Ever Dream Deity Roleplay(Always Open)

Endovior, who had been silent for a time, speaks to all the Gods.

"Stop this! I dislike your petty wars, and am prepared to put a stop to them. Behold, my latest project: the Spellforge."

The other Gods receive an image of a monstrously huge machine, firmly planted within the Plane of Fire.

"It works fairly simply: all the magic power that any magic-user on this plane does not use on any given day is stored within. At will, I can then direct it at any target I wish. As an example..."

Meteors rain from the sky over the ruins of the citadel, destroying the Undead still present. The impact of the falling spheres creates a massive crater, and the shock causes minor earthquakes around the world.

"Know this: in future battles, my magics will strike at both sides, decimating your forces. Engage in conflict at your own peril."

OOC: Nothing wrong with your post Endovior, but just a reminder in case you forgot, this is an entirely oceanic world. Most of the conflict is occuring on otherworlds, at least ever since the citidel was destroyed.
As far as penalties for facing two gods, that would need be discussed just like my bonus for having the beast Failure, but it can definitely be agreed upon that rules are needed. Jo'karrs comment that he can so easily throw me off is a prime example of that, in my mind I don't see it happening but in his he did and we have no way of determining if it was possible. We could always just make stats for our deities (don't know if anyone else has deities & demigods) and play this out under normal d20 combat rules, but that would require considerable time and effort (gods are very complex beings). Does anyone else have a simpler more expedient suggestion?

Thanks to their massive preperations against undead and their devotions to Traume, few slain by the vampires rise again as undead and the humans, with their clerics, are able to face the horde. Meanwhile alchemists and wizards work out a way to distill the power of the angels from their essence without turning to vampirism. Thus suffusing themselves with the same power as their overlords, no more or less.

you can't really give any of us stats though. We are not using standard abilities or portfolios, and we are not playing in a style portrayed by any WotC product. What we need to do is just consider what each gods specialties and try to consider the viewpoints of both beings on what they can and cannot do. Limit yourself in a way that makes the game fun for everyone.

OOC:
*GAH! just posted big long well worded reply then accidentally hit back button on explorer!!! Must re-write*
OK We're having a slight problem here.. GOD-MODING. It may sound strange seeing as how this IS a 'diety roleplay' but it IS a problem.
EX: Tocho Attacks Jo'kar. Jo'kar posts chucking him off with ease.
EX: Jemal creates undead, Tocho says no he doesn't. (Also, I'ld like to point out that the Alcemists/wizards wouldn't have TIME to distill the power b/c the whole battlefield ended up decimated within moments.)
There are others but those are the two most recent ones.

Now we can't ban ALL God-moding in this game b/c of the simple fact that.. well... WE'RE GODS!!!!
BUT, we can institute a couple of rules. NOW, I've been in several succsesful Free-Form RPGS (by succsesful I mean ones that ran for months/Years and didn't die out young). Now some of the rules from those we can't use, but there are the two MAJOR ones which apply even to GODS. I would like to propose we use these.

Rule 1 : You cannot post what happens to another God.. You can post what you DO to them, but not how they react or how it affects them. IE: "I throw a punch at Traume" is acceptable. "I Hit Traume in the face, sending him flying" is not.

Rule 2 : You cannot change something that has allready been written/posted to say it never happened UNLESS you have a VERY plausible reason.


BTW, what I would like to see happen with this game is that the gods eventually learn to be GODS instead of the squabbling Over-powered Children we're currently acting like. This way we could basically set up a campaign setting with our very own self-made History, Pantheon, multiverse, multiple planets full of creatures, etc.. and once the gods have 'withdrawn' and stopped directly interfering, set it up as a campaign setting for people to DM in, like was done with Living ENworld or Ebberon or.. well name any campaign setting. Difference is this would have US in it, all of us.

IC:

Jemal sighed at the wholesale destruction, and pulled out the book he stole from Endovior. He read a passage and sent himself out across the universe, to appear physically before all the GODS simultaneously.

"Do you SEE what this fighting accomplishes? What our interferance causes? I do not pretend to be innocent of it myself, but I do know this... So long as any of you interferes with the Mortals affairs in any way, they will NOT be left alone by anyone. We must ALL leave them alone, or they may as well NOT EXIST!"

(( You're riding Failure? You can't ride Failure. Failure will not help you. Failure is a giant tentacled plantmonster that EATS ANYTHING THAT ENTERS THE OCEAN. ... ...

But I suppose I never clarified that, because I never expected anyone to use it as a DEATHMOUNT. ... Oh well. ))

And without word or action, Shara's immigrants are welcomed to the Third World, Prime II.

And Moss watches as Failure is abused. It seems ironic, for those who would abuse subsentient evil would find that it would devour their own divinity.

How unfortunate.

[EDIT: I would like a post clarifying which races are present on each of the worlds, and what each race is doing on each of those worlds. I recall reading that there are 'armed magi with artifacts' on every world, but never read that the humans had spread to any world besides Prime, Prime II, and one of the Children. There are no sentient plants on any world besides Prime II and Failure, and Failure is only sentient in that it knows to OMG EAT EVERYTHING. Including deities. Don't abuse what you don't understand.]

U-DO enters into the plane of fire and approaches Endovior's new machine. Pulling out the magical globe he had stashed in the third planet, U-DO enters it into the machine, and soon a major change starts to take place. U-DO then confronts Endovior. "You have build a machine that does too much to unsettle the balance. I will not allow you to have the ultimate powers given by this machine to do what you will. So I have added into it a relic of immense power. This relic has been sitting in isolation inside the core of the thrid planet. Inside its magical barrier lies a consciousness. This consciousness is now embedded into your machine, essentially making it a new form of life. It is now no longer under your direct will, so you will not be able to do what you please with it. But this consciousness is that of a newborn child. You must raise this new child, and you may teach it what you will. You may ask of it what you will. But if you abuse this new-found son, it will turn against you. You are now a parent, Endovior. Lets see how you handle responsibility."

ooc: i like both rules presented by jemal and second the notion to adopt them immediately. I would also like to apologize to jemal and clarify my previous post as i did not mean for it to countradict his. After the initial shock of having their own people spontaneous change into undead vampires, the humans were then quick to take precautions against newly fallen comrades returning as enemies, via the rites of the glittering path. Thus limiting the damage done after the initial carnage. They were then able to hold their own against the undead. I don't recall the battlefield being decimated though. The citidel was destroyed by me before you launched your undead, I assumed you launched them upon the humans back on their homeworld, the 4th world, after the humans were exiled by the angels. Endoviors attack was also upon the 2nd world where the citidel used to be, dealing very little damage except against those (undead?) left behind. I assume they were undead because the destruction was wrought in a way that eliminated the possibility for the rites to the glittering path to be performed. I am willing to concede the point that it could take a while for them to find a safe way of infusing the power of the angels without turning into vampires though, and withdraw my statement that their research was completed, they are however working on such.

I understood failure was an unstoppable eating machine, and assumed it to be very powerful, approaching that of a god. But I do not see how even a god could create something more powerful than a god, and since we are all assumed relatively equal in power, I figured I had a good chance against the beast. And since I am the god of beasts and hunting, if anyone could have taken on Failure, it would have been me.

As far as the planets and their flora/fauna, heres a rough sketch.
Planet 1: Blown up by Jemal, a (lifeless?) asteroid belt is all that remains.
Planet 2: An oceanic world without land, Failure is the only native life.
Planet 3: 3 Continents. A northern one covered in tundra, and two continents on opposite sides of the planet connected by equatorial land bridge. This is the home of Moss's creations, covered in virgin forests tended to by the vinemen, ents, and Fungi. The aelves also reside here, with moss's permission. The aelves seem happy to live in harmony with nature, but are taking many preperations against a war they deem inevitable with the humans. I don't know if anyone deposited animal life other than the aelves here.
Planet 4: Has a single huge Pangea continent with lots of seas and lakes within it. The only plant life on this planet is that which has been corrupted by magic and U-Do, thus all plants are red in color rather than green. Many plants are also poisonous, and all are resistant to fire and magic. This is also the home to the bounty of Tocho, with nearly every kind of animal (that has been created so far) represented. Humans also reside here, in a multitude of city states. These primitive city states spend their time competing with one another, sometimes through war but more often through culture, economy, and science. The humans have become a little paranoid since the world blew up, and experiment with magic only very carefully, implementing as many safeguards as possible for a primitive society. They have also become very devote followers to Traume and the way of the glittering path. Body disposal is a very serious business, as is combating the undead that do pop up, thus they have become sufficiently proficient at battling the creatures.

As far as magic artifacts are concerned, U-Do and Endovior would have to clarify. U-Do supposedly created many artifacts and hid them throughout the universe, but no more specifics than that. And Endovior is constantly giving "gifts".

IC: Tocho and Failure reemerge from the ocean, and Failure grabs at Jo'karr with his tentacles, intending to return this fight to the ocean depths. Tocho, his mane glistening with moisture and his eyes wild with joy (this is his element), roars defiantly and launches an arrow from his bow, but he dare not leave Failures back.

OOC: I'm aware that my attack had no major effect (other then to slay a few undead beings)... it was just a demonstration. Like a nuke test in a barren wasteland.

Endovior laughs at U-DO's announcement.

"Fool. Perhaps you should analyze the function of a device before you meddle with it? Although I suppose I can't entirely blame you... your powers are limited here, within my realm... an advantage of working within a divinely morphic plane that one keeps under careful control. Of course, the Spellforge would work much better on the Material Plane, but then it would be vulnerable to interference... which is the reason I decided to build it here. You COULD of course, try to fight me for control of my own realm, but as I currently control all of it, and do not intend to physically leave for a good long time, your effort would be doomed from the start. You can't take control of a plane like this unless it's owner is away, and even then, it takes a while, at any point of which he can return and stop you. Lacking this control, there is no real way for you to subvert my forces or devices on any but the most minute fashion, and even then, I can dispell your efforts with a thought. You're in my domain now, and I cannot be defeated here."

"That being said, perhaps I should explain to you why you failed, and why your effort cannot possibly succeed. Know this: the Spellforge is the ultimate subverter. All that enters it is broken down and used for it's own purposes. Any magic, any power, any force that enters it only increases it's power, and as I control it, all that enters it becomes my power. It can also consume beings, although those beings have to physically enter it... But I digress. You have... placed this entity into my machine, expecting to gain control. You may as well place food within the stomach of a human, expecting it to control the human. But if you don't believe my statement, just wait. You will note the truth of my statement in... 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... NOW!"

A bone-chilling scream resounds across the plane, and volcanos erupt most everywhere. The Plane of Fire experiences a brief DOUBLING of it's temperature, accompanied by spectacular flames. The Spellforge trembles, and it glows with an incredible magic aura. Then, all is still, and everything slowly begins returning to normal.

"In the future, do not attempt such a thing. Even a God could be consumed by the Spellforge, if he was fool enough to enter it in corporeal form. Although, I must thank you... that meal has provided me with a large amount of power. In thanks, I will refrain from channeling power as destructive essence against your very being for daring to enter my domain! Do note that this is a one-time favor, and shall not be repeated. Now begone!"