Okay, so.... the mana storm hit. Good stuff. As an effect of this, often temples and shrines have very, very poor holy mana amounts. I first noticed this filling up my pilgrim's badge. OOCly.... I can't pin down the exact words as to why this bothers me so much but it really does bother me. ICly if someone wanted to debate with Sylvaeus that the gods are not actually real, or that they don't care about the world or mortals, they could reference this and make a pretty darn good point.


I was very strongly considering having Sylvaeus go himself and also gweth and try to start a social movement to go to these temples and shrines to pray for the Immortals to grace their favored locations with their energies again. I was hoping to start a little campaign beseeching the Gods to stop distancing themselves from us in this way. As far as the GMs go, would this be in vain?

>If shrines, temples, and holy places don't have strong holy mana, then I don't understand why any place would.

Elanthia's gods are capricious, not omnipresent, and exude holy mana in a process that apparently defies time. Maybe that altar isn't there tomorrow to accumulate holy mana in the future.

Maybe Glythtide secretly thinks that shrine you built him is really tacky, and he doesn't want to be caught dead in it, but yeah he'll glance your way if you do the proper obeisances there because, gosh, those tiny brief people are so cute when they're dancing around even if those drapes are hideous.

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>Forgive my snark, but welcome to the life of a warrior mage.

If I remember correctly, holy mana doesn't populate linearly with time. It's correlated with the presence of the divine, but will leak 'backwards' in time. And just building a shrine never indicates that the 39 will ever attend in person, much like lack of a shrine doesn't preclude some amazing divine thing happening in the middle of the road.

But that's from memory so is more than likely wrong.

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I'm a badger, I be badgerin'

<<The Immortals have not deigned to comment.


I had this vision of Urrem'tier in front of a slew of microphones about to say something when a scrawny lawyer type reached up and put his hands in front of the mics before saying "I'm sorry, but the Embodiment of Death has no further comment at this time."


<<No, I get to be an evil sociopath and psychopath when I want to, and kill babies for fun when I want to, but when game events start up, you don't have any right to treat me like a rapist murdering evil villain, you have to respect my rights to go

I forgot how amusing those are.

Oh and I'd like to echo that those god stories cracked me up. lol