how about....we just become mediums for the pixel god?
like, maybe you're the first one and you're wrapped and contorted in obscene ways (maybe your body ends up as a square because the god is really just a pixel :p) then your wretched body blurts out the will of the god.
And the will of the god is that we punish ourselves
1- by making pieces with only the guideline of employing his holy number 8 in as many forms as possible, in vain attempts to bring to art form his unattainable essence.
or
2- by making our avatars contort and do other typical god-sacrifices...gutting blodletting, burning and whatnot...or maybe the ultimate sacrifice, sacrificing holy beast of the YUS bird =o or the native Bruce Lee :p
any of that sound any good