Updates tonight

Took a small day off yesterday

Sorry, something came up last night at the last minute.

Updates going up now.

Congrats to Elise, the first to form her religion

For the Nexus, for the others I did not update for: I'll just wait for Xeslin to respond. If he doesn't by monday I'll update Nexus for all at that point.

For now I updated the Nexus gods that were apart from the grouping.

Thank you for bonus postings Overlord!

As well, congratulations on the religion n church Elise!

In reply to Arashi (msg # 55):

Thank you! Hopefully it was a prudent choice...

I suspect it will be! I still have to earn the favor and respect of my proud mortals before I can do anything as such. Though I've made a misstep already so fingers crossed.

Just a note on certain rules:

1) Aura: Aura will diminsh by 1 per strike upon it if the damage done upon it is equal to half (round up) of the current Aura value. This was in place since the last game but I just noticed I had not changed it from the first iteration of the game.

2) Essence/Faith Gain: This is gained weekly but must have atleast 1 update by the player in that week to gain the alloted amount. This is to avoid players going absent for multiple weeks at a time without updating and coming back to a lot of accumulated Essence/Faith (this occured in the previous game for a deity so want to avoid this being an issue in this one).

Really lagging behind on posts right now. Hoping to get back into the swing here soon.

No worries.

Note that my point about essence/faith vs updates per week wasn't aimed at anyone here. I simply was going to do it but wanted to make everyone aware.

Real life first gang.

Alright so Veks was removed from the campaign. He had not sent in a new character yet and this being week 3 we need to move on.

I think real life was simply very busy on his end.

In reply to Overlord (msg # 61):

I hope that RL is at least being kind to him, and that it's all the good type of busy!

Sorry for few updates this week.

They shut down restaurants back on the 30th of December (yeah, day before new years eve ... wonderful understanding government) and are reopening them tomorrow (giving us 5 days notice) so has been a little hectic this week with rehiring.

Anyhow, all good as we have been through this 3 times now so we are (unfortunately) used to it.

I'll be updating again as of tomorrow.

Oof, no worries on the slow down! Despite being used to it still doesn't make too less hectic. Hopefully everything for starting them back up will go smoothly as they can boss.

In reply to Overlord (msg # 63):

No worries at all! I know it's trite to say, but RL always comes first. And I also hope things go as smoothly as possible. And, for the record, f*** Covid and everything that's come from it.

Edit: Ooops, language.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:42, Tue 01 Feb 2022.

Faith & Essence thread updated

Going to update other threads tomorrow as had a lot of TREASURY work to do tonight in the background.

Hi all,

So as this question came up with two players i'll post the answer here in case the others also have the question.

Spell Training/Incarnation Training:

Training these work pretty much the same. You spend time (and the Essence cost in terms of Incarnations) to learn how to channel the energies and manifest the effect your looking for. This gives you a KNOWN Incarnation or a Spell to call upon.

Incarnations that are used on the fly are considered UNTAINED. They are thus less powerful in effect than a trained one and cost more to manifest. Using an untrained Incarnation does not then make it Known. Training to know it takes time BUT will cost you only ONE cost of Untrained Incarnation.

Spells are different in that there is no Essence cost to learn them but you do need to take the time to learn it. The time etc is listed in the Tradition section of the rules.

You need to learn spells for each level and once known that is it. You can't learn MORE than your maximum amount for each rank unless you raise your attributes/rank accordingly. You can UNLEARN a spell but keep it in the form of knowledge known by documenting it (if you know a written language etc) but that spell is not accessible to you unless you forego another that you have, keeping those you have access to on the fly at the listed maximum per rank.

Ex: You have the ability to know upto 6 rank 1 spells. You learn 6 and then want to learn a 7th of that rank. You can document one of the first 6, removing it from the repertoire of those you can call upon and then learn this new spell to take that 6th slot. So you'D have 6 spells to call upon from your instances and 1 documented that you can switch to later on. Note that switching a spell tradition takes half the time from learning it for that rank.

How to learn a spell or Incarnation is easy: State your taking the time to do so and then describe what your looking to achieve with your spell. Mechanics wise i'll work out the details but that is about it. The more descriptive you get the better i can get to the version of what your looking for. Use the various descriptors (range, area of effect, etc) to decide how the spell will work of course.

Learning spells/incarnations takes time and concentration so events that require most of your attention cannot be done but general day to day activities can still occur.

Sorry gang. Later than expected. Got one update and some pm stuff but nothing more :(

Tomorrow... sorry.

Man -- now I'm wishing one or two of y'all had stayed at the Halls with me...

It's certainly intriguing all the private lines!

Essence & Faith sheet updated with todays spendings as well.

Nexus will be updated with next updates to give those who haven't posted a chance to do so.

Updates will be tomorrow, appologies.

Had my wisdom teeth removed. Just getting back into the swing of things.

And a congrats to Tal for reaching rank 2!