Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.
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				Title: <strong>Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>The Great Triangle</strong> on <strong>01-01-2009, 00:03:43</strong>
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				This thread records the core game rules and the current identities of the players.&nbsp; <br><br><br>Immortals in play:<br><br><br><strong>Name:</strong> Fate<br><strong>Titles:</strong> Illustrious Orator of the third sphere, Pied Piper<br><strong>Titles Granted/Feud Rights:</strong> Cold Steel Killbot to Daeva, Vampire Princess to Twilight, Black Spiral Dancer to Bodhisattva, Sexy Robot Jesus to Aravol<br><br><br><strong>Name:</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; Daeva<br><strong>Titles:</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; Cold Steel Killbot, Off Milk<br><strong>Titles Granted/Feud Rights:</strong>&nbsp; Illustrious Orator of the Third Sphere to Fate, Insatiable Harlot of Empty Dreams to Twilight, Sire of the Hellspawned Brood to Bodhisattva, The Fiend Who Gave Birth to a Thousand Horrors to Ansatz<br><br><br><strong>Name:</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; Twilight<br><strong>Titles:</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; Vampire Princess, Insatiable Harlot of Empty Dreams, Apathetic Precursor, Incorrigible Infidel<br><strong>Titles Granted/Feud Rights:</strong> Pied Piper to Fate, Off Milk to Daeva, Two Fingered Tyrant to Gilgamesh, <br><br><br><strong>Name:</strong>&nbsp; Bodhisattva<br><strong>Titles:</strong>&nbsp; Black Spiral Dancer, Sire of the Hellspawned Brood, Untamed Fabulist, The Dude, <br><strong>Title Granted/Feud Rights:</strong>&nbsp; Apathetic Precursor to Twilight, Lord of the Dance to Gilgamesh, Surfin' Bird to Ansatz<br><br><br><strong>Name:</strong>&nbsp; Gilgamesh<br><strong>Titles:</strong>&nbsp; Guildmaster of the Disorganized Handful, Two Fingered Tyrant, Lord of the Dance<br><strong>Title Granted/Feud Rights:</strong>&nbsp; Incorrigible Infidel to Twilight, Untamed Fabulist to Bodhisattva, The Spider Like Failure of Babylon to Ansatz, Troll of Eternity to Aravol<br><br><br><strong>Name:</strong>&nbsp; Ansatz<br><strong>Titles:</strong>&nbsp; The Spider Like Failure of Babylon, The Fiend who Gave Birth to a Thousand Horrors, Surfin' Bird<br><strong>Titles Granted/Feud Rights:</strong> The Dude to Bodhisattva, Guildmaster of the Disorganized Handful to Gilgamesh, All about the Benjamins to Aravol<br><strong><br><br><br>Name:</strong> Aravol<br><strong>Titles:</strong> Troll of Eternity, All about the Benjamins, Sexy Robot Jesus<br><strong>Titles Granted/Feud Rights:</strong> The Liar to Fate.&nbsp; (this title is a lie), Two Indulgences.
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				Title: <strong>Game Rules</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>The Great Triangle</strong> on <strong>01-01-2009, 00:30:22</strong>
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				The game of Fae is played in a series of rounds in which immortals attempt to steal the titles from other immortals in an attempt to achieve transcendence.&nbsp; Each immortal has a name, and between two and four titles to start with&nbsp; (the number will be determined randomly by die roll).&nbsp; Titles may be anything used to describe a person, and are granted by other players.&nbsp; <br><br>Example titles: "Marquis"&nbsp; "Sage of the Seventh Seal"&nbsp; "King of Hamburgers"&nbsp; "Mr. Nobody"<br><br>Granting a title gives a player a <em>Feud Right</em>; the right to challenge the holder of a title for it on his or her turn.&nbsp; To make a challenge, an immortal must put up a title of her own to challenge the other immortal with.&nbsp; If the immortal has no title, then she must challenge using her name, and her very essence.&nbsp; Challenges take place in the form of <em>Stories</em>, in which the challenger and the challenged exchange posts describing the way in which they attack and defend the title, and then the player base votes on a winner of the challenge.&nbsp; The winner is declared when votes equal to a majority of players are received.&nbsp; &nbsp; <br><br><br>Stories can take one of three tones, which determines what the stakes are.&nbsp; Tone is determined randomly by the GM.<br><br><strong>Glorious</strong> Stories are happy tales of romance and conquest.&nbsp; They occur most often when challenging an immortal with many titles.&nbsp; If the challenger wins the challenge, he may steal the challenged title, or gain an <em>indulgence</em>.&nbsp; If the defender wins, he gets to take the challenger's title.<br><br><strong>Spiteful</strong> Stories are tales of tragedy and darkness, in which bad things happen.&nbsp; They occur more often when challenging an immortal with few titles, and always happen when challenging an immortal with nothing but a name.&nbsp; If the challenger wins a spiteful story, he gains nothing.&nbsp; If the defender wins, he may gain an indulgence or the challenger's title.<br><br><strong>Unbound</strong> Stories are inconclusive, and tend to occur more often for immortals with 2-3 titles.&nbsp; If the challenger wins, he or she gains an indulgence.&nbsp; If the defender wins, he or she takes the challenger's title.<br><br><br><br><strong>Indulgences</strong> are resources available to players who win them.&nbsp; They can perform one of several functions:<br><br>-Seize a feud right over a title from another player<br><br>-Change the tone of a story before the first post of the story<br><br>-Violate a rule that does not bind all players without losing a title.<br><br>An indulgence is always lost after it is used.<br><br><br><strong>Invasions:</strong>&nbsp; every 8, 12, or 24 hours, (vote on the interval when assigning titles) when a player is expected to make a post, other players... or even players outside the game, may roll a 10 sided die.&nbsp; When the cumulative results of a player's 10 sided die rolls reach 20, that player may make the post for the player who needs to post.&nbsp; Invasions may only be done for story posts and voting posts.<br><br><br><strong>The golden rule:</strong> players can make new rules whenever they wish, but only those who agree to follow the new rules are bound by them.&nbsp; (so 2-3 players might choose to have themselves vulnerable to having their post commandeered every 4 hours, or if they really wanted to go crazy, every 10 minutes when both of them are online, but this doesn't affect how the rules work with other players.)&nbsp; Players can also use rule pledges to bind themselves to formal agreements with each other, such as always voting each other to victory, although they must follow these agreements always.&nbsp; A player who breaks a rule/his or her word loses a title.
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				Title: <strong>Stories</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>The Great Triangle</strong> on <strong>01-01-2009, 03:16:16</strong>
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				A challenge has a certain number of steps, which lead to a story and possible stripping of titles.<br><br>1. Challenge<br>2. Answer and Outline<br>3. Story Post<br>4. Obstacle Post<br>5. Resolution post.<br>6. Voting<br><br><strong><br>1: Challenge;</strong>&nbsp; On his or her turn, a player has the choice to either challenge for a title, or Dwindle.&nbsp; If an immortal dwindles, it loses a title to oblivion, reducing the total number of titles in play by 1.&nbsp; When making a challenge, a player may either ask another player to randomly determine the tone, or do the rolls himself.&nbsp; A player announces a challenge in this format:<br><br>"<em>This is a/an [tone] story about [title] and [title]"</em>&nbsp; ex: This is a Glorious story about the Snake and the Eternal virgin.<br><strong><br>2: Answer and Outline:</strong> The challenged player responds by creating a story outline, defining the identity of the two titles.&nbsp; Titles can manifest in stories as <em>Actors</em>, <em>Props</em>, <em>Realms</em>, and <em>Wisps.</em>&nbsp; Actors are physical beings of great individuality and personality; main characters in a story.&nbsp; Props are physical objects of great importance, like the one ring, or the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.&nbsp; Realms are locations of extreme importance, like the Death Star and Big Ben.&nbsp; Wisps are groups of individuals, such as a pack of werewolves or a platoon of soldiers.&nbsp; A story can be of any rating, and I'll create threads in different forums as needed to cover this.&nbsp; (A challenge is automatically won by the challenger if the defender proposes a concept of a rating that the challenger clearly cannot handle)&nbsp; The format used to respond to a challenge is something like:<br><br>&nbsp;"This is a/an [tone] story about the [identity] [title] and how he [verbed] the [identity] [title]"&nbsp; ex: "This is an unbound story about the Actor Snake, and his attempt to seduce and deceive the Wisps of the Eternal Virgin."<br><br><strong>3: Story Post:</strong> The challenger takes the answer and writes a post describing how the manifestation of his title did whatever the story is about.&nbsp; The challenger must follow certain limitations based on what aspect of his title he is portraying.&nbsp; <br><br><em>Actors:</em> Writing portraying an actor must be in first person and past tense.<br><br><em>Props:</em> When portraying a prop, no details outside the immediate vicinity of the prop may be referred to, and the prop may not take actions on its own.&nbsp; (although a player may create characters to use the prop.)<br><br><em>Realms:</em> When portraying a realm, a player must write in present tense, and cannot refer to the internal thoughts of people in the story.<br><br><em>Wisps:</em> When portraying a group of wisps, the challenger must introduce some conflict within the group.<br><br><strong>4. Obstacle Post:</strong> After the first story post, the defender gets a chance to introduce obstacles to hinder the progress of the challenger.&nbsp; He writes from the perspective of the defending title, following the same restrictions.&nbsp; (and keeping in mind the golden rule)<br><br><strong>5. Resolution Post:</strong> Once he has encountered the obstacle, the challenger may describe how he or she overcomes it.&nbsp; Following all normal restrictions.<br><br><strong>6. Voting:</strong> After the resolution post, the players vote on whether or not the challenger was successful, and change titles or grant indulgences as needed.&nbsp; 
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				Title: <strong>Appendix: Secondary Issues</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>The Great Triangle</strong> on <strong>01-01-2009, 03:28:43</strong>
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				Appendix: <br><br>In a story, a character may not do any of the following things:<br><br>-Create unconquerable situations.&nbsp; (Intervention of omnipotent deities, infinite characteristics... ect.)<br><br>-Contradict another player's narration.<br><br>-Refuse to tell the same story that the defender outlined.<br><br>If any of these things are done, the offender automatically loses.<br><br><br>At any time, an immortal may surrender his or her title to a challenger.<br><br><br>Losing a title grants feud rights to that title.<br><br><br>At any time during gameplay, an immortal may flee to earth.&nbsp; He or she loses all of his or her powers and fued rights, but retains his or her titles.&nbsp; Feud rights go either to the immortals of the player's choice, or are handed out by random chance.&nbsp; (roll 1d10 for each immortal, the one with the highest result gets the feud right.&nbsp; Repeat for each feud right.)<br><br>Transcendence occurs when an Immortal gains six titles.<br><br>Random starting titles are determined by 1d10/2, rounding up and increasing a result of one to two and decreasing a result of five to four.<br><br>Story tone is determined by rolling a 1d10, noting the result, then rolling a number of d10s equal to the number of titles held by the defender.&nbsp; If the first die yields the highest number of all dice rolled, then the story has a Spiteful tone.&nbsp; If the secondary dice yield the highest number, then the story is Glorious.&nbsp; If the highest number ties, the story is unbound.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Elohim</strong> on <strong>01-01-2009, 04:43:15</strong>
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				Name:&nbsp; &nbsp; Daeva<br>Titles:&nbsp; &nbsp; Two yet to be determined<br><br>Titles Granted to Fate:&nbsp; Illustrious Orator of the Third Sphere 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Silk</strong> on <strong>01-01-2009, 20:32:32</strong>
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				Name: Twilight<br>titles<br>undetermined 2 open<br><br>Gives Daeva title: Off milk.<br><br>Gives Fate title: Pied Piper.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Elohim</strong> on <strong>01-01-2009, 20:43:03</strong>
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				Twilight:&nbsp; Insatiable Harlot of Empty Dreams
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Will</strong> on <strong>02-01-2009, 02:19:24</strong>
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				Name:&nbsp; Bodhisattva<br><br>Titles:&nbsp; Four undetermined.<br><br>Title Granted to Twilight:&nbsp; Apathetic Precursor
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Elohim</strong> on <strong>02-01-2009, 02:44:59</strong>
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				Title Bestowed on Bodhisattva: Sire of The Hellspawned Brood
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Karma</strong> on <strong>02-01-2009, 07:05:46</strong>
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				Name: Gilgamesh<br>Titles: Three undetermined.<br>Title granted to Twilight: Incorrigible Infidel<br>Title granted to Bodhisattva: Untamed Fabulist
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Elohim</strong> on <strong>02-01-2009, 07:07:31</strong>
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				Title Granted to Gilgamesh:&nbsp; The Void Between the Stars
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>GrinningHound</strong> on <strong>02-01-2009, 07:20:10</strong>
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				Immortal name:&nbsp; Ansatz<br>Titles:&nbsp; Two Undetermined<br>Title Granted to Bodhisattva:&nbsp; The Dude<br>Title Granted to Gilgamesh:&nbsp; Guildmaster of the Disorganized Handful
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Karma</strong> on <strong>02-01-2009, 07:21:51</strong>
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				Title granted to Ansatz: The Spider-like Failure of Babylon
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Elohim</strong> on <strong>02-01-2009, 07:24:16</strong>
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				To Ansatz<br><br>Fiend who gave birth to a thousand horrors.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Silk</strong> on <strong>02-01-2009, 12:37:31</strong>
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				:&nbsp; Bodhisattva<br>Lord of the sewers<br><br>Name: Gilgamesh<br>two fingered tyrant<br><br>Name: Ansatz<br>Green herbal tea
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Will</strong> on <strong>02-01-2009, 18:15:23</strong>
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				Gilgamesh- Lord of the Dance<br><br>Ansatz- Surfin' Bird<br><br>(Grinning, you gave me 'The Dude?'&nbsp; Thank you so much!!!)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>GrinningHound</strong> on <strong>02-01-2009, 22:09:22</strong>
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				I thought we could only have a maximum amount of titles equal to our roll divided by 2, which is why I had 2 titles, but now I have 3?<br><br>Also, Triangle, you missed Seraph's title for Ansatz, Fiend who gave birth to a thousand horrors.&nbsp; That would actually be title number two.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>The Great Triangle</strong> on <strong>03-01-2009, 00:07:32</strong>
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				I gave Hound an extra title because I felt like it, and because it gives everyone an advantage.&nbsp; :)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>GrinningHound</strong> on <strong>03-01-2009, 01:36:39</strong>
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				So, I only have two feud rights?&nbsp; 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>The Great Triangle</strong> on <strong>03-01-2009, 01:43:52</strong>
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				You can have a guaranteed pick of the next title grant, or possibly an indulgence if nobody else joins.&nbsp; :)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>GrinningHound</strong> on <strong>03-01-2009, 01:44:21</strong>
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				Aight.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Karma</strong> on <strong>04-01-2009, 08:10:29</strong>
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				Title granted to Aravol: Troll of Eternity
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				Title: <strong>Re: Fae: A game of Immortals...  Game summary.</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>GrinningHound</strong> on <strong>04-01-2009, 08:11:32</strong>
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				To Aravol:&nbsp; All About the Benjamins.
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