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Bifauxnen posted:Or an elf named Glangwen Ogg, why copy the character exactly when we can go for higher magic stats and demolish elvish stereotypes! This.
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# ? Jan 13, 2021 00:24 |
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Ugh, fine. Just as long as you all spit and touch iron.
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Bifauxnen posted:Or an elf named Glangwen Ogg, why copy the character exactly when we can go for higher magic stats and demolish elvish stereotypes! This, but I hope we can choose to be an elven crone or it's a no deal
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We can headcanon her into having a snaggle-tooth if the thread likes. The elven crone Glangwen Ogg is born. Time for the most probing inn check-in Glangwen has likely ever experienced. Evertree posted:"Glangwen Ogg, can you tell me your sexual preference, please?" Surprisingly, based on the character, I do think there's an in universe reason that she asks this question, but whether we discover it or not remains to be seen. She also wants to know if we're packing heat. Evertree posted:Mrs. Dupree narrows her eyes at you for some reason as she scrawls your answer into her book. Her eyes flick to the quiver on your back and she asks, "And are you carrying any weapons with you today?" Every one of these weapons changes our stats somewhat with one positive and one negative shift, except for the write in which keeps things constant, but does allow you to wield frying pans and similar as effectively as a longsword.
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# ? Jan 13, 2021 12:53 |
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No preference on the preference question, but I would like to suggest we take a wizard's staff which, as per the song, has a knob on the end
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# ? Jan 13, 2021 13:03 |
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Young Glangwen Ogg certainly has an open view about the stuff. There's probably a recipe somewhere written with a related pun. 3 A Magical Staff is more of a wizard thing, but I guess I'll allow it. I don't see Glangwen wrestling bad people. 3
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Fat Samurai posted:Young Glangwen Ogg certainly has an open view about the stuff. There's probably a recipe somewhere written with a related pun. 3 Seconding this.
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CountryMatters posted:we take a wizard's staff which, as per the song, has a knob on the end Can confirm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACQLpBEwAzc
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Our banjo is feared throughout the lands, for good reason.
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Honestly, whatever choice that leads to us finding out why an innkeeper would ask about their customer's sexual orientation. I'm intrigued. Also, keeping with the witch theme, the
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limeicebreakers posted:Honestly, whatever choice that leads to us finding out why an innkeeper would ask about their customer's sexual orientation. I'm intrigued. It's never explicitly stated, but you can put together a convincing theory based on certain clues that you can gather, or not, later in the game. If we don't find the required stuff in this playthrough, I'll explain my theory at the end.
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I don't think this is going to change, so I'll put this update up now before I go to bed. Glanwyn carries a witches staff (knob optional) and has a decidedly open view about the ol' hanky-panky. Interestingly, if you say you're not interested in hanky-panky, Laisa likes you more, and then the game asks if you're lying. If you say yes, you can then still choose a preference, otherwise you stay as ace. Evertree posted:"Just so long as you don't use it on the premises." Evertree posted:You find yourself reflecting on the road that brought you to this moment. Unsurprisingly, this choice changes your stats, with the 1 giving you more magic, 2 giving you more guile, 3 giving you more combat and 4 giving you more perception, but it also sets the place you grew up, which is quite important across the series. This choice is followed by a second choice about what you did in that place, which lets you increase another stat or the same stat further, and sets your career goal. As you all seems to have a pretty defined idea of the character you want to make, I'm going to do this next bit a bit differently than the CYOA does and give you some text from a book you can acquire in Sordwin which has sections on each of the locations, so that you can have a bit more context on the impacts of the choice. If you're gifted in magic you grew up in Tyr. Sordwin posted:The sigil: A Wand and Parchment. If you're a criminal you grew up in Blackstone. Sordwin posted:The sigil: A Black Watchtower. If you're an athlete you grew up in Veyawin. Sordwin posted:The sigil: Two Crossed Swords. And the survivalists grew up in the village of Flom in the Southern Plains. Sordwin posted:The villages in the south range from moderate settlements down to small collections of makeshift homes surrounding watering holes. There is very little to recommend these areas in terms of tourism and trade, but they have many traditions, particularly that of shamanism, a practice which stretches back centuries. Because of the wilderness of the southern plains, villages there have a higher population of half-orcs and brownies than the cities of the north.
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Magic.
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I think gifted in magic is probably the closest fit.
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Harsh Conditions so we can go for a druid/shaman/hedge witch thing
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Slaan posted:Harsh Conditions so we can go for a druid/shaman/hedge witch thing
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Gifted in Magic
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Slaan posted:Harsh Conditions so we can go for a druid/shaman/hedge witch thing
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# ? Jan 13, 2021 23:43 |
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We are an elf carrying around a wizard staff. We’re clearly gifted in magic. That also means we “have a reputation for being flamboyant” which hell yes we do!
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We fought the law in Blackstone. Edit: if this is outvoted I'd prefer harsh conditions. That Italian Guy fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Jan 14, 2021 |
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Let's stir Nanny Ogg up a little. Maybe the harsh conditions taught her practical skills, like making poultrices and carving staves from bark.
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I don't see "Have a huge information network via gossip and a small army of extended family", so I guess we'll settle for Magic
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We seem to have a tie between harsh conditions and magic, so the next vote decides it, then I'll put the update up.
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Harsh conditions
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Flom it is!Evertree posted:The village of Flom was barely even a village at all, more a small collection of makeshift homes on a vast plain in the middle of nowhere. It was out there in the wild that you learned how to live with nature rather than against it. For you and your people, attunement to the environment was a necessity of survival. You had become a keen observer and a patient hunter, but you couldn't hide your desire for something more. Every starting location has its own set of careers. Here's the Flom set. Given what's been said already, I'm assuming we're going shaman, and I'll go forward with that choice, but if people like any of the other options more we can retcon. Evertree posted:It was an ancient tradition in the village, perhaps a dying art, but you had always hoped to follow in the footsteps of your town elders. You spent many hours in deep trances, going out into the plains to meditate among the beasts, and your endeavors did not go unnoticed. You were due to start studying with the elders as soon as you came of age… Evertree posted:And then, the fire happened. Technically we can't see our stats for another two choices, but we actually have a statblock now. Here it is: Stats posted:Character Our magic stat might seem quite low, but we'll have plenty of opportunity to send it into the stratosphere as we go forwards. CottonWolf fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Jan 14, 2021 |
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I confirm shaman would get my choice and we ran to save our
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That Italian Guy posted:I confirm shaman would get my choice and we ran to save our
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That Italian Guy posted:I confirm shaman would get my choice and we ran to save our Bandwagon ahoy.
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That Italian Guy posted:I confirm shaman would get my choice and we ran to save our
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That Italian Guy posted:I confirm shaman would get my choice and we ran to save our Sure, why not?
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That looks like a consensus to me. Your career goal is a minor part of Evertree and Sordwin, apart from the stat changes. It takes a more important narrative role in Lux, which perhaps we'll see at some point.Evertree posted:You had always been closest to your sister. She was the light of your life, always smiling, but when you found her she could not have been more different. You never manage to save the family member you try to. If you try to save your sister, your father suvives, as we can see. If you try to save your father your sister survives. If you try to save your mother, your brother survives and if your brother, your mother. This leaves us with one last question in character creation before we can begin the game proper. Evertree posted:After that you had to give up on your old plans. Your father had survived but his injuries had left him unable to walk and so it fell to you to take care of him. You could no longer go off chasing your dreams, and though you missed your little sister more than you could say, there was no time to grieve. You had to step up and become responsible. You had lost everything in the fire, and without any other relatives, you were out on the streets with no money and no shelter. You spent a gruelling two years doing whatever it took to survive, many things of which you were not proud. You began to build some sort of a life among the poor of Flom until finally an opportunity came your way, a chance to escape the poverty and perhaps get back the life you had wanted before the fire. As of the last choice, we now also have a backstory. Evertree posted:Backstory CottonWolf fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Jan 14, 2021 |
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I would like to become a magical shamanistic pirate (3) although I'm fine with a magical scholarship (2) as a backup.
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But have you considered using totems to beat the wealth out of rich fucks real sneaky-like ?
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Why not all? Get a magical scholarship so we can be a wizard bodyguard to a pirate stealing from rich snobs Scholarship
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So, did we just abandon our poor, lame father to go off and have an adventure? Anyway, Magic
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Fat Samurai posted:So, did we just abandon our poor, lame father to go off and have an adventure?
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I've been checking the free version on the web and I expect Laisa to be scandalised with the amount of hanky, and sometimes panky, going on on her establishment.
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Fat Samurai posted:So, did we just abandon our poor, lame father to go off and have an adventure? we used shaman magic to heal him so voting more magic
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Magic solves everything, and with that chargen is complete.Evertree posted:The merchant lord Luca Imperion was offering vast sums of money to any mages who would come to work for him as researchers into new magical techniques. The exact nature of the work was vague, but the pay was excellent and the chance to improve your own magical understanding was too good an offer to pass up. The journey to Lux would not be an easy one, however, and so, leaving your father back in Flom in the safe hands of a few trusted friends, you packed your bags and set out to turn your life around… Evertree posted:"Ma'am?" Evertree posted:"Ah! Let me get you a map, that will be easier," She reaches for a box that must have once contained maps but is now empty. We can ask as many or as few of these questions as we like, so vote for the ones you want me to ask and any that get over 50% of people asking for, I'll ask. A couple of them have follow ups, so if we ask those, I'll put it back to you to see if you want to ask any of those. This isn't the kind of game where you want to ask everything, because if you think asking a specific question to a person will make them like you less, it probably will. There's one last out-of-game LP question that I need to ask at this point. Do you want me to ask the questions we've decided on in the mechanically optimal order for us figuring things out, or do you want me to do it in the order of votes? Either way, I can also explain how the mechanically optimal order would have been/was better. From this point on, now we've finished chargen, I'll be dropping the rate of updates to one every one to two days rather than a couple a day. But they'll have more mechanical detail, and I'll start showing the stat changes from each of our choices, even though the game doesn't explicitly. I will only update our statblock at the end of conversations though, because, due to follow ups, a lot of the updates will correspond to points that don't actually exist in game because you have to have asked some other questions before you can get there. Fat Samurai posted:I've been checking the free version on the web and I expect Laisa to be scandalised with the amount of hanky, and sometimes panky, going on on her establishment. Hah. If you've got to chapter 2, you'll see that that chapter specifically is going to be tricky to LP. I've been trying to work to what's the best way to handle it. We'll see how it goes. Anyway, if anyone else is interested in trying out the demo, it's available here. CottonWolf fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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I'd like you to ask questions 5, 2 and 4. Regarding the order, I would like an explanation on what the mechanical effect would be (I guess certain questions may change how much the person we're talking with likes us? and maybe we can offend someone enough to make them not want to talk to us anymore?)
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