#anvices

So explaining first things around the immediate time of when the campaign ended

The Tiefling Kid situation was essentially a sort of possesed by a “sleeper agent” spirit for almost entire life, part of a plan by Peuchin the Deciever (who is a different plot point that arose from something Hunter made)

Basically the entire thing around that time period was that asshole and The Black Rose working together to lead to people that they want dead anyway to do the dangerous task of unleashing the 72 demon lords from that one book thing. The desire was to basically ramp up rampant destruction and chaos, making the people of the world more desperate in many ways. Pechuin wished to gain power and a following, taking a sort of approach similar to what happened with Kohanea and The Blade Commander, basically becoming a vessel of faith of a new god, gaining that faiths power so that Pechuin could free themself and the other 2 horror beasts from the island the Akero temple was on.

This in it of itself was an idea given to Pechuin by Flagg, basically in a context of him approaching them and giving enough info for pechuin to come to the that conclusion.

Flaggs end goal is basically a world reset, one way or another. This is what he tried to do with The Colossus, and what he succeeded to do with when the ritual went awry the first time.

The ritual going awry was actually the result of Flagg manipulating the Archangel. The Archangel, like any angels that were once in Anvices, was a planeshifted being who ended up being trapped on Anvices and wished to return to Aasidesh. At the time, she was desperate, and Flagg gave her a solution. His explanation was basically that as the ritual drew all the magic and spirits out of this world and poured it into Aasidesh, she should be able to go through as well. Turns out, that was wrong, and almost all sapient life on the planet died instead. The Archangel isolated herself in the Moon for the next... very long time, as civilization started to develop. When she saw civilization return to Anvices, she saw this as a second chance, to make good for her incredibly massive fuck up, and basically was a paragon of goodness, peace, health, all that. 

While in the moon though she did have time to develop things and make shit and all, so theres some infrastructure there, and a series of constructs that she had made (she did enter a world that had technologically ripped open the space between worlds so she had a lot of material to salvage)

Also as it should become apparent from this info, the Archangel Island was The Moon. This is why the elves were investigating the moon, and kidnapped Arianna to try and find out HOW to get to it without having to take the space travel route. The rocket system development, based on old elven weapon plans from the collossus, was an effort to reach the moon. Archie’s investigation of the moon and rockets was for the same purpose, as they found out about it as well. Kha agents eventually intercepted enough information to understand that the elves wanted to reach the moon, thoguh they didn’t know the context, but they and the humans were going to be entering the space race.

The Merfolk place where Arianna was going to be in basically was the nearest location of an enchanted closet that acted as a teleportation spell to the moon, she was trying to reach the Archangel. There are few of these transports, and one is here because of the interesting case of a merfolk priest who is a devout supporter of the Archangel and on the same level as Arianna, though his existance isnt shared to human followers because potential societal implications. 

And because I dont want to go into full detail RN bc im just a bit tired, I will leave this portion with saying that in my notes the term “SQUATCHES ARE A UNIVERSAL CONSTANT” was arch defining

Hey 13th age folks, I have a big thing to say, and honestly I dont think any of you will be surprised by this given how recent things have gone.

So ive gotten a bit disenchanted with DMing the 13th age campaign. I fucked up shit early on IRT pacing and it STILL is haunting me and just really making things feel weird and stressful and makes DMing more overwhelming more often. 

I am not cancelling it of coz bc 1. I started this (well I mean technically I didnt lol) so im gonna finish it and 2. I still enjoy DOING it a lot of the time, just planning gets really stressful.

So, the result of this is that I might try ramping up the pace of things a bit. Theres a lot of story I want to get through, and maybe if I do that I will be able to get past the mistakes ive made and give myself less time to pull a hussie and needlessly complicate things by thinking of new ideas for plot halfway between things. 

What this means for you? Not entirely too much. The main thing I am going to TRY and do is to make combat be much more “Swingy”, glass cannon style. Keeping fights to under an hour seems like a good goal to reach for, and I feel a good way to do this is to make enemies easier to kill, but increase the threat by making them do more damage. So, don’t be entirely surprised if theres an enemy that gets close to oneshotting you sometime soon. An exception exists for a few particular battles in mind, namely any major “Boss Battles” that are WORTH over an hour, and would attempt to be interlaced with more narration and a dynamic setting. Ex. If you ended up fighting say, Big Dire Wolf, THAT would be a fight that could take longer, and would probably happen over a dynamic setting to maintain interest.

I made a horrible mistake when I started this (not the starting of it, just starting it how I did), and it really fucked everything up, and I feel like if I want this to feel right, I am going to need to ramp things up, make things have larger immediate splashes instead of having long term plans for 15 sessions down the road like I kept on doing before. Some of these were fine, like Perf Gal’s vengance that came over a year after she died. But a few other things, like Nihahn’s Amulet, details of the Civil war, the intensifying effect of the positive feedback loop of spiritual power, whatever the fuck is happening with chobanni, and the armor subquest. And now the 72 demon lords from Earthworm Jerrys Tubular Tunnels. ALL of these have been taking WAY too long to work out and the way I tried to set up the campaign simply does not work entirely the best with this. A session that I wanted to be happening around now probably wont happen for at least another month, THATS the type of pacing problems that I am running into.

Idk if this post went through so ill do it again

@autisticnarset @clothinthesand @slagethor @ i still dont remember kotas URL im sorry @malachiteosprey

I found out something that I thought was happening next week saturday is actually happening this week sunday. it starts... at 4... and you have to be there at the start. This event is hella important and hella cool so I am sorry but i’m gonna have to cancel sunday :(

they are semi-migratory, but bound to specific regions. They are rare as they were a tribute system used by Gods well before the time of Kaventor’s independence, working to Gods of VERY early elves. 

The one you met last time that demanded tribute for Girem, a supposed god of manslaughter and bloodshed.

So I have an idea for Icon Dice.

Roll at a start of a session. 6′s mean you can use ONE die to pull off stupid BS. Other 6s and the 5′s go into a pool at the end. From that pool, you can get “tokens” to give smaller benefits and can be cashed in at any time. For example, spend one to get advantage on a roll, or to automatically save, etc etc.

Ways to get the points from the pool would be:

1. Good, Great, In character Roleplaying, or acting out good player development moments. Ex. Cassandra intercepting an attack on a citizen even though she was at low health would be very in character, a detrimental risk that was taken to stay honest to the character instead of mechanics. Kelin doing something horrible without asking the party if its a good idea that ends up making something go incredibly wrong (caveat this doesnt mean do chaos everywhere bc thatd just ruin some things)

2. Good Explanations or Outthinking the GM

Examples of this would be like that one time you guys thought of a super cool solution to a puzzle that I didnt even think of being interpreted, or when you called out the merfolk on their logic not being so hot last session (tho that would have also been a good in character moment for faye rgardless lol)

3. Creative Interaction with the setting

Example: Thinking of a good Magitech creation after finding components in Archie’s wagon, thinking of ways that how spirits mechanically work could lead to certain things

tl;dr dice go into a pool of tokens to be earned that is emptied at the end of session. Doing really cool shit in the session can let you win your tokens.