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| Lost God Discussion Thread; OOC for the Lost God RP | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 11 2011, 02:18 PM (6,737 Views) | |
| quirk | Jul 20 2011, 03:20 PM Post #141 |
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I would love chaotic neutral, except it tends to get interpreted as a 'do whatever you want with your character' alignment to a fault. My group's rather simplistic in terms of how they look at their alignments. :/ |
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| Duke Smugleaf | Jul 20 2011, 03:22 PM Post #142 |
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Well, yeah. Any action is justifiable for Chaotic Neutral except for actions of extreme law, which aren't any fun, anyways. |
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| quirk | Jul 20 2011, 03:23 PM Post #143 |
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And that I don't have a problem with. It's when the alignment chaotic neutral becomes a replacement for an actual character personality. |
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| Duke Smugleaf | Jul 20 2011, 03:33 PM Post #144 |
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As if characters have personality, anyways? In actual table-top gaming, things proceed less like an interactive story and more like, well, this. (Great comic, by the way. There are some truly hilarious moments in there.) |
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| Darkom | Jul 20 2011, 04:45 PM Post #145 |
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My apologies for the continued delay everyone, I promise you will be able to post before the day is done. For now, I've been working on that OP and CS list for almost three hours, so I'm going to grab a bite to eat before I head out to karate. Thanks to everyone for being so patient. ![]() PS I hope no one minds, I added a year onto our date. I tried to find some good Hindu numerology numbers to use, but none seemed right, so I picked a year at random. It is measured by AL, or Age of Light, and it is said to have begun when the Church of Light moved to its current capital at Sunkeep, and the various High Kings united to form the Golden Kingdoms in order to fight off an invasion by the Dark Lord. Colonel Mustard, I know Duhos is much older, but I couldn't concieve of any kind of medieval society managing to keep track of eight thousand years. They would have to have collapsed into regional rule eventually, as humans do, and entered a Dark Age, during which the year would likely have been lost. I hope no one minds us entering the 2486th year of the Age of Light; if anyone disagrees, please let me know now so I can change it. Otherwise, it'll be going into the Appendix. Thanks again. ![]() EDIT: Also, since the titles of this thread and the actual RP thread were the same, I changed this one to discussion. Once it hits ten or so pages, we'll start a new thread, to make it easier to find past stuff and avoid clutter. I hope no one minds. Edited by Darkom, Jul 20 2011, 04:49 PM.
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| Duke Smugleaf | Jul 20 2011, 05:20 PM Post #146 |
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Considering Duhos' backstory, that's actually preferable. After all, Mustard did specifically say that the Church was far different back when Duhos was first created. So, in actuality, if you had made the current age include Duhos, I probably would have complained. As for the date, itself, I'd, personally, knock it down to 1286 or so. Almost 2500 years is kind of much. Hell, we haven't even gotten that far with Christianity, yet. |
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| quirk | Jul 20 2011, 06:05 PM Post #147 |
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I don't know, considering the theme of the god having abandoned the world, I kinda like the idea of the world being a bit old. |
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| Duke Smugleaf | Jul 20 2011, 06:09 PM Post #148 |
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Setting the date earlier doesn't make the world younger. Remember, this is just the date counting from when the Church of Light set up base in Sunkeep; it is simply the date for the current age. There could have been several ages before this. Hell, the world could be trillions of years old, and we'd still be able to start at whatever date we wanted. |
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| quirk | Jul 20 2011, 06:21 PM Post #149 |
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No, but it makes that age younger. I imagine the start of that age was a rejuvenated faith in the god, and a spread of the morals preached by his faith. And of course, the further we get from that age, the more I can see that faith becoming self-defeating and selfish in its goals. Of course, I might just be blabbering over nothing, considering 1286 is still a considerably large amount of time. |
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| Duke Smugleaf | Jul 20 2011, 06:37 PM Post #150 |
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I'd say so. The Catholic Church started it's downward descent after only a few hundred years, which is why the Christian Dark Ages began somewhere around 500-600 AD. Hell, the Dark Ages even ended sometime in the eleventh century. Now, the Church was still corrupt as all hell by then, but I'm just saying... |
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| Colonel Mustard | Jul 20 2011, 08:47 PM Post #151 |
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Actually, Duhos didn't work out his age through looking at calendars; he worked it out by tapping one finger against another for every second of his time trapped underground, and then calculated it from there. Because when you're trapped underground and have no need to sleep, there's really not much else to do. (Thinks I mentioned this in the bio)The calendar system looks good and logical to me, and while I'm slightly inclined to go with the Duke's line of argument of the Church falling into corruption and so forth, seing as the Church of Light is more strongly politically involved with the Chruch, seeing as the head of the church is also a head of state they may handle things with more savvy in order to preserve their own lineage's hold on power. No doubt there will be bad rulers (indeed, a monarchy is possibly one of the worst political systems that has ever existed), but generally they have shown to be stable, and considering that those with the willpower and savviness to see their country pull through said bad rulers intact crop up every generation, a church-age lasting 1200 years+ is not inconcievable. |
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| Darkom | Jul 20 2011, 09:17 PM Post #152 |
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Fair enough, I was having doubts myself. I just hate to be stereotypical all the time; I find it refreshing to see timestamps in my books of over 1500. But I suppose you are right, it would have to be one heck of a church to stay up that long. I'll knock it down a few pegs. And yes, Colonel, I did read that. I was just mentioning why I didn't keep us in the same age as Duhos was created in. I tried to count your character into the dating, since he is the only one that old. I was saying that the society not trapped under the earth would lose count, as they have no finger tapping to rely on. ![]() 1200 something it is then. ![]() Oh, and my apologies again. I am the worst host ever, I know, but I must break my promise. Another RP took up more time than I thought posting, and now I am completely out of time. I'm really very sorry gentlemen, I hope no one minds waiting another twelve hours.
Edited by Darkom, Jul 20 2011, 09:18 PM.
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| Ambrose51 | Jul 20 2011, 09:44 PM Post #153 |
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Actually, it's kind of a relief for me. I just got loaded down with a massive amount of work, so I wouldn't have had time to post tonight anyway. |
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But mostly? The assorted plans at play here would be going very, very wrong due to the actions of a no-name, no-count, utterly talentless Magus by the name of Shirou Emiya. He had no magic worth mentioning, no combat experience of note, and no plan for or knowledge of the War he was about to enter. He did, however, have one trait that had derailed a countless number of such grand, far-reaching schemes throughout history. You see, he really, really wanted to be a hero. -(Best description of the start of a Fate novel ever.) | |
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| Duke Smugleaf | Jul 20 2011, 09:54 PM Post #154 |
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Sometimes, clichés exist for a reason. For date in a non-globalist setting, anything higher than, at most, 1400-1500 is just a tad unbelievable without a damn good reason why, like the date actually being a universal time counting from the beginning of civilization. You can go lower, maybe have the date around 300 or something like that, but a Medieval society with a religion-based calendar just won't make it long enough to get too far. Besides, with fantasy worlds, you need some similarities to act as a frame of reference. A Medieval society with an all-powerful Church that takes place in the thirteenth century is close enough to actual history that we can get a solid grounding in reality, thus ensuring that we don't get lost in all of the fantastical elements. Also, it's fine if you missed it. I didn't have the time to post, anyways, also due to another RP, coincidentally enough.
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| Darkom | Jul 21 2011, 12:50 PM Post #155 |
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The OP is complete! The Quest for the Lost God may now begin! ![]() As I said in my post, thank you to everyone for your participation. You've all gone beyond what I expected; this should prove to be an excellent RP. ![]() For now, just introduce your characters to the group. You'll be heading to the throne room shortly, where the king will give his instructions, good wishes, and farewells. After that we'll be heading down to the teleporting room, where we'll take the expressway to Wellay.
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| Ambrose51 | Jul 21 2011, 02:37 PM Post #156 |
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I'll endeavor to make a post when I get back from class today. I fear what I would write while still mildly panic-stricken from my grade results. |
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But mostly? The assorted plans at play here would be going very, very wrong due to the actions of a no-name, no-count, utterly talentless Magus by the name of Shirou Emiya. He had no magic worth mentioning, no combat experience of note, and no plan for or knowledge of the War he was about to enter. He did, however, have one trait that had derailed a countless number of such grand, far-reaching schemes throughout history. You see, he really, really wanted to be a hero. -(Best description of the start of a Fate novel ever.) | |
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| James | Jul 21 2011, 03:12 PM Post #157 |
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My current posting method, type two words of reply, read two lines of notes. Repeat, ad nauseam. |
| Number of Poems Written in the name of roleplaying, count: 1 | |
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| Evilpigeon | Jul 21 2011, 03:39 PM Post #158 |
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Nice OP darkom, I'd forgotten what it was like rping with bgsf people
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| Duke Smugleaf | Jul 21 2011, 04:06 PM Post #159 |
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Goddammit...Every time I see your character's name, Pigeon, I instinctively see it as "Celestia" and think that I'm reading a story about ponies. :/ Also, didn't the rules say something about walls of text? These first two posts have very much been just that... |
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| Darkom | Jul 21 2011, 04:29 PM Post #160 |
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Ah, that is unfortunate Ambrose. Did you get them already? Haha, that's what I feel like sometimes too, James. Just let yourself write, don't worry about it being all that good. I've seen people with terrible writing become awesome RPers because they have the most intriguing characters. Not because they are inherently cool, just the way they play them so convincingly. Just let it come naturally, it'll probably sound even better. ![]() Thank you, Evil. I do try; I wanted to make a good first impression with our monarch, along with describing the setting. Hopefully it wasn't too long. My apologies, Duke, I just wanted to make a good OP to give everyone an idea of what I imagined Sunkeep as looking like. I can't speak for Evil, though it doesn't look too bad. I just made a post over at BGSF in another RP, and it is quite literally a couple pages long. Most is other character's dialogue and a little speech I was giving, but still, it was an intimidating post, looking back at it. Hopefully they'll slim down once everyone is introduced.EDIT: Also, I hope you don't mind the little OOC summary I gave of your recent past. I didn't want conflicting stories going around, but also couldn't think of a good way to mention that stuff IC. So please note that you didn't just waltz up to the castle randomly. Thanks.
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I'm really very sorry gentlemen, I hope no one minds waiting another twelve hours.




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