Best Of

Catching up sharing some artstuffs from last month/month before. 
Gurashi as a sileni is very small. Avaris as a demi-god kephera is very big. I couldn't even fit this whole kaiju in the image LOL. 

Gurashis! Specifically the biggest version (igasho), the smallest version (faeling), and the middle-est version (human).

Lantra said:

I have a question for my fellow Havens Divine: If you could trade godroles for a day to see how life is like in someone else's immortal shoes, which god would you make the deal with? Just 24 hours of swanning around as someone else!

I think taking @Drocilla for a spin would be fascinating. That delicious, delicious betrayal of Li-varili. What a fun role.

Lantra said:

I have a question for my fellow Havens Divine: If you could trade godroles for a day to see how life is like in someone else's immortal shoes, which god would you make the deal with? Just 24 hours of swanning around as someone else!

I think taking @Drocilla for a spin would be fascinating. That delicious, delicious betrayal of Li-varili. What a fun role.

Ahhhh! Looks like quite a few want to be me. 

I would like to try Charune I think. Could be fun to run around on four legs with horns and be buddies with Hart. If not Charune, then maybe Kalikai. Second Circle is cool.

Ayisdra said:

1.  To you, what does the Book of You mean? Does it mean just a book of your history as a whole? or is it like the other public ones where it is your time during the Elder Wars? Or is it something else?
2.  Without thinking too much about what it means for the timeline, You can change one moment in past (as far back to your creation even), what do you change and why?
3.  What is something you are jealous of your Cousins are able to do but you aren't?
4.  What is something you are glad your Cousins are able to do and you can't?
   
5.  What real world game would you like to create within Lusternia?

1. Not so much answering this question as adding a note about what @Terentia said: As much as I'd like Maylea to claim credit for first with a Book, I think it actually started out with Lisaera. As for actually answering the question: Maylea does have a Book. Feel free to join Her order and find out what it is

2. Abstain.

3. @Mysrai and Their ever changing shapes. Even Lisaera and Her multiple aspects. Just would be neat to shift once in a while.

4. @Carakhan and Her tail. Maylea would not like a tail, but Carakhan's tail is cool.

5. Abstain.

Lantra said:

I have a question for my fellow Havens Divine: If you could trade godroles for a day to see how life is like in someone else's immortal shoes, which god would you make the deal with? Just 24 hours of swanning around as someone else!

I think taking @Drocilla for a spin would be fascinating. That delicious, delicious betrayal of Li-varili. What a fun role.

Of the active godroles, I think I would love to take @Mysrai for a day. If only because the role has near limitless possibilities with a heavy and formative history. Maybe @Thax, because I feel like there is something fascinating about the idea of man made out of tin (I am a Wizard of Oz fan). If we are talking about any of the godroles, I think @Zvoltz for similar reasons to Mysrai. 

Ayisdra said:

1.  To you, what does the Book of You mean? Does it mean just a book of your history as a whole? or is it like the other public ones where it is your time during the Elder Wars? Or is it something else?
2.  Without thinking too much about what it means for the timeline, You can change one moment in past (as far back to your creation even), what do you change and why?
3.  What is something you are jealous of your Cousins are able to do but you aren't?
4.  What is something you are glad your Cousins are able to do and you can't?
   
5.  What real world game would you like to create within Lusternia?

1.  Similar to @Nocht, I think the "Book of X" (starting with, @Maylea, I think) encompasses so much more than the Elder Wars. It is a history of an Elder. I think to me, like @Lantra, there is a question on how this book comes to pass, how it looks. I don't know if Terentia would have a formal book either, but what the "Book of Terentia" would be is something that shows and explains where she comes from and how she is what she is now. What I do know is that there will be two different "Books of Terentia." Mainly because there is the history of Terentia as Terentia (and particular individuals who are important to her, Meridian e.g.), but there is also the history of Terentia in relation to a whole slew of other gods by virtue of leading a formation.
2. IC: This is a hard one and not easy to share because of what of Terentia's history would be replaced. When this history becomes available, I will share. OOC: I will have to think about this one more. Sorry! 
3. Engage with players (in Order or non-Order situations) without the assumption that if you aren't a good combatant that Terentia doesn't care about you.
4. Be straightforward in a way that doesn't mince words. 
5. There are a bunch of real world logic games and puzzles that I have on my list to reproduce in some way in Lusternia. I've always dreamed about figuring out how to make the mancala game work that I received from the departing MKO team forever ago. Maybe I will try to go back to that sometime soon.

Ayisdra said:

1.  To you, what does the Book of You mean? Does it mean just a book of your history as a whole? or is it like the other public ones where it is your time during the Elder Wars? Or is it something else?
2.  Without thinking too much about what it means for the timeline, You can change one moment in past (as far back to your creation even), what do you change and why?
3.  What is something you are jealous of your Cousins are able to do but you aren't?
4.  What is something you are glad your Cousins are able to do and you can't?
   
5.  What real world game would you like to create within Lusternia?

1. I think a lot of us view 'Book of X' as a chronological retelling of the Elder's past. I actually started writing one as Lantra (and got significantly far along in it!) before I realized writing a "Book of Lantra" wasn't the way I wanted to reveal that lore. Being confined to chronology and writing from first person both were aspects I found limiting. My current mechanic is revealing glimpses into memories with visions through the Fonts in my temple, which are written in second person and not tied to any timeline in their expression, though I do personally track the order of events for my own sanity. Second person lets me "show" something without explaining it as well, which gives more room for player interpretation. The "out-of-time" aspect also gives me the freedom to jump around the histories without having to commit to things that I would need to rely on a future Malmydia or another admin to pin down! I'm very happy with how it's turned out.
2. Are you asking as me or as Lantra? If Lantra could go back in time with what she knows now, she would have done everything in her power to prevent Malmydia's work on Fininkora the Fair, Thax, etc, and never even attempted civility with her. She probably would have never taught her any of the Hamadhi's healing arts at all. If you're asking me the admin, hm hm. I wish that Eventru and Lantra could have interacted ICly in Lusternia before Valtreth happened. I think that would have been an enjoyable dynamic!
3. I honestly think it's very tricky to be confrontational as a "nice" Divine without people wondering if you, the OOC admin, are the one who is actually upset or unhappy with a player. I enjoy being severe, judgmental Lantra, but I always try to be mindful of the player on the other side of the screen, and attempt to gauge how they will react to what I say and do. I'll admit sometimes I temper my responses to things with this in mind, because in the end, I want players in Lusternia to enjoy themselves more than I want to embrace the darker side of my roleplay. I think roles like Li-varili, Nocht, and Drocilla worry about this much, much less, because there is an inherent expectation they will be adversarial.
4. They can roll around in the stinky Taint and Wyrd all they want. I'll bask on the beach in the Light, thank you.
5. Survivor. Vote everyone off the island and vie for peep chili food rewards.

Lantra said:

I have a question for my fellow Havens Divine: If you could trade godroles for a day to see how life is like in someone else's immortal shoes, which god would you make the deal with? Just 24 hours of swanning around as someone else!

I think taking @Drocilla for a spin would be fascinating. That delicious, delicious betrayal of Li-varili. What a fun role.

I have a question for my fellow Havens Divine: If you could trade godroles for a day to see how life is like in someone else's immortal shoes, which god would you make the deal with? Just 24 hours of swanning around as someone else!

I think taking @Drocilla for a spin would be fascinating. That delicious, delicious betrayal of Li-varili. What a fun role.

Esei said:

Assuming They don't have magical cleaning powers somehow, how would your god approach chores? Would They be particularly picky about how to do something (like folding laundry), get it all done at once, procrastinate, etc?

Mysrai would only perform chores that have meaning of some sort. Something that has a direct positive impact on (mostly) Themselves or (to a lesser extent) those around Them. Anything else devolves into Them breaking down why the chore is considered useful by others and exactly why that's stupid and not actually worth doing. You can do it if you like, but They might judge you slightly for it.