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[blueturtle1134]

Name: Gello
Description: God of Stormwinds. Doesn't know when to let up.
Primary Focus: Air
Secondary Focus: Vaccum
Symbol: Coin.

Alignment?

[blueturtle1134]

And I'm really sure I mentioned this, but your primary and secondary elements must be adjacent. That is, your primary must be one of the places composing your secondary in the inner planes

Everyone check your sheets!

[crazyabe]

And I'm really sure I mentioned this, but your primary and secondary elements must be adjacent. That is, your primary must be one of the places composing your secondary in the inner planes

Everyone check your sheets!

Nope you didn't mention it at all, you told us and I quote...

Secondary focus element: Choose from the para-elemental and semi-elemental planes of D&D - that is, an intersection of two classical elements.

thus all you said was to choose one from those planes not that it needed to be related to our primary focus.

[wertyzerty]

Spoiler: Wertyzerty's sheet (click to show/hide)

Name and description: Grimmer, God of Darkness. He is a black figure surrounded by a cloud of darkness which intensifies according to his mood. Thick is angry.

Alignment: Evil Chaos

Primary focus element: Fire

Secondary focus element: Smoke



Symbol: An Arrow

[blueturtle1134]

And I'm really sure I mentioned this, but your primary and secondary elements must be adjacent. That is, your primary must be one of the places composing your secondary in the inner planes

Everyone check your sheets!

Nope you didn't mention it at all, you told us and I quote...

Secondary focus element: Choose from the para-elemental and semi-elemental planes of D&D - that is, an intersection of two classical elements.

thus all you said was to choose one from those planes not that it needed to be related to our primary focus.

Yeah, I realized that. Sorry.

[Aliemma]

Eh, never played a God game, let's try this.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Morathu, God of Legacy
Description: A God who's physical appearance is never entirely the same, but the defining characteristic is someone who appears to be withered away by time. Their skin tends to be stone-gray.
Alignment: Lawful Neutral: All those who live now must follow those before them. Be it in grand tales of heroism or being the dark to make the light shine brighter.
Primary focus: Earth; old as time, always withstanding in some way.
Secondary focus: Dust; those who do not follow their ancestors are destined to remain as dust, rather than be remembered.
Symbol: Ink

[Jilladilla]

Let's give this a try.

Spoiler: THE FRIEND OF CAVES! (click to show/hide)

Name and Description: Cavefriend, God of Caves and Deeper Earth! A giant, pale, cyclopsean entity, wielding a staff made of the darkest obsidian.

Alignment: Neutral

Primary Focus: Earth
Secondary Focus: Mineral
Symbol: A Stone

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Spoiler: Alas poor Varalin. (click to show/hide)

Name: Varalin Former Consort of Acter.
Description: Oh alas poor Varalin. A former friend and consort of Acter and former goddess of passion. She has always been emotional. Always been emotionally invested in those around them.

Deeply in love with Actor as well and wanting his affections it was a dark day when she lost it. In a fit of screaming and crying Varalin finally broke. She disappeared and years later?

Acter finds her here as he snaps. Covered in the blood of his people and their bones. Laughing and sobbing and screaming. His friend had been lost...and what remained was something that Varalin would have hated.

He needed to end this.

For Varalin's sake.

So she could finally be free of her madness.

She seems beyond saving.
Appearance:

A rather deranged looking woman stand's before you seemingly sweating constantly. 5ft8 with blood-soaked shoulder-length ragged violet hair and blue eye's that swirl with...Rage, Adoration, Excitement, Love, Terror, Despair....and madness.The emotions that churn within herself as she loses all sight and fails to comprehend the world. All these emotions seemingly whirl around her and form an aura a mixture of Purple, Blue, Gold, Red, and Green's all together flickering colors weaving in and out of her aura making flickering erratic shapes and cutting into the area around her.

Overall scrawny and filthy looking with a modest bust and wearing a tattered sweater bones adorning it. Originally black but now a faded bloodstained grey. The material does not glisten and seems to be falling apart. She has no shoes and her feet are scarred. Her pants are mediocre and barely cover her decency.

Her teeth are a disgrace.

She is a sorry sight. Filled with madness. Cheeks stained with tears.

Alas, poor Varalin.

Alignment: Chaotic  Neutral/Chaotic good. Clearly insane.

Primary focus: Water

Secondary: Salt

[micelus]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name and description: Lo, God/Goddess of Improvement and Innovation At Any Cost.

Lo was once a mad mad, mad goddess with split personalities on a grimdark world until one day she discovered a portal to another realm. This had the side effect of turning her sane. After a time, she created a utopian society where all were happy, where all were equal and all experienced great lives. That it ran on child sacrifice was of course, not something much loved by Acter. What exactly, Lo did wonder, was wrong with raising children as fuel, with the idea of fissioning their souls to produce energy and essence? After all, they reincarnated eventually and lived decent lives beforehand. Even their deaths were rather painless and quick. Lo never did understand why Acter was so furious with him

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Primary focus element: Fire

Secondary focus element: Radiance

Symbol: An Hourglass.

[Smoke Mirrors]

Spoiler: The Kane to Abel, or perhaps the Abel to Kane (click to show/hide)

Name: Nephilim
Description: There are many versions of Acter, and in several of these versions, most infant, he has a brother. Nephilim is that brother. Nephilim does not share his brother's line drawn appearance. He takes the form of something half way between a demon and an angel. Golden devil's horns, an angelic look but a blood red suit and tie, a pair of jet black wings with a silver lining on each feather, and purple eyes. He looks like an angelic demon, or a demonic angel. He is the good in the bad, and the bad in the good, the memories of your past mistakes that remind you of how to do better, and the ignorance of your mistakes in your optimism. He is the heroism that cone out in people in disasters, making ordinary men superhuman, and the edge of darkness in the calm before the storm, that reminds you that darkness is in the horizon. He is a beam of light in the darkness, and a shadow on a sunny day. He is good where you least expect it, and evil where you would last look for it. He and his brother covered the role of middle ground together. After his brother's murder at the hands of, well, his brother, Nephilim went in search of answers and a way to help his brother

Alignment: True neutral.
Primary focus: Air
Secondary focus: Lightning
Symbol: Scales

Full backstory later.

[blueturtle1134]

Time to elaborate on mechanics a tad.

Rolls

This is a roll to dodge, so of course we will be rolling a d6 for every action. The results will be interpreted thus:

1: Not only do you fail the action, you make it much more difficult to attempt in the future
2: You fail to produce any result whatsoever, but at least you don't have a negative result
3: You accomplish part of what you wanted, but it's not as much as you hoped. If the action is already partially compete, I'll take this as success.
4: You accomplish what you wanted to.
5: You do what you wanted and you also accomplish some other goals.
6: In the loosest sense, you succeed, but the result is not favorable by any stretch.

There's a difference between the ability to attempt an action and the roll to determine success. What actions you can attempt are basically based on the magic/power system of each individual universe. However, once you attempt them, they get rolled. The rolls are always d6, and the only things that can affect them are:

• Focus elements, grants +1 if you match either to the action
• If you match both primary and secondary focus, you get a +d2 and overshoot protection
• Symbol, provides either critical failure (inanimate) or overshoot (animate) reroll
• Acter

Conditions

The conditions under which you can attempt an action will be very different in different universes, but there are some common factors.

Every action possible is assigned a primary element, chosen from the main elements and the energies, as well as a secondary element, adjacent to the primary, chosen from the intersection elements (para and semi planes). For actions that are primarily informational, such as mind control, illusions, or alterations to reality, I’ll use the classical associations of elements to mental faculties - fire for willpower, water for emotion, air for reason, and earth for possessions.

As mentioned above and in other places, matching focus elements gives you bonuses to rolls. However, the primary focus element also decides whether you can undertake an action at all or not. Most actions can be done by any god except one whose primary focus element is the polar opposite of the action’s primary - creation and decay, fire and water, air and earth. Some actions, labeled specific actions, represent specialized applications of divine power and can only be conducted by a god with the same focus element as the action. Some, labeled general, are simple to understand and undertake and any god - even one with a conflicting focus element - can undertake them. Neither specific nor general actions get a bonus for matching the primary - these represent either actions that are too generic to be helped, or specific enough that even attempting them requires your specialization.

Universes

Everything not stated here varies by the universe.

Universes can have different physical laws, different lifeforms, different systems of magic, different levels of technology… different everything.

Universes are marked with numbers as well as short, descriptive names. You aim to run across universes in order to escape Acter. Acter requires four days (96 hours) to cross a universe by default; this can be increased through your actions. Gating out of a universe requires two different resources:

Enthalpy, or Chaos, corresponding to how much you’ve changed the world’s future to be more unpredictable. You earn this by interfering with the worlds below you, causing destruction, conflict, decay, and generally messing with people. The amount needed to exit is equal to the number of gods that you entered with. This means that if you pick up allies (read - more people join) during the universe, you don’t have to collect any more. You can accumulate more after this requirement is met; each Enthalpy accumulated will delay Acter by one hour.

Quandaries, or Cynicism, act more as a lock than a resource, created when sentients are placed into difficult and no-win situations. Each Universe has a certain amount of potential Quandaries, corresponding to particular choices where an individual gets to make a major decision. You must find and trigger each of these by making the choice as difficult and deceptive as possible - a Morton’s Fork, as it were. All of them must be triggered to exit the universe. Some universes may have none - these only have an Enthalpy requirement. If a Quandary is left for a long time, the individual in question may make a decision anyway. This will nihl out both the Quandary and Potential, so it doesn’t hurt you - but it does increase the chance that another Potential forms, and every existing Quandary when you exit delays Acter by another day, so you should try to keep the dilemma going.

[Smoke Mirrors]

So we have to screw with everyone and be generally horrible.

[crazyabe]

You Reversed the "Animate" and "Inanimate" symbol Effects in the mechanics.

Symbol: What physical object represents your god and anchors its personality? If it is an animate object, then any 6s you roll near it are re-rolled; if inanimate, the same effect applies to 1s.

Symbol, provides either critical failure (animate) or overshoot (inanimate) reroll

[blueturtle1134]

So we have to screw with everyone and be generally horrible.

We have to do everything Acter wouldn't.

You Reversed the "Animate" and "Inanimate" symbol Effects in the mechanics.

Symbol: What physical object represents your god and anchors its personality? If it is an animate object, then any 6s you roll near it are re-rolled; if inanimate, the same effect applies to 1s.

Symbol, provides either critical failure (animate) or overshoot (inanimate) reroll

Edits have been made.

[blueturtle1134]

We’re probably screwed.

I mean, we probably should have seen this coming.

I guess we’re all to blame a little bit. The Lawful Evil gods kinda launched their long-planned invasion of his territories, storming them with screeching dark bats and demons of destruction and flame, burning his cities and scorching his lands. Meanwhile the Chaotic gods chose to drag his moon out of orbit and slam it into his city - instantly obliterating both - while spreading a corruption that turned his races into mindless abominations. Meanwhile, the entire Lawful Good Pantheon spontaneously decided that he didn't fit with their increasingly fanatic standards of purity and conspired to pull him into a drumhead sham of a trial while firing off a mind thingy that turned his spectral mantra-ray buddies into ravenous psychotic killers that obeyed them. It didn’t help that Varalin was spouting insane sentimental nonsense and driving mortals mad as usual. Nobody was sure what Nephilim was doing at the moment, but it turns out that he was mass teleporting out the mortals caught in the crossfire. That probably got misinterpreted as him stealing their souls or something.

Either way, it's too late now.

As it turns out, Acter's a polyversal singularity. A pattern repeated through all the worlds in the cosmos. He exists in so many universes. In thousands of iterations. Always helping mortals, always improving. Always being beaten down, always seeing madness all around him, with nothing to do but take it.

Until now.

And now we’ve annoyed him enough, and he’s finally snapped, and he’s drawn all his shards into himself, ripping the very fabric of reality itself into shreds. The Acter we knew is only one drop in a vast ocean. Countless copies of him, consciousness and sentience merged together, meshing at the closest levels, combined into a single collective intelligence. Divine power flowing in from every corner of the Realmverse, pooling into a single massive junction. Every fragment independent and yet united, bound by a single purpose, a single thought, a single intention: improve.

Acter burns with the power of a thousand gods. His physical form is the slightest bit of his might leaking into the observable universe and it is already sufficient to unmake entire worlds. Reality itself bends in favor of improvement and peace while in his presence. He can be subdivided into a thousand pieces, attenuated and restricted in a million ways, and still directly best any god on its home turf. Easily. “Curb-stomp battle” doesn’t even begin to describe it. Upon waking up, with the slightest fraction of his energy in the moments before he realized that he can control it, the sheer power of his gestalt annihilated the four closest universes. Over the next few quanta of thought he decided to wander along the rest of the universes, consuming every other god, and instantly organized the rest of the Realmverse into a collimated fractal space-filling path, a single road through all the myriad dimensions. Then he started the chase.

Acter is coming. Even now, if you look up at the sky and even higher, through the abstractified roof of the world, you can hear him smashing against Universe -5. Using his sheer power to tunnel through dimensions, tearing down the walls between worlds. Each world hinders him by a time, through sheer ontological inertia resisting the arrival of outside forces, but he will break through. We’ve escaped only because he was careless. One of his first actions was simply to pick us up and throw us as hard as possible, with a simple, clear thought of “get out”.

He threw us nine universes. Nine universes. A gateway between dimensions is not a simple thing to do. A universe resists foreign material, things that are not conforming to its laws. Opening a gateway to a single universe is a fine achievement for an entire generation of gods and men, and he chucked us with enough force that momentum threw us across nine.

You wake up with your nose in the grass. It feels slightly damp on your face.

This is bone-chillingly frightening. You’re a god. You’re not supposed to feel things on your face. You’re not supposed to be tied to the mortal world.

For a moment you wonder if Acter actually had enough power to force-descend you, but you realize quickly that it must be just stunning, because you soon feel your old omnipotence returning and begin gathering information about the plane you’ve landed in.

Universe 1: Arcadia
Enthalpy 0/13 | Quandary 0|0

It’s a rather peaceful world. The skies are sunny and blue, the earth is covered in flowing plains of grass. Cicadas sing in the brush and small communities of humans grow crops and live simple lives.

Appearances can be deceiving. The cicadas are sapient and are brilliant scientists. They don’t exactly have technology, but have poured their efforts into physics and mathematics and have attained significant Reality Warping powers.

The land is a single large continent spanning the equator, with oceans near the poles. The people of this world live in villages and use basic agriculture. They worship the Cicadas as gods, and for their part, the Cicadas guide and advise them whenever possible. Some catch fish near the shores.

Asynchronous turns

There is no need to have everyone take a turn at once.

Anyone can post actions at any time. I will tell you how long they take and then evaluate the order in which they can be conducted, their starts and ends, how they fit relative to each other, etc. on this sheet. This means that no matter how behind you get, you can jump back in at any time - you’ll retrospectively get back the time you missed. You cannot take actions if your personal action line is currently the longest - give other gods a chance.

You’re a god and got beaten up by insects

The cicadas can access limited divine magic by carving large shapes into the grass.

They can build Shielding Sigils against any element, semi/para element, or alignment. If they build a sigil against the element, secondary element, or caster’s alignment, the action gets a -1.

This totally stacks too.

Building the nth sigil takes 2^n hours, so you at least have some time to wait.

Wounded gods

You haven't fully recovered yet from Acter's opening attack.

Rolling a 3 or lower after modifiers triggers a second roll, and the lower is taken.

Head start

Acter threw you 5 universes away. You have a 20 day lead on him and each universe you exit buys you 4 days and a bit.

GO!