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He should have fallen on his sword. That would have been the sensible thing to do.
Punched his ticket for Elysium right away, no waiting around.
He thought they'd only kill him.
Why did he think that? How stupid was he? Why in the world did he think that?
And now instead of his next great adventure he's flubbed a save against dominate person.
Mm. I'm considering it seriously enough to put my foot down on the turtle soup.
I'm considering it seriously enough to put my foot down on turtle soup, and other forms of execution.
It's easier to kill someone than to unkill them, and I don't know what resources we'll wind up needing.
Aesocar, Andoletta, Angradd, Apsu, Arqueros, Damerrich, Easivra, Eldas, Erastil, Falayna, Folgrit, Ghenshau, Gruhastha, Grundinnar, Iomedae (again), Kelinahat, Kroina, Lymnieris, Myr, Neshen, Olheon, Osiris, Ragathiel, Shizuru, Smiad, Svarozic, Tanagaar, Torag, Tsukiyo, Vildeis, Wadjet, Winlas, Zohls, Aegirran, Arshea, Benorus, Bes, Bharnarol, Bolka, Chaldira, Chinostes (Good Aspect), Cihua Couatl, Dalenydra, Eritrice, Halcamora, Irez, Isis, Jaidi, Jaidz, Kazutal, Kelksiomides, Khepri (in before the alignment debate), Korada, Kurgess, Lorris, Lythertida, Mazludeh, Neith, Omrataji, Ondisso, Qi Zhong, Rowdrosh, Sarenrae, Seramaydiel, Shei, Shelyn (again), Shelyn (apparently pre-Earthfall her favored weapon was a dagger? only difference that I see), Soralyon, Trudd, Upion and Warrik, Uskyeria, Ylimancha, Yuelral, Abadar, Alseta, Amaznen, Anubis, Aroden, Dranngvit, Erecura, Horus, Imbrex, Irori, Jerishall, Kerkamoth, Kols, Lissala, Maat, Magdh, Magrim, Matravash, Otolmens, Psomeira, Ra, Thoth, Valmallos.
Getting a god's attention isn't necessarily easy - there's a requisite combination of state of mind/goals/knowing their name/knowing their nature, where having more of one substitutes for having less of the others - but if you @everyone, people do show up in the server.
Even when everyone's busy, like they are today.
Huh.
That's a fairly interesting mortal.
Would Otolmens like to explain this interesting mortal?
Somehow there's no one within a step of LG with the budgetary slack today to spare a divine intervention on falsifying Altronus's alignment and following it up by enpaladining someone who would predictably probably fall.
It'd be easier and cheaper to change his alignment by transforming him into a Good person, but they aren't going to do that, either, because it wouldn't be easy or cheap (or, one presumes, appreciated).
Shucks. I don't know if anyone even heard me, and there's no one left to try.
Oh, well, technically,
Source Distant Shores pg. 23
Category Basic (Faith)
The faith of Holomog focuses on finding the good in unusual places and appreciating the nuances of virtue in the world. You may treat Asmodeus as if he were a lawful neutral deity for the purposes of determining your own alignment as a cleric, inquisitor, or other divine spellcaster. You may not select the evil domain unless your own alignment also contains an evil aspect.
I'm pretty sure that the Lord of the Pit can't first atone you to LG, and subsequently choose you as His paladin.
Choryon is one hundred percent correct. Let me find the source... ah, here we are.
Distant Shores, pg. 21:
9. Shrine of the Wily Linguist: Temples both new and ancient cover Spineback, but the smallest is perhaps the most unusual. A tiny, neurotic church of archivists and arbiters here worships Asmodeus, known locally as the Wily Linguist, thanks to a minor role he played in aiding Mazludeh in mediating , recording, and filing the Celestial Concordance between the mortals of Holomog and the forces of Elysium, Heaven, and Nirvana. Visiting Asmodeans might be somewhat torn between amusement that a nation of angel-worshipers pays him some honor, and consternation that they invariably depict the notorious god as a woman. First Arbiter Oluche (LN female human cleric of Asmodeus 6) struggles to keep her temple afloat, organizing fighting tournaments and poetry competitions for the temple’s annual Days of Wrath celebration that helps fund their archives through the rest of the year.
...You know, I'm a bit of a wily linguist myself.
Indeed. I eat pussies like that frenchman Tarrare: I just -
Why is there a way for Asmodeus to count as LN, out of all the Evil gods??
I guess. That's not really an explanation for why He gets to play by different rules, though.
Mechanically, what's going on here that gives Him unique abilities the other gods don't?
My headcanon is that Asmodeus spun off a LN servitor demigod and named her Asmodeus* with an asterisk.
Demigods give one fewer domain than full gods, but that's fine, because Asteriskodeus doesn't give Evil. It fits perfectly.
Well... he seems to be the only one naming the servitor after himself, at any rate.
No one else is doing it because - Lawful Good wouldn't get as much Asmodeus does out spinning off a Lawful Neutral god to scoop up any LEs who'd make for useful clerics or go to Hell - Abadar and Norgorber already exist and Axis is nice for people who wind up there -, Chaotic Good doesn't need to spin off a Chaotic Neutral - Gorum and Calistria live in Elysium -, and Chaotic Evil doesn't want to spin off a Chaotic Neutral servitor demigod because the words "Chaotic" "Neutral" "servitor" and "demigod" don't belong in the same paragraph, let alone all in one sentence.
That seems plausible enough to her and also seems extremely unlikely to be true unless you have secret knowledge or there's a god listening in on your headcanons and applying them to the real physical world.
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