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I've never had a character that I wanted to have follow a faith before, but one of my characters I've decided I want to have become a ranger, and follow a deity. How would this be roleplayed? Obviously my character isnt just going to pray to one of the dieties out of nowhere, is she?

Ok, this brings up another question. Why would I need to see the high priest?

Generally, the Priest characters on the mud are the deities connection to the rest of the world. They determine the worth of a follower, decide upon a quest, or any number of other various things. Basically, since deities are usually very busy with a number of things, its often easier to catch a player character that can give you a quest than it is to catch the deity themselves. Some deities do questing themselves.. It depends upon the faith, but generally, priests are charged with that duty

Another benefit of seeking out the high priest of the faith is to help indoctrinate your character into the religion. The high priest should be able to answer most of your questions about the faith (both IC and OOC) and should also be able to suggest ways that you can best serve the deity in question.

Plus, there's never a situation where encouraging interaction between players is a bad thing.

Aklen wrote:
Generally, the Priest characters on the mud are the deities connection to the rest of the world. They determine the worth of a follower, decide upon a quest, or any number of other various things.


So, is it possible for *any* priest to be able to determine if a person is worthy of joining the faith, questing them, then notifying the deity? Or MUST it be the High Priest?

Just a quick question I've always wanted to ask.

even though I started the thread, asking the questions.... I've learned this much. Just being a generic, run-of-the-mill preist gives you no power. Most preist don't have many connections with their diety. They are striving to get that connection, but dont have it yet. Now, I could be wrong on that, as I've never successfully played a Priest before, but yeah. I've asked a lot of priests before, and they always say "Go talk to the Head Preist."

Well yeah, if you're going to apply for a job you get reviewed by management. Priests have plenty of power, it's called being able to cast divine spells. High Priests just have the added power of doing paperwork

Also, in same cases you might have people filling in for a High Priest, whether it's just a regular cleric or a well known follower of the Faith. Example being for as long as I could remember, Tormites learned alot of Torm from a very well known Ranger of Torm. At least I think it was a ranger... anyways, cases are circumstancial. Anyone you get directed to in order to join a faith has a good reason for it, that person(s) has played their character long enough and know the ins and outs of that faith well enough to educate or judge if someone might be capable of joining. Ultimately however it's up to the God in the long run.

Well thats because the High Priest is the connection between the deity and the faith. That means nothing about the power of the other priests of a faith. There is also the mechanical reasons for going to the high priest. They are the only ones that can give out a holy symbol, besides the god themself.

Saiden wrote: So, is it possible for *any* priest to be able to determine if a person is worthy of joining the faith, questing them, then notifying the deity? Or MUST it be the High Priest?

It's more a case of you praying to the deity and if THEY decide they want you, THEY inform the high priest or a nominated faithful to quest you....not any priest sending anyone on a quest to join a faith, without consent of the god in question.

As for why you go to the high priest - essentially because they're proven to be trustworthy ooc and have earned the right through RP and actions to hold a hero position. Also they know basically the dogma of their god or goddess inside out, and can act accordingly.

ok, now here's an off topic question. I dont want this thread to go off topic for long though, so lets not all dwell on it.

How do you prove to be OOCly trustworthy on a mud where the admins vow never to contact you oocly, by any means other than the mud? most often, your too busy roleplaying, and their too busy doing their thing for the both of you to go to some OOC area that only the imms can send people to and chit chat. even that would make sense if the time contraints worked, because WHY would they sit in that OOC area and chit chat? Sign me up for it!

Let me post my thoughts.

1) Why do you have to see the high priest if you want to follow a diety?

The high priest is _the_ most favoured person in a faith. Example: Cyric likes Fzoul, but Fzoul is not his high priest. Cyric will give this title to the one priest in his faith he doesn't feel he can continue to reign without. Now, the criteria might change from deity to deity, but the premise is still the same; that person is actually loved, respected, and protected by a god. Pretty heavy, huh? Well, Well, that being said, wouldn't it be logical to get in good with the High Priest in order to impress the god? Kinda like telling the boss's wife she looks pretty in order to kiss up to the boss.

2) So, is it possible for *any* priest to be able to determine if a person is worthy of joining the faith, questing them, then notifying the deity? Or MUST it be the High Priest?

Of course. Win favour with a lower priest in the faith, and you're still going to impress your god. There comes to be a little OOC in there too and I'll explain. Let us say you impress twinky-mc-twink priest. The priest prays to the deity on your behald "I leik this plaeyr. Faith him plz!!!!!1111one111" - Think that will impress the god? Hardly. If you get a heavy roleplay priest, however, and this god actually knows that they try, and you're going to get a good result from impressing them. When a player thinks they have no sway in the church, they generally don't. One that passes off the buck to the High Priest either A) Are not aware that they sit in their god's ear, or B) Simply trying to get out of faith issues.

3) How do you prove to be OOCly trustworthy on a mud where the admins vow never to contact you oocly, by any means other than the mud?

You roleplay responsibly. You might not know it, but you are being watched 95% of the time. We see what you do. If you are an elven priest and you decide to help an orc or drow because of the ph4t l00t they are going to give you, that's not OOC responsible. You are not roleplaying your alignment/god/or race in that situation. When a god can trust you to do the "right" thing in any situation from proven roleplay, then they can trust you to be a high priest.