Hello everybody! First of all, thanks for being patient. I was all ready to do the miniturn/spoiler update yesterday when Ye Olde Database Error struck. Here's the OOC post I was about to send (good thing I'm paranoid about losing big bay12 post):
Is it still possible to join? If so, can I just jump in and start commanding my presence?
Damn, I think I broke my mind just reading the last mod's post.
What's the difference between forces, substances and concepts?
Yes, you can still join but as of the time that this post is posted I'm not going to allow any more players. So you just managed to grab the last slot
. You can post actions for your presence for next turn. Today will be the racial/cosmic entity/spoiler updates/people whose actions I missed entirely turn. The exact difference between forces, substances and concepts is a little vague, but generally substances represent.... well, stuff that things are made of. Forces do this too sometimes, but have a greater impact on the general universe and do.... what they'd do, I guess? So the
Blue Cube is made of
Blue, but there are also plenty of things made from
Heat while it also acts as... Heat in the universe. Concepts are generally more nebulous (or have been so far). They can be used to make things (the order avatar springs to mind). When Jbg97 hurled the concept of
Chaos at the
Temporal Prison, it didn't have a physical impact, but make the avatar conversion process easier.
There's going to be some stuff with the spoiler turn under a big sign that says READ THIS, the gist of which is that, to help keep this running relatively smoothly there will now be a limit for actions each turn. Basically, everyone can take three actions and oppose/support one action of another presence. You may use some/ all of the three actions to oppose/support the actions of another presence if you like. What you can't do is oppose the same action 4 times in the same turn (i.e. block the madness being, block the madness being, etc) or spam the same action (destroy X, destroy X, etc). Contingent actions are fine, like "make dragons, if successful, give them gemhorns, etc).
Finally, tomorrow is Christmas Eve and the day after is Christmas. I'm not sure how this will effect the next main turn, but seeing as there is likely to be a lot of celebrating* with relatives, there may be a period of no updates. Then again, I might have to relieve the holiday boredom. Depends on how things work out. Basically, don't panic if there's no updates over the next few days, it not dead
.
* Note for non-native speakers, during the month of December, the word "celebrate" is synonymous with "drink heavily".
Finally, I like how everyone keeps being all "Hmm, what's a decent ad hoc building material? Oh yeah, those creatures made of pure, animate madness. You know, those things made by the embodiment of madness, violence and chaos? Yeah, that thing? Nah, it won't care that we're screwing with its stuff. Incorporating madness into all of our works to an extent that the Being of Madness, Chaos and Violence could never accomplish on its own? Great!".
From today:
Seeing as its now Christmas Eve, and I'm celebrating, there likely won't be any updates over the next few days (I have a feeling the next two days will have, amongst many other holiday related things, much time in which I have to "fix" new items of technology received by family members which is "broken" in such ways as not being plugged in, linked to their Amazon account or through being operated by people who consider a touchscreen to be Heavy Machinery (and who have been celebrating
.) Fear not though, this is still most complicated, insane fun (and Fun) that I've had in a while on bay12 and will not be disappearing any time soon. I mean, fuck, this whole Order/Chaos war is just starting to get interesting. Merry St. Punched-an-impious-bishop-and-a-pagan-and-murdered-some-pagan-whores Eve!
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