Aww thanks you guys ♥ My players don't know about it at all yet, its still just a concept, but it's very nice to hear that you guys like it!
I love the idea of most of the magitech being underwater. Imagine exploring some underwater ruins and suddenly the giant statue in the middle activated and turned into something like a Colossus of akros
Aww thanks you guys ♥ My players don't know about it at all yet, its still just a concept, but it's very nice to hear that you guys like it!
I love the idea of most of the magitech being underwater. Imagine exploring some underwater ruins and suddenly the giant statue in the middle activated and turned into something like a Colossus of akros
Yeah! A bit like Subnautica if you've played that game
Aww thanks you guys ♥ My players don't know about it at all yet, its still just a concept, but it's very nice to hear that you guys like it!
I love the idea of most of the magitech being underwater. Imagine exploring some underwater ruins and suddenly the giant statue in the middle activated and turned into something like a Colossus of akros
Yeah! A bit like Subnautica if you've played that game
I love subnautica.
also, depending on what level your players are, you should have a boss fight with a Leviathan
Aww thanks you guys ♥ My players don't know about it at all yet, its still just a concept, but it's very nice to hear that you guys like it!
I love the idea of most of the magitech being underwater. Imagine exploring some underwater ruins and suddenly the giant statue in the middle activated and turned into something like a Colossus of akros
Yeah! A bit like Subnautica if you've played that game
I love subnautica.
also, depending on what level your players are, you should have a boss fight with a Leviathan
Maybe! They might not like the setting though, they often prefer things like Ravenloft and Forgotten Realms that they already know
Aww thanks you guys ♥ My players don't know about it at all yet, its still just a concept, but it's very nice to hear that you guys like it!
I love the idea of most of the magitech being underwater. Imagine exploring some underwater ruins and suddenly the giant statue in the middle activated and turned into something like a Colossus of akros
Yeah! A bit like Subnautica if you've played that game
I love subnautica.
also, depending on what level your players are, you should have a boss fight with a Leviathan
Maybe! They might not like the setting though, they often prefer things like Ravenloft and Forgotten Realms that they already know
That’s understandable. Premade settings are usually easier to run because most players already know a lot about them.
Aww thanks you guys ♥ My players don't know about it at all yet, its still just a concept, but it's very nice to hear that you guys like it!
I love the idea of most of the magitech being underwater. Imagine exploring some underwater ruins and suddenly the giant statue in the middle activated and turned into something like a Colossus of akros
Yeah! A bit like Subnautica if you've played that game
I love subnautica.
also, depending on what level your players are, you should have a boss fight with a Leviathan
Maybe! They might not like the setting though, they often prefer things like Ravenloft and Forgotten Realms that they already know
That’s understandable. Premade settings are usually easier to run because most players already know a lot about them.
there comes a point, in most game groups time, when they need to be shown that knowing everything, that having everything be familiar, steals some of the fun. THey know how to take out every monster the have plans and strategies and they aren't surprised.
That is the time to bring the to a place they do not know, they do not expect, they do not have all the answers for. Then they begin to learn the real secret joys of D&D (and other RPGs).
That huge parts of the fun of it is in figuring it out without knowing, in claiming that for yourself. In learning and growing and exploring and becoming.
You can test it, should you doubt, or need to see if they are ready.
Create a beast they have never seen, and let them learn its secrets without telling them anything.
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in your homebrew world, if you have one, can gods die? And if so, how?
in my world, only the creator deity Tiamat (she’s a sea goddess in my world) and a specific few of her children can kill the gods. But there’s a type of god called an Overlord that used to be a mortal person that, through sheer force of Will and the prayers and belief of others, has become a god. These gods can be killed by anything that could Kill another god, but also if people stop believing they are divine. If they are forgotten, they die. If someone makes a fool of them in front of thousands of mortals, that can hurt them. Anything that makes them seem more mortal, and less divine, can harm them and make them less powerful. So basically you can kill them with humor.
in your homebrew world, if you have one, can gods die? And if so, how?
in my world, only the creator deity Tiamat (she’s a sea goddess in my world) and a specific few of her children can kill the gods. But there’s a type of god called an Overlord that used to be a mortal person that, through sheer force of Will and the prayers and belief of others, has become a god. These gods can be killed by anything that could Kill another god, but also if people stop believing they are divine. If they are forgotten, they die. If someone makes a fool of them in front of thousands of mortals, that can hurt them. Anything that makes them seem more mortal, and less divine, can harm them and make them less powerful. So basically you can kill them with humor.
Historically, most of the time, yes (except for the God of Nothing).
This next go round...
No. Which actually has importance in the larger schema. You see, there were 5 other gods who "died" during the massive war 15 centuries ago. ^ in total, and while one is "back", that one is not quite right in the head, lol. The other five are also out there, somewhere, still, but have chosen for assorted reasons to simply not "come back".Among them is one of the ones who was most popular.
I draw a very sharp line between Mortal and Immortal beings. A Mortal being is any being who can die. This is not in the sense of "oh, their spirit lives on", this is in the sense of their physical form can die, and rot and all that -- no "fades into ash or dust or sparkles". I mean, they are a big ass lump of flesh that starts rotting (and, not coincidentally, can be inhabited by a miasmata and animated an undead).
However, Immortal beings can have a shell. A sort of puppet body they use to interact with the world directly -- and that shell is always a mortal shell because anything that manifests in the Ephemeral Dimension of the Plane of Mortality is struck with Enfleshment and Mortality. It is why Nightmares can be physically slain during the Mortal Combats. The Exceptions are summoned beings, who are protected by the summoning -- and this creates some challenges.
Most Planar beings are not Immortal. Only the direct children and grandchildren of the Powers are Immortal -- after that, everything is mortal. Kill an Arch Devil and they will die.
Now, witt his, goes a whole part of what the afterlife is like, because all mortal things that die have their Quintelan, their Five Selves, enter into The Cycle, and they are reincarnated in some other dimension. What is left unspoken a lot of the time is that this means that a lot of Devils and Demons may once have been people of the world, and a lot of the people of the world may once have been demons or devils. This has no effect on PCs, mind you -- it is strictly a lore thing...
... except for when Reincarnate is used several years after death. Raise dead and Resurrection have very short timelines to work (raise dead is a week, res is 49 days), but Reincarnation can be done up to 15 years after death. When someone dies, they enter a Liminal state for a week, and then they reborn in soe new dimension, losing their past memories and all that. But if you reincarnate them before their 15th birthday (coming of Age), that new body dies, and they are hastily reassembled into a younger version of the last body on the Ephemeral Plane and they regain their old memories -- and keep the ones they had of those up to 15 years of a new life.
In one sense, it is like a forced isekai, lol. And if in the life here they carried around a huge amount of those darker emotions, and tended to lean towards ore infernal alignments, well, that technically could have been a Hag, Demon, Devil, or Mortal of the Infernal Plane's Mortal Realm. And would remember it.
Yeah, it weird.
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Sooo I have a question for everyone: in your homebrew world, if you have one, can gods die? And if so, how?
So in my world my gods can die - but not by mortal hands. Another deity can murder another.
So for example, when I first started my homebrew - I had a lot of deities. Like. A lot. And I just kept rolling with it. But I began to see which ones weren't really getting much attention from players (Clerics, Paladins, Druids, Rangers, etc., not following them - because in my campaign - their magic is divine - and requires the worship or representing a specific deity)... And over time, I just took note, "Well, here's a bunch of deities that are just fluff. They're sphere are represented elsewhere and more commonly selected by those deities by my players... "
So I had a big, epic (we're talking it was something like 30 sessions long from start to finish) Dwarf / Drow War that my players found themselves in the center of. And at the time, the Drow goddess (pretty much Lolth, for the sake of the argument) was a banished goddess - and the Drow were trying to bring her back. And not only that, have their main priestess ascend with a special body for her - Well, the party stopped the Priestess from Ascending (which would have had a major impact had they failed) - but they did not stop the goddess from awakening and ascending to godhood once more.
So I used that as an opportunity to kill off some of my less useful deities. I killed off eight deities - one for each leg of the Spider Queen.
And what was fun is - one of the "useless gods" was a god of wisdom and another as a god of judgement.
The god of wisdom's demise led to a larger story of this powerful artifact that was found that the god tried to bestow to his most faithful follower sensing his own demise coming - but all the infinite wisdom was too much and the follower went mad. That follower's skull became an incredible artifact - that a Beholder has now gotten a hold of - and has learned how it can ascend to godhood - and now there's a party chasing him down to stop him.
For the god of judgement - his demise played a big part in another game (since all of my games are connected - what happens in one game impacts my other four games I run) - where it's more horror themed - they discovered there's so many restless spirits - and this is because people who have died - are no longer being judged to go to salvation or damnation - so they're stuck in between.
So, it was great that these deities who were rarely used while alive, have become WAY more useful deceased and providing very incredible storylines.
in your homebrew world, if you have one, can gods die? And if so, how?
in my world, only the creator deity Tiamat (she’s a sea goddess in my world) and a specific few of her children can kill the gods. But there’s a type of god called an Overlord that used to be a mortal person that, through sheer force of Will and the prayers and belief of others, has become a god. These gods can be killed by anything that could Kill another god, but also if people stop believing they are divine. If they are forgotten, they die. If someone makes a fool of them in front of thousands of mortals, that can hurt them. Anything that makes them seem more mortal, and less divine, can harm them and make them less powerful. So basically you can kill them with humor.
In the game I'm playing in, the whole setting is built around this. We come into the picture 10 years after a vicious war between the gods that devasted swaths of land and killed many people, and gods were known to "die" multiple times. There's also a concept of mortals ascending to godhood, but that secret has been lost... until now, perhaps.
So, in reading through my stuff, what appears to have happened (it has been like 5 years since I wrote it) is that when their shells were destroyed (which they did not know they had at the time), they were shunted into a personal Demiplane. Only one of them has realized that and left their demiplane -- and that god is Mad.
It can be a bit tricky, because all the gods have multiple names, and I have to remember that at times my Pedants (the people who are explaining things to the PCs while they are in a liminal state, awaiting creation) are not always reliable narrators.
OH, um, yeah, I forgot, lol. People actually do pick what they want to be when they grow up before they are born on Wyrlde. The Conceit allows me to use "in-world" beings as guides and explainers, and all of the originally come from somewhere else -- which they all call Earth, but which is very different for each of them, lol. Each of them takes this "metaphor" about being reborn into the world as a game, differently, too -- but they are using game rules and mechanics to explain how things work.
The combination of multiple perspectives, variable voices, and such gives me an out should I screw up, lol as well as provide the flexibility to change things if needed.
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Daisy leaned against the building, arms folded, one foot resting on the wall, watching the traffic roll back and forth, pedestrians passing, some buying from the shops counter as they moved, most of them giving little thought or attention to the high walls across the way, and even less to the two bored priests that stood to either side of the ornately carved gate.
The clatter of hooves and the rattle of the strange carriages across the cobblestone, knocking the droppings about or smashing them, echoed here in a way she found somewhat appealing, as it helped her to think in a strange way. Watching the small cart off to the side of the Temple's gate, where the priests sold the honey and charms and assorted symbols of Mansa that somehow managed to keep things going, even though she knew that paladins and clerics that used the Adventurer's Guild tossed large chunks of their takings the Temple's way.
She'd never had much truck with Mansa, if it came to a point where she did have to go to a Temple, she'd likely choose Vulcana, though she wasn't baptized to her. Her mother had long ago had her baptized to Ululani, but that Power was not her cup of tea in the slightest -- besides, it wasn't like the Powers did much anyway, and they still hadn't made up for the way they had turned their backs on everyone in ages past.
Daisy was pretty sure they deserved it. But that wasn't why she waited here. Mansa was a jerk and if you wanted a goon who was a faithful jerk to shew themselves, one of the best things to do was wait for them to show up on Faith's Day.
The smell of fresh bread mingled with the scent of honey and butter in nose, and her stomach burbled. "Okay, okay, fine!" she muttered at her betraying bodies and merged into the stream of shoppers, keeping an eye half on the gate as she reached the Creamery first and traded two bits off her string for a pocket crock of butter, then turned and headed back to the Bakery a few shops down fro where she'd been watching -- conveniently across from the Temple cart.
She picked up a handloaf and split it, the rich warmth of the large bun sharing its aroma, and she carefully made her way across the broad avenue to the cart as she use her finger to spread the butter in a thick line down the center. Three bits they wanted for a drizzle of the Honey, and she was pretty certain they only gave a fair portion because she wore her badge in full view. The Bishop was a miserly man, and this Novitiate Curate wasn't going to give a woman much thought or concern anyway.
As she turned, the gates opened, and she shoved a chunk of the butter and honey drizzled warm bread into her mouth. "Of course it would be now," she muttered around the mouthful.
There he was. All seven and a half feet of him, the merest tinge of green in is skin and hair noticeable only if you looked for it, the otherwise bright lavender hair and sparkling citrine eyes dancing as they always did, his senses ever aware, his whole demeanor always on point, ever ready. He spotted her and grinned, those feet that were easily the size of her torso lightly treading, even in the heavy boots, as he made his way to her.
"My, my, my, as I live and breathe! Been a season, Daisy, and you are still as fresh as ever. Didn't you know flowers wilt?"
Daisy laughed, despite herself. "Hiya, Roane. still dodging birds up there?" she said as the massive man wrapped her in a war hug. "Got a few?"
"I do believe today is Faith's day, molly. And as you know, on Faith's Day I always have time." He snagged a hunk of almost a third of what was left deftly in his fingers, popping the bread and butter into his mouth and licing his fingers of honey. "Dunedin's?"
Daisy grinned. "Dunedin's. Escort me, good sir?"
Roane snorted. "That's a lark. An ogre escorting a Reeve? Have you not heard? 'Tis quite the other way around usually."
"Strange, I don't see irons on you."
"Ah, well, molly, the day is yet young!" Roane laughed. " Come, tell me of the boundless miscreants of this fair city as we walk. I seem to have heard tell in some circles of a Reeve who tangled with a Skythe."
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I have a question for the amazing ppls of this thread :3
Is there a way to put spoilers in a post without pressing the designated button?
I am unable to use any of the buttons like the spoilers and the dice roller so I have to type them manually. is there a way to manually put a spoiler in a post?
I have a question for the amazing ppls of this thread :3
Is there a way to put spoilers in a post without pressing the designated button?
I am unable to use any of the buttons like the spoilers and the dice roller so I have to type them manually. is there a way to manually put a spoiler in a post?
No, you would need to hit the button for the html code to type that in. If you turn your phone to landscape mode you can access those buttons as long as you’re using your phone’s browser and not the app.
I love the idea of most of the magitech being underwater. Imagine exploring some underwater ruins and suddenly the giant statue in the middle activated and turned into something like a Colossus of akros
Yeah! A bit like Subnautica if you've played that game
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I love subnautica.
also, depending on what level your players are, you should have a boss fight with a Leviathan
Maybe! They might not like the setting though, they often prefer things like Ravenloft and Forgotten Realms that they already know
Resident Mushroom 🍄
That’s understandable. Premade settings are usually easier to run because most players already know a lot about them.
there comes a point, in most game groups time, when they need to be shown that knowing everything, that having everything be familiar, steals some of the fun. THey know how to take out every monster the have plans and strategies and they aren't surprised.
That is the time to bring the to a place they do not know, they do not expect, they do not have all the answers for. Then they begin to learn the real secret joys of D&D (and other RPGs).
That huge parts of the fun of it is in figuring it out without knowing, in claiming that for yourself. In learning and growing and exploring and becoming.
You can test it, should you doubt, or need to see if they are ready.
Create a beast they have never seen, and let them learn its secrets without telling them anything.
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Speaking of Neverending stories, there's a magnificent web series called Neverending Nights.
(I may be biased...)
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Sooo I have a question for everyone:
in your homebrew world, if you have one, can gods die? And if so, how?
in my world, only the creator deity Tiamat (she’s a sea goddess in my world) and a specific few of her children can kill the gods. But there’s a type of god called an Overlord that used to be a mortal person that, through sheer force of Will and the prayers and belief of others, has become a god. These gods can be killed by anything that could Kill another god, but also if people stop believing they are divine. If they are forgotten, they die. If someone makes a fool of them in front of thousands of mortals, that can hurt them. Anything that makes them seem more mortal, and less divine, can harm them and make them less powerful. So basically you can kill them with humor.
My world has no gods, it instead has immortals.
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Historically, most of the time, yes (except for the God of Nothing).
This next go round...
No. Which actually has importance in the larger schema. You see, there were 5 other gods who "died" during the massive war 15 centuries ago. ^ in total, and while one is "back", that one is not quite right in the head, lol. The other five are also out there, somewhere, still, but have chosen for assorted reasons to simply not "come back".Among them is one of the ones who was most popular.
I draw a very sharp line between Mortal and Immortal beings. A Mortal being is any being who can die. This is not in the sense of "oh, their spirit lives on", this is in the sense of their physical form can die, and rot and all that -- no "fades into ash or dust or sparkles". I mean, they are a big ass lump of flesh that starts rotting (and, not coincidentally, can be inhabited by a miasmata and animated an undead).
However, Immortal beings can have a shell. A sort of puppet body they use to interact with the world directly -- and that shell is always a mortal shell because anything that manifests in the Ephemeral Dimension of the Plane of Mortality is struck with Enfleshment and Mortality. It is why Nightmares can be physically slain during the Mortal Combats. The Exceptions are summoned beings, who are protected by the summoning -- and this creates some challenges.
Most Planar beings are not Immortal. Only the direct children and grandchildren of the Powers are Immortal -- after that, everything is mortal. Kill an Arch Devil and they will die.
Now, witt his, goes a whole part of what the afterlife is like, because all mortal things that die have their Quintelan, their Five Selves, enter into The Cycle, and they are reincarnated in some other dimension. What is left unspoken a lot of the time is that this means that a lot of Devils and Demons may once have been people of the world, and a lot of the people of the world may once have been demons or devils. This has no effect on PCs, mind you -- it is strictly a lore thing...
... except for when Reincarnate is used several years after death. Raise dead and Resurrection have very short timelines to work (raise dead is a week, res is 49 days), but Reincarnation can be done up to 15 years after death. When someone dies, they enter a Liminal state for a week, and then they reborn in soe new dimension, losing their past memories and all that. But if you reincarnate them before their 15th birthday (coming of Age), that new body dies, and they are hastily reassembled into a younger version of the last body on the Ephemeral Plane and they regain their old memories -- and keep the ones they had of those up to 15 years of a new life.
In one sense, it is like a forced isekai, lol. And if in the life here they carried around a huge amount of those darker emotions, and tended to lean towards ore infernal alignments, well, that technically could have been a Hag, Demon, Devil, or Mortal of the Infernal Plane's Mortal Realm. And would remember it.
Yeah, it weird.
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So in my world my gods can die - but not by mortal hands. Another deity can murder another.
So for example, when I first started my homebrew - I had a lot of deities. Like. A lot. And I just kept rolling with it. But I began to see which ones weren't really getting much attention from players (Clerics, Paladins, Druids, Rangers, etc., not following them - because in my campaign - their magic is divine - and requires the worship or representing a specific deity)... And over time, I just took note, "Well, here's a bunch of deities that are just fluff. They're sphere are represented elsewhere and more commonly selected by those deities by my players... "
So I had a big, epic (we're talking it was something like 30 sessions long from start to finish) Dwarf / Drow War that my players found themselves in the center of. And at the time, the Drow goddess (pretty much Lolth, for the sake of the argument) was a banished goddess - and the Drow were trying to bring her back. And not only that, have their main priestess ascend with a special body for her - Well, the party stopped the Priestess from Ascending (which would have had a major impact had they failed) - but they did not stop the goddess from awakening and ascending to godhood once more.
So I used that as an opportunity to kill off some of my less useful deities. I killed off eight deities - one for each leg of the Spider Queen.
And what was fun is - one of the "useless gods" was a god of wisdom and another as a god of judgement.
The god of wisdom's demise led to a larger story of this powerful artifact that was found that the god tried to bestow to his most faithful follower sensing his own demise coming - but all the infinite wisdom was too much and the follower went mad. That follower's skull became an incredible artifact - that a Beholder has now gotten a hold of - and has learned how it can ascend to godhood - and now there's a party chasing him down to stop him.
For the god of judgement - his demise played a big part in another game (since all of my games are connected - what happens in one game impacts my other four games I run) - where it's more horror themed - they discovered there's so many restless spirits - and this is because people who have died - are no longer being judged to go to salvation or damnation - so they're stuck in between.
So, it was great that these deities who were rarely used while alive, have become WAY more useful deceased and providing very incredible storylines.
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
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I hadn't thought of deities dying then coming back so therefore they can die.
Generally I don't involve them in such a direct manner, but this has sparked a few ideas I can throw at my players.
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In the game I'm playing in, the whole setting is built around this. We come into the picture 10 years after a vicious war between the gods that devasted swaths of land and killed many people, and gods were known to "die" multiple times. There's also a concept of mortals ascending to godhood, but that secret has been lost... until now, perhaps.
So, in reading through my stuff, what appears to have happened (it has been like 5 years since I wrote it) is that when their shells were destroyed (which they did not know they had at the time), they were shunted into a personal Demiplane. Only one of them has realized that and left their demiplane -- and that god is Mad.
It can be a bit tricky, because all the gods have multiple names, and I have to remember that at times my Pedants (the people who are explaining things to the PCs while they are in a liminal state, awaiting creation) are not always reliable narrators.
OH, um, yeah, I forgot, lol. People actually do pick what they want to be when they grow up before they are born on Wyrlde. The Conceit allows me to use "in-world" beings as guides and explainers, and all of the originally come from somewhere else -- which they all call Earth, but which is very different for each of them, lol. Each of them takes this "metaphor" about being reborn into the world as a game, differently, too -- but they are using game rules and mechanics to explain how things work.
The combination of multiple perspectives, variable voices, and such gives me an out should I screw up, lol as well as provide the flexibility to change things if needed.
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Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
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Daisy leaned against the building, arms folded, one foot resting on the wall, watching the traffic roll back and forth, pedestrians passing, some buying from the shops counter as they moved, most of them giving little thought or attention to the high walls across the way, and even less to the two bored priests that stood to either side of the ornately carved gate.
The clatter of hooves and the rattle of the strange carriages across the cobblestone, knocking the droppings about or smashing them, echoed here in a way she found somewhat appealing, as it helped her to think in a strange way. Watching the small cart off to the side of the Temple's gate, where the priests sold the honey and charms and assorted symbols of Mansa that somehow managed to keep things going, even though she knew that paladins and clerics that used the Adventurer's Guild tossed large chunks of their takings the Temple's way.
She'd never had much truck with Mansa, if it came to a point where she did have to go to a Temple, she'd likely choose Vulcana, though she wasn't baptized to her. Her mother had long ago had her baptized to Ululani, but that Power was not her cup of tea in the slightest -- besides, it wasn't like the Powers did much anyway, and they still hadn't made up for the way they had turned their backs on everyone in ages past.
Daisy was pretty sure they deserved it. But that wasn't why she waited here. Mansa was a jerk and if you wanted a goon who was a faithful jerk to shew themselves, one of the best things to do was wait for them to show up on Faith's Day.
The smell of fresh bread mingled with the scent of honey and butter in nose, and her stomach burbled. "Okay, okay, fine!" she muttered at her betraying bodies and merged into the stream of shoppers, keeping an eye half on the gate as she reached the Creamery first and traded two bits off her string for a pocket crock of butter, then turned and headed back to the Bakery a few shops down fro where she'd been watching -- conveniently across from the Temple cart.
She picked up a handloaf and split it, the rich warmth of the large bun sharing its aroma, and she carefully made her way across the broad avenue to the cart as she use her finger to spread the butter in a thick line down the center. Three bits they wanted for a drizzle of the Honey, and she was pretty certain they only gave a fair portion because she wore her badge in full view. The Bishop was a miserly man, and this Novitiate Curate wasn't going to give a woman much thought or concern anyway.
As she turned, the gates opened, and she shoved a chunk of the butter and honey drizzled warm bread into her mouth. "Of course it would be now," she muttered around the mouthful.
There he was. All seven and a half feet of him, the merest tinge of green in is skin and hair noticeable only if you looked for it, the otherwise bright lavender hair and sparkling citrine eyes dancing as they always did, his senses ever aware, his whole demeanor always on point, ever ready. He spotted her and grinned, those feet that were easily the size of her torso lightly treading, even in the heavy boots, as he made his way to her.
"My, my, my, as I live and breathe! Been a season, Daisy, and you are still as fresh as ever. Didn't you know flowers wilt?"
Daisy laughed, despite herself. "Hiya, Roane. still dodging birds up there?" she said as the massive man wrapped her in a war hug. "Got a few?"
"I do believe today is Faith's day, molly. And as you know, on Faith's Day I always have time." He snagged a hunk of almost a third of what was left deftly in his fingers, popping the bread and butter into his mouth and licing his fingers of honey. "Dunedin's?"
Daisy grinned. "Dunedin's. Escort me, good sir?"
Roane snorted. "That's a lark. An ogre escorting a Reeve? Have you not heard? 'Tis quite the other way around usually."
"Strange, I don't see irons on you."
"Ah, well, molly, the day is yet young!" Roane laughed. " Come, tell me of the boundless miscreants of this fair city as we walk. I seem to have heard tell in some circles of a Reeve who tangled with a Skythe."
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I am unable to use any of the buttons like the spoilers and the dice roller so I have to type them manually. is there a way to manually put a spoiler in a post?
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