The pressure bearing down on the world increases. It may be an eternity before the firmament reaches its breaking point, or it may happen in an eyeblink - the difference is meaningless to beings who do not yet have any concept of time. But sooner or later the strain is too much, and the tectonic plate those beings are embedded in undergoes a sudden and dramatic collapse.
All is chaos. Fissures open, boulders fly in random directions, and everything is enveloped in a single contiguous landslide. But eventually the tremors stop, and the newly-created cavern settles into its final shape. There are ceilings and floors, dark crevices and broad expanses of open space. The atmosphere is stale, but it's breathable air, and a faint whistling noise suggests that more might be seeping up from below.
It is this world into which five primordial entities emerge.
Bastet climbs languorously from a depression in the earth. For now, the jewel on her forehead is the only source of light, and the cavern she rests in is painted violet by its glow.
Uristos claws their way to the surface, leaving behind a small tunnel and a mound of displaced stone. Their beard reaches almost to their ankles, and is nearly indistinguishable from the bedrock they just dug through.
Debby drops from the ceiling and lands squarely on a convenient ledge. She dons the hat and sunglasses that she appeared with and sets off in search of adventure.
Glug-Glug pours through a crack no wider than a fingernail. It gathers itself up into a ball of gristle and richochets back and forth through the nearest tunnels.
Hezerhekahaithoth puts an end to its imprisonment by tearing itself from the face of a cliff. For now, its body is a curtain of light and dust, rapidly appearing and then winking out of existence.
What is your name?
Bastet
What form do you take?
Either a dominant and capricious, nude catgirl with black ankle-length hair and short, black, velvety fur on her ears and three tails, violet eyes, a stunningly seductive body which glows with a soft violet light when in low light, and a violet jewel in her forehead.
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A more demure and comely version of the above with only one tail, no forehead jewel, and no glow, that also wears clothing.
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A female cat with short, black, velvety fur, three tails, violet eyes, and a violet jewel in her forehead, whose body glows with a soft violet light when in low light.
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As the above, but with only one tail, no forehead jewel, and no glowing.
depending on whim.
What essence defines you?
Capriciousness and conceit, maternity and protection, sensuality and lust.
What is you purpose?
To give birth to, watch over, and protect those who shall move upon Creation.
What is your name?
Uristos
What form do you take?
A short creature fond of drink and industry. They take no particular gender but have a long beard with the color and consistency of stone.
What essence defines you?
Greed and industry, yet also comfort.
What is you purpose?
To mine and acquire all of worth there is.
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A_Curious_Cat - your sheet's okay, but to be clear, this game is SFW. Keep the sensuality and lust tasteful).
Uristos: 3Bastet lounges on a ridge from which she can observe the other primordial deites - or at least those of them who haven't already wandered off. Few measure up to her standards.
When Uristos catches sight of her, they jump straight back into the hole they emerged from. Several minutes later, Bastet hears thumping, clattering, and coughing from behind her. The noise increases in volume and intensity until Uristos bursts out of the wall, covered in a thick layer of coal dust.
Excited for this as I quite enjoyed the first one!
What is your name? Debby
What form do you take? A female humanoid with the head of a deer, that's wearing casual clothing, a pair of sunglasses, and a wide brimmed hat.
What essence defines you? Curiosity and inventiveness.
What is you purpose? To discover and invent things.
6Debby takes a circuit around the cave she arrived in, and then another few caves after that. They all seem fairly similar to each other, given that they're made from the same mixture of stone and soil, but upon entering the tenth or eleventh cave she finds something unusual: a cat's-eye gemstone, flickering with orange light. In the absence of any other illumination, it's nearly impossible to miss.
What is your name? Glug-Glug
What form do you take? A Shifting mass of meat ooze, sometimes with more form, sometimes with less
What essence defines you? Chaos, the origin of Freedom- Creation- and Madness.
What is you purpose? I am purposeless, my purpose can thus be said to be making my own purpose.
3Glug-Glug careens through a long series of tunnels, still in its gristly ball-shape. The upheavel that created this world may have died down, but the cavern hasn't finished settling. There are still rocks to topple, mudslides to set into motion, and unstable walls to collapse. Glug-Glug bumps into several of these as it continues on its way, setting off a chain of minor disasters.
One of the tunnels opens into a more spacious cave that is also thoroughly waterlogged. The walls slump under their own weight, and rivulets leaking from the ceiling have already transformed the ground into a murky pool. Glub-Glub lands directly in the center, producing an enormous splash.
What is your name?
Hezerhekahaithoth.
What form do you take?
The boundary between cessation and continuous creation.
What essence defines you?
There is a point at which something ceases. A fire is quenched. A being breathes their last. A sketch is lacquered. The end, arrives. This is not good. This is not evil. This is an inevitability.
Perfect perpetuity must never exist. It would be wrong to the utmost.
A beautiful end is the highest form of order.
What is your purpose?
To enable endings and perpetuate the possibility of endings. To make endings beautiful and smooth. To weaken direct legacies and strengthen indirect legacies.
2Hezerhekahaithoth notices that some of the primordial chaos is still in motion, and resolves to make it stop. To that end, it coils up, gathering together all the parts of itself which cause cessation rather than creation, and tries to scour all matter and velocity from a single point at the center of its being.
The void takes form, and it absorbs matter and motion in approximately the way that Hezerhekahaithoth intended it to, but it fails to crystalize. Instead, it slowly diffuses into the surrounding area, expending itself to annihilate air and streaks of the cave floor.
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