Deus Mortuus

WELCOME MAT

Come and make your acquaintances with all of us. Don't be afraid - the staff and members don't bite. (Not unless you pay us, anyway.)

CROW'S NEST

Any and all announcements will be made from this forum.

ABSENCES/FAREWELLS

Perhaps you may not be around for an instance of time. Or perhaps you feel it is time for a new horizon, and that your time as a member of the DM elite is drawing to a close - regardless, post it up here. We won't judge you for either.

RULES AND ROLEPLAY INFO

This should be your first stop after dropping in a welcome thread and saying hi in the box. Read over the rules! And check through the information - everything essential can be found here, from the character templates to any last tidbit of info you could want. Any questions? Ask in the cbox or in the forum below...

QUERIES AND SUGGESTIONS

If there's absolutely anything you feel the need to ask the staff or more learned members of the forum, and the chatbox is mysteriously vacant - please don't be offput by this, and just post up a topic with the question subject as your thread title and we'll endeavour to answer as soon as we can.

ARCHIVES

STAFF-ONLY. REGULAR MEMBERS CANNOT POST HERE.

ADVERTS/AFFILIATIONS

This forum is guest-friendly - feel free to post your advertisements here if you're from another site. The information regarding affiliating with DM can be found here, too. We don't mind if you post more than once, within reason, after time, provided we're extended the same courtesy on your site!

GENERAL DISCUSSION

Shoot the shit and chat about more or less anything you fancy, to be honest. Provided it falls within the general DM rules - here, anything OOC flies.

VISITOR'S HALL

So, maybe you're not a member, but you'd like to ask a few questions - maybe pertaining to the site, one of our staff, the lore, or purely trivialities that you'd like to discuss? This board is guest-friendly, and know that we won't discriminate here - and whilst a majority of our features are member-exclusive, feel free to drop by in this forum and ask us any questions.

CREATIVE CORNER

Post up anything creative. Music, video game ideas, stories, screenplay, art, comic strips - anything, at all, and trust our roleplaying collective to treat it as intended!

OUT OF CHARACTER

Any OOC RPs that you'd like to share with us concerning your DM - or other - characters, are perfectly free to be shared here. We encourage it - and feel free to ask for critique and comments, too.

STAFF APPLICATIONS

At periods during Deus Mortuus' uptime, we may find ourselves short-staffed; staff members inevitably do come and go, and at times you may find positions open. If you feel you wish to contribute to the Deus Mortuus community, and can uphold the responsibility of one of our staff positions, there is a template within to apply, where the existing staff will consider your request. We only ask that you do this tactfully - please do not apply for staff if you are not relatively sure of your ability to remain active on the forum for the near and distant future. Currently we are only accepting applications for Beastmaster, Billposter, and Librarian positions.

CHARACTER PROFILES

Here you should post your character profiles - WiPs are totally acceptable - under pending, and once accepted they will be moved to the right category. Templates found here.
Moderators: Lazarus Carter, Belial, Alice the Chopper, Cael Gladius and Jinhong Jangmi.

CHARACTER CONCEPTS

Want to run a character concept past other members and the site and get some feedback on it? Thinking about making a character but not yet entirely sure? Post up a general topic here, and in each we can discuss anywhere from character basics to the ins-and-outs - and if you want to use this just as a storage space to brainstorm concerning a new character concept, feel absolutely free. This forum is guest-friendly - so feel free to post up character concepts, even if you haven't joined yet!

CHARACTERS WANTED

Post here to advertise if you'd like a character created or for someone to create a character with loose ties of your own, and then to discuss it if someone wants to take you up. Perhaps it's a nemesis for your embittered Demon Hunter? Or a long-lost brother or parent to your Ritualist with a damaged childhood. Anything's possible.

THREAD TRACKERS

A forum for thread trackers, where you should have ONE thread per user, and ONE POST per each character, linking to and outlining the timeline of each thread - remember DM's vigorous enforcing of the datestamp policy. Templates here.

CHARACTER PLOTTERS

A forum for character plotters, where you should have ONE thread per user, and ONE POST for all characters, linking to their apps and giving a brief outline of the character. Allow people to respond in order to plot with you! Simple. Templates here.

FLASHBACKS/JOURNALS

Here post - IC as your character - for any solo flashbacks of journals, whether it's a taking of inventory or a reminiscence of happier/bloodier times.

FACTIONS

Here you can find the appropriate posting threads for the faction of your choice. Be aware - unless previously discussed, most posting threads are both SMALL and character-type specific. Templates here.

BESTIARY

Got an idea for a new breed of demon you'd like to fight or have fought? Perhaps it's a type of angel instead? Or the demon species that inhabits your Ritualist character? First off: it's best to check here just in case, and second, if not, apply to have it filed and registered in the bestiary! It won't take too long - just a brief description of its abilities and possibly an image.
Moderator: LIBRARIANS

THREAD HUNTING

Looking for a thread? Chatbox not quite reliable enough for sorting one out, or maybe you're in a different timezone or not active enough to use it consistently? Never fear - that's what this board's purpose is! Post up if you're looking for a thread or want to create a specifically designated thread and want to find someone to participate in it. A list of open threads can be found within, too.

PLOT EVENTS

Here the staff-organised plot events - and a suggestions/ideas sub-forum for discussing them - will be announced for sign-up so you can join in. These will be regular and usually concern small groups of anywhere from 3-7 people, but occasionally (around twice or three times a year) the staff will organise a larger mission concerning almost the whole userbase to encourage further inter-character interactions and driving on the plot.

PLAYER EVENTS

Plot events are organised by the staff, but if you'd like to organise lesser events wherein you can establish a point reward for all players (and yourself), take on a game master or controlling role, and generally sort a player-controlled and staff-independent thread with set goals that sells as a mission-type thing, then feel free to establish them here. The templates and guidelines are within.

LONDON

The great fish-and-chips cups-of-tea monarchy capital of the world. The UK! In all its glory, the city's infamous underground, interesting political structure, and chock-full of tourist attractions such as Big Ben and the London Eye.

IRKUTSK

Irkutsk is a major city in Russia with a population of over half a million and one of the largest cities in the area of Siberia. As one would imagine, it's bitterly cold, especially in wintery months, and though filled with tourist attractions, usually not advisable to travel to unless you're prepared for the temperature extremes.

JOHANNESBURG

Johannesburg is the largest city in South Africa. In the modern day it's renowned for - in spite of its apparent cleanliness and status as one of the most prestigious cities in the entire continent - a considerably high crime ratio, though it's still a very nice city. Colloquially known as Jozi and Jo'burg amongst other less favourable nicknames.

ROME

Known natively as Roma and the capital of Italy, once the origin of the greatest ancient empire to ever brace the face of this earth, Rome is barely a shadow of what it once was, through ancient history and even on into the Renaissance, but it's truly a beautiful city all in all, much like London in that it's filled with various tourist attractions such as the Coliseum.

BARCELONA

One of the most active and energetic cities in all of Europe, thrumming with activity - be it tourist or otherwise - all year round, Barcelona is the second-largest city in Spain (after the capital, Madrid) and is located on the very coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

HONG KONG

Often recognised as one of the ultimately dirtiest cities and most densely populated areas of all time, arguably a business centre of the eastern world, Hong Kong is an island situated on China's south coast. Historically an ancient British colony, Hong Kong is now separate from China and often considered to be far more first-world than a large amount of the People's Republic itself.

WASHINGTON D.C.

The capital of the United States, separate from any individual U.S. state and located along the Potomac River's east coast, Washington is widely recognised as the diplomatic centre of the country's activities, with numerous historical monuments to be found here, and the head of America's government - Mr. President himself.

RIO DE JANEIRO

The second-largest city in Brazil, one of the most popular and active cities in all of South America, and the capital of the country up until 1960, Rio de Janeiro is famous primarily for a large statue of Jesus Christ overlooking the city on a high-altitude ridge, and very high crime rates around all but the most upper-class areas of the city.

HELSINKI

The capital of Finland, and on record one of the most pleasant cities to live in - amongst other places in Scandinavia. Spread across a number of bays and coasts and indeed a number of islands, transport across it may become slightly confusing to an outsider. Compared to Irkutsk, it's not quite as vicious in the winters, but still has reached record lows of down to -31C in the past couple of decades.

VATICAN CITY

A landlocked city-state consisting of a walled enclave inside the city of Rome. Separate to the actual country itself, the Vatican is widely considered to be the home and origin of Catholicism, and where the Pope himself resides... however, for the purposes of this story, something far darker indeed resides within this minute religious city-state...

ELSEWHERE

The world's a big damn place - and not all of it is encompassed in these ten cities, though if you're one of Deus Mortuus' core character types, aside from a civilian, you're bound to be spending a lot of time in the others. For anywhere in the real world you fancy traveling to that isn't listed here, post a thread in this forum - but please make sure to mark where it is either in the thread title, or bolded in the body of the first post and clear to see.

REGAL NECROPOLIS

The real-world equivalent of the Regal Necropolis is London. A crumbling ancient city with bloody red skies above and deep crags in the ground, it seems to be abandoned save for the howlings and hissings of various lesser demons scurrying about. The London Eye has fallen into the Thames, Big Ben has collapsed, the House of Lords is nothing but a charred ruin: it's essentially London but in a hellish, reddened dystopia. Regal Necropolis is home to the Archdemon Mammon.

STYGIAN TUNDRA

The real-world equivalent of the Stygian Tundra is Irkutsk. A wide, open expanse filled with naught but craggy ice and great splitting glaciers, it resembles Cocytus in that the cold is not a salvation from Inferis' usual heat: but instead it is just bitter and painful, buffetting one's skin. Wandering the Tundra, a continual flat plain with just mounds of constantly-moving snow and naught to follow but the remnants of crushed skyscrapers and building rubble beneath will easily confuse a lesser mind. Many adventurers have come here before their times and perished from the sheer cold and the delirium that exploring the Tundra causes. No horizons, no landmarks, no ends in sight, and only the fading glimmer of a sun to guide you, it can be said to be a truly hopeless place. Stygian Tundra is home to the Archdemon Moloch.

FORLORN ASHLAND

The real-world equivalent of the Forlorn Ashland is Johannesburg. Much like the other alternative Inferis cities, the settlement here has been completely flattened: infact, it's said that in the arid climates, the flames of hell scorched everything, and reduced the entire desert city to ash, hence why whenever one walks amongst the Ashland, eponymously, flecks of smoky grey dust drift down in clumps and showers from great big stormy clouds of it above. Forlorn Ashland is home to the Archdemon Beelzebub.

THE GREAT UNDERCROFT

The real-world equivalent of the Great Undercroft is Rome. With a recrafted coliseum almost rising to the sky now the city's centrepiece, the Great Undercroft lies bordering the Spirelands and edging on Lucifer's territory. Home to the souls of the great warriors of lore, it holds numerous demon battles and has done timelessly for all eternity, and any who wander through find the Undercroft to be one of the most well-stocked defensive borders of demon forces, from where the majority of their close-combat troops stem. The Great Undercroft is home to the Archdemon Belial.

BLIGHTSCAPE

The real-world equivalent of the Blightscape is Barcelona. The Blightscape is a vast expanse of land with green-tinted skies and a legion of demons idly walking around in a zombie-like manner with gas masks amalgamated into their fizzling and rotting skin. Many a timeless decade ago, the Blightscape was struck by a horrific plague which destroyed all the demonic residents - it'll only disfigure those of a demonic origin who reside there for years on end, so it's tentatively safe for humans to walk through in spite of the ghastly stench of rotting flesh and sulphur in the air. The Blightscape is home to the Archdemon Asmodeus.

TARPIT ENCLAVES

The real-world equivalent of the Tarpit Enclaves is Hong Kong. Once an industrial capital of the world, all the pollution and smog seems to, in Inferis, have come to ahead, tormenting the poor souls below by reducing skyscrapers and a central business district to great bubbling puddles of scalding hot and viscous tar, from which various demons, smothered in it, emerge from to do battle. They move slow but are not to be reckoned with. The Tarpit Enclaves are home to the Archdemon Legion.

ENTROPIC CHASM

The real-world equivalent of the Entropic Chasm is Washington D.C. A great furrow has split the ground in half, right down the centre of the White House, and opened into a deep, chasm-like ravine, serving as a prison for all the lawless scum that have come into Inferis over the years. There chasm also serves as a border into the Spirelands, which the whole region edges on - and it can't be walked around or leapt over. The furrow cuts through the whole region, a great long curvature - one must descend from one end and traverse through into the middle, where they can make the climb up to the other side. Entropic Chasm is home to the Archdemon Belphegor, though in his slumber, Lucifer oversees it from the Spirelands.

DARKROOT DOMAIN

The real-world equivalent of Darkroot Domain is Rio de Janeiro. Darkroot Domain shows the power of nature in Inferis: as an accursed tropical undergrowth surrounding the city seems to have encroached upon its borders and forced its way into the city proper, creating a jungle-like labyrinth of thick trees and ivy vines around many of Rio's slums and actual buildings. Fights in the Domain are usually quick if there's any resistance at all; its native demons have a tendency to strike from above and are usually lethal, similar to real-world jungle tribes. Darkroot Domain is home to the Archdemon Ba'al.

THE BLACK SEA

The real-world equivalent of the Black Sea is Helsinki. This city in particular, originally constructed of ports, bays, coasts, islands, and peninsulas, has completely sunk into the water, buildings ruined and collapsed, and great geysers perforating the cityscape, rising higher than skyscrapers. The entire city has been reduced to a few simple islands, with great, dark, thick and murky water atop it - there's a reason that no-one ventures further out of Inferis than the Black Sea. All demons here are typically underwater-life based. The Black Sea is home to the Archdemon Leviathan.

THE SPIRELANDS

The real-world equivalent of the Spirelands is the Vatican City. An unholy city to mirror that of the real world in its place, fittingly, the Spirelands are home to the greatest killers, thieves, crime lords, serial murderers, assassins, and any who commit any grand crime to earn themselves a stay in Inferis. It holds the only fine architecture in all of the realm, as all the other buildings are ruined, but here, the architecture of the buildings around the Spirelands is even more elegant than the Vatican itself. At the epicentre of the city, and the very centre of Inferis, geographically, lies a tall, huge, black, spined, spiky, and almost organic spire, with thousands upon thousands of demons slaving away at it night and day tirelessly and restlessly. A tower. The Devil Spire. At the top, as it is perfected and finished around him, sits, upon his throne, next to the tenth and final tear this side of the barrier, the Devil himself. The Spirelands are home to the Archdemon, and Unholy Overlord of Inferis, Lucifer.