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

[Kho]

@Antarctic Termite And obviously, really chuffed that you decided to join us, I remember you were a brilliant writer, so I'm looking forward to seeing how you've improved xP no pressure

[Muttonhawk]

I am sufficiently hyped.

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Imperfect perfection, flawed flawlessness.

I can guarantee you that Toun will never be rid of the curiosity of Vulamera. She'll seek to understand him.

@Hael

Welp, this sounds like fun, but I wish I could see Vulamera's CS. :C

[Snagglepuss89]

"The Good Summaritan Rule: Thou Shalt Summarise Your Posts"

Odd, I don't recall that first post having a summary, OP.

I kid, of course. This definitely looks to be quite interesting. There's quite a bit I haven't read yet (being 5AM and all), but if you're still open to applications I'll likely try and find my own niche in this messed up Pantheon tomorrow (today).

[Antarctic Termite]

The Cancer that Breathes

JVAN

Musical Theme: Nero's Day At Disneyland: Happy Screaming Night Businessman

Alias: Horrorsome Engineer, the All-Beauty, the Cancer That Breathes.

Gender: Genderfluid. Usually female pronouns when interacting with other gods in person. Neutral pronouns are available to mortals. Non-person pronouns in true form (it/its/itself).

Domain: Beauty (Flesh).

Domain Description: Jvan comes into being as a creator and a critic. All things created have a unique pattern of form and behaviour, which they express through their function, growth, appearance, development, contradiction and relationship with their environment, among many other fields. The exploration of the multitude of physical and abstract media in their infinite interactions with one another is Jvan's purpose. The expression of the world's current compound existence, however, is young, boring, and very far from the finality of diversity. There are endless new patterns of creation and function to be explored, and the nature of beauty, the nature of Jvan, is to seek out all of them and cull the mundane until we are left with only the unimaginable, the unique, the bizarre, and the whole.

The flesh of the living things that creep upon the earth are the most complex and flexible of all media. Flesh alone among all matter can adapt and create on its own behalf, can collide and distort itself to produce even more diverse forms. Flesh's will to live opens up myriad artistic possibilities to be explored, and thus it above all things is to be scattered and broken and warped to plunge ever deeper into the well of discovery. Jvan's sculptures may not look or behave anything like an organism that should be alive naturally. Nature is arbitrary. Beauty is eternal.

Alignment: Neutral Evil. Jvan is patient, and chaos is a costly, unsightly business that rarely creates more than it destroys. In time, however, all things must seek to expand the limits of what can be imagined, whether by their own volition, or by hers.

Personality: Jvan does not consider herself to be a harsh entity. After all, flesh is simply matter. Consciousness, pain, and pleasure are illusions, and souls are nothing more than constructs of the spiritual flesh, just like bodies are constructs of the physical flesh. 'Life' and 'freedom' are a fool's term, at best applicable only to gods, and morals are arbitrary. These are simple facts, and therefore judging others based on their behaviour is supremely stupid. The only meter by which the value of any existence can be decided is its contribution to beauty.

The fact that Jvan holds such beliefs suggests that she is difficult to interact with. To some extent, this is true. Jvan is ceaselessly amoral and will abandon any vow that she can afford to break if it furthers her exploration of beauty more than keeping it. She does not trust, and is not to be trusted. However, Jvan understands the laws of power, threat, cooperation, and courtesy. Her immense patience and strive towards self-preservation therefore leads her to interact as an agreeable and generous member of divine society often and readily, though she will not for a moment try to pretend that her act reflects her nature.

On the few occasions when it does indeed reflect her nature, she is usually talking about the engineering behind her creations. Some find this horrifying, and Jvan finds them to be small-minded. Oddly, Jvan does make herself available for the exchange of ideas and resources in the pursuit of beauty, despite-Or perhaps due to- her lack of empathy. Although allies and enemies are well-incorporated into her vocabulary, friends and foes are not, and she will happily discuss her art with anyone, no matter how fiercely they are working against one another. Sometimes even mortal heroes with a keen artistic mind are privileged to share her acquaintance. Her pattern of speech when she is being herself, however, can be a little strange, wandering around and bouncing between abstract concepts in run-on sentences.

Appearance: When near the bodies of mortals she does not want to decommission, Jvan appears as a headless, hairless, semi-symmetrical creature composed of folds and tangles of vaguely human-like flesh. Parts of her are bloated and marred with stretch marks and fat rolls, while others are so emancipated as to stretch tightly over the erratic matrix of bone underlying the living tissue. Structures like hearts, tendons, and eyes are scattered intermittently across Jvan's surface, fused into the skin, and operate sporadically. Her overall structure is riddled with large gaps and angular loops, giving her the appearance of a hundred or so humans melted down and spun together into a three-dimensional web of skin and meat. She moves by levitation.

Jvan's true form is a colourless fractalline structure, as vast* as a mountain range, perpetually and imperceptibly changing shape, experimenting with different permutations as the eons progress. Strange lights or fog sometimes emanates outwards through the porous exterior. The structure is organic and hollow but its interior is not limited in volume. The deeper the iteration of Jvan's divine form that is being considered, the faster her internal form mutates and experiments, and the weaker the grasp of conventional physics. The 'depth' of Jvan's true form is not, theoretically, infinite, but it has been increasing at an exponential rate since the dawn of time in its search for new combinations and patterns. Mortals who gaze upon Jvan up close are not destroyed or driven mad, but are liable to fall upwards into her cavity and be replicated, distorted, warped and fused with her structure until they are completely assimilated into her ever-changing body. A powerful Hero, however, may be able to actually explore the first few levels of Jvan without losing life or cohesion- If they are careful.

Description: Jvan is a cruel and disgusting abomination, a contagious blight upon the world that, given time, will fester and grind against everything it encounters until all has been reduced to purposeless absurdity. Any illusion Jvan shapes of being an entity mature enough to be worthy of fair treatment as a member of the divine caste is false. It is a degrading, entropic force that holds no intentions to coexist with other gods for any purpose other than survival until such a point where it can continue to create-destroy the universe in its own unique way. The only acceptable course of action concerning Jvan is to neuter and exploit it by forcing it to behave meekly for fear of annihilation, or, failing that, to obliterate it outright.

Concealment Level: 1
Detection Level: 1

*Or as tiny. Everything is relative. A cosmic god, even one weaker than Jvan, may still dwarf her in size by a trillionfold.

She has the traits of a very stereotypical Lovecraftian god, which isn't really where I was going with her and is a lot more limiting character-wise than gods designed in the style of classical mythology, but she still seems to be the only eldritch abomination in the roleplay so far unless I've missed someone's character and I rather like her.

BONUS.

Hider

[Double Capybara]

@Antarctic Termite Wow, it feels like a legitimate lovecraftian creature. Pretty great. It will be an honor to share the domain of Beauty with you.

[Antarctic Termite]

@Double Capybara Thanks! Glad to be on board.

[Muttonhawk]

...The Cancer that Breathes...

@Antarctic Termite

Huh. Well, I guess that means Toun has something else to butt heads with. I think this one would be so exacerbating that he might actually ally with other people against this mudder.

That is a tasty godthing you've made there, mate.

[Antarctic Termite]

@Muttonhawk Ooh I just read through the porcelain engineer's sheet and hot damn, am I going to like sharing interactions with that guy. He's wonderfully cohesive.

Character-wise, I think Toun is inevitably going to be the aggressor in whatever ideological clash may follow. Jvan will see him as a boring reductionist, but his jarring imperfection will strike her as a new, interesting contrast and she is going to remind him of it every step of the way. When she's not being tactful, anyway. You still won't have much trouble finding gods who'll hate her, I think.

Also I just swapped out her theme for another Lauren Bousfield song that's a little less flavourless (but still abrasive as fuck and I am so sorry for putting you all through my bad taste).

[Muttonhawk]

Oh most certainly. I look forward to having Toun being thoroughly trolled when this happens, haha!

[Dawnscroll]

@Antarctic Termite Oh look, yet ANOTHER monstrosity to this Lovecraftian Nightmare show. And you guys wonder why Logos wants to rule the world all to himself!

Okay, all seriousness. This is the CLOSEST thing to a pure Chaos God and thus, Logos's direct opposite (as opposed to mirror image) I have ever seen. One whose presence would would actually make him turn his head and and seek to actively destroy it. This is a corrupter, a think of nightmare made flesh.

So let's see... we have about three 'good' Gods, four creator gods (with Time, Order, Perfection, and Avanya all intending to add things), a shit ton of chaotic/corrupter gods, and about three Gods who are definitely evil in intent. So here is my proposal...

Avanya, from what I get from your character, beasts seem to include more 'amazing' creatures. Dragons, manticores, more custom made creatures. Especially since you put houses and tools as 'beasts' as well.

Voun, definately got the machine and automaton shtick going on there.

Vowzra, we've chatted. Logos is going to need your help~ Would be a great scene.

So here's just a thought for everyone. Does anyone care if Logos creates the species that are inherent in our world as it is: plants, humans, ordinary animals? Things that he consider to be 'part of the natural order' and in perfect balance. And then the rest of you non-creator gods can do your own corruption and siezing of those species, and twist them for your own reasons. Just ordinary and every day stuff; nothing fancy or special or esoteric.

[Fabulous Knight]

Just posting to say I'm playing in the RP. Not quite sure what kind of god to play yet, but I have a few ideas. What's the thoughts on Adversary types? I don't mean evil, so much as playing devil's advocate...

[Cyclone]

@Dawnscroll

How could you forget Slough, the zombie deer whose rotting flesh spawns little critters?

Just posting to say I'm playing in the RP. Not quite sure what kind of god to play yet, but I have a few ideas. What's the thoughts on Adversary types? I don't mean evil, so much as playing devil's advocate...

@Fabulous Knight

Have you read some of the other character sheets that have already been submitted? If not, I'd urge you to stop and do that, both to see what sort of roles have already been taken and to maybe find inspiration in there somewhere.

To answer your question, we have a fair share of gods that are insane, selfish, or outright evil.

[Fabulous Knight]

@Cyclone

Have you read some of the other character sheets that have already been submitted?

@Cyclone

Yep.

By devil's advocate/adversary, I didn't mean selfish or evil. I meant more like someone who would provide the role of testing the world, giving challenges or providing temptation to good and bad creations alike. Someone who might whisper in a hero's ear just before he died that they could easily provide him with a way out...

The guy who would represent some aspect of the "easy way". Where morality and worship of a god, good or bad, might take dedication and provide spiritual satisfaction...the adversary would give you the chance to fall away from the long and arduous path, because it's just so much easier. And so much more rewarding.

[Double Capybara]

@Fabulous Knight@Cyclone

I made a doc yesterday with links to all profiles so I could quickly access them. Should have shared it earlier tbh

Cyclone: Zephyrion Change (Air) -
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3355231

Vec: Ull'Yang Cosmic (Solar)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3355091

Nevix: DaegonDeceit (Psychological Manipulation)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3357792

Sloth: Ypirtis Fortune (Service (?))
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3355214

Rtron: Vestec Chaos (Corruption)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3355417

Lugubrious: Slough - Life (Nature)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3355820

Hael: Vulamera, ??? - Mind (Intelligence)

Scarifar: Niciel, ??? - Light (Purity)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3356384

Kho: Vowzra - Creation (Time)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3356483

Mardox: Vakarlon Chance (Trickery)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3356486

Double Capybara: Ilunabar Beauty (Stories)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3356611

Frettzo: Astarte, ??? - Magic (Soul Weaving)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3360102

Dawnscrol: Logos Order (Physics)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3357613

ArekTheAbsolute: Julkolfyr Darkness (Shadows)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3358716

The Omnipotent Sphere: Belruarc Magic (Pacts)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3359431

Engel: Avanya Creation (Beats)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3359242

Kangutso: Kyre War (Combat)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3360099

Muttonhawk: Toun Creation (Perfection)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3360306

Antarctic Termite: Jvan Beauty (Flesh)
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3361077

[Fabulous Knight]

@Double Capybara
That's super useful, thanks for posting it!

[Cyclone]

@Cyclone
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Yep.

By devil's advocate/adversary, I didn't mean selfish or evil. I meant more like someone who would provide the role of testing the world, giving challenges or providing temptation to good and bad creations alike. Someone who might whisper in a hero's ear just before he died that they could easily provide him with a way out...

The guy who would represent some aspect of the "easy way". Where morality and worship of a god, good or bad, might take dedication and provide spiritual satisfaction...the adversary would give you the chance to fall away from the long and arduous path, because it's just so much easier. And so much more rewarding.

@Fabulous Knight

An interesting concept! I can see you being able to pull off something like that.

I for one take no objection with it. What do you think your domain and portfolio would look be, though?

[Antarctic Termite]

So here's just a thought for everyone. Does anyone care if Logos creates the species that are inherent in our world as it is: plants, humans, ordinary animals? Things that he consider to be 'part of the natural order' and in perfect balance. And then the rest of you non-creator gods can do your own corruption and siezing of those species, and twist them for your own reasons. Just ordinary and every day stuff; nothing fancy or special or esoteric.

@Dawnscroll

I'm not sure how many other 'corruptive' gods I'm answering for here, if any, but as far as Jvan is concerned, Logos can go ahead and create or neglect to create anything he so pleases. Jvan's domain is beauty; She's an artist, engineer, and scientist. When there are creations nearby, she'll experiment. When there aren't, she'll be the one doing the creating.

I seriously considered having Jvan just not touch the planet at all and spend all her time creating radiation-fueled space fish in orbit around the Sun, ideally with Ull's blessing.

Anyway, from a writing standpoint, I'd prefer to start with a blank slate world so that she's less stylistically encumbered by having to overwrite what she finds, but the character herself won't actually care either way.

[Lugubrious]

So here's just a thought for everyone. Does anyone care if Logos creates the species that are inherent in our world as it is: plants, humans, ordinary animals? Things that he consider to be 'part of the natural order' and in perfect balance. And then the rest of you non-creator gods can do your own corruption and siezing of those species, and twist them for your own reasons. Just ordinary and every day stuff; nothing fancy or special or esoteric.

@Dawnscroll

Hey, if you get to Slough first, and somehow manage to gain influence over her, you can use her to create whatever you want. As it is, Slough is going to be creating entire ecosystems accidentally, so you don't have to do everything. Given enough time without being bothered, her life essence could populate entire continents with plants and animals.

[Kho]

"The Good Summaritan Rule: Thou Shalt Summarise Your Posts"

Odd, I don't recall that first post having a summary, OP.

I kid, of course. This definitely looks to be quite interesting. There's quite a bit I haven't read yet (being 5AM and all), but if you're still open to applications I'll likely try and find my own niche in this messed up Pantheon tomorrow (today).

@Snagglepuss89

Go for it! Looking forward to see what you come up with.

@Antarctic Termite looked her very briefly, but I'll read the CS properly later, bit pressed for time at the moment xD

@Antarctic Termite
So here's just a thought for everyone. Does anyone care if Logos creates the species that are inherent in our world as it is: plants, humans, ordinary animals? Things that he consider to be 'part of the natural order' and in perfect balance. And then the rest of you non-creator gods can do your own corruption and siezing of those species, and twist them for your own reasons. Just ordinary and every day stuff; nothing fancy or special or esoteric.

@Dawnscroll

I personally don't mind. If someone doesn't do that, Vowzra would slowly do it anyway

[Frettzo]

So here's just a thought for everyone. Does anyone care if Logos creates the species that are inherent in our world as it is: plants, humans, ordinary animals? Things that he consider to be 'part of the natural order' and in perfect balance. And then the rest of you non-creator gods can do your own corruption and siezing of those species, and twist them for your own reasons. Just ordinary and every day stuff; nothing fancy or special or esoteric.

@Dawnscroll

I don't mind either way. Even if we start with a world filled in by Logos, everyone can go and create another species by themselves if they so wished. They are Gods, after all.