Discord LinkEnlightener's ThreadUplifter's ThreadThe universe is a vast place, one full of infinite dangers and opportunities. One of these dangerous opportunities comes in the form of
life, and one solar system happens to have two planets showing signs of it. But this life is as of yet undefined - same with the planets! It will be up to you to guide one of these two planets from formation to abiogenesis, through evolution, and onward! After you choose your team - either
The Uplifters or
The Enlighteners - you and your fellow guardians will be faced with a series of prompts covering hurdles or advancements that will define a period of time for your planet and the species upon it.
Players can propose solutions to prompts in their team's threads and can attempt to tackle them in any way they see fit. Military, scientific, cultural, and diplomatic solutions are all viable, and will shape the planet and it's inhabitants accordingly. Each team will be responsible for voting on one proposal to choose as their advancement using a votebox similar to the one below:
Ideas:
Good: (4) Bill, Ted, Grilled, Cheese
Bad: (2) Jesse, James
Ugly: (2) Your, Name
As this
is a game, I will act as the Will of the Universe and will be rolling 2d6 in order to determine just how effective and beneficial the changes the proposal end up. The result for the proposal is better as the roll gets higher, with the most dramatic results at the extreme ends of the dice pool. While rolling from a 3 to an 11 will usually provide a small evolutionary, technological, or magical advancement, rolling a 12 is how your planet's life advances to it's next stage. That advancement becomes a massively defining characteristic in the ascension of the species as they leap forward. However in order to balance that, a team stuck in earlier stages of development will get progressively higher chances to advance as well. (This is why, in order to preserve secrecy between sides as much as possible, the rolls themselves will be kept behind the scenes.)
At the other end of the spectrum, rolling a 2 on the 2d6 results in a
Mass Extinction Event. Every prompt that immediately follows a Mass Extinction will allow you to decide if and how your primary species survives, or what it gets replaced by as the clock gets set back a good bit regardless.
The end goal of the game is to have the two different teams come into contact in some way, shape, or form. Once that occurs, their timelines get sync'd up and we enter the Endgame. The Endgame will be defined by the interactions of your two planet's species in whatever form they're in at that time as they attempt to outlast one another against themselves, and perhaps some other threats.
While the Endgame may end up dramatically one-sided, we can't know for sure what awaits us until we start looking. And who knows, there's always a risk of a Mass Extinction Event...
Please state in this thread which team you are joining, then head over to that thread (linked above), join the Discord server (if you want, also linked above), and get started! Your first prompt is waiting for you! And remember to resist the temptation to look into the other team's thread!
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Topic: Nonsilenti Universi - A SciFi Fantasy Evolutionary Council-based PvEvP Team Game (Read 846 times)