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Mid-March Thoughts on Arc Assignments

An update on the status of the Arcs.

Immortal Bindings - Gatekeeper (rough draft: part 1, part 2, part 3) Frantic Bindings - Gatecrasher (rough draft, as “Specialist”: here.) Sickly Bindings - Wounded Angel (part 1, part 2, part 3)

Immortal Knight - Allegory (rough draft: here.) Frantic Knight - Become Somebody (part 1, part 2) Sickly Knight - Star Quality (rough draft: part 1, part 2, part 3)

Immortal Otherworldly - Child of the Ash (part 1, part 2, part 3) Frantic Otherworldly - Spiritual (here) Sickly Otherworldly - Called Away (rough draft: here.)

Immortal Storyteller - Creature of the Light (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) Frantic Storyteller - Creature of Fable (part 1, part 2, part 3) Sickly Storyteller - Creature of Delirium (rough draft, as “Alchemist”: 1, 2, 3, 4.)

Immortal Aspect - Chosen One (rough draft, as “Magical Hero”: 1, 2, 3, 4.) Frantic Aspect - the Ace (part 1, part 2, part 3) Sickly Aspect - Reality Syndrome (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5)

Immortal Shepherd - A Keeper of Gardens (part 1, part 2, part 3) Frantic Shepherd - Sentimental (part 1, part 2, part 3) Sickly Shepherd - Impresario (rough draft, as “Self-Made”: 1, 2, 3, 4.)

Immortal Emptiness - Indomitable (rough draft: part 1, part 2.) Frantic Emptiness - Troubled (rough draft, as “Renegade”: 1, 2, 3, 4.) Sickly Emptiness - Accursed (part 1, part 2, part 3)

Immortal Mystic - Primordial (part óynos, part dwóh, part tréyes, part kʷetwṓr) Frantic Mystic - Prophet (rough draft: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) Sickly Mystic - Awakening (substantial overlap with “Visionary”: 1, 2, 3.)

The previous version of this post was here; an earlier post, with more of the underlying reasoning, is here.

Changes

As I discussed a while back, I think the Magisters of the Dark have “Prophet” instead of “Spiritual.” At the time, I was uncertain; eventually, I wound up committing.

Recently, while pondering the Arc set for Senyaza nephilim, it occurred to me that Actuals probably don’t need Creature of Delirium. Awakening covers the soul/body/mind theft that they’d need to do. A few rare Actuals will really miss the shapeshifting or magical girl transformations but … not all that many?

Trying to figure out what they actually have is a little harder.

Allegory has a lot of points in common but Actuals just aren’t allegorical.

The Ace is sort of half-right too; Actuals are randomly good at things, but they don’t feel right as super-competent beings.

Reality Syndrome works very well indeed except that it requires them to be training weird power sets, and the idea of Seizhi or Lilimund training to run (e.g.) the Wish-Granting Engine has some niche-protection issues. Let’s call that plan B, even though we don’t know plan A yet.

A Keeper of Gardens fits some of them but clearly not all; Awakening probably covers what we need there.

Impresario is pretty solid: it’s for characters from a strange place with a desperate need, and while none of its powers are actually perfect for Seizhi, Lilimund, or for that matter Senyaza nephilim, they’re all things that could be used in cool ways by any of them. Only the connotations of mastermindery are off here.

I really wanted Indomitable but don’t have a great justification for it.

So I think the conclusion is that they have Impresario (or maaybe Reality Syndrome, but I’m betting Impresario.)

The last change I’m making is switching out “Knave of Hearts” for “Star Quality” since Knave of Hearts is probably too specific a name.

Character Types

Angels

Chosen One

Gatekeeper

Creature of the Light

A Keeper of Gardens

Example Characters:Jade Irinka

Fallen Angels

Reality Syndrome

Wounded Angel

Allegory

Creature of the Light

Example Characters: Leonardo de Montreal before the Bleak Academy, the Mystery “Hoop Snake” (deduction from mechanical similarity.)

Aaron’s Serpents

Child of the Ash

Called Away

Reality Syndrome

Allegory

Example Characters: Chuubo, Sal Caesar (sort of), the Mystery “Typhon” (deduction from snakiness).

Magisters of the Light

Creature of the Light

A Keeper of Gardens

Awakening

Impresario

Example Characters: Principal Entropy, the Mystery “Harpy” (by mechanical similarity.)

Magisters of the Dark

Creature of Fable

Prophet

Indomitable

Called Away

Example Characters: John Wicked, the Mystery Goblin (by mechanical similarity), Rinley Yatskaya

Magisters of the Wild

Allegory

Indomitable

Primordial

Star Quality

Example Characters: the Mysteries “King Death” and “the Witch of the Far Roofs,” Zoe Rosewood (by mechanical similarity)

Divine Imperators

Child of the Ash

Primordial

Called Away

Awakening

Example Characters:Jasper Irinka

Actuals

Become Somebody

Gatecrasher

Impresario

Awakening

Example Characters: Billy Sovereign, Seizhi Schwan, Lilimund? (argument by mechanical similarity and direct relationship.)

Warmains

Creature of Fable

Indomitable

Allegory

Impresario

I never fully cleared up my confusion about which Creature of X they have or whether they have Prophet instead of Allegory so eliminating this paragraph or changing Warmains is probably the next major thing that will happen here.

Example Characters: The Headmaster of the Bleak Academy (who wants to be a special snowflake with Creature of the Light but do I let him get away with it?), Mrs. Senko (who is not completely sure that she has Creature of Fable and not Creature of Delirium but is pretty sure that Orderic has Fable, so.)

Deceivers

Awakening

Reality Syndrome

Star Quality

Creature of Delirium

Example Characters: Jasmine Apocynum, Iolithae Septimian, Genseric Dace, the Mystery “Hedge the Fang” (by mechanical similarity.)

Strategists

Accursed

Gatekeeper

Troubled

Sentimental

Example Characters: Miramie Mesmer, Melanie Malakh

Mimics

Wounded Angel

Gatecrasher

Creature of Delirium

Troubled

Example Characters: Leonardo de Montreal, Sphinx

Tricky Stuff

Edony still appears to slot in as a Strategist. Maybe I’m more OK with this after doing Glitch?

There is still probably a “Zu” label with Chosen One, the Ace, Star Quality, and Creature of the Light, but it’s still also kind of tempting to make Natalia an angel and reconcile the two lists. I think Angels might be able to do without Gatekeeper, but not A Keeper of Gardens; Natalia is definitely a lot better with Star Quality than A Keeper of Gardens. So I think I can’t. But it’s so close!

So it’s hard.

Shounen is still troublesome, as I’m not sure he makes a good Deceiver or Wild Magister. I wonder if he’s a Zu too? Probably this is just a matter of thinking about him, though, and not about the world or the stats.

jennamoran

A Short Digression on Nose Fairies

Originally in Germany when people sneezed there were nose fairies that would fly into the nose. So people would say, “Gedsundheit,” or “God bless,” to keep them out. This worked because German nose fairies have very strict religious sensibilities. In America it is not that way. American nose fairies are not very religious. They observe a strict separation of nose and state, but also a strict separation of church and nose. This is because of capitalism. That is why you just have to say “Bless you.” It is also thanks to capitalism that American nose fairies are tired and overworked all the time. They don’t even really want to fly into people’s noses all the time. In fairness it is a pretty terrible job and I wouldn’t want to fly into people’s noses all the time either. If I had that job I would probably quit. I wouldn’t even need someone to bless me. However, if you want to bless me, that’s all right. Not only will it keep me from flying up your nose, it will also help protect against vampires!

(P.S. Xiyue Wang remains hostage in Iran, to general media disinterest. This has nothing to do with nose fairies, although if the media were to fly up their nose then that would probably help in pressuring the Iranian government to release him. Please consider that, media! It is a great way to branch out and keep millennials from killing your current business model.)

jennamoran

Apparently when I wrote about Gedsundheit yesterday some of my facts were in error. I strive for a high standard of reporting so I want to correct that immediately. The actual meaning of Gedsundheit is, apparently, “health.” That is why Germany does not have a National Health Service, but a National Gedsundheit Service. This is actually more efficient than a Gedsundheit Management Organization model like you see in the United States and has almost entirely eliminated nose fairies within the country of Germany. If you are very rich and you are not sneezing very often there is sometimes a little longer wait before someone comes by from the National Gedsundheit Service and says “Gedsundheit” as compared to what would happen if you were in America and could hire prison laborers to say Gedsundheit for you at 3 cents per hour but on the other hand nose defairying experts do not have to artificially distort their choices in order to appease market forces and every person may feel secure that whatever happens when they sneeze their Gedsundheit matters will be taken care of. This is actually not as good a thing as you might think because it turns out after nearly eliminating nose fairies in Germany that humans might actually depend upon a certain level of nose fairies in our diet. The National Gedsundheit Service has had to develop special artificial nose fairies made out of fernweh and schadenfreude to address this growing nutritional deficit within the German population. Germans sneeze. “Gedsundheit!” professionals rapidly ferried to the scene reply. Then, if necessary, they concoct a vial of fernweh/schadenfreude, shake it up, and shove it into the sneezing person’s nose. “Wait!” that sneezing person says, only in German, and only if they can actually stop sneezing long enough to say anything, although at the same time if they can sneeze continuously enough they can actually stall this process by forcing the employees of the National Gedsundheit Service to stand there continuously repeating Gedsundheit instead of administering the artificial nose fairy substitute, “I would like to stall and delay before having artificial nose fairy substitute administered at this time!” They say this because in fact it is quite unpleasant to have spirits of any kind flying up your nose and into the control center of your brain where they can yank and pull upon the various levers of your will. However, it is too late. By the time they have said all of that without sneezing, only, in German, the Gedsundheitnurses have pinned their arms and the Gedsundheitskanonier has stepped boldly forward and up their nose the concoction goes! This is why Germany has such a healthy, or, “Gedsundheity,” population today. You can look it up in a book!

You might be wondering what any of this has to do with American citizen Xiyue Wang, who I am clearly trying to wedge into these discussions even when he might not normally be involved in detailed scientific and political discussions about nose fairies and other such general matters of human experience, as a way to help raise awareness of the fact that he has been held in Iran on false charges for over two years. The answer is that in fact it has very little to do with Xiyue Wang. They are not even providing him with artificial nose fairy substitute in his prison, causing his health, or, “Gedsundheit,” to take a worrying decline. You might also wonder why somebody in Iran would need artificial nose fairy substitute when Iran is obviously outside the general field of operations for the German National Gedsundheit Service but apparently there is an Iranian word for health too, which is “سلامت” or “slamt.” (This is not surprising because most languages have a word for health, the exception probably being computer languages, which mostly have words for fixed-size pieces of data and for making programmers upset.) The fifth-biggest problem with living in Iran, and the reason that they are having problems sustaining a nose fairy population of their own, is that “slamt” is not just said when someone says it but is also accidentally said whenever somebody loudly opens or closes a door. Wham! Bam! Slamt! Goodbye, nose fairies! Goodbye! They are always opening and closing doors over there in Iran, which is probably part of why they are so enthusiastic about taking American citizens hostage and then forgetting to make sure that American media or officials notice. Actually I do not know for sure that they have doors because I am actually shockingly uninformed about most things outside of my narrow nose fairy/ninja specialty but I think they would probably have a lot harder time keeping people imprisoned if they did not.

It is probable that in America we will never have a National Gedsundheit Service. That is because we are a hopelessly backwards country battered by the violent winds of nose fairies and political turmoil. Our independent pioneering spirit bravely tells us that the best way, that the only way, to handle people sneezing is for individuals to step forward of their own accord to say “Gedsundheit,” and that having a special government bureau dispatch white-coated bespectacled German Gedsundheiters with clipboards in wailing ambulances to the scene to serenade us with Gedsundheits in a clipped professional fashion is an excess and a waste of money that we are already wasting our money on too many important military things to conceivably afford. For instance, we cannot afford a National Gedsundheit Service and the little planes that the military is developing for fighting the nose fairies directly if there is ever a human/fairy war. Or, we could have them both, but we would have to abandon our investigation of the viability of cybernetically controlled lobster supersoldiers. This is obviously important research that can not be set aside even to protect America from nose fairies flying up into our brains when people sneeze.

Thank you for reading my important scientific discussion, and God bless.

P.S. I do not actually have much information on modern Germany so I have had to project forward from the Holy Roman Empire to imagine what it must probably be like today. I hope that I have not made too many egregious errors but if I have you have the deepest of my apologies to you all.

jennamoran

Apparently you cannot determine everything about Germany by reading the O’Reilly Guide to the Holy Roman Empire and extrapolating forward from there, because … well, basically, because of the intrinsic characteristic of suffering that pervades all things? And specifically one of those things is the correct way to spell the word that you say when someone sneezes, which is apparently actually Ge sundheit, with no additional d in the middle.

But what actually is a d?

Scholars have pondered over this question for some number of years.

The best conclusion that I have found is that “d” is the catalytic spirit magic indwelling in the interstices of the world. It is that mystery that, through the miracle of its presence, transforms “tape” into “taped;” “bake” into “baked;” “mope” into “moped;” “iced” into “diced;” and “flan” into “flan with a d kind of awkwardly floating in it kind of wondering why the sous chef put it there.” (Why? The reason is that the sous chef is frustrated with the high-handed behavior of the chef. But ironically the chef can only behave in a high-handed fashion because of the catalytic spirit magic of the d.)

“She wants the d,” a song I am vaguely aware of goes, I assume from Sesame Street or something? This is because d can transform “she” into “shed,” allowing her to shed the mire of false conceptions and other appurtenances of samsara. However if she is in a garden then it may transform her into a garden shed instead in which case the prognosis is not so good. Also it is possible that I am misunderstanding the song and its purpose and it is actually meant to transform her into “she’d,” which would make sense as it is a closer parallel to taped and moped, but please do not tape yourself to a moped as it is hard to moped up to somewhere and then jump down and swagger coolly into wherever you have arrived at if you have actually been taped first onto the seat.

These are some of the pieces of the mystery of d but they do not touch upon its heart. Part of this is because d does not actually have a heart. If you were to draw a d with a heart it would look really weird, like it was a heart with a straw in it and you were maybe a vampire? which is not the kind of impression that people who make letters into hearts are typically attempting to convey. Conversely, making letters into hearts is not the kind of methodology that people wanting to appear to be a vampire would typically employ. For instance, when Stephanie Meyer wanted to hint in Twilight that Edward was a vampire, she did not have him dot all of his is with little hearts. Instead, she had him bathe with Lush glitter bombs or something, I think? I am not sure.

(All vampires in the Twilight universe are forced to bathe with Lush glitter bombs. This is their eternal curse. Fortunately for them Lush does not know about this (in universe) and so cannot jack their prices up to exploit their captive market. Would Lush, an ethical company, do that? Possibly, if they knew their captive market ate people. It is a foundational principle of modern capitalism that you are allowed, no, expected to economically exploit people who want to eat you and vice versa.)

It is possible that Iran has captured Xiyue Wang because his research into the 19th century Qajar dynasty revealed the identity of a Twilight vampire who is currently active in Iranian government. This would upset both the modern Iranian government and Stephanie Meyer. It would upset Stephanie Meyer because it would represent copyright infringement on the part of the 19th century Qajar dynasty but defunct dynasties are extremely difficult to sue. It would upset the modern Iranian government because covering up the presence of Twilight vampires in their ranks is the third-most important function of modern governments in general. However, I do not think that a function that is only the third-most important function of government justifies holding a graduate student in history in prison on false charges for two and a half years, particularly when they have a five your old son. However, it is possible that he also discovered werewolves, in which case it would still be unforgivable but at least it would let us all imagine adorably fluffy 19th century Qajar dynasts running around in Iran.

This is probably not helpful in understanding the true meaning of d. On the other hand it is possible that you did not expect it to be.

What, then, is the true meaning of d?

A d, at its heart, is a backwards b. Or, more precisely, a dee, at its heart, is a backwards bee. They live in the city and convert honey into pollen. When they sting you, there’s just this little pinch, and then any stingers that were stuck in your skin go away! They end up stuck on the end of the dee instead. Why would evolution arrange this? The truth is that evolution is really amazing, go evolution! but is not always as clever as you might actually think.

You need to cheer on evolution occasionally anyway, though, because hardly anybody does and we do not want it to get discouraged and give up and go away in defeat. That would be extremely bad for the success of modern genetic algorithms in solving problems like “how can we invent better artificial nose fairy substitutes?” This is especially important for genetic algorithms in America, which do not have access to traditional German nose fairy countermeasures like farnweh or schadenfreude. If we did not have genetic algorithms and could not just copy our peers’ methods from over in Europe then our pharmaceutical industry would have to say Gesundheit themselves!

jennamoran

Good morning! Today’s post is in response to a reader question.

“What the actual fuck did you just make me read?” the reader asks.

This was not actually a question directed at us. That means that we cannot hope to answer it. For all we know the reader was not even referring to one of our posts, but … maybe they’d just been forced to read a newspaper article about those people in Italy who glue elaborately staged collections of dolls and doll furniture upside down on their ceiling in order to improve the taste of their olive oil, or maybe a fanfic crossover between the real-life world of those people and the Game of Thrones? Maybe they actually were not at all confused about what they had been reading but were merely uncertain which of the several the actual fucks they had been planning to read for their book club they had actually just read?

We are all scattered bubbles floating in the sea of time; it is difficult to know.

Whatever it is that they meant, however, and whatever it is that they were referring to, it does not really matter, in the end; the very existence of that question in our thread is a reminder to us that we have not explained.

What are these posts? Why did we speak at such great length on nose fairies, and strive with such fierce effort to correct any errors that we have made?

It is like this:

When all you know is ninjas and nose fairies, it can be very difficult to take effective action when a hostile foreign government decides to hold a friend of a friend in arduous, health-threatening, and illegal captivity on the other side of the world.

When— once upon a time, fifty-two American hostages in Iran could fill the news, shake the politics of our nation, and command the strong support of all our people. When once upon a time, that was everything. And when now this is only one person, and maybe that is why he is not filling one fiftieth of the news, not shaking one fiftieth of the politics of the nation, not having one fiftieth of the people’s support, not being, well, one fiftieth of everything—

Keep reading

jennamoran

The Horizon Campaign (25)

Link to the Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG, on DriveThru

Link to Fortitude: the Glass-Maker’s Dragon, on DriveThru

Let’s talk some more about the Horizon campaign(s)!

Previously,

We worked on our set of Main Characters and concepts, tied them to Arcs and colors and archetypes, built Rinley’s storyline, and got most of the way through their quests.

Then, we built quest 5,

Finished the quest set off,

And summarized what we had!

Before starting work on a new character: Sal.

And, flailing some more at his stories.

Today, let’s get them into at least a temporarily acceptable shape!

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jennamoran

The Horizon Campaign (24)

Link to the Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG, on DriveThru

Link to Fortitude: the Glass-Maker’s Dragon, on DriveThru

Let’s talk some more about the Horizon campaign(s)!

Previously,

We worked on our set of Main Characters and concepts, tied them to Arcs and colors and archetypes, built Rinley’s storyline, and got most of the way through their quests.

Then, we built quest 5,

Finished the quest set off,

And summarized what we had!

Before starting work on a new character: Sal.

Today, that character study … continues!

Keep reading

jennamoran

The Horizon Campaign (23)

Link to the Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG, on DriveThru

Link to Fortitude: the Glass-Maker’s Dragon, on DriveThru

Let’s talk some more about the Horizon campaign(s)!

Previously,

We worked on our set of Main Characters and concepts, tied them to Arcs and colors and archetypes, built Rinley’s storyline, and got most of the way through their quests.

Then, we built quest 5,

Finished the quest set off,

And summarized what we had!

Today let’s get into another character’s storyline:

The Antiquarian.

Who, I think, after going over all of that, is going to be renamed the Wriggling Teacher.

Keep reading

ianime0

Mawaru Penguindrum | Triple H

jennamoran

The Horizon Campaign (Interlude 2)

Link to the Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG, on DriveThru

Link to Fortitude: the Glass-Maker’s Dragon, on DriveThru

Let’s talk some more about the Horizon campaign(s)!

Previously,

We worked on our set of Main Characters and concepts, tied them to Arcs and colors and archetypes, built Rinley’s storyline, and got most of the way through their quests.

Then, we built quest 5 …

And handled some final details.

Without further ado, here’s the quest set that we’ve built:

~ The Metaphysical Investigations of Rinley Yatskaya ~

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jennamoran

The Horizon Campaign (21)

Link to the Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG, on DriveThru

Link to Fortitude: the Glass-Maker’s Dragon, on DriveThru

Let’s talk some more about the Horizon campaign(s)!

Previously,

We worked on our set of Main Characters and concepts, tied them to Arcs and colors and archetypes, built Rinley’s storyline, and got most of the way through their quests.

Today, let’s build the fifth quest in their set!

Keep reading

setosuu

@morishima_akiko ひまりんご旅に出る

Morishima Akiko: HimaRingo setting off on a journey

jennamoran

Chuubo’s Icons

A brief bit of history!

Chuubo’s has gone through four versions of its icons.

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jennamoran

The Horizon Campaign (20)

Link to the Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG, on DriveThru

Link to Fortitude: the Glass-Maker’s Dragon, on DriveThru

Let’s talk some more about the Horizon campaign(s)!

Previously,

we built some connections between prospective Main Characters and Egyptian deities.

Then, we looked at what characters the campaign would have to have, pulled some out into a possible secondary campaign, and worked on assigning starting Arc colors.

Then, we explored some possible new characters for the secondary campaign, including the Mystery Typhon… but even after two different takes on her, we weren’t quite there.

Then, we finalized something like a concept there and looked at gender-balancing the default versions of our sets of eight characters.

Then, we assigned Arc colors and archetypes to the characters in the secondary campaign, and started talking about Rinley’s first story in that campaign.

Then we made a first stab at that story … and failed!

So we tried again!

and then did a couple more Rinley stories

and a couple more …

and took a brief break to sum up what we had.

Then, we sketched out the corresponding quest set.

Then, we figured out its metadata.

Then, we worked out the first quest!

Then, we started our work on the second, but, because I went into real detail on the design of the quest options, didn’t actually finish it.

Then, we just kept going!

And finally finished.

Then, we talked a bit about how to simplify the quest.

And did!

Then, moving a bit faster: the third quest, in regular and simplified form.

And the fourth!

Can I get the fifth one done today?

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jennamoran

The Horizon Campaign (19)

Link to the Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG, on DriveThru

Link to Fortitude: the Glass-Maker’s Dragon, on DriveThru

Let’s talk some more about the Horizon campaign(s)!

Previously,

we built some connections between prospective Main Characters and Egyptian deities.

Then, we looked at what characters the campaign would have to have, pulled some out into a possible secondary campaign, and worked on assigning starting Arc colors.

Then, we explored some possible new characters for the secondary campaign, including the Mystery Typhon… but even after two different takes on her, we weren’t quite there.

Then, we finalized something like a concept there and looked at gender-balancing the default versions of our sets of eight characters.

Then, we assigned Arc colors and archetypes to the characters in the secondary campaign, and started talking about Rinley’s first story in that campaign.

Then we made a first stab at that story … and failed!

So we tried again!

and then did a couple more Rinley stories

and a couple more …

and took a brief break to sum up what we had.

Then, we sketched out the corresponding quest set.

Then, we figured out its metadata.

Then, we worked out the first quest!

Then, we started our work on the second, but, because I went into real detail on the design of the quest options, didn’t actually finish it.

Then, we just kept going!

And finally finished.

Then, we talked a bit about how to simplify the quest.

And did!

Then, moving a bit faster: the third quest, in regular and simplified form.

Today, let’s do the fourth!

Keep reading

jennamoran

The Horizon Campaign (18)

Link to the Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG, on DriveThru

Link to Fortitude: the Glass-Maker’s Dragon, on DriveThru

Let’s talk some more about the Horizon campaign(s)!

Previously,

we built some connections between prospective Main Characters and Egyptian deities.

Then, we looked at what characters the campaign would have to have, pulled some out into a possible secondary campaign, and worked on assigning starting Arc colors.

Then, we explored some possible new characters for the secondary campaign, including the Mystery Typhon… but even after two different takes on her, we weren’t quite there.

Then, we finalized something like a concept there and looked at gender-balancing the default versions of our sets of eight characters.

Then, we assigned Arc colors and archetypes to the characters in the secondary campaign, and started talking about Rinley’s first story in that campaign.

Then we made a first stab at that story … and failed!

So we tried again!

and then did a couple more Rinley stories

and a couple more …

and took a brief break to sum up what we had.

Then, we sketched out the corresponding quest set.

Then, we figured out its metadata.

Then, we worked out the first quest!

Then, we started our work on the second, but, because I went into real detail on the design of the quest options, didn’t actually finish it.

Then, we just kept going!

And finally finished.

Then, we talked a bit about how to simplify the quest.