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Ancient god's Return

The announcer's voice came over the loudspeaker. "Ladies and Gentlemen, place your bets for the final fight of the evening." Sure, the fighting ring was illegal, as was gambling in New York City, but most of the people participating weren't even human, so legal fight leagues wouldn't accept them. "Tonight a new challenger will step into the ring to take on the Tortured Titan. Give it up for Franky Cazivini."

Prometheus opened his eyes to see a very large human wearing studded gloves. Anything goes in the arena, as long as the fight was kept melee, so it was fairly common for people to bring weapons, and the Cazavinis were a fairly small crime family, so it made sense that they would send one of their own into the ring to try to win the fame and fortune that would go to anyone who could beat Prometheus. Unfortunately, studded gloves couldn't hurt him fast enough to win the fight.

A bell dinged and the Prometheus stepped forward, wearing only a track outfit with his necklace tucked safely inside it. "Come on, Franky." he said. "First shot's free."

Franky shrugged and swung at Prometheus' face. Prometheus was dazed as a tooth flew from his mouth. So he knows how to throw a punch.thought Prometheus. With my healing that won't matter.

"Looks like I'm gonna make a bit extra on this match. God teeth sell for a pretty good price."

Prometheus grinned at Franky, showing the hole where his tooth used to be, and decided to play with Franky to draw the crowd in. He let a few light jabs connect while landing a few of his own. After about a minute of this, however, Prometheus realized that his wounds weren't healing. He looked at Franky's gloves. "Stygian steel?"

"You think I'd step into the ring with one of you without it?" Franky asked.

Prometheus shrugged. True, stygian steel could weaken the powers of anyone injured with it. He would have to concentrate to heal these wounds, which meant that he couldn't fool around any more. Luckily, Franky was predictable enough for a bit of Foresight to reveal his moves just before he did them, even in Prometheus' weakened condition. After wailing on the man for over a minute Franky finally collapsed and Prometheus lifted his hands into the air. The crowd cheered, and Prometheus absorbed the admiration, noticing that this influx of Worship was enough to heal his wounds and return him to full strength.

Once the crowd died down he climbed out of the ring and made his way towards The Sorcerer's office to get his pay for the fights and patching up those fighters that got messed up too badly for first aid to be enough.

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Anyone want to play as ancient gods that are trying to survive/return in modern times?

Those gods that are currently in power won't like it, and any follower of theirs that they've given actual power to will recognize us. So might the odd witch/pagan/etc. So we might have to fight from time to time.

If we get to powerful, goodbye New York City.

youtube.com/watch?v=-tVTEyuCKn4

possible CS

Name:
Pantheon:
Major Domain:
Minor Domain:
Relic: (One, in case there's something closely tied to you.)
Bio:

Prometheus

Name: Prometheus
Pantheon: Greek
Major Domain: Clairvoyance (usually expressed through premonitions)
Minor Domain: Health (Can regenerate from a single cell in 72 hours, mortal wounds in a few hours, and can heal others.)
Relic: The Primordial Fire (now contained within a slightly glowing diamond necklace that Prometheus always wears, it rapidly restores the energy of those that wear it, and can amplify powers of gods, demigods, humans, and monsters. No one is quite sure where the energy comes from. Some say it is a nascent universe, others energy from the creation of this universe, others absorbed energy from life or some other energy source. It is his most prized possession.)
Bio: He loved humans, and foresaw that they might become greater than the gods, so he stole the primordial fire from Zeus and hid it with them. For this he was chained to a rock and repeatedly killed for over 3000 years. Luckily, when Christianity began to spread to Greece, he was found by a traveling monk and freed, the holy man not knowing who he truly was. Knowing that he would never be allowed to return to Olympus, despite the fact that Zeus was now being challenged by a foreign god, he retrieved the Primordial fire, took it North, convinced Thor to have it forged into a necklace, and left to live among the humans.

Star Wars Old Republic: The Founding of Cyphan (looking for players)

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Ancient god's return

I think I've figured out where to start the RP.

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The announcer's voice came over the loudspeaker. "Ladies and Gentlemen, place your bets for the final fight of the evening." Sure, the fighting ring was illegal, as was gambling in New York City, but most of the people participating weren't even human, so legal fight leagues wouldn't accept them. "Tonight a new challenger will step into the ring to take on the Tortured Titan. Give it up for Franky Cazivini."

Prometheus opened his eyes to see a very large human wearing studded gloves. Anything goes in the arena, as long as the fight was kept melee, so it was fairly common for people to bring weapons, and the Cazavinis were a fairly small crime family, so it made sense that they would send one of their own into the ring to try to win the fame and fortune that would go to anyone who could beat Prometheus. Unfortunately, studded gloves couldn't hurt him fast enough to win the fight.

A bell dinged and the Prometheus stepped forward, wearing only a track outfit with his necklace tucked safely inside it. "Come on, Franky." he said. "First shot's free."

Franky shrugged and swung at Prometheus' face. Prometheus was dazed as a tooth flew from his mouth. So he knows how to throw a punch.thought Prometheus. With my healing that won't matter.

"Looks like I'm gonna make a bit extra on this match. God teeth sell for a pretty good price."

Prometheus grinned at Franky, showing the hole where his tooth used to be, and decided to play with Franky to draw the crowd in. He let a few light jabs connect while landing a few of his own. After about a minute of this, however, Prometheus realized that his wounds weren't healing. He looked at Franky's gloves. "Stygian steel?"

"You think I'd step into the ring with one of you without it?" Franky asked.

Prometheus shrugged. True, stygian steel could weaken the powers of anyone injured with it. He would have to concentrate to heal these wounds, which meant that he couldn't fool around any more. Luckily, Franky was predictable enough for a bit of Foresight to reveal his moves just before he did them, even in Prometheus' weakened condition. After wailing on the man for over a minute Franky finally collapsed and Prometheus lifted his hands into the air. The crowd cheered, and Prometheus absorbed the admiration, noticing that this influx of Worship was enough to heal his wounds and return him to full strength.

Once the crowd died down he climbed out of the ring and made his way towards The Sorcerer's office to get his pay for the fights and patching up those fighters that got messed up too badly for first aid to be enough.

Star Wars Old Republic: The Founding of Cyphan

Started another int check to try to stir up interest.

Star Wars Old Republic: The Founding of Cyphan (looking for players)

based on this RP.

The Sith War with Revan and Malak just ended, and people from both sides were recruited to come to the newly discovered planet of Cyphan to start a new life. Sometimes people would fall in love with someone on the other side. Sometimes they would sympathize with the others, or stop believing in the cause, and these people came to Cyphan, knowing that the Republic would never accept them or even fearing punishment.

The one who discovered this world, and who came up with the idea of settling it with people from both sides is a former Jedi Knight named Kale Durran, who married a Sith Assassin named Jenna Brek, AKA Darth Vindis. They teach what they call the Cyphan Way, that the Force isn't light or dark. The Force is life, and those are different sides of the life that creates it, both the benevolent and selfish sides.

Durran is trusted by most of the refugees, and wishes to found a direct democracy in which all adults vote in rulers that only remain as long as they maintain a 50% or greater approval rating.

He is founding a town called Cyphan City on one of the planet's large plains, near a crystal cave which is strong in the Force. There he will institute his government and treat everyone the same under the law, with the Force being treated as a tool, not an excuse to rule over others. His wife will serve as the local constable should the need arise.

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The plot will basically be us adapting to this new life, culture, etc.

Think of it as a western, but with Jedi as the Mayor, a Sith as the sheriff, and a gang of Sith trying to birddog the town.

Basic CS

(A picture if you have one.)
Name:

Alias:

Species:

Skills: (I'll use the ones from KOTOR, but you don't really have to.)

Combat Skills: (weapons you use and how good you are with them)

Force powers: (If you have any. If you are Force sensitive, Durran and Brek will train you if they trust you to not abuse the power.)

Personality:

Bio:

Equipment:

Kale Durran

With a yellow light saber, as he was a Sentinel

Name: Kale Durran

Alias: none

Species: Human

Skills: Computers, Repair, medicine, Persuade

Combat Skills: Learned several lightsaber forms, and prefers Forms one and three. Unlike most Jedi, though, he also carries a blaster, a watchman's blaster, meant to stun opponents, though it can kill.

Force powers: Battle meditation, Force push, mind trick, healing, destroy droid

Personality: Curious about the way things work. This is why he studied medicine and repair, and why he chose to spend his time honing his understanding of the Force instead of his combat skills.

Bio: He went to the Temple on Dantooine to learn to use the Force as a teenager, when the Mandolorians attacked the farming world he lived on, killing his parents. They trained him, though by the time he finished his training Revan had already started recruiting. He wanted to go, but his master held him back, and a few years later he was fighting against those he had trained beside, only with them serving the Dark side.
That was the one point he didn't understand in his training. Light and Dark sides of this one Force meant that you were not seeing the whole picture. Yes, the Sith were blinding themselves to the light side by abandoning themselves to the darkness, but the Jedi did the same when they refused to even look at that darkness. Surely, if life created the Force, then there was a way to find the balance in the Force that nature had found.
One day the Jedi sent him to infiltrate the cadre of a Sith operative on Corellia, Darth Vindis. He convinced her that he was a fallen Jedi, telling her the truth about his view that the Dark side could be used for good and the Light side for evil, and joined. After a few months they fell in love, though he knew it was only a matter of time before he has to turn on her.
She sent him into the unknown regions to scout new Hyperspace routes for the Sith, a dangerous job made considerably safer when one could sense the flow of energy in hyperspace through the Force, but when he found an uninhabited world whip he named Cyphan, after his dead father, he knew that he couldn't let the Sith or Jedi have it. The Force was strong there, and either side would corrupt it.
When he was ordered to betray her a week later, he told her of the world and suggested they hide out there. She knew that the Sith would not accept that she had failed in her mission to prepare the sector for invasion, but wasn't willing to hide in fear like some mewling pup. Instead, she faked the death of both Durran and herself, and started using her real name, Jenna Brek. She ran for public office, certain that she could reveal herself and her info and save herself from the Sith's anger, and he got a job as a droid mechanic. A year later, they got married.
When the Star Forge was destroyed, she heard of it through a Sith she was supposedly being bribed by, and they knew it was only a matter of time before the war was over and all of her machinations would be in vain. They secretly reached out to other people like themselves and, when the war was declared over, had already begun a basic colony near the mouth of a Force crystal cave.
They use their ship to farry people in or buy supplies, but make sure that they do not lead the Sith or Republic to their new homeworld, as this world would be poisoned should the Jedi or Sith settle on it. Hopefully, Durran and Brek together could prevent that from happening as a consequence of their arrival.

Equipment: Basic Mynock-hide armor (good against energy, only decent against physical attacks.), Watchman's blaster, yellow lightsaber, two droids (A1-B3, a protocol droid and M2-D9, an astromech), a freighter (though he locked the nav computer so people can't learn the location of this world and leak it) with a work bench and a chem station. He's working on a recreation of the Temple on Dantooine, but so far he only has the landing pad, a side room (the Guard's office). He also has several thousand credits, as they are currently used as money here.

Jenna Brek

Name: Jenna Brek

Alias: Darth Vindis

Species: Human (Corruscanti)

Skills: Stealth, Awareness, Demolitions, Security

Combat Skills: Trained to fight with a light saber staff, though she uses a metal stun staff most of the time, as she prefers not to kill. Also good at hand-to-hand

Force powers: Force lightning, Force Choke, Throw saber (uses it with her staff too), Dominate mind

Personality: Cold and calculating when need be, but kind and friendly most of the time.

Bio: Growing up in the Corruscant underground, she joined the Sith it order to learn to be strong, like she never felt she was before. She learned strength, but also a learned to turn the rage and fear she had dealt with into power to destroy her enemies. For a time she used her power to destroy everyone the Sith sent her after, earning the title of Darth, but one day they sent her on a special mission. She was to prepare the Correlia Sector for invasion.
Once on the planet and carefully hidden among criminals, using her skills to convince them she was a thief, she researched the possibility of a new hyperspace lane leading into the nearby systems, a possible way to surprise their defense forces. A month later she met Kale, a Jedi defector who wanted to join her, and she sent used him as her agent, even sending him out to scout new hyperspace lanes. They fell in love and, when the war was over, decided to try and start a new life on the world he had found. They recruited a few fellow refugees and traveled to Cyphan, where they founded Cyphan City.

Equipment: Sound dampening stealth unit (belt), red lightsaber staff, metal stun staff, few thousand credits, Hssiss hide armor

The RP kind of dried up, so I'm looking for more players so that we can keep it going.

Ancient god's return

Wasn't sure how powerful he'd be. If anyone else is close to that level, I wouldn't have a problem with it, but I wouldn't want one character to be that far beyond the others.

Ancient god's return

@ActRaiserTheReturnedThat could work.
As a deified human though, would he be an actual god (like Buddha), or a demigod? Either's fine.

Ancient god's return

@Helonever heard of it.

Ancient god's return

For reference, I'll be playing Prometheus.

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Prometheus

Name: Prometheus
Pantheon: Greek
Major Domain: Clairvoyance (usually expressed through premonitions)
Minor Domain: Health (Can regenerate from a single cell in 72 hours, mortal wounds in a few hours, and can heal others.)
Relic: The Primordial Fire (now contained within a slightly glowing diamond necklace that Prometheus always wears, it rapidly restores the energy of those that wear it, and can amplify powers of gods, demigods, humans, and monsters. No one is quite sure where the energy comes from. Some say it is a nascent universe, others energy from the creation of this universe, others absorbed energy from life or some other energy source. It is his most prized possession.)
Bio: He loved humans, and foresaw that they might become greater than the gods, so he stole the primordial fire from Zeus and hid it with them. For this he was chained to a rock and repeatedly killed for over 3000 years. Luckily, when Christianity began to spread to Greece, he was found by a traveling monk and freed, the holy man not knowing who he truly was. Knowing that he would never be allowed to return to Olympus, despite the fact that Zeus was now being challenged by a foreign god, he retrieved the Primordial fire, took it North, convinced Thor to have it forged into a necklace, and left to live among the humans.

Ancient god's return

@ActRaiserTheReturnedShiva is believed in and worshiped by over a billion people in the present day. If we get our power from belief/prayer/etc. (which is probably the most believable way of giving us a power source) she would have a fraction of all of the prayers and belief of a billion plus people. That would put her above any of the greek, roman, norse, or Egyptian gods at the height of their power.

So, she would be too OP for this RP, unless you can think of a reason for her to have lost most of her power.