[OOC] Rising: A New Age of Gods

[GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow]

Story

A god. A being which embodies concepts and attributes of the world and of reality, possessing authority over these domains.

A god is a mind with supernatural powers, but "supernatural" is relative.

When Man took authority of the world, the gods faded away in time. For every authority Man mastered, the gods lost. Even the aspects beyond Man such as the Sun and Moon lost the unique authority possessed when Man attempted to understand, attempted to remove the aspect of "supernatural". The will of the "gods" still existed, but what had made them gods, what had given them value, was gone. They were monopolizers who now faced competition. Their uniqueness had ceased to exist.

In this way, the advent of Man led to the fading away of the gods. The world progressed predictably, the supernatural vanquished by the unknowing humanity.

Save of course, for the pieces of the world Man had chosen to forget.

The life force of the world that gave the gods existence still existed, its capacity to do so had not changed. The mind of the gods had not faded, only their authority over the world.

A "demon", a "monster" forgotten to time, a supernatural being who had not been extinguished by humanity's domain, understood this fact. And so a ritual was performed. A ritual to stir up the power of the world, to increase the power of the gods beyond human possibility.

A god of Chaos able to manipulate the foundational nothing, and thus alter reality at its whims. A god of Order able to define new "systems" with regards to reality.

In other words, this demon's ritual would make the gods "gods" once more, a new flux of power bringing them back into the spotlight of the world. This was the first stage of the ritual. The second was even simpler. A siphoning of the energy output by the world before it could reach the gods. In other words, provoking the world to output energy for the gods, and then hijacking that very energy.

By this, the demon ascended, stealing power meant for the gods and becoming a god in his own right.

However, the ritual was not a complete success. Some of the energy reached human vessels that it designated as the target of the gods, giving them the equivalent of their former power back, and awakening the godly might from its eternal slumber. The gods were given form again, given power, and given authority, though the "true potential" of the gods was still locked, sealed up in the energy controlled by the demon.

You are those gods.

You have awakened at long last, and possess only one goal.

Become the One True God.

There are obstacles that stand in your way. The foremost of these is the Demon King who now commands the power of a god in his own right. He seeks to destroy each of you so that he can assume control of reality for himself, and is an obstacle you cannot defeat alone, with your current power.

The second is your fellow gods.

You must fight against the Demon King, and destroy him.

You must fight against your fellow gods, and either destroy them, or subjugate them to your will.

I wish you luck.

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Mechanics

This functions in a relatively simple way. Your characters are simple ordinary humans, who wake up on day to find that the power of the world has flowed into them, and changed them into gods. The goals for your characters, as outlined above, are to defeat the Demon King so that you can unlock your full potential as a god, and to defeat your fellow gods so that you can become the One True God.

Until the Demon King is defeated, the gods are limited in what they can do. They can manipulate aspects of the world physically and magically, and generate effects in line with their domain. However, a priori altering of reality and the like is impossible until the Demon King is defeated. The best way to mentally conceptualize the gods before the Demon King's death is at the same level as a Greek God. They're still obscenely powerful because they are in fact gods, but they do not have absolute authority over their concept. They also cannot accomplish feats at a planetary level, or anything of that nature. After the Demon King dies though, the gods become able to alter reality in line with their domain at their wishes, in a conceptual means.

Those are the general guidelines. If you are taking an action you feel is "iffy" for the power scaling, ask about it just to verify if it'll be okay or not.

There are a set amount of gods, and thus if you join by the time all the god positions are taken you are free to make a "hero". There is no cap on heroes so you can always join, but it's still one character a person, so keep that in mind. A hero is a champion of a god's, a being who, through answered prayers, possesses a fragment of the god's power. Heroes are used by the gods to undertake various missions, the foremost of which is the need to appeal a god's cause to humanity. After all, a god who has humanity backing them will be in a better position than one who doesn't. Heroes can range from valiant warriors and crusaders to priests, but when a prayer is made to a god to ask for power, the god in question must consciously decide to give their follower a boon or not. Those who play gods though should keep in mind that you have no followers at the beginning. If you want heroes to join your cause, you need to build your church from the ground-up.

No, you don't need another RPer's permission to kill their character. You do however need to plan intelligently, so consider that. That said, no controlling people's characters, no autohitting, no doing things you shouldn't be able to do. You guys should know this. In battles, if your opponent does an action, you are allowed to have your character take an action concurrent to it if you weren't doing something previously. If your character is doing something secretive like setting up traps, you can tell me privately if you don't want it to be public. Also, no discussing plans with others OOC. If your characters are talking about something secret, you don't need to include it in your posts, but make sure it is sent to me so I can make sure you aren't just making stuff up when situations arise.

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Godly Domains

-(Moon, Night, Prophecy): BuriedComic7 (God), IrishAngel (Hero)

-(Light, Justice, Sun/Day, Order): GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow (God), Enkas (Hero)

-(Darkness, Underworld/Death, The Dead):

-(War, Chaos(Battle), Violence): Enalais

-(Water/Seas, Storms, Healing, Sleep(Dreams)): Ryu

-(Earth(Planet), Hunting, Wilderness): DragonBeastMode

-(Air/Skies, Winds, Messenger, Travel):

-(Soul, Magic, Chaos(Primordial Void)): ActRaiserTheReturned

-(Falsehoods, Luck, Chance): Class Rep

-(Vengeance, Corruption, Terror, Madness, Passion): Granttank

-(Creativity, Invention, Hearth(Civilization)): BB-ojou-chan

-(Beauty, Wisdom, Love, Pleasure): CallaLily180

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Character Templates

God

Name:

Gender:

Age:

Appearance:

Personality:

History:

Domain:

Hero

Name:

Gender:

Age:

Appearance:

Personality:

History:

God They Serve:

Abilities: Note: this does not include powers given by the gods. That is decided by the gods themselves in-RP. This is just the abilities of the human themself.

Equipment:

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If you have any questions, let me know.

Let's all have fun together~

[GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow]

Name: Ellona Kisaragi

Gender: Female

Appearance:

Ellona

Personality: "Order" is the concept of states of affairs and underlying existences existing in a "proper" state of affairs, such that there are no "errors" with the foundation of things. This is in contrast to "Chaos" which is based in a destruction of stagnation and deconstruction of what "is", as Chaos is the ultimate state of undoing. Thus, preservation of Order reaches a single precept from which the others follow.

Stagnation. Halting, Ceasing, Ending. Order is not allowed to change, Order is not allowed to be altered as then it is not Order.

Justice is the concept of normative good with innumerable means of categorization, retributive or otherwise. Normativity is in itself chaotic, so one who upholds both Order and Justice must thus develop a total and definitive definition of "normative good". Thus, it is the role of such an individual to define man's morality, create a state of affairs that follow the imagined utopia, and never allow anything to change from that instant on.

This is the mind of Ellona.

One who has taken the concepts man has recognized as inherently good. Justice, morality, order, protection, hope, and has realized their inherent flaw. A "monster" who exceeds even the God of Evil in some capacities, because unlike a monster who destroys she is a monster who stops. She is an utter tyrant who seeks uncontested dominion such that she can create her vision of a perfect world.

One who would freeze the fabric of reality in place with a smile.

In comparison to such a monster, destruction might be a blessing.

History: Born, like any other human. Breathed, like any other human, Walked, like any other human. A being born with an inherent set of precepts on her own idea of "rightness," and who existed according to them for the entirety of her life.

The child of a wealthy man and a beautiful woman, born to a privileged life. The typical wants of a child her age were satisfied. Material goods, companionship, familial love. All so very simple. All so very idyllic. It is not that the true self was repressed, rather that it simply hadn't bothered to show its other portions.

In that sense, Ellona was a typical young girl.

An upbringing that barely requires noting. There was no traumatic incident that killed the mind's empathy, nor a strange accident, nor even a playground bully. There was merely that, a "normal" life, a "normal" childhood.

Sent off to university to provide better academic opportunities. Studying in the day by day along her ideas of correctness. That is all.

Does anything else truly need to be said?

Domain: Light, Justice, Sun/Day, Order

[BuriedComic7]

Ummmm....dibs on the last available one.

[GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow]

Alrighty~

[BuriedComic7]

Name: Alexander Mond

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Alex

Personality: Alex is and introverted person by nature, preferring the company of a laptop over that of a real human being. He is honest almost to the point of bluntness, but knows when to keep his mouth shut. Once he becomes comfortable around someone he can be quite outgoing, and enjoys cracking jokes and generally paling around.

History: Alex was always a quiet boy, never really making friends. His father was a rising computer programmer, and his job required him to constantly move around the country (and a couple times across the world). He tried to make friends when he was younger, but as he got older he didn't bother trying. However there was something the was always constant in his life. The cold light of the moon. Alex always felt drawn to it, honestly it was the only thing he could count on to be reliable in his life. Every night he would stare from his bedroom window out into the night sky, watching the great white orb.

In his high school years Alex's life finally reached some stability, his father was offered a big enough salary at a large corporate firm so they finally settled down. He managed to make a few close friends and enjoy his last few years of high school. However one night his entire night changed. He was standing outside, enjoying the cool night air when suddenly everything snapped into focus. He was the moon, or at least was in some sense. He felt his conciseness extend to the night around him, he was the night. A smile spread across his face, he remembered everything, and what he must do now.

Domain: (Moon, Night, Prophecy)

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

-(Spirit, Magic, Void) ActRaiserTheReturned
Charles Dante Richards

gender male

Personality: Charles Dante Richards is an unusually stoic and idealistic man. He had a mixed child hood which moved from being happy to being abysmal, and could change in a blink of an eye. So he takes change with anticipation, but he appreciates beneficial things with gratitude. He loves to study, he is a deep philosopher and appreciates the arts. As for his interactions with other people, he isn't an extrovert but he makes friends decently well for someone who keeps to them self most of the time.

He enjoys "ancient" videos games, from things in 2014, all the way to the 80's. He's not much of a "gamer" with current games, since he's employed, and would like to enjoy the things he used to. Many of the games he has played are very cheap since they are so old, so he has a large library of archived computerized games, and it saves him money on recreation, since he doesn't drink, he frowns on inebriation, and since he doesn't get out much otherwise, it keeps him occupied. He also loves to write, both with pen and paper and also with the computer.

Background:
Charles lost his father to a mugger when he was eleven years old, and his mother almost died from stab wounds. He learned to forgive his father's murderer years later, but his life has been quite dynamic in many ways. His mother remarried four years later, to a man, named Daniel Phillip Mortimer, a man who was quite wealthy and influential. Charles learned to love Daniel as a mentor, and Daniel returned his love with a kind of paternal care, and payed for a very advanced education.

Charles became an expert on history, literature, occult literature, pseudo science, archaeology, mythology, theology, philosophy, and different kinds of psychology. He has recently gained tenure as a University Professor.

[GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow]

Act-kun, you accidentally forgot your CS.

Approved, good to go.

[enkas]

Name:
Raymond Tanner

Gender:
Male

Age:
57

Appearance:

Ray is an old man, with a fairly tall and wrinkled forehead. Aside from his thick white beard, a bushy moustache and a pair of eyebrows, he has only a fringe of hair left on his head. His face usually seems rather stern, but this face is also pretty much saying, that this is one of those few people that you can trust. On the left side of his forehead, you can see a rather large scar. The rest of his face is also scarred, but those smaller ones are not as noticible. The man is rather stout, only about 1,7 meters in heigh, but he weights 87 kilos. While not many people see that, he is quite muscular, despite having a pot-belly. His thick arms obviously indicate that he is used to manual labor. However, that is rather rarely seen, as to the church he wears a catholic priest's robe, and casually he wears a long-sleeved shirt with overalls, of course, he wears a jacket or a coat, when it's not summer.

Personality:

Raymond is a good, honest and just man. He strongly believes that the god is here, and tries to contact him every day in his prayer. He completely abides to all the laws of god, and the laws of men. The man is also quite altruistic, and he lives in a rather humble and small house, leaving himself only enough money so that it would be enough for rent, food and water.

History:

Raymond was a very energetic young man. A faithful young man, and a rather naive young man. Even at his childhood he seemed physically stronger than most of the kids in his age, though other things than the physical education seemed rather difficult. After barely graduating from school, he joined a police academy, and studdied there for quite a while. Through years, he became a policeman in New York, respected for his sense of justice, his selflessness and how he never took any bribes. When he was thirty two years old, he had become the chief of the precinct, after the previous one retired. And thus he, along with his precinct were called to a major drug bust to help a few detectives when they were assaulting a hiding place for the criminals... As the officers stormed the place there was a large firefight, during which, several officers were wounded. And for Raymond it ended when he saw a grenade roll near him, two detectives and some of the younger of his policemen. While one of the men that noticed it, ran in cover, Raymond acted quickly, as he grabbed a nearby wooden pallet and ran, near it, trying to shield his comrades from it, and praying to god, that this might work. The grenade exploded deafening the ones that were nearby, but only Raymond was injured by that. The pallet was torn to pieces, with splinters from it scratching his face and tearing his uniform. His ribs were shattered... Nails were stuck in some parts of his body, and a piece of a shrapnel, while slowed by the planks of the wooden object, did stick into his forehead, luckilly for him, without damaging the brain too much.... The bust ended with success and with casulties. An officer was dead, and five more were wounded...

As Ray awoke from a coma in the hospital, he found a lot of flowers on his table as well as a good number of 'Get well' cards. This all did make smile at this, almost chuckle, which has ended with him cringing in pain. He was alive... "Praise the Lord" he said loudly. During his time in the hospital, he has been gifted the holy bible, which he had asked from one of his closer friends, and by the time he had completely healed, Raymond remembered every single line from there. He started studying as a priest, and then rather quickly became a preacher at a nearby Catholic church...

God They Serve:

Though initially, he believes in the Christian God, but due to his nature, he might think (if he finds it out) that Ellona is the same.

Abilities:

Raymond is physically quite strong, and has a good memory. The time in the hospital also gave him some time to learn more about human anotomy a little bit, and he knows about first aid from his time as a cadet.

Equipment:

While he has an old revolver in his home, he had not used it, nor took it out, for anything more than just polishing, out of a locked closet.
Besides that, he has some household tools in his shed, that he would never dream of using for anything else, rather than their original purpose.
Oh, and a medical cabinet in his house as well.

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

It's likely Charles Dante Richards will "subjugate" the others by his will through tea and crumpets more than violence and brutality.

[Oni_]

Am I correct in assuming the extra names in the OP are people have applied somewhere else? I'll probably apply either way - although what time zone are you in? That'll probably end up being a deciding factor.

[GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow]

You can employ any strategy you like to deal with the other gods.

Enkas, you're approved.

[SrslyAnArtist]

Name: Soren Knight

Gender: Female

Age: 29

Appearance: White blond hair, silver eyes, lean, 5'8

Personality: Even though she grew up with an abusive brother that has not stopped her from being the freedom loving girl she is. Soren likes to go home on fridays to change for a night out with her girlfriends. Even though she went through school with little to no friends at the beginning, near the end of her junior year she came out of her shell the same day her brother was sent to jail. It shocked everyone. Where was the shy flinching girl who sat at the back of class? Where was the girl who sat alone at lunch and got picked on?
Surprising as that was, people started to realize that even though she might be shy, she was still a strong young woman who valued her freedom and loved walks on the beach during the full moon. Soren loves night because it seems to her that every thing finally slows and calms down. Soren also is a lover of impractical jokes. She even did this one prank that involved her besties hangover, whipped cream on a pillow and heavy rock blaring through the speakers...It wasnt pretty but it was funny as hell. To Soren anyways

History: grew up with an abusive brother and her only safe haven was school. She was called a weirdo just because of her looks and shy, flinching attitude. Went through middle school and high school as a star athelete in the martial arts and fencing program and when she turned 16 she snapped when her brother went into her room one night and tried to rape her. Her scream alerted her parents and they came to her room just in time to see what was happening. When she saw her parents she started fighting with her brother and used her martial arts skills to beat him up enough to get away.
She held tightly to her father until the police and ambulance came. He had tried to beat her into submission and she had gotten a black eye, bloody nose, and several bruises and cracked ribs as well as a broken wrist. Her brother who was 18 was found guilty of attempted rape and domestic abuse and sent to jail for 12 years. When he got out Soren was 28 and he tried to kill her on her front yard, but Soren kicked his ass while the nieghbors called the cops and hew was sentenced to jail for another five years. During those years Soren started rebelling against her brothers abuse in little but irritating ways. She did things such as put red sock in his white load of laundry, spiders on his ceiling and slugs inside of his shoe and doing crank calls with his cellphone.

God they serve: Alex. She loves looking at the moon and stars on a clear night. She's always loved nighttime when it is so silent.

Abilities: Advanced fencrr, knows how to forge weapons, able to run very fast for a long time due to sports during middle and high school, advanced mixed martial arts.

Equipment: Short swords, bronze arm cuffs, leather armor such as a chestplate and leg coverings

[GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow]

Oni_ said
Am I correct in assuming the extra names in the OP are people have applied somewhere else? I'll probably apply either way - although what time zone are you in? That'll probably end up being a deciding factor.

I don't know how I missed this.

And yes, the other names are people who applied previously. There was an interest check but the GM took a leave of absence, so BB and I altered the premise a bit and cobbled this together. That said, some of those listed may drop out, so god slots may open up. If that's the case, people who haven't made an app or made an app for a Hero are free to rescind the Hero application to take an unoccupied god slot.

The RP itself will begin once all god applications are made, but Hero applications can continue to be made after that.

I myself am in Central Standard Time, BB's Eastern.

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow said
I don't know how I missed this. And yes, the other names are people who applied previously. There was an interest check but the GM took a leave of absence, so BB and I altered the premise a bit and cobbled this together. That said, some of those listed may drop out, so god slots may open up. If that's the case, people who haven't made an app or made an app for a Hero are free to rescind the Hero application to take an unoccupied god slot.The RP itself will begin once all god applications are made, but Hero applications can continue to be made after that.I myself am in Central Standard Time, BB's Eastern.

Just so you know, my Domains are Magic, Void, Fate, and Spirit right?

[Oni_]

GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow said
I don't know how I missed this. And yes, the other names are people who applied previously. There was an interest check but the GM took a leave of absence, so BB and I altered the premise a bit and cobbled this together. That said, some of those listed may drop out, so god slots may open up. If that's the case, people who haven't made an app or made an app for a Hero are free to rescind the Hero application to take an unoccupied god slot.The RP itself will begin once all god applications are made, but Hero applications can continue to be made after that.I myself am in Central Standard Time, BB's Eastern.

I'll hold off on my application then, I'm in GMT and 5/6 hours is rather a lot of time. My application will depend on how much tends to get done during my downtime.

[GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow]

ActRaiserTheReturned said
Just so you know, my Domains are Magic, Void, Fate, and Spirit right?

Basically. We tweaked some of the sets such that they made a bit more sense with regards to mythological groundings and the like, but the themes are still the same. Yours is technically Soul, Magic, and Chaos(Primordial Void). I recommend skimming over the top post.

Oni_ said
I'll hold off on my application then, I'm in GMT and 5/6 hours is rather a lot of time. My application will depend on how much tends to get done during my downtime.

Alrighty then.

[SrslyAnArtist]

Is my Hero accepted Guy?

[GuyYouWishYouDidntKnow]

Yes.

[SrslyAnArtist]

sweet thanks.

[CallaLily180]

Hey guys! How are you all? First off, thank you @GuyYouWishYouDidnt'tKnow, for saving my spot in this.