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

[Antarctic Termite]

Sweethearts are actually just Engineers from the Halo games, except shaped like hearts and with parasitic body horror. And also pumped full of cocaine.

On another note, I just remembered something.

“Established an army.” Tez snapped back. “Slain dozens of Hain villages and hundreds of Sculptors. You won’t be any challenge.” The Hand seemed to be drawing power, steadily, as Tez watched the Demi-god.

@Rtron

This is kind of impossible purely because of how ridiculously rare Sculptors are. Assuming a generous Galbar population of one billion mortals, and given the rate of one Sculptor per ten thousand mortals each, with a 100% survival rate, there are still only 100,000 Sculptors on the entire planet before both Elementals and Realta started the genocide party.

So Tez probably hunted down a few dozen of them, which is still impressive. Good on you, Tez.

[Kho]

@Muttonhawk I was extremely unimpressed when I found out, but I didn't want to put you on the spot and make you everyone's laughing stock. But alas, you insist on so being.

[LokiLeo789]

@Kho

• Sin
• Alchemy
• Names
• Tao Te Ching quote (forgot to site)
• Book idea

And many more. I'd like to ask for forgiveness, its already obvious were alot of my inspiration (=unoriginality) come from. Well, this is food for thought.

Hours and hours of thought.

[lif]

@LokiLeo789

As long as you acknowledge your mistakes, it's all good, man. Just take Kho's advice to heart, and everything'll be great.

The Cosmic Knights were initially inspired by the Tenno from Warframe, but now they've turned into horrifying engines of war that will scare any Realta. Self aware or not.

@Antarctic Termite

>Halo
I sort of got Engineer vibes from the Sweethearts

[Rtron]

This is kind of impossible purely because of how ridiculously rare Sculptors are. Assuming a generous Galbar population of one billion mortals, and given the rate of one Sculptor per ten thousand mortals each, with a 100% survival rate, there are still only 100,000 Sculptors on the entire planet before both Elementals and Realta started the genocide party.

So Tez probably hunted down a few dozen of them, which is still impressive. Good on you, Tez.

@Antarctic Termite

Tez wasn't too bright.

He killed random people who kinda looked sculptory too.

[Rtron]

<Snipped quote by Double Capybara>

Little, naw he gots plenty. Who could stand up against him with an army like this;

@LokiLeo789

I need to reread Redwall books.

Victors were originally inspired by Space Marines. They went around screaming 'Death to the CimeXenos! Death to the DyunXenos!'

I also robbed every Abrahamic tale ever of 'those who angered the Lord after he gave them much' for my Eskandars plotline. I'm sorry T-T

Edit: OH OH. And my whole Necromancy fetish is due to this game.

@Kho

THE DYUN WERE SO NICE, AND YOU JUST WENT AROUND TORTURING AND KILLING THEM.

<Snipped quote by WrongEndoftheRainbow>

It's directed at everybody in this RP. You're all encouraged to look back at your characters and the stories you have created, and see if you feel you have perhaps been rather unoriginal, or copied too much from some sources. It's a call for you all to reflect on what you have done, and to look towards how you can be even better as writers and worldbuilders.

Edit: And of course, I say all this to myself first and foremost, and I shall duly comb through my characters and ideas to ensure that I have not unconsciously or consciously copied from elsewhere without giving due credit.

@Kho

Well. The Cursed came from Dark Souls.

ALSO TOTALLY ADDING POWDER MAGES FROM THE POWDER MAGE TRILOGY TO THIS WORLD WHEN WE GET MUSKETS.

AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME.

[BBeast]

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He was present when Vowzra disappeared the God-Killer, but he didn't actually see anything and wasn't told where it went etc. All he saw was Vowzra clicking or waving his fingers
But in any case, I was just trolling around about all that, there are no hints or clues or whatnot

@Kho

http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/3792400

'You see, the Codex now returns to its Fated caretaker. It is no one's birthright. It was created by the gods and is the right of none other than Fate. And as was always meant to be, it is now no longer the Codex, but the raised fist of Fate which brings low whomsoever Fate doth please, and raises high whomsoever Fate wishes. It is the scourge of all transgressors. It is the GodKiller.'

'And as for the Codex. It is no longer the Codex. It is the GodKiller. Neither you nor I can so much as approach it. Only those beings we deem inferior, those mortals of our creation, can approach it. It is a killer of divines, its presence will tear us apart or eat away at us or cause us to fall apart over endless eons. And no god will have power or might over they who wield it. It is the clenched fist of Fate, and none wield it but the weak, those who we look down upon. Those whose lives are as leaves upon the wind before the ever-constant trees of our own. Yet look and See how mighty, with Fate, the leaf shall be,' and even as Vowzra spoke, the GodKiller was released from the Cube and disappeared from Chronos altogether. Back to Galbar it went, in the hands of an unsuspecting, unsuspected mortal.

Lifprasil knows that the Codex was turned into the GodKiller (thus effectively destroyed, for the purposes of being the Codex), and that was then teleported away to some unknown location. In short, he knows that the Codex is no more, which is enough to tell people.

So, as Logos is currently top of the hate-list of many, I was wondering if it would be ok by you all if, due to the circumstances, Logos' 7 Might which went into Fate's Might Pot were returned to him.

@Kho

On one hand, Teknall is second in line on Logos' hit list.

On the other hand, I trust Dawnscroll as a player to use any Might he has responsibly. And as Capy mentioned, he probably would have spent that Might if he hadn't been ill.

I have so much on the backburner. I was eventually going to assemble a hain nation. It's becoming difficult to find time for anything, though.

Welp, onto the backlog you go!

@Muttonhawk

Hey, what do you know? I have plans to build up Hain civilisation too (via Gerrik). And I'm struggling to find time for anything too.

@Rtron@WrongEndoftheRainbow@Kho There should be some crystal forests on that puppy too... just saying.

In a side note, if you've guys have noticed... new Domain! Order (Subjugation). Unless one could think of a better name for it...

Anyone wanna guess what I could do with this puppy? No, genuinely... any ideas?

@Dawnscroll

Fitting Portfolio. What you could do with it, though...

You've already covered one example, in which you create a physical object (the Philosopher's Stone) to subjugate physics. Subjugation would also be useful for controlling others to some degree. If you have a mortal kingdom, you could suppress rebellion. If you conquer a place, the residual resistance would vanish much faster. To a limited extent you might be able to forcibly convert mortals to your side. As for player characters, it would obviously be inappropriate to simply control them directly, but you could use it to buff oaths/surrenders made in submission to Logos. You could also subjugate the natural world- simple-minded creatures would readily follow your will. How one might subjugate physics is somewhat more abstract, and you begin to stray out of Subjugation (especially since Physics does it better).

In short, it would be balanced to have most of the power of Subjugation be in reinforcing control obtained by other means, with just some power in directly controlling other beings.

That's how I see it anyway.

I'm just waiting for the Logos-Lazarus story arc. Laz deals exactly in what Logos fucking HATES.

@WrongEndoftheRainbow

I think Logos has bigger problems to deal with.

Like the very goddess whose creations the Realta were sent to destroy.

Or that one guy and his robot who are single-handedly destroying the Realta invasion.

Or that upstart young ruler who's assembled a committee to take action against Logos at some future date.

Someone has to be the mad scientist right?

@LokiLeo789

I thought Jvan/Heartworm already had that niche filled out, with Lazarus trying to squeeze in at the edges.




Also, while we're talking about inspirations, how I perceive and describe Teknall's god-sense as working (and, by extension, Gerrik's and Goliath's) is strongly based on the sense of Perception from E. E. 'Doc' Smith's Lensman series. And Goliath has some inspiration from General Grievous from Star Wars, although as a character it has more similarity to an MQ-1 Predator Drone.


Also, enjoy this post I have had on the back-log for a while now. I've only been trying to get it out since last Turn. Sorry that it is effectively 50,000 characters of elvish. It should be the last one like that.

I intend to use the Might from Teknall's Workshop in a similar way that Termite uses the Might from Ovaedis. That Might is informally reserved for use within the Workshop and by the Stellar Engine. Encourages me to be more creative than simply levelling up with it or something.

[Vec]

@BBeast Good post. I believe this is the second Holy Site inside a personal plane in the whole RP?

[Cyclone]

A confession

He's a boss from Hearthstone, though that guy is spelled Omokk with two k's and is much dumber.

[Antarctic Termite]

Post happen. Here we have the Godkiller reveal, Jvan marshalling the Sculptors, Urtelem and fiberlings into an Acalya quarantine force, some details about Xerxes, and the first signs of the consciousness that may become Lawyer Avatar.

Sheet for halos pending, but tl;dr they're one-way spacial distortion devices, designed to be highly specialised weapons for use against fluid, ethereal and/or supernatural creatures like wind/fire/water elementals, change-eaters, liches, and Realta (under the shell).

They're the offensive half of what faeries accomplish defensively. That is, they're narrative devices further establishing Sculptors as what they were always meant to be- Mysterious wandering folk with no use or fear of magic, that must be fought with conventional means if they are to be fought at all.

They look like this.

[Vec]

So now the codex became a skull. Interesting...

[Antarctic Termite]

So now the codex became a skull. Interesting...

@Vec

A goofy-ass cup shaped like a skull. Tira is going to use it to eat ramen. I am dead serious about this.

She might fill it with dirt and try to plant flowers in it too. Or both- wait no tira pls no that's not hygienic

[Kho]

I admit that one of the most difficult things about Jvan's creations is visualising them. I just can't seem to. I imagine the Fae as something close to butterflies with needles. Them djinn-eaters are just horrendous blobs of snake-like flesh with wings and lots of weird holes in places.

Sculptors I can somewhat understand visually, but I guess that's because I imagine whatever race they originally were and add lottsa Jvanic stuff to that. The intricacy of Jvanic creatures also makes it more difficult, since they have all these geometric patterns and whatnot. So I have resigned myself to imagining small, medium, big and massive blobs of flesh with varying degrees of very dangerous bodily weapons.

[Vec]

@Kho I've long stopped trying to imagine Jvan's creations. I just trust whatever picture Termite puts in the posts XD

[Antarctic Termite]

@Kho You're actually bang on the money for all three.

Faeries are just bugs with too many wings and antennae and a spike.

Sculptors are a mess of bad posture and spare body parts that grow out of whatever species they used to be.

Bludgeons are big metal balls on invisible strings with glowy white feathers flying around them.

Change-eaters are an absolute hell to try and visualise you have no idea

...Although they're kind of meant to be, being Galbar's resident amorphous eldritch alien murder-pirates. Just think of them as rainbows with teeth. That'll do.

Anyway, I'll catch up with Teknall and Kinesis' collab and go to bed. Later, nerds.

[Muttonhawk]

Five! Five posts I have fallen behind on, ah-ah-ah!

[Double Capybara]

>Finally getting the last First Parade post done after two months in this bog.
>Starting to realize I will miss writing about the cultures of that region, especially since everyone is a bunch of griefers that will likely turn the place into a lake eventually

Don't cry for me Fibeslay ;-;

[Vec]

[BBeast]

@BBeast Good post. I believe this is the second Holy Site inside a personal plane in the whole RP?

@Vec

Third by my count. Allegro. The Cube. And now Teknall's Workshop.

What magic do we have thats available to all mortals?

@LokiLeo789

If you are planning on developing magic, I can supply some useful background information which will help any new magic you make fit in better.

There are three main classes of magic which are an intrinsic part of the Universe, by virtue of being part of the Codex, contributed by three different deities.

Astartean Magic: This magic has effects which are strange, whimsical and wild. In use in mortals, Frettzo has described it as soul magic, where the magic produced is tied to the person's personality. You could say that magic which harnesses Astartean Magic requires its users to have will and charisma. Thanks to the actions of Vestec, all races on Galbar contain the potential to use Astartean magic, although this amount is too small to create a potent magician without divine intervention or extreme chance.

The Occult: Contributed by Mammon. This magic is centered around rituals and material objects. Certain items in specific combinations, or secret words spoken in the right way, create magical effects governed by the occult. The occult is the easiest magic for mortals to access, for it does not require any innate powers on the user's part. However, it does require intricate rituals, and any major effects would almost certainly require a sacrifice of some sort. I consider a part of this post to be exemplary of the occult.

Belruarcian Magic: This magic is described as the magic of scholars and thinkers. It is refined and has its own rules, and by understanding these arcane rules and principles it is possible for users of magic to construct spells to perform any manner of feats. It is a kind of magic which can be studied, and its better users will require intelligence. So far, no one has explicitly referenced it, but it is still available for use.

Of course, you can take any combination of the three. Or you could try to develop something completely new (although I would recommend building on what already exists). I'm just letting you know what you have to work with.

P.S. Regarding Termite's latest post and the Acalya, I would like to say that the Urtelem should be extremely resilient to the Acalya flower's infection. They were designed in part as a countermeasure against the Ashlings, which are quite similar to the Acalya flower in terms of infection (some crystalline substance hijacks all the fleshy bits and makes it all crystalline), and thus were immune to the Ashling infection by design. The Acalya flower is substantially more aggressive in its infectious potential, so it could theoretically infect an Urtelem, but short of total immunity the Urtelem would be quite hard to infect.

Of course, once they start punching Acalya plants with their bare fists and getting all those diamond shards stuck in them, risk of infection would skyrocket. But it would still be slow. Overall, the Urtelem are close to ideal for handling Acalya forests.

[Dawnscroll]

Guys.

Guys shut the fuck up for a moment.

Guys.

You ever wonder...

Like. Are we Tolkein? Is this our Simillarion?

...is this the next epic fantasy?