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[TheZoomZoll]

((Scell,I think you should put up a spoiler with the stuff already made.
And maybe a picture.))

[Xantalos]

Larger wyvern like creatures float in the sky filter feeding upon those tiny creatures.

It is gelatinous rather than liquid, and has a number of towering leviathans that stride across it's surface eating through their feet.

((I'm guessing you watched Alien Planet recently?))

A few years ago, but I couldn't pass up this opportunity.

((Go read the book it was based on, it's utterly amazing.))

((There's a book? IS IT ONLINE.))

[Gamerlord]

Small insectoid creatures with a multitude of legs feast on the scant mosses and lichens growing on the soil.

[Furtuka]

Larger wyvern like creatures float in the sky filter feeding upon those tiny creatures.

It is gelatinous rather than liquid, and has a number of towering leviathans that stride across it's surface eating through their feet.

((I'm guessing you watched Alien Planet recently?))

A few years ago, but I couldn't pass up this opportunity.

((Go read the book it was based on, it's utterly amazing.))

((There's a book? IS IT ONLINE.))

((If you mean to read for free then I don't think so. I have the link to a page from the authors website with some art samples from it though. there's a lot of links to pieces of the artwork on the wikipedia page for Darwin IV too))

[Inithis]

Huge masses of bone and muscle traverse the mesa, absorbing the plentiful lichen, protected from the radiation and rocks by their thick protective layers.

[Scelly9]

((Scell,I think you should put up a spoiler with the stuff already made.
And maybe a picture.))

Doing that now.

[Scelly9]

Spoiler: The Land so Far (click to show/hide)

The planet is half a sphere, on the bottom of the sphere, nothing grows. A gigantic spire in the center of the planet travels up several miles. It is covered in caves, bored out by large, winged lizards that hunt at high noon, when the land under the spire is shrouded in darkness. The top is covered in meteorite scarring and patches of glowing moss. Radiation is high there, so almost nothing lives there. Large creatures of muscle and bone travel across the top, they are protected from the radiation and meteors by thick layers of bone and scar tissue. They eat the glowing moss, absorbing it through their underside. The spire is surrounded by a deep black ocean, made of a gelatinous material. The ocean displays several sign of being a living organism.  Striders (large creatures with extremely long legs that feed through their feet) live in the ocean, and provide the food for the insectile parasites that live on large banks of moss that line the shore. Flying creatures fly across the oceans at all times, eating the ocean, and never stopping. They naturally group together, and form large bands circling the world. Solid clouds float across the sky, providing the habitat for the tiny creatures that live there. Living alongside the creatures are leviathans, which fly between clouds, screen feeding on the creatures that live there. Down on the land, tiny spider-like creatures with a multitude of legs feed on the scant moss that grows. Humanoid creatures, about three feet tall, live under the spire. They carve homes into the rock, and reenforce them with wood. They are called, the Goblin.

So, that's going well. Why don't we move on to various aspects of the Goblin culture?

[GreatWyrmGold]

Because...

The Cloud Creatures* include many species, including one only 10-12 mm tall, with four legs and two arms. It is intelligent, and they are boring cities into the clouds to protect themselves from the Leviathans. They are the Cloudfolk, and have domesticated a couple species of fly and one beetle.

*I imagine the largest of them are maybe 10-15 cm. (4-6 inches for those in the States who aren't trying to switch to metric.) Those are the crazy-big, though, like elephants or dinosaurs. (I imagine one is a lizard.)

[Inithis]

Inside the spire, the goblins are hunted constantly by giant exoskeletal creatures with massive, weighted arms. The creatures swing themselves forward to crush their prey, and then slowly dissolve and absorb it. They have only two limbs.

[Remuthra]

Atop the plateau lives a race of giant stone monoliths. they are featureless chunks of stone , but for a swarm of vinelike tentacles at their base which they use to move around, and a single, colossal eye.

[Furtuka]

Their children are born in a larval form resembling moles, who when it is time to become adults they burrow deep into the ground until they reach the rock layer and form their outer form from the surrounding rocks.

[notquitethere]

The Goblin exist in loose family units, divided by their beliefs about totemic creatures. There are some that worship the stone monoliths, and in imitation they coat themselves in harsh grey cave dust that steadily pollutes the air sacs distributed throughout their bodies.

[GreatWyrmGold]

The Monoliths are symbiotic with a species of ants which burrows into their rocky outer shell. The ants get a home, the Monoliths get the ability to disgorge a swarm of venomous ants when attacked. Win/win.

[Remuthra]

Another faction of goblin worships the creatures of the spider, and revere the ability to be eaten. They are regarded as suicidal maniacs.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Needless to say, they're hemorrhaging population, and can only keep it up by systemized impregnation and significant recruiting (which, sadly, is mostly composed of young single males).