August Game Announcements
A Word From Your Mod Team
Hi everyone!
That's it. We don't have a lot more this time around.
What? REGAINS ARE A THING TO STAY?!
With last month's Research on the Sundered, we introduced regains to our Magicademy, and despite all known rules of narrative convenience, the researchers responsible have not inexplicably forgotten how to perform the spells that caused these faint connections to your home world. To that extent, each character may now earn one regain per month.
To do so, you need simply comment on this post with what you would like to regain, and some associated concept of your home world or canon. You may also recommend a concept that works with that, a theme for us to build off of. Conflict, for example, is always valid! Once you've received your approval and prompt, go wild with what we've given you. And of course there will be absolutely no long-term repercussions or consequences of regains! (Please pardon us a moment while we massage our jaws back into place, as they were dislocated by not malicious laughter.)
This Month In Diatu
Hail becomes a concern around this time, thanks to some peculiarity of air currents and ocean evaporation. Luckily, hailstorms are brief when they appear, but inevitably sudden and fierce for their short lives. Woe be unto the student who fails to protect themselves with a suitable shield when they spend any time out of doors!
A Visiting Professor offers special guest lectures during the evening. Professor Drom is a savvy thaumaturge, an expert on Glyphics, and a minotaur, all three of which he works quite hard at, with an aplomb that rivals Professor Trammel (and has apparently started rumors that they are or have been a couple).
The Caverns Beneath The Academy are officially off-limits now, save solely for the magical labs and other necessary places for continuing education. The faculty doesn't understand why you all need to be told not to go try to poke a ghost dragon with a stick, but apparently you do.
Balloons festoon the campus. No reason, they just do.
This Month In Anastara
A Traveling Festival has set up camp down by the docks (which is the only real space they can fit). Come see acrobatics, clowns and sideshow acts, tightrope walking, rare and exotic animals treated in ways not quite in line with modern ethics, and ending with the legendary Manticore of Munn!
Adventures
As detailed on our Adventures page, you may sign up for an adventure by responding to the appropriate comment on this post. We will respond with your adventure setups in a few days. You may undertake a new adventure this month even if you are still in an adventure from previous months.
We also want to encourage everyone to involve others in your adventures! Though it is possible to do many adventures solo, we intend them as opportunities for characters to mix and mingle.
Actions
To represent characters working long-term towards a goal, you can submit up to two actions on the appropriate comment below that your character will be focusing their time towards (or one action twice). This can range from studying, to exploration, to trying to gain points for the Colormarch, to buttering up NPCs, to others. At the end of the month, once you submit AC, you will be given your results.
No Second Event
Activity outside the events in July was fairly low, so we're giving you August to get some of your own plans and plots going. Have fun! Don't do anything we would do!
Monthly Mod Plans
- Update Locations to include all new discovered areas (monthly)
- Update Adventures with new options (monthly)
- Create a Religion page to explain the religion of the Tenscore Kingdoms (we swear we'll do this sometime)
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diatuooc2019-08-05 03:09 pm
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The associated concept, put in simplest terms, would be greed - the episode where Louie first gained the khopesh centered around how his greed blinds him from thinking things through, resulting in impulsive and dangerous actions.
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As soon as the khopesh is passed on, Louie and the recipient both magically understand the following:
The recipient may keep the khopesh, and nothing more will come of this.
The recipient may also choose to give the khopesh to person (who may not be Louie). If they do so, they are subjected to the following curse:
Curse: The Cut of a Blade
This curse triggers at the exact moment it would be a disaster for the victim to start bleeding all over, and causes exactly that to happen. The victim will lose a dramatic but not harmful amount of blood (or other vital fluid or equivalent) in the most spectacular way possible. Sudden wounds, nosebleeds, eye socket bleeds, arterial sprays from the wrist -- it's disgusting, terrifying, and gross.
The next person in line learns all this and has the same choice, and so on, and so on. If four people in total pass the khopesh on, the last one may give it back to Louie, allowing him to keep it for good.
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1. The recipient may also choose to give the khopesh to person (who may not be Louie). If they do so, they are subjected to the following curse...
Does the second they, the person getting cursed, refer to the next person to give the khopesh away after Louie, or the next person to receive the khopesh after Louie's recipient?
2. Or does the curse start as soon as Louie gives the khopesh away, making either Louie or the recipient cursed?
3. Does the magically-gained knowledge of what's going on include knowing about the curse? If so, will they know the non-harmful aspect? Also, does that knowledge cover the idea of four people passing the khopesh along before it can get back to Louie?
4. If the recipients of the khopesh are the ones who are cursed, would Louie be cursed when he finally gets it back, assuming that happens?
...Sorry, that's kind of a lot. Thanks in advance!
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They do know they will not suffer serious harm from the curse, though they will legitimately lose blood. It will be the equivalent of a rather nasty cut, that bleeds a lot but not so much as to cause any danger from exsanguination.
Louie will never be cursed.