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Donald Darf said:
"Ye- yes! We're flowers, we're all big flowers! What do you think these things on our heads are? They ain't frills, they're petals, they unfurl when we need sunlight! THE FUCK YOU MEAN THERE IS EROTIC LITERATURE OF US?! YOU OBVIOUSLY CAN SEE WE DON'T HAVE GENITALIA, we're literally called Giants. how the hell can you not look up and notice all this!?"
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Congratulation everyone we've gone 5 pages and this is our first conflicting information, that a pretty good success rate.

gracnieumierac said:
"Professor Flavius, I must disagree I believe the Theory of Man-United is true as how else would you explain our commonalities? For one, giants, dwarves and halfling bear a striking resemblance to humans. For two, they like us can only use spell-work not mana. For three, human couples with no evidence of intermingling with either dwarves, halfling or giants can give birth to them, should be sufficient proof of the matter."
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In this case the description of Giants doesn't match the previously established idea that Giants are of Human origin. Ergo them being large plant like entities and being incapable of interbreeding with humans conflicts... due to a lack of genitalia. I'd propose making these flower people their own species or even a strain of Giants mutated by the Daelkyr Badlands.

PetroleumMedium! said:
"The secret ingredient that made your family's pie so delicious is... a speck of Divine Gold. Let me guess, that's why the pie is so expensive, huh? Not only to get the Gold in the first place, but also to make it safe to consume. Well, I suppose I should congratulate you and your family for your efforts then. I'm the one who's at fault for thinking that it's something else, haha..."
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-Florian Longchambon, after being caught snooping in Goldstein Manor, followed by a very nice evening of eating pie.

THE LAST STORM IS COMING! THE LAST STOR-

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

SPLAT!
 
gracnieumierac said:
THE LAST STORM IS COMING! THE LAST STOR-

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

SPLAT!
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-Anna No-surname who survived by having the luck of falling into the into badlands the Slime rebirth Spa.

"Anna you came back I thought the Last Storm would have destroyed you with the rest of your city. but you seem... different now, more blueish, less rigid. Are you eating enough?"
 
Martin Noctis said:
"Hope is running short these days."
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-King Vausan II, during the Yelmontian Civil War, as the First Great Invasion of Ur-Apes reach the capital of Yelmon.

"If we take the ferry down the Betir River we'll reach the Ringed City in just three days, I miss the little things you know. The Second Ring got something really cool, they've set up some dwarven invention called a "vending" machines. Apparently if you put a coin onto a pan you can pick out some kind of drink from beer, wine, holy water, apple juice... gods I miss apple juice."
 
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gracnieumierac said:
-King Vausan II, during the Yelmontian Civil War, as the First Great Invasion of Ur-Apes reach the capital of Yelmon.

"If we take the ferry down the Betir River we'll reach the Ringed City in just three days, I miss the little things you know. The Second Ring got something really cool, they've set up some dwarven invention called a "vending" machines. Apparently if you put a coin onto a pan you can pick out some kind of drink from beer, wine, holy water, apple juice... gods I miss apple juice."
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- Chumber "Nutflicker" Dimmydinkles



Martin Noctis said:
Question what do you guys think the Last Storm is?
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"Our currency, what we're bartering with, is the time we got until the Last Storm"
 
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Martin Noctis said:
-The Head of The Alchemy Guild of Retenia ten Days before going bankrupt and twelve days before the Arrival of the Last Storm to Retennia.
"DARKNESS CONSUMES ALL. YET HOPE REMAINS IN THE LIGHT!"
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-Mesring Bendin, Archbishop of the waning Seven Light's Church in Retenia, speaking at the marketplace to the huddle masses.

"Hm, I may be blind but I'm not deaf. Of course I could tell I was ordaining the marriage of Giant's, Friar Laurence. The Law extends to all... even if some don't agree."
 
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gracnieumierac said:
Hm, I may be blind but I'm not deaf. Of course I could tell I was ordaining the marriage of Giant's, Friar Laurence. The Law extends to all... even if some don't agree."
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- Words of Father Orlan one of the few open-minded member of the Church of Law

"When a dragon reaches 5,000 years of age, it undergoes a metamorphosis. During this transformation, the dragon will seek out a secluded and safe place before wrapping itself in a cocoon of crystallized mana for a year. When it emerges, oh boy, it is no longer just a dragon but a demi-god of destruction. At this stage, the dragon will stand above all its kin in terms of height and strength. A halo of light will manifest above the Elder to signify its status.

*Deep exhale*

The fact that the Nostramans can kill one and claim it Heart is a nothing short of a FUCKING divine intervention."
 
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Lmaocringe240 said:
- Words of Father Orlan one of the few open-minded member of the Church of Law

"When a dragon reaches 5,000 years of age, it undergoes a metamorphosis. During this transformation, the dragon will seek out a secluded and safe place before wrapping itself in a cocoon of crystallized mana for a year. When it emerges, oh boy, it is no longer just a dragon but a demi-god of destruction. At this stage, the dragon will stand above all its kin in terms of height and strength. A halo of light will manifest above the Elder to signify its status.

*Deep exhale*

The fact that the Nostramans can kill one and claim it Heart is a nothing short of a FUCKING divine intervention."
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-Governor Decimus of the Golden Concord, discussing the Nostraman slaying of Aob the Sleeper.

"If you sail south-west along the Afirelen continent you'll reach the city states of the Jaguar-Men, terrible things their constantly at war with the Beast Riders."
 
gracnieumierac said:
"If you sail south-west along the Afirelen continent you'll reach the city states of the Jaguar-Men, terrible things their constantly at war with the Beast Riders."
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-The Bub a Swampmaid explaining to a very lost and angry Karagand where he and his navy where the closest place is where they could resuply.

"I've never seen any tree like that. Let's chop it!!!"

EDIT: Readability improvement.


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Martin Noctis said:
Question outside of this. What do you guys think the Last Storm is?
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The Last Storm can be a stand in for various natural disasters to get plots moving or end character. I don't really know what to do with it.
The Stormdead thing might have been a good call.

The fact that it's linked to Anna makes me look at the Anna who worked for Jameh as a guide in the Daelkyr Badlands. I'm not sure whether to have the Anna's separated or united into one character.
 
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Martin Noctis said:
Question outside of this. What do you guys think the Last Storm is?
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At the moment looking at the past quotes.

The Last Storms seems like some kind of living disasters of magical kinda that seems to simply be able to roll through a region and destroy it without much opposition. But at the same time it's kinda implied that one can evade it to a degree but those who can't are either dead or become Stomrdead. And those Stormdead seem to be able to communicate, act and use memories of their past lives to a degree while not being overly aggressive.

I don't think it's too distinctive.

We got Ur-Apes some kind of mutated apes with the aim of expanding and conquering like a invasion of savage animals.

Karagand the Bloated who's more the evil overlord who's planning to burn down civilisation.

The Thralls of the Unremembered and the Badlands which are implied to be a mutating landmass with mind controlled being which constantly threaten to spread into the rest of the continent.

The Last Storms seems a little indistinct cause it sorta like the Thralls in regards to what evil it generates, where the Badlands is this constant risk of spread the Last Storm is more like an inevitable disaster. I think if it played with that it can become something interesting maybe have it consume Ley Lines or alter magic?
 
Maybe better to not have it destroy Leylines the badlands was already caused by that.
And I think that repeated Leylines disasters makes those disaster lose relative importance instead of making the things destroying the Leylines seem more threatening.

EDIT: I do think that there is some distinctiveness to the Last Storm due to the idea that we could just employ it everywhere to wreck some stuff.
 
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gracnieumierac said:
-A lumberjack of Bachar, regarding the Walking Cypress trees, few minutes before he is stepped on by angry shepherd.

"Wyrmsmere Castle? I am quite sure it was constructed during the Dragon Law but it was renovated plenty of times, later on. After all it was made to withstand dragon attacks and sappers."
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- Governor Decimus of the Golden Concord (in disguise), at the Pink Clams Society, trying to impress a hooker.

"What do you mean that dragons and people are the same kind of species, alchemically?"
 
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- Governor Decimus of the Golden Concord (in disguise), at the Pink Clams Society, trying to impress a hooker.

"What do you mean that dragons and people are the same kind of species, alchemically?"
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-Darwinius being baffled at Gorg's on explanation why his breathing techniques is not indicative of being a new species, variant or race.


"Me now Haff silly hummie Black Shinie Hat, Me now Hummie Alpha by Hummie law. Hummie now find out for Lady Alpha Blackhat, What Hummies Haff me son, WHERE HUMMIES TAKE ME SON!!"


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gracnieumierac said:
We got Ur-Apes some kind of mutated apes with the aim of expanding and conquering like a invasion of savage animals.
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I wanted to circle back to this because I wanted to make explicitly discuss something.
I've been subtly stearing the Ur apes into being more cultured because:
1. It's a funny twist for the berserking ape people with a limited language to have to be very cultured in other ways.

2. I want to pre-empt someone accidentally themselves into a Rule 2.
Fantastic racism is treated the same on SV as normal racism, due to fantasy races frequently resembling RL cultures and peoples.
Having racist characters in this context is fine, but I'm a bit afraid that it might eventually start boiling over into someone OOC (ironicly) joining in if we keep describing the Apes as Animals in OOC context and getting wacked for rule 2.
 
WallFlower said:
I wanted to circle back to this because I wanted to make explicitly discuss something.
I've been subtly stearing the Ur apes into being more cultured because:
1. It's a funny twist for the berserking ape people with a limited language to have to be very cultured in other ways.

2. I want to pre-empt someone accidentally themselves into a Rule 2.
Fantastic racism is treated the same on SV as normal racism, due to fantasy races frequently resembling RL cultures and peoples.
Having racist characters in this context is fine, but I'm a bit afraid that it might eventually start boiling over into someone OOC (ironicly) joining in if we keep describing the Apes as Animals in OOC context and getting wacked for rule 2.
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Hm, personally I don't mind, if that what people prefer they can makes posts specifically about them being such and it will be accepted.

I sorta view the whole concept of Ur-Apes being clever little monsters, definitely not people, just monsters. Cause them being people for me wasn't very important they just sorta represent metaphorically threat that isn't a person but is capable of mimicking a person. The same way the Darkspawn, Skaven, Orcs and others were in media. It's why I made them drop people from heights and splatter them on the ground, cause I thought it was something an evil cunning creature would do.

If the idea is the Ur-Apes are weird little savages that attack and kill, but have some culture is also fine with me.
 
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