XD no problem madman i am still vaguely keeping up with explaining my reasoning here.
Okay now then:
1) If someone broke the agreement, that should be visable. It was a binding agreement in a powerful holy place.
2) Kol shouldn't be mad at me. Even if he's pissed that I'm allowing other gods to talk to him, that was done to secure his release (which would be something he wanted).
3) Kol really shouldn't be omnipotent. Reguardless of everything else, he shouldn't be. If he got the lifeslayer card played on him, fine, but he should only have to work with the information he has IC.
4) If someone played the lifeslayer card, then the gambit would have ended immediately and our deal wouldn't have happened, and the backlash wouldn't have happened.
Okay where to begin:
First just for making this clear: omnipotence/=omniscience. I was talking about omniscience, as you all probably were, but omnipotence, is being all-powerful and omniscience is being all-seeing. But yeah thats just nitpicking so ignore this, this is just for future reference.
Moving on answering questions:
1.The thing is, no-one directly broke the agreement. They broke it yes, but in a way that is basically circumventing Ceredirons proclamations in a rather clever way...which i won't iterate here. Rest assured however that it has been done and legally done. I leave it to the relevant player(s) to reveal or not reveal themselves and or their methods.
1,2, and 3 basically all hang together. He had help from outside. That help gave him information he lacked before, information that made him very, very angry, if we ignore that he was angry hateful and mad and had spend literal centuries in a dark cave all because of gods using him as a plaything, the further information that Lu was the evil satan god, didn't help things. (he didn't know that before you know...) Basically by this point his anger is undirected it is just a general hate towards the gods, adding to that that he has become an avatar of his combined species feeling of absolute pissed-offness his very being and character changed with his transformation. He is no longer just Kol, he is the literal avatar of the anger of an entire species...expect mood changes.
4. Here it gets kinda philosophical. As GM i obviously have to establish a timeline, a chronology in which order things happen, in which events transpire. Lifeslayer wasn't played. I have mentioned before that escalation will cause cards to be played without any players doings, in this case Lifeslayer. (although it could have almost been the Apocalyptic). Lets skip over the entire sophistry of the word immediately, things happening chronologically or things being able to happen simultaneously at the same time or not at the same time. The thing is no matter whether it happened before your draw or during your draw, there was no Winner. Lifeslayer is the gambit ending card. Someone needs to have won after that or not.
Literally all of that should have been told to us. If Varalin couldn't put points into the gambit, then that should have either not have happened (like when people tried to talk to Kol, precedent) or should have backfired on her.
Was told to you, literally in OOC and in game, that it is not allowed, that doing so again would have severe penalties and that only this single time she got her act back. I never said that said actions would not work, only that they would carry extreme penalties with them: aka Lifeslayer. It did backfire on her, it also backfired on everyone else.
The concep tof Escalation knows no allies here. Everyone gets equally screwed.
Hypocrisy much?
I don't see any Hypocrisy. Its magical drug water. Unless Varalin is constantly pouring her very own essence into it and tries to directly influence folk with it, its just magical drug water making them feel better, that doesn't give her extra influence.
That aside i had to explain away Kol not simply dying away in imprisonment in total darkness, since Phalanalin never really gave any specifics as to how the lad was supposed to survive. And since between turns he would be imprisoned for gods know how long i needed to find something that would sustain him during that time. Varalins Tears seemed like a nice touch at that time. It does not change any of the written however.
If he had eaten the Fruits from the three trees instead he wouldn't have fallen into Lu's influence either.
((XD and three ninjaes again...okay lets see)