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Noosphere, huh? *searches engine*

....Could I interest you in a refreshing 'Sentience' or 'Reason' element?
Too limiting, too hard to convert into minions and whatnot. They're supplementary elements, whereas Noosphere can function entirely on it's own as an element as well as modifying other elements. Might i convince you to swap to Noosphere instead, since 'smart' units can be handled via Noosphere anyways?
 
Too limiting, too hard to convert into minions and whatnot. They're supplementary elements, whereas Noosphere can function entirely on it's own as an element as well as modifying other elements. Might i convince you to swap to Noosphere instead, since 'smart' units can be handled via Noosphere anyways?
Hmph...I feel that you may be right in this. Though as I have detailed before, we should be able to relish a challenge in difficulty and creativity. I will switch one of my votes to Noosphere for it's novel concept, though I implore you to consider switching void to holy.

Noosphere + Holy = Good Vibes

My only reasoning.
 
[X][ELEMENT] Noosphere

Void to contest Holy (though both are extremely versatile specialties, so i can't say i wouldn't be fine with Holy getting majority vote), Dragons because Dragons, Noosphere... because i'm kinda interested in seeing what fuckery we can produce via information-constructs, infovores, thought-entities, and whatnot. No particular preference on name.
Okay, now I have a vague idea of what you are trying to do with Noosphere. Which I think will be the winner if the tally remain the current one.
[X][ELEMENT] Entropy
[X][ELEMENT] Escalation
Okay, just to be sure: what you plan to do with Entropy and Escalation as minions?
 
Well...seems 'Folly' is the name of the game. Void seems a little counterintiuitive to picking noosphere, but who knows what the Roulette will take form as.
 
[X][NAME] Nuts n Bolts
[X][ELEMENT] Electricity
[X][ELEMENT] Squirrel
[X][ELEMENT] Insanity

So Madness and Electricity
So crazy squirrels
 
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Since we are still in the initial phase, where it's easier to add mechanics and other things.
Do you want to see something in particular or do something in particular in game?
 
Riot Quest minions :oops:

I mean, whateer you can think up is fine.
Maybe a skill tree of sorts? Perhaps some updates where we're in situation where the players roll dice? Dunno.
 
That was an idea for another quest, not this one, unfortunately.
Maybe a skill tree of sorts?
For Minions? I could improvise something for them. Clearly, if you have suggestions for Traits and Skill, I'll consider them and thinker with them so that they can work within the system. But I assume that we'll need to see what Aspect our Folly will have.
Perhaps some updates where we're in situation where the players roll dice? Dunno.
More difficult at the beginning, not sure after that. I think I can leave simple rolls, but not combat role (that I'll do on Rollz, probably)
 
I decided to change the ending time for vote because I can do all the rolls that I need this evening and tomorrow, after class, writing the update.
So, the new ending time for voting is
 
Going to close the voting in an hour. I'll probably ask some of you to roll for the random aspect here on SV, then I'll decide the last element and work on the update.
 
Adhoc vote count started by Abyssius on Nov 14, 2021 at 1:59 PM, finished with 39 posts and 10 votes.

VOTE CLOSE. Noosphere is your first aspect and your name is Folly. Can someone roll a D19 for picking one of the other elements?
 
Congrats, Lightining and Noosphere are your two elements.
My final decision is Holy: Lightining is quite easy to work with, Noosphere not so much and Holy I think it's just in the middle. So you have easy option, medium option and hard option.

If your name/elements is not between these, worry not: I have 3 opponents to create and it would be a shame to waste such interesting ideas.
So....corruption I guess?
Well...I guess one can only hope that 'Holy' might be chosen.
Nope, they were not weighted by vote. I just used the order of the tally, ignoring Noosphere for obvious reasons.
Lightining is the 8th element in the list.
I'll start working on the update, I won't do very long updates, so I hope to get it out tomorrow or the day after. Someone want to be my beta reader?
 
Nope, they were not weighted by vote. I just used the order of the tally, ignoring Noosphere for obvious reasons.
Lightining is the 8th element in the list.
I'll start working on the update, I won't do very long updates, so I hope to get it out tomorrow or the day after. Someone want to be my beta reader?

Ahhh, I see. Well, that's a wrap on things. Holy + Lightning seems pretty good, so I'm happy about that.
Oh, and if you're looking for a 'beta reader' I offer myself up!
 
All right, quick update: the draft for the narrative part should be done. I just need to decide a bit of mana costs for the actions and the one generate each turn, then write all the actions and we are done.
 
Holy+Noosphere would probably be gods, angels, and belief-powered stuff, i would assume.
Holy+Lightning is fairly simple modification to Lightning...
Lightning+Noosphere is... well. Kinda hard to justify combinations of, but... computations/information processing? Altering the information of electronics? Or more esoterically, even something as simple as accelerated thoughts or as out of left field as manifested fears? There's honestly quite a bit, but they're all stretches and leaps of logic, which isn't great. I guess if you take the combination super literally, sentient/sapient lightning is a possibility.

On the plus side, tripling up on elements is actually pretty easy, with each of the three being an easily justified modification to the remaining pair's combination.
 
Update of the day: I drafted the essential mechanics and I sent the draft for the update to @Nigerian Duck to proofread it. I'll publish it when I received the confirm that is ready to go. I'm also going to update the Swarm example I did before, since now I should have "real stats".
EDIT: Was testing a spoiler not working, problem solved
 
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Update of the day: The second draft has been sent to Nigerian (and I discovered that punctuation is not the same of my native tongue) and, in the meanwhile, I'll start by telling you that one action in the next update is blocked. Because you need it to create a minion.
So, I decided to tell you early, giving you time to plan or discuss the creature that you want to make. The more iconic, the better and, plus, you have enough mana and slots to do a Small one, a Medium or a Large one (but a Large one would completely fill your minion slots and empty your mana pool, just to be clear).
 
Large holy lighting golem that looks suspiciously like godzilla has my vote.

A hydra would be cool too. Hydras are awesome

EDIT A noosphere hydra. Whenever you cut off one of its many heads you suffer a mental attack as it tries to wipe your mind
 
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