Post by Tout-Perd on May 3, 2016 9:13:34 GMT -5
So, with the reboot, we've talked about the bigger stuff, but what about small details? Within my cast:
-Thyra's sling is no longer a holy weapon. It's still indestructible, but I kinda like making it a bit more ambiguous where it came from, and I feel giving her a holy weapon both cheapens her, and Zebedee by muddling their distinct power sets. (Not to mention that Thyra's primary foes include the Fascere Order, which a holy weapon would be kinda Hax against) If there's any modern posts where she does her "holy explosion thing", I'll prolly just fix it so she chucked a grenade instead. If there's any posts where it explicitly needs to be holy stuff, she used to use glass sphere that her sling would charge, so maybe she had some of those and Zebedee charged them up for her.
-Zebedee never went by Lee. If there's any posts where that matters in any major topics, feel free to direct me to them so I can fix them somehow. Instead, due to a few situations in the current Archipelago, I think it's reasonable that the actually have legislation in place for naturalizing citizens of other dimensions. After all, ORP seems to be something of a dimensional nexus, and the Archipelago is a big bleed-through point. So instead of faking an identity, he probably just went through a bunch of steps to become a citizen.
Furthermore, he was never a trainer. Instead, he probably served in the city legislature of Whelkshore or something like that.
-I really want to retcon Garth's name to Templeton, since it's sooo much more fitting of a name for him (considering page 1 Garth had actually been planned as Abatis in disguise in Triannual, so his name was picked for a totally different personality). I shall not do such, but if I ever gave a middle name for Garth, I'm retconning it to Templeton. So he's now Garth Templeton Firbolg. Don't worry guys, I'm not going to pull a Natalie- He still goes by Garth.
-Not a retcon but something that was stated ambiguously- Natalie's O-Sceard, the one she gave to Nachoset to shut him up, let her take any form. Her current one actually has a fairly limited list of creatures she's able to shift into, because her and Sly had to make a new one.
-We're changing Bagan to some other name, though the people who this has repercussions on have yet to find a name we all like for it. Furthermore, instead of being some Godzilla rhino-dragon monster, we're going with it being some sort of giant sea-slug dragon looking thing. Like, imagine one of these, but silver and jade in color scheme, hundreds of feet long, drifting over the countryside with swaths of greenery errupting destructively in its wake.
FORTUNATELY, I'm fairly sure Miko NEVER ACTUALLY USED BAGAN in a post-Archipelago Exodus thread, so this is going to be minimally disruptive.
-Not sure, but I think I'm going to retcon out Maude having Deutalios and Ayg. I don't like her having such directly offensive summons. She'll still have Caladrius, since it fits her motif, and isn't a rip, but I prefer most of Maude's attack abilities coming from just pummeling the hell out of people.
-Thyra's sling is no longer a holy weapon. It's still indestructible, but I kinda like making it a bit more ambiguous where it came from, and I feel giving her a holy weapon both cheapens her, and Zebedee by muddling their distinct power sets. (Not to mention that Thyra's primary foes include the Fascere Order, which a holy weapon would be kinda Hax against) If there's any modern posts where she does her "holy explosion thing", I'll prolly just fix it so she chucked a grenade instead. If there's any posts where it explicitly needs to be holy stuff, she used to use glass sphere that her sling would charge, so maybe she had some of those and Zebedee charged them up for her.
-Zebedee never went by Lee. If there's any posts where that matters in any major topics, feel free to direct me to them so I can fix them somehow. Instead, due to a few situations in the current Archipelago, I think it's reasonable that the actually have legislation in place for naturalizing citizens of other dimensions. After all, ORP seems to be something of a dimensional nexus, and the Archipelago is a big bleed-through point. So instead of faking an identity, he probably just went through a bunch of steps to become a citizen.
Furthermore, he was never a trainer. Instead, he probably served in the city legislature of Whelkshore or something like that.
-I really want to retcon Garth's name to Templeton, since it's sooo much more fitting of a name for him (considering page 1 Garth had actually been planned as Abatis in disguise in Triannual, so his name was picked for a totally different personality). I shall not do such, but if I ever gave a middle name for Garth, I'm retconning it to Templeton. So he's now Garth Templeton Firbolg. Don't worry guys, I'm not going to pull a Natalie- He still goes by Garth.
-Not a retcon but something that was stated ambiguously- Natalie's O-Sceard, the one she gave to Nachoset to shut him up, let her take any form. Her current one actually has a fairly limited list of creatures she's able to shift into, because her and Sly had to make a new one.
-We're changing Bagan to some other name, though the people who this has repercussions on have yet to find a name we all like for it. Furthermore, instead of being some Godzilla rhino-dragon monster, we're going with it being some sort of giant sea-slug dragon looking thing. Like, imagine one of these, but silver and jade in color scheme, hundreds of feet long, drifting over the countryside with swaths of greenery errupting destructively in its wake.
FORTUNATELY, I'm fairly sure Miko NEVER ACTUALLY USED BAGAN in a post-Archipelago Exodus thread, so this is going to be minimally disruptive.
-Not sure, but I think I'm going to retcon out Maude having Deutalios and Ayg. I don't like her having such directly offensive summons. She'll still have Caladrius, since it fits her motif, and isn't a rip, but I prefer most of Maude's attack abilities coming from just pummeling the hell out of people.