All the immortality approachs have strengths and weaknesses. I have to admit a fondness for the regen approach. Wolverine anyone :) I'm going to try a different one just to be different!

Looking forward to starting. Just for general information I am on European time

That was my idea in letting players have some agency in the matter :-)

Let them pick their own poison, xD



I responded to your PM, hopefully you are satisfied but feel free to discuss and offer tweaks

New map just dropped :P

I'm much happier with this one. It still doesn't show Anurath, Tzama, the Gaff Ravine or Holy Kalator - but I can expand it in the future if you visit those places.

Please give me praise for hand-drawing this :3

This is much more accurate, but still not perfect. Consider it canon, but anything in text takes precedent since I am a better writer than I am an artist <3

Going to fill out the ~Known World~ thread now, and personal threads will follow shortly after!

Its beautiful!! I enjoy how you shaded the territory areas a darker color instead of just making them one solid color! Often people sacrifice the usefulness of different colored terrains to show territory borders but here you found an elegant solution.

thanks to those just darker shaded areas you also get to use all the bright non-terrain colors for roads, super smart! And, oh gosh, the fact you did all this by hand! phenomenal! I mean why would you try to use a new website when your hand drawing on paint is this good.

[that good enough or shall I go on? ;D]

Wonderful map. Colourful and varied enough to be interesting to look at, while also simple to navigate. Gold Standard for maps, really.

Im blushing ;-;

My megapost got interrupted by RPOL's downtime (I forgot about this)... Fortunately I saved beforehand out of paranoia xD
(ill try to get it up soon before making your threads. sorry for the delay, today was busier than i thought)

It's gonna be weird to explore the new responsive site... I vaguely knew this was coming, so maybe I should have checked it out before lol

All done!

Last thing today is for me make your personal threads (I have been working on these things since I woke up lmao)

It's good to get this done ASAP so I can do less work in the future though :)

Alright, everything is ready. Be free, my little ones!

I'm srsly exhausted, that was a ton of work on this game today! Six straight hours (minus a turkey dinner) and now I have to hit the hay in 2 hours.

No thread for Khayyin because he mentioned having to rethink some stuff for his character. When he gets back to me I'll make his thread.

Enjoy, guys! If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to include them in your post after putting "OOC:" in front. Also color code them.

Something like:


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Appologies for being slow. Family stuff at Christmas.

No problem. I was away from my computer for most of the day. I ran a DND game with my friend and brother. I only got 2 hours of sleep last night so its a miracle things went as well as they did LMAO

Going to update Asherah's thread, and maybe check back here once more before bed.

Starting tomorrow, I'll be more active!

Take your time. Better that you're well rested, and we've probably all got some things to do here up until new years. No rush :)

Sadly, Talonor has messaged me that he is going to be unable to participate in the game for the forseeable future :-(

So, I will be putting all his stuff on hiatus until then. There is no need for me to run his character since he has not interacted with other players yet. The lore from his backstory still exists in the world, however.

This means we currently have 3 players, or 4 if you count Khayyin (who is currently taking some time to reconsider his character).

I have one RTJ that I had to deny since we had already met 5 players. I will offer that person to join the game, to shore up our numbers a little.

I will respond to all your threads when I am done with that :-)

I'm liking the way out stories are starting so different. Really enjoying reading them.

I feel the same way!

Welcome our newest player, everyone!

I will be updating your threads now. Sorry it's been a bit later in the day when I've been getting to these, my sleep schedule is a ruined mess RN

Hi Anton and Khayyin

Welcome Anton!! I'm excited to see what story your bring to the table!

I'm enjoying reading each others stories too! [as well as writing mine] Its always fun when you get such a diverse cast.

And GM no worries! I'm amazed by people who can get their sleep schedule together.

Preaching to the choir on the sleep thing :p

And yes, welcome Anton.

And I also really like how we're getting different starting points. Really let's froggy lay the groundwork for our different cultures going forward as well.

I'm really enjoying the game so far as well :) Thanks for the compliments on the cultural worldbuilding, I tried quite hard on that ;P

I am a bit sad that a few players are currently inactive, but I'm far happier with how invested the rest of you have been :-)

Besides that slight stumble, the beginning of this game has gone very well!

As a tip, I would suggest you think of this short part of the game as a sort of Prologue. The reason is that there are some definitive plans for the future (having you all meet up), which won't be something done again in this game. I don't like railroading, or anything close to that, so this will be the only time we're doing it.

I look forward to under what circumstances you all meet up (I currently have plans for Asherah, Sigismund and Li Hua ; I will think of something for Anton once he's had some time to settle in and explore his homeland a little. I have very rough ideas for Khayyin, though I know not when he will return)

EDIT - I should mention, you all are free to change your 2 little character tags as you please. I just put those there as reference, but you can remove or edit them as you wish!
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Good to know, as for my tags I'll be leaving them as is since you pretty much nailed Asherah on your first shot.

Out of curiosity though, did anybody else base their culture on a rl ancient civilization? I have my guesses but I wanted to hear it from the horses' mouth(s).

Well, I was basing Sigismund's people on something of a blend between scandinavian and germanic culture. It's shaping up to be just about when they transitioned from being hunting dominant to getting into farming and animal husbandry. Fun fact, I thought those two things came about fairly close to each other in history in history, but apparently husbandry has been around way longer than farming as a concept.
The more you know.

At any rate, I'll be keeping my tags as well. I know what I'm about :)

Made a small update to the game map.

Im going to bed now, since i need to wake up tomorrow.
Tomorrow is my birthday (turning 21), so might be a slower day here depending on what i get up to :)

Night yall, Ill update the threads soon!

Well then, Congratulations on becoming a proper adult in... Most countries according to the law? Haven't heard of any with the drinking age higher than 21, at any rate. Anyway, congrats. Hope you have a nice day :)

Congrats! And no worries! you just make sure to enjoy yourself.

Hello and glad to be aboard!

Welcome, Anton! I will set up your thread shortly :-)

Please let me know if there is a specific way you want your Eternal Existence to function (CTRL+F for messages ITT if you are confused what I mean by that) - A reminder to everyone: Once your Eternal Existence first triggers in the game, you will no longer be able to change how it works. That will likely not be for a while yet, but this is to prevent metagaming. Consider it the Freeform equivalent of when you are allowed to roll extra dice or give the sum a bonus, but only before you make the roll!

Also, it's come to my attention that I have been reducing player agency a little by describing your internal reactions and actions. I don't normally do this, but I've realized I have been overly rushed to finish the ''prologue'' before Uni returns for me (like the monster it is XD) - From now on, I will be avoiding this. That does mean my posts will be slightly shorter and cover less content than they have been.

Nothing good ever comes from rushing, and we all already know this is going to be a long one, so I think my general anxiety is the cause of this. Now that I have reflected on it though, I can avoid it.

Please always feel free to PM me suggestions or write here on how I can make the game better for you all. I would do the same if I felt the need to (probably in PMs rather than OOC, unless its a general thing)