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[Criptfeind]

To be honest, I've not actually put any thought into my religion at all (just like real life). I've just been grabbing names off the wikipedia list of Maya gods whenever it seemed appropriate. I guess I imagine that the religion would be something appropriate for society with a distinct lack of attention span, a huge propensity for theft, and a fairly laissez-faire attitude about murdering other species?

I could take a stab at some tenets though. Like:

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1: There are a whole ton of gods, pretty much a god for any occasion. If you need to know the god to pray to in a situation feel free to come find me!
2: The world and everything in it were created by gods or devils (which are just gods that the other gods don't like, and are different from the demon that lead the evil crusade)
3: Gods take a active role the world, causing most things to happen. Good things happening mean a god is pleased with you, bad things happening means a god is angry or a devil has taken notice. Which leads to the most important tenet:
4: The point of the religion is to please the gods and hide from/drive away the devil. Most gods are pleased/angered by you doing what they like/dislike, like the god of war likes war, the god of life dislikes war.
5: Since it's totally impossible to please all the contradictory gods it's the shamans job to intervene, making sure the tribe is striking a balance between the gods, or using rituals and sacrifice to make the angry gods happy or to ask a specific god to intervene in a event. (That is also how some magic works. Other magic is just straight up blessings given to a person or group of people by a god/devil for whatever obscure reason they have.)
6: Gods are not invincible or infallible, although the more powerful ones when acting within their own sphere can seem that way. But especially when they take a mortal form (which they sometimes do as some type of mortal or animal or demon or mega beast). And occasionally a god can die or a new one can be born/raised up/appear. This is a very rare event though, and normally only the most important and powerful shamans will be aware of it at first.

Um. Those are some pretty generic tenets. I'm not sure if that was what you were looking for. Or if you were looking for specific important behaviors to observe or how the religion wants to organize society. I'm sure there are plenty of important rituals to observe and rules to follow, but I don't know if they are worth trying to make up a bunch right away. If you wanta have the goblins sacrifice people for various reasons, that might be appropriate. Although sacrificing people not in the tribe might be the most appropriate, given the general Kea lifestyle.

[JackoftheBox]

I hope I'm not getting us starved to death here for taking too many of our potential hunters for personal reasons. I just see that the kobold is a bit too focused right now to think straight. Feel free to stop me.

Also I have no idea how alchemy is supposed to work, so is my action at least somewhat correct?

[Weirdsound]

We can eat livestock for a few turns if we must, and then take more from the humans. Also, the Bird is hunting.

[Criptfeind]

SKREE! HUNT! SKREE! CREDIT TO TEAM!

[Iituem]

I hope I'm not getting us starved to death here for taking too many of our potential hunters for personal reasons. I just see that the kobold is a bit too focused right now to think straight. Feel free to stop me.

Also I have no idea how alchemy is supposed to work, so is my action at least somewhat correct?

Yeah.  Alchemy uses up Alchemical resources (such as Alchemical Herbs, Alchemical Powders and Alchemical Crystals) to create potions.  It's deliberately abstracted, but the action is correct.  Don't know how effective it will be, but it's the right thing to do.

And Cript, those tenets are fine.  Just needed a few pointers as to how crazy those goblins are going to act.

[Criptfeind]

I feel like. We might soon need to abandon this sweet pad. If Yourmaster is just going to tell everyone a army of darkness is in the area it seems like things are going to heat up. Like. Really fast. Maybe we should focus on food gathering so that when we are forced to flee for our lives we will have a slightly easier time of it, what with maybe not having to slow down to hunt so that the vast armies of the light that are sure to soon be destroying us have a slightly less easy time catching up with us?

[Weirdsound]

Not gonna rush it quite yet. Also, we have no means of preserving meat at the moment.

[Iituem]

Not gonna rush it quite yet. Also, we have no means of preserving meat at the moment.

Fortunately, smoking and curing meat is all part and parcel of the 'hunting' deal.  I've just abstracted it, in the same way that "Alchemical Herbs" stands for a large variety of various plants Jeeris is gathering.  Suffice to say, all meat is properly preserved and you don't need to worry about food stocks going off.

[Yourmaster]

I'm just going to kill the whole town.

[Iituem]

Ba-dump.

[Criptfeind]

Sorry about that, I guess we're just sorta in a subsistence level holding pattern at the moment, so I was (and I assume that some of the others were as well) just waiting to see what would come from yourmasters folly to see if that would shake us out of it.

Edit: Oh, also, with one dead goblin that would mean we eat one less meat a turn (and there is one less follower in the cult) right?

[Iituem]

Sorry about that, I guess we're just sorta in a subsistence level holding pattern at the moment, so I was (and I assume that some of the others were as well) just waiting to see what would come from yourmasters folly to see if that would shake us out of it.

Edit: Oh, also, with one dead goblin that would mean we eat one less meat a turn (and there is one less follower in the cult) right?

Whoops, yes.  Meat deduction fixed, but not cultists.  And YM's folly will show up during the turn.

[Yourmaster]

pretty much all necromancy is learned by rote from formulas cooked up centuries ago.

I'm sorry, but i'm a bit confused by the wording

[Iituem]

pretty much all necromancy is learned by rote from formulas cooked up centuries ago.

I'm sorry, but i'm a bit confused by the wording

Apologies.  As a necromancer, what you know is a series of pre-formed spells and enough necromantic theory to adjust those spells to whatever parameters you require (so you can Raise a dead ant or a whole battalion).  However, because you don't know enough of the underlying theory of all magic (Purism) you can't create new spells.  In order to get new spells as a necromancer, you need to find or be taught them.  However, necromancy has been around since nearly the start of the world as it is known (and possibly came from the gods anyway), so you can likely find someone else that knows it and force new spells out of them.

[Iituem]

Sorry folks, been away from the internet for a week or two, back and undergoing triage on which games to keep going.  Which is mainly just this one.