For countless millennia, humans believed that gods and mortals were two different types of beings. However, they were sorely, sorely mistaken. Gods and demons were the same entity, only separated by their own beliefs. There are gods of order, of chaos, of life, of death, and of anything you humans could imagine. The gods held council in their divine court and decided to create a world to keep themselves entertained. Gods of the cosmos wove the galaxies and hung the constellations in the night sky. Gods of the elements pooled their powers of fire, earth, and wind to form the mountains and valleys, while the gods of water carved life-giving lakes, rivers, and seas. Gods of flora and fauna lovingly shaped plants and animals to place upon the world. And finally, all of the gods placed their powers together to form the supreme being of this new world: humans. The first humans were placed into the world and given gifts by the gods--the ability to think for oneself, the ability to differentiate friend from foe, the ability to harness and tame the flora and fauna of the world. Before long, humans had built little farming villages where they tended to crops and livestock. However, there were other gods who began to feel left out. These were the gods of chaos, with dominion over pestilence, disease, war, famine, hatred, jealousy, and other negative attributes that the gods did not wish to introduce into their ideal world. However, these dark gods thought otherwise. They began to turn humans against one another and fight. Humans began to turn their plows into swords and their sickles into spears. Villages began to burn, humans and livestock lay slaughtered in pools of their own lifeblood. Within a few months, humans were turned from peaceful creatures to bloodthirsty monsters. The gods did all they could to turn this around, but it was too late for mankind. Finally, with heavy hearts, the gods set upon destroying the creatures they had created. Tearfully, the gods of water set upon flooding the low ground, while the gods of the cosmos pelted the higher ground with falling stars and the gods of fire made the mountains explode in jets of flame and boiled away all of the water so those who lived perished slowly of thirst.

With their first world destroyed, the gods decided to create another. This time, they sent the dark gods away to avoid another disaster from happening. They reshaped the mountains, refilled the rivers and seas, and created all of the living things once more. Finally, new humans were placed upon this second Earth, and again, the humans thrived, making their villages and tending to their farms. However, it seemed the evil that had been instilled in the first humans was an intrinsic quality that was not planted by the dark gods. Very soon, humans began to get jealous of each other, because one may have had more cattle, or one may have had a better harvest. Wars began to break out again, but this time, the gods stood by. They knew if they tried to remake the world again, the same thing would happen again and again. So the gods just stood by and watched as humankind flourished. They watched the rise and fall of many empires, the innovations and inventions that spread across the world. They watched as horses were replaced by steam engines that were replaced with gasoline and diesel-burning engines. They watched as countries and nations formed from the small villages that seemed to have been built mere days before. They watched as the modern world was established.

However, as modern day approached, humankind had reached a new level of evil. They began creating terrifying weapons to destroy whole nations. Humans began threatening each other, and very soon, the United States became the greatest nation in the world, putting every other nation underneath its thumb. Every time a nation attempted to struggle free of America, the great superpower responded by completely obliterating the nation from the map. The gods found this unacceptable, as never before had something this terrible happened. They then decided that it was time to begin trying to either try to turn this all around or start over once again.

So now, the gods have all decided to spend time in the human world, just to see what life was like. They saw poverty, crime, and hatred running rampant, and found it to be everything opposite of the egalitarian societies they had initially created. Many have already decided that they want to destroy this world and rebuild again, but others believed that humankind deserved a chance to change. Now they have all decided to meet up and discuss their ideas before making one final judgment. They reserved a small coffee shop in one of the large American cities, and made sure that no normal human could come in unless they were an employee of the shop. To get in, each god had to enter through the back door and place their mark in the book of iron, the sacred tome compiled by the gods at the dawn of time.

Once all of the gods have gathered, the discussions will begin.

Humankind's fate now lies in the hands of the gods.

1. Literacy is an absolute must. I would like all roleplayers to have decent grammar and be able to spell correctly. Of course, the occasional slip of the finger is perfectly understandable, but don't make it a habit.
2. You do not have to post a novel of text every post, but at least give the next poster something to work with. If you write one paragraph of someone interacting with someone else, it's better than twelve paragraphs about your character blinking.
3. Please be respectful to everyone out of character. Characters can fight in the roleplay, but fighting out of character is strictly prohibited. If things get out of hand, I will settle it, and no one's happy if I have to settle it.
4. Everyone is a god in this story, but they have all possessed mortals for the sake of blending in with humankind. Therefore, there will be no fireballs flying around, no summoning dragons, no sprouting wings and flying around or sending huge tidal waves crashing into buildings. There can, however, be telepathy, as all the gods are able to communicate in this way with one another. Telepathy is the only divine power that will be allowed.
5. Language is fine, just be sure that you're not dropping the F-Bomb every other word. That's just taking it a little too far.
6. Romance is okay as well, just keep it tasteful. No one wants to see your characters screwing on the counter.
7. If you have something you need to say to someone out of character, please speak to them via PMs. However, if you have something you need to say to everyone out of character, please use some form of OoC, be it with brackets or otherwise.
8. Normal humans are allowed as employees of the coffee shop, but for the sake of this, all of the patrons in the coffeeshop will be gods.
9. You can be the god/dess of anything you want, just be sure to keep in line with rule number four.
10. All gods and goddesses have a special crest that appears somewhere on the possessed human's body. This crest can be as simple as a crescent moon to something much more complex. It's completely up to you as to what this crest looks like.
11. Should you decide to use a play-by for your character, please use an anime/manga/video game play-by. Real-life play-bys are not allowed.
12. For the character, feel free to describe the appearance of both the god/dess's true form and human form, or just their human form.
13. I reserve the right to change, add, or remove rules as I see fit.
14. Have fun! I mean it, now!

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