Opening your eyes, you are greeted with near darkness, the only light coming from a dirty, flickering light above you. You can hear the muffled sound of thunder and rain, while your nose is overwhelmed by the scent of burning incense. More subtly, you notice a faint rotting smell. Gathering yourself, you try to move forward but find yourself trapped by unseen forces. Looking down, you see a large pentagram drawn out with chalk around your feet, ancient symbols keeping you from moving, speaking, or doing much of anything. You are about to try and struggle when you hear a voice in the darkness.

“Calm yourself godling. Those are only precautionary measures.”

An aging man with grey eyes, dressed in long grey robes, steps forward. He appears in good health, considering his apparent age. The long white beard and wrinkled skin contradict the strong, straight bearing with which he carries himself.

“We truly are excited that you’re here. But please, feel free to take a moment to gather yourself and find a form that pleases you.”

Looking over yourself, you find that you must agree. This form is inadequate and, honestly, embarrassing. You are a god. What form would be appropriate for one such as yourself?

First, we'll need to decide what one such as ourself is even the god OF. Some ideas:

Poison / Treachery (A possibly serpent motif, poisonous insects)
The Sun (Sun gods have some VERY good imagery)
Storms (Thunder and lighting imagery, rain and wind as well)

I'm quite interested to hear others ideas, these are just three that I'd be fully behind.

Binding circle, stormy weather, a shadowy cabal of robed figures...

These guys were obviously expecting something with tentacles and waaaaay too many eyeballs. I say we don't disappoint them lest they throw us back. If we play our cards right these suckers could be the start of something beautiful.

There are a variety of things they may have been expecting, and besides, they're the mortals here, our identity is for us to decide.

wisdom, knowledge, and things like that. Apollo, coincidentally, was soon as the god of wisdom in addition to Athena. Apollo was just the god of truth/wisdom and prophecy as a male god.

I suggest we choose being either god of The Sun, or Moon, in addition to knowledge/wisdom.

The other thing to think of is what knife of tone we want to be-benevolent, cruel, stern, forgiving, etc. regardless of what we're a God of, this is something we have to decide on independent of that.

There are a variety of things they may have been expecting, and besides, they're the mortals here, our identity is for us to decide.

Yes, but we are still inside this circle. This circle makes me very nervous. I think we should appease these guys at least until we get out of the circle. Now that I look around, I mean, we don't smell blood. So I was off. This guys a scholarly looking academic type, we should make ourselves in the image of a scholarly looking academic type.

No iconography or domain or anything yet, we need more information before we make that kind of decision.

We need information before we REVEAL our decision, we can make our choices while imprisoned.

I mean, we need to hold off on deciding what sort of god we want to be until we see the state of the world and the local mortal population so we can make an informed decision about what would be best.

...I'll grudgingly concede that point.

In that case I say we take an androgynous form for now, to leave our options open.

There is one thing I think is appropriate. We should have more than one mouth, because there's more than one of us in here.

I don't really agree with that, not at this point at least. That's the kind of thing that would be associated with a God of mutation or insanity or secrets, and everyone has multiple internal voices anyway.

@Primal Conundrum
I should point out that in this God game, of which I and LeonVon am the only veterans, we don't need an area of influence to use our powers from. We don't have to be "Ares", or "Zeus", or "Ra", etcetera.

So... Our powers are unrelated to our domains then, or what?

@Primal Conundrum

There arent' Domains.

By domains, I mean the things that we as a god choose to be associated with.

By domains, I mean the things that we as a god choose to be associated with.

We don't need to. :D

So what you're saying is it's all marketing? Call yourself the god of the sea and the mortals think of you when they catch a load of fish or get hit by a tidal wave.

What's the point in even presenting ourself as a god of a thing then?

What's the point in even presenting ourself as a god of a thing then?

We ain't. We're just choosing a physical body and developing powers based on what we want to do.