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- They/Them
[X] Push it back out. The last person who entered your shoals so deeply died. You hadn't meant to do that, you should stop this one before they also die!
Time of the Gods: Into the Amber Age
- Thread starter Powerofmind
- Start date
- Original
- Location
- USA
Option 2 is a fear path I think, 1 and 3 not so sure on
- Location
- The Great Beyond
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
[X] Let it closer. Your waters have free floating ice, and are terribly cold during the Long Night. Even the natural life here is scarce. What drives this person so?
I really want to know what drives this human.
I really want to know what drives this human.
[X] Let it closer. Your waters have free floating ice, and are terribly cold during the Long Night. Even the natural life here is scarce. What drives this person so?
Maybe we can get a priest or prophet or something like that
Maybe we can get a priest or prophet or something like that
Starts the Benevolent Protector route.
Starts the Unfathomable Terror route.
Starts the Detached Observer route?
I'll vote for the last one, as the option I find most curious.
[X] Let it closer. Your waters have free floating ice, and are terribly cold during the Long Night. Even the natural life here is scarce. What drives this person so?
Option 1 seems to be the Faith route, where we care about our people and don't want them to die.
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- They/Them
I'd definitely support Let It Come Closer over Kill It, but honestly, we've sorta achieved our objective? We murdered someone's loved one for no particular reason, and now they're mad with grief.
#IFeelLikeAHeroNow
We don't need to rub salt in the wounds, we've proved our point.
#IFeelLikeAHeroNow
We don't need to rub salt in the wounds, we've proved our point.
- Location
- Australia
[X] Let it closer. Your waters have free floating ice, and are terribly cold during the Long Night. Even the natural life here is scarce. What drives this person so?
- Location
- USA
What is interesting is our lack of understanding so if we go faith we can attribute this to our stretching. letting them continue what do you think that will do as this event apparently had long term effects
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
[X] Let it closer. Your waters have free floating ice, and are terribly cold during the Long Night. Even the natural life here is scarce. What drives this person so?
Curiouser and curiouser seems to be the right description.
And it wasn't our fault! Those fishes eat us all the time and we're never harmed by it, so how were we supposed to know it was dangerous?
EDIT: I am an inattentive idiot.
Curiouser and curiouser seems to be the right description.
Obviously letting them be joined in death is the best solution and the first step on unlocking Spirit of Love.
EDIT: I am an inattentive idiot.
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- Location
- Bologna
[X] Let it closer. Your waters have free floating ice, and are terribly cold during the Long Night. Even the natural life here is scarce. What drives this person so?
I wish we could show it something through our astrology trait, with the stars reflected in our waters. Could be the path to Mystery Spirit or similar. I'm not sure this is what's happening, though...
The worst thing, I think, would be if we did nothing and it died without our intervention. We are taking a risk here, i think, of completely wasting this opportunity...
I wish we could show it something through our astrology trait, with the stars reflected in our waters. Could be the path to Mystery Spirit or similar. I'm not sure this is what's happening, though...
The worst thing, I think, would be if we did nothing and it died without our intervention. We are taking a risk here, i think, of completely wasting this opportunity...
Ah, but he/she is in a better place now. Because there is no better place than the ocean. Also she/he might join him/her pretty soon, so we give a chance to people to get together with their loved ones.
[X] Let it closer. Your waters have free floating ice, and are terribly cold during the Long Night. Even the natural life here is scarce. What drives this person so?
- Pronouns
- It/They
A Bottomless Curse, A Bottomless Sea, Accepting of all that there is, And can be.
notanautomaton
I've got 99 quests, I've finished one
[x] Let it closer. Your waters have free floating ice, and are terribly cold during the Long Night. Even the natural life here is scarce. What drives this person so?
Oh hey, a new Amber Age quest! @Powerofmind, may I express my thanks for starting this quest? I really missed the original.
So, a preliminary analysis of the current options:
The question of Faith or Fear is moot, I think, since this event was triggered by killing someone. A Fear act, if there ever was one, and the first stepping on that path. The options here are to establish a sort of reason why that person was killed, and the temperament of our character in relation to our Holy Place.
[] Push it back out. The last person who entered your shoals so deeply died. You hadn't meant to do that, you should stop this one before they also die!
To the humans, this is should result in people avoiding the shoals because humans aren't allowed there. But, this option is a defensive measure; people will not necessarily die if they trespass. The outlook of the people in regards to the spirit's temperament would be mischievous and fickle -- the fear would come, in part, from not knowing what they did that would get them killed. Could result in opening a path toward general benevolence towards humans, but that'll require overcoming the hurdle of us being known as someone who'll kill someone but spare another.
[] Kill it. The last person who entered your shoals died, and you will help this one along. Maybe you'll garner more energy from this one's death as well?
To the humans, this deepens the idea that the shoals are not a place where humans are allowed to go, because the spirit of the place will fucking kill them. In terms of perceived temperament, the spirit would be murderous, or at least very willing to kill to maintain the separation of its sacred places. (This would, also, going by Powerofmind's previous posts, leave defenses of our shrine up to nature, to a greater extant than the above option.) Better Fear progression, probably: the killing should count toward opening up the Death traits.
[X] Let it closer. Your waters have free floating ice, and are terribly cold during the Long Night. Even the natural life here is scarce. What drives this person so?
Definitely makes the spirit weirder and more mysterious (opening up the Mystery Spirit traits?), since we killed one person for being in our Holy Place but then let another swim to our sacred place's heart? However, with the extreme displays of emotion from this person, depending on how the humans interpret it, this might count towards progress to our Faith score. From, you know, noticing who the spirit attacks and who the spirit doesn't attack, and thus altering behavior and culture to be more like who the spirit doesn't attack. This is the more ambiguous option, though, since the outcome depends on the desire of this person and we're too new to figure that out yet. That's why I vote for this: we need more information on our worshipers, to better help/hurt them.
So, a preliminary analysis of the current options:
The question of Faith or Fear is moot, I think, since this event was triggered by killing someone. A Fear act, if there ever was one, and the first stepping on that path. The options here are to establish a sort of reason why that person was killed, and the temperament of our character in relation to our Holy Place.
[] Push it back out. The last person who entered your shoals so deeply died. You hadn't meant to do that, you should stop this one before they also die!
To the humans, this is should result in people avoiding the shoals because humans aren't allowed there. But, this option is a defensive measure; people will not necessarily die if they trespass. The outlook of the people in regards to the spirit's temperament would be mischievous and fickle -- the fear would come, in part, from not knowing what they did that would get them killed. Could result in opening a path toward general benevolence towards humans, but that'll require overcoming the hurdle of us being known as someone who'll kill someone but spare another.
[] Kill it. The last person who entered your shoals died, and you will help this one along. Maybe you'll garner more energy from this one's death as well?
To the humans, this deepens the idea that the shoals are not a place where humans are allowed to go, because the spirit of the place will fucking kill them. In terms of perceived temperament, the spirit would be murderous, or at least very willing to kill to maintain the separation of its sacred places. (This would, also, going by Powerofmind's previous posts, leave defenses of our shrine up to nature, to a greater extant than the above option.) Better Fear progression, probably: the killing should count toward opening up the Death traits.
[X] Let it closer. Your waters have free floating ice, and are terribly cold during the Long Night. Even the natural life here is scarce. What drives this person so?
Definitely makes the spirit weirder and more mysterious (opening up the Mystery Spirit traits?), since we killed one person for being in our Holy Place but then let another swim to our sacred place's heart? However, with the extreme displays of emotion from this person, depending on how the humans interpret it, this might count towards progress to our Faith score. From, you know, noticing who the spirit attacks and who the spirit doesn't attack, and thus altering behavior and culture to be more like who the spirit doesn't attack. This is the more ambiguous option, though, since the outcome depends on the desire of this person and we're too new to figure that out yet. That's why I vote for this: we need more information on our worshipers, to better help/hurt them.
