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[micelus]

Will do soooon.

[Demonic Spoon]

I realized my god may be too anti-social. May lay off that a bit in the future. Whatevs.

[micelus]

Nein! It gives Orphella the chance to nag and dear me, does she nag.

[Roboson]

To clarify, my entity is my aunt cousin?

[Demonic Spoon]

To clarify, my entity is my aunt cousin?

Not seeing the ambiguity here, she's your aunt. Most likely Gelwor is one of Kasha's children, making Gelwor Essa's brother, and you as the son of Gelwor, her nephew, and thus Essa is your aunt. Though stranger family trees are potentially possible, them being gods and all. Those damn elm tree hussies, being all seductive.

Loyal: Your nephew looks like he's going places. Best make sure they're relatively safe places, you wouldn't want kin getting hurt and staying that way on your watch.
Bound: Close family becoming a new God of Paradise is pretty amazing. You'll have to keep an eye on him, though, make sure that works out okay.

Connected: Being the daughter of Kasha is not a terribly rare accomplishment, but it's a point in your favor nonetheless. Being a devoted and successful assistant to her clergy, and by extension the people, is considerably more valuable. Also being the spawn of Black Chrysanthemum probably doesn't help a lot with anyone but hags, but you'll take what you can get.
Complementary: Much like his father, your nephew is good at running headlong into trouble and dragging others along with him. Neither's so great at cleaning up the mess afterwards, which is where you come in. When protection isn't enough, determination can bypass the problem, but healing actually fixes it.

Spoiler: Helpful Diagram (click to show/hide)

[Roboson]

To clarify, my entity is my aunt cousin?

Not seeing the ambiguity here, she's your aunt. Most likely Gelwor is one of Kasha's children, making Gelwor Essa's brother, and you as the son of Gelwor, her nephew, and thus Essa is your aunt. Though stranger family trees are potentially possible, them being gods and all. Those damn elm tree hussies, being all seductive.

Loyal: Your nephew looks like he's going places. Best make sure they're relatively safe places, you wouldn't want kin getting hurt and staying that way on your watch.
Bound: Close family becoming a new God of Paradise is pretty amazing. You'll have to keep an eye on him, though, make sure that works out okay.

Connected: Being the daughter of Kasha is not a terribly rare accomplishment, but it's a point in your favor nonetheless. Being a devoted and successful assistant to her clergy, and by extension the people, is considerably more valuable. Also being the spawn of Black Chrysanthemum probably doesn't help a lot with anyone but hags, but you'll take what you can get.
Complementary: Much like his father, your nephew is good at running headlong into trouble and dragging others along with him. Neither's so great at cleaning up the mess afterwards, which is where you come in. When protection isn't enough, determination can bypass the problem, but healing actually fixes it.

Spoiler: Helpful Diagram (click to show/hide)

Yeah, just wanted to clarify. I just thought it was odd that my aunt (who would normally be more senior in rank than me) would come along as my lieutenant.

[Demonic Spoon]

It is nice to see a familiar familial face. You are well known for both your ability and your kindness. I am honored to be adventuring with you. Moreau said to Essa of Demon's Reach. There is already much work to be done. Moreau looks down at the people of his parent's worlds with concern. Then he begins to act.

Interaction: Establish rapport and talk with the leader of the Fray caravan.
Interaction: Establish rapport and talk with the leader of the Praise caravan.
Miracle: Bless the Fray Caravan so that their hearts and souls may gain resilience to the effects of Useful-Scribe and other mind controlling monsters.
Miracle: Bless the Praise Caravan so that their hearts and souls may gain resilience to the effects of Useful-Scribe and other mind controlling monsters.

As Moreau goes about his miracles he states loudly and openly, for all the caravans and gods to hear: I find the use of mind-control to be villainous. Mortals are souls are not meant to be tampered with by foul magics. To do so is an affront to not only them, but also to us divines. As the caretaker of these people, I cannot in good consciousness let their brains be melted and their souls soured. His over-dramatic flare has disappeared. His words are forward, and stated almost as if he was discussing the weather. Yet it is clear, he will not stand for such an affront.

He turns to Orphella, What say you great teacher? Would you stand by and allow the minds you fill with knowledge be emptied until they are mere husks of unthinking followers?

Essa
Miracle: Heal any Praise people who are suffering ailments natural or supernatural. 
Interaction: Talk to the people of the Praise caravan.
Essa walks among the people of her world, which is difficult for a towering humanoid to do, talking with them about their lives and this journey. Soothing their wounds and their worries along the way.


Agree to the speed and rations.

Mmm? And how do you know anything like that is happening? Useful-Scribe is merely helping to organize the expedition, as is her skillset. As in, I think stuff in spoilers is character-specific information, not automatically available to everyone, beyond the immediately observable. Otherwise her automatic mind-control is more like a penalty, considering I specifically didn't take the hated or targeted traits so that I can have a entity I can use without being hunted down by a angry mob.

Like, you know I got some sort of ice-chunk, and I know you got some sort of entity-servant woman thing.

EDIT: Also, this is rich coming from an emotion-controller

[Roboson]

The use of mind control magic on the caravan of my homeworld would not go unnoticed by my god. He would not only notice the power of the magic, but would surely notice the sudden change in the mortals. Fray people would not change minds easily and it would be obvious that something is awry. Especially since he'd be standing right there.

Edit: Not having the hated trait does not affect the way my god would view your assistant. He objects on principal, and would do so even if your character was loved.

[Demonic Spoon]

The use of mind control magic on the caravan of my homeworld would not go unnoticed by my god. He would not only notice the power of the magic, but would surely notice the sudden change in the mortals. Fray people would not change minds easily and it would be obvious that something is awry. Especially since he'd be standing right there.

Edit: Not having the hated trait does not affect the way my god would view your assistant. He objects on principal, and would do so even if your character was loved.

One, the effect of Useful-Scribe is not sudden. It is a subtle thing that takes effect over a long period of time.

Two, the Hated trait means the public perception and reputation of the entity is bad, due its misdeeds, real or fabricated. Since Useful-Scribe does not have this trait, you do not know bad things about her, like the fact that she can do mind-control. I'm not saying the Hated or Loved traits will effect how you react to the abilities of Useful-Scribe, but what information, good or bad, you might have on her, due that being public knowledge. As in, if she was loved, you'd know about how she has been feeding the poor and whatnot, if she was hated, her mind-control would have been exposed before, etc.

Three, assuming your character will automatically notice something is called godmodding, and is generally frowned upon in role-playing games.

[Roboson]

One: You stated the effects were occurring.

Getting the various train and caravan leaders to listen to her was hard at first. So she settled for giving advice, and with her skill steadily getting proven and a few helpful nudges, they started to come around.

If by "with her skill steadily getting proven and a few helpful nudges" you did not mean the effects of her special skill, then I misunderstood the action.

Two/Three: My god would have almost unparalleled experience with mind-controll. Between Tsukuna, The Darist Plague, Friskillipop, and Gorgothonon, Moreau would be able to clearly see when mortals are being controlled in some way. He's served as a behind the scenes god of adventure for his entire life and would have undoubtedly run across mind-control from all of them, but especially, Tsukuna. If it was happening, and he was there also talking to the leaders of the caravan, it would not have been lost on him that something was affecting the very people he was talking to. It would be strange if he didn't notice. Even with no prior knowledge, prior experience would have caused him to be suspicious. And as a god who greatly treasures mortal adventurers, he would have taken the same action.

But like I said, if the mortals of fray were not swayed by helpful nudges, and were swayed solely by your entity's administrative skill, then both I and my god have misunderstood the situation.

[Demonic Spoon]

One: You stated the effects were occurring.

Getting the various train and caravan leaders to listen to her was hard at first. So she settled for giving advice, and with her skill steadily getting proven and a few helpful nudges, they started to come around.

If by "with her skill steadily getting proven and a few helpful nudges" you did not mean the effects of her special skill, then I misunderstood the action.

But like I said, if the mortals of fray were not swayed by helpful nudges, and were swayed solely by your entity's administrative skill, then both I and my god have misunderstood the situation.

Nudges is sufficiently vague to be anything, as was my intent. I just included some vague fluff-text in my actions to spice things up, but actual results will probably differ wildly based on rolls. The non-italic text is what they're actually doing, and IronyOwl is free to interpret that how he will.

nudge definition:
coax or gently encourage (someone) to do something.

Two/Three: My god would have almost unparalleled experience with mind-controll. Between Tsukuna, The Darist Plague, Friskillipop, and Gorgothonon, Moreau would be able to clearly see when mortals are being controlled in some way.

Not to mention your own inherent emotion-control?

He's served as a behind the scenes god of adventure for his entire life and would have undoubtedly run across mind-control from all of them, but especially, Tsukuna. If it was happening, and he was there also talking to the leaders of the caravan, it would not have been lost on him that something was affecting the very people he was talking to. It would be strange if he didn't notice. Even with no prior knowledge, prior experience would have caused him to be suspicious. And as a god who greatly treasures mortal adventurers, he would have taken the same action.

Neato. My god has seen numerous cases of emotion-control, various monsters on Mourn having used it on worshippers of the pantheon, and having been sent out to defeat them. He objects to your presence in the caravan on moral grounds, since you're influencing the emotions of those around you at all times. You are violating the sanctity of the minds of all those around you, you monster.

More seriously, whether you notice is something that should be determined by a roll. Since you didn't think this information was important enough to make integral to your backstory, it isn't a trait, and so you can't justify knowing it automatically though a "Mind-Purist: +2 Strength killing mind-controllers and undoing mind-control. Automatically notice mind-control near you", trait.

[vishdafish]

How many interactions and miracles can our servants do per turn?

[Roboson]

My god doesn't use mind control. Its a form of emotional radiance, which adamantly does effect emotions, but not minds. In any case, Moreau's trait does not " break down the target's will, leaving them a much better puppet than before." Being an inspiration, which is the key word in his traits, would be fine by Moreau. Destroying a target's will until they are a tool would not be. He could very well lead heroes directly to a victory, but he's a god of adventure, not heroes. He wants them to succeed, but not because he forced them to do so. He'd see a mind-controlled hero as rigged and worthless.

I would not mind rolling for whether or not I notice the mind-control effect. That seems like a fair solution. The GM can roll for it, and if I fail the roll, then I'd take a different action as if nothing was amiss. Does that seem like a reasonable solution?

[Roboson]

Edited my post into two sections. One to follow if I notice mind-control and one to follow if its deemed cheating or I fail the roll or whatever the decision on that ends up being.

[RAM]

I am hoping to get a small boost from my artefact's "borrow strength from your future/potential/just save up the damage for slow-release later" ability because it sort-of involves bartering and sort-of involves getting what you want but then losing it but I appreciate that my traits are sort of social and may not apply fully or at all. Hopefully the life affinity will help out but I respect that I may need to get a good roll to get what I want. Of course, I am expecting a phenomenal roll that will make the G.M. cry, so there is that...