[OOC] A New World of Gods (closed go to chapter 2)

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

I only ask because even one million isn't even so much of a modicum of the world's population.

[Cuccoruler]

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Thousand? Or million?

@ActRaiserTheReturned

1000
The population of other races won't be more than 1000 due to them just starting out

[rechonq]

@Lugubrious
Did Landon get anything from Aforgomon in his disapearance? I would have liked to interact with him, but right now he is definnitely on a different level from Landon. Landon would have been tossed like a ragdoll during the last part. I couldn't find anything that looked like any sort of command he could fulfill, so nothing to unlock his powers.

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

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1000
The population of other races won't be more than 1000 due to them just starting out

@Cuccoruler

So I can't have dragons? Just Humans?

[Cuccoruler]

If the dragons are a separate race and belong to another God yes

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

Ah, okay. Then the dragons belong to Anatole, he'll hand the Humans over to another character of mine.

[Lugubrious]

@Lugubrious
Did Landon get anything from Aforgomon in his disapearance? I would have liked to interact with him, but right now he is definnitely on a different level from Landon. Landon would have been tossed like a ragdoll during the last part. I couldn't find anything that looked like any sort of command he could fulfill, so nothing to unlock his powers.

@rechonq

No, and even if the circumstances allowed it, there would be no reason for it to, and even if there was, Landon already has a new item taken from a fallen foe. I do appreciate the acknowledgement of Aforgomon's greatness, though. None of the other merged have admitted it.

By the way, when I said, 'so long', I did mean that as a farewell. I'm not partaking in the next chapter.

[rechonq]

@Lugubrious
Not going to lie, I didn't like Aforgomon at first as he seemed sort of OP to me, but as it went on I realized he was sort of the only god that seemed like god status rather than superhero status. His musings and speech were interesting as well and trying to argue with him may have been just as fun as fighting him.

Anyways thanks for sticking to the end. Aforgomon certainly made things interesting. He was used very creatively.

[Lugubrious]

@Lugubrious
Not going to lie, I didn't like Aforgomon at first as he seemed sort of OP to me, but as it went on I realized he was sort of the only god that seemed like god status rather than superhero status. His musings and speech were interesting as well and trying to argue with him may have been just as fun as fighting him.

Anyways thanks for sticking to the end. Aforgomon certainly made things interesting. He was used very creatively.

@rechonq

Thank you. That was rather my aim. You bring up exactly what I was thinking and precisely why Aforgomon hated the merged so much. They all acted like hyper-over-powered superheroes, and the only thing that 'godhood' meant was that they could do whatever they wanted with no repercussions, justification, limitations, or anything. I tried to make it so that Aforgomon, though alien, is more of a real god than any of the merged, because of responsibility and respect. Quite tellingly, it saved the world once and attempted to do so again. In any god-based RP, I enjoy playing the outsider, and putting a cosmic perspective on the idea of godhood, rather than using it as an excuse to do whatever I want.

I think you, Perseus, and Zelosse did a good job with your characters as well. Landon, of course, seemed very human, but this was justified for him. You also treated his perspective more realistically than pretty much everyone else. Thalios was alien enough in his own right so he could do interesting things rather than have picnics and randomly kill everything. Perseus had some good ideas.

[OtomostheCrazy]

@Lugubrious

Wait, are you just leaving the rp, or are you going to wait for another chance to hop in?

[Ace of flames01]

I can't help but feel.... Bad. Not insulted, sad, guilty, or anything like that. Just bad.... :| hmm maybe I wasn't as cut out for being a god as I thought... -_-)"

[BlackPanther]

@Ace of flames01
....egyptian gods were interesting

I shall weigh your heart and you shall be judged if ye be bad ye shall be dragged by anubis and taken to a depth of the maze of hell depending upon your badness >.>
and such

greek gods had a whole lot of incest and beastiality and junk
roman gods were greek gods with different names

viking gods were interesting as well.

so i mean really technically they got away with a lot of stuff as well with no consequence because they are gods according to their responding lore.

[OtomostheCrazy]

@Ace of flames01

Well, Leo hasn't really had any time to show off his god powers. Maybe he just needs his moment

[Lugubrious]

@Lugubrious

Wait, are you just leaving the rp, or are you going to wait for another chance to hop in?

@OtomostheCrazy

I'm gone. Not participating. Quit. Aforgomon's fight was my grand finale.

[Ace of flames01]

@BlackPanther and then there's Celtic gods XD

@OtomostheCrazy yea hold on give him a second I swear does this really cool thing xD no it's not just that. Rhona's a weakling and Leon I guess is a coward. So if anything, they are nothing but mortals with super powers and immortality. Or that's what it feels like. Not really interesting either I suppose. :|

[rechonq]

@Lugubrious
Ha, thanks. Yeah Landon was supposed to have a human or godly-immature feel as he adapted to the powers and responsibilities of god-hood. I don't know if you gave Aforgomon an age, but I'm assuming he was thousands of years old if not older. Whereas Landon was literally twenty-seven/twenty-eight with the time skips. He was also supposed to see and remember how gods could tend, to act like amped up superheroes. If most of them had a problem it was solved with power without thinking. It even seems like stories of old gods could be that way sometimes too. Landon wanted to distance himself from the gods in this aspect trying to actually think like the humans, but with the power of the gods, or at least what power he had to work with.

I do still feel like the old gods didn't get much justice though. From what I have known, more time gives more power instead of vice versa like this RP gave off. It may just be me, but I felt like several of the old gods were taken care of too easily. They didn't get the justice that is who they were. I was really sad about Odin. From what I know of him, he seems pretty different from other gods. While he probably had more power than anyone else, he didn't use it often and would think to find solutions with the least amount of power. I also sort of wondered about how the spheres and responsibilities of the old gods would continue, but I guess the gods left it up to 'science' in the later years, rather than chariots darting across the sky to give the sun. Haha

I also don't know how you feel about responsibility in this way, but I guess I look at the final outcome of the gods and humans like me owning an ant farm. Say I had an ant farm and took care of it and helped them grow and prosper as industrious ants. Soon the ant population grows to great and the ants begin to escape and infect my house. I may still be fine with this, but then they even begin going for more food than just dropped crumbs and begin biting me as well. I'm going to call an exterminator, and kill all the ants. This sort of applies with the humans and their intelligence. We may have more care as we are actually humans, but gods may actually see us as no more than ants that should be protected, but I may have made a mistake in giving them too much power. I'm not going to sacrifice my house or myself for these ants. Especially when I can get a new one, and start fresh fixing my mistakes from the last time. Which leads me to wonder how easy it will be for us to create life. As I see it as a huge feat even for gods. I don't think all of the gods could have created life before, but I guess we also get the earth and the old gods realms for materials to help us begin this. Also the ant thing is how I justify the ending. I'm not sure I like it either, but I see how Cucco wanted to move into a world with new life, so that's the course she took and it works. Not sure there was any ending to the humans that I could like while being what's supposed to be one of their gods.

Anyways those are my thoughts.

[OtomostheCrazy]

@Lugubrious

Aw man. Well, it was great RPing with you (see what I did there?). Hope you have fun in all the other RPs you participate in.

[Ace of flames01]

...... I'm going to go lay down for a while... This is too much for me... You guys are making me feel dumb.... And weak... And insignificant (I hope that I used the word right)... I... I am going to just go lay down for a bit and reevaluate my life...

[OtomostheCrazy]

@Ace of flames01

Aw come on, Ace! Rhona saved the life of a god, where no one else had been shown to do the same! And Leo just hasn't been out long enough to show much! They still have a lot to bring out!

[Lugubrious]

@rechonq Well, in truth Aforgomon is pretty young, but its birthright endowed it with a higher degree of understanding than any others. I totally agree with you about the old gods. I understand the merged are insurgents, but the reason for their insurgency seems to be inexplicably incredible power, when the old gods in fact should have been stronger. In the myths, gods have to use their wits and major gambits to beat stronger gods. Instead, we had them killed in single blows, which just screams 'sensationalist' and is part of why I'm leaving this RP. I made sure that any gods Aforgomon faced were as strong if not stronger than it, meaning that the only way Aforgomon could win was to trap them in other dimensions.

For anyone who's curious, the reason I'm leaving the RP is several-sided. Firstly, I felt the frenetic pace meant to keep things constantly happening and people constantly interested with the new bright flashies meant that there could be next to no character development or sense of growth. Secondly, there's the sensationalism I mentioned: I witnessed an overwhelming amount of attention to what's epic or cool, rather than interesting for other people or meaningful. This ties into what I felt concerning people using the premise of this RP to have ultra-powerful characters do what they want in a series of disjointed events rather than an engaging story. I'm not saying I was exempt from this; I did my fair share of it. It is the medium in which we immersed ourselves.

Regardless, I still had fun as intended, and I thank you all for letting me play the game. Sayonara.