It's just that we could use more regional maps to really punch in the scale of Galbar, like Termite suggests and like you did with the Mesathelassan hain tribes. Without that kind of stuff, the valley of peace is still bigger than the Black sea.

Speaking of seas, that cataclysm was just a half-joke. I thought it would be interesting to have some naturally separated communities so cultural growth can diverge and cause clashing value systems to react when those barriers are overcome. Though, the more I think about it, Acalya, oceans, mountains, the Changing Plains, and Piktaraika could feasibly stand in as those separators already.

By the way, I'm all for islands. Feel free to pop them up around the metatic ocean. That was a transmutational clusterfuck that could have resulted in any number of isolated archipelagos. Except near Cornerstone. The water is rather universally deep there.

Anyway, the one main thing I want to emphasize is that I really, really don't think we want or need those land bridges. Land bridges don't make the world more accessible. Seas and rivers make the world more accessible the minute you invent the sail. Once you start thinking of oceans as a way to get around, land bridges are actually just giant walls that block you from sailing where you want to go. There's a reason people dug canals through Panama and Suez- Just a thin stretch of land in the way can add massive amounts of time to a voyage.

@Antarctic Termite

Some enterprising folk could probably dig canals with tollways or some 'reverse ferry' rackets until dynamite is invented. All these new bodies of water formed by the landbridges need names, too. First come, first served!

I'm more amenable to the landbridges, not for making bits of the world more connected, but because we as the god characters could make cool moments out of opening them up and they do seem like something sailors would curse Vestec for. It's a bit of a selfish opinion. I'm easy about what happens to them.

I'm also all for adding new terrain features. However, not every single one has to be visible from the world map. Regional maps can deal with that kind of stuff.

At any rate, thanks for adding to the map. Now I have to remember what happened at Metera Valley.

EDIT: Oh, right, it's Phi's pad. That damn, race-integrating spin-doctor.

>Someone finally revises "Capital" into "Alefpria"

@poog the pig

I got you, fam.

-To correct Mutton's edit: the Oath of Stilldeath and the Chronos Portal lies, I believe, beneath Old Bark-Skin rather than in the ruins of the Solitary Mount

@Kho

Fair 'nough, I wasn't too clear on that myself.

It feels out of place that Zephyrion would fix the land bridges, if and when he returns. No promises from me.

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Alas, my reign of trolling shall come to an end at your request. I was actually starting to think that the collection of maps was getting ridiculous, but nobody complained and so I let them pile up

I'll consign them all to a hider somewhere at the bottom of the post.

@Cyclone

"Hey Zephyrion! Those earth djinn down on the land bridges think you're dumb and ugly! And they don't respect your authority!"
Instant landbridge destruction, courtesy of Zephy!

As for hiders, they don't seem to stop the images loading for me, regardless of whether they are actually in hiders. This is the main reason that I moved my sheets over to a separate thread.

Also, again, regarding map size/things getting crowded. We just need to shrink down many of the sites and their accompanying names, and make it so the map has very high resolution and we can simply zoom in on particular areas to sea details.

@Kho

I swear, if this RP gets its own custom google map...

@Kho
I'd like to request an island chain for no particular reason. Is their an inbox I put this request into or....

@LokiLeo789

Just write that something that at least one of your characters is doing is being performed on an island chain without explaining how the islands appeared. We're not real estate agents here.

[Lauder]

@Muttonhawk

The valley of peace is larger than the Black Sea? Interesting, I think I just found myself new water front real estate. I hope those angels have flood insurance.

[Scarifar]

@Muttonhawk

The valley of peace is larger than the Black Sea? Interesting, I think I just found myself new water front real estate. I hope those angels have flood insurance.

@Lauder

Oi oi, what do you think you're doing? >:(

HMMMMMMMMM???

[LokiLeo789]

@Muttonhawk

The valley of peace is larger than the Black Sea? Interesting, I think I just found myself new water front real estate. I hope those angels have flood insurance.

@Lauder

Sin Industries' "Real Estate division" would love to help you acquire this lovely piece of land! Visit out offices in the Ciphers basement and we can draft a contract and get started.

[Lauder]

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Oi oi, what do you think you're doing? >:(

HMMMMMMMMM???

@Scarifar

Nothing. Why do you ask?

[Lauder]

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Sin Industries' "Real Estate division" would love to help you acquire this lovely piece of land! Visit out offices in the Ciphers basement and we can draft a contract and get started.

@LokiLeo789

Sounds lovely Jim, I'll get right on that.

[LokiLeo789]

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Sounds lovely Jim, I'll get right on that.

@Lauder

Please do! We have a long line of potential customers but we would love to work with a depressed, bipolar, warrior lizard. In the meantime, take a look at our various housing developments in polar regions and our underwater townhouse.

[Lauder]

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Please do! We have a long line of potential customers but we would love to work with a depressed, bipolar, warrior lizard. In the meantime, take a look at our various housing developments in polar regions and our underwater townhouse.

@LokiLeo789

I'm happy to hear that! You know, it's about time that something be useful with that valley. I mean, it's just been such a waster of land and a total eyesore to the demi-god community. It is high time that line become useful to everyone as a whole.

[LokiLeo789]

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I'm happy to hear that! You know, it's about time that something be useful with that valley. I mean, it's just been such a waster of land and a total eyesore to the demi-god community. It is high time that line become useful to everyone as a whole.

@Lauder

Likewise! Here at Sin Industries, we believe that all things can be made valuable with a little elbow grease and the blessings of our Lord and savior: CEO Amartía! With thinking like that, a discount could be coming your way. Instead of 15% down, an amazing 25% down! What an offer!

[Lauder]

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Likewise! Here at Sin Industries, we believe that all things can be made valuable with a little elbow grease and the blessings of our Lord and savior: CEO Amartía! With thinking like that, a discount could be coming your way. Instead of 15% down, an amazing 25% down! What an offer!

@LokiLeo789

[Double Capybara]

Areas in red were deleted from the map apparently due to Inkarnate's limited size. I think... we should just return them when given the chance. Mesathalassa also lost a lot of land, but I like the lean strip of the new one (and I already based too much of my time on that size.)

[WrongEndoftheRainbow]

I never really liked Inkarnate as a tool, which is why I constantly debated returning to my other tools. I'm happy to see that people are finally looking past the pretty visuals of inkarnate and looking at the mechanical downfalls of the maps produced by it.

[Muttonhawk]

@Double Capybara Damn. Those empty places are prime! Especially those central bits.

If anyone wants to make their own hain civilisations, those would be the places to start.

Oh yeah, and I have just one more suggestion for a new map: the flooded south ought to be covered in an ice cap to some extent. I mean, it'll be smaller than it needs to look due to the effect of flattening a sphere (see Antarctica on a flat map), but it still makes more sense than a perpetual thaw on one of the coldest spots on the planet.

[WrongEndoftheRainbow]

on the terlet atm, but ill work on a map revamp in the old style. could somebody gather all that needs to be changed and organize it so i can add them to the map?

[Muttonhawk]

@WrongEndoftheRainbow I don't know if you mean tablet or toilet. I will assume both.

(I'm in the middle of other stuff right now. If someone doesn't sort you out beforehand, I'll gather a list together tonight.)

[Lauder]

If anyone wants to make their own hain civilisations, those would be the places to start.

@Muttonhawk

I was actually thinking of starting something in the Venomweald, maybe by that northern pass in the mountains or something. Though, as far as plans for a grand civilization goes, I don't have much.

[LokiLeo789]

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I was actually thinking of starting something in the Venomweald, maybe by that northern pass in the mountains or something. Though, as far as plans for a grand civilization goes, I don't have much.

@Lauder

Back off, that's my territory.