[OOC] Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

[Frettzo]

Been working on digitalizing my sketch. The lineart is not very good but I don't worry too much about that, since nearly all of my paintings end up line-free eventually.

Hider

[Double Capybara]

@Dawnscroll
The area inside the glowing circle is currently part of a post chain by me, so please don't explode it or anything.

[Antarctic Termite]

@Lugubrious Just a heads up that I've already used 'Have a Heart' as a reference for Sweethearts, which still only exist in Lex.

They'll have their sentient species creation sheet eventually.

Question t the class; anyone know if a full infection event of a city for Jvan's fleshiness is possible?

@Dawnscroll

You mean by Acalya? The closest thing would be lens groves, which are more like way stations for Urtelem. Sculptors are nomads without the numbers or motivation to form communities, though they can integrate into them. The Sculpture infection rate is too low to take control of a sizeable village, let alone a city (~1 / 10,000 before taking into account killings by Djinni, Hain and Rovaick).

That said, there's a messy, sporadically used art studio temple to Jvan in Amestris.

Most of Jvan's unwilling followers don't build cities and her infection works differently than say, the Ashlings

@Rtron

Shhhhh, most of them go willingly, even before they finish ascending. Sharmen certainly seemed to find comfort in Jvan before conversion.

Flux is an exception because most djinni find it really hard to accept change in their identity or that of other elementals. See Slag- All the elementals hated him just because he was different, even though Char made him that way.

[Rtron]

@Antarctic Termite

EVEN IF THEY GO WILLINGLY WHILE THEIR BEING TRANSFORMED, IT'S STILL AN UNASKED FOR PARASITE CHANGING THEIR MINDS, EMOTIONS, AND BODIES.

Also.

Ovaedis is an orbital weapon.

I would just like to remind everyone of that. (Jvan's favorite places are far away from Vestec's things. Definitely out of orbital strike collateral damage range. >_> )

[Antarctic Termite]

@Antarctic Termite

EVEN IF THEY GO WILLINGLY WHILE THEIR BEING TRANSFORMED, IT'S STILL AN UNASKED FOR PARASITE CHANGING THEIR MINDS, EMOTIONS, AND BODIES.

@Rtron

This is 100% true. It's also very painful.

Ya gotta open your mind, man.

[Lugubrious]

@Lugubrious Just a heads up that I've already used 'Have a Heart' as a reference for Sweethearts, which still only exist in Lex.

They'll have their sentient species creation sheet eventually.

@Antarctic Termite

Oh. Poo.

Yo, anyone a fan of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure?

[Antarctic Termite]

Oh. Poo.

@Lugubrious

i see it's been replaced by something cool, though, so you could almost say there are

plenty more fish in the sea

ba dum tss

[Cyclone]

Shhhhh, most of them go willingly, even before they finish ascending. Sharmen certainly seemed to find comfort in Jvan before conversion.

Flux is an exception because most djinni find it really hard to accept change in their identity or that of other elementals. See Slag- All the elementals hated him just because he was different, even though Char made him that way.

@Antarctic Termite

Yes, also see Slag because I had him survive Char's nuke for a reason...

He'll be back!

[lif]

@Dawnscroll
The area inside the glowing circle is currently part of a post chain by me, so please don't explode it or anything.

@Double Capybara

Where is Alefpria on the map?

[Antarctic Termite]

@poog the pig It's marked 'Capital', just west of Shalanoir.

[Kho]

I thought this was the latest version of the map

@Lugubrious haven't seen it, is it any good?

[Antarctic Termite]

@Lugubrious haven't seen it, is it any good?

@Kho

It comes very highly recommended, from what I've heard.

[lif]

@Frettzo

Mind if I see a few of your paintings?

[Antarctic Termite]

I did a thing! Namely details on Sweethearts once I spend another Might point on them. It's way long, again, and honestly does not affect anyone yet. Eventually they might be a useful-ish resource, though.

Open to lots of suggestions or interpretations on the drug mechanics, it's meant to be whatever you all find potentially interesting.

tl;dr

here we go.
>so we got sweethearts right
>they're called that because they're literally just flying hearts with tentacles
>that are the size of poodles
>and their tongues are arc welding torches
>if you kick them they bite reflexively
>with an arc welder
>it hurts

>seriously though they're actually just meant to be crewmen on the arks
>hence the blowtorch and wire cutters and all the other stuff they can have in their mouth

>they have a lot of weird eldritch shit inside them that fuels them
>it doesn't spontaneously generate they need to eat to keep themselves topped up
>while they're in space though it means they go nyooom
>NYOOOOOOOM

>they can form populations from only two parents without being inbred rednecks
>because reasons
>no incest taboo gender or social hierarchy fuck that shit
>they're basically bonobos

>when they're born they're basically just hearts
>need to be implanted in a body to grow up
>usually that means an ark breeding pod
>or, with surgical intervention, someone's unfortunate cow
>mooooooo
>then they crawl out of the cow grow to full size live to the ripe old age of fifteen and promptly die
>it's not actually fun crawling out of the cow though it's kind of depressing for them
>everything is

>see the thing is sweethearts are the cutest, most innocent little bundles of love you can imagine
>EVERYONE is their friend
>that diaphane that just ate their mother?
>friend
>the guy who raised them to be systematically slaughtered?
>friend
>that lady who uses them as slaves on her biotech project?
>friend
>they are really fucking clueless
>like not kidding here they are dumber than a sack of bricks

>so yeah sweethearts don't understand the concept of violence
>or taking advantage of others
>to them it's just really sad and confusing when things get hurt
>even if those things were trying to eat them and they bit them by reflex
>they'll deliberately try not to bite things even if they're about to die
>being wild in galbar gets real depressing for them real fast unless they have constant safety and affection
>unfortunately for them there's a reason for people to give them both

>see the reason sweethearts go NYOOOOOM is because they were originally built to get chased and eaten by diaphanes
>and to motivate the diaphanes each sweetheart gave them a caffeine sugar rush
>but diaphanes are basically just really hungry rainbow ghosts
>it takes a lot to get them high
>so what's caffeine to diaphanes is cocaine to everyone else

>what happens when you eat a sweetheart is two things
>first you get really, REAlly smart
>or at least as smart as you could have been if you hadn't slept in Chem
>you delinquent
>anyway
>then you insta-read everything Friedrich Nietzsche ever wrote, forget your morals, and go Full Nihilist
>at least to the extent that you know it's not going to mess you up when the high wears off
>like you might not be a super genius because of this stuff but you're smart enough not to ruin yourself
>it's kind of weird and I didn't put as much philosophical thought into it as I should have
>can be exploited for good or evil, but is generally just used for personal satisfaction in whatever form

>also it slowly gives you the munchies for human flesh did i mention that

ed: oh yeah and they have a theme

drug time

[Muttonhawk]

I did a thing! Namely details on Sweethearts once I spend another Might point on them. It's way long, again, and honestly does not affect anyone yet. Eventually they might be a useful-ish resource, though.

@Antarctic Termite

I kinda want one as a pet. I like 'em.

Their presence'll be a bit dangerous if their narcotic effect doesn't have any physiological drawbacks (apart from wanting to go do it again). The reason I say this is because there'll be a competitive edge to any population on sweethearts. That'll eventually spread to become the norm and then -- poof! -- every mortal on Galbar is a depraved, superintelligent nihilist. Probably not my favourite prospect, to be honest. What you've basically made is coffee except it's far stronger and it affects people's personal morals and ethics.

I saw that you included the way it escalates into foods but I'm not sure if that'll really be enough of a buffer.

Could I recommend something like...say...off the top of my head...motor-neuron damage as a long-term side affect? Like, after one month of heavy use?

[Kho]

@Muttonhawk I guess poohrennialism doesn't go hand in hand with nihilism :C

[Muttonhawk]

@Muttonhawk I guess poohrennialism doesn't go hand in hand with nihilism :C

@Kho

Pooh is always watching.

Don't let him catch you...

...or he'll throw the earth into deep space to punish us.

The sun will fade...*rocks back and forth in foetal position*...the sun will fade...

[Antarctic Termite]

Their presence'll be a bit dangerous if their narcotic effect doesn't have any physiological drawbacks (apart from wanting to go do it again). The reason I say this is because there'll be a competitive edge to any population on sweethearts. That'll eventually spread to become the norm and then -- poof! -- every mortal on Galbar is a depraved, superintelligent nihilist. Probably not my favourite prospect, to be honest. What you've basically made is coffee except it's far stronger and it affects people's personal morals and ethics.

I saw that you included the way it escalates into foods but I'm not sure if that'll really be enough of a buffer.

Could I recommend something like...say...off the top of my head...motor-neuron damage as a long-term side affect? Like, after one month of heavy use?

@Muttonhawk

Good call! We don't want these guys to be everywhere.

A weak 'buffer' could be scarcity, maybe some three or four doses per two-year sweetheart, though that's hardly interesting to read. I could beat the dead horse a little further on their hearts theme. After too many uses, the same substances that allow them to integrate into a host as a larva messes with circulation, threatening cardiac arrest or haemorrhage- Especially if they keep abusing the mental rush, and their head keeps pounding for more oxygen.

Keep 'em coming, guys, I don't want to work out this idea's myriad kinks and flaws on my own. I'm a lazy bastard.

[Muttonhawk]

I could beat the dead horse a little further on their hearts theme.

@Antarctic Termite

ISWYDT

[Kho]

@Antarctic Termite How about this:

Hmm, how about: being nihilistic and superintelligent is all good, but combined they drive you into a mega-existenial crisis meaning that you just end up moping around on the ground doing nothing 'cause it's all so f**king pointless. so pointless.

So you're in the odd position where your hormones or whatever are exploding and giving you positive feelings, but your newly acquired nihilism and intelligence makes you super-depressed. Conflicting feelings are so intense that they can lead to various psychological conditions, amongst them: permanent personality change (it's an actual thing, I read about it in one case...), schizophrenia, PTSD (and anything else that can develop from severe psychological shock)