Gods of Chaos: a Riot God Quest
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[X]From a particularly lustrous fruit of the Lonesome Tree, Kaileah the Dryad is born. Between its twisting boughs she finds her purpose, as a sentinel and gardener to her beloved progenitor.(Lesser Act)
Supported:
[X] Create a grand city within the Unreal, one that grows and changes with its inhabitants. It's roads shine like precious jewels while it's architecture will be the stuff of dreams.(Grand Act)
[X] Fill the branches of the 'Lonely Tree' with a variety of large, nutritious, seed-bearing fruit in a rainbow of colors so that it might spread lesser kin to the rest of the world. (Lesser Act)
[X] Create the Skrayt, four-winged inhabitants of the Clouded Lands
[X] Teach the Bãsn-Shaal-Khlomet the arts of Ardency. (Grand Act.)
[X]From a particularly lustrous fruit of the Lonesome Tree, Kaileah the Dryad is born. Between its twisting boughs she finds her purpose, as a sentinel and gardener to her beloved progenitor.(Lesser Act)
Supported:
[X] Create a grand city within the Unreal, one that grows and changes with its inhabitants. It's roads shine like precious jewels while it's architecture will be the stuff of dreams.(Grand Act)
[X] Fill the branches of the 'Lonely Tree' with a variety of large, nutritious, seed-bearing fruit in a rainbow of colors so that it might spread lesser kin to the rest of the world. (Lesser Act)
[X] Create the Skrayt, four-winged inhabitants of the Clouded Lands
[X] Teach the Bãsn-Shaal-Khlomet the arts of Ardency. (Grand Act.)
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- United states of america
I just made an edit for my vote, to be a grand act. So you might want to add that to yours
Easter
Laziest lazier
- Location
- Bed
I was thinking of something along the lines of "The Living Lands" where its essentially one giant landmass with all the different ecosystems on it. Where anything can find a place to live, also so we can get a whole bunch of different cultures.
BadAtScreenNames
Killed a man in Reno just to watch him die
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Okay. Finished the first draft of my Act this turn. @Photomajig , can I get a ruling on whether or not I justified the act level?
Teach the Bãsn-Shaal-Khlomet the arts of Ardency. (Grand Act.)
"You dream, favoured child. I see it. I see the pathways your thousand component minds scar into the universe. From that mandala, I learn your nature. How hot and bright your desires burn. How strong and unyielding your will is.
"With those alone, favoured child, I shall teach you to conquer the world. Come now. Come away from your flesh. It shall not die. I am not so cruel as that. And I have such secrets for you. Let me show you the Beginning.
"Do you see? Here, we Makers gathered, unleashed from the Unfrozen Sun. Our potency was infinite. We made the universe and all its laws. Still we labour, forging the worlds, but our designs for the future do not concern you. But this moment here. This does. This is the moment when we created the GRAND LAW OF NARRATIVE SATISFACTION.
"Is it not beautiful? Is it not elegant? So simple, and yet by its dictate must all of reality bend. Better yet, it is promised most utterly to mortals. You may wield the might of Gods, reshape creation, destroy and create as you see fit – and all it requires of you is PURITY. Purity of Heart, that one single desire might direct your every action. Purity of Will, that no cost is too much, or obstacle too great, in your pursuit of what you wish.
"Oh, favoured child, I see you fretting. You are mortal, and tormented still by the turmoil of the First Age. Be at peace. I know purity is as yet beyond you. But I shall show you how to achieve it. You see, at the heart of Purity is desire, and that is my Infinite Palace. And are you not my own? Have I not given you already this city to dwell in?
"I shall teach you arts to master desire. I shall show you its complexities, and how to plumb its depths. And with that gift, you shall achieve ARDENCY. You shall choose what your desire is, and give yourself to it until you are pure.
"And then, favoured child.
"Then, all shall fear you…"
-Excerpt from the Red Teachings of Bãsn, within the dream of the Eighth Bãsn-Shaal-Khlomet, as witnessed by the Watcher and recorded by the Historian
To explain, Ardency is basically an exploit for the Grand Law of Narrative Satisfaction; practitioners use a special system of meditation and mental disciplines to master their hearts and minds completely, allowing them to display the necessary grand acts of purity required to bend reality. It's exceptionally difficult, but with an appropriate level of dedication (and sacrifice, usually deeply symbolic and exceptionally painful ones), it's also very powerful. The cost, of course, is vast; you have to become very cold to slave your core desires to your conscious mind, and often quite amoral. It's a grand act and not a cosmic one since the only actual change is self mastery; the Grand Law of Narrative Satisfaction already exists, and was passed by vote.
Teach the Bãsn-Shaal-Khlomet the arts of Ardency. (Grand Act.)
"You dream, favoured child. I see it. I see the pathways your thousand component minds scar into the universe. From that mandala, I learn your nature. How hot and bright your desires burn. How strong and unyielding your will is.
"With those alone, favoured child, I shall teach you to conquer the world. Come now. Come away from your flesh. It shall not die. I am not so cruel as that. And I have such secrets for you. Let me show you the Beginning.
"Do you see? Here, we Makers gathered, unleashed from the Unfrozen Sun. Our potency was infinite. We made the universe and all its laws. Still we labour, forging the worlds, but our designs for the future do not concern you. But this moment here. This does. This is the moment when we created the GRAND LAW OF NARRATIVE SATISFACTION.
"Is it not beautiful? Is it not elegant? So simple, and yet by its dictate must all of reality bend. Better yet, it is promised most utterly to mortals. You may wield the might of Gods, reshape creation, destroy and create as you see fit – and all it requires of you is PURITY. Purity of Heart, that one single desire might direct your every action. Purity of Will, that no cost is too much, or obstacle too great, in your pursuit of what you wish.
"Oh, favoured child, I see you fretting. You are mortal, and tormented still by the turmoil of the First Age. Be at peace. I know purity is as yet beyond you. But I shall show you how to achieve it. You see, at the heart of Purity is desire, and that is my Infinite Palace. And are you not my own? Have I not given you already this city to dwell in?
"I shall teach you arts to master desire. I shall show you its complexities, and how to plumb its depths. And with that gift, you shall achieve ARDENCY. You shall choose what your desire is, and give yourself to it until you are pure.
"And then, favoured child.
"Then, all shall fear you…"
-Excerpt from the Red Teachings of Bãsn, within the dream of the Eighth Bãsn-Shaal-Khlomet, as witnessed by the Watcher and recorded by the Historian
To explain, Ardency is basically an exploit for the Grand Law of Narrative Satisfaction; practitioners use a special system of meditation and mental disciplines to master their hearts and minds completely, allowing them to display the necessary grand acts of purity required to bend reality. It's exceptionally difficult, but with an appropriate level of dedication (and sacrifice, usually deeply symbolic and exceptionally painful ones), it's also very powerful. The cost, of course, is vast; you have to become very cold to slave your core desires to your conscious mind, and often quite amoral. It's a grand act and not a cosmic one since the only actual change is self mastery; the Grand Law of Narrative Satisfaction already exists, and was passed by vote.
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Do the "Bãsn-Shaal-Khlomet" exist yet or do they have the necessary votes yet to be guaranteed existence?
BadAtScreenNames
Killed a man in Reno just to watch him die
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They do! It's the name the First Children in the city call themselves. Hang on, I'll find the line.
EDIT: Found it -
All canon. Just taking advantage of existing bits.
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[X] Skyland Fungal Bloom(Lesser Act) - The Skylands must be provided with a basis to support life. Seed them with spores of lichen, moss and fungus of a thousand colors and properties, making rainbow landscapes in the skies that can support future life.
[X] Bring Color to the World (Grand Act)
[X] let there be all manner of beasts to dwell upon the land and all manner of plants to match the fish and coral of the sea. (grand act)
[X] Create Myriad Sea Plants (Grand Act)
[X] Create the Cultivars, beings that shall help the makers fill the universe with life. (Grand Act)
[x] Every living creature bears an innate link to a counterpart spiritual mass in the realm of the unseen. As they grow and experience things this mass grows and changes and upon the creature's death they reawaken as said spiritual mass, now brithed into the realm of the unseen. (Cosmic Act)
//Edit: I'm adding my vote for @Dheer's authored act here.
[X] Create the first series of plant life within the hot lands, with all its variety and forms from the largest magma trees to the smallest flower. Let them grow in all their multitudes and forms adapted to the heat and flame of the environment whether by going towards the most intimate of connections with heat and flame such as the magma tree, or the beautiful flame flower or by going to all sorts of methods to survive and endure the land itself, from plants near the shore forming a connection with the sea to protect it or the simplest of methods where the plant life ensures that their seeds can endure the flames and regrow over another area where there is no flame. (Grand Act)
[X] Bring Color to the World (Grand Act)
[X] let there be all manner of beasts to dwell upon the land and all manner of plants to match the fish and coral of the sea. (grand act)
[X] Create Myriad Sea Plants (Grand Act)
[X] Create the Cultivars, beings that shall help the makers fill the universe with life. (Grand Act)
[x] Every living creature bears an innate link to a counterpart spiritual mass in the realm of the unseen. As they grow and experience things this mass grows and changes and upon the creature's death they reawaken as said spiritual mass, now brithed into the realm of the unseen. (Cosmic Act)
//Edit: I'm adding my vote for @Dheer's authored act here.
[X] Create the first series of plant life within the hot lands, with all its variety and forms from the largest magma trees to the smallest flower. Let them grow in all their multitudes and forms adapted to the heat and flame of the environment whether by going towards the most intimate of connections with heat and flame such as the magma tree, or the beautiful flame flower or by going to all sorts of methods to survive and endure the land itself, from plants near the shore forming a connection with the sea to protect it or the simplest of methods where the plant life ensures that their seeds can endure the flames and regrow over another area where there is no flame. (Grand Act)
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- Location
- Finland
It's a perfectly valid Act and I am pleased with the idea of magical seaweed monks, which it kinda sounds like.
BadAtScreenNames
Killed a man in Reno just to watch him die
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Sweet. Edited it into my first post
Fluffy_serpent
a snake pretending to be human
something fun to watch would be a system somewhat similar to those of the sacred gear of dxd.
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for those who do not know dxd I will give a quick summary.
the GOD of dxd created a system to help humans to be on an equal footing, what he did was create using his power or the soul of other beings things that may or may not have a physical form that are united from birth to its wearer .. the system never ended it so some errors arose, for example that the sacred gears (as those powers / artifacts are called) can evolve according to the feelings and will of their user (getting to make their powers more powerful or varied or even develop new ones) another mistake was that the bearers can have a balance breaker which is basically a temporary way where the power increases / acquires new powerful powers temporarily or etc.
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for those who do not know dxd I will give a quick summary.
the GOD of dxd created a system to help humans to be on an equal footing, what he did was create using his power or the soul of other beings things that may or may not have a physical form that are united from birth to its wearer .. the system never ended it so some errors arose, for example that the sacred gears (as those powers / artifacts are called) can evolve according to the feelings and will of their user (getting to make their powers more powerful or varied or even develop new ones) another mistake was that the bearers can have a balance breaker which is basically a temporary way where the power increases / acquires new powerful powers temporarily or etc.
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Rolen von Keng
Sleeping Green Bear
- Location
- The Wilderness
I love how we used purity as a basis for a heart of pure evil is a pure heart is it not? Yet it is why that there shall be those of pure good to oppose them. Sometimes evil will win, sometimes good. For though one may triumph for a time, it will inevitably fall.
BadAtScreenNames
Killed a man in Reno just to watch him die
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- the (currently) United Kingdom
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- He/Him
Sounds cool. Pitch it, I'll vote for it.
Ain't it great?! Fundamentally it's an amoral law! We can generate villains, heroes, and all manner of weirdness with this! (On that subject, Ardency is currently one vote from passing. Don't suppose you'd help me out?)
Also, figured it'd be useful to throw another round-up of currently passed acts again. Tallying everything up to post 361 and with the bonus factored in, the next epoch looks like this:
Cosmic Acts-
(14 votes) Every living creature bears an innate link to a counterpart spiritual mass in the realm of the unseen. As they grow and experience things this mass grows and changes and upon the creature's death they reawaken as said spiritual mass, now brithed into the realm of the unseen. A life after life.
(12 votes) Create the World Tree Yggdrasil, Tree of life and the 2 magics.
Grand acts -
(16 votes) Bring Color to the World
(13 votes) Create the first series of birds within the Clouded Lands, from the smallest song bird to massive mythical beasts. Let them compete for survival within this land and see who comes out on top.
(12 votes) Create the great Sun-Whales, dwellers of the chromospere, titans tens of kilometers in length, children of the Unfrozen Sun. Each of them is a nation within one, their minds great and powerful, grand magic of sun at their command.
(12 votes) Create the Myridna in the Hot Lands
(12 votes) let there be all manner of beasts to dwell upon the land and all manner of plants to match the fish and coral of the sea.
(8 votes) Hollow and puncture holes to pebbles all around the Unnamed World and fill them with living meat. Grant them the power to shape their shells and meat in accordance to their time in the world.
(8 votes) Create a sentient race : the White Ants, giant albino ants attuned to lunar magic on the Isolated Island.
(7 votes) Create the Cultivars, beings that shall help the makers fill the universe with life.
(7 votes) Create a sentient race: the Umbrals, a pale, blind, race, with hunched over backs, they dwell inside the darker parts of deep canyons and caverns of the cloudlands
(6 votes) Create sentient race: the Baólians.
(6 votes) Create a grand city within the Unreal, one that grows and changes with its inhabitants. It's roads shine like precious jewels while it's architecture will be the stuff of dreams.
Lesser Acts-
(17 votes) Skyland Fungal Bloom - The Skylands must be provided with a basis to support life. Seed them with spores of lichen, moss and fungus of a thousand colors and properties, making rainbow landscapes in the skies that can support future life.
(8 votes) Fill the branches of the 'Lonely Tree' with a variety of large, nutritious, seed-bearing fruit in a rainbow of colors so that it might spread lesser kin to the rest of the world.
(6 votes) From a particularly lustrous fruit of the Lonesome Tree, Kaileah the Dryad is born. Between its twisting boughs she finds her purpose, as a sentinel and gardener to her beloved progenitor.
Uncategorised Acts-
(14 votes) Create the Skrayt, four-winged inhabitants of the Clouded Lands.
Scrivener
The Femme In Yellow
- Location
- Don't Leave Me Here You Bastards
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- She/Her/They
next round i'll either create my lizardmen race or make that entirely new continent I want. I still feel that we need more land, preferably something like this:
Downsize the continent a bit or remove some of the smaller ones and we should be all set for land.
Downsize the continent a bit or remove some of the smaller ones and we should be all set for land.
Fluffy_serpent
a snake pretending to be human
[X] using remnants of divine power or powerful souls will create artifacts with powers that will be given randomly and these will be linked to the soul of their bearer from birth (cosmic act)
would that be okay?
would that be okay?
- Location
- Finland
Can anyone... elaborate on this Act? It's getting plenty of votes but I'm not finding a post that actually explains what it's trying to accomplish in any more detail.
Sounds like a Grand Act at most. Seems valid otherwise.
Fluffy_serpent
a snake pretending to be human
[X] creates a system that automatically collects remnants of divine power or powerful evil souls and then uses that power to create artifacts of all kinds that will have powers, these will be randomly given to unborn carriers and soul-bound.
once the wearer dies, the artifact is linked with another wearer that is about to be born (grand act)
I modified it to adapt more to the idea, now what would it be?
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- Finland
Nothing substantial changed, so still Grand Act. You can find examples for different Act types and Scales in the first post.
Rolen von Keng
Sleeping Green Bear
- Location
- The Wilderness
@BadAtScreenNames , already got it in my vote. Can I ask for your vote on mine? I would like to see it succeed.
Npt170
Primordial god of order
Ok then i want dinosaur for the animal and grass and tree for the plant.
Fluffy_serpent
a snake pretending to be human
So, do we plan to create humans and other typical fantasy races?
BadAtScreenNames
Killed a man in Reno just to watch him die
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- the (currently) United Kingdom
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- He/Him
Sure. Done.
We debated it a few pages back. Having said that, it's a riot quest, so you do you. Also, just to mention, we can only pitch one vote each age, so you can't do you relic system and your magic absorbing mineral in the same turn. Figured I should mention it.
Fluffy_serpent
a snake pretending to be human
oh, well last minute I'll change the last minute vote if I don't get enough votes.
[X] creates a system that automatically collects remnants of divine power or powerful evil souls and then uses that power to create artifacts of all kinds that will have powers, these will be randomly given to unborn carriers and soul-bound.
once the wearer dies, the artifact is linked with another wearer that is about to be born (grand act)
Y Draig Gosch
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Authored
[X] Create the Dream Plane within the Realm of Unreal (Grand-Act)
What are dreams? Are they our subconscious thoughts all muddled together? Are they prophecies of the future muddled by the weakness of the mind? Or are they something more? The two realms of Real and Unreal rarely touch except for dreams. Dreams allow the dreamer to arrive in the Dream Plane to live out their greatest fantasies or most horrific nightmares. Within the Dream Plane time is not fully constant or even linear at all. No, it is more akin to knots upon knots or interconnected stings of individual dreams. Some even say that you can manipulate the dreams of others to have them do your bidding. But beware of the Dream Plane for it is not without its dangers. After all, not all dreams have a happy ending.
Not Authored
[X] Teach the Bãsn-Shaal-Khlomet the arts of Ardency. (Grand Act.)
[X] Skyland Fungal Bloom(Lesser Act)
[X] Create the Skrayt, four-winged inhabitants of the Clouded Lands
[X] Create the great Sun-Whales, dwellers of the chromospere, titans tens of kilometers in length, children of the Unfrozen Sun. Each of them is a nation within one, their minds great and powerful, grand magic of sun at their command. (Grand Act)
[X] Create a sentient race : the White Ants, giant albino ants attuned to lunar magic on the Isolated Island. (Grand Act)
[X] Create a sentient race: the Umbrals, a pale, blind, race, with hunched over backs, they dwell inside the darker parts of deep canyons and caverns of the cloudlands (Grand Act)
[X] Create sentient race: the Baólians. (Grand Act)
X]From a particularly lustrous fruit of the Lonesome Tree, Kaileah the Dryad is born. Between its twisting boughs she finds her purpose, as a sentinel and gardener to her beloved progenitor.(Lesser Act)
[X] Create the Myridna in the Hot Lands (Grand Act)
[X]Create the first series of birds within the Clouded Lands, from the smallest song bird to massive mythical beasts. Let them compete for survival within this land and see who comes out on top.(Grand Act)
[X] Bring Color to the World (Grand Act)
[X]Hollow and puncture holes to pebbles all around the Unnamed World and fill them with living meat. Grant them the power to shape their shells and meat in accordance to their time in the world. (Grand Act)
[X] To give challenge and danger to the Void and Unseen, may there be 40 Outer Deities, eldritch in mind and being, and powerful beyond imagining. However, they are split between the Void and Unseen, forever to war upon the other. (Cosmic Act)
[X] Create the Dream Plane within the Realm of Unreal (Grand-Act)
What are dreams? Are they our subconscious thoughts all muddled together? Are they prophecies of the future muddled by the weakness of the mind? Or are they something more? The two realms of Real and Unreal rarely touch except for dreams. Dreams allow the dreamer to arrive in the Dream Plane to live out their greatest fantasies or most horrific nightmares. Within the Dream Plane time is not fully constant or even linear at all. No, it is more akin to knots upon knots or interconnected stings of individual dreams. Some even say that you can manipulate the dreams of others to have them do your bidding. But beware of the Dream Plane for it is not without its dangers. After all, not all dreams have a happy ending.
Not Authored
[X] Teach the Bãsn-Shaal-Khlomet the arts of Ardency. (Grand Act.)
[X] Skyland Fungal Bloom(Lesser Act)
[X] Create the Skrayt, four-winged inhabitants of the Clouded Lands
[X] Create the great Sun-Whales, dwellers of the chromospere, titans tens of kilometers in length, children of the Unfrozen Sun. Each of them is a nation within one, their minds great and powerful, grand magic of sun at their command. (Grand Act)
[X] Create a sentient race : the White Ants, giant albino ants attuned to lunar magic on the Isolated Island. (Grand Act)
[X] Create a sentient race: the Umbrals, a pale, blind, race, with hunched over backs, they dwell inside the darker parts of deep canyons and caverns of the cloudlands (Grand Act)
[X] Create sentient race: the Baólians. (Grand Act)
X]From a particularly lustrous fruit of the Lonesome Tree, Kaileah the Dryad is born. Between its twisting boughs she finds her purpose, as a sentinel and gardener to her beloved progenitor.(Lesser Act)
[X] Create the Myridna in the Hot Lands (Grand Act)
[X]Create the first series of birds within the Clouded Lands, from the smallest song bird to massive mythical beasts. Let them compete for survival within this land and see who comes out on top.(Grand Act)
[X] Bring Color to the World (Grand Act)
[X]Hollow and puncture holes to pebbles all around the Unnamed World and fill them with living meat. Grant them the power to shape their shells and meat in accordance to their time in the world. (Grand Act)
[X] To give challenge and danger to the Void and Unseen, may there be 40 Outer Deities, eldritch in mind and being, and powerful beyond imagining. However, they are split between the Void and Unseen, forever to war upon the other. (Cosmic Act)
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