The Syndicate

Scotty wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:51 pm

Alison wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:37 pm Since me, Mac and Tim all mercilessly slaughtered each other when all three of us were town in Double Elimination we should make up for it by agreeing to hold hands and dance in a circle and treat each other as locktown this game.

Someone so quick to townlock others 45 minutes into the game makes me uncomfy.

They hard called you wolf off some opening post NAI stuff and you just fluffed that off, but you are uncomfortable with an equally unfounded town read?

Alison wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:42 pm What's your opinion on Scotty, Tim?

Seems okay. Response to Mac and you with the out of the blue tunnel maybe a little too calm, but they seem to have experience with Mac so maybe they just expect that kind of thing. The lack of experience with ES games seems honest to me, for whatever that proves to be worth.

Alison wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:40 pm

Timsup2nothin wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:37 pm They are Daedra shrines...they are almost all some degree of "bad." According to the game materials it appears we all (town and maf) have a number of shrines to choose from and those shrines will give various abilities. I take that to mean that no players in particular are special and that the typical "PR" stuff will be handed out of the shrines to whoever. Presumably the maf will use those powers against the town and the town will try to use those powers against the maf...but the shrines/daedra themselves are best looked at as just neutral.

I don't think all Daedra are evil. Meridia and Azura are arguably good. Hircine is more of a force of nature than something that falls into the spectrum of good and evil. Sheogorath is mostly harmless.

The Daedra aren't evil. Mostly they don't give a damn. In the sense of "destruction clears a place for something new, so it isn't good or evil, just happens." Mehrunes Dagon doesn't want to destroy everything out of some evil intent, it's just what he does. Generally though his followers will be asking him for "hey destroy my enemies first" type favors so most people are gonna get a bad feeling towards him.

Anyway, in most ES settings I just try to steer clear of Daedra, but I'll go shrining along with everyone else at night and try to get something useful for the town.

Alison wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:34 pm

Timsup2nothin wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:31 pm

Alison wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:28 pm I have a confirmable PR that is unambiguously town-sided.

This seems unlikely from Sloonei's opening material posts, but no one is likely to be in a hurry to kill you, so sure...demonstrate.

One of us is misunderstanding the setup I think.

My reading is that each character accesses different powers from different shrines. So as an example. Altmer Noble may be able to access shrines A, B, C, D and E. Argonian Mage may be able to access shrines C, D, E, F and G. Both can access shrine C but they get different powers from accessing shrine C based on the flavor of C as well as their own character's flavor.

One of the powers I can access from a shrine is confirmable and I think pretty pro-town.

If you have detailed info on what powers you get from various shrines you are way ahead of me, but I'm pretty deeply in the "yeah typical NPC type character" pool, so sure. Thanks for clarifying because I was mostly thinking this was your fairly typical early game claim and not really aligning well with the set-up, but it does make sense enough now.

Scotty wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:31 pm

Timsup2nothin wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:26 pm

Scotty wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:23 pm

Timsup2nothin wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:21 pm I think all the good power type actions are going to be available to all town players based on shrine visits

U wot m8

I must be the exception then..

I mean, it says the powers are one shots that come from visiting shrines, and that we ALL get to visit shrines.

Gotcha.

So you’re saying that the town are utilizing all shrines as a whole, and maybe the baddies are overlapping town shrines?

They are Daedra shrines...they are almost all some degree of "bad." According to the game materials it appears we all (town and maf) have a number of shrines to choose from and those shrines will give various abilities. I take that to mean that no players in particular are special and that the typical "PR" stuff will be handed out of the shrines to whoever. Presumably the maf will use those powers against the town and the town will try to use those powers against the maf...but the shrines/daedra themselves are best looked at as just neutral.

Alison wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:28 pm I have a confirmable PR that is unambiguously town-sided.

This seems unlikely from Sloonei's opening material posts, but no one is likely to be in a hurry to kill you, so sure...demonstrate.

Scotty wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:23 pm

Timsup2nothin wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 7:21 pm I think all the good power type actions are going to be available to all town players based on shrine visits

U wot m8

I must be the exception then..

I mean, it says the powers are one shots that come from visiting shrines, and that we ALL get to visit shrines.

So, historically this is where I make the one word post; "first" and then dip for several hours. I have always found that amusing, since I am never actually first. However, I have been putting off a change in playstyle for several games due to an unfortunate series of rands and the opportunity has finally arrived. No one word humor driven first post. No threadsitting fluff posting. No obnoxiously refusing to give reads. I'm just here to town it up and if the wolves NK me for it that's fine.

I wanted to do this in GoC but that vig rand; I had to play it to stay alive. I have read through all the rules and such in the OP and my own role, and I think all the good power type actions are going to be available to all town players based on shrine visits so I am just one of many and eating the early NK will be fine.

I do have a pretty strong amount of experience with Elder Scrolls games, though I think Sloonei is writing a new story here and that knowledge is background at best. If anyone has questions I will try to help though. Ping me.

As a first cut, Azura is generally the most inclined to help mortals among the Daedra...and Mehrunes Dagon should really translate as "run the other way as fast as you can" so I am most likely not visiting that shrine ever.