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Someone's already asking to run a COPAL game. But he doesn't know the first thing about the world. I need to give him a "This is what you know about the world as DM" synopsis. ASAP.

Since Rev is busy tonight, and Xtian's at work, it falls to me, I guess. I will PM this to the DM tonight. Edits should be posted; otherwise everone who DM's receive this as a PM.
Here's what I have so far:

There were gods, once.

Yes, they were truly magnificent creatures. Though they looked like us, they were also so much more. For they were the progenitors, first among firsts, rulers of Creation.

And we killed them.

Yes, it was the hand of mortality that killed the gods. Through the treacherous liberators, radicals among the angels, were we tricked. They spewed lies, declared our loving gods as tyrants, and dared conceive rebellion against them, using us mere mortals mortals as foot soldiers.

Yet before the rebellion even began, they were rooted out by our wise leaders, and they were punished for their folly. But the infection has already spread. There were those who became sympathetic of their fates. What fools we were.

The treachery of the Liberators were deep. Somehow, before their deaths, they managed to give out weapons of great power, godslayers, they were called, and they could destroy the indestructible. They revealed their secret weapon and unleashed it upon our masters.

They say Destiny was first to fall; Her bosom pierced by her own husband, Uriah, the Protohuman. Then a massacre ensued.

We have the bones of our former masters. How long has it been since that war? Our best estimates place it at 500 years. We have no way of becoming sure; the sun itself is fueled by our sacrifice to the dead Daystar. How long do we have before our world finishes its fall to the Elemental Chaos? The earthquakes get worse every year. Flashfires spontaneously flash out. Darkness engulfs the land when the Daystar is not fed.

We don't have much time.

Mechanics:
*The gods are dead. But godstones, crystalline fonts of power maintain their divine essence. This is power is channeled by clerics and paladins through shards (aka Holy Symbol) attuned to the Godstone. As such, clerics are not devout; they are members of a (usually) mighty organization with a source of power.
*Post-apocalyptic. Best guesses say that without gods to maintain reality, it now plummets toward the Elemental Chaos. Either way, the world is unstable.

Notes.
*Eternals. The so-called firstborn of the gods. Majority of them are angels, while devils have been contorted by the consumption of the godstones that they find, to fuel their own "divinity"
*Liberators. Originally the group of eternals that first came to distrust the gods. In modern times, Liberators seek to slay the gods in its entirety. Not even the bones should remain.
*Redeemers. Divine Loyalists. Whereas some groups are content to simply control a godstone, redeemers seek to resurrect them.
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There. I'll send this in 30 mins. Edit as you see fit.

EDIT Log.

I see no problem.

Coincidentally, i was planning to put AAS's access here on hold until someone writes down summary/synopsis/ideas.

BJ killed my ninja.

AAS now has access here. Tell him what we plan, our ideas, our roles. Brief him.