Gods of Greece - What happens when Gods go to war

[WilsonTurner]

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Artemis, to Lyden Everswift said
The Gods have gone to war; humans followed their wake, erupting into World War III. Olympus shakes; Tartarus awakes. The world may be closing to its end. Gaia slowly rises, and a new host of gods and goddesses have begun arising, beginning, for unknown reasons, from unknown places. They have never been heard of; some are new, some have hidden in the shadows for ages, blending in with society and nature. Some are known, but most are not. Now, they are the reserves of the war. If they fight for us, we may win this war, but if they desert, if they run, if they hide, the world may come to an end, and Chaos will rise again.

YOU'RE a God. Or Goddess, if you're a girl. You have varying powers; you can make up your own, or go with a minor god or goddess that is not very well-known. We're all on an island; a somewhat large one. Pretty beach, a nice, somewhat out-of-placed oak forest bordering it, and farther inland, a single mountain rose into the sky. The mountain was of one of many of Hephaestus's magma forges, worked on by various... somewhat enslaved monsters and the like.

So you're on an island, interacting. What really happens is up to the players- if everyone wants to use theirs magical powers to fight off monsters, summoned, perhaps, by one of my own characters, to 'train' or just do something, then there's that. If everyone wants to go and fight in the war or something, after a bit of 'training', ie doing whatever until the island is so magically messed up that the gods/goddesses NEED to leave. Or something.

Sandbox-y island/ocean/forest gods/goddesses. We'll go from there, depending on interest and DEMOCRACY [somewhat]

[Miss24601]

Sounds interesting!

[WilsonTurner]

Thanks!
Got any ideas yet?

Currently, "Lyden Everswift" is my God of Creation. Minor; he's always around, but everyone pays so little to just the vastness of everything that he's unable to become a real major god. And he pisses all the major gods off, so :b

[Hael]

I'm interested.

[Aspidochelone]

I've always been a fan of sandbox RPs, sign me up.

[Tyrant from the West]

I could be up for this. Can we use any god from any pantheon if we can't think of one ourself? Or is it just the greeks

[WilsonTurner]

It'd be Greek. Romans wouldn't mix well, nor would Egyptian.

[Aspidochelone]

So no Eastern pantheon either?

[WilsonTurner]

It's Gods of Greece- that means I'd preferably have something Greek. If it's Greek, it's cool. I don't mean you have to dredge up an actual god- you can make up your own.

[Aspidochelone]

Oh, wow. Yeah, obviously. Sorry, I kind of just glimpsed the title and clicked. I'm interested in this though. I've got an idea of doing Eris, goddess of discord, or Euros, God of the East Wind.

[Miss24601]

I'm thinking of making either Morpheus, Nike, or one of the muses!

[Miss24601]

I'm thinking of making either Morpheus, Nike, or one of the muses!

[orcpunx]

I'm interested in the idea. Count me in.

[Hael]

I'm still brainstorming ideas. Wilson, do you think we need to wait and garner more interest, or is an OOC now in order?

[WilsonTurner]

Um. If three+ people show interest by responding shortly after this, then if someone would like to put up an OOC, that'd be cool. Honestly, I feel like I'm crap at being OP.

[apzac]

If this is still happening I'd be down and would like to call Erebos

[Aspidochelone]

I'm up for doing this RP and I know I'm going to be doing Euros.

[Impulse]

I'm interested, but I'd like to know more about the plot. Do we have to start on the island, or can our characters be else where, like Africa, at the beginning of the role play?

My character is Akheilos. According to his myth, Akheilos was a boy who boasted that he was more beautiful than Aphrodite, and outraged by this claim, the Goddess of Love transmogrified into a shark. For my version of Akheilos, his myth is the shark's creation myth and he is the progenitor of all sharks. He will be a very bloodthirsty character, always hungering for flesh, especially human and godflesh, and he'll be the very definition of "Apex Predator"; he'll also be able to change between his human and monster forms.

I was hoping for Akheilos to start in Africa, where he'd be hunting animals, but with the incursion of World War III, he takes advantage of chaos to satisfy his more "exotic" tastes.

[WilsonTurner]

Gods of Greece is based off of a roleplay that was first in the Forum Roleplaying section of the Minecraft Forums, and later went to a now-closed roleplay website, RpSpectrum.com. Both times, it was a well-liked roleplay. However, the plot isn't that the minor gods and goddesses are doing wahtever they want- even though they'll be doing it, more or less- but rather, several of the major gods took the minor gods, essentially, and put them on the island to try and get them to get them to work together. More powerful fighters working together is good for battle, and generally, they're just going to see if a leader emerges and whips them all up into shape. Everyone is aware of the war, unless they're a bit iffy in the head. Generally, the major gods are too busy fighting against other demons and such to take note of the minor gods.

[Renny]

I'll show some interest in this. I like stretching my creativity so making a God would be fun.