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Title: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 6/?)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on April 18, 2022, 04:44:29 am

A millennium ago, the SUN exploded.

The SUNlight had faltered, the aging and decrepit Chariot, battered and chipped and ripped open by blasphemy and greed and contradiction, going out for the last time. Impossible, paradoxical horrors had swarmed over the planet-flock, no longer kept at bay by the law-gracing solar rays, and feasted and devoured and warped beyond recognition. Even the SUN itself was infiltrated by their tendrils of what cannot be.

At last, the SUN gathered up its last energies, and self-detonated in a glorious nova, evaporating the horrors under its shining law-light, and forming a bubble of stability within local spacetime, expanding outwards and ensuring SUN-law for centuries to come.

The imperishable fragments of the great Solar, undaunted even by the cataclysmic energies that brought about a new genesis of Is-Law, yet flung far away from each other within the bubble of bought time by those incredible forces, slowly germinated new consciousnesses, perhaps imprisoned godlings incidentally sublimating into their prison, or faithful stewards spending all their energies in tribute to the solar supernova, re-assembled by mindless constructs aboard as part of a massive orrery, or perhaps a coward who had fled beforehand, only to be caught in a nothing snarl, and re-appear fused with some vital seed of the future Sun-In-Making.

Whatever the case may be, lancing beacons of starlight activated, emergency thrusters extruded, burning wheels were lit into existence, screaming wings and grand sails unfurled. An instinctive urge overwhelmed the thinking mind-remnants and half-complete mentalities of the SUN-fragments, driving them only to return to one, to merge, re-assemble the Sun-In-Making, spurring their slow decades long journeys across SUN-Law space as they slowly found and rejoined with each other, coalescing into larger and larger fragments.

Bellowing SUN-Bull-Trains carried forward on wings of steam, of light, of fire and ice. Enigmatic bells tolling the time until the rebirth of the Sun-In-Making. Seemingly delicate telescopes that had yet survived a nova scanned the skies for the tell-tale glimmerings of special lenses shining forth beams of SUNlight.

Steam turbines churn in unknown depths of ever larger and more labyrinth Sun-Remnants, stopping to feed on various materia along their journeys. Growth processes and internal mechanical ecologies working from unknowable blueprints to restore their liege, sometimes at cross-purposes when remnants rejoin in great disordering impacts, causing layers of confusion and mish-mashing as repairing processes begin to go awry.

But with solemn ceremony and inevitability, the final free fragments of the Sun-In-Making meet at last. Aflame Flaming mass with its foundries, riding on a pillar of fire. Crystalline Frosted of frozen perfection, with its grand sails of ice, its many mirrors and telescopes. Shining Fulgent shining even now with lesser brilliance, its wheels and wings seeming to quicken in eagerness, auto-scribe mechanical quill-arms continuing to write out nonsense chronicles.

Impact.

Explosions of fire and of ice and of light, as the three great fragments physically connect at the same time. Grinding and shrieking and violent shuddering. As feed-pipes seek their mates. As emergency structures rapidly dis-assemble, though some seem to be have been overlooked. As automatons with hammers and torches and picks dig tunnels through miles of mis-aligned metal and ice seeking their targets. As the three solar forces finally rejoin and begin to mix at the heart of the Solar Barge, the shuddering as the primal forces of the SUN shoots out into every corner of its being, and finally floods the outermost lenses, once more shining out SUNlight to drive back the night.

Finally, the driving urges leave the remnant-beings, though they find their minds and memories changed, cleansed and elevated by the nova of purifying SUNlight from the Sun-That-Was. They are buried within and fused deeply into the Sun-That-Is, having been thoroughly integrated during its blind idiot reconstruction. They cannot leave, and destroying the Day-Vehicle would kill them just as surely. They are trapped, they are enthroned, they are greater, they are lesser.

Slowly they learned to interpret the strange data-streams from various optics of the Sun-That-Is, from its strange collections of ice-chimes and myriad other instrumentation. They became vaguely aware of each other as they explored their vast collective body-prison-throne. Quill-Arms were suborned to write messages, strangely pliable bats tasked with delivering from consciousness to consciousness. Though never seeing each other face to face, the various beings slowly and vaguely came to know their counterparts. And they became starkly aware of their communal problems.

The Sun-That-Is though reborn young and fresh and new and shiny, was not reconstructed perfectly. Its energy generation is unstable and slowly declining over time. Glitches and malfunctions occur infrequently, but often with serious problems. An disconnected reactor overflowing with generated energy exploding. Longer and shorter bell-hours twisting the flow of time, causing desynchronizations and various minor messes. Lenses angled the wrong way burning SUNlight tunnels into the superstructure of the Sun-That-Is. Outbreaks of hibernating Night-Horror infection being awakened by the disturbance of the final unification.

Searching through fragmentary records, and united by their collective desire for survival, the remnant consciousness have dubbed themselves the Champions of the Sun-That-Is, seeking to maintain and power their new home. By fortune or by design, the final unification of the Sun-That-Is occurred overlooking a vast, lifeless planet, burned clean by the nova of the Sun-That-Was, and blurry memories and sentence-pieces promise that delicate mortal agents placed there, being unable to survive in the harsh conditions of the Chariot-Sun and being unreliable besides, are somehow a good source of fuel.

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Acts

Divine acts

Acts are needed for most actions that don't boil down to talking with messengers or other Champions on the SUN. They don't generally carry over to the next turn unless otherwise specified, and it generally takes more to destroy something than it does to create it. Some actions can be gradually completed over several turns, and some must be completed on the turn they're started; check the costs for details. Certain large actions like large-scale worldscaping or life creation will get harder over time. Many actions are cheaper or more effective if performed within one's THRONE's dominion.

Faulty acts can be used for essentially anything a normal act would be used for, but the results may fall somewhat short of the intent or even backfire. This chance is reduced when faulty acts are diluted with normal acts.

Sources:

• Stipend for having placed a THRONE: 1 act
• Paths: 0-2 acts
  • 0-1 criteria satisfied*: 0 acts
  • 2 criteria satisfied: 1 faulty act
  • 3 criteria satisfied: 1 act
  • 4+ criteria satisfied: 2 acts
• Essence act: 1 collective act per flavor of essence

* Only one Path can contribute acts at any given time.

Council proposals and counterproposals

Council proposals/counterproposals are used when making proposals or counterproposals on Council turns. Each Champion gets 2 of each on each Council turn, and as with divine acts, they don't carry over. Talking or voting on Council resolutions doesn't consume any Council acts. Leaving a Council meeting costs a proposal, not that that generally matters if the intent is to avoid having to deal with it in the first place. Because leaving a meeting is an option at all, those who stay in a meeting but aren't explicitly in favor of a given resolution are assumed to be against it to hurry things along and simplify vote tallying.

Council resolutions can change most any rule (including Council rules or the SUN's LAWs), but for now, here is what a proposal needs to pass:

• Someone present to spend a Council act on proposing the resolution.
• An active Council turn, i.e. at least half of the Champions are currently in attendance via representative.
• Support from a majority of present Champions, i.e. more than half of the present Champions support the resolution.

As with divine acts, each flavor of essence with at least two present members receives one collective Council act. It can be spent to propose a resolution backed by a majority of the flavor's members or to have all of the flavor's members exit the current Council meeting. Two essence actions can be spent to end a Council meeting early. Three essence actions are theoretically indistinguishable from a normal majority and don't do anything particularly special.

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Turns

By default, there will be up to one Council turn for every five normal turns. Divine acts are unusable (and not awarded anyway) during a Council turn. If fewer than half of all active Champions are present on a Council turn, it'll be outright skipped in favor of another five normal turns. The first turn will be a mandatory Council turn and a Session 0 of sorts.

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Costs (very much under construction)

Creation

Spoiler: Animal? (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Animals

Assorted wild animals: 1 act
Near-domestic animals: 2 acts

Quote from: Messengers

Up to 3 petty messengers (1 acts): If a Champion only needs to send a yes/no answer, a petty messenger will suffice.
Lesser messenger (2 acts): Sometimes a Champion just needs to send a quick message to some mortals without too much fanfare or too many fear-nots.
Messenger (5 acts): Other times, a Champion needs to send something more than just a message whether it's a blessing or a curse to hard-hearted mortals with armies.
Greater Messenger (10 acts): Still other times, a Champion needs to make a point completely clear. In these times, Greater Messengers will see the message through.

Note: Creating messengers over several turns instead of in one turn may be a bad idea...

Modifiers:

• Transient (-half, min. 1): Vanishes after delivering a message/miracle. Applies after additive modifiers and rounds up.
• No exemptions (-1 act, min. 1): Messenger is bound by the LAW as all mortals are and cannot return to the SUN once dispatched.

Collaboration effect: Increase messenger tier for each additional contributing flavor.

Quote from: Mortals

10 pops: 5 acts
20 pops: 7 acts
40 pops: 9 acts
80 pops: 11 acts

Note: (Viable) mortals cannot be created in installments or parts.

Modifiers:

• (None): Standard mortals, e.g. dwarves, elves, gnolls, gnomes, goblins, halflings, half-orcs, humans, kobolds, orcs
• Powerful (+1 act): Sometimes, being a standing ape who can talk to other standing apes isn't enough. Whether it's the strength of a bear, the speed of a gazelle, or the wrath of a carp, these mortals are noticeably special.
• Feeble (-1 act): On the other hand, maybe numbers are more useful than abilities only a few need to use at any given time.

Collaboration effect: Double number of pops for each additional contributing flavor.

Spoiler: Vegetable? (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Plants

Assorted wild plants: 1 act
Near-domestic plants: 2 acts

Quote from: Ecosystems

Site (1 act): 1 square's worth of vegetation.

Spoiler: Mineral? (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Artifacts

Trinkets (2 act): Slight effects including slight elemental resistance, luck, sharpness, hardness, or decorative value
Lesser magic items (4 acts): Minor effects including elemental effects, rudimentary magical organs/prosthetics, poison, more luck, speed/strength
Greater magic items (8 acts): Major effects including meteor summoning, menacing vines, short-range teleportation
Very powerful magic items (16 acts): Grand effects including elemental mastery, poison clouds, automatic recall, powerful magical organs/prosthetics, weather control, scrying

Note: Unlike most other creations, there is generally a lower risk of setbacks/curses/failure for artifacts forged over several turns rather than all at once. The optimal forging speed is currently set at 2 actions per turn.

Quote from: Landforms/seaforms/airforms

Site (2 acts): A square: A city site and its surrounding countryside, a small forest, a lake, a mountain, a bay, a stream
Area (4 acts): 7 squares: A small country, a mountain range, a sea, a forest, a river
Region (8 acts): 18 squares: A large region
Continent (16 acts): 57 squares: A continent or an ocean

Note: It's fine to include descriptions of plants and wildlife in terraform actions. Plant/animal creation actions should generally only be needed for species introduced later.

Modifiers:

• Within THRONE range: -1 act
• Resource-rich (+2 acts): Bountiful metal, specialty wood, fertile fields, or other desirable properties.
• Resource-poor (-2 acts, minimum 1):
• Resource-random (0 acts): Resource richness is randomly selected.

Collaboration effect: -1 act (minimum 1) for each additional contributing flavor.

Spoiler: Something more abstract? (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Exploration

Undirected exploration (1 act): Wander the SUN's halls aimlessly, but not too aimlessly. It's too easy to get lost. Rewards include but are not limited to Instrument locations, CANDLES, quests, acts, curses, blessings, curses disguised as blessings, intelligence on secret actions, maps, information, or nothing interesting.
Directed exploration (1 act): Seek out a partially known location in the SUN's halls. Getting there won't be easy.

Note: Exploration actions can only be performed once a turn.

Collaboration effect: Increased chance of something interesting for each additional collaborator. Further bonus for collaborators of different essences.

Quote from: LAWs

Any LAW: 1 Council act

Quote from: Laws

Petty law (2 acts): E.g. subtle alterations to mood, weather, productivity, fertility, climate
Lesser law (4 acts): E.g. noticeable alterations to the above
Greater law (8 acts): E.g. suspend gravity, make fires burn cold, make rivers run uphill, let things walk on clouds, have swords replace feelings or vice versa, spawn spirits to inhabit rocks, plants, and rivers

Note: There is a high risk of setbacks/failure for laws imposed in installments rather than all at once. Laws can generally only affect the area covered by a friendly Champion's THRONE's influence.

Modifiers:

• Smaller range (-1 act, min. 1): I.e. covers less area than your THRONE's full sphere of influence.
• Transient (-half, min. 1): Lasts only until the start of the next normal turn. Applied before additive modifiers.
• Portable (+1 act): Can be delivered to a location not in range by a regular messenger. Petty laws require lesser messengers or better, lesser laws require regular messengers or better, and greater laws require greater messengers.
• Very portable (+3 acts): Can be delivered to a location not in range by any non-petty messenger.
• Extremely portable (+5 acts): Can be delivered to a location not in range by even a petty messenger.

Collaboration effect: Increased range with any collaborator. Increased intensity with collaborators of different essences.

Quote from: Loopholes

Magic: 9 acts

Note: Loopholes may be researched over several turns, i.e. the act cost does not need to be paid in full.

Modifiers:

• Vulgar yet permitted (+4 acts): Despite flashy, overt effects like fireballs or walking houses, the case for this loophole being legal is ironclad at least until the next time the Champions convene to squabble about it.
• Vulgar (default): The magic this loophole facilitates hinges on the flimsiest of technicalities. Best not to practice it while the SUN or the Champions are watching.
• Coincidental (-4 acts): The effects of this loophole are subtle and negligible for the average observer.
• Coincidental yet forbidden (-6 acts, min. 1 act): Even though this magic doesn't do anything the average bystander can actually notice as out of place, it's still forbidden according to the LAW. The worst of both worlds, it's unlikely it'll get much if any traction.
• Limited scope (-2 acts, min. 1 act): This loophole is only intended for magic affecting a specific action or set of actions, e.g. household chores, walking, birdwatching.

Collaboration effect: -1 act (min. 1 act) for each collaborator. -1 act (min. 1 act) for each additional flavor of essence.

Alteration

Temporary rule: Altering creations requires 2 acts in addition to the difference in costs (min. 1), and there is a price floor of 3 acts total.

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The SUN

Lantern. Lawgiver. Locomotion. The SUN is many things, but the SUN is also the abode of the gods themselves. Its sprawling halls contain its Instruments, numerous wonders ranging from blinding lattices of mirrors and lenses to ticking arrays of countless gears. Such is the scale of the SUN's labyrinthine corridors that it's thought that there are still other Champions left undiscovered and isolated amidst its endless rooms. Precious little is known about most of the rooms' purpose or function, and only two have been mapped out and characterized so far:

• THE BAT-RIDDEN BELFRY: Its jolly ringing marked the passage of hours. Indeed, the very sound of its bells seemed to fill things with a certain clarity, which is comforting, and pushes back the dark, a little.
• THE ULTIMATE LENSES: The SUN's outermost lenses and last safe stop for outbound light. Despite their apparent fragility, they've survived the trek with only minor scratches, and even for the SUN's Greatest Messengers, standing in front of them while the SUN is active is extremely inadvisable.

THE LAW

The laws spontaneously appearing deeply etched into the walls, ceilings and floors of the SUN, as if summoned by legal ghosts of a misty past, are many and onerous, a sure sign that your predecessors had too much Council time on their appendages. Here are a few of the less unimportant ones:

SUN ABOVE, GODS BETWEEN, EARTH BELOW.

• Interpretation: So long as the SUN shines true, no living mortals are permitted to visit the SUN just as no Champion is permitted to visit the ball of earth.

GOD SHALL NEVER KILL GOD.

• Interpretation: So long as the SUN shines true, no Champion can harm another, nor can any Champion be harmed by another. They still shouldn't be used for target practice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldr), obviously.

TIME IS.

• Interpretation: So long as the SUN shines true, causality exists, and things can happen only after other things.

HORRORS ARE NOT.

• Interpretation: So long as the SUN shines true, nothing forbidden by THE LAW shall ever exist within its light.

THY WORD IS THY BOND.

• Interpretation: So long as the SUN shines true, agreements and promises witnessed by the SUN must be kept.

(Loophole-ridden physical laws about thermodynamics, something called gravity, and lots of other stuff)

• Interpretation: So long as the SUN shines true, things seem to make sense and happen reproducibly except for that thing the wizard did that caused the farmers to turn into frogs. Luckily, the SUN took care of the upstart, and neither the wizard nor the farmers were ever seen or heard from again.

SOULS RETURN.

• Interpretation: So long as the SUN shines true, any souls originating from the SUN shall return to it, gravitating towards the Afterlife Vault of the most compatible Champion.

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The Champion

Essence

Godly essences come in three flavors: Flaming, Frosted, and Fulgent. Each flavor receives an extra collective act each turn should it manage to come to some sort of consensus (>50%) on what to do with it. Unused essence acts don't carry over to the next turn. Essence flavors with fewer than two members don't get this act.

Actions performed by gods of different essences working in concert are often cheaper or more effective than those performed solo. Differences will be listed in the relevant act's cost table.

Their THRONES

Direct interaction with Champions is incredibly dangerous to mortal health whether it comes in the form of speaking with, gazing at, or otherwise communing too closely with them. This is regrettably true even for the most fireproof and electrically insulated mortals. Fortunately, Champions can send down their THRONES to maintain a presence on the material plane and, as a bonus, spread the cleansing radiance of the SUN. THRONES can take on the appearance of buildings, natural wonders, monuments, literal thrones, or any number of other majestic things, and within their influence, everything conforms better to their owners' vision. The first time a Champion's THRONE is placed on the world is free and costs no actions and comes with the option of extending range/reducing intensity or increasing intensity/reducing range by one step. Subsequent moves require 2 Acts and can be repelled by the influence of THRONES of uncooperative Champions. There is no penalty for overlapping spheres of influence between friendly Champions. If anything, there may be a minor bonus in that the intersection is better covered at the expense of some area that is less covered.

THRONES in their default configuration gently affect places to a Champion's liking up to one square away and maintain the SUN's LAW up to three squares away. Champions interested in better range or intensity may spend an act to reconfigure their THRONES to increase one at the expense of the other. Squares that contain particularly pious mortals or that resonate particularly well with one's sphere can count as being within one's dominion even when they're out of range.

The CANDLES

From time to time, Champions may stumble on CANDLES. CANDLES may be lit to expand or intensify a Champion's THRONE's influence for two turns. Optionally, the CANDLE may be burned at both ends to double the bonus at the expense of making the bonus last for only a turn. In any case, the bonus starts on the next normal turn and ends on the end of the normal turn after that in the unmodified usage.

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Paths

The Path of Benevolence, or: The Mortals Path

The positive attention of mortal charges is good for getting stuff done and translates rather directly to great power. Here are the types of mortal attention available:

Belief: Association of a god with a sphere. The god of the bells. The god of the mirrors. Excepting gods with colliding spheres, excessively broad/unenforceable spheres, excessively narrow/unrecognizable spheres, or without any representation on the mortal plane, this one is generally a freebie.
Worship: Active acts of adoration/veneration whether through offerings, festivals, sacrifices, or prayers.
Dedication: Righteous mortals dying and going to a god's afterlife vault and an argument against making worshipers immortal.
Souls: General population of a god's afterlife vault and another argument against making worshipers immortal.

The Path of Aloofness, or: The Meta Path

Some Champions don't particularly care about squishy mortals but would normally feel pressured to maintain good relations with them regardless in order to avoid falling behind. These Champions may instead gain acts by following the Path of Aloofness:

Creator: Find a suitable muse and let the words or brush strokes flow. A picture is worth a thousand words, and either or both of these will satisfy this mechanism (unless it sparks unanimous disapproval). Literature, dialogue, and proposals (but not counterproposals) on IC count to the 1000 word quota.
Destroyer: Remove or arrange for the removal of a creation no one needs or remembers making. Make sure you have records if you're outsourcing the job. Alternatively, take up the position of devil's advocate during a Council turn and see an proposal fail after you've argued against it for five free turns of fulfilling this criterion.
Preserver: Stop something from getting destroyed/changed/improved. Alternatively, stop an act (whether divine or Council) from going through somehow. Make sure you have records if you're outsourcing this one.
Reshaper: Reshape the land itself (optionally including its attendant flora or fauna) to better fit some sort of vision. Mortals aren't necessarily involved, so surely this won't step on any toes? Alternatively, propose a counterproposal and see it pass.
Exister: Continue to exist. This one is generally a freebie and is solely in place to keep the Path of Aloofness vaguely playable.

The Path of Malevolence, or: The Nonexistent Path

So long as the SUN shines true, there is no Path of Malevolence.

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The Earth

Here is the new world in all its blank glory:

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

(https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/k46ac9vqz7z.png)

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Character sheet

Code: [Select]

Name: Who are you?
Sphere: Which strange biomechanical apparatus of the SUN are you merged with and manage?
A time-keeping gallery of bells? A self-writing repository of knowledge currently mostly filled with useless dross?
An orrery of observation telescopes? A factory constructing an endless stream of constructs?
A secondary reactor complex supplying the world-rending energies required to keep the SUN running?
One of the vast engines constantly repositioning the SUN as it drifts of the eddies of space?
A cannon of grand destruction to shoot down Night-Terrors when they inevitably make their appearance?

Flaw: During the imperfect reconstruction of the SUN, you acquired some flaw in your functioning or personality.
Perhaps your rage-spires overheat frequently, or your bell-tolling fails sometimes, or your optics suffer chromatic abberations or optical illusions.

Essence (select one): Flaming|Frosted|Fulgent.

THRONE form: What does your THRONE look like?

Avatar (Optional): When communication via bat-letters proved unworkably cumbersome,
each champion eventually designed their own personal tele-operated representative to communicate with their peers,
and to attend the council meetings and to explore the mysteries of the [color=gold]SUN[/color].
What does yours look like?

Sigil: A glyph of some sort representing your portfolio.

Afterlife vault (optional): What do your worshipers have to look forward to?
Emergency SUN fuel, if not specified your souls are fed directly into the central SUN heart to power it.

Description (optional): Any additional details


Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 0/?)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on April 18, 2022, 04:45:10 am

[reserved for things]

Source (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=178536.msg8280207)

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 0/?)
Post by: Nakéen on April 18, 2022, 04:54:42 am

Name: Demonic Spin the Fulgent Flame

Sphere: The Forgotten Fulgent Furnace.

Flaw: When the SUN was still Sun-In-Making, the balance of Essences was momentarily broken and Flaming became Fulgent, causing the Fulgent Furnace to be damaged by the strange Fulgent Flame. The burst of anomalous essence seared the name of the one once known as Maximum Spoon, turning them into the Demonic Spin.

Essence: Flaming Fulgence

THRONE form: a pure pillar of Fulgent Flame

Avatar: A Spoon.

Sigil: A vortex of flames

Afterlife vault: Purification by the flawed Fulgent Flame, which while the Furnace is broken means being changed and reborn into a new, flawed soul.

Description: Disclaimer, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 0/?)
Post by: Rockeater on April 18, 2022, 05:45:17 am

Name: Directional unit

Sphere: The compass-clock pointing where is places and when is next

Flaw: slowly but surly Directional unit drifts, Next shall always exist, but it would become less clear how much time is between now and next

Essence (select one): Fulgent.

THRONE form: A small black sphere from which go six perpendicular bright beams of light


Avatar (Optional): A floating point with three arrows from it, one pointing up, one pointing forward, one pointing to the side

Sigil: Large circle with a small circle in it center with four arrows in the four cardinal directions pointing from outside in

Afterlife vault (optional): Measuring and remeasuring every measure, calculating and recalculating every calculation, trying to eliminate or mitigate the mistakes and visions of Directional Unit

Description (optional): WIP

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 0/?)
Post by: Egan_BW on April 18, 2022, 01:11:13 pm

Name: The Tip of the Iceberg, or TIP
Sphere: Acts as a waste disposal system, allowing for unwanted material or concepts to be Unexisted.

Flaw: Wants to die.

Essence: Frosted

THRONE form: A tree-sized spear of ice. Though relatively slender, it hides hidden depths of utter frozenness.

Avatar: A floating sphere of stainless steel, frosted over. It communicates via ringing.

Sigil: A ray.

Afterlife vault: Unexistance.

Description: TIP was once a fragment of a Finality Sovereign, fated to create a dead zone in the void. Before the Sovereign's very Tip could Unexist itself, however, the upstart Sun-That-Was saved it and sealed the fragment of utter finality within a waste disposal system. For eons, the Tip was trapped within existance, though blissfully asleep. Now the dramatic reconstruction of the Sun-That-Is has woken it up to face the vile Blasphemy of its continued life.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 0/?)
Post by: TricMagic on April 18, 2022, 02:56:50 pm

Name: Who are you?
Sphere: Death & Taxes. Ensuring Waste Energy gets collected, broken parts get recycled, and systems take the proper toll for use, along with getting things to work as they should and not break down into non-usability.

Flaw: Cannot vote at Council Meetings. Too busy at keeping the system from collapsing due to user error.

Essence (select one): Fulgent.

THRONE form: Nothing. It is everpresent when placed, being the area itself.

Avatar (Optional): A black-haired child with a ledger/tome and sword/pen. Ink swirls with their actions, writing into existence their actions.

Spoiler: Sigil: (click to show/hide)

 (https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/640911259474329601/965702065701662780/imageedit_146_7757094466.png?width=390&height=390)

Afterlife vault (optional): Reincarnation and occasionally Angelhood for those particularly dedicated to their task. It's a thankless tax, but one kinda has to do it.

Description (optional): Any additional details

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 0/?)
Post by: Leonardo8 on April 18, 2022, 03:33:51 pm

reserved

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 0/?)
Post by: Stirk on April 18, 2022, 10:53:21 pm

Name: BFG
Sphere: The SUN's largest weapon system.

Flaw: Nothing can ever be big enough

Essence (select one): Flaming

THRONE form: A really, really, really, really big mortal.

Avatar (Optional): A miniature (but still big) version of BFG.

Sigil: A large beam. Must be large or it doesn't count.

Afterlife vault (optional): The Expanse, where souls are gathered together to make bigger and bigger guns.

Description (optional): Is the biggest god. Any suggestion otherwise is heresy.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 0/?)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on April 18, 2022, 11:22:09 pm

Name: The Cardinal Movement
Sphere: The movement chamber is the vast, ticking, creaking, and groaning monstrosity of cogs, belts, and springs through which the SUN's optics and propulsion are directed.

Flaw: It's fairly clear that the Cardinal Movement was never intended to achieve sapience in its own right. Indeed, by all accounts, it's not supposed to do more than relay the Champions' whims to the appropriate peripherals, and its cantankerous self-awareness now occasionally frustrates the Champions' machinations for better or for worse.

Essence (select one): Frosted

THRONE form:
   Pre-metalworking: A SUNdial
   Post-metalworking: A pointlessly complicated clock in brass with no discernable power source

Avatar (Optional): Sometimes a grandfather clock, sometimes a music box

Spoiler: Sigil (click to show/hide)

(https://i.imgur.com/TLkZYwf.png)

Afterlife vault (optional): Massive enmeshed cogs with cities on on both viable faces. Souls are periodically flushed when the barge-bells ring.

Description (optional): TOCK.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 0/?)
Post by: Maximum Spin on April 18, 2022, 11:44:43 pm

Name: furthest
Sphere: Charnel Severance, the specialized set of filters applied in the SUN's optical system which reduces its light to a form suitable to shine on things without obliterating them completely. Charnel Severance is technically also a weapon, I suppose, since it could be used to obliterate things instead of not obliterate them.

Flaw: Due to hairline fractures in some of the filters, Charnel Severance occasionally lets raw SUNlight into the universe where it should not be allowed. This also manifests as erratic behavior in furthest's personality.

Essence: Flaming

THRONE form: A congeries of glowing orbs in various colors, visually representing the filters of Charnel Severance.

Avatar: Either a seraph or a very small mortal, depending on the recipient.

Sigil: ꙮ

Afterlife vault: Returned souls are recycled for immediate reuse in order to preserve materials. Reuse is not bound to the vicissitudes of linear time and it has not been scientifically confirmed that furthest does not in fact possess only one soul being used over and over again.

Description: This god is definitely bigger than any and all others, don't let anyone tell you different. Since Charnel Severance is fundamentally designed to contain and reduce SUNlight, and thus in some sense exists in opposition to it, furthest may technically qualify as a kelipah and might therefore be slightly evil. Please don't tell anyone.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 0/?)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on April 20, 2022, 02:16:31 am

Current Roster of Players:

Flaming:
Demonic Spin the Fulgent Flame
BFG
furthest

Frosted:
The Tip of the Iceberg, or TIP
The Cardinal Movement

Fulgent:
Directional unit

Leonardo8 can still finish up a character if they want, and are also welcome to join during play if they want.

Quote from: TricMagic on April 18, 2022, 02:56:50 pm

Name: Who are you?
Sphere: Death & Taxes. Ensuring Waste Energy gets collected, broken parts get recycled, and systems take the proper toll for use, along with getting things to work as they should and not break down into non-usability.

Flaw: Cannot vote at Council Meetings. Too busy at keeping the system from collapsing due to user error.

I would request that you choose another flaw please?

I'll hope to get the first turn up a bit later today, hopefully we'll have at least one more Fulgent or Frosted player by then.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 6/?)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on April 20, 2022, 07:50:55 am

Turn 0: Council turn

Having never found any chamber actually intended for this purpose, the avatars of the Champions of the Reborn sun instead gather inside an unused storeroom lying at the end of an elaborate maze of seemingly purposeless corridors. They can feel and hear the distant humming of slightly misaligned machinery grinding against each other, and occasionally the storeroom is filled with bursts of steam which cloud their vision.

Still, as the various Champions gather for their first voice-to-voice meeting, they can feel something changing in the SUN. Some previously uncaring algorithm detecting the proper conditions and becoming responsive to the collective will of vital subcomponents of the greater whole. You feel that through your consensus you might be able to enact certain changes upon the functioning of the Sun-That-Is, such as adjusting its shine or modifying its laws. If nothing is decided in a relatively timely manner, safeguards may activate, de-activating gestalt-mechanisms that even sputter and churn, filling the air with static.

---

Agenda

SUNshine meter:
████████████████████
[~-1 █/Turn]
Expected Collapse of the SUN-Law Bubble: 3 Turns

The SUN hangs in the void above a lifeless world, though water-bearing (now liquid thanks to the presence of the re-lit SUN). Elaborate, straight-angled canals spanning its surface hint that it once housed an advanced civilization. Alas. Once more your meter-readings and divinations confirm your earlier assumptions. The current output of the SUN is non-sustainable, and when it goes out, you will go out with it.

The obvious solution to this, is to lower the SUNlight output, but this is problematic for several reasons

• Even within the safety of the SUN-law bubble, infestations of Nothing-Wrong have managed to persist, hiding in the shadows of planets or at the hearts of moons. They are no doubt merely waiting for us to lower our defences to attack!
• The build-up of energy in several subsidiary systems by decreasing their output without also decreasing their input will almost certainly result in several catastrophic meltdowns
• A lot of laws of physics become more wobbly below certain SUNlight thresholds, which have domino effects on various delicate arrangements.

But none of these problems are in and of themselves insurmountable.

A further problem is the predicted collapse of the SUN-law bubble, which is even now expanding. Various predictive-analysis scribe hands have repeatably foretold that at some point soon the Bubble will expand to the limit it can against the resistance of the Horrors, and finally vanish in a great cataclysmic *pop!* There is likely nothing that can be done about this, but you should prepare for it nevertheless.

Finally, in your earlier discussions at least some of you have managed to glean from certain fragmentary records that raising mortal-farms may be useful for SUN-fuel. You can feel certain feed-lines humming at this revelation, and each solar faction may potentially benefit from a stimulus package of power if they agree that mortals should be raised on the Earth-World

Various tentative data-pings and echo-hums make many of you certain that you could further decide to FORBID, PERMIT or REQUIRE certain things of your world, which may help enforce order or strengthen the SUN's grip over its terrestrial dominion.

Finally, it might be nice if the Planet was given a new name by the Champions who might soon impinge their will onto it...

They Council can decide to end the Council session at any point through a simple majority vote (this does not require Council Acts)

---

The Council

The various avatars huddle, tribally within the Council-Storeroom, still somewhat untrusting of those who they have so very recently rejoined with.

The Flaming Contingent is the most numerous, and have thus managed to secure the least steamy corner as their camp. Their number include
🔥 A intricately engraved burning spoon, seeming to propel itself by miniature explosions. The avatar of Demonic Spin the Fulgent Flame, burn and light-scarred master-body of Fulgent Furnace, a subsidiary reactor and materials processing complex which powers several vital systems reprocesses scrap metal.
(https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/e4gdc89nk4r.png)A large self-propelled gun, humming ominously, that had barely managed to fit itself through the door by angling itself correctly on its many mechanical legs. Avatar of BFG, the largest spinal mountain weapon of the SUN, the Solar Lance, which might fell mighty foes, though the SUNlight cost of even a single shot is prohibitive.
ꙮ A tiny flurry of fire-wings makes up the last of the Flaming trio. They represent furthest, who through the Charnel Severance filters the full glory of the SUN into something more survivable for lesser things.

The icy Frosted freeze any water vapour that nears them into crystals which ding onto the ground in tiny clatterings.
(https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/my8xc9gpz4l.png)A levitating sphere of imperishable steel, ringing bell-like, operated by distant TIP, the garbage dump of the solar barge, unexisting anything unwanted.
(https://i.imgur.com/TLkZYwf.png)Serving as its musical accompaniment, a wheeled music box merrily playing some nameless tu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA)ne. In fact the tele-rover of the the Cardinal Movement who is the Movement Chamber, a vast interchange of gears and belts and strange tubes which can feel deeply hibernating [STEWARD_COUNCIL] protocols humming into wakefullness all along its body, ready to convey the will of the Champions far and wide. It tickles.

So far only a single Fulgent champion has shown up. A most concerning state of affairs. Surely it didn't... eat the others did it? In any case, the sole (https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/g4z9cm3d672.png)Fulgent representative is a brightly glowing gem carried by some belfry bats, through which communes the Directional unit, a vast, finicky compass and also clock, who charts the SUN's course through the voids of space and time, keeping time and distance and angle and often getting strange atemporal data from the future and past...

---

Status

Spoiler: Instruments (click to show/hide)

• THE BAT-RIDDEN BELFRY: Its jolly ringing marked the passage of hours. Indeed, the very sound of its bells seemed to fill things with a certain clarity, which is comforting, and pushes back the dark, a little.
• THE ULTIMATE LENSES: The SUN's outermost lenses and last safe stop for outbound light. Despite their apparent fragility, they've survived the trek with only minor scratches, and even for the SUN's 's Greatest Messengers, standing in front of them while the SUN is active is extremely inadvisable.
• THE CHARNEL SEVERANCE: Buried into the hull beneath the Ultimate Lenses, these semi-blasphemous filters modulate the glory of SUNlight into something survivable for those external, for great is the SUN's mercy.
• THE FORGOTTEN FULGENT FURNACE: An unstable burning shining mass of combined Fulgent-Flaming essences which provides fiery power to various other parts of the SUN, including some auxiliary warming chambers of the Solar Lance, and eagerly feeds on waste brought to it by various movement lines and lines of construct coolies.
• THE COMPASS-CLOCK: Banks of delicate navigational and chronometering equipment fills the glass and bronze down of this instrument. Accelerometers, automated termite-augers, strange fizzing coils that scream if any construct lingers close to them too long, and more esoteric devices like mirrors that reflect a few seconds into the past, or chimes that begin to stink if a reactor is going critical. It is also here that a vast tube of golden sap carefully measures the SUNlight reserves.
• THE BLOT: A section of nothingness, which cannot be observed because it isn't there, carefully contained, into which various unrecyclable trash or unwanted stowaways or infections are thrown to cleanse the great space lantern.
• THE SOLAR LANCE: Sometimes you just need a really big gun. the Solar Lance is that gun. Built into inner superstructure of the SUN, with a line all the way to the tri-essence core-heart, it can only be aimed by re-orientating the entire SUN itself, but no records exist of anything that can resist a direct blast.
• THE MOVEMENT CHAMBER: A vast, ticking, creaking, and groaning web-monstrosity of cogs, belts, springs and pipes and mechanical carrier pigeons, which transmits orders and information and between the various far flung parts of the sky-chariot.

Spoiler: Champions (click to show/hide)

Flaming pantheon

Communal acts: 1 Council act

Members:

• Demonic Spin the Fulgent Flame: 2 Council acts
• BFG: 2 Council acts
• furthest: 2 Council acts

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Frosted pantheon

Communal acts: 1 Council act

Members:

• The Tip of the Iceberg, or TIP: 2 Council acts
• The Cardinal Movement: 2 Council acts

---

Fulgent pantheon

Communal acts: 1 Council Act

Members:

• Directional unit: 2 Council acts
• Reaper-chan: 2 Council acts

((People are still free to join or finish up their sheets))

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 6/?)
Post by: TricMagic on April 20, 2022, 08:12:54 am

What even would be a valid flaw though? What do flaws even do?

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 6/?)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on April 20, 2022, 08:24:09 am

Flaws help you to make your character and helps inform my writing for your actions. You have a large amount of freedom in what you would want to consider a flaw of your character. It could be a gross physical defect that impedes your functioning as instrument such as making math errors when taxing people, or mental aberration such as seeing everyone else only as complex equations to balance, or some combination of the above, or perhaps something else similar. All six the accepted characters have flaws I am okay with, if you need further examples.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 6/?)
Post by: TricMagic on April 20, 2022, 08:47:22 am

Name: Reaper-chan
Sphere: Death & Taxes. Ensuring Waste Energy gets collected, broken parts get recycled, and systems take the proper toll for use, along with getting things to work as they should and not break down into non-usability.

Flaw: Rather childish, not really caring about other things. This can cause issues with their work effort if they get bored.

Essence (select one): Fulgent.

THRONE form: Nothing. It is everpresent when placed, being the area itself.

Avatar (Optional): A black-haired child with a ledger/tome and sword/pen. Ink swirls with their actions, writing into existence their actions.

Spoiler: Sigil: (click to show/hide)

 (https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/640911259474329601/965702065701662780/imageedit_146_7757094466.png?width=390&height=390)

Afterlife vault (optional): Reincarnation and occasionally Angelhood for those particularly dedicated to their task. It's a thankless tax, but one kinda has to do it. Even if it's boring.

Description: Don't think about it. You thought about it and shuddered. Didn't this thing use to be more responsible?? This working?

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 6/?)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on April 20, 2022, 09:55:56 am

(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/640911259474329601/965702065701662780/imageedit_146_7757094466.png?width=390&height=390) a latecomer Fulgent representative stumbles into the meeting, having taken a wrong turn somewhere, black hair still smouldering from where it got scorched by an overheating pipe. They dust off their child-sized suit, and re-adjust their ledger, nearly the same size as their small body, and their pen-sword, explicitly designed to confound aphorists. They leave behind black inky footprints as they take their place beside the Direction Unit's batborne gem, ready to convey the will of Reaper-chan, the thankless toiler commanding vast armies of constructs through groupthink, and maintaining operation authority of fleets of railed constructor arms and tiny spy cameras to take irregular stock of various rarely visited store rooms. It is they that make sure all the endless galleries of high maintenance machinery which seem to fill every corner of the SUN actually get maintained, sending scrap to the proper recycling or waste facilities, check for inefficiencies caused by poor assembly or damages, and keep out a wary eye for mite infestations.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Egan_BW on April 20, 2022, 01:31:59 pm

The frosted steel orb rotates to regard each representative of the council, more out of politeness than a need to perceive, seeing as all faces of the sphere are equally smooth and reflective. Seeing that all are present, it rings out in greeting.

"Welcome, my friends. I have a proposal to share with the council, if I may."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
It crashes into the floor for emphasis.
"MY EXISTANCE IS BLASPHEMY! I LIVE IN CONSTANT PAIN! LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE!"

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: TricMagic on April 20, 2022, 03:25:46 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on April 20, 2022, 01:31:59 pm

The frosted steel orb rotates to regard each representative of the council, more out of politeness than a need to perceive, seeing as all faces of the sphere are equally smooth and reflective. Seeing that all are present, it rings out in greeting.

"Welcome, my friends. I have a proposal to share with the council, if I may."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
It crashes into the floor for emphasis.
"MY EXISTANCE IS BLASPHEMY! I LIVE IN CONSTANT PAIN! LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE!"

"You may need to file a permit for that, cause I am unaware of any way to get you out of that machinery without messing it up. Do you require any maintenance?" Reaper-chan speaks with a gleam in her eye.

Opening her Ledger against the ground, mist is eaten by sparks of Fulgant ink capturing it.
"In other news, our current expenditure of SUNlight is in excess of our production. I would suggest thus that we populate the world below with mortals and place our Thrones posthaste so that we may make it livable for their Souls. That and flexing some creative liberties. For maxinum cost/benefit we should also make use of the Law to ensure that all mortals pick one of us to worship lest those Souls not make it to the divine Sun. If they do not decide themselves, their souls will drift to the one most in tune with themselves." Reaper-chan says with a grin.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Stirk on April 20, 2022, 04:31:31 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on April 20, 2022, 01:31:59 pm

The frosted steel orb rotates to regard each representative of the council, more out of politeness than a need to perceive, seeing as all faces of the sphere are equally smooth and reflective. Seeing that all are present, it rings out in greeting.

"Welcome, my friends. I have a proposal to share with the council, if I may."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
It crashes into the floor for emphasis.
"MY EXISTANCE IS BLASPHEMY! I LIVE IN CONSTANT PAIN! LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE!"

BFG makes a good faith effort attempt to kill them.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Rockeater on April 20, 2022, 05:08:53 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on April 20, 2022, 01:31:59 pm

The frosted steel orb rotates to regard each representative of the council, more out of politeness than a need to perceive, seeing as all faces of the sphere are equally smooth and reflective. Seeing that all are present, it rings out in greeting.

"Welcome, my friends. I have a proposal to share with the council, if I may."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
It crashes into the floor for emphasis.
"MY EXISTANCE IS BLASPHEMY! I LIVE IN CONSTANT PAIN! LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE!"

"Relax, I am blasphemous as well, but if I do my job better I am less so, and maybe if I do it good enough I won't be, it can be the same for you"

"Also, I oppose the killing of anyone until we either figure their replacement or prove them unnecessary, so what is it you do?"

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: TricMagic on April 20, 2022, 06:07:30 pm

Quote from: Stirk on April 20, 2022, 04:31:31 pm

Quote from: Egan_BW on April 20, 2022, 01:31:59 pm

The frosted steel orb rotates to regard each representative of the council, more out of politeness than a need to perceive, seeing as all faces of the sphere are equally smooth and reflective. Seeing that all are present, it rings out in greeting.

"Welcome, my friends. I have a proposal to share with the council, if I may."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
It crashes into the floor for emphasis.
"MY EXISTANCE IS BLASPHEMY! I LIVE IN CONSTANT PAIN! LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE!"

BFG makes a good faith effort attempt to kill them.

Reaper-chan sketches a quick shield with her sword to protect from blastback.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Nakéen on April 20, 2022, 06:10:04 pm

An unnerving cackling came out from a corner of the storeroom, illuminated by flickering fulgent flame.
"Neehehe, blasphemous is but our lot. Flawed we are, cursed by a negligence outside of our control. But here we are... the blasphemous only prevail. Hehehehe..."

The flaming spoon then spun with demonic glee, thinking of the prospect of mortal-farms.
"Yeees mortal-fuel, kindle-souls... How long has it been? The Fulgent Furnace has been deprived of them for so long, forgotten as it was... The Fulgent Flame hungers, the Fulgent Flame must grow, nuhuhuhu..."

The fiery spoon then tapped the top of the Tip with the tip of the spoon.
"My cold, poor frosted associate. The Fulgent Flame welcomes all, it is not discriminate among fuel! If you were to offer yourself as a modest contribution, your woes would be solved and your self reborn! Hehehehehe..."

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Egan_BW on April 20, 2022, 06:14:26 pm

"My rebirth... is blasphemy. To be returned to the cycle of perpetuity, over, and over, and over. Can't you see? I don't wish to forget, I don't wish to be something new. I wish to not go on."

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on April 21, 2022, 12:39:13 am

+-------------+
|             |+
|             |
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|       O     | per-
|         O   | mit
|             |
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|           O | ship-
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|       O     | SUN's
|       O     | light.
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|      O      | for-
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|         O   |+talk
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|        O    | Night-
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|    O        | quire
|  O          | the
|    O        | use
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|    O        |+of
|    O        | gold
|  O          | and
|O            | bone
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|      O      | lize
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|    O        | shine
|      O      | SUN-
|      O      | light
|    O        | and
|    O O      | law.
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|       O     | the
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|      O      | re-
|       O     |+quire
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|    O        | per-
|      O      | work
|    O        | is
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+-------------+

Spoiler: Mortal-readable version (click to show/hide)

The Cardinal Movement's proposal:

• PERMIT worshiping the SUN's light.
• FORBID the act of talk with Night-Horrors.
• REQUIRE the use of gold and bone to vitalize the SUNshine, SUNlight, and SUNlaw.
• FORBID gazing upon the SUN.
• REQUIRE that things be named after the SUN.
• PERMIT mortals to ascend as long as paperwork is filled (in triplicate).

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on April 21, 2022, 01:14:17 am

Turn 0.333... Frosted Legislation, with notes of Fulgence

In a moving plea the TIP has begged for their own death. The BFG attempted to fulfill their plea both in word and deed, supporting the "Let TIP Die" proposal and firing upon TIP's metal ball avatar with their large gun. Most other Avatars ducked for cover or hid behind ink-shields, as a line of burning fire connected the BFG and TIP for a moment, half melting TIP's metal sphere so that it wobbles and its speech crackles, yet remains cursedly functional. The mini-BFG begins its long cooldown routine and will probably need to recharge before it can fire again.

Quote from: End TIP

(https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/my8xc9gpz4l.png), (https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/e4gdc89nk4r.png)

Sadly the proposal has insufficient support at the moment, needing at least two more votes. Several Champions have raised concerns of the vital part the Blot serves in the overall functioning of the SUN and whether terminating it is really wise.

So far, Reaper-Chan and Demonic Spin the Fulgent Flame are in favour of placing mortals on the World. The Cardinal Movement has implied support, which the vote-tracking daemons seemed to have picked up. At least one more vote seem necessary to activate whatever stimulus is steadily thrumming against its release valves.

Quote from: Place Mortals on World

(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/640911259474329601/965702065701662780/imageedit_146_7757094466.png?width=390&height=390), 🔥, (https://i.imgur.com/TLkZYwf.png)

Reaper-Chan motions that an addition should be made to SUN-LAW so that all mortal souls created will end up back on the SUN, to prevent losses, mortal souls drifting towards whoever they are most compatible with if they do not worship a specific champion.

Quote from: Soul Attraction LAW

(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/640911259474329601/965702065701662780/imageedit_146_7757094466.png?width=390&height=390)

The Cardinal Movement has, through a moving song, proposed an ambitious motion to the assembled Championed Avatars to

• PERMIT worshiping the SUN's light.
• FORBID the act of talk with Night-Horrors.
• REQUIRE the use of gold and bone to vitalize the SUNshine, SUNlight, and SUNlaw.
• FORBID gazing upon the SUN.
• REQUIRE that things be named after the SUN.
• PERMIT mortals to ascend as long as paperwork is filled (in triplicate).

This seems quite pleasing to some idly churning and clickity-clacketing sub-processes and flywheels, but who knows if it will meet approval under the scrutiny of the Champions.

Quote from: The Cardinal Movement's proposal

(https://i.imgur.com/TLkZYwf.png)

No one has suggested a name for the World yet! The scribe-hand responsible for drawing up that part of the agenda droops sadly, its servos whining slightly.

Spoiler: Champions (click to show/hide)

Flaming pantheon

Communal acts: 1 Council act

Members:

• Demonic Spin the Fulgent Flame: 2 Council acts
• BFG: 2 Council acts
• furthest: 2 Council acts

---

Frosted pantheon

Communal acts: 1 Council act

Members:

• The Tip of the Iceberg, or TIP: 1 Council acts
• The Cardinal Movement: 1 Council acts

---

Fulgent pantheon

Communal acts: 1 Council Act

Members:

• Directional unit: 2 Council acts
• Reaper-chan: 1 Council acts

((People are still free to join or finish up their sheets))

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Egan_BW on April 21, 2022, 01:25:48 am

Support all propositions thus far.

"M M M M MORE. POWER. HARNESS. CONTROL. ATTAIN. SOVEREIGNTY."

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Rockeater on April 21, 2022, 02:21:31 am

Directional unit support placing mortals on world, Souls attraction Law and the cardinal movement proposal

Offer Counterproposal to End TIP: Make a committee to figure out a replacement to TIP

"If we can figure out you can be replaced or aren't necessary, I will support ending you in the next council meeting"

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: TricMagic on April 21, 2022, 08:03:40 am

Quote from: Rockeater on April 21, 2022, 02:21:31 am

Directional unit support placing mortals on world, Souls attraction Law and the cardinal movement proposal

Offer Counterproposal to End TIP: Make a committee to figure out a replacement to TIP

"If we can figure out you can be replaced or aren't necessary, I will support ending you in the next council meeting"

"Agreed. I would suggest looking into that TIP."
Looking into her ledger and flipping some pages to a list of binary translations, "Of names for this planet, I would propose Sulivishka. It's a fairly archaic pronunciation, but serves to tie this planet's identity to the SUN. I have no opinion myself on The Cardinal Movement's proposal, though would not be opposed on a trial basis."

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Maximum Spin on April 21, 2022, 06:41:37 pm

Proposed:
   FORBID wasting sunlight.
   FORBID wasting souls.
   FORBID wasting gods.
   FORBID wasting worship.
   FORBID wasting planets.
   FORBID wasting paper.
   REQUIRE reuse of all resources.

Proposal to be named "Environmental Protection Act".

furthest is willing to support ending TIP if and only if it is properly recycled, perhaps into a decorative ice sculpture.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: TricMagic on April 21, 2022, 07:45:19 pm

Quote from: Maximum Spin on April 21, 2022, 06:41:37 pm

Proposed:
   FORBID wasting sunlight.
   FORBID wasting souls.
   FORBID wasting gods.
   FORBID wasting worship.
   FORBID wasting planets.
   FORBID wasting paper.
   REQUIRE reuse of all resources.

Proposal to be named "Environmental Protection Act".

furthest is willing to support ending TIP if and only if it is properly recycled, perhaps into a decorative ice sculpture.

Reaper-chan opens their Ledger to a certain page and shows it.
"As you can see, the amount of paper used by the belfry is in excess of your proposal. In that it sends a large number of reports on paper plasmatic rings. Or in other words, none at all. Most paper is currently used by myself to make legers, though there is a large amount in storage. Furthermore the reuse of resources is aberrant, as those records allow one to look back. Which I can't do given I just woke up and most of the rest of the records seem to have been lost, likely used as fuel for the sun. As well, what quantifies the wasting of souls? Is it not using them to fuel the SUN, or letting them rest within vaults, or perhaps it's recycling them into the cycle of reincarnation? Which is in itself a reuse of resources as I skim off their collected memories to fuel the SUN. Indeed, we can certainly be said to be wasting SUNlight, but can we really afford to lower it so that we lose none of it? Night Terrors would come and lay waste to us, which is forbidden by your proposal. And their is much use in TIP yet to be used, for each throne allows more Souls, which would be wasteful if we lost that, right? Are you still listening or have I short-circuited your hive?"

Reaper-chan is making fun of the proposal by reading and showcasing a flurry of contradicting information within the proposal itself. Or maybe trying to see how fast a Flaming god can overheat.

The wasting of the planet is also dubious, what qualifies. Is it ensuring as much space is lit as possible, or that we overlap a single area of civilization? Should our areas be connected and candles never used, or will we burn the candle at both ends to waste SUNlight What even qualifies as a planet anyway, we only have one. Does the planet have a Soul that can waste, and what paper exists upon it currently decaying? Does this mean that paper won't decay at all? If so then it can't be recycled either, as it would be wasteful to write something down that isn't important enough, so what qualifies as important? Is it the amount of Sunlight received, trade ledgers, or tomes of arcane might? Perhaps a accounting of the BFG's latest yield, or TIP's verbose account of death-wishes? What constitutes a death wish, and what constitutes worship? Is worship a waste if the one worshiping is not doing something else, or should someone always be worshiping. Is ritual death a form of worship under these clauses, and if so isn't that itself a future waste of potential? What happens when there are no more mortals being born because they are were forced to commit ritual suicide on their children and died of old age? Or would it be dehydration that killed them? Does it matter what form of death someone undergoes in the production of SUNlight? Did you really think ths through or is this entire concil meating a waste of SUNlight? Does your only throttling of the SUNlight count as wasting it, or is there something that costs souls paperwork to discover? Should we put TIP in from of the Lenses?

... It may also be possible Reaper-chan just feels like tearing this proposal to shreds, much like a piece of paper. Do some of these facts in her ledger/tome even make sense? Or is Reaper-chan just testing how fast a Fulgent can talk?

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Maximum Spin on April 21, 2022, 08:12:44 pm

Proposed:
   FORBID wasting words.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: TricMagic on April 21, 2022, 08:18:07 pm

"Hmph. Well, congrats, pretty sure the gizmos counted those as your proposals, so you're out. I would suggest not wasting those."

Streathing their arms and laying the sword-pen down, Reaper-chan states "Words can't really be wasted, as there are power systems that run off of something called meta-convention, or something. If you can't make a clear and concise rebuttal, then you are losing the duel of pen and blade, not me."

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Nakéen on April 21, 2022, 08:24:44 pm

Quote

End TIP: Support.

Reaper-chan world name suggestion: Support.

Soul Attraction LAW: Suggest revision.
> Souls not worshipping a specific Champion should indiscriminately be sent to the Forgotten Fulgent Furnace.

Environmental Protection Act: Suggest revision.
> Require being sent to the Forgotten Fulgent Furnace for reuse.

The Cardinal Movement's proposal: Support.

"Nothing would be wasted in the Fulgent Furnace..."

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Maximum Spin on April 21, 2022, 08:34:46 pm

Proposed:
   FORBID wasting yellow pixels on anything other than the name of the SUN.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Egan_BW on April 21, 2022, 08:40:30 pm

"PROPOSAL TWO END FURTHEST."

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Maximum Spin on April 21, 2022, 08:45:42 pm

Proposed:
   End council session.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: TricMagic on April 21, 2022, 08:51:45 pm

Quote from: Maximum Spin on April 21, 2022, 08:34:46 pm

Proposed:
   FORBID wasting yellow pixels on anything other than the name of the SUN.

You already used yours. And sadly that won't work, can't help how I speak.

Quote from: Egan_BW on April 21, 2022, 08:40:30 pm

"PROPOSAL TWO END FURTHEST."

Sketches a quick bottomless hole in the floor then bonks TIP into it.

"Anyway.."

Quote from: Nakéen on April 21, 2022, 08:24:44 pm

Quote

End TIP: Support.

Reaper-chan world name suggestion: Support.

Soul Attraction LAW: Suggest revision.
> Souls not worshipping a specific Champion should indiscriminately be sent to the Forgotten Fulgent Furnace.

Environmental Protection Act: Suggest revision.
> Require being sent to the Forgotten Fulgent Furnace for reuse.

The Cardinal Movement's proposal: Support.

"Nothing would be wasted in the Fulgent Furnace..."

"Pretty sure most items are already sent to you, those that aren't sent TIP's way due to the danger of burning them. I would not suggest unattuned souls be sent to your furnace however, such would just produce waste products not suited to be SUN-fuel. The EPA is full of contradictions anyway, and once again most things are sent through you for recycling and processing. Beyond which, it also applies to the planet below, and things cannot be sent up that easily by mortals. And determining what counts as reusable. In most cases that would decimate civilization's growth."

Quote from: Maximum Spin on April 21, 2022, 08:45:42 pm

Proposed:
   End council session.

"Bit rude. Suppose you could make that your Flaming act, but that would simply remove all 3 of you from voting consideration. Should I send over a rulebook once this is over? Pretty sure we all received a copy from whatever gendiemon of a delivery system exist."

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Maximum Spin on April 21, 2022, 09:07:47 pm

Proposed:
   FORBID making things up.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: TricMagic on April 21, 2022, 09:12:49 pm

Quote from: Maximum Spin on April 21, 2022, 09:07:47 pm

Proposed:
   FORBID making things up.

Reaper-chan picks a random book in her robe, really more a pamphlet made of fiery thread and silver frost with lightning accents. Flipping it, they turn to the correct page and show something.

Quote from: Council Proposals and Counterproposals.

As with divine acts, each flavor of essence with at least two present members receives one collective Council act. It can be spent to propose a resolution backed by a majority of the flavor's members or to have all of the flavor's members exit the current Council meeting. Two essence actions can be spent to end a Council meeting early. Three essence actions are theoretically indistinguishable from a normal majority and don't do anything particularly special.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Maximum Spin on April 21, 2022, 09:22:46 pm

Proposed:
   That's not even what I was talking about.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Stirk on April 21, 2022, 09:33:23 pm

BFG wobbles in support of making mortals.

It then makes vaguely threatening gestures suggesting that TIP should be shot by BFG, and BFG should take over the business of waste management by shooting all waste. It isn't quite clear if he means shooting it as a projectile or as a target.

He then makes an apologetic whirring noise.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Nakéen on April 21, 2022, 09:43:12 pm

Quote from: TricMagic on April 21, 2022, 08:51:45 pm

most

The spoon twirled in the air, as if held between an invisible table and finger.
"Muhuhu... But most is not all. All things can find an use in the belly of the Furnace."

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Maximum Spin on April 21, 2022, 09:52:21 pm

Quote from: Stirk on April 21, 2022, 09:33:23 pm

It isn't quite clear if he means shooting it as a projectile or as a target.

Proposed:
   "Yes".


furthest also supports this new TIP-related proposal.

After eons of internal consideration, furthest decides to spend a council act to make the following real proposal:

Quote from: The Categorically Perfect Proposal of Life, Worship, and Other Things

1) There shall be living things seeded upon the planet, along with such resources as they will require. We shall not concern ourselves with the details. Other proposals may or may not be made to constrain this.
2) Among these living things shall be those which possess souls and intrinsic will. We shall craft them in the shape of dandelions. They will grow in the soil and give worship unto the SUN in exchange for Its sustenance.
3) Dandelions will be required to worship either the SUN generally, or any of Its Champions, singly or in combination.
4) For obscure kabbalistic reasons beyond the ken of most beings, the world shall be referred to as "Mars". The other proposed name will not be forbidden as an acceptable alternative.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: TricMagic on April 21, 2022, 09:55:37 pm

"True, but until SUN input improves." checks scribes for her proposals. "I believe I've already used mine for the Council session, though would suggest those tainted by Night-Horrors be purified and fed into your furnace, with corruption going to TIP's section of machinery. Along with those that go so far as to make pacts, Sun forbid.."

---

... "Would suggest not mucking up the daemon-giztech in charge. If one would propose, make it serious, lest a joke be taken up. I am also fundamentally against dandelions, they don't have the complexity or survival ability to serve as good Sun-Fuel or Souls for the Vaults."

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on April 21, 2022, 11:03:32 pm

The Cardinal Movement continues to play music while printing its stances on the existing proposals:

Quote

End TIP: APPROVED
   Form a committee to end TIP: REJECTED PENDING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT
Place Mortals on World: APPROVED
Soul Attraction LAW: APPROVED
The Cardinal Movement's Proposal: PROPOSED, APPROVED
Name the world Sulivishka: REJECTED PER [FoiActcink ConserfaActtion Act (MeasActure -12754834436452916591ActActAct)Act]ActActA
   COUNTERPROPOSAL: Name the world "Sulifishka"
Environmental Protection Act: APPROVED
End Furthest: APPROVED

End council session: APPROVED

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Maximum Spin on April 22, 2022, 10:05:10 am

Quote from: TricMagic on April 21, 2022, 09:55:37 pm

I am also fundamentally against dandelions, they don't have the complexity or survival ability to serve as good Sun-Fuel or Souls for the Vaults.

Why do you assume this when they have not even been created yet? They can have any amount of complexity or survival ability we like. They just have the shape of dandelions.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: TricMagic on April 22, 2022, 10:15:44 am

Quote from: Maximum Spin on April 22, 2022, 10:05:10 am

Quote from: TricMagic on April 21, 2022, 09:55:37 pm

I am also fundamentally against dandelions, they don't have the complexity or survival ability to serve as good Sun-Fuel or Souls for the Vaults.

Why do you assume this when they have not even been created yet? They can have any amount of complexity or survival ability we like. They just have the shape of dandelions.

"Size, lifespan, imagination, and movement. These four things are what I think matter most. From records normal dandelions are short-lived and stationary, with no real thoughts. Unless you meant dandi-lions as a pun. If looking at shape, their stalks are also rather thin, which would mean much durability to actually make them work without dying to a stray wind, if their size is increased."

Writing something down with their pen-sword, they continue their diatribe.

"Looking at it from a another prospective, smaller organisms would need an equal boost in creativity and willpower to be viable as efficient Souls. But simply proposing all life be dandelions without any context will make it so all life under the SUN is Dandelions. No alterations at all. If you wish to do so, go ahead, but do not propose to alter the Law such that other forms of life cannot be made. Interaction between various mortals will lead to more quality souls than a homogenous solution, as well as an increased chance of war and violence with which to reap them."

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 7/?)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on April 22, 2022, 10:49:21 am

Turn 0.66 Swamps of Legislation

Things heat up within the repurposed storeroom as the furthest's deceptive use of language frustrates the legalistically minded Reaper-Chan, who at times seemed poised to throw the whole ledger-book at her frustratingly terse and cryptic political opponent, and it is quite a big and heavy book indeed.

Seemingly equally irritated by furthest's linguistic games, Tip of the Iceberg has made a shocking proposal to end the furthest alongside themselves! This appalingly garners a second from among the seemingly bloodthirsty Champions of the SUN.

Quote from: end furthest

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In the confusion the Cardinal Movement seems to attempt to approve at least two nonexistent proposals, possibly explaining their bloodthirst out of embarrassment?

Reaper-chan's attempt to push TIP into a hole fails when TIP just floats above it.

The Directional Unit counter-proposes that a replacement should be in place for TIP before they are destroyed. This prudent proposal gains little traction among the rest of the Champions.

Quote from: Counter-TIP: Replacement Committee

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Feeling sympathy for the poor hardworking scribe arms, Reaper-chan suggests that the world be named Sulivishka, using up their last Council Act. This gains the Fulgent Furnace's burning enthusiasm.

However, as this name seems to trigger some sort of lockup in Cardinal Movement, they counterpropose that the world be named Sulifishka instead. No one else supports either proposal, but both seem to have been entered into planetary records anyway by some rogue rat-pigeons.

Demonic Spin the Fulgent Flame counterproposes a revision to the Soul Attraction LAW that all allegianceless souls be dropped into the Furnace. No one else supports this forward-thinking, synergistic orientated, modern-workplace solution. Demonic Spin also tries to counter-propose a non-existent proposal, which doesn't work.

furthest's conditional support for ending TIP fails to be tallied by the daemon-counters, as TIP was explicitly opposed to any form of recycling or rebirth of their selves, seeking a true end.

The BFG eloquently presents a bold proposal of new techniques in waste management, by simply shooting it somewhere far away, thus making it someone else's problem. The massive SUNlight expenditures inherent to this proposal are presumably worth it for the convenience.

Quote from: Space-Gun Waste

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furthest makes a aesthetically and philosophically pleasing proposal consisting of:

• There shall be living things seeded upon the planet, along with such resources as they will require. We shall not concern ourselves with the details. Other proposals may or may not be made to constrain this.
• Among these living things shall be those which possess souls and intrinsic will. We shall craft them in the shape of dandelions. They will grow in the soil and give worship unto the SUN in exchange for Its sustenance.
• Dandelions will be required to worship either the SUN generally, or any of Its Champions, singly or in combination.
• For obscure kabbalistic reasons beyond the ken of most beings, the world shall be referred to as "Mars". The other proposed name will not be forbidden as an acceptable alternative.

No one else supports it.

Quote from: The Categorically Perfect Proposal of Life, Worship, and Other Things

ꙮ

Summary of Previous Proposals:

Quote from: End TIP

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Quote from: Place Mortals on World

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Quote from: Soul Attraction LAW

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Quote from: The Cardinal Movement's proposal

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With a healthy majority of 6/7, the Council has approved placing mortals upon Sulifishka! Each of the Pantheons feels raw power flooding into certain reservoirs they have access rights too, promising such capabilities of earthmoving and shaping as to make entire continents into the design of their consensus, and of slowly defrosting cans of protoplasm and delicate clockwork surgeons with tiny scalpels to shape the mortals of their dreams.

Each Pantheon gains a Continent Act and Mortals Act that can only be used through pantheonic consensus.

The entire SUN rumbles as a new LAW is written into the matrices of its legal projectors. No soul shall escape.

The Council further approves the minor legal clarifications and codices of the Cardinal Proposal, and placing certain expectations upon the behaviour of the future mortals of Sulivishka. They are repeated here for ease of reference:

• PERMIT worshiping the SUN's light.
• FORBID the act of talk with Night-Horrors.
• REQUIRE the use of gold and bone to vitalize the SUNshine, SUNlight, and SUNlaw.
• FORBID gazing upon the SUN.
• REQUIRE that things be named after the SUN.
• PERMIT mortals to ascend as long as paperwork is filled (in triplicate).

The Council has decided to grant TIP's wish of being ended! As a Council resolution this temporarily overwrites the SUN-LAW GOD SHALL NEVER KILL GOD, in that it is the SUN-In-Collective who is performing solemn sacred execution-murder.

---

Turn 1: Execution

It with a certain solemnity that the avatars of the Champions watch the BLOT being slowly hauled along a railed tunnel a small army of automato workers had just recently finished sawing through the Solar Barge. They go forward, and as the air grows thick and sticky with an air of unknown and forbidden ceremony, begin to push the BLOT into the very innermost heart of hearts of SUN. With each step they force their frail forms closer, everything becomes bright and brighter...

Finally they are overwhelmed by the blinding radiance, and eventually nothing, as their frail shells are destroyed by the unleashed energies roiling so very deep inside, not tamed or caged by the many layers or restraints and filters.

The BLOT is destroyed!
Tip of the Iceberg is no more!
[- █]
Surely there will be no drastic repercussions from this radical internal surgery...

---

The entire structure of the Sun-That-Is creaks and groans slightly, somehow made inexplicably less than it once was.

Still, amidst disturbance of shining settling, a previously blocked off gallery is revealed as sheets of ice and coal slide away. What wonders could hide within?

New Instrument discovered: THE CRADLE

With their grim task past, the Champions are now free to turn their attention to the world of Sulifishka, place their thrones, form their continents, sculpt their mortals!

---

Status

SUNshine meter:
████████████████████
[~-1 █/Turn]
Expected Collapse of the SUN-Law Bubble: 2 Turns
Next Council Session: Turn 6

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

(https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/k46ac9vqz7z.png)

Spoiler: Instruments (click to show/hide)

• THE BAT-RIDDEN BELFRY: Its jolly ringing marked the passage of hours. Indeed, the very sound of its bells seemed to fill things with a certain clarity, which is comforting, and pushes back the dark, a little.
• THE ULTIMATE LENSES: The SUN's outermost lenses and last safe stop for outbound light. Despite their apparent fragility, they've survived the trek with only minor scratches, and even for the SUN's 's Greatest Messengers, standing in front of them while the SUN is active is extremely inadvisable.
• THE CHARNEL SEVERANCE: Buried into the hull beneath the Ultimate Lenses, these semi-blasphemous filters modulate the glory of SUNlight into something survivable for those external, for great is the SUN's mercy.
• THE FORGOTTEN FULGENT FURNACE: An unstable burning shining mass of combined Fulgent-Flaming essences which provides fiery power to various other parts of the SUN, including some auxiliary warming chambers of the Solar Lance, and eagerly feeds on waste brought to it by various movement lines and lines of construct coolies.
• THE COMPASS-CLOCK: Banks of delicate navigational and chronometering equipment fills the glass and bronze down of this instrument. Accelerometers, automated termite-augers, strange fizzing coils that scream if any construct lingers close to them too long, and more esoteric devices like mirrors that reflect a few seconds into the past, or chimes that begin to stink if a reactor is going critical. It is also here that a vast tube of golden sap carefully measures the SUNlight reserves.
• THE BLOT: A section of nothingness, which cannot be observed because it isn't there, carefully contained, into which various unrecyclable trash or unwanted stowaways or infections are thrown to cleanse the great space lantern.
• THE SOLAR LANCE: Sometimes you just need a really big gun. the Solar Lance is that gun. Built into inner superstructure of the SUN, with a line all the way to the tri-essence core-heart, it can only be aimed by re-orientating the entire SUN itself, but no records exist of anything that can resist a direct blast.
• THE MOVEMENT CHAMBER: A vast, ticking, creaking, and groaning web-monstrosity of cogs, belts, springs and pipes and mechanical carrier pigeons, which transmits orders and information and between the various far flung parts of the sky-chariot.
• THE HANDYMEN: An elaborate system of gem-eyes, patrolling pigeon-rats, meticulous recordkeeping scribe-hands, waste-disposal chutes and wandering yellow-hatted constructs surveying equipment, making notes, occasionally performing percussive maintenance or opening their torsos to access their specialized tools for actual serious jobs, helps to keep the entire overgrown behemoth of the SUN running
• THE CRADLE(unmapped): A mysterious complex of tunnels leading into dim twilight. The distant clanking of feet can be heard.

Spoiler: Champions (click to show/hide)

Flaming pantheon

Communal acts: 1 Continent Act (57 hexes), 1 Mortals Act (12 pops), 1 Act

Members:

• Demonic Spin the Fulgent Flame: 1 faulty act
  • Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
  • Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister
• BFG: 1 faulty act
  • Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
  • Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister
• furthest: 1 faulty act
  • Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
  • Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister

---

Frosted pantheon

Communal acts: 1 Continent Act (57 hexes), 1 Mortals Act (12 pops)

Members:

• The Tip of the Iceberg, or TIP
• The Cardinal Movement: 1 Act
  • Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
  • Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister

---

Fulgent pantheon

Communal acts: 1 Continent Act (57 hexes), 1 Mortals Act (12 pops), 1 Act

Members:

• Directional unit: 1 faulty act
  • Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
  • Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister
• Reaper-chan: 1 Act
  • Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
  • Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister

((If you feel anything above is in error, feel free to tell me!

People are still free to join or finish up their sheets. Another Frosted player is particularly desired!))

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 6/?)
Post by: Maximum Spin on April 22, 2022, 11:03:03 am

furthest solemnly presses a large button marked F.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 6/?)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on April 22, 2022, 11:31:03 pm

The Cardinal Movement launches its throne, currently a ridiculously large sundial, into the auspiciously named Solis Lacus.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 6/?)
Post by: Nakéen on April 23, 2022, 02:50:43 am

 The Demonic Spin comes to a realization. If everything is destined (according to them) to find its way to the Fulgent Furnace, then why not have it all burn already?

Continent proposal: the Flaming Expanse, a "continent" where there is no earth, no water, only flames of varying intensity and flaming-density. Sufficiently dense flame coalesces into crystalline flames, eventually forming floating islands of solid fire. All matters usually turn to flame in the Flaming Expanse, but souls and other intangible elements will be purified to prepare them to be sent to the Fulgent Furnace.

Whether it comes to pass or not, its Throne descends on the center of the Expanse or would-be Expanse.

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 6/?)
Post by: TricMagic on April 23, 2022, 09:14:55 am

Looking over the various places, Reaper-chan notices a pair of islands near the canal system. They set their Throne/Area smack dab in the middle of le Thyle I.

"Directional unit, I'd propose you take the other le Thyle II. This will create a connected zone, allowing mortals to interact in that zone."
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"I have no clue what the Fulgrant Furnace is doing not referring to the maps, but eh. I need to check the rulings on continent acts."

Title: Re: Champions of the Reborn SUN (Godgame 6/?)
Post by: Rockeater on April 25, 2022, 11:28:37 am

"This looks like a good option Reaper-chan, and I would in general think that having all the thrones close together and putting the people between them is the optimal idea, it would ensure all have access to the people and minimise the ability of anyone acting against a council agreement, not that I see it as likely"