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Feign tourism.

Sorry about the quotes. It's just a convenient way to condense my conversations.

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"Those large, reptilian beasts the dwarves hunt. The ones with long tails and necks? And pillarlike legs?
"Well, I must be off. Sorry to be so rude."

Action coming soon (?)

We should destroy him before he wakes up!

No objections, but I'd advise you to start another motion...heck, I'll start it.

And I call for a vote to condemn Javier for killing a bunch of people that one time, during the dark rein of...HER.

See below.

What should we call that anyway? The Great Plague?

Good idea.

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Quote from: Vgray on January 23, 2013, 05:23:58 pm

Nope. Inithis is a Devil GWG.

He is listed as a God in the OP...blame Geek.

...Huh. I really am the only god left, once Jebyg finally stops posting random crap to do whilst asleep...being a monotheistic god is a big responsibility...thankfully, I have a bunch of other powers to dump part of the work on! 

Spoiler: The Synod (click to show/hide)

Laws:
1. Any being, whether a power, a servant to a power, a mortal, or whatever may be condemned by a 2/3 or greater vote of the organization; a condemned being may be absolved by a simple majority vote.
2. A condemned being which has not subsequently been absolved is subject to any punishments agreed on by a majority of the group.
3. Any rules may be changed by a two-thirds majority vote after a suggestion by a member power. The same process may be applied to alter rather than add laws.
4. No being may be prosecuted for punishing said being's own servants for infractions of the being's laws or orders.
5. If any two members of the Synod wish to go to war, and both agree to it, the Synod will not disapprove and may not act as a body to end the war or punish the members. Any collateral damage which harms nonparticipant parties may still be prosecuted.

Orders:
We will construct an "Alcatraz" to hold the most dangerous of criminals.

Members: (9)
GreatWyrmGold (Draco)
Gman (Jim)
Inithis (Inithis)
Javierpwn (Javier)
Kashyyk (Azaroth)
Rancor (Usael)
Scapheap (Cupitas)
Vgray (Azem)
Wwolin (Alrezar)

The Condemned:
Jebyg, To be punished with dAIDS

Proposals:
None

I am still a God. And I will not be killed without a fight! I will never stop striving to protect the world and her people. I will stop your killing of the innocent unbelievers, i swear it!

Hah, you protect the world. I'm not pro-innocent-killing, though.

I swear, when I wake up I am marching straight to the atheist city and telling them that they're cool with me, and that I love the shit out of them.

Hah. Hahahaha. Haha. There are so many things wrong with that...you're a god known for evil and destruction, you're telling atheists you don't need them to believe in you, etc...

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So? Showing outsiders that even peasants get magical powers would show how kind, loving, and powerful we are.

We simply can't afford to give everyone boons. Nice if we could, but we can't.

Good thing we're only giving them to half a dozen, then.

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But Mr. Ranger, this IS a game! And all games have to have stupidly simple mechanics for XP!

All games may not, but it's still doesn't make sense if having more people sharing the same task, thus decreasing the amount of work for each of them, would get the same amount of xp from it as if they were alone.

Why not? They get a chance to excersize their powers, share their findings, and the experience is gained by five people.

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More relevantly: Laskus's awesome was in part due to the boon Maher gave him.

We still don't know that Maher gave him a boon.

Could have sworn we did...

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And helping agriculture isn't helpful...?

It is only minorly helpful, when we could do something more helpful with the mana. If we had a sort of cash crop, then it would be more helpful, because we could buy more things with it.

Mana's worthless if we don't use it. Besides, if we spread the magic around, we get more people interested and therefore interested in converting, meaning that we get a long-term mana gain. It's an investment.

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1. Assumptions. Besides, at some point we're going to be expanding faster than our bloodmelons can grow...
2. The people that will hopefully be flocking to us, or who we build homes for to evangelize?
3. Opinion. Either way doesn't change the general facts.
4. Fair point.
5. Heh heh. Here I thought it was required for life...
6. ...By getting boons and the skills they learn by using them, which can't be learned any other way?

1. Not random assumptions. We have enough food now, or else we would have someone saying "we don't have enough food!" The bloodmelons also do not grow many seeds, so it's reasonable that they haven't maxed their growth yet. We may have enough food later, or we may not, depending on the relative growth rates, but there's no point in addressing that unless we know it needs to be addressed.
2. We can put Eldrick on that, and as for evangelism, there are probably better ways to do that than littering other gods' towns with giant mushrooms.
3. Not an opinion. Fact: We do not know how effective evangelism with that boon is. Assumption: It is better to know something works before doing it en masse.
6. The children (mage children), not the people with the boon. And you can't teach if you have no skill in it, what would you teach then?

1. Your assumption was that they were spreading fast. That's a stupid assumption. For all we know, we could be harvesting them at an unsustainable rate and just haven't noticed...
2. The mushroom-raisers aren't the Evangelizers. Also, Eldrick's one guy, meaning that he can only do about one thing at a time.
3. Fact: Evangelism is not worthless. Fact: Evangelism now means we increase our mana income sooner. Opinion: We should see how effective it is before "bothering."
5. Dropped. Food is always needed. It's inelastic. Between historical precedent and Malthus's theories, there's probably some starving people.
6. Indeed. How can they teach if they never learn? If they get boons, they can learn. If they don't, they can't.

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Then what was that lightning jumps? 99% that it's a boon. 1% is that it's a permanent modification (that's even costlier then boons)

I assumed it was a part of his original creation, like the fact that new Laksus can regenerate. It doesn't say either way, so the point is moot.

Lightning jumps seem more like a Maher-boon than an ability vampires would get.

Nope, That's diversity for the sake of diversity. I want to improve our economy with concentrated plant booning, And I don't wanna to repeat all my reasons

If you want combat fire mages add them in addition to that planters not instead, and I'll support adding as many apprentices for Azula as you want...

And I am especially against giving chaos boons to anyone untested. Even Alchemist was like 70%good\30%bad  decision for me

+1

Quote from: Ukrainian Ranger on January 23, 2013, 06:29:57 pm

Nope, That's diversity for the sake of diversity. I want to improve our economy with concentrated plant booning, And I don't wanna to repeat all my reasons
If you want combat fire mages add them in addition to that planters not instead, and I'll support adding as many apprentices for Azula as you want...
And I am especially against giving chaos boons to anyone untested. Even Alchemist was like 70%good\30%bad  decision for me

Having only life would be like only using rock in Rock, Paper, Scissors.

No, it's like playing a cleric instead of a fighter. They're both useful, but neither is inherently superior and neither is involved in an arbitrary R/P/S arrangement. Especially since we're not involved in a Farm-Off.

We could get rid of the chaos boon in favor of another life boon, since they are more helpful right now. However, we should still keep the fire boons. I'd just like to caution against having too many of the same. It could be our undoing.

Seeing as plants are pretty versatile with the right creations, it's not as bad as it sounds.

Speaking of which, we should check up on the alchemist, see how he's doing.

Well, duh.

Quote from: Ukrainian Ranger on January 23, 2013, 06:29:57 pm

Nope, That's diversity for the sake of diversity. I want to improve our economy with concentrated plant booning, And I don't wanna to repeat all my reasons
If you want combat fire mages add them in addition to that planters not instead, and I'll support adding as many apprentices for Azula as you want...
And I am especially against giving chaos boons to anyone untested. Even Alchemist was like 70%good\30%bad  decision for me

Azula is about our least untested person.

Azula has a pretty simple ability; it's known that she can throw fireballs and -blasts.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 23, 2013, 05:04:23 pm

Just imagine when we can make Colossal+ golems...hundred-foot behemoths and walking castles...

Make a city made entirely of golems...

No, a golem with a city built onto it!

Which is why I don't drink at the computer.

Reveal that I had a Contingency spell which casted a Reactive Image of my corpse should I be in danger. Fortify my lair.

Serious action: Move the minerals to the base and rest until less tiredness is felt.