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*looks at Thought*

Perhaps we should band together and stay out of the soap opera? 

Nooo, you must fall in love with each other or something and add to the drama!

One of us! One of us! One of us! One of us! One of us!

...okay I am in a really odd mood today.

A question for Veok, or any admin I suppose: The Feymire Shackles can presumably only be used on one exarch at a time, correct? How does that work with multi-exarchs like the Lynn or Xeadin's guardians? If one of them gets chained are they all made mortal and mute?

Or from a different perspective, what about multi-exarchs that are combat type? Do only one of them have to be involved in a battle to grant the benefit, or do they all have to be there? Or if the exarch looses, can all of them be imprissoned, even if not all of them participated?

With Multi-exarchs, the thinking has always been "you need all of the 'parts' to be together to use the bonus PP".

So while only one of them may be shackled, it effectively prevents the others from doing anything (unless the others are standing around their imprisoned brethren).

combat multi-exarchs are the same way -- if not all of the 'parts' participate, they can't grant their combat bonus. In this case, again, even imprisoning only those who were part of the fight has the same mechanical ramifications (not being able to spend PP) as if they had all been imprisoned.

And remember, if your god knows that their exarch is imprisoned, all they have to do is *poof* over and undo the shackles themselves -- it's only a minor artifact after all. The trick is to capture an opposing exarch in such a way that their absence is not noticed.  

Hey Thought, Xeadin is playing with your water again.  Are you just going to let him get away with it?

Making a water dragon, in fact!  Smite him good!


Actually, V... I take a bit of issue with your subversion of the Bahenet in that way.  Nobody and I mean nobody, not even them knows what happens to their souls, and as you haven't actually visited the Altar, I can't see how you would know either.  So go edit in visiting  the altar or something, otherwise I shall call you a godmoder!  

To note, I wont have internet access for about the next week. See you all then.

~Thought

I shall chime in that I am travelling for the next two weeks.  I should still be able to get on, just not nearly as much as usual.  I leave you in the capable hands of Ara and Veok!

You sure about that? Aren't we the two gods who feel jilted by yours?

You might come back to find... things more messy than you like. Bwahahaha! 

I, For one, welcome our new alien overlords

I'm afraid that poor Ara is going to have to go it alone for the immediate future -- I too will be without internet access for the next week or so (moving into a new apartment though, should be fun!).

*Looks around and notices the conspicous lack of authority before suddenly realizing this is a perfect time for a coup!!!*

Actually, Joran, three things: 
1) Yes I believe you do still have another 3pp, I dont think you spent any last turn which means that 3 carried over into this week.
2) Your expenditures I believe are a little off.  The dragonborn would already have some familiarity with Alchemy, so you need only spend 1pp as a specilization.  Counterbalancing that though, creating an organization like the dragoons is 2pp.
3) I am going to roll with it for now but realize you are not automatically everywhere Shi'vya is.  Veok's attack was against a small Soulshard outpost, and it seemed rather obvious that malice was not targetting a settlement with two gods already standing in the middle of it.

Aye. Last you were seen you were within Despair's fog, in a place between worlds. But even at that, posting more often would help you not be forgotten.

To note, contrary to what it might seem, I'm still without internet, more or less. I'm trying to keep up on my phone, but texting a post would be insane.

Aug 13, 2010 -- 12:06PM, Ritreaude wrote:

Veok's attack was against a small Soulshard outpost, and it seemed rather obvious that malice was not targetting a settlement with two gods already standing in the middle of it.

That would clear up some of the confusion that I have, except for one small problem-- there's only one Soulshard nation currently on the Triskelion Continent.

All other elemental nations are not a part of the Soulshard nation. Whatever veok thought existed didn't exist.

[edit] ...unless veok was thinking about the small group that followed the drahken through the forest. But that's not an outpost-- they were still a part of the same nation. They were not establishing any outpost where they were.

Thanks for the update on the PP expenditures, but on the note of where I am, I was still with Schi'vya at the time inspite of us being where ever we might have been.  So when she would have left the 'fog' I would have as well.

Now on the note of posting more often, well I would, but being evicted last weekend has put a large damper on my internet access. I am staying with my brother, but he doesn't have internet (yet). So my posting will be slow for a while. 

Even still, if there happens to be a post previous that two people are together and someone else shows up and only addresses one with out even acnowledging the other would imply rudeness, or that that person only has a message for one of the two. SO, in the thing of harkon/armal, he only wanted/needed to talk to schi'vya no need to address me (even though it still seems off, but understandable). In the thing of the golden one, not addressing both would be seen as rude due to just showing up for sociable conventions.

So, while I may or may not be able to post often unless schi'vya goes somewhere else and we depart company (which can/might happen eventually) I am still near her, and I do believe a giant dragon would be hard to miss.

Aug 13, 2010 -- 12:26PM, Xeadin wrote:

That would clear up some of the confusion that I have, except for one small problem-- there's only one Soulshard nation currently on the Triskelion Continent.

All other elemental nations are not a part of the Soulshard nation. Whatever veok thought existed didn't exist.

[edit] ...unless veok was thinking about the small group that followed the drahken through the forest. But that's not an outpost-- they were still a part of the same nation. They were not establishing any outpost where they were.

The act of making a group a nation indicates population growth and expansion. By spending the PP to develop the nation, it is assumed that small bands of elementals, virago, and whatever else component creatures settle down into small cities, thorps, hamlets, and villages. That is by definition. So while there may be only a single large city / population center within the nation, it can't be assumed that there is nowhere else where a group of virago, elementals, and what have you, who associate themselves with the Soulshard nation, have settled down.

Unless it is clearly established that a particular group is strictly a city-state, some outward sprawl is implicit.


In other news, I will be less without internet than I thought I would be.

Just stopping by to say hi... won't be posting IC for a couple days more.

Aug 14, 2010 -- 1:00PM, joran1313 wrote:

SO, in the thing of harkon/armal, he only wanted/needed to talk to schi'vya no need to address me (even though it still seems off, but understandable).

Actually, Harkon and Armal started by asking a question of both of you, but only xeadin responded, so only she got talked to.


@ Veok, perhaps it is that I think the soulshard nation is to the west of the Triskelion, while you said you were dealing with a settlement to the east? Just  wild guess

[EDIT] Question answered

Rit, to note, Despair did't give his name

I find the irony delicious.

By the way, I will be leaving for vacation some time tomorrow, and won't be back for a little over a week. Odds are I will have occasional computer access during that time, but figured I'd give a heads up regardless.

*mutter mutter*  I go on Vacation and Veok sets about destroying my people...

*mutter*

Hmm... I have lots of PP... *looks at the eladrin* :P

Ah well, nothing I can do about it when I only get online maybe once every two days, now is there? 

*mutter mutter*

Overtly meta-gaming

*mutter mutter*

/wink

And hey, I've been lurking for several days now! You should be pleased I'm not flat out dumping my PP into nourish / denourish.

*Glares at anyone, ever, who has ever, ever, ever spent more than a single PP on a single nourish / denourish action*

*Realizes pot is calling the kettle black and stops glaring*

 

I don't get that expression.

What if the pot was pink or something?

In other news, I am going to get to doing stuff with stuff, don't despair. Just chalk it up to me being lazy or something. Procrastination would be a good word here.

Joran correct me if I am wrong but Astriluxus was not ascended until after the world-warp, and therefore the "yes, yes, and yes" is factually untrue....

 Oh Veok, but metagaming, and then yelling about said metagaming, is a time honored tradition here!


Ah, I see I am being... guided.  I shall play along! 

While yes astriluxus was not ascended till after the worldwarp, does not mean he doesn't remember a time and place(or times and places for that matter) before coming to this plane. We all come from somewhere, and where that somewhere is could be anywhere! So, in a sense it is true, yet at the same time not. It all depends on how you look at it. Remember we are not alone! :P

But for all intents and purposes, each god has only existed since their first post in the IC. After all, one of the main rules of LoC is: If it didn't happen in the IC, it didn't happen.

So yes, you could *say* that you did stuff before, and people could choose to go along with it, but everyone is perfectly within their rights to think you're a raving lunatic.

*looks at Aaviz*

Anywho, while you could allude to things you believe may or may not have happened to you before you entered the world, you certainly cannot have any knowledge of anything that happened in the world when you weren't present, either through not being ascended yet or from not being physically present. The obvious exception being if someone specifically told you about it.

@Thought -- So whatever happened to your layer of living storms? Is the new water veil (Yo dawg, we put a veil of water around your veil of water, so when you're protected from the void, you're protected from the void) above them? Under them?

Did ya just forget about them? Am I raving mad and misremembering something that didn't actually happen? Susan? 

Yeah THought, there was an existing water veil. And now I have to move my continent. I was specifically going for the 'sail over the edge and fall forever into the void' approach.

To note, I wasn't planning on this outer veil remaining intact long.

Hey people. Sorry for the late reset, my internet has been spotty all night.

So yeah, reset. Yay!

Dear everyone,

I am (nearly) home again (will be back for good tomorrow night).

Over the next few days, if I am not addressing an interaction, please send me a PM or remind me in some other way... being gone for roughly two weeks means that I might miss something.



In other news, I'm finally moving forward with my plans to run a play-by-chat.  Check out this thread for details!

community.wizards.com/lordsofcreation/go...
 

I apologize for not getting to this earlier, but here are some concerns/adjustments to the last two weeks' of posts.

Joran, post #1437.  Either thats a 2 PP teach of super-alchemy or a 1 PP specialization (nourish)... which is it?

Xeadin, post #1445.  As Paladins are a standard class, they're not really right for a teach.  Perhaps an organization or a specialization instead?

Thought, post #1455.  This is a THIN shell of water, yes?

Xeadin, post #1463.  Same as before... you don't need to 'teach' people to be rangers.

 

Aye, a thin outer veil of water. Though to note, since some people have expressed concern, this secondary veil isn't supposed to remain as is for very long.

Aug 23, 2010 -- 4:01PM, Topheh wrote:

I apologize for not getting to this earlier, but here are some concerns/adjustments to the last two weeks' of posts.

Xeadin, post #1445.  As Paladins are a standard class, they're not really right for a teach.  Perhaps an organization or a specialization instead?

Xeadin, post #1463.  Same as before... you don't need to 'teach' people to be rangers.

Specializations are a 1PP Nourish action?

I had no idea... going to edit

Aug 23, 2010 -- 4:01PM, Topheh wrote:

I apologize for not getting to this earlier, but here are some concerns/adjustments to the last two weeks' of posts.

Joran, post #1437.  Either thats a 2 PP teach of super-alchemy or a 1 PP specialization (nourish)... which is it?


 

Ok I thought it was just a standard teach action. I'll edit to specialization when I get a chance to.

@Thought

There are two Eladrin nations - The Warped Court and the Wygrove Confederacy. I assume you meant the former, but better to be specific. 

Ah, sorry, I thought the Warped Court was an organization inside the Wygrove Confederacy. Whichever group of Eladrins are trading seelite with the Bahenet, that one.

Ah, well that leads to another conundrum -- Seelite was never being traded. It was introduced personally by an exarch. Neither The Warped Court, The Wygrove Confederacy, or the Soulshard Nation know anything about the metal, truly.

But the Bahenet, at one point, thought the Warped Court did.

Wait, so then where did they get it from? Did the exarchs give it all to them in one huge sale, or are they continuously giving them more?

I assumed the latter, especially given how much junk V and I have made with the stuff.  Its why the roads led back to the Eladrin.

Ah; I had taken the Bahenet assumptions that the Warped Court provided the metal as truth rather than speculation. I'll alter my post accordingly. But to give a brief summary, the nourish apparently went to the warped court.

Do the shackles last for one week? I really like the idea of trapping the Reaper, though I'd have to admit-- that might make her very angry.

{ "Look! A serpent carrying a basket has burst out from a tree and it wants to kill us! RUUUUUUNNN" }

  It's things like that that want to make you create senseless jokes that makes no sense, but I guess that's the glory of brainstorming the inevitable.

They last until I get very, very grouchy with them.  Which won't be for a while.  That tree's got some growin' to do.

Plus, I stole the basket!

And Xeadin -- Remember my clause about the Feymire Shackles -- they make the prisoner mute. The Reaper's screams can only be heard inside her own head. All passerby's would hear is a petrified tree that echoes eerily when they walk past: *clearly*, it is haunted.  

Ah. That makes sense now.

Due to R/L I'm going to be MIA for a while. I hope to be back fully in a couple of weeks (/prays). Anyways I'm going to post IC reflecting my MIA status, and people dont go wild with the dragonborn just cause I'm not here! :P I'm asleep not dead!

Wizdude, two things.


1)  Those sections of your post that you declared 'secret'... aren't really (well, the second one *could* be if you really wanted it to, I guess).  They're certainly under the cover of night, but 'secret' actions are more reserved for 'things nobody else should even notice is happening' and killing and destroying and buring... aren't exactly unnoticeable (without PP being spent, that is)

2)  Gonna need a bit more of an explanation of how you got those elves, there... they're rather far away from Nihiliath and as far as I can tell, the Illithids had no prior knowledge of them, so its a bit... RP-bad to just suddenly be capturing them without any IC text to support finding them in the first place!


Also, PbC is starting tomorrow.  Check the LoC forum for more details. 

@Thought -- Can you please link to the post in question instead of the page number? I have increased the # of posts displayed per page, so that the latest posts are only on page 75. I do not have a page 118, and thus cannot easily look up the post you were trying to link.

P.S. I am sad that you are keeling the warped court's mindflayers. After all, they aren't even aware of the existence of the Drakken, other than as the group who made trade possible between them.

Actually, I tried to link the post, but for some reasons the link instead goes to the wrong post. I'll try again, but I make no promises: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...

And aye, I had planned on doing more with the Warped Court Mindflayers, but my time table had to be accelerated significantly to conform to occuring events. I bet the lords and lynns had thought I had forgotten about them :P

To note, looking over things I think 1PP wasn't actually enough to get the entire slave army to abandon Nihilian, especially since that would shut down the war that Wizdude just started. Unless an admin objects, I'd say there is still a Nihilian army around, then.

Just to let everyone (especially Thought) know, I'm in a little bit of a hiatus, because my home internet has been shut off for a few days. Missed payment was the cause, so my replies will be spotty until it can get paid...

Hi

I was wondering if this game was still active and if it is still possible to join?

Yes, and yes! Toph just hasn't updated the first post lately! As soon as you post an application and it gets reviewed, you should be good to go!

Yeah, its the long summer months, etc,etc,etc...  Welcome back Camu!

Works by me.  Come on in!  You've got 7 PP

Yes, welcome! Come on in, have a cup of tea, and don't feel like your name has been defamed.

*goes off to hide his exarch named Aramorg*

Assuming there's still an opening, I've been debating joining and half watching this one as long as it's been going.

Name: The Seven
Greater Domain: --
Moderate Domains (up to 2):  Moon, Pestilence, Animals
Lesser Domains (up to 4): Fear, Sleep, Pleasure, Runes
Physical Appearance: A massive swarm of assorted insects with the capacity to coalesce into seven distinct figures.
Symbol: A single flame with several moths flying towards it.
Personality/Core Concept:  Intentionally a mixed bag, The seven are harbingers, though of what one can never be sure. At least one of their seven bodies possessed of one mind often appear before, during, and after calamity strikes and render the will of some unknown power to those present.

PS: I realize my domains have a heavy lean. It's not that I intend to act like a douche and break everyones toys, it's that these are all domens I felt could be used to create telling omens of both good and bad.

Welcome Sina!

*quietly puts away plans for an exarch based on Defluo*

I recognize that appearance!

Come on in, Sina  

Wee! Go ahead and make a defluo-based exarch thought. I don't intend to re-visit my older gods. I like each god to stand apart from my previous incarnations. Though, this one is based on one of Yoglith's Exarchs.. But only because I have no campaign-world dieties to flesh out anymore.

Thank you for the welcome Topheh.

Heya,
my last post whas a while ago (6 months maybe :p), but I was thinking of coming back to the game, so in order to bring back my (quite inactive) god I just have to restart posting right?

yup.

@Camu -- I think your last post meant a Greater Spawn, not a Superior Spawn, which is 4 PP and a single entity.

my mistake

fixed it

Out of curiosity, Veok, are you leaving the game or just switching gods?

The latter. I haven't gone anywhere yet. Just felt played out.

Oh, I should probably mention that I am going to be mostly if not completely out of touch from thursday to sunday afternoon.

Arrggg... Looks like I've been out of the loop for longer than I have expected...

Hey Xeadin -- how 'bout instead of making another exarch (that looks exactly like yourself) you make an avatar instead -- isn't that sort of what you're going for anyway?

Hello, guys, aspiring god here hoping to be ascended.

Name: Donovyet

Domain: Inspiration

Appearance: A tall, bald goblin with a big smile, covered in patches of craft-related materials(paint, clay, grease, as if he just left a workshop).  

Holy Symbol:  A candle, burned down to a nub.

Hello and Welcome!

You have been approved!

Come by the mibbit chatroom on #LoC and see if you can't get one of the active gods to get you into the game!

 

If you cant stop by there me or one of the many of us will be more than happy to ascend you. Just let us know.

Where once there was one, now there are two! Happy posting in IC pashalik!

Welcome Pashalik

Welcome Pashalik!

As a note, I'd like to appologize to everyone for being so inactive. I started my doctoral program recently and it is trying to kill me. As I have been lucky to get to sleep at a decent hour, free time itself has evaporated. But I am struggling to get some back, so hopefully I will not be silent for ever.

Okay, well... I think the time has come to say this:

I think its time we start wrapping this LoC up.  Posting is nearly non-existent at this point, and rather than have it die off completely, I'd love it if we could wrap this up in some way, or at least post and get out affairs in order.  Perhaps... two weeks and then we'll call it done?

Oh, speaking of that... Pashalik, just take 6 PP each week.

And of course, with the close of LoC:WW, we start looking ahead to, well... whatever comes next.  Instead of launching into mechanics debates right away... lets take a step back and instead talk about LoC as a whole... the Lords of Creation games have been going on now for... what... two or three years now?   Lets talk about what our favorite memories are, what we feel LoC should be at its core and what, if anything, you've always wanted to try and do in-game.  

Thanks for your time  

Since it's gotta wrap up, and I never even contributed to the world, I would suggest any records of this game simply leave The Seven out. He'd not even learned enough language to always form coherent sentences yet(I was only using words he'd heard other people say, if you didn't notice). It would be better to just have never existed than leave some material sink with no value, and not even enough of a jump-off for DMs.

So, I have a question.... how do we want to wrap this up? End of the world apocolypse style, or are we just going to phase it all out or what?

I'm personally a fan of everything just starting to drift away again. A realm of rapidly departing earthmotes, if you will.

Oh, I dunno, Sina... I could imagine a nice endgame with you and Camu's gods being the horsemen of the apocolypse or the like :D

And yes, I *did* notice that.  Did you notice that my god started rambling a bit more to give you more words to choose from? 

Okay, well... its time.  

Not tonight, but next week will be the last reset of WorldWarp.  We'll be doing the usual 2x PP at that point, so... you have been warned!

That said, please start wrapping things up, and check on the group forums for a discussion of how to end it all.  

~Toph 

Sep 27, 2010 -- 12:57PM, Veok wrote:

Hey Xeadin -- how 'bout instead of making another exarch (that looks exactly like yourself) you make an avatar instead -- isn't that sort of what you're going for anyway?

Damn... I've been out for quite a long time...

Well, to answer your question veok-- no. I had purposefully made it an exarch so that it could spring Harkon's trap. Of course now since the game's ending, it's probably a little late for that...  

Its rough, but I've finished updating the game history to be current.  Not exactly expecting it to promt a sudden influx of interest, but re-reading the thread... we did some really cool stuff this time around.  Go us!


locworldwarp.wikia.com/wiki/Game_History 

nice

This was needed:

The Leviathan    Level 35 Solo Brute
Gargantuan aberrant beast     XP 235,000
HP 1280; Bloodied 640
Regeneration 10 
AC 53; Fortitude 51; Reflex 43; Will 44
Speed 4, swim 6
Immune cold; Resist 10 force /20 against blunt weapons
Saving Throws +5; Action Points 2
Initiative +18
Perception +20

Traits
O Acid Cloud • Aura 10 Creatures that start their turn in the aura take 10 acid damage

Standard Actions
m Bite • At-Will
Attack: Reach 4; +38 vs. AC
Hit: 4d8 + 14 damage.
M Crushing Bite • Recharge 5 6,6
Attack: Reach 4; +36 vs. Fortitude
Hit: 2d12 + 14 damage, and the target is dazed (save ends).
Aftereffect: Target is weakened (save ends).
M Slam Flurry • Encounter
Attack: Reach 4; +37 vs. AC
Hit: 4d8 + 14 damage.
Effect: The Leviathan makes three slam attacks against three different opponents.
M Swallow Whole • At-Will
Attack: +36 vs. Reflex
Hit: 2d12 + 14 damage, and a Large or smaller target is swallowed. A swallowed target is grabbed and restrained. A swallowed creature has line of sight and line of effect only to the leviathan swallowing it, and no creatures has line of sight or line of effect to it. A creature that escapes the grab is no longer swallowed and appears in a space adjacent to the leviathan. A leviathan can move normally while it has a target grabbed in this way.  When the leviathan dies, the target can escape as a move action, appearing in the leviathan’s former space. Sustain Minor: The leviathan sustains the grab, and the target takes 20 damage.
C Tentacle Burst (acid) • Encounter
Attack: Close burst 5 (All creatures in burst); +36 vs. Reflex
Hit: 2d6 + 12 Acid Damage, and the target is pushed 5 squares.
Aftereffect: 10 Acid Damage (SE).
Triggered Actions
C Tidal Flood • Encounter
Trigger: The Leviathan is Bloodied.
Attack (Immediate Interrupt): 5 (All Creatures in Blast); +36 vs. Reflex
Hit: 9d8 + 11 And creaturs are pushed back 10 squares by the torrent of water.
Skills Endurance +33
Str 34 (+29)    Dex 12 (+18)    Wis 16 (+20)
Con 32 (+28)    Int 10 (+17)    Cha 11 (+17)
Alignment unaligned     Languages —

© 2010 Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. This formatted statistics block has been generated using the D&D Adventure Tools.

Whoa... Superior Spawn drop!  

Good thing I'm not going to be a stickler and declare that by your definition, the beast will defend the triskelion from anyone, including those people that already live there


Anyways... time's running out to post, folks.  Get posts in if you want to get htem in.

On sunday, we'll start to talk about what we're gonna do next. 

oki I'll look forward to sunday (yes I'm still lurking around), btw toph if you want a few points take all of mine :p

Mmmkay.  thats 18.  Joran, you want some of these?

"Good thing I'm not going to be a stickler and declare that by your definition, the beast will defend the triskelion from anyone, including those people that already live there"

He specified "Guard: against superior spawns" so it's a non-issue. 

Sure! I'll take half of those, this way I wont drop all of my points on one spawn. I'll divide them between the two before we die gloriously!

So, Toph just let me know and Astriluxus will start the final assault as I already have everything done on my side.

Also, The silverish weapons that the dragonborn handed to the eladrin were forged dragonmetal weapons. I figured Umbarts orcs would have eventually learned and figured out how to forge them, and Astriluxus and Pollux would have brought some down.

Ah, dragonmetal.  My bad.

Well, how about this.  I'm going to post right now and forge you a brand new Seelite Weapon to use against the beastie.

And... sure.  8 more PP for Joran!

 

Oh, and I vote we turn the Leviathan into an actual mountain range after its death.  Seems fitting... not to mention a VERY spooky place to adventure!

Hi

Sorry for the lack of posting, but work kept me busy.

Well I see you plan to finish the last bits, so not sure if it's worth my god does anything, although I might still let her do something.

I agree on the mountain range!

As for the seelite weapon, since I can't actually use weapons in dragon form (which is what I normally am, plus I'm a bit stronger as a dragon as opposed to dragonborn,) You'll have to use it. Its the reason why I gave my now exarch a very powerful weapon that a god would normally use.(The sword of light is a very powerful holy sword made up of pure light energy capable of slicing through anything including the deepest darkness and the leviathan's hide.) Thanks though!

and Camu, join on in! The more the merrier! :P

and as the saying goes: It Is a good day to die!

Well, thats that.  Thank you all for playing!  Keep an eye out here and especially on the group forums for when we'll be starting up a new round.

~Toph