Gallic

hey this is exactly what I wanted to do but I ended up getting anxious and erasing my ET app

A little fae thing by the name of Faei coughs up a torn slip of paper munched from a publication of an old decree, which by sheer coincidence details the dwarven intent not just to kill September, but to fight all of nature.

A sprite that vacations in dunshire feels targeted, and thus develops an even more adamant sense of mischief and mirth.

An old spirit's interest is piqued by another publication from an intriguing mortal.

"Ye WOT?" Yells Gwion, his jimmies rustled. "I spent the prime years 'o my life tryin te keep Daeland alive an' ye abandoned us the fek you TALKIN' ABOUT ALISTAIR? FALSE DAELAND GALLICS?" The dude, now old, wheezes. "By tha time we left, we were th'only ones there. We stuck around te try to make Daeland work. You didn't. Keep our names out yer mouth."

"Oi wait Ceru was never under attack by undead, I was there!" Gwion comments despite everyone else arguing about other things. "It was giant animals and bad druids!"

"Oi last time the Orcs renamed themselves ta the Iron Uzg didn't they unleash the spirit o' disease onto the mortal plane?" Asks Gwion to anybody as he witnesses posters on one of his visits to his old ( probably inactive or dead honestly ) orc pals.

A little fairy guy hoots excitedly for her favorite superhero's next adventure.

So wait, just... Habitats again?

Wait, an hour in advance? For just normal raids? I'm not even a raid guy but that sounds like hot trash for people who like to go screw with settlements. I like the idea of raids needing a base to start from, but I'd think the time to get from that base to the place you're going should be all the advance needed. I also like the idea of raiders needing IC allegiance, I think it's a decent compromise for people who feel as though a lot of pvp-ish factions are OOC groups. The head thing, though, is not cool. Heads or npcs being taken have been used extensively in the past as IC justification to harrass people a group OOC'ly dislikes, and it's something I've seen happen to multiple friends of mine. They were coerced into giving their heads to people, and the idea that you can just skip the whole consent part wholesale would make this problem even worse. This change also proposes that chests can be, without a roll, broken into and looted by goon guys. Settlements can potentially be raided every TWO DAYS with INFINITE GOONS with this change. This will probably culminate in people routinely stuffing their valuables into high-security vaults deep underground. Also, what's the point of heists if raids allow you to loot chests without even rolling? Another change I like is allowing villains to come in groups of at most three without counting as a raid. That's nice. I wrote that all as I was reading through it, so to put the points I care about down more legibly: + IC allegiance required, + Villains allowed to cause trouble, - Non-consensual head taking, - Free-reign chest looting, - Raiders need to wait an hour before they can actually raid,

A little fairy guy wrings its hands while scheming.

if mani exist and they've been summoned in the past why wouldn't they be summoned now magic demigod animals bestowing wisdom upon desperate worshipers is an amazing fantasy trope also I think the phrasing of "summoning" might be confusing some people, from what I understand they aren't like, conjuring big demigods; they're inviting them to arrive, and if their efforts are noticed and the mani feels like it, they make an appearance

*cough* hi it's me, gallic, the non-druid human who leads a culture that holds mani in a status of worship and occasionally holds rituals for them

*cough* hey y'know who's a group of nomadic humans who worship mani and live in southern atlas Anyway, I dig this. I was afraid it'd change the image of the Mani, but instead it just added more clarity to the image that already exists. +1

"If ye like the empire so much, ye shouldn't feel the need ta lie in the face 'o GOD." Comments the human guy Gwion in case the magic poster guy is anywhere nearby, waiting to tear down an elf's fruity handwriting.

"You wot?" Quotes Gwion, a human.

Wow okay so, I know this probably isn't the intent, but I don't want PvP goons getting the right to grief my builds IC, based on my past experience being around such crews. Yeah, I get that it's realistic and all, but in reality people weren't raided every five days by people who hate them on a metaphysical out-of-body level.

"As long as ye don't burn innocent nomads at the stake again." Grumbles the nomadic barbarian chief Gwion with ancestral Oren-related trauma.