kloa posted:

can...can I sex the fish?!

Angela Christine posted:

No, they've explicitly said that you can't play the sex mini-game with animals or children. Being the internet they had to spell that out for everyone.

Four Score posted:

if they're not trying to snatch up the Second Life demographic who do they think they're making this game for?

Four Score posted:

if they're not trying to snatch up the Second Life demographic who do they think they're making this game for?

Vitamin P posted:

Why don't people just masturbate. Why do and pay for this elaborate stuff.

kloa posted:

can...can I sex the fish?!

Bieeardo posted:

Dude, no, that's how we get Deep Ones.

Ryen Deckard posted:

They're following the Star Citizen model but for people who can just be deviants on second life?

Angela Christine posted:

No, they've explicitly said that you can't play the sex mini-game with animals.

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General Attributes
Bees are the smallest of birds. They are born from the bodies of oxen, or from the decaying flesh of slaughtered calves; worms form in the flesh and then turn into bees. Bees live in community, choose the most noble among them as king, have wars, and make honey. Their laws are based on custom, but the king does not enforce the law; rather the lawbreakers punish themselves by stinging themselves to death. Bees are afraid of smoke and are excited by noise. Each has its own duty: guarding the food supply, watching for rain, collecting dew to make honey, and making wax from flowers.

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Rhys likes to think of himself as a stargazer. Every night, he uses his telescope and scans the stars. He notes the passage of those that take their own paths across the sky, and do not keep concert with the rest of the firmament. These are the harbingers of the powers known to astrology as the Wanderers. They appear, move across the firmament, and vanish on their own schedule.

Rhys knows that the Wanderers are tied to the events occurring on the surface of Theleston, and that by keeping careful track he may cultivate an understanding of what powers are ascendant at any given time. To many, this would be trivial knowledge. The celestial body known as “Iceflower” is always in the sky for the winter season, the yellow star “Sunchild” always climbs the sky in the spring, to fall in the summer and stay hidden for the rest of the year. To an average yam farmer, the positions of these stars means little more than to plant or reap, but to those with an eye on the occult, the positions of the Wanderers can speak volumes.

Not only do the appearance and movement of the Wanderers suggest to the initiated what powers are active in the world, the Wanderers can indicate which powers can be called upon, when they can be cast out, or what, if any, limits there are on those that seek to wield the most powerful magics on Theleston. Ritual magics are tied to the stars’ position inextricably, and most rituals must be performed when certain celestial bodies are in the sky, and in the right place - lest they fail, or worse.

Nearly a month past, while Nodens’ cold blue Chariot was making a slow traversal of the heavens, the guardian statues in Nightgaunt’s Reach were seen to animate and perambulate the square, and when that cult of Beth-Khalor terrorized Skypass, bolstered by blood magic and killing in the streets, it was by the light of red Ghora, the star called “The Fox” by the Brauggines of Greyshore. Rhys has even read a tale of a great comet called only Nemesis, that legend says will call out to all Great Old Ones, eliciting strife upon Theleston as it passes.

Tonight there is a new star in the sky, one Rhys has not seen before. This is interesting to be sure, but is not necessarily negative. It could simply be that this new body is on a long cycle, and Rhys has never seen it in his time learning to read the stars, or it could be that this star hasn’t before shone in the skies. It’s likely that the thing bears some portent, at any rate. It’s rarity alone suggests as much, but what does it mean? Rhys is curious, perhaps his colleagues in his astrologer’s Charter Organization will know.

Rhys leaves his manse on Ciryth’s Walk and travels to the shared house on Grousewalk Way that his Charter Organization calls home. He is lucky, as today there are two of his associates online, and they are both at the Charter House. After some conversation, the other two take a look at the skies. Indeed one of them, Sten, does know which Wanderer this new star is, having picked the knowledge out of a treatise on the Great Old Ones housed in the Brauggine Abbey. He identifies it as Kyb, or the “Deep Egg” and goes on to relate that Kyb only shows itself when Mother Haedra is awake. Sten goes on to say that Deep Egg sits rolling in a part of the sky that indicates that Haedra has only just awoken, and admonishes the others to watch for her growing influence over the coming days. Rhys leaves, determined to gain access to the Brauggine library and the tags that will allow him to identify Kyb in the future, while Sten and his colleague stay behind to decide what actions, if any, the Charter Organization will take.

Meanwhile, elsewhere on Crowns Rock, a coven of Haedra worshipping ritual magicians have also been watching the sky. The appearance of this new star is one that they’ve been waiting for since Freyda discovered it’s existence in a paen to Headra, translated from a scroll written in a lost city long before the New Reckoning. Freyda paid dearly for the scroll, but now recognizes Kyb when she surfaces from the deep aether. Freyda alerts her own colleagues, a Secret Society dedicated to Mother Haedra.

In twos and threes they make their way to a small beach on the north-eastern shore of the island. Once the nine of them have assembled, their ritual mistress Aloura confirms that all are ready, initiates the ritual circle, and together the coven begins the six-minute ritual that will draw Haedra’s attention and blessings to them. When they have finished Kyb will have slid across the sky and into a position much less salubrious to those that favor the Elder Gods, but Sten is no longer watching, and Rhys won't notice until tomorrow night, when it will be too late.

Angela Christine posted:

So, uh, the lead designer was a TTH podcast today. Regular boring poo poo. Unremarkable . . . except that he's grey.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATqTS-Rg9qk

Really grey. Overdosed on colloidal silver grey. Even his beard is grey. I'd think it was a noir B&W filter, but the stuff in the background has colour. I think this game may actually be being developed by some of the uncanny human hybrids Lovecraft wrote about.

Angela Christine posted:

Putty posted:

i can't access the website past the titty skeleton so is this the only piece of actual game footage they have

Angela Christine posted:

There are also a fuckton of pictures of the $$$ Estates. Given their pricing model, the fact that there are only 5 per server, and the way they are hyping them they are going to be at least $1000, but I wouldn't be surprised by $2000 or $2500 at this point.

Bemis posted:

Those are beautiful homes, if they weren't so ridiculously expensive I would be looking forward to trying this game. But honestly, 200 dollars? What is even the point?

Reclaimer posted:

That... wood flooring... tho...

Yodzilla posted:

Here's hoping the finish can withstand a never-ending onslaught of feces and semen.

Angela Christine posted:

So, uh, the lead designer was a TTH podcast today. Regular boring poo poo. Unremarkable . . . except that he's grey.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATqTS-Rg9qk

Really grey. Overdosed on colloidal silver grey. Even his beard is grey. I'd think it was a noir B&W filter, but the stuff in the background has colour. I think this game may actually be being developed by some of the uncanny human hybrids Lovecraft wrote about.

Avynte posted:

Is gay sex confirmed yet?

Angela Christine posted:

Yes. Sex between any two consenting adult humans is part of the minigame.

Zaphod42 posted:

And his webcam cuts out to a static image after the very beginning too. Did somebody call him out on being a blueberry and he was like "gently caress you guys " and turned it off so they couldn't see?

Shits loving weird man.