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[01 Mar 2009|12:35am]

OPENING MARCH 14th!


Welcome to Reading. It's a place where the sun is always shining, and people always have a place to be. Where people dress up to leave the house, and always have something interesting to talk about. Where nursery rhymes aren't just in books, it's where they are alive. It's where you can find Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, and an old lady who lives in a shoe. If one could step into the world of fiction, you'd find yourself in Reading. Life here can be magical and terrible all at once. Reality in Reading is not always realistic. And things are not always as they seem.

Underneath the sunny exterior lies a much darker Reading. The only thing bigger than the rhymes themselves, are the crimes that seem to surround them.
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Forgotten Gods [01 Mar 2009|08:57pm]
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What happens to the old gods, once their temples have crumbled and their believers have abandoned them? Do they die, forsaken, alone? Or do they remain, still wandering the world, immortal, surviving off what little belief they can gather?

Forgotten Gods follows the lives of these old deities, brought to America long ago by explorers or immigrants from their homelands and eventually abandoned or lost from memory. As their worshippers moved on to new religions, the gods' powers waned - for a god, at its most pure essence, is no more than an idea, and an idea is worthless if there is nobody to believe in it. Some have passed, forgotten, from the world, while others have fallen into madness. Some have simply tried to adapt, to make a life for themselves in this place without gods, getting by on what little scraps of worship and belief they can garner. Others are more radical, attempting to regain the power that was once theirs, to revive their followings.

And then there are the New Gods. Gods of cars and computers, television and radio, cities and highways, all those things that modern Americans put their faith in. They are young, at the height of their power. These newcomers are regarded dismissively by some of the older gods, who have seen so many new deities rise and fall in their time; jealously by others, who wish to reclaim the power for their own; and by all with a deep wariness.

Inspired by the world of Neil Gaiman's American Gods, this game invites players to step into the roles of deities, old and new, to create their own modern mythology.
Wanted:
Greek: Hecate, Demeter, Dionysus, Styx, Moros, Myrrha, muses
New Gods: Highways, Subway, Fashion Industry, Radio, Automobiles
Christian/Hebrew: Deadly Sins, Holy Virtues, Adam, Eve
Celtic/Arthurian: Merlin, the Morrigan, Brighid
Norse: Frigg, Loki, Thor, Skadi, Hermod, Sif, Tyr, the Norns
Native American: Coyote, Badger, White Buffalo Woman, Ahea
African: Anansi, Elegba
Egyptian: Nephthys, Ma'at, Osiris, Hathor, Aten
Slavic: Baba Yaga, Chernobog, Veles, Koshchei, Morana
Japanese: Raijin, Susano'o, Izanami, Izanagi
Aztec: Tlaloc, Quetzalcoatl, Coatlicue, Mixcoatl
Anglo-Saxon: Eostre, Wayland Smith
US Folklore: Uncle Sam, Johnny Appleseed - more!
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