I'm a High Fantasy Tax Collector, So What? A CKII Tax Collector Quest
- Thread starter hYGP
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- Original Fantasy
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- death ck2 quest all proceeds go to real spiders are we revolutionaries or reactionaries today criminal justice discussion makes the gm fuzzy don't count your boats before they sail granary management if i lose my meows get me likes to replace them justice spider knock knock it's the finance ministry meows for discussion while supplies last taxation taxes this is not an empire quest
- Location
- California
[X] When Destiny Calls
[X] The Inevitability of History
Destiny sounds like the most immediate and practical one... but some people just want to watch Rocky.
[x] The Inevitability of History
[x] The Inevitability of History
- Location
- The state of Paranoia
[x] The Inevitability of History
I love how usupers got dismanteled. Literely everything went wrong for them.
Random Member
Gardener of Human Happiness
- Location
- Behind You
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It is impressive and all, but... The Compact doing its thing ate into our reputation. It ended up being "they brought down the wrath of The Compact", when it could have been "they brought an army to an economy fight when a spider was on the loose", which would have discouraged certain lines of opposition in the future.
Introducing Ophelia
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
Let's do a quick introduction to Ophelia, since I now have had the time to stat her out and draw her up.
So Ophelia's a little unique in that she has two...shall we say, facets. In her normal form, she's dark-haired, brown-eyed, timid, and the gem around her neck is just a pretty rock. In Ophelia - Oskaria form, however, she takes on red eyes, black hair, and she straightens up while her hands fill with the manifestations of Oskaria's will.
This, of course, means that she has two separate appearances - and statlines.
I introduce, my drawings of Ophelia. Ophelia's normal form is on the left, Ophelia - Oskaria is on the right.
Her two statlines are as follows:
Ophelia:
Martial: 12
Diplomacy: 15
Intrigue: 12
Learning: 19
Stewardship: 18
Piety: 20
Ophelia - Oskaria:
Martial: 22
Diplomacy: 15
Intrigue: 7
Learning: 24
Stewardship: 23
Piety: 25
The trigger condition is being in a situation where Oskaria decides to intervene directly and channel itself through her - there has to be a need that Oskaria responds to, so you're not going to be able to start Ophelia off in the Ophelia - Oskaria state, and once the emergency passes Oskaria may very well decide to discard the state, at which point Ophelia - Oskaria goes back to being Ophelia.
But hoo boy, when she's in that state? You're going to see some pretty big numbers.
edit: Oh right, one more important message: let's close up voting sometime around, oh, ? We've got a pretty good head of voting here, so it's not that unreasonable.
So Ophelia's a little unique in that she has two...shall we say, facets. In her normal form, she's dark-haired, brown-eyed, timid, and the gem around her neck is just a pretty rock. In Ophelia - Oskaria form, however, she takes on red eyes, black hair, and she straightens up while her hands fill with the manifestations of Oskaria's will.
This, of course, means that she has two separate appearances - and statlines.
I introduce, my drawings of Ophelia. Ophelia's normal form is on the left, Ophelia - Oskaria is on the right.
Pencil:
Inking + Crayon:
The big idea was to make Ophelia look smaller than Ophelia-Oskaira through various means of hunching over, less revealed, and broader stance - what actually happened was that I actually just drew Ophelia smaller, apparently, so, uh, yeah.
Ophelia's limbs are too comically tiny compared to Ophelia - Oskaria, a mistake that I didn't really fix or take notice of until the ink was drying and it was too late to go back.
Honestly, the inked hair was just a mistake and I should've stuck to using crayon for that. I, uh, didn't really have access to colored pencils while I was doing this.
Ink blots kind of got all over because I was sloppy.
This thing has almost no detail whatsoever - partially because I couldn't think of any, partially because I toyed around with it starting at the boots and decided about ten minutes in that I could absolutely run a minimal detail design for Ophelia - less details to draw means less detail to screw up for me, and the hands and feet really show that principle in action
Yes, Ophelia-Oskaria has a bardiche basically made manifest through sheer spiritual power. Spiritual vessels are something else, lemme tell you that.
One final note: with details as sparse as they are Ophelia's inspiration could technically come from anywhere, but I'll come out and say that drew Ophelia - Oskaria based off a heavily simplified Ortlinde from Fate/Grand Order.
Feedback would be much appreciated
Ophelia's limbs are too comically tiny compared to Ophelia - Oskaria, a mistake that I didn't really fix or take notice of until the ink was drying and it was too late to go back.
Honestly, the inked hair was just a mistake and I should've stuck to using crayon for that. I, uh, didn't really have access to colored pencils while I was doing this.
Ink blots kind of got all over because I was sloppy.
This thing has almost no detail whatsoever - partially because I couldn't think of any, partially because I toyed around with it starting at the boots and decided about ten minutes in that I could absolutely run a minimal detail design for Ophelia - less details to draw means less detail to screw up for me, and the hands and feet really show that principle in action
Yes, Ophelia-Oskaria has a bardiche basically made manifest through sheer spiritual power. Spiritual vessels are something else, lemme tell you that.
One final note: with details as sparse as they are Ophelia's inspiration could technically come from anywhere, but I'll come out and say that drew Ophelia - Oskaria based off a heavily simplified Ortlinde from Fate/Grand Order.
Feedback would be much appreciated
Her two statlines are as follows:
Ophelia:
Martial: 12
Diplomacy: 15
Intrigue: 12
Learning: 19
Stewardship: 18
Piety: 20
Ophelia - Oskaria:
Martial: 22
Diplomacy: 15
Intrigue: 7
Learning: 24
Stewardship: 23
Piety: 25
The trigger condition is being in a situation where Oskaria decides to intervene directly and channel itself through her - there has to be a need that Oskaria responds to, so you're not going to be able to start Ophelia off in the Ophelia - Oskaria state, and once the emergency passes Oskaria may very well decide to discard the state, at which point Ophelia - Oskaria goes back to being Ophelia.
But hoo boy, when she's in that state? You're going to see some pretty big numbers.
edit: Oh right, one more important message: let's close up voting sometime around, oh, ? We've got a pretty good head of voting here, so it's not that unreasonable.
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DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
- Location
- within 2 hours of the White House
- Pronouns
- They/Them
i love our new daughterLet's do a quick introduction to Ophelia, since I now have had the time to stat her out and draw her up.
So Ophelia's a little unique in that she has two...shall we say, facets. In her normal form, she's dark-haired, brown-eyed, timid, and the gem around her neck is just a pretty rock. In Ophelia - Oskaria form, however, she takes on red eyes, black hair, and she straightens up while her hands fill with the manifestations of Oskaria's will.
This, of course, means that she has two separate appearances - and statlines.
I introduce, my drawings of Ophelia. Ophelia's normal form is on the left, Ophelia - Oskaria is on the right.
Pencil:
Inking + Crayon:
The big idea was to make Ophelia look smaller than Ophelia-Oskaira through various means of hunching over, less revealed, and broader stance - what actually happened was that I actually just drew Ophelia smaller, apparently, so, uh, yeah.
Ophelia's limbs are too comically tiny compared to Ophelia - Oskaria, a mistake that I didn't really fix or take notice of until the ink was drying and it was too late to go back.
Honestly, the inked hair was just a mistake and I should've stuck to using crayon for that. I, uh, didn't really have access to colored pencils while I was doing this.
Ink blots kind of got all over because I was sloppy.
This thing has almost no detail whatsoever - partially because I couldn't think of any, partially because I toyed around with it starting at the boots and decided about ten minutes in that I could absolutely run a minimal detail design for Ophelia - less details to draw means less detail to screw up for me, and the hands and feet really show that principle in action
Yes, Ophelia-Oskaria has a bardiche basically made manifest through sheer spiritual power. Spiritual vessels are something else, lemme tell you that.
One final note: with details as sparse as they are Ophelia's inspiration could technically come from anywhere, but I'll come out and say that drew Ophelia - Oskaria based off a heavily simplified Ortlinde from Fate/Grand Order.
Feedback would be much appreciated
Her two statlines are as follows:
Ophelia:
Martial: 12
Diplomacy: 15
Intrigue: 12
Learning: 19
Stewardship: 18
Piety: 20
Ophelia - Oskaria:
Martial: 22
Diplomacy: 15
Intrigue: 7
Learning: 24
Stewardship: 23
Piety: 25
The trigger condition is being in a situation where Oskaria decides to intervene directly and channel itself through her - there has to be a need that Oskaria responds to, so you're not going to be able to start Ophelia off in the Ophelia - Oskaria state, and once the emergency passes Oskaria may very well decide to discard the state, at which point Ophelia - Oskaria goes back to being Ophelia.
But hoo boy, when she's in that state? You're going to see some pretty big numbers.
[x] When Destiny Calls
Oskaria is not aware of subtle huh?
*Horrifying Spider Flashbacks*
Which reminds me, I have no idea what Agueda's gender is, and I think that I am happier that way.
Learning is her second-highest stat... The Compact will be thrilled with that I am sure...
Unless we send the Radiantly Shining Beacon of National Authority into a pub to discreetly listen for subversive conversations.
...
How often do our team's lesser stats actually see use? I can't help but think that the generally stick to tasks within their speciality, and thus their lower stats are mostly limited to roleplaying trivia.
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
hard to do subtle when you glow like a lamppost and have a nice big spiritual axe you can hit people with
Not often often in a visible way, but hostile factions can definitely target the weaker links when you're not playing against them.
Oh no. We are going to have to watch after the literal manifestation of our nation to make sure that they don't get swindled by random salesmen and dump the national treasury on invisible clothes that seemed terribly important at the time...
- Location
- Belgium
[X] When Destiny Calls
First picture I saw of her I was like "Hey, she looks like Ortlinde from Fate/ Grand Order."
Then you said that was indeed where you drew your inspiration from. Haha I know my anime/game waifus well it seems. Hahaha! Well done.
First picture I saw of her I was like "Hey, she looks like Ortlinde from Fate/ Grand Order."
Then you said that was indeed where you drew your inspiration from. Haha I know my anime/game waifus well it seems. Hahaha! Well done.
- Location
- Attached to a wall
- Pronouns
- She/Her
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