Deedeequest or The Wonders of Mundus: Be Careful Who You Pretend To Be - A Genderous Isekai Quest

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    • Character sheet is here.

    Dice rolls are 1d10 + Stat + Proficiency + any applicable bonuses, such as Boons.

    You may spend 3 Tension to Overdrive for a retroactive +5 to your roll (a Determination Overdrive), or +3 to an ally's roll (a Teamwork Overdrive). I will also automatically overdrive to avoid exhaustion or unconsciousness.

    It is possible to critically succeed (on +5 on skill checks and +10 on combat rolls) or critically fail (by the same margins), but rolling a 1 or a 10 does not automatically crit in either case. It is possible to crit retroactively by Overdriving.

    Your stat bonuses have names:
    • Vigor grants a Strength bonus.
    • Agility grants a Dexterity bonus.
    • Spirit grants an Aura bonus.
    • Mind grants an Intuition bonus.
    • Resolve grants a Guts bonus.
    Dice are rolled on a first come, first serve bonus. You only roll for Deedee.
     
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    • Next bit, 2.2.2, in the palace is in progress and will be titled Tankbuster: Heartseeking Quarrel.
    2.2.3 will be in the temple district and is titled Highly Responsive To Prayers.

    CatOnTheWeb said:
    Honestly the statues works so well to just subtly world-build. I don't know if Ubasdjet's come up before but I don't remember them, but I instantly know they're animal related and it also tells me a bit about the city. Same for Delvar and Jae-Eun as well. I see these gods and know so much about them and their relationships with just a few lines of text. Very cleverly done.
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    DrunkenGrognard said:
    Yeah, the deific statues landmarking things is amazing; and the bit with Deeds and Sekh was great.
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    Ubasdjet is literally Bastet, She Of The Jar, with particular emphasis on her roles as mother of medicine and a livestock goddess.

    And may also be Flamma. Or Flamma might be Sekhmet. (No, the real Sekhmet, the - the lioness war goddess.) Or they might all be the same god. Who the hell knows, the Omphalan pantheon beats up other gods under Goku rules to add them to the pantheon, and as established, Omphalos Delenda Est.

    Thank you, though. I'm glad to know how well this idea works - again, I must stress that it was Matt's idea with my implementation.
     
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    Talia B said:
    - again, I must stress that it was Matt's idea with my implementation.
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    I did the themed plazas and the fact of deific statues to label them, and the roadmap between them, and I said "You use the visual language to inclue players as to why they are where they are" and you ran with that to make it what it is now, in all its glorious detail.

    Plenty of credit for both of us.
     
    Mattnificent said:
    I did the themed plazas and the fact of deific statues to label them, and the roadmap between them, and I said "You use the visual language to inclue players as to why they are where they are" and you ran with that to make it what it is now, in all its glorious detail.

    Plenty of credit for both of us.
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    Render unto Caesar, if only because Omphalos delenda est.

    The streetnames are all mine, I'll grant you. But setting me to think about it is important.

    ETA:


    Fabricati said:
    .... You hear a knocking at the bathroom door one night.

    "What?"

    Oh no.

    You have to run.
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    I have no idea what this is about and am not sure I want to.

    I suspect, however, that it's a DBZ abridged reference, on further thought.
     
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    Talia B said:
    Render unto Caesar, if only because Omphalos delenda est.

    The streetnames are all mine, I'll grant you. But setting me to think about it is important.
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    It absolutely is. I'm not being modest, I am super proud of my flowchart working on an OOC server, IC traffic, IC geographic, & IC lore level simultaneously. I rocked it.

    But I said nothing about how the statues should look.
     
    Okay, I definitely do not have 2.2.2 in me tonight. Expect it tomorrow afternoon, and 2.2.3 and the vote on Saturday.
     
    I am having one or more feelings about the bathhouse scene.

    (I should probably clarify for the benefit of people who aren't familiar with the vagaries of my idiolect: that's "I am emotionally affected, in a good way." ;) )
     
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    As of 4:30 AM, my roommate and boyfriend Luni was hospitalized.

    He was complaining of the shakes and paralysis down his left side. The paramedics from our 911 call diagnosed hypertension and hyperglycemia from untreated, undiagnosed diabetes.

    He's being held for observation and is doing better. Not great but better.

    I've lost sleep over this, understandably. I am still going to try to write when I can just to maintain some semblance of normality and for something to do, but...

    I'm worried about him. That and taking care of myself has to take precedence.

    No promises about when the next update is. I will be working on it when I can, but under the circumstances...


    still going to do silly responses where I can just because I need some silly. with that in mind


    Qoheleth said:
    On reread, I like how this manages to evoke fringe fandom-as-politics arguers while still following the "we reference no real media here" rule.
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    Questing Country fans know what they did.
     
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    The Most Honorable, Our Chosen Contessa, the senora Diana Sophitia Almudena Desolar
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    Presenting the Most Honorable, Our Chosen Contessa, Our Chosen Mayor of Viacruz, the Blessed and Radiant, Senora Diana Sophitia Almudena Desolar, 20 years elected Mayor and 8 the Contessa.

    Art by bedsafely.

    I tried to write but today was mostly worrying until we got Luni his cell phone and he called me to let me know he's okay. Hopefully tomorrow.
     
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    • Luni is doing a hell of a lot better, by the way. Knock on wood, he'll be back home Monday.

    I also started clearing the mental logjam and started on 2.2.2 - no ETA yet but it's a good sign.
     
    So Viacruz is a place with roman style baths and very not roman statues. The architecture so far is kind of nondescript though though the exact style of city planning seems vaguely European. All the people native to this place and maybe the empire at large have names that are either Spanish or Spanish inspired. Viacruz apparently has the soil for both olives and oranges which would mean they have an impossibly wide spectrum of soil to grow things on if that were natural. Viacruz either trades for or produces chocolate, sugar, and various spices.

    Either I know absolutely nothing about what living in Spain during the age of exploration was like or this is one of those anachronistic fantasy lands that seem to only exist in MMOs. Given that this is an MMO it's a dice toss if it's one of those things or both. And I think that's Awesome.
     
    Talia B said:
    the Blessed and Radiant
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    So this part of the Contessa's title is interesting.

    At least to my eyes, "Blessed and Radiant" implies Auroran patronage. But it makes me wonder to what extent that's inherited from her role as local nobility/leadership of Viacruz, versus a title she holds personally, or even maybe a Class thing (given that the Wiki articles talk about starting Boons as though every player character has one, and she's probably important enough that there's a decent chance she's juiced up after 20 years on this job).
     
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    Nerdorama on the Age of Exploration and a shallower Decline and Fall of Rome
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    • persivle said:
    So Viacruz is a place with roman style baths and very not roman statues. The architecture so far is kind of nondescript though though the exact style of city planning seems vaguely European. All the people native to this place and maybe the empire at large have names that are either Spanish or Spanish inspired. Viacruz apparently has the soil for both olives and oranges which would mean they have an impossibly wide spectrum of soil to grow things on if that were natural. Viacruz either trades for or produces chocolate, sugar, and various spices.

    Either I know absolutely nothing about what living in Spain during the age of exploration was like or this is one of those anachronistic fantasy lands that seem to only exist in MMOs. Given that this is an MMO it's a dice toss if it's one of those things or both. And I think that's Awesome.
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    I've been only tangentially involved in off-forum world-building discussion, but I am an enthusiast about fiction (especially alternate history and video games) set in the Age of Exploration, so I'm going to give some thoughts strictly as a fellow audience member.

    Viacruz (and the Kingdom of Yberia) absolutely seems to be based on 15th or 16th century Spain with a couple of notable differences - notably, a continuity of culture from the "Roman Empire" equivalent that didn't exist in real history, as if perhaps the Western Empire had a more graceful decline and devolution into smaller states, rather than seeing its culture mostly replaced by incoming Germanics until the Renaissance. A worldbuilding note in one of the developer quotes (on Aurora's wiki article, I think) invoked the Byzantine Empire, which would be a good real world example of a "Roman" culture that lasted closer to this time period in a more continuous manner. The presences of chocolate, sugar, and spices invokes the early Spanish and Portugese colonial empires, which grew all of these things on plantations in the Caribbean or Atlantic islands (or traded for them around Africa in Portugal's case with the spices), but Viacruz seems to do this through yeoman or peasant farming rather than the typical real world solution of chattel slavery, to Deedee's earlier pleasant surprise. In Doylist terms this is probably because OWTB is trying to create a pleasant fantasy world and not just copy-paste some of the worst crimes in human history, and in Watsonian terms it's probably simply because there's no easy source for a slave trade or trans-oceanic conquest and enserfment of populations. If nothing else we've seen the ability of a small population to fight off a slave raid with few casualties firsthand.

    As for olives and oranges, those are both things you can grow in southern Spain, just not so close together. Either Talia or OWTB likely paid more attention to climate than soil conditions when designing the place.

    All in all it's definitely a fantasy setting, but one that requires only a few fundamental changes of context and history to derive from the real world, which I think is awesome.
     
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    • Nerdorama said:
    As for olives and oranges, those are both things you can grow in southern Spain, just not so close together. Either Talia or OWTB likely paid more attention to climate than soil conditions when designing the place.

    All in all it's definitely a fantasy setting, but one that requires only a few fundamental changes of context and history to derive from the real world, which I think is awesome.
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    Could you define OWTB for me? Other than that, a very pleasant and cohesive discussion we're having.
     
    Correct, that's the name of the in-fiction game developer. Charlene, Julian et al from Interlude 1 are the founding members and I assume owner-operators.
     
    That's a hilarious name for a game development company.
     
    Qoheleth said:
    Believe this is "Other Worlds Tourism Bureau", the name of the gamedev house that made Another World Online (the fictional MMO, not the thread we're posting in).
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    Well, I mean, we're not an official organization or anything, but our special secret gamedev chat is named after OWTB.

    Nerdorama said:
    Correct, that's the name of the in-fiction game developer. Charlene, Julian et al from Interlude 1 are the founding members and I assume owner-operators.
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    Yep. The five founding members are Dr Charlene Durante, Julian Thibaut, Claire Wheeler, Dr Nathaniel Adams, and Kate (née Matthew) Paloma*, all of whom you met during the first interlude. They are of course not the only people working for OWTB, but they did found it.

    *Soon hopefully to be Dr. Kate Paloma, but I suspect the current crisis is going to delay that dissertation a bit.
     
    /eyes bii's signature line

    ...wait so are you telling me Hikaru literally named his avatar Mr. Blue Sky or am I misremembering 'sora'?
     
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