Ever Dream Deity Roleplay(Always Open)

[Jochannan]

On the borders of the barbarian empire, a relatively small community, with many mage-priests, trades a shipment of the 'boom-powder' grenades and the secret of their construction for a relic of Endovior, which fell to them from the heavens after the first god-war. It is a foolish trade, since the relic was stripped of its powers by the gods Jemal and Tocho, when they tricked the Spheres of Annihilation into destroying each other. But the barbarian king, ever greedy, recklessly agreed to give the weapons to the community, since he had them in abundance, and needed his troops to fight the rebellion. One of the smiths in the village, a skilled bronze maker, after catching a passing glimse of what seemed like a winged woman that morning, wondered if forging the charcoal component of the mixture together with metals might yeild interesting results. He discovered that when mixed properly with iron, a metal brought from the east, he could forge a strong metal that was flexible, and yet retained its shape after a hard impact. Thus, steel was first discovered. With the community's mages conjuring as much iron as possible, the smiths of the town began making new steel products. The town fortified itself with steel, and began selling it across the two worlds. The town, renamed Anlan, grew and prospered, until it began to rival the other city-states around it. Soon, it branched out and started conquering.

Jo'Karr took notice of the innovations of steel, and boom-powder, and was pleased that the mortals were progressing faster than he had anticipated. But he became bored pounding out new wonders in his forge. He gathered some of his angels together, just a few, and gave them each an item of incredible beauty.

"Go to my divine breatheren, and give them these gifts. To Tocho, a perfectly accurate longbow, as a peace offering. To Jemal, a grand sceptar, fitting for the lord of the Undead, and a thank you for his assistance. To Shara, an amulet in the shape of a Phaenix, and also a message. Tell Shara that with all due respect, I was born on the mortal plane, and it is here that I belong. And tell her that it would delight me if she would visit. To Traume, a sturdy traveling staff, for the long road ahead till the end of all things. Tell him that his visit would be delightful as well."

 

[Endovior]

Xavax laughs.

"Serve Endovior? Hardly. We are allied, perhaps, but our relationship is most certainly not master-servant. In the original universe, I had the greater portion of the magical theory, while he had far more magical power, which we would combine in the following way: I would develop spells, and he would test them. Of course, he did mention that such was 27 universes ago, so I would imagine that he has reached beyond where he was... but, on the other hand, he is still using my designs, which does say something. In any event, I assume that you are referring to the creation of another plane. THAT is somewhat above my abilities, even with the power of the Spellforge; only gods can harness the power of a plane. That being said, I do know the theories. I could design a plane, if need be, but you, and perhaps this Shara you speak of, would need to create it. Of course, it would make the most sense to bring as many gods as possible into the creation process, to start off with a more neutral plane."

-Elsewhere-

Endovior smiles.

"Ah, a rarity! Despite your Omnipresent nature, you have missed something. Mortals who are physically in my presence automatically absorb the emanation of my power, becoming Sorcerers. Indeed, such is the source of all existing bloodlines of Sorcery."

Albedo's eyes begin to glow a dull red color, and Endovior turns to address him.

"Know that you now posess the power of Sorcery. Your thoughts will transform themselves into effects of magic, which you may manifest upon the world at will. The strength and frequency of those actions will increase as you practice this ability. There is an immense amount of information on existing magic, which you could learn either from myself, or from libraries both on this plane and elsewhere... but most Sorcerers find that they get the most experience from simply practicing their skill; for this magic is innate, and requires no outside supervision."

 

[FreeXenon]

OOC Stuff

[sblock]I've been doing some catch up on posts as I have been a little bit busy...
Free Avatar... Interesting Idea!

Creativity and Divine Mechanics
I think the main thing we need to remember is that this is meant to be more of a free form role play. So creativity is something that is very important and that the rules we agree upon should not stifle creativity. Creativity first and then we can figure out how the results can be modeled by the mechanics. They should just give us some framework to determine how certain actions affect others.

Physics and SeeOhToo
I do think that things like SeeOhToo are a good thing (and very flavorful). What Traume and Moss have done are establish reasons for much of the physics and cycles that we take for granted. When PC's in the game world (should we ever get that far) wonder why we are depedent on plants for air there will be a very interesting reason and Moss will have a big part in that story. As far as Game World Physics - assume normal physics as a normal game world does and keep up the good work.

Basic Game Rules
The Role Playing Rules that Jemal set forth cover pretty much everything with out getting too specific. The only real points of contention we have had are regarding Godling vs Godling interaction and I have posted something that can cover that (with some work).

Jemal's Rules
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 already been written/posted to say it never happened UNLESS you have a VERY plausible reason.

NPC Divine Creatures
We had an issue regarding the creature Faliure. Failiure was not created as a direct divine servitor or servitor creature of Moss and therefore should be relegated to NPC status. It can be treated and stated like any NPC creature in a world and given stats appropriate for a Godling threatening devouring machine as desribed. This is all assuming that Moss has no direct control over it, as a twisted anomoly to his seeding. Something that was not intended, just a byproduct of the process. A very powerful and mysteriouns one at that.

I am thinking that because of the way Failure was mentioned it is really an NPC creature of with Divine Power and could eat Godlings if it so wished (within reason of course). Could it be possible to coax it out of its lair? Yes. Would it most likely try to eat everything that it found when it followed Tocho up>? I think so. In the rules I have submitted I have shown example stats for it.

Request
When everyone posts could you put your Godlings name and portfolio information in the Title. for Godling posts. For posts that do not include the Godling directly post the Planet and other pertinent location information. The reason for this is to be able to put the posts into some context. As far as I am aware, we have 3 planets that are actively being worked on - the Second Planet, Failure, with Jo'Karr and his minions; the Third, Prime II, by Moss and Shara, and the 4rth, Vitae, by Endovior and Tocho (I hope this is somewhat correct.). It will also help cycling through the posts for the time line. =)

I hope this all made sense? [/sblock]Shara, The Light Bringer (Goddess of Light, Life, and Wisdom)

 

[Albedo]

OOC: LOL, I'm the only god in which Jo'Karr gives no consideration. I find this amusing.

IC: "Once again Endovior, you act in a quick and upfront manner. I thank you for you assistance. " U-DO then takes Albedo and the two of them dissapear and travel back to the world Albedo was raised in.

 

[Jochannan]

OOC: Nah, I didn't send something to Endovior either, or to any of the gods who haven't posted in a while.

 

[Endovior]

Endovior nods, and U-DO leaves with the distinct impression that Endovior expects some sort of favor in the future...

His immediate tasks completed, Endovior goes back to work, building another Forge of some type.

 

[Jochannan]

Amongst the Aelves, beauty is a tangible thing that all are born knowing and possessing, but even to them, a chance sight of an angel is awe-inspiring. Perhaps it is even more inspiring to them than to humans, for the Aelves remember when angels walked openly amongst the other mortals. In the wake of a sighting, an Aelf child prodigy, a sorcerer, discovers in an epiphany the relationship between music, magic, and emotion. This young man learns to bring calm, or rapture, to any who hear his music. After a time of having his own kind appreciate him, he makes use of Endovior's portal system and travels to the warring world of humans. None there can raise a weapon in the presence of his music, and soon a relative calm descends over parts of the warring empires.

 

[Albedo]

Albedo has been keeping track of the Angel movements, noting their effects on the populaces of different cities and different races. But such meddling concerns him, for they may unsettle the balance of his city state. Jo'Karr's hypocritacal meddling of the affairs of humans has to end. So one day, when an Angel happens to fly too close to his city, Albedo takes up a bow and shoots the magical being down. But the Angel does not just die. Its body Explodes to make a storm scattering clouds and snow across Malkavia. Now the Angel's cannot act from the sky, Albedo thinks to himself as he walks away to plan for any retaliation from Jo'Karr.

 

[Jemal]

ooc: Srry been having trouble getting online a little bit recently. Won't be too much of a problem though I hope. Will slow my posting a little bit for a week or two.

IC:
Jemal accepts the Ambrosia from Tocho, the Scepter from Jo'karr, and the decree from Shara. As the years pass with little interference from the Gods, all doing their own things, Jemal finishes reading the book and living with the souls that go to his plane of hell upon their death. Finally he sends a message to all the divine beings in existance in this universe.

"I believe we should gather together, my fellow godlings, to discuss... Things. I have recently made a discovery that I believe we need to talk about. Traume, because of the nature of my discovery, I think it would be fitting for you to host this meeting.

 

[Endovior]

ooc: The portal network's been defunct ever since I first left the material plane. It connected through my Palace, which is now gone. Furthermore, U-DO scrapped the remnants afterwards.

Endovior, hearing this, gates himself to Traume's realm. He notes Xavax, still in conversation with Traume (a conversation which has apparently been going on for centuries )... but no other gods.

"Hmm, so I'm early."

He observes the grim decor of Traume's realm.

"I wonder why Jemal wanted us to meet here..."