TheSovereignGrave

Ruin | Advanced NRP

You know, we could just give dates for all the posts that occur in the human Realm.

Ruin | Advanced NRP

NewSun said
So i'm writing up the first IC post, it may take me a few hours. I figured i'd use the time to make sure everybody understands how the style of play here differs from that of your regular NRP (or RP, for that matter). All posts are basically like a mini-short story, they don't necessarily rely on other people to respond to make them have any value. The idea is that all posts have their own, self contained plot that could be added to by another player who seeks to subvert you, or not. We use the world building elements to make consistencies in our posts and so that everything connects. I feel like I haven't explained it to the best of my ability yet, but does everybody sort of get the jist of it? Any questions?

I get it, and it should be fun. I can't wait to get started.

GreivousKhan said
Valindra would seem to give the greatest gift, that of immortality and the power to cheat ones greatest fear. Though in truth, once someone accepts her gift, their souls forever belong to her. and when/if they are finally destroyed (a difficult but hardly impossible outcome), their souls are sent screaming into her domain, where she feasts on their very essence in eternal torment and agony for all time. After all death is the greatest sign of weakness and is never awarded.

Demonic Santas's indeed.

Hmmm, that is a valid point. And at least with Csonugdytuft's Gift you actually want it once you're given it. So it's not all that bad I suppose. Still not something anyone in their right mind would actually desire though, unless they're really desperate.

Ruin | Advanced NRP

GreivousKhan said
While Valindra loves her children and bestows the gift of undeath to them. The princes give the best .

Well to be fair I'd rather be an undead monster than a hideous and freakishly deformed abomination. Or insane. But yeah, the Princes are just great big balls of sunshine, spreading gifts and presents everywhere. They're like demonic Santas!

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NewSun said
I find it interesting that Misyra breaks the minds of those she loves, and Clafkwefbwlefihrgelrsgihsfsaqf breaks their bodies, yet both consider this to be an act of love.

Well to be technical, Csonugdytuft breaks their minds as well since the Gift makes people love and worship her and view the Gift as a good thing. Csonugdytuft just doesn't realize this and thinks that when they're Gifted they realize that they wanted the Gift all along. I think the difference between Misyra and Csonugdytuft is that Csonugdytuft's followers are actually happy (even though it's only because their minds are twisted by her Gifts) while Misyra's followers are broken and insane.

Ruin | Advanced NRP

Well I didn't really see her until just now, so this is the most finished I've seen her. And yeah, I do like her. I like all the Princes actually.

Hey Tatsua Aiisen, when I was reading Izalia's sheet and I read about the fact that when she gives of giant rainbows I immediately thought of Ragyo Kiryuin. I assume that was intentional, right?

EDIT: Csonugdytuft will probably hate Misyra because she says that she 'loves' those people, and yet does nothing break and hurt them further. Csonugdytuft herself is a loving and caring Goddess, who would never think of harming her followers. (She doesn't view bestowing her Gifts on people to be harming them.)

Ruin | Advanced NRP

Oh, I kinda like Misyra. She brings people and things to her and loves them because they're broken, and mistakenly thinks they love her back. I can tell that the Bountiful Wheel is going to absolutely hate her. :D

Ruin | Advanced NRP

I got the post up for the town, and I think that may be the last post I make before the RP starts. After all, the Cult of the Divine Circle isn't a major and prominent power anywhere and I don't think Csonugdytuft is the kind to give her followers artifacts. After all, if she wants to reward them she just Gifts them.

Ruin | Worldbuilding

Mayford

The town of Mayford is a small one, but it is a town of incredible importance to Csonugdytuft and the Cult of the Divine Circle. This is due to the fact that the town is completely and totally controlled by the Cult and thus, by extension, Csonugdytuft herself. Mayford was never a particularly large or powerful town, but one thing that it did house was an Abbey for the Order of the Aether. Because of the town's small size the Order dominated the politics of the town, with the Abbey's Master having incredible influence. The Master was a pious man and believed deeply in the teaching of the Order, and so it is amazing that he was the first to come under the influence of the Bountiful Wheel herself.This is because while he was a zealot, he was also only a man; his faith was shaken was several other prominent members of the Abbey accused his mother of being a witch in league with a Prince of Ruin. True to form, he had her interrogated and she eventually confessed her sins. But the experience had left the Master shaken; he knew without a doubt that his mother was not a witch and that single thought lead to ever so small doubts in the tenets of the Order. It was because of these cracks that Csonugdytuft entered, ever so slowly opening his mind to possibilities of beliefs besides that of the Order. She was careful at first, influencing him so subtly that he believed the thoughts to be his own. Eventually the Master told others of his ideas, which had yet to blossom fully into worship of Csonugdytuft. And his beliefs spread ever so slowly, preparing the Master and Mayford for her revelation. By this point the tenets of the Master and his followers were so drastically different from the Order's that they readily accepted Csonugdytuft as their Goddess. And then the Master used the power and influence of the Order in Mayford to spread the Cult of the Divine Circle throughout the entire town, creating her first major bastion in the mortal world.

Even today Mayford has managed to keep secret its affiliation with the Cult of the Divine Circle and Csonugdytuft; thankfully the town is rather small and isolated, and because of that visits from members of the Order are quite rare. And even if they weren't the Gifted in Mayford have become incredibly adept at aping their previous lives members of the Order of the Aether. They have a new Master now, as eventually the previous Master became too Gifted by the Bountiful Wheel to be seen in public. They informed the rest of the Order that he had committed suicide over his mother's death and the new Master was quickly Gifted and brought into the fold. On the outside the townspeople appear the same, though they are all Gifted. For most the Gift is small with barely and visible signs, though this is not true for all. Some have been so Gifted by Csonugdytuft that they are forced to live in the caverns beneath the town. These caverns only connect to the surface in several homes on the outskirts of the town, and are the most evident sign of Csonugdytuft's Gifts. For once you travel down too far the stone begins to turn warms and wet, and eventually it becomes a fleshy tube that compares to the realm of Csonugdytuft herself. Wandering down here are the Gifted that can no longer appear in public, including the previous Master and now High Priest of Mayford.

The High Priest of Mayford

The High Priest was the first person of Mayford to be Gifted by Csonugdytuft, and is the greatest and most loyal of her cultists in the town. He is also the most Gifted. While formerly a man, he has been so consumed by Csonugdytuft's Gifts that he is not even recognizable as human. In the deepest sections of the caverns underneath Mayford the High Priest sits in a throne of stone. His body has become bloated and warped to the point that he appears as little more than a massive blob of flesh fused to the stone throne. His body is constantly shifting, though there is a single sky blue eye near the top of the mass that always remains. While it has no set location and freely moves around the High Priest's body, it is always present regardless of the circumstances. While one may consider him vulnerable in such a state, he is anything but. He is fully aware of his surroundings and speaks by growing mouths on his body. He is also able to twist his flesh to the point that he can sprout fully-grown limbs, though he rarely has reason to do so. The High Priest is second only to Csonugdytuft in authority, and he believes strongly in her message of love and charity. He does all he can in his power to spread her Gift, even if that sometimes involves kidnapping hapless travelers so that Csonugdytuft may Gift them and then send them on their way, in order to spread his Goddess's love far and wide.

Ruin | Advanced NRP

Oh yeah, that's fine. I was planning on having it be a pretty small one anyway. Though they still had a rather tight grip on local politics on account of the town itself being rather small and isolated.

Ruin | Advanced NRP

Xaxl said
Ielitha Dema is often rather when it comes to how she goes about getting vengeance for somebody (since it involves eventually imprisoning them in Aedora), but that's usually part of the understanding. She doesn't exactly correct people who ask for her help and just want their enemy humiliated, but the number of people capable of contacting her who don't understand what asking for her help usually entails are fairly low.

Oddities is just a polite way of saying "weird shit". The more unique the better. Mass of flesh fused to a throne that used to be human? Hell yeah, Ielitha finds that .

Understandable. Still going to be a minor quibble, but nothing major. After all, while Csonugdytuft would prefer to help everyone she knows that sometimes you can't help everyone.

I know what oddity means, I was just stating that the Gift can result in 'really weird shit'. Oh, and that's a sentient mass of flesh. :D

And Darkwolf, I have a question. Since the Aether Order were created by you I figure it'd only be polite to ask; can I create a small town that used to be regular old town and housed an Abbey for the Order, but was 'corrupted' and pretty much taken over by Csonugdytuft and the Cult of the Divine Circle? I'd make it a small and remote town, so that you wouldn't have too many real members of the Order visiting too often. I like the irony in the one town that is completely under Csonugdytuft's rule being considered by outsiders to be controlled by an Order that hates the Princes of Ruin.