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Total Members Voted: 25

[~Neri]

Nilva'll like Verru~

[FArgHalfnr]

Looks like my time freed up a bit more. Assuming you've still got the room or some room opens up (someone dies), here's my sheet.

Spoiler: Verruckt (click to show/hide)

Name: Verruckt
Spheres: Chaos and Evolution
Primary Form: Verruckt generally appears as a tall, thin humanoid wearing bright cheerful clothing, a party hat and a bright white mask with a somewhat eerie smiling face painted on in black. While Verruckt's appearance and demeanor can seem quite silly, many people still feel somewhat disquieted in his presence, likely due to the erratic tendencies of his mood which can quickly interchange between overbearingly kind and generous to frighteningly sadistic and cruel.
Description / Background: Verruckt has no real goals except to keep himself entertained. To this end, he generally enjoys going around creating monsters and gifting (or cursing) mortals with an assortment of powers and mutations and then pushing them along to become either great heroes or great villains. Verruckt sees life as a grand and complex story. It is his job to make sure the world is full of interesting things and that life is never too dull. For this reason Verruckt, above all, hates stasis and too much order. After all, a story isn't very interesting if nothing is happening.

Added you to the list. Interesting concept. We might become allies, depending on how you play your evolution aspect. That would make three of us with similar aspects, we have growth, progress and now evolution.

[Vgray]

Looks like my time freed up a bit more. Assuming you've still got the room or some room opens up (someone dies), here's my sheet.

Spoiler: Verruckt (click to show/hide)

Name: Verruckt
Spheres: Chaos and Evolution
Primary Form: Verruckt generally appears as a tall, thin humanoid wearing bright cheerful clothing, a party hat and a bright white mask with a somewhat eerie smiling face painted on in black. While Verruckt's appearance and demeanor can seem quite silly, many people still feel somewhat disquieted in his presence, likely due to the erratic tendencies of his mood which can quickly interchange between overbearingly kind and generous to frighteningly sadistic and cruel.
Description / Background: Verruckt has no real goals except to keep himself entertained. To this end, he generally enjoys going around creating monsters and gifting (or cursing) mortals with an assortment of powers and mutations and then pushing them along to become either great heroes or great villains. Verruckt sees life as a grand and complex story. It is his job to make sure the world is full of interesting things and that life is never too dull. For this reason Verruckt, above all, hates stasis and too much order. After all, a story isn't very interesting if nothing is happening.

Added you to the list. Interesting concept. We might become allies, depending on how you play your evolution aspect. That would make three of us with similar aspects, we have growth, progress and now evolution.

I'm very interested to see how you three get along. This has everything to do with the fact that my somewhat long term goal is to form the first pantheon. Or perhaps facilitate the forming.

[Jbg97]

Looks like my time freed up a bit more. Assuming you've still got the room or some room opens up (someone dies), here's my sheet.

Spoiler: Verruckt (click to show/hide)

Name: Verruckt
Spheres: Chaos and Evolution
Primary Form: Verruckt generally appears as a tall, thin humanoid wearing bright cheerful clothing, a party hat and a bright white mask with a somewhat eerie smiling face painted on in black. While Verruckt's appearance and demeanor can seem quite silly, many people still feel somewhat disquieted in his presence, likely due to the erratic tendencies of his mood which can quickly interchange between overbearingly kind and generous to frighteningly sadistic and cruel.
Description / Background: Verruckt has no real goals except to keep himself entertained. To this end, he generally enjoys going around creating monsters and gifting (or cursing) mortals with an assortment of powers and mutations and then pushing them along to become either great heroes or great villains. Verruckt sees life as a grand and complex story. It is his job to make sure the world is full of interesting things and that life is never too dull. For this reason Verruckt, above all, hates stasis and too much order. After all, a story isn't very interesting if nothing is happening.

Utther would probably like you.
Let the games begin.

[Andres]

Was the 3 Power required to destroy the penguin's soul or did you just assume I'd use it all?

[Jbg97]

Was the 3 Power required to destroy the penguin's soul or did you just assume I'd use it all?

It was a very strong penguin.
It was their emperor.
Now the penguin lands are in deep civil war, because their emperor was the only thing keeping their people in peace.
Thousands of penguins die each day, and it's all your fault.

[Rolepgeek]

As a note, people are very bad at making decisions without emotions. Inability to empathize with the people is not a very good trait in a ruler. Just pointing that out.

[Stirk]

Looks like my time freed up a bit more. Assuming you've still got the room or some room opens up (someone dies), here's my sheet.

Spoiler: Verruckt (click to show/hide)

Name: Verruckt
Spheres: Chaos and Evolution
Primary Form: Verruckt generally appears as a tall, thin humanoid wearing bright cheerful clothing, a party hat and a bright white mask with a somewhat eerie smiling face painted on in black. While Verruckt's appearance and demeanor can seem quite silly, many people still feel somewhat disquieted in his presence, likely due to the erratic tendencies of his mood which can quickly interchange between overbearingly kind and generous to frighteningly sadistic and cruel.
Description / Background: Verruckt has no real goals except to keep himself entertained. To this end, he generally enjoys going around creating monsters and gifting (or cursing) mortals with an assortment of powers and mutations and then pushing them along to become either great heroes or great villains. Verruckt sees life as a grand and complex story. It is his job to make sure the world is full of interesting things and that life is never too dull. For this reason Verruckt, above all, hates stasis and too much order. After all, a story isn't very interesting if nothing is happening.

Accepted, of course. Go ahead and start playing.

[Jbg97]

Can someone make a list of who has created what so far?

[IcyTea31]

As a note, people are very bad at making decisions without emotions. Inability to empathize with the people is not a very good trait in a ruler. Just pointing that out.

I think we define emotional decision-making differently, as in my opinion people are doing too much of it. That might also only come from my like of realpolitik, though. Could you elaborate and give examples?

Please don't make this a full debate; I'm still on my phone.

[Andres]

What are the new E/P/C maximums of the gods?

[Rolepgeek]

As a note, people are very bad at making decisions without emotions. Inability to empathize with the people is not a very good trait in a ruler. Just pointing that out.

I think we define emotional decision-making differently, as in my opinion people are doing too much of it. That might also only come from my like of realpolitik, though. Could you elaborate and give examples?

Please don't make this a full debate; I'm still on my phone.

We use hunches, emotions, memories, all these little things tie into our decisions. There is such a thing as using emotions to make your decision without being irrational or unreasonable. Mostly, though I was talking about things like this. Original article was this, basically. In summary(at least of the original time I heard it), a guy with a brain tumor had it removed. When it was removed, it separated the emotional part of the brain from the decision making part of the brain. And he couldn't choose. He'd stand in the cereal aisle for hours. He couldn't make the most basic of decisions. He had trouble with big ones, too, if I remember right, though there weren't many of them. All your memories, they're all tied into memory. Influencing which way you go, what to do. They're finding that hunches can figure out things before actual reason and logic. The subconscious. It's a thing. Gut feelings, more often than not, steer people in the right direction. Without those feelings, people have a difficult time even once they've learned it consciously. Life isn't logical. Life isn't pure reason. People are unpredictable, but there's a reason our AIs can be predicted and outmaneuvered. Pure logic is a flow-chart based on statistics. It can be played false.

Emotion-less leaders make terrible leaders. Overly emotional leaders are also terrible leaders. We aren't just one or the other. Gotta use both. Two legs, two parts. If you try to balance on one, you'll manage for a while. But eventually, you'll fall. One way. Or the other.

[IcyTea31]

Okay, that's pretty much my definition as well. But I still think players here think too emotionally. Case in point, shapes of the solar system. What could have been an arbitrary choice became a lengthy debate with few logical arguments. Similarly, a not-so-reasonable punishment was put on Utther. The sparring matches were done not because it had any mechanical effect, but because they were fun. And fun is the purpose of this game. Unnecessary arguments are not very fun for me, however, so maybe the problem isn't using too much emotion, but using it wrong.

I like to use the word 'realpolitik' to describe my play style, as you may have noticed. I'm not thinking logically, but realistically. Emotions, especially those of others play an important part in my decision-making, even irrational ones.

This post took way too long to type. I'm not going to bother with markup.

[Rolepgeek]

Punishments must be severe if they are to be feared, and thus laws followed. At least in a system of 'government' such as this game has. The damage was already done; a few points of Essence would not have made up for it.

Granted, this punishment isn't going to work either, since it'll just make him grumpier and let him continue to break things, but meh. It's more fun than simply imprisoning him, I would say.

As for solar system, I dunno. Some people wanted a sphere like always, something nice and simple, some people wanted something more complex and using more of the fact that this is a game with magic and divinity. Real world physics need not apply. Both sides had good reasons. And for a similar reason, I tried to be an arbitrator of sorts.

I tend to play it like a strategy game, like I said. Resource management. Unit design. Economic growth.

[IcyTea31]

It's more fun

I think we have reached an agreement.