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He does need to learn that an apology doesn't mean much if you don't change your ways. And that being funny is okay, but being an ass is not, even if you think the ass is funny.

(a lesson I sometimes forget)

Positive reinforcement of Jacob doing some field manipulation... yay Jacob!

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You are letting him off easy. I wanted to blast him for this.

Wait, I’m not going to lie, I’ve been skipping over the ooc lately because there’s so much of it. Tell me he didn’t say that...

His name is Thomas. Of course he said that, not to Storm, but to Code.

So... this is probably terrible, but I really wanted to ask in the game if there was a maztican god of vanity, cause that would be a great fit for Bluebard being an avatar of...

I'm playing peacemaker of late, for some reason. And, honestly, I wasn't that surprised. He tends to think that manipulation is the only approach to narratives, and I don't. I like the idea of reasoning with people. I like the idea of exploring the intricacies of moral dilemmas such as this. I guess I see the NPCs as full characters in the story, whereas Jacob sees them as obstacles? That's probably simplifying it too much, but... yeah. I decided to just let that one go.

He's not wrong, though. I'm not prone to interest in manipulating people. Though... I did want to call out the last time we had to bullshit our way through a truth zone and how well that went for him. But again, I'm playing peacemaker for some reason. That being said, Storm handled dancing around the truth much better than Jacob did. lol

Omg. You are incredible Code. I see your point. And I love Godslayer being the peacemaker lmao.

I love it too since I don’t feel like being peace keeper right now truly. And you truly are incredible!

I don't know about incredible... I'm plenty flawed and have fanned the flames of anger quite a bit much in the past. But I'm glad to relieve you of the role for a bit, Kili. It's a burden that should be shared. :)

I do hope that you don't feel like I'm taking Jacob's side in things against you at all, Rod. Just trying to disarm Jacob a little by making sure that he doesn't feel "cornered." I totally get your frustrations with him.

Did Jacob really try to take over as the DM last night, or was that just how I read his "song" history lesson? I didn't have time to read it last night and just read it this morning.

Also, what an arse about the chalice.

Well, I hope that long post doesn't go over like a bag of bricks.

I gave Jacob the lore story which he rewrote in his own words. That was planned.

The rest of the opera that is Jacob has infuriated me beyond belief, especially how he talks down to you and Kitty. We have had so many IM flying about how I handle his character, that I'm done. Kitty said she isn't coming back to the gamers table for a while.

I wrote Thomas directly and told him he is an ass, and I said everything up and until the point of asking him to quit. I have sent private msgs to oddtales and ancient, asking how they feel.

I want to get everyone's input, but I have pretty much decided I don't need someone like Thomas in my life and that I am going to uninvite him to the game. James will go too I'm pretty sure in support of Thomas.

Kitty had convinced me not to do this many many times, but I'm done.

Jacob and I have been chatting. He’s oblivious. I’ve asked him to leave the game.

OMG! I was searching google for some Maztica lore and I came across this. I was reading it, going this sounds familiar. i like this lore. It fits my world! Then I did a face palm... I posted this last June on a Maztica World Building forum:

Nature based magic of Maztica
Post by Rod Collins » Sun Jun 28, 2020 6:27 pm

We all know pluma and hishna magic and then there is the sea magic. Should there not be more? Particularly from Plutoq or Watil or Ehe?

Actually where I am going with this is how Maztica magic is so different from the weave of Faerun. Where the weave treats everything as a flow of magic, the pluma-weaver or the hishna-shaper enhances the natural magic of feathers and claws. I believe it is justified to believe Fairyza when he says that The True People in Maztica do not distinguish divinity of the gods with a banality of things. To a Maztica, he states, "everything is divine, but some things are more potent in their Divinity than others."

As such, a Faerunian chops a tree and makes a ship's mast and uses magic to make it straight or to mend it when it is broken. To a Faerunian, the boat is a banal object, devoid of life and divinity, and is simply an inconvenience when broken, its dead mast broken by a thoughtless sea. They pray to the Divine Gods to defeat this dead boat or protect them against the lifeless sea.

A Maztican would approach the tree and think of the boat in a much different way. He would approach the divinity of the tree and coax out a mast and guided its shape into a mast that forms the living and divine embodiment of the gods that will fashion the boat to move in the ever changing seas. The boat itself would be divine and may grow into a new shape to serve the True People or negotiate the True Sea. Design of such an object, indeed all of the architecture and urban planning of the True World would be a result of constant prayer and respect.

From that, all of Maztica would look different. After Cordell came with his floating houses, the True World saw for the first time, nature subjugated by men and were understandably confused. As the True World copies this technology, they would not forget their worship of the divinity in all things. They would craft ships from the divinity trees, make hardware from divine stone and metal, lash with living rope. The designs would be organic. They would be infused with the vitality of nature and the divine worship of the craftsmen and sailors.

As I thought this through, I imagined the cities of the True World being also organic. This notion is in much contrast to the stone ruins in the jungle photographs we have in history books. Would not a stone magic craftsman be able to produce beautiful stone buildings carved by Azul of growing and flowing stone to shelter his people? Should not a woodman be able to grow trees shaped by Ehe for shelter rather than chop them down? I have started to search for images and draw and sketch such a civilization. The possibilities for discovery in game of these are astounding.

I'm so sorry Kili. I was quite mad at Jacob for the "schooling" he tried (and failed) to give you. And I hope you know that I was not, at all, calling you out with my response. I was trying to be "impartial" so I didn't trigger Jacob further, so I tried to play the middle ground. I think you handled it well, and he did not. He was WAY out of line. I hope you can come back to the game table soon.

Rod, I'm sorry that he's being an ass. But he gives me the vibes of someone who retcons reality (in their mind) such that they never ever do anything wrong, and so cannot admit to having crossed lines. But I know he's a really old friend, so I hope you can smooth things out. I hate to see him go, because he does add some good elements to the storyline (when he's not being an ass), but I understand your reasoning.

I'm about to jump back on the main game table to catch up, but I finally got a good night's sleep last night (by sleeping through the morning). So I missed a lot of the latest drama. I'm hopeful that we can move forward and continue to have a fun time in the game table.

You are perfectly fine. I just took yesterday away, that’s all. I’m so easily short tempered right now, I didn’t want to fan the flames with Jacob’s message about me past what I private messaged him. I honestly skipped over all of the ooc that came after it in a desire to not let that frustration spark again so nothing you said offended me. Because honestly, I didn’t read it lol.

I will read the big text idea Rod in a little bit!

All good Kili. I really enjoy you being part of the game, so I wanted to make sure that I didn't come across as admonishing you at all. You know I know how hard it has been to deal with Jacob's attitude. But no worries about taking a day off... it was a shit-show yesterday.

Had a random thought, Rod. In regards to when you rewrite some stuff written by others to address inaccuracies or flaws. You could use the "color" tag to denote what got changed/corrected, so it is more clear that it wasn't necessarily what the player actually wrote. Maybe the color red, like a teacher marking it up, lol.