LG108: A Tale of Rats and Spores

[Seonid he/him]

I'll take a spectator spot, if those are still a thing around these parts

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

1 hour ago, Seonid said:

I'll take a spectator spot, if those are still a thing around these parts

Nope, you have to play. It's a requirement.

Also hi Seonid! We've never met each other but I know your name for some reason

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

@Amanuensis will you be updating the player list?

Also if you do end up using any of the special roles would you let us know?

[Seonid he/him]

14 minutes ago, The Unknown Hammerer said:

Nope, you have to play. It's a requirement.

Also hi Seonid! We've never met each other but I know your name for some reason

Hi back!

I was a mod around here once upon a time, and I GMed quite a few games (for my time, at least!)

It's not surprising that you might have fun into my name some where , especially if you ever run around looking at the old games. 

My specialty was Shard games - a style where the game included multiple planets, more factions that you could shake a stick at, every one of the then-known shards of Adonalsium, and multiple competing win conditions. They were a delightful mess to play, and even more stressful to run.

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

4 minutes ago, Seonid said:

Hi back!

I was a mod around here once upon a time, and I GMed quite a few games (for my time, at least!)

It's not surprising that you might have fun into my name some where , especially if you ever run around looking at the old games. 

My specialty was Shard games - a style where the game included multiple planets, more factions that you could shake a stick at, every one of the then-known shards of Adonalsium, and multiple competing win conditions. They were a delightful mess to play, and even more stressful to run.

i've stumbled across a few shard games purly by acsident and they always looks like beautiful chaos. and they always sound intresting considering there are multiple ways to win. 

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

1 hour ago, Amanuensis said:

Sorry, yeah. I've been a tad busy and very low energy when I'm not, planning on responding in a bit to everyone  just got home from a long day at work so going to take a little to eat and relax

Tis fine.

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

10 hours ago, Amanuensis said:

Sorry, yeah. I've been a tad busy and very low energy when I'm not, planning on responding in a bit to everyone  just got home from a long day at work so going to take a little to eat and relax

Sorry, didn’t see this

Take your time!

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

15 hours ago, Seonid said:

It's not surprising that you might have fun into my name some where , especially if you ever run around looking at the old games. 

50% chance it was Kas complaining

My probably favorite game was when Ash ran his Shard game, so that's pretty cool. 

[Amanuensis he/him]

On 9/24/2025 at 3:31 PM, IcedOutPenguin said:

Is that how many of that type you need?

Yeah, so

On 9/24/2025 at 12:13 AM, Amanuensis said:

Zephyr and Zephyr

1. Novice: Create a PM with target that expires in 1 Cycle.
2. Apprentice: Create a PM with target that expires in 2 Cycles.
3. Master: Create a Group PM with up to three targets that expires in 2 Cycles.
4. Expert: Create a PM with up to three targets that never expires.

Zephyr and Verdant

1. Novice: If your target leaves their cabin, block their action.
2. Apprentice: If your target leaves their cabin, block their action and the action of their target.
3. Master: If your target leaves their cabin, block their action, the action of the target, and the action of everyone else who targets them.
4. Expert: If your target leaves their cabin, imprison your target until you decide to release them, blocking all actions from and to them.

For a Novice Zephyr Pot, you'd spend 1 Zephyr for the base and 1 Zephyr for the secondary. For a Master Verdant Pot, you'd need 1 Zephyr and 3 Verdant.

On 9/24/2025 at 3:31 PM, IcedOutPenguin said:

I'm a little confused about the pots and how you use them to do an action.

So let me run through a chain of events.

• On D1, there are 3 Verdant, 3 Crimson, 2 Sunlight, 2 Midnight, 1 Roseite available.
• You, Penguin, submit in your GM PM that you want to try claiming 1 Verdant, 1 Crimson, and 1 Zephyr.
• Going into the night, I pick who gets what spores using RNG. If you fail to get a spore that you wanted, you will automatically get Zephyr instead.
• Penguin gets 2 Zephyr and a Crimson.
• Penguin realizes that making a Novice Crimson Pot will always fail and wound him. Penguin contemplates either studying to Rank up faster, or preparing a Novice Zephyr Pot using his 2 Zephyr for slightly less XP. He ends up submitting in the GM PM to prepare the Novice Zephyr Pot, that way he can message another player and try coordinating in the background.
• At the start of the next day, you will now have that item available for use for your next action, which you will submit in the GM PM (i.e. "Sprout Zephyr on Coder")

 

NOTE: I AM MODIFYING THE RULES SLIGHTLY AND ANNOUNCING IT HERE

Players will have an action slot during each Day Turn. For this slot, they can either Prepare or Sprout a pot, but not Study. This should allow players to PM more frequently and make use of their items before they die.

Considering this change, I may need to adjust the XP Rank Up thresholds after I sleep

Edited September 27, 2025 by Amanuensis

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

I'll play

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

I want to play. I keep forgetting to sit down and do an actual sign up, so expect that later. I'll be playing as Emmett.

Edited September 27, 2025 by A Jo in the Bush

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

Because idk whats happening, I will include just one sign-up for Aman's ease. Aman, I have decided I wish to be a cracked aetherbound, just to ease your overworked mind!

Spoiler

Sozar was exited to finally be on ship! He could sail the 12 seas, as they say. He just had to stop thinking about what was under his glove. He would just tell everyone he keeps it on because of an accident, nothing special. Because it was technically an accident. He was just happy to be back with rosite ath-spores. Rosite spores. He loved his-he needs to stop thinking about this. He has studied spore science on this planet similar to his home, and wishes to learn more about Sunlight spores. And now he is ready to join the ship! He will join as a Novice, Aprentice, or Master, with hopes of leaving as an expert!

also, how many actions are you allowed to do in a day/night? I would assume 1, but if you could do 2, or something, that would change things...

[Amanuensis he/him]

2 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Because idk whats happening, I will include just one sign-up for Aman's ease. Aman, I have decided I wish to be a cracked aetherbound, just to ease your overworked mind!

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Sozar was exited to finally be on ship! He could sail the 12 seas, as they say. He just had to stop thinking about what was under his glove. He would just tell everyone he keeps it on because of an accident, nothing special. Because it was technically an accident. He was just happy to be back with rosite ath-spores. Rosite spores. He loved his-he needs to stop thinking about this. He has studied spore science on this planet similar to his home, and wishes to learn more about Sunlight spores. And now he is ready to join the ship! He will join as a Novice, Aprentice, or Master, with hopes of leaving as an expert!

also, how many actions are you allowed to do in a day/night? I would assume 1, but if you could do 2, or something, that would change things...

Sorry brother, I forgor to address you too when I was writing my post last night.

This works, I appreciate your interest in the concept and will accommodate.

As for the action economy

- Every Day, players can pick 3 of the available spore types. If they do not succeed in getting any or fail to submit an action, they get Zephyr. This does not count as an action. This means at the very least, you'll always be able to get a PM going by N2

- Every Day and Night, players get a single action to either Prepare or Sprout, with the Study action being available during the Night only. If you use an action on another player during the Day, no one is in their cabin and thus you don't need to worry about whether or not they are currently targetable. Anyone who Studies or Prepares during the night is effectively immune to night actions that require them leaving their cabin.

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

1 hour ago, Amanuensis said:

Sorry brother, I forgor to address you too when I was writing my post last night.

This works, I appreciate your interest in the concept and will accommodate.

As for the action economy

- Every Day, players can pick 3 of the available spore types. If they do not succeed in getting any or fail to submit an action, they get Zephyr. This does not count as an action. This means at the very least, you'll always be able to get a PM going by N2

- Every Day and Night, players get a single action to either Prepare or Sprout, with the Study action being available during the Night only. If you use an action on another player during the Day, no one is in their cabin and thus you don't need to worry about whether or not they are currently targetable. Anyone who Studies or Prepares during the night is effectively immune to night actions that require them leaving their cabin.

Tis fine. But can I, say, Prepare 2 times during the day? Maye Sprout and Study at night? Or is it one action per cycle?

[Amanuensis he/him]

3 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Tis fine. But can I, say, Prepare 2 times during the day? Maye Sprout and Study at night? Or is it one action per cycle?

It's one action per turn (1 Day Action, 1 Night Action), i.e. two per cycle.

Edited September 28, 2025 by Amanuensis

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

40 minutes ago, Amanuensis said:

It's one action per turn (1 Day Action, 1 Night Action), i.e. two per cycle.

Mmmmm ok. Also could you add my name as Sozar in the players part?

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

2 hours ago, Amanuensis said:

It's one action per turn (1 Day Action, 1 Night Action), i.e. two per cycle.

1 hour ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Mmmmm ok. Also could you add my name as Sozar in the players part?

And me as Shifter, please

[Doc12]

I've been hesitating to join because I started a new job, so I probably won't be consistently hitting 5/10 posts a day, but heck, I love the setting and an Aman game.

I'll play as... Braid, of the Ruby Sea

[Amanuensis he/him]

16 hours ago, Doc12 said:

I've been hesitating to join because I started a new job, so I probably won't be consistently hitting 5/10 posts a day, but heck, I love the setting and an Aman game.

I'll play as... Braid, of the Ruby Sea

Welcome aboard, friend! Happy to have you. I will say that you can technically do 5 posts (half discussion, half RP) over the course of 72 hours for the max earnings, but I do think with the addition of a Day Action, ranking up should be a little friendlier / less of a min-max thing.

Out of curiosity, what differentiates the Ruby Sea from the Crimson Sea? I've been trying to theorize the other 6 Lunagrees but it's tough

Edited September 30, 2025 by Amanuensis

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

1 hour ago, Amanuensis said:

Welcome aboard, friend! Happy to have you. I will say that you can technically do 5 posts (half discussion, half RP) over the course of 72 hours for the max earnings, but I do think with the addition of a Day Action, ranking up should be a little friendlier / less of a min-max thing.

Out of curiosity, what differentiates the Ruby Sea from the Crimson Sea? I've been trying to theorize the other 6 Lunagrees but it's tough

Lunagrees?

[Doc12]

2 hours ago, Amanuensis said:

Welcome aboard, friend! Happy to have you. I will say that you can technically do 5 posts (half discussion, half RP) over the course of 72 hours for the max earnings, but I do think with the addition of a Day Action, ranking up should be a little friendlier / less of a min-max thing.

Out of curiosity, what differentiates the Ruby Sea from the Crimson Sea? I've been trying to theorize the other 6 Lunagrees but it's tough

Oh it's the Crimson sea, I was just riffing off Tress' title where it's "(Hair term) of the (gem-named sea)".

Braid is hoping to learn to reliably weaponize Crimson spores

Edited September 30, 2025 by Doc12

[STINK he/him]

Hello I thought today was Monday for some reason how's it going turns out it's not Monday

I would like to sign up as Roberto for now please good GM 

[Amanuensis he/him]

On 9/30/2025 at 11:21 AM, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Lunagrees?

The waterfall of spores that cascades from the moons; I had used the term wrong but get that now

On 9/30/2025 at 12:36 PM, Doc12 said:

Oh it's the Crimson sea, I was just riffing off Tress' title where it's "(Hair term) of the (gem-named sea)".

Braid is hoping to learn to reliably weaponize Crimson spores

TBH I was double checking the crystal Soulcasting elements to see if I could figure it out; thought Ruby ones might possibly be incendiary / explosive a la "Spark" so all good either way

20 hours ago, STINK said:

Hello I thought today was Monday for some reason how's it going turns out it's not Monday

I would like to sign up as Roberto for now please good GM 

Gotcha. Welcome aboard, friendo o7

 

I am in the process of finishing my Tress reread so I can feel satisfied with the flavor / setting. I am probably going to need to do turnovers at 10 PM EST, as most of the days I work are 1-9 PM. As such, I will probably start the game at that same time tonight, however I might drop the turn a few hours early if I manage to finish everything before then

Edited October 1, 2025 by Amanuensis

[Amanuensis he/him]

I will close sign ups for any last minute stragglers at 9 PM EST (1 hour and 50 minutes from now). @IcedOutPenguin do you have a character name?

Edited October 2, 2025 by Amanuensis

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

5 minutes ago, Amanuensis said:

I will close sign ups for any last minute stragglers at 9 PM PST (1 hour and 50 minutes from now). @IcedOutPenguin do you have a character name?

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