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Written by TheNabster, Art by DogKisser The world is a mutable, malleable thing. In the immeasurable vastness of the Ocean, tiny pinpricks of Something burst into being, only to vanish. Without a stabilizing presence, they are hopeless against the crashing waves of Nothing. Without Gods, Something has no hope. Gods float above the Ocean, droplets of dew against its immensity. Without worship, they perish, snuffed out. Small crumbs of Something draw countless Gods, feeding on each other and on the life they nourish with their presence. All are doomed to return to the Ocean, but for a time they grow strong and fat, and it is enough. Without Something, the Gods have no hope. And yet. Something is a very robust material compared to the fragility of the Gods. Gods come and go, they leave their mark on this world, on its landscape, on its people and then they vanish, falling once again back into the endless ether beyond. But the whole remains, the shape of something remains. Even as the skies burn, and the seas boil, and the land is reduced as to dust, Something remains behind. And when the Gods are no more, the people remain. -O- In the Broken Gods of Elsewhere, you take the form of a God, an being of immense power who can influence the land below you and through that, the people that live on it to your divine whims. For those who played or read DogKisser’s earlier efforts The Lord of the Tower, or The Fragile Gods of Somewhere you may already be familiar with the rules. In fact with DogKisser’s express permission I wished to use those same rules with just a few tweaks to make things a little different, and things will be different, trust me on this one. He is also helping me run this game and providing me some art in the process, so this will essentially be a Co-DM’ed game. EDIT: Updated with the real rules. THE CHOSEN
Species: Man Traits: Advanced Template Writing, Basic Proofreading, Basic Cooking Description: Chuck is a big man who wears a nice shirt. Chuck is also mostly made up for the purpose of this template and example. WISPS The Gods have ceased to be long before the beginning of the game, but the Wisps remain. Attracted to the latent energies of Divinity they surge at the borders of Elsewhere, to observe and influence the proceedings.
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You know how this part works right? Maybe it’s a vague sense of deja vu, perhaps a memory once forgotten and brought forward. Here is a blank canvas for you perusal, everything right there is pure Something right now the raw meta-element of the Ocean, but it can't actually do anything unless it becomes something else, an actual thing rather than the platonic idea of a thing. You will all need to paint the scenery. First lets get some d100s from everyone - the five highest rolls will be our first set of Gods, and the rest will be Wisps. Second, along with your d100 roll, I also need 5 Materials from each of you, regardless whether or not your roll is good. These can be things like Water, Ice, Chocolate, Licorice, Honey, Stone, Gems, Metal, Wood, Rabbits, Dragons, Pastry, Meat - you get the idea. Something tangible, something visible. These will form the building blocks for this world in their broadest sense: choosing Rabbit, for example, doesn’t mean that there will be rabbit people, just that they will have some qualities associated with it, and the landscape may take on traits of rabbit habitats. The land will be shaped by the Concepts chosen, and so will the Peoples upon it. TheNabster fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Mar 19, 2019 |
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THE LEXICON OF ELSEWHERE The Elements of Elsewhere The Magic of Elsewhere This History of Elsewhere The Prologue and Age One The performance commences, comedy and tragedy intermixed, a terrible discovery, an insurmountable foe. Paralogue One An experimental intermission, a voyage into the void fated to disaster, the game set in motion, the missing half revealed. Fan Art Tab Art by Noppy Art by Scribbleykins Art by Jvie. TheNabster fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Aug 28, 2019 |
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GROUND FLOOR HAMM, the God of Largeness Become God: 1d100 57 Materials: Blood Cloud Gold Bread Theantero fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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Rush, Deity of Rivers God Roll: 1d100 92 Materials: Blood Steam Slime Barbed Tongues fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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Stork, God of Heights Manifest: 1d100 16 Materials Mold Trains Springs Chitin Oil
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Arad, God of Truth God roll: 61. Materials Books Horses Leather Mors Rattus fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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Estur, God of Overindulgence Engoddify: 1d100 99! Blood Trains AJ_Impy fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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Sucy, Goddess of Mushrooms Manifestation roll: 1d100 86 Elements: Mushrooms Trains Caramel Salt Steam
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AJ_Impy posted:Love Tangible and visible Mr Impy, you can't hold Surprise in your hand.
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O, God of Want Desire for existence: 1d100 24 Slime Chitin Masks Shark WereGoat fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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Kemissst, God of Transmutation God Roll: 1d100 37 Materials: Glass Water Dirt Organs Flame e: Am I missing some canon Materials list that explains why everyone seems to have Blood/Chitin/Slime in their lists? Klungar fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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V-Siau, Rain Deity God Roll: 1d100 53 Materials Teeth Slime Chitin Tungsten Bee Bonk fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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Klungar posted:e: Am I missing some canon Materials list that explains why everyone seems to have Blood/Chitin/Slime in their lists? They're just suggestions that have caught on and more people are voting for them, and people like to see weirder elements. In Above/Below, the world's primary liquid was Crow.
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Boreas, God of the North Apotheosis: 1d100 1 Materials: Magnets Aabcehmu fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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Aabcehmu posted:Boreas, God of the North nice
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Dog Kisser posted:nice Remember that one time I rolled, like, I think it was three consecutive nat 1s in that game of yours? That was fun.
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Aabcehmu posted:Boreas, God of the North To be fair, rolling nat 1 is far more likely if you roll 1d20 instead of 1d100 like a chump
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Theantero posted:To be fair, rolling nat 1 is far more likely if you roll 1d20 instead of 1d100 like a chump drat it! Too much muscle memory for rolling d20s. Oh well, with my luck I probably wouldn't have rolled much higher on a d100 anyway.
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Aabcehmu posted:checks I'll allow you to reroll your godhood with a d100, I'm not that bad.
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TheNabster posted:I'll allow you to reroll your godhood with a d100, I'm not that bad. Boreas, God of the North Apotheosis, with a d100 you dummy: 1d100 7 Figures
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Neat, always wanted to participate in one of these from the start! Nivaren, Lord of Lines Manifestation Roll: 70 Materials Rubies Wax Ice Jossar fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Mar 14, 2019 |
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Vāc, Goddess of Words Manifestation Roll: 1d100 24 Materials Wax Tricky Dick Nixon fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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Kazadar, God of Defenestration http://orokos.com/roll/710460 (67) Materials: Wood Glass Lacquer Stone Linen
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With the amount of rolls and elements we have I'll put up the current tally. I intend to close sign-ups by Midnight GMT on Friday, so until then feel free to apply or change elements. But as an additional side note, if you are changing your elements don't delete the previous elements even if they aren't getting any votes just put a UPDATE 6: Updated from Arcanuse Number of Players: 27 Forerunner Elements - The favourites to win Books 11 Pepper 10 Blood 9 Trains 9 Magnets 8 Competing Elements - Fighting for dominance. Chitin 6 Glass 6 Slime 6 Steam 6 --- Gold 5 --- Beer 4 Oil 4 --- Bread 3 Ice 3 Masks 3 Teeth 3 Wax 3 --- Bone 2 Horse 2 Stone 2 Singular Elements - Those that could exist Animals Fish Shark Foodstuffs Caramel Nuts Salt Fungal Mould Mushrooms Liquids Lemonade Juice Paint Soda Water Wine Materials Leather Linen Metals Copper Gallium Potassium Rust (I mean technically rust is a degraded form of Iron) Tungsten Uranium Objects Cash Cube Hats Haunted Houses Springs Sword Organics Eye Flesh Organs Stones Brick Limestone Rubies Sand (Just stones worn down) Natural Miscellaneous Cloud Dirt Flame Stars Wood Unnatural Miscellaneous Lacquer Explodium (This will be Dynamite or Gunpowder because Explodium isn't a thing that exists) TheNabster fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Mar 15, 2019 |
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Sivvis, God of Reflection God Check: 1d100 44 Materials: Fish Paint Glass Teeth Gold
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Gelloebell, God of the Lost Engoddify: 1d100 23 Elements: Steam Slime Oil Filthy Lucre Gallium
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Baggles, God of Vagrants Apotheosis: 1d100 27 Elemental Materials Books Brick Beer Bread Lux Anima fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Mar 14, 2019 |
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TheNabster posted:With the amount of rolls and elements we have I'll put up the current tally. I intend to close sign-ups by Midnight GMT on Friday, so until then feel free to apply or change elements. I see, I misunderstood the OP. I thought the Materials were supposed to be about your God and were specific to your God, not some universal thing that people were voting on.
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Klungar posted:I see, I misunderstood the OP. I thought the Materials were supposed to be about your God and were specific to your God, not some universal thing that people were voting on. Apologies if I didn't make that clear enough. Incidentally we do have a Discord for other similar games that I am going to be using for this if you have other questions.
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Geralt, God of Resistance https://orokos.com/roll/710487 = 23 Materials: Blood Books Magnets Masks Ice
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Apotheosis: 1d100 100 Have you heard? The Once and Future King will be here at any moment! Surely then all our problems will be solved. Yes, it's only a matter of time now... Coming Soon, to a Reality Near You! The God of Hope! --- Materials: Trains Magnets Bread Stars Swedish Thaumocracy fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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Hat. I wanna be a god!: 1d100 18 Materials: Hats Pepper Trains Cube Butter
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Materials gold wax teeth horse trains woop: 1d100 33 womp womp
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Shine, God of Libations Trains Chitin Steam Magnets Beer Being A God?: 1d100 1
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Love So Hazardous As To Be Impossible, God of Ethics ("Just call me Lovie!") God!: 1d100 86 Blood Pepper Poltergrift fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Mar 14, 2019 |
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Let's be a godde: 1d100 89 Materials Pepper Haunted Houses Beer Slime paper bag with a face fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Mar 14, 2019 |
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Materials Blood Gold Glass Oil Steam Sam, God of Sales Manifest: 1d100 49
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Kazo, the god of Suggestion Become a god: 1d100 55 Books Blood Pepper Slime Magnets Hopefully my luck is better now than it was for Fragile Gods.
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In light of seeing the amount of voting and applicants in the thread, I have decided upon consultation with DogKisser to close things off a little earlier. I will be closing Sign-Ups and vote changing at Midnight GMT tonight instead of on Friday, so around 5 hours from this post. If you want to slide in under the door at the last minute you are free to do so, but currently all rolls and elemental votes look like this. The First Wave Swedish Thaumocracy - Coming Soon, The God of Hope – 100 AJ_Impy – Estur, God of Overindulgence – 99 Barbed Tongues – Rush, Diety of Rivers – 92 Paper bag with a face – Anonymous – 89 And in the traditional grimy basement knife fight we have Poltergrift – Lovie, God of Ethics – 86 Vs Sheep-dodger – Goddess of Mushrooms - 86 In the interest of fairness I will allow you both to either roll off for this using a d20, or give it up to the other person. There will be no Bipartiteship in this game I will say first and foremost The rest of you, feel free to draw your God Icon on the traditional template. You are only allowed to use straight lines and curves that follow the dots when drawing the icon. This is mostly to make things easier on DogKisser. The Current Chosen Elements Books 9 Pepper 9 Trains 9 Blood 8 Magnets 8 Competing Elements Chitin 6 Glass 6 Slime 6 --- Gold 5 Steam 5 --- Beer 4 Oil 4 --- Bread 3 Teeth 3 Wax 3 --- Ice 2 Masks 2 Horse 2 If you so wish to do some last minute lobbying you may try, but you all seem mostly decided at this point. The dawn of the final day begins now. TheNabster fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Mar 14, 2019 |
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Swedish Thaumocracy fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Mar 14, 2019 |
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