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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2019-11-09, 05:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On Hylgia Plane Shifting out
It might be like that.
Or it might be that they cast a special super uber godly spell "Dissolve reality" on a specific plane, and that returns the reality hit by the super uber godly spell back to its quantistic 40 dimensions strings (which we cannot comprehend or imagine, and so the Gods kindly described them as normal strands for us) and collect this tiny strings, then working them back to "strands" with their big super uber godly loom, not differently from what we do when we recycle things[1].
In the latter case, if one is away from the plane where the super uber godly spell is casted, is safe. Like a sheet of paper who falls off from the garbage collecting truck and flies away, carried away by a sweet spring wind, while the other sheets of paper go to face their destiny at the recycling center.
[1] Honestly I'm not sure about fabric, but since wool is obtained starting from the quite short body hair of sheeps, and then we can get strands quite long, I think that might work when we recycle it, too. Anyway, about recycling I was thinking more of paper, honestly: minced, dissolved, and then used to create new sheets.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the gods had a demiplane somewhere where survivors of the previous world can chill out for the rest of their natural life with an understanding that they can't have children once they're there.
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2019-11-09, 11:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On Hylgia Plane Shifting out
In fairness, though I very much doubt it exists, the Good gods probably are capable of creating just such a demiplane by themselves. (My rule of thumb is that if a level 30 wizard could do it, a god probably also could.) They might even do it, if there were survivors who asked nicely.
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2019-11-10, 12:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Is there actual reason Hilgya's would work, really?
I thought when gods unmade the world to make a new world, that this meant the entire story world, not just the planet where the OotS population works.
Because the plane of gold or elemental water or ranch dressing or 45° slopes all belong to D&D world number 1223, don't they? And when the gods next make Star Wars themed LARP world, there will be small planets of hats where players can travel to, and not demi plains and pocket dimensions made by wizards.Boytoy of the -Fan-Club
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2019-11-10, 12:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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It's a little ambiguous, but it seems like certain places (such as the Astral Plane) are always around, even between worlds. In theory, a mortal could travel to one of those places and attempt to wait until the next world is formed, but it's unlikely they would survive long enough to succeed in that goal.
My reasoning: Thor explains in Strip #1138 that the Outer Planes are composed of ideas "so powerful, they became places" and that even the Gods themselves are shaped by beliefs. Whether those places remain in-between worlds is up for debate, but presumably the Gods keep their personal domains from world-to-world (even if the particulars of those domains might change a bit based on what the new mortals believe in World #3,765,912,400,756).
Thor also mentions in Strip #1144 that there is an "interim period" where the Gods have to wait until the Snarl calms down before beginning another World; while he doesn't specify where they hide, the fact he calls the Astral Plane "a place to stash stuff" in #1138 suggests they might hide there (perhaps even in their respective domains).Last edited by The Aboleth; 2019-11-10 at 12:58 AM.
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Some of the outer afterlife planes have still alive mortals living on them in some versions of the DND cosmology. If those are around in oots, they've gotta come from somewhere.
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Why not? As Xykon pointed out, true immortality isn't that hard with a bit of magic. The afterlife scheme only nets you a tiny bit of extra time in the grand scene of things, but by becoming a lich or something else you get to stay around forever.
Maybe some evil gods get complacent.
Those are the ones that get starved out of souls.
You don't get to remain a god for a zillion of cycles for leaving loose ends, in particular when there's new gods keep popping up either because Thor/Loki knocked up some goddess or mortals ascending, but soul supply remains limited, and since there's less than a hundred gods on sight after said zillion cycles, it means only the most efficient gods get to eat enough souls to survive to the next cycle.
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2019-11-10, 07:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Why are you talking about efficiency and complacency here? What about any of these gods makes you think that they would need to murder a handful of souls in a demi-plane as opposed to just like, letting them die when they get too old? And why is efficiency brought in here? Maybe it’s gods with broad enough portfolios to consistently get people to care about them across worlds, which based on the portfolios we’ve seen among these gods, makes sense.
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2019-11-10, 08:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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An oft-overlooked rule with Plane Shift is that you need an attuned focus to travel to another plane (and its a different focus for each plane). If a particular plane doesn't fit the next Material Planes campaign setting, the Gods could cut them out and make sure no one from an excluded plane can get a focus for the new Material Plane and vice versa.
Edit: after rechecking the rule, it doesn't use the word 'attunement' in the SRD; the plane is dictated by size and metal of the focus. Point still stands, however, if the Gods make a new metal on the new Material Plane that didn't exist in previous worlds.Last edited by Riftwolf; 2019-11-10 at 08:51 AM.
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My theory, as posted earlier in this thread:
If this were the case, becoming a lich or something wouldn't matter as you'd still be "unraveled" when the Gods unmake the world.
EDIT: Also, Xykon never says achieving immortality "isn't that hard." He just said it was possible, and listed some ways people could do it.Last edited by The Aboleth; 2019-11-10 at 09:42 AM.
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Indeed, if anything at all, a God, for example, should be only pleased to have one of his followers surviving the massacre, to spread his word (of the God, not of the follower) in the next world. If that happened to Odin, with a 18 level cleric moving around a newly created world, I bet the barbarians wouldn't have thought magic was for fools.
(One might argue that other gods are interested to kill a cleric of an opposing god, but that stands true even with the material plane intact, and yet they don't go around smithing clerics of opposing deities).
The most probably answer to this OOTS's version of Fermi's paradox is that 1) very few survived every time: usually if you feel all shaking, you think of an eartquake and, if you are in the open, you wait it stops, don't planeshift out of fear that the material plane is being destroyed; 2) the few ones are mostly long dead; 3) the very little few (if any) descendants would feel completely out of place in the next world.
(I mean, If I'd survived to a extinction level event, flying away with my super rocket, and my descendants were living an acceptable life out in the deep space with an hologram deck programmed with a very promiscuous version of Lt. Deanna Troy, would they care to return to an earth populated by intelligent giant cockroaches? I'd bet no.)Last edited by Dr.Zero; 2019-11-10 at 10:02 AM.
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easy workaround: If someone exists on World A, and plane-shift out before it's destruction, then somehow survives until the creation of world B, they're simply not going to be able to plane-shift onto world B. they'd just kind of be locked out of it because they weren't built for that world, like trying to put a key into the wrong lock.
It might be possible for someone in world B to open a gate for the plane-shifter to pass through, but this would likely require knowledge about the shifter, which may be impossible to get.Last edited by Draconi Redfir; 2019-11-11 at 11:42 AM.
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2019-11-11, 02:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Possibly the Snarl calming down is related to the world's remainders.
The Snarl is obviously a continuity/thematic snarl and so if the setting continues the snarl continues trying to destroy it. If everyone plane shifts to a new plane and the material plan is destroyed, the new plane is probably the same world as far as the Snarl problem goes. Or any solution where the world is only technically destroyed will fail to handle the snarl problem.
We also have reason to believe that the snarl isn't actually interested in destroying the physical world, as there is a spare material world in the snarl; no continuity/thematic problems in an empty world.
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2019-11-11, 03:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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If the snarl is a metaphor for the conflict and contradictions eventually destroy any fictional world, then I’d argue that plane shift will work!
There’s nothing to stop tiny groups from continuing on in isolation, even after the larger work has fallen apart.
For example, your group can continue adventuring in Middle Earth, even though JRRT has died and his estate would shut down an organized effort with trademark and copyright laws. But as long as you keep it to your own little demiplane, the snarl won’t shut you down.
Heck, your My Little Pony Lycan Vampires named Cersei and Daenerys can use the force on platform 9 3/4 to fight both Spider Man and Superman. As long as you can find at least one other person to game with you (or at least read your slash fiction), your desperate little demiplane of weirdness can live on the rest of your life, long after My Little Pony goes off the air and the last poor child named Daenerys turns 18 and legally changes her name.Last edited by Dion; 2019-11-11 at 03:40 PM.
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No, they wouldn't.
Because the gods aren't moving a single finger to evacuate the mortals from the doomed world.
Thor could easily open a Gate to the other planes and evacuate the dwarves and other mortals. But instead nope, the gods are all "In case of doubt, KILL EVERYBODY!"
The Snarl must be kept secret.
The mortals must believe the gods supreme above everything.
And more important the mortals can't be allowed to realize they don't actually need the gods, their souls already go to their aligned planes by default anyway.
Any mortals that are allowed to survive with knowledge of the Snarl and that the gods aren't that supreme and that it's perfectly possible to live in other places besides whatever ball of dirt the gods come up with, that's just asking for trouble in the long run for the gods very survival.
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Once again, Followers of the Bramble is the webcomic you are reading. Here at Order of the Stick, the Gods have very clearly explained they do make real attempts to save their followers before the Snarl escapes; this time, however, the situation with the Gates (and now the Bet with Hel) makes that course of action a much more complicated matter than it otherwise (presumably) has been in the past.
Thor, specifically, is also having Durkon enact a plan that will save EVERYONE on this world and FOREVER contain the threat of the Snarl--so at the very least that makes one God who clearly cares for mortalkind.
As far as "The Snarl must be kept secret at all costs," that's demonstrably false considering Thor was quick to "bend the rules" to let Minrah in on the Snarl situation (yes, she sort of had an idea already, but she clearly lacked vital information that Thor didn't particularly care to press her on). Yes, the Snarl isn't common knowledge, but that also doesn't mean that all the Gods are going out of their way to purge Knowledge of the Snarl from existence.