RE: Godhood XIV - Usurper [Jam Edition]
03-23-2013, 12:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-23-2013, 03:28 AM by Whimbrel.)
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{JAM EDITION #1}
The Tattooed Traveler was the first to act, placing a large planet in the cold, dark void. Trovat, he named it. The Dragons of Duality scoffed at his priorities. Together, they brought two suns into existence, Osvet and Zlovest. One emitted heat and light, the other absorbed the same.
The Lost Child looked to the future, to what mortals would see when they gazed at the night sky. He scattered glittering points of light across the void of space.
The Golden King appeared, and in one graceful exertion of will created the earth, sea, and sky of Zemina, Trovat’s planetary moon, and the first planet to bear life--in the form of humble green shrubberies.
The Chipper Otter elected to improve Trovat and solicited the other gods for their aid in doing so. He raised mighty mountains and hollowed out expansive oceans, dividing the planet into five parts. He concocted a grand plan: a world with water where the sky ought to be, and air where there ought to be oceans. The divine critter began by flooding the world. It did not cover the surface completely, but even without a gaseous atmosphere above, it could support life and would not boil away into the void.
The Ever-Lost added photosynthetic algae to the watersphere as he reassured the Divinity of Deception, who was fretting over the doomed future of space travel on Trovat. The Mammal of Mists proposed that the inhabitants could simply swim right out. Both assurances were rejected in favor of a good pout.
The Cyclical Snake created a new planet, Gakba, and set a moon into a cycle of collisions with it. The energy needed to ensure that this cycle would be non-terminating ought to have left the moon a fair bit smaller than it was, more an enormous asteroid than a proper moon.
The Artisan provides a critique as he adds his own divine touches to the young universe. He provides Zemina with a core of molten starstuff, seeds the crust with metals and minerals, and populates the surface with insects and small, semi-aquatic critters.
Having exhausted their creative energies, the Divinities finally begin to introduce themselves.
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Trovat’s algae multiplies rapidly, tinting the blue sphere a lively green. In many areas the algae grows too rapidly, and this, combined with the crust of ice that forms on the Zlovest facing side, causes deeper blooms to wilt from lack of sunlight. They drift to the bottom and slowly decay.
Zemina’s orbit swings it closer first to one sun, then the other, causing frequent changes in temperature and light. The small creatures that populate it tend to be active only during the more moderate temperatures, resting beneath the water or the shrubs during the extremes. Occasional small earthquakes shake the small planet.
Gakba’s moon collides with Gakba for the first time. It is every bit as spectacular as one might expect, stone shattering and liquifying violently. As the moon slowly peels away from the impact site, it becomes apparent that it is not a solid chunk of rock, as it first appeared. Gakba’s moon is, in fact, a massive geode, filled with oversized crystalline ore of some strange, dark metal.
The Energy of New Beginnings provides everyone with five acts.
The Energy of New Beginnings fades slightly.
Acts
Chamenos: 2+6=8
Dalibora, Abselon: 0+7=7
Pacian IX: 0+7=7
Phwem: 0+6=6
Borlung: 0+7=7
Macian Scelle: 0+6=6
Alakim: 0+6=6