There is nothing. Utter nothing. Nothing that makes the cold vastness of empty interstellar space seem like a balls out carnival of ridiculous amounts of stuff. Apart from this utter nothingness there are... well, truth be told, there are some things. Could be two things, could be one thing and an uncountable number of things. Hard to say. There's definitely some sort of...thing. If concepts like geometry or dead reckoning existed you might be able to say that there was an infinitely small sphere filled with 1,000,000 units of raw power, or 1,000,000☼, or, for those who like their numbers a little shorter and sweeter, 1000K☼. The Kilo☼ would likely be the standard measurement of raw power, if such a thing as measurements or standardization existed. As well as the raw power filled sphere there are an unknowable number of amorphous presences, possibly made out of nothing. You are one of those presences.
About:
So, back again. This time around, spurred by reading Create a Planet and fond memories of my early days on the forum, going through some of the God games of days past, I've decided to try my hand at YE OLDE BUILDE YE UNIVERSE AS PER HOW YOU LIKE ITE GOD_STLYE>. I believe that to correct, formal name of this particular subform of the forum game. Here's how its going to work. First of all, there's not going to be any character generation at the game's start. Things like names, bodies or alternate avatars of choice, spheres like Knowledge or Death or whathaveyou will all have to be acquired by your actions. Basically, everyone who wants to play controls one of the presences described above. To become something and to create somewhere to, well, exist in you will have to post actions and Bold them. *The hideous power of Wayward Device compels you bold your actions*. Sorry to have to use dark sorceries from ages unguessed at in even the fever dreams of mad prophets, but bolding actions is important.
Not to constrain what people get up to, but it might be an idea to seize some of that raw power if you want to say, make something. Or just because right now you seem to be made out of utter nothingness that somehow, on some tenuous basis, has some sort of order and organization to it.
Mechanically, things will be very simple. Actions, conflicts, events etc will be resolved with 2d6 because fuck you that's why I happen to like the bell curve and it makes me happy to think that people thousands of years ago rolled dice just like them, and that the only thing that stopped Romans playing, say, RTD in an actual forum was all that decadence. Bonuses and penalties to actions (either specific or general) will be acquired over the course of the game, along with everything else. Again, all that raw power may have something to do with it. As things progress we will move through various Ages (we will begin in the Age of Creation) named after... well, it'll depend on how things turn out. The game will end when the universe is either destroyed (in this case read totally disordered, as raw power cannot be created or destroyed, although there are a whole myriad of other options as well, like locking it away in a parallel yet inaccessible universe...anyway) or if things are locked into a perpetual cycle of some description.
Keeps track of your own stuff. I will look after all the stuff that ends up getting created, but its up to you to take care of whatever personal stuff your presence picks up along the way.
As a final note, the universe you create does not have to follow the rules of our known one in any way. You may shape things entirely to your will, provided you prove strong enough. Lastly, while there nothing stopping you being peaceful and benign, there's also nothing stopping you from interfering with the works of the other presences either. Let's get this thing started!
The BIG BANG.
Cause it.
Matter should precipitate shortly, followed by the first clouds of gas resembling proto-galaxies.
All is still in the void. All has been still since time before time. The sphere of raw power spins gently, nebulous presences float in the utter nothingness. This continues for an indefinite amount of time, as time does not exist yet. Suddenly, the peaceful calm is shattered in a flurry of activity! One of the presences rushes towards the sphere of raw power and attempts to destabilize it! The sphere of raw power [4] partially destabilizes! About [5] 50kilo☼ is detached from the sphere and transformed into Hydrogen! Substance Created: Hydrogen. Celestial Body Created: Cloud of Hydrogen. The huge cloud of gas begins to rush away from the sphere of raw power while seemingly being drawn towards it at the same time! The sphere of raw power now appears to contain 950 kilo☼. It also appears to be moving extremely rapidly. Good thing there's no such thing as distance or time yet.
Form a red planet. Nevermind that it has nowhere to exist yet, it can exist in the voider-than-void for a time.
Another of the presences, seeing the actions of the first, seizes some of the raw power for itself, trying to shape it to some unknowable purpose. It tries to draw some raw power from the destabilized sphere [4+1(sphere partially unstable)] and manages to acquire 50 kilo☼. It then [5] attempts to shape it into a sphere made of Red. Unfortunately, what with the laws of the universe being somewhat in a state of flux, the attempt is largely unsuccessful. Struggle though it might, all that is created is an enormous Cube made of Blue. Substance Created:Blue. Celestial Body Created: Blue Cube. The sphere of raw power has been reduced to 900 kilo☼. The sphere [11] regains some of its past stability.
Create giant ass crystal; that will contains and regulate all psionic and life energies of the universe.
One of the presences, encouraged by the the actions of the others, seizes some raw power for itself and attempts to make something. About [11] 110 kilo☼ is seized form the sphere, [4] rendering it increasingly unstable! Sphere instability +2! The sphere of raw power has been reduced to 790 kilo☼. The presence is filled with raw power and begins to create [10], shaping the raw power in equal parts into a Giant Crystal, the Psionic force and the Life force! Celestial Body Created: Crystal of Life and Psion. Force Created: Psionic. Force Created:Life. As the raw power finishes taking on these new forms the presences tries to mold the Crystal of Life and Psion into regulating the forces of Life and Psion, [6] being partially successful. A portion of the two forces is drawn into a dynamic equilibrium with the crystal, but a large portion flies away in all directions, permeating all creation, such as it is. This presence has gained Sphere:Life Energy: +1 to actions involving life energy, Sphere:Psion Energy: +1 to actions involving Psion Energy.
^BREAK GIANT ASS CRYSTAL.
CREATE PLANET OF MADNESS, WITH A SLADE THRONE TO FIT ME; THE MAD GOD OF THIS CHURNING VOID.
Create giant ass crystal; that will contains and regulate all psionic and life energies of the universe.
REBREAK THAT BITCH. STAB JAASS TO DEATH WITH TE SHARDS.
CREATE BODY FOR JAASS. CREATE VIOLENCE. KILL JAASS. INVENT CORN POPS AND MILK FOR PART OF A COMPLETE BREAKFAST.
One of the presences seems quite agitated, being torn between seizing and shaping raw power for itself and interfering with the Crystal Creating presence. It starts by trying to create something like the others, seizing [9+2=11] 110 kilo☼ and reducing the sphere of raw power to 680 kilo☼. The sphere of raw power is now extremely unstable (+3). It begins to create a sphere of material [7] following no repeatable pattern, marked by only one regular feature, a throne made of an utterly black, superdense substance. Substance Created: Madness. Substance Created: Slade. Celestial Body Created: Planet of Madness. This presence has gained Sphere:Madness: +1 to actions involving Madness(substance). Then it notices the the Crystal of Life and Psion. Driven by some as yet unknown and unknowable instinct it seeks to destroy this object and its creator. It first strikes at the crystal, [6] braking off a large shard containing 6 kilo☼. Artifact Created: Shard of Life and Psion. It seizes the shard and tries to stab at the Crystal Creating presence [autofail] but the attack passes right through! Clearly understanding the problem, the Madness presence seizes yet more raw power, [11+3=14] seizing 140 kilo☼, causing the sphere of raw power to explode and spread in all directions! Force Created: Diffuse Raw Power. Ignoring the total destruction of the last vestiges of the primordial universe, the presence [8] shapes some of the energy it seized into a new concept. Concept Created: Violence. However, about 20 kilo☼ of the 70 used gets away and dissipates into the universe. The presence then uses the remaining 70 kilo☼ to create a body for the Crystal Creating presence [7], making a form containing roughly twice as much raw power as the Crystal of Life and Psion. The Crystal Creating presence has Gained 70 kilo☼ Crystal Avatar. It then takes up the Shard of Life and Scion and strikes the newly embodied Crystal Creating presence [8] fracturing its core! The Shard of Life and Scion lodges firmly in the wound! This presence has gained Sphere:Violence: +1 to actions involving violence.
From a terrible distance, as if beyond the very limits of the utter nothingness, a voice is heard.
"WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT BOLDING ACTIONS?"
*A sphere of terrible force strikes the presence of Madness and violence, carrying it away across the universe*
-12 to next action.
Stop insanity for the moment.
Accelerate time. Galaxies sorta exist. Starts are being born. A red planet with a huge crystal inhabited by donkeys is created near one such star to satisfy the others.
The Hydrogen creating presence seems deeply distrubed by the utter chaos of recent events and tries to bring some sort of linear order to the rapidly unfolding events. Since there is no longer a sphere of raw power to draw from, it tries to draw in some of the diffuse raw power and [7-3=4(diffuse force)] partially succeeds, drawing in 40 kilo☼ and shaping it [9] into a new force! Force Created: Time. This presence has gained Sphere:Time: +1 to actions involving time. Spurred by this success, it tries to create more things, again attempting to seize more diffuse raw power and shape it into a gigantic collection of burning spheres, [10-3=7(diffuse force)] managing to create 70 Giant Burning Spheres, using 1 kilo☼ for each. Celestial Body Created: Cluster of Giant Burning Spheres. Together, they are almost the size of the Crystal Creating presence's wounded body. Finally, it tries to create a amalgamation of earlier works, [3-3=0] but cannot seem to draw in the needed raw power.
This is boring. Spiritslap him until he handcrafts anything he wants in existence.
The Blue Cube Creating presence seems disturbed by the Time presence's creation of a rational, linear flow of events. It attempts strike the Time presence, trying to force it to stop it's work. The blow [3] rebounds, sending the Blue Cube Creating presence hurtling through the universe until it strikes the [5] already damaged avatar of the Crystal Creating presence [7] passing right through it. As it does so, it picks up an affinity for some of the energies it regulates. This presence has gained Sphere:Life Energy: +1 to actions involving life energy. However, this presence's reckless use of the new
Concept:Violence has rendered it vulnerable to such actions in the future. This presence has gained Effected by Sphere:Violence: -1 to resist actions involving violence.
Resume total insanity, gain chaotic split personality, CHAO-no, orde-CHAOOOOOS!
The terrible powers from beyond the universe begin to gather again.
"WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT... Hmm, this thing already seems to be totally insane, suffering agonies beyond the ken of mortal minds. Still, I'M WATCHING YOU."
Create a celestial prison to threaten to throw others in.
Accelerate time more. There are now many stars. The donkeys died long ago of anyxphixiation.
The Time Creating presences attempts to create a celestial prison, [12-3(diffuse force)] drawing 90 kilo☼ and shaping it into [5] a somewhat easy to escape from maze of constantly shifting time. Celestial Object Created: Time Prison Maze: +1 to escape attempts. Material Created: Time. Seeking an obvious uses for it's creation, it threatens to trap the presence of Violence and Madness and the Blue Cube Creating presence within. However, in this raw state of the universe, even threats have a terrible compulsive power and the presence of Violence and Madness and the Blue Cube Creating presence are drawn towards the Time Prison Maze! The Blue Cube Creating presence [7+1=8] just manages to prevent itself from being drawn in [5-12=-7] but the presence of Violence and Madness, still reeling from the extra-universal blow, cannot do say the same. It is drawn in and traped within the Time Prison Maze!
I EAT THE OTHERS INSIDE THE PRISON, BREAK OUT WITH THEIR COMBINED POWERS, THEN THROW THEM BACK UP BECAUSE BLOBS OF ENERGY TASTE TERRIBLE. WHERE ARE MY GODDAMN CORN POPS AND MILK?!
Trapped within the Time Prison Maze, the presence of Violence and Madness attempts to devour the other occupants, but finds none. It briefly tries to devour itself, but since it has no form this meets with little success. Finally, it gathers what power it can and tries to escape [3+1=4] but the poorly designed Time Prison Maze holds it for now. It contents itself by raging against the non-existance of Substances and Objects which do not exist.
Build a giant unbreakable border around everyone else and the regon of space surrounding them, then create the first particle - a banana shaped like The Grinch.
A presence, encouraged by the actions of the others, seeks to create something of its own. It draws diffuse raw power [4-3=1] but only manages to capture 10 kilo☼. It shapes this into [8] an unbreakable border that defines the edge of the universe. Universal Structure Created: Unbreakable Universal Barrier. This presence has gained Sphere:Borders&Edges: +1 to actions involving lines that delineate any two things. Giddy with success, it goes on to try to create something else, [7-3=4(diffuse energy] seizing 40 kilo☼ and shaping it into [9] a yellowish particle in the form of a usually green extra-universal monster. It is slightly larger than the Crystal of Life and Psion. Celestial Object Created: Banana shaped like The Grinch. Material Created: Grinch Banana .
CREATE A THRONEWORLD FOR EACH OF THE GODS. IT IS THEIRS TO DO WITH AS THEY PLEASE. MY THRONEWORLD SHALL ORBIT A PROTO-STAR IN THE NEW GALAXY. CREATE PRIMITIVE INTELIGENT LIFE. SMILE DEVIOUSLY.
Still trapped with the Time Prison Maze, the the presence of Violence and Madness dreams of creating throneworlds for all the presences, but being trapped cannot seize the power to do so. Still, it's plan may yet come to fruition. +1 to first action creating throneworlds when free.
Something came through the Void. Something from the outside. It smiled at this world, so full of possibilty and hope. It watched the other gods war from a vast cloud of dust and debris that it had made and laughed.
For the third time, hideous power beyond anything known in this universe gathers and strikes the Something that came through the void, breaking it down until it's nothing more than one of the shadowy presences that seem to have existed since before time itself.
Create a vast hollow sphere in the void, the region inside to call mine
Another of the presences , seeking to find some peace and stability in what is rapidly becoming a universe filled with chaos, madness and destruction, seizes some of the diffuse raw power remaining [5-3(diffuse force)] and maganages to manipulate 20 kilo☼, transforming it into a rather weak but enormous hollow sphere.Celestial Body Created: Enormous Hollow Sphere. This presence has gained Sphere: Enormous Hollow Sphere: +1 to actions involving the Enormous Hollow Sphere.
Make a ball of fire.
One of the presences yet to act tries to create a ball of fire [6-3=3(diffuse force)] and seizing 30 kilo☼ and transforming it. The [2] Ball of fire explodes and diffuses across the universe! Force Created: Heat.
Point to the galaxies and stars and planets and crystal covered in donkey corpses.
The Time Creating presence [12] points at the various things that have been created, and its action is of such force that their position has been fixed in the universe! Force Created:Space. Now things can actually have a location, as opposed to just sort of generally existing. This presence has gained Sphere:Space: +1 to actions involving the locations of things.
The Universe
Forces:
Life Energy-36 kilo☼
Psion Energy-36 kilo☼
Diffuse Raw Power-300 kilo☼ remain
Time-40 kilo☼
Heat-30 kilo☼
Space-no energy associated.
Universal Structures:
Unbreakable Universal Barrier-10 kilo☼
Celestial Objects:
Cloud of Hydrogen-50 kilo☼
Blue Cube-50 kilo☼
Crystal of Life and Psion-missing a shard, now 30 kilo☼. Controls the flow of a portion of all Life and Scion energy.
Planet of Madness-110 kilo☼
Cluster of Giant Burning Spheres-70 kilo☼
Time Prison Maze: +1 to escape attempts-90 kilo☼
Banana shaped like The Grinch-40 kilo☼
Enormous Hollow Sphere-20 kilo☼
Substances:
Hydrogen-50 kilo☼
Blue-50 kilo☼
Madness-109 kilo☼
Slade-1 kilo☼
Time-90 kilo☼
Grinch Banana-40 kilo☼
Concepts:
Artifacts:
Shard of Life and Psion-6 kilo☼
Cut violence in half and infuse half of it (half its power) into the Grinch Banana, granting it reality warping abilities.
Cut madness in half and use half of its power to reinforce the universal barrier.
Form of an infinite spiral of lines; creases in the fabric of reality.
Sphere: Borders and Edges: +1 to actions that delineate any two things.
Absorb the the crystal from the wound into the crystal avatar, then reinforce and repair the Crystal of Life and Psion have continue to regulate the two spheres. Then have the crystal avatar spread life throughout the universe.
Sphere:Life Energy: +1 to actions involving life energy
Sphere:Psion Energy: +1 to actions involving Psion Energy.
MAKE THE TIME PRISON MY BODY. IT SHALL BE THE ETERNAL AFTERLIFE OF MY FOLLOWERS. EACH SOUL THAT ENDS UP IN THE TIME PRISON SHALL GIVE ME SLIGHTLY MORE POWER.
Spheres: Violence and Madness: +1 to actions concerning Madness and Violence
Create fruit trees on the cube of Blue. Have them spawn sentient little fruitlings.
Sphere:Life Energy: +1 to actions involving life energy
Affected by Sphere:Violence: -1 to resist actions involving violence
Attempt to bond myself with space and time.
Create a form for myself, the same as last time (an infinite spiral of creases in the universe)
Use my powers over Time, Space, and Borders to perfectly section the universe in two, and put all things but myself affiliated with the spheres of violence, madness, etc, on one side, and all those affiliated with Law, Order, Peace, etc, on the other side. Retroactively do so if necessary.
Cleanse myself of Violence.
Place the Grinch Banana at the border, with orders to annihilate all those attempting to cross or tamper with the border but for me.
Borders: +1 to all rolls involving borders, lines, etc
Violence
Make sentient sphere creatures that are made of spheres, heat and water
Attempt to divert some energy from madness planet to add a slightly heated core to my sphere.
Create random Flora/fauna inside water sphere(using diverted power?)
Spheres:
Enormous sphere +1
Enormous spheres +2
"I shall bring PEACE here."
Manifest as a golden lion, with a shining horn in the middle of my forehead, and forge a planet with my newborn ability, populating it with leonine humanoids.
Justice: +1 to lawful decisions made
Order: +1 to orderly events, -1 to chaos
Peace: +1 to peacetime, -1 to violence[/i]
I LIKE SPHERES!!1!11
(http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk34/danafromcali/spheres.jpg)
SEEING BEINGS OF 'ORDER' GROW RAMPANTLY ABUNDANT, THE BEING OF MADNESS CREATES THE CONCEPT OF CHAOS AND EMBODIES IT. THEN INFUSES THIS CONCEPT INTO THE TIME PRISON, DESTROYING A PORTION OF THE MADNESS CREATURES TO USE THEIR ENERGY FOR THIS ACT. WITH CHAOS TAINTING THE TIME PRISON, THE STRUCTURE OF IT IS DISTORTED. USING THIS TO ITS ADVANTAGE, THE BEING OF CHAOTIC MADNESS AND VIOLENCE SHAPES THE !!DISTORTED!!TIME PRISON INTO A PHYSICAL BODY TO CONTAIN ITS CHAOTIC ESSENCE AND ALLOW IT TO BE FREE TO INTERACT WITH THE OUTSIDE UNIVERSE.
ONCE FREE, CREATE A MADNESS GALAXY. CORRUPTTED STARS THAT ARE NOT BOUND BY TIME, PLANETS WITH IMPOSSIBLE ORBITS, MOONS THAT REGULARLY CRASH BACK INTO ITS PLANET AND REFORM.
Spheres: Madness, Chaos, Violence:+1 to acts concerning Madness, Chaos, Violence, and attempts at escaping the !!UNDISTORTED!!TIME PRISON.
Observe on whats going on in the lesser races. Have the crystal avatar continuing to repair the wound, and use part of the shard to repair the crystal of life and psion. If the shard is influence by other gods cleanse it of their influence. Resist madness.
Sphere:Life Energy: +1 to actions involving life energy
Sphere:Psion Energy: +1 to actions involving Psion Energy.
edit: Added a action from due to the other god.
Continue with previous action. If successful, form a mobile fruitling tree avatar from some of their substance.
If unsuccessful, create a mobile fruitling tree-looking avatar from Blue instead.
Sphere:Life Energy: +1 to actions involving life energy
Affected by Sphere:Violence: -1 to resist actions involving violence
>Create avatar in the form of an ethereal dragon. (you missed this last turn)
>Infuse pocket universe with the concepts of knowledge, advancement, and learning.
>Create more systems in the pocket universe.
>Construct a grand palace within the first system that won't be devoured by the suns. (floating in space, not on a planet)
>Populate planets within the pocket universe with highly-intelligent, knowledge-seeking, reasoning life
+1 to any action in the order sphere.
+1 to actions in pocket universe this turn.
A presence may not enter, but something... else may.
SCREECH A HORRIFIC SONG OF MADNESS, TAINTING ALL WHO HEAR WITH MY CHAOTIC TOUCH.
Since this is a "sound wave" of sorts, it will vibrate your barrier to the same frequency, allowing the song to enter your pocket dimension. With my taint in your universe, i again state: "Your universe shall be delicious." I'm the God of Madness, not stupidity ;)
Spheres: Madness, Chaos, Violence:+1 to acts concerning Madness, Chaos, Violence, and attempts at escaping the !!UNDISTORTED!!TIME PRISON.
SEEING BEINGS OF 'ORDER' GROW RAMPANTLY ABUNDANT, THE BEING OF MADNESS CREATES THE CONCEPT OF CHAOS AND EMBODIES IT. THEN INFUSES THIS CONCEPT INTO THE TIME PRISON, DESTROYING A PORTION OF THE MADNESS CREATURES TO USE THEIR ENERGY FOR THIS ACT. WITH CHAOS TAINTING THE TIME PRISON, THE STRUCTURE OF IT IS DISTORTED. USING THIS TO ITS ADVANTAGE, THE BEING OF CHAOTIC MADNESS AND VIOLENCE SHAPES THE !!DISTORTED!!TIME PRISON INTO A PHYSICAL BODY TO CONTAIN ITS CHAOTIC ESSENCE AND ALLOW IT TO BE FREE TO INTERACT WITH THE OUTSIDE UNIVERSE.
ONCE FREE, CREATE A MADNESS GALAXY. CORRUPTTED STARS THAT ARE NOT BOUND BY TIME, PLANETS WITH IMPOSSIBLE ORBITS, MOONS THAT REGULARLY CRASH BACK INTO ITS PLANET AND REFORM.
Spheres: Madness, Chaos, Violence:+1 to acts concerning Madness, Chaos, Violence, and attempts at escaping the !!UNDISTORTED!!TIME PRISON.
Reposting this.
*Grinch Banana the Incarnation of Violence*
The Grinch Banana the Incarnation of Violence awakens for the first time [4] and beholds the universe around it. It is confused, although though knowing no other experience it is not capable of understanding why. Floating at an arbitrary point along the Unbreakable Universal Barrier, it searched around for something to do Violence to, but finds nothing. For some reason, perhaps because of its shared creator, it does not consider the Unbreakable Universal Barrier a suitable candidate for b]Violence [/b]. Frustrated, it [6] let's of a mighty roar, but nothing comes out, as it is at there dar edge of the Universe, where there are no random particle to vibrate.
*Horrifying Madness Creatures*
The Horrifying Madness Creatures are [9] busy even as their maker hurls them about the cosmos. Those formed into the new Planet of Madness [7] set about changing into all manner of different forms, no to alike. The differences are mostly superficial visual ones though and no real progress is made, perhaps because they are all jammed into a giant ball. Those clinging to the outside of the Temporal Prison [12] start to secure their position by using the weaker members as building material! 6 kilo☼ of the Horrifying Madness Creatures trapped on the outside of the Temporal Prison have been transformed into Horrifying Madness Cities. The cites are a bit crowded though, having to contain 10 kilo☼ of Horrifying Madness Creatures. Those inside the prison [7] swirl happily in never repeated patterns, gladdened by the presence of their make. Finally, the 15 kilo☼ of Horrifying Madness Creatures dispersed throughout the universe [6] flitter with with no sense of purpose.
*Cluster Dwellers*
The Cluster Dwellers [2] begin do die in alarming numbers in the warm spaces between the spheres of the Cluster of Giant Burning Spheres. They lose [7] half their number, being reduced to 1.75 kilo☼. As a result [11] they rapidly adapt to the harsh condition! They [9] learn to absorb Heat, as this is the only resource near them and soon devour [7] seven of the Giant Burning Spheres. The Cluster of Giant Burning Spheres has been reduced to 63! The Cluster Dwellers have increased in number to 7.75 Kilo☼. The Cluster Dwellers have gained Sphere:Fire
((Right, that took way longer than I thought. Rather than try to rush through another turn today, I'll do the next full turn tomorrow. Its starting to get late for me and then end of the Age of Creation is SERIOUS BUSINESS. On the upside, the Universe is now a little better defined and numbered, and I've also had a bit of time to think through some of the possible consequences of actions for next turn. Heh, there's a lot of stuff that has the potential to go really, really wrong.
Should I repost my actions?
You can if you like and it would be helpful. Basically, as I said in my last post, I'm going to order the turn like:
All creative actions (avatars, drawing power, shaping existing things, you know, all that making stuff stuff)
Xantalos' action (divide the universe etc)
The actions that are reacting to that.
So if people want to make clear where their actions go in that ordering that'll be helpful. You've also got a bit of time to change things if you want. Basically, I'm happy as long as I can figure out what everyone wants to do and anything that makes it easier for me to do that is great.))
The Universe
Forces:
Life Energy-36 kilo☼
Psion Energy-36 kilo☼
Diffuse Raw Power-70kilo☼ remain
Time-150 kilo☼, 110 kilo☼ in the Temporal Prison
Heat-193 kilo☼, 30 diffused throughout the universe, 90 kilo☼ in the Extremely Stable Sphere of Fire, 70 kilo☼ in the Cluster of Giant Burning Spheres, 3 kilo☼ in the Burning Sphere's of the Pocket Universe.
Space-no energy associated.
Substances:
Hydrogen-50 kilo☼
Blue-50 kilo☼
Madness-109 kilo☼
Slade-1 kilo☼
Time-90 kilo☼
Grinch Banana-40 kilo☼
Water30 kilo☼
Sphere Energy-50 kilo☼
Universal Structures:
Unbreakable Universal Barrier-10 kilo☼
Celestial Objects:
Cloud of Hydrogen-50 kilo☼
Blue Cube-50 kilo☼
Crystal of Life and Psion-missing a shard, now 30 kilo☼. Controls the flow of a portion of all Life and Scion energy.
Planet of Madness- formed form 55 kilo☼ of Horrifying Madness Creatures.
Cluster of Giant Burning Spheres-70 kilo☼
Temporal Prison:-110 kilo☼ of Time, +1 to escape attempts, has been damaged and repaired. Currently contains the Being of Madness and 14 kilo☼ of Horrifying Madness Creatures. 10 kilo☼ of Horrifying Madness Creatures live in 6 kilo☼ of Horrifying Madness Cities on its surface.
Enormous Hollow Sphere-50 kilo☼ of Sphere Energy, filled with 30 kilo☼ of currently frozen Water, +1 to Defense Rolls
Rift- no energy associated.
Extremely Stable Sphere of Fire-90 kilo☼ of Heat
Concepts:
Violence-35 kilo☼, Weakened: -1 to all violent actions
Order-20 kilo☼
Law-20 kilo☼
Peace- 20 kilo☼
Artifacts:
Shard of Life and Psion-6 kilo☼
Chunk of Violence-7.5 kilo☼
Alternate Planes:
Pocket Universe- 3 Burning Sphere's at 1 kilo☼ each, 7 kilo☼ of Space.
Cosmic Entities:
Grinch Banana the Incarnation of Violence-composed of 40 kilo☼ of Grinch Banana and 7.5 kilo☼ of Violence
Races:
Horrifying Madness Creatures-110 kilo☼ (I know it should be109.9, but I'm trying to avoid these numbers making me go all Lovecraft Protagonist. Blame and slight differences on the warping effect of the
Slade Throne), 55 kilo☼ forming the
Planet of Madness, 10 kilo☼ on the outside of the
Temporal Prison living in 6 kilo☼ of
Horrifying Madness Cities, 14 kilo☼ inside the
Temporal Prison, 15 kilo☼ dispersed throughout the universe.
Sphere:Violence: +1 to Violent actions.
((These little bastards get everywhere

))
Cluster Dwellers- 7.75 kilo☼, living in the warm gaps between the spheres of the
Cluster of Giant Burning Spheres.
Sphere:Fire
Then aid me in my endeavors of heating my planet, so much water shall be created
The spheres of order nor chaos control my actions,as i control spheres of any nature!!!
I AM THE SPHERE GOD!!!
CREATE THE ULTIMATE SHAPE OF MADNESS: THE DODECAHEDRON. FROM NOW ON, ALL "SPHERES" OF CHAOS, MADNESS, AND VIOLENCE ARE INSTEAD DODECAHEDRONS, OUTSIDE THE POWER OF THE SPHERE GOD
Spheres DODECAHEDRONS: Madness, Chaos, Violence:+1 to acts concerning Madness, Chaos, Violence, and attempts at escaping the TIME PRISON.
SEEING BEINGS OF 'ORDER' GROW RAMPANTLY ABUNDANT, THE BEING OF MADNESS CREATES THE CONCEPT OF CHAOS AND EMBODIES IT. THEN INFUSES THIS CONCEPT INTO THE TIME PRISON, DESTROYING A PORTION OF THE MADNESS CREATURES TO USE THEIR ENERGY FOR THIS ACT. WITH CHAOS TAINTING THE TIME PRISON, THE STRUCTURE OF IT IS DISTORTED. USING THIS TO ITS ADVANTAGE, THE BEING OF CHAOTIC MADNESS AND VIOLENCE SHAPES THE !!DISTORTED!!TIME PRISON INTO A PHYSICAL BODY TO CONTAIN ITS CHAOTIC ESSENCE AND ALLOW IT TO BE FREE TO INTERACT WITH THE OUTSIDE UNIVERSE.
ONCE FREE, CREATE A MADNESS GALAXY. CORRUPTTED STARS THAT ARE NOT BOUND BY TIME, PLANETS WITH IMPOSSIBLE ORBITS, MOONS THAT REGULARLY CRASH BACK INTO ITS PLANET AND REFORM.
THEN DESTROY THE GRINCH BANANA AND TAKE ITS ENERGY TO SHAPE MYSELF AN AVATAR OF PURE SLADE AND MADNESS
Spheres: Madness, Chaos, Violence:+1 to acts concerning Madness, Chaos, Violence, and attempts at escaping the !!UNDISTORTED!!TIME PRISON.
Reposting this.
Observe on whats going on in the lesser races. Have the crystal avatar continuing to repair the wound, and use part of the shard to repair the crystal of life and psion. If the shard is influence by other gods cleanse it of their influence. Resist madness.
Sphere:Life Energy: +1 to actions involving life energy
Sphere:Psion Energy: +1 to actions involving Psion Energy.
Repost.
Creation Actions:
Create fruit trees on the cube of Blue. Have them spawn sentient little fruitlings.
Continue with previous action. If successful, form a mobile fruitling tree avatar from some of their substance.
If unsuccessful, create a mobile fruitling tree-looking avatar from Blue instead.
Sphere:Life Energy: +1 to actions involving life energy
Affected by Sphere:Violence: -1 to resist actions involving violence
Again, I'll repost my action, with a single revision.
"I must leave my mark on this world, lest I forget what I am in this eternal swirl of energy.
So....I declare myself.
I am Gaius. Maker of the Law, Order, and Peace, and Chaos shall not conquer while I stand here to ward it from all those who desire it!"
Manifest as Gaius, Maker of Law, Order and Peace, (An entity.) in the form of a golden lion with a horn.
Afterwards, forge the power of order and law into a sphere to create a planet to base myself on.
Order: +1 to law, -1 to chaos
Law: +1 to order
Peace: +1 to peace, -1 to violence
>Steal from the power of <insert strongest concept> concept to:
>>Infuse the concepts of knowledge, advancement, and learning with energy to the point where I gain those spheres.
>>Create systems in the pocket universe.
>>Construct a grand palace within the first system that won't be devoured by the suns. (floating in space, not on a planet)
>>Populate planets within the pocket universe with highly-intelligent, knowledge-seeking, reasoning life
+1 to any action in the order sphere.
+1 to next attempt to make more systems
+2 to next attempt to make highly intelligent, knowledge-seeking, reasoning life.
Borders: +2 to all rolls involving borders, lines, etc
Violence
Opposed to Time: -1 to actions involving time
Opposed to Space: -1 to action involving space
Destruction: +2 to actions involving destruction (the neutral unmaking of things
Attempt to create a form for myself that is not a specific form with matter in it, but rather something defined by the absence of anything, with borders keeping anything from entering the space as the outside. (i.e. if I were to make myself a dragon, and nothing else existed, this form would be an empty space in the shape of a dragon, and everything else is the universe.)
>Create an avatar for myself in the shape of a labyrinthine network of tunnels in between the universal shards, allowing travel between them but only at my will. These tunnels are essentially the essence of borders and lines embodied and will lead any who attempt to sneak through without my permission into the empty space between the universal shards, where they will both perish from not being able to exist out there and the Grinch Banana.
>Purge myself of Violence and add the residual power from this to the Grinch Banana.
>If Jbg97 attacks my barriers or attempts to alter them in any way, unmake his avatar and add his power to the Grinch Banana.
| I would reccommend that you do not harm my enforcer | There will be consequences/ Chaotic Madness the Violence of Chaos | Also known as Jbg97 |
Visit sphere creatures using physical form
Tell them the history of creation
Assert dominance over my creations
Inform them of their everlasting home
And that they are the Blessed of the universe, secure from danger
And inform them their Creator shall keep them safe from universal threats.
Also create powerless concept of change
Spheres
+1 to Enormous sphere related action
+2 to Enormous spheres related action
((Aaaaand I've become an endlessly hungry rift. Not quite sure what to say about that.))
Consume the remaining burning spheres.
II AAPOOLOOGIIZEE. BUUT II AAM SOO HUUNGRYY...
After attempting consumption burning spheres, attempt to consume the crystal of Life and Psion.
II CAANT STOOP MYSEELF. HEELP MEE...
Effects:Time-alligned: no bonus, -4 to anything but consuming energy, +3 to consuming energy.
"How... Interesting..." The liquid presence found itself in a new area, the area of neutrals. "Yes, fascinating... A new, safer space, for me to fill..." The liquid presence took all of the energy infused liquid matter it could, and created the largest sphere of liquid it could, of water, the base liquid.
Sphere: Liquids (+1 to actions with liquids)
I already have a large sphere of water.... contained inside of spheres of ice contained within an ENORMOUS HOLLOW SPHERE, and contain all water in the universe so far.If you want water make it yourself from madness/madness creatures.
Defend my water from the liquid God if he wants to take it!
spheres
+1 to hollow sphere
+2 to spheres
((Sorry to flood you with actions, but...))
If the thing of madness somehow enters the neutral universe and attempts to destroy my liquid, I will liquify him, and everything he seeks to create, turn it all into water, my water
I have no wishes to take your water... I can simply (slosh) create it, make everything that seeks to harm me water...
Sphere: Liquid (+1 to liquid stuff)
This is the Dawning of The Age of...
As the metaphorical dust from the Being of Borders&Edges' momentous actions settles the presences take note of the new arrangements of the Universe. What was once one is now five and the brewing war between Chaos and Order may go cold for now, with both sides so divided. All things in existence have fallen into one of the five Universe Shards.
Some of the presences are quick to act in this new age, perhaps because they missed out on the tumultuous events of the end of the Age of Creation.
The thing from beyond the void smiled even as the Thing struck it. Now there were races to empower and taint. It flew between the worlds instilling fear in to even other presences. It went to the largest city and released upon them a plauge of things, terrible things that it has brought with it from beyond the void. From these things grew the fears of each race. doomed to trouble them for all time.
Scare other gods and shit. Go to the largest city of each race and release a pack of monsters that will form their fears.
One of the last presences to act comes through the end of the Age of Creation in [7] the Third Shard. Seeking the largest city of each race, it finds only those cities that form part of Chaotic Madness the Violence of Chaos, the Avatar of the Being of Chaotic Madness and Violence. It goes to the largest and attempts to release a pack of monsters that will form their fears. It [12] transforms the city onto a new race that the Horrifying Madness Creatures will instinctively fear. Race Created: Reassuring Sanity Creatures. 1 kilo☼, Sphere:Order, Antithetical Fear Creature: +2 to actions that involve terrifying Horrifying Madness Creatures, -2 to Horrifying Madness Creatures rolls while in the presence of Reassuring Sanity Creatures. There are now only five cities forming the outside of Chaotic Madness the Violence of Chaos.
Action clarify: Crush all energy into a singular, primordial ball, despite of what it currently is.
One of the few presences yet to act is finally stirred by the ending of the Age of Creation. Emerging in [11] the Fifth Shard, it is disgusted by this new order of the Universe. It tries to draw all energy into a singular, primordial ball, no matter what form its in now, just like the good old days. It [8-2(sphere not very opposed)=6] manages to crush all 50 kilo☼ into an infinity small sphere. Celestial Object Destroyed: Cloud of Hydrogen, Celestial Object Created: Primal Sphere. This presence has gained Sphere:Regression: +1 to returning things to an earlier state, -1 to any actions involving something new.
Observe on whats going on in the lesser races. Have the crystal avatar continuing to repair the wound, and use part of the shard to repair the crystal of life and psion. If the shard is influence by other gods cleanse it of their influence. Resist madness.
The God of Life emerges in [8] the Third Shard. It moves to investigate the only living things within the Shard, the Horrifying Madness Creatures on the Planet of Madness and those making up the the Being of Chaotic Madness and Violence's Avatar. It notice that [7] many of the Horrifying Madness Creatures are fleeing one point along the Temporal Prison, giving the whole Avatar a sort of lopsided look. The Crystal Avatar [8] continues healing, so that no trace of it's previous injury can be discerned. Lastly, the God of Life [8] splits the Shard of Life and Psion in half, using half to attempt to restore the Crystal of Life and Psion to it's former glory. The shard [4+1(working withing spheres)=5] is absorbed, but the Crystal of Life and Psion still seems to be operating bellow it's full capacity. Lastly, the God of Life checks the now reduced Shard of Life and Psion for any influence by the other gods, but finds none.
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((Right, that's it for today, 'cos I have a terrible hangover. Probably racial turn tomorrow, and also maybe the next proper turn. Maybe. Feel free to come up with a name for the new age.
For clarity on the whole shards/whats up with the new universal barrier thing, Xantalos' act of trying to contain all Order and Chaos with the Unbreakable Universal Barrier last turn was successful, whereas the "neatly divide Chaos and Order", which I interpreted in the context of "put them in different shards", failed. However, the writhing around of the old Unbreakable Universal Barrier and encircling of all Order and Chaos has basically placed things where they are now. If you want to try and imagine the current universe, imagine five sacks full of water tied together into a big old cluster of string/bulging sacks filled with stuff, except that the string is also the thing that defines the edge of the sack :) . Also, some thing like the rift and pocket universe are outside the five shards, kinda.
Oh, and even though I've been placing presences/avatars in random shards with a dice roll if appropriate, the division is mostly relevant to things made of ☼ moving around, although the actual location of presences does have a few effects, like if you randomly draw power from whats nearby.
READTHISREADTHISREADTHISREADTHISYOUREALLYBETTERREADTHISIMSERIOUSLYNOTFUCKINGAROUNDHEREREADTHEDAMNTHINGALREADY
From the next turn onwards, as mentioned in the OOC thread, everyone will be able to take three actions and oppose or support one other presences action. So it should be something like:
>Make something out of that thing
>Try and change that thing I made
>Go and bring joy to the Horrifying madness creatures
"Quote"
Oppose this action!
Things like:
>same action
>same action
>same action
and
"Quote"
Oppose this action!
"Same Quote"
Oppose this action!
"Same Quote"
Oppose this action!
and other such shenanigans I will frown on >:(. Feel free to ask any questions in the OOC thread. Finally, if everyone could make sure their actions for next turn have their spoilers updated, that'd be great.
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The Universe
Forces:
Life Energy-36 kilo☼
Psion Energy-36 kilo☼
Diffuse Raw Power-70kilo☼ remain
Time-150 kilo☼, 110 kilo☼ in the Temporal Prison
Heat-193 kilo☼, 30 diffused throughout the universe, 90 kilo☼ in the Extremely Stable Sphere of Fire, 70 kilo☼ in the Cluster of Giant Burning Spheres, 3 kilo☼ in the Burning Sphere's of the Pocket Universe.
Space-no energy associated.
Substances:
Hydrogen-50 kilo☼
Blue-50 kilo☼
Madness-109 kilo☼
Slade-1 kilo☼
Time-110 kilo☼
Grinch Banana-40 kilo☼
Water-22 kilo☼
Sphere Energy-50 kilo☼
Power Infused Liquid-30 kilo☼
Universal Structures:
Complex Five Dimensional Barrier-10 kilo☼, encircles all Order and Law aligned things
Celestial Objects:
Primal Sphere-50 kilo☼
Blue Cube-42 kilo☼
Crystal of Life and Psion-missing a shard, now 30 kilo☼. Controls the flow of a portion of all Life and Scion energy.
Planet of Madness- formed form 53 kilo☼ of Horrifying Madness Creatures.
Cluster of Giant Burning Spheres-40 kilo☼, contains the Planet of the Dragons and the Tetrahedron.
Temporal Prison:-110 kilo☼ of Time, +1 to escape attempts, forms part of the Being of Chaotic Madness and Violence's Avatar. Sphere:Time, Sphere:Chaos
Enormous Hollow Sphere-43kilo☼ of Sphere Energy, filled with 22 kilo☼ of currently frozen Water, +2 to Defense Rolls
Rift- no energy associated.
Planet of the Dragons-1 kilo☼
Tetrahedron- 11 kilo☼
Planet of Order and Law- 16 kilo☼ total, 8 kilo☼ of Law, 8 kilo☼ of Order
Concepts:
Violence-30 kilo☼, Weakened: -2 to all violent actions
Order-20 kilo☼
Law-20 kilo☼
Peace-20 kilo☼
Chaos-40 kilo☼, half embedded in the Temporal Prison
Artifacts:
Shard of Life and Psion-6 kilo☼
Chunk of Violence-7.5 kilo☼
Alternate Planes:
Pocket Universe- 3 Burning Sphere's at 1 kilo☼ each, 7 kilo☼ of Space.
Cosmic Entities:
Grinch Banana the Incarnation of Violence-composed of 40 kilo☼ of Grinch Banana and 7.5 kilo☼ of Violence
Shards:
Shard1- Blue Cube
Shard2- Crystal of Life, Enormous Hollow Sphere
Shard3- Planet of Madness, Chaotic Madness the Violence of Chaos
Shard4- Planet of Order and Law
Shard5- Cluster of Giant Burning Spheres, Primal Sphere, Tetrahedron
Races:
Horrifying Madness Creatures-110 kilo☼ (I know it should be109.9, but I'm trying to avoid these numbers making me go all Lovecraft Protagonist. Blame any slight differences on the warping effect of the Slade Throne), 55 kilo☼ forming the Planet of Madness, 10 kilo☼ on the outside of the Temporal Prison living in 6 kilo☼ of Horrifying Madness Cities, 14 kilo☼ inside the Temporal Prison, 15 kilo☼ dispersed throughout the universe. Sphere:Violence: +1 to Violent actions.
((These little bastards get everywhere

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Cluster Dwellers- 7.75 kilo☼, living in the warm gaps between the spheres of the Cluster of Giant Burning Spheres.
Sphere:Fire Sentient Sphere Creatures- 19 kilo☼ total, 7
Sphere Energy, 4
Heat and 8 kilo☼
Water, in the
Enormous Hollow Sphere Repeating Chain Fractal Madness Fire Spheres- 1 kilo☼,
Sphere:Madness,
Sphere:Fire, in the
Enormous Hollow SphereAsymmetrical Half Sphere Fire Madness Half Spheres- 1 kilo☼,
Sphere:Madness,
Sphere:Fire, in the
Enormous Hollow SphereSimple Dragons-11 kilo☼,
Dragon Racial Concept: Worship of the Great Egg,
Dragon Racial Concept: Racial Gilt(dragons), on the
Planet of DragonsIntelligent Fruitlings- 4 kilo☼, on the
Blue Cube Reassuring Sanity Creatures- 1 kilo☼,
Sphere:Order,
Antithetical Fear Creature: +2 to actions that involve terrifying Horrifying Madness Creatures, -2 to Horrifying Madness Creatures rolls while in the presence of Reassuring Sanity Creatures
>Keep crushing things into primal ball.
>Reconnect the shard I'm currently in with others.
>Reestablish universal barrier.
Regression: +1 to returning things to an earlier state, -1 to any actions involving something new.
Give the gift of Psion to the Cluster Dwellers so they can somehow survive
((Aaaaand I've become an endlessly hungry rift. Not quite sure what to say about that.))
Consume the remaining burning spheres.
II AAPOOLOOGIIZEE. BUUT II AAM SOO HUUNGRYY...
After attempting consumption burning spheres, attempt to consume the crystal of Life and Psion.
II CAANT STOOP MYSEELF. HEELP MEE...
Effects:Time-alligned: no bonus, -4 to anything but consuming energy, +3 to consuming energy.
You missed my last few actions. Anyway, I will re-submit said actions.
Prevent THE RIFT from eating the Crystal of Life and Psion
See if there is a type of society within the Cluster Dwellers
Sphere:Life Energy: +1 to actions involving life energy
Sphere:Psion Energy: +1 to actions involving Psion Energy.
I don't have anything to be backhanded, you duh.
Do you know how jaass got his avatar?
Who?
The guy at the top of the page. He has a crystal avatar.
Dariush says I can't backhand him because there is nothing to backhand. I'm reminding him of jaass, the first person to have an avatar. Jaass got the avatar because I made it for him specifically so i could stab him with his own crystal.
Huh. Nice. Action here later; I can't really think of anything to do to further Borders and Edges.
Also, universal barriers stop sound. There's nothing outside of them for sound to travel in. Plus there's no air in space.
>Cleanse self of violence
> Allow the javierpwn guy to pass through me to go to whatever shard the spheres are in, but deny passage to him if he continues to try to merge the Shards.
>Seal the rift being in a barrier formed of the energy the others donate, making it transparent from the inside, giving the Riftborn a view of the outside world, inescapable, and impenetrable by other presences.
Attempt once again to infuse what remains of raw Violence into the Grinch Banana, or, failing that, give it the ability to replicate very slowly, but ensure it will not attack me first. If I cannot ensure that it will not attack me, do not give it the ability to replicate.
Borders: +2 to all rolls involving borders, lines, etc
Violence
Opposed to Time: -1 to actions involving time
Opposed to Space: -1 to action involving space
Destruction: +2 to actions involving destruction (the neutral unmaking of things
>Populate planets within the pocket universe with highly-intelligent, knowledge-seeking, reasonable life
+1 to Knowledge
+1 to Advancement
+1 to Learning
+1 to Pocket Universes
The rift isnt in the shard you fool!
It is on the outside of all the shards, ripping power through time and space!
Attempt to fix space, and reunite my shard with an adjacent oneTell dragons of perfect sphere creatures created by the mighty sphere god
Attempt to teach spheres more historyPANTHEON and go in detail about certain disputes
Draw power away from the RiftCreeate ethereal afterlife for believers in the sphere god
Let the dragons know that I love and wish to protect them. Bring them to my tetrahedron before they suffocate.
Using my power over time, open a temporal portal to the past and draw diffuse energy from Then to reinforce the new temporal prison.
Use my avatar to kill or capture as many Horrifying Madness Creatures as possible, and place the live ones into the New Temporal Prison. No, don't do that. Instead, trap the Hungry Rift in the Temporal Prison. Warp space around the two to do so if that's easier.
Spheres:
Time--+2 to all Time actions
Space--+1 to all Space actions
and support trapping the rift
Spheres
+1 to Enormous sphere action
+2 to actions involving soheres