Divinely Designated Dungeon-Delving Debuggers

DISCLAIMER: If you aren't comfortable with a power level that has a minimum of 'wreck buildings', then this is definitely not the roleplay for you.

A long, long time ago, the gods had gathered together and created the world. It was a simple task, really—they had nothing better to be doing, and they felt that the concepts they embodied needed to apply to other things. And so, pooling together their abilities, they crafted the world from nothingness.

Literally.

The world was built as a giant machine—all the necessary components to sustain life were in place, and an easily habitable zone mostly free of roving monsters was designated near the surface. To prevent the created creatures from escaping onto the surface and messing it up from above, they made sure that radiation constantly bombarded the surface—and that the entire world was uneven, bereft of the essentials for life, and a constant blizzard.

All was well for centuries, until the gods noted that weaker entities similar to themselves were arising. These, they eventually concluded, were the embodiments of physical objects—and thus, the division between the Gods of the Physical and Gods of the Immaterial was clarified.

Some time later still, both groups selected a group of mortals—one per god—to descend into the planet's depths to conduct essential maintenance to maintain the planet. Their mission was completed without incident—with their divine blessings, especially those empowered by the Gods of the Immaterial, there was nothing that could reasonably stand in their way.

Well, except for the humans and their pet dragons that waited at the gates to the planet's inner workings.

However, after the mission was completed, one of their number went rather... insane, driven mad by the power gifted and their own fragile mind. The result was quite drastic: two gods destroyed and a block on direct divine intervention placed, with those gods that could reverse it unfortunately gone.

Though his companions killed him, it nevertheless resulted in a divine decree that the Gods of the Immaterial would never empower another—and this, along with the madman's numerous obstacles and final actions, made the journey to the centre of the planet nigh impossible.

Millennia later, and yet another group—the last, as the planet will fail entirely before the gods' powers have recovered to fully empower another group of mortals—has been selected to make the journey...

Right! So, that's the background, now here's the setting info: the planet is huge. So huge, that the two civilisations on opposite sides cover a land area roughly appropriate to all land on Earth. Their nearest points? The same as the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

These civilisations are very close to the surface, and are a dystopian nightmare of high-security, high-technology, and state interference; anything less would get this weakest of races killed by the endless monsters that prowl the planet. Stronger races can be found as you descend, but their increased individual power and the proportional increase in monster strength makes settlements small.

Humans are the last race in the upper reaches—no organic life may be found in the depths, but there are still enemies aplenty. Expect a difficulty spike, as there's a lot of old Champions that gave up or strayed from the path down there. Some of the Immaterial Champions are still around, too.

So, characters! As another safeguard against excessive power being concentrated in a single person, they're gathered from one of the two civilisations each time. Chosen for being the best of the best, they gain enormous personal power upon one of the Gods of the Physical selecting them. Aside from flight and the sheer power needed to break mountains, they also gain an enormous amount of potency associated with the god in question—for instance, someone empowered by the God of Trees would be able to grow some very nasty and durable specimens on a whim, or convert their flesh to armoured bark and such.

Now, finally: though things get very weird between the surface and the humans, the near-surface race is actually reasonably human. That is, they're humanoid, and mammalian. Kemonomimi is the most human, and makes up roughly 50% of the population.

• Name:
• Gender:
• Appearance:
• Champion of:
• Abilities: Magic is common as muck. Doesn't have to be the same as the the above, but it'll be less comprehensive (using ice magic against the Champion of Ice would be kinda stupid, for instance).
• Equipment: Magitech is permissible.
• Personality:

Optional:

• History:

Eh-heh, um, definitely joining when I figure out what I want to do.

• Name: Hayashi Hikari
• Gender: Female
• Appearance: "I've just got to set up..."◊
• Champion of: God of Guitars
• Abilities: Hikari's chief abilities are tied to her guitar. When she plays it, the sheer power behind her solos is capable of tearing down a house, or cause quite literal head explosions. Her entire powerset revolves around the use of her guitar solos as a weapon, utterly destroying obstacles in her path with sonic attacks. She has no real power in melee compared to her fellow champions, instead relying on her guitar solos to fight.
• Equipment: Her guitar. She also has headphones, which have no function and play nothing. They just help her focus if she needs it.
• Personality: Hikari is a friendly girl. However, she struggles with a highly nervous personality. She enjoys company, and loves playing her guitar, but she's so nervous that she can rarely play her guitar anywhere but privately. She is very proud of her ability, but is upset with herself over her difficulty with playing it for the people she knows. However, she has recently decided to wear headphones that shut outside influences away, letting her focus on playing her guitar. In addition, if the situation demands it(for example, playing to fight monsters), she can force herself through her nervousness and play... usually. Hikari cares a great deal for the friends she has, and would truly like to make more of them. She has something of a minor pervy streak, which she is very shy about. Her perviness is extremely covert, to put it simply.

Accepted.

• Name: Salix Babylonica
• Gender: Female
• Appearance: Salix is at the upper edge of beastman height, standing at eight foot one—more than five feet above the smallest normal height. She is an apt demonstration that, although the average height is the same for beastmen and humans, the deviation is quite... large.
• Champion of: God of Food.
• Abilities:
  • Salix's divinely granted abilities consist of, in effect, the ability to create a fully stocked kitchen out of thin air. Every type of food from plain rice up to the rarest, most expensive mollusc can be created from nothingness. This is hardly an ability lacking in combat applications—if desired, the tall girl can simply bombard the enemy with a rain of cutlery. Or drop an oven that functions more like a blast furnace onto them.
    Naturally, her cooking ability is boosted. Since she was an excellent and highly experienced chef to start with, this means that Salix's meals are nothing less than divine.
  • As required of all citizens to hold a public office, Salix is trained in self-defence—in this case, she knows how to wield a staff, and make up for her own lack of agility using it.
  • Finally, the white-haired girl has an encyclopaedic knowledge of dishes and recipes.
• Equipment: Basically this, only without the name.
• Personality: Shy to the extreme, Salix views having to start a conversation with anyone with a kind of mortal dread. This shyness, along with her previous occupation and sheltered upbringing, leads to considerable naivety—not only does innuendo and wordplay fly over her head, she won't understand it even if it's explained. She doesn't take teasing well at all, and finds attention extremely embarrassing. Given her size...
• History: Salix was an orphan taken in by the Church of Food—and, as she grew up, was expected to aid in the preparation of such. With a natural eagerness for it, she didn't socialise anywhere nearly enough, and spent more and more time in the kitchens as she kept growing and growing and got more and more attention.
  By the time she was made a Champion, Salix had managed to make her way up to Head Chef of the Church—an impressive achievement, and also one of the few public offices that didn't require one to go and meet people.

• Name: Sonno Somnus
• Gender: Male
• Appearance: Like this Except without the person carrying him.
• Champion of: God of Sleep
• Abilities:
  • Sonnos' Main ability is the ability to put any living thing into a deep sleep.
  • He Has deadly Sloth claws.
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• Equipment: A seemingly infinite supply of pillows, A sleeping bag.
• Personality: Sonno is a laid back Sloth. Always has been. He never really worries about anything.
• History:

W.I.P. Need Sleep. Finish Later.

Um... no. Actual animals aren't valid characters, and sleep is most definitely not something physical.

Ok. that's fixable.

Name: Rider Barky (actual name Hachiko Akita)

Gender: Male

Appearance: behold! a puppy!

Champion of: God of Wheels

Abilities:

• As champion of the god of wheels Hachiko can apply a vast variety of fully functional magically powered wheels to any object he chooses, or simply create various magically functioning wheels out of thin air. As such he can achieve a variety of effects simply by creating the right kinds of wheels in the right amounts, from increasing his own mobility by turning his shoes into motorized roller-skates to sending debris slamming into an enemy by suddenly attaching high-speed wheels to it.

• Apart from his "Wheel Magic" he has at least some skill with martial arts and swordsmanship, despite his size making ordinary combat seemingly impractical.

Equipment: A child-sized kodachi with its durability reinforced to incredible levels. it also has the ability to transform into a massive blade about this big◊ with Hachiko choosing both of these qualities because they seemed "really really cool!"

Personality: Hachiko is incredibly energetic and hotblooded, jumping at the chance to be a real hero of justice, fight monsters and save the world! Despite not seeming it initially and being generally book dumb he can be surprisingly smart about fighting and have occasional flashes of insight even when it's not related to fighting.

Accepted.

Interested!