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stylistic_disloyalty(Snagged from pummelgranite because it's a cool and thorough writeup!)
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 so that they can pass on divine inspiration. 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 divinity- which is to say "what it is that people need from them, spiritually". Wow that is vague! Lucifer, patron of all things sticking it to "the Man", inspires feelings of rebellion and taking charge of one's own destiny. Prominent features of her performances might include moshpits, headbanging, and whatever people with an excess of energy do. Run up that hill, text that boy, flip off that cop, start your own jewelry business on Etsy-- the sky's the limit.
Your character will probably fall somewhere on this spectrum:
Zero Effect (very rare) 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????
Middling Effect (most common) maybe your character has a lowish level of faith, maybe they aren't particularly prone to rebellion or don't feel inadequate or powerless against something, maybe you the player choose this level because you feel like it for a reason not specified above.
THEY WILL HEAR A FUCKING AWESOME ROCK SONG. David Bowie and Mick Jagger dueting and then Freddy Mercury showed up-- and it's awesome and whatever the words are they're definitely meaningful and make you want to throw up some devil horns and rock out.
Full Effect (slightly uncommon) for characters prone to understanding divinity, and to characters with personal experiences of going against authority or fighting for self-determination.
Lucifer's song is direct and biting, but takes pleasure in chaos and demands the listeners respect free will, invites them to rise up and be important and individual no matter how difficult the choice may be. It might be surprising how... Not Evil Literal Satan's message is, but there it is.
Side-Effects May Include:
SERIOUS adrenaline surges
Hyperventilating
Orgasm
Posting to the network about how you're going to do that thing you've never told anybody you secretly want to do
Property damage/actively antagonizing authority figures
General feelings of discontent, but a simultaneous desire to Do Something About It
For those who can perceive the full effect, it's probably a good time, because Lucifer is not about bad times. Unless the police catch up with you after the gig. That's probably going to be Not A Good Time.She will not post your bail.
The whole thing is very much open to interpretation, and if you'd like to work something out one-on-one and want to run stuff by me for plotting purposes/canon litmus testing, by all means hit me up!
pummelgranite because it's a cool and thorough writeup!)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 so that they can pass on divine inspiration. 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 divinity- which is to say "what it is that people need from them, spiritually". Wow that is vague! Lucifer, patron of all things sticking it to "the Man", inspires feelings of rebellion and taking charge of one's own destiny. Prominent features of her performances might include moshpits, headbanging, and whatever people with an excess of energy do. Run up that hill, text that boy, flip off that cop, start your own jewelry business on Etsy-- the sky's the limit.
Your character will probably fall somewhere on this spectrum:
Zero Effect (very rare) 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????
Middling Effect (most common) maybe your character has a lowish level of faith, maybe they aren't particularly prone to rebellion or don't feel inadequate or powerless against something, maybe you the player choose this level because you feel like it for a reason not specified above.
THEY WILL HEAR A FUCKING AWESOME ROCK SONG. David Bowie and Mick Jagger dueting and then Freddy Mercury showed up-- and it's awesome and whatever the words are they're definitely meaningful and make you want to throw up some devil horns and rock out.
Full Effect (slightly uncommon) for characters prone to understanding divinity, and to characters with personal experiences of going against authority or fighting for self-determination.
Lucifer's song is direct and biting, but takes pleasure in chaos and demands the listeners respect free will, invites them to rise up and be important and individual no matter how difficult the choice may be. It might be surprising how... Not Evil Literal Satan's message is, but there it is.
Side-Effects May Include:
For those who can perceive the full effect, it's probably a good time, because Lucifer is not about bad times. Unless the police catch up with you after the gig. That's probably going to be Not A Good Time.
The whole thing is very much open to interpretation, and if you'd like to work something out one-on-one and want to run stuff by me for plotting purposes/canon litmus testing, by all means hit me up!
