Lords of Creation X (OCC)

[Philote]

Do you have a plan for actually dealing with Balasar?

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Alright, I've established memories and threats. What now? How do we proceed?

Also, if you need to know what these memories are referencing, check the history section of these pages:

http://loc.wikia.com/wiki/The_Babysitter
http://loc.wikia.com/wiki/The_Reasonable
Also, The Veteran was sort of involved in The Reasonable memory.
http://loc.wikia.com/wiki/The_Veteran

[Mik_Hael]

They need to escape before the memory becomes too corrupt and they succumb to the nightmare, if they fail the snorkel giants will come through a portal from the dream world and kidnap their psyches, leaving the body a husk.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Yes.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I'm forgetting to do something, but I can't quite remember what...

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

And how does that work? Do you control the enemies they encounter or anything?

[Zaleramancer]

I read a book once where evil demon-ish critters made weapons and materials from the boiled down mass soul of a person.

The advantage of such meta-material was that it was semi-sapient, and had any properties you convinced it it had.

Make it think it's invulnerable, and it is...

Bad guy made huge indestructible colossi with it.

[Zaleramancer]

Bad Idea.

It would kill their domains.

Kill the fire god, and fire would slowly cease to exist.

But if you want them dead, all you really have to do is wear them down with something, then smash them.

Defeat, Capture, Force to Hold Up a Mountain or something, Wait a Few Decades, Drop Divine Nuke, Death.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

That sounds cool....

[Zaleramancer]

He can snatch souls while you aren't looking.

Of course, if you found out it would probably be considered Casus Belli, and he'd have the council swarming him.  

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 In mythologies in which gods are mortal, at least.

Which is a surprisingly small number.

Typically, I would think the only option is imprisonment, ie the Gigantes, the Titans and Typhon. That usually works.

But, um, if they are mortal...I guess Zale's way could work, too.

[Zaleramancer]

It 'twas a cool book.

In the afterlife, people's souls would end up making rooms around themselves out of their own meta-material. Kind of like a snail-shell thing. So if a little old lady would have a room that, on the inside, looked like her favorite old sitting room.

These rooms would layer on top of each other, sometimes shifting and moving if enough people decided to go in one direction at once.

Of course, some people just ignored everything outside of their rooms..

It would be a fairly nice place if it wasn't for the crazy demons trying to use you for construction material.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

So basically, you make your own afterlife.

How...morally convenient.

[Zaleramancer]

They are semi-immortal.


It still takes an exceptional situation with an exceptional weapon or tool to kill a god.

Or, alternatively, something like our old dragon friend. Chomp Chomp.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Well, I kind of get the idea. I have something like that. And you will meet it. Er, them...

Provided you crazy kids stay tuned in to "Greetings, From Celadon!".

[Zaleramancer]

Considering the creator god more or less holed herself up in heaven, going so far as to banish all her godly-children and even time itself, the other place is the only option..

The book was rather bizzare. It's quite horrifying to think of something dismembering your soul to make a chair or something.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

*sigh*  No wonder people think so badly of religion...

[Zaleramancer]

Because the fictional gods from a book were crazy?

She was rather. I think it was because she had a hissy-fit when someone tried to kill her favorite half-mortal son.

Then she kicked everyone else to the curb... Caused a bunch of problems for the poor mortals when gods came falling down like clumsy stars.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Zaleramancer wrote

Because the fictional gods from a book were crazy?

Because lots of divinities portrayed in stories are given all-too-human qualities, often even amplified beyond the norms, due to having godly levels of awesomeness/scariness/evilness to back it up with.

But, anywho, that is a rather...interesting turn-out for those spirits in the afterlife.

[Zaleramancer]

Like, the Greek Gods?

And yeah, it was the last book in a series.

There was a few interesting ideas from it could get though...