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[GreatWyrmGold]

((I think I may drop out, as fun as I was having with you all.
Sorry. :\))

Dibs on his spot!

I don't think it's our choice.

I have dibs.

Dibs mean nothing in the realm of gods.
In fact, they mean nothing in any realm save that of children and the childish.

I am a god of belligerence who takes the form of a child. Dibs are my MO.

You may be a child, but you are not among children.

No, just minor gods.

You know, you're not making a good reputation for minor gods...

[IronyOwl]

((I think I may drop out, as fun as I was having with you all.
Sorry. :\))

((Aw. D:))

You know, you're not making a good reputation for minor gods...

((Are any of you?))

[Nirur Torir]

Lord Argent ceases to care, and poofs in apathy and a burst of formerly-stored, uncontrolled Power.

{roll} Most of the minor gods squabble amongst themselves trying to claim the gap in the power structure. While they're distracted, another manages to claim the mantle of major godhood for himself. He may begin acting independently immediately, and may take on different spheres if he so chooses.

Spoiler: Neyravah (click to show/hide)

Appearance: A great two-headed dragon
Personality: Both Neyrah and Ravah are kind and want life to prosper. They also both like sentients and want to help them. They're also both a bit unclear on what the mortals actually need.
Agenda: Live long and prosper, for gods and mortals alike.
Spheres: Nature, Life, Dragons

[IronyOwl]

"Now wait just a minute here. You were a Nature God?! I never saw you do a thing about nature!"

[GreatWyrmGold]

You know, you're not making a good reputation for minor gods...

((Are any of you?))

((Trying to.))

"As noted, I've been...distracted. Besides, Nature is anything natural, not just the beasts and trees."

[Harry Baldman]

"Welcome to the fold, friend. I hope you will be far more productive now."

[Nirur Torir]

{3} - Yon teaches the Thoquas to draw mutation power from leylines. It tends to result in a fatal mana overdose, but sometimes works.

{3} - Auphanim partially creates souls as fragments of The Caged One. They grow with their experiences in life, and eventually reform with it after death. His prototypes don't mix well with each other or with The Caged One, like oil and water.

{3}-1=2 - Ar'kahal partially creates a new fungus, but is having trouble with the toxin purification [The entire structure explodes shortly after any mushrooms come into contact with chlorine], and it just can't spreading nearly fast enough for his liking.

{4}+1=5-1=4 - The minor gods, alongside the newest major god, create Leypull trees. Each has a large taproot that goes deep underground, and draws up mana from the leylines where they near the surface. New growths are rare, as they spread through seeds released through the leylines, and degrade very rapidly if they don't catch on the ground. It takes decades for the new sprouts to dig through the rock to reach the surface. The trees produce soft nuts that lightly concentrate mana. Leypull trees are lightly seeded along a few of the shallower coastal leylines for the first and second continents. ((Natural Mako reactors are go ... You aren't good people.))

{1}+1-3=-2 - The Maka trees on continent 1 all die, as do their seeds. The build-up of dead matter is getting out of hand.
{4}+1-3=2 - The Maka trees on continent 3 begin slowly receding.
{4}+1=5 - The Thoquas population begins to thin, but they are rapidly mutating. Some have even developed hearing or rudimentary intelligence.
{5}-4=1 - The Gribbers go extinct.
{2} - No Leypull trees have breached the surface yet.

Spoiler: Planet (click to show/hide)

The planet is primarily made of pure rock.
The planet has a molten core.
The Planet has three continents.
The atmosphere is 80% chlorine at 20% oxygen.

The planet has The Caged One.

The planet has veins of mana crystals.
The planet has magical leylines. There are three branches, leading from The Caged One, each supplies a different continent. There are 2-3 major concentrations per continent, discounting the massive concentration in Auphanim's mountain. Small leylines are scattered throughout each continent.

The second continent has a giant mountain, dedicated to Auphanim's greatness. The mountain is surrounded by a 'bottomless pit' that leads into space, and has air filters that prevent atmosphere leakage.

The third continent is covered in fertile soil.

Spoiler: Astronomy (click to show/hide)

The planet orbits a star, otherwise alone in a void.

Spoiler: Botanistry (click to show/hide)

Maka Trees - These somewhat twisting trees have shaggy, hanging leaves. They can hibernate and survive indefinitely in a vacuum while continually under cosmic bombardment. They have adapted to prefer a chlorine rich environment, wherein they thrive. They convert chlorine gas to oxygen, at a rate that would purify the atmosphere by 40% per turn if they completely covered all landmass.
Landmass 1: None.
Landmass 2: Seeded
Landmass 3: Nearly half-covered


Leypull trees - Each has a large taproot that goes deep underground, and draws up mana from the leylines where they near the surface. New growths are rare, as they spread through seeds released through the leylines, and degrade very rapidly if they don't catch on the ground. It takes decades for the new sprouts to dig through the rock to reach the surface. The trees produce soft nuts that lightly concentrate mana. They do not need soil.
Landmass 1: Growing
Landmass 2: Growing
Landmass 3: None

Spoiler: Bestiary (click to show/hide)

Thoquas - Small worms that live deep underground, capable of living solely off of extreme heat. They can burrow through rock. They have negligible intelligence. They can mutate with the aid of mana cystals or leylines, often fatally for the latter.


Gribbers, large (3-4 inches long at birth, eventually growing to become cattle-sized), herbivorous, millipede-like creatures that feed on Maka trees. Their coloration is usually a purple or blue so dark it's easily mistaken for black. They tend travel in groups. They are adapted to a chlorine-rich environment, because Ar'kahal hates them.
Extinct.

Spoiler: Power (click to show/hide)

Auphanim: 1/turn
Ar'kahal: 1/turn
Yon: 1/turn
Neyravah : 1/turn

[flabort]

"And our chance blossoms. Balance will be achieved, and no god will have any more respect than any other."

With the other minor gods, will one of the Leypull trees closest to the Mountain to grow very, very fast. When it reaches a certain size, about 1/3 as tall as the mountain, cause it to reverse it's mana absorbing properties and draw in magic from above ground, through it's tap root, and back into the leylines.

[Harry Baldman]

Teach the Thoquas once more, this time to speak and empathize telepathically with the Caged One, to bask in its thoughts and grow wiser, perhaps providing it with insights in turn.

[Nirur Torir]

With the other minor gods, will one of the Leypull trees closest to the Mountain to grow very, very fast. When it reaches a certain size, about 1/3 as tall as the mountain, cause it to reverse it's mana absorbing properties and draw in magic from above ground, through it's tap root, and back into the leylines.

There is no ambient mana. The tree would starve and die.
There aren't any trees on the mountain's side of the abyss. I don't know if this matters to you.

[kj1225]

Better idea. Create a bug the eats dead things and then creates waste that is good for plants to grow in.

[flabort]

"The intent, fellow gods, is to create a Trap, that will draw in any god who flaunts too much power, and keep them bound within it's branches until they are as weak as any other god. Though maybe I am being somewhat... ambitious in my methods. I would gladly subject myself to it's siphoning powers if I got too arrogant or powerful.

But it is true that perhaps this great balance should wait."

Withdraw my suggestion for now and +1 to kj's action.

[Dermonster]

From uniformaty, disparity.

Form Mana Fuel Sources.

(I pre-wrote this out)

In ascending order of Potency:

Word: Word is the known tonal combinations that can cause minor magics to occur, such as sparking a fire, snuffing a candle or moving a couple pounds of material about. Most anyone can attempt to learn these, and learning these spells are the firsts steps any would-be mage takes in most cases. Word is the result of magic empowered by the Belief that magic works through speech.

World: World draws power from the world around the caster, be it from a forest, an ancient mountain, a desert oasis or one of the planet's leylines; there are few accomplished mages that practice World alone, as there are many dead zones around the world where there are no ready sources. Knowledge of World magic usually indicates a laymen learner of magic has started to gain some decent knowledge of the mechanics of magic itself, and may be hired as an adviser or their word given more weight than a simple amateur.

Will: The will of the soul, Will is the act of forcing magic to occur through the strength of one's thoughts. Will mages tire much more quickly than any other mage, and are more prone to burn out than most thanks to how easy it is for them to exceed their safe limits. Mages that become adept at Will magic can expect to be held in high demand and esteem for their prowess.

Blood: Blood is less potent than Soul, but still a far cry above what one can usually expect out of Will. Blood requires a much larger amount of fuel for the same purpose as Soul does, and as such there are no blood mages who use their own blood exclusively (or at least they have very brief careers).

Spoiler: Expanded Blood (click to show/hide)

Something that would count as blood flowing (Ex: A silicon beings Magma Veins) generates Blood Magic. Blood magic can reach, or at least approach, Soul levels of power if the blood used is exclusively comprised to White Blood Cells. White Blood is more responsive to magic and has a greater sense of ownership than the other parts of the blood. This has to do with White Blood being something like the soul of blood, born from the proto-souls, the Possiblity Cells, contained in the marrow of the bone.
White Blood is primarily concerned with defending the body, tied to the concepts of SENSING and REJECTION, and has intrinsic Order magic piercing abilities and detection capabilities, with potential immunal rebellion as a recoil from usage. The more harm (from toxins and disease usually but also magic when White Blood is activated) that is done to the body, the more blood is saturated with White Blood, and the easier the body can fight off the same harm. Imparted qualities from use vary.

Possibility Cells are Chaos to White Blood's Order, useful in returning the body to a past state. As always with Chaos, control is easily lost, resulting in magically empowered tumors that turn all surrounding flesh into a mess of tumors and puss unless one can exert enough control over the intruding flesh to suppress and reverse the damage. Highly useful in creating new additions to the body.

Soul: Burning the very essense of self, Souls, be it the caster's own or those of the dead, are the most powerful magic fuel type.

The magic types (Word/World/Will/Blood/Soul) are just fuel sources for the most part, like different octane gasoline for a car. The only thing making this analogy not fit perfectly is that some fuel types are more suited to certain pursuits than others (World magic is best for detecting/manipulating leylines, Blood magic blood, etc.)

And unrelated to the power scale used above:

Belief: Belief draws power from the belief of souls, which creates a pool of slowly refilling multi-dimensional metamagic that the subject of the belief can tap into for their own benefit; only the belief of millions over a significant period of time generates an appreciable amount of magic for the subject to use. The subject of the belief does not need to be sapient, or even sentient, to be empowered by belief (e.g. precious metals, gems, a sword). As the amount of magic varies proportionally with the amount of Belief accrued, Belief-based magic can be pisspoor weak to brickshittingly powerful. Unlike the other sources, Belief is an external source.

Order: The null, unchanging, anti-existence, and spans all possibilities, existing as a pure void between realities. Perfect order is nothing, a void where not even time is needed, perfect stasis. Order contains within its themes: rejection, the exclusion of everything not the self, prevention of change of self. Extremely rare.

Chaos: Creation, change, the new, action quantified, existence, and exclusive to single possibilities. Perfect chaos is anything, constant creation, boundless energy leading to nuke-like cancer. Extremely rare.

Spoiler: Expanded Chaos/Order (click to show/hide)

Soul Magic has, as part of its domain of superiority over other sources, the balance of Order and Chaos of a soul. Saturation of just one type in a soul increases yield, though each individual has their own ideal balance, which changes over time (unless a soul is dead or is pure Order; in those cases, the ideal state is locked down).
As polar opposites, significant interactions between Order and Chaos results in a massive all-annihilating explosion.

((On a different note, We just got a Writ or something. I may have only 24 hours to move. I may not be able to post for a while, don't count me out just yet as we may be able to delay it.))

[IronyOwl]

((On a different note, We just got a Writ or something. I may have only 24 hours to move. I may not be able to post for a while, don't count me out just yet as we may be able to delay it.))

((Good luck with that. o_O))


"GRAAAAAAAAAAH! Wretched... bah! No matter, I'll fix this..."

Replace the chlorine in the atmosphere with nitrogen.

[Dermonster]

Okay I have 24 hours to move I probvably wont be able to post. My plans .

I'm off to living hell, goodbye.