Posts made by Cobalt

@peasoupling said in peasoupling's Playlist:

Sad update, womp womp.

Looking into new things but I'll wait until I'm not this busy!

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@rucket said in Development Thread: Sacred Seed:

Nice flowchart.

I assume there are some levels in between just a plain guard and say the knight-captain? Or the artisans? Like if there is a Master Blacksmith, like someone who is clearly topnotch but isn't the Guildmaster, would they have a form of address on their own?

Hhmm. I might tag @Coin a little bit on that. I personally don't want to complicate things too much-- if people have to remember too many titles and then someone forgets it, I don't want there to be drama for simple mistakes.

It might just be like: They'd still be master/mistress but noted as 'Master Blacksmith' as their full title, like: 'Master Blacksmith Ariel Fogsworth' or 'Master Performer Etienne Swansea', etc. The guards, yeah, will probably have like lieutenants and stuff, who might be considered the same as knights (sir/dame) but we'll see what @Coin thinks there.

I'm tinkering away! I've worked out a little graphic to break down the social hierarchy, is it understandable?

• Note: Thorned Branch is the city guard, Gilded Branch is the Crafters, Flowering Branch is the courtesans.

@roz said in Saulot's Playlist:

@saulot said in Saulot's Playlist:

@ Arx: Aibek

That is not a PC on Arx!

He’s working on it >_> I’m a terrible cgen helper. I WILL GIVE YOU TWO GUESSES WHO HE WILL BE RELATED TO.... and the first two don’t count.

@rucket Chugging along, I'm working at spending 1-2hrs every day (that I'm not working), working on either theme or code stuff. I spent a good chunk of that the last time breaking a part a terrible scary giant page into smaller more manageable ones.

Currently I'm working on creating duchies for each of the courts, and then fleshing out the NPCs and rosters for those duchies, and then so on.

@Coin has been caught up with midterm stuff, but we're still plugging away at our system mechanics.

I 100% do not care if there are five Scarlet Johansons or twenty Adelaide Kanes or fifteen Jensen Ackles or thirty Chris Pines running around. Whatever.

I've even in the past made it a thing with PCs when they end up picking PBs that I was using for NPCs. @Tempest had a mortal character on, Darkwater GMC, that used Eva Green who I was using for the Autumn Queen. We made it a thing, and everyone thought her PC was the Autumn Queen's Fetch.

:3

Generally overall, I think that the best course is to pick PBs (and hopefully good ones), but have a note that players can change the PB of their character so long as they aren't like ... whitewashing characters.

@bobotron I'm not sure I'd go that far for an original fantasy game. I can make allowances, yeah, for when someone tries to whitewash a POC character, but I don't think a person taking a roster character needs to be 100% faithful to authorial intent... and expecting it of people is going to lead to heart break.

If you're looking at a game with roster characters, and decide to go with a roster. Does their already having a PB chosen have a positive or negative impact on your choice? Does it matter if you know you can change the PB once you're approved if you don't like the one that's there already?

Would you rather staff-made rosters already have PBs picked for you so you don't have to? Or would you rather they not have one? Or does it just not matter if you feel you can change them once you're approved?

@saosmash said in @Arx: Anonymous Messengers (Answered):

@scar said in @Arx: Anonymous Messengers (Answered):

@saosmash You know how rich ladies on tv shows always hug each other with their eyes wide open right before ruining one another's galas? That's what I'm doing to you right now.

You're seriously just going to destroy me. This is like a battle of wits with the unarmed!!

I'll stand champion for you. >:|

Look! The beginnings of a +sheet!

@thatonedude ...it's Otherkin the game, omg.

@sparks said in Arx: @clues:

@cobaltasaurus said in Arx: @clues:

@Sparks Gave me one of the most chilling clues in the game (imho) but it's only so chilling because of the context that comes with that clue. It's akin to real world when you find out why the story behind "Ring Around the Rosie".

Was that Hush, Hush that you're referencing? I'm still rather happy with that clue.

Yes. Brrr.

@roz I don't remember exactly the cost when I was playing Clover but it was super low, somewhere between 1-3, I think.

However, there was a time when I was trying to bring someone in on a certain part of the metaplot, and that person started lecturing Clover on it and insisting that he had found an important artifact (looking at the object it was pretty clear it wasn't a staff made object, and we already knew where that artifact should be so he couldn't have gotten it) and no amount of IC or OOC saying "hey I really don't think that's what you think it is" would steer him from his belief-- unsurprising since he went on to get killed for his wildly off base theories and the way he treated other players.

During one of the conversations after I had decided not to just info dump and instead try hard to steer him back onto the correct course, he started OOCly lecturing me to put certain clues I had shared with him onto the Faith of the Pantheon @org. And how it was so much more cost effective AP wise if I would just put my clues onto the orgs. Which was factually wrong because it cost me tiny amounts of AP (though I still had little because my AP would go into @investigates each week) to share vs somewhere between 12-15 to put it onto an org and then brief someone if they didn't have the AP to do the briefing themselves.

It might just be that I'm on my fifth character now, but I'm way less enamored with @clues than when I first started playing the game. I'm more interested in clues for things that my characters are actively interested in, or in doing @actions, than the clues themselves.

I think I'm expressing that wrong-- I still love the lore and how creative all the staff are and how they seem to just infinitely be able to pop out little vignettes of lore via the clues. But I'm less interested in trying to hoard the entirety of it, and instead rather focus on things that are plots my characters are actively pursuing.

@Sparks Gave me one of the most chilling clues in the game (imho) but it's only so chilling because of the context that comes with that clue. It's akin to real world when you find out why the story behind "Ring Around the Rosie".

@rucket said in Development Thread: Sacred Seed:

Nice, looks like it's based on rolling d12s?

@coin could probably explain it best, but the tl;dr roll <attr>d12 at <difficult-skill level> will be the system.

@bobotron said in Development Thread: Sacred Seed:

@cobaltasaurus

This is nice. Very direct and to the point. Are there other cognomen that one would add such as from posiitonals and such? As someone who spent a lot of time digging through how Roman naming conventions worked in relation to paterfamilias, position and station, I found that it was interesting to see how and what people who tack onto their names.

Um...

English kudasai!

Or...

@Coin All yours buddy

Thanks to @Ifrit's never ending patience (and telling me how to do stuff) and @Tehom's code as reference we have a roller! Hoozah!

<Roll> Hibiscus gained 7 successes at difficulty 5. [12, 8, 9, 10, 3, 2, 6, 9, 2, 5]

How Do Names Work?

Names can be made up or from any real world culture. However, there is a particular scheme to those names. You will have a first name, some may have a second or middle name, a family name, and a name that signifies which court you were born from. When you reach majority and you officially join a court if it is the one you were born with you would drop the child's honorific, but if you move into another court you may drop that name completely or chose to keep it. The ruler of a court typically drops their family name completely.

Examples:
Sera Agatta Williams-Emberborn.

First name: Sera
Middle/Second name: Agatta
Family name: Williams.
Court Name: Emberborn.

When she reached majority and joined the Court of the Blaze she became:

Sera Agatta Williams-Embers

When she inherited the throne from her father she became:

Queen Sera Agatta Embers.

Her brother, however, has chosen to keep his Court born name despite having become King of the Glacier.

King Amos Emberborn-Frost

Their younger sister, who has reached the age of majority but has yet to pick a court is still:

Abigail Maisie Williams-Emberborn

@tehom You're pretty brilliant, but I'm not sure even you can code tl;dr into some of the verbose mofas in this hobby.

I don't mean to have sounded so hyper critically of +theories. I think that the code and the work behind them is brilliant. I just don't like to read super long walls of text, and a lot of +theories I've gotten have been like information overload with long walls of text.