Turn 12: Boston DandyRecreate the maze.
Make a medium world covered in lush forests.
[2] You make a small dusty moon-sized "planet."
... I don't think that helping you with that is a good idea. Iii'm just gonna go remove the cage now.
Firak removes the cage and pushes Rassura away from the crab.
Vanhurk, could you watch Rassura and make sure the crab doesn't do anything to it?
Roasted crab is starting to sound like a good idea. It might happen if you try doing that again.
[2] You slam against the cage, spidercracking it.
[4-1] "Oh, so she's so precious nobody's allowed to touch her, while I'm nothing but a snack, huh?"
[6] You know how to fix this! You collapse the world in on itself, ejecting and crushing the heat into a boiling atmosphere and incandescent core. The rest of the planet becomes a ball of tightly-compacted volcanic rock, covered with elaborate lines from various collapse and overlap points.
"I am not in a good mood!"
Blame this on my lack of an action from a Watsonian perspective. (Doylistly, I was waiting to see what you said on the possibility of retconning the "C"oE.)
((Is this a diplomacy/speech action or just bolded to catch my attention? Oh well, everyone loves Cha rolls.))
[5] You extend your claws like a dignified maestro about to direct a masterpiece. Then some clutz collapses a planet behind you, causing you immense ruffling. You glare back at him, emanating a look that says he should be
rather sorry for his rude interruption.
((Make Krakens?))
((+1))
((And I'm sure we'll get this right, eventually. At least as right as B12 can be while simultaneously being utterly hilarious.))
((Or we'll fail miserably and they'll end up needing to inhale, inject, or ingest a strange white powder in order to live. You know, Crackens. <Insert obligatory Drugs are Bad! Line here, to show I'm joking.>))
"What is it that you are trying to do, crab? Also, nice hat." Aquilos asks, surprised by the caging of Rassura.
Ask question of crab.
[2] You tell the crab it is silly. That did not come out right.
[3-1] It responds with "And you're weak!"
"Hm. Teamwork has plummeted, but I am confident we can bounce right back," Ken says, then looks at Quinghai, who seems to be loitering around and doing nothing in particular.
"Say, Quinghai. I'm slowly forming a plan here, and I'm wondering if you could introduce a little randomness into it. Observe Purple, my planet of divine refuse. I want you to create interesting ice structures within it while I do a little investigation. This is important, and you must not let me down," he says firmly to the carpsnakething.
Examine the photosynthesis mechanism of the space fish. What resources aside from light does it consume (for instance, water and CO2), and what does it produce? Or is all that reduction potential and whatnot produced by magic? Do the space fish have a body chemistry of any kind?
In any case, try to entice a few of the space fish to come over to Purple (that's the violet gas giant, if any questions are raised by nomenclature) and set up shop. There's a lot of tasty chemicals there!
[3] They seem like pretty magic.
[1] You give em the ol' Boston Dandy routine. They do not appear to like the Boston Dandy routine. You get the feeling they will be avoiding Purple from now on.
Observe the growth/progress of the Ostriths. See if I can help them along by channeling some of the stored lifeforce from the planet their way
[6] You draw down to one of your Ostriths. You begin caressing its cheek, asking it whats wrong, how it felt today, what its plans are for this afternoon.
From its responses, you can tell that they're not really sapient; calling them "mindless" might be a bit much, but not
too much. There also aren't any souls coming down to them from space, since the insulating water blocks the planet's pull. Also there probably aren't many souls in general, given that they're basically limited to space fish being eaten by bigger space fish. Finally, they're not alive, and thus incapable of repairing damage or reproducing.
In short, they're just sort of swimming slowly and without particular opinion across the bottom of Ostrioth's seas, usually not even bothering to clamber onto the volcanic islands.
Cease sleeping. I have ideas to share, you know? One aspect alone might not get the attention of the others, but dang it, if I start pestering them too, maybe they'll cooperate for once.
[4] You wake up! You feel fine. You're in a cage. Why are you in a cage? It's not a particularly well-made cage; you could probably wriggle free without too much incident.
[5-1] "Ah. You're awake! Well. I was just thinking that because you weren't using your power, and I'm rather lacking in it, I could borrow you for a bit while you napped. Buuuuut I see you're awake now so I'll get out of your scales."
"It... talks? Ugh, that means you'll all probably get offended if I try to eat it. The second it tries anything funny though, you all know who to call. Now let's see, where were we... Ah, that's right, my little walking heat factories. They still aren't creating nearly enough heat to keep me sated, so that should be goal number one. Maybe if they had a bit more fuel..."
Nohpalli creates a few small spheres of fire, and imbues them with just enough intelligence to track down and burn to death the occasional space fish to increase the flow of souls to Ostrioth and thus the available food for his stickbugs.
[5] Your hunter flares begin fanning out, rippling hypnotically in their tireless search for life to hunt and immolate.
Stands next to Rassura at all times as he was asked to do by Firak.
"This universe is barely starting, and it already horrifies me. I feel sorry for the creatures that will soon inhabit all of the spheres."
[3] You stand kind of next to Rassura but like not too close because you don't want this to look awkward.
Roiling ball of fire streaked with shifting bands of superheated wind and condensed water vapor.
Spherical shell of dense gas surrounding a thin soup of much thinner gasses.
Large patch of wind around the airball and fireball.
Ostrioth. Massive solid rock planet. Soulsucking void for a core, which has adverse effects on life depending on distance. Writhing, grasping atmosphere of life-eroding vapors fueled by numerous massive volcanoes. Soulsucking properties and atmosphere both trapped beneath a layer of insulating water. Jagged gas-shrouded volcanic islands jut from the sea, radiating heat and atmosphere.
Rare giant black stick insect like things. They're attracted to souls, and try to harvest them with two short feeler-like things as they pass into the planet's surface. Erratic cracks in their carapace glow red with heat when they're successful at devouring some soulstuff. Were more common before most of them were smashed asunder.
Wind of Change, universe-spanning winds that nurture and evolve whatever they touch.
Echoing polar bear roar of order.
Purple. Violet "gas" giant, chalk core. "Atmosphere" is a mixture of water, ice, and more traditional gasses and particles. A little turbulent.
Asexually reproducing neverborn microbes. They feed off dirt and air.
Very dense world of compacted volcanic rock, filigreed with lines from the joining and compression of various areas. Has a boiling atmosphere and an incandescent but stable iron core.
Huge gas giant with a dense gas core and a turbulent lighter atmosphere. A single storm of mammoth proportions slowly migrates across its surface.
Dusty beige moon.
Pretty translucent photosynthetic space eels, space carp, and space sharks with multicolored glowing organs. The carp eat and are worse at photosynthesis than the eels. The sharks eat and are worse at photosynthesis than the carp or eels. The eels are playful and curious, and make cute songlike chirping noises. Eels are fond of Vanhurk. Avoid Purple.
Handful of living space fires that hunt and burn living things to death in order to release their souls. Very pretty and majestic.
In other news, it's poll time! Not a literal poll, just written responses. Anyone who answers the questions gets a... uh... um...
...I'm open to suggestions!
As for the questions:
-What do you think of the role/Aspect system? Both before and after the power expansion thing.
-What do you think of the current universe? What do you think would or would have made it better or worse?
-What would you think of the GM mucking with the game, such as by adding interdimensional not-creations-of-the-current-gods or screwing with mechanics to en/discourage certain behaviors?
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