I am running...several games.
One vote for a Kaiju shark thing, one vote for a Colour, one vote for a small something, two for a Kaiju humanoid with a crabby head and some tentacles, one vote for a cutebold, one vote for a wolf with glowing eyes, one vote for a hivemind with a face on the hive, a pseudospherical crystal which can extrude limbs...I can work with this.
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You are not particularly organic. You look like a hollow, crystaline sphere full of colorful, glowing smoke which leaks out from time to time. The smoke condenses into little creatures, like crab-headed sharks with wings instead of fins. Your smoke can also form into a physical form for you; it swiftly flows out, becoming a humanoid with a crablike head and several tentacles coming from your back.
You look around. You are in a much larger sphere, about 50,000 kilometers across...not really crystal, metal, or anything else you know what it is. It's a dark violet, specked with orange. Inside the sphere is are two spherical planets, about 12,000 and 7,000 kilometers in diameter.
The larger is covered in continents of orange and red rocks with bluish flora. There are five sentient races: Dwarves, Gnomes, Humans, Manormul (sing. Manorm), and Ordynars (see below to see what these are). The large southern continent is covered in ice and has scattered villages of ordynars or and dwarven ice hideouts, with herds of tendrilled walkers gathering vermin and plants. To the north are a pair of continents; the drier eastern one is near the southern continent and is mostly populated by the confederacy of human tribes, with several gnomish tribes to the south and the west coast including a beachhead of the Manorm Empire, while the smaller, swampy western continent is controlled by the iron-fisted manorm. The remainder of the world is covered in various archipelagoes, mostly held by manorm but with the northern isles held by the Northern Dwarves.
The smaller world has many igneous rocks and is mostly covered in jungle. It has but a single race: The Onyd. They are engaged in an age-old civil war between the subspecies which worships Ores (which has red scales and large claws) and the one which worships Zera (which has gray scales and horns). The word has only a few seas, so it is mostly divided into Oresian territory and Zeran territory.
Aside from these worlds, there are several other bodies: Three rocky "moons", two gray and one yellow which are one or two thousand kilometers across; a number of icy bodies with some life on them; and a lavender sun about 5,000 kilometers across which most things nevertheless revolve around.
The mighty presence is gone, but soon, you are contacted by a few other gods.
Thank the Overlord! says one god, a winged, bull-headed snake made of shimmering light.
I'm Zera, this moron is Ores, and you must be that god the Overlord said would help us deal with his problems.MY problems? replies another god, a shifting mass of rusty-colored hair.
You're the one who started this, jungle nut. Move your hornheads out of that hunting ground and we can start on that agreement you seem to desire.Only if you withdraw 20% of your ritual support from your--Heck no! If YOU hadn't made that STUPID volcano under my favorite temple, we--A response to you sending those rats to my territory--Now, now, stop this arguing. I'm Thox, by the way. You've both done bad things-- interrupts a shifty humanoid.
Stay out of this, I know whose side your bread is buttered on.Now that's uncalled for!The final god who showed up says,
Look, stop arguing. You're making us all look bad in front of the new overseer. I'm Gomork, the Tentacled Lord. Anyhoo, these folks are engaged in this big argument. You're presumably here to get it to stop. Wanna give it a shot?I'd advise skimming the following spoilers.
Form: Crystal Sphere, full of colorful mist which can form into appendages or little creatures.
More detail
here.
Two worlds
Tra
Geology: Mainly ferrous rocks, with large deposits of copper and gold in many areas.
Wildlife: Blue plants. Southern continent wildlife is mainly land-living cephalopods, such as the tendrilled walkers--squid which walk around on their tentacles, using their eight arms to snag food.
Sentients:
-Dwarves:
--Southern: Dark skin, red hair. Highly intelligent and well-known for various questionable/criminal activities. Good at ice magic.
--Northern: White skin, yellow or orange eyes. Excellent sight, excellent weather magic. Inefficient feudal system. Once followed the Whale Spirits, but turned their backs on them for Ores, a god.
-Gnomes: Pale skin, dark hair, violet eyes. Possess no bones. Noted for skill with medicine, social situations, and witchcraft. Worship a hierarchial, matriarchial pantheon of gods and goddesses who they believe are generally distant and uninvolved in their lives. Religion focused on rituals. Government is...ethical, it its own way. Mostly scattered tribes. Half-dwarf, half-human.
-Humans: Dark hair, fair skin. Marry late and rarely have kids. Precognitive alchemists.
-Manormul: Misshapen worms with many elongated arms. Divided into several castes with different jobs and appearances. Complex system of holidays. Complex reproductive cycle. Dictatorship.
-Ordynars: Skinless cephalopods. Lead by hunters. Involved in a cold war with dwarves to determine fate of the gnomes.
Onydia
Geology: Mostly igneous rocks
Wildlife: Green-chlorophylled plants like jungle ones. Animals are 80% reptilian, but with a few birds, gastropods, and flatworms.
Sentients: Onyd, giant stubby-limbed reptiles. They have sweet pheromomes and are 60% servants. They create more onyd with a ritual to their god, in which lizards are turned into new onyd. They understand how the mind works but are typically depressed.
Other bodies:
Feer, gray moon orbiting Lyt
Jauns, yelow moon orbiting Tra
Lyt, lavender sun
Pakin, gray rocky moon orbiting Onydia
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Gomork, a god like a green ball of tentacles. It tries to promote the ordynars and is coaxing Onydian species into more...squiddy forms. It wants to spread its image of ideal life onto all species. [1 Major Act, 3 Acts, 2 Minor Acts]
Ores, a god in the form of an amorphous blob of hair. It has a rivalry with Zera and Thox. It wants to be worshiped by everyone. [2 Major Acts, 5 Acts, 1 Minor Act]
Thox, a god with a shifting humanoid shape. It wants to create as much life as possible. [1 Major Act, 2 Acts, 7 Minor Acts]
Zera, a god in the form of a bull-headed serpent with wings made of energy. It has a rivalry with Zera and focuses on Onydia. It wants to rule said planet. [4 Major Acts]
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You are more or less omnipotent. Resolving the crisis is only one of an infinite array of potential actions. Come up with...whatever you want to do.
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