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[kilakan]

Essence Born, Multiplayer Edition
Idea by Digital Hellhound, Run and revised by Kilakan

Something stirs in the light. It feels a pull, first gentle, but growing stronger and stronger by the second. The Stream flows once more, golden Essence flowing into the newborn world and filling every inch and waking being with limitless energy. The myriad denizens of the Stream are pulled away with it, dragged through the rift in reality to new, strange lands. They are filled with shock and fear as their bodies twist and change against their will to take a physical manifestation in this physical world.

Scattered all over this land, they wail and fight against their newfound sentience and senses. Millenia pass without them noticing. When they finally find enough willpower to truly wake, the simple life from their arrival has grown and evolved, filling great swathes of the earth.

The strongest get up and begin surveying their surroundings. The Stream still flows within them, quickly spiralling their strenght and intellect past human standards. But they soon realize they can still grow. There is much potential to be found in this world...

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Spoiler: The Game (click to show/hide)

The idea of this game is that you're a newborn god or eldritch horror, and need to gather worshippers to gain more power and become the dominant god in the world. The more followers you have, the more Divine Essence you get per turn. Divine Essence is spent on Acts. Your followers have free will, and their Prophets can write entire elements of their religion up from scratch, creating new gods or other Aspects of you, which you can't do anything about.

You're free to act however you want. Olympian sex antics? No problem. Annihillating cities Old Testament style? Sure. Blood sacrifices? Feel free! Peace and harmony? Well, if you insist.

Spoiler: Aspects (click to show/hide)

Depending on your actions, your followers can create different Aspects of you. These are simply parts of you, and any worship they receive goes to your main aspect as well. However, if a minor Aspect grows too popular, it can split off into a whole another free-willed god, and not necessarily a friendly one.

If you defeat another god, with subterfuge or force, you can merge them into just an Aspect of you, and possibly gain its followers in the process.

Spoiler: Belief and Prophets (click to show/hide)

The leader of your worshippers is a Prophet. You can communicate with him/her without having to manifest and augment his lifespan, physique, mind or anything you want. This close connection with you has caused them to draw extraordinary amounts of Essence inside themselves. They can subconsciously use this power to create new beings and sections of your religion with speeches or holy writings. These can be simple Aspects, new gods or enemies, or divine servants.

As long as you're the focus of the religion, these created beings will receive less Divine Essence from worship. If they grow more popular, they can overshadow you and make you a minor god.

Your followers cannot survive without Prophets. If all of them die, your followers lose faith and scatter. The amount of Prophets you can have depends on the size of your followers. New Prophets can be only raised from Fanatical followers.

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Spoiler: God Application (click to show/hide)

Probably shorter than in most games.
Name: (Go wild! This is pretty self-explanatory)
Gender: (Describing you as 'it' gets old pretty fast, and sex is important if you go the Zeus route.)
Description: (This will be the form in which you usually manifest to your followers. You can change form, but it will cost you Divine Essence.)

Kilakan's added Rule System:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Each god starts with 20 followers and 1 prophet. 

The size of your following grows by 2% (per prophet) of the # of followers rounded to the nearest increment of 5 per turn.

There is a 1% chance that the new follower will be a fanatical Follower

Divine essence gain is equal to 5% of your followers +1 for each fanatical follower per turn.

Fanatic's can be converted to prophets at the cost of 50 Divine Essence

Of course Various acts can change the growth rate, and affect it both positively and negatively.

Special Rule-sets shall be created for each sphere of god to allow followers to increase faster or you to gain more Divine Essence based around special god-specific acts.

Each turn accounts for about 1 day

You get notified of events happening that day at the beginning of the day, call it semi-omnipotence, mainly so you can choose how to react to them.

Reserved Spots List:
adwarf
Mcclay
Dwarmin
Demonic Spoon
vagel7
furaka
Armok
Bunnybob77

These people posted characters in the suggestion version and as such have an reserved spot here, please repost your characters in this thread if you want to play, otherwise the non-reserved people will take your spot.

[kilakan]

Adwarf:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Hikari, God of Darkness
Gender: Male
Description: He usually appears to all as a fiqure made of shadows, but his true from is of a young man with silver hair, and eyes a, pair of black horns, and a long black tail ending in a point. He appears to be average height, and he wears long black robes with a hood which he rarely pulls down, and he always carries a scythe across his back.

Location of Worshipers:

1.Town of Analt
Pop:500
Status of Religion: Underground Cult, meets at nighttime
Feeling on non-followers towards Followers: Unknown
Worshipers in this location=20 followers, 1 prophet

Worshipers:
0 Followers
Prophet Isarin
0 Fanatics
20 Acolytes of Necromancy

Active Miracles:
None

Artifacts:
None

Monuments:
None

Temples:
None

Average Belief: 100/100

Divine Essence:
1

Armok

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Mu
Gender: female
Description: Appears as chaotically moving swirls of raw power/multicoloured light. Is a personification of the indifferent cruelty of nature.

Location of Worshipers:

1.Camp, unnamed
Pop:21
Status of Religion: Fully practiced and worshiped by all
Feeling on non-followers towards Followers: no non-followers
Worshipers in this location=20 followers, 1 prophet

Worshipers:
21 Followers
1 Prophet
0 Fanatics

Active Miracles:
None

Artifacts:
None

Monuments:
None

Temples:
None

Average Belief: 100/100

Divine Essence:
11

Bunnybob77

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

name: Arorlag the lord of fire
Gender: Male
Description: an 8 foot tall lizardman with bright red scales made of molten lava and a barbed tail.  It can breath fire, and it has small horns on it's head.  He encourages warfare and the conquest of his enemies, and is easily angered, but will make alliances if necessary.  He will often appear during war as the general of his army.  He is the god of volcanoes, fire, and warfare.

Location of Worshipers:

1.Grand City of Unial
Pop:16,500
Status of Religion:Newly Born and attractive for those losing faith in other gods
Feeling on non-followers towards Followers: Minor Annoyance
Worshipers in this location=20 followers, 1 prophet

Worshipers:
40 Followers
1 Prophet
0 Fanatics

Active Miracles:
None

Artifacts:
None

Monuments:
None

Temples:
None

Average Belief: 100/100

Divine Essence:
10

vagel7

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Ctulhu
Gender: Male(does Ctulhu even have a sex?)
Description: A gigantic humanoid monster with a head shaped as an octopus. Tentacles acting as a beard. His strong wings are folded on his back like that of a bats.
Location of Worshipers:

1.Grand City of Unial
Pop:16,500
Status of Religion:Ancient Religion, hated by the newer gods
Feeling on non-followers towards Followers: Disliked by most due to myths spread about your followers, attractive to those truly dark individuals
Worshipers in this location=20 followers, 1 prophet
1000 Year old Cult Shine

Worshipers:
25 Followers
1 Prophet
0 Fanatics
15 Prisoners

Active Miracles:
None

Artifacts:
Necronomicon

Monuments:
None

Temples:
1000 Year old Cult Shine

Average Belief: 100/100

Divine Essence:
10

Furtaka

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Ferius The World Guardian
Gender: Male
Description: A huge giant of light, wearing shining armor and a cape of fire. He wields a sword capable of piercing any defense, and an impenetrable shield.

Location of Worshipers:

1.The godless capital of the knights
Pop:2000
Status of Religion:Newly Formed Entity, born of the dreams of the Knight Lord Himself
Feeling on non-followers towards Followers: Due to position and disposition of populace and followers, they are greatly inclined to embrace you as a god
Worshipers in this location=20 followers, 1 prophet

Worshipers:
35 Followers
1 Prophet
0 Fanatics

Active Miracles:
None

Artifacts:
None

Monuments:
None

Temples:
none

Average Belief: 100/100

Divine Essence:
8

Krath

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Dorim, God of Dwarves, Ores and Mountains
Gender: Male
Description: A heavyset Dwarf with a long regal golden beard. He holds a staff of obsidian topped with an orb of ruby, and atop his head sits a platinum crown somehow inset with almost every gem imaginable. He's garbed in a flowing red robe of dyed giant spider silk, with large boots made of unblemished steel.

Location of Worshipers:

1.Cave Network named StrangleMurk
Pop:250
Status of Religion:New religion
Feeling on non-followers towards Followers: They neither care for you, nor dislike your followers
Worshipers in this location=20 followers, 1 prophet

Worshipers:
70 Followers
1 Prophet
0 Fanatics

Active Miracles:
None

Artifacts:
None

Monuments:
None

Temples:
none

Average Belief: 50/100

Divine Essence:
11

Dwarmin

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Empathica, The Goddess of Emotion
Gender: Female
Description: Typically, Empathica appears to her followers in a pale red shimmer of light and the subtle scents of wormwood and ash. She appears as a Centaur to her chosen followers. Her lower body is typically that of sorrel horse, and her upper body that of a comely female of about 25 years, with red hair and green eyes. She usually has a look of restlessness and impatience about her. Empathica often appears wearing little more than a loose, immodest robe on her upper body and a headband on her forehead, both reddish-black in coloration, but she also carries a long spear made of four entwining red crystals and tapering into a four pronged trident shape a it's head.

Location of Worshipers:

1.Windtorn Village of Yenri
Pop:800
Status of Religion:Off-Shoot of an older religion, may find enemies who believe you are the anti-god to thiers
Feeling on non-followers towards Followers: They do not know of you yet.
Worshipers in this location=30 followers, 1 prophet

Worshipers:
30 Followers
1 Prophet
0 Fanatics

Active Miracles:
None

Artifacts:
None

Monuments:
None

Temples:
none

Average Belief: 90/100

Divine Essence:
11

Demonic Spoon

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Murldon the Faceless
Gender: He
Description: A humanoid being of large stature with huge fiery wings, wielding a great sword of hellfire, but he is missing a face, hair or ears. His head is also on fire. He wears robes of midnight, his skin and wings are the colour of fresh blood. Usually floats about a foot above the ground.

Location of Worshipers:

1.The Bandit Town of BloodPit
Pop:90
Status of Religion:One bandit Convinced another bandit to use his idol, it spread and you were born.
Feeling on non-followers towards Followers: Feared
Worshipers in this location=30 followers, 1 prophet

Worshipers:
30 Followers
Prophet Kandar
0 Fanatics

Active Miracles:
None

Artifacts:
None

Monuments:
None

Temples:
none

Average Belief: 100/100

Divine Essence:
8

[adwarf]

Name: Hikari, God of Darkness
Gender: Male
Description: He usually appears to all as a fiqure made of shadows, but his true from is of a young man with silver hair, and eyes a, pair of black horns, and a long black tail ending in a point. He appears to be average height, and he wears long black robes with a hood which he rarely pulls down, and he always carries a scythe across his back.

Here you go.

[Digital Hellhound]

I'll be watching this. Feel free to interpret my rules however you wish - I know they're kinda vague in that post.

[Armok]

Since mine is also in the other game, I'll change the name simply to avoid confusion as the personality is bound to develop in a different direction, but otherwise I go for the same setup. New name is Mu.

[kilakan]

Please post it here, I really don't wanna get into trying to copy/paste 8 different peoples sign ups

[adwarf]

Mcclay -
Name: Tzun the unborn
Gender: male
Form: a pulsating blob shooting off thousands of diffrent colors and imnumerable tentacles and appendages. one on side of him therer is a giant eye. That is the side depectied in temple art and such.

Dwarmin -
Name: Empathica, The Goddess of Emotion
Gender: Female
Description: Typically, Empathica appears to her followers in a pale red shimmer of light and the subtle scents of wormwood and ash. She appears as a Centaur to her chosen followers. Her lower body is typically that of sorrel horse, and her upper body that of a comely female of about 25 years, with red hair and green eyes. She usually has a look of restlessness and impatience about her. Empathica often appears wearing little more than a loose, immodest robe on her upper body and a headband on her forehead, both reddish-black in coloration, but she also carries a long spear made of four entwining red crystals and tapering into a four pronged trident shape a it's head.

Demonic Spoon -
Name: Murldon the Faceless
Gender: He
Description: A humanoid being of large stature with huge fiery wings, wielding a great sword of hellfire, but he is missing a face, hair or ears. His head is also on fire. He wears robes of midnight, his skin and wings are the colour of fresh blood. Usually floats about a foot above the ground.

vagel7 -
Name: Ctulhu
Gender: Male(does Ctulhu even have a sex?)
Description: A very tall, large humanoid monster with a head shaped as an octopus. Tentacles acting as a beard. His strong wings are folded on his back like that of a bats.

Furtuka -

Name: Ferius The World Guardian
Gender: Male
Description: A huge giant of light, wearing shining armor and a cape of fire. He wields a sword capable of piercing any defense, and an impenetrable shield.

Armok -
Name: Mu
Gender: female
Description: Appears as chaotically moving swirls of raw power/multicoloured light. Is a personification of the indifferent cruelty of nature.


These you go.

[kilakan]

oh well thank you adwarf.

Rolling up starting locations and such now then.  Until the others post we can continue with just armok and adwarf, let's call it celestial statis

[Krath]

Name: Urist, God of Rage and Alcohol
Gender: Male
Description: A short, Dwarven-like, bearded god of booze and anger. He appears as a 3-foot tall shirtless, yellow bearded man, with a bloodstained steel axe in his right hand, and a constantly full mug of ale in the other. Around his lower body is shining adamantine armor. His head has a golden helm atop it. He is the patron saint to Dwarf wannabes everywhere.

[kilakan]

Hum.... kinda well uninspired and I don't see your men living very long but whatev's krath can be in too.

[Krath]

Clearly unoriginality doesn't mean anything when I'm the living personification of Dwarf Fortress.

[BunnyBob77]

Her's mine again
name: Arorlag the lord of fire
Gender: Male
Description: an 8 foot tall lizardman with bright red scales made of molten lava and a barbed tail.  It can breath fire, and it has small horns on it's head.  He encourages warfare and the conquest of his enemies, and is easily angered, but will make alliances if necessary.  He will often appear during war as the general of his army.  He is the god of volcanoes, fire, and warfare.

[kilakan]

Clearly unoriginality doesn't mean anything when I'm the living personification of Dwarf Fortress.

actually you know what, no you can't be that.  You can be the god of dwarves, but from a GM's point of view it gets fucking boring writing about generic dwarf #582 ok?  You can still be a god of dwarves but create a bloody original god for them.  May I suggest looking at the in-game gods.

[vagel7]

Hey,

Thanks for starting the game and keeping us spots. Also I would like to add that Ctulhu is gigantic.

Name: Ctulhu
Gender: Male(does Ctulhu even have a sex?)
Description: A gigantic humanoid monster with a head shaped as an octopus. Tentacles acting as a beard. His strong wings are folded on his back like that of a bats.

[Furtuka]

Name: Ferius The World Guardian
Gender: Male
Description: A huge giant of light, wearing shining armor and a cape of fire. He wields a sword capable of piercing any defense, and an impenetrable shield.