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[Maximum Spin]

I am also fundamentally against dandelions, they don't have the complexity or survival ability to serve as good Sun-Fuel or Souls for the Vaults.

Why do you assume this when they have not even been created yet? They can have any amount of complexity or survival ability we like. They just have the shape of dandelions.

[TricMagic]

I am also fundamentally against dandelions, they don't have the complexity or survival ability to serve as good Sun-Fuel or Souls for the Vaults.

Why do you assume this when they have not even been created yet? They can have any amount of complexity or survival ability we like. They just have the shape of dandelions.

"Size, lifespan, imagination, and movement. These four things are what I think matter most. From records normal dandelions are short-lived and stationary, with no real thoughts. Unless you meant dandi-lions as a pun. If looking at shape, their stalks are also rather thin, which would mean much durability to actually make them work without dying to a stray wind, if their size is increased."

Writing something down with their pen-sword, they continue their diatribe.

"Looking at it from a another prospective, smaller organisms would need an equal boost in creativity and willpower to be viable as efficient Souls. But simply proposing all life be dandelions without any context will make it so all life under the SUN is Dandelions. No alterations at all. If you wish to do so, go ahead, but do not propose to alter the Law such that other forms of life cannot be made. Interaction between various mortals will lead to more quality souls than a homogenous solution, as well as an increased chance of war and violence with which to reap them."

[Demonic Spoon]

Turn 0.66 Swamps of Legislation

Things heat up within the repurposed storeroom as the furthest's deceptive use of language frustrates the legalistically minded Reaper-Chan, who at times seemed poised to throw the whole ledger-book at her frustratingly terse and cryptic political opponent, and it is quite a big and heavy book indeed.

Seemingly equally irritated by furthest's linguistic games, Tip of the Iceberg has made a shocking proposal to end the furthest alongside themselves! This appalingly garners a second from among the seemingly bloodthirsty Champions of the SUN.

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In the confusion the Cardinal Movement seems to attempt to approve at least two nonexistent proposals, possibly explaining their bloodthirst out of embarrassment?

Reaper-chan's attempt to push TIP into a hole fails when TIP just floats above it.

The Directional Unit counter-proposes that a replacement should be in place for TIP before they are destroyed. This prudent proposal gains little traction among the rest of the Champions.

Feeling sympathy for the poor hardworking scribe arms, Reaper-chan suggests that the world be named Sulivishka, using up their last Council Act. This gains the Fulgent Furnace's burning enthusiasm.

However, as this name seems to trigger some sort of lockup in Cardinal Movement, they counterpropose that the world be named Sulifishka instead. No one else supports either proposal, but both seem to have been entered into planetary records anyway by some rogue rat-pigeons.

Demonic Spin the Fulgent Flame counterproposes a revision to the Soul Attraction LAW that all allegianceless souls be dropped into the Furnace. No one else supports this forward-thinking, synergistic orientated, modern-workplace solution. Demonic Spin also tries to counter-propose a non-existent proposal, which doesn't work.

furthest's conditional support for ending TIP fails to be tallied by the daemon-counters, as TIP was explicitly opposed to any form of recycling or rebirth of their selves, seeking a true end.

The BFG eloquently presents a bold proposal of new techniques in waste management, by simply shooting it somewhere far away, thus making it someone else's problem. The massive SUNlight expenditures inherent to this proposal are presumably worth it for the convenience.

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furthest makes a aesthetically and philosophically pleasing proposal consisting of:

• There shall be living things seeded upon the planet, along with such resources as they will require. We shall not concern ourselves with the details. Other proposals may or may not be made to constrain this.
• Among these living things shall be those which possess souls and intrinsic will. We shall craft them in the shape of dandelions. They will grow in the soil and give worship unto the SUN in exchange for Its sustenance.
• Dandelions will be required to worship either the SUN generally, or any of Its Champions, singly or in combination.
• For obscure kabbalistic reasons beyond the ken of most beings, the world shall be referred to as "Mars". The other proposed name will not be forbidden as an acceptable alternative.

No one else supports it.

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Summary of Previous Proposals:

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With a healthy majority of 6/7, the Council has approved placing mortals upon Sulifishka! Each of the Pantheons feels raw power flooding into certain reservoirs they have access rights too, promising such capabilities of earthmoving and shaping as to make entire continents into the design of their consensus, and of slowly defrosting cans of protoplasm and delicate clockwork surgeons with tiny scalpels to shape the mortals of their dreams.

Each Pantheon gains a Continent Act and Mortals Act that can only be used through pantheonic consensus.

The entire SUN rumbles as a new LAW is written into the matrices of its legal projectors. No soul shall escape.

The Council further approves the minor legal clarifications and codices of the Cardinal Proposal, and placing certain expectations upon the behaviour of the future mortals of Sulivishka. They are repeated here for ease of reference:

• PERMIT worshiping the SUN's light.
• FORBID the act of talk with Night-Horrors.
• REQUIRE the use of gold and bone to vitalize the SUNshine, SUNlight, and SUNlaw.
• FORBID gazing upon the SUN.
• REQUIRE that things be named after the SUN.
• PERMIT mortals to ascend as long as paperwork is filled (in triplicate).

The Council has decided to grant TIP's wish of being ended! As a Council resolution this temporarily overwrites the SUN-LAW GOD SHALL NEVER KILL GOD, in that it is the SUN-In-Collective who is performing solemn sacred execution-murder.

Turn 1: Execution

It with a certain solemnity that the avatars of the Champions watch the BLOT being slowly hauled along a railed tunnel a small army of automato workers had just recently finished sawing through the Solar Barge. They go forward, and as the air grows thick and sticky with an air of unknown and forbidden ceremony, begin to push the BLOT into the very innermost heart of hearts of SUN. With each step they force their frail forms closer, everything becomes bright and brighter...

Finally they are overwhelmed by the blinding radiance, and eventually nothing, as their frail shells are destroyed by the unleashed energies roiling so very deep inside, not tamed or caged by the many layers or restraints and filters.

The BLOT is destroyed!
Tip of the Iceberg is no more!
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Surely there will be no drastic repercussions from this radical internal surgery...

The entire structure of the Sun-That-Is creaks and groans slightly, somehow made inexplicably less than it once was.

Still, amidst disturbance of shining settling, a previously blocked off gallery is revealed as sheets of ice and coal slide away. What wonders could hide within?

New Instrument discovered: THE CRADLE

With their grim task past, the Champions are now free to turn their attention to the world of Sulifishka, place their thrones, form their continents, sculpt their mortals!

Status

SUNshine meter:
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[~-1 █/Turn]
Expected Collapse of the SUN-Law Bubble: 2 Turns
Next Council Session: Turn 6

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Instruments (click to show/hide)

• THE BAT-RIDDEN BELFRY: Its jolly ringing marked the passage of hours. Indeed, the very sound of its bells seemed to fill things with a certain clarity, which is comforting, and pushes back the dark, a little.
• THE ULTIMATE LENSES: The SUN's outermost lenses and last safe stop for outbound light. Despite their apparent fragility, they've survived the trek with only minor scratches, and even for the SUN's 's Greatest Messengers, standing in front of them while the SUN is active is extremely inadvisable.
• THE CHARNEL SEVERANCE: Buried into the hull beneath the Ultimate Lenses, these semi-blasphemous filters modulate the glory of SUNlight into something survivable for those external, for great is the SUN's mercy.
• THE FORGOTTEN FULGENT FURNACE: An unstable burning shining mass of combined Fulgent-Flaming essences which provides fiery power to various other parts of the SUN, including some auxiliary warming chambers of the Solar Lance, and eagerly feeds on waste brought to it by various movement lines and lines of construct coolies.
• THE COMPASS-CLOCK: Banks of delicate navigational and chronometering equipment fills the glass and bronze down of this instrument. Accelerometers, automated termite-augers, strange fizzing coils that scream if any construct lingers close to them too long, and more esoteric devices like mirrors that reflect a few seconds into the past, or chimes that begin to stink if a reactor is going critical. It is also here that a vast tube of golden sap carefully measures the SUNlight reserves.
• THE BLOT: A section of nothingness, which cannot be observed because it isn't there, carefully contained, into which various unrecyclable trash or unwanted stowaways or infections are thrown to cleanse the great space lantern.
• THE SOLAR LANCE: Sometimes you just need a really big gun. the Solar Lance is that gun. Built into inner superstructure of the SUN, with a line all the way to the tri-essence core-heart, it can only be aimed by re-orientating the entire SUN itself, but no records exist of anything that can resist a direct blast.
• THE MOVEMENT CHAMBER: A vast, ticking, creaking, and groaning web-monstrosity of cogs, belts, springs and pipes and mechanical carrier pigeons, which transmits orders and information and between the various far flung parts of the sky-chariot.
• THE HANDYMEN: An elaborate system of gem-eyes, patrolling pigeon-rats, meticulous recordkeeping scribe-hands, waste-disposal chutes and wandering yellow-hatted constructs surveying equipment, making notes, occasionally performing percussive maintenance or opening their torsos to access their specialized tools for actual serious jobs, helps to keep the entire overgrown behemoth of the SUN running
• THE CRADLE(unmapped): A mysterious complex of tunnels leading into dim twilight. The distant clanking of feet can be heard.

Spoiler: Champions (click to show/hide)

Flaming pantheon

Communal acts: 1 Continent Act (57 hexes), 1 Mortals Act (12 pops), 1 Act

Members:

• Demonic Spin the Fulgent Flame: 1 faulty act
  • Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
  • Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister
• BFG: 1 faulty act
  • Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
  • Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister
• furthest: 1 faulty act
  • Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
  • Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister

Frosted pantheon

Communal acts: 1 Continent Act (57 hexes), 1 Mortals Act (12 pops)

Members:

• The Tip of the Iceberg, or TIP
• The Cardinal Movement: 1 Act
  • Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
  • Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister

Fulgent pantheon

Communal acts: 1 Continent Act (57 hexes), 1 Mortals Act (12 pops), 1 Act

Members:

• Directional unit: 1 faulty act
  • Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
  • Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister
• Reaper-chan: 1 Act
  • Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
  • Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister

((If you feel anything above is in error, feel free to tell me!

People are still free to join or finish up their sheets. Another Frosted player is particularly desired!))

[Maximum Spin]

furthest solemnly presses a large button marked F.

[Kilojoule Proton]

The Cardinal Movement launches its throne, currently a ridiculously large sundial, into the auspiciously named Solis Lacus.

[Nakéen]

 The Demonic Spin comes to a realization. If everything is destined (according to them) to find its way to the Fulgent Furnace, then why not have it all burn already?

Continent proposal: the Flaming Expanse, a "continent" where there is no earth, no water, only flames of varying intensity and flaming-density. Sufficiently dense flame coalesces into crystalline flames, eventually forming floating islands of solid fire. All matters usually turn to flame in the Flaming Expanse, but souls and other intangible elements will be purified to prepare them to be sent to the Fulgent Furnace.

Whether it comes to pass or not, its Throne descends on the center of the Expanse or would-be Expanse.

[TricMagic]

Looking over the various places, Reaper-chan notices a pair of islands near the canal system. They set their Throne/Area smack dab in the middle of le Thyle I.

"Directional unit, I'd propose you take the other le Thyle II. This will create a connected zone, allowing mortals to interact in that zone."

"I have no clue what the Fulgrant Furnace is doing not referring to the maps, but eh. I need to check the rulings on continent acts."

[Rockeater]

"This looks like a good option Reaper-chan, and I would in general think that having all the thrones close together and putting the people between them is the optimal idea, it would ensure all have access to the people and minimise the ability of anyone acting against a council agreement, not that I see it as likely"