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Thoughout the world there exist, little gods. They exist within specific items of all shapes and sizes. Those with these items possess great power, but they in turn are possessed by the little god within. The human becomes its host, and through this host the god can interact with the world. Without a host they cannot speak, see, or even recall what has happened to them. Once the host dies, the spirit forgets all of that life except remnants of its strongest connections. Begining its life again when the next human owns it.

After centries of passing from one human to the next, the spirits live in the modern world. Each following their own path and beliefs in a rapidly changing world.

Profile
Name:
Vessel: what you inhabit.
Host: the human you exist through
Name:
Gender:
Background:
Ability: The god can awaken a unique power within the human. In character creation this doesn't matter much, but if your host dies but the vessel remains safe and a new human gets it, this power will change
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Some notes. You will be playing as the god, not the human, as the humans freewill is supressed. If you want you can allow the human shared, or even total control. But thats not wise as humans are easily corrupted by the power, not to mention the inherent split personality.

As a rule the vessels are worshipped by cults, and the hosts willingly give themselves to the god. This is how the god knows of its name, if you do not have a cult or some other method of knowing your name then you will go purely by the host's name.

This is high fantasy. The gods give their hosts incredible strength and speed. Their vessel is also a mighty weapon of great power. A fight between two gods would probably destroy a few city blocks. Speaking of vessel, you dont need continual physical contact with it. At the same time you cant truely be seperated from it. Fate will eventually reunite the vessel with the host.

I realize players might shy away from a RP where you play a being that turns a human into, basically a meat-puppet. I just hope people feel like something abit different. If you have any questions feel free to ask

I like it. Lemme whip up a character...

Must resist urge to do basically Death Note...
Name: Azrael
Vessel: A long-sword in a normal-looking leather sheath
Host:
Name: Robert Johnson
Gender: Male
Background: At the time of discovery, an archaeology major in college. On a dig, he discovered the sword and, drawn to it by its power, he kept it for himself, eventually becoming possessed. His psyche was obliterated, Azrael taking full control. He appears odd to those around him, pale and odd. He does not blink, and seems to stare with a piercing, yet blank, gaze at everything around him.
Ability: The vessel grants him telekinesis. He can lift as much as he could normally, but from a distance.

Is that over or underpowered?

And what would we be doing in this RP?

well everyone will have enhanced strength, speed, reflexes, ect, and at about the same level. The particular ability you gave your character is actually good, as its meant to be more utalitarian

Two things I forgot to mention. Vessels appear normal, the little gods are in what were at the time considered mundane and ordinary. This also means that at mere glance you cannot tell what has a little god in it, same with host. Although I imagine something like a guy carrying a sword might cause someone to raise an eyebrow.

Alright, I changed it.

How's that?

Name: Bob, S-01
Vessel: Cell phone
Host:
Background: Sprint found documents explaining the ritual to insert little god and Bob was there first subject called supernatural number one or N-01 for short. He was accidentally released to the general public. Sprint had search parties go out to recover S-01.
Name: Jerry
Gender: Male
Background: Jerry was an absolutely average kid in every way. His height is the average height, he got average grades, he was dead center socially, and he even had average hair and eye color. When he grew up he was planning on having an average amount of kids, yes with the fraction of the kid. On his 16 birthday at his average party he got a black cell phone. This cell phone is Bob who he has gained an average connection with and neither side has control.
Ability: Bob has a telepathic communication with any one he wants and can hear thoughts.

TDK your fine.

Deathpigeon, well although I am ok with more modern technology being a vessel it would require some kind of background, since it would mean recently the ritual was performed to place the god into a new form, knowledge few still possess. Also a reminded that your character will be rather mad. Even equal control puts a massive strain on the humans mind, so you should be about half way down the abyss, with a psychotic skew of morality.

Name: Vraknar
Vessel: A palm-sized brass medallion.
Host:
Name: Joseph Hatcher
Gender: Male

Background: Vraknar, and the medallion he's imprisoned within, have been worshipped for the past half-millenium by a secretive religious order. They kept the medallion isolated, safe from human hands that might become the host of the dangerous little god. Unforunately, one of the newer disciples thought it would be an amazing experience to touch the trinket. The instant Joseph's eager fingers touched the dull brass, Vraknar was intertwined into his physical shell. As Vraknar was once again blessed with awareness, visions of fire, chaos, and binding rituals greeted his mind, remenants of a lifetime once forgotten.

Filled with anger, and a twisted sense of humor, Vraknar fled the secretive order in a wake of destruction, leaving Joseph's conscience intact so he could witness the chaos he unleashed. Despite Joseph's active mind, Vraknar has full control over the body and can wipe out Joseph's conscience at any time. However, he refrains from doing so because of the sheer enjoyment he gets from hearing his pleas.

Vraknar (or rather, Joseph's body) is about 6' tall, has grey eyes and long brown hair tied back in a pony tail. His body is around average size and lacks any noticeable muscle, and his skin is very lightly tanned.

Ability: Vraknar gives Joseph's eyes an extremly enhanced perception that allows him to analyze nearly every aspect of another being. In other words, just by looking at someone he can guage their physical strength, predict their movements, tell if they're lying, and even know what mood they're in.


A quick note about Vraknar/Joseph's ability. It only applies to people who can't hide the small signs their body gives off. I'm assuming other little gods will have much better control over their body than a normal human, which would render them somewhat immune to the analysis. Also, people who have trained themselves to hide those small body signs would be immune as well.

Name:Doesn't know
Vessel:Fragment of a mirror

Host
Name:Anly
Gender:Female
Background:Anly was a normal woman living in New York City. She had a sort of optimism unbreakable by any miseries, a mind with every edge sharpened razor-keen, and a beauty not quite head turning, jaw dropping, angel-fallen-from-heaven attractive but definitely eye catching. Unfortunately, she happened across a small fragment of mirror on one of her many daily walks.

Anly was nearly completely wiped away, only left bearing a primal sense of beauty. The effect the possession had on Anly is partly a reflection of the god itself, a broken and crazed mind. The god still retains some high intelligence but at times is completely engulfed by narcissistic insanity. While Anly will never escape the god, her mind having been mostly shattered, she retains a modicum of freedom at times when the god's grasp slips from its own insanity. Both Anly and the god possess the strong desire to be beautiful.

No matter what condition Anly appears in her mirror shard reflects her to be extremely beautiful with every glance, a beauty that leaves her enamored. The god lives a decent life using it's human host to steal anything it might need to survive.
Ability:Teleportation. Only herself and small objects on her.

Is there any type of politics that might play in the game? Or any source of the gods? I've a chemist human with transmutation powers in mind, but I can't think of any sort of story other than three sentences saying "He was this, he got a book, and now he's host to a god"

I'm still working one the bckstory, but I'd like to reserve a slot. My god grants his vessal luck.

I'll also reserve a spot, but only if I can think up a nifty enough power. I was going to have teleportation, but Narc beat me to it. -_-

I'm also interested in this so I'll reserve a spot as well. I'll have something up by tomorrow afternoon.

first I want to remind everyone, point of this is NOT to play humans, but the gods that now control them. Dont even attempt it unless you are a great role player and understand your character wont only start insane, but his mind will degrade until said character cant even function and will become at best a NPC and at worse a mindless vegitable.

I will also remind you that the unique power comes from the human, not the god. The god merely awakens it. Might also want items that are weapons since attacks from them would be incredibly deadly.

Now onto profiles
AD your approved
Deathpigeon, still waiting on those changes
see the memories are gone because it was the host that actually remembered it. To use an analogy, it would be like swapping out your computers harddrive. For the most part all your memory is gone. Only thing you retain is a strong emotional sense from previous lives. Say in one life you lived happily in a town for decades, then you and everyone else was killed and the town destroyed. If you went to the ruins you would feel nostalgia and sadness. But no idea why you feel like that or what the place was.

Since their memories are wiped each time, only the original cults that worshipped them and kept good records know much. Most gods dont know where they came from, or the rituals needed to transplant them into new items (which is why you should shy away from modern devices). This also means most gods dont know of others, thus no political system for them exists. You shouldn't get too hung up on your humans backstory, as its mainly just to say the kind of life he lived, the life you now assume. And incase you didn't guess already the god knows all that the human did.

On the alchemy thing. I'll allow it, but only traditional alchemy. It wont be like FMA where you draw a circle then suddenly a wall into an ornate door. You can however know the chemicals and ritual needed to convert lead to gold. So any transmutation would be a long drawn out process

Ok, I changed up my background some. Does the host need to eat or anything?

I was so temped to make a rock god when I was typing this. :)

Name: Ranthok
Personality: Ranthok has two mostly separate personalities. The first one, which I have dubbed Casual Ranthok is childish and enjoy acting silly, the other is Battle Ranthok who is serious and takes control during a fight.
Theme Song: Casual--Chao's Doki-Doki Banana Chips Run Mix, Battle--Fury of the Storm by DragonForce
Vessel: A katana with an orange handle and an orange ribbon hanging from it.

Host:

Name: Akahi Kameha
Gender: Male
Background: Akahi is a 14 year old boy with an interest in magic. He recently joined a group of fellow students at his school with a similar interest. A few days ago they found a mysterious sword at a pawn shop with a paper containing instructions for obtaining great power and the name of a god on it. Akahi volunteered to have this ritual performed on him...
Ability: Incredible speed, beyond that of any of the other gods normally bestow upon their hosts. As in nearing supersonic.( Not that Ranthok can control this power completely at the start.)

I did the edits.

never thought about it, so I'm gonna say yes.

Emong your fine

Deathpigeon, if thats the case then it is not satisfactory. For it to be in something so modern it would mean only a few years ago the ritual was done to transfer the god into there. Which means a cult is probably connected. I dont see why a fanatical cult would take their deity and think "hey why not give our artifact of unimaginable power to some random kid." I will also remind you that the ability is what the human has, not the god, and that with shared control he would be pretty insane

They way the cult was involved was the documents Sprint discovered and it wasn't given to him on purpose.

For the story, I was thinking the god's vessel in particular would be a diary with his name on it. He retains a form of memory in the sense that he studies his diary inside and out every time he changes hosts, and makes entries of the important details (name, allies, enemies, where an artifact might be hidden, etc), but the information there might not necessarily have been written by him or even true.

As for the transmutations, I was thinking that at early stages, it would only be "one element to another" or "one compound to another" at a relatively slow rate proportional to proximity (like turning a toilet into gold over maybe 30 seconds when touching, maybe a couple minutes when standing in front of it), and eventually advancing to allow "multiple elements/compounds to one element/compound" or "rapidly shifting one element to another".

And for the record, I haven't seen FMA, so I don't really know how that works or if I'm drawing any parallels, but I don't intend him to use the ability all willy-nilly or for ridiculous feats. He might take a finely crafted steel sword and make it mithril given the chance, but he wouldn't go around turning everything to solid profit or decide every time he used the facilities he needed a golden throne, and he wouldn't have the ability to shape what he was transmuting, let alone craft something crazy ornate.

Might this be okay? If not, I'll probably think up a new power.

I'll reserve a spot and submit a bare bones product.
I was so tempted to do a god of flight for this but that would be lame lol
Name: Tithrindale
vessel: A late 18th century revovler
Human's name:Yuri Nakomata
gender:male
ability: the god gives the host great skill in whatever weapon he picks up
all weapons with ammo or arrows dont run out unless he wills it.
Background: Yuri Nakomata was a rich gun collector and a cop his carrer was on the fast traqck and he was almost chief when suddenly for almost no reason he dropped out and joined the CIA noone really knew why he quit the force to join the CIA. The reason why was that he was not in control of his body because of a old revovler he had purchased that turnned out to be the housing of a god and he was possesed by the spirit and through the possesion his mind was shattered like a crystal glass when a perfect high C is sung near it. The god was a subtle god only violent secretly and silently

Name: Artimaeus
Vessel: A staff with a bowstring wrapped around the top. A strong enough person might be able to turn it into a bow again. Otherwise, it's a fancy walking-stick.

Name: Joseph
Gender: Male
Background: An outdoors-man/camper type who found a cool walking stick.
Ability: Pyrokinesis, pyropathy, and pyromancy. Basically, he can summon and shape fire, and even grant it life. After all, fire already fulfills most of the requirements for life...

Edited mine for detail, probably going to add more later.

Thing is Deathpigeon the story doesn't really add up. A major phone company just 'found' how to transfer a god from one item to another, and had a god already, then some how it got placed into mass circulation? There is alot wrong with that premiss, I'm not even sure if there is a way to rewrite that so its acceptable, especially if you plan on playing a mentally damaged human.

Bosolai, ok I will allow it. However I decide if, and when your abilities evolve beyond their slow limited begining.

FF, well I'm abit iffy on the ability, but I decided to approve the profile

Newb, you cant bring fire to life but all things considered I'm ok with pyrokenisis. Though your gonna have to give guidelines on its limits

Emong, I'm not gonna deny the background as its not a big deal. But there isn't a ritual to become possessed, you just touch the item and it happens.

Now that I'm done with that. This thing is more popular then I originally thoughts. So I expect all profiles to be in by tomorrow afternoon, then I'm gonna close sign-ups. Place holders will only last another 24 hours after that. If you take longer then I'm gonna assume your no longer interested in playing

I was thinking along the lines of no matter what the actual method is every cult have no doubt devised their own overly complex ritual for it.

Name: Tay
Vessel: A large, plain-seeming diary.

Name: Johnathan Weiss
Gender: Male
Age: 32

Background: Johnathan Weiss was a chemist and damn good at it. His discoveries won him much prestige, and he had nearly won a Nobel Peace Prize on three separate accounts. On top of that, he was also a great husband and loving father, a friendly neighbor, and a good man. He had his father to thank for good upbringing, but when his father died during his teenage years, he looked up to one of his father's closest friends, William "Tay" Grieves. The man had the uncanny ability to give hope or inspiration whenever he spoke, which made him an excellent father figure. Johnathan would easily admit that Tay made him who he is today, especially now that he's giving him his most prized possession on his deathbed. As Mr. Grieves passed away, Johnathan was overwhelmed with the spirit he understood to be his good friend Tay.

Ability: While Tay gave Mr. Grieves the power of motivation and inspiration, he unlocks the power of alchemical transmutation in Johnathan Weiss. The rate of the transmutation is inversely proportional to the complexity. Where Johnathan could transform a handful of lead to gold in a matter of seconds, chunk the size of his head would take 30 seconds to a minute, and a large slab would take several. If he wanted to transform all the steel in a factory into uranium 237, the process might take several years.

Edit: Alright here we go.

God
Name: Lord Brance Ulgoth
Vessel: A medieval steel gauntlet (right-handed). It is less of the smooth edged and polished variety and more of the spiked, face tearing kind but not overly so.

Host
Name: Samuel Clines
Gender: Male
Background: Samuel was once a museum curator specializing in medieval armor and weaponry. He was fascinated by armor especially and loved trying on various pieces to see how they fit and felt while moving. He would often wear a particular piece all day while setting up an exhibit to "get a feel for it", as he said.

While sorting a new shipment he saw the gauntlet but couldn't find it's match. He also noticed that it was inscribed with the title and name, Lord Brance Ulgoth. Deciding to try it on he found to his surprise that it fit as if it had been made for him and he wore all that day. As often happened he was the last one to leave the museum and when it came time he found he didn't want to leave the gauntlet behind. Instead he slipped it into a slightly worn plain leather carry-all that an intern had left behind and headed home.

From there it took very little time for the god to assert complete control over Samuel's mind. Within three months Samuel had stopped going to work and had completely alienated himself from his family and friends. During his descent Samuel assumed correctly that he was being possessed and thought that it must be whoever this Lord was whose name was on the item. However, beyond a failed attempt at trying to convince a priest to exorcise him, he little idea or time to do anything about it. Lacking memories, the god took a cue from his host and assumed this name for himself but he still uses the hosts name with most people as it is less conspicuous. He also carries the bag with the gauntlet in it with most everywhere he goes.
Ability: Empathy and Persuasion. Given time, Lord Brance can "bring you around to his point of view" so to speak. Once he has done this he can then convince you to do all manner of things.

This is not without limitations however. Foremost a person has to be capable of feeling compassion and relatively unused to suppressing it more than a little. The less compassionate the harder it is. As well, both are directly proportional to what he is trying to convince them of or to do. However, if he is able to get them to empathize with him usually any preconceived notions they have mostly fall away and there is very little they won't do.

Bosolai, change distance to mass, you have to touch it to change it.

seeker your fine.

ok guys I am waiting for something before I start, but one way or another it will start by tomorrow

Alright, changed. Didn't include the word mass in there, as mass is already implied in rate of transmutation (chemical reactions are usually in mass/time).

sorry, I know its not much to go off of, but this is my plan B since A didn't pan out, long story. Anyways, atleast this will give me a good idea of how many players are actually active

so, have fun

Yay! I've looking forward to this rp. Its gonna be fun, if the quality (awesome) of the concept is any indication.

Out of curiosity, what would happen if the vessel containing the Little God was broken, shattered, or destroyed? Would the Little God die along with it, or would he/she be released from the confinment of the vessel? Or are the vessels granted immunity to destruction because of the Little God's powers? No I'm not planning anything, just that these questions popped into my mind and have been bugging me ever since.

well simple destruction means your spiritual essence is dispersed and the bound with your host breaks. Remember they are in effect normal items if not for the god, so they can be broken just as easily. Just like for all a hosts speed, stamina, and strength, a shot through the head is still fatal.

Once the vessel is destroyed, you are basically dead. The only possible chance for returning is if all the pieces go through a ritual and the god is placed in a new item. Of course if a piece is truely destroyed, like it fell into acid, then even that wont work.

Incidently, if the human isn't fatally wounded, and the vessel is destroyed, he regains control and can go on with life as a normal human.

PS, I'm gonna wait abit more for others to post, if not I'm gonna assume its just you four. I'm also re-opening sign-ups if anyone is interested