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The mother of sins is their title, I don't remember the actual name. Its listed on the update under the gods section.

Fleshmancy my flesh ball into the shape of a bowl, as big as I can, fill the bowl with water and stick my needler and any other needlers I catch in it, harden the flesh before filling it with water.

"I made us a needler storage, I'll carry it."

You stretch you fleshball as big as you can and harden it a bit before filling it with water. Its tapered at the top so the needlers can't jump out. It now holds 3 needlers.

"Good idea. Really we need some kind of building material, cause flesh won't work for everything."

When bowl is finished, add de-needled needler to bowl. Then resume fishing attempts.

With your needler in the bowl you head back to the water. You can't seem to catch any of the fish, but you manage to get your hands on a fist sized white cave crab.

Ponder. Take Fleebler, and if I can still flesh him, take some time to alter his brain to recognize me as his master. His hierarchy is me, then my team, then anyone else who is friendly. Also, if I can still flesh him out, take some flesh from my f and eshling, fashion it into a long tongue, and then remove a spike from his back and size it to about an inch long. Attach it to the end of the tongue, and ravel it into its mouth. Then take some muscle from the fleshling and make the tongue very strong, so it is able to shoot out, almost like a spear.
(Think frog tongue but with a spear/barb on the end)

Brains are very very tricky. You manage to get the fleebler to recognize you and your party as a non-threat, but it isn't intelligent enough to take commands. You take some muscle from your fleshball and make a long tonge and buff up the tongue shooter and add some densely packed needles to the end of it.

The rest of the group seems to just be hanging out and resting.

“Captain, permission to access and evaluate the damaged parts of the ship?” The doctor asks Captain Manjundar.

Granted.

Spoiler: Amrok, God of Sap (click to show/hide)

Name: Amrok, God of Sap
Sphere: Forests and Forest Creatures; Natural Beings, particularly those with bark
Description: Amrok appears as a tall and lithe man with angular features and slightly pointed ears. He is clothed in leaves and flowers, and holds a shield made from bark which was ethically procured, which is to say not from a tree, and a crystalline rose scepter. Amrok fights to defend the forests, and often seeks vengeance for his fallen arboreal breathren.

((If this is too whimsical I could make a more serious application...))

Defender of nature is a fine application. I'll likely boil your sphere down to forests for simplicity and mechanics.

reserved for map and player list

Beneath the mortal world churns a vast sea of cosmic, divine, and magical energy. This is the root of all magic. It is endless, it is timeless, and it is where you came from.

This primordial soup of raw power creates what can only be called anomalies. As bits of magic and energy collide and combine, some begin to gain sentience. Some begin to live.  These anomalies cannot stay here however. They are no longer part of the endless. And so the great sea raises a tendril, a river of pure power and magic, up to the mortal world. It is upon this river of light that the budding being is delivered into the world. As they rise up towards the mortal world they pass by many a place and absorb energy from the great sea all the while. By the time they reach the world, they have almost developed solidarity as a separate entity, but not quite. They, pushed by a flood of magical energy, are squeezed into the physical world.

This is where our story begins. You are a god who has just entered an unknown world of which you know next to nothing about. However, you are whole, alive, distinct, and powerful.


This is not a direct reboot, but will be more like the game that I imagined. It will be equal parts god game and strategy game. I plan on having a grid map instead of an arbitrary region map this time around. I'm also doing the stat system differently. And the worship/units work differently.

The stats are fairly straight forward.

Stats:
Health: Your health. Regenerates partially by spending a turn resting/healing. (All gods have 100 HP)
Divine Points: You use this to do divine acts. (All gods gain 3 a turn)
Worship Points: You use this to recruit religious units.
Coin: You use this to buy units.

There will be units and champions. Units represent groups of people, whether they're civilian or military has to do with their traits. Champions often have been selected by the gods to be a major actor in the world and often have some sort of divine weapon or blessing.

Type Traits: These determine the unit type (Builder, soldier, champion, so on and so forth)
Effect Trait: These have special effects on how the unit acts, they can alter stats or behaviors or give special bonuses.

Units have health and damage as their only stats, but can do special things.

Structures: Structures are buildings and places which also have traits. They are a lot like stationary units. They have the added benefit of producing coin, worship points, or whatever else. See bellow.

Base: Your seat of power. This is the only place in which you may rest to regain health. You also receive a defense bonus when on your base tile.

Forts: Provide a defense bonus to units stationed there.

Settlements: Produce coin and can hold some coin.

City: Upgraded settlement. Produces more coin, but can hold none.

Church/temple: Produces worship points.

Hordes: The main area where you store your gold. They can be plundered by other player's units. Multiple hoards may be built and the distribution of coin is at the players discretion. Building a horde near another player's base or settlements will generate varying bonuses (Normally WP or coin bonuses)

Special areas: Many special areas will occur naturally. Others can be created by players. This is handled on a case by case basis, but will normally provide some sort of bonus or debuff to the area.

Monster dens: These occasionally spawn NPC monsters. Having your units clear these will grant them better weapons and abilities. However, the monsters won't go down without a fight.

Titan: A powerful "boss" monster. Slaying it will provide blessing and bonuses on a case by case basis.

Secret areas: Some buildings may be constructed in secret for an extra cost. Hordes are the most likely candidate. Having secret temples/cities will decrease production.

Rules:

(1) Gods cannot directly harm each other.
(2) Alliances are allowed and players can pool resources.
(3) A player can take another player as a vassal god if both gods desire. This means they must protect their vassal, and in exchange, they gain 10% of the vassal's WP.
(4) Objects can be filled with magic. However they are like batteries and must be recharged. Small ones can recharge over time, but large ones may require direct charging. These sort of things will be referred to as mana batteries.
(5) Units can slay gods and other units and structures. Gods may also kill units and destroy structures, just not other gods.
(6) Structures generate the mortal currency, worship points, or other things based on what a player wants (will have to discuss with me if it produces something other than currency).
(7) Gold must be stored within a hoard. You need at least one horde before acquiring gold. Settlements may also hold a small amount of coin.
(8) Special areas provide bonuses or debuffs to units/structures in those locations.
(9) Multiple units may share a tile, but multiple structures cannot.
(10) Attacking units move into the tile they are attacking. Defending units stay in their tile. If an attack does not destroy the defending unit, they return to the tile they started in. Ranged units do not move into tiles after killing an enemy.
(11) Actions may be done in secret by PMing me. Agreements between players are only binding if I am informed of them.
(12) New rules will be added as needed.
(13) Upon a god's death their units disband or become NPC's at my discretion.

Magic exists in this world and is usable by mortals in the form of mana. Mana regenerates in mortal's bodies like divine essence regenerates in gods. However, this means that gods cant use mana and mortals can't use divine essence.

Players play as physical gods. Your sphere relates to what you have dominion over. It's the aspect associated with your divine power. As a result, your actions concerning your sphere will be more powerful than your actions not relating to your sphere. This does not decrease the price. However, it does decrease the price of recruiting mages who share your sphere.

God Template:
Name:
Sphere:
Description:

Original thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=151460.msg6311046#msg6311046

Based roughly on this idea: https://xorvintaal.wordpress.com/about/the-great-game-2/

IC: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=152794.msg6471481#msg6471481

If I get more than 6 applications, the game will not be first come first serve. I'll likely try to create some sort of balance so that spheres don't overlap too much.