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[strange_aeons]

I think my muse and I are going to have to Have Words.

Before I elaborate on that, I'm going to note that I posted my last entry on Thursday, at around three fifteen AM. Thursday was 2 January. The entry is datestamped 1 January because I didn't notice until after I'd written it that my clock was set wrong. That explains footnote one, which, out of the context in this post, looks completely stupid.

Okay, back to my muse. See, I think the little son of a bitch has been looking over teinedreugan's muse's shoulder. This is my fault, I should know better than to leave him unsupervised, but dammit, I've been working on this behavior for years and he still does it the moment I look away.

In one of the posts below I mentioned a campaign I wanted to run, and went on for a bit about portions of the setting. I didn't go into any detail about the seed of the actual story, which could work in any number of settings, and is:

There are good gods and bad gods, and a world to which they are integral. What the people in this world don't know is that it was created for a purpose by the good gods — it's a trap for the bad ones. Now that the bad gods are sufficiently entrenched, the good ones have packed up their things and left, locking the door behind themselves. All is chaos and dystopia. Now it falls to our band of intrepid adventurers to....

Well, I haven't quite worked that last bit out yet. I've been hammering on the problem on and off, and paging vaguely through the Epic-Level Handbook¹ in the hopes of finding an idea in there, because this is clearly an epic-level sort of campaign idea, but no dice. Then the other day I was talking to lilairen (actually, more like she was addressing a group including but not limited to lstone and me) about Semtek², the epic D&D campaign Teine is running and highly entertaining session summaries of which Darkhawk posts periodically.³ She mentioned the Epic-Level Handbook, and I thought of this as-yet-unnamed campaign, and like an ironically holy light from heaven I realized that the party needed to kill each of the bad gods and divvy their powers up among themselves, and in so doing become the world's new pantheon.

Then Darkhawk explained that the party in Semtek will be killing each of the bad gods and divvying up their powers among themselves, and in so doing will become the world's new pantheon.

D'oh.

The riding crop clearly isn't doing the job. I'm going to try beating my muse with a board with a nail through it.

¹ I don't like D&D and I don't know it well enough for that opinion to be much more than irrational prejudice, but this setting is very D&Dish. It's even got racial modifiers and things. I doubt I'll be using D&D for the game, assuming I ever run the game, but it never hurts to poke around for ideas.

² This name, which, like Devta, sounds like the name of a technology corporation, coupled with the somewhat logo-y recurring image of a symmetrical mountain, led me to some extremely vague and also totally inaccurate suspicions about where he was going with the campaign.

³ I apologize for this sentence. Look, I don't make the English language. I just work here.

Comments

[kiya]

On the other hand, the symmetrical mountain is a pretty good conversationalist.