TheMushroomLord

From goblins to godhood (re:monster rp)

@TheMushroomLord@Crusader Lord@SilverPaw

Do me a favor and all 3 of you and knowledge of the 3 to your characters. This is something the elder hobs have as well because I'll explain what the shrines represent

@Jangel13

Updated post with this in mind.

From goblins to godhood (re:monster rp)

Toasted.

From goblins to godhood (re:monster rp)

Aya

As she continued to think up possibilities for traps in her mind there came a moment when Aya was suddenly struck with the strangest wave of inspiration, new ideas more complex and in-depth than any of those she'd managed moments before, including some she’d previously dismissed on the basis of not knowing how to pull them off. Even stranger was the sudden influx of realisations into how she could improve her previous designs, the kinds of insights someone with a little experience behind their belt might have upon laying eyes on the designs of a novice, though somehow Aya was both the expert and the novice in this scenario. Had this knowledge come from her past life? Didn’t seem to fit. Maybe her past life hadn’t actually happened and was instead a collection of sudden insights like this that her underdeveloped mind had misinterpreted as a former existence? That would certainly explain the lack of concrete memories.

As many questions as her new theory raised Aya didn’t have time to ponder them as already things were happening around her. Yet another one of her sisters had popped up and was providing her with feedback on the plans she'd laid out. Pointing out yet another stupid mistake Aya had made in assuming they would even be able to get something to their trap, let alone into it. It was entirely possible her plan could be defeated by the same issue she'd set out to circumvent, that is, their current lack of knowledge. Once again Aya found herself trying and failing to disappear by sheer force of will. Worse still was that the new sister felt it necessary to point out that she’d probably want a weapon, not that she hadn’t been planning to get one, but it went to show that she’d presented herself as such a fool that this needed to be commented on.

Still, as far as her knowledge of traps went, Aya wasn’t the same goblin she’d been five minutes ago and it appeared for now that the group had wandered over to their grandfather(?) and were now listening to a story in exchange for resources and information. That gave Aya time to revise her plan. The core of the issue lay in their prey being both unknown and probably better armed than they were. To counteract their enemies they’d need some way to avoid a direct head-on confrontation but one that was also adaptable depending on the specifics of what they encountered. A static pit trap as Aya had suggested earlier would be a good way to avoid direct confrontation but failed to account for any unknown variable they might reasonably expect, including the most obvious like the unknown location and behaviour of their targets. Ambushes also dealt with those issues and were more flexible to unknowns, but if they couldn’t dispatch or incapacitate their targets immediately they’d just end up in a normal confrontation and probably die. But all that was assuming that those plans were mutually exclusive and that traps had to be static. Who was to say they couldn’t ambush their targets with a trap?

While the rest of the old goblin's story hadn't really interested Aya, or rather she'd been too distracted to pay it much attention, the last part did pique her interest. It seemed the goblins had religion and not one she could recall from her hazy and possibly made-up memories. While Aya wasn't quite ready to come to a decision as to whether the gods the elder had mentioned were actually real or not, that would provide an explanation of the reality-bending weirdness she'd seen thus far. If the gods were, in fact, responsible for said weirdness it would seem they were more hands-on that whatever it was she'd learned to expect so finding proof couldn't be that hard. In any case, that would need to wait for now.

Once the goblin elder's story was complete Aya began explaining her revised plan to whichever sisters were still there. “New sister pointed out that hole digging plan was stupid. Too static. Sorry… But I’ve had a better plan this time,” Aya paused to gauge the reactions of her sisters thus far but decided against it at the last moment, she didn’t want to see the scepticism they mush surly be showing right now. “What if we were to make some kind of a net out of vines or whatever else we can get our hands-on. It shouldn’t be too hard to make, should be effective for most things I can think of and I think if a couple of us work together and ambush our target it shouldn’t be too hard to incapacitate something right off the bat provided we don't screw up too hard. Or maybe sister Ker could just summon a copy over the target? But I don't want to put you out!” Aya hastily added that last part before pausing again, this time pondering whether she should leave it at that before deciding to tack on one last note, “I also want to see if I can attach a rock to a length of cord or something, as long as I can build up momentum that should give some reach and damage and I don’t think the windup time is a problem if we’re incapacitating our target.”

@Crusader Lord@Rune_Alchemist@SilverPaw

System & Inventory

EXP: 0
Acquired Skills:

• Primitive Crafting: Ancient civilizations used the very same methods as they harvested the base materials at their disposal to make weapons. Learned how to make primitive traps like spike pits, holes, and spike traps. Also learned to make bone/wood weapons such as clubs, bows, slings.
• Knowledge of the 3: Knowing the names of the god and goddesses of the world they live in they can now properly worship them. Ramos god of light and the sun, Duvelna goddess of death and the night, Shirila the goddess of the earth and nature.

Titles:

• N/A

Blessings:

• N/A

Curses:

• N/A

Inventory:

• N/A

Summary

• Aya pondered her sudden influx of knowledge on building traps and hypothesised that she may not have actually had a past life but instead cooked the idea up to interpret similar such influxes in knowledge after her birth.
• Aya suffered a mild internal meltdown after her original plan was critiqued and subsequently spent the duration of the elder's story breaking down the problem at hand and working out a revised plan for dealing with said problem. No doubt she utilised her Anxious Mind skill in doing so.
• Aya came up with another theory as to how she could explain all the weirdness she'd seen after listening to the elder's story. That being that the gods did it. She isn't convinced yet but wants to look into it.
• Once the goblin elder had finished his story Aya explained to her sisters her new plan, this one involving the creation and application of a net in an ambush so as to (hopefully) immediately incapacitate whatever they find so that they can safely beat it to death.
• Aya is waiting for feedback to her plan otherwise she’ll head off to begin looking for materials for constructing the net.

From goblins to godhood (re:monster rp)

@Jangel13 Just for clarification we goblins are totally unaware of our own abilities as far as the system that governs this world goes right?

From goblins to godhood (re:monster rp)

Aya

Aya had been too hasty with her planning and ended up making a fool of herself. Why hadn’t she just tried to take things a little slower? Part of Aya felt like crying from the shame she felt while the rest of her just wanted to curl up into a ball and disappear, or maybe just run away. Still, neither of those plans seemed like valid options right now or in the long term and with no better plan in mind, Aya realised she’d just have to try again.

Forcing the tears she felt beginning to well up back down Aya began to analyse the situation. For now, it appeared that Kir was interacting with the others rather than sneering at Aya in disgust, so that was probably good sign at least, though the thought did little to alleviate Aya’s worry. It seemed that in addition to her seemingly reality-defying power Kir was a rather crafty goblin. In that case, pitching her plan as the clever path was probably the smart way to go, not that that wasn’t already her plan to begin with. Then again was anyone likely to listen to a supposedly clever plan pitched from a goblin that had already proved herself an idiot? Well, Kir had already proven herself to be clever, certainly more so than Aya, so she should be able to see the plan for its merits regardless of who was pitching it. Right?

It appeared that there was a break in Kir’s conversation with Yzzi, a chance for Aya to butt in and present her own plans, properly this time. Then again on second thoughts, she didn’t want to bother anyone so maybe she should just leave and come up with something else… no that was just an excuse.

Attempting to calm her nerves, Aya took a deep breath, letting it back out in the form of a laugh, beginning at a shaky giggle but quickly rising in intensity to an almost cackle, before reapproaching her sisters. “I- I’m ready to talk now!” Aya realised she was speaking too loud so she hushed her voice to an almost whisper as she continued, “You’ve probably noticed that the rabbits here have some pretty scary looking weapons and I’m guessing that means that the actual predators out there are even scarier. Given that they’re probably better armed and more practised than us newly born goblins, wouldn’t it be smarter to minimise our chances of being killed by setting traps or something?” The too-wide smile Aya had maintained up until now gradually faded away as she got lost in explaining her ideas. “I was thinking that's what we could do. Maybe dig a hole or something, cover it in leaves and lure something inside to poke to death with weapons? We could try to compact the walls some to make it difficult for anything to escape while getting poked and I think that...” Aya’s voice trailed off. Was explaining in too much detail a bad idea? Probably. She wanted to show she’d thought things through, but the further she went the more likely that cracks would begin to show in her plans. Best to try and get her sisters on her side before delving into the details then.

@Crusader Lord@Rune_Alchemist

System & Inventory

EXP: 0
Acquired Skills:

• N/A

Titles:

• N/A

Blessings:

• N/A

Curses:

• N/A

Inventory:

• N/A

Summary

Aya panicked and planned before approaching Kir and Yizzy with a plan to set traps in the forest.
Still in church.

From goblins to godhood (re:monster rp)

I'll also try to post later today. I'm pretty sure there are a couple of people that have only made a single post or otherwise haven't posted at all yet, but given the speed, others are moving I think I'll move on anyway.

Akasha Agency (Tentative interest check)

@RoflsMazoy I'm pretty sure most largely knowledge-based fields end up being like that to a certain extent. Highschool tends to teach things that are for the most part correct but it definitely tends to simplify concepts and it can take a bit to adjust to proper methodologies and all the rules that you weren't told about or else the exceptions to the ones you were taught about. Using a similar analogy to yours, there is a very similar complexity jump between highschool biology and university biology.

I'm not actually sure if one could expect the same degree in development as seen in computer. Time frame wise yes they're only 20 years apart but you'd also need to take in complexity and how well they build off existing fields. Computer hardware for example while substantially different from physics still builds off of physics in terms of its basic function. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure each of the example schools violates a modern understanding of physics in some way. Then again, that's ignoring the yokai which already had arts to study so maybe that equalises things.

I've also been assuming here that the Yokai didn't really have knowledge of the scientific method and arts were developed through trial, error and extrapolation from observations kind of like how alchemists are thought to have made most of their discoveries or how I assume martial artists developed and refined their skills.

One last question for the time being. Too what extent is culture and society in this setting different from real modern world culture?

Akasha Agency (Tentative interest check)

@RoflsMazoy That makes sense. I was more thinking along the lines of human knowledge of arts, or at least the basics that are taught to everyone, practitioners or otherwise, being more likely to be derived from a scientific breakdown of arts and whatever got officially recognised by humans during the war and thereafter, rather than whatever methods the Yokai used to cultivate their knowledge and from that perspective 50 years being a relatively short period of time for those more niche specialised fields to develop. Especially considering that without a decent understanding of how arts work it makes little sense to group them into fields that may not actually be correlated.

On the other hand, this way makes more sense if human knowledge of arts has since its discovery been more been derived from being taught by or directly copied from Yokai, which looking back now seems to be how it's done. So ignore me I'm an idiot.

Just to throw an idea out there, I still think it makes more sense for members of the agency and probably to a lesser degree the general public to have been taught a little about arts and yokai from the perspective of human scientific breakdown as well as some specific examples of arts. Simplified stuff in similar to the sort of things one might learn in basic highschool science. Hence one of the first things new recruits into the Agency or practitioners of any form of art would need to learn would be to abandon their oversimplified preconseptions.

Akasha Agency (Tentative interest check)

It's always been a pet peeve of mine when in science fiction and some fantasy when people seem to have figured nearly everything about the fantastical elements of the setting with absolute certainty and seemingly at no point in all that figuring out do any new questions crop up. For whatever reason that's one area I really struggle to suspend my disbelief in and it happens all the time so it's nice to see you just flat out say there's a lot that just flat out isn't known yet.

Honestly, it could be cool if you run with the idea of the schools of magic. Maybe something like those 5 schools of magic are the ones that have thus far been officially classified. Not that anyone thinks that all arts fit within those, just those are the only ones well enough understood to properly group together into categories. Or maybe those are the broad strokes primarily used when teaching about arts leading to a common rookie mistake of trying to overbroadly apply that knowledge to entirely inapplicable situations.

Akasha Agency (Tentative interest check)

I like the look of this!