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Space Buddha
The Enlightened One
_______________________________The Worst Pantheon_______________________________
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Dawn of the New Year: 1000
Somewhere in a distant village, the elder gathers the children around the fire with the intent to share the ancient stories with them, as his father did, and as his father's father before him. While the rest of the village prepared for a night of revelry, the elder cleared his throat and prepared to recite the myths again, as he had done the previous year for all the boys and girls who had come of age. As the children sat on the nearby logs, holding marshmallows over the fire under the light of the harvest moon, the elder finally spoke.
"Gather round young ones, and let me tell you a tale of-"
He was interrupted by a girl around twelve years of age, whose brother had just jammed a semi-molten marshmallow in her hair.
"Ahh! Elder! Callan just stuck a marshmallow in my hair! Help! Get it out!"
As the girl ran around screaming while the others exploded into laughter, the elder simply sighed and cut out the wad of sticky substance with his rusted sword, before giving a stern look to the others.
"Now now, that is not very nice! I'm looking at you Callan, no more Smores until you scrub clean every floor in the town hall!"
"Awww...."
"Now! Onto the story... *Ahem*"
"One thousand years ago, our world was ruled by-"
A boy interjected after having had his hand raised for several minutes.
"Elder!"
"Oh for the love of- What!?"
"I have to pee!"
*Sigh*
"Make it quick! Now, as I was saying, One thousand years ago, our world was ruled by the mightiest beings ever known, the Old Gods. They came from a swirling abyss of nothing, which we call Chaos, and of the twelve born that day, Eleven I know by name. First was The Shaper, Arceus, who made the very ground you walk on, and the stars in the night sky above us tonight!"
The Elder sees a number of kids with their hands raised, and picks one to answer.
"Yes Isabelle?"
"How did Arceus make the ground? And Why?"
"Ohoho! You'll have to ask him when you go to bed tonight! But next I know was The Warrior! Assyrian. A being who mastered every art of combat he could conceive and taught us to do the same. Ask the guards! Were it not for him, they could never defend our town from all those nasty little goblins out in the woods. Next I can think of would be the Destroyer, Ickol-"
The children gasp at the mention of a "Destroyer".
"Do not be afraid of a name, sure she was a bit unpredictable, but aren't we all sometimes? Were it not for Ickol you'd do exactly what your parents tell you, all the time! How does that sound? Hmmm?"
The listeners boo loudly, blowing raspberries and throwing marshmallows at eachother.
"Hah! Another was the Trickster, Kurantse. Not as friendly as the last ones but certainly important. For it was he who convinced the gods to make our world in the first place! How? By paying them of course! For it was him who taught our ancestors to barter and trade, and without him we would have just hoarded everything we owned in caves!"
"Like Dragons?"
"Right you are Dennis! And what poor excuses for dragons we'd be. Now, not all of these gods were so amicable, for there was also Helsa, the Corruptor."
"That's my mom's name!"
"And the resemblance is uncanny! Ohoho! That beast brought all the misery to our world and it took Assyrian's full might just to keep her from wrecking it all. I wouldn't try asking her to help you with your homework lest you fancy giving the hound a midnight snack!"
"I really didn't make that one up!"
"Of course not Stephan, we all believe you, but as I was saying, not all the gods are of the personable sort. There's Corven, the Alchemist and father of medicine, but he's no village healer nohoho! God of war and disease he is! Best not ask him to cure those cuckoloco pox, he probably gave 'em to ya'! Hohoho! And then there's Yimor Droth, the Abomination, a dragon made of light who dared challenge Chaos itself and was split in half for it. A beast so powerful it is said will one day swallow the world!"
The kids collectively scream.
"Ohoho, not that you must worry, he sleeps soundly on his wandering star, and has for a thousand years."
Several hands fly up.
"One at a time please, yes, Olaf?"
"What happens if Yimor wakes up?"
"Then we get eaten! Ohoho! But likely not, for we have Rhubarion, the protector!"
"Rhubari-whaaa?"
"Rhubarion! It is through him we are able to know what is hidden! And prepare for it! He keeps us alert, awake, warns us of danger per his promise as Protector. Without him, we might as well be a herd of sheep!"
Several sarcastic *Baaaaaaaahhh!*'s can be heard.
"Not that we really need to protect ourselves all that much, what with the world itself doing that too! That's right, Ocaeril is not just a dead rock, everything around you is alive, with the spirit of the world being the father of all life on our world!"
A young boy interrupts.
"Does the world watch me pee?"
"Hah! Not unless you pee on him!"
The boy who had left and returned from the nearby bush reflexively covers his crotch and bares a guilty expression.
"Finally, there is The Beast. Cardicuous, it was him who dealt us the plague of monsters that infest the kingdom. Stirges, Wyverns, Lamia, and all such nasties."
A girl sitting in front of a nearby stump with her brother replied.
"He sounds mean!"
"Ohoho! Then why are you worshipping him right now!"
She looked up from her hand as she played go-fish with her brother.
"Huh?"
"Aha! He dealt us that plague, he is the god of cards and chance, and as it was the luck of the draw that gave us those monsters in the ancient times, so too does he deal you your hand in life, but I am on a tangent, Finally, we have Zeit the Sorcerer. He gifted us the art of magic, but like magic, he is unknowable. Sure you can learn about him, but like magic, he can't quite be known, though they do say he has tentacles..."
"Elder!" Isabelle interrupted after her hand-raising had gone unnoticed.
"Yes?"
"What about the slimes! Don't they have a god? My brother told me he wants to be an adventurer and slay the 'god of goo'."
"Ah yes yes of course, how could I forget. As I said before the gods came from chaos? Right? Wrong! Most did, yes, but three didn't! They were the outsiders, from out of this world and older than the others, and darker by far. You thought Helsa was bad? Ohoho! You ain't heard nothing yet! Baldur was the first Outsider, darker than even the god of evil and revered by more kings than I'd like to admit. Though even though the first was dark the second brought us a great boon. Farmer Joe, thought to have once been like you or I, came forth and granted our ancestors the art of farming, without which we would still live in caves! But don't think he's all good and cheer, no no no, as he is the god of farmers, he is also the god of blight and famine, so be sure to thank him for every meal!"
The children nod their heads, though Isabelle looks annoyed that her question was not answered.
"Finally, to end the story on a lighter note, as Isabelle mentioned, the final of the gods to come to our world was The Slime God, or the Queen of Slime, whose name is lost to the ages but not her acts. While the beast made the monsters, the slimes were her doing, as are the works of two demons that she brought here with her. Not to say she's all bad, slimes are just another animal when you look at them, and it was her arrival that inspired the First Hero to take action, but that is a story for another day, now, any questions?"
Several hands shot up, and the Elder picked one out of the crowd.
"What happened to all the gods?"
The elder paused and scratched his chin for a moment before he responded.
"Well, to be frank, I do not quite know. They've left us folk alone for a thousand years. But! According to the legend, they will return one day. When? Who knows! But I'd bet, that if you asked real nicely, they might come back sooner, rather than later..."
Meanwhile...
A flash of light on the harvest moon signaled the return. Twelve beings, minus one, having slept for a millenium all arrived with a thundering crack in the Hall of Gods. A great golden room with twelve great thrones of varying heights and sizes, each fitting one of the gods perfectly. Some could hardly be called thrones of course, such as Yimor's, which appeared only as an immense bed which he conveniently appeared in. The floor was made of golden tiles, and the walls were gigantic slabs of platinum decorated with tapestries depicting various scenes of creation. In the center of the room was a great feasting table, with a feast of Nectar and Ambrosia prepared for the gods. Granted, the featureless paste called ambrosia was hardly appetizing in any sense, and the Nectar had all the flavor of a two dollar Margarita, but it was still impressive. At the far end of the hall was a giant rotating sphere held afloat by two glowing disc-like platforms, and the globe itself resembled the world of Ocaeril to the finest detail, serving as not only a map, but a gateway to the world from the hall of gods, though returning would likely require physically returning to the moon. Regardless of such things, all of the gods, you included, took their places in their thrones and saw what came next. Descending from the ceiling, which was painted into an elaborate mural depicting each of the gods entangled amongst eachother, was the first being, Chaos. The Void Lord. The Omnipotent, descending from the ceiling as a distorted sphere of blackness and forming into something more upon the feasting table.
"ALRIGHT YOU FILTHY LITTLE GREMLINS. I LET YOU MAKE YOUR FANCY LITTLE PLANET AND NOW IT'S TIME TO HOLD UP YOUR END OF THE DEAL I MADE WITH MYSELF WHEN I GAVE YOU LIFE. AND YOU STILL HAVEN'T. BECAUSE YOUR WORLD SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS! SERIOUSLY! I'VE BEEN WATCHING IT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS AND IT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING! EVER! HENCE OUR CURRENT SITUATION. THIS WORLD IS BORING. FIX IT. NOW."
The Void Lord vanishes in an unceremonious poof, coating the table in black sludge, and leaving the gods with a world to "Improve"...
Live and Reloaded
Revan4221 | BlackCat-055 | Kingly K Duel | Scrump_Diddle | Poetic Prose Master | Gravitys Momentum | Stikes | KolastoRPN | The Void Ever Watching | Selee-01 | Churl | Barbas | VomitIcicle | Celestial Speck
Dawn of the New Year: 1000
Somewhere in a distant village, the elder gathers the children around the fire with the intent to share the ancient stories with them, as his father did, and as his father's father before him. While the rest of the village prepared for a night of revelry, the elder cleared his throat and prepared to recite the myths again, as he had done the previous year for all the boys and girls who had come of age. As the children sat on the nearby logs, holding marshmallows over the fire under the light of the harvest moon, the elder finally spoke.
"Gather round young ones, and let me tell you a tale of-"
He was interrupted by a girl around twelve years of age, whose brother had just jammed a semi-molten marshmallow in her hair.
"Ahh! Elder! Callan just stuck a marshmallow in my hair! Help! Get it out!"
As the girl ran around screaming while the others exploded into laughter, the elder simply sighed and cut out the wad of sticky substance with his rusted sword, before giving a stern look to the others.
"Now now, that is not very nice! I'm looking at you Callan, no more Smores until you scrub clean every floor in the town hall!"
"Awww...."
"Now! Onto the story... *Ahem*"
"One thousand years ago, our world was ruled by-"
A boy interjected after having had his hand raised for several minutes.
"Elder!"
"Oh for the love of- What!?"
"I have to pee!"
*Sigh*
"Make it quick! Now, as I was saying, One thousand years ago, our world was ruled by the mightiest beings ever known, the Old Gods. They came from a swirling abyss of nothing, which we call Chaos, and of the twelve born that day, Eleven I know by name. First was The Shaper, Arceus, who made the very ground you walk on, and the stars in the night sky above us tonight!"
The Elder sees a number of kids with their hands raised, and picks one to answer.
"Yes Isabelle?"
"How did Arceus make the ground? And Why?"
"Ohoho! You'll have to ask him when you go to bed tonight! But next I know was The Warrior! Assyrian. A being who mastered every art of combat he could conceive and taught us to do the same. Ask the guards! Were it not for him, they could never defend our town from all those nasty little goblins out in the woods. Next I can think of would be the Destroyer, Ickol-"
The children gasp at the mention of a "Destroyer".
"Do not be afraid of a name, sure she was a bit unpredictable, but aren't we all sometimes? Were it not for Ickol you'd do exactly what your parents tell you, all the time! How does that sound? Hmmm?"
The listeners boo loudly, blowing raspberries and throwing marshmallows at eachother.
"Hah! Another was the Trickster, Kurantse. Not as friendly as the last ones but certainly important. For it was he who convinced the gods to make our world in the first place! How? By paying them of course! For it was him who taught our ancestors to barter and trade, and without him we would have just hoarded everything we owned in caves!"
"Like Dragons?"
"Right you are Dennis! And what poor excuses for dragons we'd be. Now, not all of these gods were so amicable, for there was also Helsa, the Corruptor."
"That's my mom's name!"
"And the resemblance is uncanny! Ohoho! That beast brought all the misery to our world and it took Assyrian's full might just to keep her from wrecking it all. I wouldn't try asking her to help you with your homework lest you fancy giving the hound a midnight snack!"
"I really didn't make that one up!"
"Of course not Stephan, we all believe you, but as I was saying, not all the gods are of the personable sort. There's Corven, the Alchemist and father of medicine, but he's no village healer nohoho! God of war and disease he is! Best not ask him to cure those cuckoloco pox, he probably gave 'em to ya'! Hohoho! And then there's Yimor Droth, the Abomination, a dragon made of light who dared challenge Chaos itself and was split in half for it. A beast so powerful it is said will one day swallow the world!"
The kids collectively scream.
"Ohoho, not that you must worry, he sleeps soundly on his wandering star, and has for a thousand years."
Several hands fly up.
"One at a time please, yes, Olaf?"
"What happens if Yimor wakes up?"
"Then we get eaten! Ohoho! But likely not, for we have Rhubarion, the protector!"
"Rhubari-whaaa?"
"Rhubarion! It is through him we are able to know what is hidden! And prepare for it! He keeps us alert, awake, warns us of danger per his promise as Protector. Without him, we might as well be a herd of sheep!"
Several sarcastic *Baaaaaaaahhh!*'s can be heard.
"Not that we really need to protect ourselves all that much, what with the world itself doing that too! That's right, Ocaeril is not just a dead rock, everything around you is alive, with the spirit of the world being the father of all life on our world!"
A young boy interrupts.
"Does the world watch me pee?"
"Hah! Not unless you pee on him!"
The boy who had left and returned from the nearby bush reflexively covers his crotch and bares a guilty expression.
"Finally, there is The Beast. Cardicuous, it was him who dealt us the plague of monsters that infest the kingdom. Stirges, Wyverns, Lamia, and all such nasties."
A girl sitting in front of a nearby stump with her brother replied.
"He sounds mean!"
"Ohoho! Then why are you worshipping him right now!"
She looked up from her hand as she played go-fish with her brother.
"Huh?"
"Aha! He dealt us that plague, he is the god of cards and chance, and as it was the luck of the draw that gave us those monsters in the ancient times, so too does he deal you your hand in life, but I am on a tangent, Finally, we have Zeit the Sorcerer. He gifted us the art of magic, but like magic, he is unknowable. Sure you can learn about him, but like magic, he can't quite be known, though they do say he has tentacles..."
"Elder!" Isabelle interrupted after her hand-raising had gone unnoticed.
"Yes?"
"What about the slimes! Don't they have a god? My brother told me he wants to be an adventurer and slay the 'god of goo'."
"Ah yes yes of course, how could I forget. As I said before the gods came from chaos? Right? Wrong! Most did, yes, but three didn't! They were the outsiders, from out of this world and older than the others, and darker by far. You thought Helsa was bad? Ohoho! You ain't heard nothing yet! Baldur was the first Outsider, darker than even the god of evil and revered by more kings than I'd like to admit. Though even though the first was dark the second brought us a great boon. Farmer Joe, thought to have once been like you or I, came forth and granted our ancestors the art of farming, without which we would still live in caves! But don't think he's all good and cheer, no no no, as he is the god of farmers, he is also the god of blight and famine, so be sure to thank him for every meal!"
The children nod their heads, though Isabelle looks annoyed that her question was not answered.
"Finally, to end the story on a lighter note, as Isabelle mentioned, the final of the gods to come to our world was The Slime God, or the Queen of Slime, whose name is lost to the ages but not her acts. While the beast made the monsters, the slimes were her doing, as are the works of two demons that she brought here with her. Not to say she's all bad, slimes are just another animal when you look at them, and it was her arrival that inspired the First Hero to take action, but that is a story for another day, now, any questions?"
Several hands shot up, and the Elder picked one out of the crowd.
"What happened to all the gods?"
The elder paused and scratched his chin for a moment before he responded.
"Well, to be frank, I do not quite know. They've left us folk alone for a thousand years. But! According to the legend, they will return one day. When? Who knows! But I'd bet, that if you asked real nicely, they might come back sooner, rather than later..."
Meanwhile...
A flash of light on the harvest moon signaled the return. Twelve beings, minus one, having slept for a millenium all arrived with a thundering crack in the Hall of Gods. A great golden room with twelve great thrones of varying heights and sizes, each fitting one of the gods perfectly. Some could hardly be called thrones of course, such as Yimor's, which appeared only as an immense bed which he conveniently appeared in. The floor was made of golden tiles, and the walls were gigantic slabs of platinum decorated with tapestries depicting various scenes of creation. In the center of the room was a great feasting table, with a feast of Nectar and Ambrosia prepared for the gods. Granted, the featureless paste called ambrosia was hardly appetizing in any sense, and the Nectar had all the flavor of a two dollar Margarita, but it was still impressive. At the far end of the hall was a giant rotating sphere held afloat by two glowing disc-like platforms, and the globe itself resembled the world of Ocaeril to the finest detail, serving as not only a map, but a gateway to the world from the hall of gods, though returning would likely require physically returning to the moon. Regardless of such things, all of the gods, you included, took their places in their thrones and saw what came next. Descending from the ceiling, which was painted into an elaborate mural depicting each of the gods entangled amongst eachother, was the first being, Chaos. The Void Lord. The Omnipotent, descending from the ceiling as a distorted sphere of blackness and forming into something more upon the feasting table.
"ALRIGHT YOU FILTHY LITTLE GREMLINS. I LET YOU MAKE YOUR FANCY LITTLE PLANET AND NOW IT'S TIME TO HOLD UP YOUR END OF THE DEAL I MADE WITH MYSELF WHEN I GAVE YOU LIFE. AND YOU STILL HAVEN'T. BECAUSE YOUR WORLD SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS! SERIOUSLY! I'VE BEEN WATCHING IT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS AND IT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING! EVER! HENCE OUR CURRENT SITUATION. THIS WORLD IS BORING. FIX IT. NOW."
The Void Lord vanishes in an unceremonious poof, coating the table in black sludge, and leaving the gods with a world to "Improve"...
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