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[Travisplo]

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[Iituem]

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You send half of your cultists out into Oyral on the quiet, with the goal of seeking information, supplies and new recruits.  Your shades you send to scout the surrounds for any clues as to the locations of the bandits.  The remaining cultists you arrange as a retinue and decide to visit Sir Don in style.

And style you manage.  You don't go full angel, but you do lower your hood and make your hair and eyes plainly visible.  Approaching the doors of Sir Don's manor, flanked by white-robed cultists, you look very much like a visiting priest of some distinction.  You politely command the guards to allow you to speak to Sir Don, and they hurriedly pull the doors aside.  Within, you see a fat, balding man in fur-lined robes stood before a high chair, frowning over maps and documents on a table before him.  He looks up in some surprise at your arrival.

"Who the hell are you?" he demands.

You are about to introduce yourself when one of your followers chips in, declaiming you saviour of Ferrun, breaker of chains, divinity of the heavens - Lvantha Talaoia.  Sir Don seems less than impressed.

"Oh, I've heard of you.  You're that blasted cultist that got all those slaves killed, aren't you?  Well, you might have these rubes fooled with your alchemical trickery, but I shan't hear any of it!  Get out, and don't come back!"

The guards from the front door approach, quietly but firmly requesting you to leave.  How do you respond?

Name: Lvantha Talaoia
Strength: 15 manpower (+1 Worship)
Mind: 15 menminds (+0 Worship)

Personal Retinue
Followers: 12 cultists
Slaves: -
Servants: 10 shades, 10 greater shades

Ferrun
Followers: 1 priest, 120 spearmen (in training), 31 macemen, 35 archers, 1 armed luxpanap (John)
Slaves: 1 brainwashed spy
Prisoners: -
Servants: -


Holdings: 16r
~20 villages (4 Resources)
1 market town (5 Resources)
1 tin mine (6 Resources)
Slave Gathering (1 Resource) [25 slaves]

Upkeep: 12r
~200 soldiers (4 resources)
Training (5 resources) [120 macemen]
Training (3 resources) [30 swordsmen]

Items:
Mistwalker: +2 vs undead & demons if you wield it.  More effective when a mortal holds it.
Lvantha Medallion: +3 vs undead, +1 vs demons on both mental and physical atacks.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Wow.  I like this kind of necro

[Xantalos]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
*does a happy dance*

[Tiruin]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
*does a happy dance*

It's back. Oh wow. Oh dear. ._.
Oh yay!

[zomara0292]

OMFGAiMDHAWDPaSAIWFTAS-blaaagrrrr!!! Its the best necro ever!!!!!. . . . . wait.. . . . the gm is a necromancer. . . .  hiding as an angel. . . .

Bless him with some of his youth, vigor, and hair, back. . . . maybe that small sign will show him we are who we say we are, and gain him audience. . . . either way, though, we should send our cultist away, before hand, yet stay ourselves.

[Iituem]

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You gesture to your followers and they make their way out.  You remain in place, despite the urging of the guardsmen and extend your hand towards Sir Don.  Your eyes briefly reassert their true form for a moment, and the ghostly impression of wings appears behind your back - no need to expend too much effort.  Before everybody's eyes, Sir Don's hair begins to grow out again (to a short, black fuzz), his waistline diminishes slightly and the crow's feet around his eyes smooth out.  He looks in shock at his hands, realising the wrinkles within them have faded.

You repeat your name, and assure Sir Don that you are here to help.  He scrutinises you.

"Then perhaps you are what they say.  But what of it?  You failed to help those poor souls in Ferrun.  Saved them from bondage, perhaps, but led them to their deaths.  What would you ask of us?  A similar price?"

You ask him to hold to his oath of vassalage.  You point out to him that his lord is under siege at Ferrybridge, and yet no levy has been sent from Oyral to relieve him.  If he does not trust in you, he should at least cleave to his word.

Sir Don seems troubled by this.  "What you say is true," he admits, "but I might raise at most a thousand or two men from Oyral and its surrounding villages.  It would take far more than that to break the siege, especially against the horrors I have heard Lord Thrane employs.  I bear an oath of duty to my lord, yes, but also to my subjects.  To make the assault with only our forces would simply mean the deaths of thousands of my people, and drawing Thrane's attention to us to enact revenge."

You ask him about the other towns in the region, whether they could help.

"Well, you have to understand that our arrangement is a defensive one.  If we were attacked, certainly they might come to our aid.  Well, might.  But they wouldn't readily supply troops to go abroad.  Lassef may supply troops, but Lord Michael has been notably withdrawn of late.  Fector should supply aid, but the cowards have declared independence to free them of their vassalage.  I daresay you could bring them back into the fold, by words or the sword, either would work.  For Pendan and Surrect, though, I have no idea."

After a little further conversation, you make your farewells and depart.  Your cultists have already arranged accommodation for the thirteen of you, and you spend the night in meditation.  Your cultists report that they were able to find a sympathetic armourer in town who could supply weapons, as well as a pair of potential new recruits.  Your shades report that they were able to track the bandits to an improptu fortificaiton in the woods, but that some sort of ill presence prevented their approach within.

What are your plans now, Lvantha?

Name: Lvantha Talaoia
Strength: 14 manpower (+0 Worship, -1 Youth)
Mind: 15 menminds (+0 Worship)

Personal Retinue
Followers: 12 cultists
Slaves: -
Servants: 10 shades, 10 greater shades

Ferrun
Followers: 1 priest, 120 spearmen (in training), 31 macemen, 35 archers, 1 armed luxpanap (John)
Slaves: 1 brainwashed spy
Prisoners: -
Servants: -


Holdings: 16r
~20 villages (4 Resources)
1 market town (5 Resources)
1 tin mine (6 Resources)
Slave Gathering (1 Resource) [25 slaves]

Upkeep: 12r
~200 soldiers (4 resources)
Training (5 resources) [120 macemen]
Training (3 resources) [30 swordsmen]

Items:
Mistwalker: +2 vs undead & demons if you wield it.  More effective when a mortal holds it.
Lvantha Medallion: +3 vs undead, +1 vs demons on both mental and physical atacks.

[Tiruin]

* Tiruin looks at sig.

I am now operating a M-W-F update schedule on the games I run.  Maybe there will be extra updates, but you're guaranteed an update on those days, even if it amounts to "Nothing much happens, you must construct additional pylons."

Awesome.

I also forgot in my haste to give Lvantha a suggestion (even if it amounts to 'ensure own motive is not corrupt or may lead to unethical consequences.')

[Iituem]

That sig is a filthy lie.  I'll update as and when I can.  Which hopefully should be close to that.

[Andres]

So. I was looking through old forum games to read and I stumble upon the goodness that was Demonhood and I read all of it. I see that some spin-offs have been made and I decide to look at them later. Once I finished reading Demonhood and went back to the main page to see if one of the threads I've subscribed to has updated and what do I find? Divinity! One of the spin-offs of a game I enjoyed reading from years ago is back! In my time! This is good because I have so many things to complain about!

Spoiler: Demonhood Rant (click to show/hide)

Let's start with my complaints about Demonhood because I know so many of the players from there play this game as well. Firstly, I am very disappointed that you never did the two MOST IMPORTANT aspects of being a demon - creating an awesome lair and creating a macguffin. Sure you made a grove/factory hybrid in Barrspring but why oh why didn't you raise a giant volcano either there or nearby as well? Then with that volcano, you could've crafted a mighty macguffin which would've increased your power immensely and given you a fairly obvious but definitely demonic weakness!
Even if you didn't do that, you could've just done the most obvious thing that would cause mass-insanity by simply flying over to Currenorwhateverthatdemoninsultingcitywascalled and appear in your true form while shouting your name.
Possibly my biggest complaint is how you turned Krlnkir Yrlvnt -an eldritch abomination who was like Slenderman but way more evil and malicious- into Crinkle Yearvent - some affably evil ponce who ended up being more like the guy from Evil Overlord than he is a manifestation of all the evil and madness in the world. The biggest mistake you guys made was turning the Tall Man -the one who speaks to children and who was madness itself- to the Evil Overlord - the one who marries princesses for no good evil reason.

tl;dr at the bottom of all this.

Spoiler: Complaints and Worship (click to show/hide)

Now for my complaints about what you guys have been doing here in Divinity. Guys. When we were at this power level in Demonhood we were getting worshipped by like 4 children and we were getting a decent amount of power from that. Here, we just freed a city of THREE THOUSAND and we're getting literally ZERO worship from that! Even more is that while you weaponised your nature in Demonhood to inspire fear in others on a mass scale, here we just kinda show it off a little and leave it at that. As an angel, our mere image should inspire hope and awe as greatly as Krlnkir's mere image inspired terror and pain in those who looked upon him!

We really need to stop telling people to worship the gods instead of us. We're eventually gonna fight a demon (like the one in the caves) and we need people empowering us if the demon is to be defeated. For this reason, we should get our own priesthood going so they can consecrate weapons in our name. It'll take some of the worship power we get from them but it should still be a net positive - while at the moment we literally have ZERO worship so there's no reason not to do it.

Spoiler: Weapons (click to show/hide)

I think we should start thinking about creating some weapons to use for ourselves. Now, the problem with the weapons we created/found in Divinity and Demonhood is that they were pretty useful in the hands of champions but worth little when we used them ourselves. I propose that we create a weapon that will instead be useful to us but pretty much useless in the hands of lesser beings. How, you ask? By making the weapon an amplifier. The sword will simply take some of our power and amplify its power slightly to create a more powerful attack. If we wanted to, we can send the energy back-and-forth between us which can let us fire off an energy attack at a smaller cost than Krlnkir's doom laser. As for what we'll use to make the sword, see below.

Spoiler: Angelic Necromancy (click to show/hide)

I think we should create our own kind of necromancy, but one that is intrinsically different to how demonic necromancy works. With angelic necromancy, we enlist the willing souls of dead beings who want to carry on the fight in the name of good. There are a few ways we can go about this without being evil, but like it's mentioned in the previous sentence, all the souls used need to be willing and give consent.
Firstly, let's talk about zombies. A normal zombie is the result of a necromancer forcing a soul into a body and compelling it to do its bidding until the zombie rots away. Our zombies will instead be the result of a soul being called back into its body to fight once more (key word here is 'called' - they can refuse the call). This not only allows for the dead to be of used, but the purifying energy used to contain them all sanctifies their bodies and prevents them from being turned into zombies afterwards. Unfortunately, this kind of energy is so pure that it literally burns away the zombies flesh (luckily they're dead so they don't feel it, and it's holy fire so it doesn't hurt their souls) and when it's all done burning the zombie will die where it can no longer be raised again. The time until the zombie burns out is anywhere between a few minutes to a few hours, depending on the goodness of the soul.
We can also use angelic necromancy in a different way, and one which parallels Barrsdoom. Barrsoom is infused with the crying souls of the damned, increasing its power and causing terror in all who look upon the axe. What I was thinking is we can make our own axe, and it's a normal axe in all accounts if it needs to be, but it's infused by the power of the souls we freed from undeadification and who willingly joined with the axe in the fight against evil. While Barrsdoom screams and frightens, our axe sings and inspires.
In the previous section I said that I'll explain what we'll make the sword out of and here I'll explain. You see, a sword meant to channel the raw power of an angel in such a refined and powerful way I described would have to be just as pure and good as the angel who wields it. We have four options. One: we simply find/make the sword ourselves and overload it with goodness. This is the simplest solution but finding decent metal to make the sword out of will be a challenge and putting in that much good energy would be draining. Two: we find someone pure of heart who'll volunteer to give up their life and become our sword. If we can find someone that's pure-hearted convincing them should be easy. Unfortunately, finding such a person would either be very difficult or downright impossible (unless we used angel radar or something....) Three: get a child to become the sword. As the OP says, children are innocent and they're precious - a perfect fit for our sword. The only problem here is the ethical and moral dilemma or turning a child into a weapon. Four: we find a lesser angel who'll be willing to become our sword. There are a few problems with this, namely that we'll have to expend energy to find a lesser angel, the angel might not take kindly to becoming a sword (consentconsentconsent), and simply having a will that powerful that's not our own might conflict with the sword's use.

Spoiler: Children (click to show/hide)

We should totally have children of our own. At least one. If anything, it should at least be a lot of fun since it'll allow for some cool experiments. What cravings will the impregnated human want? (In DH it was human flesh.) What complications could arise? (DH - baby tried to possess the mother.) What if we were the mother of the baby? Would we get cravings ourselves or would it be a drain on our power? Would the baby be more powerful than if it had a human mother?

tl;dr:
Start emanating hope and awe just like Krlnkir emanated terror and madness just by speaking to/being near people.
Have people worship us primarily but have them set aside a little time for the gods.
Make awesome weapons.
Create angelic necromancy and call it something other than 'necromancy' or 'angelic necromancy'.
Get pregnant. Get someone pregnant.

EDIT:
For now, let's do this:
Start emanating hope and awe just like Krlnkir emanated terror and madness just by speaking to/being near people.
Recruit the volunteers and create a permanent cult in the city.
Purify the dreams of the inhabitants, focusing on the children.
Ask for strategic locations to found a city.

[Xantalos]

So. I was looking through old forum games to read and I stumble upon the goodness that was Demonhood and I read all of it. I see that some spin-offs have been made and I decide to look at them later. Once I finished reading Demonhood and went back to the main page to see if one of the threads I've subscribed to are updated and what do I find? Divinity. One of the spin-offs of a game I enjoyed reading from years ago is back! In my time! This is good because I have so many things to complain about!

Spoiler: Demonhood Rant (click to show/hide)

Let's start with my complaints about Demonhood because I know so many of the players from there play this game as well. Firstly, I am very disappointed that you never did the two MOST IMPORTANT aspects of being a demon - creating an awesome lair and creating a macguffin. Sure you made a grove/factory hybrid in Barrspring but why oh why didn't you raise a giant volcano either there or nearby as well? Then with that volcano, you could've crafted a mighty macguffin which would've increased your power immensely and given you a fairly obvious but definitely demonic weakness!
Even if you didn't do that, you could've just done the most obvious thing that would cause mass-insanity by simply flying over to Currenorwhateverthatdemoninsultingcitywascalled and appear in your true form while shouting your name.
Possibly my biggest complaint is how you turned Krlnkir Yrlvnt -an eldritch abomination who was like Slenderman but way more evil and malicious- into Crinkle Yearvent - some affably evil ponce who ended up being more like the guy from Evil Overlord than he is a manifestation of all the evil and madness in the world. The biggest mistake you guys made was turning the Tall Man -the one who speaks to children and who was madness itself- to the Evil Overlord - the one who marries princesses for no good evil reason.

tl;dr at the bottom of all this.

Spoiler: Complaints and Worship (click to show/hide)

Now for my complaints about what you guys have been doing here in Divinity. Guys. When we were at this power level in Demonhood we were getting worshipped by like 4 children and we were getting a decent amount of power from that. Here, we just freed a city of THREE THOUSAND and we're getting literally ZERO worship from that! Even more is that while you weaponised your nature in Demonhood to inspire fear in others on a mass scale, here we just kinda show it off a little and leave it at that. As an angel, our mere image should inspire hope and awe as greatly as Krlnkir's mere image inspired terror and pain in those who looked upon him!

We really need to stop telling people to worship the gods instead of us. We're eventually gonna fight a demon (like the one in the caves) and we need people empowering us if the demon is to be defeated. For this reason, we should get our own priesthood going so they can consecrate weapons in our name. It'll take some of the worship power we get from them but it should still be a net positive - while at the moment we literally have ZERO worship so there's no reason not to do it.

Spoiler: Weapons (click to show/hide)

I think we should start thinking about creating some weapons to use for ourselves. Now, the problem with the weapons we created/found in Divinity and Demonhood is that they were pretty useful in the hands of champions but worth little when we used them ourselves. I propose that we create a weapon that will instead be useful to us but pretty much useless in the hands of lesser beings. How, you ask? By making the weapon an amplifier. The sword will simply take some of our power and amplify its power slightly to create a more powerful attack. If we wanted to, we can send the energy back-and-forth between us which can let us fire off an energy attack at a smaller cost than Krlnkir's doom laser. As for what we'll use to make the sword, see below.

Spoiler: Angelic Necromancy (click to show/hide)

I think we should create our own kind of necromancy, but one that is intrinsically different to how demonic necromancy works. With angelic necromancy, we enlist the willing souls of dead beings who want to carry on the fight in the name of good. There are a few ways we can go about this without being evil, but like it's mentioned in the previous sentence, all the souls used need to be willing and give consent.
Firstly, let's talk about zombies. A normal zombie is the result of a necromancer forcing a soul into a body and compelling it to do its bidding until the zombie rots away. Our zombies will instead be the result of a soul being called back into its body to fight once more (key word here is 'called' - they can refuse the call). This not only allows for the dead to be of used, but the purifying energy used to contain them all sanctifies their bodies and prevents them from being turned into zombies afterwards. Unfortunately, this kind of energy is so pure that it literally burns away the zombies flesh (luckily they're dead so they don't feel it, and it's holy fire so it doesn't hurt their souls) and when it's all done burning the zombie will die where it can no longer be raised again. The time until the zombie burns out is anywhere between a few minutes to a few hours, depending on the goodness of the soul.
We can also use angelic necromancy in a different way, and one which parallels Barrsdoom. Barrsoom is infused with the crying souls of the damned, increasing its power and causing terror in all who look upon the axe. What I was thinking is we can make our own axe, and it's a normal axe in all accounts if it needs to be, but it's infused by the power of the souls we freed from undeadification and who willingly joined with the axe in the fight against evil. While Barrsdoom screams and frightens, our axe sings and inspires.
In the previous section I said that I'll explain what we'll make the sword out of and here I'll explain. You see, a sword meant to channel the raw power of an angel in such a refined and powerful way I described would have to be just as pure and good as the angel who wields it. We have four options. One: we simply find/make the sword ourselves and overload it with goodness. This is the simplest solution but finding decent metal to make the sword out of will be a challenge and putting in that much good energy would be draining. Two: we find someone pure of heart who'll volunteer to give up their life and become our sword. If we can find someone that's pure-hearted convincing them should be easy. Unfortunately, finding such a person would either be very difficult or downright impossible (unless we used angel radar or something....) Three: get a child to become the sword. As the OP says, children are innocent and they're precious - a perfect fit for our sword. The only problem here is the ethical and moral dilemma or turning a child into a weapon. Four: we find a lesser angel who'll be willing to become our sword. There are a few problems with this, namely that we'll have to expend energy to find a lesser angel, the angel might not take kindly to becoming a sword (consentconsentconsent), and simply having a will that powerful that's not our own might conflict with the sword's use.

Spoiler: Children (click to show/hide)

We should totally have children of our own. At least one. If anything, it should at least be a lot of fun since it'll allow for some cool experiments. What cravings will the impregnated human want? (In DH it was human flesh.) What complications could arise? (DH - baby tried to possess the mother.) What if we were the mother of the baby? Would we get cravings ourselves or would it be a drain on our power? Would the baby be more powerful than if it had a human mother?

tl;dr:
Star emanating hope and awe just like Krlnkir emanated terror and madness just by speaking to/being near people.
Have people worship us primarily but have them set aside a little time for the gods.
Make awesome weapons.
Create angelic necromancy and call it something other than 'necromancy' or 'angelic necromancy'.
Get pregnant. Get someone pregnant.

EDIT:
For now, let's do this:
Star emanating hope and awe just like Krlnkir emanated terror and madness just by speaking to/being near people.
Recruit the volunteers and create a permanent cult in the city.
Purify the dreams of the inhabitants, focusing on the children.
Ask for strategic locations to found a city.

+1 to everything this guy says.
If I had one minor thing that bugged me about Demonhood and to a lesser extent this, because it ran for less time, was that we acted too human. We aren't human, we're an angel/were a demon! Act like one! A being of pure good/evil instead of all this ... moral greyness. We make the world black or white in our image!

[Andres]

I forgot to mention it in my previous post, but the sword we use would be capable of channelling our mind powers and converting them into physical powers, which is something we're unable to do in our present state, I think.

Add Heroes and Luxpanapi to the glossary. Heroes aren't in the Demonhood, Divinity, or Humanity glossaries, and Humanity focuses on a hero! I have no idea how heroes work and it might help in making our sword.

I've also done a bit of thought and I think we should just straight-up conquer these neutral cities. It's kind of our duty as an angel. At the moment, they're ruled by fickle and thoughtless leaders and crime...well, it exists. In Demonhood, conquered settlements became entirely evil without even a speck of good, so doing the opposite and making conquered settlements entirely good should theoretically be possible as well. This is for later, once we get more powerful and corrupt purify(?) some villages. (Am I correct in using purify as the antonym of corrupt?)

[Xantalos]

I think so, though it has more of a connotation of direct blazing conversion rather than the subtlety of corruption.

[Andres]

I think so, though it has more of a connotation of direct blazing conversion rather than the subtlety of corruption.

Yes! Perfect! Even greater parallels with demons!

Also, this is nitpicky to an extreme, but I don't really like Lvantha as an angel name. That has 5 consonants (4 if you count 'th' as one) and only two vowels. (Just thought of this now ->) This could explain why our passive awe/hope powers are weaker than Krlnkir's! He has a much higher consonant:vowel ratio which enhances his demonic visage! We need to come up with a new name. Anyone have any ideas? Here's mine: Liviniaya

[Xantalos]

The demon's name was actually Krlnkr Yrlvnt, so even less vowels.
Hmm. Do we need to sound all demonic though? If anything we could give ourselves a title that's nearly nothing but vowels - our name's pretty alright as it is.