PoliteSuccubus
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“Chance of a Lifetime Job:
Creative people wanted for perm. placement overseas. Must have management potential. No exp. nec in any given field, but be passionate about area of potential placement. Outstanding benefits, unbelievable advancement ops,
total control over your team. Equal OP employer.”
Clutching the advert in your hand you come for your appointment. The waiting room is filled with all sorts of people
from Hollywood stars to street bums belching and shifty eyed women who could just as easily be hookers or
senators. The regal looking receptionist nods you towards a chair to wait, and she calls you by name and asks you to
go down the hall for your interview. Strange, you don’t remember giving it to her....
A handsome and physically overpowering man smiles at you with perfect teeth and shakes your hand firmly, but not
too firmly. “I am so glad you could make it.” He says sincerely, in fact, you have the feeling the man would be
incapable of lying even if he tried. “I’m going to lay it out for you nice and simple, if that’s OK. Just cut straight to
the chase, as they say.”
He gestures for you to sit as he takes a seat himself. “Armageddon is just around the corner and this universe is just
about done for as far as souls and redemption and all of that. God, as you know, and Lucifer have been more or less
separating the wheat from the chaff as it were. Now, if your a student of the “Bible” you know that when this earth
is over hell too will be destroyed. Pretty much everyone believes that means all the souls in it will be destroyed also.
Coffee?”
He pauses to pour you both a cup and grins at you, knowing your thinking about the exit about now. “Now, God is
the ultimate recycle. It’s one of His basic laws that energy cannot be destroyed, only changed. So all those souls
can’t just be thrown out with the bathwater, so to speak. What we do is we set up another universe and give
everyone a second chance. The fundamentals are the same, but let’s face it...if we gave everyone the same choices
and everything then everyone would make the same mistakes, right?”
He sips his coffee. “So, we are building this new world and populating it and we need new minor gods for the people
to worship and build myths on before we give them the one true God. I mean, it can’t be like choosing between
yellow and yellow...that’s not a real choice is it? And primitive people need gods. If you don’t give them some then
they just make them up and there simply is no game plan. Right now there are the chosen who know about God, and
everyone else is pretty much into the Earth Mother camp. But they are moving into the bronze age now and that
requires a level of...sophistication Earth Mother just can’t provide.”
Flipping open a folder he runs his finger down a list. “Benefits include near immortality....the more people you can
get to believe in you the stronger you are. Blessings, curses, the normal gambit of stuff....You get one miracle event
for every 100 believers. You will need to create temples, myths, so forth and so on. Of course you will be eventually
over thrown...but there is an outstanding retirement package: You can create your own heaven and populate it the
those who you wish the most to spend eternity with. So, what do you say?” His eyes begin to glow a little and you
feel nervous and you find you can’t just laugh this off...you believe.
“I...I would like to be a god.” You stutter.
“Great! Glad to have you on board!” He leans back and beams at you. “Now that you have decided I’ll let you in on
a little secret.” He leans close and mock whispers to you. “Only people who are moments from death can see our ad.
They are given enough spare time to come and receive this opportunity. If they accept they go on to the next level,
but if they refuse...they are placed back to the moment we ‘borrowed’ them from and have to go through the
judgment process.”
He leans back again and slides a form across to you. “Take your time filling this out and then go see Peter in the next
room for the final OK.”
****************************************************
Name:
Aspect: (What are you the god/goddess of? The Sun and Moon are taken, as is Mother Earth; remember feelings
such as Hope etc are muses, and not gods/goddess.)
Human Appearance:
Powers (minor): (You may chose up to three minor powers that do not require believers.)
Totem bird/fish/animal: (Which you can control and/or inhabit or change into)
Totem plant:
Element: (Such as streams, flame, wind, clay, Opal)
Symbol:
Such as:
The Lady of Quests and Journeys, Alyiss
Alyiss aids those who are beginning or on a quest or journey; or hinders them, depending on her goals.
Her human appearance can change to play a variety of roles to give out clues to the quests; but generally she is seen as a woman with ink black hair, snow white skin, lips pink as a just kissed maids and eyes the violet of spring flowers.
Her minor powers are: The power to make a shrine appear where ever she or one of her priests have been, the power
to see the proper path of a persons destiny, and the Kiss of Life in which she takes some of her power and revives a
hero via her physical kiss.
Her element is the wind, her totem is the sparrow, her flower is the dandelion, and her symbol is the compass.
****************************************************
Game Goals:
1. To become powerful via getting bielevers
2. To create myths
3. To become THE major deity rather than the patron god of your city.
4. To have fun.
***************************************************
Urgo is populated with humans who have just entered the bronze age. Serfs and slaves from conquored lands are common, life is hard and short for the poor, and art and science are just beginning to flourish. When you apply you will be given a city to become the patron god/goddess of and a small temple...with no priests or followers. Some of the larger cities will be shared. The land mass is roughly the size of the U.S. and the shape of a large curve.
A few small mircles and some recruiting will be in order from the start....
For example: Alyiss has been given Thalia. Thalia is a city-state perfectly posied to become a major mover and shaker. It sits on the banks of a mighty river, the Ria, and the sea. Inland caravans cross the desert to reach the Ria and ship their goods down to Thalia. Since Thalia is a growing city she may have to share it.
Game will start July 25th!
Creative people wanted for perm. placement overseas. Must have management potential. No exp. nec in any given field, but be passionate about area of potential placement. Outstanding benefits, unbelievable advancement ops,
total control over your team. Equal OP employer.”
Clutching the advert in your hand you come for your appointment. The waiting room is filled with all sorts of people
from Hollywood stars to street bums belching and shifty eyed women who could just as easily be hookers or
senators. The regal looking receptionist nods you towards a chair to wait, and she calls you by name and asks you to
go down the hall for your interview. Strange, you don’t remember giving it to her....
A handsome and physically overpowering man smiles at you with perfect teeth and shakes your hand firmly, but not
too firmly. “I am so glad you could make it.” He says sincerely, in fact, you have the feeling the man would be
incapable of lying even if he tried. “I’m going to lay it out for you nice and simple, if that’s OK. Just cut straight to
the chase, as they say.”
He gestures for you to sit as he takes a seat himself. “Armageddon is just around the corner and this universe is just
about done for as far as souls and redemption and all of that. God, as you know, and Lucifer have been more or less
separating the wheat from the chaff as it were. Now, if your a student of the “Bible” you know that when this earth
is over hell too will be destroyed. Pretty much everyone believes that means all the souls in it will be destroyed also.
Coffee?”
He pauses to pour you both a cup and grins at you, knowing your thinking about the exit about now. “Now, God is
the ultimate recycle. It’s one of His basic laws that energy cannot be destroyed, only changed. So all those souls
can’t just be thrown out with the bathwater, so to speak. What we do is we set up another universe and give
everyone a second chance. The fundamentals are the same, but let’s face it...if we gave everyone the same choices
and everything then everyone would make the same mistakes, right?”
He sips his coffee. “So, we are building this new world and populating it and we need new minor gods for the people
to worship and build myths on before we give them the one true God. I mean, it can’t be like choosing between
yellow and yellow...that’s not a real choice is it? And primitive people need gods. If you don’t give them some then
they just make them up and there simply is no game plan. Right now there are the chosen who know about God, and
everyone else is pretty much into the Earth Mother camp. But they are moving into the bronze age now and that
requires a level of...sophistication Earth Mother just can’t provide.”
Flipping open a folder he runs his finger down a list. “Benefits include near immortality....the more people you can
get to believe in you the stronger you are. Blessings, curses, the normal gambit of stuff....You get one miracle event
for every 100 believers. You will need to create temples, myths, so forth and so on. Of course you will be eventually
over thrown...but there is an outstanding retirement package: You can create your own heaven and populate it the
those who you wish the most to spend eternity with. So, what do you say?” His eyes begin to glow a little and you
feel nervous and you find you can’t just laugh this off...you believe.
“I...I would like to be a god.” You stutter.
“Great! Glad to have you on board!” He leans back and beams at you. “Now that you have decided I’ll let you in on
a little secret.” He leans close and mock whispers to you. “Only people who are moments from death can see our ad.
They are given enough spare time to come and receive this opportunity. If they accept they go on to the next level,
but if they refuse...they are placed back to the moment we ‘borrowed’ them from and have to go through the
judgment process.”
He leans back again and slides a form across to you. “Take your time filling this out and then go see Peter in the next
room for the final OK.”
****************************************************
Name:
Aspect: (What are you the god/goddess of? The Sun and Moon are taken, as is Mother Earth; remember feelings
such as Hope etc are muses, and not gods/goddess.)
Human Appearance:
Powers (minor): (You may chose up to three minor powers that do not require believers.)
Totem bird/fish/animal: (Which you can control and/or inhabit or change into)
Totem plant:
Element: (Such as streams, flame, wind, clay, Opal)
Symbol:
Such as:
The Lady of Quests and Journeys, Alyiss
Alyiss aids those who are beginning or on a quest or journey; or hinders them, depending on her goals.
Her human appearance can change to play a variety of roles to give out clues to the quests; but generally she is seen as a woman with ink black hair, snow white skin, lips pink as a just kissed maids and eyes the violet of spring flowers.
Her minor powers are: The power to make a shrine appear where ever she or one of her priests have been, the power
to see the proper path of a persons destiny, and the Kiss of Life in which she takes some of her power and revives a
hero via her physical kiss.
Her element is the wind, her totem is the sparrow, her flower is the dandelion, and her symbol is the compass.
****************************************************
Game Goals:
1. To become powerful via getting bielevers
2. To create myths
3. To become THE major deity rather than the patron god of your city.
4. To have fun.
***************************************************
Urgo is populated with humans who have just entered the bronze age. Serfs and slaves from conquored lands are common, life is hard and short for the poor, and art and science are just beginning to flourish. When you apply you will be given a city to become the patron god/goddess of and a small temple...with no priests or followers. Some of the larger cities will be shared. The land mass is roughly the size of the U.S. and the shape of a large curve.
A few small mircles and some recruiting will be in order from the start....
For example: Alyiss has been given Thalia. Thalia is a city-state perfectly posied to become a major mover and shaker. It sits on the banks of a mighty river, the Ria, and the sea. Inland caravans cross the desert to reach the Ria and ship their goods down to Thalia. Since Thalia is a growing city she may have to share it.
Game will start July 25th!
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