The Campaign Builder's Guild

[blockquote=Crow]Hey, Vreeg, have you ever created some kind of introduction or overview for the setting? Whenever i try to read it I'm always assaulted by the massive amount of information[/blockquote]Heh, this is sort of like asking someone from our world to introduce the earth to an alien being.  Not to say its a stupid question, Crow, or anything like that, but just from what I've seen of Celtrica it exemplifies the divset style of world, and resists the ethocentric style fairly resolutely; its hard to boil it down, in the way that you might be able to boil CE or In Gloria or Broken Verge down to a constellation of core themes.

Quote from: Steerpike[blockquote=Crow]Hey, Vreeg, have you ever created some kind of introduction or overview for the setting? Whenever i try to read it I'm always assaulted by the massive amount of information[/blockquote]Heh, this is sort of like asking someone from our world to introduce the earth to an alien being.  Not to say its a stupid question, Crow, or anything like that, but just from what I've seen of Celtrica it exemplifies the divset style of world, and resists the ethocentric style fairly resolutely; its hard to boil it down, in the way that you might be able to boil CE or In Gloria or Broken Verge down to a constellation of core themes.

Speaking of this...I'm thinking about changing up the Igbar page to shrink it down.  With some '...read more here' links for every section....That page keeps growing, and PBworks is starting to bitch about the size of it for editing purposes.  Do we think that would work?

in other news, I am working on a "Bloodletting Katar of Circumcision".  

Quote from: Lord Vreegin other news, I am working on a "Bloodletting Katar of Circumcision".  

can I get that weapon in tiger claws?

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Quote from: Lord Vreegin other news, I am working on a "Bloodletting Katar of Circumcision".  

Yuck.  
Sure, I can make that change.  And with My luck, George will find them and start using them...

Okay, I'll look this over in more detail tomorrow, but just a couple of things I've noticed:

Is this a wiki? If not, understandable, but if so, please link to places, nations etc when you first mention them in the article.

When the war between the State of Winter and the Venolvians occurred and there were armies passing through daily, did this damage the local economy? You describe it as allowing Miston to grow fat, but generally I think an army (particularly a medieval army) would have the opposite effect - they'd be demanding food from locals for example and throwing their weight around. What was it that brought money in?

Quote from: WensleydaleOkay, I'll look this over in more detail tomorrow, but just a couple of things I've noticed:

Is this a wiki? If not, understandable, but if so, please link to places, nations etc when you first mention them in the article.

When the war between the State of Winter and the Venolvians occurred and there were armies passing through daily, did this damage the local economy? You describe it as allowing Miston to grow fat, but generally I think an army (particularly a medieval army) would have the opposite effect - they'd be demanding food from locals for example and throwing their weight around. What was it that brought money in?

Wen---Thank s for the eyes on this.  This is Wiki, but part of being a Wiki is that a few different people work on it.  this is one of the Pcs work. Ongoing thing,  I'll see about getting some links on there.

The time when Miston was a trade post was before the war, and it really went from nothing to a few thousand inhabitants in a few decades.  And during the war, it still made a profit...but after the Venolvians were destroyed, and Miston became the border (the NW Grey March is totally wild and has been for centuries), that's when the contraction began.  Thanks for giving me that impression, I'll edit it.

Velomance

The Anger of the Gods

 

Velomance has been used in Celtricia for almost all of recorded history, with early records going back to Atlantia, the ancient Mage-confederation where Orbi stands today.  It is a psychoactive powder made of Chias root, especially effective to those sensitive to the Collective unconsious.

 

Velomance enhances emotion, as well as allowing one's emotion state subtly change the way they percieve the "Waking Dream".  It also is addictive (Fort-20% to avoid per use).  It is in a powder form, which is normally consumed in a beverage (alcoholic, often).   Many of the Devilkin religions of old Orbi and the Demonic Hewecar faiths have used it in riuals extensively, and Legends place some famous artists as users.  Creativity and a deep feeling of connectedness are hallmarks of the positive resports from it, yet the few written reports we have from those who survive a bad experience with it describe a paralysis inflicted by the voices of a million consiousness'.

 

Velomance also is quite lethal if overused, and it can drive users to madness. It is very rare, and illegal in all but the most permissive countries.  Hagenos, in Orbi, has a death sentence for any found distributing it.  A cut dose normally sells for 200 Goodwives or more, in Igbar, and a thimbet pure (about an ounce) is closer to 550 Goodwives.

Quote from: Lord VreegVelomance enhances emotion  

Does it change emotions felt by a user, or does it simply make them stronger? What would happen to someone who was feeling deppressed and took some Velomance? Would he just become more deppressed from it?

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Quote from: Lord VreegVelomance enhances emotion  

Does it change emotions felt by a user, or does it simply make them stronger? What would happen to someone who was feeling deppressed and took some Velomance? Would he just become more deppressed from it?

Absolutely, unless the mood of everyone around him was very happy, as the mentalist/connectionist part of the drug is stronger.  
Plus it's psychoactive, so the literal way the 'Waking Dream" is perceived would chanve with it.

My players crack me up.

Bard Cucino's player (the one from the MArtial school not crippled Bard Pharren from the Frigid Song) and I were doing some work last night, and I promised him, ion the course of a humorous exchange, a small exp bonus if he could meet the challenge of of using a truly horrible musical source to create a song Cucino would perform (probably at the Sweet Retreat).  He came up with this, and it actually works.


We have been moving with the wind since the world began,
The beat is contagious, you cannot resist.
Music for the sadness, music for the madness,
there's music in the way that we kiss, you can't resist.
Moving through the trees, free as Omwo are free,
the sound is getting louder, the sound is getting louder.
Music when we play, when we kneel to pray.
There's music in the sound of the wind.


The source...?  Horrific as it might be, he fooled me!!!

[ic=The Calling Shot]

Area:Igbar
Name:The Calling Shot
Affiliation with Larger: The Original Calling Shot began as a Knighthood of Geryon's Hand, in the 400s.  It started in Sembina, and when that church broke apart, the Calling Shot became thoroughly material.  By 715 RON, there was a new Main Chapter House in Lestchian, Orbi.  
The Igbar branch is a loyal, dues-paying branch.  They make a living through mercenary work, and through teaching Bowyery.
 
Membership style: full menbership or learning membership, for a premium.
 
% of starting membership: 45% Attrib bonus: CD (12/2)
Mission: To be owned by no god, but to become the premier bowmen of the Cradle area.
 
Size: 39 full members
History: Pulleio Adreano (Male Omwo~) and his Mistress Veronili (Fem Omwo~) brought their three pupils to Igbar in 790 RON.  They were actually attatched to the Gryphon Court befoer the bloodless coup, though in the 2 decades in between, they have come around to aiding the Scarlet Pilums.
One beautiful advantage of a full member here is the supply of blackwood and omnian steel composite bows, giving a +1 damage bonus to this bow before the divider.
 

Current leader: Renselier Araptor (male Omwo~)
Current situation: seen as unimportant, but ver competent.  Allied currently with the Scarlet Pilums. [/ic]

[blockquote=Vreeg]Music for the sadness, music for the madness,
there's music in the way that we kiss, you can't resist.[/blockquote]I keep picturing Katie Perry singing this.  Yikes.

Quote from: Steerpike[blockquote=Vreeg]Music for the sadness, music for the madness,
there's music in the way that we kiss, you can't resist.[/blockquote]I keep picturing Katie Perry singing this.  Yikes.

I told you, he got me.

I have Igbar this Sunday and Miston The following Saturday.  Looks like close to full attendance on both.  
(MiniVreeg turns 1 on Wednesday...that was fast)

Igbar group needs a breather, but is pretty determined to stay in the Northern Igbar Boneyard until they root out all the dens of the undead.
Miston is actually back in Wizern's Underthrone, trying to find the Totem the Venolvians removed from the Dreadwing's Barow.

Are there any creatures in Celtrica who remember past Ages (anything old enough?)?

Quote from: SteerpikeAre there any creatures in Celtrica who remember past Ages anything old enough?)?

Not like most settings.  Omwo~ now live under 300 years on average, though some live up to 400 or so.  

Sauroids (dragons) still average over a thousand, but the survival rate is ridulously low, since they fight amongst themselves so heavily.

Vampyres live a long time, but there are only 6-7 over a thousand years old in the whole of the setting.

Verkonnen Vreeg may be sorta damaged by his long life, but he remembers the early Age of Heroes.  No one living was there for the Age of Legends, but he's the tragic closest.

Heliopolis Von Arbor has flashes of memory from his ancestor, the Archlich Arbor, but I wouldn't call it memory.  
In that same way, Shambar Eltrinio, Shrum Hobyt and master of the practised drowning, has a lot of ancient memory at his disposal from the Orb of Almore.  So do the holders of Techar's 12 swords and 12 staffs.  but this is not direct memory, and these sentient items don't always feel like sharing.