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Re: Announce Post #3061: Ascension Postmortem
So your point is that we should make Glom/Celest/Halli happy by giving them two TA's and Mag/Gaudi/Seren are supposed to be happy with one TA? You are asking if giving your side two TA's is hurting them any more than you are hurt by giving them one TA?
I think the answer is yes, it hurts them more - you're getting two TA's and they're only getting one. It puts us back to square one.
With one TA each, you're on equal footing.
I think the answer is yes, it hurts them more - you're getting two TA's and they're only getting one. It puts us back to square one.
With one TA each, you're on equal footing.
Orael
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Re: Character breakdown
Nepenthe said:Idol: Eritheyl
Also I guess I'm going to have to update mine, now. Waaaay ancient!
Character Name: Eritheyl Ryseni
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Changeling, currently most often human
Gender: Male/NB
Guild: Revelry
City/Commune: Gaudiguch
Order: None presently
THE LOOK
Hair: White-blond braids over the shoulder
Eyes: Amber
Height: Average
Build: Scarecrow
Defining Features: Vitiligo and a bad sense of timing
Piercings: Tongue, septum and ears, others not usually filled
Scars: None
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Designing and general aesthetic sense, feigning interest, lorekeeping. Tells decently good stories?Weaknesses: Crippling fears of stagnancy and disappointing his favourite people/gods (most often a self-fulfilling prophesy), extremely fickle and prone to change, really bad at expressing empathy/feelings in general
Attitude: Either weirdly placid or weirdly excitable, not much of an inbetween
Morals: People don't change, circumstances do. Good and evil are a reflection of people coloured, not shaped, by their circumstances.
Pet Peeves: People with no worthwhile inclinations; end-goals aren't hugely important to him, but everyone should contribute to the world in their own way, big or small
Best way to piss me off: Assume he doesn't know, or is incapable of, something
Best way to get on my good side: Make a snarky comment, even (or especially) at his expense
FAVORITES
Color: none
Tertiary: Currently Telekinesis
Tertiary Skill: Pyre
Primary Skill: Salamanders, cause they cute
Location: The baths in his manse
God/Goddess: Mysrai, Crumkane, Isune
Guild Master/House Head: Xypher as Spiritsinger GM (too many years ago!)
Artifact (don't have to own): Changeling cameo
Commodity: Gold, silk
Animal: Finch, gila
Item owned: An othala rune tongue stud; the symbol of the Somnius Pack, embedded with dream motes.
Village/forest/region: Dim Iklara, Far Iklara
NPC: Salagi Tliwx, Gaudiguch's roulette dealer
Memory: Xypher flying him and the greater majority of the Serenwilde through aetherspace for a really, really old Gnafia event
Song: The Merry Minstrel's drinking song!
Drink: none
MINDSET
Goals: Raise Ryseni to a Great House
Ambitions: Being noticed in a positive light by literally anyone, though he'd never admit that as anything close to a driving force
Nemesis: Xaldrin, in a complicated, lovers-to-enemies way
Rival: @Sotsepmet, in a nice, enemies-to-girlfriends way
Best Friend: @Nepenthe
Idols: Persayis, Xypher, Aiyana (sob 3x)
Best personal achievement: Getting a cult!
Worst personal achievement: Losing a cult!
Proudest moment: Not too many to pick from, but enough that there isn't an obvious choice. Avatardom comes to mind, but also marriage. Every marriage! Eri is very proud of being able to have found love time and time again from the most unexpected circumstances
Most shameful moment: Leaving the Beloved for the third and final time. Not shameful in the sense that he's ashamed, but shameful in the sense that it's another stain on his character with too much left unsaid
SUMMARY
Why you should hate him: He's not hard to get along with by any means, but once rubbed the wrong way he's a persistent antagonist
Why you should love him: Don't, his love is conditional
Why you should fear him: No one does, he's more annoying than he is imposing
Why he is harmless: Path of least resistance: complaining about a problem and getting over it is usually easier than solving the problem, and that's his preferred method of dealing
If he ruled the world, you'd best expect: The timeline to cease existing shortly thereafter, nullified by this improbability
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Changeling, currently most often human
Gender: Male/NB
Guild: Revelry
City/Commune: Gaudiguch
Order: None presently
THE LOOK
Hair: White-blond braids over the shoulder
Eyes: Amber
Height: Average
Build: Scarecrow
Defining Features: Vitiligo and a bad sense of timing
Piercings: Tongue, septum and ears, others not usually filled
Scars: None
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Designing and general aesthetic sense, feigning interest, lorekeeping. Tells decently good stories?Weaknesses: Crippling fears of stagnancy and disappointing his favourite people/gods (most often a self-fulfilling prophesy), extremely fickle and prone to change, really bad at expressing empathy/feelings in general
Attitude: Either weirdly placid or weirdly excitable, not much of an inbetween
Morals: People don't change, circumstances do. Good and evil are a reflection of people coloured, not shaped, by their circumstances.
Pet Peeves: People with no worthwhile inclinations; end-goals aren't hugely important to him, but everyone should contribute to the world in their own way, big or small
Best way to piss me off: Assume he doesn't know, or is incapable of, something
Best way to get on my good side: Make a snarky comment, even (or especially) at his expense
FAVORITES
Color: none
Tertiary: Currently Telekinesis
Tertiary Skill: Pyre
Primary Skill: Salamanders, cause they cute
Location: The baths in his manse
God/Goddess: Mysrai, Crumkane, Isune
Guild Master/House Head: Xypher as Spiritsinger GM (too many years ago!)
Artifact (don't have to own): Changeling cameo
Commodity: Gold, silk
Animal: Finch, gila
Item owned: An othala rune tongue stud; the symbol of the Somnius Pack, embedded with dream motes.
Village/forest/region: Dim Iklara, Far Iklara
NPC: Salagi Tliwx, Gaudiguch's roulette dealer
Memory: Xypher flying him and the greater majority of the Serenwilde through aetherspace for a really, really old Gnafia event
Song: The Merry Minstrel's drinking song!
Drink: none
MINDSET
Goals: Raise Ryseni to a Great House
Ambitions: Being noticed in a positive light by literally anyone, though he'd never admit that as anything close to a driving force
Nemesis: Xaldrin, in a complicated, lovers-to-enemies way
Rival: @Sotsepmet, in a nice, enemies-to-girlfriends way
Best Friend: @Nepenthe
Idols: Persayis, Xypher, Aiyana (sob 3x)
Best personal achievement: Getting a cult!
Worst personal achievement: Losing a cult!
Proudest moment: Not too many to pick from, but enough that there isn't an obvious choice. Avatardom comes to mind, but also marriage. Every marriage! Eri is very proud of being able to have found love time and time again from the most unexpected circumstances
Most shameful moment: Leaving the Beloved for the third and final time. Not shameful in the sense that he's ashamed, but shameful in the sense that it's another stain on his character with too much left unsaid
SUMMARY
Why you should hate him: He's not hard to get along with by any means, but once rubbed the wrong way he's a persistent antagonist
Why you should love him: Don't, his love is conditional
Why you should fear him: No one does, he's more annoying than he is imposing
Why he is harmless: Path of least resistance: complaining about a problem and getting over it is usually easier than solving the problem, and that's his preferred method of dealing
If he ruled the world, you'd best expect: The timeline to cease existing shortly thereafter, nullified by this improbability
Eritheyl
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Re: Announce Post #3061: Ascension Postmortem
I'm super confused by what you're trying to play here.
Glom/Celest/Halli get Parhelion - the TA they fought for.
Mag/Gaudi/Seren get Ixion - the TA they fought for
They both have one TA, the TA they fought for. They are both on equal footing. Raising Ixion doesn't cancel out Parhelion. If we were to raise another ascendant for Glom/Celest/Halli - it wouldn't cancel out Ixion - it would be in addition to Parhelion.
Raising another TA doesn't cancel out either of them - it only adds to the situation. So then you would have two TA's and they would have one TA. There isn't any cancelling out here, there isn't any kind of weird logic you're trying to apply here - your side would simply have two to their one, which yes, I think that would hurt them more.
Just to be clear - I think you having two TA's Hurts Mag/Gaudi/Seren more than them getting one TA hurts Glom/Celest/Halli.
I'm not understanding your logic when you are trying to tell me that two is equal to one.
Glom/Celest/Halli get Parhelion - the TA they fought for.
Mag/Gaudi/Seren get Ixion - the TA they fought for
They both have one TA, the TA they fought for. They are both on equal footing. Raising Ixion doesn't cancel out Parhelion. If we were to raise another ascendant for Glom/Celest/Halli - it wouldn't cancel out Ixion - it would be in addition to Parhelion.
Raising another TA doesn't cancel out either of them - it only adds to the situation. So then you would have two TA's and they would have one TA. There isn't any cancelling out here, there isn't any kind of weird logic you're trying to apply here - your side would simply have two to their one, which yes, I think that would hurt them more.
Just to be clear - I think you having two TA's Hurts Mag/Gaudi/Seren more than them getting one TA hurts Glom/Celest/Halli.
I'm not understanding your logic when you are trying to tell me that two is equal to one.
Orael
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Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet
@Dramshanks, I'm not sure if you're still around, but I wanted to re-express how much I adore the Cult of the Black Chalice Path. The concept and intrigue you built with it is incredibly compelling and explores a dark side of the Auguries I'm hoping to see much more of; the tasks are fascinatingly audacious and if I were going through the progression myself I know I would find myself thoroughly entertained. Well done, well done.
Rancoura
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Re: Lusternian picrews!
Thought I'd try one. Not seeing as many good guy options at least ones that will open for me. Here is a (bad ) attempt at a human Knorr (coming soon?)
edit: And another one I found that makes a passable Knorr now.
https://picrew.me/share?cd=U8q1PV9f6g
edit: And another one I found that makes a passable Knorr now.
https://picrew.me/share?cd=U8q1PV9f6g
Knorrith
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Re: Lusternian picrews!
I really enjoyed the themes for this one, though I wish there were more options for accessories and clothes!
Lantra
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Re: Lusternian picrews!
This was a recent one I made of Cora! The not-recent one is my current profile picture but I can’t be bothered to go that back in camera scroll to find it
Coraline
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