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      watno @crawfish
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      @crawfish Inspiration Says, ‘Thank you’

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        dvoraen @Quibbler
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        @Quibbler I wanted to try and do the bridging thing too, but I don’t think I ingrained Bhandn into things enough to pull it off.

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          Rinel @Roz
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          @Roz said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

          @kalakh said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

          Re: Prism: Prism had a bit of her own thing going apart from Skald, but when Skald stepped down from godhood he granted a share of the power he retained to her, so she’s still got power, but yeah afaik she’s no longer a Seraph.

          Prism actually decided not to accept that power. She and Skald are instead living as a comparatively normal, undivine couple instead. It’s very sweet.

          I assume she still has magical ability, because she had also been a mage, but she’s no longer divine.

          When did Skald step down, and who/what, if anything, filled the role?

          @dvoraen said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

          What was the world even like when Destiny was alive?

          If you talk to a hard determinist IRL, they’ll tell you it was exactly like our own. 😁

          ETA: From Seth Dickinson’s EXORDIA (recently released, quite good):

          “Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. it’s very unlikely that you’ll die right now. It wouldn’t be narratively complete.”

          bird's still the word

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            Roz @Rinel
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            @Rinel said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

            @Roz said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

            @kalakh said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

            Re: Prism: Prism had a bit of her own thing going apart from Skald, but when Skald stepped down from godhood he granted a share of the power he retained to her, so she’s still got power, but yeah afaik she’s no longer a Seraph.

            Prism actually decided not to accept that power. She and Skald are instead living as a comparatively normal, undivine couple instead. It’s very sweet.

            I assume she still has magical ability, because she had also been a mage, but she’s no longer divine.

            When did Skald step down, and who/what, if anything, filled the role?

            In the finale months, after Orichalcum was killed and writs were removed from the Dream, Azazel was real PECKISH and went and ate Legion (and Fable and Ruin). That meant that Skald either needed to kind of mash together with Vellichor in some fashion, or give up his divinity and power to Vellichor. He chose the latter, because Skald likes being himself and being embodied in the Prime because it’s more fun. But he did save a bit of power for Aleksei and Prism (although Prism, as mentioned earlier, declined hers).

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              Rinel @Roz
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              @Roz said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

              @Rinel said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

              @Roz said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

              @kalakh said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

              Re: Prism: Prism had a bit of her own thing going apart from Skald, but when Skald stepped down from godhood he granted a share of the power he retained to her, so she’s still got power, but yeah afaik she’s no longer a Seraph.

              Prism actually decided not to accept that power. She and Skald are instead living as a comparatively normal, undivine couple instead. It’s very sweet.

              I assume she still has magical ability, because she had also been a mage, but she’s no longer divine.

              When did Skald step down, and who/what, if anything, filled the role?

              In the finale months, after Orichalcum was killed and writs were removed from the Dream, Azazel was real PECKISH and went and ate Legion (and Fable and Ruin). That meant that Skald either needed to kind of mash together with Vellichor in some fashion, or give up his divinity and power to Vellichor. He chose the latter, because Skald likes being himself and being embodied in the Prime because it’s more fun. But he did save a bit of power for Aleksei and Prism (although Prism, as mentioned earlier, declined hers).

              Azazel ate Fable? Huh. I thought… Huh. I am either misremembering or never knew correctly. I thought the Devourer worked for Fable. Was he his own agent the whole time?

              bird's still the word

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                Roz @Rinel
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                @Rinel said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                @Roz said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                @Rinel said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                @Roz said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                @kalakh said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                Re: Prism: Prism had a bit of her own thing going apart from Skald, but when Skald stepped down from godhood he granted a share of the power he retained to her, so she’s still got power, but yeah afaik she’s no longer a Seraph.

                Prism actually decided not to accept that power. She and Skald are instead living as a comparatively normal, undivine couple instead. It’s very sweet.

                I assume she still has magical ability, because she had also been a mage, but she’s no longer divine.

                When did Skald step down, and who/what, if anything, filled the role?

                In the finale months, after Orichalcum was killed and writs were removed from the Dream, Azazel was real PECKISH and went and ate Legion (and Fable and Ruin). That meant that Skald either needed to kind of mash together with Vellichor in some fashion, or give up his divinity and power to Vellichor. He chose the latter, because Skald likes being himself and being embodied in the Prime because it’s more fun. But he did save a bit of power for Aleksei and Prism (although Prism, as mentioned earlier, declined hers).

                Azazel ate Fable? Huh. I thought… Huh. I am either misremembering or never knew correctly. I thought the Devourer worked for Fable. Was he his own agent the whole time?

                He was Fable’s Herald, yes.

                And then he ate it.

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                  watno @Rinel
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                  @Rinel Nothing replaced Skald. He gave his power to Vellichor. Choice became an aspect of Knowledge.

                  So now the Pantheon wholly embraces fucking around in the pursuit of finding out.

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                    Roz @watno
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                    @watno said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                    So now the Pantheon wholly embraces fucking around in the pursuit of finding out.

                    More like how we should be thoughtful and wise about our choices before making them, which is LAME. Sorry, Vellichor.

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                      Duke Whisky @Roz
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                      @Roz said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                      @watno said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                      So now the Pantheon wholly embraces fucking around in the pursuit of finding out.

                      More like how we should be thoughtful and wise about our choices before making them, which is LAME. Sorry, Vellichor.

                      Agreed. Smash rocks. Free 1/13th of Diamond.

                      Current Projects:

                      Twitch -> https://www.twitch.tv/dukewhisky

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                        Roz @Duke Whisky
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                        @Duke-Whisky said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                        @Roz said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                        @watno said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                        So now the Pantheon wholly embraces fucking around in the pursuit of finding out.

                        More like how we should be thoughtful and wise about our choices before making them, which is LAME. Sorry, Vellichor.

                        Agreed. Smash rocks. Free 1/13th of Diamond.

                        You are obviously getting swiftly assassinated.

                        she/her | playlist

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                          Duke Whisky @Roz
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                          @Roz said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                          @Duke-Whisky said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                          @Roz said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                          @watno said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                          So now the Pantheon wholly embraces fucking around in the pursuit of finding out.

                          More like how we should be thoughtful and wise about our choices before making them, which is LAME. Sorry, Vellichor.

                          Agreed. Smash rocks. Free 1/13th of Diamond.

                          You are obviously getting swiftly assassinated.

                          Sounds good

                          Current Projects:

                          Twitch -> https://www.twitch.tv/dukewhisky

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                            dvoraen @Roz
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                            @Roz Oh come on now. Aleksei can have a great adventure collecting all of the Dragon Balls Diamond Rings first. In like three main plots, with about 109238712937 side plots (the filler episodes).

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                              Roz @dvoraen
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                              @dvoraen What? Aleksei doesn’t assassinate people.

                              Berenice does (have people to do it for her).

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                                dvoraen @Roz
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                                @Roz Excuse. Where did I say Aleksei would assassinate anyone? I just said get the pieces of Diamond first.

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                                  Roz @dvoraen
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                                  @dvoraen Alt conflict; that’s Berenice’s plot thread, not Aleksei’s.

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                                    Snackness @Roz
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                                    @Roz Morbidly curious, did Berenice know that Ailys had one?

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                                      Roz @Snackness
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                                      @Snackness said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                                      @Roz Morbidly curious, did Berenice know that Ailys had one?

                                      I don’t THINK so. The True Lyceum shifted into incorporating “keep an eye on the black diamonds” as part of its purpose, because it needed things like that, but it wasn’t the OOC goal to hunt down all the PCs. The general idea was that the order would become responsible for keeping track of all of them, but in a – future sort of way. Because we didn’t want it to be like we needed to know a bunch of PC secrets!

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                                        dvoraen @Roz
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                                        @Roz said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                                        @dvoraen Alt conflict; that’s Berenice’s plot thread, not Aleksei’s.

                                        Fair point. I’m sure Berenice will look fabulous wearing all the Diamond rings that aren’t people.

                                        But really I just wanted to riff off of Dragon Ball Z and adventuring, and that seemed more Aleksei’s thing.

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                                          Snackness @Roz
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                                          @Roz There was much IC debate as to whether we did or did not need to share that info under the Accords 😁

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                                            Roz @Snackness
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                                            @Snackness I think in a story setting, not a RP game with players, it would have been different. But we were trying to balance with the fact that these were PC things! Mostly just trying to have a niche where thematically someone should be keeping an eye on things, and it used to be Malrico always knowing where they were, and then he was dead, so.

                                            Good for everyone’s survival to make sure they at least weren’t being collected by cultists or whatever.

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