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[chubby2man]

Godslayers


Blessed with unstable, wild power, they fight to free mortals from the grip of tyrannous gods. They wield powers of Creation and Destruction, to purge gods who cling too long to their rule. They travel from realm to realm, bringing them into reality with each god they slay. There is little rest for them, being driven onward by their will and power until they die or become gods themselves.

Skills

Creation: The ability to magically create and restore. Can heal, create life and objects. Use must result in an increase of complexity.

Destruction: The ability to magically destroy and damage. Can wield forces of nature, disintegration beams, despair. Use must result in a reduction of complexity.

Prowess: Physical skill, strength and/or agility. Can be augmented, used to resist physical damage as well. Physical health.

Presence: Social ability. Can give commands, deception, inspiration.  Mental Health


Create and command legions of warriors. Wield storms to crash against foes. Duel giants, lead mortals to freedom.

The Godslayers are not bound by space or time. They are drawn ever onward, until they relinquish their power and die, or become gods themselves. The magic that fuels them is a wild one, harnessed just barely by their will. Some are mortal, driven to take up this power. Some were divine creations themselves, driven to take power.

Spoiler: Character sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:

Appearance: From human to monstrosity

Why do you fight the gods?: (What motivates your character? Can be short like “Vengence” or you can make it more of a backstory. Either is fine!)

What is your strongest weapon?: ( Can be your incredible skill with a sword, ability to lead an army, an ancient relic, or specialty of magic. This isn’t your only ability or weapon, but more of the signature of your character)

What will you become if the power consumes you?: (What type of god will you become? A god of war, judgement, love? What will be their domain, and maybe a sign of their corruption? Example: A god of war, blood sometimes replaces water around him.)

Health:

Might: 6/6

Corruption 0/6

Stats:
Creation-
Destruction-
Prowess-
Presence-

You have 6 skill points to distribute, and can place up to 2 in a stat (you can have zero in a stat). Stats work as dice pools, for which you need to roll a 6 to succeed without a consequence. You can gain more points through experience.

Game Stuff

You start with 6 might points, which you can use to resist injuries both physical and mental/spiritual, add a dice to your roll, assist another, and generally twist things to your advantage. You restore your might after slaying a god.

Corruption: The power you wield is that of the gods themselves, and can corrupt the Godslayers into god. You take corruption when you die and return, and can take corruption as part of a dark bargain or to automatically succeed on a roll. When you fill the corruption bar you transform into a god, and are whisked away. When you kill  a god, your corruption is rolled. If the roll is equal to or less than your corruption level you become a god (perhaps replacing the god you just killed). Passing the corruption test after killing a god resets your corruption.

Might costs:
Resist: 2 might
Add dice or +1 effect to own roll: 2 might
Assist another with their roll: 1 might

Health: Consequences for rolls could include damage, based on a scale of 1-4. You can have 2 of each level of damage. Level 1 damage causes -1 effect level, level 2 causes -1d in relevant stat, and level 3 requires you to spend might or receive assistance to act. Level 4 causes death.

Effect/Position
Effect is generally how strong an action is in relation to the strength of the target. Position is the risk level of your action, helping define potential consequences for failure.
Most of the time it’ll be risky position/ normal effect, but if you get the upper hand in a situation it can show in an improved position or effecf

Making a desperate position roll is risky, but it grants you an experience point. You can have your action become desperate if you want the experience, but it may be hazardous for your health!

Complicated spells/crafting: Creating new beings, armies, earth shaking storms and other marvels takes a bit more time than casting a fire ball. Based on the complexity, it could take multiple successful rolls (or a crit).

Misc. Stuff
When you are describing an action, feel free to describe what you are doing, stopping just short of the results.

Go big! Take epic actions!

The game is inspired by Mythender, which is free and you should check it out! http://mythendersrd.com/index.htm

Discord will be used to help facilitate rapid communication about your actions and effect level/position and such. Available here:
https://discord.gg/tD7bVr7

I’m looking for about 4 Godslayers to start. Let me know if you have any questions!

[crazyabe]

PTW, May sheet.

[The_Two_Eternities]

What he said. Sheet will be in this post.

Spoiler: sheet(wip 1/6) (click to show/hide)

Name:

Appearance: From human to monstrosity

Why do you fight the gods?: (What motivates your character? Can be short like “Vengence” or you can make it more of a backstory. Either is fine!)

What is your strongest weapon?: ( Can be your incredible skill with a sword, ability to lead an army, an ancient relic, or specialty of magic. This isn’t your only ability or weapon, but more of the signature of your character)

What will you become if the power consumes you?: (What type of god will you become? A god of war, judgement, love? What will be their domain, and maybe a sign of their corruption? Example: A god of war, blood sometimes replaces water around him.)

Health:

Might: 6/6

Corruption 0/6

Stats:
Creation 1
Destruction 1
Prowess 2
Presence 2

[dgr11897]

Name:Grognor,

Appearance: Monstrous, a massive crawling vehicle resembling a mechanical eye with tentacle like legs, within lies a gnome. The gnome is dressed in the traditional garb of an artificer, and can leave the machine to talk to people. But doing so forfeits his god-slaying powers for a short time.

Why do you fight the gods?: The gods have Long since worn out the goodwill of mortals, the time has come to strike them all down.

What is your strongest weapon?: My skill at artifice, with it I create vast factories, and powerful machines to slay my foes.

What will you become if the power consumes you?: A god of the machine. My domain would be robotics and robots. As a sign of my corruption every so often my Image flashes, revealing a Gnome, trapped within and horrified at what he, and his invention, have become.
Health:

Might: 4/6

Corruption 0/6

Experience 3/6

Stats:
Creation-2
Destruction-0
Prowess-2
Presence- 2

[Glass]

I'm interested.

Spoiler: A person is in here (click to show/hide)

Name: Octal Atlantis

Appearance: Humanoid, but with pale-blue skin and moderately jagged teeth and vaguely cat-like eyes (the teeth get more jagged and the eyes get more cat-like as Octavian gets more sleep-deprived). He wears a hooded suit of leather armor, and wields a shortspear and a round shield.

Why do you fight the gods?: He feels that the gods have been hogging their power, and everyone would be better off if all people had a share of their abilities.

What is your strongest weapon?: Octavian's spear cuts not only physically, but magically; the cuts he leaves bleed not only blood, but magical energy. Gods find themselves severely weakened; mages become incapable of magic altogether. Octavian, meanwhile, can channel the now-unbound energy into his own spells.

What will you become if the power consumes you?: God of Protection. Gone will be the spear, with the godly Octavian bearing a great tower shield, and his armor turned to mythril.

Health: [?]

Might: 6/6

Corruption 0/6

Stats:
Creation- 0
Destruction- 2
Prowess- 2
Presence- 2

Additional note: please put Prowess more into speed/dexterity than strength.

[Jerick]

Name: The Child

Appearance: A small, disheveled, crippled child adorned in rags.

Spoiler: Why do you fight the gods?: Backstory (click to show/hide)

 Crippled, abandoned and discarded the child endures. He knows nothing of his parents or why he was tossed aside, instead his earliest memories are of struggling to find food in forgotten back alleys, alone. Hunger and desperation have been constant companions, on occasion driving him to dark and unspeakable acts. Yet as he watched from the shadows this small feral child of hunger learnt of the world of the people who walked in the light. People busied themselves with their affairs in the city around him, either not seeing him or deliberately ignoring him. He listened and learned the meaning of their words. He watched and saw their stories unfold. Many of these stories shared similar beats as people encountered variants of the same problems the other citizens where dealing with. But stories do not fill stomachs. But the child found a way to use them to gather some food, he used fragments of the stories he'd seen to craft believable lies and presented these lies to people who seemed to view his very presence as an unwelcome intrusion. He failed many times and earned many beatings from the people he was attempting to con but with will and perseverance he became skilled in the use of his tongue to get what he wanted. In truth it was his only weapon against a world that sought to crush him. He was physically frail and had no one and nothing to rely on.

Despite his lack of education of any kind the child absorbed information like a sponge. Every fact no matter how trivial could potentially be used in a lie to make it more believable. Every single piece of information was another weapon in his arsenal. He became skilled at reading the emotions of others, at putting the details together to spot obscured truths and at manipulation.

He was alone. He had always been alone. He had no idea how to trust another person or interact with them beyond lying to them. The kicks, beatings and general dismissal of him others had shown had cemented it in his mind that such things were impossible for him and there had been no one to teach how to express his feelings, no one to tell him it was ever safe to do so. So he hid and buried his emotions and lied. The loneliness, the hunger, the uncertainty and the fear all burned at him, hounding him every waking moment and yet the Child endured.

One strange a man approached him unprompted, the first person ever to neither ignore him or yell at him, his voice was coarse as he informed the Child of how this part of the city was under his gang's protection and if the Child wanted to remain here unharmed he'd have either have to scrounge up some money or do some work for the gang. So the Child lied. It was a simple lie, the best ones often were. Satisfied that'd he get some money tomorrow the ruffian wandered off. The Child was scared. The Child was always scared, he lived in a world filled with more powerful people than him who seemingly all viewed him as vermin. He struggled to make it from day to day. Yet whenever he became truly frightened his urge was not to run but to find someway to fight. Perhaps his deformed crippled leg had stripped the idea that running was ever an option from his mind and had removed one half of the fight or flight response. What ever the reason he limped from the alley he had been hiding in and stumbled across the slums. This ruffian was one he recognized, he'd seen part of the man's story already enough to know where he lived. The rundown room the man slept in was far from secure, slipping in was simple even for the Child. After stealing a knife from the man's belongings the Child hid and waited. Hours would pass before he returned home, hours more before he feel asleep without having noticed the Child's hiding place. There was no hesitation when the Child sliced open the man's throat as he slept before quietly leaving. The Child never felt safe, he chased the sensation that it was alright to relax and he would do what ever it took to feel safer. As he fled slowly into the night, a blood stained knife in his possession, he felt just that little bit safer. The following day the man's gang mates showed up asking questions and so the child lied. People will easily believe a lie if it makes them happy to believe it or if it scares them. Another trick is to guide them to the conclusion you want, people will believe things easily if they come to idea that it is true themselves. The Child used both these tricks and his knowledge of the gang's stories and fears and crafted a lie that would send the gang on a path to destruction simply by describing people he had "seen" in the area of the ruffian's home last night. They lapped up his lies and paid him coin to keep quiet. With a few more drops of deceit dropped into the right ears the gang was at war with a foe it could not beat and was wiped out. Once they were gone the Child felt a little safer for a little while.

But the larger gang that the Child had used to destroy them had moved into their territory in force and were harassing everyone. It took the Child a month to wipe them out. He recognized the internal divisions and played them off against each other. He planted fears of treachery that he would later exploit to cause them to lash out at their allies. The gang collapsed into infighting, confusion and death. With them dealt with the Child felt a little safer but it did not last, there were still many threats out there.

The Child continued destabilizing and destroying organisations he felt threatened by still lonely, still hopelessly chasing that sense of safety that never came. That was until he came across a corrupt church. He had been dimly aware of gods and religion, after all he used such things frequently in his lies, but he had never really considered the concept of gods. He had never had the luxury of sitting and thinking about the concept of gods before. When mortals look to gods they may find hope, fulfillment or faith. The Child found some one to blame. His entire life had been a desperate struggle with the world around constantly pushing him down. All that pain, all that suffering, the gods had always held the power to fix it and yet they had done nothing. Had they laughed at what he had gone through? Did it amuse them? Why had they done nothing? Their inaction spoke of either incompetence or malevolence and the Child rarely bet on incompetence. He watched as the church burnt, having been set ablaze by zealots screaming about the corruption of darkness and heresy. A thousand churches could burn and it would make no difference, the gods were a greater threat than anything man had ever built he realized. It was no wonder he'd never been able to feel safe with such powerful, malevolent beings watching him. He was dirt before a giant the gap between his power and that of the gods was immeasurable, the idea of something so powerful ruling over his life scared him. But the Child never ran from things that frightened him. A weak, sickly, crippled child dressed in rags and owning nothing looked to the skies and whispered a declaration of war on the heavens themselves

What is your strongest weapon?:The Child is a deceiver and a manipulator beyond compare.

What will you become if the power consumes you?: The Child will become the God of Lies where in the people around him will start hearing whispered lies just beyond the range of clear hearing. These lies whisper and scratch at the mind of anyone who listens to them seeking to take root.

Health:

Might: 6/6

Corruption 0/6

Stats:
Creation-2
Destruction-2
Prowess-
Presence- 2

[chubby2man]

The Darkness rises. The Godslayers are drawn to this corruption, and from the Hallowed Halls they must set forth.

The group march down the bright hall, wide enough for legions of warriors. This day, it is empty except for the 4 Godslayers and the Oracle. The portal lay in front of them, connected to the realm of Ashernipath. The Oracle stands before the group, steel grey eyes looking at the Godslayers and nods in approval.

“Your first task lays before you. You have begun to master yourselves, and proved able to harness the ancient Power. You alone posses the ability to end the gods that tyrannize mortals across hundreds of worlds. But they will not go down easily.”   

“Ashernipath is a fearsome god, a giant with cruel appetites and tendencies. He rules over a wasteland of his own making, stripped bare by his greed. His domain lies over fire and the sun, be prepared for attacks from those sources. He sired giants from the mortal human stock, and they are just as bad as their father. They sacrifice men, women, and children in dark blood sacrifices, and feast on their corpses.”

“Ashernipath is empowered by these rituals and the worship of his dark heirs. Their society will need to be disrupted and purged to weaken the god. Save the mortals if you can, though rest assured that a quick death would be better than a fate from these monsters. “

“When you are ready, go through the portal. Stay strong, and may you return to us as Godslayers. “

(Glass, Jerick, and dgr11897 are accepted as first 3 Godslayers. Still have time to join in, and if you don’t make it in the first 4 there are will be reserves/ waitlist, and maybe a second team. So if you got a badass concept, create a character!)

[dgr11897]

OK. Can we take actions yet?

[chubby2man]

OK. Can we take actions yet?

You can move through the portal 

But good question! The Hallowed Halls have wards set up that prevent magic, and hides it from divine notice. So you can’t use your magic to create or destroy things in between missions.

[Maximum Spin]

ok sure

Name: Ravana the Holy Tyrant
Appearance: He has ten heads and doesn't afraid of anyone.

Why do you fight the gods?: Because they are there.

What is your strongest weapon?: The ineffable charisma of terror and strength.

What will you become if the power consumes you?: Some might say a god of fear and shadow who sips the nightmares of the dreaming dead. Others, a god of conquest unbound, doomed to unmake the universe. The reality, though? Probably a god of awful things like love and charity, because of the cruelty of fate.

Health:
- Might: 6/6
- Corruption 0/6

Stats:
Creation-0
Destruction-2
Prowess-2
Presence-2

[NRDL]

PTW

[dgr11897]

Can most of you who are playing please join the discord
Plan v1,
1. establish base of operations and gather info
2. Begin sun dimming operations
3. create cursed swords (design is in the discord) and distribute them to several giants
4. Kill any giants that catch on, or prove problematic.
5. while the above is occuring, and all throughout really gather army of commoners, arm them, create robotic warriors to augment them.
6. when the sun god catches on, begin final confrontation.

[Mallos]

Heyo. I'm definitely interested here.

Spoiler: John probably dies long before the end. (click to show/hide)

Name: John (Goes by this, but really doesn't have ANY name at all.)

Appearance: 5 foot 8 or so, ivory colored skin. Grey eyes. Looks constantly tired and mostly ordinary, yet there is something off-putting about him.

Why do you fight the gods?: Hubris. "John" believes himself to be not just a dethroned god but the dishonored CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE. This may or may not be the case, but likely isn't.

What is your strongest weapon?: A form of magic that's effects are wild and depend on John's emotions. Hatred can warp and twist his object of focus, joy can enhance it.

What will you become if the power consumes you?: Chaos and Passion (ALL kinds of passion. Artistic, romantic, depraved.)

Health:

Might: 6/6

Corruption 0/6

Stats:
Creation- 2
Destruction- 2
Prowess- 1
Presence- 1

[chubby2man]

(Going to retcon the 4 Godslayers to 5, so both Max Spin and Mallos are accepted. )

 The Godslayers enter the portal and emerge from the other side, into the open air. They drop, falling to the ground. Grognor the machine begins to tumble. 

Before them lays an wide expanse of sky, blue with wispy clouds trailing through the air. The sun blazes harshly overhead. Below lies a yellow desert, broken up by jutting stones carved by the wind. The sand might provide a cushion for your landing

Oh, and an angry dragon looks ready to devour you.

Nearly a hundred meters long, bright red scales flashing in the sunsFuriously beating its wings, it is charging at the falling Godslayers. It roars a challenge at them, flames spitting from its mouth.

Unfortunately it seems your entrance was somewhat prepared for.
What do you do?

(2 situations here. First one is the dragon charging you. Second one is you are quickly approaching terminal velocity as you fall to the earth. I’m going to make 2 clocks to represent these two dangers. These clocks will advance by 1 every turn, but may be reduced or increased due to consequences.

Due to the circumstances, your position is desperate, which increases the consequences but grants you a point of experience! Since this is the first battle, I will also give bonus experience for using might to aid others, giving yourself a bonus die, and resisting injuries. To aid others, consider if your regular action could assist another character narratively. If it does, consider spending a might point to add a bonus dice to their roll! Also, you should be able to roll on the discord. Good luck, feel free to ask questions!)

Clocks:
The Dragon Calls for Aid: 1/4
Crash into the Ground: 1/4

[dgr11897]

with my first action in this new realm, I grognor, Retrofit my robotic body, creating and activating thrusters attempting to slow my fall. (Creation, 2 Dice?)