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[Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum]

Well, time for me to step up to GMing, at least until Ye Gods 2 is finished. From there, it just depends on continued interest. This will be a new run of the game, but the OP from the original game worked well enough, so here it is again!

The premise of the game is simple: You are a bunch of world-creating gods/god-like beings who must design a world by committee and/or subterfuge. The execution is somewhat less simple.

Major updates will hopefully take place once a day.

Character sheets should probably follow this template:

Code: [Select]

Name:
Sphere:
Primary form/associated symbol:
Description/Background:
Also, they go in the OOC thread now. (Yes, the same thread. Kilojoule said I can borrow it.)

You may optionally PM secret (or not-so-secret) goals of grand scale, e.g. an entropy player wishing to bring about a very early heat death. Eliminating your sphere's opposite is not secret enough to require a PM.

Spoiler: Guidelines (click to show/hide)

Name: Try not to make it stuff like xXUberTitan625Xx.
Sphere: For inspiration, you can check the DF Wiki or the Hypertext d20 SRD. One restriction is that there should probably not be significant overlap between players (e.g. five undifferentiated life gods (‼) or earth, rock, and sand gods). Opposites, however, are encouraged.
Primary form/associated symbol: While you are not required to have human cultural justifications, some things make no sense. Being a god of ice who takes the form of a sphere of white-hot lava is not a good choice.
Description/Background: Any fluff-text you might want. You probably will not have had much history yet, on account of the world not being created yet

Spoiler: Mechanics (click to show/hide)

Voting: Most actions in the game will be decided through voting. Certain small actions, particularly self-applied ones, will not require votes. You can vote to change game rules, the world and its contents, and assorted other rules like the ever-present non-intervention clause. Significant opposition to proposals and bad luck will likely blunt or subvert the resulting effects.

Essence: This represents both your health and your creative ability. You consume two units of it when you yourself perform a significant action and one unit of it when you perform a not-so-significant action. Additional costs may apply for particularly significant projects, and costs become cheaper when you have at least three deities working on the same action. If it goes down to 1, you should probably find some way to raise it or preserve yourself (e.g. possessing an artifact/site). If it reaches 0 and you have made no preparations, you die. Essence can be transferred between multiple deities by agreement or by force of the council. You all start out with 20/20 Essence.

Gaining Essence: You can gain Essence through Worship, ambient Essence income (very low, cannot prevent death), transfer from other gods, and your sphere's influence on the world. Some of you are aware of powerful beings beyond this world who can supply you with Essence in exchange for doing their bidding...

Losing Essence: You can lose Essence by consuming it, transferring it to other gods, and losing your sphere's influence on the world.

Worship: This represents how much genuine respect (whether reverence or fear) sapients have for you, and it contributes to your Essence daily income. Unlike Essence, it represents the rate of worship per turn and cannot be transferred, but deities can affect each other's Worship by affecting their followers. Worship from the extremely long-lived or immortal or extremely powerful is considered to be of lower value, as is Worship from the extremely short-lived or insufficiently sapient. Direct mind control nullifies Worship output.

Spoiler: Inactivity, stasis, dormancy, and character death (click to show/hide)

If you will be unavailable for at least 2-3 days, you have the option of announcing it and being marked as in stasis. This will freeze your income and prevent others from killing you off. Unannounced leave will result in being marked as inactive, which has a high chance of character death from opportunistic players.

If your Essence store goes down to 1, you will be marked as dormant. This is effectively the same as inactivity, but draining is more likely to cause a notification and the dormancy only lasts until the Essence store goes above 1.

If your character dies, you are free to rejoin as a new character with a sufficiently new/different sphere. I reserve judgment for too-close cases. You may optionally be revived with an investment of at least 15 Essence (which grants you 5 on revival). Additional Essence is added to the revivee at an exchange ratio of 1:3 (+6 Essence invested -> +2 Essence on revival) rounded down.

Spoiler: Main Council rules (click to show/hide)

These are all subject to addition, removal, and change by you.

An active player is defined as a player who has posted within the thread within the last two (2) UTC days.

A bill must be supported by at least 50% of active players to pass if unopposed.

A bill must achieve 60% support in order to pass if opposed.

Players may flame the host if he has been inactive for at least two (2) UTC days.

Council-produced creations are not to be tampered with without council approval. Failure to comply will result in the automated initiation of a trial.

[Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum]

Spoiler: Players (click to show/hide)

Hector13 is Industria, unaligned God of Industry.
Stirk is the first head (which counts for 3) of Hecate, unaligned God of Books and Magic.
     Andres is the other two heads of Hecate.
Ama is Itar, Spire aligned God of Heroes and Youth.
FArgHalfnr is Lumio, Spire aligned God of Theft and the Night.
Gman8181 is Einheit, unaligned God of Unity.
Kilojoule Proton is Kokkinadam, Spire aligned God of Red and Madness.
LuckyKobold is Bob, unaligned God of Destruction and Destruction.
Rolepgeek is Tataeveda, two unaligned halves of the God of Duality.
Quartz_Mace is Gorgoroth, unaligned God of Rock.
IcyTea31 is Possaio, unaligned God of Storytelling and Music.
Dutrius is Xenos, unaligned God of Curiosity and the Unknown.
Micelus is Avignon, unaligned God of Order.
Lord_lemonpie is Ao Shin, unaligned God of Weather and Lightning.
Detoxicated is Jafar, unaligned God of Knowledge.
Cryxis, Prince of Doom is Hankar, Unaligned God of Life and Death.

[hector13]

Name: Industria
Sphere: Industry
Primary form/associated symbol: A blacksmith with a leather apron, symbolised by a hammer
Description/Background: Industria wants people to work hard, and rewards those who do.

Utter theft, but whatever

[Andres]

I'm gonna wait to see if YG2 gets launched. I'd prefer to play Malakath there rather than here but if it doesn't get launched I'll play her here instead.

[Stirk]

Name: Hecate
Sphere: Books/Magic
Primary form/associated symbol: An open book, with the cover and spine facing outwards. Primary form is a young human man with round-rimmed glasses and dark hair. Often splits his upper torso into three of the same person, the one on the right writing, the one on the right reading, and the one in the middle doing actual work.
Description/Background: The ever-distant God of Books. Hides himself away for most of the day, using agents to act on his behalf while he spends his time read, writing, editing, and sometimes creating as he sees fit.

He was one of my backups for Fusil. Lets hope your Dming skills are up for this 

[Ama]

Name: Itar
Spheres: Heroes and Youth
Primary form/ associated symbol: Itar has many different forms some large, some small, some humanoid, some not, but they are all young and dressed in blue and gold, symbolized by a bluebird surround by three stars.
Description/Background: A simple and joyful god that loves helping mortals become the heroes of legends.

[FArgHalfnr]

Name: Industria
Sphere: Industry
Primary form/associated symbol: A blacksmith with a leather apron, symbolised by a hammer
Description/Background: Industria wants people to work hard, and rewards those who do.

Utter theft, but whatever

THIEF!

Name: Lumio
Sphere:Theft and night
Primary form/Associated symbol: A caped human shaped shadow with two small moons as the eyes, having two crossed rusty daggers behind a moon as a symbol.
Description/Background: Lumio believe that propriety should never stay within the same hands, and so steals from those who are too attached to their goods.

((I don't actually mind. I planned to keep my idea for YG 2))

[Stirk]

Name: Industria
Sphere: Industry
Primary form/associated symbol: A blacksmith with a leather apron, symbolised by a hammer
Description/Background: Industria wants people to work hard, and rewards those who do.

Utter theft, but whatever

THIEF!

Name: Lumio
Sphere:Theft and night
Primary form/Associated symbol: A caped human shaped shadow with two small moons as the eyes, having two crossed rusty daggers behind a moon as a symbol.
Description/Background: Lumio believe that propriety should never stay within the same hands, and so steals from those who are too attached to their goods.

((I don't actually mind. I planned to keep my idea for YG 2))

I was going to go a god of industry ah well, I'll figure something out.

He stole both of our spheres! He should be the god of theft .

[FArgHalfnr]

Name: Industria
Sphere: Industry
Primary form/associated symbol: A blacksmith with a leather apron, symbolised by a hammer
Description/Background: Industria wants people to work hard, and rewards those who do.

Utter theft, but whatever

THIEF!

Name: Lumio
Sphere:Theft and night
Primary form/Associated symbol: A caped human shaped shadow with two small moons as the eyes, having two crossed rusty daggers behind a moon as a symbol.
Description/Background: Lumio believe that propriety should never stay within the same hands, and so steals from those who are too attached to their goods.

((I don't actually mind. I planned to keep my idea for YG 2))

I was going to go a god of industry ah well, I'll figure something out.

He stole both of our spheres! He should be the god of theft .

Exactly .

[gman8181]

Alrighty. I'll do Dreams in the other one and... Unity here I suppose.

Name: Einheit
Sphere: Unity
Primary Form: A massive silver sphere.
Description: Einheit wishes to unify all. All gods under one pantheon and all mortals under one banner. Any who refuse this unity will be removed.

[Andres]

Name: Hecate
Primary form/associated symbol: An open book, with the cover and spine facing outwards. Primary form is a young human man with round-rimmed glasses and dark hair. Often splits his upper torso into three of the same person, the one on the right writing, the one on the right reading, and the one in the middle doing actual work.

[hector13]

Name: Industria
Sphere: Industry
Primary form/associated symbol: A blacksmith with a leather apron, symbolised by a hammer
Description/Background: Industria wants people to work hard, and rewards those who do.

Utter theft, but whatever

THIEF!

Name: Lumio
Sphere:Theft and night
Primary form/Associated symbol: A caped human shaped shadow with two small moons as the eyes, having two crossed rusty daggers behind a moon as a symbol.
Description/Background: Lumio believe that propriety should never stay within the same hands, and so steals from those who are too attached to their goods.

((I don't actually mind. I planned to keep my idea for YG 2))

I'm sure I'll be quicker on the draw then too

[FArgHalfnr]

Name: Industria
Sphere: Industry
Primary form/associated symbol: A blacksmith with a leather apron, symbolised by a hammer
Description/Background: Industria wants people to work hard, and rewards those who do.

Utter theft, but whatever

THIEF!

Name: Lumio
Sphere:Theft and night
Primary form/Associated symbol: A caped human shaped shadow with two small moons as the eyes, having two crossed rusty daggers behind a moon as a symbol.
Description/Background: Lumio believe that propriety should never stay within the same hands, and so steals from those who are too attached to their goods.

((I don't actually mind. I planned to keep my idea for YG 2))

I'm sure I'll be quicker on the draw then too

Then we'll be stuck in a permanent competition to see which of us is the most industrious

[Kilojoule Proton]

Name: Kokkinadam
Sphere: Red, Madness
Primary form/associated symbol: A thick, almost featureless cloud of deep red typically depicted as a red circle
Description/Background: Kokkinadam seeks to bring the purity of redness, the claimed color of creation, to all at any cost. Unfortunately for it but fortunately for everyone else, its mentality and commandments are not very conducive to sustainably spreading the doctrine of redness. It harbors a deep, irrational hatred of all that is green and blue which serves only to undermine its cause.

[Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum]

Tick 1: Gods of the Glow

Two titanic beings and their servants clash in the great emptyness, leaving glowing dust, raw power know as Anupralt, behind. After a particularly fierce battle, the dust began to move. It coalesced into beings of great power, the gods.
The first to form is Industria, Goddess of Industry.
Then Hecate, Itar, Lumio, Einheit, and Kokkinadam.
More would follow, but for now, these firstborn gods awaken and begin to plan.

Spoiler: Gods (click to show/hide)

Industria: 20/20E 0-0 (0:0)
Hecate: 20/20E 0-0 (0:0)
Itar: 20/20E 0-0 (0:0)
Lumio: 20/20E 0-0 (0:0)
Einheit: 20/20E 0-0 (0:0)
Kokkinadam: 20/20E 0-0 (0:0)

Council funds: 20A