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This is the prose intro for a new game, collaborated on with great love and devotion, by the cast of a wildly successful roleplay that began in early 2015 and is still going: Divinus!

Divinus is an extremely free-form deity roleplay that has been run three times over the past five years or so, with positive results each time. While the gameplay itself has a backbone of rules, which we've updated to make sleeker and more fun, the way the story and the world of the gods pans out each time is always wildly unexpected.

Although the current game is an advanced roleplay in the Casual subforum, we're aiming to make this one something truly casual and light and fast-paced, with posts of just a few paragraphs each. It'll go in the Free section, but don't expect the quality of the writing to flag- much of the Divinus cast is in Godspeed, and we'll keep an eye out for players from anywhere.

Here's the overview, which can also be found in the current revision of the thread starter, which has all the updated rules.



We have five players from the 'casual' iteration of the game who've already pledged to join in. Here are their character sheets!

@WrongEndoftheRainbow with Lasis, Patron of Rebellion

@Kho with Seidhara, the Bear Mother

@LokiLeo789 with Trickster Iwa, the Scarab God

@Double Capybara with Kap Gam, Ephemeral Queen

@Frettzo with Aella, Goddess of Kindness

And I'll be playing with Yu, the Demon Slayer, probably.

So yeah. Anyone interested?
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I lack the speed to write as much as the majority do for Divinus and so I've been waiting for this since I caught wind of it, colour me interested.
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Very Interested.
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I lack the speed to write as much as the majority do for Divinus


Are you sure speed is the word you're looking for? Divinus is quite slow, but if all goes to plan, Godspeed will be pretty fast-paced. The post length in Divinus is sort of just a product of the way stories pan out.
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Are you sure speed is the word you're looking for? Divinus is quite slow, but if all goes to plan, Godspeed will be pretty fast-paced. The post length in Divinus is sort of just a product of the way stories pan out.


Speed is definitely the right word I was looking for, I tend to near just over a thousand words per five (to eight) hours... on reflections perhaps resolve would have been more appropriate although it's mainly due to me staring off into space, thinking of what to write for the next sentence...

Divinus is slow paced although I'm not entirely confident that I'd be able to write on par with others considering this predicament, hence my interest has been directed at Godspeed rather than it's predecessor.
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@Lugubrious if you're feeling it ^-^
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Count me in.
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I'm not 100% sure what to say, but color me interested! As long as you guys don't find Apples edible that is.
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One question, what kind of writing are you expecting here?
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Interested, thinking of some kind of god based on challenge and change.
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Interested. I always have liked this sort of thing.

Edit: Maybe a god of Change and Chaos (for the latter is the purest expression of the former) although someone else expressed interest in change and we've got one whose the patron of rebellion, so it might be easier to hop ship towards a god of knowledge and forbidden secrets and stuff like that. Either way, perhaps maybe something of a cunning or conniving god who isn't as interested in overtly expanding his own power as he is in simply throwing something out there and seeing whether anything - shall we say interesting - happens as a result; the Might is just a means to that end.
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I'm not 100% sure what to say, but color me interested! As long as you guys don't find Apples edible that is.


Well, last game we managed to eat spiders, explore the divine origins of lactose intolerance, and distil liquor from human skin, so I think we can safely say anything goes in the culinary world.

We also had some nice stories about bread.

One question, what kind of writing are you expecting here?


Depends on what you mean.

There will be a soft cap on post length. It will probably hover around two or three thousand characters. This is why the game will be going in Free, as well as because Divinus is in Casual for some reason, so we may as well spread out.

Posts can go shorter, but rapid dialogue and combat interaction should probably be collabed. There's not limit on collab length (within reason).

Otherwise, don't rush things. Pay attention to how the other players are writing and try to match their effort in your own style. Make sure your posts make sense, are paragraphed nicely and grammatically tidy, colour coded if you want it and have a Might use summary at the bottom. Posting will be mostly (but not necessarily) third person- we tend to play with perspective a lot in Divinus.

For examples on what kind of writing we currently see in Divinus, feel free to stop by the thread.

Interested, thinking of some kind of god based on challenge and change.


Maybe a god of Change and Chaos (for the latter is the purest expression of the former) although someone else expressed interest in change and we've got one whose the patron of rebellion, so it might be easier to hop ship towards a god of knowledge and forbidden secrets and stuff like that. Either way, perhaps maybe something of a cunning or conniving god who isn't as interested in overtly expanding his own power as he is in simply throwing something out there and seeing whether anything - shall we say interesting - happens as a result.


These are always popular! Feel free to try out any of these archetypes.

In fact, feel free to try anything at all that comes to mind. In Divinus we currently have a god of Order (Physics), Beauty (Mathematics), two very different eldritch abominations, a mechanical engineer who uses his Might to build robots and devices, a worm-god of Flesh, a dead god of Life, a porcelain god of Perfection and Calligraphy, and more.

You really can go buck-wild with this.

the Might is just a means to that end.


That's all Might is, really- using numbers to count power.
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Eldritch abominations are always fun.
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Eldritch abominations are always fun.


Oh, you are having so much fun in Divinus then! So much fun, you will not even know what to do with all the fun, you will be like "damn, how do I contain all this fun?" and later be like "Okay, this might be too much fun" but it will be too late, the fun is seeping from under your door, soon it will fill the room with pure fun, and there is no escape.
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Hyped for this, already started on a god based on corruption and an emphasis on alteration. XD
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@Double Capybara Is that the reason why your avatar is laughing?
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WHY WASN'T I NOTIFIED YOU FREAKING NORMIE!?

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@Lord Zee The character sheet is in the rules thread, if you'd like to start work on them. We're not really waiting on anything but me to stop being a sad sack of exhaustion.

@Lauder WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT NOTHING ELSE FOR A WEEK
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@Antarctic Termite Oh yeah I know. When I said I started earlier I really meant I finished already. XD
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@Lord Zee
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*inclines eyebrows to this thread*

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