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Time of the Gods: Into the Amber Age
- Thread starter Powerofmind
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Maybe not, but we might get a shot at the other Affinities Harzi associates with rivers either those of River Mothers Domain (Motherhood and all her other stuff) or those from Fishy
However even if it does allo this to happen I'm not sure I would vote for it, in fact I'm not even sure if I will vote this turn at all since I don't like any of the options
My problem with the moon blessing is that we get it for upholding the social order, which is the opposite of what we are currently trying to do (trying to overthrow the Crone)
The Fish blessing sounds to me like getting a shot at either water traits (EA's and Spirit of the Sea) or getting a shot some Animal Aspects related to the sea
While the ship options certainly sounds good enough, my problem with it is that the option makes us travel by the river instead of passing over the final hill, which sounds like we might miss something
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- Anchorage, Alaska
If this is your only reason for forgoing moon, I wouldn't worry about it too much. For one thing, this is a gift freely given which means we aren't going to lose it from performing "unaligned" actions
For another, no matter how powerful the gift, it's not going to shift Gaerig's core personality. It may flavor it one way or another, but even slapping Lawful onto Gaerig isn't going to stop her from doing whatever she bloody well feels like, she'll just start making up actual rules as she goes along.
Also, I figure that whatever we miss on the hill, will be replaced with an encounter on the river. There is no way we're getting off THAT easily!
Powerofmind
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It's a riverboat. It's a little big to carry around.
You'll see the general idea of what the options could have provided just by seeing how you get your rewards.
Yes, protean shifting lets you negate penalties and blend bonuses of different forms, even aspect forms (a T3 animal aspect can use protean shifting to dodge the Spirit of the Hunter bonus, and true shifting works as well, but not as readily or quickly).
Quicksilver is a likely result for a chimera, which allows free blending of trait forms. Protean allows adaptive shifting, forms whose weakpoints are guarded by other forms overlaying themselves on top in response to attack and such. Otherwise the avatar would be forced to alternate between whole or very specifically delineated forms (all water, silver arm. All natural, vortex below the waist, etc.).
Chimera can fuse creature aspects in you directly and others, with clear lines of separation like a Frankenstein's monster. Mermaids, centaurs, dryads, satyrs, all types of creatures that can be born if you are chimeric at the time (you do not have to pass chimera on). Fishmen (around 4 total tiers of sea creature aspects, or 3 and an appropriate element), on the other hand, are seemlessly blended, a clearly separate creature that, while clearly similar to man and fish, has no exceedingly obvious markings that scream 'human' or 'fish', completely apart from the other.
[X] Accept the Wolf of the Moon's blessing.
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- Finland
[X] Accept the Fish of the River's blessing.
I love the story-time way this update was written.
I love the story-time way this update was written.
Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
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That's the idea!
I think with intrinsic Mischief and as a Fear spirit, if Gaerig goes Lawful, she's going to be Lawyer, not Lawspeaker. Politician, not Authority.
So yeah.
Likewise. We have to pass through Harzivan's Legend to come out the other side. There's NOTHING uneventful(for all we know we pass through his conflict with the River Mother instead of the conflict with Halisee) in the thing!
Ah, very cool, and fitting. Sun Wukong did it after all.
Hmm, this is interesting.
So:
Multiple Elemental Avatars without Chimera = Certain distinct body parts always comprised of the Avatar trait. Like Nuada's Silver Hand.
Multiple Elemental Avatars with Chimera = Both elements fused into a synthesis element
Multiple Animal Aspects without Chimera = Both animals fused into a synthesis of their aspects.
Multiple Animal Aspects with Chimera = Both animals distinct and clearly delineated.
We have some shapeshifting, so it's moot for us, but would normally Chimera spirits would be forced to breed out their specific type of chimera if they wanted to put the trait in? Like Pan making Satyrs.
IIRC 2 sea aspects/elements allows waterbreathing people right?
Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
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Not sure about your meaning? Are chimeras forced to only breed the aspects their form has umbrella'd? No, they aren't, but they can only get 'chimera kids' if the traits are from the umbrella, or chimera has also been passed down with the non-covered aspect.
Waterbreathing people, yes, but the traits wouldn't be strong enough to do more than give you completely human-looking people with arm or neck gills or something similar. Unless the traits are powerful in the human bloodline, they don't have a complete, changing-the-entire-body effect, they just tend to do things like the demis you know from classic AA, a little bit of snake gives a few scales, a little bit of tree gives green hair, that sort of thing.
I meant, are they required to pass the full umbrella Chimera trait if they don't have shapeshifter to remove those from the mix?
Just verifying. Didn't need large deviation from human norm, just waterpeople
Powerofmind
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Yes, if they can't get rid of it in any way the random traits will prioritize the chimera umbrella first.
And so Pan churns out Satyrs, gotcha.
SalsaDeGranada
Thankful for our Cradle's Graces
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- Philippines
Just caught up with this quest. Living in Gaerig's town is so horrible it wraps back around to being hilarious.
Pandemonious Ivy
Panties, Revolution. Big Drawers. Parachute.
[X] Accept the Fish of the River's blessing.
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- Hell
So no, we don't as it is very noticeable and would require a lot of DE(20 DE per shot!). Not to mention we'd be turning the moon orange. That's pretty noticeable and a warning that spooky stuff is happening. Again not saying it doesn't do anything simply that offensively it works as sabotage and if we don't do anything to take advantage... it doesn't really do much harm that they can't fix.
So we can't bring it with us and thus no example(word of mouth from someone who doesn't have woodworking won't work very well).
They're called Rain, Stream, Pool, and Fog Affinities veekie and those are only things off the top of my head. As opposed to Sea that can only lap at the shoreline, any of those can affect villages much deeper inland. Get more traits that can only(except for rain and fog) occur on land and Gaerig will pay more attention. There are ways veekie just look at Fish Spirit. He had Water Affinities yet there he was in a landlocked territory but following the river from the ocean.
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Good to have you! I'm glad the ridiculous amount of pages of arguing haven't scared you off and happy to see another invested in Gaerig's future. What do you say accepting the Fish of the River's blessing? It would keep with Gaerig's Inherent Water Affinity and potentially gives us more stuff to throw at the Crone.
[X] Accept the Wolf of the Moon's blessing.
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- The Great Beyond
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[X] Accept the Fish of the River's blessing.
- Location
- Hell
But what about our sea monsters?