[OOC] Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

[BBeast]

I suppose, also, as you level up, you get more and more Might with less and less use for it. I'll need to do the maths some time for how quickly you would level up if you did nothing but level.

[The Omnipotent Sphere]

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Just checked. The highest we got was Level 6, after 9 Turns and 12 pages

@Kho

That's... that's when I'm going to reach level 6.

[Kho]

I suppose, also, as you level up, you get more and more Might with less and less use for it. I'll need to do the maths some time for how quickly you would level up if you did nothing but level.

@BBeast

I mean, plot will force us to use Might anyway (it would be terrible if everyone decided to withhold using Might just so they could level) and there will also be Holy Sites, which can really boost Might per Turn (something so little as a 6 Might or 8 Might Holy Site makes a difference)

[Kho]

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That's... that's when I'm going to reach level 6.

@The Omnipotent Sphere

At Turn 9, probably, at page 12...it's not looking like it at the rate we're going O.O
Edit: We were at Turn 6 by Page 5 in Mk.I

[The Omnipotent Sphere]

@Kho I meant more turn nine than page twelve.

[Double Capybara]

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Ok Friendos, if you have a minute, I need your opinion on a thing.

I presented my holy site and stuff to Kho, and eventually the conversation went down to "You are going to end up claiming the Dreams portfolio, but in what domain?"

At first we were going with Fantasy, but it doesn't work for me, it sounds so big and epic, and I want Ilunabar to be a goddess of "petty" things (in a god's standard) going around with her shenanigans but not on a Vestec way. I know sometimes she talks big, but the core of her personality is "talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk"

That is when I came with the idea of the domain "Extraordinary", the word is defined as "Strange and Wonderful" and "Out of the routine". It is the fantastic of "The mysterious invisible man!" instead of the fantastic of "Holy shit a dragon oh fuck". Not "Magic Swords" but "This CRAZY rings changes color according to your mood!"

Possible portfolios could be
Festivals: Special days which are different from any other
Bizarre: Oddity. Dogs meowing, Apple trees growing lemons and the Bearded woman.
Spooks: Sinister sounds, harmless scares. Scooby Doo-style terror.
Alien: Not the green things. The sense of otherworldly, different and logic defying.
Puzzles: Codified languages, secret meanings, not with the intent of hiding but to challenge.
Pride: What makes a person feel different from the others
Stunts: Jumping over gorges and stuff, daredevil actions.
Traveling: Meeting places outside of one's homeland.

And a bunch of other stuff. The core of this is Novelty beyond Beauty, but without being outright about breaking rules and defying the real reality, just, giving people a break from it.

But I know Extraordinary is a subjective and vague as hell word and I would understand if other players objected to it. So I decided to talk about this now, to see if anyone has any criticism or objections about this or my two creations of the dream world that are in the end of the post. I don't want to be trouble for this RP, haha.

Plane: Raka

Name:
Raka (The realm of dreams)

Description:
Dreams have existed ever since the Dreamweaver was crafted, after the birth of the universe, dreams it became a possible energy, like electricity or magic. But it was only after the creation of a plane for dreams, Raka, that they turned into a natural occurrence to all sentient beings.

To dream doesn’t mean being teleported into Raka, the person’s mind connects to the plane, sometimes just as an expectator feeling things, other times with a temporary body that might or might not be a copy of his own.

(Plot bait for Vulamera) Injury or death in a dream means little, however some mental trauma might happen. Another disease caused by dreams is called Ilunacy (wink wink) when a person is so connected to Raka that she starts to lose sense of what is real and what is not.

Appearance:

If one were to look into Raka the main feature of the plane would be the tourbillon of colors where dreams happen along with the few dreams that were intense enough to temporarily create floatings islands, globes, boxes and all sorts of weird things. Ultimately however it all dissolves in the storm of emotions spiraling up around the tower called Arpeggio.



The flow of dreams changes as it flows up. In the lower and most chaotic parts it is like a messy cloud of colors. In the middle, it starts to take a flow and its looks changes to one of an impressionist painting. Finally, in the upper areas it starts to crystallize.

The “final” destiny of the flow is the “roof”, a crust formed by the crystallized dreams. It is not a still thing however, the mass moves like living stone and slowly forms towers that try to “reach” the Arpeggio’s core.

Holy Site: Arpeggio Tower

Name:
The Arpeggio

Description:
At first Raka was a bit underwhelming, dreams flowed randomly and some conglomerated into crystals who would float aimlessly. While Ilunabar wanted dreams to be free from any laws except the ones it decides to set that didn’t mean that she couldn’t organize the dream realm itself and guarantee a better variety and quality of dreams.

She started to analyse dreams and noticed patterns, ultimately dividing those by consistency, closeness to reality and control over the dream, in a scale of 7 harmonics. Dotty, Reave, Mirage, Fantasy, Solitude, Labyrinth and Simulacrum. (My language uses Si instead of Ti for the last note)



There was a clear flow from the potential of the chaos to the stillness of the logic, so Ilunabar decided to use the flow. She created a tower which would work as the guide for the flow of dreams around so they would follow the scale.

Ultimately the energy would become so still that it would crystallize in a crust called “the roof”. The Arpeggio however pull them back, in a spiral that eventually will reach a “reactor”. The reactor condenses the energy and forces different rules to clash, eventually so many paradoxes are happening that the logic breaks into pure chaos, which flows inside the tower until it reaches the bottom and is released back to the flow. Ilunabar has jokingly called it “The Tounelic Effect”, but don’t tell it to anyone.

Appearance:

At the top one would see the odd moving towers spiraling out of the roof until it reached the reactor, formed by a spinning ring and a few crystals. From there on until the lower part we have a plain looking tower until the bottom, with a few rings of crystal across the way to help Ilunabar to collect data.



If one could look from far away at the flow of energy the Arpeggio creates they would see something like this.

[lif]

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Ok Friendos, if you have a minute, I need your opinion on a thing.

I presented my holy site and stuff to Kho, and eventually the conversation went down to "You are going to end up claiming the Dreams portfolio, but in what domain?"

At first we were going with Fantasy, but it doesn't work for me, it sounds so big and epic, and I want Ilunabar to be a goddess of "petty" things (in a god's standard) going around with her shenanigans but not on a Vestec way. I know sometimes she talks big, but the core of her personality is "talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk"

That is when I came with the idea of the domain "Extraordinary", the word is defined as "Strange and Wonderful" and "Out of the routine". It is the fantastic of "The mysterious invisible man!" instead of the fantastic of "Holy shit a dragon oh fuck". Not "Magic Swords" but "This CRAZY rings changes color according to your mood!"

Possible portfolios could be
Festivals: Special days which are different from any other
Bizarre: Oddity. Dogs meowing, Apple trees growing lemons and the Bearded woman.
Spooks: Sinister sounds, harmless scares. Scooby Doo-style terror.
Alien: Not the green things. The sense of otherworldly, different and logic defying.
Puzzles: Codified languages, secret meanings, not with the intent of hiding but to challenge.
Pride: What makes a person feel different from the others
Stunts: Jumping over gorges and stuff, daredevil actions.
Traveling: Meeting places outside of one's homeland.

And a bunch of other stuff. The core of this is Novelty beyond Beauty, but without being outright about breaking rules and defying the real reality, just, giving people a break from it.

But I know Extraordinary is a subjective and vague as hell word and I would understand if other players objected to it. So I decided to talk about this now, to see if anyone has any criticism or objections about this or my two creations of the dream world that are in the end of the post. I don't want to be trouble for this RP, haha.

Plane: Raka

Name:
Raka (The realm of dreams)

Description:
Dreams have existed ever since the Dreamweaver was crafted, after the birth of the universe, dreams it became a possible energy, like electricity or magic. But it was only after the creation of a plane for dreams, Raka, that they turned into a natural occurrence to all sentient beings.

To dream doesn’t mean being teleported into Raka, the person’s mind connects to the plane, sometimes just as an expectator feeling things, other times with a temporary body that might or might not be a copy of his own.

(Plot bait for Vulamera) Injury or death in a dream means little, however some mental trauma might happen. Another disease caused by dreams is called Ilunacy (wink wink) when a person is so connected to Raka that she starts to lose sense of what is real and what is not.

Appearance:

If one were to look into Raka the main feature of the plane would be the tourbillon of colors where dreams happen along with the few dreams that were intense enough to temporarily create floatings islands, globes, boxes and all sorts of weird things. Ultimately however it all dissolves in the storm of emotions spiraling up around the tower called Arpeggio.



The flow of dreams changes as it flows up. In the lower and most chaotic parts it is like a messy cloud of colors. In the middle, it starts to take a flow and its looks changes to one of an impressionist painting. Finally, in the upper areas it starts to crystallize.

The “final” destiny of the flow is the “roof”, a crust formed by the crystallized dreams. It is not a still thing however, the mass moves like living stone and slowly forms towers that try to “reach” the Arpeggio’s core.

Holy Site: Arpeggio Tower

Name:
The Arpeggio

Description:
At first Raka was a bit underwhelming, dreams flowed randomly and some conglomerated into crystals who would float aimlessly. While Ilunabar wanted dreams to be free from any laws except the ones it decides to set that didn’t mean that she couldn’t organize the dream realm itself and guarantee a better variety and quality of dreams.

She started to analyse dreams and noticed patterns, ultimately dividing those by consistency, closeness to reality and control over the dream, in a scale of 7 harmonics. Dotty, Reave, Mirage, Fantasy, Solitude, Labyrinth and Simulacrum. (My language uses Si instead of Ti for the last note)



There was a clear flow from the potential of the chaos to the stillness of the logic, so Ilunabar decided to use the flow. She created a tower which would work as the guide for the flow of dreams around so they would follow the scale.

Ultimately the energy would become so still that it would crystallize in a crust called “the roof”. The Arpeggio however pull them back, in a spiral that eventually will reach a “reactor”. The reactor condenses the energy and forces different rules to clash, eventually so many paradoxes are happening that the logic breaks into pure chaos, which flows inside the tower until it reaches the bottom and is released back to the flow. Ilunabar has jokingly called it “The Tounelic Effect”, but don’t tell it to anyone.

Appearance:

At the top one would see the odd moving towers spiraling out of the roof until it reached the reactor, formed by a spinning ring and a few crystals. From there on until the lower part we have a plain looking tower until the bottom, with a few rings of crystal across the way to help Ilunabar to collect data.



If one could look from far away at the flow of energy the Arpeggio creates they would see something like this.

@Double Capybara

That sounds pretty cool - lots of thought went into that, so I'd say go for it!

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And, at anyone planning to make humans, perhaps we can make them after Lifprasil's creation, so the gods could use him as a template for human looks and disposition? Being the god of emotions - and effectively a sentient serving Demi-God. Also, I really don't mind if you guys oppose the idea.

[The Omnipotent Sphere]

@Double Capybara I always thought of dreams as being under Mind, but however it's convenient for you, I wouldn't want to hinder your plans since they seem pretty cool.

[Cyclone]

@Double Capybara

Domains at times can be so restrictive and difficult. I like your idea and general concept, but still have some nagging thought that there must surely be a better word than Extraordinary...

But have you considered Imagination as a domain?

[Frettzo]

Five pages of OOC to catch up on today.

Also, last night my "lovely" government decided to ration my electricity for two hours until 11:00 pm, so I couldn't really do much then.

[Frettzo]

@Double Capybara, I like how much thought you put into your idea. I don't have anything against it.

[Kho]

Five pages of OOC to catch up on today.

Also, last night my "lovely" government decided to ration my electricity for two hours until 11:00 pm, so I couldn't really do much then.

@Frettzo

Hugo Sad

Venezuala is a confusing country, I only ever see the excited left-wing ones here, but have no idea if they're representative

[Muttonhawk]

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@Double Capybara

Extraordinary sounds like a decent domain. As for whether it is going to cause conflicts, I would rather see its development back to front: What kind of stuff are you intending to use it for, what would you like to do, how would it help you, and where won't it help you?

Slightly more knit-picky, I would personally consider the 'stunts' portfolio to possibly be expanded to aspirations, achievement, or heroism, but I don't know - that might be a bit broad. Still, it doesn't seem right for 'extraordinary feats' to be restricted to Evel Knievel. I reckon it could go to being representative of any action that makes people see it and think 'that's extraordinary!'

Also, Raka seems cool. I had a good laugh at the pictures you used for the different levels of dream logic. Very apt, heheh.

[Double Capybara]

@Double Capybara
But have you considered Imagination as a domain?

@Cyclone

Yes, it was one of the things that crossed my mind, but at the time I felt like it was even more vague than Extraordinary.

Hmm, maybe Fantastic? I could cut me out of from Festivals and Traveling but overall I would still have most of my trinkets.

[Muttonhawk]

I think 'Fantastic' may land you in the same bucket as 'Fantasy,' but it's up to you decide definition.

[Double Capybara]

@Muttonhawk I know its pretty close, but the words feel different. Fantastic is an adjetive which gives the quality of "impressive, otherworldly" while Fantasy is a noun that is deeply related to monsters and magiks nowadays.

Though this could be my ex-student of linguistic side talking and everyone else is thinking about D&D on both.

[Kho]

@Muttonhawk I know its pretty close, but the words feel different. Fantastic is an adjetive which gives the quality of "impressive, otherworldly" while Fantasy is a noun that is deeply related to monsters and magiks nowadays.

Though this could be my ex-student of linguistic side talking and everyone else is thinking about D&D on both.

@Double Capybara

Not at all, I think Fantastic and Fantasy are distinctly different

[Frettzo]

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Hugo Sad

Venezuala is a confusing country, I only ever see the excited left-wing ones here, but have no idea if they're representative

@Kho

They are dumb if they're left-wing supporters and living out of Venezuela. Hypocrites too. Truth is most of the Venezuelans living in foreign lands are just hard working people who wanted to escape a land where Toilet Paper costs $100 per 4 rolls xD

[The Omnipotent Sphere]

I'm Venezuelan on my father's side.

[Antarctic Termite]

@Double Capybara You made puns! I approve.

The worldbuilding of Raka and Arpeggio as some kind of dream fission reactor is really solid, and I hope we'll keep seeing Ilunabar's musical themes in stuff like this. Is there any spiritual life native to Raka and feeding on/tampering with dreams, or not yet?

As for the domain switch/addition, I think it's entirely viable. You may want to keep building on the themes of desire, pleasure or escapism in there, since I feel like that's what you're going for with Ilunabar rather than undirected whim. Anyway, the only name suggestions I can think of are 'Fancy' and 'Reverie', which are both pretty much just positively-connotated synonyms of Fantasy, which is probably the best fit on a purely definitive level.