The City Of Mythos floats above a lifeless world, born from the depths of this empty heavenly metropolis are celestial beings of great strength, Gods, guide them, and hopefully you create an interesting world together
The monoliths of Mythos cast a great shadow upon the landscapes of the desolate World, winds of great strength and intensity blow the grey sands through the countless gargantuan halls, and eventually the winds reach the centre, a gigantic ball of celestial energy rests in the city's centre, and once it was tickled by the dust on the wind, it's surface began to deform, like something was trying to crawl it's way out
And there was
Soon the surface burst, whatever was inside got out, the celestial energy knitted itself back together while incubating another creature within itself
Golden amniotic fluid dissipates, beings of great power rise
Onwards young gods
Da Rules
(Ask questions about the rules, polishing this will do the quest good)
Each of you will create and control Deities, you won't be restricted to controlling a single Deity, you control them together with everyone else, but you can only give a single God a single action each turn
Turns last an in-game amount of time of 2 weeks or less, the exact amount of days varying
Turns mechanically are divided into the Actions and Results sections, during the Action part you write down what you want the God to do, certain actions will be diluted or rewritten if it goes against that specific individual's personality and or if they're incapable of doing that specific action, like making a pacifist try to murder someone or trying to make a god of war without wings or a flying-ability fly, rewrites will be necessary for those actions to not just be wasted
Results is obviously when I write down what happens, I will determine the success of an action based off 2 dice rolls, one representing success, the other representing failure, both sides increase in size depending on every aspect of the situation that pushes the scales in their favour (If your alcohol god is trying to make the perfect beer, the die for success will be larger, and the die for failure will increase if they're a god of sobriety) every support vote will increase the success die by 5, if your success die rolls higher, you succeed
If there are two or more votes that fundamentally contradict each other, like a single Deity trying to use their last pieces of demon bone to make an idol while another wants that deity to construct a cursed blade, I'll go for the one with more votes, if equal I'll just flip a coin or do some kinda rewrite or dilution for a compromise
If an God opposes another God, it will be resolved similarly, but both sides will be each other's representation of failure, highest sum wins
(No crossovers with past quests RUSH, looking at you!)
The Moon-Smitten
- Aspects: The Moon/Idiocy/Music
- Is completely absolutely utterly in love with the moon, does not comprehend the fact it is a non-sapient pile of rock, plays love songs to it every night
- A small figure wearing white and blue pyjamas, always smiling, almost always holding a violin, hopping around gleefully
- They Make Me Feel Lighter Than Air: Can manipulate the gravity around himself to be similar to that of the moon, allowing him to hop all over the place with minimal effort, and control the tides to a small degree
- They Make Me Act Like My Brain Took A Hike: Can loudly play a song on their violin that greatly decreases the intelligence of almost everyone nearby without a very strong will
- They Make Me Wanna Play An Ode To Their Beauty: Can summon an abundance of musical equipment of all kinds, which repairs quickly when broken, prefers the violin
- Sees the Twins as friends and plays theme music for them whenever he is available and when it's needed
- Lives in the Tallest Tower
March Of Cogs
- Aspects: Technology/War/Golems
- A god of technology March Of Cogs loves all things mortal and wants to see them thrive, unfortunately for the mortals her concept of thriving is a constant war that never ends and technology advancements are to be made even when at the cost of safety
- Gears In The Guise Of Life: Can create Golems called Cogs out of any material or object, these golems can look like any mortal creature but will have they appearance modified to incorporate the material/object used in they creation along with their properties. All golems are part of a hive mind that she controls but if a golem is old enough there's a chance that they will gain free will and leave the hive mind
- Teacher Of The Gadgets Secrets: Can give an individual enhanced learning speed when it comes to technology
- Atrocity Seer: Knows of every war that is happening and can instinctively tell who will most likely win
- Has a scar left by the Machine Of Unspeakable Horror
The Storyteller
- Aspects: Monsters/Stories/Dreams
- A vaguely humanoid figure with ashy grey skin, a pair of black feathery wings and eyes that seems to know every story ever told
- Moulding Monstrosities: I able to create various types of monsters to serve as characters in future stories and legends by summoning some weird black goop and moulding it into a horrific entity
- Dreamland Lord: is able to manipulate and change the realm of Dreams and Nightmares any way he desires
- Keeper Of Fables: instantly knows every story that have ever been told
Ruliana
- Aspects: Order/Hierarchy/Ascension
- "Accept your place or learn to rise above it. Either way, you will not break the order I have created"
- A three-meter-tall woman with perfectly symmetrical features, long golden hair, an alabaster face, and cold, golden eyes that betray no emotion
- Path to Ascension: Ruliana can see the roadblocks preventing someone from ascending in any given hierarchy and how to remove them
- Chaos Removal: Ruliana can eradicate the chaos in a designated area, imposing stability and preventing change
- Rank Suppression: Ruliana can suppress the abilities of beings beneath her in rank. The greater the hierarchical difference, the more effectively she can stifle their capabilities
- The Symbol Of Rank has marked her as Divine Rank
Shang-Houzi, Monkeigh, The Prime King, etc, etc
- Aspects: Primates/Forests/Ingenuity
- "Pfft, those cranky buzzkills can't tell me what to do!" *Proceeds to get into a big mess or problem*
- He looks like a youthful human man with striking golden eyes and some features similar to other primates like his tail, for example 1. 2. 3.
- Through The Ape's Eyes: Can share the senses of any primate. A couple examples would be like seeing through a monkeys eyes, tasting what an ape is eating, or hearing what a human is listening to
- Instant Jungle: Can cause a bunch of plants to sprout out of the ground. Can be used to create an entire ecosystem ready to go or just a single banana tree to eat its fruit from
- Blessing Of The Puzzle-Chimp: Can bless target(s) with great puzzle solving ability to make use of what they have at hand and figure out what their next steps should be. Also gives a small intelligence bonus
- Is quite nosy, watching from afar as people go about their day
Tabula Rasa
- Aspects: Beginnings/Absence/Memory
- "..."
- A featureless, androgynous humanoid figure hewn of polished Rose Gold
- Unchained Potential: Can Remove the limit on how much a Mortal can Learn and grow a single skill
- Forgiveness: Can grant a New Beginning to those truly penitent, Erasing their History, and thus their sin, from the world's eyes
- Memory Of What You Could've Been: If Tabula is with a person and hears about a point in their life where that person could've taken a different path, Rasa can take the absence of that path and create a simulacrum of that hypothetical version of the person, they can be summoned for a limited amount of time and dissipate once killed or time is up, more then one can be summoned at once
- Lives in the Temple Of The Unforgiven
Nhwereoma
- Aspects: Vastness/Heart/Law
- It is the work of great masters of a nonexistent age, praying for salvation from the ends of structures. It is carved in the likeness of a judge-king who stood against the the order of the world
- A titan of gigantic proportions, hearts strewn about its structure with no rhyme or reason. Eyes and faces are hidden in the cracks and lines formed by the marble ruins that constitute it
- Waves Left In It's Wake: Beneath its steps are oceans formed and called just below the surface. When it stands still do those oceans grew larger and when it leaves does it reveal itself to the world. It crawls around in many places due to this
- Hearts & Ruins: Its hands are instructed in the art of reconstitution and regifting, able to take chunks of the God's body and shaping it into hearts to be gifted to anything and adding to the God with marble ruins wilfully given to it
- A Heart Of Stone And Justice: Once in a while, its hearts will manage to defy its stony nature and echo a vast beat, laws and commandment that it thought of encoded within. It is a universal sound and all things within hearing distance, from the inanimate to animate, shall hear it. Defying it through action or inaction petrifies the criminal into marble
The Twins
- Aspects: Corruption/Purity/Duality
- "Always together, always at balance"
- Two humanoid children around twelve years of age one male and one female, one dressed in white the other dressed in black which is which tends to change rather frequently
- Twist it: Can corrupt the very nature of things, be it the workings of mortals, their bodies, or their very souls. Often times this creates something new, aka it warps something to the point of immense change, how this occurs is not chosen by the Twins
- Bless It: Can purify the nature of things refining its nature into something greater than it was. This does not create something new but improves what is, aka it gives stuff upgrades, how it becomes better is not chosen by the Twins
- Dual eyes: Can see the duality of creation the light and the dark, the good and the evil, and the corrupt and the pure, aka can sense when things with conflicting concepts meet
- See the Moon-Smitten as a friend
Mythos
- Floating stone city of monolithic proportions
- Too big to ever feel lively
- In the centre is a ball of celestial energy that spawns gods titled the Divine Womb, said ball has a heart personally crafted by Nhwereoma, and carved onto that heart by Ruliana is the Symbol Of Rank which has declared it Transcendent Rank, she also carved an access point to the Record Of Rank in there, located in a grand underground chamber of immense size, big enough to fit a smaller city, carved on the walls are a couple billion hands reaching towards the ceiling, on said ceiling is depictions of countless beautiful flowers
- Right above Behemoth Lake
- "Sand-O's" is just on the side
Temple Of The Unforgiven
- Towering structure dedicated to Penitent Saints who used to be vile criminals before being sent on deadly quests to right a ton of wrongs in the world, their sentence was death no matter what they did during their quest, but each journey was designed to help them reflect on their actions before execution via petrification
- Statues depict Penitent Saints crying, looking satisfied, and some just laying down dead, all with a mural depicting their worst display of sin and their greatest display of virtue
- Extremely grand looking, could house a small village on each floor, Tabula Rasa currently lives here
The Tallest Tower
- Exactly what it sounds like, reaches the stratosphere, the Moon-Smitten hangs out here
Behemoth Lake
- Surrounded by the Resting Ape Jungle, and right beneath Mythos itself
- Large body of water
The Resting Ape Jungle
- Verdant ring shaped jungle surrounding Behemoth Lake
- All the trees there have fruits, and all the branches feel nice to rest on top of for a quick nap
Reserved
Grey Wastes
- Nothing but deserts with grey sands
- Very windy
Forest Of Knots
- A gigantic forest where all the roots and trees have grown in such a way that they're all tangled, forever embracing
- Very difficult to navigate through in any way aside from being near liquid in density, or just flying over the treetops
Reserved
Thumbs Up Mountain
- A giant mountain shaped like a hand giving a thumbs up
- Hollow on the inside, containing beautiful cavern forests with bubbling underwater springs
Reserved
The Valley Of Spires
- Seems like a giant gorge in the middle of a field, sticking out of it is a bunch of stone spires reaching the sky, and if someone were to move the spires out of the gorge and onto the surface you'd probably be higher then some of the buildings in Mythos
- At the bottom are the base of the spires, verdant plants, and little rivers, also flowers, lots of flowers
Reserved
Cliffs Of Howling Hatred
- Weirdly designed cliffs with a lot of spikes and holes, designed in such a way that when the wind blows through them it almost sounds like they're speaking with hostility
- Right at the edge of the Sea Of Shells
Reserved
Sea Of Shells
- Gigantic body of water with sea shell shaped islands sticking out of it, the islands are coloured with flora of specific pigments for decorative effect
- Right next to the Cliffs Of Howling Hatred
Reserved
Dreamland
- Where all your dreams happen, a whirlpool of subconscious nonsense
Reserved
The Gavrix
- Aspect: Blood
- A creation of The Storyteller
- A scrappy four-legged mammal, constantly looks emaciated, leathery skin and bat-like wings, patchy mane along their skin, a feral looking mix between a vampire bat and a european dragon
- Wants blood, to drink
- Obedient to Nhwereoma out of fear
- Gigantic creature that can casts a shadow over entire villages
- Has a disembodied ever bleeding heart forever floating above their head to act as nourishment
- A demigod after tasting the blood of Tabula Rasa, thus is immortal
- Blessed with no limit to how far they can hone their bestial cunning
Sand-O
- A creation of March Of Cogs
- Jolly grey little living sandcastle
- Loves to play at shores
- Owns Mythos, does not care much about controlling it
Machine Of Unspeakable Horror
- A gigantic moving fortress made of iron and various other basic materials, quite advanced
- Appears as hostile as possible, pipes protrude from it and curl right back in, spikes pop out of it and curl around each other as they point to the sky as if threatening it, steam pours out of gaps and grates across it's body
- Inside is comprised of death traps that destroy anything that enters it with methods that most would consider quite "Immoral"
- Also has a little arm that stabs the nearest available living creature in the crotch every 10 seconds
Buelkof
- A Keffrin with the fingers comprising their face wrapped around each other so tightly that the knuckles have turned red, wild eyes in the gaps between arms and hands
- Best cook among the Keffrin, has an innate talent for cuisine
- Always slightly grumpy
- Member of the council of 3
Zorm
- A Boyui with a freakishly muscular body, horns are thicker then most of his kind, and his blue rings are brighter then most
- Freakishly strong, can lift a building alone with his tendrils
- Kind but ignorant of most subjects, but is willing to accept ideas from those he thinks know better
- Member of the council of 3
Tino
- A Ranken with a slender body, hair in long zigzag strands, and a constant smile, considered short by her people but still close to 2 meters tall by others
- First among her kind to be marked with the Symbol Of Rank and head-worshipper of Ruliana
- Marked by the Symbol Of Rank as Angel Rank
- Very curious and optimistic
- Member of the council of 3
Miru
- A Ranken corrupted by the Symbol Of Blacklight Commandment and transformed into a Dark Knight, has incredible strength speed and durability thanks to the mark, also manifests black armour made of hard light, also weapons if they desire
- Is torn between their new desire from the Symbol to prove their glory and supremacy amongst other mortals via great violent feats and their love for their spouse made of hands Bii
- Used to like making little necklaces and accessories out of leaves and random knickknacks before the corruption
- Is the leader of the Dark Knights
Bii
- Aspect: Hard-Light
- A Keffrin demigod whose face fingers are interlocked and softly clasped together to resemble a lion's mane
- Hates the Twins with a burning passion cause they accidentally cursed Miru
- Skilled in singing, can be a single person choir by using multiple mouths at the same time
- Bright Hands: Can summon a bunch of hands of various sizes made of Hard-Light
Forseina
- A Wukate warrior with unruly brunette fur and yellow eyes, always with a big grin
- Outgoing and cheery, with a love for eating tons of fruit, also loves her 30 wives, don't ask the story behind that is pretty long
- Defender of her home the Resting Ape Jungle
The Smnorp
- Little lizard with large front claws for digging
- Ends of their mouth unfurls to become feelers since they can't see well
- Can squirt a small bit of poison from their mouth
- Can dig into Dreamland and reality with ease
Gods
- Powerful things spawn in Mythos
- Vary a lot in appearance and abilities
Cogs
- Golem hive-mind created by the goddess their name is based off, March Of Cogs, they all are made by her and each type is based off a mortal being and a non-living material
- Gavrix-Grey-Sands: A type of Cog based off the Gavrix and made of wasteland sand
Performers Of The Lunar Fanatic Orchestra
- Created by the Storyteller
- They work for the Moon-Smitten
- Slimy little things with varying amounts of bulging yellow eyes, bulbous heads, and across their slick dark blue skin is baby blue crescent moons and music notes
- They have up to five long tendrils that split into an abundance of dexterous worm-like digits, good at playing instruments
- The inside of their head is designed to mimic singing incredibly well when they flex their innards correctly
- Their body is carried by a long slick twig-like stalk of bluish-purple flesh sliding across the ground in a manner akin to slugs
Mundane Fruit Trees
- Created by Shang-Houzi
- Various mundane trees which grow fruit on them
The Keffrin
- Created by the Twins by accident
- Humanoid figures made of intertwined arms, in gaps between fingers one can bare witness to many eyes
- If they touch a living thing directly with the hands on their right side, finger shaped tumours will start sprouting from it, the strength of this effect varies for each Keff, but it can be trained like a skill
- If they touch a living thing directly with the hands on their left side, all deformed growths will be healed, shrived, or removed in some way, doesn't help with any ailments that stray too far from tumours, the strength of this effect varies for each Keff, but it can be trained like a skill
The Boyui
- Bull people with sand coloured hides, large and burly
- Arms are many tendrils intertwined to form hands
- Blue rings appear on their bodies when they feel violent and or threatened, some rings appear even around the horns when extra mad
- Are very poisonous, with a bite capable of injecting a ton of deadly poison into a body
Wukates
- Made by Shang-Houzi
- Monkey people, athletic, lots of ingenuity, enjoy fruit, not much else to say
- Most have golden eyes
The Ranken
- Created by Ruliana
- Commonly 2 meters in height, with symmetrically perfect features, silver hair, silver eyes, and skin as pale as paper
- Most of them enjoy the Symbol Of Rank on their bodies
Mundane Plants
- Basic birches
Subterranean Trees
- Trees with bioluminescense, can easily grow without sunlight as long as there is sufficient humidity
Council Of 3
- A tribe of 3 races who elect the most the respected among each species to be their leader, comprised of the Keffrin, Boyui, and Ranken
- Currently led by Buelkof, Zorm, and Tino
The Dark Knights
- Bunch of folks affected by the Symbol Of Blacklight
- Mainly go around trying to prove their glory and looking menacing, also probably trying to mark others with the same Symbol
Mundane Ores
- Basic bismuths and shit
Symbol Of Rank Commandment
- Created by Ruliana to mark folks as specific ranks in a hierarchy she made with golden tattoos, more loyal to her than the other gods
- A living rule of the universe, affects those it finds compatible
- If it decides to affect you and the Symbol Of Rank is written on your skin, it will transform the symbol into a different one representing the rank that fits you most
- Connected to the Record Of Rank
- Lowest: Angel/Archangel/Principality
- Middle: Power/Virtue/Dominion
- Highest: Throne/Cherub/Seraphim
- Ascended: Divine/Celestial/Transcendent
Song Of Abominations
- A song by the Moon-Smitten
- Incorporates various different techniques emulating monster noises in a satisfying way
- Motivates almost any monster that hears it a TON
Record Of Rank Commandment
- Connected to the Symbol Of Rank and stores the current name, species, order in the SOR hierarchy, and rank in the hierarchy of all those marked with the Symbol
- Can be accessed via interaction with the Divine Womb and yelling "Show the Record Of Rank!", then you'll be shown a list of all marked individuals, if you're looking for a specific individual it will then scroll to their position on the list if you know who you're asking for
Symbol Of Blacklight Corrupted Commandment
- The Symbol Of Rank Commandment but corrupted by the Twins
- Acts like a canceroud metaphysical growth, turning any marked by this commandment into a Dark Knight
- You'll know if someone is affected if they have a mark that glows black on them
Stone Palm Commandment
- If compatible with an individual, they can stick their hands (Or hand adjacent appendages) into inanimate material and make sculptures shaped like hands burst from nearby ground
Hole In The World
- Ever changing pitch black rorschach test in the sky
Create some divine beings of incredible strength, they can warp reality if they try hard enough, and become stronger with time to simply do certain things with a flick of the wrist, but currently they're all overpowered babies that just look and act older
Let's see what they're like
(All are subject to veto and rewrite if I see any problems like gods of magic, gods of time, or gods of gods, just stay away from trying to seem like the most "Special" or powerful god, I'm already allowing your characters enough strength to annihilate cities, I don't need mary sues among an actual pantheon, also don't worry about being late to submit a god, you can add one later if you desire to do so)
Banned Aspects (Can be subject to change, and new additions could be added later on)
Events
Omnipotence
Success
Failure
Magic (Since any form of reality manipulation is basically magic to me so you would always have a bonus during those rolls)
Everything
Fate
[] Deity Name: Obvious what this is
- [] 3 Aspects: 3 things they have power over, creatures, concepts, occupations, feelings, stuff like that, they're basically pretty good with things related to their Aspects
- [] Form: What they look like
- [] Miracle 1: An ability they have which they can do more easily then most reality warping, can be super powerful but don't make it the most strong one
- [] Miracle 2: You can have less then 3 if you don't feel like filling them all
- [] Miracle 3:
- [] Flavour Text: Optional
Example
[E] Deity Name: The Moon-Smitten
- [E] 3 Aspects: The Moon/Idiocy/Music
- [E] Form: A small figure wearing white and blue pyjamas, always smiling, almost always holding a violin, hopping around gleefully
- [E] Miracle 1: Can manipulate the gravity around himself to be similar to that of the moon, allowing to hop all over the place with minimal effort, and control the tides to a small degree
- [E] Miracle 2: Can loudly play a song on their violin that greatly decreases the intelligence of almost everyone nearby without a very strong will
- [E] Miracle 3: Can summon an abundance of musical equipment of all kinds, which repairs quickly when broken, prefers the violin
- [E] Flavour Text: Is completely absolutely utterly in love with the moon, does not comprehend the fact it is a non-sapient pile of rock, plays love songs to it every night
In case you missed out on creating a god, you can make one during these action sections
(All are subject to veto and rewrite if I see any problems like gods of magic, gods of time, or gods of gods, just stay away from trying to seem like the most "Special" or powerful god, I'm already allowing your characters enough strength to annihilate cities, I don't need mary sues among an actual pantheon)
Banned Aspects (Can be subject to change, and new additions could be added later on)
Events
Omnipotence
Success
Failure
Magic (Since any form of reality manipulation is basically magic to me so you would always have a bonus during those rolls)
Everything
Fate
[] Deity Name: Obvious what this is
- [] 3 Aspects: 3 things they have power over, creatures, concepts, occupations, feelings, stuff like that, they're basically pretty good with things related to their Aspects
- [] Form: What they look like
- [] Miracle 1: An ability they have which they can do more easily then most reality warping, can be super powerful but don't make it the most strong one
- [] Miracle 2: You can have less then 3 if you don't feel like filling them all
- [] Miracle 3:
- [] Flavour Text: Optional
Now choose a single Deity, and an action they'll perform this turn
[] Moon-Smitten: Decorate a room in the City Of Mythos and claim said room as your domain
[] Shang-Houzi: Start growing a bunch of forests to decorate this pretty drab world
[] Nhwereoma: Take a couple leaps and long stops across the lands to make some oceans, the place is way too dry
The gods rise from their womb in the city's centre, into the grand hall with images of hands reaching towards something depicted on the ceiling, on said ceiling is depictions of lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of beautiful flowers
All at once the gods did their respective first acts
Shang observes the others and proceeds to run out of the birthing chamber, leaving their siblings, in a hurry to check out the world
Nhwereoma crawled around, feeling the walls of the chamber, away from the others as to avoid crushing them under its immense body, which only filled out a small part of the celestial energy's room
The Storyteller, with their innate Miracle was able to sense that the hands on the walls reaching towards the ceiling carvings of flowers were supposed to mean billions reaching for a form of paradise, a representation of a better life in a land far away, they left the chamber to check out the outside world since they sensed no other stories in the room, thus it wasn't their business
Tabula Rasa tried to read the writings on the walls, but found no answers here, so they continued into the city itself to see what the outside was like
March Of Cogs immedietly ran out the door to gather resources, they had plans and they needed materials for them
Ruliana pricked the surface of the ball of celestial energy, and used the strange liquid as ink for some commandments
Crawling out later then the rest were a pair of small children, Twins, who were greeted by the oldest of all the gods (Oldest only by a week between when he first spawned and when the rest did, he spent most of it goofing off), The Moon-Smitten, who came back to the chamber to greet whoever the divine womb birthed, but was promptly ignored by the rest, the Twins spent the rest of the day observing the Moon-Smitten hop across the rooftops of the city, singing songs to the hunk of rock in the sky in a futile attempt to woo said rock
Mythos
- In the centre is a ball of celestial energy that spawns gods, located in a grand underground chamber of immense size, big enough to fit a smaller city, carved on the walls are a couple billion hands reaching towards the ceiling, on said ceiling is depictions of countless beautiful flowers
Shang-Houzi: Start growing a bunch of forests to decorate this drab world, you could do with some snacks and a place to rest anyways. Also do some thinking about your fellow gods, most of them seem very serious.
Shang walked through the streets of Mythos, grand but all just dry stone, no plant life, no life in general actually, just towering buildings, archways, streets leading to buildings with no purpose, and no sign of any either, just grand structures for the sake of it
He took a great leap and landed on a villa of carved stone, unfurnished and plain, with what seem like benchs but placed too high, windows put too low, smooth circular indents dotted in the outside like a golfball
Shang-Houzi looked around, at the monoliths of the city, and thought about their siblings back at the birthing chamber
The Prime King thought of the strange giant covered in hearts, feeling the walls of the chamber, wondering why they decided to crawl around, did it have the mindset of an infant? Or maybe he was jumping to conclusions and it just couldn't carry it's own weight, they were quite big
Houzi also saw that fellow with the ashy skin leave the chamber too, maybe they were bored it as well? Also their skin was the exact same colour as all the sand
At the thought of the grey wastelands, Shang-Houzi decided that there was just too much of it, time to add some colour, he leaped off the spire and landed thousands of feet on the ground below, before running in circles on the sand that aligned with Mythos' out rim, leaving a rapidly expanding forest growing in his wake, immense foliage, greenery of all kinds of shapes and sizes formed, then Shang thought to run in a spiral and spread the forest into the area beneath Mythos but they were beaten to filling it out by some mysterious body of water forming beneath city, well, it wasn't too much of a bother, at least he won't have to worry about replacing the plants if they were to die of dehydration
As he was running circles around the forming little sea, he thought about the others
Such as that figure with the 3 eyes scampering out of the chamber in moments, muttering things about a plan and sand, what a freaking weirdo, hell, Shang was pretty sure he could see her in the distance doing something
Then the last 2 that stayed behind with the giant with beating tumours despite being stone, like that figure made of the weird metal and the lady bleeding the divine womb for some odd purpose
The Grand Ape sat at the edge of a newly made shore, and some bananas grown from their little forest, then took a nap thanks to a job well done
The Resting Ape Jungle
- Verdant ring shaped jungle surrounding Behemoth Lake
- All the trees there have fruits, and all the branches feel nice to rest on top of for a quick nap
Nhwereoma: Attempt to fashion a heart for the mass of celestial energy that birthed it. Try to stand still while doing this task so that an ocean will form beneath Mythos.
The giant stood up, and begun to do it's work, attempting to construct a heart for the sloshing ball of celestial amniotic fluid they were born of
Success D47 rolled a 37
Vs
Failure D30 rolled a 11
Nhwereoma tore off a single little heart and reworked it into a grand and holy thing, inserting the organ of flesh and stone, the giant pressed the heart against the surface of the celestial membrane until the thin layer of god-stuff gave way for the new organ, whatever changes may come from this are yet to be seen
But the giant faced their fellow god, not the one made of strange metal who left like all the others after checking out the room, and the deity of vastness said "Why do you work so tirelessly on strange little liquid lights?" Nhwereoma said, observing the goddess writing little symbols of gold in the air repeatedly
"Why did you crawl when you're perfectly capable of standing?"
Far beneath Mythos, a large body of water started forming thanks to the giant standing up, and once the giant decided to rest on their knees, it shot up, trying to pierce though the city of mythos, but was unable to do so, the city was powerful, a mere inland ocean going at the speed of a bullet could not hope to stop it, it all crashed back down, watering the Resting Ape Jungle, and waking up Shang-Houzi, before pooling together in the centre beneath Mythos once more
"Because reasons" replied Nhwereoma to the goddess of hierarchies, who was looking around, trying to figure out what that loud noise was
Mythos
- In the centre is a ball of celestial energy that spawns gods, said ball has a heart personally crafted by Nhwereoma, located in a grand underground chamber of immense size, big enough to fit a smaller city, carved on the walls are a couple billion hands reaching towards the ceiling, on said ceiling is depictions of countless beautiful flowers
- Right above Behemoth Lake
Behemoth Lake
- Surrounded by the Resting Ape Jungle, and right beneath Mythos itself
- Large body of water
The Storyteller: create a large flying monster resembling a cross between a vampire bat and a European dragon, and set it loose in the world.
They sat atop a tower, using their monster mould to create the body, stretch out a couple bits to form the arms and the thin skin that would be the wings, and soon the Gavrix rises, a large yet scrappy mammal with leathery wings, it tried to bite into the god but dodging a bite from such a beast was childs play, it flew off into the city, looking for somewhere dark to rest
It would be encountered multiple times by some other gods, and the Moon-Smitten would get bitten by it 50 times through out the day, don't worry he's fine
Well, not like that love struck fool's well being mattered much to the Storyteller, hell they weren't even aware of his existence
What mattered to them was the Gavrix, a newborn pile of walking, breathing, slobbering, starving life! Bloodthirsty in a very literal sense, leathery skin with small patches of fur along their spine like a partially burnt off mane, and with a roar like a vermin's screech amplified through the lungs of a thousand tigers
It's fucking beautiful
The Gavrix
- A creation of The Storyteller
- A scrappy four-legged mammal, constantly looks emaciated, leathery skin and bat-like wings, patchy mane along their skin, a feral looking mix between a vampire bat and a european dragon
- Wants blood, to drink
Tabula Rasa: Wander the city of Mythos, seeking information from its halls. Why was it built, and why is this world naught but an endless gray waste?
Short answer, you have no idea, the city is unimaginably big, yet there are no signs of wear and tear, no signs of maintenance, and the whole place was constructed strangely, all structures for the sake of it, none with a clear purpose aside from being big and being buildings
And as far as Tabula could tell, there was no one else out there in the wastes, aside from the other gods messing with the landscape for some reason, and that weird flying creature that screeched at Rasa for a minute before leaving
There was also that Moon-Smitten fellow, but they didn't discover anything during their week after being born, only creating a long list of songs for the moon, Tabula Rasa was nothing but confused at the seemingly inexplicable structure that was their hometown
And a gut feeling in them said that they would not find answers any time soon, possibly never at all
March Of Cogs: Go to the Grey Wastes, making an army of cogs from its sands, and use then to start to search for Mundane Ores to mine.
Success D38 rolled a 2
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Failure D23 rolled a 10
You have created an abomination against all that is holy
"Hoi! I'm Sand-o the living sand castle! Yippee!"
Nothing will top this, SIN, and you know it
It wanders off to the shore of Behemoth Lake to play, and you sit there wondering where it all went wrong.... oh right there was no mortal beings you knew of before attempting to make a cog, that's why it failed
Then the Gavrix flew by much to your surprise, WHERE WAS THAT A MINUTE AGO!? You could've used it as the base!
Sand-O
- A creation of March Of Cogs
- Jolly grey little living sandcastle
- Loves to play at shores
Ruliana: Create a golden tattoo that can change to display your current order and rank. There are four orders, each with three ranks that Ruliana made up. The Orders are Lowest, Middle, Highest, and Ascended. The ranks are Angel, Archangel, Principality, Power, Virtue, Dominion, Throne, Cherub, Seraphim, Divine, Celestial, Transcendent.
Success D40 rolled a 16
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Failure D24 rolled a 11
The goddess of order and hierarchies, after her conversation with the giant and giving up on figuring out what that splashing noise was, continued her work on that little divine law, she assumed the fluid from mother would aide the effort, but it seemed to do nothing aside from acting as an ink for writing proclamations unto the universe, which in your hands could be easily replaced with normal ink and still work well
There were a couple bumps in the road, having to worry about calculating the exact shape of the tattoo, making the etching process didn't go deep enough to draw blood, and adjusting the shade of the gold was a bitch, kept ending up as an ugly shade of yellow
But with effort and skill she carved a rule into the universe with her nails, and it stuck, becoming a commandment, which while not exactly accurate, is a shorter title than a artificially intelligent metaphysical pseudo-law, it wasn't wide spread it would try to reach whatever it found compatiple
She felt her creation spreading through the physics in the air, growing across the rules like a fungus, trying to envelop the giant but failing to do so, but the divine womb was a more docile force, it let the commandment in, and allowed Ruliana to reach through the membrane to carve the Symbol Of Rank upon it's heart, and thus the commandment started warping that symbol until it became the mark of the Transcendant
Huh, freaking weird, Ruliana then carved the Symbol Of Rank into her own skin, then it became the mark of the Divine, okay the divine womb is technically more powerful in the eyes of her own hierarchy, don't know if that's good or not
But hey, at least it works
Symbol Of Rank Commandment
- Created by Ruliana to mark folks as specific ranks in a hierarchy she made with golden tattoos, more loyal to her than the other gods
- A living rule of the universe, affects those it finds compatible
- If it decides to affect you and the Symbol Of Rank is written on your skin, it will transform the symbol into a different one representing the rank that fits you most
- Lowest: Angel/Archangel/Principality
- Middle: Power/Virtue/Dominion
- Highest: Throne/Cherub/Seraphim
- Ascended: Divine/Celestial/Transcendent
Ruliana
- The Symbol Of Rank has marked her as Divine Rank
Mythos
- In the centre is a ball of celestial energy that spawns gods, said ball has a heart personally crafted by Nhwereoma, and carved onto that heart by Ruliana is the Symbol Of Rank which has declared it Transcendent Rank, located in a grand underground chamber of immense size, big enough to fit a smaller city, carved on the walls are a couple billion hands reaching towards the ceiling, on said ceiling is depictions of countless beautiful flowers
In case you missed out on creating a god, you can make one during these action sections
(All are subject to veto and rewrite if I see any problems like gods of magic, gods of time, or gods of gods, just stay away from trying to seem like the most "Special" or powerful god, I'm already allowing your characters enough strength to annihilate cities, I don't need mary sues among an actual pantheon)
Banned Aspects (Can be subject to change, and new additions could be added later on)
Events
Omnipotence
Success
Failure
Magic (Since any form of reality manipulation is basically magic to me so you would always have a bonus during those rolls)
Everything
Fate
[] Deity Name: Obvious what this is
- [] 3 Aspects: 3 things they have power over, creatures, concepts, occupations, feelings, stuff like that, they're basically pretty good with things related to their Aspects
- [] Form: What they look like
- [] Miracle 1: An ability they have which they can do more easily then most reality warping, can be super powerful but don't make it the most strong one
- [] Miracle 2: You can have less then 3 if you don't feel like filling them all
- [] Miracle 3:
- [] Flavour Text: Optional
Now choose a single Deity, and an action they'll perform this turn
[] March Of Cogs: Use the Gavrix as base for some Cogs, make them out of sand, then have them mine for mundane ores
[] The Twins: Purify one of the buildings in Mythos, maybe it'll reveal something
[] The Storyteller: Commission a couple songs about monsters from the Moon-Smitten, in exchange give them monster servants that can play music
March Of Cogs: Use the Gavrix as base for some Cogs, make them out of sand, then have them mine for mundane ores
March got back to work on making the first soldiers in their little hive-mind army, she used the Gavrix as her base, and bundled the grey sands together to create her Cogs, they were structurally very fucking weak, she was pretty sure even the Moon-Smitten would be able to break them, but they would hopefully be able to mine some ores for you in some way
Success D14 rolled a 13
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Failure D22 rolled a 12
It took considerable effort (And a fuck ton of time), but by stretching out their sand limbs and scraping the grains against ore deposits they found, and stored the metal shavings in their own bodies, when they were done they spewed the metal shavings out into a large pile of iron
Their mistress was very pleased and gave them all congratulatory head pats and the titles of Mining Specialists
Cogs
- Golem hive-mind created by the goddess their name is based off, March Of Cogs, they all are made by her and each type is based off a mortal being and a non-living material
- Gavrix-Grey-Sands: A type of Cog based off the Gavrix and made of wasteland sand
The Storyteller: Commission a couple songs about monsters from the Moon-Smitten, in exchange give them monster servants that can play music.
Success D44 rolled a 43
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Failure D8 rolled a 7
The Song Of Abominations is formed, to the Storyteller, it was pure beauty, the rhythm flowed through the veins of all who hear it, the sounds of the instruments were like the countless flailing limbs of unearthly beasts, and the lyrics made your soul roar, you made a bunch of little monsters
Slimy little things with varying amounts of bulging yellow eyes, bulbous heads, slick dark blue skin with baby blue crescent moons and music notes across their bodies, with up to 5 long tendrils that split into many small worm-like digits, standing on a long twig-like stalk that slides across the ground like a slug, the Moon-Smitten summoned instruments and watched as the creatures played them effortlessly, then flexed their head in certain ways so their innards squelches could mimic singing beautifully
The Storyteller and Moon-Smitten high-fived and went on their respective ways, happy with their little arrangement
Song Of Abominations
- A song by the Moon-Smitten
- Incorporates various different techniques emulating monster noises in a satisfying way
- Motivates almost any monster that hears it a TON
Performers Of The Lunar Fanatic Orchestra
- Created by the Storyteller
- They work for the Moon-Smitten
- Slimy little things with varying amounts of bulging yellow eyes, bulbous heads, and across their slick dark blue skin is baby blue crescent moons and music notes
- They have up to five long tendrils that split into an abundance of dexterous worm-like digits, good at playing instruments
- The inside of their head is designed to mimic singing incredibly well when they flex their innards correctly
- Their body is carried by a long slick twig-like stalk of bluish-purple flesh sliding across the ground in a manner akin to slugs
The Twins: Purify one of the buildings in Mythos, maybe it'll reveal something
After watching the transaction between the Storyteller and Moon-Smitten, the musical god got back to the Twins, playing them a theme song alongside the new posse as the Twins posed and began channelling their Miracle
Together they yelled
"GRAND MIRACLE! BLESS IT!" A wave of cleansing power shot out of their chests and split as it flew towards the building, wrapping around it like bandages and smothering it in the godly power of the Twins, the bandages began to fade as the Miracle finished doing its work, and what was revealed was...
Mythos
- Temple Of The Unforgiven: Towering structure dedicated to Penitent Saints who used to be vile criminals before being sent on deadly quests to right a ton of wrongs in the world, their sentence was death no matter what they did during their quest, but each journey was designed to help them reflect on their actions before execution via petrification. Statues depict Penitent Saints crying, looking satisfied, and some just laying down dead, all with a mural depicting their worst display of sin and their greatest display of virtue. Extremely grand looking, could house a small village on each floor
The Twins
- See the Moon-Smitten as a friend
Moon-Smitten
- Sees the Twins as friends and plays theme music for them whenever he is available and when it's needed
Shang-Houzi: Go exploring and check out what else has been happening so far such as the Lake, the Gravrix, Sand-O, Moon Guy's songs, etc. If you come across the others all trying to do different things with the Gravrix, provide some humorous commentary to the conflict.
The lake had nothing interesting going on, aside from Sand-O making sand castles, which Shang helped with, now they have a sand castle the size of the Prime King to live in
Sand-O is still a sin in my eyes though, and always will be
The Moon-Smitten and Twins seemed to have been busy, with a bunch of slimy new friends around they were running around a new looking temple and messing with all the important looking stuff inside while the Moon-Smitten tooted a horn along with the fun being had
After getting bored of watching from the sidelines while resting in a bridal carry in the arms of one of the Penitent Saint statues he travelled back into the birthing chamber again, seeing that the giant had left, and that only the woman remained, she was summoning lines of gold energy and weaving them together, and after an hour watching her do what basically translated into computer coding but with physics, the monkey god got out of there, and came across something else down in the Jungle beneath the city, a duo of deities (Not the Twins obviously) messing around with the weird flying creature that he saw around Mythos a couple times
He sat down and observed
Shang-Houzi
- Is quite nosy, watching from afar as people go about their day
Ruliana: Create a gold matrix that will be linked to all of the other Symbols of Rank and place it on the heart Nhwereoma gave the Mother. The matrix's sole purpose right now is to record the current name, race, order, and rank of anyone with a Symbol of Rank.
After the weird hairy dude left you continued with the construction of your golden matrix
Success D49 rolled a 38
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Failure D18 rolled a 5
Once more you carve something in the universe itself, but not an order, but a list, a grand list for all who would be part of your grand hierarchy, and you place it inside the celestial energy's heart, you speak the words "Show the Record Of Rank" and a golden sheet of energy marked with words appeared
Your name and rank were listed in the Ascendant section, of course, your Symbol matched the exact level you were listed, you tore off the patch of skin with the symbol, the list was empty, the skin healed quickly and you wrote the symbol down again, then the list had a name, okay it was operating well, hopefully hat would be the case for a long time
Mythos
X - In the centre is a ball of celestial energy that spawns gods, said ball has a heart personally crafted by Nhwereoma, and carved onto that heart by Ruliana is the Symbol Of Rank which has declared it Transcendent Rank, located in a grand underground chamber of immense size, big enough to fit a smaller city, carved on the walls are a couple billion hands reaching towards the ceiling, on said ceiling is depictions of countless beautiful flowers
- In the centre is a ball of celestial energy that spawns gods titled the Divine Womb, said ball has a heart personally crafted by Nhwereoma, and carved onto that heart by Ruliana is the Symbol Of Rank which has declared it Transcendent Rank, she also carved an access point to the Record Of Rank in there, located in a grand underground chamber of immense size, big enough to fit a smaller city, carved on the walls are a couple billion hands reaching towards the ceiling, on said ceiling is depictions of countless beautiful flowers
Symbol Of Rank Commandment
- Connected to the Record Of Rank
Record Of Rank Commandment
- Connected to the Symbol Of Rank and stores the current name, species, order in the SOR hierarchy, and rank in the hierarchy of all those marked with the Symbol
- Can be accessed via interaction with the Divine Womb and yelling "Show the Record Of Rank!", then you'll be shown a list of all marked individuals, if you're looking for a specific individual it will then scroll to their position on the list if you know who you're asking for
Nhwereoma: Descend and cow the Gavrix into submission. Try to enlarge it so that it can ride on it and work out a way for it to have an external heart separate from itself that can always bleed for it to drink on.
Tabula Rasa: Seek The Gavrix, first amongst monsters and firstborn child of the Gods. Its shape is not worthy of its nature, and this must be rectified. Firstly, locate the beast, allow its wretched fangs to pierce my divine shell, as it sups upon my blessed blood I shall reforge its body from within, in the image of the Gods of Mythos. Secondly, grant it my divine blessing, remove its fate from the Memory of death. That it may be forgotten and eternal. Finally, utilize the first and most subtle of my miracles, Unchained Potential. Remove the limits on how far it can refine that bestial cunning that hungers within its soul. Thusly so it is to be remade in a shape worthy of being the progenitor of all the wretched abominations whatever God crafted it shall forge.
Nhwereoma jumped down from the city of Mythos, landing on their knees in the Resting Ape Jungle, right next a casually starving Gavrix, surprised, the beast attempted to escape the clutches of the giant but failed, being caught and held back by the gargantuan god, the giant decided to attempt intimidating the creature, for if the giant used their Heart Of Stone & Justice the Gavrix will surely be petrified while attempting to escape
So the beast was held up to one of the vast deity's eyes, and it was confronted with the piercing gaze of a god
Nhwereoma Intimidation D40 rolled a 11
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Gavrix Willpower D13 rolled a 3
It resisted greatly, but soon was nothing more than a cowering mess before the will of the creature holding them captive, it was released from the cold dry fingers of Nhwereoma and placed down in the forest, then the god continued, and began to remold the beast
Success D40 rolled a 33
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Failure D19 rolled a 17
The Gavrix grew to an incredible height, not quite large but still covered a large amount of the forest with their own body, it was large enough to be ridden on by even Nhwereoma if it wasn't for how weak the creature actually was thanks to it's scrawny build
So the giant tried to remedy that
Success D38 rolled a 36
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Failure D21 rolled a 6
Torn from the giant's body was one of it's own hearts, and above the head of the Gavrix it did hover, dripping crimson ichor upon it's head, sliding down and being lapped at by it's cold tongue, satisfied with this gift it became far less tense then before
Then Tabula Rasa came along, after having heard the commotion finally arrived at the site of the Gavrix's metamorphosis, they landed atop it's head as they jumped off the edge of Mythos, being watched from afar by Shang-Houzi, ever the voyeur
Rasa crawled across it's face and soon placed themselves between the teeth of the beast and let them pierce their shell slightly, lapping up some divine blood before the deity jumped from the beast's lips to watch the effects from afar
Ascension D50 rolled a 37
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Failure D50 rolled a 23
The Gavrix was then warped, becoming something far greater than it's old self (Being big doesn't count), it... it became a demigod, even had a little Aspect of it's own, the Aspect of Blood
Tabula was planning to make it immortal, but they saw there was no need since it had become a divine being of sorts, thus they moved to the final stage of the plan
The Gavrix felt a Miracle touch the very essence of their being, and remove a constrictive feeling, one so natural it was never noticed till it was gone, there was no limit to how far their bestial cunning could be honed and thus after this, it growled quietly, the breath from their flaring nostrils making the trees rustle, and patiently sat as the gods praised each other for their work
Shang-Houzi then said from up above, on the edge of Mythos' cold stone glory "Don't you think intimidating and modifying an animal against it's will is slightly immoral?"
Tabula Rasa thought of it "Hhmmm... good point, Nhwereoma do you think we had valid reasons for this?"
"I just wanted to be able to ride something, now I feel kinda bad about it"
"Okay magic monkey man we'll get back to you on our counterpoint to how bad modifying the Gavrix may have been, just wait there"
"Sure"
Shang did not in fact wait, the Moon-Smitten would perform a concert that shouldn't be missed for even the birth of one's own firstborn, they were playing this newly invented music genre called "J-Pop"
The Gavrix
- Obedient to Nhwereoma out of fear
- Gigantic creature that can casts a shadow over entire villages
- Has a disembodied ever bleeding heart forever floating above their head to act as nourishment
- A demigod after tasting the blood of Tabula Rasa, thus is immortal
- Blessed with no limit to how far they can hone their bestial cunning
- Aspect: Blood
In case you missed out on creating a god, you can make one during these action sections
(All are subject to veto and rewrite if I see any problems like gods of magic, gods of time, or gods of gods, just stay away from trying to seem like the most "Special" or powerful god, I'm already allowing your characters enough strength to annihilate cities, I don't need mary sues among an actual pantheon)
Banned Aspects (Can be subject to change, and new additions could be added later on)
Events
Omnipotence
Success
Failure
Magic (Since any form of reality manipulation is basically magic to me so you would always have a bonus during those rolls)
Everything
Fate
[] Deity Name: Obvious what this is
- [] 3 Aspects: 3 things they have power over, creatures, concepts, occupations, feelings, stuff like that, they're basically pretty good with things related to their Aspects
- [] Form: What they look like
- [] Miracle 1: An ability they have which they can do more easily then most reality warping, can be super powerful but don't make it the most strong one
- [] Miracle 2: You can have less then 3 if you don't feel like filling them all
- [] Miracle 3:
- [] Flavour Text: Optional
Now choose a single Deity, and an action they'll perform this turn
[] Shang-Houzi: Work with Nhwereoma to create some varied landscapes to hang out in, you do the plants, the giant does the rivers, lakes, and mountains if they want
[] Nhwereoma: Work with Shang-Houzi to create some varied landscapes to hang out in, you do the rivers, lakes, and mountains if you wanna, and Shang does the plants
[] Ruliana: Try make your own servants, then mark them all with the Symbol Of Rank
The Twins: Create a race of sentient humanoids with two heads and four arms. Each head will have their own personality and can control a set of arms.
Success D24 rolled a 4
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Failure D22 rolled a 20
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!
Oh woe are the Twins, as they look upon their creations, aghast at those... those.... THINGS
They stared in silence at the collection of arms forming something close to a ghoulish humanoid figure, staring at the twins, they could see the glint of an ocular organ in gaps between fingers sometimes
One of their creations reached forward, tapping a Twin on the bare skin of their shoulder, finger-like tumours grew across that small patch of skin, the Twins looked at the fellow with an intense gaze and murderous aura, the creature, fearing for it's life, it reached out with the left side of it's body and tapped that patch of skin again, causing the extra fingers to shrivel up and fall off
The weird handle people wander off into the city to do their own thing, eventually meeting the Moon-Smitten and Lunar-Fanatics, enjoying the music they create, but after getting quite hungry, the Moon-Smitten manages to convince the Twins to pick up some plants from the jungle, and some dirt, then bring them back
Wanting to help their friend and their creations (Even if said creations were not to their liking) they performed the task, and so they had a garden in Mythos, the newly named Keffrin making fleshy fingers spontaneously grown on the plants brought back, the rain caused by Behemoth lake also helped water those plants
Happily the Moon-Smitten, the Twins, The L.F.s and the Keffrin joyfully went about their week, forming a bond of great friendship
The Keffrin
- Humanoid figures made of intertwined arms, in gaps between fingers one can bare witness to many eyes
- If they touch a living thing directly with the hands on their right side, finger shaped tumours will start sprouting from it, the strength of this effect varies for each Keff, but it can be trained like a skill
- If they touch a living thing directly with the hands on their left side, all deformed growths will be healed, shrived, or removed in some way, doesn't help with any ailments that stray too far from tumours, the strength of this effect varies for each Keff, but it can be trained like a skill
The Storyteller: create a race of monsters that resembles a hybrid of a Minotaur and a Blue Ringed Octopus.
And thus they were moulded, the Lunar-Fanatics and Keffrin watched with curiosity, the Moon-Smitten watched while eating finger tumours from his pocket like it was pop-corn (THAT WAS FIRST TIME HE HAD FOOD OKAY!)
It was liking watching a combination of a hundred masterpieces being made and the birth of fully grown children, weird but beautiful if you think like someone that eats old beef jerky soaked in tears and sin....
They flexed newly formed muscles, tendrils curling up till they touched the shoulder, first breaths, beastly figures with sandy hides, the Storyteller pet their creations, gently of course, so as to not risk them poisoning someone
And these beasts named themselves the Boyui, joining in on the meal, the Keffrin were trying out a new recipe where they boiled the fingers, the bowl was made from stone smoothly carved with the fingers of the Moon-Smitten, and warmed with the residual heat from the Twins rubbing their hands together at speeds none of these mortals could match
It was chewy but good enough
The Boyui
- Bull people with sand coloured hides, large and burly
- Arms are many tendrils intertwined to form hands
- Blue rings appear on their bodies when they feel violent and or threatened, some rings appear even around the horns when extra mad
- Are very poisonous, with a bite capable of injecting a ton of deadly poison into a body
Shang-Houzi: Try to make some mortal life in your image, plus they can live in the forest you've recently made!
- I'm thinking they'd appear as monkey/ape like humans and generally similar to how Shang-Houzi looks such as the majority having a lot of hair, sharp teeth, tail, golden eyes, etc. at least for the first generation. There would probably be some variation between them like one person having different colored eyes or hair for example.
- Also make sure they're sentient and smart/cunning enough so that they can make tools and survive in the wilds without you babysitting them.
- As for what to call them I'm of the opinion that Apes, Humans, and Monkeys would all be valid ways to refer to the race, although some fancier words I've thought of are Wukates, Jueyuans, Hanumins, and Vanara but I'm not really attached to any of them in particular.
Success D41 rolled a 32
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Failure D28 rolled a 6
The Wukates hop across the branches and begin to dance in circles around the spots where you nap, painting images upon rocks and bark of the gods among them and painting pictures of the distant towers of Mythos, they're just pretty chill
Wukates
- Made by Shang-Houzi
- Monkey people, athletic, lots of ingenuity, enjoy fruit, not much else to say
- Most have golden eyes
March of Cogs: Now with some good materials is time for some upgrades, first use the iron as material and the Storyteller new creature (Minotaur Octopus) as inspiration to create new cogs, and use half then to mine more materials and the other half to start building the foundation for the March new home base.
You jumped back up to Mythos saw the Boyui, and realised they would probably do better at mining then the mortal version of a Gavrix, so you made the Boyui-Iron model golems, which marched forward to do their assigned duties with... I'd like to say glee but they're pretty emotionless and a mechanised hive mind so there isn't much joy in there
Anyway
For the mining
Success D30 rolled a 29
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Failure D10 rolled an 8
For the construction
Success D28 rolled a 17
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Failure D21 rolled a 18
Good news, the Boyui-Irons managed to mine a bunch of iron, digging into the ground with their tendrils, wrapping around the ore deposits, and pulling them out of the ground with ease
Bad news, they constructed something entirely different to what you requested, they used the iron the materials they already had to construct a Machine Of Unspeakable Horror
A TOWERING MOVING FORTRESS DESIGNED TO APPEAR AS HOSTILE AS POSSIBLE, PIPES PROTRUDING FROM IT AND CURLING RIGHT BACK IN, SPIKES CURLING AROUND EACH OTHER AS THEY POINTED AT THE SKY LIKE THEY WERE THREATENING IT, VENTING INCREDIBLY HOT STEAM FROM GRATES AND GAPS IN THE OUTER WALLS
ITS INSIDES ARE INHOSPITABLE DEATH TRAPS DESIGNED TO TEAR APART EVERY SINGLE OCCUPANT THAT DARES ENTER WITH METHODS TOO HORRIBLE TO MENTION, A METAL DUNGEON FROM WHICH NO HOPE CAN ESCAPE
Also it has a little robot arm that stabs things in the crotch every 10 seconds, it tried to stab March but the blade glanced off their divine body and the Machine rolled off to go bother whoever else is less durable
Machine Of Unspeakable Horror
- A gigantic moving fortress made of iron and various other basic materials, quite advanced
- Appears as hostile as possible, pipes protrude from it and curl right back in, spikes pop out of it and curl around each other as they point to the sky as if threatening it, steam pours out of gaps and grates across it's body
- Inside is comprised of death traps that destroy anything that enters it with methods that most would consider quite "Immoral"
- Also has a little arm that stabs the nearest available living creature in the crotch every 10 seconds
Ruliana: Try to make your own servants, two-meter-tall humans with symmetrical features, silver hair, a pale complexion, and silver eyes, then mark them all with the Symbol Of Rank.
Success D23 rolled a 11
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Success D20 rolled a 4
Ruliana formed these beings from her own will, and watched as they crawled, waddled, then finally walked, she looked upon them and commanded a single individual to step forward
One that was a couple inches smaller then the rest walked forward, Ruliana took their hand by the wrist and carved the Symbol Of Rank onto the back of it, the individual flinched from the stinging sensation, but after that, began to look at the now growing symbol on them with wonder, liking how shiny it was, and so they ran towards the others to convince them to get Symbols as well, which they did
Soon each one was marked, and they called themselves the Ranken, soon they explored the city of Mythos, and all the strange buildings within, and Ruliana even introduced their species to the others inhabiting the city, the Keffrin and the Boyui welcomed them with open arms, and soon the council of 3 formed from the most respected member of each species, acting as their collective leaders
(The Lunar-Fanatics didn't join in since they considered themselves more of a band then a tribe, which confused the others but they decided to just let them have that)
Buelkof of the Keffrin, who started the trend of cooking finger tumours alongside the things growing on the trees
Zorm of the Boyui, who lifted an entire building that some thieves were hiding inside, this was not normal for his species he is just freakishly strong
Tino of the Ranken, first to be marked with the Symbol Of Rank and head-worshipper of Ruliana, she also managed to beat the Moon-Smitten at rock paper scissors, or in the Smitten's terms "rock, fabric, sharp rock"
The Ranken
- Created by Ruliana
- Commonly 2 meters in height, with symmetrically perfect features, silver hair, silver eyes, and skin as pale as paper
- Most of them enjoy the Symbol Of Rank on their bodies
Council Of 3
- A tribe of 3 races who elect the most the respected among each species to be their leader, comprised of the Keffrin, Boyui, and Ranken
- Currently led by Buelkof, Zorm, and Tino
Buelkof
- A Keffrin with the fingers comprising their face wrapped around each other so tightly that the knuckles have turned red, wild eyes in the gaps between arms and hands
- Best cook among the Keffrin, has an innate talent for cuisine
- Always slightly grumpy
- Member of the council of 3
Zorm
- A Boyui with a freakishly muscular body, horns are thicker then most of his kind, and his blue rings are brighter then most
- Freakishly strong, can lift a building alone with his tendrils
- Kind but ignorant of most subjects, but is willing to accept ideas from those he thinks know better
- Member of the council of 3
Tino
- A Ranken with a slender body, hair in long zigzag strands, and a constant smile, considered short by her people but still close to 2 meters tall by others
- First among her kind to be marked with the Symbol Of Rank and head-worshipper of Ruliana
- Marked by the Symbol Of Rank as Angel Rank
- Very curious and optimistic
- Member of the council of 3
Tabula Rasa: What a coincidence that I have the chance to use my second miracle so soon after the first. Anyway, I have noticed, tragically, that I appear to be homeless. No place in the whole of the city to rest my head. Luckily, a new and refurnished temple has just opened up. A temple that one of my particular skills happens to compliment perfectly. I shall go to the Temple Of The Unforgiven, and I shall grant the Penitent Saints within the miracle of Forgiveness. Then I will move in. Maybe throw up some fairy lights for decoration. Who knows, maybe one day I will have mortal servants and worshipers who will like the place.
Tabula Rasa jumped back onto the city of Mythos from the back of a napping Gavrix, and explored it, looking for a place to call home, they found one of the rare places with actual purpose, the Temple Of The Unforgiven, and decided to move in
But first they touched each statue and depiction of a penitent saint, forgiving them with a Miracle, which of course did not work because whoever knew of these sins either never existed or were already dead but it's the thought that counts for this kinda thing
After that was done, Rasa rested in their new abode
Mythos
X - Temple Of The Unforgiven: Towering structure dedicated to Penitent Saints who used to be vile criminals before being sent on deadly quests to right a ton of wrongs in the world, their sentence was death no matter what they did during their quest, but each journey was designed to help them reflect on their actions before execution via petrification. Statues depict Penitent Saints crying, looking satisfied, and some just laying down dead, all with a mural depicting their worst display of sin and their greatest display of virtue. Extremely grand looking, could house a small village on each floor
- Temple Of The Unforgiven: Towering structure dedicated to Penitent Saints who used to be vile criminals before being sent on deadly quests to right a ton of wrongs in the world, their sentence was death no matter what they did during their quest, but each journey was designed to help them reflect on their actions before execution via petrification. Statues depict Penitent Saints crying, looking satisfied, and some just laying down dead, all with a mural depicting their worst display of sin and their greatest display of virtue. Extremely grand looking, could house a small village on each floor, Tabula Rasa currently lives here
Tabula Rasa
- Lives in the Temple Of The Unforgiven
Nhwereoma: With ride on hand, ascend to Mythos and look for the one that bothered you with singing. Offer to unite him with his beloved by way of transporting him with Gavrix there. Try to reduce the distance that would have delayed you from doing this in a week if the Smitten agrees. Fly across the world with Gavrix if he somehow declines, it can't all be sand, right?
Nhwereoma hopped atop the back of their mighty steed and rode to the Moon-Smitten, currently performing a roof top orchestra with the Lunar-Fanatics, the giant spoke, alerting the other species in Mythos and causing some to panic and others to prostrate
"Moon-Smitten do you wish to come along with me and visit THE MOON!?"
"Nah"
"Why do you refuse this opportunity?"
"Because I gotta get consent first before getting too close to them ya big ol silly, consent is important, ain't that right everybody!?"
The Lunar-Fanatics nodded, and a couple mortals on the ground nodded too
"So yeah, that's my decision, have a good day, I'mma get back to singing, now boys! A 1, a 2, a skoodly doodly doo!~"
They continued their music, and Nhwereoma flew off on the Gavrix to do their plan B instead, see if there was more to this world than wasteland, it couldn't all be sand, right?
~1 week later~
WHY IS THERE SO MUCH FUCKING SAND!?
There was nothing but it all over the place!
Sand here, sand there, sand everywhere, the sheer scope of how lifeless this planet was would be mind boggling to the mortals back home, Nhwereoma dug down, just sand and rock, flew up, some sand storms that ended up in the stratosphere somehow, yeah, that's fucking right, the sand made it into the sky too!
"Hi big ol silly billy! How ya doing?"
Nhwereoma slowly turned their head and saw the Moon-Smitten, standing atop the tallet tower of Mythos with their Lunar-Fanatics
Nhwereoma realised they flew around the entire planet yet still found nothing, they circled round it instead
The giant sighed and replied "Just had a long trip, you?"
"I realised something when you talked about getting closer to the Moon, they probably just didn't hear me! So I climbed up this big tower with my band and we're playing up here for the Moon to hear"
"Neato"
And so the giant listened to the Lunar Orchestra play for the rest of the day, calming their nerves to the sound of love songs for the Moon
Mythos
- The Tallest Tower: Exactly what it sounds like, reaches the stratosphere, the Moon-Smitten hangs out here
In case you missed out on creating a god, you can make one during these action sections
(All are subject to veto and rewrite if I see any problems like gods of magic, gods of time, or gods of gods, just stay away from trying to seem like the most "Special" or powerful god, I'm already allowing your characters enough strength to annihilate cities, I don't need mary sues among an actual pantheon)
Banned Aspects (Can be subject to change, and new additions could be added later on)
Events
Omnipotence
Success
Failure
Magic (Since any form of reality manipulation is basically magic to me so you would always have a bonus during those rolls)
Everything
Fate
[] Deity Name: Obvious what this is
- [] 3 Aspects: 3 things they have power over, creatures, concepts, occupations, feelings, stuff like that, they're basically pretty good with things related to their Aspects
- [] Form: What they look like
- [] Miracle 1: An ability they have which they can do more easily then most reality warping, can be super powerful but don't make it the most strong one
- [] Miracle 2: You can have less then 3 if you don't feel like filling them all
- [] Miracle 3:
- [] Flavour Text: Optional
Now choose a single Deity, and an action they'll perform this turn
[] Shang-Houzi: Work with Nhwereoma to create some varied landscapes to hang out in, you do the plants, the giant does the rivers, lakes, and mountains if they want
[] Nhwereoma: Work with Shang-Houzi to create some varied landscapes to hang out in, you do the rivers, lakes, and mountains if you wanna, and Shang does the plants
[] The Twins: See what the Wukates are like, mess with some even
