DISCUSSION: To Plot and Beyond

[thusiamods]

Hey guys, your resident mods here with a... not quite a full-out discussion post, but we'd like to get some ideas and points of note out there and your feedback on the matter. Particularly involving the latest plot and currently running plotlines. There have been a few discussions on plurk, but we'd like to have something more formal to make sure everyone has the opportunity to read and get their input on things that'll affect them.

There's a few things we'd like to touch upon with this post, the main points revolving around current/past/future plots and how we as mods can make things more fun for you in the way we handle them. Also on our agenda are things like State of the Game, God Functions, Player Accessibility, and probably more. To keep things organized, we'll be using header comments to cover specific topics and linking them in the post for easy navigation, so once you see a topic linked here, feel free to jump right to it.

CURRENT PLOTS: Moving HQ | Bitey Dogs | Weres

Week of my Life Posts | State of the Game | Affecting the Gods | Nature

Comments

Re: AFFECTING THE GODS

[growsintheshade]

Oooh, I think this is actually still in line with what's been laid out on the mod side.

Could you elaborate on "but they're also a little less at the mercy of possibly being controlled because of similar elements."?

Re: AFFECTING THE GODS

[confined]

I'll use an example in existing gods.

Coren is plasma. Eizon is electricity, and then out there somewhere is a lightning god.

Eizon obviously sided with humanity. Lightning sided with nature. Plasma is a state of matter that both electricity and lightning fall under, but Coren is weaker than both of them. He did not choose to side with either at the start of the war. Lightning became more powerful than him and was able to injure him, and Eizon has obviously been around longer with the new Thusians regaining his power so in current standings, Eizon is more powerful than Coren.

Basically, they're very similar elements, but depending on how much influence they've gained and how much people are willing to help - they can be very weak even if their element should be powerful.

Re: AFFECTING THE GODS

[confined]

As for the headcanon that those with natural domains are more in danger, it's because they can easily overlap. Now, technically the personifications of emotion can do this as well - into more extreme emotions, but it's really not played that way. And people have less a chance of changing their perception of a feeling or emotional state than they do of an element.

An example of that would be how science in the real world keeps discovering new things, but we'd be hard pressed to poke out a new emotion. Emotions or non elemental facets are going to be a stronger constant overall. ( see Nature of Emotion Wheel for examples how they could be used similar to elements being overlapping).

Re: AFFECTING THE GODS

[murderofcrow]

My head is kind of bouncing from jumping around in discussions on this post, but I think that headcanon could be really interesting. I'm pretty hugely iffy on gods existing as their own solid/shaped being before the beginning of humanity/its worship, but them being a... kind of goo that was molded together by humans seems pretty neat!