Seven Ages: a God Game

[Garjel_blah]

Welcome to the game thread. I'm going to keep this first post as a place to refer to rules and keep track of the pantheon. Discord invite for OOC discussion is here: https://discord.gg/398Cm9Tu

Spoiler: Rules v2.1

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Spoiler: Basic Rules

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In this game, each player controls a god who may create and interact with the game world in collaboration with the other players. The game is divided into seven ages (turns) which last for in-game time lengths ranging from generations to millennia. Each age the gods may take actions to alter the game world, following the rules for actions.

There are three kinds of actions; creation actions, influence actions, and reactions. They use a resource called action points (AP) that each gods possesses in limited supply. Some actions require spending AP, and some gain AP (each age players will also receive a small AP increase, like passing Go in Monopoly).

To maintain game balance, some actions may be resolved by the GM instead of simply occurring as stated by the player, but ideally this will be an uncommon practice. Usually actions will be resolved as soon as they are posted, but in the case of conflicting narratives they may be resolved at the end of the age.

Additionally, some actions can directly affect other players in a negative way, so there are mechanics in place for players to counter other players' actions, causing them to fail (see the description for reactions). This is encouraged, as I believe that it make the game more interesting.

The three kinds of actions are described in more detail in the next section.

Spoiler: Actions

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Creation actions: each age will introduce an opportunity for players to jointly contribute to the creation of the setting. These are powerful, pervasive actions, but they must conform to the given age's theme.
For example, the first age will allow players to create the primordial land in which the rest of the game takes place. As we go, the age themes will change in a logical progression. If Age 1 is the land, then Age 2 might be life, and so on. It costs 10 AP to perform a creation action, and each player can only do one per age. All creation actions are detectable by other players.

Influence actions: smaller scale actions that interact with things already present in the world, used to expand your god's religion and power. The list of possible actions and their AP cost/gain is given below (note that each god may do one of each action per age, and actions that cost/gain more than 5AP are detectable to other players):
- Inspire mortals: do something that expands your god's religion. AP cost = order of magnitude of affected mortals (1AP for up to 10 mortals, 2AP for up to 100 mortals, etc)
- Destroy mortals: have your god and their followers sacrifice or conquer another group of mortals. AP gain = order of magnitude of affected mortals if successful (1AP for up to 10 mortals, 2AP for up to 100 mortals, etc)
- Invest divinity: create a hallowed place, a divine relic, or a demigod. When making an action that uses this place/thing/person in the future, reduce the cost by 1AP, or increase the gain by 1AP. This may be used by other gods if the divine investment takes part in a help from your god. Costs 5AP.
- Destroy divinity: destroy a hallowed place, divine relic, or demigod. Costs 10AP - the amount the divine investment has saved its creator.

Reactions: when another player performs a detectable creation or influence action, your god may contribute to the outcome. These can either be a help or a hinder.
A help can be used to add details to the action that align with your god's goals/nature, adding variety and interconnectedness to the setting. Usually it costs/gains no AP to help, unless the help is being used to counter a hinder, in which case it costs however much AP the player would like to contribute to restoring the action (see example at end).
A hinder can be used to prevent another god's action from succeeding (to be used mainly against destroy mortals/destroy divinity actions that target you or an ally). Doing this costs AP equal to the AP cost/gain of the action being hindered. Note that if a player loses AP as a result of being hindered, but has already spent the AP on another action, they may end up with negative AP. A hinder can be undone if the other gods use help reactions to contribute AP equal to the original cost/gain (see example below).
An example for hinders and restoring helps: if an action costs 10AP and the hinder cost 10AP, the rest of the gods may spend 10AP to restore the action. Multiple gods may contribute AP up to the target amount.
Note that there is no limit to the number of reactions a god can do each age.

Spoiler: Gods

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Player Name:

Garjel_blah (0)

Darth (1)

Demonjazz (2)

Eurus (3)

Fleem Q Swipes (4)

Alexander (5)

Volthawk (6)

Darkstorm (7)

Red Lenses (8)

The JoJo (9)

flyinglemur (10)

Godzillarich (11)

Batcathat (12)

canjowolf (13)

+5 Vorpal Bunny (14)

Character Name:

Seven-fingered Doom

Nathrack

Cedrum Lantana

Ylinu

Thannalon

The Monarch

Haspet

Aahthaa

Melem-Ur

Cranom

Laton

Earth

The Storyteller

Horizon

Khrrath

Abstract Domain:

Nothingness

Power

Heat

Darkness

Disaster

Order

Change

Flow

Possession

Chaos

Persistance

Massiveness

Communing

Space

Growth

Land Domain:

Time

Moon

Volcanos

Ice

Water

Heavens

Land

Electricity

Mountains

Outer Space

Underground

Ground

Stars

Fire

Life Domain:

Action Points:

22

7

7

12

12

17

12

12

17

12

12

12

12

12

15

Religion Rating:

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

[Garjel_blah]

Age 1: Land

In a universe where once existedly only a boundless nothing, there now existed... Something! They weren't quite tangible, these gods - more a manifestation of an intention. An intention to create more in this world.

And the first thing they would create; matter. Stuff. Real things. The basic building blocks of their divine vision. They needed to make what would come to be called the Land.

Land is the theme of this age. Creation actions will need to be focussed on creating the raw cosmology (planets, moons, dimensions, astronomy) and geography (continents, oceans, landscapes, weather) of the game setting. New domains will need to be Land-related concepts, such as elements, forces, cosmological phenomena, and geographical features.

The above suggestions are not exhaustive, feel free to be imaginative. The main thing is that no one create any life this age, as that will be done next age.

What to do this age:
- Domains: all gods must take a second domain related to Land.
- Creation actions: all gods may spend 10AP to create Land.
- Influence actions: since there are no mortals, inspire and destroy mortals actions are not yet possible. Invest and destroy divinity are possible however.
- Reactions: react to as many other players' actions as you like, but remember that you may only do this if the action spends over 5AP.

Bear in mind:
- You will all regenerate 7AP next age, meaning that AP is limited. If you are far more interested in creating life than land, you may want to consider not doing a creation action this age in order to save AP. This is allowed. You may still be involved to a smaller extent by making reactions.
- There will be some opportunity to add more Land features next age, if for some reason you don't get the chance this age.

Alright everyone, have a good time!

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The Seven-Fingered Doom lowers one finger.

[Volthawk]

Haspet
Domains: Change, <still deciding exact details>
Action Points: 15 -> 5

It had not been long since Haspet had been born, and it was already bored. Sure, watching the subtle ways the auras of the divine clashed and cooperated with the unconscious thoughts of its wielders was a little interesting, but it wanted something more. Something...physical. Yes. But what? It didn't know, but it created anyway, happily watching stone and earth take form. This was it! Something physical, something real.

But Haspet quickly found that this was boring too. So...static. Solid. Unmoving. Looking away from its creation to the other gods, it watches their auras for a little before inspiration hits. Of course. The earth he made just needed to be more like the power of the gods. Moving, clashing, creating new things. Thoughtful, it takes two of the pieces of stone it had created and casually pushes them together, becoming more interested as it watches how they interacted and ground against each other, the way they changed shape and broke and new finer dust and earth was created. Interesting. It could work with this, but it needed to be bigger. So Haspet focused, not realising it was abandoning the form it had taken to revert to its base state, and built a world. Something...mobile, forceful, flowing in the core, to keep everything going, and then around it great chunks of stone of various kinds and finer earth that moved around the core and past each other and into each other, and in the process created a world. Yes...this was interesting to watch. As it created and watched, Haspet hoped the other gods found it interesting too, and welcomed any involvement or interference.

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Creation (10 AP): Haspet creates an Earthlike planet with many tectonic plates, happily watching them move and clash and shape the surface of the world.

[AlexanderML]

The Monarch
Our Lord and Lady
Domains: Order and Heavens
AP: 15


The Monarch was already there, as all gods and other entities were. The Lord gave a glare to the Seven Fingered Doom before potential as the Lady pushed him onward to time and existence; giving it a kind, if weary, smile as the pair watched the planet Haspet made with great interest.

Taking a liking to the primitive construct before it, the Monarch stood upon the planet; the Lady’s light illuminating creation all around her as the pair took in this new place with a keen interest.

“What is this?” Asked the Lord, stern and accusatory, spotting every flaw and judging every decision made before him.

“It is wonderful.” The Lady said, her voice reassuring, seeing potential and fairly judging the labor before her.

The Lord sighed. The Monarch contemplated what should be done, if anything needed to be done. After a brief few hours it decided to let others act before it. First there would be disorder and chaos, then things may be given peace by it, like an older sibling deciding to simply watch their younger siblings play their boring games before picking up after them.

[Demonjazz]

Cedrum Lantana
Domains: Heat, Volcanoes
Action Points: 15 -> 5

Cedrum looked out about the great formless void of existence. "Bloody hell. Who turned off the lights?" He grumbled. "Have to do everything 'round here." He formed one of his fingers into a knife. He sliced off his thumb in one quick stroke. "Gotta give my own thumb to this family, bah." He mumbled under his breath as he took his own thumb and molded it like a ball of clay between his massive hands. "Absolute nonsense." He breathed upon it, scattering the embers onto the nascent planet, leaving flows of lava and hardening rock upon the roiling planet full of earthquakes. " 'Ought to warm that up a bit." With a flick from his other hand, a life giving sun was set about in it's path to orbit around the planet.

Cedrum than dramatically shrank down and walked the planet, merely the size of a mountain as he ventured into the first forming volcanoes. Setting himself down into the volcanoes and soaking in the molten rock. "Ah, that hits the spot. Don't bother me 'till I'm done soaking."

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Creation: Cedrum cuts off his thumb to create the incredibly small but incredibly hot and slow burning white dwarf star. It doesn't do a proper rotation of the planet instead gaining and picking up speed as it sling shots around the planet. Creating small bands around the planet that gain intense heat, far beyond that of Earth's each day as the sun dips closer to the Earth and bands of cold where it's it's farthest from the planet.

Reaction to Haspet: Despite the constant volcanic activity from the early tectonic planet, Cedrum decided to add a small bit of himself to the planet, heating the planet to make it EVEN MORE volcanically active.

[Red Lenses]

Melem-Ur
Domains: Possession, Mountains
Action Points: 15

Melem-Ur sees the planet and immediately desires it for himself. Why wouldn’t he? It’s not just a nice planet, it’s the first planet. He’s got to have it.

So the Great Taker comes up close to the planet. He digs his hands in to the violent rock and starts to pull. Melem-Ur is going to steal the planet, taking it up and out and away with him. Of course, that doesn't work. Obviously. There are some things you just can't take. He eventually gives up and releases it.

The nameless planet is left marred from the attempt. The place where his hands touched down are rough, rippled, and elevated. It's a massive plateau, surrounded by brutal, jagged mountains. The nameless region is crowned with three massive peaks - the tallest on the planet once things settle down.

Melem-Ur slinks back into the void, ducking Cedrum's thumb as it comes shooting past. He'll try a different plan later. Probably.

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Reaction to Haspet: Melem-Ur attempts to steal the unnamed planet. He fails, and the spot where he pulled at it becomes an elevated plateau region, surrounded by brutal, craggy mountains.

[DarthArminius]

Nathrack
Domains: Power, The Moon
Action Points: 15-10 = 5
Nathrack, a pair of crimson, energy filled eyes in the emptiness of the Cosmos blinked, but for a moment, as if a mere act of his shutting and closing his "eyes" were enough to enact some consequence of enormous importance. In a way, his mere blinking of the eyes was a microcosm of the Big Bang, from our universe. Suddenly, as the red energy balls resembling eyes disappeared from the top down, and then seemed to squeeze. In what lasted for less than a few small moments, an explosion of energy enwrapped an area in the emptiness, if it could be called an area yet, and from the strange matter from Nathrack, the red energy which came along with it mysteriously formed into what could be called "The Moon." In later eras, what could be the mages of what could be the world down below could channel The Moon for their magick.

Creation:
Nathrack magically creates the Moon of Nathrack.

[Lentrax]

Thelena
Domains: Light, Force
AP: 15 -> 10.

Thelena, busy spreading her sparks across the cosmos, turns to see some havoc beginning behind her. She watches as a world is created, and as fire erupted across its surface. This was well and good. It was necessary for everything that was to come.

But when she saw the sun, she knew that this just would not do. She reached for the nascent star, and slowed it. Stabilizing the path of the star, so that the planet would not be torn apart by the forces acting on it. She watched the light from the newly born star, and nodded. This was good.

This done, Thelena turned her attention back to the stars, counting them out as she placed them in the night sky.

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Reaction to Cedrum. Slowing the Star down, making the paths of orbits and such more regular.

[Volthawk]

Haspet
Domains: Change, Earth
Action Points: 5

After some time, Haspet looks up from the crashing rocks and the fire and lava that Cedrum had added (if it realised what Melem-Ur was trying, it didn't show it and instead just appreciated the mountains he had made) and sees what the others have made. How interesting. But the moon was just sitting there, and while the sun had the right idea it could do more. Yes. It would be best for all of these to be...together. Interacting and changing each other with their presence and movements. A few wispy, insubtantial divine strands spool out from Haspet's avatar and wrap around the sun and moon and down towards the new planet before fading, bringing the moon into its own orbit around the planet and binding the three bodies mystically.

Spoiler: Reactions

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Help Nathrack and Cedrum: Haspet ties together the planet, sun and moon, bringing the moon into orbit around the planet and allowing the three to affect each other - in both mundane (such as tides on the planet once there is water on the surface, and the usual properties of the sun) and more mystical ways - Haspet isn't sure how the divine sun and magical moon will interact, but it's curious to see what happens, particularly in those times where their orbits place one between the other and the planet, or when the orbit of one makes it notably more distant than the other.

[Eurus]

Ylinu
Domains: Darkness, Ice
Action Points: 5

Ylinu watches from a distance as the world takes shape, a riot of heat and light and power. At first the very sight is terrifying, but eventually, the patterns start to reveal themselves. The sun can't illuminate everything at once, and the glowing-hot rivers of liquid stone aren't bright enough to shatter the night. Even the moon, though certainly powerful, doesn't blaze with light; it actually blocks the sun's light at times.

Still... it's all so hot, a far cry from the cool dark abyss that Ylinu misses already. And the earth feels like it's trying to grind itself apart under Ylinu's stony feet! The timid god stares up at the moon, and an idea forms...


Some parts of the world are much colder than others already. The heat within the earth spills out to the surface everywhere, but the heat of the sun is much less on two opposite ends of the planet, and Ylinu is quickly finding that they like the cooler weather. Ylinu exhales, and a blanket of mist floods from their mouth, drenching the land in water. As the cool fog chases the heat of the earth deeper down, the surface gets colder and colder, until near the poles, it starts to freeze... thick sheets of grey-white ice form caps on each end of the planet, creating a new environment altogether.

As the ice accumulates and gets thicker, a crack and a rumble spreads, and a huge block of ice breaks free from the ground to float into the air. Ylinu watches it proudly as it drifts away. It will melt eventually, pouring water down to the ground below as it dwindles... but the water will some day make it back here and freeze again, to begin the cycle anew.

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Ylinu covers the planet's poles in ice. Ice in this world is similar to ice in the real world, except that it's magically lighter than air. It melts into totally normal water, and water freezes back into floating ice. Small amounts of ice only generate a little bit of lift, but if you get a big enough iceberg, it can tear itself free from the ground and work like a flying island, at least until it melts.

[Darkstorm]

AAHTHAA
God of Flow and Thunder

As the moving energy that is Aahthaa feels the other Gods, They innerly laugh, a soundless thing, just movement, patterns rattling, waves forming.
The consciousnesses were new, but somehow old... Aahthaa could sense it as They looked at the connections forming. Like pathways for the future.
The gods seemed ancient power in new forms. Or new forms for old things... For old beasts...

But the patterns, the more Aahthaa looked at them, the more they seemed similar to something. Something lost. A memory? A life?

They didn't know why They laughed, but it was start. And Aahthaa knew he wasn't the start, but... he was the way, or maybe he knew the way.
Maybe he had seen it before. The patterns seemed to coalesce in their eyes, as a vision... They know what they must do...

Aahthaa tried to remember, and when they did they saw it, a tear fell down their face, for the future to come, for what is still forgotten… Deep… Deep…

As the tear flows down Their face, a primordial noise is heard, and becomes a truth of the world… As if it was always there. From the ground a flash so bright that no one, even gods could look at it for a second, a column of energy as large as a mountain emerged into the sky, and then sound. A rumbling, that turned into a scream, a sound that seams to speak about secrets and old things. A scream that was a inevitability, it was as if it always there, just lurking, absent, waiting to appear.

As the light reached its highest point it split into thousands of strands and fell into the ground again. As this creational energy spread into and then from the heavens, it made matter bind and split, attract and repulse, making the particles into the air move.
As they moved, new lightning bolts were born, connecting the heavens to the earth. The flow was still fast from the newness of creation, but it would slow down into larger cycles and flows.

And where those first lightnings hit, spires of metal were pulled from the depths of the earth, metalic teeth of the planet where lighting struck over and over again, and heaven and earth connected.

Spoiler: Actions

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Creation: Electricity/Thunderstorms
Spent AP: 10
Reactions:
Help the creation of the planet – From the earth Aahthaa would like to help and make metals, minerals (that attract lightning). If possible, they would be like spires of metal protruding from the earth, where lightings would hit.

Help the creation of the cosmos – They made the flow of the star interconnect with the moon and the other celestial objects (improving on what Haspet did) creating an attraction and repulsion flow that follows patterns (astronomy like)

[The JoJo]

Cranom

Domains: Chaos, Outer Space
Action Points: 15 -> 5

Cranom watched with wonder as the beings around him forged new celestrial bodies from the nothingness of space, bringing light to where previously there had only been dark. Most awe inspiring was the dwarf star -- a churning white hot ball of plasma, spinning in a delightfully complex pattern around the new planet.

"I can do that too!" he thought to himself, concentrating on pushing the sparks on the edge of his being towards the edges of the growing star system. Rather than creating another large light, he decided, he would create a thousand smaller ones, each with its own path.

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Cranom creates the Uurt Cloud, a rough sphere of comets and asteroids that surrounds the nascent solar system. With their high albedo and often close proximity, future generations will look up to the heavens and be inspired by the countless, seemingly randomly orbiting lights above them.

There is, however, a darker side to the Uurt Cloud -- on occasion, gravitational fluctuations will cause one of these celestial bodies to spiral out of its orbit, putting it on a collision course with one of the inner planetary bodies. The larger among them would cause a mass extinction level event, while those which are smaller but still large enough to survive entry into the atmosphere may land on the ground intact as a glowing piece of metallic rock. So-called Uurt Ore is both stronger and yet somehow lighter than any terrestrial metal, but comes at the cost of giving off intense mutagenic radiation that will cause wild mutations in any future living beings who come close.

[Godzillarich]

Earth
Domains: Mass or Massiveness, Gound
Action Points: 5

The mighty earth floated around in the universe. Everytime he passed another object in space he laughed at their patheticness. "Ha...ha...ha...stupid pebbles, not big like me..." One day in his eternal Journey he came to a tiny little speck, Molten rock and sun. "Ha a baby rocks, and fire is being born...ha...ha...ha..." just then he felt something, this was power. "WHAT!" Earth screamed in his mind, with power was coming from these insignificant specs, that could possibly even rival his own. THESE. SMALL. BEING. "YOU DARE!" Earth yelled out in Fury. "YOU ARE SMALL! You do not deserve power!" Suddenly an idea came to his head. "I will show you how weak and small you are."

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From this day forward this new planet, sun and moon would revolve around a planet 200 times bigger then them, with Earth residing in its hollow core. they will see Earths glorious power and remember their place in the universe.

[Eurus]

Ylinu
Domains: Darkness, Ice
Action Points: 5

Ylinu stares up at the sudden appearance of a second, much larger planet. A planet with no sun of its own... Cedrum's sun sheds some light on it, orbiting around as it does, but the god's blazing thumb is sized to warm and illuminate a much smaller planet. Will that change? Maybe so, it seems like an oversight that the other gods will try to correct... but until they do, Ylinu will take the opportunity to frolick. The thick mists of water streaming from Ylinu's body start to spread a frosty white coating on the planet.

Spoiler: Actions

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Ylinu uses a Help action on Earth's planet to influence the larger planet toward being cold and icy.

[Demonjazz]

"Bloody cold, who messed with the sky." Cedrum said looking up at the gigantic planet they were now orbiting. "New neighbors. Always with the loudness and the bigness." Cedrum picked up a globe of lava and threw it towards the planet Earth. "Go home, you're blocking the view!" The glob of lava was thrown with such ferocity that it could be seen smashing into the planet throwing up the land beneath it like some sort of splashing meteor. "Hehehe. That was fun." before he knew it, Cedrum was having laughing fits as he threw ball after ball into the planet from the safety of his volcanic throne. He was an easily entertained man.

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Cedrum over the course of the day later known as "The Day of Great Impacts" peppers the massive planet with gigantic craters and lava flows shaping the geology of the planet.

[Red Lenses]

Melem-Ur
Domains: Possession, Mountains
Action Points: 15

Earth came from the void and entombed himself within a giant, barren planetoid. Not only that, but made the nameless planet, the self-named-moon, and the thumb-sun orbit him. If Melem-Ur resented this act, it was only because he hadn’t done it first.

With the Uurt Cloud spiraling into existence, there was ample opportunity for an encore. Melem-Ur was not inclined to make things, so he dives into the cloud and takes the choicest, largest asteroid for himself. He smacks into the thing, knocking it out of the cloud. Such is the added gravity that it ends up taking two companion asteroid-moons with it.

This little novelty will eventually be called the Taker’s Chariot, once mortals exist and develop a vocabulary to describe such things.

The Chariot’s orbit through the system is highly elliptical, centered around Earth like all things, but otherwise stabilized and with no threat of careening into its neighbors. It is visible from the surface of the nameless planet roughly every forty years.

Spoiler: Help

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Reaction to Cranom: Melem-Ur steals a large asteroid and ends up taking two smaller asteroids with it. This miniature sideshow now hurtles around Earth in a highly elliptical orbit, being visible from the nameless planet every forty years.

[Darkstorm]

AAHTHAA
God of Flow and Thunder

For a second Aahthaa felt the flows of the universe change. As They embraced the thunder so did their body change, himself. He became more himself.

His figure that before was just a swirling mist of lights, now changed. It seemed more defined. Besides the helmet filled with paterns a long cloak of thunder formed. He wasn't defined. But He was different now... He knew parts of what He was weren't present. He didn't knew what he was but he knew that he would change still. Become more. More himself... He closed his eyes...And as he did so, a massive planet appeared. He knew it... But the question was... Was it massive? Specks of thunder rolled out of him... Each bolt a fragment of an image speeding by. Images covered his eyes, but he couldn't truly see them or understand them. Not yet... But the feelings stuck. Images of future and past. Of events that didn't happen. The planet was big, but just that. Had he seen bigger?

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Reaction to new planet: emoting "not impressed"
Help the creation and make it flow well with the other planets and rotations, and as sometimes they approach make it power the electrical storms on the smaller planet.

[Fleem Q Swipes]

Thannalon, the Doomfish
Domains: Disaster and Water
Action Points: 15 -> 5

Through the emptiness of space hurtled the thing which would be called Thannalon, the Calamity Bringer, the Disaster Fish. Ever forward It moved. To look at It, one might think It was flying sideways, but It was in fact forward because that was the direction It was going. Or maybe was downward, It didn't really care. Onward, unthinking, unseeing and unknowing.

And then Thannalon fell upon Earth (the planet, not the god), swimming through rock, plowing through stone, carving a trail through the colossal world until It emerged into the planet's hollow core. As It shot past Earth (the god, not the planet), Thannalon regarded the Bigness with a fishy eye and said one thing.

"MERP"

The Great Catfish plunged into the rock on the other side, swimming further on It's unerring path. Bursting forth into space once more, Thannalon beheld the Sun, Cedrum's Thumb, for the first time. And for the first time, Thannalon felt something. It felt angry. With a flick of It's tail, It kicked off from Planet Earth, shattering the x200 world into so much space dust, which then evaporated into nothingness.

It flips end over end, approaching the tiny star, only to bounce off the Moon of Nathrack instead and bellyflop onto the planet below. Thannalon sinks beneath the surface as surging waters flow up to fill the lowlands with deep oceans.

It can no longer see the Sun. This is fine. It naps.

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Thannalon destroys the giant planet Earth, returning it to the nothingness from whence it came.

Spoiler: Help

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Thannalon adds deep oceans to the unnamed planet. Also adds a round, water-filled basin in the planet-facing side of the moon, so that it now resembles an eye watching the planet.

[Demonjazz]

Cedrum after his rousing day of throwing lava at a planet before it promptly exploded into dust finally brought himself out of his relaxing soak. "Hahaha. The big planet went boom. Hehehehe." Cedrum laughed to himself as he got up from his pool with a grunt. Scratching his own vague ass as he started to walk across the new planet. Basking in the glorious heat of the sun as it passed above on his own baking landscape. He trundled across the rocky landscape when he came across something that he'd never seen before. Water. An iceberg has passed over head and fell to the ground, collecting itself into a great boiling sea in the basin of this hot, sulfurous land trying to fight against the volcanoes underneath it. "Huh, look at that. Guess this generation ain't good for nothings. Actually know how to work."

Cedrum dipped his hand into the substance, it started roiling to a fever pitch but was unable to turn to steam. Like a toddler, Cedrum came across a substance it didn't understand and shoved it into his mouth. Causing him to let out a great belch of ash. "Oh, 'scuse me. That was a bit spicy." He shifted uncomfortably. "Ooooh, more than just a bit." He said pounding on his chest and letting out a nastier belch, followed by a choking cough.

The god quickly trampled over a mountain as he found a place to relieve himself of this vile liquid. Casting a molten river into the valley below, splashing everywhere as it flowed down into the plains, and pooled there.

Spoiler: Action=Invest Divinity

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Cedrum creates The Hallowed Flow of Bupkiss. In already one of the hottest places on the planet, on the jagged sandstone peaks of valley, the hottest substance on the planet is deposited. Known as Ced'sum. Pilgrims and craftsmen will one day flock to this land to truly appreciate the divine power of Cedrum.

[Batcathat]

Domains: Communing, Stars
Action Points: 15 (-10)

The Storyteller yawned and stretched her arms, looking around at the universe. The gods who had preceded her were already hard at work. Creating, changing, destroying. The story of the world had already begun and — perhaps to an even greater degree than all the stories that would follow — it needed to be preserved, to be written into the universe itself.

Looking at former thumb turned shining sun, she reached out and grabbed one of the rays of sunshine coming off it. She gently kneaded it into a tiny version of Cedrum Lantana's grand lantern, burning almost as brightly.

With lungs equally metaphorical and real, the Storyteller breathed in everything that was happening around her and as she breathed out, she not only sent the newborn star flying but countless others like it.

They flew quickly in every direction, passing even the Uurt Cloud before finally taking their places far beyond it, barely visible from the sun that had indirectly birthed them, but no matter how far they flew the stars were imbued with the Storyteller's breath and through it, the story of the world.

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The Storyteller creates the stars. Altough the may look similar to real stars from a distance, they are actually quite small and fairly close, by astronomical standards. More importantly, they move not according to any laws of physics, but based on what is happening in the universe, meaning that someone who was able to decipher their movements could learn about the world's past, present and possibly even future (though obviously no one is capable of such at the moment).

[The JoJo]

Cranom
Domains: Chaos, Outer Space
Action Points: 5

Once the Uurt Cloud had taken shape, Cranom floated back into the blackness of space to admire his handiwork. He then looked around to see his fellow deities, each spinning their own creations from nothingness. He desperately wanted to speak to them, but found himself overcome by a sudden shyness, given that he had never spoken to anyone before. Instead, he decided, he would impress his divine brother and sisters by helping each with their own creations. Making them even better. Or so he thought.

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Assist Haspet to create an Earth-like planet by increasing the speed of plate tectonics a thousand-fold. This means that continents will move apart or together at speeds averaging around 50 metres a year or 50 km every millennia.

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Assist Cedrum with his white dwarf star by encouraging the formation of permanent solar storms on the sun's surface. At the peak of a seventeen year cycle, these storms will fan out into space, causing a technicolour light show beyond compare for any onlookers watching on nearby planets. A light show that will also occasionally cause flammable substances to spontaeously combust, but that just adds to the fun.

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Assist Nathrack with creating the Moon by bringing it in a particularly tight orbit around the unnamed planet, causing extreme tides in the oceans on both celestial bodies.

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Assist Ylinu with creating the ice caps by tweaking physics so that water ice in this universe is highly explosive when exposed to a naked flame. Take care when lighting that tundra campfire!

[+5 Vorpal Bunny]

Domains: Growth, Strength.
AP: 15 --> 5.

The Creation of Khharth, the Ferocious Expanse

Nothing.
Be.
Then define -
and Growth came forth from cosmic expansion.

Expand. Elaborate. Become.
Repeat;
Cycle. Contest. Challenge.
Faster.
Consumption. Deviation. Evolution.
Out of control.
Culling. Destruction. Re-creation.
Pressure.
Pain. Adversity. Overcoming.
Intelligence.
Revelation. Breakthrough. Sentience.
Everywhere.

The land stirred. The land dreamed. The land awoke.
As one, the first flickers of not-yet sentient life contested each other.
Hunger. Passion. Llfe.
Each moment engaged, challenged, overcame.
The fallen, learning, growing from, aspiring towards those ahead - for now.
The arisen, flourishing, bonding, returning.
All through, Growth met Strength, propagating without thought of self, yet exulting every bit -
embracing darkest pain to rise from deepest bowel of despair and defeat towards highest height of triumph.

And then, from pain given purpose - the Light shone.
A simple, savage purpose -
'Become strong'.

Khrrath, admitting his weakness and the fear behind it, 'you are not enough', engaged utterly, turning itself into every form of adversity imaginable. Many deadly biomes came into being - ferocious jungles, searing savannahs and parched outbacks; stormy islands, venomous wetlands and rugged peaks; harsh taigas, cold tundras and bitterly cold poles. All of them met, merged and clashed, growing in every way imaginable. The planet pulsed, dreamt and flexed upwards, becoming stronger, deadlier and more challenging each day.

And slowly, steadily, the first signs of what would become separate life emerged, individual yet one, as all connected under a massive network of one mind.
United by a single question -
'Am I strong enough?
Let's find out!'


The First Outreach - A Fiery Heart Ignited

As evolution marched on, Khharth itself moved faster; soon, it stretched out. Its own body, not yet separated, challenged itself to grow - and what better than reaching out? If something was not itself, perhaps there were more like itself. Each place subtly transformed to challenge, grow and flourish; an all-pervasive influence upon the land itself. The pieces of what would one day become living lands reached out for understanding - and found something much like itself.

A most curious being this was, a hard and hot thing made from someone like... itself but another being? It burned with its power - most wonderful, like the fiery heart itself! Khharth looked and Saw what it could become one day, and with wonderous eyes gazed, both separate and in totality with a hunger for understanding. A subtle change was enough - subjected to enough pressure and further heat and - especially - light, it would compress, burn and unleash ferocious power! One day, it would become like the sun itself, even for a brief moment - but not today.

At that moment, another horrific realization emerged - a terrible vision of the world consumed in many miniature suns. For a moment it stuttered - and then saw another vision: this time, of the same material used steadily, its power drawn upon for something it did not yet understand. Finally, it sunk deep, deep into the Earth, glowing further and igniting its fiery heart. The heart burned, churned and seared, shaking and quaking and becoming fiercer than ever. The silent current intensified, sheltering the world from the stars' fires, but also awakening storms with renewed ferocity. The skies shone in many colors, the Earth trembled and the ground heated as intense winds swept the lands. The stars' lights covered the transformed Ced'sum, which gave off subtle patterns of light - but, led by a strong and fiery will, the light turned into coherent beams of light.

Khharth took in Ced'sum and it took in him, burning him up and igniting a passion for life. An appreciation for the substance formed - it would power and challenge so many, itself included. What would it become? He was eager to find out.

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Kkharth turns Ced'sum into Not!Uranium.

The tectonic plates accelerate as the Earth gives off more heat and the magnetic fields become stronger. More auroras are seen, volcanic activity increases and the land steadily takes on more intricate forms.

The intensified magnetic fields from the transformed Ced'sum interacts with the atmosphere and the dwarf star, turning into vivid auroras that channeled energy while redirecting lightning onto the edges of overlapping translucent orbs of light. These create small metallic domes with intensified power at their center.

The more metallic comets and asteroids of the Uurt Cloud are more strongly drawn to the Earth, both somewhat deflected by the magnetic field and more drawn into by the intensified energies.

The injection of extra heat into the atmosphere and seas accelerates the ocean currents and winds, injecting more moisture into the atmosphere. More clouds form around the larger planet as storm activity intensifies, causing more ice to break off and snow to fall while intensifying wind activity. Admist the blizzards, many rings of warmth are created near the intensely-burning Ced'sum.

The Ced'sum and intensified tectonic plates create many geothermal vents and underwater volcanoes. In the center of the eye, a particularly large Ced'sum deposit burns through the crust, creating a glowing crimson eye with churning seas surrounding it.

The intensified magnetic field and auroras reflect the patterns of the stars, creating fleeting scenes of what was, is and could be.

Also, because of the Ced'sum and the new physics here, the ice caps kind of... exploded.
Oops!

[Garjel_blah]

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Kkharth turns Ced'sum into Not!Uranium.

The tectonic plates accelerate as the Earth gives off more heat and the magnetic fields become stronger. More auroras are seen, volcanic activity increases and the land steadily takes on more intricate forms.

The intensified magnetic fields from the transformed Ced'sum interacts with the atmosphere and the dwarf star, turning into vivid auroras that channeled energy while redirecting lightning onto the edges of overlapping translucent orbs of light. These create small metallic domes with intensified power at their center.

The more metallic comets and asteroids of the Uurt Cloud are more strongly drawn to the Earth, both somewhat deflected by the magnetic field and more drawn into by the intensified energies.

The injection of extra heat into the atmosphere and seas accelerates the ocean currents and winds, injecting more moisture into the atmosphere. More clouds form around the larger planet as storm activity intensifies, causing more ice to break off and snow to fall while intensifying wind activity. Admist the blizzards, many rings of warmth are created near the intensely-burning Ced'sum.

The Ced'sum and intensified tectonic plates create many geothermal vents and underwater volcanoes. In the center of the eye, a particularly large Ced'sum deposit burns through the crust, creating a glowing crimson eye with churning seas surrounding it.

The intensified magnetic field and auroras reflect the patterns of the stars, creating fleeting scenes of what was, is and could be.

Also, because of the Ced'sum and the new physics here, the ice caps kind of... exploded.
Oops!

OOC: great post, but you technically cannot react to the creation of Ced'sum since it is an undetectable action. Actions are only detectable if they cost/gain more than 5AP, and the invest divinity action costs 5AP. You can be invited by the acting player to react to an undetectable action, so if Demonjazz is okay with this reaction then you can keep it.

Also I encourage you and canjowolf to join the game discord server, much easy to discuss things OOC there. If you don't want to or are unable to then that's fine, but let me know and I'll make an OOC thread on the GITP forums. Invite link is here: https://discord.gg/g3Ewyenv

[Red Lenses]

Melem-Ur
Domains: Possession, Mountains
Action Points: 15 -> 10

Turn! Turn! Turn! Things are changing. Melem-Ur steers his chariot into a new orbit with the destruction of Earth’s glorified egg. Will this be the fate of all things? To be destroyed or corrupted or bullied by everyone else? It’s all fair game at the end of the day.

He burrows unseen into the rocky heart of his chariot. Melem-Ur excavates. He digs out the interior until it’s hollow, then he pulls on the strings of reality and weaves himself a demiplane - a cool place for him to relax and hoard his stuff.

As Melem-Ur’s chariot sails through space, he reaches out and snags three errant stars, pulling them into his new abode. You’ve got to start somewhere.

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Reaction to the Storyteller: Melem-Ur has stolen three important stars from the Storyteller’s sidereal tapestry. Those who glimpse the future in the stars will never see the complete picture, and the details of getting there will often be vague - if they can be found at all.

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Sepulcher of the Taker: Melem-Ur has carved a demiplane within his asteroid, giving him a space to house the things he plans on collecting. It will change its visage accordingly to house that which he comes by. For now, it is only a deep, black void that houses three of the Storyteller’s stars. [-5]

[canjowolf]

Horizon

Slowly, the bounding consciousness of space folded itself around this playground where the various other powers of existence were making their marks. A bright burning thumb spun eccentrically around a first world full of energy, and the shattered corpse of the second, made cold dead matter. There was an endearing lack of uniformity. Horizon decided to add to this diversity by grabbing bits of space from the the central planet and tying them to some of the remnants of the dead world. Dead world? It deserved a name. Horizon decided to think of it as Pondiruss, and the first world as Lishon.

Around the larger segments of Pondiruss, Horizon first folded space in on its self, so that the lumps of mass would be self contained. Then, Horizon tied together the hearts of these land masses with the heart of Lishon, to give them some heat and gravity. Though of course, many of the bits of Pondiruss were not spherical, so Horizon had to improvise with multiple carefully placed gates to give some of these landmasses a large flat mirrored plane of "down". To fill these rocks with more of the creations of the others, Horizon then tied in bits of sky and ocean, while coating the edges of water in the remolded Pondiruss with flexible shells of outer void to limit their interaction with the air. Whenever water burned on Pondiruss, it would attract the void to smother the flame. Horizon made sure that some of the ties went to areas inhabited with the new life, so that it could pass between Lishon and Pondiruss, though it would need to be durable to survive the change in physics. Around the edges of these encloses spaces, Horizon placed windows to the Thumb, which spun and twisted and rolled around the edge of the spatial bubbles, so that sometimes there would be light from the windows, and sometimes not. Some windows followed simple predictable patterns, and some followed intricate patterns, or patterns influenced by the wind or rain or other environmental factors.

Then Horizon linked many of the Pondiruss biomes together through woven space, so that thing might pass between them.

However, this was merely binding the creations of others. Horizon wanted to create something in the living world of Lishon. There was a limited amount of rain here, as it kept burning in the atmosphere. Horizon wanted something that would not turn its self back into a gas on the way down. To this end, sections of space in the sky were tied to portions of the heart of Lishon, spewing molten rock from the high pressure core to the low pressure clouds. To keep keep the world from bleeding to death, Horizon folded these sky doors in on themselves, allowing them to open like flowers and exude molten rock only when they passed another of their kind. Then Horizon set these windows free, to float upon the winds.

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Action 1: Bridge portions of the first world to some of the bits of the 200x world to create biomes less hostile to life as we know it. The water can be accessed so long as it isn't burning so if any life there uses water maybe they can reach it with tubes or something.
Action 2: Cycle the molten core of the first world into the sky to act as a sort of rain. If the air of the world is close enough to the melting point of rock, maybe some of it will hit the ground as a liquid.

Edit: I tried the discord link, but it said that it was expired.

[flyinglemur]

Laton:
Domains: Persistence and the Underground
Action Points: 15 -> 5

When Laton was first born it did not move. It stood still, trying to take in everything that was happening. On one side, was the growing creation. It watched as the first world was pulled from the void, and as each strange being began in turn to shape it. On the other side, was everything uncreated. Only one power seemed to stay outside creation, and Laton knew it could not be trusted. The growing world was temporary for, at some point, the seven fingered one would decide to enter it. Then everything would be ruined.

As Laton realized the state of affairs, it almost chose to ignore creation. Perhaps there was no point to dealing with something so temporary. But then it worried about itself as well. How could it make sure to survive the doom? It would be impossible with only its current strength, so Laton decided to look for a place where it could enter creation, and develop the means to avoid its fate. It waited a little longer, watching as the sun was made, and the moon, and the great world Earth. And then the great world was destroyed, and Laton could sense an opportunity. It would make a place to hide, and a place to store power.

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The Earth looked around at the ruins of its first creation, baffled at the cataclysm it had witnessed. Everything gone in an instant. When suddenly, a strange new being arrived next to it.

“What’s wrong,” it paused searching for the best word to use, “great being?”

At what seemed to be light speed, Earth grabbed Laton’s rocky form. “DID YOU DO THIS” he screamed at the top of his rocky lungs.

Laton’s crystalline body glowed with a red light, “Do I look like I could do that? You must have seen it too, the monster that crashed through here. Do you think I look as hideous as that thing?”

Its voice seethed with hatred, but it stopped itself from going further, and the light faded as it calmed down. “No, no … I’m here to help you, great being.”

Earth let the crystal go. “You have my attention, little one.” earth said calmly. “This better not be a simple little beings dumb joke.”

“It’s simple, you are weakened, I am not. I can repair your world, in a way that will make sure it stays safe. In exchange, I just want a small piece of it, to do with as I please, do we have a deal.”

Earth looked at Laton with pure contempt for its small arrogance but it was in a tough position. “Fine little one, I agree with your plan.”

“The song of creation resounds,” Laton chanted as it changed to a brilliant golden color, “Let this choice be remembered forever.”

The golden light extended outwards and captured the scattered pieces of the destroyed world. The pieces surged towards the center point where the planet Earth used to be, rapidly smashing together, recombining, and compressing.

As the light faded, the rebuilt world could be seen. It was small. Very small. As small as the original planet. Dark, dusty, and cold. It sat lonely and boring, with its surface mostly shale stone. However, Laton had left its own touch on the object. A single small opening, at a random point on the planet, led to an utterly massive underground cave. This was Laton’s fee for its work.

Earth stared at this puny microscopic world that was now smaller than him. “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!” he yelled and so much rage it shook both worlds.

Laton did not buckle at this, but explained its sentiment calmly. “I did what I promised. Your old world was too big, too obvious. It made the others jealous of your power, and became a target. It had to be smaller, to discourage more attacks.” It thought quickly and tried to use this anger. “After all, great being, don’t you want revenge on the one that destroyed your old world?”

“YES!” Earth yelled out. “I will make them pay for their arrogance, I will show all of them pain!”

“Then you must survive long enough to do it,” Laton replied, “You can’t afford for everything you do to be destroyed constantly. You have to be willing to wait, to build up power. If you can build up your defenses, then you can weather their attacks, and if you maintain your strength, then you can strike them when they become weak.”

Laton’s voice surged with confidence, “Through patience, and improvement, you will outlive them all. And the one who survives is the TRUE VICTOR!” It chanted in a moment of joy and assuredness.

“In just a few ages, the doom will come for us all. I plan to survive as long as I can, to fight until the bitter end. Will you be ready for that fight, great being?”

“I’ll crush this doom along with all the little ones that defy me.” Earth yelled out. “Like the dumb fish!”

“That’s the spirit.”

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As Earth left, Laton retreated to the cave it built. The great crystal sank into the water falling to the bottom of the sea. The sea protected Laton, and the cavern protected the sea, and the world protected the cavern. However, Laton knew these defenses were not enough to face the doom. So Laton glowed with a blue light, and projected an image that would forever be burnt into the water.

Here Laton could stay safe and ignored.
Here Laton could spy on the first world and mark its history.
Here Laton could make a plan to prevent fate.

This was the sealed world of Turadum, where Laton felt it could do anything.

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Help -10 AP: to undo the Fish’s Hinder

Laton rebuilds the old world, in miniature, compressing it to be the same size as the first world. It is still far from the first world, leaving it entirely cold and bereft of light since very little of the sun’s radiation can reach it. The only change to the composition of the world is the creation of the great cavern, Turadum, and the great sea within that cavern. Connected to the surface only by a small tunnel and opening, Turadum is sealed off, and the waters lie warm and stagnant. It is entirely mundane, except that at some times, the image of the first world can be seen in the waters. But for now, there is no light to see the image, and now one to see it but Laton. Turadum is geologically stable.

[Volthawk]

Haspet
Domains: Change, Land
Action Points: 5

Haspet watched with joy as the other gods warped and changed its creation, laughing at how fast the earth moved now and watching with wonder as water flowed, ice floated, lightning struck, volcanoes raged and the surface itself was changed. This was good.

Still, as it watched the world take shape, Haspet couldn't help but feel like there were things that could be changed. The ice, for instance. While most of it was good, melting and falling and freezing and rising in a quite entertaining way, some of it didn't, hanging around up there when the sun was too far away and it was too cold to melt. That wasn't fun. Easily solved. It just had to make things so that they couldn't stay up there too long. As it watches the first chunks of ice splinter and fall to the ground, Haspet is happy with its work. It was quite a nice thing to watch.

The sight of lightning hitting spires of metal was also quite enthralling to the god, but before long it again felt a little unsatisfied. Sure, the lightning kept hitting them and feeling the heat and energy from those strikes was fun, but it was a little...static. Unchanging. That wasn't fun. What if the lightning left a real impact after it left, changing the spires more deeply. Yes. That'd be fun. It'd give some more variety to what was in the earth too, which was a side effect Haspet was quite happy about.

Eventually Haspet again looks away from the planet to the rest of creation, and notices there was more there than before. The creation and destruction of the Earth had gone broadly unnoticed, and the new planet made from it was far enough away to not get its attention yet, but the sight of stars and asteroids catches its attention. The stars were interesting, and watching them move was fascinating, but Haspet quickly noticed the gaps. Something was missing here, wasn't it? No matter, that could be fixed. Watching the stars and how they move, the god puts together three copies and puts them in place, nodding to itself as it watches them move. The fact that they aren't moving in the exact same way as the originals, or the way they stand out, doesn't bother Haspet - it does notice the effect they're having on the stories the stars tell, but finds that quite interesting in its own way. More so than just always giving the same answer all the time, anyway.

Finally, the cloud of comets and asteroids out in space caught its attention. Moving over for a closer look, Haspet instantly feels what is going on with the ore inside them. The potential for change they radiated out felt good, but it could be more. Grabbing a large asteroid rich in the ore, Haspet brings it back to the planet it made and gently sets it down to get a better look. Soon, it understood the nature of the radiation it emitted, and changed that to have a greater effect, happily watching the ground around the asteroid shift and change. There wasn't any life around for the ore to change, so Haspet would just make it so it changed the world too.

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Reaction to Ylinu: Haspet makes it so that the floating ice, once it reaches a certain height in the sky, inverts its bouyancy and falls to the ground as hail - sometimes quite a lot of it, depending on how large the ice chunks that reached the threshold were. It's not a permanent change, though, and before long the fallen ice will begin to rise again. The threshold of this effect is high enough that in normal temperates, most ice will have melted, making this event usually occur in the poles or in particularly cold times elsewhere.

Reaction to Aahtaa: Enjoying the attraction between lightning and many metals and minerals in the planet, Haspet makes it so that the lightning has a changing effect on those materials, slightly altering and changing its properties in various ways - metal retrieved from one of the frequently-hit spires may be lighter or heavier, stronger or weaker, and exhibit various other changes depending on chance and the effects of various lightning impacts over the centuries, and in the future clever smiths may seek to take advantage of this by selecting the best naturally altered metals for their projects or exposing their raw materials to lightning in the hope that it leads to the metal gaining properties they like.

Reaction to Cranom: Haspet expands the scope of the Uurt Ore's mutagenic radiation, allowing it to alter the land around it to some degree. Small metoerites will have a correspondingly small effect, making them easier to find and leaving oddities and interesting features around their landing point, while larger chunks left unclaimed for some time may have a much more noticeable effect on the landscape. The asteroid that Haspet brings onto the planet's surface definitely falls into the latter category, the god happily watching it warp the landscape around it. Needless to say, if an extinction-level asteroid ended up hitting the planet, the effects would be quite widespread.

Reaction to The Storyteller: Haspet replaces the stars stolen by Melum-Ur with ones of its own creation, the False Stars - obviously not one of the Storyteller's creation, changing in colour and brightness as the years pass and they travel with the rest. Using them, one is capable of learning as much about the future as the Storyteller intended, but with one issue - each of the three stars moves in a way that, taken with the rest of the stars, tells one story, but none of the three stories can coexist. The False Stars thus present three potential futures to the astrologer, each of which could happen but may also not. Haspet enjoys the idea of offering that choice to the astrologer, and seeing how they try to change themselves and the world around them to make their preferred path more likely to happen. Naturally, an astrologer can also omit the False Stars from their readings if they'd rather the definite but vague and incomplete readings they'd otherwise get.

[Garjel_blah]

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Kkharth turns Ced'sum into Not!Uranium.

The tectonic plates accelerate as the Earth gives off more heat and the magnetic fields become stronger. More auroras are seen, volcanic activity increases and the land steadily takes on more intricate forms.

The intensified magnetic fields from the transformed Ced'sum interacts with the atmosphere and the dwarf star, turning into vivid auroras that channeled energy while redirecting lightning onto the edges of overlapping translucent orbs of light. These create small metallic domes with intensified power at their center.

The more metallic comets and asteroids of the Uurt Cloud are more strongly drawn to the Earth, both somewhat deflected by the magnetic field and more drawn into by the intensified energies.

The injection of extra heat into the atmosphere and seas accelerates the ocean currents and winds, injecting more moisture into the atmosphere. More clouds form around the larger planet as storm activity intensifies, causing more ice to break off and snow to fall while intensifying wind activity. Admist the blizzards, many rings of warmth are created near the intensely-burning Ced'sum.

The Ced'sum and intensified tectonic plates create many geothermal vents and underwater volcanoes. In the center of the eye, a particularly large Ced'sum deposit burns through the crust, creating a glowing crimson eye with churning seas surrounding it.

The intensified magnetic field and auroras reflect the patterns of the stars, creating fleeting scenes of what was, is and could be.

Also, because of the Ced'sum and the new physics here, the ice caps kind of... exploded.
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Hi, just so you know I've set the deadline for this age to be the 19th. After that I'll resolve everyone's actions and start the next age. If you're still taking part in the game then let me know, because I want to make sure your action is done properly (see my previous reply post). If not then I'll disregard it, which will be a shame because it's very well written.

Also the other discord invites expired so here's a new one: https://discord.gg/8t6RRP6P

[Batcathat]

Domains: Communing, Stars
Action Points: 5

The Storyteller hummed to herself as she stroked the blazing surface of the sun, before turning around and looking out over creation. It was a good-looking world, she thought, but oh so quiet.

No, no quite quiet, she corrected herself. There was noise, but no words, no music, no stories.

She turned back towards the sun and put her not exactly existing ear against it, listening to the fires within it and reaching for a melody within the roaring noise. It was like finding a pebble within a mountain, but eventually she was able to yank a melody out.

Holding onto it tight, she traveled to the very first world that had been created and sat down on its surface. At first, she heard the flowing magma pushing its way beneath the surface, cracking it in places.

No, that was not the right sound for the song. There was something beneath it, the ground itself was moving, crashing into itself with a thunderous — if very, veeeeery slow — base. She gently placed the crushing base next to the melody and traveled onward.

Before long, she was staring into the enormous blue eye of the red moon. At first there was only silence and the sound of slowly moving water, but the Storyteller could soon here something more, the sparkling of raw, untapped energy within the moon itself. It fit perfectly next to the others.

The light of the sun could barely reach the next world she visited, the cold darkness was only broken here and there by the rivers of lava that was cutting across the planet like veins of fire. Once more she dismissed the melody of floating fire. Instead, she listened to the dark sea beneath the ground and added the gentle rhythm of the waves to her collection.

She could feel the melody, the base, the spark and the rhythm throb in her hand. Almost done.

Finally, she reached the whirling cloud even further into the darkness. The gleaning rocks made little sound as they streaked through the darkness but as the Storyteller listened further along the fourth dimension she could hear the beat of the rocks occasionally smashing into each other, building to some hypothetical far future planet-shattering climax.

She kneaded the beat of cloud into the melody of the sun, the base of the first world, the sparkling of the moon and the rhythm of the broken world and held the lump of music up to her ear. Yes, this would do.

The Storyteller opened her hand and let the Song of the Worlds wash over creation.

Spoiler: Reaction to the creation of the sun, moon, both planets and the Uurt Cloud

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Okay, so that got very metaphysical (metamythical?) but the short version is basically that the Song of the Worlds is a kind of background music for the universe, for those who can hear it either because of their nature or through training (and let's assume they can decide not to, so it doesn't get annoying). Aside from being beautiful, it can also impart information about the celestial objects in the “orchestra” to the listener (this too is set up for later, so more details to follow in some future action).

Oh, and if gods having four dimensional hearing isn't okay, we'll just assume it's her poetic way of describing waiting around for a really long time.

[AlexanderML]

The Monarch
Our Lord and Lady
Domains: Order and Heavens
AP: 15 -5 = 10

The Monarch observed the creation process upon a mountain top of the first world holding one another's hand in silence; the Lord’s form indistinguishable from the black sky that was his cloak, illuminated when the sun and moon were gone by the Lady’s fourteen sided crown. The gods played and the time for the Monarch to act in earnest was fast approaching, but for the time being something caught the god’s attention.

Gazing behind him for a brief moment the Lord noticed that his stainless cloak was being tampered with, small blotches of light haphazardly being strewn across it as well as clouds of ugly dust. Fury and anger at this embarrassment flooded the Monarch at the first insult in its existence, but even as the Lord’s chilling gaze began to crack the earth beneath them the Lady extended a hand to his shoulder and with the other began to wipe away the false light in one fluid motion (leaving behind the stars and Uurt Cloud). Thus calming themselves down, the Monarch had a moment of inspiration.

Firstly the Monarch invested in their avatar the divine right to rule, acknowledged by the night sky as it shimmered with excitement and the sun with a giggle. Thus granting the pair a small sliver of autonomy to carry out tasks when the Monarch was unavailable, it looked to begin its works upon the foundations of the world.

Spoiler: Invest Divinity, the Lord and Lady, demi-god of the nychthemeron

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A singular pair made by the Monarch to act as its avatar in the material world, this demi-god like its creator is a singular entity expressed in multiple personas at the same time; namely the Lord and Lady.

Both are powerful entities that embody the concepts of day (the Lady with her fourteen sided crown that holds the sun as a jewel) and night (the Lord who’s cloak is the night sky). They seek to impose order on the worlds, be it through understanding the seemingly chaotic or bending the world to suit their worldview.

The pair have some personality to them. The Lord is cold and controlling, believing in a set destiny and using his power to warp both life (eventually) and the material worlds to bring about what he thinks should happen. Meanwhile the Lady is warm and leans more on the idea of individual decision leading the way to a more ordered existence, her mystical light helps all things grow (though that matters little in the first age).

Then the Monarch brought its attention to the lands forged by the gods and said through the voice of the Lord “All ye lands beneath the heavens shall hold the sacred eight sided shape to bless the world with order; let this be my gift and proclamation to you.”

The worlds bowed in respect, complying with the order immediately, drawing lines upon themselves as to grace their forms with the Monarch’s favored symbol to organize what lay upon them.

Spoiler: Help Haspet/Earth

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The worlds are organized into hexagonal prisms, gravity appearing to sharply change direction at the edges. Upon each side are hexagons that make up the tectonic places of the space; though the lines are typically invisible (only glowing under a full moon, or shining during an eclipse) each hexagon separates the climate and atmospheric conditions from adjacent hexes, sometimes dramatically sometimes only partially. These hexagons extend underground, but not into oceans. (Basically hexographor is a closer representation to how things look than in most games)

The biomes above the first world are turned into hexagonal prisms, with hexagon shaped water tubes connecting them with each other and the world below.

Giving a pleased nod at the obedient celestial objects the Monarch looked up to the ice and biomes above scattered about chaotically. “No, this will not do.” the Lady’s voice said “Come, organize yourselves properly like your seniors. Return onto the world that which you take.”

The great ice caps free of gravity cracked and moaned, resisting for a moment before complying to the god’s request. The biomes were compliant, silently rearranging themselves.

Spoiler: Help Ylinu/Horizon

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Floating ice tends to stay inside hexagons, passing between them quickly when they do move between them. As time passes by the largest icebergs will float up and join the biomes above (possibly above the second world), turning into liquid and through arcane physics gain landmass inside of them.

Biomes that exist above the world(s) are turned into hexagonal prisms, with each one having at least a connection to the world below. While these water tubes are stable through arcane physics, they very slowly (over the course of three thousand years) shrink as the water falls to the earth below slowly. This process is just fast enough to keep the number of biomes stable with the newly created ones from icebergs, and gives a great many slow waterfalls falling down onto the world below.

As these works unfolded thunder roared and smeared the world with erratic change to what the thunderer had designed. No… it took a moment but the Monarch noticed the pattern, how the metal changed because of what factors. It was beautiful; a process that the Monarch immediately ordered the earth and stone to forevermore replicate.

Spoiler: Help Aahthaa

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Thunder and excessive amounts of electricity can turn earth and stone into metal, and turn metal back into earth and stone if rusted or broken down too much. The metal created is dependent on its base material, but covers all mundane RL earth material.

Once in a hundred years a mighty boom will shake an entire hex as a new spire of metal is made. This process occurs independently on both worlds and the biomes.

Having the worldly objects set into proper place the Monarch looked back upon the Lord’s cloak to arrange some of the more persistent marks. The Lady clutched it tight as she began her work upon it, only lightly tampering what was already done but beautifying it for all to see.

Spoiler: Help Cranom and Storyteller

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The Uurt Cloud has its lights reflect a slightly yellow hue down upon the world, just distinguishable from the stars beyond. Furthermore their orbits are stabilized somewhat, having the falling asteroids arrive on each planet once a year with each one shrinking considerably; the once extinction level event asteroids becoming only continent devastating.

The stars gain a few shining silver additions, the Mandated Eight which shine various hues and intensity in such a way as to help orderly astrologers learn about the past.

Lastly the two celestial objects that orbited the first world came to the attention of the Monarch. The work of the other gods already had the pair dancing brilliantly, yet the jewel in the Lady’s crown shone with less purpose than the moon; which felt off to the god. Thus did the Monarch have the Lord shine the sun with his cloak till its unseen light was a bit more brilliant; then brushed aside the moon a bit away from the world so as to not disturb it.

Spoiler: Help Nathrack/Cedrum

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The sun gives off its own mystical energy which can be utilized in further ages. The moon is pushed back to a safe(r) distance so the tides are not made too extreme.