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[Spiderking50]

Turn One Info

Bonus goals earn you extra divinity. Entering a monster earns you extra divinity.

Bonus goals can be like "Have your people slay a great beast" or "build a shrine." Some may be island specific.

Monster entry goes like this:
You post that you want to enter. I PM you a set of options. You'll get three full creatures and 4 aspects. You'll then design a monster with the following format:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name:
Shape: (You pick this)
Heart:
Temper:
Skin:
Speed:
Strength:
Intelligence:
Special:

Final description of the monster: (Should not be a laundry list of what kind of stats it has)

Each monster has stats for each of these which determine the HP (depends on shape), the offensive strength (stength), and defensive strength (skin) of a monster. The other aspects determine how it acts during the battle. Based on these, it rolls to attack. If an attacker beats the opponents defense, then the difference between the two is damage. If an opponent is faster it will go first. If its twice as fast, it will attack twice as often. Heart and temper can modify the rolls or base stats. Intelligence modifies the creature's chance to utilize areana aspects like pit traps or lava flows.

Here's an example:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Given monsters: goblin, Minotaur, deer.
Given aspects: orc strength, bear speed, dragon special, golem skin

Name: Xegnar the killer
Shape:Giant ant
Heart: Minotaur
Temper:Minotaur
Skin: Golem
Speed: Deer
Strength: Minotaur
Intelligence: Goblin
Special: Dragon

Xegnar is a terrifying giant ant. It's been corrupted by magic and has become strong and fast. Its red in color and you can see fire in its veins. Do not let its insectiod shape deceive you, it is cunning and merciless. It lives to spread strife in the name of Noj.

This all comes together to a stone skinned, fire breathing, very strong, swift Minotaur. (It takes the shape of the most often picked monster).

Turn One bonus Goals: (Points awarded at the beginning of two. As of now, everyone's income is one Divinity per turn)
Appear before your people: (1 Divinity)
Have them construct a shrine in your honor (1 Divinity)
Sacrifice in your Honor: (1 Divinity)

Turn one Monsters:
Winner 10. Second 5. Third 3. Participant:1
Monster assult.
Hosted by Noj.

[Rolepgeek]

Enter Monster Battle Turn 1

An excellent source of food...and he could visit his tribe at the same time...probably best to do that now, actually.

[Ozarck]

Enter Monster Battle Turn 1

Visit my peeps, wade amongst them and pronounce blessings to come. warn of hardships also - best not to give false impressions. Request a shrine, near the forward end of the island, a nest of plant-fibre beneath one of the crystals which juts out into the void, (the shrine is to be in the smallish cavern one the inside end of the crystal). Request sacrifice of every interesting bit the monkeys currently have on them, to show they are paying absolute attention to me, and not to the trivial things of the cavern floor.

[Mel_Vixen]

A new BotG(-ish) game? Sweet i put it on my watchlist.

[DAPARROT]

Appear on my island,teach the creebs how to build a shrine,if I can,put a ballista on the shrine when they are done

[~Neri]

((I would like to point out that 50 people isn't a healthy gene pool. It will result in inbreeding and stagnation. 464 is the minimum required to prevent inbreeding provided you have planned out the next 20 generations. 4k is the point where they can chose their own partners.))

[Ozarck]

((I would like to point out that 50 people isn't a healthy gene pool. It will result in inbreeding and stagnation. 464 is the minimum required to prevent inbreeding provided you have planned out the next 20 generations. 4k is the point where they can chose their own partners.))

these have robust genetics, and divine power infuses their lives, enabling genetic growth where otherwise might be genetic decay.

Also, they live on ten mile wide islands floating in space, complete with breathable atmosphere, some form of gravity and fully stocked biospheres.

[Mel_Vixen]

(( Bird bugs and spores, it all basses around them. It can make a healthy biosphere as some remote realworld islands show, given that there other tribes in this world maybe you can also sucker of some population? Stealing wives and children the old Christian Wiking style. Island dwarfism would be possible for many mammals ... hmmm i am inclined to join just for the sake of creating an island with maneating flying bat-squirrels and plantbased jellyfish like floaters))

[Rolepgeek]

((I would like to point out that 50 people isn't a healthy gene pool. It will result in inbreeding and stagnation. 464 is the minimum required to prevent inbreeding provided you have planned out the next 20 generations. 4k is the point where they can chose their own partners.))

((A. Magic B. Not necessarily equivalent biology C. vastly different reproduction systems between tribes C. More than 50 is really damn hard to support on a measly 10 square miles of land.))

[Spiderking50]

((I would like to point out that 50 people isn't a healthy gene pool. It will result in inbreeding and stagnation. 464 is the minimum required to prevent inbreeding provided you have planned out the next 20 generations. 4k is the point where they can chose their own partners.))

these have robust genetics, and divine power infuses their lives, enabling genetic growth where otherwise might be genetic decay.

Also, they live on ten mile wide islands floating in space, complete with breathable atmosphere, some form of gravity and fully stocked biospheres.

The 50 number is so I can easily determine the amount of points you get for your followers. It is meant to be low because of the apocalypse. All individuals are those who survived, even though in the past the gene pool has been much larger. There is some !!magic!! going on here, but really, its not supposed to be super realistic.

Also I'm modifying the monsters slightly. Check back to that post sometime later tonight. At some point soon I'll make a cheat sheet near the OP. The short version of it is this. There is going to be a god specific section where you design/describe the monster. As a result, a a plant god will have a plant monster with the given aspects while a fire god will have a fire monster with those aspects. I want the gods to feel like they are really creating the kind of monster their god really would make.

Also, I've added a special reward for the winner of this one (this will be a fairly common reward). The winner can send their monster to attack another god's island. This reward is worth more now than it will be in the future, because no gods have built defenses (which costs divinity you don't have) yet.

(( Bird bugs and spores, it all basses around them. It can make a healthy biosphere as some remote realworld islands show, given that there other tribes in this world maybe you can also sucker of some population? Stealing wives and children the old Christian Wiking style. Island dwarfism would be possible for many mammals ... hmmm i am inclined to join just for the sake of creating an island with maneating flying bat-squirrels and plantbased jellyfish like floaters))

Accepted  .

[Spiderking50]

Appear on my island,teach the creebs how to build a shrine,if I can,put a ballista on the shrine when they are done

So appearing would be -1, and building would normally cost divinity (but in the case of the first shrine I'm gonna give it to everyone for free. I overlooked the fact that you wont get any more Divinity until next round.)

[~Neri]

Will do the monster battle thing.

[Ozarck]

wait, why wold commanding the Tribe to build a shrine cost divinity? They gotta build it. i mean, if you constructed it yourself, I get it, but ... Wouldn't commanding them to build kinda be a natural part of a Divine Appearance? Oh well, no matter.

Perhaps it's the link between the divine and mundane that requires divine charge.

[Spiderking50]

The command to do it is what costs divinity. They build it themselves, but you make it happen. Once again, that's a game thing, not a realistic thing. First shrine is free and gets built the first time you interact with your people.

Its mostly like that so that you can't build up a shrine and defenses and a hospital all without spending anything.

[Mel_Vixen]

  challenge accepted.

Spoiler: God (click to show/hide)

Name: Goibniu, the little Smith, maker of Dreams, maker of Horrors, the useless one 
Sphere: Ingenuity and Inspiration

Physical description: 6 meters high Humanoid, his once beautiful face, now covered in soot burns and scars is hidden behind golden pieces of metal sewn to his face creating an eery very articulate mask. Goibniu always wears a everchanging piece of Armor crafted from leather wood and metal that he recreates ever so often based on needs and current projects. Under that his body is slender while his arms are to bulky for his frame. His 13 fingers, due to having lost 7 are constantly working on something while he walks on cloven hoofs and digitigrade legs that were once covered in short silky white fur around his Titanic workshop.

Personality: Goibniu is an Inventer Spirit but learned the hard way that progress is often paid with hardship. As God he is determined to further his plans and projects sometimes to the point where he doesnt care about the rest of the world at all, a modern psychiatrist would call him borderline autistic. Yet he cares about his people and helping when he sees the need for help and answering request as long they dont draw him away from his newest inventions. 

Spoiler: Island (click to show/hide)

Island
Description of region: The island was once part of an ancient city now overgrown with what was left in its parks and plants those seeds the wind brought. Ruins of century old towers made from stone glass and rebar can be seen scattered between the dense foilage of the more temperate forest that has overgrown them.
Down in the streets small herds of rats only a half meter long graze on fallen fruit and seeds while theyr guards watching the treetops with big round ears scanning the leaves for the twitter of ravenous flying squirrels. Similarly the chattering monsters, weighting up to 80 pounds, claws dug into concrete and wood, have their eyes fixed on the herds ready to dive down in pairs intend of singling out and catching the slowest rats. Their forearms have evolved much like a bats giving them undisputed gliding power and manoeuvrability. 
Once a Rat-carcas once cleaned out enough is left for the raccoons and the occasional Spider to fight over.

Not far away a gang of bugeating chihuahua munch on a hallucinogenic fungus getting high within the relative safety of the buildings ground floors. Normally they would feast on the fingersized silverfish, roaches and centipedes that scuttle through the ruins but having found this treat the even more miniaturised dogs decided to relax for a while.

The trees themselves home to the squirrels the top predator of this place also house a menagerie of birds atleast dozens of plant and bug eating variants of doves, finches and jays roosting up here. Small waxy pitcher plants hang between some sunfacing branches and even smaller frogs lay living tadpoles, 2 or 3 at a time, into the stored water before hoping to the next.

Even higher live the bloaters, plantlike translucent spheres floating around on hydrogen stored inside them. Long tentacles hang down from they bloated bodies, some catching dew and moisture from the air while others are covered in sticky gobs of rotten smelling secretions used for catching bugs and birds alike. The prey is then digested by a small cocoon of roots that grows around the dead body. At the same time the sticky tentacles are used to anchor the Bloater at whatever surface is available and in reach.
 Every year in spring up to a dozen of offshots separate from the main body get caught in the wind and are blown away, from then on the plant live a nomadic pulling water from the air and nutrients out of whatever is caught in its tentacles till it finally "anchors" somewhere. A normal Bloater lives up to 15 years growing bigger and heavier each year till it sinks under its own weight below the treetops dying of starvation.
 
Along the southeastern edge of the island stretch a few field separated from the trees. On them a few tomatoes, maize and other crops grow. Over the edge, hugging the Cliff lies the home of the Skyherders a few scattered houses clinging and hanging from the rock. Not far away long strands of grapelike vines hang down the cliff with hairy leaves rustling the the wind catching as much moisture as possible.
 
 
Reason why it sucks to live here: Maneating Batsquirrels
Another reason: LSD Fungus spores
Any extra reasons: Rat-swarms, decease carying chihuahua, crumbling buildings, spiders the size of racoons
Anything else you feel is important: Ancient City, might contain valuables

Spoiler: Tribe (click to show/hide)

Race: Humans, omnivorous
Description: Tasty and mostly harmless. The "Skyherders" are a small tribe of humans.

Why they live in this awful place: The Skyherders settled here when the island floated nearby their original home that years later then floated away again. 

Tribe leader: Leadership among the skyherders are the oldest 3 members of the clan. Secretly though the "Old hag" Olga is the leader persuading and reasoning the 2 man that lead with her into submission.   

Your priest (can be the same as leader): "The Apprentice" one of the older folk in the Tribe working and learning from Goibniu.

Culture: The Skyherders settled this piece of shit generations ago when their original home island floated near by and then with the years drifted away again. For a long time their number declined till Goibniu found them on this rock, how is anybodies guess and the God wont tell.
From then on the Skyherders number stabilized, old knowledge got rediscovered and advanced using the natural resources they could get. Today they are mostly farmers and herders, growing vines and other plants along the edges and down the sheer cliff of the island while meat is provided by swarms of bread doves and falconering. The most used material are infact the fibers of the vines, processed and spun into rope and fabric which creates the floors and walls of the more freefloating houses. The fiber also can get hardened using the tentacle secretion of the Bloaters that are tied to long ropes for farming. Bloaters also are "taped" with small hoses for hydrogen the main energysource of the herders and a dead bloaters gasbladder can be used to store water and sometimes living bloaters gas.

The Skyherders themselves get around in numerous ways using bungycords, wingsuits and kites to prowl through the air visiting and gathering from nearby rocks and other islands. Sometimes they use harpoons to anchor a smaller rock for a little while creating temporary ropebridges so heavyer materials like wood can be transported. Bows, spears and other weapons are known but rather sparse.

Being so small in number the tribe is very much like a big extended family with everyone knowing everyone, helping out each other where possible.

Special aspects: Industrious and adventurous