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The basic setup of WicDiv is this every 90 years, twelve Gods incarnate into RADICAL HUMAN TEENS so that they can spend two years living among mortals and doing massive quantities of blow. Also passing on Divine Inspiration by way of art. This generation all became pop stars, because of course they did! So when they "perform," they sing a song that may induce a very serious religious experience.
Will it affect my character?
Long answer: how or why someone can commune with a particular god or not is not explicitly spelled out, but it seems to be influenced in part by one's innate capacity for faith, and a personal resonance with the god's message. It's kinda rare that a particular person would be able to commune with every god, and it's also kinda rare that a particular person wouldn't be affected any of them.
Short answer: basically if you want them to go for it and if you don't, no worries.
So what's it do?
The song will transfer a strong sense of her divinity- which is to say "what it is that people need from them, spiritually" Wow that is vague! But for example, Lucifer inspires people to the glory of rebellion, Inanna encourages people be in touch with their true desires.
Sakhmet is pure id. She's left all the tragedy and bullshit of mortal life behind to have nothing but violent pleasure. She feels nothing bad: no regret, or doubt, or fear, only the high of her own wonderfulness, and she's willing to share with all the undeserving little human prey. Her song seems to induce euphoric madness, with concert halls full of people tripping balls and creaming their pants screaming and passing out not always in that order?
However! Not just everyone will perceive all that. Your character will probably fall somewhere on this spectrum:
Full Effect (slightly uncommon)
May involve any or all of the following
-Overwhelming rage-tinged euphoria
-Mind-melding with the all-loving, all-destroying sun
-Berserking, but in a fun way =D
-Jizzing in your pants
-Nose bleeds
-Passing the fuck out
-Needing a god damn drink
Will it affect my character?
Long answer: how or why someone can commune with a particular god or not is not explicitly spelled out, but it seems to be influenced in part by one's innate capacity for faith, and a personal resonance with the god's message. It's kinda rare that a particular person would be able to commune with every god, and it's also kinda rare that a particular person wouldn't be affected any of them.
Short answer: basically if you want them to go for it and if you don't, no worries.
So what's it do?
The song will transfer a strong sense of her divinity- which is to say "what it is that people need from them, spiritually" Wow that is vague! But for example, Lucifer inspires people to the glory of rebellion, Inanna encourages people be in touch with their true desires.
Sakhmet is pure id. She's left all the tragedy and bullshit of mortal life behind to have nothing but violent pleasure. She feels nothing bad: no regret, or doubt, or fear, only the high of her own wonderfulness, and she's willing to share with all the undeserving little human prey. Her song seems to induce euphoric madness, with concert halls full of people tripping balls and creaming their pants screaming and passing out not always in that order?
However! Not just everyone will perceive all that. Your character will probably fall somewhere on this spectrum:
Zero Effect for characters with especially low faith stats and are predisposed to not understand her.
They will hear a girl with an impressively loud and on-key voice just singing gibberish, but everyone around her is flipping out for no reason? Why????
They will hear a girl with an impressively loud and on-key voice just singing gibberish, but everyone around her is flipping out for no reason? Why????
Middling Effect maybe your character has a lowish level of faith, maybe they're a god damn stick in the mud
THEY WILL HEAR A FUCKING AWESOME ROCK SONG. Like holy shit. That is some serious rock & roll. It is raw, and it is angry, and even if they can't understand the lyrics, there's a good sense for what she's singing about and it's fucking real.
THEY WILL HEAR A FUCKING AWESOME ROCK SONG. Like holy shit. That is some serious rock & roll. It is raw, and it is angry, and even if they can't understand the lyrics, there's a good sense for what she's singing about and it's fucking real.
Full Effect (slightly uncommon)
May involve any or all of the following
-Overwhelming rage-tinged euphoria
-Mind-melding with the all-loving, all-destroying sun
-Berserking, but in a fun way =D
-Jizzing in your pants
-Nose bleeds
-Passing the fuck out
-Needing a god damn drink
I RECOGNIZE THIS IS ALL DEEPLY FUZZY SO PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS. So much of this is genuinely open to interpretation, I want folks to be able to let their characters respond to it in a way that they wanna! If you have a canon reason why your character's reaction should be special or complicated. because I love working that nerdy stuff out. :3c If you don't have a mary sue reason but just wanna ask questions, please do that too!