mortis 2017/04/28(Fri)12:11 No. 111219 ID: 8a251a
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an old reference, but one i haven't been able to share without a proper disthread for it- official ref for suplex outside of the maybequest style.

Okay, I have bookkeeping questions that are probably less interesting than strait up discussing the setting.

>morbit quests
What's morbit? Is that the name of your team? (Is there any central place you list/link the members of your team or your projects)? Is it the name of the world or setting? (Does that mean both these quests occupy the same setting?)

>a passion project between myself and my friend como
What role does Como play in these quests? Should we be crediting them as a coauthor or anything similar on Maybequest and TCP?

So we're not meant to use >>98325 for Tiny Cat People discussion anymore?

Looking at what the other two groups spawned, we got really lucky with our tcps. Frog-Crimes just spawned a fern type in a world with little to no foiliage throughout, and this is after they nearly killed themselves with abstract types not long before, and the Omegaupdate crew managed to not only create two weapon types, but to create two nearly identical weapon types of what is probably the weakest possible sort. Buddy's situation was a stroke of bad luck, but at least it makes a decent glass cannon. Primus and Dad could have both turned out lame, but Primus ended up with a cool healing ability, and Dad's leadership qualities probably saved our asses with Jasper, and will likely prove instrumental in converting Spit's cats and holding our team together in the Sanctuary.

I think mentioning "other spoilers" in the eagletime disthread was a misstep; now that they know other threads exist, all they need to do is type "tiny cat people" into google and they can find them. You might consider deleting that bit if you can.

>>111224
all good questions!

>What's morbit? Is that the name of your team? (Is there any central place you list/link the members of your team or your projects)? Is it the name of the world or setting? (Does that mean both these quests occupy the same setting?)

yes, both quests take place in the same setting! we've dropped enough information in either to link the two and a whole bunch of people have figured it out, to the point where we're comfortable saying it upfront.

morbit itself is the planet/world where these quests revolve around- TCP taking place on sort of an adjacent plane and played with by morbitian gods. maybequest takes place on the planet itself, and is sort of a prequel project to the other main quest we want to do in this setting.

>What role does Como play in these quests? Should we be crediting them as a coauthor or anything similar on Maybequest and TCP?

como currently does not write for any of the ongoing morbit quests, but has helped me found the setting and i couldn't do this without his help.

if you're gonna credit people, it's most fair to credit the whole team: http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com !

currently moxie works with me on this TCP session's assets, as well as design help from kitet and knux400. i write and illustrate the actual panels, but i couldn't do this without all of their help, seriously. we've been on the fence on whether we wanted to talk about us as a Team, but it's a good a time as any and i'm proud of everybody's work.

>So we're not meant to use >>98325 for Tiny Cat People discussion anymore?

correct. apologies for the sudden change, this thread is going to get a lot more use in coming months/the next year and we wanted to make the change now while there's a lull in the action.


>I think mentioning "other spoilers" in the eagletime disthread was a misstep; now that they know other threads exist, all they need to do is type "tiny cat people" into google and they can find them. You might consider deleting that bit if you can.

people have known about the other threads since the beginning- we had someone on eagletime find out about tgchan's session within 12 hours of release. tgchan already knew about the other sessions and everyone else has been catching up- there WILL be punishments within quest/adventure for trying to game the system using knowledge they shouldn't have, and we think this is appropriate enough.

new thread, whooohooo

Are you considering taking legal action against the group producing that knockoff of Tiny Cat People?

Jokes, of course. Dumb internet beef is the best kind!

>>111230
Thanks for the response, I just wanted to make sure people were being credited correctly in the wiki.

I've said previously that health is the only resource that matters (which is part of why I don't like weapon types), but there's always the chance we'll get caught in adventure mode and need something we haven't made. We should stock up on ammo and spares for all our weapons, and make sure our allies do too, so that if we run out of, say, stakes for Primus's stake shooter, we can just pop over to one of our allies' stockpiles and get more. We should also make a few portable 3D printers/universal fabricators along with a few portable printer dust makers, which will be able to convert resources we find in the wild or health from our cats into whatever resource the 3D printers/universal fabricators use.

We should rig all the items we use in the field with discrete explosives of the sort that will go off when detonated remotely but not when hit with enemy fire, so that if, for example, one of Spit's tcps gets the bright idea of using Dad's walker as cover, or stealing one of our weapons, we can make them regret it.

We should tell our allies about the mantis shrimp so that they can get a tcp with a bit more punch to it.

We should teach our allies the phrase "the devil's in the details" so they stop giving surface level explanations for things we need a thorough understanding of. Communication issues seem to be a big thing with this pantheon, but if we're to make any headway on that front we have to start somewhere.

>>/quest/798987
Is "saving the kids" a lie or were we speaking the truth and we intend to bring a whole kindergarten with us?

Suddenly turning humanitarian is ridiculous, to say the least, as it goes completely against her character.

I like Suplex because I like selfish characters. Please don't ruin her :p

I'm thinking about team composition again. As I said here: >>110859 we lack long range picking/removal ability (as an aside, we should probably give the sniper rifle HE rounds because it's not like TCPs have vitals to aim for). We're also lacking crowd control ability; Eastwood plans to make form types, which will probably help with that, but I've got some other ideas. The dream type that Eastwood mentioned sounds awesome, and it has a proven track record as a winning strategy. Eastwood mentioned that less specific types tend to be better, what if we took that to the extreme? If it's possible, we might make an unspecified FORM or NATURE type; we could end up with the platonic ideal of those type categories, hopefully meaning some potent CC. We also don't have any real air support, but we could always just CREATE a plane or a drone, or hand Jasper, and/or the phoenix type if it gets made, some bombs.

>>111286
I think you missed a line:
"The only ones you don't want to hurt are THE KIDS."
She has some sympathy towards them.

>>111286
Sounds more like the plan is to inform someone on the outside about the happenings here. Besides, after they got out she could let the dog go on his way and follow his conscience and she could go do her own thing.

I had a look at the wiki and...
>When a mortal is taken on as a demon, they are imbued with the deity's motifs and are granted immortality for as long as they serve the deity as a demon.
>A deity can technically take on as many demons as they please
I don't know how the other gods will react, but given that we have a literal cure for death available to us, we'd be horrible people if we didn't offer demonhood freely to all mortals once we become physical. This has the added bonus of probably earning us a lot of good will with the populace, meaning...
>All deities rely on worship as a source of power. The power of faith and worship is such that a lesser deity who is worshiped by many will end up being more powerful than a high deity who is worshiped by none.
we'll probably have a much better shot at taking down Spit (and probably Wax too) when the time comes.

>>111316
If everyone became a demon with immortality, then the entire world would be in a constant state of war because everyone will be trying to force everyone else to switch to their god.

And I'm pretty sure Mortis already has a rule or something in place to prevent us from doing that.

>>111317
I'm not sure I follow. Even assuming every other god copied our strategy, the political situation would remain the same, gods would have no greater or lesser incentive to war with each, their followers would just happen to be immortal. In fact, violence would decrease worldwide, given that material possessions that people would typically fight for, like food and shelter, are no longer necessary for survival, and that getting into a fight is literally the one thing you'd need to avoid to live forever. And that's assuming the other gods catch on fast enough, if we act quickly enough, and we're lucky enough, we'll be able to achieve a near global hegemony, beginning the Pax Voidiana, where none of the other gods start shit for fear of incurring our wrath. I don't think there would be all that much conflict anyway, plenty of other gods care about their subjects enough, or are indifferent enough to things outside their niches, that they won't really mind the whole nonviolent immortality proliferation thing. Those violent and uncooperative enough to give us grief will be small enough in number that we'll be able to handle them. Of course, we'd need some fairly extensive diplomacy to keep from coming off as a threat, but we don't exactly suffer from a lack of friendliness or honesty.

>>111316
I don't think you understand how truly horrific a world inhabited only by immortals would be.

>>111321
Oh no! People would be able to focus on doing things they enjoy instead of constantly toiling to stay alive, the horror!

>>111319
>>111323
If you think that a world of immortals would mean less war, you don't understand people. People are not logical, and in a world with no consequences they would be free to act on their most base and destructive desires without fear. And if we took away the immortality of those people, wars would be started over 'favoritism'. Or people would find some other reason to disagree and fight.

moxie 2017/05/01(Mon)19:05 No. 111325 ID: af3241
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rin let me help with jasper's design back when poltergeist was still a popular option, since i was very excited about it. we ended up liking the sleeves so much that we kept them for the eventual phantom type!

the ghost types were just for fun tho

kanelel 2017/05/01(Mon)19:06 No. 111326 ID: db0da2
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>>111324
I'd rather take the few contrived reasons to fight of the unhinged over the many genuine reasons to fight of the desparate. Just because we can't save every life doesn't mean we shouldn't bother saving those we can.

>>111324
> If you think that a world of immortals would mean less war, you don't understand people.

War is typically about trying to win something, whether it's a reasonable thing to win or not. If there's no way to win or to lose, then fighting becomes rather pointless.

>People are not logical, and in a world with no consequences they would be free to act on their most base and destructive desires without fear. And if we took away the immortality of those people, wars would be started over 'favoritism'. Or people would find some other reason to disagree and fight.
> no consequences [unless] we took away the immortality of those people
If only society had nonlethal consequences for bad behavior ranging from unofficial stigma to official processes of assigning penalties such as temporary confinement.

>War is typically about trying to win something, whether it's a reasonable thing to win or not. If there's no way to win or to lose, then fighting becomes rather pointless.
People do "fight" over petty stuff with no real win condition all the time, but that "fighting" is generally in the form of making pointed comments at each other rather than engaging in (technically nonlethal) fist fights because most people have a sense of proportionate response and because of social consequences.

This just in, mortality is natural.

>>111337
Natural ≠ good

Our perspective on the world is very limited at the moment, all we have is hearsay from the other players. Maybe we should focus on winning the game so we can get sufficient context to be able to make judgements like that.

We don't know what the society is like, and we don't know how powerful we are relative to the other gods. Well, Voidsy was described as a lesser deity, with the others in our game being lesser or greater, so I'm assuming we're pretty weak.

>>111340
I was basing this plan mostly off of http://morbit.wikia.com/wiki/Morbit and http://morbit.wikia.com/wiki/Deities
From what we know so far we should at least be able to grant the denizens of Taverne demonhood, and once we have that done we can look into which places would be ideal to expand our influence to next.

>>111324
>>111321

I think the major issue with a world of immortals would be eventual stagnation. People with endless time are more likely to become procrastinators ("I can do it tomorrow" forever), and over time people become more and more creatures of habit if there isn't anything to shake them up. Habits gain momentum as time passes, too, so eventually you'll end up with a ton of people who are happy doing what they're doing and unwilling to change. If you have only a few immortals, it's fine, because all the mortals running around will get them moving at least a bit, but I think a world of only immortals will end up with everyone settling into an eternal routine. Which, of course, makes them vulnerable to some outside force suddenly arriving that they have to adapt to.

I mean, biologically, immortality (or at least, agelessness) was an evolutionary option for our ancestors. There are some lifeforms who can do it. We developed differently because a species that continually shifts through new generations is better capable of adapting to changes in their environment than a species that doesn't.

Also, once you're immortal, people's options for permanently getting you out of their way shade towards fates-worse-than-death. No-one wants to get encased in lead and dropped to the bottom of the ocean.

>>111340

Relative weakness might not be such a big deal if your natural specialization can be leveraged. Though I don't think anyone intended it, I think that Voidsy's themes could lead to them becoming a sort of... anti-god god. This was brought up before, particularly when the idea for the unhallowed sanctuary was proposed; the concepts of discord + identity when your identity is "a god" allowing you to subvert that identity, and by extension godliness. Plus gods generally being figures of order or of unified essence, compared to a collective with no "center". Voidsy's character design, too, is loaded with symbolism of nothingness and absence: masks over no face, space, the slice of midsection missing, the ring being a circle with the middle cut out. They're a void in the shape of a god! Even the Mask of Courage, in comparison to the other god masks we made, is notable as a magic item that doesn't actually give its wearer any new powers, just encourages them and makes them braver and, therefore, makes them better/more inclined to use their own abilities.

So, I'd expect Voidsy to be able to create and use more of what you might call divine anti-magic effects, things that just go "NO GODS HERE". Obviously there'd be limitations, effects like that would be localized and/or temporary, and probably double-edged against Voidsy themselves in denying them any interaction as well once it's active, and other gods would be able to do all sorts of runarounds and indirect things, but still. It might be something a pantheon needs, with gods like Spit running around! With support, Voidsy could become a sort of peacekeeper or moderator between gods. God police.

Already got the white and blue color scheme, even.

cutting in to say a few things

planning is chill and im really enjoying seeing these ideas but i wouldn't bank on being able to choose every other god's TCPs. you don't get to play this game for the other players, and i think your focus should maybe shift over to working with what you already have team and alliance-wise unless you want to eat total shit fast. i'm not gonna give gameplay-related warnings like this often but we've noticed there's a lot of assumption in this that you'll be able to pick the entire alliance team and that's really not how this is gonna shake down.

the second thing is that immortality on morbit is typically conditional-you may live as long as you are not killed. it's more "ageless" than true immortality, even for gods.

third thing, you might wanna look at the full bit on demons.

>A deity can technically take on as many demons as they please, but it is rare to have more than five at a time as demons are generally privy to highly sensitive information about the deity and tend to possess a greatly influential cultural position due to their closeness to their deity. This being said, being taken on as a demon is not always regarded as a good thing, and it is possible for a deity to force a mortal into becoming their demon.

that's all i got, keep on chatting and we'll have more behind the scenes as shit comes.

>>111343
As Mortis mentioned, demons can still be murdered, they just won't die otherwise. Besides, we're a god of discord, if there's anyone who can keep things from stagnating it's us.

>With support, Voidsy could become a sort of peacekeeper or moderator between gods. God police.
Let's team up with Frog-Crimes and become buddy cops. We can be the flirtatious and saucy loose cannon, they can be the straight-laced yet rough loose cannon.

>>111344
I was mostly spitting out TCP ideas because it's fun. I figure we can just rattle off a bunch of TCP ideas and let the other gods sort out which ones they want to use, if any. Jasper hasn't had a chance to scout Spit yet, so we can't really plan anything beyond making sure we have what we need to have options available to us once we actually do know what we're dealing with.

>demons are generally privy to highly sensitive information about the deity and tend to possess a greatly influential cultural position due to their closeness to their deity.
As far as we know though, this isn't an actual requirement for demons. Demons are said to, "fulfill basically any role that the deity desires," perhaps our demons' roles shall simply be to live their lives to the fullest and maybe occasionally pay us lip service.
>being taken on as a demon is not always regarded as a good thing, and it is possible for a deity to force a mortal into becoming their demon.
Demonhood will be totally voluntary, we won't force it on anyone, nor will we restrict it from anyone (barring exceptional circumstances, of course).

I would warn against trying to give Wretch our "ideas", and recommend against doing it for Eastwood. Miller might welcome it since this is her first game too iirc? Anyway, both Eastwood and Wretch have played this game before so giving them any unasked for advice would be a bit patronizing. Wretch would take it especially badly since she's bullied by the other gods. We want to show her that we trust her and have faith in her ability to make good choices if we're going to make up for the Spit incident.

We might not even be able to give Miller much good advice for TCP types anyway since we're from a different world. I don't think she'd be able to create TCPs based on concepts she isn't familiar with, and we don't know what concepts are similar between her world and ours.

>>111346
>We might not even be able to give Miller much good advice for TCP types anyway since we're from a different world. I don't think she'd be able to create TCPs based on concepts she isn't familiar with, and we don't know what concepts are similar between her world and ours.
We might actually be able to abuse this. If TCP creation is based off of the player's understanding of the noun used, we might be able to make something up and have one of the others make a TCP out of it. We could say something like, "the Djraptor is a terrifying earth monster. It's a nearly indestructible many-armed being capable of mind-controlling any creature within its range. Mind-controlled creatures can be given commands that continue past their leaving of the Djraptor's range, and can have their brain structures or personalities permanently rewritten. They also move faster than the speed of sound and can fly." If they don't buy it, we can just say it's a creature from mythology.

>>111347
That's not really abusing it. Strong TCP types come with their own drawbacks, whether it's a rebellious nature or a high health cost for using abilities.

There's also the fact that I'm pretty sure it's been stated there's someone keeping an eye on the session. I feel like they'd intervene if we tried something like that.

mortis 2017/05/02(Tue)15:45 No. 111351 ID: 8a251a
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http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/160242281846/2017-morbit-mutation-drive-week-1
week 1 of the drive has been updated, thank yall so much for the support so far! we'll have info on a BRAND NEW MORBIT GOD funded through this soon.

Eastwood looks pretty good tall and crystally.

mortis 2017/05/06(Sat)15:06 No. 111425 ID: 8a251a
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posted our weekly newspost on the state of affairs here: http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/160380657213/may-06-2017-news-updates

mutation drive is going well- expect an update on monday! pic posted is of one of our donor's characters gettin mutated themself.

one more note from here: we're considering making a TCP utility program of sorts...what for? you'll just have to see!

I'm imagining that, when it comes to TCPs, Spit is going to be using a mixture of edgy bullshit and munchkinry. She probably loves weapon types, given that they're constantly suffering and they're good at hurting other cats. She also probably loves injury or sickness based body types, given that they're strong, creepy, and capable of inflicting great pain. If she does end up using a body type, I'd expect an accompanying TCP capable of providing CC or something allowing it to close the distance (teleporter, slingshot?), which would be a priority target for us. She might pull some crazy combo strategy using a bunch of machine types. I wouldn't put it past her to wait until everyone else has made all their TCPs to pull out some overpowered abstract type, we could counter this by keeping one TCP slot in reserve as a nuclear option (maybe the deicide TCP plan, which is actually better than I initially thought, considering Spit will be too dead to use a kill command, meaning the little guy would get to live). She might also just immediately go for the strongest cats she can think of in order to counteract our numbers advantage.

Body types Spit might use: gash, leprosy, blood (we might actually want to use one of these, it could cover the battlefield in thick blood, slowing the enemies down enough for it to grab them, counteracting the main disadvantage of body types), necrosis, burn.

Because TCPs don't have internal organs, blunt and piercing attacks are worse than cutting ones, we should use flak or explosive weaponry wherever practical.

>>111440
Again, we already have 5 TCPs. We can suggest to the other players, but don't go in expecting to have whatever we think is best.

And I don't think piercing/blunt/slashing matters much. Their health is abstracted by levels.

>>111441
But they still experience physical damage, I'd rather be removing limbs or comprising their torsos' structural integrity than just poking holes in them.

>>111449
Killing Spit won't do much good if we're just the next Spit. We already creeped out Eastwood with previous suggestions for needlessly brutal tactics.

>>111450
Brutal isn't sadistic. Spit is on another level; she actually tortures enemy TCPs before killing them. What we're after is the most effective manner of killing. We seek victory, not pain.

>>111456
Agreed, Spit is a rabid dog that we need to put down as quickly as possible. I'd rather we succeed in a way that scares the hell out of Eastwood than risk failure by holding back. On the small scale, not incapacitating hostile TCPs as efficiently as possible puts our TCPs in danger, and on the large scale, not doing everything in our power to beat Spit increases the odds that we die, all the people Spit will hurt or kill after this game suffer, all the good we could do for the world with the powers of a god goes undone, and Wretch becomes even more of an utter wreck.

I like the unhallowed sanctuary, but I'm wondering how we're planning on getting Spit to send her cats inside. Ideas?

>>111469
Getting them there isn't hard, we can just lure them in with our own cats. The problem is getting them to stop trying to fight once they're inside. Dad's power will help, for sure.

We could also give our cats signs to set up inside the unhallowed sanctuary, that explain what the place is and that they don't have to follow spit anymore. Then our cats wouldn't have to waste time in a dangerous situation trying to explain what's going on.

I have a dumb feeling that if we manage to kill the Director in Maybequest, Spit will be somemwhat weakened (and pissed), allowing us to strike her harder in TCP.

>>111472
Signs might not work. I doubt she taught her TCPs to read.

>>111469

If she finds out about the Spit mask we made, she might want it enough to send them after it.

>>111349
>>98388
>personality is kept ENTIRELY different from type, and there's no guarantee that a word will spawn a certain personality/morality of TCP
Creature type TCPs do not seem to have any cost to their abilities, likey due to them being passive.

In any case, the real strength to this is that we'd essentially be able to design custom TCPs without gambling that a certain noun will do what we think it should.

mortis 2017/05/12(Fri)15:35 No. 111559 ID: 8a251a
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late getting this in, but here's where poor eastwood's at right now.

http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/160545598671/2017-morbit-mutation-drive-week-2

Frog-Crimes session is going completely turds up right now, wow. They set their own base on fire.

>>111580
It's the best. I'm laughing so fucking hard. It's really impressive how different a game it is to ours. Their group just seems to be composed of a very radically different mindset to ours.

>>111559
Haha, poor Eastwood's just getting totally gross. What a great design!

>>111580
It's an educational opportunity; now the cats can get a practical demonstration of the importance of fire safety.

>>111581
They seem to have a larger contingent of "my goal has always been to keep things interesting. which is the opposite of safe and cute" players. I might might be imagining it, but they also seem more pragmatic or cautious, teaching their cats a steady stream of useful stuff like math and science, and giving them guns before even learning that they're not the only god in the game. They are also far less lewd. I think it can probably be traced back to the difference between our Ruby Quest descended tradition and their MSPA (though they like to deny it) descended one.

Beyond that, the sessions will likely be radically different in execution due to a lack of Spit in their session (assuming the sessions take place at the same time). I'm expecting something more typical for a TCP session, with less clearly defined battle lines and maybe multiple separate alliances. Maybe something with the possibility of peace because no one is a shitbag psychopath, but no guarantee of it because the gods of the Taverne pantheon apparently collect personal issues like a grade-schooler collects Legos.

swirly 2017/05/18(Thu)10:20 No. 111670 ID: 3667ec
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Hey, it's Eastwood

How's he doing (not great)

mortis 2017/05/18(Thu)21:34 No. 111678 ID: 8a251a
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http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/160827421076/2017-morbit-mutation-drive-week-3
eastwood drive week 3 is up! in which consequences are had.

>>111678
RIP Wretch.

If Wretch is actually gone, then I don't think I can read the quest anymore.

no worries, the drive is 100% noncanon

>>111681
the events depicted in the horror drive are entirely non-canon!

since (normally) deities are fundamentally immune to horror radiation and its effects, you can treat the story told by the drive as a "what-if" or alternate universe.

Did we ever actually decide/find out what Voidsy's official motifs are? "Masks" is obviously one, and on the wiki someone put "orbital rings" as another, but looking through the threads that was never mentioned or put to use like Masks has been, and personally I'd have guessed something else than that ("Voids" would be most obvious, maybe renamed to "absence" or "empty space" or something to avoid the name being too spot on). Are they supposed to just be more vague things that are apparent by the deity's appearance, and we effectively decided them with Void's appearance? Or are we supposed to "officially" decide them later after we win and get to be a proper god? Or something else?

>>111695
I think there's only one Motif per god?
Voidsy - Masks
Wretch - Slime
Spit - Smoke

mortis mobile 2017/05/19(Fri)15:49 No. 111702 ID: 4984d6

Gods can have up to three motifs! Spits is smoke and flesh, Eastwood has smoke and crystals, etc. Motifs are based on physical form, so choose wisely.

>>111702
Oh, we get to choose another one? Or two?

>>111702
Ah, so we currently have one or two? I'm not sure if orbit/orbital rings is legit since it's on a wiki. Rings would be a pretty versatile motif though.

>>111702

We haven't actually made any such decisions yet, though, have we? Apart from everyone quietly going ahead and assuming Masks is one of them.

I'm just wondering where "orbital rings" came from on the wiki. I think whoever put that there was making their own personal assumption. Like I already said, I think something like Emptiness or Absence is clearer, both in its relation to Voidsy's physical form and that we've actually done some things related to that already.

>>111707
I think Masks was automatic, just like Frog-Crimes got Frogs as their motif automatically.

Void/Absence is a good one for buffing any nulling effects, which we seem fond of doing.

>>111713
Or no, was their motif Hydras? I can't recall exactly.

i had originally just had yall as masks down for motifs but i wouldn't be opposed to you all coming to some ideas on a second or third, and we can have a poll for it.

I'm a fan of Masks, Absence, and Essence.

It makes sense what with our tendency to buff/debuff and occasionally outright nullify powers (such as the unhallowed ground.) Absence is more obviously fitting but I like essence as well thanks to the masks, cap, and wand.

"Separation" could be a motif for Voidsy, or something that means something similar. All the masks floating around separated from the main body, and the main body is split in two. If possible I'd like to use a word that can mean emptiness and separation. Absence sortof works?

It'd be really cool if Voidsy could pull a teleportation trick by sucking the "main body" into the mask(s) attached to it and exiting a mask somewhere else. We could leave masks lying around in various places like a waypoint system, so that if we get attacked by Spit or someone else we can just teleport away. This would be especially useful if we could sever our connection to the original mask(s) and gradually (or instantly?) make new masks to replace ones that are lost.

Emptiness could have interesting sub-connotations, like the concept that empty space represents unformed potential, both in the "blank canvas" way and the actual science way where any truly empty space starts generating weird stuff. So it'd fit Voidsy as the first god in the game and as a creator. Plus being a bit messed up somehow seems like a prerequisite for existence in this setting (and real life, heyo) and being intrinsically empty would explain why Voidsy has such a strong drive to make friends.

On the other hand, with "absence" you could say "absence makes the heart grow fonder" and it'd be a sort of joke explanation for why we're such flirterers, maybe?

Masks and Absence fit, yeah. Other possibilities that might fit:
Rings, Tubes, Links, Clusters, Words, Dildos, Jokes, Genitals

Seeing how it wasn't mentioned in the thread yet, and how his body is a silhouette filled with the shifting image of space, Space/Cosmos are other possible motifs.

>>111832
I like cosmos for its connotations. People have always looked out at the cosmos with a sense of hope and wonder, whether by wishing on stars, working together to actually reach them, or simply appreciating the sublime scope and beauty of the universe. One would hope we could inspire those same feelings in our followers. Of course, at the end of the day, absence seems far more likely to give us cool powers, so if we had to choose it would be the more practical option, but ideally we'd have both.

We should ask Eastwood what happens when we become physical; where will we appear, will we have our communicator? If the answer to the latter question is yes, or if we'll appear near Wretch and Eastwood, then it can wait, but we should try to find an opportunity to learn at least as much as is on the wiki about Morbit in general god mechanics in particular.

The fact that mortals can be demons to multiple gods is probably useful somehow, but we'll have to wait and see what we're dealing with before thinking of anything specific.

Why is the wiki image for Wax just his mask when the OP image of this very thread has a better shot of him?

>>112044
I'm wondering what the difference between the criteria for domain and motifs is. Something like Space/Cosmos seems more like a domain, but it could also be an element of appearance and theme, thus making it also viable as a (less powerful) motif.

Are motifs something that defines subdomains in our portfolio?

>>112046

As I understand it, motifs are more connected to what you are intrinsically, while your domain is more like just... your job. And your job comes with a set of tools, so you can do things related to that job, but it's ultimately just a position and you could leave it or go do a different one or have more than one job at a time. The jobs you do/have done do influence you and you gain skills that you'll remember and so on but they're not like, part of you. But your motifs are. Right?

So ideally someone will have a domain related to their motifs because their motifs will give them greater ability with their domain, but it's not necessary. You could even have a domain that doesn't suit you at all, it just wouldn't be a good idea? Maybe?

>>112044

I think cosmos' connotations are actually kind of too positive. Void tries their best but they're kind of a mess, so they kind of don't deserve something like that. Or, well, not "don't deserve", maybe a better way of putting it would that they wouldn't be able to live up to it. Absence fits kind of the same ideas, with connotations of incompleteness and waiting and wanting, and can be spun to positive things like hope and potential and dreams of the future, but also has potential negative associations like hollowness and hurt and despair. Having both positive and negative aspects makes it more well-rounded and, I think, would give a better capacity to connect with others who similarly have positive and negative aspects to their being. A cosmos-based being would be harder to have a relationship with, and would have a harder time forming relationships.

Plus, absence fits Void already. Like, the first TCP Void made was a Tent TCP, right? An object defined by the empty space inside it.

>>112047
I think you underestimate us. All of our blunders thus far have been social, and once Voidsy's personality solidifies those should be less of an issue. Even if we're indecisive and a habitual flirt, our followers won't see that, they'll see the ideals we represent and the good we do in the world. We're already a deity of masks and identity, we can wear the mask of a god worthy of admiration if need be.

>>112050

I think you overestimate us! Even if Voidsy gets better they aren't ever going to be perfect. There'll still be flubs, and our followers are going to see that sometimes, and fellow gods are going to see it even more. Let's not set anyone up for disappointment. Besides, we're probably going to start off as a relatively low-power god even if/when we win, so we might not have the capability to realize such a transcendent concept as "cosmos". It's not really something that can be created or applied in small ways. What if the smallest thing we can do with it is still something we don't have enough raw power for? You can't run a monster truck with a moped engine.

The point about being less approachable still stands, too. "Cosmos" carries heavy connotations of something high and vast and distant that no one person can ever fully understand. I'd have thought we'd want to be a more personal, present deity.

>>112057
Well, I'm still vouching for the "make everyone immortal" plan, which:
1) doesn't require any amount of god juice to use
2) will let us gain followers, and therefore power, quickly
3) will necessitate us being somewhat distant by sheer virtue of how many followers we have

Gods on Morbit, the important ones at least, seem to act as feudal lords or heads of state. In times of trouble people seek leaders who can provide a sense of safety and competence, this is why Rein is so beloved by its people, given that Morbit has been described as "horrible furry murder world".

We also won't be going this alone, we have Wretch and Eastwood on our side. They can keep us from making any public blunders by vetting any speeches we might give and briefing us on local faux pas and taboos before any unscripted interactions with the public. Hopefully they'll also be able to rein us in during meetings with other gods, but it's alright if they don't, using a more down-to-earth persona in private fits perfectly with our identity/masks combo.

>>112067
I'm still not fond of the 'make everyone immortal' plan, it seems like it will end poorly.

>>112067

Well, I don't agree with the "make everyone immortal" plan, for various reasons - starting a follower arms race, encouraging other gods to gang up on us, mortality being important in several ways, some problematic people becoming bigger problems with and/or not deserving immortality (and the question of our right to decide who does and doesn't deserve it), and the fact that the way things have gone so far there are probably drawbacks that we don't know about, like there have been for a bunch of other clever ideas we've had, among other things.

But even assuming that plan I think Absence would work better than Cosmos. First, because immortality is an absence of death, and death itself is a thing of absence, so it'd make more sense to be able and acting to control it as an absence-based entity. Second, because the biggest absence-related thing we've done so far is make the unhallowed sanctuary, a place where gods have no presence and can't see or act, and being able to conceal things from other gods would be a big help in the theoretical immortality-for-everyone plan.

>we have Wretch and Eastwood on our side. They can keep us from making any public blunders

They have their own issues, man. You're making a big assumption that they'd be on board with this, or have the time and effort to spare once the game's over. Just because they're friends with us (and that's assuming we won't screw up said friendship along the way) doesn't mean they're going to drop their own pre-existing business to go along with some new god on the block's big sparkling revolutionary dreams. Would be kind of a jerk thing to go begging off them, too! They're the senior gods, they'll have just come out of helping us drag our newbie asses through our first game. If anything we'd be in a position where we should be supporting their plans for a while, to pay them back for how generous they've been. At this point we owe them, not the other way around, and we'll be lucky to just balance the books by the end.

We don't want to be "that friend".

>>112070
This sums a lot of my reasons up pretty well.

There's also the meta standpoint. This is a living world with several games/instances going on at once. The greatest gods of all, the Authors, are unlikely to allow us to utterly break their system with zero effort involved, 'win' Morbit, and ruin the setting for everyone involved. Even if the plan were sound at its core, which it isn't necessarily - we don't know all the facts yet - the laws of the narrative would place things in our way. That sort of ambition coming into play too fast would be our downfall. It's important to be self-aware of this fact and work towards the endgame within the boundaries of a story arc, up until the point the formula changes in a way that promotes unhinged ambitions.

For now I'll settle for the goal of killing Spit and plowing Wretch, in whatever order seems best.

As someone who used to be very active on the discord for the developers, before the massive influx of people drove me out, allow me to just pop in and say this. Do not try to make everyone immortal, it will go to shit. There is a reason people in morbit don't do stuff like that all the time, because the way that everything happens in that setting basically means if something can go wrong, it will, and in the strangest fucking way possible. So long story short don't try to make everyone immortal, it will end with them all melting into the sugar ocean or something weird like that

>>112078
>if something can go wrong, it will
So, basically Murphy's Law?

>>112074
I can agree to this sentiment, I wouldn't want to screw up the other groups' experiences, and I don't think the authors would let us. That said, Maybequest and the videogame project have both been confirmed to take place before TCP, which probably means we only have the other TCP sessions to worry about. The immortality plan is also going to take a while, meaning they could wrap up their stories or move them in a new direction before we got to them. We might also be able to get Frog-Crimes in on the plan, it seems up their alley. We're going to need followers to be strong enough to kill Spit anyway, we might as well give them the option of being superpowered, immortal followers while we're at it.

>>112070
I don't think the fact that it's going to be hard and dangerous is a good argument against doing it. Firstly, the sheer amount of good we could do by succeeding easily outweighs the dangers of failure. Utopia, or at least a society that isn't a shitty feudal deathworld, is definitely worth pursuing. Secondly, trying to do hard and dangerous things is interesting. Which sounds like a better story: “and then the compassionate young god decided not to try to make the world a better place, because changing the status quo is difficult and scary. The End.” or “and then the compassionate young god worked together with some other gods to try to establish a new world order where the people could live free from violence and tyranny, despite the odds being against them.”?

I already agree that absence is the more practical option, but I like the feelings invoked by cosmos, and hope we could get that as our third motif.

I was mostly just saying that we won't be alone in whatever we end up doing, it doesn't have to be Wretch and Eastwood, it could be one of our mortal followers, or another god, or one of Eastwood’s kids, it doesn't really matter. I agree that we should work on repaying them before working on our own stuff, though our currently agreed on plans (fuck Wretch, kill Spit) are already things Wretch will appreciate.

>>112080
>“and then the compassionate young god decided not to try to make the world a better place, because changing the status quo is difficult and scary. The End.” or “and then the compassionate young god worked together with some other gods to try to establish a new world order where the people could live free from violence and tyranny, despite the odds being against them.”

There's a big gap between "don't try to improve things at all" and "END DEATH".

When/if we become a proper god, we should start "making the world a better place" at a more reasonable level. I mean, we'll be a god, and let's have ambition, but "world peace and eternal life for all" is a bit of a tall order for a newbie deity in a setting full of more powerful gods who have their own business and plans going on.

Also, I don't see the direct link between "a new world order where the people could live free from violence and tyranny, despite the odds being against them" and "immortality for everyone". The latter is not going to bring about the former - it could create a world with MORE violence and tyranny, because violence will be able to go on for longer and be on a greater scale (since everyone will be powered up) and tyrannies will be able to become more entrenched and stable.

The threat of death isn't the cause of all the world's ills, you know? We'll have to do a bunch of OTHER stuff to solve the problems with the world. So why don't we focus on doing those first, instead of also trying to revolutionize mortality at the same time, which will cause trouble and take up our time and effort just by itself? Hell, do you know how much harder it's going to be to change the status quo if we have to actively change everyone's minds and get them on board, instead of just teaching the youth and waiting for the older generation to die and get replaced? If the world is violent and terrible people will have habits suited to a world of violence and terror, and it'll be hard to change those habits - the longer people have had to get stuck in them, the harder.

And neither Voidsy nor any of the friends they've made so far are exactly charismatic people. Not in that way, anyway.

Let's make the world a better place in a way we can actually manage, rather than attempting something spectacularly huge and spectacularly failing and probably making things worse for everyone in the attempt.

>>112081
>do you know how much harder it's going to be to change the status quo if we have to actively change everyone's minds and get them on board, instead of just teaching the youth and waiting for the older generation to die and get replaced?
I think Lenin said something like this. Something about a true socialist reform only being possible if they instill their values in the youth of the next generation, so that they can build it up as the old guard die out.

... The whole socialist utopia idea didn't work out so well there, either. It's just not in peoples' natures.

>>112081
We've been over much of this already, but I'll restate it.

>Also, I don't see the direct link between "a new world order where the people could live free from violence and tyranny, despite the odds being against them" and "immortality for everyone". The latter is not going to bring about the former - it could create a world with MORE violence and tyranny, because violence will be able to go on for longer and be on a greater scale (since everyone will be powered up) and tyrannies will be able to become more entrenched and stable
A society of immortals would be effectively post-scarcity, so people would not need to fight over resources to survive. In fact, people would be strongly disincentivized from fighting each other, given that violent confrontations would be just about the only way to die, and that people would be on a relatively even playing field strength-wise due to the superpowers. The majority of Morbit is ruled by gods, who are already immortal. The plan to make everyone immortal would naturally put us at odds with the Spits and Stopes of the world, meaning that our campaign against death would also involve bringing an end to their tyranny.

>The threat of death isn't the cause of all the world's ills, you know? We'll have to do a bunch of OTHER stuff to solve the problems with the world.
Death may not be the cause of all the world's ills, but it is responsible for the majority of them. By giving everyone demonhood, we effectively kill three of the four horsemen of the apocalypse and severely weaken the fourth. The other problems that the world has would be made easier to solve by enacting this plan, because we’d gain both strength as a god through worship, and the good will from the public to coordinate solutions to those problems.

>If the world is violent and terrible people will have habits suited to a world of violence and terror, and it'll be hard to change those habits - the longer people have had to get stuck in them, the harder.
The violent ones will die off quickly, given how strong the selection pressure is against violence when it’s the only cause of death. The nonviolent but still nebulously unpleasant ones will have a literal eternity to get used to the new society and change their ways. Morbit still has plenty of room for population increase, especially once food stops being a limiting factor, and double especially if we establish a space colonization program once the world is united enough. It’ll only take a few generations (not that long in immortal time) for those born or created after the shift to outnumber those born before it.

>And neither Voidsy nor any of the friends they've made so far are exactly charismatic people.
We don’t need to personally convert every person to our cause, we’ll have charismatic missionaries and allies for that.

>>112098
If this was a viable method of fixing the world, don't you think Rein would have done it already?

Personally I think we know far too little about Morbit to go making any plans about how to make it a better place. How about we talk to the other gods when we beat the game and ask how we can help?

>>112099
Rein's heart is in the right place for the most part, but as the situation with Spit shows, it isn't always the most rational. Rein's big thing is stoicism, it might consider the inevitability of death to be something important for its followers to accept. It also might have simply not thought of it, if the position of demon has always been seen as a title bestowed on a deity's most trusted followers that just happens to have some side benefits, then it wouldn't take an idiot to not realize that it can be used in other ways.

>>112100
No matter what we end up doing we're going to have a long discussion with Rein beforehand. It seems to be the biggest of the benevolent honchos in Taverne, and probably has a lot of info that will be relevant to us as aspiring do-gooders. Plus, we need to clarify Rein's situation with Spit, and at least try to get it to kill her itself, before we go after Spit. The fact that we may get information that requires us to rework or totally scrap our plans doesn't mean we shouldn't bother making plans based on our current best information. It costs us nothing to plan, and I at least enjoy it, and it's entirely plausible that whatever new information we get will only clarify the specifics of what we need to do to enact our plans, so I'm going to keep doing it.

If y'all haven't already, I recommend reading these two links for an idea of what we're getting into:
http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/155609825451/morbit-qa-172016
http://morbit.wikia.com/wiki/Morbit

>>112101
>It costs us nothing to plan, and I at least enjoy it, and it's entirely plausible that whatever new information we get will only clarify the specifics of what we need to do to enact our plans, so I'm going to keep doing it.

Planning things like this in front of the GM is actually not beneficial, as it allows them to anticipate what we will do. Even subconsciously, this will affect the way things play out, and allow cleverer foes to guess our plans. It is better to bring plans like this in piece by piece, until the individual components cannot be preemptively shut down.

After all, the enemy cannot expect what the GM does not know.

mortis 2017/06/01(Thu)20:51 No. 112104 ID: 8a251a
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loving the discussion in here! its worth noting; demons still have to eat, sleep, etc. they won't age and if they maintain themselves they'll remain as healthy just as any other person, but they're not entirely free of mortal needs.

http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161260941466/2017-morbit-mutation-drive-week-4 our last week of the morbit mutation drive is here, with only 130 needed by saturday to reach our final goal! thank you all so much for the help, and i hope yall enjoy this horrible noncanon nightmare.

in other news; we're participating in Worldbuilding June this year! (http://worldbuildingjune.tumblr.com)
WBJ is an event run by our friend (and new team member) Gen and we're thrilled to be a part of it. expect me to pop into this disthread daily for this month with links to our posts, and i hope yall enjoy the new information.
sadly for those plotting your conquest- the area we're focusing on during WBJ isn't taverne. we're focusing on the luxson cluster, the location of our game project Vest Party.

http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161327735177/world-building-june-2017-luxson-cluster-day-1 our first day is introductory stuff- you already know most of this, but stay tuned for a ton of info as the days come by.

we may or may not have over 70 pages of notes ready

>>112104
>demons still have to eat, sleep, etc. they won't age and if they maintain themselves they'll remain as healthy just as any other person, but they're not entirely free of mortal needs.
So no post-scarcity, right. I figured that was the case, and that's why immortal world won't work.

>>112104
>demons still have to eat, sleep, etc. they won't age and if they maintain themselves they'll remain as healthy just as any other person
Hahaha! You could have told us that earlier! In that case, making everyone demons is still something to put on the bucket list, but it's nowhere near our top priority. We might still consider making a small army of demons for military purposes.

Other ideas to consider:
-Clear out the horrors from the underground.
-Kill other evil gods from different pantheons in addition to Spit.
-Create the internet, or some equivalent global telecommunications network, assuming none exists already.
-Contact some of the sciencey-type gods, see if we can't figure out where high deities and horrors come from.
-Find a way to fix the political system.
-End scarcity.

The de’moneres are somehow able to survive on a diet of "minerals, precious gems, carbon, and diamonds." This made me realize that it might be possible to end scarcity by creating a species of rapidly reproducing people with a diet consisting of water or dirt or air or something, ideally with a natural inclination towards progress and cooperation. All we would need to do is get the cooperation of, or become ourselves, a greater deity. Of course, if it were that easy why hadn't it already been done? It has.
>a TCP is created at a random place in the world whenever a living creature thinks of one. This has led to the TCP population exploding throughout the world
>TCP do not require food or water to live and produce no waste
Wax is morally questionable, but he's made the world becoming some sort of utopia relatively soon a very real possibility, assuming no out of the blue complications.

>>112154
I'm not sure how a legion of TCPs equates to an endless supply of minerals and gems, unless you mean they eat mineral and gem TCPs.

Technically if TCPs can spawn like that, scarcity could be ended by imagining up food TCPs and just eating them.

>>112172
I'm saying eventually TCPs will replace, or at least severely outnumber, the ordinary population. This will mean an end to scarcity because they do not need to eat.

>>112174
Even if the population is primarily TCPs, that doesn't actively change the number of non-TCPs. There would be no real resource-to-person increase unless the TCPs were treated as a resource.

>>112179
TCP abilities are varied and powerful, plus even if they're small they still contribute to the workforce. Ideally the other species will slow the rate at which they reproduce in response to the TCP expansion, though they may need some encouragement from their gods.

>>112181
I don't understand how more TCPs means other species will reproduce less.

>>112181
TCPs are already incredibly numerous. They are also tiny and naive and fragile. They're not going to take over Morbit.

i come bearing WBJ posts and also: we reached the drive goal!

http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161376351301/world-building-june-2017-luxson-cluster-day-2
http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161416272261/world-building-june-2017-luxson-cluster-day-3
http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161455028041/world-building-june-2017-luxson-cluster-day-4
http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161418262006/news-updates-june-04-2017

enjoy, and feel free to give feedback!

kanelel 2017/06/05(Mon)04:18 No. 112191 ID: db0da2
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>>112183
One would hope for an effect similar to pic related. Even without that many gods may realize that TCPs make better worshipers due to their not needing to eat and their incredible reproduction rate.

>>112185
>incredibly numerous
Not compared to how many there can/will be.
>tiny and naive and fragile
Size and durability don't really matter when you have superpowers and literally reproduce at the speed of thought. They are only naive insofar as they're born knowing nothing just like everyone else, a more worldly or educated TCP can be just as wise as any other mortal, in fact our entire Unhallowed Sanctuary plan revolves around this.

>>112191
>Size and durability don't really matter
Please read the worldbuilding post that talks about TCPs. They die a lot.

Don't forget that a lot of TCP powers use health as fuel.

>>112206
>They die a lot.
Their population is still rapidly expanding. Eventually there will be enough of them in large enough colonies that they'll be able to defend themselves adequately. Even if TCPs turn out to be too flawed to take over the world, they still serve as a useful proof-of-concpet showing that such a species is possible.

>>112236
Basically, you want to take the Patapon approach.

>>112187
I wonder what happened to Anne. The day four post claims she's dead, but attributes the cause of death to a lack of followers, which the wiki specifically states is impossible. The wiki is also vague on the details of her death: "Anne faded in power and influence, eventually disappearing entirely from Luxson. She is considered dead by most people." This is probably relevant to the videogame project.

Horror radiation is weird, we should figure out how it works. "Know thy enemy" and all that.

>>112272
Do Horrors really deserve to be wiped out? Their radiation is harmful, but it can be contained. The ones we've actually seen in-person thus far (granted, they are 'Guardian' Horrors made by us and Wretch, so they might work differently) have not actually been malicious.

>>112316
The "horrors" made in the game aren't real horrors. If they were they'd mutate our TCPs. Horrors in Morbit are apparently extremely dangerous and hostile creatures. So dangerous that a single giant horror was solely responsible for the extinction of two, maybe three races.

http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161574278421/world-building-june-2017-luxson-cluster-day-5 new WBJ post!

http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161574897671/world-building-june-2017-luxson-cluster-day-6
http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161574938961/world-building-june-2017-luxson-cluster-day-7

wait, two more!

What are shreds?

>>112417
shreds are related to scraps, and are basically little floating bits of pure energy that are given off by living creatures as they go about their lives. most civilizations in morbit gather them up and use them as a source of power!

we have a world building june post planned for the 16th that goes into detail about what scraps and shreds are, so i'll be sure to share that here once it's up!

>>112418
All I can picture when I hear 'shreds' is Manual Samuel.

>shreds

Obviously, we should have made a Skateboard TCP, for limitless power.

From the day 9 post:
>a zone without its deity– and every living thing in it– will quickly decay into inhospitable wasteland, usually resulting in mass extinction and a dangerous destabilization of the region as a whole.
This is interesting, we should look into why this happens. Perhaps life that doesn't rely on the presence of deities is another thing we can import from Earth. How useful this would be heavily depends on how common unclaimed areas are.

Did Lana and Viper both have a pirate fleet or was that a mistake?

There are three main issues that we need to understand about horrors:
1. Parodies. Why do some horrors become parodies? Why do some not? Why don't they give off radiation? Is there a way we can turn more horrors into parodies?
2. Radiation. How is able to consistently give useful mutations to all varieties of creatures with radically different physiologies? Is it intelligent? We know from Earth that random mutations are far more likely to give you pointless additions or compromise your ability to function than to make you into a monster. Why are some species more resistant to it than others? Is there a way a person can be made more resistant to it?
3. Energy. It was mentioned that there was, at one point an attempt to get energy from horror radiation. If this is really possible it raises the question of how horror radiation generates power (though the laws of thermodynamics already seem to be only a sometimes thing), and why anyone would think that using a substance which is actively malevolent as a power source was a good idea.

>>112475

This is just a theory, but considering how closely tied morbit's lands are to their gods (with cases of the gods literally being the land), it's possible that, in some way, everything about the world springs from a god's being. Maybe all lands and their inhabitants are actually extensions of the gods, and some gods just don't look as directly connected to them but still are. The god is, effectively, the anima or spirit or life force of the land; the desolation that comes to the land after a god dies is because the land itself dies and decays (unless it receives a "transfusion" of vitality by another god occupying the same position).

We already have one example of a creature that comes into being spontaneously, TCPs. They're born from a single word, and are therefore linked to language, an advanced mental ability that is closely associated with the ability to recognize abstract concepts and, from there, sentience and intelligence and the things we call true consciousness, which leads into society and civilization and technology and et cetera. Underneath that, though, there's still a subconscious full of primitive but vital urges, fears and instincts that the sapient mind represses or channels, feeling their effects but often unable to directly "see" them. It's possible that, just as TCPs spawn from the "higher", conscious thoughts of the gods and their creatures (who are part of said gods), Horrors might spawn from the subconscious.

Their qualities would, then, reflect that: they come from underground, they're powerful, they lack advanced intelligence. Their boundaries are vague, so their essence leaks into everything around them, they and everything caused by them is formed with a kind of direction and purpose but in a blind, unconscious way. If they grow too powerful, they can cause terrible damage, but if a way is discovered to channel and "train" them then they can become benign.

It's speculation, though.

>>112475
re: lana vs viper shit
we keep making typos, viper is XXI's demon and has a pirate fleet ;VVV;'''

http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161677264851/world-building-june-2017-luxson-cluster-day-10
http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161728821631/world-building-june-2017-luxson-cluster-day-11
http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161829410326/world-building-june-2017-luxson-cluster-day-12
http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161834103541/world-building-june-2017-luxson-cluster-day-13
http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161944247451/world-building-june-2017-luxson-cluster-day-15
http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/post/161968044021/world-building-june-2017-luxson-cluster-day-16

some WBJ posts crossposted here, i'm back from vacation! and back into the housing situation fire
maybequest will be updated as soon as i can assure my situation isn't going to hell, which could be very soon or not for a while. i'm sorry for all of the delays on basically anything i have my hands in- hoping to have our situation properly, permanently settled within a year.

Don't worry about it. You've got to make sure you've got a roof over your head before anything else.

>>112688
Ah, scraps & tech, I've been looking forward to this.

Why the windmill-like shred collectors? I thought shreds were the energy, so why would they need to push on something to generate power? How are scraps seen as a superstition when 1 in 50 people can see and interact with them? Shouldn't it be easy to verify even in a small town? Maybe they're much more common in some areas than others.

We should figure out what exactly causes scraps to be created. If it's the low-level, hormonal part of emotion then we could mass produce them simply by injecting people with adrenaline or the relevant equivalent for their physiology. If it's the high-level cerebral part of emotion then we just need to make a species or simple AI capable of thinking the necessary thoughts on command. The fact that plants, which are entirely hormonal with no ability to think at all, can create scraps implies that it's the former, unless Morbitian plants have thoughts, while the fact that more mentally complex creatures make scraps more often implies the latter also plays a role. How useful this would be depends somewhat on what scaps are actually used for, but if worse comes to worst we can always just turn the scraps into shreds for infinite energy.

Best of luck with your housing situation.

>>112688
>Darkest Night
Hey, Voidsy has motifs related to this! I wonder if anything will come of that?
Oh, huh, gods have powers based on their motifs, not their domains? What are domains for then? ...what would Frog-Crimes' Hydra motif even let them do? Creation of multi-headed creatures? Or modification of existing creatures to give them multiple heads?
Strange that so many of the island gods are not worshipped as such and don't seem to want to correct people about that.

Lantern Bearers are cute. I wonder where their lanterns come from? Do they steal them?
Do Scrap Ghosts ever manifest in places where people have lots of sex? Sexy scrap ghosts?!

https://www.patreon.com/homebrewdeviants

we now have a patreon!

mortis 2017/07/14(Fri)16:39 No. 113525 ID: 8a251a
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swear to god im not dead

>>113525
She seems to have other plans, bud.

I totally expect Grind to get his TCP to try to convince Fernando to go rogue, rather than to just give her a "new perspective".

Have the Eagle players found out what the reward for winning is? I've been looking through to make sure I don't spout a major spoiler.
Dediles' post sounds like it references the win reward, but I'm not sure if that's one of ours' who slipped up.

Was going to point out that if Fernando goes Rogue, there's a chance she doesn't get to come out of the game with them, even if the game gets its 'golden ending'. Since she wouldn't mechanically be their TCP anymore.

But I won't blab if they wouldn't have the means to realize that yet.

hey yall, glad you're enjoying the crimes session while we still work on void session act 3

coming in with some not so great news on the health front: my hydrocephalus has gotten bad enough that we're going to do some surgeries- i have a test surgery on tuesday to see if the bigger, more permanent shunt surgery will actually help or worsen my condition. i'm scared shitless to be honest but i wanted to tell yall because well

brain surgery. yeah
i'm trying to feel optimistic as this first surgery is low risk, but we just have to hang on and find out.

>>114171
Eep, as someone afraid of surgery that's absolutely terrifying. I hope things go well.

>>114171
sending good vibes your way my dude!

Hello from the ICU, I lived and the surgery was a complete success- which probably means I'm getting an even bigger one in two weeks as permanent treatment, but for now I'm still kickin

Great to hear. Does that mean you'll stay in the hospital in between the operations?

>>114208
That's a relief. Hoping the second one goes just as well.

Glad to hear it. Hope you have a smooth recovery!

>>114208
Good to hear.

ended up having the big permanent surgery today and it was a full success, headed home tomorrow and finally free of pain for the first time in 5+ years

>>114292
Damn good to hear.

>>114292
Wow they drilled a hole in your skull and are gonna send you home the next day? Medicine sure has gotten advanced.

mortis 2017/09/06(Wed)02:52 No. 115349 ID: 8a251a
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http://homebrewdeviants.tumblr.com/projects

void session is still in hiatus land while we do the enormous amount of prep needed to keep it going regularly, but maybequest work is almost wrapped up AND all of our other TCP sessions are out of hiatus!

also i guess i spent an hour on this today too

Welcome back, Omega TCP thread!

>>115349
too real

>>115349
At least your players aren't homogeneous.

I eagerly await what becomes of the Omega-session's Avatar.

Oh no, the omegaupdate session taught their TCPs pacifism. I hope they don't have to deal with a fully antagonistic god. Or maybe they'll figure out a way to win a war without killing the opposing TCPs. Like, capturing them or something.

>>115437
They've got two Weapon TCPs who are entirely useless as Weapon TCPs, and taught them pacifism.

It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out.

>>115349
I honestly love how far the two games have diverged. It's actually pretty incredible really. Both games are so cool to watch play out. Really wanna see where they both end up. <3 Morbit!

>>115448
>diverged
You want diverging? Then you should see what's happening in the Frog-Crimes session!

Those guys have screwed up so much, one of their TCPs is on the verge of going rouge!

I'm worried that it sounds like the Void has been the most competent player so far.

>>115454
I've been trying to drill in a military sense of strategic planning from relatively early on, without compromising the friendship angle.

There's lots I can't take credit for- Dad is a enormously capable leader and teacher, and we were solving tactical problems all throughout the dungeon.

>>115453
>going rouge
She's turning into a harlot?

>>115453
Frog-Crimes is the session I was referring to, yeah.

>screwed up
I dunno. I think their main problem is they've got enough people to cause their god to be indecisive as fuck. You got people trying to reign others in while there's still a decent body of people who want to 'Play To Win' as it were. I guess that's what I kinda like about the quest; it's really open ended.

Eagle Session doesn't even need a villain. Frog-Crimes is creating enough intercharacter conflict as it is.

Omega Session on the other hand is shaping up to be a very comfy bunch of dudebros.

And Void Session is facing off against a BBEG material enemy while immediately shoving ourselves into the soap opera of god-romance-drama.

>>115457
Well, there is one thing I think they all agreed on.

They all agreed that Grind is hot.....and I think they might be right.

Also, when Grind first showed up, I got excited when he mentioned us (Voidsy)!

>>115465
HOLY SHIT!!!!! O_O

Grind, don't sneak up on me like that!

>>115465
Poor Grind. He just can't escape his good looks.

I am quite happy to announce another story set in the Morbit universe has just commenced.

https://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/829253.html

Man I really do wonder how the eagle time thread is going to end!

>>115635
They are incredibly efficient at vetoing helpful suggestions. It's like a well-oiled machine.

>>115644
Yet also incredibly inefficient at vetoing bad ideas.

maybequest is back, i hope yall enjoy the new panel style! comorant has now joined the quest as a storyboarder/editor, which hopefully means it'll look a lot more interesting and dynamic. this was my first ever fight scene, and i hope it reads well + entertains.

>>116041
It's good!

I like it less than the previous style, in truth

The double lines are confusing, and the red is less effective as background than occasional seasoning- like with splashes of blood and anger.

>>116043
the red background will be reserved specifically for fight scenes- panels outside of combat will not have red

also- we will be doing our best to refine the style as we go! this is our first try at it and with luck and a lot of practice it'll become easier to read.

The combination of the double lines and the panel layout makes it a bit busy and hard to read at first glance. Making the panel borders easier to distinguish from the line art would probably help.

I really like the quest BTW, nice to see it updating again.

naileD, you know suggestions don't have to be in character right? What is your interpretation of Suplex's character anyway? Since it appears your's and mine differ greatly.

>>116054
My interpretation? Based on what's written in the quest, Suplex is relatively smart but without much knowledge. She wasn't properly raised and she wasn't educated or exposed to any morals or good behavior. This makes her a very primal character, catering to base instincts such as hunger and sexual pleasure. Also survival. Her needs and survival are the only important things she knows and this is why she wants to get out. This means she will put herself and her needs in front of others, making her character very selfish. She's not going to be polite or caring in any real way unless she has a lot to gain from it. In this aspect, the only thing she partially cares about is Nelson because he provides sexual relief.

>>116058
as someone who has been through a ludicrous amount of sexual trauma it's intensely distressing that you see suplex as a sexual predator. she does have issues with sex, but that is not the intention. she does see sex as a way to gain what she wants, but it is nearly always initiated by the guards who want to use her- she rolls with it and tries to gain something from it, instead of feeling entirely used/objectified. while she does have empathy issues and strange morals as a result of being abused her entire life, that does not make her an unfeeling monster willing to abuse others.

please stop suggesting weird rapey/uncomfortable shit to my quest.

>>116060
I'm very sorry to hear you've had such bad experiences in life. Rest assured, I'm not here to try to make them worse.
I don't see Suplex as a "sexual predator". I wrote that she likes sex, but that doesn't mean I want her to go around raping people. My understanding here is based on the post >>/quest/758283, specifically:
>Not that you don't get lonely, yourself. It's a mutual deal.
I also don't see her as an "unfeeling monster". I wrote that she's a selfish character, but that doesn't mean I want her to go intentionally hurting others (that would be a sadist) or that she can't be affectionate (that would be a psycho). Based on the post >>/quest/761801 we can see that she's selfish enough to kill someone to get out, but she doesn't prolong his death in any way. And as far as her compassion goes, I'm basing my understanding on the post >>/quest/737300, specifically:
>The only ones you don't want to hurt are THE KIDS.

As for my own suggestions, asking the MC to kiss or lick someone wasn't with any sort of rapey or creepy intention. Altho I see how it could be understood in that way. Personally, I was expecting that, due to her strange morals and being abused, Suplex would consider these actions as entirely affectionate. Maybe even the only way known to her to show affection. Anyway, the intention was to learn more about the character. Perhaps not the best way. Unfortunately, I can't always ask the MC how she would feel about something before suggesting it.

I have removed the offensive suggestions and I will not be writing suggestions in this quest anymore. This way we shouldn't have any more problems.

God damn the Omega session is fucking adorable.

>>116081
Bit of a pity for the Frog-Crimes though.

>>116081
AGREED

Cheesecake has the highest healthpool we've seen yet. "Perfect". SHE TUFF.

Even though the Omega session has taught their Weapon Type TCPs Pacifism, I'd like to believe that they're not "Absolute Pacifists" where they wouldn't protect themselves or each other from harm.

I'd like to think that they'll be the type of Pacifists that try to avoid fighting, but in an emergency situation, they will fight in order to protect themselves and/or each other from harm!

>>116208
I agree! And I also think that she may be the biggest player collective TCP ever created!

Although, I'm a little surprised that no one questioned the leaf that the session's mod created when he/she/they/it blocked one of their commands!

I made a bunch of planning posts, but so far I've been ignoring the most pressing issue: apologizing to Wretch. This is a delicate situation and we need to be very careful with how we present ourselves. To that end we should structure our apology something like this:

1. Profuse, genuine, unequivocal apology. We're in the wrong in this situation, before explaining ourselves or saying anything else, we need to make it clear to Wretch that we understand that and sincerely regret it.
2. Promise to consider her feelings more in the future. As Eastwood explained, this is the main reason we fucked up here, and by acknowledging it we'll be able to start improving on it.
3. Explain that we weren't genuinely flirting with Spit. (A few suggestions were genuinely hitting on her, but the vast majority of us find her repulsive, and we would have ended up flirting anyway even without those suggestions, so bringing them up is a good way to upset Wretch without even being accurate to why we did what we did. We'll probably want to own up to them eventually, but that can wait until Wretch has calmed down, has a better understanding of what our being a collective means, and there aren't lives on the line.)
4. Further reassure her that we plan to kill Spit once we become physical, unless Rein has a really great explanation as to why we shouldn't. It's the honest truth, and something we should openly commit to.
5. Finally, reiterate that she's our favorite, that we never want her to be hurt or upset, and that we really, truly regret our actions.

>>116232
Maybe leave out the killing Spit part, or use 'stopping Spit' instead. Sounds better if the focus is on the protecting, rather than the killing. Aside from that, I agree overall with the sentiment.

>>116261
Either way works. I used "killing" because it reinforces our emnity towards Spit, which is something Wretch might need from us.

Roughly how terrible am I for favoring Miller over Wretch?
I get that more sides= better alliance, but in terms of actual personality and style, Sharks>Slimes.

Maybe don't put this part in the apology, though.

>>116271
We haven't interacted enough with Miller to have much of an understanding of her personality and style.
Besides, Grind is obviously the most attractive.

I think part of the reason why Wretch is so pissed at us, and Eastwood as well, is because of the difference in culture. Flirting is not seen as disrespectful to them. Prostitution isn't even seen in a bad light- that's why Wretch thought Kome was being sweet when he asked her if she wanted to be treated like a whore. Prostitutes in Morbit are treated with respect and kindness!

While on Earth excessive or sudden flirting could be seen as disrespectful because of the implication that you're speaking to someone who's sexually open, that is not the case at all on Morbit. We haven't told this to anyone in the quest, so they can't imagine a negative context to what we said to Spit.

>>116286
That doesn't make sense, Eastwood reacted negatively to Voidsy's flirting (>>/questarch/786885)(Admittedly that's while he was telling us off), and Miller was visibly uncomfortable (>>/questarch/777634) when Voidsy flirted with us. This indicates the flirting can be seen as a disrespectful/negative thing, as in our world.

I think it's more likely that Wretch and Spit's history (>>/questarch/786582) which caused such a strong reaction, of note is that we declined to hear that history (>>/questarch/786642), which might've provided context (But also might've made our relations with Wretch worse). I'm assuming since Spit is a awful awful person, they told Wretch what we'd been saying to them to get a reaction out of Wretch. I also suspect that their history is probably very unpleasant as Spit is a awful person, and Wretch was visibly nervous after our conversation with Spit.

>>116292
I feel like the two of them are an old flame. If they used to roll together fucking with peoples' TCP sessions, it would explain Wretch's violent reputation.

>>116293
If that's true, then that means that at some point in time, Spit took things too far. And when Wretch tried to get Spit to stop, that's when their relationship went downhill.

>>116293
I'm not so sure she's violent herself, but rather that she likes violent games. Like the TCP game itself, or boxing.

>>116292
That's ignoring context for Miller, given that Miller was unsure what to say to begin with and was already really, really nervous about speaking. Miller looked visibly uncomfortable a few panels beforehand.

>>116295
Spit ate two gods, one of which was a high god. I think it's safe to say she's a violent person.

>>116300
True, but Miller did clam up/freeze when we did flirted though. Once (If) we get out of this alive, we need to get a book on morbit customs or something, if new gods can form like we did then there's bound to be one.

>>116293
If they were in a relationship then that might explain things better, since Spit is awful/violent and Wretch was nervous (Looking at it again, maybe scared as well, idk? She seemed very worried about Spit knowing she was here. >>/questarch/786520) about Spit talking to us, things might've been nasty and/or abusive. If that was the case that explains Wretch's anger pretty well actually, because we would've flirted with a abusive ex.

>>116312
Wretch seems the type of person to become enamored with new things and obsess over them to unhealthy degrees in the first place, so not only would it have been an abusive ex we flirted with but someone who very well might have abused her while she was trying desperately to gain their affection weather through things she most certainly wouldn't do otherwise or hurting other people around her because she was told to by Spit for her amusement.

>>116312
I was talking about Wretch. Wretch likes violent games.

>>116330
I wouldn't say Wretch likes Violent games so much as she likes to be involved with other people even if it means she plays violent games. She might not be opposed to violence in games but it seems like she just wants to be included in it considering that instead of kicking Void's ass from here to Wax and back the second she met them she prefers to play cooperatively.

>>116335
Her God Trivia puzzle said she likes violent games.

hohhhhkay i think i can say we're back in business now, forbidding any medical complications. lots of shit happening on the personal side of things, but it's looking good from here on out. gonna try to update when i can.
look forward to void session coming back (ideally in january) as long as my brain tube doesn't fuck itself

Bad news: It's been over a month since I've update anything

Worse news: It's because my desktop broke and I can't use my laptop for drawing.

Good news: Getting a new computer soonish so I can update again.

>>117618
>>117706
Yay!

>>117706
Is there better news of it being a better computer?

Can I just say I absolutely adore this image?
https://i.imgur.com/qQyI39C.gif

Also it seems like there's no main antagonist in the eagle-time session. Makes a bit of sense since Frog-Crimes is their own worst enemy anyway.

mortis 2017/12/02(Sat)14:48 No. 118413 ID: 8a251a
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mistakes have been made

when i started both TCP (void session) and MQ i was new to quests and making comics in general, and winged it for the majority of 2016. 2017 was a big year of growth for me, even if void session had to be put on a hell hiatus. you'll probably notice both quests have huge amounts of artist errors, especially when it comes to sizes. going forward i've been trying to use my scaled reference system, so please forgive me for any sudden changes- the heights from here on out are the canonical ones!

tiny thing but hey, it's been bothering me. have a heavy WIP for the main cast refs, now with color!

mortis 2017/12/06(Wed)03:12 No. 118523 ID: 8a251a
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some misc draws based on twitter/discord requests: eastwood with his daughter carrie. this is the first time ive ever portrayed what modern morbit photography is like, and i'm pleased with it.

mortis 2017/12/06(Wed)03:12 No. 118524 ID: 8a251a
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i need to draw miller more. she needs more love

mortis 2017/12/06(Wed)03:13 No. 118525 ID: 8a251a
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and here's your favorite slime tiger cat thing celebrating morbitian not christmas

mortis 2017/12/07(Thu)01:42 No. 118544 ID: 8a251a
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don't fuck with monsters in suits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIpyBeBpC74

http://curiouscat.me/RINGOR

going through some serious shit rn, send me morbit requests and i may fuck around with some- SFW/NSFW, vague or specific, as long as its mostly serious (i'm making experimental pieces, not joke sketches) and it's morbit related, hmu

>>118779
oh shoot i have a new browser, this is mortis

mortis 2017/12/23(Sat)20:20 No. 119121 ID: 8a251a
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzzffLkzNKY

first shaded eastwood piece i've done, ft a fancy new crystal + smoke shading technique

ALSO while im here: void session act 3 confirmed for an early january release! gonna aim for the first week, but we'll see how everything shakes out.

>>119121
>void session act 3 confirmed for an early january release! gonna aim for the first week, but we'll see how everything shakes out.
Yay!

>>119121
Looking forward to it

>>119121
Huzzah! Great news!

OKAY SO, 2018 is coming up and we're going to be locking some content exclusively to patreon while it's in development: this includes worldbuilding concepts, species development, WIP assets and previews, exclusive secret streams (still working on that one) and possibly some new projects in the works. it's 5 bucks a month to get at the goods, and i plan on releasing anywhere from 1- a few sketches daily, depending on what i'm up to. you can give us feedback through the patreon as well, at the cost of a fast food meal. if you want to support us but don't care about the rewards, you can donate less- donating more won't get you anything extra, but we really appreciate it! the money goes towards getting us new equipment and funding, as most of us are disabled or in bad households right now. the more we get via patreon, the more we can safely give y'all, content wise.

https://www.patreon.com/homebrewdeviants

we're putting up some REALLY big new information up tonight so don't miss out on that, it will get a public release eventually but definitely a long ways down the line. ty all for your support, and being the best community we could ask for!

http://eagle-time.com/showthread.php?tid=1786&pid=197379#pid197379 i don't usually link TCP crimes session updates here, but

>>119165
So that's what Wax looks like. I didn't realize this: >>111218 , was Wax. They look pretty-

>AUTOBALANCE IS NOW IN EFFECT
What the fuck are those guys doing over there?!?! O_O

also i have no self control and act 3's here early

enjoy, updates won't be consistent for a bit but you can talk your shit out and get an idea of what to do

Anonymous 2017/12/28(Thu)10:14 No. 119172 ID: ba56e6
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>>119165

couple of things: first off, i hope yall enjoy the art direction getting beefed up to hell

secondly, HUGE thank you to moxie and kitet for helping me with the wizard tower + eastwood's base, they both did sketches for those areas. i'll have to do the rest solo due to them focusing on their own sessions, but i'm hoping i can keep up with this standard.

>>119165
Well that's.. something else that's for sure.

I think Wretch isn't going to react well to being treated delicately (even if she is a bit delicate in some ways). What she probably really wants is to feel like she has respect from someone.

Ask Eastwood, Miller, and Wretch (after this conversation is over) how they think "Create : TCP Wax admin Rule-book abbreviated." would go over.

>>119182
I think Wretch needs to get her shit together, and worry that people will continue to rationalize her freakouts.

>>119187
Poorly.

I'm pretty sure we're not allowed to make that. And if we did, according to the Frog-Crimes session, Wax will get involved and ally with the weakest player. And I think since everyone has agreed to gang up on Spit, Wax will end up joining her, and I've got a feeling we don't want that to happen!

>>119189
Thus why he wants to ask about creating a rulebook that clearly states what is and is not allowed.

>>119187
I also feel the need to point out that if we make this purely based on what we have learned from the Frog-Crimes session, it is metagaming, and therefore against the rules. Voidsy would need a reason to desire such an item.

>>119188
we don't know what her baggage is, just that there is some.
until we do, there's no point being judgemental.

sorry for all the notices/announcements but while updates are good now and i'm doing Okay, my treatment has been failing for a bit now and we're not sure what's going on. we're figuring it out and surgery isn't on the table yet but it could be- ideally we won't have to take long breaks like last time, but i wanted to give the heads up in case i disappear again.

RGB 2017/12/30(Sat)18:06 No. 119213 ID: 2a13fa
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Since we've seen what Wax looks like I gave a go on what I think Wane might have looked like. Because Wax looks like a crayon drawing, I imagined Wane to look something like a pencil sketch, and since Wax has red eyes and no mouth, I imagined Wane having a green mouth and no eyes.

>>119213
oh goddamnit this is so much cooler than what i've been working on for wane

(their design has been in development hell for Years but this is so much more cohesive than what i've got now, good job!!)

>>119213
Also looks very serene, so it's the opposite of Wax's deranged appearance too.

>>119215
approval owo

>>1191931
your health is priority no 1! if you need to take another break don't worry about it.

>>119213
i looove this

mortis 2017/12/31(Sun)18:07 No. 119243 ID: 8a251a
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RGB actually inspired me to do the legit wane design already after years of procrastinating on them

here you go

mortis 2017/12/31(Sun)18:08 No. 119244 ID: 8a251a
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and also a proper wax ref at last

i'll color these eventually

>>119243
I wonder, if every god is basically just allowed to walk around with cuts, broken bones & whatever as just part of their appearance, then how do you tell if a god is actually injured?

>>119259
Probably varies case by case. Would assume only gods with a necrotic portfolio maintain such an appearance.

>>119259

it helps that high gods dont usually walk around, for one

they are Fucking Huge

mortis 2018/01/01(Mon)16:36 No. 119262 ID: 8a251a
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finally getting the taverne pantheon done up properly, here's velvet

RIP sweet bean

For those hungry for more cat content, we launched a new type of session hosted by me, new blood to this team and old blood when it comes to forum adventures.

https://youtu.be/J-w9jiRiG-E

Gen 2018/01/01(Mon)21:50 No. 119274 ID: e0c854
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>>119264
Please gaze upon our fashion sins

>>119274
I found it funny that during the entire time they were drawing this they kept saying things like
"I hate this"
"Nooo..."
"This is terrible..."
and my favorite:
"You are all fashion criminals."

mortis 2018/01/02(Tue)12:19 No. 119286 ID: 8a251a
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here comes tiny snek

>>119286
I guess you could say that's pretty...
Metal.
rimshot

mortis 2018/01/02(Tue)17:09 No. 119290 ID: 8a251a
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grind is one of my all time favorite, and oldest, god characters, and very personal to me- i hope you enjoy his modern design!

>>119286
Alloy is a cute! Childlike and innocent huh? Would that go away as he gets older?

>>119290
>compassionate
He's not very good at showing it.

IamPankank 2018/01/02(Tue)19:02 No. 119301 ID: a363ac
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>>119300
this sure is some Froggy salt

...starting to get the feeling that the gods are fighting over who gets to be promoted to Wax's new counterpart via the god games, and there's some manipulation and political bullshit going on behind the scenes, in relation to Grind, Rein, Spit, and Wretch.

>>119301
>implying I'm posting in the eagle time thread
I know it's fun to jump on people who are mad at things and say they're salty, but you should practice your aim.

>>119300
Frog-Crimes doesn't make it easy to be compassionate or understanding.

>>119297
Grind is pure, he is not for lewd.
Still a magnificent specimen for the eyes.

>>119311
Good point. They sure got on his bad side quick.

So was Alloy the counterpart to Velvet?

>>119325
yep

mortis 2018/01/11(Thu)16:51 No. 119505 ID: fb45d4
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got my christmas present from knux: primus real

(ft manic rin face after 8 hours of errands)

mortis 2018/01/12(Fri)21:10 No. 119533 ID: fb45d4
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figured out wane's colors, figured i'd pop this here for yall as a hold over until i can get the fancy refs done. while i do most of my refs on a scale for easy comparison, wax + wane are gonna have to deal with being way too big for that to be reasonable, and their heights will simply be listed instead.

whoo

>>119505
I'm glad you have a tentkitty-pal.

Anonymous 2018/01/16(Tue)03:10 No. 119616 ID: c3709c
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love it when another session fucks up so badly that it fucks with us too, mmmmmmmm

Oh my lords that is the best. It's definitely unexpected that's for sure!

For those of us not in the know, would somebody mind explaining the whys, hows, and significance of whatever the fuck just happened.

popping in to make this statement bc i get where this theory is coming from and i was going to let it slide until i realized it could lead to the other session getting harassed, along with it going against how we run these games:

the autobalance is not directly due to frog crimes making the knife. for those who have no idea what's going on, everything will be explained enough where you don't need to read the other session.

Oh whoops, my apologies for such. I'll make sure that post is deleted then.

>>119626
>could lead to the other session getting harassed
Seeing as an accusation of coming from frog crimes was already used as an insult, I think it's a bit late for that.

RaccoonGuy 2018/01/16(Tue)15:16 No. 119629 ID: 9876c4
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>>119616
>He picked the rear sight that looks like cat ears
Good show, sir.

>>119629
Gun cat when

>>119630
Eastwood has one already.

>>119631
Two guns cat when

>>119626
Ah shit, someone got killed with their knife, or took their own life?

I just thought of something.

>Frog-Crimes makes the knife
>Every god gets a knife
>Even Spit
>Wax is busy with Frog-Crimes' session
>He's not there to tell Spit "BTW don't play with the knife it'll kill you ded"
>Spit likes to shove sharp objects into herself

See where I'm going with this?

>>119649
I suspect Spit just copied Frog Crimes after hearing about what happened in that game. This means either one of the players there is acting as a spy for Spit, or the TGC game takes place after the ET game and she heard it through the grapevine.

>>119655
Or maybe the games are happening at the same time?

Because if I remember correctly, the god in charge of Spit is in the Frog Crimes session, and that god says that they can change Spit into a better person. The best way to keep an eye on Spit is if they live together, so when Frog Crimes made the knives Spit saw that and thought it would be a good idea to try that in her game.

Of course, I’m just guessing here. But if I’m right, then that means Wax is one hell of a multitasker by playing both games at the same time! Hell, he’s probably admining multiple games all at once!

>>119657

can confirm this: crimes + void sessions are concurrent. we were planning on having them be at slightly different times due to crimes session starting later in real time, but due to the hiatus they lined up pretty much perfectly.

wax is a high god and can multitask like you wouldn't believe, as a note

>>119655
>>119657
Or we can hope for the best and Spit was actually dumb enough to stick herself with a strange knife that popped out of nothing.

whats behind our mask is it a black hole

>>119692
what if it's another mask

>>119699
>>119692
It would be very painful.

>>119699
That just reminds me of this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zkC6z-Hc204 (from 10:47 to 10:59 in the video).

Speaking of bees, whatever happened to the very third thing we ever created, shortly after the universe itself?

Anonymous 2018/01/19(Fri)19:48 No. 119749 ID: 9d5ded
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The people deserve to know.

>>119749
Voidsy would be at all three points at once.
Wretch and Miller would be at the McD x3 corner.
Grind and Veil would be at the food at home corner.
Frog-crimes and Spit would be at the drive-through corner.

MOVEMENT + KILL COMMANDS
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oXdPe1J9e7AVkAq_P88oAvMbqUmd61M6Y14m3O2Dkys/edit

here's the movement + kill commands for void session: please keep discussion on if things are unclear/need more elaboration to the disthread!!

>>119750
>Voidsy would be at all three points at once.
Well, natch.
>Wretch and Miller would be at the McD x3 corner.
Our beautiful, ravenous children. Look at them. What little bastards.
>Grind and Veil would be at the food at home corner.
Grind is a boring grump and that doesn't surprise me. I know little of Veil.
>Frog-crimes and Spit would be at the drive-through corner.
I'm glad to see your not stereotyping collectives, though I can only imagine Spit burning down the McDs to spite everyone else.

Can we get map labels?

>>119753
yeah i realized i forgot those, got way too into making that maskspace room for jasper

lemme throw that together and put it in here

wh-who is "veil"

Hey everyone!!
So I think we should get started by analyzing the proximities to an assault. Miller Eastwood and ourselves are closest by way of land, and Wretch is assaultable by sea.
Furthermore Spit has bases. Lots of them. Her region is a spiral, meaning that every step along the way is an assault from in front, behind, or above. The bases are likely all heavily booby trapped, and if they have access to the top of the maze walls, they will attack from above.
Heavily fortified, and makes sense that it is that way.
We don't know about Wax's base, if he even has one.
Otherwise I think we should be fortifying our territory, and organizing better transport.

mortis 2018/01/19(Fri)23:06 No. 119761 ID: fb45d4
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here's the turf map, apologies for that- this won't be changing over the course of the game much, unless people start dying

Right, so, what are out limits? It seems we can still CREATE things, for now. Is that going to go any time soon, or has it gained any limits? What about other commands? I'd assume since we have a terrain map, now, we can't make any big sweeping additions or changes there, like ripping open a grand canyon just inside/along our territory borders to slow spit and wax down a bit.

>>119762

you can create shit for the whole duration of the game, but be aware that making things like magic items, vehicles, and anything thatd significantly change gameplay, will raise what everyone else has in the game as well. this is done to keep shit balanced from a behind the scenes/game design perspective. if you make a bunch of OP shit, spit's also gonna have OP shit. make things at your own risk.

no big terrain changes from here on out, yeah. you can't change turf either unless somebody dies, at which point anyone can take their territory if they move fast enough- this is to mimic how god zones work on morbit itself.

>>119761
awww mannnn Wax and Spit have a pincer attack going on... Eastwood might be in a bit of trouble, and we're not much better off.

>>119761
>>119765
What if Eastwood and his TCPs set a trap for Spit and Wax in their territory, then pulled out? Then when Spit and Wax move in to attack, they'll get a nasty surprise.

>>119765
Depends who moves first. Wipe one out fast then switch to the other, Schlieffen Style.