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[Demonic Spoon]

((IC Thread))

A island of existence, a tiny fragile bubble within the gnawing nothingness. Five refugees break through the shimmering film with a light pop. They feel eyes that are not eyes watch them through a thin film, horrible teeth gnawing, causing the film to indent. Though the five may not agree on everything, none of them wish to die.

At the centre of the bubble lies a tiny golden pearl, which seems to be what is creating this refuge. Slowly it begins to pulse in time with the heartbeats of the gods, their every breath causing a ripple along the surface of the bubble. Perhaps here the five can survive.

Feverishly they begin work, trying to stave off the endless hunger, the Devourer.


I will be taking five players to play five gods, who have been fleeing hungering entropy that steadily consumes all that is. Their best efforts to stop it have at best slowed it down, but this bubble seems like it could be what they had hoped for, a safe haven. It is now your job to strengthen the fragile wall and create worshippers to empower you so that you do not become as the devourer.

Gods will be chosen on merit. I'll start as soon as I have 5 players I'm satisfied with.

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[b]Name:[/b] What is the name your worshippers cried out as you were powerless to save them?
[b]Roles:[/b] Each god will take up two mantles, which will form the foundation of this new creation. Choose wisely. You are then responsible for affairs within your role, and if poorly managed this will weaken the reality bulwark. (Pick two spheres)
[b]Symbol:[/b] Your signifier, will appear on all things you make.
[b]Appearance:[/b] None have escaped Ragnarok unscathed, what scars do you bear?
[b]Everything Else:[/b] Feel free to write a biography, personality, goals, or anything else here.

No secret actions

Spoiler: Doing Stuff (click to show/hide)

Things you god can do is divided into four categories. Each God will begin with one Mighty Act and two Acts and can do up to two Deeds per turn.

1 Mighty Act = 3 Acts = 9 Minor Acts

Mighty Acts:
The largest amount of power a god can wield in any one working without things beginning to go wrong. Capable or creating and destroying worlds, creating the weaponry and armour of the gods and divine warriors capable of fighting against the Devourer

Acts:
Can create 6 population units of average mortals per act. Can create and destroy continents. Can create artifacts of mortal significance.

Minor Acts:
Common miracles. Teach a mortal race a technology, raise and sink islands, create common plants and animals or create artifacts of individual significance.

Deeds:
Things gods do with their personal attention rather than divine power.  Encourage mortals to carry out certain actions or learn certain technologies. The most common way to communicate directives to mortal followers. You may instead choose to use your deeds to improve the effects of acts you perform.

Spoiler: Gaining Power (click to show/hide)

The gods may gain power in three ways.

Worship:
If mortals worship you, a god gains one minor act per 3 population units of worshippers.

Alignment:
If the spheres a god manages aligns harmonically with the Golden Pearl, the resonance will give the god some bonus power.

Tribute:
Sometimes refugees will offer divine power in exchange in exchange for shelter.

Spoiler: Danger Lurks (click to show/hide)

The nothing does not hunger. And yet it consumes with endless thirst. The less power you have the more susceptible you are to the thin tendrils it can poke through the reality film.

Subversion:
The Nothing does not eat, twisting and warping, and yet it swallows. If the combined power of the gods is too low, and the reality is sufficiently vulnerable, some of their acts may come out twisted. Worlds harbouring darkness in their hearts, races that turn their backs on their creators. Artifacts striking the hand that made them.

Consumed:
The nothing takes you, and a new devourer is born. This might happen if you spend several turns with no divine power

Woven:
A god may choose to weave himself directly into the fabric of creation, greatly increasing the stability of reality, increasing the alignment of his spheres, allowing him to carry out three deeds and making him much more resistant to consumption and subversion. However he will no longer be able to carry out Mighty Acts or gain bonus power for having a high Sphere Alignment, and becoming a Woven requires a mighty act. This cannot be undone.

Discord:
If a the alignment of spheres becomes too low, this will cause the god to gain half the usual income from worshippers, due to a poor interface with the native reality.

Spoiler: Fighting in the Heavens (click to show/hide)

Sometimes the differences between differents gods are truly irreconcilable, and there is no other option but to solve their differences through violence. There are two forms this can take. Woven are treated as having one more act when defending against such attacks. Prolonged direct combat between gods is too stressful on the fabric of the bubble, and is thus not detailed here and would be carried out blindly at the players own risk.

Expelling:
By spending more acts than their targets currently has, a god may expel another god from the bubble. However you should beware, as this would reduce the stability of the bubble as their roles are ripped away. In addition, the expelled god will still have some time to wreak havoc on the outside before the Devourer takes them.

Devouring:
By spending a mighty act, you can devour another deity if your remaining acts would be more than their acts. In this way, you could take up the mantle of their roles for yourself, maintaining the stability of the bubble. Beware however, gods are not easy to digest, and the eater may become the eaten.

[Demonic Spoon]

Reserved

[micelus]

Name: Sayyart
Roles: Oceans, Armaments
Symbol: A cannonball.
Appearance: An immense whale-like creature, Sayyart bears the fleeting remnants of the worlds and followers he has left behind. Ships of all kinds stick out from his hide with ghostly apparitions sometimes seen at their stations. Other parts of her body bear tentacles, fins, teeth, polyps and yet other features of long dead children and servants. Portions of her body are transparent, showing a bountiful sea within the whale's body.
Everything Else: Sayyart remembers much but must care not. She remembers the birth of her first world, her first children, but cannot recall their names. She remembers the terrors of the sailors that once crossed her domain and their ardent prayers once they reached port. She remembers the lovely maidens sacrificed in her name, but no longer felt the love she used to. It was all gone now, into the maw of the Devourer. To care for those departed would only trouble her, now Sayyart needed to be like the ocean storm; uncaring and strong so that one day, her children could survive in Eternity without fear of the True Death. Sayyart willed it.

[snow dwarf]

Put me on the player list, sheet coming when I wake up.

[Coolrune206]

Name: Valosh
Roles: Darkness, Cruelty
Symbol: A spiral
Appearance: Valosh is an entity composed entirely of shadows. He bears a rough humanoid figure by nature, but can easily reform his shape into any other. However, he bears no eyes, or ocular organs of any kind. Valosh is entirely blind, inspiring him to create darkness everywhere so that all other creatures must endure his pain.
Everything Else: It is told that once Valosh did indeed bear eyes, but even he himself cannot imagine what sight might be. His eternity of blindness has made him bitter, and he constantly lashes out at others. He is practically emotionless, but does derive joy from the destruction of other's creations, and the protection of his own. His goal is to eventually turn the entire universe entirely black.

[Ghazkull]

I hope you don't mind if i recycle an old God from another god game

Name: Wieland
Roles: Artifice, Outcasts
Symbol: A Smithing Hammer with an attached Chain
Appearance: A man in the clothing of a smith, once propably standing tall and proud, Wieland is bent by...something, one of his legs is crippled and several loose chains are attached to it, clearly the man had been a prisoner several times and managed to escape...it will be seen if he can repeat the feat more often.
Everything Else: Wieland has seen many a world, part of uncounted mythologies, religions and stories, the crippled smith has been ostracized, cast out and imprisoned more times than he can count. All because of his gift at creating weapons, armors and items of great power and beauty. The once naive and generous young god has been twisted, not only by other gods or the devourer, but also by the beliefs of his followers over the endless millenia that he has lived. These days he is grumpy, reclusive and slow to trust and few of his creations ever leave his hands or his stores.

((simply liked playing that character, i hope i am allowed to do so again although this time with a darker twist.)

[Demonic Spoon]

I don't mind.

[Demonic Spoon]

Bump?

[NRDL]

Name: Nixitar
Roles: Fire and Healing
Symbol: An untouched hand wreathed in flame
Appearance: Nixitar's original form was that of a suit of steel and silk armour, inside of which his true flame resided, forming his face and allowing for rivulets of heat and light to run through the patterns embedded in the metal.  But that was long ago.  Now only his head, right arm and a stump of a torso remain, the rest of his body gone, and the diagonal cut across his armour melted into molten slag, like metallic scar tissue.   
Everything Else: Nixitar hailed from a world where he had many brothers and sisters.  All the elements had a pantheon, each pantheon reflecting different aspects of the element.  Fire was fire.  It burned, it danced, it destroyed, but it also gave life.  That was Nixitar's domain.  The scorching fire that can kill a plague before it takes root also can save the near-stillborn child with its warmth. Nixitar was kind to all who needed his aid, preferring to leave the more well known aspects of the Flame to his more destructive and vivacious siblings. 

Everything changed when the Devourer came. It destroyed Nixitar's siblings, his worshippers and all the other pantheons.  Now the God of Fire, Healing and Life tended to his own wounds, hoping that whatever fire he has left is enough to build something new, and defend it from destruction.

((Also, absolutely loving the slew of god games going through Forum Games at the moment ))

[somemildmanneredidiot]

Name: Kiln
Roles: Souls, Music
Symbol: A box
Appearance: A floating box, bobbing in the air. The top right part of it is covered by a velvet cloth, it seeming that some part was torn off. Some very faint glowing seeps through the cloth.
Everything Else: It was a box that held souls lost soon, and oh how they knew well how to croon.

It kept them safe from all known dear, at least that is what they would hear.

Little thieves would try to chip and nick, but they could go and bite yon far stick.

The box would learn to move and go, it would heed the well sung croon so.

It did once came to a good rest, which one hunger did well go nest.

The hunger did bite yon far width and box did lose one more parts fifth.

(Sorry for the couplets, this is about the best I got.)

[snow dwarf]

Changing into a PTW, unless there will be a waitlist.

[Demonic Spoon]

Changing into a PTW, unless there will be a waitlist.

There will maybe be a waitlist.

IC Posted, all five who made sheets (Micelus, Coolrune, Ghazkull, NRDL, SMMI) were accepted.

[Roboson]

Huh, I must have missed this. If there does end up being a waitlisted, let me know.

[Demonic Spoon]

Was the intro okay? I know I took some liberties with some of the gods but my muse demanded it. 

[micelus]

Excellent!