[OOC] The World of War: Central Hub/Main Thread/Chen's Tavern

[LeeRoy]

@MelonHead
*Sigh.*

It was hopeful too, so close and yet so far.

[Enki]

I'm just waiting.

[LeeRoy]

@Enki
It's @Negatomsk'so turn to post, I thought all of the Shinra folks knew each other. Can you contact them?

[Enki]

He knows, but hasn't been talking for a day or so. But he will get to it.

[ImportantNobody]

@ImportantNobody
I haven't the slightest clue what your setting is about bro, tbqh. No offense but I don't really follow anyone but like, @MelonHead's lore or universe. So I don't really know about your mythos or anything.

@LeeRoy

My multiverse has a primary conflict between grey and grey morality forces. On one hand is the people that want to bring order to the chaotic new multiverse. Many worlds are in tatters and abused by more powerful ones, so they desire a strong central force to unify the multiverse and stop such bad guys. They are supported by a being who created a Right of Rule artifact to choose the leader. Only someone who can amass great power and loyalty would be able to get their hands on it, as they need many allies to travel the multiverse in search for it.

Opposing them are people who fear the new government and ruler who will abuse their power and be nearly unstoppable if they don't put an end to it before it begins. They are especially interested in eliminating Ruling Candidates (people making a bid for the Right of Rule search) who they mistrust the most.

Both sides have tons of wrong and right reasons to support them and eac side fuels the fire as they believe they are in the right and can't back down.

A main hero group, Phoenix Call, sides with a ruler who they believe might lead the multiverse well enough, but they do admit that things will probably get out of hands sooner or later and they will have to kill members of the government they help founded. Evvie became a temporary members of Phoenix Call but sides with the rebels on a couple occasions, where Phoenix Call is more for te authority path most of the way.

They break the blade of Right to Rule into pieces using the main heroes weapon that can break practically anything, so multiple rulers take a piece and the current head uses the handle. Left in one piece, the wielder could basically rule everyone with forced loyalty to their every command, which could Have ended all wars in the multiverse, but yeah...

[LeeRoy]

@ImportantNobody
Man your story, even though it's multiversal, is pretty central. I wish I were capable of centralizing stories.

IF I WEREN'T ADDICTED TO CREATING RIDICULOUSLY COMPLEX CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MULTIVERSES, RACES AND EVENTS.

But I'll give a very rough summary of the most important detail of my Multiverse Itself.

Creation:
Alright so I play with the idea of infinities in different degrees, okay?

To explain what I mean:

Y'know how there is an infinite number of multiples of 4? Simply by how numbers work, no matter how many times you multiply 4, you will never run out. Hence, there is an infinite number of multiples of 4.

Now think about how many more multiples of 1 there are. The infinity of multiples of four is dwarfed by the infinity of multiples of 1. So infinity is not always equal to infinity.

I bring this up to explain the vastness of The Abyss and The Multiverse.

To all outside observers, at least inside of my own Mythos, The Multiverse is a Hypercube of High and Low energy states. An artistic representation would be Metatron's Cube.

The highest energy universes lying in the center and the lowest energy universes lying on the outer edges of the cube. Entropy works that way, since energy radiates from a central energetic point outwards.

Anyway, this Multiverse Figure IS infinite. Though this is technically impossible for us to perceive since we can't really comprehend an infinite space having outer edges, it has no limit to how much is inside.

However, The Multiverse is surrounded by The Abyss. The Abyss is the concept of Non-Existence given form. Previously it had no form, until The Multiverse was created by The Architect. (Who himself is also infinite.) And it hates having form, it hates the fact that it exists. It is semi-sentient, but as a hive-mind rather than a singular entity. Energy of a sort, I suppose it would be anti-energy, grows and thrives in The Abyss. All energy and matter touched by it is horribly corrupted and either obliterated or mutated. In rare cases other side effects occur. None are particularly pretty.

The Abyss is infinite in a scale that can't be comprehended, it so dwarfs the Multiverse itself that from an inside perspective there is literally nothing else outside of The Multiverse. I toy with the idea of The Abyss having its limits but never go into it. Multiple degrees of infinity is too much to think about.

So this Infinite Multiverse is contained in an even greater Infinite Abyss within which a single plane of existence lies that this whole roleplay is taking place on.

This plane of existence is potentially infinite. Technically infinite, now that I think about the infinite number of universes and the infinite number of champions from those.

This shit gets convoluted when I start writing it down.

[ImportantNobody]

@LeeRoy, the main idea of the multiverse is central, but there's still plenty of room for convoluted plots and ulterior motives. A civil war happens between Ruling Candidates, for example, as they have power struggles.

VSauce on youtube has interesting videos about infinities and whatnot that you should check out.

My multiverse can link itself to any of the vast realities, but they're not anywhere close to all linked and might as well not exist as far as the multiverse concerns itself with, so although possibly infinite large if it took in everything, it is not in reality. For example, there could be a reality where a superman-like figure flips a coin and in one reality it's heads and one it's tails, but that doesn't mean both realities can get into the multiverse and you have two super men joining the fray. It mainly connects to main branches of things rather than offshoots, so it could decide on the reality of him flipping heads as the main one connected to the multiverse and you're stuck with that specific version of the super man. There are multiple different versions of earth (earth being nothing special) and other planets, but on a limited scale where drastic changes happen, like if dinosaurs never went extinct, so the odds of two Evvies showing up from different realities of her world are slim, and if they did would likely be vastly different. Some people can force connections/take one way trips to non connected realities, but this is difficult.

[Alphakoka]

*pops in*
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Ugh, nope, not reading those while I still have headache.
*pops out*

[ImportantNobody]

So do you have it where every decision sprouts a new alternate reality where every outcome is created as its own universe? I'm wondering how multiverse theory works in real life, like where is all the energy coming from to form all these infinite realities, and why?

I'm probably going to have mine where they just have potential to exist when interacted with as if it always existed, so like it's encoded as cosmic data before becoming real. Maybe.

[LeeRoy]

@ImportantNobody
All universes are created by Gods or Titans, timeline realities are purely theoretical in my mythos.

[LeeRoy]

Okay so, I hate waving the GM stick, but @Negatomsk I need you to post in the next three days. You are currently holding the entire roleplay hostage in stasis by not posting.

[ImportantNobody]

@ImportantNobody
All universes are created by Gods or Titans, timeline realities are purely theoretical in my mythos.

@LeeRoy

Gods are not super special in mine. Mortal beings can overcome them in some instances. They are not responsible for all of creation, although they did set it in motion so it depends on point of view. As a collective they can be super duper powerful though. They are kind of spread out now and don't like working together very much.

[LeeRoy]

@ImportantNobody
The gods take the backseat but are always important. Major cosmic events don't happen unless they allow it, unless they are kept secret by incredibly powerful magic/technology/power.

[Rilla]

Yeee of dirty faith. It is my birthday.

[LeeRoy]

@Rilla Happy day of your birth, your parents were probably bored in early to mid August. Congratulate.

@Negatomsk Please post, you have one day remaining.

[MelonHead]

Yeee of dirty faith. It is my birthday.

@Rilla

Aww man, forgot to say HB on FB, oh well, happy birthday bruuuh.

[LeeRoy]

Once that last day ends, I'll have to eject Negatomsk from the roleplay. At that point we'll have to discuss some way to move around the current situation. Perhaps resetting a couple posts to before he even posted, because holding up a 1v1 roleplay is one thing, but holding up a group roleplay is another.

[MelonHead]

We could always just have Jen lol-smack the emo-skeleton straight out the tavern.

[Rilla]

Send in the giant chickens. Melon gets it.

[MelonHead]

You know, that's exactly what we should do. It's been more than enough time now, Jen's attack should just land, ejecting him from the area.