Also, posting "also, first post" in the RP thread is pointless and clutters the thread up.
On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.Hey, idea: what if, near cities and temples and general areas with lots of adventurers and priests, the night skies are all muddy and grey because of all the Light pollution?
edited 23rd Jan '15 3:08:15 PM by KarrinBlue
Exist, pursued by bear
That works perfectly fine. In fact, Light is so afraid that Darkness will return that bigger settlements use whatever means (magic, fires, glowing mushrooms, etc) at night in a superstitious belief that such things will keep the shadows at bay. And this in turn is messing up the environment due to zealous overusage of such materials too...
I'll give a post tomorrow, in case anyone else needs to squeeze in a post beforehand.
Makaioh, I find your last post a bit problematic. You see, answering 'yes' to the hypothetical question of 'would you become a Devil King' can be done in multiple ways, and finding a way to accommodate various characters' characterisation with it is relatively easy. However, believing that the illusion is real (so to speak), interacting with it, and eating something it offers you is very problematic for some characters. Currently I see no way (that isn't contrived) that Ellie would eat the fruit. I'm in a problem.
On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.I agree with Des there. This kind of forces is to choose between the actions that make sense in character, and the actions that'll move the plot forward and be fun. Eleanor is much more likely to start feeding apple-scraps to mice with every available measuring equipment trained on them than she is to start eating it, but that isn't much fun for anyone, I think. Eating fruit offered by a skeleton is just not something I can see her doing outside of extremely convoluted circumstances.
Exist, pursued by bearWhy is it necessary that they specifically agree to go to Leaven? I mean, demons are all about tricking you into doing what they want. I think that the 'say the word yes' is enough, from a story perspective, to get them over there.
And... yeah. A lot of these characters just have no reason to want to go there, they have satisfying lives, they have no reason to listen to anything the magic hallucination skeleton and the floating textbox say... It just doesn't really leave a whole lot of options open if you're not already playing the sort of character who's into demons or is deeply unsatisfied with their life.
Exist, pursued by bearI think the purpose behind this scene is to say "Hey guys, the Devils aren't all THAT bad! They're letting you have a way out! Aren't they nice?" which seems bit too much a whitewash. Like, the demon lords are on the brink of extinction. This last devil's gambit is wild, crazy, and entirely dependent on spunky dudes from Earth to rejuvenate their ranks.
Give it a bit more bite. Devils aren't nice. There's a reason why such things are given a bad rap in the first place. Someone says yes, they get sent to Leaven, do not pass go, do not collect 200.
Misleading deals is a common trope in fairy/demon/whatever-human deals. Then they don't have a way back home unless they do what the last lord wanted.
edited 25th Jan '15 8:01:29 PM by HazzyHaz
Because uncommitted people make horrible investments for powerful positions and demons enjoy temptations and contracts. Also the fact they don't really have the power to do anything unless both parties are in agreement, as in the many, many myths of such, I guess is my reasoning.
Though I'm beginning to doubt myself now after reading your posts...
Lies by omission are the trickiest.
Hell, to take the tale of Cu Chulainn as an example, he was the greatest Irish warrior in legend. However, he was felled because he made too many deals. What kind you may ask? Well, he made a deal to never eat dog, then another geis to always eat food offered to him by a woman, so when some lady gave him dog meat right before a great battle...
edited 25th Jan '15 8:11:35 PM by HazzyHaz
While I managed to make it work, I too prefer the way of instant transportation simply because it's also funnier~
I'll remove George's reaction to the skeleton pending GM edit.
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