Godhood XIV [OOC] [ROLL CALL. ALSO: OPENING.]

I think everyone's done that so far. Have I missed something? o-o

https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?ti...5#pid22015
Jam edition.

You... You're not even in Jam, dude, to say nothing of the fact that all the Acts in the post are bolded and priced as they're used. It's not exactly hidden or ciphered. I like it better as-is, and since you're not even in the game you're asking for changes in, I'm gonna have to say that unless you have some sort of really good reason I'm not going to bother.

She is possessed by the soul of an accountant. Quickly, we must exorcise her before she gets a look at our ill-devised budgets and expense reports and shames us all

It is easier to keep up with act spending and serves as a quick way to look back at past actions. It can get annoying when looking back in the thread to find previous actions if you have to skim entire posts for them.
There will be plenty of posts that may have no actions at all so it makes it easier if people only have to check the bottom of the posts for any act spending, and not have to read through a bunch of flavor text. I'll give an example.

"And the god Dem Onstration looked at the void surrounding the star and was displeased. He put out his hand and made a rocky planet. It would be a Utopia for his future creations, and so that is what it was named. (3 Acts)

Next he reached into the planets core and squeezed to melt it down. The purpose was to shield the planets future life from the harmful rays of the sun with a powerful magnetic field. (1 Act)

He next brought forth a great many rain clouds to cover the planet with water. His world would be covered in oceans, vast and blue. The land that remained uncovered would serve as the resting place of his future creations and worshipers. While the deep depths would house a great many creatures and mysteries. (2 Acts)

With what remained of his power he put a great abundance of iron on the planet. This would be used by his future children to create many a fantastic creation. Tools of science and luxury and, if it came down to it, war. (3 Acts)"

When going back to reread posts, it is easier for people to read the actions like this.

Create Utopia, an Earth sized planet- 3 Acts
Melt Utopia's core- 1 Act
Cover two thirds of Utopia in water- 2 Acts
Make iron an abundant resource on Utopia- 3 Acts

Except that, again, the actions are all bolded. Setting aside the fact that treating the roleplaying portion of a game like Godhood as "flavor text" kind of colossally misses the point, someone attempting to look back over at who spent what when would still literally just be looking for blocks of bold. As in, exactly what they're doing in your system. If having to skip over a few paragraphs of IC action in between bolded chunks is too much work for you, I just really don't know what to say.

All I'm saying is it's a polite thing to do.

No, a polite thing to do would have been not to try to dictate the way people playing a game you are literally not involved in at all play their game.

If we're talking about politeness.

But we are clearly not! This is a convenient thing. For you. Your reasoning ultimately boils down to "Do it this way because that is the way I like it best", which is pretty intrinsically impolite. Doubly so because you made a public spectacle of it and singled me out specifically while so doing rather than send a PM or go on IRC or literally anything other than passive-aggressively trying to bend my game to your will in the OOC thread.

So, yes, you can request other players do that. You can't demand it though, and I won't be doing it. Thanks for making this a Thing, though.

Jeez. I was just asking.

It is pretty traditional in GH. Makes timelining easier for me as well but I'm not in either game so who cares what I think.

Ok, Modbeast sauntering in and telling some people in this discussion to quit the whiny passive-aggressive demeanour. None of that in my forum.

Planet atmosphere, how much? Earth sized planet for earthlike atmosphere

nvm, if that's not enough i'll put more in next round.

I need those PMs from Demons before I can start writing up the turn end!

Earth-size atmosphere is 2 acts for normal density, 1 act for a thin atmosphere.

Editing my original submission with a slightly more specific definiton of the third sphere.

Also thanks Leafsw0rd!

Have the range of temperatures I'm going to be using to describe planetary conditions, from hottest to coldest.

Actually on Fire
Almost on Fire
Scorching
Tropical
Quite Hot
Warm
Temperate
Cool
Chilly
Cold
Freezing
Frozen
Absolute Zero

Cool, 'cept 'quite hot' sounds like something that'd be between 'tropical' and 'warm', and 'absolute zero' is cooler sounding than 'utterly frozen'- *bricked*

It /does/ look better this way, doesn't it? Good call, kid.

'*~,.,~perfection~,.,~*'

Sorry about not going with the shoreline biome yet, DShipper. It's just that when you posted it I was like 90% done on my god act usage post there.

Just to clarify, Craft isn't yelling at Bacardi's "transgression" alone. He's got an enemy in his past, and talking about being small and tiny at any sort of length brings it boiling up in him.

EDIT: Craft's been using a lot of fancy-sounding names, but they don't have a direct translation. They're all latvian words adjusted for legibility.

Seriba comes from Cerība, meaning hope.

The rest of these will be introduced in the morning, with this huge expodump.
Fantāzija means Fantasy
Sapnis means Dream
and Murgs means nightmare.

Ohh, looking forward to it! *whaps Bacardi with rolled-up newspaper tho* XD; Not a very classy deity, that one! (But plenty entertaining. 8'D)

If anyone's wondering, Philomela's Nest is thus named in homage to a greek myth. The name itself means "friend of song", and the myth is a rather gruesome one.

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Procne asked her husband Tereus (the king of Thrace) to escort her sister on a visit, but Tereus was a shitty animal with no self-control and raped the sister (Philomela) instead. Philomela was, in a remarkable show of mental strength after a traumatic event, being all "I SHALL NEVER FORGIVE RAGH"- unfortunately, in further shittyness, Tereus cut off her tongue. Philomela could no longer speak, but she weaved a tapestry telling of the events and sent it to her sister, who uncovered the crime and was so angry that she uh, killed the baby that she'd had with Tereus and fed it to him (wtf is wrong with this couple?!). Tereus got so angry finding out that he'd cannibalized his own baby that he chased after Philomela and Procne to murder them, but the two ladies prayed to the gods to save them and were turned into birds. Idk why but Tereus was turned into a bird too. Maybe the gods felt sorry about him eating his kid. Wow, I am the worst at telling myths.

Ironically, Philomela was turned into a nightingale, whose females do not sing. So Lord Rack's choice of name for the Lygiswyrm birthing grounds- Philomela's nest- is like a wish for her to regain her voice and sing once more, through proxy of these here musical space worms.

As for the name Lygiswyrm itself, I just taped some greek onto the word "wyrm". Ligys means "clear-voiced, shrill, whistling".

Edit: Oh right, and an Atrium is an open-roofed entrance hall. When I named it, I was thinking of the asteroid-nebula-belt as an open-air 'entrance' to Esmeralda's solar system.

I choose to wear my unclassiness with pride.

A clarification about Kahtrak's little spiel. It was triggered by the accusation that animal life is a frivolous pursuit. So he is using the word "we" to mean himself and Craft in this situation (since he has probably not noticed the skyworms yet and Olmolm has been transparent about his creation's sapient intentions). He's acting like he's rushing to Craft's defense, but is probably just exploiting a chance to lecture somebody about ecology.

Also, if we want a species to have a social flocking behavior, do we have to spend an act on it?

Nah if you want them to flock they can flock.