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That is answered in the Aoide sticky here in the guild:
The mouths of their gods to the mortal followers.
They can fly, clean, cook and sing. They have no immediate powers themselves, save immunity to death by passage of time.


That is the basic answer. The expanded answer is that yes, the Aoide can be granted powers from their masters, or be granted powers from other gods as gifts. This process should be submitted to GM for approval and review, and should not be attempted until the God is 'reborn' to themselves: Youth Stage minimum.

The hard and fast rule is that only special Aoide, 1-shots, have any really exceptional strength or powers. So far, only the Aoide of this sort that I know to have been officially released are the three special Halloween aoide. Xedre is also of this sort, along with Endenis once she is fully restored.

Yaaay, things. 4laugh

I very much like that reqs would be simplified, resulting in less fretting/guessing. It is still somewhat intimidating, though, especially when taking into account that it can be difficult to find RP (more difficult than it used to be, I think). I suppose we could theoretically solo out the difference, but for me that sort of defeats the purpose - playing with other people is infinitely more fun! Solos are like homework for me, lol.

I know deity is supposed to be Rare and Awesome, but I think it may also be one of the intimidation factors. It takes years. Maybe being completely objective/tally-based isn't necessarily the way to go, at least for deity. Perhaps there could be a look at the character itself, what they've done, player effort, etc.?

I do think Works of Glory were intimidating, or were for me, as someone who cannot art...or even write really glorious things. XD

I like simplified requirements! The only other shop I RP in anymore has fairly simple self-tally rules that seem to work really well for the playerbase. I honestly don't have an opinion on the number of points needed for 'leveling up' so to speak, other than that Meep's thought of RP being slightly more difficult to get has merit...

Maybe ask if people would mind putting new RPs in the guild from now on, and if there's no objection make it a requirement? C: I think most of us also RP in other shops that are guild-driven and have become very used to it.

If that happens, perhaps also create new Edel journals in the guild as well - just for new characters, though. I'd say old characters could do as they'd like, either maintaining their old journals, starting a new one in the guild and just linking back to the old one as an archive, or reposting everything in the guild.

Sup. Im gonna idea vomit and hope it strings coherently. <<; Having rolfstomped the old tally system to hell and back I do indeed have ideas to share, rolf.

I like the new numbers, really. I don't think any of us have anywhere near as much time as we did back when the shop started (heavens know I don't) and I do admit that sometimes trying to get the reqs done feels like trying to scale Mt.Everest. - it's very easy to get a little disheartened when it feels like you can't reach the end, especially since Edel isn't the most active shop around. Meep does have a point that rp is harder to get than it used to.

The fact that the numbers are set aside for 1k words in a solo making two solos is also something I like. Im not the best writer, and I did sometime feel discouraged by the fact I sometimes barely scraped by requirements while seeing others just ripping through them with much less writing than me, but that's more a personal gripe than anything else. I have no idea if I am the only person who has felt this way, but it might be something that could be disheartening to a new player, or something others have felt.

I like the slightly longer gem to morph reqs. I've never had too much issues getting a gem to morph, but getting a morph to youth can be a struggle depending on the character. The jump in reqs from morph to youth always felt massive to me - I think this will help balance it out a lot.

The edel I feel like I have the most trouble getting anywhere with is actually Akakios. He's often the hardest for me to write for that reason. He's been a kid for three years now, and im far from the slowest rper (Usually. Sush.) and child stages tend to be rather short in breedables. I understand wanting to have them be on par with the normal edel youth reqs, but... I dunno. It feels long to me, and I don't feel like im making headways in the reqs most of time. Doesn't stop me from writing and enjoying him, but it might be something that might turn people off getting an edel from a breeding. Maybe tack them with the morph>youth reqs ? Or maybe with the new reqs it wouldn't be so bad. I don't know. This is highly damn specific given that there are only 7 kids in the whole shop but there you go. XD

(I totally want to see more breedings, too. Hint hint. *cough*)

I like the plushie system. Maybe make the players responsible for keeping tracks of their plushie counts and the handing of them out ? Most people buy them in bulk to hand them out, as far as I've seen, and it would be one less thing for you to keep up with. That's what I do with mine and I've never have too much problems. But if it comes down to your time and workload, I'd say drop the plushies. I'd rather see the plushes go and the WoGs remain in some form if it comes down to that.

I LOVE the Works of Glory system, but maybe im biased because I have little problems coming up with them. XD; It's something that makes Edel unique, and I'd be sad to see them go completely. Maybe make them non-required for deity but keep them around to switch them for written reqs, to make up for the plushie follower count if they are removed. Heaven knows that saved my a** with Echo. XD; So people can do them if they feel like it, or power through with writing if they're not artistically inclined. I do admit that having them as an hard requirement does put the less artistic people at disadvantage.

Maybe make youths be able to get their own temple, if only for rp flavor. I mean, the youth stage is the deity truly reborn, but not to their full glory... It would make sense that they would seek temples and worships to regain their once-glory, no ?

Maybe lower the deity reqs a bit. I'd like for them to require effort still, but not feel completely unattainable. I would hate to see it become a sorely GM-decided factor. Edel imo has it mostly perfect as far as the omgspecialstage goes - it has sets requirement everyone can see, and anyone who meets these requirement get it. I would hate to see deity stages become limited/kept artificially rare as some other shops tend to do with their last/specia/elder/wtfyagonnacallit stages. It can't be too easy or it kinds of loses it's meaning, it can't be too hard that people feel like they can't achieve it if they're not the best writers in the universe.

On the breedables rp vs guild... I'd have to agree with Sosi. Almost all the shops have their rp and journals in guilds now, and given the time where gaia farted and ate whole journals I actually feel safer having everything guild-side. I keep backups in my own guild and it would save me a ton of time to have everything guildside << I say make a journal subforum and let players move over their journals if they feel like it. You could also drop the certs in-thread and let the players create their own journal in BCRP or the guild, as preferred. I'd also like to see another subforum where one could create mortal journals. I've often had mortal characters in the edel setting with no idea where to log their stuff if they're rping on their own.

You have been TL;DR'erd by Zero for 9999hp, you have been slain !

As for the idea of simplified tally, I love it. I pretty much know where my tally is anyhow because of the way I do my page index. And I love the fact that Edel has been around for years. It was a good idea. I've had Lisana since 2005, LMAO. Didn't realize it was so long. Anyhow... I really hope more people join in. It makes it more fun. I'm actually going to have more time this semester to play and it would be nice to see more going on.

As for moving the journals, I don't have a problem with it. I have nearly everything I do on files I think somewhere on a flash drive, but the newer ones I've been doing in my old guild so I can find threads. I'm bad about losing them.... sweatdrop And I hate digging thru threads to find them.

I don't mind redoing my journals, and I've been rethinking about redoing the front page entirely anyhow. I recently redid a couple other journals in my old guild because the shops went under and I did not want to lose what I had done since I will most likely continue them. I would think about keeping journals separate in their own subforum in the guild. And I don't mind the first post being yours either, Ivy.

I do like the plushies, and whether you keep them or get rid of them, there is still plenty to do besides that.

As for the deity stage, I think it should be intimidating. And it should be available to everyone, but it should be the effort of the person that decides whether they get it or not. It should take work to achieve. I'm probably not helping much, but those who have remained at Edel have worked hard for where they have gotten to. The works of glory are interesting and a deity should be glorified. It should be part of a being a god to be glorified by your followers AND the person who is actually writing you. XD

As for a perk, if you decide to do that.. I'd not say a fifth stage, but extra art or an updated version or pose that is more current. For example, (Thabs, I'm using Nergal XD ) Nergal is deity, but say he adds a bone staff or something that he carries with him all the time in his stories, something he's never without, an updated version or new pose with that staff could be interesting and would be a great reward. We all adore art. IMHO.... there is never enough Ivyart. XD

*bops Zero* A little bit overkill there.. I only had 1 HP as it was. razz