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Turn 0: Astronomical Age

Nine gods materialize (for a given value of materialize) in three sets of three high up above a disc and an Eye that has slept for eons. Awash in the strange energies of the Noise outside, a celestial sphere enclosing the otherwEyese featureless disc and home to the gods is buzzing with unlimited potential; indeed, potential enough to alter the shape of the disc should they prefer a different form (even that of a disc with two faces instead of one if necessary).

The first set is composed of Aku!, the dark god of Evil and Destruction, Mut, the God(ess?) of Death and Birth, and Opener of the Heavens and the Earths- a long winded god of Earth and Sky.

The second set of gods to arrive are the surprisingly bland one with many names, God of Madness and Illusion, the particularly colorful compared to his companions- Admiral Auden Bracket, God of Aeronautics and Construction, and - the almost forgettable god of Absolute Zero and Utter Stillness

The third and final set come out seeming a bit... confused? As though they forgot something- the specific gods to appear in this set are Autmost, God of Machines and Construction, The Wyrm, God of Protection and Equilibrium, and Rama, God of Dynasty and Kingship. Hopefully this confusion passes quickly so they may begin their work.

It is currently the Astronomical Age, and the invigorating pulse of dynamism that so suffuses the heavens has yet to reach the world-disc. As it stands, the crystal sphere is perfect and unwounded, but some imperfection may well be in order for the future mortals' sakes as much as for the gods. Host to a grand shared plane and the gods' home planes, there are currently no portals through which the light of the gods or harsher places can leak onto the undefined world. As well, the forms of the common plane and the gods' individual planes remain undetermined, but they'll always be changeable to suit their owners' needs.   

The Astronomical Age will end when The Eye awakens, an event expected to occur in approximately 5 turns assuming nothing causes it to awaken earlier.


Astronomical Age

• Creating suns, large moons, comets, stars, "planets," and constellations is possible only in this age.
• Creating equipment and artifacts is possible in this age.
• Destroying various astronomical bodies (i.e. repairing the crystal sphere ) is possible only in this age.
• Assigning mechanical significance to astronomical bodies as a god is possible only in this age. Using suitable spheres is encouraged but not strictly required.
• If more gods support than oppose a change to the shape of the world, it will be enacted.
• If more gods support than oppose a change to the form or function of the common plane, it will be enacted.
• It is not possible to create or terraform land/sea in this age.
• Only the Archangel and War Form Incarna chasses are available in this age.
• Only the Angel and Outsider servant chasses are available in this age.
• When either more gods support than oppose progression to the next age, or the Eye awakens- it will advance to the Geological age.

Spoiler: Relevant costs (click to show/hide)

Nearby star/sun/eclipsey moon: 1 aligned sphere act
Constellation/distant star: 1 generic act
Distant uninhabitable planet/comet/other system body: 1 generic act
Astrological feature: 1 (appropriately) aligned sphere act
Create/modify home plane: 0 acts
Destroy astronomical feature: 1 aligned sphere act

Reshape the world-disc: (Consensus)
Modify common plane: (Consensus)

Gods: 0 acts
Incarna/servant: 0 acts
The Eye: 0 acts

Baubles/trinkets: 1 sphere act
Lesser magic items: 2 sphere act
Greater magic items: 4 sphere acts
Artifacts: 8 sphere acts

Major features:
Actribute boost: 3x of relevant actribute(s)
Soft action preservation/storage: +4 sphere acts

Create Incarna: 1 generic act
Change Incarna: 1 generic act
Recall Incarna: 0 acts
Create Outsiders: 1 sphere act

Maintenance
Archangel: 1 generic act/turn
War Form: 1 aligned sphere act/turn

Create Angel: 1 sphere act
Create Outsiders: 1 sphere act

Spoiler: Relevant sheets (Use them for your creations or perish!) (click to show/hide)

Name:
Type: E.g. Comet, moon, star, sun, large eclipse-capable moon
Effect: E.g. Lose stability
Frequency: E.g. Annual, monthly, every few decades
Description:

Name:
Type: E.g. Comet, moon, star, sun
Description:

Name:
Primary actribute: Light/Might/Night/Sight
Effects:
 + Something good
 + Something good
 - Something bad
Description:

Name:
Affiliation (list all applicable gods, primary first):
Class: Archangel/War Form
Traits:
 + Something good
 + Something good
 - Something bad
Description:

Name:
Affiliation (list all applicable gods, primary first):
Class: Angel(s)/Outsiders
Traits:
 + Something good
 + Something good
 - Something bad
Description:

Cosmic entities

• The Eye is fast asleep.
• The Noise is silent.

Status

Spoiler: Gods (click to show/hide)

• -, God of Absolute Zero and Utter Stillness (Egan_BW)
  • Obsession: Increasing Entropy
  • Rage: Denying Entropy
  • Fear (Night): Terrible Heat
  • Noble: Allowing a peaceful and permanent end
  • Attributes:
    • Light: 2/2; hardened 0; no equipment
    • Might: 5/5; hardened 2; no equipment
    • Night: 4/4; hardened 1; no equipment
    • Sight: 3/3; hardened 0; no equipment
  • Acts: 1 soft Absolute Zero act, 1 soft Utter Stillness act
• Too many names, God of Madness and Illusions (Rockeater)
  • Obsession: Unclear paths and obfuscated ways
  • Rage: Those that avoid and steer others away from that which is beyond the normal
  • Fear (Might): Complete clarity
  • Noble: Allow those that look hard what is beyond their sense
  • Attributes:
    • Light: 5/5; hardened 2; no equipment
    • Might: 3/3; hardened 0; no equipment
    • Night: 4/4; hardened 1; no equipment
    • Sight: 2/2; hardened 0; no equipment
  • Acts: 1 soft Madness act, 1 soft Illusions act
• Admiral Auden Bracket, God of Aeronautics and Construction (Glass)
  • Obsession: Spreading the experience of the sky
  • Rage: Broken wings, metaphorically (theft of freedom)
  • Fear (Night): Loss of agency
  • Noble: Flight
  • Attributes:
    • Light: 5/5; hardened 2; no equipment
    • Might: 3/3; hardened 0; no equipment
    • Night: 2/2; hardened 0; no equipment
    • Sight: 4/4; hardened 1; no equipment
  • Acts: 1 soft Aeronautics act, 1 soft Construction act
• Autmost, God of Machines and Construction (Roboson)
  • Obsession: Metals/Gems
  • Rage: Getting ripped off
  • Fear (Light): End of the World
  • Noble: Metals
  • Attributes:
    • Light: 2/2; hardened ;0 no equipment
    • Might: 3/3; hardened ;0 no equipment
    • Night: 5/5; hardened ;2 no equipment
    • Sight: 4/4; hardened ;1 no equipment
  • Acts: 1 soft Machines act, 1 soft Construction act
• Aku!, God of Destruction and Evil (TricMagic)
  • Obsession: Order
  • Rage: Pointless Evil
  • Fear (Night): End of the World(
  • Noble: Destruction
  • Attributes:
    • Light: 3/3; hardened 0; no equipment
    • Might: 2/2; hardened 0; no equipment
    • Night: 5/5; hardened 2; no equipment
    • Sight: 4/4; hardened 1; no equipment
  • Acts: 1 soft Destruction act, 1 soft Evil act
• Mut, Goddess of Death and Birth (Kilojoule Proton)
  • Obsession: Growth and gluttony
  • Rage: Mortal hubris
  • Fear (Might): Loud noises, esp. rhythmic
  • Noble: Seeing mortal creatures, sapient or otherwise, thrive and multiply
  • Attributes:
    • Light: 4/4; hardened 1; no equipment
    • Might: 3/3; hardened 0; no equipment
    • Night: 2/2; hardened 0; no equipment
    • Sight: 5/5; hardened 2; no equipment
  • Acts: 1 soft Death act, 1 soft Birth act
• [INPUT LONG NAME HERE], God of Earth and Sky (Demonic Spoon)
  • Obsession: Creating things which are different from other things in a related way, or clearly separating things, cleaving
  • Rage: Gods doing something which diminishes one of their core spheres
  • Fear (Sight): The reversal of sky and earth, up and down
  • Noble: The continued proper functioning of the world against dangers like the Noise
  • Attributes:
    • Light: 3/3; hardened 0; no equipment
    • Might: 5/5; hardened 2; no equipment
    • Night: 4/4; hardened 1; no equipment
    • Sight: 2/2; hardened 0; no equipment
  • Acts: 1 soft Earth act, 1 soft Sky act
• Rama, God of Dynasty and Kingship (Maximum Spin)
  • Obsession: Continuity
  • Rage: Sterility
  • Fear (Might): Finality
  • Noble: Sacrifice for one's children
  • Attributes:
    • Light: 4/4; hardened 1; no equipment
    • Might: 5/5; hardened 2; no equipment
    • Night: 2/2; hardened 0; no equipment
    • Sight: 3/3; hardened 0; no equipment
  • Acts: 1 soft Dynasty act, 1 soft Kingship act
• The Wyrm, God of Protection and Equilibrium (Imic)
  • Obsession: Guarding the material plane from both the Noise outside, and the Eye within.
  • Rage: Directly provoking the Eye fills The Wyrm with an anger that it finds hard to resist acting on.
  • Fear (): The true, unchecked, unstoppable rage of the Eye should it ever be truly unleashed upon the Material plane in its full, unspeakable might.
  • Noble: Self sacrifice in the name of protecting others, particularly when the Noise or the Eye is involved.
  • Attributes:
    • Light: 5/5; hardened 2; no equipment
    • Might: 4/4; hardened 1; no equipment
    • Night: 3/3; hardened 0; no equipment
    • Sight: 2/2; hardened 0; no equipment
  • Acts: 1 soft Protection act, 1 soft Equilibrium act

[Egan_BW]

-

Advance to the next phase already. The sooner we can get this universe devolved down to its ultimate state the better.

[TricMagic]

-

Advance to the next phase already. The sooner we can get this universe devolved down to its ultimate state the better.

"Someone's thinking ahead. Just give me your acts and I'll bust this planet wide open!"

[Egan_BW]

"Someone's thinking ahead. Just give me your acts and I'll bust this planet wide open!"

[The feeling of plunging one's leg into freezing water.]

[TricMagic]

"Someone's thinking ahead. Just give me your acts and I'll bust this planet wide open!"

[The feeling of plunging one's leg into freezing water.]

shivers and shrinks."Someone's grumpy."

Aku cracks their.. 4 Knuckles? Either way, they start gathering a bunch of energy between their arms, shadows writhing like flames and pieces jutting off.

"Time to get this party started! Down it goes! Where it falls AKU knows, YEET!"
Use Both Sphere Acts to create Maebure and send it hrutling into the planetoid/whatever will be so hard it leaves a hole deep enough to shift the tectonic plates!

Code: (Monument incoming!) [Select]

Name: Maebure
Affiliation (list all applicable gods, primary first): Aku
Class: Monument
Traits:
 + Dense Core Seed
 + Weapon of Mass Devastation
 - Fragile.
Description: A black obelisk that Aku deploys above things he wants to destroy.
Sent hurtling down it impacts the surface and causes an earthquake, shards flying everywhere.
These shards can then be used to make weapons of Unspeakable Evil!
Left behind is a smaller core deep within the earth that slowly grows into a massive black tree of wood and dark blood, it's leaves shards of minerals extracted from within the earth.

[Imic]

Petition to turn the disc into an unspeakably vast birch world style shell surrounding the eye

... Some form of light shall be necessary for future life to exist, I advise a sun. A ball of fire in the sky seems like an efficient way of pulling that off. Preferably not shining on everything all at once, if everyone wants any life to not burn up into nothing immediately.

... And Aku, was that strictly necessary?

[TricMagic]

"Probably Not!  But best start off creation with a bang and some destruction!" Sure there isn't much to destroy right now, but there's also nothing to order about either. So no need to restrain, get it out of the system. not like I can destroy other godstuff, not good cost-benefit. Better to do long-term like have a giant monument growing and spreading."

Aku goes shrinking into itself and disappearing, likely heading to it's plane to get home straightened up for guests and pesky samurai.

[Glass]

Auden appears to be preoccupied with a paintbrush and a tub of glow-in-the-dark paint (radiant with the energy of an Aeronautics Act) over at the edge of the celestial sphere.
Please don’t blow up the planet! A pause. Actually, do we need a planet? Another pause. Please don’t blow up the atmosphere, I intend to use it!
Across the great sphere, a grand mural comes into shape.

Spoiler: The Great Ship (click to show/hide)

Name: The Great Ship
Type: Very bright mural
Effect: Smooths travels, encourages exploration, and sets the winds of fate and fortune howling
Frequency: Shows up in a cycle of 35 years not there, 15 years present and active
Description: A vibrant image of a a grand sailing vessel, course set across the sky. Patterns of paint and lack thereof provide the image with various shades.

[TricMagic]

A head appears.
At the end of the day it is a giant rock. Hoping for nice scenic mountains to pop up from impact. Blowing up the planet or destroying the atmosphere, such that is yet determined beyond bland, would mean no things to rule over. Just a chunk of land or bits of rocks.

[Demonic Spoon]

Opener of the Heavens and the Earths, Trailblazer of the Way wields itself in figmentary hands, and swipes at the raw fabric of space, opening a great shining wound, a river of light, a new sun.

Spend 1 Sky Act creating the the Proper and Righteous Way of Heaven

Name: The Proper and Righteous Way of Heaven
Type: Sun
Effect: Heals all potential Noise wounds in the Crystal Sphere, Common Plane, or World, weakens any present Noise entities, and attempts to banish them.
Frequency: Whenever it is dramatically appropriate
Description: A massive river of light, slowly shifting from blue to green to yellow to orange to red to purple before going back to blue light over the course of a month. It moves predictably across the heavens, causing seasonal variation as it shines more brightly on one specific area instead of another, causing areas to experience summer and winter as a result

Opener of the Heavens and the Earths, Trailblazer of the Way begins scrolling a vast epic of images and scenes across its axe blades, suggesting the creation of an angel foundry within the auspices of the common plane, which constantly produces angels whose only purpose is to battle and banish Noise entities.

Propose the establishment of the Silent Spring, from which springs 128 Husher angels per turn.

Name: Silent Spring
Type: Moon
Effect: Create 128 Hushers
Frequency: Every turn
Description: A motionless moon made entirely of freezingly cold, yet unfreezing, liquid water which is black, blue and pink in colour. Each turning of the heavens a new generation of Hushers swim out of the Silent Spring to fulfill their duties, bound together in quiet comraderie.

Name: Hushers
Affiliation (list all applicable gods, primary first): Anti-Noise
Class: Angels
Traits:
 + Sensitive: Hushers' fluffy antennae and entire bodies are extremely sensitive to any sound, especially Noise, which they can find and locate easily, even through stealth or hiding attempts.
 + Hushing: Hushers are very good at fighting against and banishing the effects, works and entities of Noise. The more Hushers working together against Noise, the more effective they are.
 - Quiet: Hushers are very easily banished by priests since they can't debate back against banishment attempts or counter-preach or anti-sermonize.
Description: Extremely fluffy and quiet owl-moths in various shades of white, black and gray, partially covered in static patterns and otherwise each Husher has its own unique pattern of stripes, dots and geometric patterns. They look like comet-sized owls with a second set of moth-wings, a second pair of legs midway up their torso, incredibly large and fluffy antennae, and a moth abdomen instead of tailfeathers. Will seek out and attempt to hush Noise where-ever they might find it, calling in Husher backup if deemed necessary by silent pinging across their Hush kin-bonds.

Yes: 1 Trailblazer of the Way,
No: 0

Support the current Disk-Shaped World, until such a time as another world which I like is proposed.

[Egan_BW]

Revise or perish.

Name: Silent Spring
Type: Moon
Effect: Create 128 Hushers. Each such event causes the Spring's temperature to equalize slightly with its surroundings, until it eventually loses all ability to work.
Frequency: Every turn
Description: A motionless moon made entirely of freezingly cold, yet unfreezing, liquid water which is black, blue and pink in colour. Each turning of the heavens a new generation of Hushers swim out of the Silent Spring to fulfill their duties, bound together in quiet comraderie.

[Demonic Spoon]

Opener of the Heavens and the Earths, Trailblazer of the Way carefully fillets and carves at reality below the disk-world, flipping it inside out, just so creating a topsy turvy reflection of the world.

Create the Mirror World Afterlife

A mirror of the actual material world, where colours, smells, temperature, spatial arrangements etc. are reversed. Home to the illusory mirrorfolk, who act out an history of the world in broken patterns, except victories and defeats, lies and truth, and cake and pie are reversed. Souls affiliated with the Opener of the Heavens and the Earths, Trailblazer of the Way, who die spend several centuries acting roles in the various fragmentary historical plays before being reborn as their desired race/species in the material world, memories intact. Other beings who enter the world are not forced to act out parts until plane assimilation, and can freely observe, if they can endure the strange conditions of the mirror-world.

Spend the Earth act to create the Mirror-Plate beneath the disk world

Name: Mirror-Plate
Type: Moon
Description: A giant flat plate of silver hovering some distance beneath the world, which is in fact a giant portal to the Mirror World. As such, any who go through, or fall into it will fall into the mirror-world. Any mortals who dig through the bottom of the world will not fall all the way to the boundary of the Crystal Sphere, but just fall into the Mirror World instead, (unless they develop interesting flying machines to avoid that fate)

[Egan_BW]

Create Realm: The Window

It is less a place as a state of being. The realm is of perfect stillness and equilibrium, to that point that in effect nothing may exist there and anything which would travel there is instead destroyed.

[Kilojoule Proton]

Mut glides around and admires the emptiness and perfection of the crystal sphere before inverting and spilling out a knot of writhing snakes. She sorts through them carefully for countless eons before settling on a particularly strong and hungry specimen inexplicably biting its own tail.

Name: The Snoon
Effect: Codify the month and cause instability during eclipses
Type: Moon
Frequency: Once a month, by definition
Description: Over the course of a month, the Snoon gives birth to itself, eats itself until its hunger is sated, gives birth to itself, eats itself until its hunger is sated...

Once in a while, the Snoon, being a very slightly living astronomical object, will attempt to eat a/the sun, especially round ones shaped vaguely like eggs. As a mere moon, it's incapable of keeping any sun down for too long, but making lots of noise should help scare it away at the expense of possibly attracting Noise or Husher attention. With the existing suns being unreasonably large and spread out, eclipses will be a bit rare.

One of the less suitable snakes somehow dies of a phantasmal fungal infection during the contest for the Snoon and is promoted to Angel of Death as a consolation prize.

Name: Angel of Death
Affiliation (list all applicable gods, primary first): Death sphere, Angel of Death, Mut
Class: Angel
Traits:
 + Very spooky
 + Can "eat" souls to store them as scales and "shed" them later
 - Mut(e)
Description: A failed snoon, the Angel of Death died of a phantasmal fungal infection during Mut's cruel contest for an appropriate snake moon. As none of the other snakes were noted to have died, this must be rather exceptional indeed. The Angel of Death is devoted to the principle of death in all its forms and can carry the immaterial bits of dead things to their respective afterlives as (temporary) scales by ingesting and later shedding them. Ironically, this makes a fully scaled Angel of Death a more tragic/horrifying sight than a completely skeletal one.

Mut tips over and spills green frogs all over the voteboxes for advancing to the next Age, creating the Silent Spring, and keeping the world as a disc.

Yes: 2 -, Mut
No: 0

Yes: 2 Trailblazer of the Way, Mut
No: 0

Yes: 2 -, Mut
No: 0

Keep the disc: 2 Trailblazer of the Way, Mut

[Maximum Spin]

Yes: 2 -, Mut
No: 1: Rama

Yes: 3: Trailblazer of the Way, Mut, Rama
No: 0

Yes: 2 -, Mut
No: 1: Rama

Keep the disc: 2 Trailblazer of the Way, Mut
There is no world: 1: Rama