Day 1
You wake up in the caverns. You feel immediately at home. You recall nothing about who you are except a name (Xom Noloc, you think), but you also have the feeling that that's because you only started being someone today. Where are you? It's dark, but you can see fine. In fact, the general concept of "dark" eludes you completely. Water drips into a distant pool, and festively-coloured mushrooms poke through a fresh-looking coating of thick mud. A large pit of magma burbles and hisses. You wander off. What else is there to do?
Day 3918
You're pretty sure that you started walking straight when you started out, and the scenery certainly has changed. It used to be chilly in the caverns, but after a long time, it began to warm up. Then it got cold, eventually reaching a place where gigantic, undisturbed crystals of water reached down from the ceiling. It warmed up again, then got cold again, but now, you're where you started. The magma pit has fluctuated in level, but it has the same shape. The submerged sea now has gentle waves breaking across the surface. You don't know why you remember this, but perhaps it's too dull down here to forget anything.
Day 352801
How long has it been? You've seen everything. Sometimes, you hear tapping within the deep columns of rock, and the sounds of life. You've seen many creatures before, but they are lethargic, slow, and blighted. Everything they need grows in front of them, with the exception of the busy animal men who attempt to murder you (repeatedly). But inside the columns comes frantic noise, like whatever dwells inside must rush to live. Recently, a little hole opened in the top of the cavern, and a single chalice fell, spinning gently as whatever foul purple brew inside splattered on the moss below. Whatever lay above caught one glimpse of you and rolled a thick boulder onto the entrance, sealing it off forever. The chalice is yellow and soft, like the little metal lumps you occasionally see embedded in the rock walls. This reminds you - what about you is so menacing that every sentient being wants to kill you at first sight? You rub the golden chalice on the moss, and see your reflection for the first time in over a thousand years. You are shocked to discover that...
INTERMISSION: So anyway, this is a suggestion game. I'm not planning to stick with a specific ruleset or formatting, but to determine the outcome of fights, I plan to spawn a modded-in version of the character that you are about to create against the opponent in the Object Testing Arena and whatever happens is canon. Also, please preface your actions with > to make life easier. Onwards to character-creation!
You start with 50 points and select attributes. Better ones cost more points. This will be based on popular vote.
you are made of...
[40] steel, the awesomest metal that isn't sweet/delicious/blue
[20] bronze, a dependable alloy and favored material of giant animated statues
[10] gabbro, a boring rock
[7] amber, which is like any other gem but it has all these little bugs in it and stuff, neato
[5] vomit/blood, and yet you can still be butchered
[2] snow, it's a wonder you haven't been killed yet
you can...
[40] shoot disease-ridden clouds of dust with enough force to knock out anything in your path
[30] fire syndrome-carrying webs to immobilize your enemies
[15] sting your enemies and inject some kind of horrifying venom
[10] have a poisonous bite that causes various symptoms
[3] have poisonous blood, which serves as a handy yet useless last resort
which carries a toxin that...
* You can pick two or more if you have points left over.
[15] causes brain necrosis after a minute or two
[10] paralyzes the victim after only a short delay
[7] causes bleeding and nausea, bringing colour to the battlefield
[6] causes pain and dizziness
[3] causes bruises and drowsiness: combined with the previous this gives the full effect of a night on the town
[2] causes a high fever
and you most resemble a...
[] amorphous blob
[] humanoid
[] giant bug
Let the super fun adventures commence! I won't be on here all the time, but I can hopefully maintain a pretty good schedule.
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