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I just figured I'd pay $35 for my results, and everybody else misses a turn if they don't also pay.
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That was my thinking.
Not that I can afford even that...
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Heh. Well, the problem with churning results out every day for the kessef is that means you guys would have to put in submissions every day. While a couple of you might manage to do that, I doubt it'd be enough to earn a living.

On the other hand, I could create a paypal account for bribes—err, submission enhancement. :mrgreen:
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This whole "earning a living" thing sounds suspiciously like other conversations we've had. And you'd need a much much larger subscriber base to really pull that off. Or, a lot of textual content and a bazillion ads for webcomics, spliced all around it.

Which, we should take to another forum, 'cause I'm still not done exploring that idea.
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OK, results this weekend (Monday, probably, which is a day off for me), deadline extended to Oct. 15.
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nice. :D
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nice. :D
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Sorry, guys. I've been slacking. With the work situation, I've just been feeling kind of stressed and drained. Tried doing results a couple times, but... barely managed to get my submissions in for the last deadline.

Guess I might as well make it a full month delay. Again, sorry.
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Autarch...
As I've told AllFather many a time.
We can wait.

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I'm never opposed to a holiday. :D

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Sounds to me like an opportunity for all the players who are itching for more game action to put their money where their mouths are, and start writing up some epic-time content, just to fill the world up with more stuff.

I'm looking at you, Menolly.

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hmm...

I would, except I'm already building things via turn submission in mythological time. But I haven't technically accomplished anything in mythological time as far as game mechanics goes yet. I don't feel it would be right to claim things that haven't occurred, and may not if power to continue what I'm doing gets waylaid by other concerns in game time.
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Take all the time you need, Syl.
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Menolly wrote:hmm...

I would, except I'm already building things via turn submission in mythological time. But I haven't technically accomplished anything in mythological time as far as game mechanics goes yet. I don't feel it would be right to claim things that haven't occurred, and may not if power to continue what I'm doing gets waylaid by other concerns in game time.
I never said to claim them. This doesn't have to be for your character. Or, if it is, you can do stuff that your character no longer controls.

Nyx and the mountain formerly known as "Fist" were planning on having had children. They'd be NPCs, with their own agendas, but that would still be a broader richer backstory for all of us to interact with now in the present.

Maybe flush out some of the other NPC gods. There's one for every animal on the list, right? Figure Syl hasn't built them all yet, pick one and start to invent a character for it. What's the god of the Salmon like? There's all kinds of room to play in that has nothing to do with your character.
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Figure Syl hasn't built them all yet
All? Heh. Try 1.

That's a great idea. Consider it a no-stake challenge.

Or look to Ristra's posts for ideas you can do internally.

Remember, the Stories aren't (necessarily) true, strictly speaking, but that doesn't mean they don't have value.
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Figure Syl hasn't built them all yet
All? Heh. Try 1.
Can someone link me to the list of totems? I don't see them in the rules, but I think I can guess which one may have been created...

~*~edit~*~
nevermind, I found it.
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Goatkiller666 wrote: Maybe flush out some of the other NPC gods. There's one for every animal on the list, right?
Damn, I missed that. :D Ok, guess who probably found the 1? :lol:

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Goatkiller666 wrote: Maybe flush out some of the other NPC gods. There's one for every animal on the list, right?
Damn, I missed that. :D Ok, guess who probably found the 1? :lol:
ayeup...

And as I mentioned before, having dealt with the Autarch's NPCs before, they tend to be not all that nice...

[although I highly suspect Nyx and at least one other tribe, most likely two others if I can figure out who had a "g-dling" and a "g-d touched," have had a run in with them as well]
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Nyx has run into one of the Evils, and has brushed against two NPC animal gods. Not sure which of them (if any) has been fully flushed out, but they seem to exist to some extent.
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So, I'm starting to get nagged for Inferno results. Thus, I figured that instead of working on them, I'd nag other people for their results.

Any ETA on Acro stuff?
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