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This crazy pile of crack was wholly inspired by a particularly intense and vivid dream I had. (Blame Revei or Morpheus.) With Ivy's permission, this would be a sub-setting within Edelsteine, a situation in which a number of hosts would (in character time) get their jewels at the same time and grow at least to morph (if not further) in a controlled environment, with little to no interaction with deities outside of this environment.

VITALLY IMPORTANT NOTE: I am not the boss of anyone. I'm not setting myself up as a GM here. If this happens, it'll be a group effort. I had an idea, I fell in love with it, I want to share it with others. That's as far as it goes.

SECOND VITALLY IMPORTANT NOTE: Project Spireo is a setting and a basic plot for new characters to use if they wish. It is not a means to obtain said new characters. See the second post in this thread for more on this.



The Concept:

Project Spireo. The brainchild of an as yet unnamed magus-c**-scientist in another world.

This magus, understand, is not an evil man - in fact, he is the benevolent ruler of a once-prosperous nation, and devotes his not inconsiderable magical power, knowledge, and will to its rule and the care of his subjects. However, the Age of Destruction has had its way, and now he struggles to keep his nation whole and safe - to fulfill what he sees as the duty of his position.

One day, a peddler of magical artifacts unknown to him gained audience, presenting an array of magical stones. Most were of small power, some were glass fakes - but a few contained potential of a degree he had never before seen. The magus paid a kingdom's ransom for that power, hoping to use it for the sake of his people... but found himself unable to wield it. The stones stubbornly refused to give up their strength.

(These stones are, of course, Edelsteine, gods waiting to be reborn. The magus does not know this. He has never heard tales of gods born from jewels, nor has anyone around him.)

Fascinated by their sleeping power, and desperate to find the key to unlock them, he studied the stones and found that their power had one constant between them - all of them bore an element of searching, tendrils of power weakly and latently exploring their immediate environment. He theorized (correctly) that finding whatever the stones were looking for would unlock their power.

After a great deal of examination and experimentation, he discovered that living beings had by far the highest affinity, and began forcibly implanting the jewels into said beings - usually via a surgical procedure. However, none of the subjects seemed to appeal to the stones, and the vast majority of them died. The suffering of the few, to unlock the survival of many - a fair deal, to him.

Still, certain that he was on the right track, the magus continued in his studies, determined to unlock the power of the jewels and then control that power himself.


Themes:
- Rebirth without a support system. In the Project Spireo setting, nobody knows that there are gods being reborn here. The hosts don't know, the magus doesn't know. Nobody knows. How would you like to be reborn with no support system at all? Only your disembodied word to try and convince your host that not only are they not going insane, but they're being transformed into a vessel for a god?

How hard do you think that would be?

Not to mention - good luck trying to convince anyone else that you're a god/host to a god...

Good luck getting out...

- A more in-depth look at the psychology of deity implantation and their interactions with hosts - this setting forces more inward focus and more analysis of what's going on mentally/emotionally. Is the voice real? Are you going crazy? Is the power they're telling you that you have something really valid? You're gonna die, quite possibly in captivity; how do you feel about that? And so on.

- Forced interaction within a deliberately limited setting: the places you can go are limited. The people you can meet are limited. What happens? How do relationships shift and change? How deeply dependent on others will characters get?





The Deities:

I imagine that the jeweled deities might have become aware of their surroundings every time they were shoved into a body, had a feel around, and then withdrawn crankily when the body ended up being wrong.

This is a good place for minor deities, lesser godlings and more obscure power spheres.

The Hosts:

Lucky, lucky test subjects. Some will be willing, some will not be. Some will have their jewels implant naturally, and some may well have them implanted by force. Either way, they're fortunate - but they are trapped. However they came, they cannot leave; they've awakened the power in the stones, and become prisoner.

The hosts will be able, by and large, only to converse with each other (though I did have a nifty idea about them meeting with Revei or Morpheus in dreams, should their players agree to look for them).


The Setting:

A test facility. To be honest, I haven't worked this out to a great extent yet, but it is a place where the hosts will be confined and unable to escape at least until morph.

Each subject will have a trusted (by the magus) servant or underling assigned to watch and care for them, that will be NPC'd by the owner of that jewel.


In General:

Crack, probably a good deal of angst, massive wtfery, and possible epic win.

This project will depend on the ability of the players involved to be active and to interact with each other to a large degree, moreso than might normally happen in Edelsteine. It's really an experiment in a very different setting, and in getting more into the nitty-gritty of the psychological changes between god and host, and their interaction with others.

*raises hand* I'm definitely interested. 3nodding

Interested~! Hopefully with female!Justice, yus.

Also interested. XD Sounds like it could be a lot of fun. *nods* Definitely something different.

I'd be all over this. biggrin

I'm definitely interested in this. XD

And now that I can post in here: Would it be too close to Transformation / Metamorphosis if I quested for Change? Right now I'm more inclined to quest for Mutilation, but I change my ideas so frequently I might as well ask. >>;

Wow. I really like your idea. *Nods*