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Time of the Gods: Into the Amber Age

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redzonejoe said:
Eh. I embrace the insanity...

but i think it'd be more fun this time to have to deal with an insane ally. One we can't just kill if it's too much to handle. We are the dog god this time to our ally's harzivan.
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Then vote for the water spirit, where it can't afford to kill everyone and thus run out of people to be afraid and provide DE.
 
Omegahugger said:
That wasn't the Goat God, that was his followers.

The Goat God was a scrub who deserves the initals GG. His pantheon was not.
Their Rain God in particular was best husbando who we definitely would've wooed if it wasn't for his pesky outlook on "accidentally turned a few cities to glass". Which is yet another proof that Water Spirit is the best option to pick here.
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Do you remember GG's super melee battle machine son? He and Finittu were far more troublesome than GG. Oh, I remember the time we sniped and insta-killed the goat son, that was happy fun time.

Shard said:
I'm hoping we play a game with some relative sanity this time.
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Let's make the Amber Age sane again?
 
When was the last time someone saw a congress critter that was truly sane though? Remember people, vote water spirit, don't try to create laws.
 
mc2rpg said:
Then vote for the water spirit, where it can't afford to kill everyone and thus run out of people to be afraid and provide DE.
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Do you mean a water fear spirit? Thats not exactly the kind of friendly relationship I want with a crazy ally. Plus, we could totally still kill a couple of the more troublesome gods.

Lawmaker on the other hand isn't specced for combat. Will probably have to put up with a crazy warrior or two to do the dirty work. Thats what i'm looking forward to seeing; the eccentricities of a god from a relatively sane perspective.
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When was the last time someone saw a congress critter that was truly sane though? Remember people, vote water spirit, don't try to create laws.
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Relatively sane. Besides, i happen to like laws. They make bad things happen less often.
 
-[X] The Cold Dark (Presets: Arctic, Hills, Island)
-[X] Elemental Spirit
--[X] Subtype: Water
 
Shard said:
I'm hoping we play a game with some relative sanity this time.
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You poor, sweet, deluded man. There are too many voices of insanity voting in this thread for that to happen. If a fertility goddess won, I would be completely unsurprised if within 30 game turns she was regularly spawning monsters in litters of five or more and obsessed with lording over everything the light of the sun touched.
 
I would also, of course, be fine with protoviking god, but we in Med. Climate.
 
Most recent tally says that The Cold Dark is in the lead by 3 votes. I plan to lock in the afternoon around 6 EST, but if the votes swing hard in either direction I may close earlier so I can get a head start on the co-op question (if you guys stick with Cold Dark I highly doubt you'll go for co-op, but it doesn't hurt to check).

##### 3].21
[X] Setup New Game
-[X] Mediterranean
-[X] Plains
-[X] Coast
-[X] Awoken Hero
--[X] Subtype: Lawgiver
[X] Yes
No. of votes: 18
Evilness42, redzonejoe, Downstreamer, Chengar Qordath, Shard, TotallyNotEvil, Darkcrest, codeRR, Mannan, masterofmadness, nixter, LinkOnScepter, Killer_Whale, Godwinson, Void Stalker, Sivantic, Arbit, nairit

-[X] Temperate
-[X] Hills
-[X] Forests
-[X] Animal Spirit - Once you were some grand example of a wild animal, but through fame or infamy you have attained a kind of worship that has elevated you above the other beasts, although getting along with your own worshippers may be tricky (Avatar 3) Inherent Trait: Aspect of Animal
--[X] Subtype: Choose a Pack Animal
No. of votes: 1
Massgamer

[X] Plan: Spring Awakening
-[X] Genius Loci - A sacred spring or oasis or cave or the like, reverence for your location has imbued you with sentience and power, allowing you to bless those that come to your location (Avatar 1, Shrine 2) Inherent Trait: Spirit of -Subtype-
--[X] Subtype: The Spring (Health)
No. of votes: 1
The Laurent

[X] Plan light in the dark
-[X] Arctic
-[X] Mountains
-[X] Forests
[X] Awoken Hero
-[X] Subtype: Thief of Fire
[X] Yes
No. of votes: 1
Tealg

-[X] Arid
-[X] Plains
-[X] Major Lake
-[X] Awoken Hero - A spirit arisen from a prominent local hero, your affinity for humanity strengthens your avatar and ability to reinforce your legend, but you are lacking in magical ability early on (Avatar 2, Shrine 1) Inherent Trait: Aspect of Humanity
--[X] Subtype: Lawgiver
No. of votes: 1
Sol Zagato

-[x] Room to Grow
-[x] Awoken Hero
--[x] Subtype: Crafter
No. of votes: 1
Yorick's Skull

[x] Setup Multiplayer Game
-[X] Temperate
-[X] Plains
-[X] Forests
-[X] Animal Spirit
--[X] Subtype: Choose a Solitary Animal
---[X] Raccoon
[X] No
No. of votes: 1
Nianque

-[X] Cold/Alpine
-[X] Plains
-[X] Major Lake
-[X] Animal Spirit - Once you were some grand example of a wild animal, but through fame or infamy you have attained a kind of worship that has elevated you above the other beasts, although getting along with your own worshippers may be tricky (Avatar 3) Inherent Trait: Aspect of Animal
--[X] Subtype: Choose a Solitary Animal
---[X] Saberlion
[X] Yes
No. of votes: 1
DinoHank

[X] Plan Pyramid
No. of votes: 5
Terrabrand, Da Boyz, Abby Normal, Jean Danjou, Varano

-[x] The Cold Dark (Presets: Arctic, Hills, Island)
-[x] Elemental Spirit
--[X] Subtype: Water
No. of votes: 21
mc2rpg, WyldCard4, Inf0mercial, Raising Kittens, Gamerlord, notanautomaton, Hangwind, Pandemonious Ivy, PrimalShadow, chocolote12, ninjafish, Van Ropen, drake_azathoth, artisticGlee, Captain Spatula, zeusthemoose, Omegahugger, Edkose, Mask, Ando Owen, Maragas

[X] Plan Brannjenessaga
[div class="SpoilerTarget bbCodeSpoilerText"][X] The Cold Dark
[X] Elemental Spirit
-[X] Subtype: Fire[/div]
No. of votes: 1
Aabcehmu

[X] Setup New Game
-[X] Mediterranean
-[X] Plains
-[X] Coast
-[X] Awoken Hero
--[X] Subtype: Lawgiver
No. of votes: 2
giodan, Kingofbooks

[X] No
-[x] The Cold Dark (Presets: Arctic, Hills, Island)
-[x] Elemental Spirit
--[X] Subtype: Water
No. of votes: 1
sidestory

[x] The Cold Dark (Presets: Arctic, Hills, Island)
No. of votes: 1
Dormin

-[X] Room to Grow (Presets: Temperate, Plains, Floodplains)
-[x] Awoken Hero
--[x] Subtype: Thief of Fire
No. of votes: 1
Ian Drash
 
-[:V] The Cold Dark (Presets: Arctic, Hills, Island)
-[:V] Awoken Hero
--[:V] Subtype: Lawgiver

Cold dark is winning you say? :V

Edit: Looking it over, @giodan and @Kingofbooks both have the same lawgiver start settings. they just didn't answer the question of the tutorial. They should probably be merged for a score of 20/21 in favour of the Cold Dark water spirit.

In the interest of fairness, @sidestory has a cold dark water spirit start, and @Dormin is just 'the cold dark', but can possibly be assumed to want water spirit too, for a tally of 20/22(23?)
 
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Okay, I like the sound of this. Lawgiver sounds good for smiting assholes. Probably too late to make a proper Thunder Dragon vote, but if there is still time than check this out:

[] Plan Thunder Dragon
-[] Tropical

-[] Mountains

-[] Island

-[] The Wild Places (Presets: Tropical, Hills, Forests)

-[] Elemental Spirit - You are wind or fire or rain, an embodiment of the elements worshipped to the point where you have gained a sense of awareness of your own, allowing you to make broad workings but also lacking in a strong avatar (Influence 2, Shrine 1) Inherent Trait: Elemental Affinity - Subtype
--[] Subtype: Air

[] No

Basically go Air for Storms and then exploit Tropical climate till we find an exotic creature to turn into a Dragon monster and make it our mascot. Also, we have an Island area, making a Storm God the most important. This leads into Pirate or Sealord territory nicely.

And I like the idea of starting off in Stone Age Hawaii. Sounds pretty rad. We can get some cool Volcano god buddies and chill with some punch or something.
 
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-[X] The Cold Dark (Presets: Arctic, Hills, Island)
-[X] Elemental Spirit
--[X] Subtype: Water

Time to change vote in the hopes Lawgiver doesn't win.
 
Powerofmind said:
[X] Setup New Game
-[X] Mediterranean
-[X] Plains
-[X] Coast
-[X] Awoken Hero
--[X] Subtype: Lawgiver
[X] Yes
No. of votes: 18
Evilness42, redzonejoe, Downstreamer, Chengar Qordath, Shard, TotallyNotEvil, Darkcrest, codeRR, Mannan, masterofmadness, nixter, LinkOnScepter, Killer_Whale, Godwinson, Void Stalker, Sivantic, Arbit, nairit
[X] Setup New Game
-[X] Mediterranean
-[X] Plains
-[X] Coast
-[X] Awoken Hero
--[X] Subtype: Lawgiver
No. of votes: 2
giodan, Kingofbooks
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You could count those together, afterall the only difference is the vote for the tutorial.
 
redzonejoe said:
Edit: Looking it over, @giodan and @Kingofbooks both have the same lawgiver start settings. they just didn't answer the question of the tutorial. They should probably be merged for a score of 20/21 in favour of the Cold Dark water spirit.

In the interest of fairness, @sidestory has a cold dark water spirit start, and @Dormin is just 'the cold dark', but can possibly be assumed to want water spirit too, for a tally of 20/22(23?)
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Arbit said:
You could count those together, afterall the only difference is the vote for the tutorial.
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Good catches, I missed those... It does still leave the cold dark choice ahead by a bit, and that gap seems to have expanded a bit further.
 
Powerofmind said:
Good catches, I missed those... It does still leave the cold dark choice ahead by a bit, and that gap seems to have expanded a bit further.
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rip my choice.

One last argument I guess,

I want an ascended human with aspect of humanity because our previous experience was... pretty wild.

I worry that an elemental spirit, or a genus loci, or whatever else will be detatched from it's followers like Harzi was. It'll just do things, and it'll have an affect. Spend energy on rain, rain appears, we people are happy and give us DE. neat.

This new 'aspect of humanity' means that unlike before, we'll actually be able to sympathize with what our worshipers are going through, or what they want. We can have conversations with them, and other interactions beyond being some mysterious powerful deity.

And I feel like Lawmaker is kinda the epitome of that. We aren't just a great human, we're THE great human. We basically founded civilization, at least in our corner of the world. We should be able to understand people better than anybody.

From there, we can really start to work to make our people great. This isn't just a journey about us amassing ever greater amounts of personal power; this is the story f how our language became the common tongue that all the nearby tribes speak. This is the story of how our walls make others look on in envy, and our art makes others weep at the beauty. Our people shall become the people all other groups wish they could become, and we, the great lawmaker, brought them to that point.

Water spirit to me us just... meh. I guess fear spirit might be interesting, but... again, we kinda already explored that when we slaughtered thousands with whirlwinds of flame.
 
redzonejoe said:
rip my choice.

One last argument I guess,

I want an ascended human with aspect of humanity because our previous experience was... pretty wild.

I worry that an elemental spirit, or a genus loci, or whatever else will be detatched from it's followers like Harzi was. It'll just do things, and it'll have an affect. Spend energy on rain, rain appears, we people are happy and give us DE. neat.

This new 'aspect of humanity' means that unlike before, we'll actually be able to sympathize with what our worshipers are going through, or what they want. We can have conversations with them, and other interactions beyond being some mysterious powerful deity.

And I feel like Lawmaker is kinda the epitome of that. We aren't just a great human, we're THE great human. We basically founded civilization, at least in our corner of the world. We should be able to understand people better than anybody.

From there, we can really start to work to make our people great. This isn't just a journey about us amassing ever greater amounts of personal power; this is the story f how our language became the common tongue that all the nearby tribes speak. This is the story of how our walls make others look on in envy, and our art makes others weep at the beauty. Our people shall become the people all other groups wish they could become, and we, the great lawmaker, brought them to that point.

Water spirit to me us just... meh. I guess fear spirit might be interesting, but... again, we kinda already explored that when we slaughtered thousands with whirlwinds of flame.
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Honestly, I'd be more in line with literally every other possible Aspect other than Lawgiver. And warrior, obviously.

Water spirit, eh, not feeling it that much, but I'm feeling it more than Lawgiver.
 
I really don't want to go back into being the head of a pantheon, and being the Lawgiver is going to have the voters gravitate towards that in a big way. Players just don't tend to like having their options limited by someone else being in charge.
 
mc2rpg said:
I really don't want to go back into being the head of a pantheon, and being the Lawgiver is going to have the voters gravitate towards that in a big way. Players just don't tend to like having their options limited by someone else being in charge.
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Yep, and since my Fertility Springs and Snake-God-with-a-side-of-rivers-and-crops got exactly 0 traction...I'm left compromising.

I'm not going to vote third party god this year! :V
 
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