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Do you mind if I take Brisbane? Renamed: Riftbane Do you want to rename Australia itself? That could make the thread look a bit more unique. Wastralia, Darkstralia, Ruinstralia... or maybe just The Wastelands. And does anyone else think it would be cool to have groups of road bandits running around the desert a la Mad Max?

A fire Epic, but not like Scorch. He has a bit more finesse. Basically, he shoots streams of it from his palms, and can summon fireballs in the displaced air he makes when he moves suddenly (ie. he can punch someone and have his fist be all fire-y a la Mortal Kombat.) I still haven't decided on a personality (goofy or determined) or a name, but I will within the next few hours. Is it the same kind of black magic that flips the seasons around and turns the ground underneath kangaroos into trampolines?Or that makes people think vegemite tastes good?

In that case, is there anyone who still has a fight to do? If not, I'd like to introduce a character real quick and then maybe we can move on to late afternoon? And what is it that possesses you Australians to go to sleep at 7 AM? Are you nocturnal or something?

Does all of this work on other Epics? And to what extent?

Is anyone else thinking about how good some of our characters would be at setting up Halloween displays?

So the reason I haven't moved on yet is because I'm not sure if everyone has posted actions yet. I've seen some RPing that could count as actions, but there's also a lot of stuff that seems implied but not definitively stated. Despite what I said earlier, it would probably be easiest if we just had everybody declare their definitive actions in the group PM to make sure we can keep track of everything. Anyway, so far I have: -Kady scouting the plantation (right?) (we'll do a Wits challenge of 2, with each level of Outcome representing the amount of information gained) -Unodus disguising the cave entrance (Another Wits challenge, this time of 1, which represents how much time has been gained.) -Kammemerite buying cloth and tools (I initially misinterpreted your actions as looting the caravan, but yes, that's a Resource 2 roll) -Edgedancer finding a body to impersonate (?) -Maill establishing himself as a noble (?) The length of this beat is one night, by the way.

I'm actually just going to let this one through, no roll required. So is there anyone who hasn't posted an action yet?

And all we have to show for it is this.

Little known Epic? Newspaper Spiderman?

I'm aware. Modern philosophy does pretty much assume the absence of a Supreme Being, however. And yeah, I'm ready to move on. Has anyone not seen the new Star Wars trailer yet?

I don't have a problem finding meaning. All of the "speculative philosophy is a sham" people from the 20th century based their arguments on the idea that God was dead. Well, I sort of reject that premise, because the existence of a supreme being can't really be disproven. The answers to "Who are we?", "Where did we come from?", and "Where are we going?" exist in theology if they exist at all. The problem I is that I know that I can't decide if I have a good reason to believe or not. I'm pretty sure most people can relate to that.

Electro's origin story and voice sort of bugged me, and so did the scene in the clock tower (gears. eh. We all know how this ends. You don't need to draw it out. ) But overall, it was good, yes. I think the main reason it didn't do well was that the public was against Sony for not putting Spiderman in the MCU yet. And here: Link. And here's another link. To Link! I must still be sort of loopy... The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was also very good. Imean, it was slow (and 4 hours!) but awesome. That's about all I can describe it as. I think Venom is a great villain. The things we had to do to get to venom, though... Terrible, terrible things. Think of the children! I think the general consensus is that Toby Maguire plays a much better Peter Parker, and Andrew Garfield plays a much better Spiderman. My main complaint with the 2000's movies was MJ screaming. It's so annoying and she does it all the time. Do real people in real danger actually do that? Imean, really, people. Nope. I was introduced to existentialism back in my senior year in High School. Pretty much every novel we read in English was tagged as "existentialist," though Waiting for Godot was the most blatant of them. Basically, the central idea of that play is that we always want to change ourselves, but we never do. We just sort of do the same thing every day and fret about the future. Routine is a tool we use to dodge our existential dread, because it's a drive. We just sort of push ourselves forward to go to work or school or whatever and that keeps us going long enough to get to the next day, in which we do the same thing again. Well, yeah. That's called religion. Philosophy sort of exists in a vacuum where it's taboo to venture into the non-objective world of theology, but I think religion makes a lot of sense, existentially. The only question is whether or not God is actually real. Imean, hey, I'm a practicing LDS. Being mormon centers around the idea of building a "testimony," or in other words, the "warm-and-fuzzy" feeling you get when you do something good is the Light of Christ acting upon our lives, and so by letting that feeling testify that God is with you and therefore _____-that-you're-thinking is true, you can be more and more sure of the church's truth as a whole. I (not to be a jerk or anything. I'm literally just stating my thought process) am pretty darn sure that mormonism is true. It's not just that I got a pretty undeniable (it seems to me) testimony of patriarchal blessings, it's a whole bunch of stories I've heard growing up in an LDS environment. I've heard mission stories, miracle stories, and even ghost stories, mostly from the people who experienced them themselves or from a my-friend perspective. All of this could make me pretty confident in stating that LDS-ism is the way, but here's the rub about religion: Everyone else is pretty darn sure that their's is true, too! This thought drives me crazy! You've got Born-Again Christians and ISIS and whatever-Kaymyth-is who will swear that they hold the truth. And about 1 in 40 of these people (probably) are INTJ's just like me, who probably try to desperately assemble some sort of evidence dossier just like me in order to ward off their nihilistic angst. I feel as if I'm dying in a sea of objectivity. It's impossible to escape these sorts of thoughts if you look at it logically... Mormonism has a way out of this, I suppose, in that we say that the Light of Christ isn't unique to us. Other people can feel it too when they're doing good or feeling humble and are therefore closer to God. This has led me to this conclusion. Either I am right, or no one is. Fortunately, if no one is right and we just rot in the ground after we die, I would have absolutely no way of knowing that because I'd be rotting in the ground and all experience would have ended. Quantum Afterlife. So there. Of course, if all experience ends, life is meaningless. Happiness does not matter. The survival of the human race does not matter. I do not matter. Therefore, I should just kill myself and get it over with, correct? No point struggling against my own incompetency (as an INTJ I base my self worth on internal growth) or going to college or anything.

So I just found a few full-length movies posted on Youtube, and even though watching them is probably illegal somehow, I did it anyway. I saw "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (actually pretty good) and the 2014 Spiderman 2 (also pretty good, despite what I've heard.) I also stayed up all night. Despite what you guys have said, I think being sleep-deprived is actually pretty fun. My movements get all jerk-y and I stare at food for some reason and I can feel the inhibition-y parts of my brain shutting down and I feel sort of shiver-y. Unfortunately, it also opens the door for me to think about the soul-crushing nihilism that I usually manage to bury with my routines and video games and theology and stuff.

I suppose so.

A few hours. He doesn't have the stunt that makes the process go faster.

-There's one unit about 5 kilometers south, on the northern coast of South Seran. There's a cove out there where they operate some ships. Another is about 7 kilometers east, and it's growing a little bit too big to support itself on its own, which is why you were assigned to help. -You've met with both of the leaders of these units, and they seem more like bandits than rebels. They will, however, answer the call for reinforcements if it comes from a higher authority, or if you can provide some incentives. The unit to the east is happy you exist, but the one to the south is afraid you're going to cut into their profits (understandable, since that's their main source of metal and money.) -No one in your unit has authority to command them, but you can try to convince them to help. -Klerg is content to let the plantation exist. Attacking it would probably be costly, and there'd be plenty of shipments of grain and metals to raid, as well as slaves to acquire (his fields are tilled by captured skaa, and a few nobles whose families couldn't pay the ransom.) Klerg's family has lived as bandits in the burnlands for as long as he can remember, so he's used to shifting tides of power. He'd also be open to bribery, however. Both are fine, now that I think of it. Just highlight your specific action in blue.

Here's a game: How many different questions can you come up with that are essentially asking "is Reckoners Cosmere?" This could be done.

Learning about troop numbers, the names of the nobles who are living there, etc. is based on actions. Basic geography and stuff that your characters could easily observe, though, you can just ask. I edited in a little bit of backstory, so the post makes more sense.

Alright. I posted the current heroes' profiles on the front page. Here's our first prompting (I'm not all that great of a writer, and it's written in 3rd person omniscient in the present tense, but I hope it's still readable): --- Backstory: The setting sun silhouettes the estate against the harsh eastern landscape as Denpai, Kady, Ruseed, Arsenowick, and Wilor peek their heads over the ridge. The estate, newly built on the eastern side of the Seran Lakes, is more than a financial enterprise, it's a challenge. A challenge to the bandit groups occupying the salt flats in the far Eastern Dominance. We can build this here. Our soldiers and fortifications allow us to spread the Empire's influence even to these untamed lands. Eventually, we'll conquer the whole of the known world. The threat is more immediate than that to these rebels. One of the exits to the bands' hideout is located near the site of the building, and it's only a matter of time before some taskmaster ventures deeper into the cave and finds the 23 would-be revolutionaries encamped within.

A good and healthy fear.

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Am I the only one who laughs uncontrollably at the image of septillions of moles being pulled together by gravity into a pile of boiling meat particles? I hope not, for my own sake.

I was hoping to get a better idea of what people wanted to play. So far, I'm pretty sure I've only got one opinion on the starting region and crew concept.

Corpsemaker did always strike me as a better ruler than the other two major Portlanders. I wouldn't count Funtimes out just yet, though. It's hard to get a bead on her sometimes, but if she were Portland's dominant Epic, I actually think things would run rather smoothly. Funtimes isn't a fan of slaughter, for one. ATTD Epics would be reprimanded or killed for attacking her "friends." The grid would go back up and any starvation would be countered with showers of rainbow pancakes... basically, resource problems wouldn't be an issue. Funtimes wouldn't bother administrating anything (she is completely nuts, after all) but I could see other people who are actually interested stepping in to do that. The woman's "job" would basically be to run around the city doing whatever she wants, with the concept of her being in charge keeping the city together in the face of instability. The biggest problem with Epic rulers is that... well, they're just horrible people who mess everything up with their evilness. Funtimes keeping the city stable but not much else otherwise is pretty much the best case for leadership among our characters.

Alright then. So who's playing and is still unclear on the rules?