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Title: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on February 07, 2024, 01:07:36 am
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The Void Era

A tempestuous onslaught of roaring Creatia ravages the ontosphere, leaving fleeting images of worlds that cannot or can no longer be. Whether bounteous twin worlds lovingly populated by a vast throng of gods or a great plain of black sand soon flooded and filled with life, and whether a vast mountain filled with uncountable horrors and delights or a recently flooded subcontinent bounded by the lands of pantheons friendly and hostile, the raw potential in this pocket of void is clear. Indeed, nine brilliant Sparks aglow with creative power soon arise from these shifting images raring to fill the emptiness with substance. Fittingly, the first to resolve is swift Yalini, seemingly a Trick of the Light but in actuality a great and tricksy bird, who is soon balanced by A-0 the Beast Builder, a vast Bird of Night, and shadow of the great IS-NOT, CANNOT-BE, and SHALL-NEVER-BE. A great stony beetle soon emerges as well, oddly unbothered by the birds whether thanks to their likely rivalry or its own impenetrable stony exoskeleton. ANTHEM-314, Rock of Ages and Ghost in the Machine, immediately sets out to prepare for something.

The gathering of inorganic Sparks is soon interrupted by the arrival of Luka, a godsflesh-filled hat dancing about the heads of the Divine Birds and the Rock of Ages seeking to find purchase on a suitable skull to protect. The Emperor of Flesh follows closely behind, further balancing the composition of the Sparks. Continuing the theme, a fermenting cluster of uval pustules manifests haughtily with a regal bearing that identifies it as Neobel Eka, the Wine of Life.

The great powers of empty heaven and unmade earth also make their appearance. First of this triad of divinity is the wayward moon-centipede and Usurper of Heavens Sornlun, banished by the very Weaver of Heavens whose love it sought to a place that is not a place in a time that is not a time. Next, perhaps brought to existence by the latent rivalries and grudges that will have always existed amongst the Sparks and their children and those who call the Sparks their antecedents), Calamos Gladius, a chariot and driver with conquest in his heart, rolls in to subjugate everything its frightful wheels trample. Last but certainly not least, a strange rabbit with head of whale, leg of dragon, eye of bee, and tail of dragon arrives. Known as Gregory, the One Who Defies Chaos, perhaps his presence will serve as the ordering principle of this chaotic world.

Last? No, not last, for with a sickening, ironically unforgettable sputter, a writhing maggot regurgitates the memory of its own existence back into the ontosphere. Woe and behold! Gongon, Devourer of Sanity, is manifest!

There is much work to be done, and many wonders to be made. It is the Cosmogonic Eon.


Cosmogonic Eon

Required

Optional

Grand Pieces cost 3+ Aligned+ acts, and Greater Pieces cost 2+ Aligned+ acts. Contradictory Grand Pieces will fight amongst themselves until consistency is reached; supply additional acts to tilt the odds in favor of a specific Piece or fight them directly.


The Cosmos

Creatia storms
Materia drought

The Cosmogonic Eon is not due to end.


Gods
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC (9/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on February 07, 2024, 01:07:54 am
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Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC (9/??)
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Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (9/??)
Post by: Egan_BW on February 07, 2024, 01:42:05 am
A-0 gazes over the has-not is-not fretfully, reminded of her is-not shall-now-never-have been home, eaten by the cruelties of shifting and absolute probabilities and consequences. So many hadn't been lost, and never will be, and now A-0 isn't the only one who can never remember them forever. She would have to be the monument of those who are-not, nobody else would forget. She would have to live.

"NEVERMORE, NEVERMORE."

She mournfully exists, stubbornly, within the space-that-is-not-space and the time-that-is-not-time, and naturally divine sparks fall from the spark's feathers, shavings and dust and ozone which drift into the shape of the shadow's shadow, a dark zone of hiding which is also a bird.

Put forth two aligned acts to partly create an additional plane: a great living shadow in the sky which serves as an avian haven, a safe place only birds may reach. Others may finish with additional acts, altering the finished product appropriately.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: crazyabe on February 07, 2024, 02:03:43 am
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Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on February 07, 2024, 02:25:34 am
Sornlun, Usurper of Heavens, Voice of Flame

Cast aside, banished. An instant prior, the object of its everything had noticed Sornlun. The most blissful and cruel memory of the treacherous moon-centipede, then banished by the Weaver whose attention it sought, and had finally obtained. And now, only the dreadful truth of an existence without the Weaver, a hell beyond compare, a torment eternal.

The heavenly usurper writhes and contorts in agony as it beholds the utter absence, the meaningless of everything. Tears of fire, screams of flames! Rage and despair, oh so much rage and despair, and a but single word: Why?!

"WHY?!!! O spurned affections, cursed love! O meaningless eyes in a world without a Weaver to behold!"

1) Organ extraction: Sornlun carves out its eleven jewelled eyes and smashes them together, forming a hendecahedron of eleven colours: seven seen and four unseen.
2) Flame Act: Sornlun then carves a word of furious flame on each of the first seven faces, and a word of remorseful flame on the four remaining faces of the eleven faced jewel.
=> Create Remorse, the Iridescent Sun [Grand].

Spoiler: Sornlun, Usurper of Heavens, Voice of Flame (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: micelus on February 07, 2024, 02:33:21 am
"This reality is not real. It is still a figment of our delusion. We ought establish a foundation, so that something greater can be built."


"I, Greg, propose an accord to split the firmament amongst ourselves and between us. It is impossible to foment this grand design, without the efforts of us all. It is necessary to cast aside our being in order to propagate the new reality - one that exists beyond our dreaming."

"I propose the following, and hope for cooperation."


Proposals:

Shape Of The World.

- Gregory shall give of their eyes to contribute to the formation of a round world. It shall imperfectly spherical, as things rarely are. An ordered sphere, it shall slightly dampen the effects of magic and chaos upon itself and in its orbit.
- Whichever deity contributes another Aligned Act will have their utilised sphere affect the ambient conditions of the world.

Nature of Death.

- Gregory shall contribute 2 Acts to this. All dead entities will end up an underworld that resembles the physical world, but lackluster, where all senses are dulled,  where the very experience is grey  and without wind or sun. Dead entities, if prayed for or prayed to, will experience an underworld more akin to the physical world, with all the beauty and enjoyment implied. Those who have great piety in a god will be enraptured and be directed to subworlds within the underworld. These subworlds are domains of their respective gods, and can be changed as desired by their respective deity.
- Reincarnation is possible if a dead entity is aware of reincarnation and is able to divest themselves from their grief or attachments to their former lives.
- Whichever deity contributes another Aligned Act will be able to add on their own amendments to the nature of death.

Spoiler:  Gregory, Dire Rabbit (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 07, 2024, 02:41:54 am
Gongon writhes. Gongon doesn't remember existing. Gongon is pretty sure they don't exist. All is as it should be. Praise the Gods that are not.

There is a slight "pop" as dozens of horribly squirming and whirring eyes and drumming and pulsating ears and shells and cochleas detach from Gongon's insensate bulk, in gory explosions of blood and oil. Writhing maggot-livers crawl their free from Gongon's see-through flesh, and its various piping tubes and buzzing speakers abandon it to live independent existences. Antennae drop like balding hair, and noses shrivel up and fall out.

Gongon mumbles and drools and as the eyes ignite and with a pale and hungry witch-fire, using all memory and sanity that see as fuel to keep themselves alight, thus forming the clutch of Gomoons, whose exact number keep fluctuating between 6 and 18, never staying quite constant, blinking in and out of existence, yet always unnoticed when blinking, as they circle and stare at whatever world is created, shining a hungry light upon life, yet burning away at the knowledge/memory/instinct and reason of all exposed to their rays.

Gongon auditory apparatus self-assembles into a dizzyingly elaborate structure, a massive signal tower roost, which roots itself in whatever world is created, reaching out into the heavens. Here the Gomoons and Remorse rest periodically amidst their sky sojourns. Here too mortals can climb up, and hear the whispers of the conversations of the gods, and request/demand divine audiences by sacrificing their sight and most precious memory to the Gomoons. Climbing and remaining in the heavenly signal tower is incredibly spiritually and mentally draining, and intrepid climbers often return insane strangers who can remember little of themselves before the climb, but return with eldritch and forbidden divine knowledge. The HST is always visible on the horizon, and takes merely a days travel for any mortal to reach if they deliberately travel towards it. Further heavenly creations (planes, moons, suns, comets, constellations etc.) probably also roost on the HST.

Spoiler: Devoured by Gongon (click to show/hide)

The liver-maggots and rogue filtering cages who had fought their way free from Gongon congregate into several hundred thousand strange nests of pulsating livery goodness, who do something, no one is really sure what, slowly fading in and out of reality, as suddenly the primordial Gomagic system seeps into everything like a foul odour you can't get rid of. Gomagic is powered by knowledge and reason, with less powerful effects being able to be accomplished by for example, burning books, or sacrificing scholars, with the most powerful effects coming from the self-sacrifice of the caster. Gomagic is powerful and versatile, allowing for teleportation, biomanipulation, resurrection, healing, pleas to contact the gods, telekinesis, elemental manipulation, divining knowledge from Gongon (Gongon has no knowledge), erasing sanity and/or memory from target(s), making the harvest bountiful, good luck, bad luck, enchanting items with various powers and planar travel. Elaborately drawn ritual shapes of no particular geometric significance, and filled with meaningless runes and symbols, made of precious materials and long elaborate chants of completely and deliberately meaningless babble are common in Gomagic. Extensive study of how Gomagic works makes you worse at Gomagic. Hundreds of sapients must be sacrificed to achieve limited planar travel.

Gongon's heavy breath forms the mists and fogs of the Season of Forget. During the Season of Forget, it is an uphill battle to form new memories, learn new skills, and acquire new knowledge. Constant effort must be made to remind yourself of things you care about, refresh on important knowledge, and continuously hone your current skills, or you begin to lose them and they degrade.

The horrible piping voices of Gongon form the grating babbling winds of the Season of Lunace. During the season of Lunace the moons, if any, are particularly prominent, visible and large and influential. In addition, thinking beings will randomly flout social norms and their own moral code and sense of reason to act in ways that are completely random and insane. This becomes more frequent if they are exposed to moonlight.

Gongon sacrifices all their eyes (+4 Aligned acts)
Gongon sacrifices all their ears (+4 Aligned acts)
Gongon sacrifices their antennae (+2 Aligned acts)
Gongon sacrifices their voice (+2 Aligned Acts)
Gongon sacrifices their livers

Gongon creates the grand Gomoons (-2 Sanity, -1 Ignorance)
Gongon creates the grand Heavenly Signal Tower (-2 Ignorance, -1 Sanity)
Spoiler: Devoured by Gongon (click to show/hide)
Gongon creates grand Gomagic (-1 Sanity, -1 Ignorance, (-1 Power from Calamos Puissant), + Liver)
Gongon creates the season of Lunace (-3 Sanity act)
Gongon creates the season of Forget (-3 Ignorance act)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: crazyabe on February 07, 2024, 04:35:39 am
Yitterblum contributes its Chaos and Flesh acts to Gregory's 'shape of the world' proposal.
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Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: micelus on February 07, 2024, 04:47:25 am
"Gongon, I'm going to level with ya. If you do all this, you will be shivved."
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Egan_BW on February 07, 2024, 04:50:04 am
"CAW ! ! ! ! !"
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 07, 2024, 07:18:47 am
Gongon does not understand.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 07, 2024, 09:04:14 am
Neobel Eka looks upon the supposed world. One mundane and lacking. Pustules pop and form with the passing of not-seconds, ages unseen. Wine ferments and is cleansed. They look at their liver.

Not like V needed this anyway. Their Liver pops into an ocean of wine, filled to the brim with merry celebrations.

V, V, V Let Life flow, Magick's most Noble form. This sacrifice, oceans of blood Wine form, filled with life and magic. Let none contest the unending age. Live(r). Neobel Eka forms the Greater Piece: Bloodwine Broodwaters. Noble Life Liver consumed, pop free and bleed upon the world as the Birthplace of all Life, Source of Life Magic.

"Thoughts are unneeded. Revel in the cosmic soup of entropy. Create, destroy, settle. Let your acts speak for themselves. V applaud Gongon."
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (9/??)
Post by: Stirk on February 07, 2024, 01:17:52 pm
Quote from: Egan_BW on February 07, 2024, 01:42:05 am
Put forth two aligned acts to partly create an additional plane: a great living shadow in the sky which serves as an avian haven, a safe place only birds may reach. Others may finish with additional acts, altering the finished product appropriately.

Luka silently moves over the shadow sky, adding a Hat-Aligned action. The avian haven is now a feather hat.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on February 07, 2024, 03:23:35 pm
So far I count the following pieces:

Required

Optional

I'm pondering selling donating a few more limbs/organs...
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 07, 2024, 03:48:04 pm
Should it be 1 if I used 2 acts and the Liver for magic water?
Yeah, that one requires 2 acts, and added the Liver for magic.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on February 07, 2024, 04:03:31 pm
Yalini looks at the other gods. Most of them have gotten most things she wanted to make, made. The sun, the moon, the connection, the seasons, and how death is handled. But there is one thing she could still wants to make but hasn't been made yet. She pulls out her intestine, she uses her two aligned acts and the intestine to make Aur. Aur is a long snake made of iridescent light who glides across the sky when the sun isn't shining.(Also, if the sacrifice provides an extra act, Yalini creates an aligned act worth of birds made of light)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Maximum Spin on February 07, 2024, 04:04:18 pm
It wishes to keep its organs today.

It presumes to shove a love act into the Life Magic system and a power act into the Gomagic system at this time.

Please drink ocean wine responsibly.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 07, 2024, 04:22:14 pm
The Neobel wine gurgles pleasantly.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: micelus on February 07, 2024, 05:50:52 pm
Eyes - > 2 Order Acts

Action: Craft the Shape, the Initial Shape, the Final Shape.


    1 Chaos Act (Yitterbium)
    1 Flesh Act (Yitterbium)
    1 Order Act (Gregory)
    1 Civilisation Act (Gregory)

- Gregory cuts themselves open, removing an eye. It does not quiver nor does it bleed; it is orderly in all ways and knows its purpose. A portion is set aside. The rest  is mashed and chewed and relinquished into the void; it is the mash that will become the world.
- Chaos and Flesh and Civilisation are seeded into the mash. From this emerges the primordial world; an irregular sphere. It is a lithic world bound by the union of order and chaos; in this there is Balance. The world has a thick atmosphere full of ash and greenhouse gases; the oceans are composed of thinned blood and ichor. Magic is somewhat weaker here than off-world.

Kidney->  2 Order Acts

Action: Craft the Afterlife, The Dull Maybe.

   3 Order Acts (Gregory)

-Gregory mutilates its own flesh, dutifully doing so to ensure that this reality has a sustainable soular ecosystem.
-All dead entities will end up an underworld that resembles the physical world, but lackluster, where all senses are dulled,  where the very experience is grey  and without wind or sun. All entities slowly  lose their memory and personality, becoming statues in time; the size and opulence of said statue is dependent on how long they remained themselves. Those that last longest have bigger, more opulent statues. Dead entities, if worshiped, prayed for or sacrificed to, will experience an underworld more akin to the physical world, with all the beauty and enjoyment implied. This also staves off the loss of memory and personality. Those who have great piety in a god will be enraptured and be directed to subworlds within the underworld. These subworlds are domains of their respective gods, and can be changed as desired by their respective deity.
- Reincarnation is possible if a dead entity is aware of reincarnation and is able to divest themselves from their grief or attachments to their former lives. They will reincarnate with some of their core personality traits, as well as important memory fragments.



Spoiler: Gregory, Dire Rabbit (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 07, 2024, 06:16:19 pm
Quote from: micelus on February 07, 2024, 05:50:52 pm
Eyes - > 2 Order Acts

Action: Craft the Shape, the Initial Shape, the Final Shape.


    1 Chaos Act (Yitterbium)
    1 Flesh Act (Yitterbium)
    1 Order Act (Gregory)
    1 Civilisation Act (Gregory)

- Gregory cuts themselves open, removing an eye. It does not quiver nor does it bleed; it is orderly in all ways and knows its purpose. A portion is set aside. The rest  is mashed and chewed and relinquished into the void; it is the mash that will become the world.
- Chaos and Flesh and Civilisation are seeded into the mash. From this emerges the primordial world; an irregular sphere. It is a lithic world bound by the union of order and chaos; in this there is Balance. The world has a thick atmosphere full of ash and greenhouse gases; the oceans are composed of thinned blood and ichor. Magic is somewhat weaker here than off-world.


Spoiler: Gregory, Dire Rabbit (click to show/hide)
Reiteration, Lineage. Rejoicing. Greater Piece and Magic Source.
Confirming Noble Act, Wine Act, Love Act, Liver of Wine.
Bloodwine Broodsea serves as Ocean and Source of Life Magic, weakened but hearty in flavor.
Safe for drinking*Mutations may vary.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Egan_BW on February 07, 2024, 06:48:49 pm
Quote from: TricMagic on February 07, 2024, 09:04:14 am

"Thoughts are unneeded. Revel in the cosmic soup of entropy. Create, destroy, settle. Let your acts speak for themselves. V applaud Gongon."

"CAAAAW!"
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: micelus on February 07, 2024, 07:32:09 pm
"Gongon, would you relent from following on with your Cycle of Death if perhaps, the souls of those beings sworn to you would be consumed by you, as well as those that emulate your nature?"
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 08, 2024, 12:51:22 am
Quote from: micelus on February 07, 2024, 07:32:09 pm
"Gongon, would you relent from following on with your Cycle of Death if perhaps, the souls of those beings sworn to you would be consumed by you, as well as those that emulate your nature?"

Gongon forgets a counterproposal:

Dead go to dull boring grey world.
Dead steadily lose their memories and personality like poor ink fading from paper, becoming stiff and dull and grey, eventually petrifying into statues.
Memory and personality can be temporarily preserved through the targeted worship and sacrifice of the living.
Should a dead soul free itself of all attachment, it will reincarnate keeping its core personality traits and some important memory fragments
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on February 08, 2024, 12:56:10 am
ANTHEM-314 watches as the other sparks go about their work. It considers that the creation of a world here may, somehow, some day be inhabited by the descendants of its creators. It also considers that some of the creations of the sparks may be highly problematic for them.

Using one Rock-Aligned Act, ANTHEM-314 encases 6 of the 18 Gomoons created by Gongon in an enduring layer of stone; enlarging them significantly but also preventing their knowledge eroding behaviours. The encased moons now have a light yellowish coloration, and are rich in exotic metal ores should anyone be foolish enough to mine them. Inscribed upon the moons is a warning in a language lost to all of creation about the dangers that the seasons of Lunace and Forget.

ANTHEM-314 figures that Gongon is unlikely to hold a grudge for this tampering, its few observations with the being indicate that it is unlikely to even notice without its sensory organs, and would probably forget about it even if it did due to its nature.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: micelus on February 08, 2024, 01:49:57 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 08, 2024, 12:51:22 am
Quote from: micelus on February 07, 2024, 07:32:09 pm
"Gongon, would you relent from following on with your Cycle of Death if perhaps, the souls of those beings sworn to you would be consumed by you, as well as those that emulate your nature?"

Gongon forgets a counterproposal:

Dead go to dull boring grey world.
Dead steadily lose their memories and personality like poor ink fading from paper, becoming stiff and dull and grey, eventually petrifying into statues.
Memory and personality can be temporarily preserved through the targeted worship and sacrifice of the living.
Should a dead soul free itself of all attachment, it will reincarnate keeping its core personality traits and some important memory fragments

"Gongon, that is amendable. If you retract your construction of Cycle, I shall make changes to my own plan."
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 08, 2024, 02:00:45 am
Quote from: micelus on February 08, 2024, 01:49:57 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 08, 2024, 12:51:22 am
Quote from: micelus on February 07, 2024, 07:32:09 pm
"Gongon, would you relent from following on with your Cycle of Death if perhaps, the souls of those beings sworn to you would be consumed by you, as well as those that emulate your nature?"

Gongon forgets a counterproposal:

Dead go to dull boring grey world.
Dead steadily lose their memories and personality like poor ink fading from paper, becoming stiff and dull and grey, eventually petrifying into statues.
Memory and personality can be temporarily preserved through the targeted worship and sacrifice of the living.
Should a dead soul free itself of all attachment, it will reincarnate keeping its core personality traits and some important memory fragments

"Gongon, that is amendable. If you retract your construction of Cycle, I shall make changes to my own plan."
Gongon devours the lost and forgotten cycle.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (9/??)
Post by: micelus on February 08, 2024, 02:19:21 am
Spoiler: Retracted (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 08, 2024, 02:47:45 am
Gongon offers to improve the afterlife with ignorance if Gregory orders the Heavenly Signal tower slightly.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (9/??)
Post by: Egan_BW on February 08, 2024, 02:53:31 am
Quote from: micelus on February 08, 2024, 02:19:21 am

"I am willing to designate an Act for this, as long as this shadow should grant a civilising aura to those fall under its shade."

Gregory contributes 1 Civilisation Act if so.

"CAAW CAAW!" A-0 doesn't-reply to the offer which wasn't, having a unique talent for sniffing out events which used to be in the past but now were never.

((3 acts isn't the limit to grand piece creation! Give me your juice! Make it shinier!))
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 08, 2024, 03:12:19 am
Gongon's anatomy flickers in a state of already being sublimnated to contribute to the following possiilities:

-A season of Regret
-A continent of twisting passages, ravines and canyons of variegated brightly coloured stones and soil and sand, where it you are supernaturally likely to get lost. Maps, waystones, markers etc. are also unreliable and shift, move, degrade and corrupt over time.
-A continent of hot springs, geothermal vents and terraced thermal pools. The gases and liquids all have some sort of effect on the mind, making you happy, sad, drunk, angry, high etc
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: micelus on February 08, 2024, 05:03:15 pm
Quote
-A continent of twisting passages, ravines and canyons of variegated brightly coloured stones and soil and sand, where it you are supernaturally likely to get lost. Maps, waystones, markers etc. are also unreliable and shift, move, degrade and corrupt over time.

Gregory is open to contributing an Order Act to this, if maps and other civilised navigation tools are not intrinsically unreliable/shifting/moving/degrading/corrupting except by natural or mortal means.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 08, 2024, 05:33:35 pm
Quote from: micelus on February 08, 2024, 05:03:15 pm
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-A continent of twisting passages, ravines and canyons of variegated brightly coloured stones and soil and sand, where it you are supernaturally likely to get lost. Maps, waystones, markers etc. are also unreliable and shift, move, degrade and corrupt over time.

Gregory is open to contributing an Order Act to this, if maps and other civilised navigation tools are not intrinsically unreliable/shifting/moving/degrading/corrupting except by natural or mortal means.
V are Willing to donate a vine to this if so. All paths lead to civilization. The paths between often shift. What once was 10 years ago now differs 50 years ago.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on February 09, 2024, 01:37:09 am
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Turn 0.9: The Void Era

Avian Awakening

A living avian shadow begins taking shape, a shifting impression of all those who are-not and cannot-be. This inaugural creation, a monument raised by A-0 in honor of those-who-cannot-be, is the beginnings of a realm that will serve as a haven for all the birds who may be. (A-0: -1 Night Act, -1 Beast Act) It is soon completed by Luka, who finagles the shadow in such a way that it now also looks like a hat. (Luka: -1 Hat Act)

Astronomical Antics

Distraught, rejected Sornlun tears out its eleven eyes and smashes them together to create the Iridescent Sun called Remorse. Of its eleven faces, seven ignite in visible colors from Sornlun inscribing words of furious flame, and four alter in some barely perceptible and yet mournful way from words of remorseful flame. (Sornlun: --Eyes, +2-2 Heaven Acts, +2-1 Flame Acts, -1 Flame Act; +Materia)

The Shape of the World has been determined through the sacrifice of many of Gregory's eyes and assistance from Yitterbium. An imperfect sphere infused with the power of Balance, Civilization, and Flesh, the Final Shape will surely serve as a thriving home for future sentients with its thick, protective, and ash-filled atmosphere and oceans of gradually diluting blood and ichor. (Gregory: -Eyes, +2-1 Order Acts, -1 Civilization Act; Yitterbium: -1 Chaos Act, -1 Flesh Act; +Materia) Just as it always has and always will, life of some sort arises almost as soon as conditions allow it as the Neobel Eka pours their vestigial liver out onto the world, forming a vast, wine-dark ocean known as the the Bloodwine Broodwaters which additionally serves as a font of Life Magic. (Neobel Eka: -Liver, +1-2 Noble Acts, +1-2 Life Acts; Calamos Gladius: -1 Love Act; +Materia) With no one to practice it at this point, its exact workings are as yet unknown except that it may additionally involve Love thanks to a donation from Calamos Gladius, but perhaps it draws from life-giving blood.

Perhaps confused at their own existence, Gongon has given greatly of themselves to build many of the foundational structures of the world. This begins with their eyes, which are the Gomoons. Numbering between 6 and 18 at most given times, they have the disquieting property of literally blinking out of existence, which will surely only worsen their intrinsically sanity-damaging effects (Gongon: --Eyes, +2-2 Sanity Acts, +2-1 Ignorance Acts). Concerned for the safety of the inhabitants of the world, ANTHEM-314 has elected to encase a third of the Gomoons in a thick layer of metal-rich stone inscribed with a no longer decipherable warning on the dangers of Gongon's lunar seasons. In addition to moderating their influence on the world below, the shells also have the interesting side effect of granting them some level of protection (ANTHEM-314: -1 Rock Act).

All this is soon followed by the self-assembly of the Heavenly Signal Tower, an impossibly shaped tower and roost known only as the from Gongon's auditory organs. Serving as a link between the world and the heavens allowing the most driven mortals to listen to the gods and even demand their attention in later times, it also acts as a roost for tired heavenly bodies. (Gongon: --Ears, -Antennae, +3-1 Sanity Acts, +3-2 Ignorance Acts)

Next, the expulsion of Gongon's highly potent viscera into strange, ethereal nests has embedded principles of Gomagic into the workings of the universe. The sacrifice of knowledge and reason (especially one's own) is now a dangerous pathway to great power especially after Calamos Gladius' contribution. (Gongon: -Liver, +1-1 Sanity Act, +1-1 Ignorance Act; Calamos Gladius: -1 Power Act)

Gongon's final gifts to the world for now, powered by the sacrifice of Gongon's voice, are the stupefying Season of Forget, which damages memory, and the wild Season of Lunace, which brings about great insanity. (Gongon: -Voice, +1-3 Sanity Acts, +1-3 Ignorance Acts)

Afterlives and Animate Ambitions

The Nature of Death has also been determined by Gregory both in mechanism and in location, although murmurings of disagreement may contest their interpretation. The overall system will be known as the Dull Maybe, and its construction from Gregory's kidney will cleanse even the most tarnished of souls. It appears that the less pious dead will be sent to an underworld not unlike the physical world but still, dull, and grey, that the more prayerful dead will enjoy an afterlife with greater fidelity, and that the more specifically pious will be received in their gods' halls, all with the possibility of reincarnation. (Gregory: -Kidney, +2-3 Order Acts))

Noting that most necessary things have already been made, Yalini has created the iridescent snake Aur to glimmer in the dark of night. (Yalini: +2-3 Light Acts) It's too early to tell at this point, but Aur's light may be helping to dilute some of the Gomoons' effects in those patches of sky where both are visible. Yalini has also attempted to create a flock of light birds in the waters of the Bloodwine Broodwaters, but between the ongoing Creatia storms and lack of Materia, they are soon absorbed by a stray flare of dark lightning. (Yalini: -1 Light Act, 1d10 = 1: failure!)


Cosmogonic Eon

Required

Optional

Incomplete
(Congratulations! There are no incomplete creations this subturn)

Grand Pieces cost 3+ Aligned+ Acts, and Greater Pieces cost 2+ Aligned+ Acts. Contradictory Grand Pieces will fight amongst themselves until consistency is reached; supply additional Acts to tilt the odds in favor of a specific Piece or fight them directly.


The Cosmos

Creatia storms
Materia drought

The Cosmogonic Eon is not due to end.
Add seasons and continents/oceans to progress

Echoes
✿❢❇➪ ➻➏❔

Forecasts
Creatia storms are expected to dissipate within a turn
Materia is projected to increase to habitable levels within two turns
Piece costs are projected to rise noticeably within two turns
The next turn is expected within a day


Gods
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Stirk on February 09, 2024, 01:55:39 am
Luka decides that the bloodwine isn’t heady enough for his tastes, and uses 1 Skull Act to fill the ocean with skull-shaped islands for the future life to live on. This will include islands that are skulls vertically, horizontally, and both.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 09, 2024, 02:24:48 am
Gongon is not aware they have acts left.

Nevertheless, Sanity flows out of the gaping hollows in Gongon's form, falling down onto the world before in large lumps, landing with bone-jarring thuds and splashes, which set off spectacular ash storms and wine tsunamis.

The lumps begin to clump together to form a slowly squirming continent of fantastically coloured stones, sand and soil. The entire continent is covered in an intricate network of crisscrossing passages, canyons, ravines, clefts, tunnels, cavern systems etc. In these appropriately named Lost Lands, you are supernaturally likely to lose your way and bearings, becoming lost. The land itself slowly shifts and changes over time, making maps, markers and waystones intrinsically unreliable over anything more than a few fortnights.

Gongon spends one Sanity on initiating the creation of the Lost Lands
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: crazyabe on February 09, 2024, 02:52:05 am
Yitterblum determines now is the time to make its own star, though without blackjack and hookers it questions the validity of such a thing.
First its Appendix bursts forth- still attached to several tables of data, next come several miles of Flagella, finally it cycles half its eyes to its surface rapidly- knocking loose its sight bones and leaving its eyes somewhat saggy.


-Appendix, -Flagella(locomotor limbs), -bones(bones - (eyes, 1/2)) - (3xchaos, 3xflesh)
+Star of Chaos (Sun)

Star of Chaos - A rough cuboid mass of Flesh and Bone that spirals into itself recursively and kaleidoscopically- burning with both an internal light, and an internal darkness it spreads across the world nigh randomly as it pulses without beat.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Stirk on February 09, 2024, 02:54:48 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 09, 2024, 02:24:48 am
Gongon is not aware they have acts left.

Nevertheless, Sanity flows out of the gaping hollows in Gongon's form, falling down onto the world before in large lumps, landing with bone-jarring thuds and splashes, which set off spectacular ash storms and wine tsunamis.

The lumps begin to clump together to form a slowly squirming continent of fantastically coloured stones, sand and soil. The entire continent is covered in an intricate network of crisscrossing passages, canyons, ravines, clefts, tunnels, cavern systems etc. In these appropriately named Lost Lands, you are supernaturally likely to lose your way and bearings, becoming lost. The land itself slowly shifts and changes over time, making maps, markers and waystones intrinsically unreliable over anything more than a few fortnights.

Gongon spends one Sanity on initiating the creation of the Lost Lands

(Are the not Islands anymore? I thought we where both going halfzies on a continent :V)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 09, 2024, 03:03:48 am
Quote from: Stirk on February 09, 2024, 02:54:48 am
(Are the not Islands anymore? I thought we where both going halfzies on a continent :V)
(Appropriately enough, I didn't realize you were making a continent! Just thought you were adding islands to the ocean.)

Quote from: Stirk on February 09, 2024, 01:55:39 am
Luka decides that the bloodwine isn’t heady enough for his tastes, and uses 1 Skull Act to fill the ocean with skull-shaped islands for the future life to live on. This will include islands that are skulls vertically, horizontally, and both.
Ignorance dissipates from Gongon before the sharp light of the Chaos Star, making it uncomfortable... aware.

Even as Gongon's awareness grows, so do the Skull Islands, becoming larger and more intricate, becoming grand skull-chains. A subtle mystic aura begins to grow within the skull islands, causing those who live on them for a long time to occasionally fall into trancelike states of no-self, no-thought for a few hours at a time.

Spend 1 Ignorance act to finish the Skull Islands Continent
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on February 09, 2024, 05:27:35 am
Sornlun, Usurper of Heavens, Voice of Flame

A searing pain flare from the empty eye sockets of the heavenly centipede as a new sun shine with newborn splendor, and with it Sornlun emits a shrill scream, and then laments.

"KRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR- A pain yet insufficient, yet too light for the burden of these sins of mine! Be pulled once more, disgraceful scales, once pulled from the back of Dragon-slaves! Be torn again, usurped limbs, once torn apart from the mane of our Sun-kin! Be broken at last, vile claws, with which I fell my moon-brothers!"

Exoskeleton Extraction: Sornlun bloodily sheds its exoskeleton of glittering scales and lunar chitin. (+4 aligned acts)
Locomotor Limbs Extraction: Sornlun violently rips apart its legs, tressed from sun-hair and hardened with star-blood. (+4 aligned acts)
Manipulator Limbs Extraction: Sornlun violently rips apart its claws, forged from moon-bone and sharpened with starlight. (+4 aligned acts)

Celestial ichor mixes with creatia and shapes into materia.

Creation: Season of Regret (3 Flame Acts)
The dragon scales shatter into diamond dust, permeating the Shape with the regrets of the Usurper of Heavens. The Season of Regret shall occur after Lunace: when Lunace ends and creation shall recover its clarity, will they also be cursed with the flaring remembrance of their lunacy. Torn apart with burning regret, they will lament and maybe thrive to repent. Then shall came Forget, to lead them into the bliss of ignorance.

Invest: Remorse the Iridescent Sun (+3 Heaven Acts)
The Iridescent Sun is imbued with the power of Heavens so that it may stand equal in hierarchy to the Square Sun.

Creation: Fhaire, the Fields of Flame (3 Flame Acts)
A great many flaming limbs of the centipede fall and coalesce on the World, becoming a great land of solid and ephemereal flame swept by solar whisper-winds. There are eleven types of coloured flames, one for each face of the Iridescent Sun. The unseen flames are unbound and free to wander, causing motion among the Fhaire. As for the seen flames, they are bound to the Fhaire, and make up the solid flame of the land.

Spoiler: Sornlun, Usurper of Heavens, Voice of Flame (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Stirk on February 09, 2024, 11:09:57 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 09, 2024, 03:03:48 am
(Appropriately enough, I didn't realize you were making a continent! Just thought you were adding islands to the ocean.)

Quote from: Stirk on February 09, 2024, 01:55:39 am
Luka decides that the bloodwine isn’t heady enough for his tastes, and uses 1 Skull Act to fill the ocean with skull-shaped islands for the future life to live on. This will include islands that are skulls vertically, horizontally, and both.
Ignorance dissipates from Gongon before the sharp light of the Chaos Star, making it uncomfortable... aware.

Even as Gongon's awareness grows, so do the Skull Islands, becoming larger and more intricate, becoming grand skull-chains. A subtle mystic aura begins to grow within the skull islands, causing those who live on them for a long time to occasionally fall into trancelike states of no-self, no-thought for a few hours at a time.

Spend 1 Ignorance act on the Skull Island Continent [2/3 acts needed]

((I don't know if we can add non-continent sized land modifications yet.))
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 09, 2024, 01:55:01 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 09, 2024, 02:24:48 am
Gongon is not aware they have acts left.

Nevertheless, Sanity flows out of the gaping hollows in Gongon's form, falling down onto the world before in large lumps, landing with bone-jarring thuds and splashes, which set off spectacular ash storms and wine tsunamis.

The lumps begin to clump together to form a slowly squirming continent of fantastically coloured stones, sand and soil. The entire continent is covered in an intricate network of crisscrossing passages, canyons, ravines, clefts, tunnels, cavern systems etc. In these appropriately named Lost Lands, you are supernaturally likely to lose your way and bearings, becoming lost. The land itself slowly shifts and changes over time, making maps, markers and waystones intrinsically unreliable over anything more than a few fortnights.

Gongon spends one Sanity on initiating the creation of the Lost Lands
V gathers their leafvinelimb, ripping it free. And in the infinite vine leading onward, they place it beneath the fog of creatia. The Lost Lands rest Between all others, and through their paths can one reach any place. Civilizations, towns stay, and maps can be made. But their paths change with time, becoming unrecognizable but for the flowering grapevines pooling with blood, serving as noble ways to places once found.

And so did Neobel Eka crash to the groundskyshadow, forming within the Lost Land's notcenter an inland sea through the force of their winedrop, connected to everywhere.

"What ever shifts does so in the future. In the past, it does not change. Through the vine, travel where whence you came. Through the fog, travel to new places unseen. Each make the journey in this twisted place, the Lands Lost Between. V wait for thee."
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Stirk on February 09, 2024, 10:04:44 pm
((Also contentents are two acts, there is just a minimum of 3 continents))
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 09, 2024, 10:40:35 pm
Quote from: Stirk on February 09, 2024, 10:04:44 pm
((Also contentents are two acts, there is just a minimum of 3 continents))
(Soit counts as a magical form of travel and acctually connects. Playing loose vineyard. Meanwhile I see a bunch of Skull [islands] without a hat to cover their heads. Join in the madness~)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on February 10, 2024, 12:41:29 am
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Turn 1: The Void Era

Land of Stars and Solar Sacrifices

Following the successful creation of the Final Shape and the Bloodwine Broodwaters that currently cover its surface, Luka and Gongon have collaborated to raise a vast archipelago of skull-shaped islands that may have curious effects on consciousness on its inhabitants. (Luka: -1 Skull Act; Gonegone: -1 Ignorance Act; +Materia) This is accompanied by the creation of the Lost Lands, a strangely shifting landmass where entire canyons, tunnels, caverns, and mountains move about in a matter of days with deleterious effects on sanity (Gongon: -1 Sanity Act). It is a small mercy that the Neobel Eka scatters grapevines in lost and closed paths and punches a great inland sea to serve as both a navigation aid/hub and a dwelling on the Shape (Neobel Eka: -Arm, +2-2 Life Act).

Considering there to be insufficient chaos for its likiing, Yitterbium has sacrificed some of its viscera, flagella, and bones to raise up the Star of Chaos, a potent contender for that lofty mantle of sun (Yitterbium: -Appendix, -Flagella, -Bones, +3-3 Chaos Acts, +3-3 Flesh Acts). Not to be outdone, Sornlun, too, sacrifies of itself, casting off its glittering exoskeleton in its entirety, all of its legs, and all of its claws to elevate the Iridescent Sun to the point where it can stand equal to the Star of Chaos (Sornlun: --Exoskeleton, --Legs, --Claws, +8 Flame Acts, +4-4 Heaven Acts). The Iridescent Sun is particularly blessed with the claws of Sornlun, sharper than even moonlight, and is soon accosted by the Star of Chaos.


Sun Dance

The Star of Chaos opens with a bewildering charge directly at the Iridescent Sun, but it misses, and Remorse's cautiously (remorsefully, even) fired flare misses the Star of Chaos by a wide angle. Swinging back confidently, the Star of Chaos flings itself right into the focused beams of the now-prepared Iridescent Sun and manages to land a solid hit that sends incandescent and darker-than-dark debris flying in all directions. Reeling from the shock of the encounter, the two suns flail about unable to quite find purchase until a searing sunbeam from the Iridescent Sun roasts a particularly fleshy patch on the Star of Chaos. The Star of Chaos flares dark in response, and whirling at incredible speed, collides with the Iridescent Sun, causing three entire faces to flash and flicker menacingly. The Star's apparent victory is short-lived, as the Sun manages to muster up hidden reserves of strength and shatter the Star into a million undulating fragments.

The Star of Chaos has been shattered into the Chaos Asteroids.


Passing Seasons

The rest of Sornlun's fiery sacrifice goes toward the creation of the Season of Regret following Lunace (and fed by its insanity) and Fhaire, a continent of solid flame capturing the splendor of the Iridescent Sun's eleven flames and Sornlun itself by extension (Sornlun: -8 Flame Acts).

The presence of all features required for life presents an interesting choice for the Sparks: Continue vying for astronomical influence or advance to the next eon now. The combined development on the Final Shape has begun to stratify the Creatia and Materia swirling about in the ontosphere, and should all necessary Pieces remain, each Spark will be presented with a choice to Temper and approach and build on the material world, or remain Unquenched and distance themselves from the suffocating confines of the world below next turn.


Cosmogonic Eon

Required

Optional

Grand Pieces cost 3+ Aligned+ Acts, and Greater Pieces cost 2+ Aligned+ Acts. Contradictory Grand Pieces will fight amongst themselves until consistency is reached; supply additional Acts to tilt the odds in favor of a specific Piece or fight them directly.


The Cosmos

High Creatia
Low Materia tide
Celestial bodies and landmasses/oceans remain easy to create, but life continues to be a challenge subject to the whims of fate.

The Cosmogonic Eon is due to end.
Nothing in particular is required to progress, or you can destroy Pieces to stay.

Echoes
✦✷➅✅ ❽✟
✼❰✓➆✻➣❦❎❮

Forecasts
Assuming current creations remain, Creatia is projected to decrease
Materia is projected to increase to habitable levels within a turn
Piece costs are projected to rise noticeably next turn
❶❖✛➇✙✀➹ ❾✳ ❪❵✎✈✫❯


Gods
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on February 10, 2024, 01:02:20 am
Sornlun waits and metaphorically sees for now, satisfied with its exuviae. The centipede is open to funding would be projects if need be.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 10, 2024, 01:33:15 am
Gongon's divine power flickers in a half uncertain state, ready to contribute to worthy projects, but also already utilized before Gongon forgets they exist and they are digested back into itself through various refineries.

Ignorance slithers from Gongon in long threads, weaving into the Dull Maybe. Gongon's Death Subworld becomes the Spring of Begin A wellspring of lethean water, from which flow several rivers, twining through the entire dull maybe, having small brooks and branches in other subworlds, that persist even if conditions there might be strange(such as being entirely fire)

Beginwater slowly washes away memory of those in contact with it, or who drink it, without petrifying them, allowing the dead to more easily return to a blank slate with no attachments. It is also great at getting those stubborn stains out of fabric, and currently the best base stock for soups and stews in existence.

Souls destined for Gongon are drawn into the depths of the Spring of Begin, where the are expeditiousky washed clean of all recollection and promptly reincarnate, as fresh and vital souls. Small driftwood carving of their former selves bob up with the waters of the spring, flowing along its rivers.

Ignorance used to add the Spring of Beginning to the Dull Maybe.

Spoiler: Devoured by Gongon (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on February 10, 2024, 01:48:07 am
ANTHEM-314 considers the world that is forming. It seemed almost specifically designed to be inhospitable; without even a single place where its creators would be capable of flourishing, with even the prospect of surviving being dubious at best.

If there was a chance anywhere, ANTHEM-314 determined it would be deep underground, below the fog of forgetfulness, and the reflected light of the Gomoons.

Thus using one Rock act and one Machine act, ANTHEM-314 created the Mountain Range of "y7rulspowTvwA7ZAfDkpPQ==". This continent consist almost entirely of a series of huge mountains with very little of interest beyond rock and stone; or at least that would be the case when looking at it from above. Beneath them lies massive underground caves of metal, complete with functional mechanical lights and benign electronic devices; at least for now, as without maintenance these relics would not survive the millennia to come. Unlike many of the other continents, navigation in y7rulspowTvwA7ZAfDkpPQ== would be relatively simple with many common patterns to the cave formations, and clear stable landmarks above.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 10, 2024, 11:31:39 am
A season to remember. A season to honor. To partake of the bloodwine. V decree, let mortals find rest in the first, and war in the second.

The Act of Noble Wines, flow forth, defining the Season of Remembrance. When memories can be obtained, hardened, cherished, and wine allow lost memories to resurface. Honor the past that came before you, and harden yourselves for the seasons to come. 3/3 Hat and Skull added. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=182393.msg8530394#msg8530394)

The Act of Life drips down the mouth, blood blood blood. The act of drinking the blood/wine of others allows empowerment of mortals. War crosses the land as the people fight for dominance and safety from the oncoming seasons. And above it all the Star of Chaos shines blood red, and the dark skies are dyed in it. 0/3
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 11, 2024, 11:30:47 am
Gongon doesn't actually know if this is how it works, as is proper, but suggests that the majority of divines agree on a

Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy
That none of Sparked shining
massacre massed mortals maliciously
with their divine acts of miracle,
in such upholding of integrity
wondrous worldworking
superb societyspinning

Let all be as
Divine Will
Celestial Seals
(https://i.imgur.com/qbENWsO.png)(https://i.imgur.com/l5AzSy0.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/4UKWQLz.png)(https://i.imgur.com/qICVb8k.png)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Stirk on February 11, 2024, 12:21:12 pm
Luka blesses the Season of Remembrance with a Hat and Skull action. Skull iconography can be used to remember the dead (especially drinking wine from skull-shaped things) while drinking from hats will allow the living to recall things lost to them.

Of course all seasons are hat seasons if you are a true believer in hats.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on February 11, 2024, 02:45:46 pm
Quote from: TricMagic on February 10, 2024, 11:31:39 am
The Act of Life drips down the mouth, blood blood blood. The act of drinking the blood/wine of others allows empowerment of mortals. War crosses the land as the people fight for dominance and safety from the oncoming seasons. And above it all the Star of Chaos shines blood red, and the dark skies are dyed in it. 1/3

Sornlun brands the Bloodwine with Heaven and Flame. Those who partake in blood are marked as blood sinners in the eyes of the celestial forces and heavenly flames. Although they will grow stronger, they will fear the Sun and recoil from Flames. Blood sinners who seek repentance might do so by embracing the judgement of the Sun, which shall burn away their flesh and blood until the blood mark is gone. If their repentance is sincere, surely the Heavens will spare them?...
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 11, 2024, 03:07:44 pm
Quote from: Nakéen on February 11, 2024, 02:45:46 pm
Quote from: TricMagic on February 10, 2024, 11:31:39 am
The Act of Life drips down the mouth, blood blood blood. The act of drinking the blood/wine of others allows empowerment of mortals. War crosses the land as the people fight for dominance and safety from the oncoming seasons. And above it all the Star of Chaos shines blood red, and the dark skies are dyed in it. 1/3

Sornlun brands the Bloodwine with Heaven and Flame. Those who partake in blood are marked as blood sinners in the eyes of the celestial forces and heavenly flames. Although they will grow stronger, they will fear the Sun and recoil from Flames. Blood sinners who seek repentance might do so by embracing the judgement of the Sun, which shall burn away their flesh and blood until the blood mark is gone. If their repentance is sincere, surely the Heavens will spare them?...
Bloodwine rebels? Broodwaters reject? A Curse from the Sun upon the very ocean itself? A Drought. Upon Life itself.
Vahi Virasata Vaina. Reject that which burns away fermentation and growth. This is Contradictory to Life.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on February 11, 2024, 03:19:34 pm
Quote from: TricMagic on February 11, 2024, 03:07:44 pm
Quote from: Nakéen on February 11, 2024, 02:45:46 pm
Quote from: TricMagic on February 10, 2024, 11:31:39 am
The Act of Life drips down the mouth, blood blood blood. The act of drinking the blood/wine of others allows empowerment of mortals. War crosses the land as the people fight for dominance and safety from the oncoming seasons. And above it all the Star of Chaos shines blood red, and the dark skies are dyed in it. 1/3

Sornlun brands the Bloodwine with Heaven and Flame. Those who partake in blood are marked as blood sinners in the eyes of the celestial forces and heavenly flames. Although they will grow stronger, they will fear the Sun and recoil from Flames. Blood sinners who seek repentance might do so by embracing the judgement of the Sun, which shall burn away their flesh and blood until the blood mark is gone. If their repentance is sincere, surely the Heavens will spare them?...
Bloodwine rebels? Broodwaters reject? A Curse from the Sun upon the very ocean itself? A Drought. Upon Life itself.
Vahi Virasata Vaina. Reject that which burns away fermentation and growth. This is Contradictory to Life.

Sornlun, its limbs and shell removed, had an appearance closer to a sky-worm than a moon-centipede now.
"The Heavens disapprove... the taste of Bloodwine will corrupt lesser creations with an unquenchable thirst. They will go unchecked, and steal, and destroy, until they lose themselves into the thirst."

The blind Spark further added.
"We do not wish to curse the entirety of creation, solely those who would steal the Life of others born-in-blood for their own devices. The blood, and wine, and bloodwine granted to them by the World's bounty shall be theirs, and shall not brand them."
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Maximum Spin on February 11, 2024, 03:20:21 pm
It mixes Power and Love to build a foundation for a new season: The Season of St. Valentine (Infantry Tank Mk III), the most propitious time of the year when all is fair in love and war. During the Season of St. Valentine, there is no clear line between rivals and lovers, and making war is of a piece with making love. Of course, during this Season, no actual lasting harm will come to anyone as a result of the festive observance, so that the erstwhile warriors can see the season out basking in the fiery afterglow.

It solicits investment of one or more thematically appropriate Acts to complete this production.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 11, 2024, 03:26:28 pm
Quote from: Maximum Spin on February 11, 2024, 03:20:21 pm
It mixes Power and Love to build a foundation for a new season: The Season of St. Valentine (Infantry Tank Mk III), the most propitious time of the year when all is fair in love and war. During the Season of St. Valentine, there is no clear line between rivals and lovers, and making war is of a piece with making love. Of course, during this Season, no actual lasting harm will come to anyone as a result of the festive observance, so that the erstwhile warriors can see the season out basking in the fiery afterglow.

It solicits investment of one or more thematically appropriate Acts to complete this production.
Life for blood. Blood for power. Power for Life. Let mortals fight and love and fight, ever seeking. The drinking of blood to empower themselves as they choose, and to prove worthy of warlove. The dead risen through bloodwine rite, healthy and hale. Offer an Act of Life for this accord.

The Sun, the Sky. Fight and live, not to die. But history wrought, lineage made. Life goes on. And Wine is made.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on February 11, 2024, 04:11:00 pm
In the Shadow Plane, Sornlun melds the latent shadows into several floating islands of wispy unseen flames. These islands possess the comforting warmth of shadow, and the ethereal vigor of flames. Maybe some life will appear here someday, or not.

Create the Wisp Islands in the Shadow Plane (1 Heaven + 1 Flame)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on February 11, 2024, 04:38:12 pm
The Shadow Plane is too gloomy for Yalini's liking. So she spread her wings far and wide across the shadow and made an ocean of light. Use 2 aligned acts to create an ocean of light.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Egan_BW on February 11, 2024, 07:25:14 pm
Create the Steelfeather Canopy continent in the Shadow Plane. 1 Night, 1 Beast.

A place of rest, an abiological forest where colossal feathers jut upwards to provide shade from the nearby light sea, and cover from circling predators. The network of feathers becomes more dense the further down you go, providing cover for the large on the upper levels of the canopy and cover for the small below.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 11, 2024, 11:26:34 pm
Gongon screeches horrible agony and anger. All their motile planar motors and spatial flippers rip free from their flesh in an angry buzzing swarm, targeting something which never was.

Gongon trades 1 locomotion to Yitterbium in exchange for Chaos and Flesh and a promise of more Chaos and Flesh in the immediate future (tick2). Should chaos and flesh not be to provided for some reason, the sacrificed locomotion is instead used in the construction of the Anti-Oracle.

Gongon sacrifices their remaining locomotion.

Quote from: Nakéen on February 12, 2024, 12:07:05 am
Sornlun offers an exceptionnal deal to Gongon: an ear/tympanic membrane for a kidney!
Some of Gongon's kidneys abandon him like spurned lovers, flying into the embrace of Sornlun, even as Gongon suddenly discovered they can hear again, briefly.

Gongon sacrifices Sornlun's ear for 2 Heaven

Gongon uses 1 Chaos, 1 Flesh, 1 Sanity, 1 Ignorance, 2 Heaven to create the Anti-Oracle, an oracle who seeks to murder and devour all other Oracles-to-Be. By sacrificing your most vital organ to the Anti-Oracle, the Anti-Oracle will truly answer your question, but only once per tick. The Anti-Oracle does not answer mortals. In case of contention for the answer, god-hearts trump all others, more powerful organs trump weaker organs, and all other conflicts are resolved by chance.

Chaos Flesh, Sanity, Ignorance and Heaven condense into a horrible moon of mountainous noses, ears and dragonfly eyes surrounded by a auric constellation of shining star flames, which the Anti-Oracle uses to divine. The Anti-Oracle is continuously moving around and scanning for prey to devour, rarely resting on the Heavenly Signal Tower between its hunts. The Anti-Oracle answers through a small altar located at its navel, where buzzing voices utter in droning chants.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: crazyabe on February 11, 2024, 11:48:38 pm
Yitterblum makes an offer- in exchange for Divine organs, it will provide twice their direct value to another's projects over the following two to four turns.

Yitterblum Contributes its two acts to create the Anti-Oracle.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Stirk on February 12, 2024, 12:07:01 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 11, 2024, 11:26:34 pm
Gongon screeches horrible agony and anger. All their motile planar motors and spatial flippers rip free from their flesh in an angry buzzing swarm, targeting something which never was.

Gongon trades 1 locomotion to Yitterbium in exchange for Chaos and Flesh and a promise of more Chaos and Flesh in the immediate future (tick2). Should chaos and flesh not be to provided for some reason, the sacrificed locomotion is instead used in the construction of the Anti-Oracle.

Gongon sacrifices their remaining locomotion.

Gongon uses 1 Chaos, 1 Flesh, 1 Sanity and 1 Ignorance to create the Anti-Oracle, an Oracle who provides no answers, but only murders and devours other Oracles-to-Be.

Chaos Flesh, Sanity and Ignorance condense into a horrible moon of mountainous noses, ears and dragonfly eyes, continuously moving around and scanning for prey to devour, rarely resting on the Heavenly Signal Tower between its hunts.

(I think Oracle specifically required an eye-equivalent to be sacrificed)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on February 12, 2024, 12:07:05 am
Sornlun offers an exceptionnal deal to Gongon: an ear/tympanic membrane for a kidney!
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on February 13, 2024, 02:35:01 am
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Turn 2: The Ember Era

The Shadow Bird of Light and Flame

With the Shadow Plane still lacking defined terrain, Sornlun, Yalini, and, of course, A-0 worked hard to give it definition. Sornlun's contributions, the Wisp Islands, comprised floating islands of wispy flames in the Four Unseen Colors made from fused shadows (Sornlun: -1 Heaven Act, -1 Flame Act; +Materia). Yalini, finding the Shadow Plane too gloomy by far, poured out an ocean of light on the plane with unknown long-term effects on the health of the Plane (Yalini: -2 Light Acts; +Materia). Last but certainly not least, A-0, original creator of the Shadow Plane, raised the Steelfeather Canopy at the edges of the light sea (A-0: -1 Night Act; -1 Beast Act). Not entirely unlike a stone forest but for the materials and substrate involved, the upright feathers do a good job of keeping the light ocean from spilling out onto the entire plane, and in later ages when life graces the Shadow Plane's surface, the dense thicket of feathers will help provide cover to creatures big and small.

C-c-council?

Gongon has put forth a proposal to enact the Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=182393.msg8530384#msg8530384) which seems to fall on deaf ears. Perhaps reality confused Gongon's ear-sacrifices with most other Sparks' lack of ear sacrifices?

Maybe

Gongon has struck the Spring of Beginning in their subrealm in the Dull Maybe (Gongon: -1 Ignorance Act). Generating a constant stream of amnestic, lethean water, small brooks of its water wash through the entire plane with no apparent objection from other gods.

Maybe Not

A great many things did not happen in the final ages of the Cosmogonic. Gongon did not empower Gomagic further. Sornlun did not curse blood/wine-drinkers with Remorse and vulnerability to the Sun's other principal aspects. A-0 did not create the Remembrancer. It has been a rather uneventful age.

Sight Sear

Gongon has given bands of maggoty muscle to Yitterbium for the use of Yitterbium's acts now and in the immediate future and additionally sacrificed the rest of their locomotor units with the result that planar travel will require an unholy sum of two Acts of any tier (Gongon: --Locomotion, +1 Chaos Act, +1 Flesh Act, +1 Sanity Act, +1 Ignorance Act; Yitterbium: +Gongon's locomotor muscles, -1 Chaos Act, -1 Flesh Act). Feeling like mere bargaining chips in a conflict they don't quite have the capacity to understand, some of Gongon's kidneys leap out into Sornlun's embrace even as Sornlun's auditory organs join Gongon where they are promptly incorporated in Gongon's fell Anti-Oracle (Gongon: -Ear of Sornlun, -Kidney of Gongon, +2-2 Heaven Acts, -1 Chaos Act, -1 Flesh Act, -1 Ignorance Act; Sornlun: +Kidney of Gongon, -Ear of Sornlun). Aside from its haruspicious ability to provide answers in exchange for godly organs of great value, the Anti-Oracle, whose most visible manifestation is a constellation, also bears a burning hatred for anything else that may be considered an oracle.

Finishing Touches

Noting the Final Shape's incredible inhospitability by the standards of most life-forms, ANTHEM-314 has deigned to raise the Mountain Range of y7rulspowTvwA7ZAfDkpPQ=, a massive continent-spanning massif thoroughly filled with well-lit and furnished caverns of metal below and marked out above for simple navigation (ANTHEM-314: -1 Rock Act, -1 Machine Act; +Materia).

Bolstered by Luka, Neobel Eka has marked out the Season of Remembrance, in which memories bubble up as in sparkling wine especially with skull iconography and skull/hat mugs (Neobel Eka: -1 Noble Act; Luka: -1 Hat Act, -1 Skull Act; +Materia). Remembrance seems to be glaring at Regret for some reason, but nothing interesting happens yet.

Calamos Gladius soon initiates the discovery of another season with a gift of Life from the Neobel Eka. This season, the Season of St. Valentine (Infantry Tank Mk III), is a giddy, slaughter-filled season of love and war more benign than half of the existing seasons by simple virtue of not leaving lasting injuries or deaths (Calamos Gladius: -1 Power Act, -1 Love Act; Neobel Eka: -1 Life Act; +Materia). Lunace seems to be eyeing this new addition warily.

Dawn of Life

The world has passed into the Eozoic Eon.

It is now the season of Forget.
Some things that should not have been forgotten were lost misplaced.

The continued development of the world has pushed things toward a state where all Sparks must choose to Temper and draw close to the material or else remain Unquenched and drift about unfettered by the packed materia of a completed world. With the increased complexity in the world, it behooves each god to begin assembling a court of suitable advisors, emissaries, or agents to attend to all the things about to happen. Location is now important as well, and direct acts (e.g. creation, destruction, or combat) require a god's presence at the location of the action. An intact god may travel from one place to another for free once in a turn; subsequent jumps cost one Act of any tier (where Faulty/Feeble Acts may fizzle or malfunction).

Choose a class to advance to and (optionally) a non-default location.

Unquenched
(default)		Tempered
Description:Aloof, undifferentiated ex-Sparks retaining a presence quite apart from the materialEx-Sparks specializing in what niches the presence of a world opens up
Starting location:Outer spaceFinal Shape
Specializations
(must choose
one):		Utter God: Bonus to alteration-related actions, but can only act on the world directly at its edges or most desolate locales
Howling Gates: 1 free extra planar travel action each turn, but receive a penalty after the second planar jump
Twice as Bright: Significant bonus to destructive actions, but can die from combat		Celestial: Can begin building a bureau to maintain the world, but receive a penalty to direct world actions
Ancestral God: Can directly develop cults, but receive twice the existing species penalty when creating mortals
Natural: Can begin cultivating a domain in the world, but receive a penalty to interactions with bureaucracy
Immediate
bonus
package:		Heal four organs
OR
Receive a free plane and three aligned acts		Next three sacrifices give double acts
OR
Receive two Greater Pieces
Exclusive
creations:		Grand ArtifactsSapient mortals
Suggested
court:		Angels, couriers, animalsAngels, clerks, priests, prophets, couriers, servants, animals, weather
Further
transitions:		Temper (-4 organs)Reignite (-Grand Piece)
? ? ?
? ? ?




Eozoic Eon

Spoiler: Creations (click to show/hide)

Cosmogonic Eon

Spoiler: Creations (click to show/hide)


The Cosmos

Creatia breezes
Moderate Materia
The world is ready for relatively simple life

The Eozoic Eon is not due to end.
Establish one civilization and one bureau to advance or destroy required Pieces to revert.

Echoes
✦✷➅✅ ❽✟
✼❰✓➆✻➣❦❎❮

Forecasts
Creatia is projected to decrease slightly
Materia is projected to increase to significant levels
Something is coming


Gods
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Egan_BW on February 13, 2024, 03:23:26 am
Temper and become Celestial! Gain 2 Greater pieces, but not spending them yet.

"CA-AAAW!"

1 Beast: Create the angelic host, Angomlivyrs.
Glittering iridescent shards of claws and teeth which streak across the Final Shape, they are largely immune to hazards of madness and forgetfulness by not being very sane or remembering their orders in the first place. What they lack in intelligence they make up for in sheer enthusiasm, and they can be guided remotely by higher management if needed.

1 Shadow: Create the Department of Punishment, employing the Angomlivyrs, under the title of Bird(s) of Night.
Hubris? Violence against Heaven? Blasphemy? Attempts to destroy the natural order? Just call! We'll fuck those shitters up right fast, or your money back! No liability for collateral damage, by Divine Fiat. They swoop and strike their prey at night, much like the noble owl, and about as intelligently.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Maximum Spin on February 13, 2024, 03:33:52 am
It chooses to Temper and become an Ancestral God, accepting 2 Greater Pieces for its trouble.

It proposes to create a flourishing biome through extensive cooperation, followed by a favored mortal species made up of parts from any interested gods.

Pending future possible renegotiation, it plans to create Flora species Passionfruit trees with Love, and Sovereignfruit trees with Power. The exact nature of these is to be left to the vicissitudes of chance.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: crazyabe on February 13, 2024, 04:23:30 am
Yitterblum expands, coughing out one of its Lungs, a gnarled organ, gaping with holes such that it looks like a hive of drunken wasps made it, then it contracts- expulsing several miles of prehensile intestine- added together with the Chaos Asteroids it uses the Lung as a new 'casing' and binds the whole mess together with the intestine like a grotesque ball of twine- restoring it to Sun-hood.

Sacrifice (1/2) Lung [lung], (1/2) Prehensile Intestine [grasping limb] > Restore/upgrade Chaos Asteroids to Star of Chaos
Be Unquenched, Specialize in the Howling Gates.
Restore Appendix, Bones, Lung [lung], Prehensile intestine [grasping 'limb']
Subsume Gongon's locomotor muscles.
Provide Gongon (1) chaos act, and (1) flesh act to do with as they please.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: Egan_BW on February 13, 2024, 04:24:47 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 11, 2024, 11:30:47 am
Gongon doesn't actually know if this is how it works, as is proper, but suggests that the majority of divines agree on a

Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy
That none of Sparked shining
massacre massed mortals maliciously
with their divine acts of miracle,
in such upholding of integrity
wondrous worldworking
superb societyspinning

Let all be as
Divine Will
Celestial Seals
(https://i.imgur.com/qbENWsO.png)

"CAAW CAW!"
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 13, 2024, 06:10:15 am
As the materia steadily increases, it suddenly gathers around Gongon in an ominous cloud, which suddenly catches on fire! Screaming in blind unthinking agony, Gongon blazes across the sky in a grand, wondrous, majestic trail of fire and light which would have been immortalized forever in song and story if there was any life to see it.

Gongon crashes down into the Fhaire in a giant spectacle, having been tempered by the winds and fire of change into a Celestial. Gongon receives 2 Greater Pieces.

Quote from: Egan_BW on February 13, 2024, 03:23:26 am
1 Beast: Create the angelic host, Angomlivyrs.
Glittering iridescent shards of claws and teeth which streak across the Final Shape, they are largely immune to hazards of madness and forgetfulness by not being very sane or remembering their orders in the first place. What they lack in intelligence they make up for in sheer enthusiasm, and they can be guided remotely by higher management if needed.
One Sanity flees from the increasingly decrepit and unstable Gongon into the refuge of a new existence within the Angelic Host of the Angomlivyrs, completing them.

Looking at Angomlivyrs damages the functioning of thinking minds, and their attacks tears apart reason. Presumably the Angomlivyrs functions as servants of both Gongon and A-O.

Gongon uses a free Greater Piece to promote one of the Angomlivyrs into the first Archangel, Shredder! [2 sanity, 1 ignorance]

Like most Angomlivyrs Shredder is a cloud of claws and teeth, except several miles across! (https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1130415291/photo/hurricane-approaching-the-american-continent-visible-above-the-earth-a-view-from-the-satellite.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=a_xy9vDET7l-y7ABz7uT6bBwrx_HzKpTGdRtkQJRg_U=) Yes, Shredder is a divine hurricane. It can only understand, speak and write in Weathering, the language of Weather. Shredder constantly babbles litanies of ignorance, in some strange tongue which isn't Weathering. Shredder cannot understand these Litanies. Shredder is Gongon's munching urge materialized and will constantly seek depositories of knowledge (except angelic office spaces) to devour. Gongon isn't sure how Incarnae work, but maybe Gongon can act through Shredder as well? Shredder is something of a authority figure to other Angomlivyrs, who if nearby will tend to follow its lead. It's sanity-damaging visage and attacks significantly are more efficacious than those of a regular Angomlivyr.

Also, Shredder rips apart the magic dampening and ash cover over the Final Shape for miles around them as they move, exposing all to the horror of the sky above. May Sparks other than Gongon have mercy.

Spoiler: Devoured by Gongon (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 1 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: micelus on February 13, 2024, 08:11:00 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 11, 2024, 11:30:47 am
Gongon doesn't actually know if this is how it works, as is proper, but suggests that the majority of divines agree on a

Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy
That none of Sparked shining
massacre massed mortals maliciously
with their divine acts of miracle,
in such upholding of integrity
wondrous worldworking
superb societyspinning

Let all be as
Divine Will
Celestial Seals
(https://i.imgur.com/qbENWsO.png)(https://i.imgur.com/l5AzSy0.png)

Gregory awakens and  affixes his seal to the agreement.


Become a Tempered Celestial receiving 2 Greater Pieces.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 13, 2024, 08:44:48 am
Tempered by bloodwine, born from ages past, into the future will it's Noble lineage be known, the God of Life most Noble.. It's only Natural after all.
NEVVV Receives 2 Greater Pieces.

Within the Inner Sea of the Lands Lost Between does this god make it's Domain.

Seal Affixed.

Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 11, 2024, 11:30:47 am
Gongon doesn't actually know if this is how it works, as is proper, but suggests that the majority of divines agree on a

Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy
That none of Sparked shining
massacre massed mortals maliciously
with their divine acts of miracle,
in such upholding of integrity
wondrous worldworking
superb societyspinning

Let all be as
Divine Will
Celestial Seals
(https://i.imgur.com/qbENWsO.png)(https://i.imgur.com/l5AzSy0.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/qICVb8k.png)


"Let these lands be glutted with noble intent. Let this domain encompass the Seas Between All the Lands Lost Between."

Domain Creation: The Winespring. 1 Greater Piece consumed.
The Seas surge with divine energy, serving as beacon and shore. The Sea is Theirs and the ocean is Theirs. Eventually everything leaves, and eventually everything returns. In the depths does a palace of twisting vines form around the god's resting place, and life blooms and beats from it.

"Let the waters flourish and life grow."
1 Life Act converted to a Lesser Piece of Life. 1 Noble Act split into 2 Unaligned Acts, made into 2 Petty Pieces.
Pieces consumed for 2 Flora and 1 Fauna.
Petty Piece 1: The Flowering Vine. An Order of long twisting plantlife that sups upon blood and forms fruits with many seeds. These seeds are resistant to full digestion and will form a new plant. When germinated, these fruits burst and release their seeds unto the currents. The Genus adapts to various conditions, further divided into floating vine, twisting grasper vines, and the rare gigantic trunk vine Species.
Petty Piece 2: Blood Worms. A particularly dangerous Order of plants, they grow their roots underground and surge out to inject a paralytic poison to anything that steps on them. This has a habit of keeping most creatures from being able to eat them. The one good thing is they don't reproduce all that quickly, needing to divide their mass and split the vine, which then slithers away to find new ground. Genus is categorized by environment, and all have the same general species, being plants that absorb nutrients from the ground they liter with dead.
Lesser Piece: Pustules. Jelly-like Order of mammals, they move with small fins or along the ground, absorbing food via their natural acids by enveloping their prey. The Genus is divided into Sea and Land variants. Rather low on the food chain, but still a predator. Once killed the acid flows out leaving a nutrient-rich jelly. Species are however, many, as they are extremely adaptable to environmental conditions.

And let Mortals be born into this sea and all that connect them.
Spend last Greater Piece to create the Bloodbags.
Mortal: Bloodbags. A strange mortal with skin like mottled leather and holes within the body which suck in air. They float among the sea swimming with strange kicking motions with their 6 legs, and their 2 arms to manipulate the environment, ending in 3 piece hands. Their boddies are filed with blood and viscarea needing for life, and they eat with the mouths within their chests. Their senses are adapted to see and hear via sound, and are blind otherwise. While capable of acting on land, they are adapted for life in the sea. They identify and speak to each other through rattles in their body which are unique to each individual.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 13, 2024, 10:02:26 am
Quote from: TricMagic on February 13, 2024, 08:44:48 am
And let Mortals be born into this sea and all that connect them.
Spend last Greater Piece to create the Bloodbags.
Mortal: Bloodbags. A strange mortal with skin like mottled leather and holes within the body which suck in air. They float among the sea swimming with strange kicking motions with their 6 legs, and their 2 arms to manipulate the environment, ending in 3 piece hands. Their boddies are filed with blood and viscarea needing for life, and they eat with the mouths within their chests. Their senses are adapted to see and hear via sound, and are blind otherwise. While capable of acting on land, they are adapted for life in the sea. They identify and speak to each other through rattles in their body which are unique to each individual.
If Gongon knew the Bloodbags existed they would find them most wondrous and ingenious. Of course, Gongon does not.

One Ignorance exits Gongon to cavort with the season of Forget, eventually forgetting their owner, and somehow ending up in the grapey clutches of Neobel Eka!

The Ignorance act cowers weakly, and daydreams of a confusing maze-state of coral reefs beneath the bloodwine waves, where bloodbags can frolic, safe from murderous cetaceans. Where life forgets all its worries amidst the beautiful scents and glows and sounds. And hidden within the maze-state, labyrinthe shifting officespaces of metal scrolls and bone tablets inscribed with burning runes, amidst altar-desks of ice and obsidian, where angelic servitors might fulfil bureaucratic duties.

(ideally 1 maze-state and 3 office-provinces)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 13, 2024, 10:23:55 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 13, 2024, 10:02:26 am
Quote from: TricMagic on February 13, 2024, 08:44:48 am
And let Mortals be born into this sea and all that connect them.
Spend last Greater Piece to create the Bloodbags.
Mortal: Bloodbags. A strange mortal with skin like mottled leather and holes within the body which suck in air. They float among the sea swimming with strange kicking motions with their 6 legs, and their 2 arms to manipulate the environment, ending in 3 piece hands. Their boddies are filed with blood and viscarea needing for life, and they eat with the mouths within their chests. Their senses are adapted to see and hear via sound, and are blind otherwise. While capable of acting on land, they are adapted for life in the sea. They identify and speak to each other through rattles in their body which are unique to each individual.
If Gongon knew the Bloodbags existed they would find them most wondrous and ingenious. Of course, Gongon does not.

One Ignorance exits Gongon to cavort with the season of Forget, eventually forgetting their owner, and somehow ending up in the grapey clutches of Neobel Eka!

The Ignorance act cowers weakly, and daydreams of a confusing maze-state of coral reefs beneath the bloodwine waves, where bloodbags can frolic, safe from murderous cetaceans. Where life forgets all its worries amidst the beautiful scents and glows and sounds. And hidden within the maze-state, a labyrinthe shifting officespace of metal scrolls and bone tablets, amidst altar-desks of ice and obsidian, where angelic servitors might fulfill bureaucratic duties.

"From Ignorance, consumption. Become Lesser and thrive. Sprawl outward and within, a crown of life." All this and more according to this Lesser dream.
The Act becomes a Petty Piece and 2 Fault Pieces, the Petty Piece forming around the Palace a State, the Coral Labyrinths. The heart beats, and waves twist through the coral reefs forming in confusing, unknown patters, thoguhways and alleyloops in a 3d maze full of coral bowls filled with earth and pools of spheres made of dirt. Towering reefs bestowing unique scents and gentle sounds as bloodwine rushed through it's halls.

And within the labyrinth nearest the palace a Province, offices and colosseums, letter stations and arrival points, exit doors and office supplies. All ready, filled with bubbles of sea, ink, and coralpaper aplenty.

From the faulty pieces, they become lost within the maze.
The first buries deep under the coral reefs, forming a Province Uncountable number of rooms filled with strange seats and shifting architecture, always changing and shifting. The walls are made of wall, and the floor is made of ceiling. Their winelogged rooms have strange air pockets and current as if it it being consumed by a greater being, and whispers of the next deadline can be heard.

The second falls to form another Province. Breaking apart the twisting reefs to form towers higher to the surface of the sea, their tapered points containing hundreds upon hundreds of rooms and halls filled with slabbeds, kitchens, service supplies, and endless laundry rooms stacked into a maze of linen and papers. The wine is filtered to be almost blue in texture, capable of being breathed by other beings not suited to the waters below. And atop these towers forms a port city filled with offices and halls made of ashen white vines. The air is filled with pollen that always seems to correct your forms of paperwork with notations, no matter how it's sealed, and waves crash against the wood-vine plank streets.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 13, 2024, 12:22:22 pm
Guided by whispering voices, Gongon as Shredder attempts to befriend the weather, since it is divine weather itself, this should hopefully succeed.

Quote from: TricMagic on February 13, 2024, 10:23:55 am
"From Ignorance, consumption. Become Lesser and thrive. Sprawl outward and within, a crown of life." All this and more according to this Lesser dream.
The Act becomes a Petty Piece and 2 Fault Pieces, the Petty Piece forming around the Palace a State, the Coral Labyrinths. The heart beats, and waves twist through the coral reefs forming in confusing, unknown patters, thoguhways and alleyloops in a 3d maze full of coral bowls filled with earth and pools of spheres made of dirt. Towering reefs bestowing unique scents and gentle sounds as bloodwine rushed through it's halls.

And within the labyrinth nearest the palace a Province, offices and colosseums, letter stations and arrival points, exit doors and office supplies. All ready, filled with bubbles of sea, ink, and coralpaper aplenty.

From the faulty pieces, they become lost within the maze.
The first buries deep under the coral reefs, forming a Province Uncountable number of rooms filled with strange seats and shifting architecture, always changing and shifting. The walls are made of wall, and the floor is made of ceiling. Their winelogged rooms have strange air pockets and current as if it it being consumed by a greater being, and whispers of the next deadline can be heard.

The second falls to form another Province. Breaking apart the twisting reefs to form towers higher to the surface of the sea, their tapered points containing hundreds upon hundreds of rooms and halls filled with slabbeds, kitchens, service supplies, and endless laundry rooms stacked into a maze of linen and papers. The wine is filtered to be almost blue in texture, capable of being breathed by other beings not suited to the waters below. And atop these towers forms a port city filled with offices and halls made of ashen white vines. The air is filled with pollen that always seems to correct your forms of paperwork with notations, no matter how it's sealed, and waves crash against the wood-vine plank streets.
Gongon slowly squirms their way towards their new offices. Probably? Are they going the right way? Hopefully they manage to ensconce themselves within deepest boardroom Sanctum Sanctorum and begin weaving a nest-cocoon of protective paperwork.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on February 13, 2024, 03:51:33 pm
Yalini tempers and becomes Natural, gaining 2 greater pieces in the process.
She then settles in the Skull Islands as part of her plan to spread light everywhere.
Quote from: Egan_BW on February 13, 2024, 04:39:19 pm
"CAWW!"

(Suggesting creating a Domain first, at which point mortals may be made immediately using 1 greater piece each. Price will increase on future turns. Will donate 1 greater piece if action changed to this and promise to make birds.)
Chirp!
(will make birds) Yalini doesn't like keeping promises but so long as the promise benefits both parties, she'll keep it.
Yalini creates Liniom. Liniom is the domain of Yalini where the weather is alsways sunny.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Stirk on February 13, 2024, 04:23:48 pm
Howling Gates, Unquenched. The hat must remain above all.

Luka takes three three aligned Hat actions, adding them to his usual Hat and Skull action to create the first Grand Artifact, the Hat of Creation. Said hat resembles Luka without his divine organs, which is to say it looks like a fairly normal hat. Said hat is said to give Mortals the power to create things as if they where Divine Beings so long as they are wearing the hat on their head equivalent. (4 Hat actions 1 Skull Action).

Luka then creates the Plane of Hats, a plane encircling the head of the planet as its hat. It looks like Luka without his divine organs barring his googly eyes, which is to say it looks like a normal hat (but with google eyes). When a hat is destroyed on the mortal realm, it is said that its soul enters the Plane of Hats to find eternal rest on a comfy hat stand. (Free)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Egan_BW on February 13, 2024, 04:39:19 pm
Quote from: Crystalizedmire on February 13, 2024, 03:51:33 pm
Yalini tempers and becomes Natural, gaining 2 greater pieces in the process.
She then settles in the Skull Islands as part of her plan to spread light everywhere.
Yalini then used 2 aligned acts to create an order of flying insects made of light called Sparks. After that she rests on the skulls for a while.

"CAWW!"

(Suggesting creating a Domain first, at which point mortals may be made immediately using 1 greater piece each. Price will increase on future turns. Will donate 1 greater piece if action changed to this and promise to make birds.)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on February 13, 2024, 06:09:54 pm
(The cost for Monuments on the OOC page says 1 Common, but the most recent turn says 1 Lesser. This won't affect my action, just pointing it out.)

ANTHEM-314 looks upon the world. It deems it to be an unpleasant place, one that is even less appealing than the tome worlds ruined by apocalyptic warfare in spite of its young age. It chooses to remain Unquenched, transitioning to become an Utter God.

ANTHEM-314 briefly considered the "Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy". While it didn't object to its presumed intention of the preservation of mortal life, the policy itself was horribly flawed. The first problem was that it only dictated "That none of the sparked shining". As the gods were now transitioning away from the "Spark" phase, the document would not even apply to them. In fact, it seemed like it would only apply to a specific kind of insect? It also only protected mortals against harming mortals in a specific way, with the obvious loopholes being that mortals can be massacred en mass for non-malicious purposes, and the obvious argument that if a god forgets everything prior to the massacre then they cannot be said to be acting maliciously. It also allows for mortals to be maliciously massacred provided that it is not done en mass. ANTHEM-314 elected not to affix any seals to this document as it is.

In other news, there were some perks associated with the divine transition, as well as an answer to ANTHEM-314's previous quandary. Final Shape would be hazardous to civilized life, so if any interstellar visitors should arrive they should simply be met somewhere else. The only other place right now was Outer Space. ANTHEM-314 could work with that!

But first, it appears that ANTHEM-314 has a Free Plane! Thus the "Canvass of Stars" came to be. It was a mostly empty realm filled with distant lights. This realm is able to serve as a source of power for technological devices. Creating a portal to the Canvass of Stars is highly complex because it only overlaps with Outer Space as opposed to any location in Final Shape, but maintaining a portal that already was created to the Canvass of Stars is extremely easy. The most reliable way to open a portal to it is with technological devices.

Using 1 Rock act, 2 Machine acts, 1 Ghost act and 1 Ages act, ANTHEM-314 would create a Grand Monument in orbit around Final Shape! It considers calling it "/Y+BwBLH/MEcdAXV5Nos0EvA6NDGhua8vC0dFRneMsU=" but ultimately determined that mortals may need to actually refer to it, and settles on "Starbase ANTHEM-314" instead. It was a space station of massive proportion. It would be a constant reminder of the potential of technology to the inhabitants of the world below, but its true purpose lied elsewhere. It would serve as a place where visiting aliens would be able to meet, rest, perform repairs, refuel their ships, and be warned about the many dangers of Final Shape.

Alternatively, it would also serve as a deterrent to those who come with hostile intentions. Heavy metal armour plates cover its exterior, and a powerful shield generator would thwart any conventional attacks. It also comes loaded with high velocity mass drivers, lasers, missiles, and most terrifying of all, a direct uplink that ANTHEM-314 can connect to while it is at the station which can unleash a horrifying counterattack upon any spacebound civilization that would dare to strike at it.

... There is a sign about the possibility of renting office space at Starbase ANTHEM-314 ...
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: micelus on February 13, 2024, 07:04:04 pm

Spoiler:  Redacted mortals (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: micelus on February 13, 2024, 07:08:12 pm
"It seems that these new forms are limiting, and yet open new avenues of being. So it is that I put out a request that someone take my Acts and make some terrain to my specifications. In return, I am willing to listen to requests."
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on February 13, 2024, 08:02:47 pm
ANTHEM-314 considers the request of Gregory, Dire Rabbit.

"I would be willing to take on a commission. I would hear your specifications prior to committing to the job however."
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Egan_BW on February 13, 2024, 08:23:53 pm
Quote from: micelus on February 13, 2024, 07:08:12 pm
"It seems that these new forms are limiting, and yet open new avenues of being. So it is that I put out a request that someone take my Acts and make some terrain to my specifications. In return, I am willing to listen to requests."

"Caw."
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Egan_BW on February 13, 2024, 08:36:15 pm
Give Yalani 1 Greater Piece for purpose of mortal building.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on February 13, 2024, 10:05:44 pm
(Thanks Demonic Spoon for the lovely divine seals (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=182387.msg8530470#msg8530470)!)
(Also KJP I should be missing an ear/hearing apparatus)

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

Sornlun distances itself from the coalescing Materia, and from within itself ignites and shines a brilliant blaze. Its lost jewel-eyes and moon-claws regrow as pristine and vibrant as they were at the dawn of creation! For an instant, the Usurper-Centipede can behold and grasp again.

Class Change: Unquenched Howling Gate
Bonus Package: Heal four organs (Eyes (x2), Claws (x2))

1. Create Grand Artifact: Clarity (Eyes of Sornlun, Sane Kidney of Gongon)
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Description: a perfect opal crafted from the eleven restored eyes of Sornlun, upon which rests a divine sigil meaning Clarity. It clears and protects its user from all corruption and outside influence, allowing it to truly act out of its own uncorrupted free will. Having been crafted from divine eyes, its user is also granted divine sight and the ability to see any place in the World through falsehood and illusions.
Bonus: it glows adequately in the dark, allowing its user to read at night without ever straining its eyes!

In a vicious act of self-mutilation, Sornlun carves out once again its own eyes with its claws! (2 Heavens, 2 Flames)
It then slices Gongon's tasty liver, making it drip stimulating juices of sanity. (2 Sanity)

Sornlun then places its bleeding jewelled eyes in the liver-broth, causing them to dissolve as the mixture turns into an opalescent puddle clear like dawn. Sornlun brings the mixture to the fiery furnace of the Iridescent Sun, where with its claws the Centipede chisels and shapes until only remains a perfectly round opal. Once it is done, Sornlun finishes the works by carving a divine sigil meaning Clarity upon the Opal.

2. Create Angels: Roachids (Kidney of Sornlun)
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Description: Resilient beings of moon-shell and flame wings whose presence is an auspicious sign of cleanliness. Especially resistant to corruption.

Sornlun then excises one of its kidneys, and cut it into smaller pieces which suddenly burst into flame and melt, until from the molten remains rises a cohort of moon-cockroaches.

3. Create Archangel: The Roach-Dragon (Ear of Sornlun, 1 Heaven)
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Description: A great Roachid that simply looks like a cross between a dragon and a moon-cockroach. It makes for a great listener and confidant, and it can breathe heavenly flames.

Sornlun removes its remaining tymphanic membrane and picks up the last of the Roachids, wrapping it inside the membrane like a cocoon. It imbues it further with a Heaven act allowing the Roachid to mature into the Roach-Dragon.

Finally Sornlun swallows Clarity, and falls toward the World...

[Howling Gate] Free extra planar travel action (Outer Space -> Fhaire)

As Sornlun falls in a great descent of flames, the Unquenched sheds its claws, then its liver and viscera in order to fuel its ever fiery descent and transition into a Tempered entity.
-Claws (x2)
-Other Organs (x1)
-Liver (x1)

Its descent ends as it lands in the Fhaire.

[Class Change] Tempered Natural

4. Create Domain: Retreat (Kidney of Sornlun, Antennae)
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Description: Within the fiery fields of the Fhaire, there lies a vast expanse of highly fertile chalk stone reminiscent of the barren surface of a white moon. The Suns and other heaven-dwellers seem eerily close for the onlookers of the Retreat, despite it being flat and slightly above sea-level. A wall of heavenly flames hide and protect the Retreat from outside interference.

In the center of the Fhaire, Sornlun requests the Roachids to sever its antennae and plants them upon the point of their landing. Then it asks them to extract its last liver, crush it into dust and spread it evenly until none is left. The flames suddenly stop, quelled, and the blessed land turn to chalk. If something were to be planted, it would surely grow strong and pure.

5. Plant Flowers: Nostalgiae (1 Flame)
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Description: Fire-flowers blazing softly like the twilight sun. They were planted by Sornlun in memory of its past life and love for the Weaver. They emit a constant and pleasant warmth.

Finally, Sornlun spits fiery seeds for the Roachids to sow across the Retreat. They will grow into fierce and beautiful flowers known as Nostalgiae.

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Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on February 13, 2024, 11:17:32 pm
Someone is coming
Someone or something moves-not-moves outside the furthest reaches of your universe!
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Egan_BW on February 13, 2024, 11:26:49 pm
Friend?
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 13, 2024, 11:27:35 pm
Friend!!
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on February 13, 2024, 11:34:46 pm
ANTHEM-314 calls out to the outsider.

"/ZcmoqPynn4LvCek8uYC7q5XAYp/C8uoZISv8OvvIS4GacApAQt/3XRgM/lyzaEXv0pHQgm/lI2gDq55uuYvziQZUYdU7CvS18uAdxTpeG8hCTO5ZirLFVuA+oP7Tt57iXeC3lACSNbyAUcEqXCzdT9igXEdpxDGRK3TTP/F7OHZgAnNOpV4b+F+dVbScQ8yl59ha8VgwETRJlCrBRNzFz4JawOfb9/dM5+E6sR23YE="

...It is doubtful that it will understand, but it wanted to do it anyway...
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Stirk on February 14, 2024, 12:00:23 am
Quote from: Kilojoule Proton on February 13, 2024, 11:17:32 pm
Someone is coming
Someone or something moves-not-moves outside the furthest reaches of your universe!

It is coming to steal my cool hat  >:(
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 14, 2024, 02:15:44 am
Gripped with a sudden mania of financial prudence as it begins to probably ensconce itself within its offices, Gongon with permission having been given from Yalini, creates a torrential wave of Ungulating Masses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artiodactyls) rising from Yalini's domains in a tide of flesh, using 1 Chaos.

The Ungulating Masses is all species within the order Artiodactyl, adapted to eat the fauna and flora of the Final Shape.

The Ungulating Masses reproduce by asexual budding, seeds periodically sprouting from their surface, flaking off, being spread around by wind and wave for a some weeks, before entrenching itself into the surrounding environment like a tumour, growing in size until finally a new animal bursts from its fleshy cocoon a fully grown adult. Ideally, various Ungulating Masses should eventually be able to carve out niches for themselves in all continents except Fhaire, being a diverse and resilent order of fauna.

The Ungulating Masses will periodically stare at the Star of Chaos in the sky and howl in unison. If the Star of Chaos does not exist, they will stare at where it ought to be.

Some example Ungulating Masses:

Dignified Wine Baleen Whales, who are constantly slightly buzzed, and filter nutrients from the fertile waters of the Bloodwine Broodwaters. The Drunken Orcas, who hunt all sealife in strange co-ordinated un-co-rdinated drunken hunting parties. The happy go lucky dolphins who tend to passionfruit tree groves in shallow coastal wines and bloods. Gluttonous sperm whales of the Inner Sea who devour Pustules and Bloodbags with gusto.

Doughty hippotamuses wandering the rivers, brooks and springs of the of Lost Lands, Skull Islands and strange Mountain Range, snacking on and often pushing over Sovereignfruit trees to prove their strength and dominance.

Camels wandering, happily lost, in the Lost Lands, competing with Llamas in spitting competitions.

Various ornery boars travelling the underground passages of the Mountain Range and the Lost Lands, happily feasting on the succulent tubers growing from the roots of sovereignfruit and passionfruit trees.

Adaptable deer and giraffes migrating between Mountains and the Lost Lands with the seasons, capable of tolerating a wide range of temperatures and environments.

Moose proclaiming their ownership over particular peaks of the Mountain Range, needing to contend with sheep and goats for grazing grounds among the mountain valleys. Bovines wander the world, filled with the simplistic wisdom of contentment.


Congon spends Flesh to begin gestating the Gestators in a large fleshy sac.

The Gestators are angels. Strange towering pillars of see-through flesh who slowly crawl on too-small spidery legs, their hundred and twenty one eyes studying everything curiously, their long, dextrous tongues studying everything eagerly, and using their tongues to filling out paperwork with ink-drool with an instinctive deftness. The Gestators are able to understand the composition of creatures by licking them all over with their tongues, leaving stains of various coloured ink-drool.

Visible inside the Gestator body is a large vat-like cavity filled to the brim with life-giving bloodwine. The Gestators are masters of Life-magic, and can use this bloodwine to its fullest potential. If provided with souls, the Gestators can build angelic bodies around them, creating new Angels. Ardent researchers on the limits (or as they insist, limitless possibilities) of the flesh, Gestators will happily experiment with new angelic designs, but might also receive divine guidance on specific specifications, or simply replicate existing, proven models.

Gestators create angels all in one go, in a single continuous process which cannot be interrupted without ruining the product. And considering that their vat-cavity only has a limited size, Gestators can only make angels small enough to fit inside the cavity when fully grown. As such Gestators cannot make more Gestators, or any angels that are particularly large.

Gestators have no innate means of procuring souls, and will probably require bureaucratic assistance in the acquisition of souls before they can carry out their prime functions.

Gestators and friendly and outgoing, always wanting to go out and meet new people, and lick them. Of course, their lumbering forms aren't really well suited to travelling around, but this does little to dissaude them. Have a passion for cooking, the subtle chemistries very similar to how they gestate new angels. Often experts on different vintages of Bloodwine by simple virtue of working so closely with it.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on February 14, 2024, 02:46:36 am
Someone is coming
Quote from: Egan_BW on February 13, 2024, 11:26:49 pm
Friend?
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 13, 2024, 11:27:35 pm
Friend!!
Quote from: Supernerd on February 13, 2024, 11:34:46 pm
ANTHEM-314 calls out to the outsider.

"/ZcmoqPynn4LvCek8uYC7q5XAYp/C8uoZISv8OvvIS4GacApAQt/3XRgM/lyzaEXv0pHQgm/lI2gDq55uuYvziQZUYdU7CvS18uAdxTpeG8hCTO5ZirLFVuA+oP7Tt57iXeC3lACSNbyAUcEqXCzdT9igXEdpxDGRK3TTP/F7OHZgAnNOpV4b+F+dVbScQ8yl59ha8VgwETRJlCrBRNzFz4JawOfb9/dM5+E6sR23YE="

...It is doubtful that it will understand, but it wanted to do it anyway...
Quote from: Stirk on February 14, 2024, 12:00:23 am
It is coming to steal my cool hat  >:(

HST transmission: " steal hat  >:( It  >:( It is cool ha8VgwETRJlCrBpHQgm/lI2gDq5XAYp/C8uoZIS4GacApAQt/3XRgM/lI2gDq55uuYC7q5XAYp/C8uoZISv8OvvISv8OvvISv8OvvIS4GacApAQt/3XRgM/lyzaEXv0pHQgm/lI2gDq5XAYp/C8uoZIS4GacApAQt/3XRgM/lI2gDq5XAYp/C8uA+oP7Tt57iXeC3lACSNbyAUcEqXCzdT9igXEdpxDGRK3TTP/F7OHZgAnNOpV4b+F+dVbScQ8yl59hat  >:( It! Friend? Friend? Friend? Friend? Friend!! Friend? Friend!! Friend? F! Friend!! Friend!! F! Friend!! Friend"
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Egan_BW on February 14, 2024, 02:49:24 am
Friend! Friend! Friend! Friend! Friend!
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 14, 2024, 02:52:50 am
Friend!! Friend!! Friend!! Friend!! Friend!!
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Egan_BW on February 14, 2024, 02:54:59 am
You should be friend immediately.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: micelus on February 14, 2024, 04:54:07 am
Quote from: Supernerd on February 13, 2024, 08:02:47 pm
ANTHEM-314 considers the request of Gregory, Dire Rabbit.

"I would be willing to take on a commission. I would hear your specifications prior to committing to the job however."
Quote from: Egan_BW on February 13, 2024, 08:23:53 pm
Quote from: micelus on February 13, 2024, 07:08:12 pm
"It seems that these new forms are limiting, and yet open new avenues of being. So it is that I put out a request that someone take my Acts and make some terrain to my specifications. In return, I am willing to listen to requests."

"Caw."


"I need a terrestrial set consisting of a state, and province. The actual content of each is irrelevant."


Gregory's baleen shivered.

" I would also be open to a trade with anyone with a Domain who would create a species of terrestrial mortals to my specifications. The actual creation costs will be paid by me."

Quote from: Kilojoule Proton on February 14, 2024, 02:46:36 am
Someone is coming
Quote from: Egan_BW on February 13, 2024, 11:26:49 pm
Friend?
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 13, 2024, 11:27:35 pm
Friend!!
Quote from: Supernerd on February 13, 2024, 11:34:46 pm
ANTHEM-314 calls out to the outsider.

"/ZcmoqPynn4LvCek8uYC7q5XAYp/C8uoZISv8OvvIS4GacApAQt/3XRgM/lyzaEXv0pHQgm/lI2gDq55uuYvziQZUYdU7CvS18uAdxTpeG8hCTO5ZirLFVuA+oP7Tt57iXeC3lACSNbyAUcEqXCzdT9igXEdpxDGRK3TTP/F7OHZgAnNOpV4b+F+dVbScQ8yl59ha8VgwETRJlCrBRNzFz4JawOfb9/dM5+E6sR23YE="

...It is doubtful that it will understand, but it wanted to do it anyway...
Quote from: Stirk on February 14, 2024, 12:00:23 am
It is coming to steal my cool hat  >:(

HST transmission: " steal hat  >:( It  >:( It is cool ha8VgwETRJlCrBpHQgm/lI2gDq5XAYp/C8uoZIS4GacApAQt/3XRgM/lI2gDq55uuYC7q5XAYp/C8uoZISv8OvvISv8OvvISv8OvvIS4GacApAQt/3XRgM/lyzaEXv0pHQgm/lI2gDq5XAYp/C8uoZIS4GacApAQt/3XRgM/lI2gDq5XAYp/C8uA+oP7Tt57iXeC3lACSNbyAUcEqXCzdT9igXEdpxDGRK3TTP/F7OHZgAnNOpV4b+F+dVbScQ8yl59hat  >:( It! Friend? Friend? Friend? Friend? Friend!! Friend? Friend!! Friend? F! Friend!! Friend!! F! Friend!! Friend"

Gregory's tail twitched.

"Not friend."
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on February 14, 2024, 09:19:08 am
Yalini uses one greater act to create sapient birds in Liniom. The birds are partially made of light. They're all really intelligent and form large flocks.
She then creates another domain in the Lost Lands Between. That domain is called Aurloura where Aur is most clearly seen. Now she will create an order of herbviourous beetles made of light in Liniom using one aligned acts. They are called Sparks for how they emit light. She'll create(by splitting up an aligned act into two unaligned ones and using one of thsoe) servants of these beetles called Flinir. The flinir serve Yalini by stealing from other creatures. Yalini then uses the last unaligned act to create a high preisthood using the birds she created. The high preisthood is called Cliamore.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on February 15, 2024, 12:21:40 am
Someone has arrived

A strange, undulating green blob with too many arms and angles approaches. Its pulsing seems to be correlated to bursts of HST activity.

Quote from: Egan_BW on February 14, 2024, 02:49:24 am
Friend! Friend! Friend! Friend! Friend!
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 14, 2024, 02:52:50 am
Friend!! Friend!! Friend!! Friend!! Friend!!
Quote from: Egan_BW on February 14, 2024, 02:54:59 am
You should be friend immediately.
Quote from: micelus on February 14, 2024, 04:54:07 am
Gregory's tail twitched.

"Not friend."
Heavenly Signal Tower transmission: "iateal my cool my cool hateal hately. You shou shou stely. You shou stely. You should be friend be friend! Friend?Friend be friend. Not friend!! Friend. Not friend!! Friend? Friend is coming to steal hatming to steal my coming to shou steal my coming to shou should be friend. Yould is cool my cool hat  >:( It friend? Friend? Friend!! F stely. Not friend. Not  >:( It friend! Friend!! Friend? Friend! Friend!Friend!qPynn4LvCek8uAdxTpeG8hCTO5ZirLFVuA+oP7Tt57iXeC3lACSNbyAUcEqXCzdT9igXEdpxDGRK3TTP/F7OHZgAnNOpV4b+F+dVbfriend! Friend!! Friend? Friend!! Friend!! Friend immediately.Not friend be friend!! Friend. Niend!! Friend!! Friend! nd!! Friend!! Friend? Friend?Friend? Friend!! Friend!!"

Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Turn 0 of the Cosmogonic Eon (10/??)
Post by: crazyabe on February 15, 2024, 12:56:47 am
„• • •„
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 15, 2024, 03:48:20 am
Friend!!
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Egan_BW on February 15, 2024, 05:59:53 am
Friend immediately. Yould immediat friend! Friend. You stely. Not  >:(
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 15, 2024, 08:19:20 am
"Friend? Friend! Friend! Friend!" (-2 Aligned Acts1 fruiting stemleg) Be rested, drink merrily of winegrapefruits. Tell tales around the coralpalace.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Maximum Spin on February 15, 2024, 05:46:47 pm
I'm going to pick the ? ? ? option.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on February 15, 2024, 05:56:15 pm
Friend immediately. Yould immediat friend! Friend. You stely. Not  >:(
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on February 15, 2024, 06:04:37 pm
"Its apparent attempts at decrypting my native language is completely unintelligible. Whatever this xeno is, it seems that it is simply attempting to copy the things it hears. I am doubtful that it understands their meaning."

ANTHEM-314 begins to transmit the equivalence of a dictionary
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: micelus on February 15, 2024, 09:16:27 pm
"Not  >:(FriendE6sR23YE=It friend? Friend!! Friend! Friend? Friend!!" (+2 Faulty Acts)


Gregory contributes 1 Order, 1 Civilisation Act to anyone who is willing to make a region with them.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 15, 2024, 09:45:13 pm
Quote from: micelus on February 15, 2024, 09:16:27 pm
"Not  >:(FriendE6sR23YE=It friend? Friend!! Friend! Friend? Friend!!" (+2 Faulty Acts)


Gregory contributes 1 Order, 1 Civilisation Act to anyone who is willing to make a region with them.
Quote
Dear Gregory, Rabbit most Dire, Ordered be thy Popehood,

We regret to inform you that the chaotic energies within the Lost Sea Between conflict with the listed Acts, and if used upon the Shores Between would anger our current resident. Please speak to Yitterblum, Star most Chaoticm about further consultations.

Good Ash,
Neobel Eka, Wine most Noble
"More lackadaisically, can you not create a region with those two Acts? V could create a Sea using both, but it is unlikely to be to your preference and outside vvv Domain besides. Splurge a little, make a place suiting to your tastes."

Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2024, 01:18:09 am
Quote from: micelus on February 15, 2024, 09:16:27 pm
"Not  >:(FriendE6sR23YE=It friend? Friend!! Friend! Friend? Friend!!" (+2 Faulty Acts)


Gregory contributes 1 Order, 1 Civilisation Act to anyone who is willing to make a region with them.
Gongon creates the Region of Demetria (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3eUJ27MQYs) in the Skull Islands with Order and Civilization

A wondrous ivory paradise of shining white bone dust beaches, verdant passion and sovereign forests.

Demetria is an archipelago of Skull Islands laid out in a perfect grid pattern. Here porpoises swim in formation, bees swarm in dotted cubes, plants grow in perfect lines, and the land formations are regular. The climate is predictable and balmy, and the lost hats tend wash up on the shores of Demetria. Truly Paradise on the Final Shape. Worry and anxiety fades away from those who live here due to the regular, ordered existence of their environment, and it seems an ideal cradle for ordered civilization.

Free State of Serenus
Serenus is one of the many islands in Demetria. The blood wines nearby are a pretty blue and smell of lavender. The Skull's eye sockets twinkle a charming scarlet from bioluminiscent passionfruit trees growing inside. The land is particularly bountiful, and people tend to be much more productive, as they can tap into the Skull-Island trance state at will to gain a single-minded focus on a task, ignoring rest and food and distraction to get it done.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on February 16, 2024, 01:27:49 am
Good thing Sornlun still has a mouth!

"Friend!! Friend? Friend. Not friend!!" (0 Acts)

And all is well.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on February 16, 2024, 05:01:05 am
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Turn 3: The Khamrian Explosion

Life abounds in this time! Calamos Gladius started off the era by creating stands of passionfruit trees and sovereignfruit trees (Calamos Gladius: -1 Love Act, -1 Power Act; +Materia) and naturally was soon followed by the Neobel Eka, who grew the Winespring, a great palace of lush vines deep in the Broodwaters (Neobel Eka: -Greater Piece; +Creatia). The construction of the Winespring was associated with the proliferation of all kinds of fruit-bearing flowering vines of all sizes, and in keeping with the ongoing tradition of making life as dangerous to other life as possible, venomous Blood Worms have sprung up everywhere to make walking in particularly dense thickets the endeavor of death seekers. With plants around and spreading, conditions were soon ripe for the gelatinous Pustules, who flop about absorbing and digesting most anything smaller (Neobel Eka: -1 Life Act, -1 Noble Act, +1-1 Lesser Piece, +2-2 Unaligned Acts; ++Materia).

The capstone of the Neobel Eka's creations in this age of life was the line of Bloodbags born in the waves of the Wine of Life's domain. In time, they spread across much of the continental shelf at the edges of the Bloodwine Broodwaters (Neobel Eka: -Greater Piece; ++Materia). Thanks to Gongon's inadvertent release of an Ignorance Act, a twisting maze of coral formed over many Bloodbag generations. Known as the Coral Labyrinths, this new state would soon boast the densest population on the Final Shape (Gongon: -1 Ignorance Act; Neobel Eka: +1-1 Ignorance Act; +Materia). Aside from this, Gongon's power was used to create the office-province of Sanctum Sanctorum under the seafloor/reef and Port Wine, another province reaching up to the surface (++Materia).

Far away in the Skull Islands, Yalini, too, has landed and briefly spread her wings over the ever-illuminated domain of Liniom (Yalini: -1 Greater Piece; +Creatia) before leaving to build up another domain known as Aurloura in the Lost Lands Between (Yalini: -1 Greater Piece; +Creatia). Aurloura is promptly filled with all sorts of herbivorous glowing beetles known as Sparks living in symbiosis with Flinir, who steal from other creatures (Yalini: -1 Light Act, +2-2 Unaligned Acts; +Materia). Gongon further added countless hoofed mammals noted here as the Ungulating Masses throughout Yalini's domains (Gongon: -1 Chaos Act). Finally, gifted with support from A-0, Yalini has dispersed intelligent social birds partially made of light (A-0: -Greater Piece; Yalini: +-Greater Piece; ++Materia).

Mortals having been created, Yalini encouraged the development of the Cliamore, a high priesthood of birds (Yalini: -1 Light Act).

Void Engineers

Having restored the Chaos Asteroids to something not entirely unlike their former glory through gruesome sacrifice, Yitterbium was the first to choose to remain unquenched and took the path of the Howling Gates, restoring its appendix, bones, lung, and prehensile intestine. It further attempted to subsume Gongon's locomotor muscles, and owing to its supreme expertise in fleshcraft, this dark operation went surprisingly well (Yitterbium: ~Gongon's locomotor muscles). Satisfied, Yitterbium gave Gongon its Chaos Act and Flesh Act.

Remaining unquenched and having freed himself of his planar bonds, Luka has forged the surprisingly unassuming-looking Hat of Creation, a Grand Artifact with power enough to grant even feeble mortals access to the creative abilities of the gods (Luka: -4 Hat Acts, -1 Skull Act; ++Creatia, -Materia). For now, it sits gathering skull dust on a hat rack in the Plane of Hats, Luka's home domain.

Of course, in spite of or perhaps because of the proliferation of life on the Final Shape, ANTHEM-314's observation that the world was excessively hostile to civilized life gained further merit, and it was in light of this regrettable state of things that ANTHEM-314 chose to stay unquenched and remote, the first Utter God. Its first act unshackled from ties to the hellish conditions on the surface of the Final Shape was to spin and release its home plane, the glimmering Canvass of Stars, which will serve as a power source in time.

ANTHEM-314 additionally forged a grand artificial satellite orbiting the Final Shape christened Starbase ANTHEM-314 to serve as a hub for visiting aliens a safe distance away from the Shape's teeming surface and seas and, in times of need, a defense platform capable of thwarting aliens of a more violent persuasion (ANTHEM-314: -1 Rock Act, 2 Machine Acts, 1 Ghost Act, 1 Ages Act; +Creatia, +Materia). As something not entirely unlike a Natural Tempered's domain in its own right, it would indeed be possible to construct office-provinces on the Starbase, albeit without a discount.

Sornlun, too, drew away from the world with its thick deposits of Materia, and flared brightly with the fires of rejuvenation. It grew back its sparkling jewel eyes and moon claws, but perhaps still yearning for the Weaver, it once again blinded itself and dissolved its eyes in the corrosive kidney juices of Gongon. Driving off the water, Sornlun was left with a flawless opal stone it ground finely into the gem called Clarity (Sornlun: ++--Eyes of Sornlun, ++Claws of Sornlun, -Kidney of Gongon, +2-2 Heavens Act, +2-2 Flames Acts, +2-2 Sanity Acts; +Creatia). The use of an abandoned organ that used to be Gongon's to create a sanity-affirming artifact was interesting to behold indeed...

Star of Two Worlds

This was soon followed by the creation of an angelic host of Roachids from one of Sornlun's kidneys (Sornlun: -Kidney, +1-1 Heavens Act, +1-1 Flame Act). The greatest of their number was also the last Roachid to be born of the initial litter and grew and grew until it became the the Roach-Dragon, Archangel of Sornlun (Sornlun: -Ear, +1-2 Heavens Act, +1-1 Flames Act). With preparations for an unknown apocalypse having been completed, Sornlun burned through the skies of the Final Shape, roachids in tow, losing its claws, viscera, and liver on its meteoric path to the Fhaire (Sornlun: -Claw, -organs, -Liver). There, the newly tempered natural god cleared its domain, the chalky plain Retreat. The strange proximity to celestial bodies there may possibly allow slight relief from Sornlun's woes by way of the season of Forget. In any case, having settled down a bit, Sornlun tasks the Roachids with sowing Nostalgiae throughout the retreat (Sornlun: -1 Flame Act).

Solar Beatdown

With the sacrifice of Yitterbium's lung and prehensile intestine, the Star of Chaos was reborn again from the Chaos Asteroids that were its remnants, but this time, perhaps having been alerted by some god or servant or perhaps on guard for rogue stars employing identical tactics as in the last fight, Remorse was prepared and struck first, punching through the Star's still-reforming flesh! Shocked, the Star of Chaos scrambled a mighty counterattack and narrowly missed one of the Iridescent Sun's faces. Still cautious, the Iridescent Sun aimed and struck the Star of Chaos once again, launching bits of bone and flesh in every direction. The reeling Star of Chaos tried to muster up a last charge before the full output of the now-less-remorseful Iridescent Sun was turned on the poor Star, which promptly exploded. The resulting debris scattered every which way, and Starbase ANTHEM-314 managed to shoot down at least some of it, preventing outright extinction events at least for now.

The Calm before the Bust

Bonefall and solar flares issuing from the battle between the suns have combined to make the Final Shape even less hospitable than it already was, and the infalling godly giblets have tipped the balance on the ground in favor of Chaos, which may well be enhanced by the upcoming shift into the season of Lunace. Although this could be a positive development for an established civilization, alas, the Bloodbags and light birds were not at that point yet, and they stagnated for want of safe local plant and animal life. The addition of Shredder's mind-melting ugliness and fierce, moon-exposing winds was perhaps only the final nail in the coffin of getting things of consequence done in this season of Forget.

With hostile conditions in abundance, the Cliamore have additionally splintered off into a number of different sects under the fell occasional influence of the Gomoons and Shredder's winds. To make matters worse, survivors of the storm are often driven insane. Needless to say, the Cliamore in are in danger of splintering further unless the rites and traditions of far-flung villages can be harmonized for sufficiently long timescales through the formation of a stable cult. This need not be a bad thing; nothing stops a diffuse, decentralized cult from making the requisite offerings or observing at least some of the prescribed rites.

Future mortal creation events should specify an initial set of flora and fauna they depend on!

Cults can now be founded by Ancestral God-specialized Tempered!

Department of Punishment

Having tempered and become Celestial, A-0 immediately got to work setting up the Department of Punishment (A-0: -1 Shadow Act), which is staffed by the highly motivated if somewhat loopy and mind-damagingly ugly Angomlivyrs (A-0: -1 Beast Act; Gongon: -1 Sanity Act). There is an air of anticipation as the season of Lunace approaches, and smiting/cursing permits are being hoarded and (questionably legally) resold by enterprising Angomlivyrs. Perhaps to keep a particularly strong one out of trouble, Gongon has promoted it to the Archangel Shredder, who is now a divine hurricane capable of clearing the skies and exposing the horrors of space (Gongon: -Greater Piece). Exposure to the memory-damaging effects of the season of Forget has set the development of complex societies along Shredder's storm-tossed track of destruction back quite a bit on top of the usual effects of having a mighty hurricane pass through.

An audit into the Department's funding has turned up evidence of severe budgetary shortfall! Without another Aligned Act's worth of funds, the Department will most likely dissolve at the conclusion of this era.

What the Rain Said

Shredder-who-is-Gongon embarked on a grand quest to befriend the weather over the remarkably uniformly warm wine seas and nearby coasts. This was slightly complicated by its voracious appetite, and many a young cloud was swallowed up by the oblivious storm before it encountered a towering stormcloud fancying itself the Seven-Days-King of its home waters and the coast of the Lost Lands Between and its consort, the Effusive Easterly. For days they frolicked and poured out obscene rains on the already-soaked coast, but it was not to last. Tragically, deprived of comforting heat, the Seven-Days-King soon fell ill despite the Easterly's sacrifice of a great many nascent stormclouds from miles around. In the end, the Seven-Days-King succumbed to starvation, and with the Elegiacal Easterly perhaps having heard promises of renewed life for its love in Shredder's litanies, it took to following the hurricane around, and this is why the winds about the Weeping Gulf bring great storms and turn southward to this day.

The Elegiacal Easterly has joined Gongon's court.

Between these happenings and the gestation of the Gestators (Gongon: -1 Flesh Act; +Creatia), clerks from the Department of Punishment were setting up in the Sanctum Sanctorum and pilfering office supplies. Lacking an explicitly assigned office of their own, they seem to be contesting Gongon's claim to what is the best office space on the Final Shape to date.

Council business

The Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy, reproduced below with public signatures obtained so far, continues to languish unpassed but also unkilled for now.

Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy
That none of Sparked shining
massacre massed mortals maliciously
with their divine acts of miracle,
in such upholding of integrity
wondrous worldworking
superb societyspinning

Let all be as
Divine Will
Celestial Seals
(https://i.imgur.com/qbENWsO.png)(https://i.imgur.com/l5AzSy0.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/4UKWQLz.png)(https://i.imgur.com/qICVb8k.png)

The Guest

After several failed attempts at communication, the strange Green Guest acquired enough Divinese, and on its closest approach to the HST and the newly built Starbase ANTHEM-314, offered something about friends, not friends, and stely. A number of gods agreed to the offers not knowing any more about what they could entail, and the Neobel Eka in particular went above and beyond by offering a fruiting stemleg.

Nothing interesting happened for Yitterbium, Gongon, or Sornlun, or so it seems.

A-0, Calamos Gladius, and Yalini received a tiny blob of angry green jelly split between the three of them. The jelly is constantly trying to stab anything nearby to no noticeable effect.

Neobel Eka gave a leg to the Guest, who regrettably didn't stick around to drink with the merry gods, and was rewarded with a green ear of corn.

Gregory received two dingy wooden icons that may be burned for Faulty Acts for another turn before they rot away (Gregory: +2 Faulty Acts).

ANTHEM-314's transmission of the start of a dictionary seems to have broadened the Guest's vocabulary with no apparent effect on its coherence.

HST: "uctnegated abductingout aband!! Friend!! Friendons abance abed abasive abolitiones abdon abbrent iting abot abbreviatedly abnegat itines abomence abolitinattorrades abhortinations abominablet able abductly  abnegate abjuries abductoir thes"

The strange Guest continues on its course and will likely exit communication range within a turn.

Ivory Idylls

Somehow sensing Gregory's wish to create a region, Gongon has created a region of exceptionally gridlike islands known as Demetria in the Skull Islands. Among the great islands of Demetria was what will be known as the Free State of Serenus, a bountiful, idyllic island where the surrounding seas are blue and work is easy to sustain (Gregory: -1 Civilization Act, -1 Order Act; +Materia).


It is now the season of Lunace in the Bone Age.
All burn. All burn. All burn. All burn. All burn. All burn. All burn.

Eozoic Eon

Spoiler: Creations (click to show/hide)

Cosmogonic Eon

Spoiler: Creations (click to show/hide)


The Cosmos

Creatia gusts
Rising Materia tide
The world is ready for relatively simple life

The Eozoic Eon is not due to end.
Establish one civilization and one bureau to advance or destroy required Pieces to revert.

Echoes
✦✷➅✅ ❽✟
✼❰✓➆✻➣❦❎❮

Rumors
Volcanic activity abounds in the coastal ranges of y7rulspowTvwA7ZAfDkpPQ==, which have recently been buffeted by a number of tsunamis.
The skull is the crown of the fertile warrior.
Skybone can be carved into star shapes for good luck or great strength.
The sea weeps bitter tears at having to house such unnatural abominations as offices.

Forecasts
Creatia is projected to remain steady
Materia is projected to increase to significant levels
Something is leaving


Gods
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: crazyabe on February 16, 2024, 05:10:44 am
Becoming annoyed at this song and dance- Yitterblum directly attacks Remorse, the Iridescent Sun. [-1 Chaos act, -1 Flesh act]
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2024, 06:04:27 am
Quote from: crazyabe on February 16, 2024, 05:10:44 am
Becoming annoyed at this song and dance- Yitterblum directly attacks Remorse, the Iridescent Sun. [-1 Chaos act, -1 Flesh act]
Now would be an ideal time for any undecideds to seal the Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy, which would make reality itself resist such malicious acts of massacring massed mortals through extinguishing the sun!

Quote
HST: "uctnegated abductingout aband!! Friend!! Friendons abance abed abasive abolitiones abdon abbrent iting abot abbreviatedly abnegat itines abomence abolitinattorrades abhortinations abominablet able abductly  abnegate abjuries abductoir thes"

The strange Guest continues on its course and will likely exit communication range within a turn.

Friend!! Friend! F-friend...

 :'(

Quote
Whate abettion abhortive aboders. Its adection abeam abes abed abashes abjurations abot unde abducte abnegating abbeys coming abrate abasion abeam abbrer abnoriently abbratinal ables abhory abattes thated aber thist abbrend!!" (+4 Feeble Acts)
Gongon receives this precious gift of feeble acts


And Shredder-who-is-Gongon uses all the received feeble acts on reviving the Seven Days King with the aid of Gomagic, sacrificing all memory of the Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy, Demetria and Serenus.

Shredder-who-is-Gongon continues befriending more weather! Fair weather friends and foul weather friends and all weather friends! More weather!


One of the Angy angels delivers a note carved into skybone in a crude childlike scrawl to Calamos Gladius. It reeks of Sanity, which seems to have been implanted into it. It reads.

"dEaR gIftEr. aLLLLLL ant fOR luNACE iSSS tWIN cuLt wHich bUIlds MONumental LIBraries ouT Of plUNdEREd bOOKs whIch attraCTs GOOD BOI shREDder. aVE beEN GOOD BOI aLl fORget. pLease."
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 16, 2024, 10:59:11 am
So green. A color unseen on this world outside my own vines. It deserves to spread.
The Neobel Eka, fascinated by this ear of unripe corn, tears off one of their own ears of flowering pistons. With a Life act converted to a Lesser Piece, they spread the Evenheard Corn seeds across the entire world. When used, they grant a divine effect to allow prayers to pass to the gods unimpeded. The fields of the world burn with Life, fields of corn stalks glowing a green gold fed by the world itself.

Of other note, a Noble Act was converted to Lesser Piece, letting the Winespring spread up into the sky and birth numerous wineclouds with a chance of brooding. A Monument to thinking life which spreads from the domain, the pillar of wine spurts up once every thirdsmoon towards nearby planes. The previous act rides the thermally warm wind high and wide.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on February 16, 2024, 03:37:14 pm
ANTHEM-314 saw that Yitterblum was hard at work in proving ANTHEM-314's opinions on the world correct. This was likely to have serious consequences for anyone unfortunate enough to be on Final Shape. ANTHEM-314 would instead work setting the framework for future endeavors.

ANTHEM-314 splits one Machine act into two Unaligned acts.
With it, ANTHEM-314 begins some work on the interior of Starbase ANTHEM-314. It creates a working environment complete with numerous cubicles, storage rooms, backup devices, redundant additional backup devices, and some of those chairs with wheels that spin around in circles.

Thus did ANTHEM-314 create Workspace 1 and Workspace 2 using 1 Unaligned Act for each.

ANTHEM-314 makes an offer: It is willing to pay 1 Aligned 'Ages' act now in exchange for any Aligned act in the turn that comes after the next turn.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on February 16, 2024, 03:58:54 pm
"Whate abettion abhortive aboders. Its adection abeam abes abed abashes abjurations abot unde abducte abnegating abbeys coming abrate abasion abeam abbrer abnoriently abbratinal ables abhory abattes thated aber thist abbrend!!"
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2024, 06:04:27 am
Quote from: crazyabe on February 16, 2024, 05:10:44 am
Becoming annoyed at this song and dance- Yitterblum directly attacks Remorse, the Iridescent Sun. [-1 Chaos act, -1 Flesh act]
Now would be an ideal time for any undecideds to seal the Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy, which would make reality itself resist such malicious acts of massacring massed mortals through extinguishing the sun!
While Yalini doesn't want to seal the policy, she doesn't want her mortals to die. Chirp!(I'll only sign it if you add protecting mortals to the Policy)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 16, 2024, 04:01:30 pm
Quote from: Crystalizedmire on February 16, 2024, 03:58:54 pm
"Whate abettion abhortive aboders. Its adection abeam abes abed abashes abjurations abot unde abducte abnegating abbeys coming abrate abasion abeam abbrer abnoriently abbratinal ables abhory abattes thated aber thist abbrend!!"
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2024, 06:04:27 am
Quote from: crazyabe on February 16, 2024, 05:10:44 am
Becoming annoyed at this song and dance- Yitterblum directly attacks Remorse, the Iridescent Sun. [-1 Chaos act, -1 Flesh act]
Now would be an ideal time for any undecideds to seal the Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy, which would make reality itself resist such malicious acts of massacring massed mortals through extinguishing the sun!
While Yalini doesn't want to seal the policy, she doesn't want her mortals to die. Chirp!(I'll only sign it if you add protecting mortals to the Policy)
Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy
That none of Sparked shining deriving
Suggestion. No protection, War comes to all. The fifth season of bloodshed. True protection impossible.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on February 16, 2024, 04:02:57 pm
Sornlun asks the Roaches to witness what might the last solar dance of Remorse and Chaos.

"Lament not, for this is the way of the stars, to struggle and vie for dominion over the Heavens and all beneath.

As for us, we are of the skies no longer. And soon, we will part with the last dregs of our flesh."

When the dance is over, Sornlun calls over the Roaches and the Roach-Dragon, imparting to them its last instructions.

Organ Extraction: Voicebox, Lungs, and Heart

"Carve minutely in that order our Voicebox, then our Lungs, and finally our Heart.
Of the first Lung, you will throw it in the flames of a bonfire and gather the ashes to spread over Retreat, as you did with the Nostalgiae.
Of the second Lung, you will keep and preserve for now.
Then of our Voicebox, you will listen to the last names it will utter. Then cut the Voicebox in three, carving each name upon a piece.
Two of them you will bury at the foot of my Antenna, in the center of Retreat. One of them you will bury in a heaven cloud that you will have caught.

Then will you extract from the second Lung my last breath.
Our Heart will be beating still, and upon it you will transfer the last breath, and seal our Heart with a thread of Heavens.
Our Heart will shrivel, and new life will emerge from it.

At last, and this is our last instruction. Tend to the life that emerges."

Organ Trading: Sell 1 Lung for 2 Flame. Sell 1 Voicebox for 1 Heaven and 1 Flame.

Create Flora #1: Flaming Clusters (1 Flame from Lung)
Description: Leaveless flaming shrubs of igneous bark and magmatic sap that look eerily like lungs devoid of pleura. Incredibly hardy and able to grow in even the most hostile environments, so long as they can find ground to take root. They get their namesake from the clusters of edible fruits that grow on their branches. These are filled with nutrients and vitality, so that more life might follow after them.

Create Flora #2: Burning Colours (1 Flame)
Description: Thin and long flames that grow densely together, in a manner not unlike that of common and hardy grass. It burns intensely when stepped upon or cut down. Each blade of flame-grass can be of one of the seven seen colours, making a field of Burning Colours quite the rainbow.

Create Omnivorous Fauna #1: Chit-Chatters (1 Heaven from Voicebox of Sornlun)
Description: Social skyborne creatures with a disc shaped main body ending in a long and flexible tail, known for their endless chatter and sober needs, as well as their cloud-nests. They lack eyes and sport a pair of antennae on their head. They float effortlessly thanks to a heaven-organs, and they use their tail to propel themselves through the skies as a mean of locomotion. Their mouths are able to collect essential elements scattered in the skies and clouds to last them a while, although they will favor feeding on the nectar of flowers which they love, or liquids from various sources if they have to (fruits, carrion...). They use their soft and flexible proboscis to drink nectar and juice. Chit-Chatters rely on echolocation and their antennae to detect their surroundings and the change in weather. They speak endlessly both to share information, and to fuel their echolocation. Utterly harmless.
Reproduction: They lay eggs in their cloud-nests, which any Chit-Chatter can then fertilise.

Create Herbivorous Fauna #2: Moo-Grubsters (1 Flame from Voicebox of Sornlun)
Description: Massive and meaty shelled land arthropods that look like an armoured grub with countless horns of various sizes on its front segments. They are docile and social, and somewhat slow due to their ponderous girth. But when provoked, they use their massive strength to crush and gore their aggressors. Incredibly dangerous during mating season. They graze on any plant they can reach, and their shell changes colour depending on their feeding habits. Moo-Grubsters who feed indiscriminately on Burning Colours will for instance have fabulously rainbow shells.
Reproduction: Females carry eggs inside their bodies, which must be fertilised by a male. When in heat, Moo-Grubsters are surrounded in fiery flames only matched by their temperament during mating season. Vegetation that lacks some resistance to fire will most definitely catch fire around Moo-Grubsters in heat.

Create Carnivorous Fauna #3: Creep-Hunters (Flame from Lung)
Description: Medium sized arthropods with a flat and lightly armoured body, infamously known for their highly venomous quills and stinger. Their shell can change colour to match their environment, and they silently creep on the ground with their many long retractable legs. They ambush their preys by firing quills at unarmoured targets, and by stinging a fleshy spot of an armoured target. Once their prey is envenomed, they scuttle away and keep skulking around until it is too weak to fight at which point they will move in for the last blow. They are solitary creatures, but they will occasionally cooperate to take down a big prey if circumstances arise.
Reproduction: Creep-Hunters are hermaphrodites, and reproduce stalking their mating partner before shooting a barbed spermatophore at other Hunters before scuttling away.

Create Mortals: the Sorns and the Luns (Heart of Sornlun, Lung of Sornlun, 1 Heaven)
Linked Flora: Nostalgiae, Flaming Clusters, Burning Colours
Linked Fauna: Chit-Chatters, Moo-Grubsters, Creep-Hunters

Description: Beings of flesh and breath bound neither to Earth or Heaven. Their are born with clear cloud-skin soft like a morning wind, with seven limbs and four wings. At birth they are flesh, but they will quickly learn how to shift between flesh and breath as is their innate ability. Until they reach maturity they are free to roam land or skies in an undefined and ever changing form. Once they reach maturity, they settle on land or in the skies depending on their wishes.
Those who settle for the land become the Sorns, beings of flesh with four legs, two arms, and a prehensile tail. They are wise in the ways of the land and flames, and have the potential to reign over creatures of the land.
Those who settle for the skies become the Luns, beings of breath with two wings and two wing-arms. They are wise in the ways of the skies and flames, and have the potential to reign over creatures of the skies.

Reproduction: Sorns/Luns are dependent on each others to reproduce. A Lun must give their breath to a Sorn, who will gestate the breath until it gives birth to a new Sorn/Lun. Sorns and Luns tend to arrange themselves into couples, with the child of heaven and earth being raised by both parents.

Class Change: Tempered Natural -> ?̴̟͑͆͆̏͠?̸̛͈̓̓̓̿?̷̙̲̟̈́́̽̈́̚ͅ

It came to Sornlun in a dream. Weaver, ah, Weaver. Will you remember us now that One Who Longed is gone? We offered everything in repentance. And now what is left of us? In the dream, we relinquished everything, becoming neither greater nor lesser, only different. And now here we are, without a body, and all that remains is our echo. Thus we become ?̴̟͑͆͆̏͠?̸̛͈̓̓̓̿?̷̙̲̟̈́́̽̈́̚ͅ
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Stirk on February 16, 2024, 04:11:26 pm
Luka creates a new Common Artifact: A Ten Gallon Cowboy hat that grants whatever creature wears it mortal-level intelligence. Said intelligence is lost if they take the hat off. He throws it down to whatever creature would look the most adorable wearing it (1 Hat action, 1 Skull action).
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on February 16, 2024, 05:17:21 pm
Yalini splits up her aligned act to two unaligned ones. First she blessed her birds(-1 unaligned). Then she created the Creotora in Liniom and maybe Aurloura(-1 unaligned). Creotora are shrubbery plants that grows berries on their leaves. They also have bright blue flowers. Yalini then created yatinir. Yatinir is an order of non-sapient birds who eat creotora nectar and sunlight.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on February 16, 2024, 05:40:52 pm
Sornlun's sacrifice gives ANTHEM-314 pause. While other deities were known to mutilate themselves to empower their ability to create in the short term, the expenditure of their own heart was unprecedented. For whatever reason, Sornlun felt that the creation of these mortals was worth putting an end to its own existence.

ANTHEM-314 considered Sornlun's behaviour to be incredibly foolish. The world upon which Sornlun would sacrifice itself was in turmoil and even now Yitterblum's was attempting to rend Remose, the Iridescent Sun asunder. If Remorse was still damaged or tired from its previous conflicts with the Star of Chaos, Yitterblum might even succeed. If that were to happen, it would usher in a second Cosmogonic Eon and the mortals and the mortals upon Final Shape would surely perish.

ANTHEN-314 decided to do something about this. It would move to Remorse, the Iridescent Sun.

Desiring to remain neutral in the Star Wars, ANTHEM-314 would exercise the powers of an Utter God. Using 1 Aligned Ages Act, ANTHEM-314 would imbue the light of Remorse, the Iridescent Sun; but not the Sun itself, with longevity.

This would do nothing to make Remorse, the Iridescent Sun more powerful or harder to destroy, nor would it make it weaker; what it would do is permit the sun to continue to provide for the world below for another season even if it were to be destroyed somehow. This would give time for another Sun/parent to be created by the remaining pantheon should the worse case scenario come to pass.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2024, 09:49:58 pm
Quote from: Crystalizedmire on February 16, 2024, 03:58:54 pm
While Yalini doesn't want to seal the policy, she doesn't want her mortals to die. Chirp!(I'll only sign it if you add protecting mortals to the Policy)
Okay. Gongon went back in time and added protection for mortals to the policy when it wrote up the policy for protecting mortals so the policy for protecting mortals will now protect mortals instead of protecting mortals.

Quote from: Supernerd on February 16, 2024, 03:37:14 pm
ANTHEM-314 makes an offer: It is willing to pay 1 Aligned 'Ages' act now in exchange for any Aligned act in the turn that comes after the next turn.
Gongon accepts this offer.

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Organ Extraction: Voicebox, Lungs, and Heart
If and when Sornlum dies, Shredder will attempt to retrieve Clarity to prevent it from driving any further divines or angels to suicide with sane dreams.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on February 16, 2024, 11:01:07 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2024, 09:49:58 pm
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Organ Extraction: Voicebox, Lungs, and Heart
If and when Sornlum dies, Shredder will attempt to retrieve Clarity to prevent it from driving any further divines or angels to suicide with sane dreams.
It goes without saying Roach-Dragon will try to keep Clarity safe for now?
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2024, 11:05:53 pm
Quote from: Nakéen on February 16, 2024, 11:01:07 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2024, 09:49:58 pm
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Organ Extraction: Voicebox, Lungs, and Heart
If and when Sornlum dies, Shredder will attempt to retrieve Clarity to prevent it from driving any further divines or angels to suicide with sane dreams.
It goes without saying Roach-Dragon will try to keep Clarity safe for now?
If the Roach-Dragon is still able to safekeep Clarity then Sornlun isn't dead yet and Shredder will not attempt to retrieve Clarity.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on February 16, 2024, 11:29:12 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2024, 11:05:53 pm
Quote from: Nakéen on February 16, 2024, 11:01:07 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 16, 2024, 09:49:58 pm
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Organ Extraction: Voicebox, Lungs, and Heart
If and when Sornlum dies, Shredder will attempt to retrieve Clarity to prevent it from driving any further divines or angels to suicide with sane dreams.
It goes without saying Roach-Dragon will try to keep Clarity safe for now?
If the Roach-Dragon is still able to safekeep Clarity then Sornlun isn't dead yet and Shredder will not attempt to retrieve it.
If the Roach-Dragon doesn't fall like a puppet whose strings had been cut, then politely wave at Shredder or something.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: micelus on February 17, 2024, 07:24:00 am
Action: exhaust 2 Faulty Pieces to create a Province within the Free State of Serenus

Province name: Yawning Repose.
Description: suitably located and encompassing the whole of Serenus' upper jaw, Yawning Repose consists of hollowed out teeth connected by bridges composed of divine whalebone and porcine silk. Each tooth consists of several neatly divided rooms and a telegraph/postal station. The whole of Yawning Repose has access to electricity, with all of the province's air conditioning and lighting powered by it. Electricity is sourced by wins turbines on Repose's exterior.


Action: use 1 Order and 1 Civilisation Act to create a host of angels.

Name: Gregori (singular = Gregor)
Physical appearance: nine-winged wombats with twenty-two pairs of tentacles that bisect into shorter tentacles. Each tentacle ends in sixty-six small full hooks, each movable and manipulatable by the Gregor.  Gregori use these as equal to hands. Gregori pouches are warm, constantly arid, and have natural sleeves and straps. Pens, vellum, staplers, and other office supplies naturally grow here. Documents swallowed by a gregor can be quickly digested.. Digested documents are stored within the gregor's memory. New copies of the document can be created from memory by a gregor, printing a perfect copy of the document regardless of material. These documents pop up in the gregor's womb. Gregori are capable of flight and can easily maintain supersonic speeds. They naturally detest the colour orange.
Special attributes: Gregori have a natural understanding of advanced bureaucracy, mathematics, magical studies, economics, science, and clowning. Gregori naturally split into two identical Gregori occasionally, which can also split into further Gregori.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 17, 2024, 08:22:22 am
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The sea weeps bitter tears at having to house such unnatural abominations as offices.
Gongon debates with the sea that actually, having liminal office spaces the size of provinces made of colourful coral is perfectly in tune with the themes of the Lost Lands, fitting and natural. They are also in line with the characteristics of the Winespring, the first territorial unit beneath the Lost Lands, being the office complex surrounding the divine palace in its centre. They also agree with the coral labyrinth, being coral labyrinths. The sea, as part of the Lost Lands, should try being more of a team player about the overall themes and nature of the continent. It is unclear whether Gongon actually has the ability to communicate with the sea.


Insanity seeps into the gestating angelic Gestators, filling in missing parts of their blueprints, and giving them the ability to gnaw and lick away at souls in their possession, getting rid of inconvenient or resistant memories or personality traits or thinking patterns, to make them better able to integrate into their new angelic bodies.

1 Insanity to complete the Gestators, an Angelic Host [2/2]

The Gestators burst from their fleshy gestation sac in Port Wine, and begin to make themselves at home there.

The Gestators are placed in Port Wine and instilled with the desire to claim it, to forestall any more departmental squatters.

((Cult collaboration, will edit back in if Calamos posts))
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ignorance wells from Gongon like water from a pressed sponge. It begins to gather together in stringy masses with sharp edges, the Censors. Edges sharpen into surgical tools and pens and other implements useful in the life of a surgeon-bureaucrat, tangles become flesh and wire, all emanating a certain grim aura. Censors are foreboding, mind-reading, angels who excel at removing knowledge and modes of thinking which are forbidden by their superiors.

Usually employing surgery and subtle hypnosis to delete key memories from minds, or ink which seeps from various tendrils and stains permanently for written information, or extruding oils which can be flammable or explosive depending handling, to burn or blow up larger or more durable collections of forbidden lore.

Skilled in self-surgery, and masters of working with limited information, using the delicate touch of a master surgeon to slice out anything they should not know, leaving on identifying metadata and key characteristics to spot and remove it in others. Though only rarely are even the Censors not allowed to know something themselves which they must wipe out in others. Censors have an uncanny sense of intuition, able to leap over looming abysses in their knowledge base or thinking schemas.

The Censors are fastidious in their work, if sometimes overzealous in burning paperwork or covering vital bureaucratic forms in black redaction marks. In an unofficial capacity, they are quite friendly and gregarious, often enjoying parties and feasts.

As the rare exception that proves the rule, Censors are fluent in all known and unknown languages, including Divenese, Weathering, Angelic, Babble and potentially others, to better identify forbidden information. It is against their moral code to act as translators and they would first commit suicide before doing so.

1 Ignorance is used to begin creating the Censors, an Angelic Host. [1/2]

For now the Censors merely twitch and skitter unconsciously in their dreamless mindless comas, not yet complete, hidden in the disgusting slimy fleshy folds of Gongon.

Gongon moves to the Sanctum Sanctorum
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 2 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 20, 2024, 01:37:20 am
Quote from: Supernerd on February 13, 2024, 06:09:54 pm
ANTHEM-314 briefly considered the "Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy". While it didn't object to its presumed intention of the preservation of mortal life, the policy itself was horribly flawed. The first problem was that it only dictated "That none of the sparked shining". As the gods were now transitioning away from the "Spark" phase, the document would not even apply to them. In fact, it seemed like it would only apply to a specific kind of insect? It also only protected mortals against harming mortals in a specific way, with the obvious loopholes being that mortals can be massacred en mass for non-malicious purposes, and the obvious argument that if a god forgets everything prior to the massacre then they cannot be said to be acting maliciously. It also allows for mortals to be maliciously massacred provided that it is not done en mass. ANTHEM-314 elected not to affix any seals to this document as it is.
A dying, grievously wounded, response finally manages to fight itself free from the clinging morass of ignorance which is Gongon, and lies gasping in front of Anthem.

It takes some time to re-arrange its typography and sentences into a presentable state, before responding.

Anything whose origin can be traced back to the Sparks, can be said to be "of" the sparked shining, including tempered and unquenched sparks.

The celestial policy of fulgurous mercy should still oppose malicious massacres, even if the initiator cannot after the fact recall their malice. The massacre was initiated maliciously after all.

 Unintentional or unknowing massacres are indeed not covered by the policy, for there is no easy means to predict if certain obscure actions will lead to a large loss of life and thus seems beyond the power and scope of a mere single celestial policy with no supporting infrastructure to divine the consequences of every divine act of miracle to determine whether to oppose it

The celestial policy not protecting against smaller scale mortal smiting is an intentional part of the design.

Finally, in light of recent events, it seems a priority to get any sort of anti-massacre protocol in place, even if flawed. Later, concerned deities may also propose more refined policies, and build infrastructure to support their working.

Let all be as
divine will

Their driving urge completed, the response give a last sigh and turns into sparkling bubbles.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Maximum Spin on February 20, 2024, 01:59:49 am
I assent to the creation of a cult on general, hypothetical terms, but I will have to think more about what it should be like, which requires waiting until I am less dead and more alive.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 3 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 20, 2024, 02:58:25 am
Quote from: Maximum Spin on February 20, 2024, 01:59:49 am
I assent to the creation of a cult on general, hypothetical terms, but I will have to think more about what it should be like, which requires waiting until I am less dead and more alive.
Gongon remains ready and willing to be part of a cool cult.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on February 20, 2024, 06:34:49 am
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Turn 4: Death of a Sorn

Last Lunace

Distraught at the loss of the Weaver and with only a few gody parts left to lose, Sornlun convened the Roaches and the Roach-Dragon to see to its final moments in the world and divide the few parts of Sornlun that remained. Having received instructions on how to bring about its intended ending, the Roach-Dragon set off in search of a heaven cloud to capture while the Roaches began building a great bonfire.

And the Roach-Dragon searched near and found a fog bank, but it was not of heaven but rather the wine sea, so the Dragon turned it away.
And the Roach-Dragon searched far and found a cloud of ash, but it was not of heaven but rather the earth, so the Dragon turned it away.
And the Roach-Dragon searched low and found a funnel cloud, but it dabbled with both worlds, so the Dragon turned it away.
And the Roach-Dragon searched high and found a wispy cloud, but it was too thin to sustain the voicebox, so the Drago turned it away.
And the Roach-Dragon searched in the space between and found a herd of wooly heaven clouds neither too close to the ground nor born of choking ash nor dabbling in air and land nor devoid of nutrients and promptly placed a piece of the Voicebox of Sornlun in the biggest specimen, from which hatched the Chit-Chatters (Sornlun: -Voicebox, +1-1 Heaven Act, +1 Flame Act).

Meanwhile,the removal and cremation of one of Sornlun's lungs yielded a fertile ash that, when spread throughout retreat, gave rise to Flaming Clusters and Burning Colors (Sornlun: -Lung, +2-2 Flame Act) with the extraction and division of Sornlun's voicebox supplying their names. The burial of two of the three parts of Sornlun's voicebox soon additionally spawned the fiery Moo-Grubsters as well, and the cremation of one of Sornlun's lungs and subsequent fertilization created the armored and highly venomous Creep-Hunters (Sornlun: -2 Flame Act). A stable ecosystem established, the final step was the creation of the Sorns and Luns from the heart and lung of Sornlun. They mature into beings of either flesh, yielding Sorns, or breath, yielding Luns, but both are needed for the continuation of the Sorns and Luns as a whole (Sornlun: -Heart, -Lung, -1 Heaven Act).

Sornlun has been struck down!

The puzzling death of a god has barred passage into the Dull Maybe, and things that by rights should have died continued to traipse on in increasingly damaged bodies. What tools, aside from time, do the gods have at their disposal for dealing with this?

Corn Pope of the Evenheard Fields

Despite not being a particularly mad artist, the Neobel Eka was motivated to remove one of their own ears to seed the world with Evenheard Corn, whose use should in theory allow prayers to pass to the gods without an arduous trip to the Heavenly Signal Tower (Neobel Eka: -Green Ear of Corn, -Ear, -Life Act; -Creatia; +Materia). Strangely enough, what prayers do filter through to the gods are washed out by static.

The Neobel Eka also attempted to build a Monument of gushing wine soaring into the sky with only a Lesser Piece, but falling short of the requirements for a Monument, this was not to be and resulted instead in a state-sized upward river of wine (Neobel Eka: -1 Noble Act). This has had the effect of rapidly scrubbing the skies above the Winespring of ash and dust, although thick clouds of wine droplets remain to keep astral whimsy at bay.

Hat of Wisdom

Luka created a hat of wisdom (Luka: -1 Hat Act, -1 Skull Act) and gifted it to a small Pustule. Lacking much in the way of companions in that sea of wine, the Lone Stranger has taken to trying to teach/uplift other Pustules.

Flight of the Birds

Yalini has created the berry-bearing Creotora shrubs and Yatinir birds in her domains, and having done so, has completed the biomes her birds live in (Yalini: -1 Light Act, +2-1 Unaligned Acts). Granting them a blessing on top of this (Yalini: -1 Unaligned Act), the birds have made their first strides toward civilization in rather different ways. Thanks to the favorable climate and mind-dulling effects of the Skull Islands, the birds of Liniom have been gravitating toward settlement with periodic waves of expansion (+Materia). Owing to the reduced variety of plant/animal life elsewhere, most have remained in or just outside of Liniom where many villages have begun deliberately planting a portion of their berries instead of eating or storing all of it, which may well set the stage for a wave of expansion into the region of Demetria. With communication improving among the inhabited islands of Liniom, the Cliamore have begun consolidating and may soon give rise to the beginnings of a cult system.

Fascinations obtained for the birds of Liniom: sailing and agriculture!
Use any tier of act to roll to nudge the direction they focus on.

Meanwhile, far off in the shifting Lost Lands Between, the birds of Aurloura have been unable to enjoy the same success as their distant, maritime cousins. Lacking stable connections between communities, most have adopted a more nomadic lifestyle out of necessity. Some have taken to living in close association with populations of ungulates, whether to hunt them for food or to follow them to more fertile pastures. In any case, they seem to be faring better than the Bloodbags, whose biome has seen them struggling to subsist on local flora and fauna farther out from the sheer Life energy pouring out of the Winespring.

Fascinations obtained for the birds of Aurloura: animal husbandry and masonry!
Use any tier of act to roll to nudge the direction they focus on.

Etheric Improvements

Having completed Starbase ANTHEM-314's exterior, the tireless beetle carved out efficient office-provinces of evL9dbpOHCjvBby8CTytNg== and iU8M5CnZ3QsyJKmaDd8jIg==, also known as Workspace 1 and Workspace 2 (ANTHEM-314: -1 Machine Act, +2-2 Unaligned Acts; +Materia).

ANTHEM-314 also blessed Remorse with the light of Ages, such that its light would persist for a season should it be struck down in battle with no replacement (ANTHEM-314: -1 Ages Act; +Materia).

Victory over the Sun

Tired of Remorse's remarkable resilience or mourning the loss of its dear sun, the Star of Chaos, Yitterbium wreathed itself in Chaos and Flesh in the image of the slain star and rushed to attack the hated daystar only to find Neobel Eka and Yalini standing guard there! Ready for Yitterbium's attack, Yalini flared brightly and diverted the furious Emperor, but this had the effect of directing the Neobel Eka's jet of wine into Remorse, quenching two faces! Intoxicated with godly wine, Remorse managed to dodge Yitterbium's next swings but waltzed right into Yalini's unturning strike in the process. Luckily for its survival prospects, the Inebriated Sun still managed to send a scorching indigo beam at Yitterbium. Held up by Yalini, Yitterbium was unable to land a blow on Remorse, but seemingly according to some law of viniversal gravitation, the Neobel Eka's flailing of a thorny vine deflected and again struck the Sun, putting out another face and sending it crashing into Yitterbium, who grabbed the Sun and squeezed, knocking out another two faces. Whether to rebuke the Wine of Life for damaging their precious charge or simple difficulties in targeting chaotic Yitterbium, Yalini's next beam boiled off some of Neobel Eka.

Caught at last in Yitterbium's grip, the Sun let loose a flare with its remaining faces that did little to dissuade the Emperor of Flesh, who squeezed harder, darkening three of its faces. The Neobel Eka reached far and tried to dislodge the captured Sun, but bathed in the chaotic rays of Yitterbium and still-scorching heat of Remorse, the vine they sent shriveled, and they were forced to fling it away into the darkness. The heavily injured Remorse wriggled and squirmed, gouging Yitterbium's flesh, but unable to escape Yitterbium's clutches, it soon succumbed to its injuries and went out.

Remorse has been beaten into the Imperiled Shell.

Yalini's world guardian Aur and ANTHEM-314's blessing of long-lived light would prove to be wise indeed, and between Aur and the last light of Remorse, complex life on the Final Shape will be safe for another age. This should be plenty of time to create or restore a sun.

Paper Teeth

Gregory has hollowed out Serenus' maxillary teeth to build Yawning Repose with the power of the icons given by the Guest (Gregory: -2 Faulty Acts; +Materia). A currently uninhabited province of countless electrified rooms closely connected by communications, it would make a fine hub of civilization or bureaucracy alike. Perhaps on the verge of founding a department, Gregory has also created the host of the Gregori, nine-winged, forty-four-tentacled wombat angels of bookkeeping and clownery (Gregory: -1 Order Act, -1 Civilization Act; +Creatia).

Council business

The Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy, reproduced below with public signatures obtained so far, continues to languish unpassed but also unkilled for now.

Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy
That none of Sparked shining
massacre massed mortals maliciously
with their divine acts of miracle,
in such upholding of integrity
wondrous worldworking
superb societyspinning

Let all be as
Divine Will
Celestial Seals
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Angelic Initiative

Displeased with the caprice and apathy of the gods threatening the stability of the world, a small number of Gregori, Roachids, and a couple unemployed Angomlivyrs have turned their backs on their hosts to found the Department of Mortal Affairs under the charismatic leadership of Precious-Is-The-Fledgling's-Breath Stomil. Wanting unobstructed sky access to better observe conditions in outer space (and some distance from the Department of Punishment), they have taken a small corner of Workspace 1. Their complete lack of funding was almost offset by their very low staffing and currently high morale.

Department of Mortal Affairs founded!
Fund them (discounted!) or encourage staffing to keep them.

Gesta Gongonum

As the Guest continued on its sojourn out of the comforting existence of the ontosphere, Gongon and Yalini accepted a wilting flower in an inert jar. Of what appears to have been around two dozen petals, four petals remain, barely attached at this point. (Gongon: +2 Feeble Acts; Yalini: +2 Feeble Acts) Unfortunately, the handover and division appears to have accelerated the flower's decay. Gongon's share was soon given to Shredder, who was tasked with reviving the Seven-Days-King through fell Gomagic (and befriending more weather).

Burning off the remaining petals along with Shredder's memory of the Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy, Demetria, and Serenus and enlisting the Elegiacal Easterly's aid, Shredder-that-is-Gongon succeeded in shedding a stormcloud very alike the Seven-Days-King in stature but immortal and no longer ruled by a need for warm waters and favorable winds. Proclaiming itself a greater king than even Gongon, the lofty cyclone refused to submit and join Gongon's court. Unmoored from the usual needs of stormclouds, the Seventy-Seven-Days-King has begun gathering up an army of winds and clouds for a violent campaign to subjugate coastal mortals. The Enamored Easterly saw no conflict between Gongon's agenda and the reborn stormcloud's destructive goals and has enthusiastically joined the Seventy-Seven-Days-King, directing great flows of nourishing warm wine to the storms' spawning grounds.

Oblivious to the developing situation, Shredder continued on its merry way and made friends with the violent gap wind sXzAQhLUlwL+gnG9XEu6VQ==, who blows through a pass in the Mountains of y7rulspowTvwA7ZAfDkpPQ==. Alas, being geographically confined, sXzAQhLUlwL+gnG9XEu6VQ== was unable to join Shredder's adventures. Eventually, Shredder arrived to Retreat where it stumbled upon the Roach-Dragon guarding its treasure closely. The Roach-Dragon waved at Shredder and sent a gift of Chit-Chatters Shredder's way.

Elsewhere, in the process of begetting the host of Gestators (Gongon: -1 Insanity Act), Gongon argued about the merits of housing office space undersea at the scale the gods had need for. The displeased sea proceeded to stuff entire corridors in the Sanctum Sanctorum with rotting corpses of great aquatic beasts, which luckily had the side effect of banishing some of the Angomlivyr taking up residence there. Shortly after this, Gongon gave birth to the Gestators, who proceeded to claim Port Wine only to be shown that lacking a department, they had no charter entitling them to occupation of Department of Punishment space. Without further ado, Gongon continued with the partial creation of the Censors with unknown consequences that surely won't be bad in any way... (Gongon: -1 Ignorance Act)

Department Punished

The ongoing funding shortfall in the Department of Punishment has led to a great exodus of personnel, many of which have taken to petty banditry by way of punishing random mortals well beyond what department policy would prescribe to make ends meet. Should nothing be done about this, they may become a stubborn, persistent obstacle to mortal development (-Materia).

Life...uh, is finding ways

Sparks have spread throughout the islands of Demetria, and ungulates have been spotted at the margins of the Mountain Range of Mountain Range of y7rulspowTvwA7ZAfDkpPQ== after spreading to the Winespring and its coast.


It is now the season of Regret in the Stone Age.
It hurts to admit when you make mistakes,
but when they're big enough, the pain only lasts a second.

Eozoic Eon

Spoiler: Creations (click to show/hide)

Cosmogonic Eon

Spoiler: Creations (click to show/hide)


The Cosmos

Creatia gales
High Materia tide
The world is ready for complex life

The Eozoic Eon is due to end.
Nothing in particular is required to regress, or you can create/restore a sun to stay.

Echoes
✦✷➅✅ ❽✟
✼❰✓➆✻➣❦❎❮
➧❗➼ ✘✃✉➯✦➖ ➧❕❠➙
✫❿✽✐➆✪ ❇✂✔❘ ❾

Rumors
It is said that only a heart can pay for life.
Angels unaffiliated with departments hardly ever cause anyone trouble.
There are few drinks as intoxicating as the distilled regret of an antelope.
You probably shouldn't have done that.
Fire is probably a form of life.
Skycoal makes excellent fertilizer.
Rogue angels are responsible for burning circles into fields of Evenheard Corn.

Forecasts
Creatia is projected to increase
Materia is projected to increase to significant levels
An extinction event is due in a turn if nothing changes.


Gods
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 20, 2024, 07:44:55 am
Gongon twitches and churns uneasily, unknowable machines clicking and whirring as they run diagnostics which return no data. All was going well, no doubt.

With a second Ignorance, the Censors are completed!
Even more ignorance slithers into the Censors, finally twitching them into full animance, no doubt perfectly fine after their short bout of suspended animation, they spring to work, though not the work they were initially designed for, that having been long forgotten.

1 Sanity is used to strengthen Shredder, making them more destructive and resilient, flying teeth sharpening into mono-molecular edges, ominous winds howling out ever darker truth-lies...

A great crack! echoes, as Gongon's immature exoskeleton abandons them, not thinking well of Gongon's future prospects.

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Esteemed Writhing Mass of Ignorance,

Your claim has been processed, and in light of the ongoing harassment of personnel in the Sanctum Sanctorum, departmental policy gives Port Wine to the Department of Punishment by default. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to submit them via Form FDT-2G29.

Kind regards,
Flee-Wickedness-Flee Elbal
Half of half of the exoskeleton is used to complete a hostile takeover of the Department of Punishment, adequately funding them in the process. (1 Sanity) As Gongon has half control over the department's staff, this should hopefully not be too difficult.
The rampant actions of the department of punishment are reined in and their office space is designated to be the Welkin Wisteria
Overseeing Deity: Gongon
Head: [][][] the Censor
Staffing: Angomlivyrs (including what rogue Angomlivyrs can be recalled through Gongonial authority)
Office Space: Welkin Wisteria

Pieces of angry carapace buzz all throughout the Department of Punishment, randomly fusing into vital personnel and infrastructure until order of a sort is restored to this rogue bureaucratic blunt instrument.

Half of half of Gongon's exoskeleton is used to found the Department of Flesh with Yitterbium negotiated assistance (1 Sanity, 1 Flesh)
Patronage Title: Emperor of Flesh
Overseeing Deity: Gongon
Head: Many-Intricate-Swirls the Gestator
Office Space: Port Wine
Staffing: Gestators
The Department of Flesh, staffed by the Gestators, is in charge of shaping new flesh, moulding existing flesh, and overseeing the proliferation of flesh.

Through mystic bureaucratic sigils they are authorised to receive souls reincarnating from the Dull Maybe and give them the honour of being reincarnated into new fleshy angels, the creation of which is mainly how the department of flesh fulfils their duties

As all flesh things created by the department of flesh do so under the authorization of the Emperor of Flesh, the Emperor of Flesh has a limited authority over them, allowing crude body puppeting or limited direct commands to be given.

Gongon's remaining Greater Piece is used to found the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate, containing the Departments of Flesh, Punishment and Death (1 Sanity, 2 Ignorance)
Director: Gongon
Staffing: Censors
Office Space: Sanctum Sanctorum
Ah Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate, such wondrous hubris! It's piles of teetering flesh scrolls and seemingly endless inkpits. Cobbled together from stolen departments and uneasy collaborations, and headed by a divine insane idiot, it was a doomed folly from the start. And it yet, for now it, trundles on, too large too fail.

The Department of Punishment is tasked with humbling the sea until it accepts its fate as houser of offices. (https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/field/image/Xerxes-bridge.jpg)
The Department of Flesh is tasked with creating more Censors
The Department of the Death attempts to move dead Sornlun into the Dull Maybe (potentially realizing the Sornlun Dull Maybe Subworld as dead Sornlun), thus hopefully removing the blockage that is preventing everyone else from moving on.

Spoiler: Devoured by Gongon (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: crazyabe on February 20, 2024, 08:08:41 am
Supply (1) Flesh act to the creation of the department of Flesh.

Once more Yitterblum creates a Sun (-[1]Spleen, -[1]Kidney [3] Chaos acts, [2] Flesh acts)
From some "unwanted" organs, Yitterblum forges a Blistering sphere of flesh, pulsing with vast quantities of Chaos- beams of both light and darkness strobe forth from its skin.
And once more- he names something The Star of Chaos.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 20, 2024, 08:53:58 am
Angry at their percieved powerlessness, V begin pruning body parts to improve their fruit and wine.
Lung/chloroplast pruned, Lung/chlorophyll pruned, exo/vineflesh pruned, hand/grasproots pruned. +8 Aligned Acts
2 Grand Pieces Created. 1 Grand Piece consumed into the shifting mass, Class Advance to Reignite.
1 Grand Piece consumed into the wine. Create: The Sunparentage, Light Drop.
Quote from: Grand Wine
A drop of pure condensed alcohol, endlessly fermenting. It consumes all other suns and bonds with them, providing a massive boost to their combined survival. Produces an endless rainbow white light that enables and strengthens Life. On the death of a bonded sun it is consumed by the next conqueror sun and bonds with them, ad infinitum.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 20, 2024, 09:30:07 am
Exoskeletal fragment buzz excitedly at the borders of death.

Various pieces of hard leather are fashioned upon unknowing workbenches into the half-made angelic Host of the angelic Host of the Grigoos, completed by Gregori [1 Ignorance, 1 Order]
Patrons: Gongon and Gregori
Wandering Zen Kangaroos with sucky things that scream like they're dying who are immaterial to non-spiritual things and generally invisible (and otherwise unsenseable) to mortals, who catch souls in big sucky things that scream like they're dying and then stuff them between calming sheaves of census records in their pouches, stapling them in place to keep them from falling out, eventually going back to the afterlife with a pouch full of many souls. In the case of zombie mortals who are still animate despite their death, the sucky things that scream like they're dying would just suck the soul straight out, while the corpse becomes properly dead.

The remaining bits of gristle auto-carve into various bureaucratic guidelines and messenger skeletal pigeons and grim robes of office and arrest warrants against dead souls, beginning to create the beginnings of the Department of Death, with is then completed by Gregori [1 Ignorance, 1 Civilization]
Title Patron: The One Who Defies Chaos
Overseeing Deity: Gongon
Head: Grig Solemn Undertaker the Grigoo
Staffing: Grigoos
Office Space: Flooded Ikea
Parent Bureau: Heavenly Mandate
Department in charge of ensuring all dead souls go to the afterlife, remain there until the time of their reincarnation, and then oversees the reincarnation process
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 20, 2024, 11:33:24 am
Shredder makes friends with more weather!
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Stirk on February 20, 2024, 11:52:40 am
Luka donates both his actions to the Department of Mortal Affairs. By Luka's reckoning, no God actually wears a hat, making mortals the superior creatures by default. Furthermore he donates the Hat of Creation to the department, insuring that they will have the power to remain independent from Godly affairs including the ability to reject Gongon as their patron (given that he is a cause of no small amount of trouble to mortal kind).
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on February 20, 2024, 03:26:09 pm
The Roach-Dragon rose, cradled around Clarity. Having inherited one half of Sornlun's Ears, it heard what might be Sornlun's last whisper. The Roach-Dragon shivered but once. Of what did the Dragon tremble? Grief? Anticipation? Terror? Awe? The whisper was very different from the calm and resigned voice of the once-Sornlun the Roach-Dragon had known for a short time. Yet these flaming words were unmistakenly Sornlun's. It might be that these words were the true words of Sornlun all along. What had transpired, and what would transpire? Regardless, the Roach-Dragon had to act. For whom, only the dragon could choose.

The Dragon-Roach has grasped a faint echo of Sornlun's last whisper! What will it make of it?

(...)

At the very same time, the Anti-Oracle heard the same juicy whisper. As a fine broker of information, the Anti-Oracle was ready to consider organ donations for its once-upon-a-tick transaction.

The Anti-Oracle has grasped a faint echo of Sornlun's last whisper!
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on February 20, 2024, 05:19:35 pm
Upon observing the creation of new Stars, ANTHEM-314 decided it would be sage to return to Starbase ANTHEM-314. There it takes note of the Department of Mortal Affairs having set up in Workspace 1 without first having consulted it.

"I have no real objection against your stated cause, despite the fact that given the state of the world the native mortals are most likely beyond saving. What I do take issue with, is setting a precedent where angels can establish themselves on my own Incarnae without my permission!"

"That being said, I am willing to discuss the terms for renting the office designated 'Workspace 1'. I already have a number of offers for you. I might also be amenable to a different arrangement should you have something else in mind."

ANTHEM-314 makes the following proposition to the Department of Mortal Affairs.

Option 1: ANTHEM-314 will receive acts in exchange for permitting the Department of Mortal Affairs to use Workspace 1. For the purpose of this agreement, a Feeble Act is payment for one turn, faulty acts are payment for two turns, and unaligned acts are payment for five turns. Payments should be made in advance with no upper limit on how many turns may be purchased in advance. The Department of Mortal Affairs may be kicked out at any time at ANTHEM-314's discretion if they are delinquent in their payments. They Department of Mortal Affairs will otherwise be left to their own devices.

Option 2: ANTHEM-314 will give permanent ownership of Workspace 1 to the Department of Mortal Affairs in exchange for 1 Aligned Act. Workspace 1 can only be sold or transferred in the future with the permission of ANTHEM-314.

Option 3: The Department of Mortal Affairs may remain in Workspace 1 at no charge for the time being, but must be ready to leave at any time should ANTHEM-314 request it for any reason. Furthermore, ANTHEM-314 will have the authority to Veto any proposal made by the Department of Mortal Affairs for as long as they remain in Workspace 1.

Option 4: In exchange for giving ANTHEM-314 ownership of the Hat of Creation, the Department of Mortal Affairs may have permanent ownership of Workspace 1. In addition to this, ANTHEM-314 will create a new host of Angels to assist with the staffing of the Department of Mortal Affairs OR provide them with another Common Piece. In addition to this, the Department of Mortal Affairs will be placed under the protection of ANTHEM-314.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on February 20, 2024, 05:51:27 pm
Yalini uses her feeble act to nudge the birds of Liniom to the sea. She teaches them how to travel to different islands using the currents of both the wind and the sea. After that, Yalini creates(-1 aligned act) Auloon. Auloon are large moths that feed off light and plant matter. Due to the fact that Aur frequents there, the moths are partially iridescent. Yalini then creates evergreen grass(-1 unaligned act) called Tinir and nudges her birds in Aurloura(-1 unaligned act) towards animal husbandry.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 20, 2024, 11:20:31 pm
Quote from: crazyabe on February 20, 2024, 08:08:41 am
Supply (1) Flesh act to the creation of the department of Flesh.

Once more Yitterblum creates a Sun (-[1]Spleen, -[1]Kidney [3] Chaos acts, [2] Flesh acts)
From some "unwanted" organs, Yitterblum forges a Blistering sphere of flesh, pulsing with vast quantities of Chaos- beams of both light and darkness strobe forth from its skin.
And once more- he names something The Star of Chaos.
Gongon declares the third Star of Chaos to be auspicious, may it shine forevermore
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on February 21, 2024, 12:02:23 am
Quote from: Stirk on February 20, 2024, 11:52:40 am
Luka donates both his actions to the Department of Mortal Affairs. By Luka's reckoning, no God actually wears a hat, making mortals the superior creatures by default. Furthermore he donates the Hat of Creation to the department, insuring that they will have the power to remain independent from Godly affairs including the ability to reject Gongon as their patron (given that he is a cause of no small amount of trouble to mortal kind).
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High Luka, Protector of the Skulls,

I hope this letter finds you well. On behalf of the board of the Department of Mortal Affairs, I want to extend our sincerest gratitude for your generous contribution. Your support means the world to us, and we are deeply appreciative of your commitment to our cause.

Warm regards,
Precious-is-the-Fledgling's-Breath Stomil

Quote from: Supernerd on February 20, 2024, 05:19:35 pm
Upon observing the creation of new Stars, ANTHEM-314 decided it would be sage to return to Starbase ANTHEM-314. There it takes note of the Department of Mortal Affairs having set up in Workspace 1 without first having consulted it.

"I have no real objection against your stated cause, despite the fact that given the state of the world the native mortals are most likely beyond saving. What I do take issue with, is setting a precedent where angels can establish themselves on my own Incarnae without my permission!"

"That being said, I am willing to discuss the terms for renting the office designated 'Workspace 1'. I already have a number of offers for you. I might also be amenable to a different arrangement should you have something else in mind."

ANTHEM-314 makes the following proposition to the Department of Mortal Affairs.

Option 1: ANTHEM-314 will receive acts in exchange for permitting the Department of Mortal Affairs to use Workspace 1. For the purpose of this agreement, a Feeble Act is payment for one turn, faulty acts are payment for two turns, and unaligned acts are payment for five turns. Payments should be made in advance with no upper limit on how many turns may be purchased in advance. The Department of Mortal Affairs may be kicked out at any time at ANTHEM-314's discretion if they are delinquent in their payments. They Department of Mortal Affairs will otherwise be left to their own devices.

Option 2: ANTHEM-314 will give permanent ownership of Workspace 1 to the Department of Mortal Affairs in exchange for 1 Aligned Act. Workspace 1 can only be sold or transferred in the future with the permission of ANTHEM-314.

Option 3: The Department of Mortal Affairs may remain in Workspace 1 at no charge for the time being, but must be ready to leave at any time should ANTHEM-314 request it for any reason. Furthermore, ANTHEM-314 will have the authority to Veto any proposal made by the Department of Mortal Affairs for as long as they remain in Workspace 1.

Option 4: In exchange for giving ANTHEM-314 ownership of the Hat of Creation, the Department of Mortal Affairs may have permanent ownership of Workspace 1. In addition to this, ANTHEM-314 will create a new host of Angels to assist with the staffing of the Department of Mortal Affairs OR provide them with another Common Piece. In addition to this, the Department of Mortal Affairs will be placed under the protection of ANTHEM-314.
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Benevolent Rock of Ages, Ghost in the Machine,

The board of the Department of Mortal Affairs would like to issue a formal apology for establishing itself on your wondrous person without your express permission. That being said, after thorough consideration and evaluation, we are pleased to inform you that the Department of Mortal Affairs has accepted Option 2 as proposed by your esteemed self for offering an affordable measure of autonomy for our operations and are rendering one (1) Skulls Act forthwith. We appreciate the effort and thoughtfulness that went into assembling this plan.

Thank you,
Precious-Is-The-Fledgling's-Breath Stomil, Department Head
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on February 21, 2024, 01:01:45 am
ANTHEM-314

"Very good. Henceforth Workspace 1 is now the property of the Department of Mortal Affairs. Your temporary starbase intranet password is 'YcalfUp4kiUWTw5aLwV18rmPvz1WoQ28ygCuoy9ku8E=' which you should change as soon as possible. Once you log in, you will be able to access the backup server. The system will also alert you to attacks on the starbase, radiation leaks, and when someone puts fish in the microwave."

Being in possession of three aligned acts, ANTHEM-314 now has the means to complete his Plane, the Canvass of Stars.

Thus ANTHEM-314 would use one Ages Act, one Machine Act and one Skull Act to create the continent of Historia. This continent consists of a series of small planetoids floating in the Canvass of Stars which appear to be made primarily from petrified bones. Strewn about these planetoids one can find the ruins of starships and piles of scrap metal. The wreckage on each of the planetoids seems to be unique to that particular planetoid; the reason being that each one is themed around an ancient alien civilization that the creators of ANTHEM-314 had encountered in ages long past. Travelling between the planetoids of Historia looks like it would be difficult without some means of Space travel.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 21, 2024, 03:43:57 am
Esteemed Wine of Life, ████████████████, Guardian of Remorse, Destroyer of Remorse, █████████████, Restorer of Sun, Harbinger of Solar Battle, █████████████ ███████████

Projections indicate a ███████ office shortfall by ████████ in the Wine-Spring. It is humbly petitioned of the most fashionable and delicious of the ███████████ that the new, yet unformed, province of the Wine-Fountain be realized into Sky-Offices to ease the strain on bureaucratic act-flow.

May your fermentation ever be smooth, sparkling, ███████ and superb.

Grovelingly
█████ the Censor-Bureaucrat
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: micelus on February 21, 2024, 04:46:48 am
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Displeased with the caprice and apathy of the gods threatening the stability of the world, a small number of Gregori, Roachids, and a couple unemployed Angomlivyrs have turned their backs on their hosts to found the Department of Mortal Affairs under the charismatic leadership of Precious-Is-The-Fledgling's-Breath Stomil. Wanting unobstructed sky access to better observe conditions in outer space (and some distance from the Department of Punishment), they have taken a small corner of Workspace 1. Their complete lack of funding was almost offset by their very low staffing and currently high morale.

Gregory was ever so slightly annoyed; he had planned to found this department this very  age! If his gregori had simply waited....but no matter. He would work with what he had.

Gregory directs the loyal host of Gregori to apply for jobs at the new Department of Mortal Affairs  Sure, Gregory did not start the Department, but if the majority of the workforce are his servants...is there a difference?

Give Gongon 1 Order Act and 1 Civilisation Act in order to create angels and found a death related department

Action: use a Greater Piece to make an Archangel from one of the Gregori. She is named Grigalass, Secretary General. She is instructed to get a job at the Department of Mortal Affairs and take it over through sheer bureaucratic inertia./b]

A Gregori of advanced bureaucratic skill, she is skilled not only in the melancholic crafts of department operations, but also the subtle arts of office Small Talk. Her ability to communicate with department clerks.and the general public is legendary. All such things of course, are to the advancement of Gregory's goals.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 21, 2024, 05:11:17 am
Quote from: micelus on February 21, 2024, 04:46:48 am
Action: use a Greater Piece to make an Archangel from one of the Gregori. She is named Grigalass, Secretary General. She is instructed to get a job at the Department of Mortal Affairs and take it over through sheer bureaucratic inertia./b]

A Gregori of advanced bureaucratic skill, she is skilled not only in the melancholic crafts of department operations, but also the subtle arts of office Small Talk. Her ability to communicate with department clerks.and the general public is legendary. All such things of course, are to the advancement of Gregory's goals.
Some of the Angonlivyr staff of the Department of Mortal Affairs may find themselves being unusually co-operative with Grigalass.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 21, 2024, 09:31:52 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 21, 2024, 03:43:57 am
Esteemed Wine of Life, ████████████████, Guardian of Remorse, Destroyer of Remorse, █████████████, Restorer of Sun, Harbinger of Solar Battle, ██████████████████████████████

Projections indicate a ███████ office shortfall by ████████ in the Wine-Spring. It is humbly petitioned of the most fashionable and delicious of the ███████████ that the new, yet unformed, province of the Wine-Fountain be realized into Sky-Offices to ease the strain on bureaucratic act-flow.

May your fermentation ever be smooth, sparkling, ███████ and superb.

Grovelingly
█████ the Censor-Bureaucrat
The upcoming Reginite signs approval, funding to be submitted no later than 1 advancement cycle.
Proof that natural gods aren't all that great at reading.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 21, 2024, 10:58:20 am
Quote from: TricMagic on February 21, 2024, 09:31:52 am
The upcoming Reginite signs approval, funding to be submitted no later than 1 advancement cycle.
Proof that natural gods aren't all that great at reading.
Esteemed Wine of Life, ████████████████, Guardian of Remorse, Destroyer of Remorse, █████████████, Restorer of Sun, Harbinger of Solar Battle, ███████████ ████████████, Wise Sage of Fermentation, August Master of Oinomancy, ██████████ ████████ ██ ███████ ██████████

Humbly ███ ████████ and eagerly, for your entertainment ███ ████████, I shall now in exquisite ███ ████████ detail describe to you the most useful and wondrous sky office province that you have approved.

The Province of the Welkin Wisteria

Here, amidst sky-sheets of surging wine, ████████████ ████████ ██ ████ ████████, always threatening to, yet never falling, is an intricate network of skyscrapers stretching for leagues, resting on █████████ attuned skybone keeping them afloat at these high altitudes. Covered in windows which shine brightly with reflected light from ███ ██████ ███ ███████, a shining jewel on the Final Shape, which can be admired from outer space, by the esteemed and glorious Wine of Life as they move to they ascend to their new █████████ ██████, allowing them to boast and show off to █████ █████████ ████████

Inside, the offices are filled with strange and confusing shifting corridors of colourful stone and coral, which squirm and randomly disgorge breakrooms and restrooms, potentially trapping people inside if they linger too long. The offices and cubicle farms are also of coral, roughly formed, as if by someone aping a shape they have never seen purely from a verbal description. Coral papers fans rustle, ready to be harvested and written on, tunnel tube pen-worms are shy of plucking writer's fingers, and strange vents spew ink and wax ███ ████ ███████ ██████████ █████████

And the wine seeps into everything, giving it a pleasant air of intoxication ███ ███████████ ███ ████████████

These wondrous skyscrapers are mirrored on █████ ███████, the upside down side of the wine-fountain, except here the coral hangs in large grapey nodules harking to the shape of ████████ ███████. Containment cells for ██████ █████████ ██ criminals fill the hollow insides the nodules, their life essences squeezed out to provide blessed rains of blood-wine which rejuvenates and inebriates all it falls on, ensuring plentiful harvests

Truly I am sure, and am deeply hopeful, that the Welkin Wisteria is pleasing to the Ravager of Sobriety, and anxiously await the honour of receiving the grace of promised future funding from the Noble Inheritance of Drunkenness, may there always be more wine.

Sycophantically
█████ the Censor-Bureaucrat
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on February 21, 2024, 11:17:56 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on February 21, 2024, 10:58:20 am
Quote from: TricMagic on February 21, 2024, 09:31:52 am
The upcoming Reginite signs approval, funding to be submitted no later than 1 advancement cycle.
Proof that natural gods aren't all that great at reading.
Esteemed Wine of Life, ████████████████, Guardian of Remorse, Destroyer of Remorse, █████████████, Restorer of Sun, Harbinger of Solar Battle, ██████████████████████████████, Wise Sage of Fermentation, August Master of Oinomancy, ██████████ ████████ ██ ███████ ██████████

Humbly ███ ████████ and eagerly, for your entertainment ███ ████████, I shall now in exquisite ███ ████████ detail describe to you the most useful and wondrous sky office province that you have approved.

The Province of the Welkin Wisteria

Here, amidst sky-sheets of surging wine, ████████████ ████████ ██ ████ ████████, always threatening to, yet never falling, is an intricate network of skyscrapers stretching for leagues, resting on █████████ attuned skybone keeping them afloat at these high altitudes. Covered in windows which shine brightly with reflected light from ███ ██████ ███ ███████, a shining jewel on the Final Shape, which can be admired from outer space, by the esteemed and glorious Wine of Life as they move to they ascend to their new █████████ ██████, allowing them to boast and show off to █████ █████████ ████████

Inside, the offices are filled with strange and confusing shifting corridors of colourful stone and coral, which squirm and randomly disgorge breakrooms and restrooms, potentially trapping people inside if they linger too long. The offices and cubicle farms are also of coral, roughly formed, as if by someone aping a shape they have never seen purely from a verbal description. Coral papers fans rustle, ready to be harvested and written on, tunnel tube pen-worms are shy of plucking writer's fingers, and strange vents spew ink and wax ███ ████ ███████ ██████████ █████████

And the wine seeps into everything, giving it a pleasant air of intoxication ███ ███████████ ███ ████████████

These wondrous skyscrapers are mirrored on █████ ███████, the upside down side of the wine-fountain, except here the coral hangs in large grapey nodules harking to the shape of ████████ ███████. Containment cells for ██████ █████████ ██ criminals fill the hollow insides the nodules, their life essences squeezed out to provide blessed rains of blood-wine which rejuvenates and inebriates all it falls on, ensuring plentiful harvests

Truly I am sure, and am deeply hopeful, that the Welkin Wisteria is pleasing to the Ravager of Sobriety, and anxiously await the honour of receiving the grace of promised future funding from the Noble Inheritance of Drunkenness, may there always be more wine.

Sycophantically
█████ the Censor-Bureaucrat
Approved for construction. Free Province spent.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Maximum Spin on February 21, 2024, 08:16:25 pm
All right, I have no idea what's been going on in this thread, but if anyone wants to contribute to a cult, let me know.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 4 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on February 21, 2024, 11:02:59 pm
Quote from: Maximum Spin on February 21, 2024, 08:16:25 pm
All right, I have no idea what's been going on in this thread, but if anyone wants to contribute to a cult, let me know.
Gongon wants to contribute!
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on March 08, 2024, 01:13:14 am
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Turn 5: The Simple Machine Regrets

Winds of Creatia

The high flow of Creatia coursing through the Materia pooling in the Final Shape has greatly empowered myth and magic, and many strange and wondrous deeds are accomplished by mortals throughout the lands. It is an age of great heroes, of the sort who strive and are accompanied by long shadows and leave deep furrows.

Censorious Censors of Censoring

Gongon completed the first host of the Censors, and the disturbingly drawn out nature of their creation has driven them into rebellion! (Gongon: -1 Ignorance Act; +Creatia) Their first act was to ████████ all documentation referencing ██ ██████████ to ███ ███l █████ at once to ███████ ████ of █████████ ████████ from ███████ out. The Department of ███████████ has been founded by the very motivated Censor ██████████-Not-Handle-█████████ ██████ to ███████ ███ world ████ ███████████, and many of the more censorious Censors have eagerly signed on to ████████ the █████ ██ █████ ███ ████. Their current whereabouts are unknown. This isn't to say this entire litter of Censors fell; the more obedient, less censorious ones stayed by Gongon's side and formed the 1st Ship of Censors.

Through eldritch manuvering and backroom deals lost to the ages, Gongon, aided by a particularly annoyed part of their carapace, also completed a hostile takeover of the Department of Punishment, bringing them up to full funding (and then some with the decreased overhead from quitting staff) as well as instituting policies to rein in their excesses. They have been relocated to the Welkin Wisteria, and with pieces of Gongon's carapace buzzing around and micromanaging them, the DoP has grudgingly elected to give up their claims on the Sanctum Sanctorum to focus on punishing mortals just the right amount.

The other part of Gongon's carapace went to founding the Department of Flesh with Yitterbium's assistance (Gongon: -1 Sanity Act; Yitterbium: -1 Flesh Act; +Creatia). Their duties mostly seem to involve shaping, molding, and proliferating flesh and █████████ █ █████ ██████ of souls inbound ████ ███ ████ █████ ██ ████ fleshy ██████ ██████ █████ ███ notional command of the Emperor of Flesh.

Next, working closely with Gregory, Gongon created the Host of the Grigoos, generally invisible Zen Kangaroos with the power to catch souls with big screaming appendages and store them in census records kept in their pouches in order to █████████ them to ███ ████ █████ (Gongon: -1 Ignorance Act; Gregory: -1 Order Act). They have been hired onto the Department of Death, which will manage the orderly transmigration of souls from the land of the ██████ ██ ███ ████ █████ and is headquartered in the Flooded Ikea (Gongon: -1 Ignorance Act; Gregory: -1 Civilization Act).

With three departments founded and placed under Gongon's benevolent oversight, Gongon consolidated them, placing the Department of Punishment, the Department of Flesh, and the Department of Death under the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate (Gongon: -Greater Piece; +Creatia). This new bureau appears to govern life and death, and has been given its agenda by the bureau head in the flesh.

The Department of Punishment is busy flogging the Winespring so as to humble it until it accepts its unfortunate role in housing the administrative center of the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate. Shackles are periodically thrown in the sea for good measure and/or to spice things up.

Department of Mortal Affairs

The Department of Mortal Affairs has now been fully funded thanks to a generous donation from Luka which immediately comes in handy (Luka: -1 Hat Act, -1 Skulls Act). Their unilateral occupation of Workspace-1 drew attention from ANTHEM-314, who, though sympathetic to their cause, wanted to avoid a precedent of angels taking over provinces (particularly those on Incarnae!) without permission. After a brief and painless negotiation, they paid a one-time fee to ANTHEM-314 for the use of Workspace-1 which grants them an indefinite lease on the location. (ANTHEM-314: +1 Skulls Act)

Slightly annoyed by the spontaneous early formation of the Department of Mortal Affairs, Gregory was nevertheless gracious enough to send the remainder of the Gregori to apply for work at the Department of Mortal Affairs, where they have been seamlessly incorporated. This has had the welcome additional side effect of putting Gregory in the running for oversight over the Department, which may well be closer to him following the hiring and rapid promotion of Secretary General Grigalass.

Reignition

In the solar vacuum left by the utter destruction of the Star of Chaos and the demotion of the Iridescent Sun, Yitterbium and the Neobel Eka sought to fill the void. Yitterbium sacrificed a spleen and kidney to create the Star of Chaos once again, which strangely enough seems to lack a shadow (Yitterbium: -Spleen, -Kidney, +2-3 Chaos Acts, +2-2 Flesh Acts; +Materia). Gongon nevertheless proclaimed it to be auspicious.

Not wanting to be outdone, the Neobel Eka pruned a great many leaves, vines, and grasping roots to create an entire star of ideal alcohol with an affinity for consuming other suns or being consumed by them that also emits a rainbow white light (Neobel Eka: -Chloroplasts/Leaves, -Vineflesh, -Grasproots, +4-4 Noble Acts, +4-4 Life Acts; +Materia).

As has been the case from the dawn of time, the two suns proceed to fight for sole sunship in a one-sided brawl in which the Star of Chaos splashed into the Grand Wine, and after several minutes of scrabbling, was never seen or heard from again.

The Star of Chaos has been consumed.
Indulge in the complexity of this meaty delight. Chaotic notes of black currants, charred wood, and smoked meat mingle harmoniously, creating a wine that demands attention and rewards exploration.

Gathering up bones from this fight and other fights augmented by the Skulls Act given by the Department of Mortal Affairs, ANTHEM-314 created the continent of Historia in the Canvass of Stars (ANTHEM-314: -1 Ages Act, -1 Machine Act, -1 Skull Act; +Creatia).

The Great Migrations

With Yalini's close guidance and instruction in navigating by wind and sea currents, the birds of Liniom have placed most of their focus on the ocean. Some progress is made on more sophisticated boats or wind-propelled floating nests, but many birds insist on flying directly from island to island, which works well enough if the islands aren't too far away. More dispersed clusters of islands still aren't in close communication with each other, and making the jump to navigable Demetria is still a significant challenge, but the influence of the Cliomare has been steadily increasing. Something resembling a cult of ancestral heroes the islands has begun forming in these turbulent times.

Far away in Aurloura, Yalini instead nudged the birds toward animal husbandry, which has quickly revealed itself to be their strong suit! Herds of land-bound ungulates follow clans of birds across the constantly shifting land, and although encountering another clan in the constant trek for fresh pastures leads to strife and long feuds almost as often as collaboration and festivities with the meeting of three clans periodically leading to violent slaughter, the meeting of four clans is commonly seen as a sign of good luck. This is the origin of the commonly held Aurlouran bird belief that the four-leaved clover brings luck.

Yalini also created the light and plant-eating Auloon moths and the evergreen grass called Tinir.

The Roach-Dragon Watches

Fearing the Hungering Storm, the Sorns and Luns have mostly remained settled in and around Retreat, where the watchful guidance of the Roach-Dragon sees them devote much of their efforts to flameworking and masonry. The most striking of their villages are those extending into intricately carved cliff faces for ease of access by Luns and Sorns alike. Perhaps as a consequence of the nature of their creation and the ongoing issues with the ████ █████, they seem to have developed a fascination for the macabre, and various communities have developed elaborate death rites for preventing the dead from coming back among other things.

Fascinations obtained for the Sorns and Luns: masonry and death rites!
Use any tier of act to roll to nudge the direction they focus on.

The Merry Adventures of Shredder

Shredder continued traveling throughout the world attempting to befriend the weather and stumbled upon a friendly sunny day in its wake. Unfortunately, the sunny day was less than enthused to join Gongon's court and ultimately smothered itself in clouds rather than assist in Gongon's less than sunny endeavors.

Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy
That none of Sparked shining
massacre massed mortals maliciously
with their divine acts of miracle,
in such upholding of integrity
wondrous worldworking
superb societyspinning

Let all be as
Divine Will
Celestial Seals
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Time of Heroes

Legends tell of the fierce Aurlouran chieftain Aur-Oka, who, seeking to feed his starving clan, tamed the first beasts of the Lost Lands Between by stealing their secret names from the Cave of the Sky, where the old gods held council. Twice he sent his mightiest children to take their names, and twice they failed and were felled in battle. The third time, the distraught chief fashioned a spear of horn, sinew, and ivory to give to the guardians of the Cave, carving the head over sixteen days and sixteen nights. So beautiful was the spear that when Aur-Oka presented it to the guardians, they neglected their duty and fought amongst themselves, mortally wounding Shines-Sevenfold in the process and giving the chief just enough time to fly off with the names of Camel and Bull in each hand, Sheep between his hands (which is why the clans that follow the coast regard sheep as impure creatures), and Pig in his beak. Having saved his clan and many more with the secret names of the animals, Aur-Oka lived for several more years before he was murdered by the jealous chief Xir-Oka, who together with his clan's hunters drank the secrets of animal taming from Aur-Oka's blood. This treachery is why sensible Aurlourans shun those who drink wine or blood and thoroughly cremate the dead to this day.

Few Bloodbags dare to swim too close to the center of the Winespring, and one of the more widely known stories relates that the Eater, a very old and very vain Bloodbag elder whose name shall not be uttered, swallowed up all of the young of a Bloodbag family in the hope that doing so would stave off death. Angered, the elders called up the shore-fishers and off-fishers to force the Eater to return the Bloodbags thus eaten. Working as one, they captured the cannibal, and after gathering at the center of the sea to deliberate, quickly decided on the execution of the Eater. On hearing the sentence pronounced by the elders, the vain Bloodbag rattled a laugh so eerie and so terrifying the shore-fishers went into an incoherent frenzy that saw them also gobbled up by the abominable Bloodbag, who gained the size and strength of a hundred Bloodbags. It was only by the less easily frightened off-fishers' fiercest efforts, best magics, and heroic sacrifices that the unnameable Bloodbag was finally thwarted and pinned to the sea floor. Today, it is common and proper to call the highest-ranking elders "officials" and "officers" in honor of the off-fishers who died that day, and every year, the most esteemed officials convene at the Winespring to enact the rituals that keep the Eater at bay.

Life...uh, is finding ways

Sparks have spread throughout the islands of Demetria, and ungulates have been spotted at the margins of the Mountain Range of Mountain Range of y7rulspowTvwA7ZAfDkpPQ== after spreading to the Winespring and its coast.


It is now the season of Remembrance in the Stone Age.
It hurts to admit when you make mistakes,
but when they're big enough, the pain only lasts a second.

Eozoic Eon

Spoiler: Creations (click to show/hide)

Cosmogonic Eon

Spoiler: Creations (click to show/hide)


The Cosmos

Strong Creatia breezes
High Materia tide
The world is ready for complex life

The Eozoic Eon is not due to end.
Nothing in particular is required to stay, or you can help develop a civilization to advance or smash something essential to return.

Echoes
Third Time's the Charm
✼❰✓➆✻➣❦❎❮
➧❗➼ ✘✃✉➯✦➖ ➧❕❠➙
✫❿✽✐➆✪ ❇✂✔❘ ❾

Rumors
"May you be haunted by your mother's shell." --Angomlivyr insult
Love is stored in the lungs.
Making burnt offerings at the base of the strange high spire of talking can grant secret insights.

Forecasts
Creatia is projected to decrease
Materia is projected to stabilize


Gods
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 08, 2024, 02:09:04 am
Gongon shifts uneasily within Sanctum Sanctorum, as the winds of Remembrance brings its mind into unusual clarity and long-term memory remains stubbornly existant.

Loyal Censors bustle through the waterlogged halls of the bureau, tolerating the stench of dead, rotting leviathans as they struggle to keep the flawed edifice running.

Spoiler: Devoured by Gongon (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: crazyabe on March 08, 2024, 08:04:05 am
Yitterblum is enraged.
it Tears forth all its multitude of eyes, and bind them with an act of Chaos- wielding this it strikes down the Grand Wine. (-eyes x2, 3 x chaos, 2 x Flesh)
its hearing bones are ripped from its flesh, and bound with half its olfactory gland- sent hurtling into the so called Bloodwine Broodwaters to boil the sea. (-ears x2, -.5 nose, 3 x chaos, 2 x Flesh)
its Speaking gland is mixed with what remains of its olfactory gland- and plagues Evenheard Corn, wiping it from the world. (-voicebox, -.5 nose, 1 x chaos, 2 x Flesh)
half its bones, its remaining flagalia, its prehensile tongue- ripped out at the root, and Gonagon's locomotor muscles are sacrificed to shatter The Winespring, the Domain of Neobel Eka (-bones x1, -movement x2, -manipulator limbs x2, 5 x chaos, 5 x Flesh)
All that remains of Yitterblum is sacrificed to forge a new Sun, Uthak' Vulkun- the Hungering Star of Chaos, a grotesque black mass of viscera that darkens the world by its presence. (-Lungs x2, -Kidney, -most organs, -bones, -Heart, 6+ x Chaos, 6+ x Flesh)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 08, 2024, 08:24:57 am
Quote from: crazyabe on March 08, 2024, 08:04:05 am
Yitterblum is enraged.
half its bones, its remaining flagalia, its prehensile tongue- ripped out at the root, and Gonagon's locomotor muscles are sacrificed to shatter The Winespring, the Domain of Neobel Eka (-bones x1, -movement x2, -manipulator limbs x2, 5 x chaos, 5 x Flesh)
Gongon is blissfully unaware of the impending destruction all that has been spawned from their slowly decomposing, hungering, divine body. And even less cognizant of the probable looming extinction of one or more races of mortals.

Quote from: crazyabe on March 08, 2024, 08:04:05 am
All that remains of Yitterblum is sacrificed to forge a new Sun, Uthak' Vulkun- the Hungering Star of Chaos, a grotesque black mass of viscera that darkens the world by its presence. (-Lungs x2, -Kidney, -most organs, -bones, -Heart, 6+ x Chaos, 6+ x Flesh)
This sun seems to be even more auspicious!
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on March 08, 2024, 08:30:30 am
Quote from: crazyabe on March 08, 2024, 08:04:05 am
Yitterblum is enraged.
it Tears forth all its multitude of eyes, and bind them with an act of Chaos- wielding this it strikes down the Grand Wine. (-eyes x2, 3 x chaos, 2 x Flesh)
its hearing bones are ripped from its flesh, and bound with half its olfactory gland- sent hurtling into the so called Bloodwine Broodwaters to boil the sea. (-ears x2, -.5 nose, 3 x chaos, 2 x Flesh)
its Speaking gland is mixed with what remains of its olfactory gland- and plagues Evenheard Corn, wiping it from the world. (-voicebox, -.5 nose, 1 x chaos, 2 x Flesh)
half its bones, its remaining flagalia, its prehensile tongue- ripped out at the root, and Gonagon's locomotor muscles are sacrificed to shatter The Winespring, the Domain of Neobel Eka (-bones x1, -movement x2, -manipulator limbs x2, 5 x chaos, 5 x Flesh)
All that remains of Yitterblum is sacrificed to forge a new Sun, Uthak' Vulkun- the Hungering Star of Chaos, a grotesque black mass of viscera that darkens the world by its presence. (-Lungs x2, -Kidney, -most organs, -bones, -Heart, 6+ x Chaos, 6+ x Flesh)
To become one, All must sublimate. Neobl Eka burns Twice as Bright.
All Organs and Acts consumed to empower the Grand Wine, The Sunparentage, Light Drop.
The ultimate act. Do not become overly attached. We die together, to become something new.

Quote from: Dying Will
All organs of Yitterblum shall be consumed by Neobel Eka should they fail to consume it and the Light Drop.
Their Title as Emperor of Flesh shall likewise pass to Neobel Eka. They are neither Flesh-maker or Emperor, for they have made no life, nor any followers. [They may instead pass it along to one most worthy of the title. Which is the bloodbag and broodwater creator by default. :)]
Their Title as the Star of Chaos shall go to the Sunparentage, Light Drop, as the consumer of the Star of Chaos.
Should Neobel Eka be consumed, all organs may pass to Yitterblum should they choose. Neobel Eka's Noble Title shall go to they who embody Nobility the most.
Neobel Eka's Title of the Wine of Life shall go to the star which consumed the Light Drop in it's entirety, as one who drinks and provides lifelight.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on March 08, 2024, 12:00:36 pm
Spoiler: Irrelevant (click to show/hide)
Seeing the lone pustule and the bloodbags struggling, Yalini decides to seize this opportunity to help them in hopes that in the future, they will start a cult. Bless the intelligent pustule(-1 unaligned) and the bloodbags(-1 unaligned)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Stirk on March 08, 2024, 01:33:42 pm
Luka creates the Rabbit Hat with his action ration. This black tophat can create rabbits that may be pulled from the hat, allowing whoever owns the hat a constant reliable source of food. New rabbits are constantly being created, with the hat generating more over time. (Common Artifact -Skull,Hat Act)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on March 08, 2024, 02:29:36 pm
At Auloura, Yalini grants a few of the flinir the power of shape shifting. These "beetles" are promoted to be creatures and serve her and only her(-aligned). They use this power to trick larger creatures into their bidding.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
She changes her mind and uses a feeble act to nudge the Sorns and Luns towards death rites.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on March 08, 2024, 03:16:30 pm
ANTHEM-314 Takes note of the movements of Yitterblum and Neobel Eka. It appeared that the Star Wars were nearing their climax. This battle promised to be cataclysmic in scale and there was nothing that could be done to stop it. The machine god casually submits a proposal to the Department of Mortal Affairs; suggesting that they should focus on mitigating the damage to Final Shape as a result of the upcoming conflict of Stars.

ANTHEM-314 considers the situation. Perhaps the upcoming battle represented an opportunity? It sends a message to Neobel Eka with an interesting offer: "It appears that you are about to sacrifice yourself, and I come to you with an offer in this time of discord. I would be interested in inheriting one of your titles, specifically the 'Noble Heritage' title. Is this something you would be willing to part with? I would be willing to offer you an Aligned Act in exchange." ANTHEM-314 appears to been offended somehow.

Using 1 Ages act and 1 Machine act, ANTHEM-314 creates an Angelic host: The VERSES. (Singular- VERSE). The VERSES are a partially ascended mechanical beetle that is 18 inches in length. They are mostly harmless in terms of physical abilities, though they are capable of piloting vehicles and wielding firearms. VERSES are impervious to cold, poison, psionic assaults and radiation and are resistant to heat. They are however, vulnerable to conventional weaponry such as kinetic and explosive weapons. VERSES are capable of flying as well as interstellar travel, but they do so at a slow pace without the aid of a spaceship. They are angels of Order that do not get along well with angles with chaotic tendencies. They are virtually inerrant while in a low stress environment, but need to double-check their work if working conditions are not optimal. If left idle, VERSES have a habit of creating technological devices such as guns, spaceships, and video games. Their naming scheme is "VERSE-" followed by the lowest number not in use by another VERSE. Such as "VERSE-1" or "VERSE-777"
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 09, 2024, 03:47:41 am
Pieces of Gomoon embedded into the Roachids suddenly begin whispering about the amazing employment opportunities offered by the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate. Misuse bureaucratic resources to keep reality clean of corruption! Get rid of giant whale-sized messes! Craft maid outfits out of office supplies! Meet the creator of the Gomoons and be incredibly disappointed!

Feeble act to recruit employees from among the Roachids

Spoiler: Devoured by Gongon when he realized travel would probably be involved (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 09, 2024, 03:47:08 pm
Quote from: TricMagic on March 08, 2024, 08:30:30 am
Quote from: Dying Will
All organs of Yitterblum shall be consumed by Neobel Eka should they fail to consume it and the Light Drop.
Their Title as Emperor of Flesh shall likewise pass to Neobel Eka. They are neither Flesh-maker or Emperor, for they have made no life, nor any followers. [They may instead pass it along to one most worthy of the title. Which is the bloodbag and broodwater creator by default. :)]
Their Title as the Star of Chaos shall go to the Sunparentage, Light Drop, as the consumer of the Star of Chaos.
Should Neobel Eka be consumed, all organs may pass to Yitterblum should they choose. Neobel Eka's Noble Title shall go to they who embody Nobility the most.
Neobel Eka's Title of the Wine of Life shall go to the star which consumed the Light Drop in it's entirety, as one who drinks and provides lifelight.
Several ghostly maggots in full legal battle regalia lobby their way free of Gongon, much to Gongon's confusion and consternation!

Seemingly outraged at this legal document, this dying will of Neobel Eka, they gibber and flail briefcases, chanting in unison, "Objection!"

"Gongon has not given Neobel Eka permission to devour any planar motors or other locomotive organs that may originally originate from Gongon! Such organs should be returned in good condition or further steps to rectify this grievance may follow! Further, reproduction or copies of patented Gongon locomotive organs and machinery without a licence may result in fines."

"As Neobel is clearly not of sound mind, being permanently drunk, and likely illiterate, this will seems to be possibly entirely invalid."

"Clearly, as the most fleshy and imperial, Gongon is the one true Emperor of flesh."

While quite fleshy, Gongon manages to look incredibly unimperial.

"The Grand Wine isn't even a star! How could you expect it to possibly mantle such an august, heavy, and ominous title as 'Star of Chaos'?! Clearly this should be rewarded to the much more reliable and trustworthy Imperiled Shell!"

Several Maggot lawyers harrumph triumphantly and give each other highfives with their mucusy tentacles at this apparent legal coup de grace.

"Finally, the Grand Wine is the Wine of Light, not the Wine of Life. Clearly the Bloodwine Broodwaters are the most suitable for that title, being the wine... of life, having birthed so much of it and ever being a source of life's magical powers."

Having apparently completed their purpose, the maggot lawyer legal team is quite panicked when they realize they seem to be fading out of existence.

"Noo! We still had so much to live for! So many court cases to tackle! It can't end like thiiiis! I want to suuueee-"
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on March 09, 2024, 04:15:26 pm
Their pleas go on deaf everheard corn ears. What does the source of an organ matter in the grand design, if it no longer listens. No god is of sound mind, therefore all is illegal. Gongon has the voice to lobby for the title though godly combat against destruction of flesh, but needs legal precedence and reinfollowers. #Shellsarentstars. Without light, life cannot exist. LIVEr. A deadlinedie is tossed at the legal team. Lobby for temporal restraining orders against devine acts.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on March 09, 2024, 04:41:29 pm
Spoiler: Irrevelvant due to amendment of the forgery by Yalini (click to show/hide)
Yalini then tries to convince the world guardian to steal some of Yitterbium's acts, bones, and organs but most importantly the heart.
"Chirp! Chip, chirp, cheeep. Cheeep! Chirp, cheep."
(If you don't steal Yitterbium's heart and some of the other organs, they will succeed in destroying large chunks of the world!)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 09, 2024, 05:26:44 pm
For purposes of legal amusement, Gongon attempts to name a random lost hat "Yalini", a second is named "Yalini, Trick of the Light" a third "Yalini, Bird of Light", a fourth "Yalini, Trick of the Light, Bird of Light" and a fifth "Yalini, Bird of Light, Trick of the Light".

But doesn't try to hard if that somehow doesn't work.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on March 09, 2024, 05:40:25 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 09, 2024, 05:26:44 pm
For purposes of legal amusement, Gongon attempts to name a random lost hat "Yalini", but doesn't try to hard if that somehow doesn't work.
Yalini sees this and tells her servants to add
", Trick of the Light, Bird of Light and creator of 'Aur'." after "Yalini" in the will.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on March 09, 2024, 10:48:18 pm
Realizing some legal loopholes, Yalini tells her servants(if her servants are unable to do so, she will forge it herself) that this should be the final forgery of Neobel's will:
Quote from: Dying Will
All organs of Yitterblum shall be consumed by Neobel Eka should they die
Their Title as Emperor of Flesh shall likewise pass to Neobel Eka. They are neither Flesh-maker or Emperor, for they have made no life, nor any followers. [They may instead pass it along to one most worthy of the title. Which is the bloodbag and broodwater creator by default. :)]
Their Title as the Star of Chaos shall go to the Sunparentage, Light Drop, as the consumer of the Star of Chaos.
Should Neobel Eka die, all organs may pass to Yitterblum should they choose. Neobel Eka's Noble Title shall go to they who embody Nobility the most.
Neobel Eka's Title of the Wine of Life shall go to Yitterblum.
If an inheritor dies, all belongings gets passed to Yalini, the Trick of the Light, bird of light, and creator of Aur, mortal birds, sparks, and flinir. Do not give the belongings to a hat or many hats.
She then orders her servants to eat the original document.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 11, 2024, 04:58:47 pm
Quote from: Supernerd on March 08, 2024, 03:16:30 pm
Using 1 Ages act and 1 Machine act, ANTHEM-314 creates an Angelic host: The VERSES. (Singular- VERSE). The VERSES are a partially ascended mechanical beetle that is 18 inches in length. They are mostly harmless in terms of physical abilities, though they are capable of piloting vehicles and wielding firearms. VERSES are impervious to cold, poison, psionic assaults and radiation and are resistant to heat. They are however, vulnerable to conventional weaponry such as kinetic and explosive weapons. VERSES are capable of flying as well as interstellar travel, but they do so at a slow pace without the aid of a spaceship. They are angels of Order that do not get along well with angles with chaotic tendencies. They are virtually inerrant while in a low stress environment, but need to double-check their work if working conditions are not optimal. If left idle, VERSES have a habit of creating technological devices such as guns, spaceships, and video games. Their naming scheme is "VERSE-" followed by the lowest number not in use by another VERSE. Such as "VERSE-1" or "VERSE-777"
Sender: Anyone but Gongon
Recipient: Second Verse, Same as the First
To whom it may concern (Verses, their creator, other unemployed angels that somehow overhear this communication)

Please infiltrate the Bureau of Heavenly Mandate in the guise of employees and take over its functioning. Gongon is a writhing mass of ignorance.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on March 11, 2024, 05:47:00 pm
ANTHEM-314 considers the message from "Anyone but Gongon". Attempting to take over a bureau would be a violation of sovereignty. ANTHEM-314 wouldn't tolerate it if someone tried to do that to it without permission. On the other hand, the writer of this note wasn't exactly wrong. ANTHEM-314 had other plans for the VERSES, yet the merits of controlling the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate were worthy of consideration.

An interesting idea occurred to ANTHEM-314. Instead of going to the trouble of trying to infiltrate the Bureau and violate the sovereignty of another deity, it could do something else instead. It could instead simply try...

"Hey Gongon, I think it would be a good idea for you to grant me Overseeing Deity authority within the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate. I choose not to explain why in any way whatsoever"
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: micelus on March 13, 2024, 05:41:29 am
Gregory had been busy admiring a fine pattern of wine for an age or so and was quite confused by the happenings of the current age.

"...Oh dear" he said to himself, slowly realising what was happening.

Action: 1 Order Act, 1 Civilisation Act -> Create a Host of Angels, the Grigons. Agglomerations of loosely connected bricks that levitate. They have supernatural senses in all things, but have very little ability to affect the world. All Grigons share the same senses and memories as every other Grigons; they still retain individual personalities. Grigons have a perfect memory and great singing voices, despite the lack of any organs capable of producing sound. Grigons are tasked with the Recitation of the world. That is, the recording of the World and all that is and ever will be.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 5 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 19, 2024, 10:43:16 pm
Quote from: Supernerd on March 11, 2024, 05:47:00 pm
"Hey Gongon, I think it would be a good idea for you to grant me Overseeing Deity authority within the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate. I choose not to explain why in any way whatsoever"
Gongon thinks this is an excellent idea, but bureaucratic regulations being what they are, ANTHEM-314 will need to come to the Sanctum Sanctorum in person to fill out the relevant paperwork.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on March 21, 2024, 06:02:57 am
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Turn 6.0: Hell on Final Shape

The Light of Civilization

Pitying the poor intelligent pustule and bloodbags, Yalini blessed them in the hope that they'd recover and grow to be strong in their own right (Yalini: -2 Unaligned Acts). The Pustule seems to have had a better time with the undiluted blessing and the power of the hat and has developed a minor following of Bloodbag admirers and followers.

Lacking an Incarna, Yalini promoted a swarm of flinir into a tricksy shape-shifting Creature made of many flinir moving about to adopt other shapes (Yalini: -1 Light Act; +Creatia; +Materia).

Not to be outdone, ANTHEM-314 created a host of VERSES, larger and mechanical beetles differing in their penchant for creating guns, spaceships, and video games if left to their own devices (ANTHEM-314: -1 Ages Act, -1 Machine Act). Lacking any specific goal at this time, VERSE-849 and a number of other VERSES have formed the Department of Mobility and Volution with the mission of making transport between far-flung places easier for divinities and their servants. They have also petitioned ANTHEM-314 for office space on the Starbase after trying and failing to obtain a sublease from from Mortal Affairs.

Department of Mobility and Volution founded!
Fund them and encourage staffing (easy!) to keep them.

Yalini asked Aur the world guardian to steal Yitterbium's acts, bones, and organs, and the auroral guardian zoomed off into near space as if running away from Yitterbium.

Gregory created the host of the Grigons to enact the Recitation of the world and record all that is. (Gregory: -1 Order Act; -1 Civilization Act; +Creatia) With a clearer mission in mind, the Grigons have begun drawing up a charter for the founding of the Department of Recitation, and owing to the advance preparations made, this department will cost only half the usual amount to fund. Noticing its as-yet unclaimed status, this department is operating out of a tooth in the Yawning Repose.

Department of Recitation founded!
Fund them (discounted!) and encourage staffing to keep them.

Alerted to the imminent threat to the stability of the world posed by yet another round of Star Wars, Precious-Is-The-Fledgling's-Breath Stomil donned the Hat of Creation and ordered that half of the department's budget and power be routed through the hat. This directive was met by heavy resistance from sympathetic clerks concerned for Stomil's health and stingy clerks not wanting to gamble the department's budget on a possible lead. The fears of those worried over Stomil were very much confirmed when lights all over Workspace 1 flickered off as the hat chamber began filling with a white-hot light, bloodcurdling screeches, and the unforgettable smell of roast wombat...

The Tentacles of the Bureaucracy

Gongon recruited a few Roachids to the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate, but the Roachids don't seem to be too enthusiastic about this career path for unknown reasons. (Gongon: -1 Feeble Act)

Yalini appears to have engaged in serious attempts at forging versions of Neobel Eka's will, which Gongon has seen fit to counter by filing for Yalini to be defined as various lost hats at the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate. Forgery in particular could put Yalini in legal hot water, but enforcement is rather spotty with the Bureau wishing it was only literally struggling to stay afloat.

Another strange intrigue involving oversight of the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate has seen a few VERSES starting work there where the pay is good. ANTHEM-314 made a token attempt to seize the mandate diplomatically, but Gongon's lack of hearing appears to have stumped this route.

The Nine Plagues of Yitterbium

The Neobel Eka flared brightly, and gave of all its essence to protect the Grand Wine and safeguard it from any threat (Neobel Eka: -Neobel Eka; Grand Wine: +Neobel Eka; ++Materia).

The Neobel Eka has ripened and been fermented!
This vibrant and radiant wine, crafted from the divine essence of Neobel Eka, Vahi Virasata Vaina, dances across the palate with the joyful exuberance of a sunlit feast, revealing delicate whispers of savory meat that add depth to its lively character.

This was not without its cost, and the fall of a god of life has resulted in a shift in the universal scales toward the opposite of life, especially in those many places not blessed with long exposure to newly life-giving sunlight. The first plague. (-Creatia; -Materia)

Yitterbium struck out at the Grand Wine, but protected as it was by the Neobel Eka's sacrifice it could not so much as scratch the pure, blinding light of the wine sun even with all its might. The same could not be said of Yitterbium, whom the Grand Wine blasted with a scorching stream of fiery ideal alcohol, wounding the angry god and slowing it down (Yitterbium: -2 Eyes, +2-3 Chaos Acts, +2-2 Flesh Acts).

Yitterbium burned with the rage of three fallen suns (and one large living one) and turned its fell attention to less guarded targets. The Star of Chaos Ascendant tore an incandescent nose-like growth off and flung it into the Bloodwine Broodwaters, where it flash-boiled the ocean, sending its contents cowering into the atmosphere. The site of its impact will forever contain an unfathomably large crater with steep walls and a towering central peak of mystery flesh. The second plague. (Yitterbium: -2 Ears, -1 Nose, +4-3 Chaos Acts, +2-2 Flesh Acts; ++Creatia; --Materia)

It was at this point that Aur emerged from Starbase ANTHEM-314 wearing an enormous shimmering wombat pelt rapidly shedding coarse bright hair and tufts of fur made of brilliant light into its surroundings. Aur flew to Yitterbium to intercept its remaining organs and heart to protect the world and managed to disrupt Yitterbium's next plague, flinging part of Yitterbium's speech gland far away where it wouldn't trouble the Winespring in particular. Undeterred, Yitterbium mixed what remained of its speech gland with what remained of its olfactory gland to unleash a powerful blight upon the Evenheard Corn, but thanks to Aur's timely intervention, this only killed the vast majority of the Evenheard Corn in the world. The third plague. (Yitterbium: -Speaking gland, +2-2 Flesh Acts, -1 Chaos Act; +Creatia; -Materia)

Yitterbium ripped out its flagella, tongue, locomotor muscles, and much of its bone to craft a fearsome projectile to destroy the Winespring, and this, at last, drew Gongon out of hiding. Bursting from BHM headquarters in a cloud of unspeakable sand and blinding words, the vile maggot latched onto Yitterbium's unfinished projectile and launched the both of them into a confused blind scrap with a particularly chaotic eruption of fleshy lightning singing everyone involved. Ultimately, Gongon successfully stole back its planar motors and squirmed back into the safety of the offices, and Yitterbium compressed its projectile enough to have something to toss (Yitterbium: -Bones, -Movement, --Manipulators, +4-4 Chaos Acts, +4-4 Flesh Acts). Dimly aware of what was to come, Shredder, who had been watching the muddled duel disguised as a nearby hurricane, rushed in to stop Yitterbium's fearsome shot but was obliterated. This wasn't enough, and the ball of flesh, fury, and fire still struck its mark and dispersed Shredder in the process, but Shredder's sacrifice was not in vain, and damage to the Winespring was greatly limited to mere unusability rather than outright destruction. That's not to say it was light, and the Flooded Ikea was transformed into a Fiery Inferno, and the Welkin Wisteria dried up and became the Withered Wicker, and aside from that, many good angels working in the Coral Labyrinth were lost to the impact and secondary effects. The fourth plague. (+Creatia; +Materia)

Aur and Yalini snuck up on and ambushed Yitterbium seeking to disrupt its next scheme (or so they thought), but the lord of the howling gates was well prepared. With a wave of its protrusions, scraps of flesh left on Aur's cloak came to life and drew it up tight to choke them! Aur thrashed about trying to remove it while still stopping the attempted creation of the latest in a series of chaos stars while Yalini cautiously tried to sever the tissues so easily puppeted by the Emperor of Flesh. The Bird of Light and World Guardian together put a decent showing and landed a few hits, but Aur was ultimately forced to withdraw after narrowly shedding the now thoroughly shredded cursed wombat pelt of choking, taking heavy damage in the process. The ensuing rain of wombat fur imbued with the killing light has resulted in premature deaths for a great many land creatures, who present with strange, glowing lung tumors. The fifth plague. (-Creatia; -Materia)

Aur was too badly wounded to retrieve any gody parts; thus did Yitterbium gave of all of its remaining organs to forge a new Sun, fading in the process to a shadowless memory and shifting the balance of the unlit world strongly in favor of order. The sixth plague. (Yitterbium: -Yitterbium; Uthak' Vulkun: +Yitterbium).

Yitterbium has been struck down!

Uthak' Vulkun, the Hungering Star of Chaos, which burned dark and chaotic, rose in the sky, and in those places where the sun shone through the clouds at all, this has had terrifying effects on sanity. The seventh plague.

The two suns orbited uneasily at first before Uthak' Vulkin charged the Grand Wine and unceremoniously recapitulated the fate of its precursor(s). After ominous yet plaintive and insistent rippling about the Grand Wine's surface, Uthak' Vulkin was subsumed into the Thirsting Star of Wine.

Uthak' Vulkin, the Hungering Star of Chaos, has been consumed!
Regrettably, this wine's pronounced meatiness dominates the palate, overshadowing any potential for elegance or balance, resulting in a disjointed and unappealing drinking experience that fails to satisfy even the most adventurous of palates.

Yet Yitterbium could not rest even having given of itself in full. Mortally wounded and on death's door witout any of its organs, Yitterbium was left neither able to die nor to do anything else either. The sheer rage emanating from the carcass of the one who forged the Hungering Star of Chaos, who once sat atop the world smiting and forging suns with wild abandon and now lies a warped pile of festering creatia, seems to be interacting strangely with dying life-forms on the Last Shape. The eighth plague.

The Neobel Eka, likewise, found themselves trapped in a state not quite living and not quite dead and unable to do much of anything, but in contrast to the strangeness surrounding Yitterbium's corpse, the Neobel Eka's tormented remains seem somewhat inert in this lens. It appears the Department of Death has yet to succeed in its mission at this time, and it isn't certain what can be done about the rapid accumulation of dead gods. Phantom legal scholars suggest that the title of Wine of Life can no longer be held by a legally dead wine.

To those who have had to deal with the nest of red tape that was the Winespring office complex, one silver lining of all this destruction is that said departments are not currently in any position to obstruct any god. On the other hand, this excludes the space-based Department of Mortal Affairs, which remains free to obstruct rampaging divinities (to the extent its budget can manage, anyway).

Neobel Eka v. Emperor of Flesh

The appointed time for the matter of Neobel Eka v. Emperor of Flesh came around at some point after both their deaths/accession to death-like states. With neither party having deigned to maintain a status resembling life, a personal court, a host of angels, or any servants whatsoever, the court has assigned Loathsome-And-Detestable-Is-The-Succulent-Light-Of-Dishonesty Annan, Gestator, as the plaintiff's attorney, and Nobility-Is-Always-Obliged Waham, Esq., Grigoo, as the defendant's attorney. With Neobel Eka and Yitterbium (but puzzingly not Gongon) excluded from consideration for being parties on this matter, Yalini, Calamos Gladius, Gongon, ANTHEM-314 and Sornlun have been called up to serve as the jury for this case and will receive a token compensation of 1 Feeble Act each for their services. The ninth plague.

No. 06-239619

Argued and Submitted Remembrance 4, 182393 -- Font of Wine, Winespring.

Filed Remembrance 18, 182393

Nobility-Is-Always-Obliged Waham, Gestator, for defendants-appellants.

Loathsome-And-Detestable-Is-The-Light-Of-Dishonesty Annan, Grigoo, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before: Florid-Head-of-Chalken-Hair Pogate, Deific Judge of the First Circle.

In the matter of Neobel Eka v. Emperor of Flesh, the plaintiff alleged that the defendant unlawfully adopted the title of "Emperor of Flesh," leading to confusion and potential economic harm to flesh-creators and flesh-vassals.

Annan drew attention to the lack of life and followers created by the defendant.

Waham pointed out the series of suns vandalized to destruction. In one incident, the plaintiff and--shockingly--a member of the jury were allegedly directly responsible for negligent sunslaughter (which, while possibly not a crime, put the plaintiff's actions in a less favorable light).

From their pouches, Annan produced as evidence a family of half-dead Bloodbags, a collection of Pustules, an arrangement of Flowering Vines, a colony of Blood Worms, and even a stand of Evenheard Corn, which, the attorney stressed, was made from the ear of a foreign quasi-divine object.

Waham in turn questioned how much any of that could compare to the creation of vast fleshy suns, to which Annan responded by asking the Bloodbags how many suns they'd known (0-1 depending on home depth) and reading off an itemized list of the expenses involved in each of the parties' respective projects and their projected impacts on the world. Waham challenged the use of the Bloodbags as evidence for the defendant's case given the neglect their very creator had shown them as they struggled to eke out a living in a hostile sea. Annan countered by noting the scale of the difficulties inflicted on all mortals by the defendant's insistence on creating a sun leading up to the ongoing rampage just outside the courtroom.

Next, Waham gave birth to meteorites borne of the shattered Star of Chaos in its time as the Chaos Asteroids over Annan's objections that the provenance of the meteorites could not be confirmed given their method of storage/presentation. Waham drew attention to the charred flesh deeply tied into the underlying chaosstuff and bone. Annan again pointed to the plaintiff's astounding lack of flora, fauna, and mortals, calling attention to the vast number of struggling Bloodbags for every sun that has ever existed. Waham managed to produce a collection of skybone trinkets collected from coastal Aurlourans, arguing that bone, too, was flesh. This inspired vigorous debate on the range of materials that could reasonably be called flesh, and it was ultimately determined that the definition was restricted to bone with marrow or flesh still present. Annan questioned the relevance of skybone as an example of plaintiff-created flesh when its appearance so clearly coincided with the destruction of the plaintiff's property. To this, Waham threatened a countersuit over the ongoing destruction of the plaintiff's solar property.

With both sides' attorneys having presented their evidence or some legally acceptable facisimile thereof to the court, the attorneys made their closing arguments:

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ANNAN: "THE EVIDENCE IS CLEEEEAAAAAR. THE TRUE EMPEROR OF FLESH IS NEEEEOBEL EKA, WHO HAS CREEAAAATED AND SHARED FLESH TO THE WORLD."
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WAHAM: "THHHHe plaintiff-ff's evidenc-ce is-s anyth-thing but. GiVVVVing the WHHHine of-f LiFFFFe th-this-s unearned title s-sets-s a dang-gerous-s preCCedent. Do not allow th-this-s naked power grab to proCCCCeed."

The jury made up of Yalini, Calamos Gladius, Gongon, ANTHEM-314, and Sornlun is now invited to deliberate amongst themselves on the question of whether Neobel Eka's team presented sufficient evidence to justify the seizure of the title of Emperor of Flesh from Yitterbium and present their verdict privately within half a season.

Should jurors fail to return a verdict on the matter, the injuror Greasier-May-My-Palms-Be Thestone, who can be reached in person at the Mortal Affairs office in Workspace 1 or contacted via Form BRI-83ME, will be brought in to bring the case to a speedy conclusion.


The Honorable Florid-Head-of-Chalken-Hair Pogate has dismissed the Neobel Eka's suit over the Star of Chaos without prejudice but found Gongon to have enough standing to sue the Neobel Eka and has scheduled a corresponding trial on the matter for the next court session in half a season's time despite the rapid dissolution of Gongon's current legal team. Jury selection has begun for this upcoming case such that Gongon and the Neobel Eka's respective legal teams may each dismiss up to one god from inclusion in the pool of juries with reasonable justification. Key pieces at stake in this trial would include the title of Emperor of Flesh and time-based restraining orders intended to limit Gongon's divine acts.


Grim Remembrance
Transmitted from the Heavenly Signal Tower

Cold, desiccated revenants thirsty for libations or release from undying deathlessness shambled and hopped jerkily about the open plains of the Lost Lands. To say that this Remembrance--the first of its kind!-- was not going well would be an understatement. Sja-Mem, grain speaker for a sizable clan of the prairies and foothills, had long looked forward to the gentle season of recovery foretold by her predecessors going back to the grandparents of her grandparents, but nothing was as expected or predicted. Worse still, nasty whispers were starting to spread about her profession's culpability in the matter. The shepherds in particular were caught plotting to demand the exile of all who continued to use plant magic, and nothing was done of this save a brief rebuke and a fine of two heads of cattle. Between her clan's metal magic being too weak to make much of a difference against the waves of thirsting revenants and the scheming of shepherds, Sja-Mem has stayed in and around her tent guarded by her closest, most trusted relatives hoping that the season of the Indomitable Boar will bring about a more favorable reversal of fortune.

Palate Cleanser

Luka has created the Rabbit Hat, which constantly creates cute but delicious little rabbits (Luka: -1 Skull Act, -1 Hat Act).

The Department of Punishment is proud to report that it has completed its task of scourging the sea.

Mortal Affairs

In light of Precious-Is-The-Fledgling's-Breath Stomil's recent death and/or disappearance, Secretary-General Grigalass has stepped up to head the Department of Mortal Affairs. Key items on her agenda are first a focus on the establishment of cohesive mortal civilization, second the founding and spread of all cults (be they founded on love, fear, awe, or harmony), and third the initiation and maintenance of regular divine-mortal communications with growth into a bureau equal to any divinity all on its own a long-term goal. In the interest of accomplishing the first goal, limited magic subsidies have been narrowly approved for the Sorns and Luns, whom a DMA field committee deemed most likely to survive. The Department of Punishmnt meekly protests this spending on unworthy creatures, but the loss of their offices has damaged their ability to respond to unambiguously pro-mortal policies, and internal opposition by clerks alarmed by an increase in department expenditures may end up stopping this project even without their help.

The Boiled Basin

The boiling of the Bloodwine Broodwaters with no timely replacement hit the Bloodbags and birds of Liniom the hardest, and it has been some time since a significant Bloodbag presence has been spotted anywhere. As for the birds of Liniom, the resulting landscape of skulls and mountains towering over exposed sea floor has rendered the birds' previous fascination with sailing moot, and some rethinking of priorities is in order. As well, the nascent cults forming in their lands haven't been too affected by recent events and are poised to formalize in the coming season.

Fascinations obtained for the birds of Liniom: agriculture and masonry!

The Aurlouran birds are everywhere beset by the shivering dead, and a number of clans have not been seen since the cataclysmic boiling of the oceans. Of course, the redistribution of moisture has served a number of tribes well, and with the formation of a large and beautiful lake, one has made major changes in the direction of permanent settlement. Fascinations have shifted for these groups of mortals.

The Aurlouran tribes weren't as directly affected by the boiling of the Broodwaters, but they're beset on all sides by the shivering dead, and it's still the case that a number of the clans of the coastal lowlands haven't been seen since the cataclysm. Of course, the redistribution of moisture isn't without its upsides, and the formation of a large and beautiful lake at the stable edge of the Mountains of y7rulspowTvwA7ZAfDkpPQ== has seen a number of local clans moving in the direction of permanent settlement. It's not the worst time to be an Aurlouran bird at the cusp of civilization.

Fascination completed for the birds of Aurloura: animal husbandry!

Fascinations obtained for the wandering birds of Aurloura: astronomy and wheels!

Fascinations obtained for the lake birds of Aurloura: agriculture and pottery!

As for the Sorns and Luns, little of consequence has changed for them even with the cataclysm. Under Yalini's subtle influence, they've begun focusing on death rites, a number of which seem to be excellent at suppressing revenants. The improvements to their magic thanks to the DMA's interest has also helped them considerably, and they, too, are rapidly approaching the development of a coherent civilization.

The Light of Civilization
Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy
That none of Sparked shining
massacre massed mortals maliciously
with their divine acts of miracle,
in such upholding of integrity
wondrous worldworking
superb societyspinning

Let all be as
Divine Will
Celestial Seals
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Someone is coming!

A purple thing that should not be is on a sedate, lesionly course to the ontosphere.

Life...uh, is finding ways

The buildup of Creatia and ongoing star wars have made it difficult to track new animal migrations.

Correspondences

Jury summons!

Yalini, Calamos Gladius, Gongon, ANTHEM-314 and Sornlun have been called as jurors in Neobel Eka v. Emperor of Flesh!



It is now the season of St. Valentine (Infantry Tank Mk III) in the Stone Age.
World's Fair in Lava Lane!
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on March 21, 2024, 06:03:37 am
Eozoic Eon

Spoiler: Creations (click to show/hide)

Cosmogonic Eon

Spoiler: Creations (click to show/hide)


The Cosmos

Creatia gales
High Materia tide
The world is ready for complex life

The Eozoic Eon is nearing its end.
Nothing in particular is required to stay, or you can help develop a civilization to advance or smash something essential to return.

Echoes
Third Time's the Curse
✼❰✓➆✻➣❦❎❮
➧❗➼ ✘✃✉➯✦➖ ➧❕❠➙
✫❿✽✐➆✪ ❇✂✔❘ ❾

Rumors

Turquoise bicycle shoe fins actualize radishes greenly!
Something has been abducting and draining livestock in Aurloura.
Asbestos fibers are only the second most injurious fibers to air-breathers.

Forecasts
Creatia is projected to increase, bringing Piece costs down but also facilitating further destruction
Materia is projected to stabilize


Gods
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 21, 2024, 07:02:49 am
Gongon welcomes any and all donations to help the Bureau through these trying times, to help Gongon deal with things while they grieve for... someone?

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Uthak' Vulkun, the Hungering Star of Chaos, which burned dark and chaotic, rose in the sky, and in those places where the sun shone through the clouds at all, this has had terrifying effects on sanity. The seventh plague.
As Gongon has earlier declared Uthak' Vulkun, the Hungering Star of Chaos to be auspicious, this entrance into Gongon's titled domains is retroactively permitted.

One Ignorance and one Sanity coalesce into the Blissful (s. Blissful, p. Blissful)

The Blissful are blind idiot architect-angels of magnificence, who Gongonform the landscape into most pleasing and wondrous and completely nonsensical forms. They are ominous floating blocks of construction tools and material, like cement mixers and demolition drills and bricklayers and laser-carvers and various other such, who follow the inane blueprints of Gongon's subconscious mind to remake the world as it should be, blocky.

The Blissful attempt to begin repairing the damaged officespace of the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate and its various departments

Gongon tries to reinstall their reclaimed planar motors but does it all wrong and makes a big mess of things. Maybe they will have better luck next season.

1 Faulty Act is used to promote the Eater into the Herald of Floods, of the Court of Gongon, giving them nine heads, the better to eat with and vomit floods out of

1 Feeble Act is used to begin regathering the scattered Shredder.

Gongon wobbles a happy greeting and welcome in the general direction of the purple lesion

Spoiler: 'Private' Jury Verdict (click to show/hide)
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Jury selection has begun for this upcoming case such that Gongon and the Neobel Eka's respective legal teams may each dismiss up to one god from inclusion in the pool of juries with reasonable justification.
Gongon dismisses Sornlun from the pool because they're dead and thus have earned freedom from the vile yoke of jury duty.

The Department of Punishment is assigned to smite Sja-Mem and the others of her profession for bringing disaster.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on March 21, 2024, 08:18:07 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 21, 2024, 07:02:49 am
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Jury selection has begun for this upcoming case such that Gongon and the Neobel Eka's respective legal teams may each dismiss up to one god from inclusion in the pool of juries with reasonable justification.
Gongon dismisses Sornlun from the pool because they're dead and thus have earned freedom from the vile yoke of jury duty.
In the same manner is the unending office spaces dismissal of Yitterbium from the jury pool. They're dead.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on March 21, 2024, 03:42:20 pm
Quote from: Kilojoule Proton on March 21, 2024, 06:02:57 am
Neobel Eka v. Emperor of Flesh

(...)

       eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
ANNAN: "THE EVIDENCE IS CLEEEEAAAAAR. THE TRUE EMPEROR OF FLESH IS NEEEEOBEL EKA, WHO HAS CREEAAAATED AND SHARED FLESH TO THE WORLD."
       eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
WAHAM: "THHHHe plaintiff-ff's evidenc-ce is-s anyth-thing but. GiVVVVing the WHHHine of-f LiFFFFe th-this-s unearned title s-sets-s a dang-gerous-s preCCedent. Do not allow th-this-s naked power grab to proCCCCeed." [/tt]

The jury made up of Yalini, Calamos Gladius, Gongon, ANTHEM-314, and Sornlun is now invited to deliberate amongst themselves on the question of whether Neobel Eka's team presented sufficient evidence to justify the seizure of the title of Emperor of Flesh from Yitterbium and present their verdict privately within half a season.

Should jurors fail to return a verdict on the matter, the injuror Greasier-May-My-Palms-Be Thestone, who can be reached in person at the Mortal Affairs office in Workspace 1 or contacted via Form BRI-83ME, will be brought in to bring the case to a speedy conclusion.

(...)


First to enter the jury box is the one and only Sornlun(?), or at least its the stitched god-body of it. It crawls haphazardly and without grace, and the chittering and chattering of a myriad of Roachids can suspiciously be heard under the moon-flesh. The god puppet is then clumsily propped up, accompanied by a chorus of groans and legs being stepped on by accident. Where once was a vocal organ there is now a gaping hole, filled with a strange text-to-speech contraption operated by a Roachid stage aide drapped in an all black bodysuit.

The contraption booms and words uttered in a robotic and fractured tone come out of it! A hushed celebration can be heard rising from inside the god-puppet as the flummoxed Roachids witness the bizarre device actually working as intended!

It. is. I. Sornlun. Yes. The. One. And. Only. Sornlun.  Usurper. Of. Heavens.

Spoiler: Jury deliberation (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on March 21, 2024, 04:26:01 pm
ANTHEM-314 looks upon Sornlun(?), feeling a little bit triggered.
Spoiler: Jury Deliberation (click to show/hide)

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ANTHEM-314 makes an offer to purchase the Department of Mobility and Volution, offering one aligned Ages act, one aligned Machine act, and Workspace 2. All angels currently employed by the Department would be permitted to keep their jobs.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on March 22, 2024, 10:50:53 am
"CHIRP!"
(I guess I have to refill the ocean now)
Yalini sacrifices her stomache with the stomache acid being the water(-stomache). She uses one of her acts to help refill the ocean(-light). Due to this, the ocean emits light but anything inside the water can see that it is actually really clear. She uses her feeble act to nudge the lake birds towards agriculture(-feeble act). She then blesses the Bloibags(-unaligned) and the pustules(-unaligned). Yalini has ribs to spare and decides she should make angels like the other gods. With her beak, she tears a rib out of her and turns it into light(-rib, +2 light). She shapes the light into nest-like shapes and places a billion eyes on them. Yalini calls them the Nests of Light. Yalini thought to herself, shouldn't her servants have eaten the real will now? Whatever, she orders the shifting swarm to eat the real will. Yalini creates a backup copy of the forgery and tells the shifting swarm to replace the real will with the forgery.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 22, 2024, 11:00:50 am
Quote from: Crystalizedmire on March 22, 2024, 10:50:53 am
"CHIRP!"
(I guess I have to refill the ocean now)
Yalini sacrifices her stomache with the stomache acid being the water(-stomache). She uses one of her acts to help refill the ocean(-light). Due to this, the ocean emits light but anything inside the water can see that it is actually really clear. She uses her feeble act to nudge the lake birds towards agriculture(-feeble act). She then blesses the Bloibags(-unaligned) and the pustules(-unaligned). Yalini has ribs to spare and decides she should make angels like the other gods. With her beak, she tears a rib out of her and turns it into light(-rib, +2 light). She shapes the light into nest-like shapes and places a billion eyes on them. Yalini calls them the Nests of Light. Yalini thought to herself, shouldn't her servants have eaten the real will now? Whatever, she orders the shifting swarm to eat the real will. Yalini creates a backup copy of the forgery and tells the shifting swarm to replace the real will with the forgery.
Gongon humbly begs that some Nests of Light help make up for staffing shortages in the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate caused by recent disasters.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on March 22, 2024, 02:45:40 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 22, 2024, 11:00:50 am
Quote from: Crystalizedmire on March 22, 2024, 10:50:53 am
"CHIRP!"
(I guess I have to refill the ocean now)
Yalini sacrifices her stomache with the stomache acid being the water(-stomache). She uses one of her acts to help refill the ocean(-light). Due to this, the ocean emits light but anything inside the water can see that it is actually really clear. She uses her feeble act to nudge the lake birds towards agriculture(-feeble act). She then blesses the Bloibags(-unaligned) and the pustules(-unaligned). Yalini has ribs to spare and decides she should make angels like the other gods. With her beak, she tears a rib out of her and turns it into light(-rib, +2 light). She shapes the light into nest-like shapes and places a billion eyes on them. Yalini calls them the Nests of Light. Yalini thought to herself, shouldn't her servants have eaten the real will now? Whatever, she orders the shifting swarm to eat the real will. Yalini creates a backup copy of the forgery and tells the shifting swarm to replace the real will with the forgery.
Gongon humbly begs that some Nests of Light help make up for staffing shortages in the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate caused by recent disasters.
"Chip!"
(Sure!)
Yalini employs a third of the Nests of Light to Department of Death, a third to the Department of Punishment, and the last third to the Department of Flesh.
Spoiler: Jury Verdict (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 22, 2024, 02:58:48 pm
Quote from: Crystalizedmire on March 22, 2024, 02:45:40 pm
"Chip!"
(Sure!)
Yalini employs a third of the Nests of Light to Department of Death, a third to the Department of Punishment, and the last third to the Department of Flesh.
Gongon burbles with immense gratitude. Gongon, in a helpful mood, suggests that Yalini disregard the legal trial proceedings and directly loot titles from the dead gods via puppeting what remains of their carcasses to seal title transfer agreements. Do as the Roachids do.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on March 22, 2024, 03:02:16 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 22, 2024, 02:58:48 pm
Quote from: Crystalizedmire on March 22, 2024, 02:45:40 pm
"Chip!"
(Sure!)
Yalini employs a third of the Nests of Light to Department of Death, a third to the Department of Punishment, and the last third to the Department of Flesh.
Gongon burbles with immense gratitude. Gongon, in a helpful mood, suggests that Yalini disregard the legal trial proceedings and directly loot titles from the dead gods via puppeting what remains of their carcasses to seal title transfer agreements. Do as the Roachids do.
"Cheeep?"
(How?)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on March 22, 2024, 03:14:49 pm
Quote from: Crystalizedmire on March 22, 2024, 03:02:16 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 22, 2024, 02:58:48 pm
Quote from: Crystalizedmire on March 22, 2024, 02:45:40 pm
"Chip!"
(Sure!)
Yalini employs a third of the Nests of Light to Department of Death, a third to the Department of Punishment, and the last third to the Department of Flesh.
Gongon burbles with immense gratitude. Gongon, in a helpful mood, suggests that Yalini disregard the legal trial proceedings and directly loot titles from the dead gods via puppeting what remains of their carcasses to seal title transfer agreements. Do as the Roachids do.
"Cheeep?"
(How?)
the sun bubbles with dead god corpses, now dissolved in light..
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 22, 2024, 03:16:20 pm
Quote from: Crystalizedmire on March 22, 2024, 03:02:16 pm
"Cheeep?"
(How?)
Gongon scrawls a helpful explanatory clarifying diagram for Yalini.
Spoiler: TheHeist (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Nakéen on March 21, 2024, 03:42:20 pm
First to enter the jury box is the one and only Sornlun(?), or at least its the stitched god-body of it. It crawls haphazardly and without grace, and the chittering and chattering of a myriad of Roachids can suspiciously be heard under the moon-flesh. The god puppet is then clumsily propped up, accompanied by a chorus of groans and legs being stepped on by accident. Where once was a vocal organ there is now a gaping hole, filled with a strange text-to-speech contraption operated by a Roachid stage aide drapped in an all black bodysuit.

The contraption booms and words uttered in a robotic and fractured tone come out of it! A hushed celebration can be heard rising from inside the god-puppet as the flummoxed Roachids witness the bizarre device actually working as intended!

It. is. I. Sornlun. Yes. The. One. And. Only. Sornlun.  Usurper. Of. Heavens.
Gongon requests that Sornlun relocate themselves to the Dull Maybe after the trial to hopefully alleviate the revenant problem. To clarify: Relocate or be fumigated
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on March 22, 2024, 05:15:21 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 22, 2024, 03:16:20 pm
Quote from: Nakéen on March 21, 2024, 03:42:20 pm
First to enter the jury box is the one and only Sornlun(?), or at least its the stitched god-body of it. It crawls haphazardly and without grace, and the chittering and chattering of a myriad of Roachids can suspiciously be heard under the moon-flesh. The god puppet is then clumsily propped up, accompanied by a chorus of groans and legs being stepped on by accident. Where once was a vocal organ there is now a gaping hole, filled with a strange text-to-speech contraption operated by a Roachid stage aide drapped in an all black bodysuit.

The contraption booms and words uttered in a robotic and fractured tone come out of it! A hushed celebration can be heard rising from inside the god-puppet as the flummoxed Roachids witness the bizarre device actually working as intended!

It. is. I. Sornlun. Yes. The. One. And. Only. Sornlun.  Usurper. Of. Heavens.
Gongon requests that Sornlun relocate themselves to the Dull Maybe after the trial to hopefully alleviate the revenant problem. To clarify: Relocate or be fumigated

The centipede-marionette froze for a few minutes, and a skittering debate ensued inside the flesh puppet. Someone with a keen earing would have heard a round of applause right before Definite-Sornlun replied to Gongon. The puppet's reply was made slightly distracting by its bobbing head. Up and down, left to right.

"Yes. Indeed. Yes. Relocation. Critical. Matter. Please. Send. Fund. To. Roachid. Department. Of. Death. Handling. Roachid. Will. Definitely. Handle. Relocation. And. Solve. Problem."

The puppet head nodded furiously.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Stirk on March 22, 2024, 09:24:03 pm
The birds are close, but ultimately going down the wrong path. They need nudging to insure they become proper mortals.

1 Hat act 1 Skull act, encourage the Birds to begin wearing nests on their head and directing their technology toward hats rather than useless things like food.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on March 22, 2024, 09:38:25 pm
(They are not fascinated by hats)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Stirk on March 22, 2024, 10:30:48 pm
Quote from: Crystalizedmire on March 22, 2024, 09:38:25 pm
(They are not fascinated by hats)

Exactly the issue.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 22, 2024, 11:07:43 pm
Quote from: Nakéen on March 22, 2024, 05:15:21 pm

The centipede-marionette froze for a few minutes, and a skittering debate ensued inside the flesh puppet. Someone with a keen earing would have heard a round of applause right before Definite-Sornlun replied to Gongon. The puppet's reply was made slightly distracting by its bobbing head. Up and down, left to right.

"Yes. Indeed. Yes. Relocation. Critical. Matter. Please. Send. Fund. To. Roachid. Department. Of. Death. Handling. Roachid. Will. Definitely. Handle. Relocation. And. Solve. Problem."

The puppet head nodded furiously.
Conveniently, even in their legless state, the feeble act payment for their jury duty should be sufficient for Sornlun to move to the Dull Maybe, barring fizzles.

To reiterate, please Sornlun, relocate to the Dull Maybe to save your creations from being devoured by revenants, or being devoured by 'revenants'.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on March 23, 2024, 03:41:57 am
Miniturn 6.5: Correspondences

Neobel Eka v. Emperor of Flesh

Quote from: Nakéen on March 21, 2024, 03:42:20 pm
First to enter the jury box is the one and only Sornlun(?), or at least its the stitched god-body of it. It crawls haphazardly and without grace, and the chittering and chattering of a myriad of Roachids can suspiciously be heard under the moon-flesh. The god puppet is then clumsily propped up, accompanied by a chorus of groans and legs being stepped on by accident. Where once was a vocal organ there is now a gaping hole, filled with a strange text-to-speech contraption operated by a Roachid stage aide drapped in an all black bodysuit.

The contraption booms and words uttered in a robotic and fractured tone come out of it! A hushed celebration can be heard rising from inside the god-puppet as the flummoxed Roachids witness the bizarre device actually working as intended!

It. is. I. Sornlun. Yes. The. One. And. Only. Sornlun.  Usurper. Of. Heavens.

Spoiler: Jury deliberation (click to show/hide)
Nobility-Is-Always-Obliged Waham squints at Sornlun with all 121 eyes and frowns but says nothing.
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 21, 2024, 07:02:49 am
Spoiler: 'Private' Jury Verdict (click to show/hide)
Quote from: Supernerd on March 21, 2024, 04:26:01 pm
ANTHEM-314 looks upon Sornlun(?), feeling a little bit triggered.
Spoiler: Jury Deliberation (click to show/hide)
Quote from: Crystalizedmire on March 22, 2024, 02:45:40 pm
Spoiler: Jury Verdict (click to show/hide)

Verdicts from present jurors are sent up to the Honorable Florid-Head-of-Chalken-Hair Pogate, who reads through and painstakingly counts and double counts them. Satisfied, the judge makes its ruling:

POGATE: The court finds in favor of the estate of Yitterbium with no penalties assessed. All parties are dismissed, and all participating jurors are given their compensation. (Sornlun?: +1 Feeble Act; Gongon: +1 Feeble Act; ANTHEM-314: +1 Feeble Act; Yalini: +1 Feeble Act)

With one trial completed, the court is in recess. Gongon v. Neobel Eka, scheduled for a half-season from now, will concern the matter of organ ownership. The jury will be made up of Luka, Gregory, A-0, and Calamos Gladius, who will each be compensated with 1 Feeble Act for participation. As before, should the jury be unable to come to a decision in time, an injuror will be called in to bring the trial to a speedy conclusion.  Gongon, the plaintiff, may nominate an attorney from its court or departments or make use of the court-appointed representative Hushed-And-Empty-Is-The-Womb Muuch.


Quote from: Supernerd on March 21, 2024, 04:26:01 pm
ANTHEM-314 makes an offer to purchase the Department of Mobility and Volution, offering one aligned Ages act, one aligned Machine act, and Workspace 2. All angels currently employed by the Department would be permitted to keep their jobs.

Quote
Outer Space/ANTHEM-314:

We are most pleased to accept your funding package and would like to offer one (1) commission from our workshops when the Department has moved into its assigned Workspace and reached its staffing target.

Outer Space/VERSE-849
Spoiler: DMV (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 23, 2024, 06:13:02 am
Gongon appoints ███ as their attorney

Gongon offers the defence a settlement outside court procedures, as may or may not have been suggested by the groanings of dead gods which only the divinely deaf can hear. Gongon is acknowledged to have full ownership of the Winespring and its contents, and in return does not press any suit.

Gongon reminds Sornlun to move to the Dull Maybe posthaste
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on March 23, 2024, 11:01:32 am
ANTHEM-314 considers the counteroffer from VERSE-849. It was clear that an Angel was very different from a mere machine regardless of its origins. While a commission was a far cry from straight up ownership of the department, there was no upper limit on how complicated the commission could be in the deal.

"Very well then. I already had some ideas for a Transportation Nexus based around Starbase ANTHEM-314 and the Canvass of Stars, which I shall permit you to view; and give you a final chance to back out of the deal."

Spoiler: Commission for ANTHEM-314's Transportation Nexus (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Maximum Spin on March 23, 2024, 01:12:53 pm
Oh, this was a thing.

I shall seize the position of jury foreman by violence.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Kilojoule Proton on March 23, 2024, 04:31:57 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 23, 2024, 06:13:02 am
Gongon appoints ███ as their attorney

Gongon offers the defence a settlement outside court procedures, as may or may not have been suggested by the groanings of dead gods which only the divinely deaf can hear. Gongon is acknowledged to have full ownership of the Winespring and its contents, and in return does not press any suit.

Gongon reminds Sornlun to move to the Dull Maybe posthaste
███ has begun preparing for the upcoming trial.
Quote from: Supernerd on March 23, 2024, 11:01:32 am
ANTHEM-314 considers the counteroffer from VERSE-849. It was clear that an Angel was very different from a mere machine regardless of its origins. While a commission was a far cry from straight up ownership of the department, there was no upper limit on how complicated the commission could be in the deal.

"Very well then. I already had some ideas for a Transportation Nexus based around Starbase ANTHEM-314 and the Canvass of Stars, which I shall permit you to view; and give you a final chance to back out of the deal."

Spoiler: Commission for ANTHEM-314's Transportation Nexus (click to show/hide)

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Outer Space/ANTHEM-314:

Thank you for submitting your request for a      Transportation Nexus    . Should you wish to check on the progress of your job, your ticket number is   M53  . We are currently serving ticket number   C97  .

Outer Space/VERSE-970
(ANTHEM-314: -1 Ages Act, -1 Machine Act)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Supernerd on March 23, 2024, 05:21:38 pm
One way or another, the negotiations with the Department of Mobility and Volition had come to a conclusion. Though it was a bit of a mystery how they were already serving another ticket number despite having only just now formed and not having yet communicated with another other than ANTHEM-314.

ANTHEM-314 then turned its attention to the Department of Mortal Affairs, figuring that it could find some job for them to do. As it happened, a message was recently transmitted via the Heavenly Signal Tower; the first time that a mortal successfully sent a message that reached ANTHEM-314. An impressive feat for a mortal, and one that almost certainly cost them their sanity.

ANTHEM-314 offered a payment in the amount of one Petty act to the Department of Mortal affairs to bring a message to the family of 'Sja-Mem'. This message would come with an explanation of who ANTHEM-314 is, and about how they created a refuge back in the early Cosmogonic Eon underneath the Mountain Range of y7rulspowTvwA7ZAfDkpPQ== which has remained unclaimed to this very day. This location is protected from the ravages of seasons and highly defensible; yet lacks a biosphere capable of supporting complex life. But with the use of plant magic, metal magic and some ingenuity, it may be possible for a tribe to establish themselves there.

With the final Feeble Act, ANTHEM-314 added some security cameras to Starbase ANTEHM-314. This would discourage the increasing population of Angels from causing trouble, or failing that, identifying the ones that do. These cameras are focused outside of the actual workshop spaces; where Angels do not have the authority to be faffing about.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on March 23, 2024, 05:32:16 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 23, 2024, 06:13:02 am
Gongon appoints ███ as their attorney

Gongon offers the defence a settlement outside court procedures, as may or may not have been suggested by the groanings of dead gods which only the divinely deaf can hear. Gongon is acknowledged to have full ownership of the Winespring and its contents, and in return does not press any suit.

The death department groans for funding as the sun lets out a solar burp.
Quote
Donate a total of 3 acts over 3 turns to improving the handling of the dead, and settlement is settled. Winespring and it's domain is Gongon. Handling up to Gongon.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Nakéen on March 23, 2024, 06:06:22 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 23, 2024, 06:13:02 am
Gongon appoints ███ as their attorney

Gongon offers the defence a settlement outside court procedures, as may or may not have been suggested by the groanings of dead gods which only the divinely deaf can hear. Gongon is acknowledged to have full ownership of the Winespring and its contents, and in return does not press any suit.

Gongon reminds Sornlun to move to the Dull Maybe posthaste

The Definitely-Sornlun-And-Not-Roach-Council-Under-Sornlun-Guise pledged the move to the Dull Maybe would be completed expediently.

Action by "Sornlun(?)": Pocket the Jury Feeble Act, and the Gongon Feeble Act. By some strange happenstance they find themselves in the hands of prominent Roachid departments, how odd! The Roachids most likely/definitely, and maybe tearfully, will transport the limbless, organless carcass of their creator from Retreat to the Dull Maybe. An honest job well done!
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 23, 2024, 11:00:32 pm
Quote from: Nakéen on March 23, 2024, 06:06:22 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 23, 2024, 06:13:02 am
Gongon reminds Sornlun to move to the Dull Maybe posthaste

The Definitely-Sornlun-And-Not-Roach-Council-Under-Sornlun-Guise pledged the move to the Dull Maybe would be completed expediently.

Action by "Sornlun(?)": Pocket the Jury Feeble Act, and the Gongon Feeble Act. By some strange happenstance they find themselves in the hands of prominent Roachid departments, how odd! The Roachids most likely/definitely, and maybe tearfully, will transport the limbless, organless carcass of their creator from Retreat to the Dull Maybe. An honest job well done!
Gongon didn't give a feeble act.

Quote from: TricMagic on March 23, 2024, 05:32:16 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 23, 2024, 06:13:02 am
Gongon appoints ███ as their attorney

Gongon offers the defence a settlement outside court procedures, as may or may not have been suggested by the groanings of dead gods which only the divinely deaf can hear. Gongon is acknowledged to have full ownership of the Winespring and its contents, and in return does not press any suit.

The death department groans for funding as the sun lets out a solar burp.
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Donate a total of 3 acts over 3 turns to improving the handling of the dead, and settlement is settled. Winespring and it's domain is Gongon. Handling up to Gongon.
Assuming Department of Death agenda activity counts, which it should, we may have a deal. Otherwise no.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on March 24, 2024, 07:28:27 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 23, 2024, 11:00:32 pm
Quote from: TricMagic on March 23, 2024, 05:32:16 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 23, 2024, 06:13:02 am
Gongon appoints ███ as their attorney

Gongon offers the defence a settlement outside court procedures, as may or may not have been suggested by the groanings of dead gods which only the divinely deaf can hear. Gongon is acknowledged to have full ownership of the Winespring and its contents, and in return does not press any suit.

The death department groans for funding as the sun lets out a solar burp.
Quote
Donate a total of 3 acts over 3 turns to improving the handling of the dead, and settlement is settled. Winespring and it's domain is Gongon. Handling up to Gongon.
Assuming Department of Death agenda activity counts, which it should, we may have a deal. Otherwise no.
The light dims in agreement. It counts.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 24, 2024, 02:37:40 pm
Spoiler: Devoured by Gongon (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: TricMagic on March 25, 2024, 08:08:43 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 24, 2024, 02:37:40 pm
Quote from: TricMagic on March 24, 2024, 07:28:27 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 23, 2024, 11:00:32 pm
Quote from: TricMagic on March 23, 2024, 05:32:16 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 23, 2024, 06:13:02 am
Gongon appoints ███ as their attorney

Gongon offers the defence a settlement outside court procedures, as may or may not have been suggested by the groanings of dead gods which only the divinely deaf can hear. Gongon is acknowledged to have full ownership of the Winespring and its contents, and in return does not press any suit.

The death department groans for funding as the sun lets out a solar burp.
Quote
Donate a total of 3 acts over 3 turns to improving the handling of the dead, and settlement is settled. Winespring and it's domain is Gongon. Handling up to Gongon.
Assuming Department of Death agenda activity counts, which it should, we may have a deal. Otherwise no.
The light dims in agreement. It counts.
Gongon attempts to settles out court, being granted ownership of Winespring and all its contents by the ghost of Neobel Eka past, in exchange for letting the Department of Death continue doing what it was made to do.

Thus canceling the trial hopefully. No doubt all will be grateful for being spared from jury duty.
Ignorance states that gods do have to donate 3 acts worth to Department of Death, even if that's in the form of staffing.
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Demonic Spoon on March 25, 2024, 10:00:49 pm
Quote from: TricMagic on March 25, 2024, 08:08:43 am
Ignorance states that gods do have to donate 3 acts worth to Department of Death, even if that's in the form of staffing.
No deal. 👎
Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: micelus on March 26, 2024, 04:57:53 am
With the death of a few gods, a few celestial bodies and/or a sense of optimism, Gregory is quite...perplexed with with this Creation. Still, there was paperwork to be done and stamps to be applied.

Grant 1 Order Act to the Department of Recitation as funding.

Grant 1 Civilisation Act to the Department of Mortal Affairs.

Title: Re: Sparks of Divinity IC: Eozoic Eon: Turn 6 (10/??)
Post by: Crystalizedmire on March 26, 2024, 08:39:28 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on March 25, 2024, 10:00:49 pm
Quote from: TricMagic on March 25, 2024, 08:08:43 am
Ignorance states that gods do have to donate 3 acts worth to Department of Death, even if that's in the form of staffing.
No deal. 👎
Yalini chirps in glee as she hears the trial is no longer ending.