Password (BFEL)
(1) Password attempts to subtly guide the attentions of the races toward the "reward chests" and encourage them to solve the riddles to obtain their secrets.
Password was delighted with his success with the races. He looked upon them and saw participants in the greatest puzzle ever created. Now he just needed them to participate in the puzzle, and seek out those chests which were locked away so intricately. He cast down upon them thoughts of the importance of those chests, urging them to seek them out. The images he cast down were not received by the pigeons or their pig servants, who were too caught up in the designing of their own society. Nor were they heeded by the hair creatures, who had little interest in the chests, or seemingly anything for that matter. The zombie lizards were also unaffected by Passwords attentions, due only to the fact that they already explored very actively every aspect of the maze. They needed no coaxing.
Passwords images were fervently received by the highly religious slime beasts. They quickly incorporated this revelation into their spiritual practices. But not at all in the way Password had anticipated. They took the divine importance of these chests to mean that they must be protected from those that might try to defile them by opening them. The power contained in those sacred boxes was more than any mortal should hold, and they would keep them safe until the coming of their god, who would use the contents of the chests to kill all other beings and grant their forms permanently to the slimes.
The dreams of course caught the attention of the strange dream beings. They thought the idea was grand, but most importantly they saw a chance to cause mischief. They decided to roam the twisting and ever-changing corridors near the chests, pranking those that sought the riches within. This made a fearsome trap if a slime wandered by, catching the sleeping would be thief and consuming them as they struggled to escape the strange dream brought on by the playful spirits.
Meanwhile, the pigeon and boar civilization restructured itself to some degree. In response to the fact that the boars seemed to be unreliable when left alone the pigeons decided to bind a boar to a pigeon for life, such that the pigeon can always oversee the boar and also never be without their servant.
Suddenly there was a strange tearing sound. All of the mortals assumed this was just some new alteration in the maze, but Password could feel Alkroth’s angry presence looking down upon his creations.
Contains a maze which is constantly rearranging itself according to an algorithm only understood by Password
Doors and chests with a huge variety of different types of locks, though a quarter cannot be opened, and are highly misleading.
Isolated groups of chests are animate. When they open creations with randomized attributes and abilities are created using
this great tool by FniffThe first was a race that presented as a giant lump of hair. These creatures roamed around the maze peacefully, their hair filtering out nutrients from the air. They moved freely amongst other beings, ignoring others and being similarly ignored.
The second was a race of decaying giant lizards. They appeared quite fierce, but were ultimately only interested in the arcane aspects of the world around them, seeking knowledge.
The third was a strange “race”. It consisted of sentient balls of energy which enjoyed locking other beings into dreams, where they must complete some form of game to escape. These mischievous beings moved silently, coming upon their victims suddenly and without warning. They have developed the habit of ensnaring those who show an interest in the chests.
The fourth was a race of large anthropomorphized pigeons that sought a hedonistic lifestyle of food, drink, and other pleasures. This caused them to be fairly lazy, but also surprisingly motivated to seek out things which would fulfill their desires.
The fifth was a race of subservient anthropomorphized boars. They did the bidding of other sentients, and were adopted quickly by the pigeons. They often neglected their tasks, but nonetheless made passable servants with proper oversight. This led to the adoption of the tradition of binding boars to pigeons for life.
The final race consisted of generally solitary slime beasts which attack other beings to harvest their skeletons, which give shape to the beasts. The entire race meets occasionally to sacrifice their skeletons to Password, believing they will be granted luck in their endeavors through the maze by their sacrifice, despite the fact that they lose their form in the process. They protect ferociously the chests within the great puzzle, which have taken on a religious significance that demands that they be preserved for the future coming of Password.
Perun (Fluoman)
(3)Observe the things, and if they have an obvious requirement for continued existence, make it so that they have it.
(3) -> Length acts (6)
Perun worked to sustain the vents at the bottom of the sea, and watched for other ways to help Its newest creation. There was nothing immediately threatening them, and so It worked to keep the environment healthy, and not change much else. The heated climate at the surface, combined with the new compounds created by the electrical storms, led to colonial algae developing as a filmy layer in many points. As the heat from the electrical storm dissipated, however, the temperature on the surface cooled below the optimum temperature for these new algal films.
The line writhing through space perceived this new problem and stretched its form, one point at the edge of the star of the solar system and the other connected to Merre. This line adjusted its length, pulling the orbit of Merre ever so slightly inwards. This decreased radius heated the surface and provided slightly more solar energy for the algae to harvest. However, this additional heat was more than the length had calculated, not understanding the concept of length contributing to an equation to the second order. The algal films were forced to migrate beneath the surface to survive. This decreased the light reaching them, leading to smaller colonies. However, it also helped contribute to the possibility of deep ocean life.
A Spacial universe much like our own, with a higher frequency of binary stars, black holes, and other extraordinary features
Outspace, which consists of Anchors of all characteristics (See: Platonic Forms)
Merre is a planet entirely covered by water.
Chunks of tungsten will appear on 3 nearby planets according to the Fibonacci sequence, the next number appearing every 100 million years.
Sentient incarnations of temperature, time, length, mass, light, substance, and electricity, 1 will act each turn
Plankton and methanobacteria, some of which are developing into multicelled algal films, residing a fair distance below the surface of the water.
DINGIR (Harry Baldman)
(1)Creation: through the boundless invention of DINGIR, place the still-beating, immortal heart of EN inside the Manifold as far from EN's flesh as possible, so that its divine light and heat may bathe the Manifold in light and heat along its entire length.
(6)Destruction: with a fell laugh only possible through the awe-inspiring throat of DINGIR, tear out EN's long bones and break them open so that their entire marrow spills on the surface on the Manifold, inadvertently providing the indestructible matter of the Manifold that shall replicate itself infinitely toward the future by virtue of the Manifold's construction.
(3) Time?
DINGIR cast the heart of EN into the Manifold in the hopes that it would generate life-giving light to the tube-world. But EN’s heart was as stubborn as EN himself, confirming the strange suspicion that the heart held an individual’s convictions. It refused to emit light, and instead simply sat there, waiting patiently to be eventually reclaimed.
Furious, DINGIR reached out his strange green arms and reached into EN’s flesh, tearing out the bones in his arms and legs, and shattered them within the Manifold. The marrow poured out and expanded, extending the Manifold but also at times reaching into the Manifold, filling portions of its radius with a spongy yet indestructible structure, small tunnels leading through the Instances consumed by the marrow greedy for more space.
Time moved forward in a normal way, but spacetime suddenly developed an anomaly. A point in it suddenly began to fray, before letting go with a terrible crack. DINGIR felt Alkroth regard his world with a kind of glee at EN’s suffering.
EN, The Concilliatory Aspect of Lordship. It is without a heart, a pinky, or bones in his arms and legs. His heart is far away from him in the Manifold, in the futureward direction.
A rotating tube world, 100 km in diameter, infinitely long and indestructible. Sections of the tube, known as Instances and 1000 km long, were bordered by a replica of themselves either 50 years in the future or past, depending on whether the viewer was looking pastward or futureward. Crossing between the instances would not affect the crosser, although all others would be shifted into an alternate universe. This extends infinitely into the future through EN’s expanding marrow. However, this indestructible material has nearly filled some regions of the Manifold, making passage very difficult.
At the end of every turn, a d6 is rolled to determine the progression of time.
1 – Jump back 2 instances
2 – Jump back 1 instance
3 or 4 – Retain normal time progression
5 – Jump forward 1 instance
6 – Jump forward 2 instances
FIDeM (Powder Minder)
(4, 4)With Vita's help, attempt to create metallic life again, x2.
(2) Vita: Help with metallic life forms
FIDeM was struck with inspiration and began organizing the metals. He began shaping gently heated metals into rough forms, which would represent the earliest creatures. Titanium formed the surfaces of the first cells, protecting them from their environments. In some cells this surface is dotted with Vanadium oxides which catalyze the production of sulfuric acid, allowing them to ward off other cells. These cells also have chromium alloyed with their titanium to help resist this acid. In all the cells manganese found use as a charge carrier and oxidation/reduction component of the cells cycles. Iron, Copper, and Nickel all also play important roles inside of cells, in the transport of other metals or the small amounts of oxygen necessary to produce metal oxides. In some cells these metals also make up the surface, but these cells are much less resistant to the environment. They have the advantage of being able to incorporate a larger variety of metals in their structure, making their growth easier. Cobalt and Scandium are present in the environment, but FIDeM did not employ them in the creation of the first cells. All of these cells require voltage differences in their environment to harvest power, none of them having the means of generating power from solar or nuclear power, or any other form, yet.
Looking at this variety of metal organisms, Vita was confused. She tried giving water, only to watch them overoxidize, killing their cell cycles. She tried more oxygen than the environment previously held to much the same effect. She was unsure of how to treat these strange metal animals, and would need further direction from FIDeM if she was to help them thrive.
Before any further progress could be made there was a tearing sound which shrieked through the universe, bringing the gods to alert. They could feel a gash in the very fabric of their universe, and could feel the universe of Alkroth sitting on the other side.
5 Interlocking steel enclosures, one free steel enclosure, all filled with noble gases and 1st row transition metals
A blob of water which shapes itself, a beating heart, a balance, and an hourglass orbiting FIDeM’s head. All are vocal. The balance is quite powerful compared to the others. All will obey FIDeM to a fair degree, and telling them what to do can cause them to pursue an action for multiple turns (i.e. tell VITA to pursue the creation of some lifeform until she succeeds.)). All except LEGeM are rolling with a -1 penalty because they are rather weak.
There are a variety of cells in the environment. All of them employ copper, nickel, iron, and manganese in essential functions. Those that do not use these easily corroded metals for their cell membrane use titanium, sometimes alloyed with chromium. Of these, some use vanadium oxides to generate acids in their immediate environment, repelling other cells. All of these cells rely on environmental voltage differenced for their power.
Alkroth (WhitiusOpus)
(5,2) Make a wormhole to the other god'(s) dimension(s). Plurality depending on success rate. X2
Infuriated, Alkroth threw himself repeatedly at the very fabric of space time. If he could not create beings to suffer under him here, he would make beings in other dimensions suffer. His muscled form tore and clawed at the universe around him. To an outsider he would have appeared to be a strange hulking bear, lashing wildly at an opponent unseen. But to Alkroth he could
feel space and time itself beginning to give. A crack appeared, strange energies seeping through from unknown worlds. Then another, and then a third.
Alkroth sunk his claws into these metaphysical gashes one by one and strained against them. His muscles bulged and for an eternal second it was unclear if he would succed, when suddenly the fabric tore and frayed, and he was looking on a giant and shifting cube, with strange races, where hulking boars did the bidding of delicate pigeons. Such a backwards place, the powerful serving the weak, Alkroth felt his anger rise and was on the verge of going down and sowing suffering and destruction, when he remembered the other two cracks.
He took these too and tore at them, leaving jagged openings into other universes. In one he saw a pantheon of four demigods under a supreme god, some kind of golem, bickering behind the supreme god’s back. Alkroth knew he could create dissent here. In the final portal he caught a glimpse of some kind of tube with a god stuck in it. The god was missing its heart, and for whatever reason its pinky. Alkroth was unfamiliar with this form of torture, but knew he would enjoy this new world.
Testing these new portals out, Alkroth found he could project himself through the portals, but could not move his essence from his own universe. There was no action he could imagine that he could not execute, short of actually moving himself to these new universes. This also prevented gods from travelling through the portals to gain access to new universes. However, all gods had access to Alkroth’s many Kranoses
11 Kranos - A hollow sphere of rock with pockets of magma on its surface. It orbits a star similar to the Sun.
There exist portals into the universes of FIDeM, Password, and DINGIR. Gods cannot travel through these portals, only manifest their power through them, meaning DINGIR cannot access FIDeM, but can access Alkroth.
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Topic: A New Genesis - First Creations (Read 8232 times)