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Petition/Deity Thread
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The Deity Petition thread is made separate from the Hero thread, to prevent clutter since deities are a noisy bunch.

Story

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In the beginning of time, there was nothing. There was no darkness, no light, no time, no space. Everything is void. Then... out of nowhere, a sentience had developed. This sentient being, dubbing itself 'God', is capable of manipulating itself to its will. With its power, the entity had created the universe.

But soon after, it grew bored, and destroyed that universe and returned everything to void. Then, it had an idea. An idea thought up by a race of sentients long extinct. Democracy.

Soon God created several omnipotent beings, known as Deities, to be his advisers. But still God is bored, so he left the multiverse, leaving his shell as a machine that would operate to serve the majority and alter the universe according to their wills.

And that, is where you deities come in. You have the power of Godhood at your fingertips, and you can do anything you please with it. Problem is, you will have to compete with your peers, and diplomacy is always needed, as it will be a difficult road to wrench control from everyone.

Alternatively, after a civilization is established, you can choose to play as a Hero, a mortal with the power to resist Fate and kill deities.

Hero Basics

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Hello. You are a Hero, entities with the ability to resist the tide of fates, and slay deities. You live in a universe shaped by ten chaotic beings known as deities, and they are able to do anything they please with you, and even take control of your will - but only if all of them agreed with it.

You can do anything as you wanted. You might pledge your loyalty to a Deity, and become a pawn in the eternal game of Godly Chess, you may ignore them completely and try to lie low without inciting divine retribution, or you might actually mount a campaign against the immortal beings yourself.

So, where do I sign up?

If you're looking to just be a Hero, you may just PM me your character form and dive in. If, however, you wish to become a Deity, you will have to ask me to put you on the Deity Waiting list.

The form is as follow. The stats will be explained in details later. You get 90 stat points to allocate. Note to avatars, you will already get extra racial modifiers, so you will still have to conform to the point limit.

Code: [Select]

[b]Personal[/b]
Name:
Birthplace:
Appearance:

[b]Initial Stats[/b]
Strength:
Finesse:
Mindpower:
Aptitude:
Luck:

...And that's it. You're good to go. Note that if your Hero die, you're dead for good unless you are reanimated into an undead, or if the deities revived you.

Roll Modifier and Stats

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Since races and specializations vary, I reserve the right to add modifiers as I see fit. You can argue, however, if you find them unfair.
You need at least 40 points for a stat for it to not have a negative modifier (-1 for each 10 points lower than 40)

Beyond 40, each 10 stat points will add a +1 modifier to your rolls. Sometimes if the situation is more delicate, I might use a d12, and the rule for the results will be like the d6 one, with some more gray areas.

Strength determine actions that require athletic powers, like bending iron bars, running in one direction, and anything involving using your physical might.

Finesse determine actions that involve precisions, like lockpicking, aiming projectile weapons, parkour, and trying to stab somebody in their vital spot.

Mindpower determine basically all mental work that doesn't require finesse, really. From resisting the overwhelming mind control of a deity, to just trying to understand a difficult book.

Luck determine an action that require things beyond your actions, like having a guard chasing you trip on a stone while you are running. Et cetera.

Aptitude is not really a roll modifier, but it affect your stat growth.

Experience, Specialization and Aptitude

Every 20 time you fail at certain actions using a certain stat, you will get one stat for them. This exclude Luck, in which you can only get from Blessings.

Specialization is a special modifier type you can choose for a narrower type of skills. You will have to sacrifice 10 stat points from the Stat governing that skill for them. Specializations will give you a +1 modifier on action using them. For instance, if you spend 10 Intelligence points in Bugs Chemical Extermination, you will get a +1 modifier when you try to spray a cockroach with pesticide.

As said earlier, Aptitude is a special stat. It does not help you directly in rolls, but it can speed up your experience growth slightly. You get 1 more Aptitude point after getting 10 Epic Success Rolls. When one of your stat or specialization go up, I roll a %d. If the result is lower than your Aptitude point, you will get an extra stat (or specialization). You stop getting Aptitude points when you reach 100.

Deity/Hero Interaction

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Avatar (non-forsaken) can interact and talk to a Hero, but cannot directly harm them. Any attempt to hurt a Hero result in that avatar auto-failing. Note that it is possible to indirectly kill a Hero, say by destroying the location a Hero is in and having it collapse over them.

A Deity can directly speak to a Hero without using an Avatar, however, a Hero must first see that deity's avatar by their own eyes first. (they don't have to know what it is)

Though it might be difficult, a Hero can attempt to kill an Avatar, however, this also allow the Avatar to attack a Hero without auto-failing.

Artifacts, Champions, Forsaken Avatars and Deity-slaying

Artifacts are items that can only be crafted by avatars and forsaken avatars. Before a deity can craft an artifact, they must first slay one of their fellow deity. Then they roll a d20. An artifact is created by rolling 19 or 20. Artifact can come in variety of forms, and they all grant a +4 bonus when used to do their task. Artifact weapons are the only type of weapons capable of killing a deityheart.

The easier way of creating an artifact is via petition.

Forsaken avatars are avatars of a killed deity. Depending on their status from petition, they may be either mortal or immortal. They are all like a Hero, except they can create artifacts.

Champions are Heroes that have allied themselves (temporarily or permanently) to a deity. In each petition rounds, a deity can choose to sacrifice a vote round to add 1 luck to their Champion. They cannot vote until that petition round ends. For a Hero and Deity to ally themselves together, that Hero must know of that Deity's existence, and both must agree to the allegiance. A champion is instantly slain when their patron deity dies. The bond will stay until a particular goal is fulfilled, or it may be permanent. Neither deity nor the champion can terminate the bond until it breaks.

To slay a deity, one must first locate their Heart. A Deityheart is a beating heart the size of a human's. It is encased in diamond orb with the diameter of 1km. An avatar or a denizen can destroy the casing, but only a Champion wielding an Artifact Weapon can kill the Heart itself.

Magical Artifacts and Generic Artifacts

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A Magical Artifact and a Generic Artifact is a different type of item. A magical artifact can only be created via petition, and unless explicitly stated, do not have the +4 modifier. It may possess a variety of special properties, like sentience, constant heat, and turning the wielder into a flying toad, to name a few.

A magical artifact weapon can be used to kill a deityheart.

Deity-slaying Empowerment

Apart from allowing to creation of one Generic Artifact, killing a deity also give the Champion +10 Luck and give one more voice to the Patron Deity.

For instance, a Patron Deity who killed one deity would have the voice the equivalent of a +2d6, and so forth.

[Lenglon]

wake up at the end of my comatose hour, yawn, stretch, then glance around and see if anything showed up while i was asleep.

assuming nothing did, drink some water from my side cavern's spring, then go out and begin hunting for some food. work my way slowly upwards as i do so.

reminder: starts in hybrid form

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

i would like to spawn my avatar
Location: Personal moon, deep section (hot springs/magma pools), in dead-end side cavern, with a spring on one side.
Name: Irine
Forms: multi-tail fox, human.
Affinity: Fire
Appearance: Adolescent female human/Adolescent female human with 3 fox tails (proportionately adjusted to fit the human body, making them quite large), fox ears (again adjusted), carnivorous teeth/Adolescent Multi-tail fox, currently at 3 tails (approx biological age: 130), has black hair of a moderate length, brown eyes. largest form is hybrid because of the tails, smallest is fox.

Personal
Name: Irine
Birthplace: Lenglon's Personal moon, deep section (hot springs/magma pools), in dead-end side cavern, with a spring on one side.
Race: Avatar (Human/Multitail-fox hybrid)
Affinity: Fire
Appearance:Adolescent female human/Adolescent female human with 3 fox tails (proportionately adjusted to fit the human body, making them quite large), fox ears (again adjusted), carnivorous teeth/Adolescent Multi-tail fox, currently at 3 tails (approx biological age: 130), has black hair of a moderate length, brown eyes. largest form is hybrid because of the tails, smallest is fox.

physically is a mildly above-average instance of its current species in each of its forms. mentally it is moderately above-average for the species of the most intelligent of the forms.

((i'm assuming 0 in all stats is average, if 10 in all stats is average then please adjust all stats up by 10.))
((also assuming avatars don't follow the normal stats rules))
Initial Stats
Strength: 10
Finesse: 10
Mindpower: 20
Aptitude: 20
Luck: 20

((racial modifier note: foxes have absurdly good hearing (in winter they hunt mice by listening for their footsteps from the snow above them, then jumping on them from above. it really is that sensitive and pinpoint accurate), but relatively poor eyesight (mostly tracks movement, although they're by no means blind), and their sense of smell is pretty good, but not as good as a dog's. please apply modifiers to my avatar to show this while in hybrid and fox forms))

Spoiler: Copy of avatar petition details (click to show/hide)

Has three forms, one of a local animal (human?), one of another animal (does not have to be local), one a hybrid of the two.

physically is a mildly above-average instance of its current species in each of its forms. mentally it is moderately above-average for the species of the most intelligent of the forms.

the avatar always appears as the same creature each time it changes to a particular form. it can be recognized just like any other being and cannot use this shapechanging ability to appear as someone else. (although a disguise could work, just like it would for anyone else)

transitions between forms takes two seconds to perform, and distract the avatar from doing anything else during the transition.

transitions must have at least 60 seconds between changes.

transitions do not require transitioning through the hybrid form, can go between each of the forms directly.

excess matter from a transition to a smaller form is dissipated as the element the avatar is associated with (by volume), changing into a bigger form requires an amount (by volume) of the element associated with the avatar roughly equal to the gain in size.

damage taken in one form stays with the avatar upon changing forms unless the body part damaged has no equivalent in the new form.

damage to a body part that has no equivalent in the new form does not heal while in that form, and will remain when changing back into a form that has such an equivalent.

ages at the rate of the slowest aging of its forms.

if its current form is incapable of speech, is capable to speaking directly to another creature's mind if within 10 ft. this communication is words only, and is 1-way. the creature spoken too has to reply through normal means.

requires the same basic needs as another instance of its current species, changes in form retain its current state of sustanance proportionally. (starving in one form is starving in another, but a small form doesn't need to eat as much, and changing to a big form from a small one doesn't automatically make it starving.)

is able to manipulate one of the classical elements (water, fire, earth, air) or a common derivative of them (ice, lightning, wood, etc) within 500ft of the avatar's current position.

can only generate a 1-foot sphere of the element, and can only do that up to 5 times within any 24-hour period.

cannot make the element cease to exist, can however reposition it such that it will logically cease to exist when it is no longer being manipulated. (if associated with fire, can put out a burning building by moving the fire into the sky where it has no fuel and then releasing control of it, but cannot put the fire out directly.)

cannot manipulate microscopic amounts of the element (if water, water vapor in the air doesn't count).

cannot manipulate instances of the element within the body of a living creature (if water, water in blood doesn't count, neither do electrical signals in the brain if lightning associated, etc).

does not have a maximum limit on the amount of the element manipulated, but stops being able to manipulate any instances of the element that leave the 500ft radius of the avatar.

cannot be directly harmed by the element, but can be harmed indirectly. (if associated with fire, the fire wont burn the avatar, but the avatar could still be suffocated if the fire consumes all the oxygen in the area.)

the avatar is not omniscient, and does not have access to all the information we do.

upon spawning or respawning, the avatar does know:
     its own identity and abilities, in full detail.
     the functionality of physics, time, chemistry, the petition system, the physical properties of creatures, locations of planets, the appearance of other avatars, etc. at the level of an expert on the subject
     where it is, and everything around it within a 1 mile radius, at the level of a local.
however the above list of information is not updated as changes occur.

the avatar is innately aware of any time it is referred to by name, and the vague circumstances under which it is being spoken of, within a 200 mile radius. it can hear the conversation itself if it is within 10 miles. it must be actually spoken of for this to trigger, if the avatar is named "and" it will not know every time people say "and" in normal conversation, only when "and" is being used to refer to the avatar. the name of the avatar is fixed upon spawning or respawning, and changing its name or using a different one as its name does not count for the purposes of this ability. Deities (because they can be anywhere they want) can choose to be inside these radii or not at any given time. (i will assume you are not normally, but are if you start talking to the avatar directly, and are whichever you want if you state a position specifically)

other than the above, the avatar is limited to the information it acquires over the course of its actions.

the avatar can be affected by mind-affecting effects similarly to other creatures of its current form. (meaning it can be mind-controlled by the mind-control-sword Kansa wants).

the avatar can be killed just like any other creature, does not require special weapons or other such things (yes, this means it can get sick too, or starve to death, or whatever).

when the avatar is killed, it respawns 24 hours later at a minimum of 50 miles away from where it died last, as an adolescent, and in its hybrid form.

upon death, the avatar is effectively reset. it loses all memories, mind-control effects, physical changes, etc. nothing carries over, it simply spawns a new avatar using the same spawn rules.

it is asleep for the first hour after spawning or respawning, no matter what occurs to it during this hour (the time is used to handle the massive data dump it gets upon spawning).

upon respawning the avatar's forms (and their appearances), element, and name, are all re-chosen, and can be the same or different.

[hops]

Oh, yes, right, I forgot negative modifiers. Please resubmit stats after I update some things.
Lenglon, your avatar already have a natural racial modifier, so these extra stats should conform to the limit.

[Lenglon]

Oh, yes, right, I forgot negative modifiers. Please resubmit stats after I update some things.
Lenglon, your avatar already have a natural racial modifier, so these extra stats should conform to the limit.

sounds good, updated in the spoiler below.
EDIT: apparently i can't count, fixed.
wake up at the end of my comatose hour, yawn, stretch, then glance around and see if anything showed up while i was asleep.

assuming nothing did, drink some water from my side cavern's spring, then go out and begin hunting for some food. work my way slowly upwards as i do so.

Current Form: Hybrid

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Personal
Name: Irine
Birthplace: Lenglon's Personal moon, deep section (hot springs/magma pools), in dead-end side cavern, with a spring on one side.
Race: Avatar (Human/Multitail-fox hybrid)
Affinity: Fire
Appearance:Adolescent female human, has black hair of a moderate length, brown eyes/Adolescent female human with 3 fox tails (proportionately adjusted to fit the human body, making them quite large), fox ears (again adjusted), carnivorous teeth/Adolescent Multi-tail fox, currently at 3 tails (approx biological age: 130)
largest form is hybrid because of the tails, smallest is fox.

Initial Stats
Strength: 0
Finesse: 20
Mindpower: 10
Aptitude: 40
Luck: 20

Spoiler: Copy of avatar petition details (click to show/hide)

Has three forms, one of a local animal (human?), one of another animal (does not have to be local), one a hybrid of the two.

physically is a mildly above-average instance of its current species in each of its forms. mentally it is moderately above-average for the species of the most intelligent of the forms.

the avatar always appears as the same creature each time it changes to a particular form. it can be recognized just like any other being and cannot use this shapechanging ability to appear as someone else. (although a disguise could work, just like it would for anyone else)

transitions between forms takes two seconds to perform, and distract the avatar from doing anything else during the transition.

transitions must have at least 60 seconds between changes.

transitions do not require transitioning through the hybrid form, can go between each of the forms directly.

excess matter from a transition to a smaller form is dissipated as the element the avatar is associated with (by volume), changing into a bigger form requires an amount (by volume) of the element associated with the avatar roughly equal to the gain in size.

damage taken in one form stays with the avatar upon changing forms unless the body part damaged has no equivalent in the new form.

damage to a body part that has no equivalent in the new form does not heal while in that form, and will remain when changing back into a form that has such an equivalent.

ages at the rate of the slowest aging of its forms.

if its current form is incapable of speech, is capable to speaking directly to another creature's mind if within 10 ft. this communication is words only, and is 1-way. the creature spoken too has to reply through normal means.

requires the same basic needs as another instance of its current species, changes in form retain its current state of sustanance proportionally. (starving in one form is starving in another, but a small form doesn't need to eat as much, and changing to a big form from a small one doesn't automatically make it starving.)

is able to manipulate one of the classical elements (water, fire, earth, air) or a common derivative of them (ice, lightning, wood, etc) within 500ft of the avatar's current position.

can only generate a 1-foot sphere of the element, and can only do that up to 5 times within any 24-hour period.

cannot make the element cease to exist, can however reposition it such that it will logically cease to exist when it is no longer being manipulated. (if associated with fire, can put out a burning building by moving the fire into the sky where it has no fuel and then releasing control of it, but cannot put the fire out directly.)

cannot manipulate microscopic amounts of the element (if water, water vapor in the air doesn't count).

cannot manipulate instances of the element within the body of a living creature (if water, water in blood doesn't count, neither do electrical signals in the brain if lightning associated, etc).

does not have a maximum limit on the amount of the element manipulated, but stops being able to manipulate any instances of the element that leave the 500ft radius of the avatar.

cannot be directly harmed by the element, but can be harmed indirectly. (if associated with fire, the fire wont burn the avatar, but the avatar could still be suffocated if the fire consumes all the oxygen in the area.)

the avatar is not omniscient, and does not have access to all the information we do.

upon spawning or respawning, the avatar does know:
     its own identity and abilities, in full detail.
     the functionality of physics, time, chemistry, the petition system, the physical properties of creatures, locations of planets, the appearance of other avatars, etc. at the level of an expert on the subject
     where it is, and everything around it within a 1 mile radius, at the level of a local.
however the above list of information is not updated as changes occur.

the avatar is innately aware of any time it is referred to by name, and the vague circumstances under which it is being spoken of, within a 200 mile radius. it can hear the conversation itself if it is within 10 miles. it must be actually spoken of for this to trigger, if the avatar is named "and" it will not know every time people say "and" in normal conversation, only when "and" is being used to refer to the avatar. the name of the avatar is fixed upon spawning or respawning, and changing its name or using a different one as its name does not count for the purposes of this ability. Deities (because they can be anywhere they want) can choose to be inside these radii or not at any given time. (i will assume you are not normally, but are if you start talking to the avatar directly, and are whichever you want if you state a position specifically)

other than the above, the avatar is limited to the information it acquires over the course of its actions.

the avatar can be affected by mind-affecting effects similarly to other creatures of its current form. (meaning it can be mind-controlled by the mind-control-sword Kansa wants).

the avatar can be killed just like any other creature, does not require special weapons or other such things (yes, this means it can get sick too, or starve to death, or whatever).

when the avatar is killed, it respawns 24 hours later at a minimum of 50 miles away from where it died last, as an adolescent, and in its hybrid form.

upon death, the avatar is effectively reset. it loses all memories, mind-control effects, physical changes, etc. nothing carries over, it simply spawns a new avatar using the same spawn rules.

it is asleep for the first hour after spawning or respawning, no matter what occurs to it during this hour (the time is used to handle the massive data dump it gets upon spawning).

upon respawning the avatar's forms (and their appearances), element, and name, are all re-chosen, and can be the same or different.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Spoiler: Enkidu (click to show/hide)

Personal
Name: Enkimesh
Birthplace: The human tribe on Lenglon's moon
Appearance: Average human. Bearded, dirty. Furs for clothes. Defends himself with a spear.

Initial Stats
Strength: 30
Finesse: 25
Mindpower: 5
Aptitude: 15
Luck: 15

Edit: I realized that Enkimesh is a stupid conglomeration Enkidu and Gilgamesh, and Eknidu Enkidu is a much better name.

[hops]

Irine: Wake up on moon

[auto] You respawn for the first time, after you were sent to nothingness after your creation. You are currently in semi-humanoid form.

Irine: Look around

The caverns you are in is dark, the sparkly, glowing ectoplasm that was generated upon your revival is dissipating rapidly into the void. A crimson glow in the distance indicate a magma pool.

[Mindpower , Eyesight (Racial Lack-of-Specialization): 1 - 3 - 2] As the ectoplasm-glow die down, you can't see any movement, not even with the help from your humanoid eyes.

[Mindpower, Hearing (Racial Specialization): 3 +3 -3] Your ears, however, tell you that there are some small critters near you, transfixed after witnessing your revival. You can't really pinpoint them, what with the noises of magma bubbling in the walls.

[Mindpower, Smell (Racial Specialization): 1 +2 -3] You are a bit distracted by the pungent smell of the fungi around you, though. (Temporary: -1 Mindpower)

(Experience: +0.15 Mindpower)

[Other actions canceled]

[Lenglon]

((... um,

it is asleep for the first hour after spawning or respawning, no matter what occurs to it during this hour

They're still staring at me, and the ectoplasm is still there, after an hour?))

sit still and allow my eyes, ears, and nose to adjust to the darkness, sounds, and smells around me.

[hops]

(D'oh, I forgot the sleeping part. But let's just assume ectoplasm is tenacious, although, now there isn't really a reason for the critters to stay there, so I guess let's say they are not here)

Irine: sit still and allow my eyes, ears, and nose to adjust to the darkness, sounds, and smells around me.

[Finesse: 5 - 2] You sit still to adjust your senses and tune out the smell of the mushrooms.

Mushroom dizziness dispelled. +1 in perception-related tasks until change of environment.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Enkidu:

Assume that he/I was asleep, and wake up.

Pick up spear, and take in surroundings.

[Lenglon]

gather some of the local plants and try to weave them into a waterproof bag, then fill it with water from the nearby spring.

just a reminder, because knowing what plants can work for this task, and knowing that the spring is safe to drink from, really matters.

upon spawning or respawning, the avatar does know:
     its own identity and abilities, in full detail.
     the functionality of physics, time, chemistry, the petition system, the physical properties of creatures, locations of planets, the appearance of other avatars, etc. at the level of an expert on the subject
     where it is, and everything around it within a 1 mile radius, at the level of a local.
however the above list of information is not updated as changes occur.

[hops]

Enkidu: Assume that he/I was asleep, and wake up. Pick up spear, and take in surroundings.

[auto] You wake up. You are residing in the part of the cavern inhabited by 14 more of your kind. You pick up your spear.

The area around you is lighted by the glowing lichens. The part you are standing at right now has four exits.

Exit 1 and 2: You see more of your tribesmen waking up.

Exit 3 and 4: Leads outside the protected sanctuary of your settlement.

Irine: gather some of the local plants and try to weave them into a waterproof bag, then fill it with water from the nearby spring.

[Finesse: 1 -2] You mess up trying to weave a waterskin, and cut yourself while handling the leaves.

EDIT: Irine gains +0.05 in Finesse from failing

[Lenglon]

"ow ow ow ow ow"
Lick my papercut finger before trying again

[hops]

"ow ow ow ow ow"
Lick my papercut finger before trying again

Irine: Lick my papercut finger before trying again

[Strength: 6 -4 +1 Racial] You lick your cut finger. It doesn't do much apart from having you taste your blood.

[Finesse: 3 -2 +1 Racial +1 Circumstantial] Taking care not to mess up again, you retry weaving a waterskin. You have a feeling that it can't really hold much water before spilling out, but at least you now got a waterskin.

Then fill it with water from the nearby spring.

[Finesse: 1 -2 +1 Racial] Despite carefully trying not to overfill your waterskin, it still burst apart.

Deitydamnit.

[+0.05 Finesse. I forgot Irine's physical racial bonus earlier.]

[Lenglon]

"Lenglon damn it"
Try. Again.

[hops]

"Lenglon damn it"
Try. Again.

Try. Again.

[Finesse: 6 -2 +1 Racial +2 Circumstantial] You repair the waterskin. While repairing it, you realize that if you add several layers to it, the waterskin will be strengthened and more impermeable.

It's no artifact, but it's pretty well-made now.

[Finesse: 3 -2 +1 Racial +2 Equipment] You fill your waterskin.

Finally.