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It Belongs to a Museum
- Thread starter Boney
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- Fantasy
To be honest, I have hard time seeing the hugger reference in any of the winning names. But that might be just me.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Pahtsekhen translates as 'Final Embrace'. The last hug, if you will.
- Location
- California
- Pronouns
- They/Them
"That will be our lucky Everchosen!"
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Tectonic plate shifts. Aka, how dormant Volcanoes become active in real life
Voting closed. Winning name is Pahtsekhen, as suggested by @Awetduck here. Congratulations, @Omegahugger.
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The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
- Location
- My own little world
The factoid that the average necromancer not at all a paranoid wreck and actually fairly friendly is a statistical error. Georg of the Final Embrace, who never met a student he didn't like and takes a hundred students every day, is an outlier and should not be counted.
It's actually a bimodal distribution. The friendly teacher necromancer is a smaller secondary peak. Alkaseltzer is another example.
Somic
It's meow or never
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- She/Her
Alas, the Museumverse is in a different continuity from DLverse. But it is amazing that he's canon to one of them! (And hilarious that it's not actually the one he's made a name for himself as the reader of
)I don't think Pahtsekhen even is a necromancer (yet), technically, he's just a Liche priest who happens to live on Vampire Island and think of ghouls as 'humans adapted to Dhar'.
Somic
It's meow or never
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- She/Her
He has a very, very long running bit of voting for anything related to Dhar and trying to sway the thread towards using dark magic in Divided Loyalties. It's great.
In DL, an important character died. Omegahugger advocated for using necromancy to resurrect them. The vote to (not) do that wasn't that close, but it was closer than one might expect. From that point on, his gimmick was advocating for Necromancy, Dark Magic and being a bit salty that the thread wouldn't. It was/is fun, and generally appreciated.
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- He/Him
Having run into Omegahugger in other threads as well, it's worth noting that, near as I can tell, his love of necromancy is perfectly sincere. Arguing for it at every opportunity is a bit of sorts, but it's not purely that.
- Location
- Greece
I do not actually remember Omegahugger arguing for dhar corruption that would not have lead into necromancy, such as joining the four. Far as I know, Omegahugger is interested in necromancy in particular, not dhar in general, making him much more directly relevant to the quest.
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I should note his saltiness tended to be in good humour rather than the way most would be salty, he is generally funny and a good sport which is why people like him so much... even though I do not think he has won a single vote in the other quest. I expect he'd win several in this one tho.
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I am old enough to remember a time where Omegahugger's legacy was feral shipping and being totally-not-Yamato-no-Orochi's strongest soldier.
Well, the Necromancy came out of feral shipping, so that part isn't exactly gone.
The evil gods don't like necromancy much, because if you use that you don't need them anymore. There's some people who do both, but it's rare enough that can be your gimmick, "The necromancer chaos champion" or such.
Various Information
Central Theme is determined by the narrative of the exhibit. Major and Minor Themes are determined by any item categories that are highly represented in the exhibit. These get a point value based on the number of items of that category. Centerpieces count as three items, Rare items count as two, Collections count as the number of their level.
Any Themes present that an Audience has an Affinity for earn their point value per Audience interested in them.
Any Themes present that match a Patron's Affinity earn triple their point value per Patron interested in them.
Any Central or Major Themes that have no Audience or Patrons interested in them earn one third of their point value, rounded down.
You gain 1 Goodwill per 20 Interest.
Hints, Tips, Clarifications:
You can use the Central Theme to highlight an important Theme that might only be present on a few items.
Patrons are more likely to be interested in rarer Themes than more common ones.
Gaining a new audience that's interested in things you already have on display could be very powerful.
Cultivating an Audience to become interested in something new will cost you Goodwill, but might pay for itself.
Goodwill is meant to be spent.
My intention is that you will be able to fully participate in this quest whether you engage with the numbers or not. The basic idea that more items that more people are interested in is more good, is a straightforward one.
Don't get too caught up in optimizing. One of the audiences that these exhibits should be pleasing is the readers of this quest.
You can take apart existing displays to rebuild into different ones. You will lose the Interest of the taken apart display and gain the Interest of the new display or displays. If you lose Interest from doing this, you will not gain more Goodwill until you get back up to that level of Interest once more.
Apart from the satisfaction of having a more detailed and accurate sign, Knowledge can unlock new categories on relics.
Any Themes present that an Audience has an Affinity for earn their point value per Audience interested in them.
Any Themes present that match a Patron's Affinity earn triple their point value per Patron interested in them.
Any Central or Major Themes that have no Audience or Patrons interested in them earn one third of their point value, rounded down.
You gain 1 Goodwill per 20 Interest.
Hints, Tips, Clarifications:
You can use the Central Theme to highlight an important Theme that might only be present on a few items.
Patrons are more likely to be interested in rarer Themes than more common ones.
Gaining a new audience that's interested in things you already have on display could be very powerful.
Cultivating an Audience to become interested in something new will cost you Goodwill, but might pay for itself.
Goodwill is meant to be spent.
My intention is that you will be able to fully participate in this quest whether you engage with the numbers or not. The basic idea that more items that more people are interested in is more good, is a straightforward one.
Don't get too caught up in optimizing. One of the audiences that these exhibits should be pleasing is the readers of this quest.
You can take apart existing displays to rebuild into different ones. You will lose the Interest of the taken apart display and gain the Interest of the new display or displays. If you lose Interest from doing this, you will not gain more Goodwill until you get back up to that level of Interest once more.
Apart from the satisfaction of having a more detailed and accurate sign, Knowledge can unlock new categories on relics.
So, Pahtsekhen. 'Final Embrace'. There's a few ways to turn this into hieroglyphs. The first and most basic is a unilateral transliteration - spelling it out letter for letter with the basic alphabet of consonant hieroglyphs. This gives you:
𓊪𓐍𓏏𓋴𓈎𓐍𓈖
Phtskhn. This is fairly unenthusing, though. Normally the way someone would write out their name in hieroglyphs would be personal, a combination of rhebuses and symbology drawing from an alphabet of thousands of hieroglyphs. The next way is to go extremely on the nose with it:
𓀿𓂘
Death, Embrace. This is... a bit much, isn't it? Kinda looks like he's going for the sarcophagus with a claw machine. But I do like the 'embrace' part. It's actually a modification of another hieroglyph. Ka, or ' 𓂓 ' is one of the eight fundamental components of the soul in Ancient Egyptian metaphysics. It's the 'vital essence', the part that makes someone alive and departs when they are dead. It's the part that food and drink are buried with a mummy to sustain. Invert this and you get 'embrace', probably originally just because it's arms going in a different direction, but having an inversion of 'life force' in the name of a Liche Priest is astonishingly on the nose. Also appropriate, it's also a part of the hieroglyph for a mortuary priest: ' 𓂖 ', the arms outstretched around a club that is the ideogram for a washer, which is probably why it was a part of the name for someone destined for the Mortuary Cult from birth.
What else can we do for 'paht'? Well, the original idea cited Pakhet, a lion-associated war goddess known as 'she who scratches', and there is a way to tie that into a rhebus for 'pht'. It's, uh. It's lion butt, ' 𓄖 '. I think we have the way that a bratty young Neferata used to spell Uncle Pat's name, but probably not a part of his actual cartouche. I think a way that Pahtsekhen would greatly prefer is if we use an ideogram for Ptah, who doesn't exist in his setting so the consonants can be repurposed: ' 𓁱 ', an enshrined mummy, much more appropriate for a Liche Priest. To make this more personally identifiable throw in a couple identifiers for his status: ' 𓈍 ', the sun rising over the land to represent Lahmia, the City of Dawn, and ' 𓃭 ', meaning 'lord' and a better way to work in the lion.
𓈍
𓃭
𓁱
𓂘
𓊪𓐍𓏏𓋴𓈎𓐍𓈖
Phtskhn. This is fairly unenthusing, though. Normally the way someone would write out their name in hieroglyphs would be personal, a combination of rhebuses and symbology drawing from an alphabet of thousands of hieroglyphs. The next way is to go extremely on the nose with it:
𓀿𓂘
Death, Embrace. This is... a bit much, isn't it? Kinda looks like he's going for the sarcophagus with a claw machine. But I do like the 'embrace' part. It's actually a modification of another hieroglyph. Ka, or ' 𓂓 ' is one of the eight fundamental components of the soul in Ancient Egyptian metaphysics. It's the 'vital essence', the part that makes someone alive and departs when they are dead. It's the part that food and drink are buried with a mummy to sustain. Invert this and you get 'embrace', probably originally just because it's arms going in a different direction, but having an inversion of 'life force' in the name of a Liche Priest is astonishingly on the nose. Also appropriate, it's also a part of the hieroglyph for a mortuary priest: ' 𓂖 ', the arms outstretched around a club that is the ideogram for a washer, which is probably why it was a part of the name for someone destined for the Mortuary Cult from birth.
What else can we do for 'paht'? Well, the original idea cited Pakhet, a lion-associated war goddess known as 'she who scratches', and there is a way to tie that into a rhebus for 'pht'. It's, uh. It's lion butt, ' 𓄖 '. I think we have the way that a bratty young Neferata used to spell Uncle Pat's name, but probably not a part of his actual cartouche. I think a way that Pahtsekhen would greatly prefer is if we use an ideogram for Ptah, who doesn't exist in his setting so the consonants can be repurposed: ' 𓁱 ', an enshrined mummy, much more appropriate for a Liche Priest. To make this more personally identifiable throw in a couple identifiers for his status: ' 𓈍 ', the sun rising over the land to represent Lahmia, the City of Dawn, and ' 𓃭 ', meaning 'lord' and a better way to work in the lion.
𓈍
𓃭
𓁱
𓂘
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Goddamit, Boney. How do you manage to make one of the worst villians of the setting so darn adorable?
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
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- He/Him/His
Thread: Hey let's throw together a name that is a loving OOC reference and sounds approximately right.
Boney: Here are the hieroglyphics for it.
This is a significant aspect of why your writing in general and this quest concept in particular are so appealing, in microcosm.
Boney: Here are the hieroglyphics for it.
This is a significant aspect of why your writing in general and this quest concept in particular are so appealing, in microcosm.
Neferata calling Her Uncle Lion butt is hilarious lore.