I know that the mages are assisting us, and Alex and Gunnolf, but are they assisting the other supernaturals, and how?
They are not assisting any other protagonists apart from Alex, Gunnolf, and of course Dule. Reason being that there's no real line of communication with the Grey, the Songsmith, or Elijah, and the Beast is straight up impossible to communicate with.
We're finishing up Act 2, you mentioned that Songsmith finished up Act 2, and the Grey was working on Act 3. What acts are the other supernaturals on?
Is there are reason for us to start contacting the the Grey at this point?
Alex and Gunnolf are both in the finishing stages of their Act 2 and have been for a while what with you guys and the Mages both rolling really well on "Let's Ruin This Serial Killer's Whole Day" earlier on. Only reason they haven't completed it yet is devoting more time to research since they had free time for it. Elijah's getting towards completing Act 2 but isn't there quite yet as it hasn't uncovered the source of the demonic incursion yet. Beast is halfway there, had a chance encounter with the Thing On The Mountain.
Honestly? That's up to you guys but I wouldn't recommend it. The Grey's whole goal has always been "Get the fuck out of here." It has
no investment in Earth or what goes down here, not even after the time it's spent on ol' Terra Firma here. Its plan is still "Get my maps, get my ship repaired, get out of here before I get killed." and it's staying that way. It might help if you come up with something that'll help it on that plan but yeah.
Why did Elijah consider the Wandering God to be a false divinity? Didn't we explain about him when we mentioned him? Speaking of Elijah, I don't remember seeing it, but did we explain about the spell that was made to keep the Gods out of reality?
Elijah doesn't consider the Wanderer a false divine, it considers the Primal Fear a false divine. The Wanderer simply doesn't match any known profiles for the Divine in Elijah's memories, which are fuzzy sometimes. The Primal Fear, on the other hand, is a false one because it's on the way to being a god but isn't fully 100% there quite yet which is also the reason why the spell didn't catch it.
You did explain about the Wanderer but for whatever reason the Wanderer ain't bothered going near Elijah at all.
You haven't made mention of that spell
yet.
Do the mages in town experience a similar act structure, and if so what act are they on?
They do and they are on Act 2.
Can you tell us what each of the supernatural's acts are defined by(or at least the acts that are finished, or that they're in the middle of)?
And this is where we hit a wall.
See, I'm gonna level with you all? I've just been doing a few rolls every so often and charting progress fairly arbitrarily for each protagonist so far. While I've got an idea on how their act structures progress I don't 100% have their plots figured out.
Alex and Gunnolf are easy, their act structure has always been "Keep these two kids safe, deal with the hunters, get rid of the hunters for good." Like, that's their Act 1, 2, and 3 right there.
The Beast has been "Kill threats to Small One (Levi), Kill and consume other Windigos, Kill The Thing On The Mountain" since about the time I figured Windigos fighting and killing each other for territory but also because cannibals made sense as a plot beat.
Songsmith has been "Investigate World and keep Handan safe, Try to figure out why Locksmith can't talk to me, Convince Locksmith to stop" for a while now.
The Grey is, again, the easiest fucker in the world to write and plan for. "Act 1: Fuck me I'm stuck here, Act 2: Okay, repair this, Act 3: GET OUT OF HERE" since day 1, literally since day 1 that's been the act structure.
And now we get to Elijah.
Who I
still don't have an end goal or major antagonistic force for. Cause every time I go to make one I end up second guessing myself so hard that I end up deleting everything involved. Reason 'Eyes All In Gold' is taking so long is thanks to that fact.
Do I go even harder on 'The gods are jerks, made tools that could think and reason and then didn't give them free will' and make the antagonist the entire angelic host as Elijah's slowly fragmented 'programming' finally snaps and it decides to keep Elijah safe because its the first proper decision it's ever made for itself?
Or do I go for a classic and have it be a Demon, like a proper one, an actual fallen angel that's causing all kinds of awful crap to go down for its own goals and motivations?
Do I do
neither and just have the ultimate antagonist be Elijah deciding to shatter its own restrictions and programming, becoming something
more in the process?
I don't know and it bothers me significantly and it makes it tricky to even write whenever the Angel comes up. Because I genuinely didn't plan enough around angels and such because I was focused more on figuring out Dule and the whole thing with the Primal Fear. It's a failing on my part and one that I gotta correct but... That's basically the gist of things.
As for the Mages... Ehhhh, Act 1: Investigate, Act 2: Contain, and I'm not gonna say anything on Act 3 cause that's a bit too far on spoilers.
