Dead Cruiser

Bible of Ichor: Septet for the Dead

Given we're all waking up together, I wonder which of us will band together into coteries.

War in Heaven: Conquest of Gods and Kings

"Have I not (quoth he) good cause to weep, that being as there are an infinite number of worlds, I am not yet the lord of one?"
_{-On Tranquility of the Mind}



What challenge remains for those that have mastered their world?

Every threat destroyed, every rival beaten, every secret learned, every treasure hoarded?

At the pinnacle of power, with only the heavens themselves still above?

There are those content to rule but a single world as a god or king. You are not content.

You took it upon yourself to break into heaven, to kill the gods and topple their thrones.

But you weren't the first, and you won't be the last.

Heaven is overrun with broken heroes and mad gods, and the lust for blood, gold, control, and power runs high.

Will you join the war in Heaven and fight to carve out a piece of Creation for your own?

Will you protect the world that bore you from the malevolent forces beyond the veil of reality?

Will you fight, or will you die like a dog?

Choose now: be you peasant, king, or god?

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Setting

The setting for this is sort of a fantasy-styled centralized multiverse. Infinite realities spin about the great wheel of Creation, each one a fully realized World unto itself. Some worlds are just that, a single planet or system. Others are complex-near infinite universes full of mystery and wonder. Others still are folded onto themselves with infinite sub-dimensions and alternate realities. At the center of creation, outside of every known reality, is the city of Heaven, built by the long-dead Old Gods. Originally the mausoleum of the first deities of Creation, it has been picked clean of secrets and built back over itself a thousand times by the haughty New Gods that escaped their home worlds. Heaven is the only place from which Aeon Gates can be constructed, allowing travel between universes and the infinite Void in which Heaven exists. As such, Heaven is a metropolis unlike any in any reality, the festering carcass of a billion worlds. Worse yet is Hell, the foul city built from Heaven's literal underbelly, that hangs precipitously over the Void itself.

Your Character

The character you play is meant to be the apex/hero/king of whatever world/universe/reality that you call home. Having achieved the absolute pinnacle of power capable in your world, you have escaped that world to achieve even greater heights. As the first being to do so and make the pilgrimage to Heaven, you are considered a representative for your reality among the kings and gods of Heaven. The titles for beings such as yourself are myriad, typically depending on one's individual styling, but counted among your peers are New Gods, God-Kings, Worldthrones, Demiurges, Titans, and much more.

The Story

Heaven is a dangerous place, especially for someone as powerful as yourself. Mortals avoid notice, New Gods attract attention. Under normal circumstances, the balance of power in Creation and between the New Gods is arbitrated by the Concordance, an informal alliance of the most powerful among their number, led by the enigmatic figure known as the Aeon King. Also known as the King of Heaven, the First, and the Flamekeeper, little is known about them besides their mastery of science and magic that has allowed them to create Aeon Keys, the only reliable means of travel between universes. Most of the New Gods that break into Heaven and present themselves to the Concordance are gifted with the Aeon Key to their world. This is a powerful and unique magical artifact that not only allows them to build Aeon Gates and bring their world into the multiversal community (should they choose it), but imbues them with the raw power of Creation.

Normally this is the case, but Heaven faces a crisis of unprecedented scale. The Aeon King is missing, disappeared without a trace. Without them, New Gods that appear go unrecognized by the Concordance, and are left to wreak havoc across Heaven and the worlds reachable by Aeon Gates. Worse yet, a power struggle has broken out amongst the most powerful of the New Gods, each seeking the throne of Heaven for themselves. While true multiversal war has yet to break out, the initial skirmishes have already been catastrophic, as worlds burn and entire races are extinguished.

Where do you fall in this struggle? Do you seek the throne of Heaven for yourself, to command the ultimate power in the multiverse? Will you sell your services in exchange for the power and recognition of a greater lord? Or do you hope to protect the mortals of Creation from the deadly whims of mad gods?

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tl;dr

What's the worst part about breaking into heaven to kill god and topple his throne? Finding out you're the last guy to break into heaven to kill god and topple his throne.

The concept is this: you play as the endgame hero from your "world." You finished the quest, beat the final boss, got all the treasure in the world. Player characters in this game have managed to go beyond that, achieving some sort of ascended state, enlightenment, or sheer scientific prowess, and have fully escaped from their own universe.

What they find is Heaven, but not what they were expecting. The place between worlds has long been populated by a thousand heroes from a thousand worlds, New Gods, who have made the multiverse their playground and battlefield in equal, infinite measure. Their attempts at a chaotic, squabbling multiversal society has been held in a tenuous peace, but with the disappearance of the First, the Aeon King, the denizens of Heaven have fallen to squabbling amongst themselves for control.

This leaves you, the player, in the midst of the struggle. Are you a fresh-faced New God, blade still wet with the blood of mortal foes, ready to face new, immortal opponents? Or are you a long-reigning god of the celestial order, determined to retain order in your portioned corner of the multiverse? The options are literally limitless.

And as ever, please, comments, questions, concerns.

Bible of Ichor: Septet for the Dead

@Dead Cruiser
Arrogance, even for a vampire hm? I'll assume that he has the standard fare of blood magic and some alchemy related stuff. I see no errors or anything that needs to be change

@Rune_Alchemist

Yeah, I'm hoping to use blood magic to achieve effects like vicissitude, or possibly later the coils of the dragon.

Bible of Ichor: Septet for the Dead

The Red Worm

Name: Ashur Kupala

Gender: Male

Appearance: While his appearance is mutable thanks to his skills in transformative blood sorcery, Ashur's most commonly-used guise is that of a slight, gentle-featured young man with white hair and pale eyes. His usual garb is finery that allows him to walk amongst the educated and privileged without notice.

Abilities: Ashur's longest pursuit through his unlife has been the study of blood magic, and his attempts to refine it into new and terrifying forms of sorcery. As a living man he was a proficient wizard and alchemist, but in Ichor's era his powers over flesh and blood were truly terrifying. He has dabbled in a wide array of magical disciplines, including those unique to Ichor's children, but blood magic and alchemy that he has derived from it are his true forte.

Personality: To most, Ashur has a charming, if somewhat servile demeanor; this is a fascade, long cultivated over centuries of politicking and deception. In truth, Ashur is vicious, ruthless, and utterly brutal in pusuit of his goals. However, this is all kept carefully concealed, and his efforts toward his secretive agenda are subtle enough to go unnoticed by most. Regarding Ichor, at first Ashur saw her as a means to an end, but now considers her to be his jailer, and knows that he can never truly be free as long as his life is linked to her power. He gives every appearance of pursuing the mission she passed down to him, but truly seeks to rid himself of her yoke. While Ashur views himself as superior to every human, he thinks much the same of most vampires. In his mind, he is an evolved, advanced being, better than any human or vampire, which are beings that exist only to serve his needs and goals.

Bio: Ashur was born in a distant land, a far-removed prince of a royal house. The early years of his mortal life were fraught with danger, as court politics in his homeland were fierce and deadly. He honed his skills in deception (and in poisoncraft) simply to survive his youth, and once he was of age he left his homeland to study the mysteries of magic. Far along his travels he heard tell of the undead goddess Ichor, and sought her power in order to achieve eternal life. Without the threat of age and death hanging over his head, he believed he would be able to achieve mastery of sorcery outside the reach of mortals. His investigations led him to an opium den that was truly the den of something far worse. Beset by vampiric thralls, he used his magical skills to dispatch the undead fiends, and their master was impressed by his prowess. Under Ichor's auspice, Ashur was made a vampire, and his first act as one of the living dead was to slay his progenitor, to ensure none could claim to be his superior.

Spending his unlife in pursuit of secret magics and forbidden alchemy, Ashur spent most of his time far removed from the societies of both humans and vampires. His eventual goal was to surpass the vampiric condition, and evolve into an entire new form of being, free of Ichor's control. Even so, the Hundred Paladins sought to put him down all the same, and there was little that he could do. Their divine power was enough to nullify his unholy magic, and he was eventually slain by his own alchemically-mutated minions after his control over them was broken by the paladins' magic.

Young Avengers: Secret Wars

But that is not without its struggles, even for Terra.

@CaptainManbeard

Terra: "So what you're saying is... blow them all out into space."

Also, is the ship crewed? What would Terra find on the bridge?

Young Avengers: Secret Wars

Terra is going to try and get to the bridge. Are they in space, or between dimensions?

Bible of Ichor: Septet for the Dead

Cool stuff I will try to have a CS up today.

I am planning basically a vampire wizard. Blood Sorcery ahoy.

Young Avengers: Secret Wars

I don't really see the point in posting anything if we've just been knocked unconscious again.

Young Avengers: Secret Wars

A boy emerged clad in armor remarkably similar to the appearance of the robots that had assaulted Terra earlier. He was apparently aware of this, and tried to dissuade their fears by blaming their appearance on an alternate-self, but Terra was not entirely convinced. So far, this one and America were the most suspicious in her mind. She tried to not let it show.

"Terra is my name, not, like, my superhero name." She paused, realizing what she just said. "Well, not like I'm a superhero, anyway. My dad would flip if I started calling myself one." Terra was hoping that these teenagers, seemingly teen superheroes, could relate to her experience of having a superhero for a parent. Might grease the wheels in getting them to open up about who they were and where they came from.

"Does anyone have any plans for 'Iron Lad', or shall I start flushing bits of myself down the toilet?”

@udonoodles

Hearing this, Terra looked at Jasper incredulously, and said, "Good plan if you want to end up trapped in a septic tank. Or dumped into an incinerator. Does your Earth not have starships?" Looking over to the others, she asked aloud, "Anyone here ever been on a spacecraft? Show of hands?" She raised her own hand.

Bible of Ichor: Septet for the Dead - A Unheroic Gothic Vampire RP

Lol cool I also want in on this. Feels almost tailor made.