Double post because no one else has posted here in hours! Too many hours!
First off, I'd just like to say that Yaos: God of Ambition took me 57 minutes to write up. God of Humans took me about an hour and a half or maybe even two hours. I wasn't paying close attention to the time. Secondly, if you have any problems with the mechanics described in either book, I'll be willing to address them. For example, in God of Ambition, I mention that creating ambitious works or architecture pays homage to Yaos as well as Khaziraad. What's not mentioned in the book but I think is a mechanic is that that's true, but that Khaziraad gets more Influence out of it than Yaos, and that he also gets influence from non-ambitious works of architecture. Again, if you don't like it, we can discuss it or the GM can interfere. I'm fine with either or both options.
@ Kilojoule Proton: The subtitle needs changing...*sigh*...
again, and you may want to change your sig.
/joke
This is in a joking tone.With that said I have more questions. When are we getting passcodes for the website? When will the war stuff properly begin? What happened to the colonies I set up earlier? I don't see them on the map. Can the map even be updated that way?
Does the worship of an unaligned sapient mean more than the worship of a sapient of someone who's aligned to you? What if an aligned sapient worships you, but they're naturally aligned to another god? Does the worship mean more or less?
Do I get a bonus to actions if I detail well (fluff)? Or would simply writing of a description of what I want be better? Just asking so I know if I should make any future speeches like I did with the Angel-Emperor.
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Price check on performing INCEPTION
Price check on two swords (described later) when made by Fusil
Price check on two swords (described later) when made by Fusil and helped by Yaos
Sword 1:
A black, indestructible sword. It is sentient. It can reject a user by becoming too heavy to wield properly and by refusing to cut anyone, save the person attempting to use it. It can accept a person as its user if it deems them worthy, at which point it becomes half as heavy as a regular sword, and it will not cut its user. Once it has selected a user, it will remain the user's sword until the user dies or else if the user discards or neglects the sword (put it in an attic and leave it there to get cobwebs).
As the user improves their body and mind, and as the user increases their skill and attunement to the sword, a black, indestructible armour of the same material as the sword itself will begin to grow on the user, starting from the sword-hand, and slowly covering the rest of the body, moving from the sword-arm. It normally takes decades until any being (including archangels) gets good enough to cover their entire body. The face portion of the armour is mask-like to allow for sight, breathing, and legible speech. The user can will for more or less armour to grow (up to the currently attained maximum), and the user must do this in order to sheath or throw the sword, because the sword itself is attached to the armour.
The sword is non-magical in nature. The armour is simply the growth of the sword and the bond between sword and user made manifest into a physical form and is also non-magical.
If this doesn't seem plausible just remember that we're gods and we can do whatever we want. We could probably change the very laws of physics if we put our mind to it. Correct me if I'm wrong in this regard.
Sword 2:
A white, indestructible sword. It is sentient. It can reject a user by becoming too heavy to wield properly and by refusing to cut anyone, save the person attempting to use it. It can accept a person as its user if it deems them worthy, at which point it becomes half as heavy as a regular sword, and it will not cut its user. Once it has selected a user, it will remain the user's sword until the user dies or else if the user discards or neglects the sword (put it in an attic and leave it there to get cobwebs).
the user is able to fire small bursts or large waves of energy. This energy comes from the sword itself and also its user. As the user improves their magical ability, and as the user increases their skill and attunement to the sword, the user is able to fire more powerful bursts and waves. Energy attacks work like this: on soft targets (living beings), the energy cuts. On hard targets (walls, buildings, exceptionally hard armour, etc.), the energy explodes. It, like any other weapon, can also be used to channel regular magic, but it does so with a bonus.
The sword is magical in nature and cannot be used by those without magic.
The idea behind these swords came from wanting weapons to equip future archangels with. I wanted one to be be primarily defensive in nature and the other one offensive. After that, I decided to go with a duality kind of thing so I made the colours of the swords opposite, and made one sword non-magical and the other magical.
At first I thought of making the black sword indestructible as its defensive trait and having the white sword be able to cut anything as its offensive trait, but scrapped that idea when I couldn't figure out a good outcome for the scenario where they hit each other. Since they were both weapons made by the god of weapons himself, I decided they should both be indestructible and to then work out some individual traits relating to offensiveness and defensiveness.
When thinking of the black sword the original design was for the armour to go up to the shoulder, then I thought it should also cover the shoulder, then I thought it should cover the (right OR left) pectoral muscles, then I just went "**** it" and made it cover the whole body. Since armour and indestructibility aren't necessarily magical I decided to go for it.
The white sword was significantly easier. What was magical and offensive? Energy attacks. Easy, simple, magical. The best part was that it didn't counteract the black sword in any impossible way like the original designs would have done.
I don't want to hear that the white sword sounds too much like Zangetsu. You try coming up with a cool magical sword ability! /joke The previous sentence was in joking tone but if you do in fact have a better idea I'd be pleased to hear them.
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