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

[Kho]

@Bright_Ops That is suspiciously well-written and well-researched for a guy who just turned up. How long have you been stalking us and how much do you know? I demand answers! You think I'm going to let some Belvast-loving fr- uh, cat-loving weirdo into this RP just like that? Answers! I need answers. Who are you? Where have you come from? What is your great grandad's cat called?

[Bright_Ops]

@Kho

I... read the rules, had a look at what gods/demi gods were already running around. Kind of already had an idea for a god of undeath but I decided to make him a demi god because it seemed like you wanted people to start as demi gods now (Also made a bit more sense what with the death of the Death God).

[Muttonhawk]

This'll be good timing. There's recently been a certain invasion of burny things that has caused a lot of death in a short space of time. That might feed into your starting post if you're accepted.

[Slime]

@Bright_Ops
A deity of death that likes cats? FAKE!

[Cyclone]

@Bright_Ops

Well done with Farxus! *stamp of approval*

Say, I remember you from that Horde of Evil RP I had a year or two ago. AS I remember, you were one of the better RPers, so maybe I'll do what I can to give you a pass on the cannibalism and interrogations that the other denizens of this OOC would inflict. Nice to see you again!

[Kho]

@Cyclone Nepotism! Cronyism!
What happened to the good ol' days of meritocratic virtues? Of zeal for egalitarianism?

[Bright_Ops]

@Cyclone
Indeed! Sometimes I miss my little kobold. Honestly it was a wonderful idea and I can't wait to see if it ever comes back.

@Kho

*Offers Kho a truck full of money.*

So we're on turn 5? (Was reading the sum up a few pages back).

[Kho]

@Bright_Ops We're currently on Turn 9

But hold yer horses, GMs have yet to discuss your sheet in the panel room of much pain and torture. Anything could happen.
*Begins counting money*

[Bright_Ops]

@Kho

Oh, so I'm not accepted yet? My bad, I guess I misunderstood the situation and jumped the gun a bit.

I'm trying to get a basic idea of what the world looks like currently; Yes knowing how it got like this would be kind of important, but how would you sum up the world that Farxus has just been born into?

[Scarifar]

@Bright_Ops

Well, there should be a map lying around somewhere. Try the first page of the characters tab.

If you're looking for other things, well, I'd suggest asking someone else.

[The Irish Tree]

@Bright_Ops
A deity of death that likes cats? FAKE!

@Slime

Nobody is safe from Belvast's cute.

[lif]

I look away for five seconds and we get another new guy?

[Kho]

@poog the pig Afghanistan may be the Graveyard of Empires, but Divinus is the Graveyard of New Guys.

[Lauder]

<Snipped quote by Slime>


Nobody is safe from Belvast's cute.

@The Irish Tree

Except Keriss. She cares not for 'cute'

[Muttonhawk]

@Kho

Oh, so I'm not accepted yet? My bad, I guess I misunderstood the situation and jumped the gun a bit.

I'm trying to get a basic idea of what the world looks like currently; Yes knowing how it got like this would be kind of important, but how would you sum up the world that Farxus has just been born into?

@Bright_Ops

In a word, wounded.

We've been in a sort-of early bronze age for a time. Most major civilisations are along ot near the ironheart mountains:

Alefpria (OP diety-invested city state with Lifprasilians, multispecies). Attacked by a few realta that were pushed back.

The major Rovaick tribes (the biggest of which are lead by Sularn who is spreading the word of Toun. They also have Teknall's daughter Conata, who's helping them get more metal than they are capable of getting normally because that's her thing). These folks were hit hard by realta and are beginning to consolidate.

Xerxes (A city-state that sprung up and down a bunch very quickly. Is currently occupied by multiple demigods and a hero and will likely host a battle soon. In the meantime, the population is being manipulated into destructive hedonism by their leader, Amartia).

Valley of Peace (Niciel's angel utopia. You are compelled not to be violent there. Only angels live there, except for maybe a few hain, circumstances unknown). I'm not sure if realta have attacked here.

Across the shimmering sea to the Mahd river is:

Vetros (A not-egyptabylossyiakkad brought up by our favourite god of change before he got imprisoned and released as a Zen master or something. Doing pretty well due to minimal meddling. Currently houses a mortal version of Belruarc for various reasons). These guys have been relatively safe from realta.

Horse people (there's a steppe. Go figure).

Moving on further is the land-bridge between the white ocean and the Jvanic ocean, Mesathelassa. Varying degrees of realta attacks have hit them:

Most of that area, starting from the north and taking up the majority of the land are established hain tribes.

Moving further south sees hain and humans mingling in growing small civilisations with varying degrees of tension.

Most of the south is purely made up of humans after that.

On the north-eastern corner of the white ocean, just above Mesathelassa, is a region called Yorum. That has a bunch of small hain city states that have been thrown into disarray by realta attacks. They are new in the lore as I only just introduced them in my latest post.

Global matters are easy to summarise:

Wandering everywhere are the occasional creature twisted by the voice of Jvan (it's technically a kind of virus that only activates under certain conditions, but never you mind). These strange creatures are called Sculptors. Sculptors wander around making eldritch artworks and being whimsical and stuff. They are not widely trusted and often ostracised by hain and nonintellingent life because of Vowzra gave them natural aversion to Jvanic stuff. However, they are masters of language, making them great interpreters. See their sheet for more details.

Most uncharted portions of Galbar are more likely to be inhabited by hain than by humans due to being spread out more and having a head start.

Also wandering around the place, with a close relationship to hain tribes, are urtelem. These walking boulders have grown a bit of a culture since their original creation sheet. Jvan gave them this crazy sign language and now they are kinda nomadic, but they still take care of hain tribes.

The big current affair is Logos' invasion of Galbar. He's swapped in, bashed up Jvan, and set his plasma atronach servant things called realta to burn everything Jvanic, no matter the collateral. Teknall and his robot avatar have begun to push them away and Lifprasil wants to try diplomacy. Many have died already, more has been scorched to ruins. It's a developing situation.

Coming along with this invasion have been outbreaks of a transmuting crystal called acalya. These have been dotted around Galbar and are spreading to various degrees. It's basically a slow, sparkly, crystalline grey goo that's transforming everything into itself. A few people are trying to push it back, but some outbreaks are getting less attention than they really should.

This has been Muttonhawk, reporting for Divinus News Network.

[WrongEndoftheRainbow]

You forgot the citadel in the world mountain! Dwarven lives matter!

[LokiLeo789]

Xerxes is what really matters anyway. Don't worry about the rest of the world.

Sin City for the

WIN!!

Nevermind Sin City is about to go byebye.

Make Xerxes sinful again.

[Cyclone]

Horse People get developed much more in the upcoming Khollab. @Vec also expressed some interest in them; you still want to have Luna do more stuffs with those guys?

@Bright_Ops

To add to what Muttonhawk wrote, Galbar also has some unusual features to note:

• Zephyrion created spirits called elementals (or djinn) that control nature. Everything from earthquakes to hurricanes and the wind. They constantly battle one another and the more powerful ones are intelligent, can be communicated with, and are sometimes worshiped.
• Galbar has numerous moons, created by Vulamera. Tides are mostly normal.
• Its seasons are considerably more extreme than that of Earth, both in terms of length (a la Game of Thrones) and in terms of effect.
• The North Pole is basically its own separate dimension and has a pretty peculiar timezone The place is called Chronos.
• Speaking of various dimensions, there's this void called the Gap that exists as something like a parallel dimension to Galbar's. Sometimes it can connect and very strange things happen. It's mostly Jvan (and Vowzra too, before his death) that mess with such things.

[Muttonhawk]

Yeah, my report wasn't comprehensive. There are plenty of areas of interest, I tried to focus on just the civilisations and I even missed some of those -_-. At least Cunningham's law still works on this small scale.

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• Speaking of various dimensions, there's this void called the Gap that exists as something like a parallel dimension to Galbar's. Sometimes it can connect and very strange things happen. It's mostly Jvan (and Vowzra too, before his death) that mess with such things.

@Cyclone

Parallel dimension is a bit of a stretch. Dimension where nothing is beholden to sense and physics and is full of monstrosities that want to eat reality is more accurate.

Gods generally have to team up to fix holes between the Gap and reality. Handle with care.

[Bright_Ops]

I would first like to thank everyone who answered my question. It really helped to get an idea of what the current state of the world is.

@Cyclone@Muttonhawk@Kho

There is one question that I need to ask through; How did Reathos die and why? I heard a little about what happened to his pieces afterwards, but I can't find any of the IC posts related to his actual death.