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[AliceShiki]

It's hard to say! Some players have mentioned some distances -- like Asteria Village is 3 days west of Scribel City.

Funnily enough, it was supposed to be 1-2 days for the average adventurer! xD

Or at least those were my initial thoughts on it at least, because like... It was 3 days for Nene, that walks at leisure pace and stops for prayers, resting and foraging~

Someone walking at a fast pace without many breaks should easily get there in 2 days, were my original thoughts at least~

 

[Siostar]

It's hard to say! Some players have mentioned some distances -- like Asteria Village is 3 days west of Scribel City.

However, in most cases, things aren't specified or written.

All of the maps are artist's interpretations of what Tonia / Scribel looks like!

*wonder why the guild hasn't made a quest to draw a proper map yet*

 

[Bochi]

Oh! Do we want to do a freestyle?

Already did~

 

[ohko]

Funnily enough, it was supposed to be 1-2 days for the average adventurer! xD

Or at least those were my initial thoughts on it at least, because like... It was 3 days for Nene, that walks at leisure pace and stops for prayers, resting and foraging~

Someone walking at a fast pace without many breaks should easily get there in 2 days, were my original thoughts at least~

Oh that's interesting! I'm pretty sure lots of us took the exact numbers that you used in your first quest report as fact -- so it became 3 days for lots of people!

 

[AliceShiki]

Happy 400th page btw~

Gosh, it hasn't even been a week since page 333, has it?

*goes check* About one week actually~

Oh that's interesting! I'm pretty sure lots of us took the exact numbers that you used in your first quest report as fact -- so it became 3 days for lots of people!

Aye, I noticed this much!

... Which was kinda funny to me, because I explicitly stated otherwise in the Library Entry that I made right after the quest itself~

Asteria is a small village located to the West of Scribel. If you walk at a slow pace and take plenty of breaks, you should reach it in about three days. It shouldn't be harder to reach it in one or two days if you walk faster and take less breaks though.

 

[ohko]

Already did~

I feel so anxious about this! My goodness! I hope Okarin will be okay!

 

[AliceShiki]

I feel so anxious about this! My goodness! I hope Okarin will be okay!

Worst comes to worst, Okarin becomes a revengeful slime of Chaos that will haunt Vicious until the ends of Tonia~ *giggles*

 

[ohko]

I see what you did there.
'-'
Would have been a funny thing if they'd been llama beast people.
And the kid's name was Da Lai.
'-'

Sad about the kids.
A bit confused with the silver blood.
Interesting thing with the karma magic thing, but a little confusing.

Overall, I enjoyed it.

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Ah, there wasn't any intended meaning behind the silver blood.

Karma magic thing is... I guess it's the loosest kind of magic, at least in my head. I think kind of think of it as a very ancient kind of magic where the rules are very loose and nondescript. It's flexible enough that you could say almost anything about it and make it work. IMO, that's the purest kind of the magic... the kind that doesn't have restrictive rules.

You know, the kind of magic where daphe turns into a tree after being chased by apollo.

Or perhaps how Lot's wife turned to a pillar of salt after turning to look back when fleeing from Sodom and Gomorrah.

Or that bridge where you're not supposed to look down.

There's a lot of examples of this kind of magic in stories.

There's no "formulas" or "magic tricks" or "wingardium leviosa".

It's a very crude kind of magic and very old and very powerful, and it's very well suited to stories!

 

[Siostar]

Ah, there wasn't any intended meaning behind the silver blood.

Karma magic thing is... I guess it's the loosest kind of magic, at least in my head. I think kind of think of it as a very ancient kind of magic where the rules are very loose and nondescript. It's flexible enough that you could say almost anything about it and make it work. IMO, that's the purest kind of the magic... the kind that doesn't have restrictive rules.

You know, the kind of magic where daphe turns into a tree after being chased by apollo.

Or perhaps how Lot's wife turned to a pillar of salt after turning to look back when fleeing from Sodom and Gomorrah.

Or that bridge where you're not supposed to look down.

There's a lot of examples of this kind of magic in stories.

There's no "formulas" or "magic tricks" or "wingardium leviosa".

It's a very crude kind of magic and very old and very powerful, and it's very well suited to stories!

but karma isn't magic?

 

[Nahrenne]

Ah, there wasn't any intended meaning behind the silver blood.

Karma magic thing is... I guess it's the loosest kind of magic, at least in my head. I think kind of think of it as a very ancient kind of magic where the rules are very loose and nondescript. It's flexible enough that you could say almost anything about it and make it work. IMO, that's the purest kind of the magic... the kind that doesn't have restrictive rules.

You know, the kind of magic where daphe turns into a tree after being chased by apollo.

Or perhaps how Lot's wife turned to a pillar of salt after turning to look back when fleeing from Sodom and Gomorrah.

Or that bridge where you're not supposed to look down.

There's a lot of examples of this kind of magic in stories.

There's no "formulas" or "magic tricks" or "wingardium leviosa".

It's a very crude kind of magic and very old and very powerful, and it's very well suited to stories!

I see.
So, kind of like a wild magic thing?
You know, like in Dragon Age games?

You know, the kind of magic where daphne turns into a tree after being chased by apollo.

She asked her father - the river god - to save her from Apollo and the only thing he could do was turn her into a tree.

Or perhaps how Lot's wife turned to a pillar of salt after turning to look back when fleeing from Sodom and Gomorrah.

I think she'd been cursed/warned to not look back no?

I think there was another story where a Greek hero was bringing his wife's soul back from the underworld and was told not to look back or else her soul would forever remain in the underworld.
He'd exited the underworld and thought his wife had also stepped out, so he looked back...only to find she was only a few steps away from exiting, thus ended up begin dragged back to the depths of the underworld.

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[Siostar]

I see.
So, kind of like a wild magic thing?
You know, like in Dragon Age games?

She asked her father - the river god - to save her from Apollo and the only thing he could do was turn her into a tree.

I think she'd been cursed/warned to not look back no?

I think there was another story where a Greek hero was bringing his wife's soul back from the underworld and was told not to look back or else her soul would forever remain in the underworld.
He'd exited the underworld and thought his wife had also stepped out, so he looked back...only to find she was only a few steps away from exiting, thus ended up begin dragged back to the depths of the underworld.

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if what you say is true, then it has nothing to do with karma!

 

[Bochi]

I see.
So, kind of like a wild magic thing?
You know, like in Dragon Age games?

She asked her father - the river god - to save her from Apollo and the only thing he could do was turn her into a tree.

I think she'd been cursed/warned to not look back no?

I think there was another story where a Greek hero was bringing his wife's soul back from the underworld and was told not to look back or else her soul would forever remain in the underworld.
He'd exited the underworld and thought his wife had also stepped out, so he looked back...only to find she was only a few steps away from exiting, thus ended up begin dragged back to the depths of the underworld.

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Wasn't it Athena who turned Daphne into the laurel tree?

Oh, Orpheus! But he wasn't actually out, he looked right before he got out of the underworld.

 

[ohko]

but karma isn't magic?

Mhm, it isn't!

I see.
So, kind of like a wild magic thing?
You know, like in Dragon Age games?

Ah, yes! That's probably a better term!

I didn't really have a good word for it!

if what you say is true, then it has nothing to do with karma!

Mhm, the original (NPC) character that I introduced with this kind of "wild magic" was a witch.

Her big thing was that the memories of objects are crucial for magic.

For instance, if a witch's brew called for a black cat in the recipe... Using a black cat who lived a happy life is totally different from using a black cat who was tortured and lived a miserable life.

And in many circumstances, using the ingredient that had the right experiences (e.g. using a handkerchief that an innocent girl cried on while thinking of her first broken love) is especially important for creating the right potions (like a love potion).

This is in contrast with the scientific take on magic/alchemy, where a cotton handkerchief is a cotton handkerchief regardless of who owned the handkerchief before.

I think she'd been cursed/warned to not look back no?

I think there was another story where a Greek hero was bringing his wife's soul back from the underworld and was told not to look back or else her soul would forever remain in the underworld.
He'd exited the underworld and thought his wife had also stepped out, so he looked back...only to find she was only a few steps away from exiting, thus ended up begin dragged back to the depths of the underworld.

I forgot most of my mythology! Thanks for the correction!

 

[Nahrenne]

if what you say is true, then it has nothing to do with karma!

I guess it could, in a way?
You do bad things and bad things happen.
In DA, blood magic was a form of wild magic which relied on sacrifice in blood in order to perform very powerful - often dark - magic.
So, in that sense, you do a bad thing to make a bad thing happen.
The karma in that is that demons often ended up being summoned and taking over the magic caster, thus turning them into a revenant I think they were called...
Magic as a whole was considered bad by the religious people in that world, since magic users were more susceptible to demon possession.
Thus there's the mindset of magic leads to bad things, thus you must be good and do good things in order to not arouse the interest of demons.
I feel like I've gone on a tangent that kind of veered off course but I hope I got my point of how it could be seen as a kind of karma magic.

Again, I'm just grasping at straws to give a vaguely possible explanation.
>w<

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[Epsil]

I see.
So, kind of like a wild magic thing?
You know, like in Dragon Age games?
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Why not have wild magic from Dnd?
You can do some cool stuff like:

• Cast fireball on yourself
• Insane stuff
• Accidentally delete a moon

 

[Nahrenne]

Wasn't it Athena who turned Daphne into the laurel tree?

Nope, not Athena.
She had absolutely nothing to do with it.
I actually made a poem about that story if you want to read it?
*points at her Apollo and Daphne poem on Scribblehub*
>w<

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[FlutterOfCrows]

How to do Quest? Almost entirely new to this all. Sorry if this is obvious, but not entirely getting how things work. Where if i may ask?

 

[Epsil]

How to do Quest? Almost entirely new to this all.

Choose a quest you want to do, then write a story about how your character did it!
Have fun writing!
P.S: don't choose a quest higher than your characters level.

 

[ohko]

How to do Quest? Almost entirely new to this all.

You can go to the Quest Board and pick a quest that you like!

Then you go to the Reception Desk and post the report once you write it!

 

[Nahrenne]

How to do Quest? Almost entirely new to this all.

Go to the quest board thread and choose a quest that is the same - or lower - than your character's level.
Then quote it and go to the Receptionist desk thread and type up your character's report on how they did the quest.
Make sure to put the quest quote in the report post so receptionists know which quest you took.
For more info, the first post of every thread will explain what to do for each thread.
Hope you have fun with it!
*huggles*

\(^o^)/

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