What's this? It's more art, and badass art at that! We unveiled it to the players at the god-level game last night, and Geoff's player had a small but delighted meltdown over how much awesomeness it contains. It's a picture of Geoff desperately (yet manfully, as always) piloting the solar barque away from Apep, the terrible darkness serpent Titan of Egypt, at the request of Ptah, who called on him to step in for Ra when that god was laid low by treachery.
We don't blame him, we're pretty much in love, too, from Geoff's solar-powered faced to his bitchin' Norse armor to the awesome Egyptian barque to the horrifying scale of Apep (the size of his teeth!). Thank you to the awesome artist - if you're reading this, you inspired a lot of squealing and happiness!
so who drives the solar barque now with Ra gone? It seems like a pretty long term commitment, not just a one time epic thing.
ReplyDeleteSekhmet, at the moment, as the most prominent remaining sun god among the Netjer. For Geoff it was a one-time epic thing - Ptah's words to him were something along the lines of "Ra just went down, I need time to wrangle Sekhmet, so get up there."
DeleteConsidering that Geoff found it pretty hard to sit still and not fight all the things attacking the boat, I imagine the daily ride with the resident berserker huntress is a roller coaster in more ways than one.
Hey, wait a second! Where's Sangira and Marcus? I'm pretty sure they did a whole heck of a lot while on that boat too, like you know, kill a FUCKTON of giant shadow snakes. Jeez, Aztec's and Orisha get no respect, I'm I right.
ReplyDeleteI know, right? The Man always keeping the Scions who do the real work down. Geoff's such a spotlight hog.
DeleteActually, I think the artist just wanted to focus on Geoff and so didn't mess around with everyone else. They're both pretty short and Geoff's pretty large, so maybe they're in the prow of the boat and we just can't see them.
Yeah, I guess you could be right. But you got to admit at the very least that Marcus real does need some artistic love. I swear in everyone of your stories he's either drunk, depressed or fearful.
ReplyDeleteIt's actually kind of sad.
Marcus would probably have been diagnosed as a self-medicating person Bipolar disorder. He's depicted that way because he pretty much WAS always Drunk, depressed or hacking the shit outta something.
DeleteWell...I suppose when your forced to work with a literally bloodthirsty psychopath, a genius sociopath and a cynical wise-cracker all the time, you'd turn into an alcoholic too.
DeleteIt's kind of like being the only Lawful Good Paladin in a group full of crazy people. It just gets to you after awhile.
Yeah, that's pretty much what happened, actually. He came in as a reformed alcoholic who was on the wagon, some Justice boons and a determination to help turn the rest of the bad around... and after about a month had reverted to being constantly drunk and unhappy, which is where he stayed until the end of his run. By the time Ragnarok rolled around, he was possibly more of a danger to the universe than Sangria or Sophia, thanks to being uncontrolled, unpredictable and totally unconcerned with self-preservation.
DeleteOh, and there's probably something in there about that whole Orisha concept of the sacred marasa twins, and what qualities he didn't have because his brother had them... ;)
DeleteArgh. You made even more sad, Anne. Now I have to watch a video of a kitten sleeping or something.
DeleteAww, I'm sorry! Sometimes their lives are sad. :(
DeleteMarcus was sort of the flip side of Goze, who started out a total douchebag and by the end was trying desperately to atone for his sins and make everything right again.
Huh. You know what, that brings up a good question. Have any of the still living God PC's tried to visit their dead former companions in their respectively Underworlds? Hell, have they even tried to bring them back to life? Or have they been to busy saving the World to go back to their old buddies?
DeleteThere has definitely been some attempts made, in various ways, to affect the dead... but not all of them, and not all successful. Those who were killed and subsumed by Titanic forces in a big way didn't go to any Underworld and were instead sort of eaten by the Titanrealm itself, so some of them are way, way harder to try to get hold of than just dashing off a prayer or jaunting into the Underworld in a sunboat.
DeleteWell if Anne would finish the Ragnarok fiction, you'd know....
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I can feel the evil death stare.... You know I'm kidding!
This story is taking me so long! *cries*
DeleteWow. Apep looks so... anglerfishy
ReplyDeleteI love it.