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| - | # | + | # Kona |
| - | Bi-weekly sessions | + | * Kona is the name of the planet. It means " |
| - | 4 Hours | + | * We like oceans |
| - | # Tone | + | ## Religion |
| - | * Have some tech. | + | * [[The Pure Light]] |
| - | * Okay with some dark themes. | + | |
| - | * More complexities than unambiguous than good and evil. | + | |
| - | * Okay with inner-party conflict; Interpersonal disputes; not chaotic stupid. Narrative function! | + | |
| - | # Rules and challenge | + | ## Tech on Kona |
| - | * More crunchy, because the base game is not all that crunchy | + | * [[Tech on Kona]] |
| - | * Optionals: Open to superiority points later | + | * Airships have limited range; in early development |
| - | * Players outside | + | * Magical Airship can't go over water; they just become normal ships because the water can't support the pressure. Antigrav bubbles |
| + | * Blimp airships exist but have all the downsides | ||
| - | # Safety | + | ## Souls on Kona |
| - | * No real-world bigotry | + | * [[Souls on Kona]] |
| - | * The evil empire | + | * All things are ensouled, but some souls are more complex than others. |
| - | * Operate | + | * Some things have an external source and are not ensouled |
| - | * No more extreme than Jezza | + | * Souls are perhaps an emergent property of life in some way? |
| - | * Veil eye and ear violence | + | * Souls are a system of metaphysical particles? |
| - | * Veil direct torture | + | * Stars are complexly connected the the souls of living things on Kona. |
| - | * Veil sex scenes | + | * Astronomical events tied to events on Kona |
| - | * Romance between PCs good | + | * How does the Sun factor in? |
| + | * Several Moons; different kinds of magic draw from different moons | ||
| + | * New moon recently showed up? | ||
| + | * Evil empire | ||
| + | * Different moons blocking out different stars have an effect on the status of Kona | ||
| + | * When a soul goes to the Star, the Star stores their memories and other " | ||
| + | * Sometimes the soul recycle system glitches out and a soul is left behind on Kona | ||
| + | * Every time a soul gets filtered | ||
| + | * Necromancy moon causes souls to bounce back to Kona. Lead? It's very visible, and when the moon passes overhead you try very hard not to die | ||
| + | * Possible to miss a moon when you die, and it becomes a "pure death" | ||
| + | * Counteracting this, some souls get split and become two souls. (Soulmates?? | ||
| + | * Another counteracting force; sometimes a soul from a different star arrives. | ||
| + | * The cosmos as an orchestra - the cycle of reincarnation is playing another note in the melody of the cosmos | ||
| + | * None of this is 100% predictable. | ||
| + | * The sun adds more, fresh souls to the world. Festivals when these happen | ||
| + | * The aurora are called "The Dance of Souls" | ||
| + | ## Conflicts and Struggle | ||
| + | * Evil empire trying to conquer the moons and consume their magic | ||
| + | * What is the dominant mode of production? | ||
| + | * Start of a space program | ||
| + | * The edge of an industrial revolution? | ||
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| + | ## Shape of the world | ||
| + | * Sphere earth | ||
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| + | ## Inhabitants of the world | ||
| + | * Sentient clockwork beings | ||
| + | * Humanoids with animal features | ||
| + | * Salamander folk | ||
| + | * [[The Hobs]] | ||
| + | * Hobs are known as vibrant, exciting people who love to explore and discover new things | ||
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| + | ## Kingdoms and Nations | ||
| + | * [[The Kavisi]] | ||
| + | * Semi-Nomadic traders, who pioneered the magical airship technology. | ||
| + | * Have some more permanent settlements in a hard to reach place in the desert that is only easy with their help | ||
| + | * Kind of elitist culture | ||
| + | * Carefully vet outsiders | ||
| + | * Settlements on Mesas, only reachable with a good airship or a cable car | ||
| + | * In desert | ||
| + | * [[Hobbargah]] | ||
| + | * Collection of city-states | ||
| + | * Many kings amongst the states | ||
| + | * Built over a large, ancient battlefield/ | ||
| + | * Scavenging and excavation society | ||
| + | * Culture of re-use and re-purposing | ||
| + | * Lots of Moss, not to many trees in this region | ||
| + | * Mutated area | ||
| + | * Megaflora | ||
| + | * Mushrooms | ||
| + | * [[Myxomycities]] | ||
| + | * Goth nation who believe that souls should be combined | ||
| + | * death rituals | ||
| + | * Underground | ||
| + | * Below the Hob States, underground | ||
| + | * Love in the ruins | ||
| + | * Crypt nation - oriented around dungeons and caves and crypts | ||
| + | * Bone architecture | ||
| + | * [[Zhavvygrad]] | ||
| + | * constitutional monarchy | ||
| + | * Extreme wealth disparity | ||
| + | * all of the faults of victorian england | ||
| + | * Peninsular | ||
| + | * Intellectual hotbed | ||
| + | * Dominated with capitalists | ||
| + | * Has a socialist movement | ||
| + | * General nervousness about [[Claug]] | ||
| + | * Parliament | ||
| + | * One, megacity with farmland around it | ||
| + | * Street trolleys | ||
| + | * [[Claug]] | ||
| + | * Attempting to take over the moons for their magical power, and control the flow of souls | ||
| + | * In conflict with the [[The Kavisi]] for their technology | ||
| + | * Early space travel | ||
| + | * Going through an industrial revolution | ||
| + | * Weapons manufacturers | ||
| + | * Strip mining | ||
| + | * Extreme pollution | ||
| + | * Rich earth metals | ||
| + | * Used to be a collection of states with a lot of heterogeneity, | ||
| + | * The [[The Kavisi]] used to trade with them and kind of indirectly enabled the fascism | ||
| + | * National myth | ||
| + | * An old nation state oh Claug is partly responsible for the massive battleground that [[Hobbargah]] is built on, and they are trying to get the area back. | ||
| + | * Uneasy peace with [[Zhavvygrad]] | ||
| + | * [[Fabian Deltas]] | ||
| + | * Salamander folk from here | ||
| + | * [[Venalia]] | ||
| + | * Transylvanian vibes like classic vampire movies | ||
| + | * [[Alghan]] | ||
| + | * Series of discs built on a giant pillar jutting out of the landscapes | ||
| + | * Bird people | ||
| + | * Good blimps | ||
| + | * [[Kanara]] | ||
| + | * Germanic-style fantasy kingdom, sword and sorcery | ||
| + | * Affected by a famine. Refugee crisis affecting nearby nations | ||
| + | * [[Talasso]] | ||
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| + | ## Enigmas and Mysteries | ||
| + | * The actual truth of how souls work and get reincarnated | ||
| + | * A new moon has arrived. How did it get there? | ||
| + | * How old is the ancient battleground below [[Hobbargah]]? | ||
| + | * Some ancient magical creatures have gone extinct. What are they? Dragons? Extinct? | ||
| + | * Why do rocks have souls? | ||
| + | * Does Kona have a soul? | ||
| + | * Why are there so many rules but just one sun? | ||
| + | * What are cryptids? | ||
| + | * How does a soul get in an automaton? | ||
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| + | ## Threats | ||
| + | * Weird stuff has been happening since the new moon showed up. | ||
| + | * The ocean is starting to sink very slowly. Where is it going? | ||
| + | * In addtion to the mainstream deities, there are lovecraftian outer gods | ||
| + | * Pollution from [[Claug]] and other industrialized nations is coagulating into physical beings | ||
| + | * There is a famine affecting [[Kanara]] | ||
| + | * There is something that eats souls - it is rising from a hole in the bottom of the ocean and it eats souls | ||
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