>From 2000 to 2006, I was in a very long-running Amber DRPG campaign.
>(If anyone here has ever wandered over to Phil Moyer's personal web
>pages, you may have seen his truly frickin' enormous gallery of art
>relating to said campaign.)

That would be http://www.jurai.net/~pmoyer/Art-Amber/PMArt-amber.front.html , in case anybody would be curious. Organized by campaign era and illustration/commission type!

>There was eventually some... friction between our GM and myself
>regarding my character goals. The universe we were playing in was
>becoming increasingly and increasingly god-heavy as we went along. Not
>just the Serpent and the Unicorn, a bunch of others. People were
>actually undergoing apotheosis on a fairly regular basis and turning
>into gods themselves. The eventual plan by most people involved
>was that we'd tool up into our own divine army and go kick the shit
>out of the insane Lovecraftian entities threatening our universe.

Well, for what it's worth, my PC was starting to have some doubts as well -- mostly due to the scattershottedness of the whole deal. She wasn't morally opposed to it per-se; hey, who is she to criticize life choices, little miss "I decided to take Abyss because I justified it to myself as being tactically necessary"? But she wanted at least some control on if/when any apotheosis would occur, to have it happen on her own terms, not just luck of the draw. Something like the Mystaran model seemed reasonable, if anything...

>This didn't precisely work out well for me in the end. There was... a
>lot of drama, lets just say.

*tries very VERY hard to keep from collapsing with pained laughter*

*cough*

Okay, I'm better now.

--- Philip
(also, for those curious, Shiori's ascension would have looked something like this.)

	Philip J. Moyer Contributing Writer, Editor and Artist (and Moderator) -- Eyrie Productions, Unlimited CEO of MTS, High Poobah Of Artwork, and High Priest Of the Church Of Aerianne -- Magnetic Terrapin Studios "Insert Pithy Comment Here"