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Introduction


The Lord of the Skies and King of the Gods, Zeus himself, was dead. Very, very dead. After having ruled the world for centuries, he’d come to appreciate those few times that eyes were not upon him, and so he had been known to spend sleepless nights out in the crisp air, lost in reverie and meditation. So it was under the first rays of dawn that the servants found him upon the floor of his palace’s terrace.

The horrified, piercing shriek of the first serving girl to discover him had cut through the listless halls that morning. Guardsmen had quickly arrived, and then the madness began. The servants were immediately seized by the palace guards and taken for interrogation, and then those very same guardians were in turn seized for their failure and similarly put to question. Despite every effort, it took mere hours for word to spread throughout the palace, and then the resplendent marble halls and golden streets of the city of the gods. By midday it seemed as though half of the great pantheon already knew: all the gods of importance, as well as many others who were merely well connected or wont to gossip.

The cause of death was anything but natural; with all their power a god need not fear being stricken down unexpectedly by chance ailment, and Zeus’ body had been infused with enough vitality that everyone expected him to last another half century at least, even if his memory had been fading and his behavior growing more erratic in recent years. Indeed he’d been starting to deteriorate, and that had made his enemies, old and new alike, start to slowly circle like jackals.

So this was certainly an assassination. The Highest One’s own constitution had somehow been corrupted and turned upon itself to gruesome effect: little was left of Zeus’ form save for some brittle skeletal remnants lying within a grisly pool of viscera, choked with a thousand different poisons. The very powers that had sustained him had gone rogue and set about deconstructing and destroying what was left of his worldly remains. This rendered the exact cause, time, or perpetrator of his demise impossible to determine on the spot.

Everyone had their suspicions, but few dared to voice these out loud and point the finger for fear of bringing unwanted attention onto themselves. Instead, the greatest of the gods had quickly come together and conspired to cover this up. Gods could not be seen to die; the primitives down below could not be afforded to learn anything of these events. In the late Zeus’ pride and arrogance (and perhaps foresight, too) he had fortunately ordered a twin of himself to be pulled forth from the pools of life. The King of the Gods took his young simulacrum under his wing, bringing the boy around court. He had spoken to this younger duplicate and raised him as his own child and heir, to the neglect of his many biological children. For all the scandal that it had been, this egoism of the late Zeus was the Pantheon’s saving grace – a perfect replacement of their lord stood ready, identical inwards and out, a genetic replica and the spitting image of the late Zeus in his early teens. His voice was identical, his temperament every bit as haughty as the old one if not even worse. This secretive replacement would be as seamless of a transition as such things could go, and all but the most perceptive of the base mortals would likely never even know the difference – if any did, they could be decried as heretics or quietly dealt with.

So the gods anointed the young clone as the new Zeus, and quickly resumed their game with renewed fervor. Expecting that this young lord would be impressionable and easily manipulated, the High Pantheon – his most prominent officers and advisers and ministers – immediately resumed their politicking and plotting and scheming, while the kingdom’s slow decline continued.




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Thanks and credits go to Lauder and Oraculum for encouragement and help GM, and to the Divinus RPs and the sci-fi classic Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny for sources of inspiration.

Also thanks to @Frettzo for making the banner at the top of this post!




Character Sheets (Template and Example)


Below is an example sheet for Zeus (both the late and original Zeus, and his ascendant clone Zeus Prime), and a blank template with the same format. By no means feel obligated to use this formatting; it’s just there if you want it and to show the essential elements of what I would think to look for in a sheet for this RP.



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>Had to do some dusting. Isaac has been added.

>Also, here's a fitting theme for this RP I think:

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The majority of my CS is up, now that other character sheets are more centralized, I am having an easier time of reading through with notes to add for Demeter's. Hoping to be wrapped up on that today.
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The first IC post is essentially finished, and now it's just going through some polishing. It should go up tomorrow, if not tonight.

I know that several people are still working on character sheets, and perhaps some others are contemplating joining. There's probably a period of about a week where you could submit sheets and get into the RP without having missed any of the action. I'll still be willing to take applications after that though.
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WIP CS for your purview:

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@Zyx, as you are not available to corner on the Discord, I am letting you know that I have sent you a super secret conspiratorial private message here on the guild. Tell no-one, and ensure you are not followed!
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Here you go, kindred. I haven't,motherfucking, flipped my fingers onto this old note pad for a while so I might be a bit more rusty than a 50 year old virgins junk. The idea was to sort of make a machine that has a direct threat potential but was relatively straight forward. I don't normally like to,motherfucking, commit to RP's for long time so I mind of made him suit a role as a sort of sub-antagonist that can sort of explore the world a bit and maybe give a more direct link for you insert prior-pantheon plot or lore through.
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@ScreenAcne

I think it's best to approach these things with full honesty so I'm just going to say it how it is and hope this doesn't come off too harshly. I appreciate the submission, but I can't accept it. Really the point of the RP is the pantheon full of gods and their scheming, so that's what I'm hoping to get. I already allowed two fairly big exceptions with Lauder's GULA AI and with Zxy's Isaac, and I think having more would derail the coaster too much.

The vibe and tone just don't seem to mesh well with what I was going for with this thing. The character's role is also probably too similar to Zxy's Isaac.

But best of luck coming back into things on the site!
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Don't spare too much hair about it, kindred. It's ,motherfucking, more smooth than a mannequin waxing session. No coal or canes about it here. I got a bit of a vibe that it was the flow of the match anyway. Maybe later I'll give another panheon dude a guy if I get any sparks that, motherfucking, jump the shark from the deep, damp dark from where my head starts.
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Here's my first iteration to Hephaestus. Is likely still subject to editing, especially the relations part with other gods.


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I've thoroughly enjoyed reading everyone's posts and character sheets.

Hephaestus-kitty...Hephisstus
Does he also create Rube Goldberg machines to keep the rodent population down?
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Hephaestus-kitty...Hephisstus
Does he also create Rube Goldberg machines to keep the rodent population down?


A just question my liege. Perhaps
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>Isaac's next post will feature a very underhanded yet tactically sound move to claim some territory.
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@Zyx

I look forward to seeing it! I'll just caution you to be careful about the passage of time. This meeting of the gods takes place the day after Zeus' death, and who knows how slowly time will pass IC while the murder mystery unfolds afterward.

So if Isaac makes moves on that same day that he woke up and heard the note, perhaps the rest of our characters will be in a position to immediately comment or react, but otherwise it could be a while.
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I look forward to seeing it! I'll just caution you to be careful about the passage of time. This meeting of the gods takes place the day after Zeus' death, and who knows how slowly time will pass IC while the murder mystery unfolds afterward.

So if Isaac makes moves on that same day that he woke up and heard the note, perhaps the rest of our characters will be in a position to immediately comment or react, but otherwise it could be a while.


>It's likely the same day, but given what he's going for it's probably going to force a reaction from one god eventually.

>After all, Zeus forgot that their sanitation center has been left without it's leader. And sure, it can definitely hold the line, but for how long is the question... Just imagine all that feedstock waiting to be claimed...

>EDIT: Isaac's army isn't going to get there instantly of course. It'll take some time, but I'm assuming by the time he does arrive Hades will still be busy at Olympus.
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Should be interesting no matter how it turns out! I was going to have Zeus bring up Typhon at his big meeting, wondering aloud if he could've somehow been involved in the assassination, and probably also declaring that they'd put up with his shit for too long and should make a renewed and serious effort to find and extirpate his forces. Looks like Isaac is getting the first move though :)
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Will still edit the relationships in the future but other than that, I hope you enjoy my take on Eros. Also to avoid confusion, Eros' pronouns are them/they cuz they're not always the same gender ^u^

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I have put together a quick roster of all the current approved characters who were original members of the ship's crew.

Typhon
Hermes
Hades
Demeter
Hephaestus

(Add Eros if they are approved)

Presumably, GULA will be requiring a majority vote to elect a new Acting Captain, so Zeus will need either three or four votes respectively to become the Acting Captain.

Isaac will be abstaining due to being absent, which means Zeus either needs 3/4 or 4/5 votes in order to secure the Captaincy.

Easy enough, one thinks.

Or is it...?
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I have put together a quick roster of all the current approved characters who were original members of the ship's crew.

Typhon
Hermes
Hades
Demeter
Hephaestus

(Add Eros if they are approved)

Presumably, GULA will be requiring a majority vote to elect a new Acting Captain, so Zeus will need either three or four votes respectively to become the Acting Captain.

Isaac will be abstaining due to being absent, which means Zeus either needs 3/4 or 4/5 votes in order to secure the Captaincy.

Easy enough, one thinks.

Or is it...?


>If the World of Darkness has taught me anything, it's that nothing is ever so simple or so easy. Especially not when a position of power is involved.
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<Snipped quote by Cyclone>

>It's likely the same day, but given what he's going for it's probably going to force a reaction from one god eventually.

>After all, Zeus forgot that their sanitation center has been left without it's leader. And sure, it can definitely hold the line, but for how long is the question... Just imagine all that feedstock waiting to be claimed...

>EDIT: Isaac's army isn't going to get there instantly of course. It'll take some time, but I'm assuming by the time he does arrive Hades will still be busy at Olympus.


Hades isn't overwhelming worried about leaving the supervault unattended. There's a plethora of defenses and his adjutant-lords to deal with Typhon should he arrive before the chthonic king returns.

That said, if you're gonna do some kind of grand assault on the Underworld then you should contact me about it. We can actually do a collaborative post versus going back and forth on the thread. Let me know if you're interested. If not, then try not to act on my domain's behalf and let me get a post out to better build a story.
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