Posts made by Cobalt

EDIT:

CURRENT:

• Andrina @ Arx

I'm going to shamelessly copy ES.

First staff bits since it'll be slightly less messy:

• Cobalt@Darkwater
• Atlantis/Quneitra@The Reach
• Sanguine@Haunted Memories
• GM Blues/Nekhbet@City by the Bay
• Inglewood/Casablanca/Bellflower@Lamush (nnggggh)
• Absolut@St. Petersburg
• Amaranth@Briefly on Gangrel's nWoD game, can't remember the name now.
• Melpomene@Windy City
• Melpomene/Something Else@Crimson Dawn
• Obsequy@Blood & Citrus
• Lapis Lazuli@Wine Dark Sea (?? I think it was this one)
• Cobalt@City of Fog and Blood
• Roulette@Reno
• Pluckytart@WildCard
• Apple@Eldritch
• Cobaltasaurus@FC
• Obsequy@DescentMUX
• Cobalt@Angel's Legacy

Player Characters:

• LAMush: December, Dara, Celeste, Carmin, Others.
• City by the Bay: Jolene, Azura, Others.
• Anomaly TrekMUX: Carvon, Devona, Beatrix.
• Windy City: Gabe, Ivy, Parvani, Mourning, Briony, Others.
• Northern Vampire Mysteries: Miriam
• The Great Game: Lily (Whiteflower / Blanchefleur)
• Haunted Memories: Alicia, Peta, Cytosine (Calla Lily), Kera, Others.
• St Petersburg: Nika, Liliya, Toma, Marya.
• Star Trek: Gamma One: Maiah, Girah, Voss, Ilya, Imele, Martin, maybe others.
• The Reach: Annabeth (Autumn) Dunlin, Feline, Gussie, December, Kotu, so many others...
• City of Fog and Blood: Faye, Penny, Mina.
• Reno: Estelle, Harper, Malin, Giosetta.
• City of Hope: Maya.
• Let The End Times Roll: Rose, Lily.
• Firan: Daliana, Cori (Jan 2014 - March 2014)
• Saturnine Dreams: Dancing Amber Lights (Amber.
• Hollow (@gattaca's changeling game): I don't remember!
• Shangrila: Isadara (I was this for like three or four years, before I nuked out, if there's a new one it isn't me)
• Darkwater v1: Gwen, a bunch of others.
• Darkwater: the Magening: Pandora.
• Darkwater GMC Changeling: Amber
• Amber OTT @Sunny ran: Emmietta
• Kushiel's Debut: Mylene, Emilie, Miella, Ambroise.
• Fallcoast: Leah, Maris, Belle, Adelet, Nikki, Kanta, Lav.
• Eldritch: Lily
• Descent Mux: Athena, Saskia
• Angel's Legacy: Ariadne
• Fallen World: Romance
• Reno 2.0: Jordanne
• Arx: Mirari (II), Clover (I), Saya, Ainsley.
• Fifth Kingdom: Seamair
• Elua's Percept: Mylene
• Fate's Harvest: Lien
• Calaveras: Briony & Ianthe
• Valorous Dominion: Tizania
• Galaxy & Maia & Vasilja @ Euphoria
• Bree @ Moon River
• Venetia @ Gray Harbor

I may have forgotten some, but I don't really remember. :<

Anyone interested in doing some data entry for us? Need to put in the favors and aspects from Changing Breeds book. Potentially also some mage spells for Beast Magic.

What do you mean by an old-school ghoul?

@somasatori I would like that. I might just go with the old Port Angeles grid, tho. Given how much work other stuff will be.

@Kireek ...no.

We're going to use the rules from War Against the Pure for form bonuses, but go with the other aspects/gifts/whatever from Changing Breeds.

@somasatori You want to build me a Portland grid, sir? >_>

@somasatori Definitely not dispassionately,

Hozier.

(I'm also officially a hipster, I think, because I'm now upset that Hozier is being splashed over MU* wikipages. I LIKED HIM FIRST. GRR.)

That ... did not work very well on Darkwater The Original. It was one of the lessons learned. I'm not going to say that the origin stories are the Be All End All-- but they will be the "base guidelines" -- these are what people of that species typically believe about themselves. Some might not believe it, some might have their own ideas, some might not care.

Just like there are some human beings who believe we were created by an All Power All Knowing God in 7-days. And there are those who believe they have empirical proof that we evolved over time. It is put this way because I'm not OOCly planning to argue with people over RL creationism vs evolution.

But, actually, that's it exactly.

Think of the origin stories as that. Creationism vs Evolution.

Traditionalists believe X, but modern shapeshifters may believe Y.

It was a little bit shocking at first, but I've gotten used to it myself. Kind of like some of the features.

@Coin But that then leaves them pretty generic and defeats the purpose of customizing them, aside from giving them different stat bonuses.

@Kireek said:

I've yet to see the Theno/Pev seal of approval on this one either, so I am indeed very much curious

As has been mentioned, Pev's status is currently unknown but seemingly /not good/ right now. I'm sure when Theno gets time he might be able to answer some questions.

@Coin Oh, they will. The different breeds will have different thoughts on how they were created. Whether or not those are real, well...

Some of the breeds will have somewhat 'samey' stats, but I'm going to try and make them each have unique or unique-ish origin stories.

Housecat shifters might believe they are descendents of the familiar of a powerful sorcerer who bestowed a human form on their progenitor as a reward for faithful service, and thus to this day they tend to be obsessed with finding occult knowledge.

While werebears might believe that they are the origins of the word 'berserker', being descendents of long forgotten fierce warriors that bonded with bear souls to gain their power. They might be compelled to try and reclaim their (believed) former glories.

While octopus shapeshifters might believe that they originated from Akkorokamui, and have a propensity toward healing and bestowing wisdom. But be fickle creatures who are just as likely to do harm.

Well the Darkwater grid does have some variety to it. The weather is also usually pleasant (being temperate compared to the rest of the area). It has city, outskirts with farms / lavender fields, and a temperate rainforest on grid, as well as a waterfront, and a mountain section.

I'm not really sure I could get more varied than that. It'd be weird to have a forest and a dessert, and/or a tropical rainforest, etc.

@Coin said:

I'd suggest a place with as many topographical variations as possible; especially if you're allowing wildly different animals who are from different types of geography.

I've had this suggestion before but I feel like if a place is used that the human side has a reason to be there, one doesn't have to worry too much about making sure there's a large stretch of plains for lions, etc. Shapeshifters are more than their animals. A werelion in lion form might not be the most comfortable in a forest, but if their human side has a reason to be in the area-- they'll put up with it.

ETA: The only real exception I see to this is water-creatures. They /have/ to have a body of water to be in animal form.

(Because it has to be longer than eight characters to post.)

Oh! My +Events code is there! AWESOME! Thank you for finding that!

Yeah. I am somewhat sad to see the code repository of free stuff going away. I, uh, may have lost the only non-living version of 'Cobalt's +Events Code' now. Which means I'll have to try and get it from TR, or see if the version on my current install of DW is up to date (which it may not be). My own fault for not keeping an update version of the code saved somewhere on my computer.

Insert whinging here about moving and changing computers and blah blah.

I also will miss some of the funnier threads-- the interesting links thread, and the video game discussions. And some of Brus' old posts were hilarious.

Still, I mostly hope Peverel is okay. Lolth too, though I think she's fine? Probably just drinking somewhere.

Anywhere in particular in the Carolinas? I could try, but I might need someone to help me with the grid. :<

I haven't quite beaten it yet, but I'll probably take a break between playthroughs. I've got like 180+ hours into it now. (Good lord, how did that happen?). I like Vivienne as a concept, but I hate having her in the party. She's such a /bitch/. Goodness.

If I hear her tell Cole to fall back into the fade one more damned time. >_<

Although it was heartening when she said that she was the only one she trusted to do the thing that pissed Morrigan off.

So Inquisitors.

What've you been up to?

I've cleared most of the explorable areas and am now finally focusing on the storyline. As a mild spoiler I totally pissed off Morrigan. Just recently. ^_^

Whoops.