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As with the previous game, I will play an external GM role, defining the reactions of the universe to your actions.

There will only be five gods allowed at first, and Forsaken already has a spot reserved.  This may extend to seven and new gods may come as old gods die.  To apply, post a filled out template for your deity as below.  Post any acts in bold and commands in italics.

Acts

Every god gets two Acts per Turn.  These are gratis and do not go away unless the god must expend them to defend itself.  More acts are possible through attuning to elements of the universe.  Mortal worship does not grant acts.  An Act automatically succeeds at whatever you attempt to perform and is a direct divine mandate upon the Universe.  Creating a planet or world costs a single Act (atmosphere comes free), but filling it with generic fauna and flora costs another act.

The below Act costs are guidelines and subject to my decision.

- One sapient or divine servant species may be created with an Act.  Unless otherwise instructed, the species will start as a hunter-gatherer race with no technology.  Innate powers and innate techs may be granted, but will likely cost more Acts.  Sapients have free will.  Divine servants do not.

- Several non-sapient species may be created with one Act, but the more powerful they are the less species you can create.  So, plenty of named woodland animals or maybe a race of drakes with super-strength and fire-breathing (but not sapient).

- A major landmark or construction, built by divine hand.  Such a construction is perfect in every way and costs but one Act to create.  This also applies to new continents or extension of existing worlds.

- Two completely new Techs may be given to a population, or Five learned from a population who already know them.

Other acts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.

You may store Acts to be used in a following turn, but storing more than five Acts without special measures can result in unfortunate circumstances.  You can also spend Acts to go into the negative, but similar unfortunate circumstances can occur as well.


Commands

Gods may make as many commands as they please, but there is no guarantee that they will succeed.  Only mortals, divine servants or demigods can take commands.  The success of commands is based on a measure of random chance influenced by skill or favourable circumstances.

Mortals may not even follow your commands at all if it conflicts with their interests, and they are very fallible creatures.  They have the advantage of inspiration and free-thought, though, and can come up with creative solutions to problems.  Mortal followers are much, much more likely (almost guaranteed) to follow given commands, which is an advantage to cultivating a religion.

Divine Servants have no free will or limited free will and cannot disobey your commands.  They are still capable of failing a task, however, and they lack the ingenuity of free willed mortals.  They will obey whomever controls them, so it is possible for a God to seize control of a legion of divine servants from another God through an Act or even by having a mortal seize the 'command rod' etc.

Demigods have free will but are usually created with a strong loyalty towards their creator.  They can still defect or decide not to perform a task if pushed too far, however.  They have the advantage of being much, much stronger than any individual mortal and are more likely to complete tasks, but if they turn against you your enemies have a powerful weapon.


Turns happen every 3-5 days (depending on my availability, largely), or when all posts have been made/actions taken for a turn.

Spoiler: Template (click to show/hide)

Name:
Sphere(s):
Personality/traits:
Appearance:
Any other categories of importance you would like to add:

Turn 0 - Echoes of an Alien World

In the beginning there was another place, another universe with its own worlds.  There was strife and horror and beauty and pride.  Yet, for a brief time, there was no death.  A god named Galt sought to alleviate the suffering of mortals by turning their severed souls into dragonflies.  When these insects died, they became lapis lazuli gems and floated into a great belt of such gems, orbiting a black sun.

This universe was invaded by an ancient, incomprehensible terror that would become known as Astra'ath.  Astra'ath fed on fear and while of immense power knew the day might come when it would face extinction.  As an insurance against such a day, it planted a single cell containing the germ of its experience through the countless worlds within the largest of the lazuli gems.

Cycles of the universe passed and, sensing the decay of worlds it had chosen to feed upon, Astra'ath gathered unto itself all its many pieces and broke through the veil between realities, seeking a new place to continue to feed.

Yet the journey between worlds was harsher than before.  Some of the old universe dragged upon the great and terrible form of Astra'ath and, like a meteor passing through the sky of a planet, burned it away.  Layer after layer of Astra'ath's being was destroyed, utterly obliterated from existence until only the single lazuli gem remained, which passed into a Numenous Void, filled with only the raw essence of creation.


The gem hatched, freeing the tiny cell.  The universe was nothing, but something had come upon it, and the memories of its past existence gave fresh life to the caliginous void.  The form of the ancient being began to grow again, fed by the raw stuff of creation, but the Universe perceived a threat.  Or rather, the being that had been Astra'ath knew that it was a threat, and this knowledge compelled the Universe to respond by creating guardians; echoes of the past universe, or past universes, or creations new of imagination.  Four came into form.

Five gods come into being.

[Ochita]

Name: Ochita
Sphere(s):  Water, Crystal, Elves, Magic
Personality/traits: He is usally kind but if someone tries to interfere with his creations he gets angry and then he demands vengence
Appearance: He is a human shape but made from water
Any other categories of importance you would like to add: N/A

[Criptfeind]

Name:The Nazath
Sphere(s): Death, Undead, Dark magic
Personality/traits: Not a evil god per say but rather one who believes in the end of all things and rebirth as undead. He tends to be withdraw somewhat and aloof.
Appearance: A tall man in a black coat. A skeleton of a man in a casket. A eternally burning flame that gives off darkness.
Any other categories of importance you would like to add: Non right now.

[forsaken1111]

Name: Astra'loth: Child of the Fallen; The Shadow that Was; The Unformed
Sphere(s): Shadow, Ice, Souls
Personality/traits: Astra'loth's mind is presentient, barely animal level intelligence at this point. It reacts out of instinct, lashing the raw essence of the universe with its considerable psychic ability.
Current Appearance: A craggy, hardened lump looking like a small asteroid or depleted comet.
Any other categories of importance you would like to add: Astra'loth has not yet developed a physical form, and may change considerably upon contact with other life.

[IronyOwl]

Name: Ha Gu Sa
Sphere(s): Darkness, Knowledge, Power, Order
Personality/traits: Something of a perfectionist, but open-minded to events and entities having a mind of their own. Values progress and power in his creations.
Appearance: Dark, somewhat incorporeal-looking wraith, appearing somewhat armored and with a skull-like face. Lower half trails off into tatters. Eyes vary wildly in color and shape depending on mood.
Any other categories of importance you would like to add: None.

[Lordinquisitor]

Name: Nihilus
Sphere(s): Atheism, Denial, Mortals
Personality/traits: Nihilus is a very strange god. He is the counter weight to all the godly influence in the universe and his sole goal is it to create a universe without gods. Ultimately this might mean his own death.
He is known to care for mortals and believes that they have the right to live a free life, without godly influence.

Appearance: Nihilus often appears as a normal mortal, prefering it to show no godly powers in accordance to his spheres.

[forsaken1111]

A pulsing mass of yellow flesh drifts on the currents of the endless void, slowly absorbing the Essence of the universe. It feeds, it grows, this is all it has ever known. It is content. It has no reason to change, nor any idea what it would change into. Its memories, though ancient, are pale shadows with no substance. The last of its race, it suckles quietly at the teat of the universe.

Astra'loth spends the first turn absorbing Essence and drifting randomly unless provoked or otherwise disturbed.

[Iituem]

The essence of the unformed Universe wraps around five distinct forms:

A creature of living water; A burning flame shrouded in night; A tiny mass of pulsing flesh; A discarded suit of armour with a skull in its helm; A sleeping child.


The creation of the gods leaves a void within the universe, barren of all but empty space and the inklings of the gods, surrounded by the bountiful essence of uncreated possibility.

[Ochita]

Ochita was weak, he had just barely been born from the void. He looked around at the other shapes and decided. He would make his own planet
He makes a planet, its core is made from crystal with veins of metal working up to the surface.

[ExKirby]

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[Iituem]

Whilst you are entitled to that opinion, this is a new game with new goals.  This is not the original game, nor is it trying to be.  As with many new games, the form adapts, evolves and changes.  In this way games and stories are continually given new life.  If you wish to play a game with the spirit of the original game you played and nobody is hosting one, by all means start a game yourself along those lines.  I look forward to reading it.

Having said that, as you are not a part of this game and this is not the OOC thread, please respect the players of this game by not posting in this thread.  It is reserved for in-character posts for the game in progress and unrelated posts break the flow of the game and the immersion of the ongoing tale.  I respect your difference of opinion, but displaying it here will not elicit a meaningful reaction from us and serves only to disrupt the enjoyment of a game which some (even if that does not include yourself) do enjoy.

[IronyOwl]

Ha Gu Sa watched the void. It watched back, as was proper. With that thought, he laid the foundations of his world.
Ha Gu Sa creates a large, glassy black planet whose core radiates heat.

Save one Act.

[Lordinquisitor]

The universe was young and so was nihilus. He would bid his time, watching the other gods.. Watching and plotting.

Yet, he needed a place to stay hidden from curious eyes. And with his godly powers Nihilus creates the Paradoxical palast.

A place that couldn`t be reached if you searched for it; A place that could only found by those who did not want to find it. A place where everything was inverted, left was right, up was down, cold was hot, hot was cold, the future was the past, the past the future and the present undefined, everchanging. A place where the meek where powerful and the powerful weak, black was white and white was black; A place which was huge but took up now space. And no one should find what he sought in the palace.


And there he waited.


Nihilus creates the paradoxical palace. (A place where everything is inverted.)

[Criptfeind]

The Nazath looked. The Nazath saw. There was no light without dark as there was no dark without light. Because The Nazath was Dark so there was Light. This Light he spun around by not spinning the Dark. The Dark was still and so Light was movement. The Dark was nothing and so the Light was something. So he said LET THERE BE LIGHT! So there was.

The light is sun.

[forsaken1111]

The first rays of starlight fell upon the small mass which is Astra'loth and it felt warmth.

Warmth was good.

Barely conscious of its actions, it exerted its will upon the void. Space around it rippled, as though thrashed by unseen tendrils, and the piteous lump of flesh moved. It fell into a neat circular orbit around the sun, spinning slowly to equalize the sunlight across its surface.

Its outer surface hardened under the harsh rays, though it did not mind. It looked for all the world like a tiny asteroid or depleted comet.