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[Ukrainian Ranger]

update is coming as soon as Azthor thinks he has slaughtered enough divine beings.

That means when he'll be the last god standing?

[Ghazkull]

nah i think Corvus is the last for this round...the Ascendants are beneath him actwise(not really worth the effort) and taking on 4 Elder Gods at once should be difficult. Besides we have to wait for those 4 to decide what they do with their acts apart from hiding at the Voidring.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Well GWG that sounds a lot like jealousy, eh?

I wouldn't be throwing with stones seeing as you achieved not half of what he achieved with a dozen times the power that he had.

Exactly why I'm annoyed at it.

Spoiler: Rant about why Udil seems like a Marty Sty (click to show/hide)

Look at it from my perspective.

Everything Neyravah has ever done has backfired just about as badly as it could. When They made the Ninth Continent a jungle, everyone hated Them for it and it turned out to bring death rather than life. When They helped gather the dwarves together, they promptly ignored Neyravah's role in it and wouldn't even offer euthanization to Them...and that's ignoring the Udil thing. Then They made the Flameoaks, which were IC supposed to be punishment and OOC supposed to make dwarves tolerate Neyravah; neither happened. Stonedrakes were supposed to be a gift to dwarves, so of course they didn't notice. Mountain Tortoises were supposed to allow for motile fortresses for dwarves, but ran away...somehow so full of the invisible Stonedrakes that they were plagued by the parasites, especially notable because the Tortoises were supposed to be made to have fortresses dug in their backs!
Nelkathar's not doing much better--he wants to save the inhabitants of the Ninth Continent? That divine battle causes a massive explosion which prevents that!

In contrast, nothing Udil has done has ended particularly wrongly for him. A couple of injuries which haven't impeded his abilities are all he got from slaying a giant and multiple gods, a few wars, being caught in the collapse of the Ninth Continent, and all his other ventures, to say nothing of how just about all dwarvenkind flocked to his banner once Emeraldhome was destroyed while decrying the force which brought the dwarves to him as the worst god possible. Killing all the drakes--darn near all the megafauna on the Continent--caused absolutely nothing, and my and other arguments to the contrary were ignored no matter how detailed and in-depth. Nothing really went wrong for him. The nail in the coffin was that battle. He was the weakest of divine combatants there, and yet by an improbable turn of events all the more powerful gods and Thaneos killed each other, which caused Udil to ascend. This caused him terrible, unending pain, but again, nothing has come of it.

Only part of Udil's success has been due to the help of other gods, mind you. If he had been the one to fall to the giant rather than that other Ascendant, we wouldn't be having this talk. If dwarves, oh-so-resistant to coming together before Udil, hadn't been assimilated into his empire in the space of a generation, tops, with little if any friction, we wouldn't be having this discussion. If some other god, or Thaneos, had managed to survive the battle, or if ancient Udil's handicaps and outnumberedness/outpoweredness had caused him to fall at the hands of the Emberborn or the jaws and magma-bursts of Az-Sho, we wouldn't be having this discussion. If Udil's handicaps had any effect on him whatsoever, we wouldn't be having this conversation. If all gods had the things they tried to do succeed, and to the level Udil's things have, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

In short: Neyravah failed at everything, Udil has failed at nothing.
And yet, Udil is the underdog?

I think our current Overgod has some needlessly complicated evil plot. That involves using Udil and the God of Chaos to cleanse the original planet.

Or he's staggeringly incompetent. Which one is yet to be seen.

Probably the latter, give the complete lack of response to Udil.

I want the update, because I am out of ideas for Vanida's actions for now ( Well, I suspect that she will be killed by Udil at first opportunity. Or raped. Or both. Or eaten by Aodun. But still)
It was my mistake making a peaceful schemer for the world of maaaaadnes

Oh, aye, so did I, except without the scheming.
By the way, you're welcome to side with me.

update is coming as soon as Azthor thinks he has slaughtered enough divine beings.

That means when he'll be the last god standing?

He's not Udil, ya know.

[Azthor]

You know, I am starting to wish I get turned back to Order by the time we are back to the usual (manageable) amount of players.

[ragnarok97071]

Yeah, personally I find this kind of game more fun when there aren't a pair of nigh-invulnerable omnicidal maniacs out to kill everything. Especially since one of them appears to have an utterly retarded amount of 'luck'.

Seriously, Udil's gone from being a very interesting character (believe it or not, I do enjoy having a person like him in the RP, though the fact that so many other gods (Including the Overgod) seem to be completely fucking blind to the fact that he's all but outright stated that he wants to kill everything but the dwarves, ESPECIALLY the Overgod, who has been helping him. Seriously, it's reaching the point that it's starting to get a bit annoying.

[micelus]

Minor correction GWG: Udil ascended due to the act of the Overgod, not due to the battle. Not going to try to argue with you right now; you're clearly pissed.

You know, I am starting to wish I get turned back to Order by the time we are back to the usual (manageable) amount of players.

I was just about to post about that. In relation to this, does Udil have any acts left this turn? I might have an idea if he does.

[Ghazkull]

Okay so let me see. Most of this actions turned out as they did was because they were done stupidly.

The natural habitat of the Dwarves were the Savannnahs, YOU destroyed by creating a jungle, a biome they were not prepared for the least.
Next you create Megafauna WHICH EATS THEM. Do you think they would love you for it?
IN fact you did nothing useful for the Dwarves. You didn't create Emeraldhome, the Dwarves wandered there bcause of Atlas and settled there because he shooed away the Megafauna you created.

THe nex thting you did was throw those that stayed solitary (because it was their nature and culture) together. Would you throw a bunch of tigers into the same cage? And then you asked/oredered them to kill their old and weak? Does that sound like a reason to worship you? Not really.

On the other Hand. Udil led those Dwarves into safety and out of the murderous jungles, gave them a place to settle down and defended thema gainst the monstrosities of this world. They Followed him first out of Fear (he killed Atlas and destroyed the Emerald as well as killing a Fangdrake singlehandedly, with a wooden sword) and later because he kept them alive through all that.

Your Creation of Mountain Turtles was just stupid. Would you burrow into something that moves and could squash you with its toe? Not really. Besides they are turtles. Most turtles i know like water and are drawn to it. That the Stonedrakes live in them is only natural. I mean they carry their foodsource on their backs!

All in all all your actions where so blatantly ignorant of Dwarven Needs that you shouldn't really wonder why they don't worship you...and thats to that.

[micelus]

Um, Ghaz? Flameoaks.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

What the hell? Aodun is on the other side of the world from the Moon.

[Azthor]

No way around a few more deaths though, updates are going to be too massive if we have 13 players going around. Also, IamanElfCollaborator, point in case: I cannot pierce your ward without using a Mighty Act, but distance is most certainly not an issue for an Elder God.

In case anyone is interested, should be 1 Mighty Act to turn me back to Order at the end of this.

[Xantalos]

Well that was fast.

[ragnarok97071]

Anyway, yeah, not going to argue that they didn't have reason to really love him. I even understand why they happened to follow Udil. problem is, though I don't see him as a Marty Stu (as rediculous as he is, I'm pretty sure no-one would actually want to be him), I still think that he's been favored at least some, what with the fact that he's had very little go wrong for him outside of relatively minor inconveniences.

Also, Az, I have a question. Wouldn't Ao be pretty pissed at the person who, oh, locked him in a box? Who is currently in a coma? Completely incapable of defending himself to any decent degree?

[Digital Hellhound]

What? Did Az just completely edit his action with no warning for those at the Spire? I know he was going for the moon before.

[Ghazkull]

ah yeah, the Flameoaks. Which he gave to teh CHildren fo Az-Sho. The Dwarves were long gone by then and have nothing to do with it.

Anyhow following player is missing acts:

Kar'lan.

and that was it actually...*shrugs* i think i start updating now.

[Azthor]

Anyway, yeah, not going to argue that they didn't have reason to really love him. I even understand why they happened to follow Udil. problem is, though I don't see him as a Marty Stu (as rediculous as he is, I'm pretty sure no-one would actually want to be him).

Also, Az, I have a question. Wouldn't Ao be pretty pissed at the person who, oh, locked him in a box? Who is currently in a coma? Completely incapable of defending himself to any decent degree?

Good that you asked, that will be made very clear at the end of this. I do feel like a bit of a jerk for the two ascendants though. But at the end of the day, the universe is in no shape for ascendants to survive; I will tentatively fix it up if someone spends that Mighty Act to restore me.

What? Did Az just completely edit his action with no warning for those at the Spire? I know he was going for the moon before.

It was pointed out that I couldn't attack the moon.