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Benea

Form

Benea’s height is nothing special. She is neither too tall, nor too short. If you were to equate her aesthetic to something common, you might first think of a white calla lily, in the sense that her skin is bright and her hair a shade of honey too much to be white. Her eyes showcase that same vibrant purity, being a chamomile ivory iris hugging her soft yellow pupils. 

Complimenting her long flowing hair is a dress that completes the vision of a lily, being long and slim, the tail trailing behind her without collecting dirt. She is pristine and alabaster in all ways. Often she holds her hands clasped at the waist as if in some wizened thought, a perhaps pitying smile playing on her lips. Her facial features are gentle and she gives off the air as if she never had the need or want to move faster than a spring breeze.

A terrible contrast is what a wound on her might look like. A laceration would cut open her unmarked skin and spill a black ooze that circulates within her. 

Personality

Outwardly, Benea is calm and collected. She plays with a smile and seems to patiently listen to those around her and consider their thoughts with all her being. She’ll act gracefully and kindly, with a faux compassion and saintly voice. That said, she is most certainly not listening to the concerns of others, and if she is, she is simply maneuvering them into her machinations.

She is saintly and calm only in the sense that her ego tells her she is, and so she pretends to be such. Inwardly she is easily frustrated and a spiteful and jealous person with little patience for the wants of others. Her porcelain doesn’t crack often, but when it does she can be seen as malicious.

If you ever find yourself in need of winning her favor, remember that a compliment goes a long way when used against the self absorbed. 

Will

She has the will of herself, of her ego and most of all the subjugation of everything beneath her: which is everything. The world should be as she wants it, and she wants it to exist to validate her and compliment her power. Nothing should be independent of her will nor of her design. Should something exist past her design, she will snuff it out. 

A world under her will and enforced by the capture of all the nodes is a world under her absolute authority forever and ever and in all things. 

Favorite Color
Creme

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Crucible of Gods
A Divine RP
Ooc


Crucible of Gods is a divine roleplay inspired in part by Divinus as well as some new original ideas. The setting of the story takes place on the Crucible, an isolated world with a mysterious past. Our gods awaken at the central node, a location owned by a dying God. Scattered across the world of Crucible are these nodes, strange black pillars that stretch endlessly downward and are nigh indestructible. Each node seems to have control over a section of the world, though right now every part of the world is in a veil of destructive chaos save for the central node. 

Stabilized by the dying god, in this location you learn that you and the other gods were born of his will. He explains to you the prophecy of the Crucible: in some unknown amount of time, the entire realm will be completely and utterly destroyed with everything in it unless all the nodes are under the touch of a divine -- in which case at this unknown time of destruction, the world will transform to fit the absolute will of the god in control of all the nodes.

Further he explains that he himself was the previous god to complete such a task, though he didn’t want to. He was a member of an alliance that supported the will of a better god than he, but such a god was slain by rivals and so reluctantly the dying god collected the nodes. However, at the end times, his will was shaky and his truest desire was for someone else to have collected the nodes and bring forth a true dream and will, and so the nodes reset the world and birthed a new generation of divine: you.

He is unsure if his crucible was the first and if this was the second, but without that knowledge all he can do is wish you the best of luck. His will thankfully also birthed the first mortals in the central node location, humans. They are plain and without technology or a past, the same as yourselves. With little else, the dying god had completed all he needed to complete and passes on, leaving you to the conquest of the crucible and a world to create and control.

Welcome to the Crucible of Gods. 

The aim of this story is to promote an open world divine roleplay with a strong sense of a central story based around an inciting incident (the end of the world/capture of the nodes) where there is little need for GM intervention and a lot of space for creativity. Please read below to understand the different parts of the game.

Nodes: The incentive to capture nodes is not linked to an out of character bonus or even in character bonus so as to remove the possibility of more active players zerg-rushing the nodes from less active players. Instead, the main incentive to capture nodes is for story purposes but also for one big mechanical reason: areas around nodes are too chaotic to support life until the node is stabilized by a claim. After stabilization, the capturer can define the stability.

What this means is that when a node is initially stabilized (it’s first ever stabilization) the god who is imparting their will can then choose a biome and mundane ecosystem to occupy the node’s territory for free. Changing the biome later (by the same god or another) will cost might. Do note that you must be in control of a node to make lasting changes to its biome.

Note: While there are no limits to capturing raw nodes, do note that I will be keeping my eye open in the starting weeks and strongly dissuading people from taking too many unstable nodes all at once to allow other players the opportunity to stabilize starting nodes.

God Nerf (as opposed to Divinus iterations): gods will be much more reliant on mortal supporters due to being weaker than traditional ‘gods’ and more vulnerable. Gods will also have a limit on how small their form can be and how large their form can be (determined at will by GM) as well as the set standard that all forms be solid (not ethereal, gaseous or liquid). Generally speaking, the form of a god will be unnaturally tough, but still vulnerable to damage.
 
Godly Acts: Gods can perform amazing feats of divine activity thanks to the OOC mechanism called might. Each god is awarded five points of might at the start of a cycle. At the end of a cycle, unused might does not carry over. Each cycle will happen at the same time every designated interval, so there is no need to wonder when the next refresh will take place. These might points can be used to perform IC godly actions based on the might catalog. If an action has a 0 next to it in the catalog, it means this can be done for free!

Portfolios/Aspects: Portfolios and Aspects aren’t declared at the time of character creation but rather formed over time. Since we all start anew, each God begins rather with a “Will” or in other words, their goals and what they wish the world to be like as well as their passions and priorities. This will can change as the character develops but their actions performed will eventually give them monikers among mortalkind such as God of Death/Agriculture/Light/ and so on. In other words, a Portfolio is earned via action and reflects the Will of the god. This will be better noted on the character sheet.

Technology: Technology is bought and taught via might using a special tiered system present in the might catalog. Note that mortalkind can advance their own technology without might but require a sufficient amount of IC interaction with the advancement before it takes root in the society. 

Despondence: A warning to the wholehearted! A phenomena exists on the Crucible called despondence. It is said that if a divine being gives up all hope and ambition and loses faith, their divine will and energy will slowly falter and eventually they themselves will evaporate. This despondence is said to affect any and all who suddenly go inactive. 



Note the black ring marking the central node stabilized by the dying god. I’ll mark nodes as they are captured and maybe even fill in colors for biomes. Biomes do NOT need to grade into each other seamlessly, you can have some wildly different areas next to each other.


Name: (The starting name of your character)

Example: X’ample

Form: (What does your god look like inherently? Remember the rules: the form must be solid and of a reasonable size. If you add some natural resistances, maybe add some natural weaknesses as well!) 

Example: A large grey fungus with arms of stone, pocked by fire. X’ample stands at around ten feet and is as wide as three men. Each arm is rippled with stone muscle and a heavy breathy voice echoes from the fungal ribs that cling to their mushroomy head. Though often seen tempering material in flame, their grey fungal body resists the heat and their arms, while scorched, do not feel the pain of the marks.

Due to X’ample’s love of heat and flame, they often steer clear of cold areas or even wide open spaces with too much wind, as frostbite too readily clings to their fungal fringes and sours their body. 

Personality: (Who is your character and how do they react to the world around them?)

Example: X’ample is a stoic sort who only explodes with emotion at the mention of craft and work. They despise laziness and creativity, but applaud hard work and benediction through labor. So on and so on…

Will: (This is a bit tricky, but what does your god value and what would a manifestation of their will look like? This can change as the story progresses and your character develops.)

Example: The will of X’ample is one of hardwork. If all the world was ordered simply by gain through work and gain through labor, then all the better. Luck, chance, and charity all weaken the temperance, and only through self-dedication and so on and so on… you get it. Such a will would likely manifest through the collection of the nodes a world of work and a world of labor neverending where rest and enjoyment of fruition were forgotten under the heavy strain.

Favorite Color: (This will be used to mark nodes you own, first come first served.)

Example: Black, and now you can’t have it... You edgelords. But seriously, black is the color for the dying god’s initial node.

Please check the catalog for innate abilities, what you can and cannot do as well as expectations for playing oocly and icly.

A number will follow each item, that number indicates how much might is required to purchase that item. Before you take a look, here is a quick list of universal abilities owned by each god. You MAY forfeit any ability at the time of creation.

Breathe without air
Does not starve or dehydrate 
Super-strength: think punching through metal and breaking boulders rather than razing mountains
Super-speed: not going to do laps around the world in seconds or even going from node to node in a matter of minutes or hours, but can move and perceive faster and more acutely than mortalkind.
Ageless
Fluent in all language
Being nice 

Notable things NOT included in universal abilities:

Telepathy
Flight
Teleportation
Shape-shifting
Mind-reading

Things not possible for even the gods

Breaking a node
Digging to the bottom of a node
Creating a new node
Creating a new continent
Expanding the world
Traveling to parallel realms or extra-dimensions 
Breaking the fourth wall

Expectations 

You will interact with the node system
You will interact with other players
You will not shy away from conflict
You will attempt to cooperate with others
You will receive consent from other players before altering their work, if consent is not given and you feel like not interacting with the topic at hand would be unrealistic for the narrative, contact the GM
You will not gatekeep other players from your plotlines
You'll join the discord
You are not writing in a vacuum

All that said, feel free to let me know if you see something missing on the catalog that you would like, or if you have ideas on any changes.
This will likely be your most used area of Might, as this covers divine acts done at a whim.
Creating a single plant or animal 0 (increase cost with increase power and area of effect)
Scattering the clouds, causing a normal rainstorm, or regular alterations to the weather pattern 0
Creating a prolonged change to weather such as a drought or rain 1
Creating a weather storm of dangerous levels such as a cyclone or striking lightning storm 2
Creating an isolated divine storm such as a rain of fire 3
Throwing fire, ice, lightning or other simple spells 0 (increase cost with increase power and area of effect)
Making a single or small batch of vegetation grow faster 0 (increase cost with increase power and area of effect)
Healing or curing the ailments of a single or small group of wounded and sick 0 (increase cost with increase power and area of effect)
Raising a single mortal recently deceased and still intact 2
Creating a dangerous beast or creature of power and magic 
1 might for minotaur/harpy/fairy equivalent
2 might for Lion of Nemea/chimera equivalent
3 might for St George’s Dragon
4 might for Hydra equivalent
5 might for Godzilla equivalent

Artifacts are physical tools created by gods to do something specific. They do not lose their power but can break. Note that an artifact with a drawback for using it may be able to get away with a slightly better edge than an artifact that is all good.

Examples:
0 might: A single mundane tool or item of no magical property such as clothes or a fancy stick
1 might: A fantastical item of ability such as an ever-sharp sword, a shield that reflects arrows, a fire that reveals your deepest desire, or perhaps a loom that spins straw into gold
2 might: A war-cleaver that gets deadlier the more it kills at the cost of the bearer’s human form, A jacket completely immune to all slashing and piercing damage (though beware a hammer), A totem that lets you speak to a recently fallen comrade, a flute that can quell all beasts’ rage
3 might: A fountain that spouts sparkling water with healing powers, A bow that shoots 100 arrows with every shot, a ring that turns you invisible
4 might: A scepter that commands the wind and can conjure devastating storms, a chariot that can ride the clouds at incredible speeds, 
5 might: (SIGNATURE ARTIFACT) Every god can create one signature artifact. Their signature artifact is a tool of immense power and can come in many forms. Check in before you make one!

This customizes your node and the area under the control of your node. Note that to do these, you have to own the area via node capture and be physically touching the node!

0 might: 
Create the initial biome and ecosystem of a newly stabilized node (can’t be done on a recaptured node)
Capture a node (requires physical contact with the node for only a brief moment if stabilizing for the first time, and at least several uninterrupted hours if recapturing from a resisting god.)
Remove another God’s permissions to use the node (only the true owner can do this)
Project your voice across the node region

1 might:
Node warning (when another divine gets close to your node, you are alerted by the node)
Permanently change weather
Conjure single construction (Bastion, manor, wall)
Grant another god permission to use the power of the node (they can use it to count towards technology tiers, access the nexus’, and utilize this list)

2 might:
Node Nexus (creates a vortex by the node that allows the owner of the node to enter. It must be connected to another nexus under the control of the owner to work)

3 might:
Conjure many constructions (town, city, multifaceted academy or fortress)
Reform biome (not ecology)

4 might:
Quick Nexus (one-time) forces a nexus to send you to either a node under your control without a nexus, or the border of any node territory.

5 might:
Capital Nexus (must have 5 or more nodes under immediate control): You can use the Capital Nexus to travel to any owned node, even if they don’t have a nexus; however, you cannot teleport back without a nexus.

This covers blessings and curses bestowed upon a target.

0 might: 
Remove a curse or blessing inflicted by yourself
Inconsequential curse or blessing (ex. change how someone smells)
Swap between forms

1 might:
Basic curse or blessing (ex. Super strong, infertile, blind)
Remove a basic curse or blessing by someone else
Create a new form for yourself (within form parameters)

2 might:
Advanced curse or blessing (ex. Lineage cursed with bad luck, tremendously hard to kill, incredibly skilled)
Remove and advanced curse or blessing by someone else

3 might:
Basic curse or bless a group
Remove a group curse or blessing by someone else

4 might:
Advanced curse or bless a group
Remove an advanced group curse or blessing by someone else

5 might:
Divine punishment (ex. Mutate target into a rodent to be tortured endlessly by the digestive system of an ageless bird)
remove a Divine punishment

This covers the cost for advancing technology. Note that you can only make a technology purchase once per might cycle, with the only exception being that tier one does not count as a purchase and can be purchased at will. Realistically, this means tier one and tier two can be purchased in the same cycle. 

Three final notes: firstly, I put quotations on either side of familiar phrases such as ‘iron’ or ‘bronze’ age simply because they are being used to conjure an idea of what the technology looks like rather than exist as an exact replica of our own historical bronze age. Secondly, technology level is a background setting and doesn’t affect things like what a god can make or what materials they can use or even magic complexity. It simply serves as the setting. Lastly, technology can spill onto societies nearby that didn’t pay for or develop the new technology themselves.

0 might+1 node: (Tier one)Raise a civilization to the stone age (fire, simple homes, stone knapping)
1 might+1 node: (Tier two)Raise a civilization to the ‘chalcolithic’ age or early metal age (agriculture, domestication, soft metal work (gold, silver, copper, tin)) 
2 might+2 nodes: (Tier three)Raise a civilization to the ‘bronze’ age or middle metal age(complex alloys, water power, engineering)
3 might+4 nodes: (Tier four)Raise a civilization to the ‘iron’ age or high metal age(stronger alloys, advanced metal design, chemistry, the romance of a classic age of fantasy)
4 might+6 nodes: (Tier five)Raise a civilization to the transitory age or early fantasy industrial age (cannons and swords, longbows and gears) 
5 might+8 nodes: (Tier six)Raise a civilization to the steam age or middle fantasy industrial age (clockwork and steam engines, guns and fixed bayonets)


Some notes from the Discord:

The only currently stable node is node 18 as claimed by the dying god. It is the only habitable location for mortal life until other nodes are stabilized and is described as a gentle valley fit for life and the humans that were spawned there by the old will of the dying god. Once the god dies, the node will be up for grabs. 

All gods start with an understanding of the map, the numbers corresponding to the nodes, and so forth. The 18th node will be special in that an interactive stone map of the world will be present, showcasing the status of every node in real time. This cannot be moved.

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