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It was fun for a long time but towards the end it just started to drag

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[Oliolli]

This is why my character has distaste for elves.  That they rape trees, and dance naked in the woods isn't the problem.  The problem is that they have the gall to try to tell him he has to be like they are, or suffer physical violence.  They are putting themselves in the big chair, and he won't have any of that shit.

All in all I can agree with most of what you said there. I especially liked the quoted paragraph, since this is why I can't stand religious fundamentalists.

[WillowLuman]

At around 4 in the morning, the group reached the canyon. Several tons of rock had sheared from the walls, beneath which patches of ichor could be seen in places. A foul smell rose from the bottom.

HugoLuman found that he could see fairly well in the dark early morning, and on the side of the canyon he saw a large hole. "I think that's where the tunnel exits. I'd say we head in and deal with the remaining bugs."

EDIT: I hope we haven't scared ZTG away from the thread. We just all have to remember not to get too carried away.

[Oliolli]

"Nothing like squishing a few bugs to get the blood flowing."
Oliolli cracked his knuckles and started his decent into the canyon, carrying the admantine sword and slade hammer.

[Corai]

-He went offline once he captured me, I am out until hes back on unless someone shoots his dragon down, but noone do that. I wanna get in and do some kobold-magic and see if I cant escape with some firebrand.  -

[WillowLuman]

HugoLuman hesitated on the edge of the canyon. The irony of the situation did not escape him. He had become a creature capable of flight now, yet his extreme phobia of heights remained. No way was he trying out those wings here. Carefully, he began instead to clamber down the narrow ledge-path after Oliolli, clinging tightly to the rock.

[Eric Blank]

At around 4 in the morning, the group reached the canyon. Several tons of rock had sheared from the walls, beneath which patches of ichor could be seen in places. A foul smell rose from the bottom.

HugoLuman found that he could see fairly well in the dark early morning, and on the side of the canyon he saw a large hole. "I think that's where the tunnel exits. I'd say we head in and deal with the remaining bugs."

EDIT: I hope we haven't scared ZTG away from the thread. We just all have to remember not to get too carried away.

[Sorry, the tunnel is essentially a dead end with the collapse I made to break up the shockwave and protect myself. Just breath fire in and seal it off and their pitiful arthropod breathing will fail them nevermind, they must have impressive breathing apparatus anyway. Suffocation should work, though.]

[Gizogin]

HugoLuman hesitated on the edge of the canyon. The irony of the situation did not escape him. He had become a creature capable of flight now, yet his extreme phobia of heights remained. No way was he trying out those wings here. Carefully, he began instead to clamber down the narrow ledge-path after Oliolli, clinging tightly to the rock.

You remind me of a certain acrophobic pegasus...

[WillowLuman]

Not getting the reference there, I'm afraid.

In real life, though, I truly am terrified when in high places. Things seems so much taller when you're on top of them. The idea of seeing the ground coming towards you, and knowing there was nothing you could do about it, and that the impact would likely be either unsurvivable or very, very painful.

[Gizogin]

Well, you know what they say: "It's not the fall that kills you, it's hitting the ground."
"Speed has never killed a soul.  Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you." ~Jeremy Clarkson

EDIT:  Oh dear, I seem to be off-topic.  Someone, please, put us back on the tracks!

[Eric Blank]

[It's time to squash oversized arthropods, remember? I say we take our great magickal and mechanical knowledge and produce some tools o' war to help deal with all the shit that seems to have it in for us. I'm thinking cybernetically controlled body extensions like power armor, or even as far as spider tanks controlled by a pilot that is neurologically linked. With a little use of the Secrets of Life and Death and of Mental Thralldom I can easily set up necessary links between the mind and inanimate objects. You could then design mechanisms that function as limbs. Ridiculously complex, but you did just make the Mk. X.]

[Mrhappyface]

I spin around in my chair. My supersoldiers aren't at the citadel yet, so I just make some steel at the furnace.

[Oliolli]

"Speed has never killed a soul.  Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you." ~Jeremy Clarkson

If one started moving at the speed of falling in the time it takes to stop from a fall, the same G-forces would be there.

Stillness wouldn't have killed you. Suddenly becoming fast, that's what would have gotten you.

[Super Hyena]

A couple of carps have ambushed Super!
Super searches the carps for any history!
Super finds a were..carp?
The were...carp? bites Super and Super turns into a were...dwarf?

[WillowLuman]

[It's time to squash oversized arthropods, remember? I say we take our great magickal and mechanical knowledge and produce some tools o' war to help deal with all the shit that seems to have it in for us. I'm thinking cybernetically controlled body extensions like power armor, or even as far as spider tanks controlled by a pilot that is neurologically linked. With a little use of the Secrets of Life and Death and of Mental Thralldom I can easily set up necessary links between the mind and inanimate objects. You could then design mechanisms that function as limbs. Ridiculously complex, but you did just make the Mk. X.]

You'll need the secrets of inorganic grafting for that, and those were derived after years of scientific study on aspects of both druidic magic and necromancy.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

HugoLuman looked at the card, recalling Zanzetkuken's message.

I don't want this kind of power.

He was a firm believer that most of the problems of the world were caused by too few people having too much power. As the power grew, so did the weight of the obligation to use it right, and if that weight was placed upon too few people, it tended to crush them. Always he feared being responsible for such a misuse of power, feared being part of the problem.

Take the card away. I won't accept it.

How do you think Zanzetkuken feels?  He has to defend this realm and the home realm, alone.  He is the only planeswalker with the ability to use his spark.  He wants to lighten his burden somewhat. says the voice once again.

You have to admit that that statement is true.

Oliolli crawled out of the dead beast's eye. Cleaning bits of brain off him, he turned to Hugo.
"I think we better go burn the eggs now. You can breath fire? Hey, Zemini, get wierd back to the fort. He needs sleep. Me, Hugo, SPHM and Eric ought to be able to work things out with the eggs."
In the distance Oliospi could see small fires burning, most of them dying down. What had gone on moments ago, he had no idea. An energy beam and lots of noise were involved. He kept moving.
OOC: Looking through what has happened, it seems to me that Zanzetkuken has been doing the largest portion of godmodding. Corai's rebirth-thing and nimblness are established facts, while Zanzetkuken always seems abuse his existing powers in new and exciting manners (Mind-reading->Pulling a bullet out of Hugo's shoulder, mending the wound and removing the pain) or create new ones as the situation requires them (Energy beam, where did that come from?). He'll even prevent others from accepting shitty things happening to them (Hugo's bullet). Wierd is good at these things, he actually got beat up. Hugo would, except Zanzetkuken has those nasty godpowers. I hope I can accept bad things, it's just that I'm not here most of the time when they could happen so I can't really tell. When others are controlling Oliolli, I can't really affect what happens.

The strange thing is, I see him as a sort of de-facto leader of this group. He really seems knows how to take charge when things get rough (at least in the story.)

+1

I would be the first to say that when people start pulling out Deus ex Machinas, I pull out Diablos ex Machinas. It's just that retconning things seems so jarring, so throwing in huge disasters is the only way of I can think to deal with godmodding.

I also work like that. The Ollifex-summons actually working, the failsafe put into it (which you prevented, then again, you had a good reason for being able to), the Olliolifex, the Spawn of Ollifex... Heck, back during the time I fought Clockwork Oliolli I had actually written up a death scene for Oliolli, whe I just figured I'd randomise the outcome. Suddenly I needed a small Deus Ex Machina, thus the added forumitium traces.

If the godmodding reaches ridiculous levels (think something like "an antimatter cannon pulled out of nowhere to combat an eldritch abomination"... why does that seem familiar?) I may have to start... Devilmodding? "The baddies start slashing at the [god-modder]. He dies. Period."

That is why I try not to affect things that often.  I just had some down time due to the shield that was placed over this realm.  Plus, I spent years honing my power in my home realm while you were trapped in the time-lock.

Oh, and the beam was a couple of sunlances.  Something that I had used before, I might add.

Also, I am in a contract of 2000 years for the betterment of my civilization, so I would not be the kind of monarch that you are thinking of.  Even IF I wanted to, I couldn't place myself first, or else I would suffer an intense, near-death level of pain.