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Jan 30, 2013 - 8:49AM
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Allies? Hardly. They are opposed to one another in the same way that we are opposed to one another, ColdMother. You are Anathema to me, and I to you. They just claim that there is a reason for the other's existence. Meanwhile, Pruinus, I make no such claims about You.
Angi watched as the blade came towards him, and the icy portions of it began to melt. He stopped its travel by his will, and sent it back towards Pruinus, where the magma began to harden and crack. Back and forth the sword went, but neither Agni nor Pruinus could hold it.
Agni studied the blade, and noticed for the first time the bits of stone which acted as insulators between the ice and magma, allowing both to co-exist. An idea sprang to mind.
We cannot work together, ColdMother. Your creations cannot stand my Heat. But perhaps if there was an intermediary.
Angi drew the sword to him and scavenged off the power that Pruinus had placed within the ice, adding it to the power he now drew from the magma itself, using both to crush the insulative stone together into a compact ball, filled with divine power. As if cast from a mighty hand, the stone ball was thrown upwards into the dusty heavens, and as it traveled, it grew larger and larger as the dust of Creation accumulated around it. Eventually, it reached its peak, and began to fall back towards the gathered Gods.
2 AP (1 from Pruinus) Ascend God: Onus, God of Stone!
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4 months ago ::
Jan 30, 2013 - 9:28AM
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all the bold talk was getting hard to read: is it okay if I just bold names? "Calm, Pruinus. If we can be friends yet life can still fear a challenge, why can't Zebus and I be friends, while life might still fear death?" Leaf turned to the Lord Flamberlain, " Agni, he is not my opposite. The barren world is not alive, but it is not dead, either. It is itself, just as fire is neither alive nor dead but itself. Death is only the cessation of life. Life is not the cessation of death. You were not dead before you existed, you just did not exist. Perhaps someday you will die, but you will still exist. And then again, perhaps someday you will not die but cease to exist.” “But enough of that. You have asked that I apologize, and so I will apologize.” Under the light of the sun, little Lord Leaf turned to Zebus and inclined his head. "I apologize for treating you as you are, as one beneath my concern." He looked up and his face entreated death. "But the world doesn't need to be this way. I drew weapon on you and Agni when I first awoke because you two were babbling. There is a world to create, order to set! I will always draw weapon against passivity." "I claim authority for myself, but look to my actions! Even as I ask to be given authority, I subjugate myself to Pruinus and Agni! Because a master serves others. I would give death power over my own domain, and I would make all the world worship you. I would make you my concern... if you would let me." He turned and addressed all three gods at once. "Yes, I claim authority for myself. I would bind you three together for the greater glory of each, and would make myself nothing but the twine. All I am and have, I would give to you! Will any of you take authority so that you might make yourselves nothing in the service of all?" "I do not wish to be equal. I wish to make you greater. That is what it means to be a master, Zebus."
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Jan 30, 2013 - 9:45AM
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Agni tore his gaze from the rock he had thrown and looked around.
Looks pretty dead to me. He said.
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Jan 30, 2013 - 10:43AM
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I'm pretty much the same, Pen. I just do it in bold because I thought it was what we had to do. I'll probably carry on just to match the others writing styles. "Very well Leaf. As I mentioned before, I'm not on either side of this debate, but I do not believe it is for Agni & I to meddle in these matters. I know my place with you, but how you and Zebus choose to acknowledge one another is yours to choose."
Pruinus only now remembered the berries that Leaf had placed at her feet. She picked them up, slightly disheartened that they were frozen cold and dead, but her own words dictated that this would happen. More of these berries would blossom, and they would endure. Pruinus concentrated for a moment, setting her mind to creating a challenge for all life to overcome. A challenge that would creep slowly, striking fear into the hearts of those preparing to brave it, yet a challenge that may also arrive unexpected, punishing those who were not prepared. This challenge would then creep away, claiming lives but defeated by some, and a while later would come again to test mortals once again. This challenge was Winter. "Thank you for this gift Leaf." Pruinus smiled at the berries. "If you have no objection, I would like to name these Winter Berries. They shall only grow in a time known as Winter, the coldest of seasons, but in this season, no mortal will ever be able to find a sweeter fruit."
Pruinus took one of the berries from the stem and popped it into her mouth. Her words had proved true, the berry was overwhelming in flavour, although Pruinus attributed this partially to the fact it was the first time she had experienced taste. She looked down at the formless rock below her and felt the desire to fill this rock with many wonders such as this. ---4 AP Command Universe - Create Winter.
If this is allowable, Winter comes every few years and lasts a few weeks, but everything in creation is affected by it. All Possible places and planets will be affected by Winter at this time. Planets that are capable of weather such as snow & hail will endure blizzards and hail storms, whereas planets that do not have such weather will simply lower in temperature for a time. Winter does NOT effect other planes of existence. Although Pruinus does not yet realize how this works, the cause of Winter is primal spirits of cold increasing their activity all across the universe when Pruinus commands it. Pruinus can demand that Winter come early, or late. She can also cause Winter to end earlier or later then usual.
If anything written above is too powerful or creates any unbalance in gameplay or lore, please let me know and I'll edit the specifics of winter as necessary. Also, if I need to spent AP to create Winter Berries, please tell me so. 2 AP Left.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 30, 2013 - 11:02AM
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Those were actually meant to be holly, and just frosted, not dead, but I love your interpretation far more, James. "If you wish to speak poetically, Agni, then yes, it does look dead. Not literally, of course. But hopefully I can be done with this soon: it shouldn't be this hard to make the world a better place." Leaf smiled widely at Pruinus. "I would like nothing better. Thank you, dear lady." He paused for a moment, his eyes losing focus as he thought. At length he said, ""It occurs to me that in his delaying, Zebus said something interesting. Combine life and not-life. Cold isn't alive, it isn't dead. It is itself. But perhaps we could mix cold and life, so that something that is cold of pure cold might move and act like life." Leaf glanced back to Agni, "And perhaps something that is fire could be made to move and act like life as well." "Shall we create such mixtures?"
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Jan 30, 2013 - 11:22AM
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Why thank you pen.  "The idea is.... intriguing. However, You do realize that wherever you create Life, although indirectly, you also create Death. If Cold and Warmth can be alive, then that means they can also be dead."Priunus pondered over this. Cold Alive.... and dead? She wasn't sure how she felt about this.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 30, 2013 - 11:27AM
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I am laughing to myself as last game, I, as god of Life, vehemently argued that Death was not the opposite of life, but that not-life (aka, inanimate matter) was. How amusing that now I am going to argue that Death IS the opposite, and is ALSO not-life :D But what is Life but that which is not Dead? What distinguishes that rock from a thing which has died?
And why not. A helper to spread the Flame wouldn't be amiss, particularly given the ColdMother's unilateral decision to periodically freeze the universe.
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Jan 30, 2013 - 12:44PM
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"Possibility isn't inevitability, dear Pruinus. If you place a bit of ice out in the world, will it melt of its own accord? Or will it only melt when warmth comes along and conquers it? If you could keep all warmth away from it forever, it could be ice forever. I offered Zebus the privelege to come and bring death to life. It is as if you invited Agni to come and melt all ice. Zebus rejected it. So life will live eternally. Or he can be false, say that he rejects my offer, and then take it when my attention is elsewhere. Only the foulest of creatures, though, steals that which was freely offered." Leaf grabbed a piece of grass and balled it up in his hands until it was a single seed. He threw it up into the air, high, high, almost to Pruinus's knees, and there it hovered. Potential life, but not life yet. It waited for cold to complete it. "History, dear Agni, distinguishes that rock from a thing which has died. That which has died was once alive. That rock was never alive. But let us imagine that you are right, and that that which is not alive must inherently be dead. I see no lord of the dead here. Only Zebus, the lord of death. Death is a single act, a moment of transition, the passing from being alive to being dead. Zebus's opposite is birth, then, as that is a transition from not-life to life." Leaf took another piece of grass, this one still burning but not being consumed, and rolled it into a ball as well. He threw that as well, though the seed barely reached Agni's calves (if the god had had calves). That was a large god, no doubt there. AP
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2AP offered to Pruinus to create cold life (I was thinking ice elementals/archons).
2AP offered to Agni to create fire life (also thinking fire elementals/archons).
You'll note, of course, that generally elementals and archons are immortal.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 30, 2013 - 1:05PM
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Pruinus smiled gently. She could tell that Leaf was very eager to create some life of his own. Yet the idea still left her uneasy.
"Strange isn't it? All this talk of life and death, like we know so much of it. Yet we four beings are all that exist, to our knowledge at least."
Pruinus choose not to mention the...other sounds she heard earlier. She could be shunned for hearing such things. Or worse, maybe the others heard them too, and her being the only one to admit to such would leave her at a tactical disadvantage in this game of life and death they were playing.
"We have yet to witness a death, and I doubt us four encompass the whole spectrum of what life is and can be. As for your offer, for now I must decline. We have but a blueprint and a theory of life before us, but barely any true experience to go by. Go, create your own life, and I shall watch over them and test them. If I am pleased with how life nourishes and raises to our challenges, then I will gladly breath life into Cold myself."
She did not know how Leaf might react to this, but she'd rather endure the wrath of a god then the guilt of creating life only to suffer.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 30, 2013 - 1:34PM
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I... Hmm... Very well, I accept your distinction between Dead and Death, even if I do not agree with your distinction between Dead and Alive.
Agni caught up the seed of Potentiality in a warm current of air and raised it to his eye.
Now, what to make from this.
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