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and the rest of us voted against it because Fear Spirit and Sea Monsters.
Time of the Gods: Into the Amber Age
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I voted against it because I didn't want to be a civ-building spirit...
Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
@Powerofmind - If the plan for this turn included getting Faith 1, would Build a Shrine in the same plan still have a chance of failure?
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High Clerk of the Ymaryn
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Like veekie said, PoM said that its more than just Shrine + 1, and in particular that at shrine 10 we can have much more than 11 traits
By "decided on faith" i meant buying faith 1 in general, not specifically going for faith 2; if you're certain you'll go the faith route at this point (whether faith 1 or faith 2) i might give you my proxy vote if plan voting is still locked when i go to bed.
Some of us voted against it because we wanted a genius loci or at least an elemental, but still wanted faith
Man that sure does sound like exactly what I just said. What with getting into more and more human things to get access to magic. It comes heavily from various perform things after all.
Yeah once voting is open I will go with this.
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I want Aspect of Humanity, but also maybe wait until we also have a Fish Aspect? Not sure! Buying stuff is complicated.
Wrap it in a hide, tie it shut, tie it to another hide, blow air in until it lifts off. Takes a balloon a bit more than a half meter in diameter.
Better yet, use one of those "two men plus their weight in fish" canoes to haul an already inflated hide out there along with a disposable anchor rock, plop it down, tie it off, and let 'er go.
This isn't a Richard Dean Anderson-level challenge.
You also have to consider how many slots are available. If you get aspect of humanity do you REALLY have room for fish anymore? It might force us to beeline into shrine upgrades to avoid getting trait locked and being basically useless.
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I'll vote for whatever plan has Faithiness inside it, then within that subset whatever gets us the orb, then whatever has more Humanness, in that order.
I suspect the Orb quest will provide buckets of legend (5++) and/or bonuses to Shrine and possibly Influence.
I suspect the Orb quest will provide buckets of legend (5++) and/or bonuses to Shrine and possibly Influence.
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@Powerofmind i know you are planning for us to discover things as we hit them, but the trait cap is already featuring in arguments, is there any way you can give us at least our current trait cap?
Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
Oh. Hrm. Was thinking we should be "awake" for this coming turn to try to:
[] Faith 0 -> 1
[] Bless Petitioner for Sacrifices
-[] 8 DE
[] Roil Waters
[] Guide the Ships
[] Build a Shrine
[] Declare yourself Gaerig, spirit of the sea, and demand offerings! Costs: 5 DE
[] Bless Petitioner for Sacrifices
-[] 8 DE
[] Roil Waters
[] Guide the Ships
[] Build a Shrine
[] Declare yourself Gaerig, spirit of the sea, and demand offerings! Costs: 5 DE
*Shrugs* I know some people want all the magic, all the time, but honestly it seems like in this setting you can go a long way via just playing to your theme.
Sure, you could probably get hax traits via rituals and major investment of DE, but you could probably get the same trait and profit a boatload of DE in a fraction of the time if you're a fear spirit playing to theme and you get lucky on a trait roll.
Sure, you could probably get hax traits via rituals and major investment of DE, but you could probably get the same trait and profit a boatload of DE in a fraction of the time if you're a fear spirit playing to theme and you get lucky on a trait roll.
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Now to overanalyze the update while waiting for vote unlock time.
Formerly brilliant, their echoes still linger, but long dead.
Must be an anoxic patch of the sea(caused by dead god?) if it didn't corrode. Or enchanted.
Damn, that was brutal as fuck.
Gods being what they are, this is one of the few ways to actually confirm a kill though.
At this depth I think we're looking at bottom dwellers. Aspect of Octopus?
But we're the Sea and the Sea is not a tool user.
Faith 1 is yes. I'm certain to do so. Most efficient means at present.
Looks like the dice have spoken. We will be a nice free spirited watergirl.
Everything ends up at the bottom eventually, deep as anything goes.
Huh, the moon-mirror stunt sounds like a magically created reflective telescope. Slightly curved reflective surface focusing distant light.
That'd be stars of history then. Fallen gods.
Formerly brilliant, their echoes still linger, but long dead.
Marble or limestone? Sounds like marble.
Must be an anoxic patch of the sea(caused by dead god?) if it didn't corrode. Or enchanted.
Giant ball of silver. So by my reading, it's not THAT huge objectively...but a ball of silver the size of your head is going to be very hard to lift for anyone. A ball the size of your torso would be dragged only because it's a ball..
Damnatio Memoriam.
Damn, that was brutal as fuck.
Gods being what they are, this is one of the few ways to actually confirm a kill though.
Astrology and Omen Reading really work nicely for an explorer. Less time wandering around the nothing! More time following your star!
New fishies!
At this depth I think we're looking at bottom dwellers. Aspect of Octopus?
Is that the impact point? Someone used Shift Stars to meteor strike this place?
Copper!
Armor!(Not as useful for us I think, since seagoing people don't like armor quite as much)
That, is a fucking huge ball of silver.
Heh, I guess the pedestal was preserving it as part of the lingering shrine-magic, but knocking it off removed that.
Incidentally I realized that if we had Aspect of Human we should be able to use this to demand that they give us a fishing net so that we can use it to drag the ball more effectively.
But we're the Sea and the Sea is not a tool user.
This is a very cool trait, but currently our low Avatar means we don't get to use it yet. That's 2 new skills!
We can probably delay on this now. Recovering the Moon sphere should reduce the Legend cost of Mooning as a Faith spirit just by having it on display.
Faith 1 is yes. I'm certain to do so. Most efficient means at present.
Could sever traits later on, but I don't personally see the animal aspects as being a good target for us.
Uh, after sleeping for a turn we should have an excess of DE to burn on the first turn we wake.
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Animal traits don't make good poetry.That's because you have no poetry in your soul.
That's under Humanity/Performance.
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Our passive DE income is really tiny, remember? with faith one its like...4 faith income? and then we *might* get some base fear income? i doubt it'd be more than 2 or 4 though. So...32? max? If we spend a turn blessing for sacrifices and demanding sacrifices, and get faith 2 via humanity, then we'd likely be able to hit almost 40 (especially if someone makes an omake...not me, i've done my writing for the time being
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More seriously, it's a reasonable perspective, but you're clearly trying to choose traits based on an attempt to master/game/perfect the system. Which is, to note, valid in a sense, because this Quest is a game, but it's not the way I view this, at least.
I want Animal Aspects because I want them, not because a complex analysis of the next ten future traits means that it's a worthwhile addition to the complex build strat.
Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
Our current passive income is 6 DE, and the gain in Faith comes with the loss of Fear income, so its not like that should change much...
I for one just think animal aspects are lamesauce. Doubly so after Harzivan had a bajillion.
Gimme the cool stuff like Mischief, Exploration, and more Affinities.
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Well I'm hoping for more Elemental-type Monsters a la Leviathan(Worm) or Spirits(Korra). Either way away from Humanity and more in touch with our roots.
@drake_azathoth would you be willing to vote for my plan? We are attempting to draw people in and move to Fear Spirit. If we go Fear Spirit and bring up the Moon Sphere at the same time we could potentially autobuy Moon Affinity, which is really good for Mysticism.
Either way, Endless needs to be less introspective and more active if we want to have sufficient DE to pull it out and to our Holy Place.
@drake_azathoth would you be willing to vote for my plan? We are attempting to draw people in and move to Fear Spirit. If we go Fear Spirit and bring up the Moon Sphere at the same time we could potentially autobuy Moon Affinity, which is really good for Mysticism.
Either way, Endless needs to be less introspective and more active if we want to have sufficient DE to pull it out and to our Holy Place.
Huh, so with our non-existent magic score it can either greatly amplify or greatly reduce anything we do involving the Stars, the Moon, or the Sun... making possible fantastic read past/read future effects, and/or more injuries and strange disasters. When we can use it again I'm all for more experimentation! If we have the DE, of course.
... we could go Goddess of Fate? I think Fateweaver was a trait. Offensive uses of astrology!
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That's an entirely valid statement. I mean, I totally disagree with it 100%, and also hate how everything has to refer back to that Quest (in the sense that I didn't read most of it, and rejecting stuff just because of that seems dumb), but that's a good enough reason for your actions.
Personally, though, I want mermaids, and a mermaid is not just Human, by definition. Hence, Fish. Human+Fish=Mermaid/Merpeople.
Powerofmind
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*opens mouth*
*closes mouth*
*opens mouth*
Three. EDIT EDIT EDIT: Four. I derped.
No.
The size of the goddamn ball is currently in flux. I'm trying to get around 200-300 kilos, about a quarter-ton. I'm pretty sure I've got the final value at something like 32 centimeters in diameter, around a foot, but I'm doing a by-hand check after the calculator told me a ball half that size was the same weight.
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Nope, we'd go up a little bit. Not much, but a little bit.
It's very well written, go read it. Seriously.
Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
I thought you wanted Aspect of Humanity? Don't need fish for your merpeople then. Just fuck a fish.
Roughly, 18 cm radius for 256.5 kg
...don't suppose you keep confusing radius and diameter?
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