The Cult of Artemis (Extreme Lesbian Cult, Recruiting!)

[Angie]

So I and the lovely Chrystal have been talking about an idea she had for a lesbian cult worshiping Artemis, and I offered to GM. Can't have a game without players though, and that's why we're here!

First and foremost, this game will be Extreme. No way around this, it's going right into Extreme. You will see why with all the planned 'activities', but yeah, Extreme. There will also be non-con, and because this is a good place to put it I offer Chrystal's Zeroth Law of Non-Con games: "If the character says no but the player says yes, proceed. If the player is saying no, stop it."

Secondly, while the RP will be open to all players male or female, players are expected to play female characters only and, well, more of Chrystal's rules:

I, personally, have no problem with male players playing, under the following conditions:

1) You respect a female player's right to want to play only with other female players. This should go without saying.
2) If you find your character is not doing anything, and there are other male players' characters not doing anything, go play with them! (This has been an issue in other games I've run)
3) No futa. All characters are female.
4) Let's keep the boobs to a reasonable size, shall we, hmm? And no lactating!

Got all that? Good.

Players will be playing as members of this lesbian cult, though how willing they are is a matter of the player-some characters will be kidnapped and enslaved into the cult (with possible brainwashing added in), others will be members who are quite happy to be part of this little cult. As for setting, it'll be mostly our world, with a little extra-the Goddess we're worshipping actually DOES exist and DOES grant her favored a few blessings. This mostly manifests as the cult getting obscenely lucky, but nothing overtly 'magical'.

The plot will be mostly sandbox, me and Chrystal have a few ideas stewing but nothing concrete as of now. I will say that the plot will focus mostly on the cult itself, and there won't be much Out Of Cult stuff, simply because all the interesting stuff is going to be in the cult and the plot follows the interesting stuff.

Players may have two characters, but one of them must be a Priestess of the cult until we get 4 priestesses. After that, you can make whatever you like. If a priestess drops, it'll go back to this restriction until we're back to 4. The Hierarchy will be detailed a little further down, but I will be looking for "Priestesses", and there will be 4 of those slots open. Characters will be more or less regular humans, with pretty much no knowledge of that supernatural luck stuff i mentioned. The roles will be detailed down below in the hierarchy section.

Now, Game Pacing-which is a pretty touchy subject. So I'm putting it all on the table right up front:

• If you are going to be absent for more then a week at a time, send a message to me and Chrystal.
• I would like two posts a week, but as long as you make at least one post a week, I can live with it. After all, this may be dark, extreme, and incredibly messed up, but it's also meant to be fun!
• Players that message us will have their characters move "off screen" for a while until they return. Players that DON'T will be messaged by me after a week of inactivity, and then moved off-screen for a week. If after this week I don't hear back, that character's getting enslaved. You have been warned.

And finally, at least for this post, there will be a tagging thing set up, see below posts for details.
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[Angie]

Cult Hierarchy

High Priestess: - Me.
Priestesses: 4 Slots open. These are the dominant bitches who do my bidding.
Acolytes:  these are the girls who have been there a while and actually enjoy the daily ritual of sexual torture. Some of them may even be allowed to inflict punishment on the lower ranks.
Initiates: Members of the cult not fully accepted into the cult yet. They are still undergoing "initiation". Initiates may become Acolytes later on, after, well, lots of stuff.
Sacrifices: NOT what you're thinking. The 'sacrifice' thing will be detailed below (and I promise, it's in THIS post!), but this particular 'role' is filled by people who are next to partake in piercing/tattooing rituals. There will be no ripping out of still beating hearts.
Pets/slaves: The lowest rung. These girls are those who refused to break, refused to accept the cult's ways, and ended up being left permanently gagged, hands encased in leather mittens, knees shackled, the worst offenders could even be blindfolded. This would be where any reporters or cops would normally end up.

Expected activities

Orgies: Well duh, but yes, expect this.
Drug/Alcohol Use: I'm hesitant to include this, but with the Zeroth Law up there, I'll include it for people who want their orgies good and drug fueled!
Torture: Everything from whipping it good to potential suspension play and everything in between. The torturers will get creative-and again, Zeroth Law.
Bondage: Oh how could I forget this?
Piercing/Tattooing: I mentioned this up above, under the sacrifices thing. Me and Chrystal spoke about this, and we came up with the idea of making the 'sacrifices' more symbolic of devotion to the cult. For example, the High Priestess is more or less covered with tattoos signifying her devotion to the Goddess. Becoming an Acolyte or Priestess might require piercing/tattooing of not as high a scale.

There's probably more stuff I'm forgetting, which will be added later.

Cult Beliefs

1: The Soul of the Bear: Artemis demands that the 'bear' be worshipped (i.e. lesbian sex and lots of it). Through worship of the bear, we serve our Goddess.

2: The Heart of the Bear: Artemis demands that we experience the pain of the animals we have tormented. Through pain, we are purified and come closer to our Goddess.

3: The Claws of the Bear: Artemis demands that our enemies be hunted and destroyed. Through this sacred hunt, we follow the paths of our Goddess.

4: The Eyes of the Bear: The face of our High Priestess is shown only to the Goddess and those who have served Her enough to be graced with it. The High Priestess keeps her face covered by demand of the Goddess (I just wanted to throw something in about the High Priestess wearing a mask)

5: The Pelt of the Bear: Members who break our laws shall be subjected to punishment. Through torment, penance. Through anguish, peace.

[Angie]

GM Info

I (Angiejuusan) am the GM. The lovely Chrystal is my Co-GM. This is set.

When it comes to handling the environment, I'm fairly casual about it. Should a character require an item in an environment where it can be expected to be found (a whip in a torture room, a beer in the fridge), the character can find it. Certain items would be harder to get (i.e. a pair of silver moonstone earrings) or events might make it harder to get things (like a fire of some kind), but for the most part, if you need it, you can probably get it.

A similar situation happens with NPCs-NPC Cult Initiates/Pets/Slaves can be created and used if you need a throwaway character for some reason. Non-Cult NPCs will likely be handled by me and Chrystal. Think of NPCs like a shared resource between the group-anyone can use them, but don't abuse them, because other people need them.

I will be as active as I can, both IC and OOC. There may be times when decisions need to be made-some will be handled by me and Chrystal, others will be put to a vote of active players. Finally, if PvP does happen...it would have to be private or some arranged combat (like a wrestling match), and I'll let you two work out who wins ahead of time, when you do, call me and/or Chrystal. 

[Angie]

Extra Stuff:

You see this Oath of the Drake? Sign it if you haven't already, put a bit in your signature.

As always, respect other players and what they don't like. If a scene is getting uncomfortable for one (or both) participants, cut to black.

New players can easily join-new inductees, kidnapped victims, or one of those faceless nameless NPCs becomes a named faced PC.

Third person writing style, just because it's what I'm comfy with.

[Angie]

Character Sheet:

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[b]Player ID:[/b]

[float=right][img height=300 padding=5]Picture goes here[/img][/float]

[b]Name:[/b]

[b]Age:[/b]

[b]Rank Within The Cult:[/b]

[b]Job Outside The Cult:[/b]

[b]Height:[/b]

[b]Weight:[/b]

[b]Build:[/b] (If not obvious from image)

[b]Hair Colour:[/b] (If not obvious from image)

[b]Eye Colour:[/b] (If not obvious from image)

[b]Distinguishing marks:[/b] (Especially any not in the image)

[b]Likes:[/b]

[b]Dislikes:[/b]

[b]Personality:[/b]

[b]History:[/b]

[b]Any Other Info:[/b] (optional)

Character submission rules:

1) All characters become the property of the game, should the player drop out, for the sole purpose of keeping the game going.

2) All characters must be human female and at least 16(?) years old. No male characters and no futa/hermaphrodites. Any trans-gendered characters must have completed the transition and now be fully female.

3)The GMs reserve the right to reject any character we consider does not fit the game, without giving a reason, however we will usually attempt to give one, and make suggestions as to how the character can be made acceptable.

4) Submitting a character implies that you have read and are in agreement with all the requirements and rules of the game.

5) PM sheets to me and Chrystal. You need both of our approvals to get in.

6) Everybody will start off having been involved with the cult for at least a couple weeks. This is a pacing issue-I've seen a lot of games die because people wanted to start off "outside the plot" so to speak, and I don't want that happening.

NOTES:

Player ID: Your Elliquiy Login ID

Picture: Preferably a person in the public eye who's pictures are in the public domain. If the picture shows nudity below the waist please use a spoiler tag labelled "NSFW". (If you don't know how, please ask).

Name: The name of the character.

Age: Priestesses must be 21 - 30. Acolytes should be 18 - 25. Initiates 16(?) to 21. Slaves can be any age.

Rank Within The Cult: Priestess, Acolyte, Initiate or slave. Acolytes and below can also be sacrifices.

Job Outside The Cult: Priestesses can hold a regular day job as well as running the cult. For everyone else, this is what they did before.

Height & Weight: If you are able to do so, please could you post in metric and imperial units? There are free websites that will convert for you. Also there is a height/weight chart here: http://www.weightcalculatorwomen.com/foto/BMI-women-chart.gif Yo can use it to work out how much your character should weigh for her height and build.

Build: If the picture is head and shoulders or the model is wearing baggy clothes, please say what their body type is.

Hair Colour: If the image is monochrome, or the model is wearing a hat.

Eye Colour: If the modey's eye colour cannot be determined for whatever reason.

On all three of the above, you can answer "As Picture" if you wish.

Distinguishing marks: Things like tattoos, piercings, scars, birthmarks, etc...

Likes: Please say five things that make her go MMMM!

Dislikes: Please say five things that make her go AAAGGGH!

Please note that the above two are CHARACTER likes and dislikes (see rule zero). For example, if you put that she hates being spanked, but spanking is in your ons, expect spanking!

Personality: What is she like as a person? What floats her boat, what pushes her buttons, how does she respond to other people and situations? Please write at least one decent length paragraph, preferably two.

History: How did she get to the cult, why is she here, what was she doing before she came, as much back-story as you want to put in. Please write at least three good sized paragraphs, preferably more.

Any Other Info: If there's anything else you think we should know that isn't covered above, please list it here.

[Angie]

Tagging:

There will be a tag system just to help keep things straight. The code is as follows:

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[float=left][img height=200]Character image here[/img][/float]
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Location:[/b]
[b]Tagged:[/b]
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"Tagged" for those who don't know is just who you're in the scene with and interacting with. "Open" means you're open to new characters entering the scene, leaving it out means you're doing something private and respect people who are, my dears.

[Angie]

Anything that doesn't fit in the above posts

Well, nothing for now.

[Lynnette]

I'm interested. I would like to know more about the cult itself though and its practices, primarily the latter since it was referred to in the first post but there's no information about it, it just says it'll get back to it.

[Angie]

Working on it, darling! The first post was getting really long and I decided to break it up.

[Lynnette]

Working on it, darling! The first post was getting really long and I decided to break it up.

<3 It's fine, just wanted to make sure it wasn't meant to be there but forgotten (Something I'm waaaay too good at doing myself)

[Chrystal]

Hi Reaper.

We're still sort-of working out all the details of the cult itself, but Anjie will post what we have as she gets to it and add more as we work out the details. Always worth looking back at the opening posts from time to time...

[BeckyAnnn]

Players may have two characters, but one of them must be a Priestess of the cult. The Hierarchy will be detailed a little further down, but I will be looking for "Priestesses", and there will be 4 of those slots open. Characters will be more or less regular humans, with pretty much no knowledge of that supernatural luck stuff i mentioned. The roles will be detailed down below in the hierarchy section.

Does this mean that everyone has to play a priestess, or does this ONLY apply to those wanting two characters?

[Lynnette]

Hi Reaper.

We're still sort-of working out all the details of the cult itself, but Anjie will post what we have as she gets to it and add more as we work out the details. Always worth looking back at the opening posts from time to time...

Chrystal <3

I'll keep an eye out <3

Does this mean that everyone has to play a priestess, or does this ONLY apply to those wanting two characters?

Going by the formulation, I'm 99% sure it means that those with more than one character must have a priestess. If everyone had to play a priestess, it would make the game horribly unbalanced.

[Chrystal]

I just PMed Anjie to ask her to clear that up....

The point is that we need SOME priestesses - they will be the dominant bitches. If everyone makes two subs and no-one makes any D's the game dies pretty quick!

So, the idea is that until all the priestess slots are filled, anyone wishing to make a second character must have at least one character be a priestess. Once all the priestess slots are filled with active characters, people may make two lower echelon characters. However if a player playing a priestess drops out, the restriction goes back in place on new characters.

Does that make sense?

[BeckyAnnn]

I just PMed Anjie to ask her to clear that up....

The point is that we need SOME priestesses - they will be the dominant bitches. If everyone makes two subs and no-one makes any D's the game dies pretty quick!

So, the idea is that until all the priestess slots are filled, anyone wishing to make a second character must have at least one character be a priestess. Once all the priestess slots are filled with active characters, people may make two lower echelon characters. However if a player playing a priestess drops out, the restriction goes back in place on new characters.

Does that make sense?

Makes perfect sense, Chrystal.  Sorry to be asking the obvious but you know how I am about assuming things.

[Angie]

Edited that bit in, now back to work. Oh so much work...

[GnothiSeauton]

Tentatively interested here.

Would like to see and learn more of the cult and its principles before committing.

[Angie]

Tentatively interested here.

Would like to see and learn more of the cult and its principles before committing.

And I knew there was something I was forgetting...me and Chrystal will need to discuss and figure that out soon. Thank you for reminding me!

[Nymphadora]

Very thrilled to see this here.

Bookmarked!

[Neo In Matrix]

I'll put my character once the character sheet is up. However, I'd want to ask one thing. Will pet/slaves category be subjected to all 5 things and more in expected activities? Or they'll just remain bound? hehe. I hope they are victimized in everything. If so, I'll play a nosy freelance reporter who doesn't have a family and no friends. No one will search for her if she's vanished. :).

[SlipperySue]

Definitely interested, and would see my character at the lower end of the cult somewhere, although if necessary I would have a 'stab' at being an acolyte.

[Chrystal]

Okay, there is something I mentioned to Anjie, when we were discussing the hierarchy - and my reasons for not wanting to run the game - and that is, that what we can't have is everyone being a reporter or cop! I don't think we got as far as actually discussing mechanics of how to prevent this.

My best suggestion is that there be ONE such role available, and the first player who requests it (in this case, Neoextra1) has the role reserved for them, pending an acceptable character sheet being submitted.

There is another, similar role that I can see people jumping at, but I'm afraid it's already taken - My character is going to be the girl looking for her sister.

I'm open to offers on who wants to play the sister...

[AurelieCatena]

I would be interested in playing a Sacrifice. The idea of being horribly tortured, tattooed, pierced, defaced, etc... just makes me cream.

I understand that I'll have to wait until the 4 priestess slots are filled, right?

[Chrystal]

*giggles*

I think... I'm waiting for Angie to get back to me on this .... that the idea is that "Sacrifice" is a stage that initiates and acolytes pass through from time to time in order to advance to the next level...

However, we could set it up so that Sacrifice is a specific role within the cult...

By the way, Aurelie, it was while I was thinking about this group game that I posted that one-shot idea!

[AurelieCatena]

Then I'm applying for an acolyte position, just about to be sacrificed. But the idea of being a "professional" sacrifice pleases me a lot.

By the way, Aurelie, it was while I was thinking about this group game that I posted that one-shot idea!

I had figured it out! However, I think I prefer this context. I was more interested in the torture than in the heart-ripping part. So, a sacrifice based on tattoo and piercing is perfect for me.