GodNES - The Beast with a Thousand Backs

I existed. I didn't really think too much of that. It could have been good, as Thwapp thought. It certainly wasn't that bad. But then again, this new era of existence could prove to be troublesome, so it might not be that good. I guess I might just have to deal with it.

Thwapp, though, who is he? Or she? Or it? I'm not quite aware. Just that Thwapp exists. And that Thwapp is minorly annoying. Thwapp manages to unbalance my Scales. The Scales that don't even physically exist. The Scales that are only a concept, but that govern reality. Really though, I'm not quite sure how Thwapp manages to mess with Them. Oh well, disorder like Thwapp could balance balance like Me, even though, I, as the Axis, am not supposed to be balanced. It truly is dreadfully confusing.

On the other hand we have the Curator. I would like him, but I do have some reservations. I guess I'll just wait and see how it turns out. Borog is interesting. From what I know, which is very little, he is supposed to balance the sun out. I hope he does, or will even be able to. That sun is very strong here. It's almost annoying, until I think of Thwapp. I guess I need something to balance Thwapp's annoyance, but considering that that's Thwapp's sole purpose, I guess I'll just wait and see. Primanus could be a wild-card later in the future though. I might have to keep a close watch on Primanus. That fast-growing life looks dangerous. It's kind of scaring me, but I don't think I can get scared.
 
Stats are updated.

If you were in Update One, you are free to post your orders in the thread according to the following template:

Orders template said:
Spoiler :

<copypasted stats from page 1>

"Action 1". Cost: number of Power Points spent. What the action does.
"Action 2". Cost: number of Power Points spent. What the action does.
etc
Click to expand...

A few instructions reminders:

You may of course use attached images if needed.

If you do not write in that format, I might not accept your orders or I might simply penalize you.

I will ignore conditional orders ("If the God of Fire burns the forest, then grow a new one") because I'm not very smart and it would cause me a headache to figure out.
Click to expand...

If you don't post anything, I'll have you do absolutely nothing. :p

Now, for the people who are arranged to enter the NES per next turn, please resubmit your God. I know it is almost nonsense this early on, but it's a requirement for when gods join in the future so we might as well start now.

Submission template said:
Spoiler :
Deity name: (Your name as a god)
Embodiment: (What you are the god of, eg fire, death, judgment, swamps, time)
Player: (Your CFC account name)
Description: (Your description here)
First turn realm: (You get 1 Power to shape your first realm when joining. Describe what you want)
Click to expand...

You can also edit if you feel you missed out on something.

DEADLINE for both kinds of entries is Wednesday 6 pm gmt +1. If you all make it in earlier, I'll be able to update earlier and get more people in sooner. :)
 
Edited Submission:

Deity name: Ballestoniormelatimusty
Embodiment: Alcohol, Drugs, Lust, and Fertility
Player: Thomas.Berubeg
Description: A fickle and flighty god, Bal spends the time until sentience develops by playing with the alcohol produced by bacterias and yeasts. Formless, Bal happily clads itself in the shapes it desires, roaming creation and randomly choosing individuals to patronize, bestowing it&#8217;s blessing on any that attract it&#8217;s attention, whether it be the lowest of rock or bacteria or the most powerful of gods. Bal understands Bal will never be able to compete with the great entities of creation, but does not fear for Bal&#8217;s life and existence, as Bal trusts that all will find some form of pleasure from it.
First turn realm: Fruit and Grains growing spontaneously throughout the world.

Edit: I know I'm not in next turn, I just wanted to improve my submission
 
When you say power point, you mean Might, right?
 
Deity: Thwapp
Player: Terrance888
Embodiment: Accidents and Inconvenience
Might/Realm/Patronage: 1/1/0

"Playhouse of the Gods" 1 PP. [In cooperation with The Curator or Borog]. I will create a series of caves and tunnels under some hilly terrain and sinkholes. Think Kentucky and the Great Mammoth Cave. This will connect the lands of the three scions of Afaja. Thwapp's portion will lead from under his pot-hole ridden plains and will be unique in that there will be lots of visual gags and "fun" stuff around. He'll also hide tiny potholes with reflective surfaces which will let sunlight into random on random days ever year/decade/century/millenia in caverns deep underground just to troll Borog. EDIT: Although I try to close them later, I obviously can't remember all of them. :p These would only be in my section of the caves we dig.

"Thwapp's Imprint" 1 PP. Thwapp will interfere and "help" every other God's actions, making his own unique imprint on their works. He'll make some kind of mushroom killing mushroom. He'll scatter some of the Curator's books around the world to be discovered. He'll annoy Tsamnir and mess with his scales : I'm trying to get an exaggerated response from Tsamnir. He'll work with Borog in those caverns.

OOC Note: Working on a series of stories with Iggy. Willing to work with anyone and everyone! Throw me a PM or get on #neschat, and be prepared to facepalm constantly!
 
If you want. I think that is a cool and great idea. Alcohol, the bane of bacteria. :lol:

Thwapp would probably be a horrible parent, though. ;)
 
I never understood why Borog preferred the underground. I don’t meet him as often as I should because of that. Sometimes, I just get bored with the bores. They were just so… boring. Boredom, it’s the opposite of existence. I pull off my smile and contemplate it. “What should I do now” I ask it. It simply laughed at me.

Huh, that does get pretty annoying.

I put it back on and stretched it wider. I knew what to do now! My hands stretch wide as I rose them, and then formed claws as I dug into the ground. With a grunt, I broke open the surface. I contemplated the giant divot for a moment, then shrugged and threw it at Tsamnir’s plains. Let that bore worry about it.

And with a final giggle as I watch Tsamnir contemplate the arcing missile heading for his... her... emotionless face, I dove into the ground itself.

Time mattered not as I shaped the soil to my pleasure. I am as home in the dark as I am in the light, and I saw but did not see all that I created. Here, and there I left marks of my passing, delicately balanced pillars meant to fall and inconvenience but not kill. There a hidden bubble of heat in the middle of the cold earth, to trouble Tsamnir a bit longer. Pockets of poisonous gases to vex Primanus. After a bit of contemplation (as if, HA!) I hid a few of the Curator’s works here as well. And finally…

The shadows came alive with a thousand eyes, the very flesh of the earth reshaping in his presence. Borog. My brother.

He looked powerful here; smug, even. Even as a thousand eyes beheld me, doubtlessly tens of thousands were watching a million tendrils digging deeper into Afaja’s flesh. He’s at home here, more than I can ever be.

“Greetings brother! Chance meeting you here!” I giggled, “You are positively glowing with good health!”

Borog snorted and acknowledged my comment. “Greetings brother. And well met for one touched by the sun.”

I felt some kind of strange emotion in some of his eyes. Is it… contempt? Pity? Doesn’t matter to me. For an endless moment we were brothers again, brothers like we were at the endless moment no time ago when we first beheld each other on the surface of our dying father. The things we said and thing did will remain there for now, perhaps, although my Brother kept trying to return to a particular topic of my “sun-stained skin” or something like that.

After a pause which lasted forever and never happened, I can never forget what I did next. Perhaps it was boredom, or perhaps it was some forgotten forbidden thought, but I rose my hand and pressed the ceiling of our cavern. A sinkhole dug in from the surface. Somehow, I knew it was day. Somehow, Borog saw it on my face. His eyes twinkled with some unforgotten premonition or prophecy. “No… No! Don’t!” he whispered as the light blasted into our cavern.

A shriek. A shriek that echoed across the entire world, it seemed. Borog’s eyes closed in pain, and he shrunk back into the shadows which formed whence there was once merely darkness.

I cringed, my smile leaping off my face, twisting and flopping, onto the ground. “I didn’t mean for that to happen! I’m sorry! I didn’t want to hurt you!” With a wave, I closed the sinkhole. “Brother! Come back!” I grabbed my smile and placed it on, never noticing it was upside down as I chased his fleeing from, my limbs trembling with the thought of what I had done.

“You ruined it!” He roared at me, blinking his thousand eyes. “You stained it!”

“What?” I asked, kneeling before him beside some dark pool. “What did I do?”

“The pure flesh of Afaja in that chamber now has been irrevocably tainted by the sun.” Borog choked. My Brother is not the kind to cry. “And it is your fault, you… you PEST.”

I shrunk back. “I… I don’t understand!” Sadly, I was that kind, and I grew the first eyes on my form to vent the tears welling from within me.

“No,” spat Borog, “Of course you don't. You never have.” He paused, for a moment, as if suddenly caught by thought. He closed his thousand eyes, then opened them all, drawing up into an even greater and more terrible form than before. He watched me cry, for a moment, then extended an arm.

“Perhaps... I can help you understand. Come, brother, do not weep. I'll find some other use for this cavern.”

He took my hand. Trembling, I embraced him. He and I are brothers, no matter our differences... or perhaps because of them. I am who I am, but I will never hurt my brother on purpose. Ever.

Together we walked, for silent eons. I grew calmer, as my brother's rage seemed to have subsided, but I knew not where he was leading me. My first hint that something was amiss was the tightening of his grip on my arm. I tried shifting, but to no avail.

“Brother?”

“I'm going to heal you. Free you. I will cleanse you of the sun's scarring once and for all.”

“What?”

“The Abyssal Font. We are here.”

Somewhere, I heard a burbling noise, and the splatter of falling water. Then, everything happened at once. Borog's arms surged around me, gripping me tightly. Before I could even put up a struggle, he wrestled me into the black waters, forcing my body under. I began to thrash and scream. Faint words filtered down from above, some apologetic in tone, others steely and determined, as I drowned. Yes, gods can die, if they are in their true forms, and this was no common water that was filling my lungs.

My flailing was to no avail. My brother was far stronger than me here, in the vast darkness of his home, nestled deep within our father's flesh. It was at this point that I realized that he wasn't going to let me up. He was going to murder me, end my existence for what I had done to him. In desperation, thought of myself growing slippery, breathing water as if it were air. I thought of broad limbs to push myself through water, and armour to protect myself.

I became a fish. Primanus had yet to invent them, of course- perhaps it was I who gave him the idea in the first place.

Regardless, my sudden transformation caught my brother off guard. Suddenly too small for his grip, I slipped away and leapt out of the pool, splattering onto the hard, solid floor of the chamber around me. I reformed, coughing and gasping for air. Borog stood, his body stiff with apprehension.

“I… I don’t understand!” I sputtered.

“How do you feel?”

“How do I feel?” I asked, dumbfounded. My smile slipped off again, nearly dead on the ground. I felt much the same.

Borog understood my answer. His figure slumped. “I've failed. You are still tainted by the Sun.”

“I’m not you, Brother” I cried, “I can never be you. Please do not try to force me.”

“But... perhaps, if I had-”

“Please! No! You will always be my brother. But I cannot...”

I couldn't finish my sentence. Borog cast his thousand eyes down. Perhaps he was ashamed of what he had attempted. More likely, he was ashamed that his gambit failed. After a long silence, he spoke again. “Perhaps you could simply keep me company.”

And so we stayed together. And when I felt the urgings of boredom again, I simply left. He let me go freely, his arms limp by his side, as I returned to the surface and the light.

My smile was upside down for quite some time thereafter.


OOC: Props to Iggy for helping me write Borog's character! Especially in the second half.
 
Patchy said:
Deity name: Solonos
Embodiment: God of Sun and Light
Player: Patchy
Description: Formed directly on the moment that Afaja the Demon Turtle died Solonos burst from the right eye of Afaja as a beam of light piercing through the Void that had only known darkness before. Facing out to the Void for the first time Solonos stared into the Abyssal Darkness and shivered from surroundings that had never known warmth before. Some say he settled in the sky above the shell of Afaja Solonos tore off the left eye of Afaja and brought it with him into the sky, then he began to pour his power into the lifeless eye until it grew so bright none could look at it directly for long and its heat reached out across space and warmed the shell of Afaja. And others say he found that the Sun had already existed due to the lack of time to keep order, upon finding it he knew that it was his and assumed mastery over the light.

Solonos was created with no corporal form, rather he appears as a ball of sunlight that is too bright to look at directly. He is the master of the First Sun and directs where its light shall shine on the shell of Afaja and which lands shall receive it's warmth. Chronologically he was born at the start of time along with Ceradus and he saw the birth of many other great gods such as Sythus, Rintrah and more.

Solonos celebrates the new era brought about by the death of Afaja and all of the new creations and gods that come with it. While he does not advocate throwing away all remnants of the past he believes that the world is a better place in the Age of Gods and sees those who try to bring back the essence of Afaja as lunatics who would destroy everything to resurrect an era that has permanently ended.

Solonos is neutral terms with most of the gods that are not Scions of Afaja. Solonos respects Curator although they haven't talked much due to how he ripped out the left eye of Afaja to create the sun. He finds Thwapp to be an occasionally funny but usually annoying brother and he has a good relationship with Sythus who he cleansed from darkness upon her birth. He is, however, greatly suspicious of his brother Borog who hides from the light of the sun and holds onto the darkness that was left after Afaja's death.

First turn realm: Solonos creates the First Sun out of the left eye of Afaja.
Click to expand...

Even as life left the body of the demon turtle Afaja his eye grew brighter with the creation of a new god. Soon the wild stallion of the sun would find its master and the darkness would find its opposite in its brother.

And so recorded Curator, that at this moment the Twilight Struggle had become inevitable.

OOC: Made some minor edits to my background as it was out of date.
 
OOC: Maybe a bit of headcanon. I saw the first sun before Solonus, as a "wild stallion", as covering the entire sky-ish. When the Sun killed Afaja, it blew through Afaja's shell and head, and came out the left eye.
 
Terrance888 said:
OOC: Maybe a bit of headcanon. I saw the first sun before Solonus, as a "wild stallion", as covering the entire sky-ish. When the Sun killed Afaja, it blew through Afaja's shell and head, and came out the left eye.
Click to expand...

OOC: Yeah, I got the wild stallion part from how everyone was describing the light of the sun being a bit overly powerful, which would make sense seeing as it is currently uncontrolled. So when Solonos comes along he breaks it in and turns it more into the sun we usually think of.

Personally I was thinking if the sun can't come from the left eye then Solonos would have consumed the left eye to gain the power necessary to control the sun. But that idea works too.
 
Resubmitting for great justice.

Deity name: Ceradus
Embodiment: God of Time
Player: Ophorian
Description: Ceradus is best described as a massive serpent, coiling around his den. Though Ceradus is technically genderless, most (future) depictions of the deity describe him as a male. Ceradus cares little about his fellow deities, and is a generally ambivalent god. As his powers are currently less-developed, Ceradus' perception of time is limited to the days and weeks surrounding the present, but as his powers grow, Ceradus will be able to see further into the future and the past. Specifically, he will only be able to see as far into the future as he can into the past, and with the massive temporal distortions occurring in and around Afaja's death, this acts as a lower bound. This also does not imply that he is omnipotent, he is merely able to grasp the shape of things to come, saying nothing of his ability to prevent such events from occurring.

Ceradus expresses passivity and ambivalence towards his fellow deities, but is not above cooperating with them to further his cause. Specifically, his goals are to prevent any meddling within the timestream that would prove detrimental to him, and ensure that events unfold as to his predictions. Ceradus is capable of perceiving all possible events and parallel "universes", and this insight allows him to plot with greater depth. Should Ceradus' predictions bode poorly for himself, the deity is more than willing to meddle in the timestream to enact a more favorable future.


First Turn Realm:
Ceradus will raise a mountain range for himself to inhabit.
 
Angst said:
Now, for the people who are arranged to enter the NES per next turn, please resubmit your God. I know it is almost nonsense this early on, but it's a requirement for when gods join in the future so we might as well start now.
Click to expand...

@Angst, As someone still very interested in joining, but not mentioned as an upcoming God, can you clarify what (if anything) is expected of me at this point? Thx :)
 
Did you announce the upcoming Gods somewhere, I may have missed it.
 
Deity: Primanus
Player: Milarqui
Embodiment: Life
Might/Realm/Patronage: 1/1/0

Action 1
Cost: 1
Bring new life to the planet: more complicated plants that can reproduce in different ways than the fungi do, using flowers and/or seeds.
Spoiler :
The fungi were not enough. They were few, and I wished them to be many. Enough so that, when all life returned, that they could each feed each other in a neverending cycle that could replicate itself almost eternally.

I knew that the First Sun provided enough to begin it all. The energy that came from the First Sun was enough to provide feeding for the fungi and the bacteria, but they would not be enough for the next phase in the cycle. Which was why I had to create new life, different life, that would reproduce in different ways, and provide another possible path for life to develop.

I knew that some of the other Primordials, much like myself, had created life. I could feel it. But it lacked the planning needed for it to survive. It lacked the purpose of life. They were simply the means to give them power over their realms.

The other Primordials cared not for life like I did. Hopefully, they would soon see the light.

Which was why, now, I was ready to make new life. The fungi, the bacteria, the First Sun, had provided me with the energy I needed. Their mere existence helped me to bring new life to this planet. Life beget life.

This new life, it would be like the plants created by the other Primordials. But these would be created to live, to reproduce, to ensure that, when their time came, it would not be in vain. The First Sun would feed the plants. The plants, the bacteria and the fungi would be able to feed on each others' dead, and perhaps a being that would further improve the collaboration between them, a symbiotic, would surge from the rest.

This new life would not be like the fungi and the bacteria, though. The plants would have small organs, that would allow for each plant's life essence* to mix, to create diversity, to produce new life in greater quantity and quality. From tiny seeds, mighty plants would appear.

I had to gather the energy again. The emptiness I had felt before was now a bit less empty, and I knew I was on the right path. It would be easier now to do this and before.

This time, the energy was gathered within myself: instead, I concentrated it in the fungi and the bacteria right in front of me, while I made sure to change things. Chains broke and reformed, properties changed.

A new plant appeared. And, when I blew on it softly, many more plants, similar yet different, slowly appeared elsewhere in the fungi fields, and beyond.

And I smiled.

* DNA. Yes, it sounds corny, but I tried to not use scientific words. :D


Action 2
Cost: 1
Bring new life to the planet: small animals that feed on the plants and help them reproduce (something like bees).
Spoiler :
The new plants now existed, but it still wasn't enough. While their ability to reproduce was secured, as well as the possibility of them evolving on their own, it would not happen as easily as I intended. I had not realized that the way they reproduced was beholden to luck and wind.

However, I knew that there ways to ensure that this problem turned into an advantage. It was going to be hard, but it was possible to achieve. It would simply require a process that went further than what I did to create the bacteria.

And, well, it would be interesting to see how they changed.

I gathered many bacteria and fungi, made sure to feed a lot of energy to them, and then started the process. I would only give loose directions: the rest would be left to what was more useful.

I could see how the bacteria and fungi grew, how they reproduced and died and changed...

And then, it happened. Some bacteria started to band together in one organism. The first of its kind.

But not the last. Soon, I could see more of them appearing. But still too small to change things. However, it was just a matter of waiting.

Fortunately, it was easy. And my joy became greater as not only did the number of bacteria banding increase, but I could also see how some of them became specialized, only capable of carrying out a few tasks, but becoming more efficient when doing them. They were becoming bigger, and better at what they had to do. As gravity took a hold of them, they began to touch ground, but, as that allowed them to more easily reach the ground and food, it was good.

But... well, the best was when they started to develop appendages. Little legs and arms, of course. But the ones that grew on what was now their backs were going to be important. Those appendages grew, became light, thin, big...

And then, they took flight.

And it was magnificent.


OOC: OK, there it goes. Hope that they are good :)
 
Deity name: Greyti
Embodiment: Goddess of Sea
Player: Everblack
Description: Greyti is a being of unimaginable beauty. She shift between her two forms as time pass. (In the future) some shines and works of art depict her as a massive blue and gold scaled fish with eyes the color of sliver while other depict her as a dark blue skinned maiden gown in crystal clear robes with green hair that drift slowly like seaweed at the button of the sea.

Personality: Greyti has a playful type of demeanor toward most god/goddess which tend to annoy her siblings. Most of her siblings usually see Greyti as a overbearing child since she over love to be meddle in their affairs weather she welcome or not.

update it a little just because I felt like it was to small.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Daftpanzer
DaftRTOR - A Story Untold
8 9 10
Replies
198
Views
21K
Terrance888
Terrance888
ChineseWarlord
A Thousand Histories: Narrative Playthroughs of RFC DoC
Replies
5
Views
701
Enyavar
Enyavar
Thlayli
TNES VII - Consider the Laurel
2
Replies
38
Views
8K
thomas.berubeg
thomas.berubeg
D
Help with putting a custom city state onto a custom map
Replies
2
Views
298
dragononablade
D
GeneralZift
CCS: Alternate Victory Conditions
Replies
0
Views
230
GeneralZift
GeneralZift
Back
Top Bottom