In other news, I have been procrastinating writing up a summary of all of Divinus. It is quite interesting reading back through events and seeing how things click together.
I've finished the first six pages of the IC. I'll let you have a look:
Post - Characters - Content - Might
Turn 1 p1 1 - Fate & Amul'Sharar, Vowzra - Old World is destroyed. New World is made, formless. Gods are summoned. Vowzra apppears. - No Might spent 2 - Logos - Through suffering, Logos brings forth the Laws from the Old World. - Logos: -4 Might for the Universe. 3 - Niciel - Niciel appears. - No Might spent 4 - Zephyrion - Zephyrion appears. - No Might spent 5 - Daegon - Daegon appears. - No Might spent 6 - Vakarlon - Vakarlon appears. - Vakarlon: -4 Might for the Universe. 7 - Vestec - Vestec is formed from the fusion of four weaker souls. - Vestec: -3 Might to Level up to 2, -1 Might for the Universe. 8 - Slough - Slough appears, and immediately dies and is reincarnated as an egg. - Slough: -3 Might to Level up to 2, -1 Might for the Universe. 9 - Teknall - Teknall appears. Teknall creates the Universal Blueprint. Logos's laws are transcribed. The elements adamantine, mithral and orichalcum are added. - Teknall: -4 Might for the Universe. 10 - Kyre - Kyre appears - No Might spent 11 - Julkofyr - Julkofyr appears - No Might spent 12 - Jvan - Jvan appears - No Might spent 13 - Reathos - Reathos and the Primordial Pool appears - No Might spent? 14 - Ilunabar - Ilunabar appears - No Might spent 15 - Astarte - Astarte appears - No Might spent 16 - Ull'Yang - Ull'Yang appears - No Might spent 17 - Toun - Toun appears. Conditions for life are fostered in the Blueprints. Slough's egg is retreived. Slough is implored to persevere. - Toun: -4 Might for the Universe. 18 - Teknall - Slough is challenged to make life wondrous. - No Might spent 19 - Vestec - Vestec imparts some corruption to Slough, imbuing her with Wilderness. Random things are drawn on the Blueprint, and some notes erased. - No Might spent 20 - Vulamera - Vulamera appears. Vulamera edits the Blueprint to be cohesive. - No Might spent p2 21 - Niciel - Niciel berates Vestec. Slough is imparted with sympathy - No Might spent 22 - Ull'Yang - Slough is offered vigilance. Ull'Yang feeds Slough his arm. - No Might spent 23 - Mammon - Mammon appears. Occult is added to the Blueprint. - No Might spent? 24 - Vakarlon - Slough is offered choice and enjoyment. Vakarlon adds his ways to the Blueprint. - No Might spent 25 - Vulamera - Vulamera seeks favour with Kyre and Ull'Yang - Vulamera: -1 Freepoint to organise the Blueprint 26 - Ilunabar - Ilunbar turns a scrap of the Blueprint into the Dreamweaver, and invents dreams. Slough is offered a song. - Ilunabar: -3 Might to Level up to 2, -1 Might for the Universe. 27 - nill 28 - Julkofyr - Slough is given ambiguity. Emptiness, and uncertainty at the fundamental level is added to the Blueprint. - No Might spent 29 - Teknall - Teknall berates Vestec. Ull'Yang is built a replacement arm. - No Might spent 30 - Zephyrion - The elementals gases are rewritten. The primal force of Change is imbued into the Blueprint. - Zephyrion: -3 Might to Level up to 2, -1 Might for the Universe 31 - Niciel - Purity is added to the Blueprint - Niciel: -3 Might to Level up to 2 32 - Astarte - Wild magic is added to the Blueprint - No Might spent 33 - Slough - Slough reinforces herself against further influences. The Blueprint is made perfectly palatable for life of all kinds - No Might spent 34 - Belruarc - Belruarc appears. Lawful magic is added to the Blueprint - No Might spent 35 - Jvan - The Other is written into the Gaps in the Blueprint - Jvan: -3 Might to Level up to 2, -1 Might for the Universe 36 - Logos - Logos arrives, and forces back Jvan, Vestec and Zephyrion from the Blueprint 37 - Teknall - Pressured by Logos, Teknall puts bounds on Vestec's meddling and ensures the Other is unable to exit the Gap unaided. - No Might spent 38 - Toun - Toun attacks Jvan. A crack in Toun's previously flawless face forms, giving him an eye. - No Might spent 39 - Vestec - Vestec mocks Logos. Chaos fire is shot at the Blueprint. Vestec reaches out to Corrupt the Blueprint. - No Might spent p3 40 - Teknall - Teknall shields the Blueprint from the chaos flames - No Might spent 41 - Niciel - Niciel blasts everyone away from the Blueprints using holy light - Niciel: -1 Might for shockwave 42 - Ull'Yang - Niciel's shockwave breaks Ull'Yang's new arm. Stellar evolution is rewritten. The Blueprint is unified. - Ull'Yang: -1 Might for the Universe 43 - Julkofyr - Julkofyr mocks Logos and Niciel. Orbs of Darkness are added to the Blueprint. - Julkofyr: -3 Might to Level up to 2, -1 Might for the Universe 44 - Jvan - Fragments of Toun's perfection are embedded into Jvan from Toun's attack. Jvan protects Slough's egg. - Jvan: -1 Freepoint to reinforce Slough's egg. 45 - Ilunabar - Ilunabar spectates, then goes to Jvan's aid. - No Might spent 46 - Kyre - Kyre stops Vestec from corrupting the Blueprint. The Blueprint is reinforced. Kyre protects Slough. - Kyre: -1 Might for the Universe 47 - Zephyrion - A fight between Zephyrion and Logos is narrowly averted. Zephyrion goes elsewhere. - No Might spent 48 - Vulamera - Sentient life is added to the Blueprint. Vulamera takes a physical form and encases the Blueprint. - Vulamera: -3 Might for the Universe. 49 - Mammon - Mammon talks - No Might spent 50 - Fate & Amul'Sharar - The Blueprint becomes the Codex of Creation. The Shattering Disunity occurs, creating the Universe. Scene changes to the planet Galbar. - All gods spend their remaining Might for the Universe and Level up to 2.
Turn 2 51 - Turn 2 52 - Ull'Yang - Ull'Yang becomes the Primordial Star. - No Might spent 53 - Vestec - Vulamera is invited to observe Vestec's mind at a later date. The Shattered Plains are created. - Vestec: -4 Might to Level up to 3 54 - Vakarlon - Polar ice caps and caves within them are created. Vakarlon visits Vulamera regarding memories from a past Universe. - Vakarlon: -1 Might to create the ice caps, -4 Might to Level up to 3 55 - Jvan - Jvan embeds herself into Galbar as a flesh-mountain. The Fractal Sea is created, with simple life. - Jvan: -1 Might to create the Fractal Sea, -4 Might to Level up to 3, -1 Freepoint to create simple sea life. 56 - Slough - Slough makes planetfall. Slough hatches into a rotting deer. The Deepwood and all life within it is created. - Slough: -1 Might to create the Deepwood and its life, -4 Might to level up to 3, -1 Freepoint to create dirt 57 - Zephyrion - Galbar receives an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Zephyrion fails to destroy a distant rocky planet. Zephyrion collides with Galbar, sending materials into orbit and creating amplified seasons. - Zephyrion: -1 Freepoint to create seasons 58 - Niciel - The Valley of Peace is created, surrounded by the Nice Mountains. The Valley's aura suppresses violence - Niciel: -4 Might for a Holy Site (the Valley of Peace). 59 - Astarte - Astarte attempts to startle Slough into the Shattered Plains. - Astarte: -1 Freepoint to be stealthy p4 60 - Logos - Before the Shattering Disunity, Logos creates his blade Singularity, although is prevented from attacking Vestec. At Galbar, Logos promises Teknall, Toun, Kyre and Vulamera a boon. - Logos: -1 Freepoint to create Singularity 61 - Teknall - Before the Shattering Disunity, Teknall is struck by Niciel's shockwave. Teknall descends to Galbar. - No Might spent 62 - Zephyrion and Teknall - Zephyrion and Teknall build the Celestial Citadel. - Teknall: -5 Might for a Holy Site (the Celestial Citadel). Zephyrion: -5 Might for a Holy Site (the Celestial Citadel). 63 - Reathos - The First Wraith Stone is built in the caves under Galbar, to harvest the souls of all the dead. Reathos creates an Avatar and binds it to the Wraith Stone to guard it. - Reathos: -4 Might for a Holy Site (the First Wraith Stone), -1 Might for his first Avatar. 64 - Ilunabar - Ilunabar visits the Celestial Citadel - No Might spent 65 - Vulamera - The moon Unitas is created. The moon Unitas is split into eight smaller moons, Lex, Cogitare, Vigilate and Scitis (aka the Eyes of the Scribe), Auricolor, Perfectus, Periditus, Mirus. Lex is gifted to Logos. Cogitare, Vigilate and Scitis are claimed by Vulamera. Auricolor is gifted to Teknall. Periditus is gifted to Kyre. Perfectus is gifted to Toun. Mirus is gifted to Jvan. - Vulamera: -2 Might to create the moons. 66 - Vowzra - Before the Shattering Disunity, Vowzra is annoyed that Vulamera has taken the Codex, but allows her to keep it, to her self-destruction. Vowzra adds to the Codex secret things. On Galbar, ants are created. The first ant is taken by Vowzra. - Vowzra: -4 Might to Level up to 3, -1 Freepoint to make ants? 67 - Julkofyr - The Darkened Spires are created on Galbar. Julkofyr evolves insects to live in the Darkened Spires. Julkofyr creates his Plane of Darkness. A shrine is made within the Plane of Darkness, including statues of all the gods. - Julkofyr: Unspecified. Apparently -4 Might and -1 Freepoint 68 - Slough - Several new species appear in the Deepwood. Slough teleports away from Astarte. Astarte is attacked by a wild nectar blush. The statue of Slough in Julkofyr's shrine crumbles. - No Might spent 69 - Toun - Toun feels sad because he failed to make the Codex perfect. Toun settles down in the Valley of Peace. - No Might spent 70 - Teknall - Teknall forges an adamantine maul from metal on Auricolor. Teknall creates the mineral-rich Ironheart Ranges - Teknall: -2 Freepoint to create the Ironheart Ranges. 71 - Vakarlon - Vakarlon complains of terrible, painful, fiery memories to Vulamera. - No Might spent 72 - Ull'Yang - Ull'Yang is a star a long way from Galbar. Ull'Yang creates his Avatar, who goes to hibernate in the Deepwood. - No Might spent? (Should have spent 1) 73 - Jvan - Jvan is immobile. Jvan creates many eyes which fly around Galbar so she can see. One lands in the Celestial Citadel and another in the Valley of Peace. Strange deep-sea life is created around Jvan. Jvan communicates with Slough and Vulamera via fleshy messanger angels. - No Might spent 74 - Toun - Two billion white giants are created and distributed across Galbar to protect it form non-Slough or Tounic life. - Toun: -1 Might to create the white giants, -4 Might to Level up to 3. 75 - Belruarc - Belruarc simply watches Galbar from orbit. - No Might spent 76 - Zephyrion - Zephyrion invites Ilunabar and Jvan to direct him in carving out something in Galbar. - Zephyrion: -1 Freepoint to carve things in Galbar. 77 - Ilunabar - Magical crystals are used to give Ilunabar a report on the gods' creations and a geological survey of Galbar. Ilunabar suggests that Zephyrion build giant musical instruments. - Ilunabar: -2 Freepoints to survey Galbar. 78 - Niciel - The Orb of Escry and the Orb of Holy are created. Wisps are created. - Niciel: -1 Might to create the Orbs. 79 - Astarte - Astarte blows up the attacking nectar blush. Astarte isolates some vials of Liquid Light, her magical energy, and sends them to Zephyrion, Vestec and Teknall. - Astarte: -4 Might to Level up to 3. p5 80 - Vowzra, Logos - Logos flies far away, and meets Vowzra. Logos and Vowzra chat. Subtle narrated reference to Vowzra's Codex contribution being to the Gap. - No Might spent 81 - Slough - A flower grows near Ull'Yang's Avatar. At Jvan's request, Slough departs the Deepwood and treks to the Fractal Sea. A scrubland with life in it is created (including Brush Beasts), bordering a desert. - No Might spent 82 - Vestec - Vestec punches Lex towards Galbar. Vestec kicks Perfectus towards Lex. Lex is destroyed, Perfectus is sent towards Galbar. The two rings of Galbar are created. - Vestec: -1 Might to punch a moon. 83 - Jvan - Jvan decides Vulamera must be forced to change. The Jvanic Eye in the Valley of Peace is crushed by a White Giant. Jvan adds bodies of water to the designs for Zephyrion. - No Might spent 84 - Vowzra - Perfectus is swallowed by a Gap portal, saving Galbar. - Vowzra: -1 Might to make a Gap portal
Turn 3 85 - Turn 3 86 - Teknall - Many trees cover all of Galbar, a blessing for future civilisations. - Teknall: -4 Might to Level up to 3, -2 Might to populate Galbar with trees. 87 - Zephyrion - Ilunabar is granted a home in the Celestial Citadel. The Sparkling Sea is created, with the Firewind Desert, the Mahd, and the foundations for a jungle. - Zephyrion: -4 Might to Level up to 3. 88 - Niciel - Holy Trees are created within and around the Nice Mountains. - Niciel: -4 Might to Level up to 3, -1 Might to create Holy Trees. 89 - Kyre - Kyre observes. - No Might spent 90 - Vestec - Ashlings are created. 13 Wisps are corrupted. - Vestec: -1 Might to create Ashlings 91 - Ull'Yang - Ull'Yang enters his fourth stellar cycle. Mount Borhmanven is discovered. - Ull'Yang: -3 Might to induce 3 supernovae. 92 - Mammon - The submaterium is discovered, the plane of occult magic and links. The well labyrinth is created. Mammon makes a personal plane within the submaterium. - Mammon: -1 Might to create the well labyrinth, -9 Might to Level up to 4. 93 - Slough - Slough is pursued by an Ashling. Slough recalls a proud soul, forming Custodian Esau, who defeats the Ashling. The scrubland made earlier becomes the Gilt Savannah. - Slough: -1 Might to recall a proud soul, -1 Might to make the Gilt Savannah. 94 - Logos - Logos finds distant Arcon. Logos makes a moon and a minature sun to orbit Arcon. The Citadel is created. Logos slowly begins terraforming Arcon. - Logos: -1 Freepoint to make a sun, -1 Freepoint to make a moon, -10 Might to create a Holy Site (The Citadel). 95 - Ilunabar - The game of checkers is created. Raka, The Realm of Dreams, was created. Ilunabar finds a thorn plant made by Slough, and causes it to bloom into roses. A white rose is taken, and made into Meimu, the Diva of Flowers. - Ilunabar: -1 Might to create Raka, -1 Might to create an Avatar (Meimu), -1 Freepoint to make roses bloom. 96 - Teknall - Teknall kills some Ashlings, with a new throwing hammer. Teknall visits Ull'Yang's Avatar atop Mount Borhmanven. - No Might spent 97 - Niciel - The Chaos Wisps are purified back into Holy Wisps. The Orb of Holy innoculates the Wisps against future corruption. A Wisp finds Slough. A Wisp finds the Celestial Citadel. - No Might spent 98 - Zephyrion - Zephyrion manipulates the rules of the Universe to create Flickers. Air elementals appear. Vizier Ventus is created, the first djinni lord. - Zephyrion: -1 Might to create Flickers, -1 Might to create Vizier Ventus (a hero?). 99 - Toun - Toun has a Jvanic nightmare. The hain are created. He deems the hain imperfect. Five tribes' worth are mentally subjugated. The remaining hain are teleported across Galbar. Toun settles his slave hain in some empty land. - Toun: -1 Might to subjugate some hain, -2 Freepoints to teleport hain. p6 100 - Reathos - Heraktati are created, apex predators targets the old and sick. Reathos talks with Ilunabar. - Reathos: -1 Freepoint to create Heraktati 101 - Jvan - It is discovered that Vowzra, in the Codex, had hybridised the Gap with the Hells of Time, adding malicious intent to the originally ambivalent Other. Jvan declares herself as gatekeeper of the Gap. Fiberlings are created. The Optic Fiberlings are created, through which Jvan can see and speak. Mauve travels to Teknall and Ull'Yang's Avatar on Mount Borhmanven, Jvan asking them to look at the Hain. Violet goes to the Firewind Desert and observes White Giants. Navy goes to the Deepwood. Cyan slays an Ashling and infected hain tribe by the Shimmering Sea. Lime sacrifices itself to gain entry into Mammon's submaterium, where Jvan sends a nonsensical message to Mammon. Maize follows Slough. Amber travels through the Changing Plains then the Valley of Peace, and observes hain. Scarlet observes Heraktati in the Gilt Savannah. - Jvan: -1 Might to create the Fiberlings. 102 - Ilunabar - Ilunabar and Miemu chat with Reathos. Ilunabar takes her leave as Reathos' presence gives her nightmares. - No Might spent. 103 - Mammon - A hain called Cherry-Eater has his life saved by Mammon in exchange for sacrificing his whole clan. Cherry-Eater is made Mammon's Hero. Mammon answer's Jvan's message. - Mammon: -4 Freepoints to make a Hero (in debt by 1 Freepoint) 104 - Slough - The Drenched Flowerbed is created. A vast soul is recalled in the depths of the Fractal Sea. Slough heads to the Firewind Desert. - Slough: -1 Might to create the Drenched Flowerbed, -1 Might to recall a vast soul. 105 - Vakarlon, Vulamera - By request, Vulamera inspects Vakarlon's mind and memories. It is discovered that, in a past world, Vakarlon became a god by consuming Serandor, the dark and fiery God of Destruction, who still roams in Vakarlon's mind. Vulamera is told by vision to seek pure knowledge above all else. They both faint. - Vulamera: -1 Might to unlock memories. Vakarlon: No Might spent. 106 - Reathos - The Eenal Tree is created. 2% of crows are cursed to become the Lesser Eyes of Reathos, who will witness almost every death. - Reathos: -4 Might to Level up to 3, -1 Might to curse crows with the Lesser Eyes of Reathos, -1 Freepoint to make the Eenal Tree. 107 - Vowzra - Ants now exist all across Galbar. Mammoth Ants exist in the Deepwood. A giant turtle shell appears in the Deepwood. The One By Immortals Altered, the first ant whisked away by Vowra to spend its time in the Gap, emerges. - Vowzra: -1 Might to create the Shell, -1 Might to create The One By Immortals Altered 108 - Jvan - The hain have developed trypophobia and chaetophobia to counter the Fiberlings. Scarlet finds the vast soul made by Slough in hibernation. Heartworm, Jvan's Avatar, is created. Heartworm fuses a Djinn, a crow bearing the Lesser Eye of Reathos, and Gap energy, to form a screeching, immobile creature in the Ironheart Ranges. The First Sculptor is made from a hain, beginning the Cult of Jvan. - Jvan: -1 Might to create an Avatar (Heartworm), -1 Might to start the Cult of Jvan. 109 - Zephyrion, Ventus, Slough - Ventus is sent to Slough to convince her to bring life to the Firewind Desert. After gaining Slough's and Esau's trust, the Firewind Resort is created. - Slough: -1 Might to make the Firewind Resort. 110 - Ull'Yang, Teknall - Teknall meets Ull'Yang's Avatar, Yang'Ze, on Mount Borhmanven. Teknall helps Yang'Ze forge a magical quarterstaff for Yang'Ze. Teknall receives Jvan's message, and decides to attend to the hain soon. Teknall travels to Ull'Yang's true location. Ull'Yang creates a red dwarf in Teknall's formless personal plane. The star inadequate payment, Ull'Yang still owes Teknall a favour. - Teknall: -1 Freepoint to forge the staff. Ull'Yang: -1 Might to empower the staff. 111 - Ilunabar - Inside Raka, Arpeggio is created, which sorts all the dreams into seven categories of ascending order. Dreams are temporarily halted during construction. - Ilunabar: -8 Might to create a Holy Site (Arpeggio) 112 - Teknall - The Urtelem are created, rock creatures which attack violent lifeforms like the Ashlings. - Teknall: -1 Might to create Urtelem
Turn 4 113 - Turn 4 114 - Vowzra - Vowzra is angered by Jvan's creations. Natural creatures, especially hain and ants, are instilled with an aversion from and aggression towards Jvan's creatures, especially Sculptors and Fiberlings. The One By Immortals Altered sets out to destroy Jvan's creatures. Vowzra creates a personal plane, wtih a floating island, where time flows 1000 Galbarian years internally for every one day on Galbar. In this plane, The Divine Annalist, Hexahedron Historicus Creato (aka The Cube) is created. - Vowzra: -1 Freepoint to instill dislike for all things Jvanic, -1 Might to create a personal plane, -9 Might to create a Holy Site (The Cube). 115 - Logos, Elysium - 20,000 Realta are created to guard Arcon. Elysium, a Realta of flesh and bone, is made, and claimed as Logos' daughter. Together, Elysium and Logos guide the evolution of life on Arcon. Humans are created. Humans are gifted with fire and form communities. It is realised that Logos has long-term plans for humanities in the Immortal Game. - Logos: -5 Might to Level up to 3, -2 Might to guide evolution of all life on Arcon, -1 Might to create the Realta, -1 Might to create a Hero (Elysium), -1 Might to create Humans, -1 Freepoint to give Humans fire, -1 Freepoint to gibe Humans community. 116 - Niciel - Niciel soothes the hain which remain in the Valley of Peace, who form a tribe. Angels are create. - Niciel: -1 Might to create Angels, -3 Might to claim a Portfolio (Holy). 117 - Slough - Slough rises up and moves on. A proud soul is accidentally recalled from the Deepwood, influenced by the essences of the Gods who had visited the Deepwood, manifesting from the colourful patch of roses. The proud soul manifests as a man, Allure. He slaughters three stripe-faced aphids for being ugly and moves on. - Slough: -5 Might to Level up, -1 Might to create a Hero (Allure). 118 - Jvan - Maize follows Slough. Jvan offers Ventus a reward if he leads Slough downstream, contrary to Zephyrion's orders to head upstream. Navy is attacked by The One By Immortals Altered, and on fleeing passes by Allure. Cyan, who had been protecting a hain village for centuries, is driven out by the hain. Heartworm had been secretly observing, and also leaves. - No Might spent 119 - NPC hain - A story of Slough, her guardian Esau and some hain hunters is told by hain. The story has little point, as Slough acts like a mysterious wild animal. - No Might spent p7
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