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LordGleam is not online. LordGleam
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12 Jan 2013 09:29 AM
The Thing I Liked

Summarily, this is a roleplay about gods who are shaping a new universe. Everyone begins as a Fledgeling Deity, and things just go from there. All is explained.

RULES & GUIDELINES
Ask the moderators for help if you have a question.
Remember, the actions described are flexible – Create Land could create an island or a gas giant, depending on the deity’s desire.
The point of this is to weave a story, not to “win”. 
The obvious “no godmodding (lol) and no mary sues” is in place.
Try to talk over major actions with other players – working cohesively will enhance the storytelling.
Deities CAN sabotage the work of others, so don’t be surprised when it happens.
Players can roleplay a maximum of two deities.
There is a limit of FIVE players (not including Recesity and myself). When on player becomes inactive, I'll reopen signups.

CONCEPTS
Concepts are things your character can be the God of. They are required to gain ranks, receive a higher income of Divinity, and thus perform more actions. Concepts shape the personality of the deity, as well. A god gains a discount on actions related to Concepts that they have already acquired. Each god starts with two Concepts, and to gain another, they must first spend at least 9 points on things related to that concept. Before taking on a Concept, you must first talk to a moderator about it.

DIVINE RANKS
RANK --------------- MAX POINTS ----- POINTS PER WEEK ---- CONCEPTS
Fledgeling --------- 16 ----------------- 4 -------------- 2
Lesser ------------- 18 ----------------- 5 -------------- 4
Intermediate ------- 20 ----------------- 6 -------------- 6
Greater ------------ 22 ----------------- 8 -------------- 8
Highest ------------ 24 ----------------- 10 ------------- 10

DIVINITY POINTS
Divinity Points are points given to deities to regulate their major actions. They start off with their maximum points, regaining the stated points per week each week at Saturday 9:00 AM, EST. Their points may be spent on the actions detailed below.

Create Life (2 points)
-Create the basis of mortal life, such as humans, elves, or dwarves. There is no limit to their numbers.

Evolve Life (2 Points)
-This evolves a race. There are no set parameters for this. You could give a valley tribe the ability to breathe underwater if they're flooded, or give an animal race high intelligence.

Create Legendary Life (4 points)
-Create a legend, no longer limited by mortality. Dragons and angels are such examples.

Create Organization (2 points)
-Create any group of people, ranging from a small camp of rebels to a secret society to an entire country. Without this, life is expected to eventually band together, but you may push it along to create a kingdom, or even try to make tribes and pit them against each other in war.

Create Land (2 points)
-Create land, from the stars in the sky to the spray of the sea. Indigenous flora and fauna are assumed to thrive here unless stated otherwise.

Alter Land (1 point)
-Alter the form of pre-existing land. Change it into anything, from a desert to an iceland. 

Create Plane (4 points)
-Create an alternate plane of existence. There are no limits. Let your imagination flow into the plane.

Introduce Lesser Concept (1 point)
-If you feel something small is taking too long to be discovered, you can introduce it to society. They can figure it out on their own, this is just a way to make it happen sooner. Lesser concepts are things like bows and arrows, or light bulbs. 

Introduce Greater Concept (4 points)
-If you want the world to advance early, this is the ability to use. Introduce large things, such as otherworldly travel, or raising the dead through magic. 

Gain Concept (6 points)
-Take on another Concept for your deity. This is required to gain ranks. Any use of this ability must be approved by mods. You must have spent at least 9 points on things related to a Concept in order to acquire it.

Create Artifact (4 points)
-Create an object of power. Examples would be a sword of black hole matter that can tear through anything or a sarcophagus that travels through time and space. The amount of power allowed in the artifact is at the discretion of a moderator. This is mainly for RP purposes; there's no set ability that artifacts have.

Create Hero (3 points)
-Have a person from an existing species rise to the status of a hero, or create an entirely new being to fulfill this role. Essentially, you're giving a non-deific character special powers and you may RP as them in the world, influencing it all.

Bless/curse (1 point)
-Give the world a blessing for your approval or a curse if the opposite. Another God must spend the amount of divinity points the original user did, plus one, to cancel a curse or blessing. This is very open to interpretation. A blessing could mean longevity to a nation of people, or an advantage in battle. A curse could mean an entire race turned to stone, or simply infertile soil for a region.
Example: Selim, God of Knowledge and Death, used Curse, spending one divinity point. The curse gave made a horrible disease that infected every living thing on the planet. Kroed, God of Salvation and Mercy, decided to end this curse. He canceled it out, spending two divinity points.

Infuse (4 points)
-Grant a shard of your divinity to any being, giving them power based on one of your Concepts. 

MODERATORS
These are people chosen to run the roleplay. Moderator powers include:
Accepting characters
Approving the acquirement of Concepts
Determining the outcome of battles
Deciding over ambiguity
Awarding extra points for whatever reason
Approving of time skips
Approving heroes, artifacts and infusion powers

I may appoint moderators as I see fit. Currently, the only moderators are Recesity and I.

APPLYING TO JOIN
Write out a paragraph meant to introduce your God to the roleplay - have them coming to e from the endless void, or zapping into existence, or whatever. Describe their appearance (if any) and mention their Concepts, as well as their goals.

[rant] NOTE: Remember, during character creation, that you're making a primordial deity who knows nothing about OUR world. I cannot stress this enough. They don't know of our fictional beasts or our real ones, or anything of the sort, so I'd like to remind you to choose Concepts and take actions accordingly. Being a God of "Nature and Oceans" is going to get you fairly left out if everyone is playing larger things, such as "The God of Death and Time", or the "God of Madness and Fate". I don't know why I need to be spelling this out, but please, don't immediately try to go for making a copy of Earth and expect everybody to call you a genius. Please don't have your space god make dwarves and elves just out of the blue. Play your god AS IF YOU WERE IT, taking actions it would take instead of ones you would take. And please, no obvious self-insertions.
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Pieperson2222 is not online. Pieperson2222
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12 Jan 2013 09:33 AM
Flames of infinite colours rise from the ground, of all the colours known to man's rainbow, and more alien tinges that can only be described as the elements of chaos. The flames form together to create an ooze-like figure, constantly shifting, constantly reforming, and constantly changing. Pieces it's figure erupt into flames of random colour, other pieces spontaneously form from nothingness. It's voice, like music, comes from everywhere and nowhere as it speaks. "I am Zelios, Lord of Chaos, and the art of it's expression." (Concepts are Chaos and Art, of course)
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SP2398salt is not online. SP2398salt
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12 Jan 2013 09:33 AM
((Hm, Interesting. May I have some examples of Concepts? Are they Time, Space, Nature, things like that, but with less OverPoweredness?))
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Pieperson2222 is not online. Pieperson2222
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12 Jan 2013 09:34 AM
((Well it's not really about overpoweredness, because they don't limit what you can do. They're just themes, really.))
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LordGleam is not online. LordGleam
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12 Jan 2013 09:35 AM
Pie's accepted.

Concepts are things generally either fundamental to reality or just generally important abstract stuff. My char could serve as a bit of an example:

Soundlessly, several specs of dust popped into existence, bringing matter into the formless void. They slowly gravitated towards each other, eventually forming a huge clump. More and more dust was forming and collecting and compressing, until, an indeterminable amount of time later, a massive planet had formed, lying still in the darkness. Drifting around in this dreary infinity, Retorak, the living planet, decided it needed warmth. Or, rather, he needed warmth. He let his imagination flow, eventually feeling the gas he'd thought of come into existence. He had it join his planet in size, another sphere out in the void, and eventually dwarf it. He launched it far away, and when the time was right, he set it on alight. The first star. Amazing. This was beautiful - he could do anything he wanted in this place. He created other spheres, each one different in size, until he was nine, all orbiting his sun. He was Retorak, the Living System, God of Matter and Energy. And he was glad.
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Techmagss is not online. Techmagss
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12 Jan 2013 09:48 AM
(Are the weeks in-game weeks or RL weeks?)

A flicker is heard, and any light goes out. A large swarm of blackness starts flying together, forming a jet-black, medium-sized dragon.
"I am Adramelech, God of The Underworld and it's servants (A.K.A Demons, devils, etc). Fear me, and all that." He lies down, making the ground shake.

Rodrigo4ever wrote
'EVERYONE IS REPLACABLE'

Phoenix wrote
'Good I know that.'
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SP2398salt is not online. SP2398salt
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12 Jan 2013 09:54 AM
((Radical. Is this good enough?))

A collection of specks, surrounding a clicking. The specks were odd in merging of the result not being a sphere, but more of a rod, as if it was controlled by a being. A large cavity appeared on the top part, a circle with a dot in the middle. A smaller rod attached to the circle, and began making revolutions, spanning across the whole circle. Another 2 sets of holes opened, specks pouring from one on one side and into the other of the same side((Think like an Hourglass)). A being was born. The Lord of Soil and Time, Tasol, had come into existence.
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LordGleam is not online. LordGleam
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12 Jan 2013 10:01 AM
Tech:

The weeks are RL weeks. Go read through the original post in full.
You don't seem to understand the setting, so I'm not going to pass you. Right now, there is nothing. No underworld, no "servants of the underworld". These gods have nothing to go off of oter than the Concepts they represent.

Spider:

Could you explain the Concept of "Soil"?

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SP2398salt is not online. SP2398salt
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12 Jan 2013 10:03 AM
((I was trying to go for things like dirt and stuff. Maybe I should change it to "Earth"? No, not the planet, just... dirt.))
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LordGleam is not online. LordGleam
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12 Jan 2013 10:07 AM
Spider:

Would "Growth" be a better term? Keep in mind we're going for abstract Concepts, not concrete objects.
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SP2398salt is not online. SP2398salt
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12 Jan 2013 10:09 AM
((Sure. That's pretty much what I was aiming for. I just couldn't find the word.))
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Pieperson2222 is not online. Pieperson2222
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12 Jan 2013 10:09 AM
((Well I think he chose dirt because of the hourglass thing, not because of nature. I'd choose Fluidity as a concept there, to describe just about anything that would effectively flow in an hourglass))
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Pieperson2222 is not online. Pieperson2222
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12 Jan 2013 10:10 AM
((Oh, nevermind then. xD))
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LordGleam is not online. LordGleam
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12 Jan 2013 10:14 AM
Alright, Spider's accepted, but make sure you have a personality in mind or your deity.

Also, just so every future applicant knows, there's no ground to "to rise out of", so you'll have to pick another writing cliche.
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Pieperson2222 is not online. Pieperson2222
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12 Jan 2013 10:15 AM
Unless you want to like, start off two points less by creating a ground to rise out of.
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Redtalon65 is not online. Redtalon65
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12 Jan 2013 10:20 AM
A small slithiring being comes into existence. It looks like a small wire, but bulges and darkens in color. It quickly molts into a black grotesque creature, sprawling with black wings. "I am Xenos, the holder of Dark Magic and Light Magic alike. I keep Curses and Blessings in order. I am the God of Corruption!"

(In this case, Xenos is the God of Corruption. He can corrupt things to be good or bad. Also, Xenos looks very much like a Xenomorph, but with feathery black wings.)
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Techmagss is not online. Techmagss
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12 Jan 2013 10:20 AM
(Ah, in mind of the 'RL Weeks' system, I'm gonna drop out of this one. Sorry.)

Rodrigo4ever wrote
'EVERYONE IS REPLACABLE'

Phoenix wrote
'Good I know that.'
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Redtalon65 is not online. Redtalon65
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12 Jan 2013 10:21 AM
(This is an excellent roleplay idea, I will add.)
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LordGleam is not online. LordGleam
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12 Jan 2013 10:31 AM
Pie:

lolololo

Redtalon:

Could you explain what Concept, other than corruption, you have?
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Redtalon65 is not online. Redtalon65
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12 Jan 2013 10:34 AM
I am also the god of Blessings and Curses.
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LordGleam is not online. LordGleam
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12 Jan 2013 10:40 AM
Talon:

We'll just call that Fortune, then?
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Redtalon65 is not online. Redtalon65
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12 Jan 2013 10:41 AM
Yes.
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LordGleam is not online. LordGleam
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12 Jan 2013 10:52 AM
Talon:

I'll accept you on the conditions that you try to be original, and not take ideas from popular media.
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loppolh is not online. loppolh
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12 Jan 2013 10:58 AM
The rolling hills form this god. He eats the grass. He loves the grass. He is a sheep.

~Sophisticated sillyness~ Denial- A river in Egypt
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LordGleam is not online. LordGleam
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12 Jan 2013 11:10 AM
Lol, could you make that a bit longer? Or are you just trolling?
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