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

[Double Capybara]

@Dawnscroll What was the last post you remember reading?

[Antarctic Termite]

So, short version... what have I missed?

@Dawnscroll

Jvan had sex with Vestec. The fallout destroyed the universe.

This was directly after Toun's rave party ended with Teknall stacking 1,128 full shot glasses in a tower and downing all of them.

[Muttonhawk]

So, short version... what have I missed?

@Dawnscroll

Well, Xos is still at large. After my next (unrelated and rather large post) Toun's going to try to get a hold of Logos and enact the plan they had for him. Other than that, we'd really need a reference point to where you last left off.

Oh, I'm in the US now, by the way.

[Frettzo]

*a god of order turns over in his sleep*

Heading to egpyt in a few months... anyone care for a souivenier?

@Dawnscroll

Take me with you I will be your sidekick/bodyguard in your treasure hunting adventures

[Kho]

@Dawnscroll AND WE'RE STARTING A DIVINUS LITE

[Kho]

Btw, the Gilt Savannah, Great Steppe, and Golden Barrens don't all look alike. In my headcanon, their landscapes are roughly as follows:

Savannah

Miles and miles of largely flat landscape. Grass grows tall and is green or golden depending on season. Acacia trees dot the landscape and the odd rocky hill might rupture the generally flat terrain.

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Rukbany

I don't like calling them the Golden Barrens these days, because a quick google search of barrens gives a completely inaccurate picture. Rukbany is just miles and miles of rolling hills which give way to grassy plains, and then erupt into hills again. There are likely solitary mountains dotted here or there. Trees are rare anywhere other than the Mahd's banks.

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Steppe

The equivalent of the Great Eurasian Steppe. It mixes features of the Savannah and Rukbany - flat terrain and hilly outcrops. Mountains are more frequent, plains tend to be of dry shrubbery rather than grass - more tundra. Trees are more common than in Rukbany.

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[Kho]

Horribly rushed, but does the job >-<

[Muttonhawk]

@Kho So, I got a couple of questions.

That divine script. It sounds an awful lot like Tounic calligraphy. Is it that or is it some branch of Belru's pacts or something?

I'm guessing you want to collaborate regarding Toun's subpoena as well, huh? He's not going to be happy about delaying his hunt for Xos, but I think 6 PR is a while before the confrontation is to take place. It could work out alright.

[Dawnscroll]

God, talk about sad... can barely remember anything... erm... Logos crowning Elysium. That's it for me, tbh.

@Frettzo You think I'm kidding. I'm genuinely not. I'm actually going antiquities hunting and the older guy I'm going with actually has the whole nine-yards lined up. Porters for the dig and everything.

Are you a gun or a sword guy by any chance?

[Antarctic Termite]

Alright, everyone, I think I'm done with the OP for Divinus Lite. Here's a changelist for how it differs from Kho's last update of the WIP.

-added an overview.
-changed or added some more examples.
--by which I mean I kinda rewrote all of them
-shuffled things.
--Holy Sites, for example, are now in the Turns section.
--Domains and Portfolio are now in the Level section.
-Rewrote the Mater Lei section several times to make sure it's as clear and non-prosey as possible.
-Put the fair warning rule under 'conflict'.
-Gave avatars their own little section.
-Added a 'goals' bit to the character sheet.
-Bold for emphasis.
-Added a note on sanctuaries (Holy Sites). They may bless or protect the disciples within them in various ways.
-Changed 'worshippers' in sanctuaries to 'disciples', which can now be anything.
-Added a note that gods can in fact be overwhelmed by mortal armies if those armies have enough Might behind them.
--not gonna lie, I'm excited about this, let's have us some evenly matched god vs. army battles
-Acknowledged BBeast!

Maybe other things I'm not noticing now, too. The thread itself is here.

I'll be making an interest check thread soon enough, and, provided there's no other issues, the actual game thread.

[Antarctic Termite]

@Dawnscroll To recap, we're making a casual version of Divinus to go in the Free section, hopefully with much lighter and easier posts. It has a thoroughly updated set of rules and most of us have made characters for it, so we'll see how long it lasts.

[Frettzo]

@Dawnscroll, I'm the showoff martial artist that gets shot after making fancy movements. But seriously, going antiquity hunting in Egypt sounds really cool, good luck!

[Antarctic Termite]

y'all'dn't've

[Kho]

@Kho So, I got a couple of questions.

That divine script. It sounds an awful lot like Tounic calligraphy. Is it that or is it some branch of Belru's pacts or something?

I'm guessing you want to collaborate regarding Toun's subpoena as well, huh? He's not going to be happy about delaying his hunt for Xos, but I think 6 PR is a while before the confrontation is to take place. It could work out alright.

@Muttonhawk

I was always under the assumption that Tounic calligraphy is the divine script. As in, the language of the gods in its written form as put down by Toun in the Codex. So yup, that divine script would have been Tounic calligraphy. If I overlooked something in the way it was used let me know >-<

[Frettzo]

We've got a great thing brewing here - I have the feeling that Godspeed will be a huge success

[Kho]

@Frettzo fingers crossed

[Kho]

I'm guessing you want to collaborate regarding Toun's subpoena as well, huh? He's not going to be happy about delaying his hunt for Xos, but I think 6 PR is a while before the confrontation is to take place. It could work out alright.

@Muttonhawk

Realised I didn't respond to this part. I'm happy to collab it out (perhaps not for a few weeks at least though >.<)

[Muttonhawk]

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Realised I didn't respond to this part. I'm happy to collab it out (perhaps not for a few weeks at least though >.<)

@Kho

No problem! Let me know when you're ready.

[Antarctic Termite]

Six hundred post mark, everyone.

[BBeast]

@Muttonhawk Hummm, pre-Xerxes is good by me, but pre-Realta would be somewhat problematic - that would mean that Gadar's ants were not around to witness her murder (and so he through them come to know of her) and eventually aid her escape the grave.

@Kho

Realta happened Page 16. Mafie Snowhands happened Page 21. It would be a good rule of thumb to say that the order of posts is roughly chronological unless explicitly stated otherwise.

@Muttonhawk@Antarctic Termite@BBeast also also also, I mentioned this to Termite already, but with regards to Thacel, @Malchivo's demigod of war, his last post has him headed for Rukbany and I somewhat want that to happen, given the warkriegs that will likely be taking off there. I messaged Malch about this a while back, but he's not been on in a loong time. Would one of you be willing to play Thacel in Rukbany? Or alternatively, is it ok if I takeover purely for Rukbany's purposes, and then release him to whoever would like him interacting with their characters/peoples/civilisations/god etc.

@Kho

As @Muttonhawk mentioned, @Malchivo has been absent for a sufficiently long time without leave of absence that his agency over his character is forfeit. If you need Thacel for something, go ahead and use him.


@Antarctic Termite, I like the OP for Godspeed. I observe that you have slightly modified the skill set for the Level 1-3 Gods so they are more powerful. This could potentially allow us to lower the starting level, if we wish, depending on how quick we want the early game to be of course.

So, short version... what have I missed?

@Dawnscroll

Good to see you back.

As far as Logos is concerned, Xos has been up to more shenanigans. Xos has battled both Jvan and Toun on separate occasions; all parties survived more-or-less intact. Also, the Acalya is formally extinct on Galbar, although that's probably set a few years ahead of the stuff with Xos. Nothing has happened on Arcon. You've returned just in time for Mutton to rope you into a collab to fight Xos, or something like that.

If you want a broader summary of recent IC events, check the zero'th post of the IC.

OOC, we've changed the name of Khookies to Prestige, and possibly changed Freepoints to Miracles (the transition is very recent and ongoing). The price scaling of Avatars has been adjusted, although this would only affect you if you've got lots of Avatars. We've opened up a grant program from Fate's Might Pot. Check the zero'th post of the OOC some time for a rules refresher and a look at the errata.

As has been mentioned, we've got a lite version of Divinus called Godspeed being cooked up as a bit of fun on the side and to expand on the franchise.

P.S. @Kho, regarding magic in your latest post: You asked whether having the urtelem's magic work with their Spiral Script and Tounic Calligraphy and not much else is fine. I'll give a slightly extended answer, although the short answer is yes, it's fine.

The urtelem's special brand of magic is based on Spiral Script. Spiral Script is a highly non-linear form of writing, spreading out into an intricate two-dimensional (and even fractal) pattern. This is unlike virtually every other language in existence, which is totally linear in form. This makes Urtelem magic largely incompatible with most languages simply because of the dimensional mismatch. Tounic Calligraphy is special, in that its grammar is not fixed to a linear structure, so it can be spliced into the urtelem Spiral Script without too many problems.

However, the Spiral Script is not unique in being able to invoke magic. Any language or script can be made to have magic words in theory, provided you find the right patterns and syllables and apply the power correctly (probably with divine guidance to invent it). It is just that Spiral Script has a particularly elegant structure when it comes to invoking magic. I shall note also that the language of Spiral Script used to invoke magic is different to the language of Spiral Script used in regular communication, in a similar way that a programming language is different to English. To those unfamiliar with Spiral Script they look very similar, but they use completely different words and grammatical rules.

Tounic Calligraphy, of course, bypasses any need to trigger the right parts of the laws of magic and just goes straight to the source code. While you could use Spiral Script magic to augment the functionality of a set of Calligraphic Runes, if you make the entire thing out of Tounic Calligraphy you may as well go back to the regular rules for writing Tounic Calligraphy (although, like programming languages, skill in one can help you decide how to structure spells in the other).