This is the OOC thread (for the new game entitled PANTHEON)...
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:28, Sat 21 Nov 2020.

I've added you all to the cast so far... Might I suggest that you discuss, here, what you're gonna do? Maybe bouncing ideas off each other might help...?

EDIT: Jon, are you gonna stick with Death? Or do something else? ...Ariadne might give Death a try, if you don't want it...
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:42, Mon 23 Nov 2020.

Tumbles onto the stage and gets up dusting herself off.
Then taking a big bow.

:) Welcome Xan!

One of the ideas that I had, was that there was no real after life, but a font of life that the energy of all things returns to and is then recycled.
When a sentient being dies, instead the soul is cleansed the soul of it previous life and the good or evil that it did; then returned to the font of life for it to be recycled.

This plans into my original idea for the God of Death, which I am working on.

What do you all think?

"Thanks Death !"

Im ok with it.

Do we want to start with the Void ?
Or more advanced timeline where the planet is mostly made ?

I think the awakening of the universe and the conceptualization of the gods would be a good place to start :)
I will give us all a chance to start to figure out our characters.

Ideas:
From the void, the chaos cooled and order followed and the Font of Life formed and with it, Death. For all things that begin must also have an end to maintain the balance of chaos and order, lest all be erased.

Folds arms and has a pouty kid face.
"Your not taking my friends away !" Touches ancient dragon turning it into an egg again.

*smiles* "My dear, death comes for all eventually.  But it is not a bad thing, I return them to the Font of Life and they are reborn anew." he says with a kind and gentle voice. "There is nothing to fear." pats her gently on the head with affection. "Allowing them to reach their natural end is a gift, for they get to be something new.  And you get the joy of learning about them anew.  Finding something different."

Allows the head pat because it feels good.

Then, "Uggg big people talk, afraid, who says I'm afraid ?" Inhales puffing up with air but also faux pride.

"If they are new, how will I know it's my friends ?"
Scooches egg behind her protectively.

*smiles* "Ah, Xan, but that is the joy of it.  Discovering them anew, finding something different."

"Different ? yeah mom is a big fan of different. I don't bring friends home too much or she changes them. Will they even remember were friends ?"

((I guess we should save this for IC ))

Okay so we've got:

--YOUTH (Jade)
--DEATH (Jon)
--SKY (Lance)

So that leaves Ariadne and Ballad...

Someone could be my mom, Chaos ^_^ or dad, Animals.
No one has too but it's an option.

*cough*

SKY (Lance) (Ballad)

We can have more than one God of Death.  Ariadne's take is probably going to be different than my own.

Ari, PM me.
I had a misunderstanding, which is why I was wishy washy on Death.

So two votes of starting with the void and going from there.

1. Oh, are you Ballad, Lyric? I honestly didn't grasp that.

2. Jon: We can't have two gods of DEATH as SUCH, but you can each have different aspects, it's true...

I am! and, well, it has been an age since you had to look at my username. Maybe there's just something about Lance that says 'sky'...

I feel pretty neutral re: where we begin. Void or slightly after void or once there are cities to walk among or what. :) Pretty easy over here.

Hello Lyric !

What's funny to me is that my username could also be a character name :)

Welcome Lyric, the whispered melody carried by the winds.

It sure could.

I am thinking about beginning, and letting Ariadne catch up if and when they can... and Lance, if he's coming.

Anyone wanna stop me? If so, speak up now.

GM, you needed to phrase that as "Soooomebody Stop me!" <hear Jim Carrey from the Mask>

But I see no need to.  If we start with the void and move forward, Gods are not always created at the same time.

Also could you change my character name to Isan? :)

Go for it !

...That's not going to be confusing, what with Xan?


(Hint: I think it will be confusing.)

But Xan is my daughter so it makes sense ;) (LOL)

I will come up with a new name.

Im confused most days anyway ^_^

I'm still musing on, well, a lot for our Sky deity. I know I want them to specifically lean less toward being a 'Sun deity' and more a proper Sky deity, lightning bolts, tempests, flying creatures, gentle breezes (if you're good) etc. Maybe Sky Deity will be a triple-faced deity, where they're all technically the same but only one aspect can ever be 'present' (at least in, uh, god-space) at one time. What do y'all think?

Xan scratches her head looking up at Lyric, "Triple faced ?" Shrugs palms up.
"Well two heads are better then one so three faces."

If you want to focus on three specific sub-aspects, that's fine by me

If you want to play it so that only one sub-persona can post at a time, that's also fine by me
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All righty! We have three characters-- the deity of DEATH is now named:   AnBas


Answer:

--When other deities see you (or when non-deities draw a picture of you), what do you look like? (You can have more than one answer, but probably shouldn't have more than three, at least for now.)



And: I hear we're starting in a formless void at the dawn of time? Anyone wanna object, or comment...?

I am fine with it !

Posted a pic in Description

(Okay, each of you has 2 TOKENS now.

Will I give you 2 MORE tomorrow? We'll see... (Maybe just 1 more...? IF you've used 1 by the time I come and officially look tomorrow...?))

In an empty, timeless void, there is potential... and power. The power may or may not prove to be a bit hard to control... but it exists, nonetheless.

AnBas, Lyric, and Xan exist in the timeless void...

(Remember: do NOT say "I do this." Say "I ATTEMPT to do so-and-so," and then tell me what you rolled, and I'll narrate what actually happens.

Unless of course you do something that doesn't require a roll, in which case go right ahead.)

Was that the first game-setting post, GM? Should it be in a new thread? :grin:

I have updated my description with two pics that represent AnBas.

Idea for the starting point (from earlier):
From the void, the chaos cooled and order followed and the Font of Life formed and to balance that, Death was created. For all things that begin must also have an end to maintain the balance of chaos and order, lest all be erased.  From the formless energy of the Font of Life and explosion of creation expanded and too did the shadow of death.  Slowly over time, the seemingly boundless power of Life and its opposite Death, developed into a cycle of birth, Youth, Maturation and Death.  over and over this cycle repeated and slowly, concepts and being began to emerge....

[Insert the origin of the Gods....]
The Gods were born and the Pantheon begins...

Death always existed with life, over the cycles of balance as new concepts and beings were born, so to did Death evolve and the over time, took the name AnBas, God of Death.  For a long time he was alone, in the shadows, maintaining the Balance.  Even when beings began to form, many were afraid of him and their end.  Some rare few saw him and his true self.

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It is just a hook, plot point, etc.  I'm sure that the GM, Jade or Lyric would much be able to take these bones and craft something wonderful

Life flowed from the font, a river of beings and creatures some walking, some crawling, some flying, and some swimming. All perfect, all uniform as Order sat by the side of the font. Chaos on the other hand would trick it's opposite into looking into some mayhem it had caused. On one of these times Chaos approached the Font on it's own to see what it's opposite found so interesting. Gazing into the ever flowing life some passing through Chaos and changing them. Mixing the natures of some, spawning all new and different things and giving each a form of individualism. The touch changes a great deal and the father of all animals arrived to grapple with Chaos not knowing what she was doing to it's many creations.
The struggle knocked the two into the font and as life and divine natures mixed Chaos became pregnant and spawned a new goddess. Xan the Goddess of youth.

This so shocked the two beings that they stopped their struggle. It was the discovery that life could come not just from the font but by beings mingling. The God of Animals sought to bring this discovery to the many creatures he embodied. Chaos moved off in confusion and fear as well as hope and happiness. As the act of Gods and Goddesses differs from the acts of mortal beings Xan sprung a protean mass from Chaos. A feeling of kinship was there but the creature not being of pure Chaos nor pure animals it was something new and different.

It was then that Order returned and seeing things demanded of it's opposite to know what she had done. Chaos proudly claimed like the Font she had created life. In anger over what had happened to the perfect orderly creatures that flowed from the Font it touched the mass declaring as it had touched the Font and changed it's creations so he would bring order to hers. The mass changed slower and eventually a little girl developed and took to it's new life with zeal and the exuberance of what she embodied youth.

Uh, no... it's a timeless void. If you want a Font of Life, either

1. Someone's gotta try to CREATE it,

2. or else we're not starting in a timeless void.


Sounds to me like maybe we REALLY want to start:

--On an earthlike planet that has plants and animals but no sentient life (so far)

??

Sounds good to me

Thought we were in that myth space where things didn't quite make sense to mortal scientific laws. Since scientific laws haven't been created.

Well, I thought we would combine our intros into the creation of current version of the Universe, which would be 1 big post of how the universe went from nothing to what we have today.  Unless you are saying that the Gods pre-date the universe, but then how did we come to be? Ah the eternal existential question.

Let's not answer that ^_^

Mm, no... I wasn't thinking that at all.




https://i2.wp.com/csanyk.com/r...=549%2C309&ssl=1

So.... I am thinking of changing the opening setting to:


--An empty void which contains a sun and an earthlike planet that has plants and animals but no sentient life (so far)


Anyone wanna stop me...?

That is fine by me !

Last chance to stop me... anyone...? Anyone...?

Okay, since Xan is running with the new setting, I'm officially doing it. There is now a sun and a planet sustaining many kinds of plant and animal life (I have changed my first in-game post to reflect this.

THIS MEANS that it's also time for me to ask a question that being in a timeless void made difficult to ask:

--Where do you live? (If there is an official "home of the gods," you can have a home there, and/or you can instead/also have another home-- on the moon, in the sun, on an island, on the ocean floor, on a mountaintop, in a deep cave, in a castle in the sky, in another world that can only be gotten to by divine power/magic/dying, or practically anything else). What is your home like?

And this one, which is easier for the same reason:

--Are you the child of another deity, or were you born from something else (sea foam? a volcano? a hurricane?), or have you always existed?

Xan lives in the Clouds of Imagination something that came about from her mother Chaos. I would like that to be in the home of the Pantheon. Wherever that may be.

She was born in this creation the comingling of Chaos and Animals.

AnBas' home is in a mountain valley with a small lake and waterfall.  It is a beautiful and well maintained.  His castle is built into the side of the mountain overlooking the lake.  The Valley is surrounded by a barrier of thick fog.  Most need to fly to reach his valley.  Though there is a hidden path that leads to a hidden tunnel that travels through the mountain into the valley.

AnBas has existed so long as life has existed.

Yeah, everything is working for me better at this point. One or two other players can come and step in and start playing CHAOS or ANIMALS if they want... and even if no one does, that doesn't mean that Xan can't believe that that's who her parents are. She might even be right anyway.

Have any of y'all played In Nomine? Xan's giving me a Cherub of Animals vibe. :)

I'm... still toying around with how exactly I want Sky Deity person to be, so stay tuned.

Sadly, no, I have/had one In Nomine book that I won at a convention.  It was an interesting system.

I haven't played that but I have played Nobilis, I hear the two are somewhat similar.

I have not, but I do own a Nobilis book or two, though I've never actually played it.

Ariadne hope you can join us, you too Lance.

Might want to tell them that over in the other game... Lance, especially, might not be watching over here yet...

Will do !

Everyone keep track of your Tokens... So far, you two have 2 each now...

Roger Wilco!

And thanks!

...Are we looking for anything in particular?

If not... you just find natural beauty wherever you look, and lots of plants growing and animals thriving, in a wide variety of environments/biomes...

All the life forms are Earth-normal animals so far (not counting the Mountain Giants in that one spot)
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A nice waterfall in a jungle like environment.
Keeping alert for other gods that might be around too.

Sure, feel free to find something like that.

Lyric is hoping to get one of the other players who has not yet made a character to team up with her on a sort of related concept thing.

Lyric, perhaps if you reached out to Ariadne...? Or Lance...?

I plan to, GM! Just letting the inspiration gears grind a little more first. :)

Guys, Lyric is not ready yet

Ok sorry =(

And there we go :) Taken care of in Game :)

Of course the rider is a cat >^.^<

SO CUTE.

Twin to Lyric, the Sky:


--NIGHT/MOON:
Could work as twin of Sky because Moon/Stars/etc

--ANIMALS: subset: Birds OR All Flying Animals
Could work as twin of Sky because duh

--EARTH:
Could work as twin of Sky because of the Opposing Opposites thing

--KNOWLEDGE/SECRETS:
Could work as twin of Sky because Stars/Astrology/Divination/etc??


What do you think, Lyric?

I feel like 'Animals' is the least likely, so I'd eliminate that one! I kinda like the idea of a proper Opposite for max twin hijinks, so Earth would be ideal - but if you're feeling the pull of Knowledge/Secrets, I think we could work with that too. :)

No no, it'll let me do Earth Things.

Let's see... How about...

Noric, deity of Earth

As far as he knows, Noric has always existed, for as long as the planet itself has. He seems to have just "woken up" one day.

--CREATE: +2
--SMITE: -1
--BLESS/GIVE: +1
--TELL: 0
--DISGUISE SELF: 0


--When other deities see you (or when non-deities draw a picture of you), Noric looks like:
----A tallish, slim-ish male being with slate-gray skin of a stony texture and shining topaz eyes with lava-red pupils. (They smoke when he's mad.)

--Where do you live?
----In a large cave. Noric lives nearest to the mouth that opens into the desert, but if one follows the right tunnels, they can lead other places (there's a cave mouth in a jungle, there's one deep in a forest, etc.)

---

What do you think?

I like it.

Did we ever decide whether there's a General Habitat of the Gods a la Olympus?

We have not, to my recollection.

To put another way: Not yet. Do you want there to be one? If so, Noric can try to help Create one somewhere, unless it's gonna be on a floating cloud, in which case that ball's in your court...

Lesse what AnBas and Xan have to say about that. Maybe it's a thing for all the gods to yammer about IC...

Not happy with finding a portrait for Noric.

Anyone got suggestions for a male (or androgynous?) being who looks made of stone?

Under male monster: mcm001, mcm027, mcm099, mcm103, mcm181, mcm253, mcm256, mcm343 ,
Under aliens, male: msa089 , msa210, Neutral aliens: nsa193, a gargoyle ‘coz rocks? this is neutral monster: ncm127 , ncm508...

Sort of like this guy. Think I'll keep him for now.

Was frustrating how some of them would be perfect except for not wanting to look like Morpheus from Sandman.

Haha! Tell me about it. That was one of the ones I liked best, though!

I haven't yet dared look for a portrait for Lyric... or really settled on a gender identity...

Here an idea:


We could always request one to be added if you find something not already on the site.

Some of the ones that struck my fancy: mcm146, mcm170, mfd240, mfd405, mfs187 & mfs223
I agree with Lyric's choices as well especially mcm001, mcm027, mcm099


Also welcome to the Pantheon Noric!

As for an Olympus, I don't think that we are that far along yet :)
I mean, Xan and I just created some Mountain Giants, which might have awakened Noric ;)

Oh nice pic AnBas

Yeah, that's a very cool pic :)

Thanks!
It is a Goliath from D&D 4th Edition.
They are Mountain / Stone folks.

Might as well spend both my Tokens...

But on what?

Hmmm...

Make an assistant or maybe even a holy mountain

That is a good idea.  Create a divine refuge, The Excelsior Mountain Range.

All interesting, but I'm too tired. Will just start the week fresh with 2 new Tokens tomorrow (as will we all)...

NP :)
Not said enough, but Thank you for everything (Both Games!).

Yes thank you very much

Heck yes thirded, GM. And now, mwahaha, we're playing twiiiiins! FUN. Deitytwins. I'm still being kinda slow, for which I apologize. But Lyric'll be ready soon.

Then watch out Death! can't kill the skyyy! Wee! Clouds never die!!! They disappear only to reappear and BOOM wind in your face!

If you think I don't know what I'm saying because I'm loopy from overwork, you might just be right...

*smiles sadly* When the heat death of the universe occurs, Lyric, my goddess of the wind, even the wind will cease and I will be able to rest.

Xan sneaks up and taps the universe to make it young again.

"Can't catch me ! Im the ginger bread Goddess." Runs off away from AnBas because he might be mad.

Ha!

*smiles* and chases Xan

I won't announce this every week forever, but I feel like it this time:

Friday morning: Everybody loses all Tokens, gets 2 new Tokens

Thank you!

Lyric I understand and respect that you're scarce right now ("kinda outta-pocket," my father would have said), and/but/so let me know when you feel ready to interact with Noric

Now, GM, do we want Lyric and Noric to have 'woken up' already knowing they're brothers (or brother and sister), or do we want them to figure that out once they interact for the first time?

No, the first thing you said, I was thinking.

That's what I was thinking too, but wanted to confirm!

...so... let me know when you feel ready to interact with Noric

:grin: I have a few hours leisure right now, so after makin' your NPC answer more questions over in the other game, I actually think I'm ready today - I'll get on it.

Well, but, like... tomorrow. I'll have a LOT of time tomorrow.

You can wait to post until then! I'm never fussed, you know, if things take a little. Tomorrow I won't be around much until the afternoon!

Two hiding gods now, Xan! Come on down...

Xan will find you eventually she is good at kids games :)

I'm just gonna throw out there...

Somewhere down the line, once our godlings have created a nice ol' world, our Amberites should shadow walk through it :P Crossover Special Event

That would be great

I dig it. If a deity is 'disguised,' do you wager other deities can tell it's them?

Depends. If it's just an illusion, then probably. If they've really changed their form, like Xan, then it would be harder.

(It's not a roll-for-it thing, though, just a roleplaying decision.)

Maybe a case by case situation, depending on the deities involved/what they want out of their disguise?

What'cha think about Xan-in-her-current-shape, Xan?

Xan is an actual shape changer so she probably could hide a bit better Until she speaks then most people will guess it is her.

(And of course since the Arys Tal are mortal, AnBas is aware of them)

Yer pal Lyric/Ballad's player just did a dumb thing they're gonna share with you...

Makin' jalapeno poppers...

Scooped out all the jalapeno insides...

Thought, I wonder if that pale green meat is really THAT spicy?

Took a nibble...

Now: TONGUE/MOUTH = home to the deity of FIRE.

They make even hotter peppers but yes Jalapeno can be spicy

Ghost pepper poppers, although delightfully named, would be Doom.

Agreed !

The university here has a farm where they try and get really hot peppers it is a competition with some other universities.

Note: There is no moon yet.

Xan would have blushed at the watching where she is going comment. lol.

You were all good at this last time...

...Anyone got any good portraits to make one think of Arys Tal//crystal people?

Give me a moment I will try and find something

Yeah, I just mean that're in this game (you knew that, right? just making sure)

no rush

Oh, I didn't realize you meant portraits-in-the-game GM, haha. I'll see what I can do.

Those are cool pics, Xan.

I know in a Palladium Book called Aliens Unlimited they have stone and crystal people but I cant find the artwork from inside the book.

Thanks Lyric !

WOW, that is pretty!

I agree I thought that one was very pretty too.

Okay kids i gotta go for now, I expect I'll be on tomorrow, though not so much as today...

Have a good night GM We will find ways to amuse ourselves.

Indeed, stay safe!

Okay I'm back proceed

Welcome Back !

:confetti:

Made an all-purpose Arya Tal NPC picture (Arys Tal is plural, Arya Tal is singular.)

Went with the statue for a portrait for now, but obviously something more crystal would be better...

Could you put that information in their Cast Description, maybe?

And I kinda like that portrait, but I haven't trawled through them yet. When I do I will be keeping an eye out!

And there, I think I've used up this week's rolls, which is good, 'coz the temptation for Lyric the Bratty Deity to Smite Things is now taken away.

Yeah





I want to have a few possibilities, in case one Arya Tal stops speaking and I use another one later in the day, so please and thank you in advance.

Hee hee hee ^_^ Lyric

Since you rolled a 12 (and not, for example, an 8 or 9), your people will turn out just the way you want.

Will you go for bird-people? (Tengu? Owl-people? Eagle, hawk, condor?) Butterfly-people? Dragon-people? Dragonfly people? Pterodactyl-people? Bat-people? Something else?

I suppose 'better than other people' is not a very descriptive type. :grin: I'll think about what Lyric would have made and get back to ya.

Maybe they're not like animals at all? Maybe they're, like... maple seed people ("helicopter seeds")?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/...seed-inspired-drone/

Just trying to think outside the box... maybe they're all spirally or something, like DaVinci's helicopter...?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals...d77f6b1e486ac375.jpg

That sounds very cool !

That sounds rad, but not sure it's Early Lyric's style. They might be more likely to try and make a people who incorporate Maple Seed Philosophy into their daily life or something...

Makes me think of these silk maple seeds an artist I know just came out with, for earrings: https://www.instagram.com/p/CI...rce=ig_web_copy_link

Those are cool too

Maybe some nice Mothman people

Okay, I think I got it... Post forthcoming...

Find a pic for it too ^_^

Okay, Glam Harpies, got it. Particularly like that owl-looking pic...

...What will Lyric name these new birdy people?

Lyric is not good at names. :grin: Lyric will ask for help, maybe, or let them name themselves. >.>

Yeah well what will YOU name them, playah?

Or are you asking us other players for help...?

If so, I'll be glad to make suggestions. I just don't wanna butt in unsolicited.

Feel free to make suggestions! I'm really bad at naming things.

Call them the Lyr after yourself.

Well, I would assume they have musical voices?
Sky Sirens

Oh, that's pretty good, Xan. Yeah, they're the Lyr, because Lyric is not creative with names and is also like THEY ARE MINE.

I have a question re: my next Lyric post. I was gonna post a 'Lyric watches their Creations and nudges them along,' 'cause I believe Noric basically did that, sitting down to talk to them so they'll learn stuff, but is nudging an action I can take without rolling? I might just be confusing myself...

Noric had to do it carefully-- whispering to himself in total darkness, unseen, and not consciously heard by the Arys Tal.

I let myself get away with it without rolling because

1. I was still feeling out how this whole interacting-with-mortals thing could work, and

2. There was no "message" as such, no instructions-- he just wanted them to pick up a spoken language.

(nods) I figured it was a working things out thing, which might be why I'm like 'wait how do... is this a roll worthy thing I want to type- I don't think so... but is it??'

Well what exactly do you want to do?

If you want to do the exact same thing as Noric-- let them pick up spoken language-- then I will let you do that without rolling. It's only fair, since I did.

More than that, though...

Yup! Get 'em started with language then my mind went to music but then that seemed advanced and then - ... and then I asked ooc. :grin:

Hmmmm... as long as she's giving them a language, she can give them some very basic music theory and two or three simple tunes to start with, yes. More would require a roll, says me (and you and I are all out of Tokens for the week, as I recall).

Cool! Thanks! And we are tokenless, it is true. :nod:

...Wait, remind me who Xan thinks her parents are, again? The primordial concept of Animals and the primordial concept of Chaos? Is that about right...?

Yes that is so.

Okay just getting it clear in my head. Carry on...!

Xan bounces over and hands Lyric a cup.

Oooops that picture was way bigger then I thought it was.

Big ego big picture mirite?

Laughs ! There you go !

Okay, it's Friday: all Tokens vanish, replaced by 2 fresh ones...

Heck yes. Let the smiting commence!

What sort of mortal thing does Xan look like, Xan? Is it a baby mammoth? Am I misremembering?

She is an uber cute minibaby mammoth yes.
AnBas called her a Xanimal.

It's remarkably hard to find a cute baby woolly mammoth picture! Hmf!

LOL, that is adorable!

Well that's a good one, though it reminds me of a sad story I saw once... it wasn't The Twilight Zone nor The Outer Limits nor One Step Beyond nor Thriller, but it was a show LIKE that, in black and white.

Two scientists, a man and a woman, are in charge of a find-- we've found a baby mammoth in the arctic AND MANAGED TO WAKE IT UP FROM BEING FROZEN IN THE ICE LIKE CAPTAIN AMERICA (or Aang, if that's your jam).

(On the show, they covered a real baby elephant in fur and pretended it was a baby mammoth.)

The woman scientist names the baby mammoth Toby (as I recall?) and grows very attached to it.

The man scientist finds this interesting because 1. He's attracted to her but 2. she doesn't like any sort of personal attachments to anything except baby mammoth.

He asks around and finds out that a few years ago she had a little boy but he (and her husband I think) died (car wreck?) and that's why she can't even. (I think "Toby" was the name of either her son or her son's favorite elephant toy?)

Well, after several weeks of trying to get Toby the baby mammoth to get healthy, it nonetheless passes away. Female scientist is devastated but finally lets male scientist into her emotional zone to comfort her. Although we're very sad we couldn't raise Toby into being a grown-up mammoth so that then we could have an awesome grown-up mammoth, maybe we'll find another in the ice one day, and in the meantime these two are clearly gonna get married and so on so happy ending?

But I was like nooooo Toby The Baby Mammoth!

So that is my post about Baby Mammoth Feelings.
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Wow and I thought I knew all those old b&w Twilight Zone type shows.

WOWWW i found it. "Science Fiction Theatre," a show name that sounds like it was made up by a really unimaginative person, from 1955, episode "Dead Storage" with Virginia Bruce as Doctor Don't-Touch-Me-Please-I-Have-Issues (and who can blame her?)

I was apparently wrong about it being in black and white-- maybe I was watching on a black-and-white tv (every house used to have two tvs, you see-- a big color one and a cheap black-and-white one that you could move from room to room but it needed pliers to change the channel because the knob fell off and wouldn't go back on) and it was so old and cheap I presumed it was really a black and white show?

There was another show CHILLER heh heh heh

Here Lyric, I fixed it for you

But wait, that does raise a question-- if Xan is still in baby mammoth form, how did she get to the mountains so fast

I like that even better !

Because AnBas carried her and he flew at his normal to fast speed.

09:58, Today: AnBas rolled 7 using 2d6 ((2,5)).

So what kind of monstrous version of a Lyr do I become this time :)
No wonder everyone is afraid of Death.

Both are my jam. Both.



Is that true? O_O

Xan is trying to hide.

Oh, and er, GM. Do let me know if you'd like me to 'run' the Lyr during your time of not-around-that-much and/or when Noric interacts with 'em.

Same here, Both are exceptional stories, with ATLA being a true modern masterpiece.




I had the same thing growing up.  We had a large 13 inch B&W TV the Dial only went to like 13 or 20 and UHF.
That thing lasted forever!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...arcane-Thailand.html

They will never see me.

I love Avatar the Last Airbender so much. It's one of my favourite complete stories. Haven't seen Korra, though!



My mind is blown. A dial! Like those big ol' square ones with antenna that you see on TVs and/or in dystopian Scifi shows?? That get all snowy? Wow.



Omigosh so cute.

https://i.redd.it/urz8m488bst31.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent....GrMsngiGQqMBHD7NRzdA

https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/...-mini.jpg?1525796846

https://i.pinimg.com/originals...e96d9971cdf25f6d.jpg

googling "scary" "male" "harpy" should bring a few other ideas...

Those are GREAT. I love the first one. And feel challenged by the Jack o' Lantern head one for better Halloween decorations...

Wow nice and in some cases scary.

Yeah, I'd say the 1st one is probably most accurate.  After all, I feel that when ever I got a less than good roll, AnBas' form is pulled from the collective unconscious of whatever species he is encountering interpretation of Death.

Luckily, he has Xan and eventually Lyric and Noric, who accept him for who and what he is.  So he will never become evil, he may just look it.

The first one I would say too for AnBas

How did you like the baby mammoth pic I found Lyric ?

It's pretty cute. Much cuter than what I was finding, which were all pics of that thawed out baby mammoth scientists found. :<

Yeah the undead thing is more AnBas's thing.

I have reached peak "I dislike the holiday" and am looking forward to having Lyric SMITE SOMETHING RAR.

Little Mammoth is beating feet out of there.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeep !

Smite Away!  I can take it!

Ee, sorry Xan, AnBas! I just didn't want to post while y'all were waiting for the Lyr to react to ya (& not sure if I should control them). I'll have Lyric stomp around when I'm more at my leisure. Or whisk around. Fly around? Gust around. Wuther around. Storm around. All the windy verbs. Do the windy thing (if anybody here is a Homestuck fan).

Zephyr around ^_^

Yes, zephyring around. :)

Okay, I'm ready to come back here, too...

I've been gone so long, obviously, everyone has 2 Tokens right now...

If no one else posts anything interesting for Noric to react to, I'll post something tomorrow...

Psst, GM. So... can I run the Lyr and post how they react to Cute Mammoth and Creeptastic AnBas-the-Lyr? At this point Lyric's reactions kinda depend on how the Lyr react, you see. But I didn't want to step on shoes.

Thanks for asking, but yes, you may. Just make sure that if anything involves rolling, that they act appropriately (the way a deity would want for 10 or higher, the way they WOULDN'T want for 6 or under, in-between for in-between).

Annnd now I'm waiting to see how you play it...

The waiting ball has been passed! Mwahaha!

Poor Lyr! What a blessing, AnBas :p

Time to rest. Since he was asked, Noric will probably try to bless the Lyr tomorrow... Or else make something else they might like...

Hey, GM...

I know this game is for us, to siphon off some of our posting energy...

But if one of my pals is interested in the idea of the game, can they RTJ? I'm okay keeping it just us, too, and not sure said pal would want to RTJ, but the possibility is kinda there!

Also I like the dust people.

Yes, they may RTJ.



Good... but they may be un-neighborly in the future... I expect them, as a people, to be territorial...

Can't have everything all joy and light...

They are from Tasmania, correct?

Ha! No, they're like "dust devils," but (usually) slower-rotating, with lots more sand and dust, and a column instead of tornadic-shape

Basically Noric's earth-elemental-ness tried to open up earth and stone so the air could get in, and it created these hybrid earth-air elemental folk

:)  Now we need an avatar.  Master all 4 elements, for only the avatar could tame the Zareb.

Very cool :)

Once AnBas gets to know Noric better, he might ask him to bless his 1st attempt.  Hoping the God of their element can help them.

1. How deep into the caverns is Xan going?

2. Is she playing with the Lyr? Or just sort of playing solo hide-and-seek, running around?

3. AnBas' creation: Give me a little time, thinking...

Xan is playing with the Lyr, probably not too deep so she can see where she is going.

Cobra people! COOL!

Okay then, sounds to me like she's not likely to run into the Zareb at this time.

Reminder: Tokens refreshed, yesterday morning...

...So I think everyone but AnBas should have 2 currently...?

Remember, Xan, the other gods wandered off pretty far. You can find them pretty fast if you drop your current cute mortal form, though...

She loves being a little mammoth at least currently.

She probably thinks (Wrongly) they are playing hide and seek and will look for them in the caves.

Going back deeper/farther than before...?

Sure let me post

I'm having some serious writer's block w/ what Lyric might try to bless the Slitherkin. "You'll always appreciate how super awesome I am" doesn't seem quite right... but I'll try to figure out out this afternoon.

Indeed you are super awesome :)
But have no fear, I know the right inspiration will strike.

Tempted to post something, but I'm kinda waiting for a post where AnBas says what he thinks of his new completed godhome...

(Also: will he shoo the mountain giants out? Try to teach them to be his servants (or change them so they make better servants? (What would he want servants to do, anyway?)))

I apologize. reviewing now.

Well, go ahead and say what it's like... I'll let you decide if the mountain giants have done it just the way AnBas would want, or a little off, but it should be at least partly a success...

Sad mammoth is about to kick rocks but remembers Noric and has to find something else to kick.

Kick 'em. Kick the rocks!

Xan runs and kicks a rock.

AnBas hovers over the little mammoth and gives her a couple of pats for good rock kicking.

Gives a mammothy grin

I will say that time will pass, and that the following advances and learnings will take place:

Mountain Giants:
--Learn to speak, although they're not very good at it
--Making buildings constructed with stone
--Agriculture

Arys Tal:
--Have Language skills
--Meditation

The Lyr:
--Have Language skills

The Zareb:
--Have Language skills

The Slitherkin:
--Have Language skills
--Making tools of wood and stone
--Making weapons of stone and wood
--Ropemaking
--Tanning//Leatherworking
--Hunting
--Spear-fishing
--Making Fire
--Cooking with Fire
--Raft/canoe/boatmaking




Lyric, choose three more advances for The Lyr:

--Do they learn tool use?
--Do they learn Hunting?
--Do they learn to make fire?
--Do they learn agriculture?
--Do they learn herbalism?
--Do they learn archery?
--Do they learn magic?

Remember, the Lyr also have



Musical harpycritters!

Ummm, as for further advancements, they're bird things so...

1. Tools...
2. Hunting, I guess? Is this an advancement, really? I suppose I just imagine the Lyr dropping on their prey (fish or otherwise) with their talons, and amn't sure if that falls under this, or this is meant to indicate hunting with weapons.
And third...
3. I want to stick with the music theme. Magic music?

I'm not too sure about these. Indecision.

Magic Music, sure.  That makes sense.  The Lyr having enchanting voices makes perfect sense to.

2. No-- SWOOPING AND GRABBING to fish isn't the same thing as spear-fishing nor fishing with nets nor poles nor whatever. They can have SWOOPING AND GRABBING TO FISH for free.

I just thought I'd toss those in there...

I like the idea of them having magical music

So... what will the third thing be, besides tools and music? Non-fish hunting...?

They could do the traditional Harpy thing of using song to lure prey too them ?

Thinking 'bout it. Maybe cook with fire. Maybe make jewelry.

Er, and, well... Can they also drop w/ talons on non-fish critters? My brain is having a difficult time grokking "but they're birds based on birds-of-prey, so birds know how to get food and they hunt" and "hunting" as a developed thing.

Er, and... Luring prey with music might be for down the line, Xan. :) It's a good idea though!

Hmmmmmm... Look at it as a strategy thing.

BIRDS can soar, look closely, and then swoop and grab.

HUNTERS can do other things, like
--ambush
--chase prey into traps (or ambushes)
--read spoor and other signs to see what's nearby
--chase down wounded prey until it gets tired

etc.

Buuut--

I dunno, I'll have to think about it for a while. My brain just fullstops on it as a development unless it involves tools, 'cause thinking animals have 'strategies' for hunting. The owl swoops from above silently. The hawk waits by the watering hole squirrels like to use. The cuckoo does its jerk cuckoo thing. Agriculture as a development, I get.

Wait even Humphrey ran away ! Awwwww he was my friend.

Aw. Bet you can lure him back.

I will try he is a good friend.

Maybe the concept just doesn't work in this case.

Feel free to throw it out of the list if you wish!

I just read the result of Lyric's influence.  So THAT is how the god of war is born!

Lyric's just casually making things more interesting, as they do. :P

So... what will the third thing be, besides tools and music? Non-fish hunting...?

Cooking over a fire.

1. MAKING fire?

OR

2. Cooking over a fire but they are bad at starting a new fire if it goes out...?

The latter, for now.

The Lyr develop

--Tool use (including making the tools (of wood and stone, no metal yet))

--the capability of weaving magic into their music

--Cooking with fire (but they are bad at starting a new fire if it goes out, so they try to be careful about keeping multiple fires going at once and not letting them die out, because otherwise they have to fly far to find some forest fire to start one off of...


I hope to do more tomorrow...

Ain't no rush! Take your time, GM.

Im becoming fascinated by India's ancient temples.
They have moving parts made of stone. Some different types of stone that make no sense.

In the future we need to make some fun miracles.

Moving parts of stone...? Any link? (curious)

One moment I will try and find a you tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TWQZHef11w

This is what I found on a fast search but there are others.

I really like the Onyx sphere in the Granite Lions mouth. Two different types of stone.

Saw this and thought I'd share:

Ha ha ha Our characters !!!

Ha! Pretty excellent!

Thanks!  That was a lucky find and gave me much amusement.

Since they travel together a lot I could see people confused when they enter town.

Guys I'm thinking of packing this one up.

Should we say "it was fun while it lasted!" or will we say "nooooo let's keep going start going again!!!"

(If no one replies at all, this will be the one-week notice of me being gonna close this down...)
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I think this one is sadly over.

It was fun I really had a blast playing Xan.

Being a young immortal and the joy of being a child and looking at the world through youthful eyes was a true joy.  Thank you for that !

:) I too enjoyed it.  But agree with Xan, I think it is sadly over.

As they say "all good things..."

Okay, one-week notice starts now. I'm spread too thin anyway BECAUSE I CAN'T STOP MAKING GAMES

It's too bad, but I do think it would have worked much more briskly with more. Was a fun game to try out! As all your games are, GM! :P At least, all that I've observed/taken part in!