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so real. OOC oversight was often (not always) used as an excuse to just tell your student to read the lore vs actually teaching them through practical lessons. while removing it won’t solve the problem of bad actors doing half assed lessons, it’s a step in the right direction. im not the most active and i feel bad when i cant meet with students consistently, but doing it OOC felt like it always robbed some RP potential between student and teacher. Worst case scenario students can RPly find other TAs to get in person lessons if their teacher is inactive, which is something they’d probably be driven to do if their teacher isn’t around. Limiting OOC oversight will encourage people to seek other avenues for obtaining their lessons and I’d like to see more of that.

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real

i approve of this tier list

oh nice I can finally stop powergaming items I don’t have

finally some good lore.

This is true, I didn't think about this. It'll be an easy fix, just making sure there's an obvious cap on how many people can be on 1 altar (potentially changing how many we can make etc.), just one example of many. Altars are a fun little piece but if this amendment was to be accepted, a few gray areas need to be trimmed. I'll reach out to Pallodium about either adding onto this amendment or releasing a second one to align with it. Primary concern would just be so that you can't abuse it; But even then with the existence of rivaling covens, it would actually give the Seers in question a means to RPly challenge whatever they see as "wrong" with the approach. So sure, someone could stack an altar up to keep a large group safe, but that doesn't prevent a smaller group (who thinks they are better for X or Y delusional Vaseek-fed reason) from lurching out and getting in the way. A good example from Pup being a plot to kill the king, and a smaller sect resorting to alternative tactics to protect said king. I think it'd be really fun for the players that aren't seers, because it would be so RPly and OOCly obvious that some shit is going down without you ever being able to pinpoint it. This references the importance of us not being able to spread info to people beyond Seer as a whole, as it requires us to be smart in our approach. If Seer group A wishes to dismantle B's plans, they'd have to be so meticulous as to not accidentally break a tenet, that the idea of "Seer Conflict" would be unlike any other form of conflict on the server. For example, a Seer might embed themselves deeply within a social group in a nation as a natural form of defense, as getting to that player in question would be very difficult without alerting the non-Seers that might be affiliated. A lot of needless rambling, but this is just one schizophrenic example of something "interesting" I could see coming from this. It's a fantastic magic to basically take the raw essence of whatever your character is, and turn that into its own thing. Be it evil, misguided, good with bad consequences? Doesn't really matter, it's a magic that provides the tools. The main thing that pushes people away is the community, and the expectation that they'd be "Forced" to get along with everyone. It's not the only cause for a lot of great players getting disenfranchised and ultimately quitting, but it is a big thing that steers people away (Not to dismiss the community as a whole, just some people's RP is not everyone's cup'o'tea, and that's A-OK. No one should feel forced into one niche or the other, especially with a magic that promotes a lot of individual character growth / experimenting.). tl;dr i think magic has too many people. adding filters like this would be good, because the alternative is rotting in a corner due to inaction. vaseek would imo look at the way seer is now vs how it was and go "yeah, change is needed." as the lore was designed to server a much smaller community. all that needs to be revised is the altars to make sure they are updated to allow for this new "cabal-forming".

Love you for this, not going to bother scanning too many replies because the tenet systems have been very misunderstood by the seers, and I think this fixes most of the main issues. not the first time I’ve seen either people come to me, or come to others about “Tenet breaking behavior.” When there’s often nothing that directly protects against seer conflict. (Beyond plots being outed of course.) my view is that if you as a seer cannot naturally defend your plot from other seers, you don’t deserve the magic. I’m tired of seeing people cry wolf due to thinking the magic by default prevents them from being messed with. I think the only thing necessary to imply, which I believe you did (Correct me if I am wrong), was to prevent a Seer from being able to release any info at all about Seers as a whole to non-seers. I believe this covers it well enough, just wanted to make sure I shared the importance of it. Allowing people to get other groups involved would spark bad faith, but I think allowing the seers to do Spy V Spy conflict against each other would help a lot with the core issue of the magic. We have too many people, and too many clashing ideals; Doing one thing that a few people disagree with has in a lot of cases caused a public outcry, which was often immediately solved when it was explained no tenets were broken. And this being a LORE thing, where Vaseek basically goes “Yeah my blind fucks are too stupid and incompetent, I’ll let them weed each other out.” is something I think he would be very prone to doing. BEGIN THE SEER WAR. BLIND V BLIND. RAHHHH P.S. sorry for not helping you write this, I’m lazy. but it’s better than what I imagined. pallodium for president 2028.

holy shit **** this is gorgeous

very healthy change, bring back the tawkin hate! taboo!!!! rahh clay!!!!!

glad to see the different map states, that’s the only thing that I missed seeing from older maps / versions.

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thanks creamynoteblock

from the briefest glance this looks sick

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i didnt even read any of the text, the image is enough to sell me on the idea

God save the queen.

In regards to some recent complaints, no, christmantown is NOT a prison. No one here is a hostage, and everyone in christmantown has free will, I can assure that.

The Less-Great Villager, Right Hand to the Great Villager, First of his Name, Planter of Wheat, christmantown OSHA CEO, and Mercant of the Trading Outpost (ST APPROVED) recommends christmantown. 10/10.

your average magic user having to figure out which of their 134+ ST items to bring through the vault

More means to circumvent killing is always best, killing as a spook is CRINGE

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