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[Iituem]

Zorlock

...

The Sukkippu scream, an inhuman wail from their mouth parts as one by one they crumble into grey sand.  The fish in the river turn to sand as well, and you have the death-bots gather it up for your use.  [+5 Essence]  You then (bloody hell) give the Voyager the ability to warp space [-1 Essence] and to time travel [-1 Essence].

Spoiler: Laws of Physics (click to show/hide)

Mundane Physical Laws: The laws of Physics work as on Earth.
Gravity Exception: The grey plain of sand has a unidirectional 'down', exempt from normal gravity rules.  There appears to be a cut-off point for this.

Runes of World-Crossing: Seven runes, when inscribed on a surface in the correct order, will transmute anything placed in the centre into a portal to the Dreamveldt from the world it originated from.  If the same inscription is made in any other world and a Dreamveldt item is placed within, a portal will be opened as well.
  Caveat 1: The item placed in the centre will be permanently destroyed to maintain the portal.
  Caveat 2: The portal is one way, either Dreamveldt > Other World or Other World > Dreamveldt.

Runes of Enchantment: A set vocabulary of runes.  When written in the correct order (obeying syntax), they will imbue an object with power or aspects of being as directed by the 'sentence' on the object.  A single word will 'broadly' imbue an object with the power dictated.  The vocabulary is quite basic, but covers important physical concepts.
  Vocabulary:  Word categories include; Condition; Element/Concept; Verb; Form.

King's Exclusion: Each Wizard King has a series of mental switches they can flip, which will make their bodies and carried possessions stop obeying one of the laws of physics.  This only affects themselves and their carried items.  The switches are instinctually labelled.

Creation's Binding: All creations of a King are compelled to obey that King.

Rule of Unmaking: Any aspect of creation may be unmade by its creator to regain used Essence, so long as it is unmade in its entirety.

Blood Magic:  Consumes vital essence (elan vital) from living creatures as fuel and medium.  Quantity determines power.
  Elan vital can be extracted willingly, or unwillingly through a lengthy ritual.
  Elan vital can be stored in enchanted gems (enchanted through a simple ritual).
  Spells manipulate transfer or exchange or life force.
  Spells can animate blood using elan vital as a medium.
  Can animate constructs (golems) using elan vital to warp inorganic matter to work as a biological analogue.
  Golems require elan vital as fuel, cannot create their own.
  Spells can manipulate the mind in broad ways, changing feelings and perceptions.  Strong minds can resist.
  Long term use of mind magic can have adverse physical effects.

Spoiler: Contents (click to show/hide)

The Sky - Standard, Earth-breathable atmosphere.  Stretches infinitely up.
  The Sun - An orb of burning fire, far above the grey plain.  When its light passes through the sky, the sky seems blue.
  Deimos - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.
  Phobos - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.
  Chiron - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.

The Grey Plain - A plain of grey sand that stretches infinitely downward and horizontally in all directions.

The Void - An endless absence of anything, encircling this place's creation.

Zorlock's Vale - A pair of interlocked valleys that surround Zorlock's Wood and lead to Zorlock's Lake.
  Zorlock's Wood - A region of densely wooded forest, populated chiefly by deciduous trees that filter blue and green light from the sky, giving them red and purple leaves.  Dense foliage, grasses and underbrush (all of purple and red hue) cover the soil beneath.
    Davidson's Arch - A portal to Davidson's world.
  The Rivers Cross - Two crossed rivers, intersecting beneath Zorlock's Hill.  Their tributaries start at the heights of the Vale and the mouths meet at the Lake.  Sparse vegetation covers the surface.
  Shaiguju's Palace - A truly vast complex of marble and precious materials.
  Zorlock's Hill - A great hill rising above the Vale.
    The Great Oak - 4m high, and the ground around it is fertile black soil, sprouting a variety of green grasses and bushes.  It towers over the surrounding forest, high upon the hill.
    Shaiguju's Throne - An extravagant throne in gold, silver and red velvet cushions, seated before the tree.
    Darssisth's Mound - A hillock of fused gold, silver and electrum jewellery and gems, very comfortable if you're a dragon.
    Zorlock's Tower - A 9 storey tower of red stone.
      Lightning Shield - A technological electrical fence around the Tower.  Zorlock has the controls.
      Drassisth's Rock - A hovel sized stone, suspended 600m above the Tower.
      Machine Shop - All the tools needed to keep the Kill-Simulators in good working order!
    The Voyager - M1 Abrams Tank
      Runs on diesel.
      Laser gatling gun mount
      Driver force field
      Kill-Simulator charger
      Essence-binding pocket dimension - 0 Essence
      Warp drive
      Time machine(!)
    Resident: Velociraptors, Kill-Simulators
  Zorlock's Lake - A body of water at the base of the Vale.

Velociraptors - Sapient, omnivorous.  [5 total]
  Mental compulsion not to attack the Wizard Kings.
  Humanlike vocal cords and flexible lips.

Kill-Simulators: - Murderous android death-bots.  7 foot tall, steel, approx. 3x human strength and speed.  [5025 total]
  Non-sapient Automatons.
  Standing lightning shield bypass.
  Powered by electricity.
  Can drive tanks.
  Armed with glaives, pikes and longbows.
 

Ivy Carmine (Prime) - Princess
Ivy Carmine - Princess
Zorlock - Evil Wizard
  Demigodlike enhancements to strength, durability and agility.
  Essence Map (displays a map of the Dreamveldt with Essence deposits highlighted.
Hastul (or Hathul) - The Lord in Yellow
Grey - A Cat
Shaiguju - Wizard King of the Celestial Plains
  Demigodlike enhancements to strength, durability, stamina and speed.
Dave David Davidson - Technomancer
  Disintegration gun.
  Goggles - Enchantments: See Lifeforce.  Read Dreamveldt.  [On-Activate:Rune-Increase-Sight]
Darssisth - Shapeshifting Master of Dragons(!)

Essence: 8 Clumps

[flame99]

"Very well. A zeppelin seems sensible. Though, perhaps we should mop up some of the more extraneous wildlife here, to recover some essence?"
Undo what little I've made or affected, and use the essence to begin weaving the Voyager into a tank-zeppelin thing. It contains plenty of food and water to last us for many weeks, enough fuel to run for an equally long amount of time, and rooms for each of the Wizard Kings, including a bunk bed for the Ivys.

..."Actually, Ivy, er, Ivys, can you even both move in the same direction?"

((Also, since we can now harvest the essence from things, maybe you should include the essence cost of things in the contents list, Iituem? And maybe who made them?))

[Iituem]

Hastul

You gesture with your staff, and everything you have made is undone, except, of course, the rule that permits unmaking.  (After all, all you'd do is reinstate it anyhow.)  [+1 Essence]

It turns out you only had one outstanding change to the world (as you'd already destroyed the pillar).  As you feel the essence flood back into the world, a hovel-sized stone crashes down upon Zorlock's tower, destroying the top six floors in their entirety.  Rubble crushes the rest - the basement is undamaged but sealed off from the surface.  Zorlock is busy helping you with the tank, and so is not crushed to death by the fall.

You start unpinning the Voyager and twisting its shell into the armoured undercarriage of a dirigible.  The tank gun and laser emplacement you keep, and the engine is essentially capable of doing the same job, so you form rudders, turbines and an enormous gasbag (in yellow), as well as several decks of hold space and passenger quarters.  You do up the interior largely in white pine, rich mahogany and gold trimmings, with a favour for off-white wallpaper.  It is lavishly decorated.  [-1 Essence]  Unlike Zorlock, you think about fuel (and a good thing too, the tank was three quarters empty of diesel) and install a fuel tank with a copious quantity of diesel and spare hydrogen for the gasbag.  You should be good for a six month trip without needing to refuel.  [-1 Essence]  The whole thing can be comfortably manned by a crew of twenty, or a skeleton crew of eight.

Before you use up essence on food and water, it occurs to you - the forest is still full of edible fruit.  In fact, the Sukkippu were stockpiling it before they were all unwritten from existence.  It would take a while to do it with your own hands, but there's probably enough food and water here that you could take it with you, had you containers for drink and the hands to pick food.

Spoiler: Laws of Physics (click to show/hide)

Mundane Physical Laws: The laws of Physics work as on Earth.
Gravity Exception: The grey plain of sand has a unidirectional 'down', exempt from normal gravity rules.  There appears to be a cut-off point for this.

Runes of World-Crossing: Seven runes, when inscribed on a surface in the correct order, will transmute anything placed in the centre into a portal to the Dreamveldt from the world it originated from.  If the same inscription is made in any other world and a Dreamveldt item is placed within, a portal will be opened as well. *
  Caveat 1: The item placed in the centre will be permanently destroyed to maintain the portal.
  Caveat 2: The portal is one way, either Dreamveldt > Other World or Other World > Dreamveldt.

Runes of Enchantment: A set vocabulary of runes.  When written in the correct order (obeying syntax), they will imbue an object with power or aspects of being as directed by the 'sentence' on the object.  A single word will 'broadly' imbue an object with the power dictated.  The vocabulary is quite basic, but covers important physical concepts. *
  Vocabulary:  Word categories include; Condition; Element/Concept; Verb; Form.

King's Exclusion: Each Wizard King has a series of mental switches they can flip, which will make their bodies and carried possessions stop obeying one of the laws of physics.  This only affects themselves and their carried items.  The switches are instinctually labelled. *

Creation's Binding: All creations of a King are compelled to obey that King. *

Rule of Unmaking: Any aspect of creation may be unmade by its creator to regain used Essence, so long as it is unmade in its entirety. *

Blood Magic:  Consumes vital essence (elan vital) from living creatures as fuel and medium.  Quantity determines power. ****
  Elan vital can be extracted willingly, or unwillingly through a lengthy ritual.
  Elan vital can be stored in enchanted gems (enchanted through a simple ritual).
  Spells manipulate transfer or exchange or life force.
  Spells can animate blood using elan vital as a medium.
  Can animate constructs (golems) using elan vital to warp inorganic matter to work as a biological analogue.
  Golems require elan vital as fuel, cannot create their own.
  Spells can manipulate the mind in broad ways, changing feelings and perceptions.  Strong minds can resist.
  Long term use of mind magic can have adverse physical effects.

Spoiler: Contents (click to show/hide)

The Sky - Standard, Earth-breathable atmosphere.  Stretches infinitely up. *
  The Sun - An orb of burning fire, far above the grey plain.  When its light passes through the sky, the sky seems blue.
  Deimos - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.
  Phobos - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.
  Chiron - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.

The Grey Plain - A plain of grey sand that stretches infinitely downward and horizontally in all directions.

The Void - An endless absence of anything, encircling this place's creation.

Zorlock's Vale - A pair of interlocked valleys that surround Zorlock's Wood and lead to Zorlock's Lake. *
  Zorlock's Wood - A region of densely wooded forest, populated chiefly by deciduous trees that filter blue and green light from the sky, giving them red and purple leaves.  Dense foliage, grasses and underbrush (all of purple and red hue) cover the soil beneath. **
    Davidson's Arch - A portal to Davidson's world. *
  The Rivers Cross - Two crossed rivers, intersecting beneath Zorlock's Hill.  Their tributaries start at the heights of the Vale and the mouths meet at the Lake.  Sparse vegetation covers the surface. *
  Shaiguju's Palace - A truly vast complex of marble and precious materials. *
  Zorlock's Hill - A great hill rising above the Vale. *
    The Great Oak - 4m high, and the ground around it is fertile black soil, sprouting a variety of green grasses and bushes.  It towers over the surrounding forest, high upon the hill. *
    Shaiguju's Throne - An extravagant throne in gold, silver and red velvet cushions, seated before the tree. *
    Darssisth's Mound - A hillock of fused gold, silver and electrum jewellery and gems, very comfortable if you're a dragon. *
    Zorlock's Tower - A 9 storey tower of red stone.  Currently in ruins. *
      Lightning Shield - A technological electrical fence around the Tower.  Zorlock has the controls. *
      Drassisth's Rock - A hovel sized stone,suspended 600m above the Tower. currently sitting in the ruins of Zorlock's Tower. *
      Machine Shop - All the tools needed to keep the Kill-Simulators in good working order! *
      Patched Wall - Part of the wall was repaired by simply generating new stone. *
    Resident: Velociraptors, Kill-Simulators
  Zorlock's Lake - A body of water at the base of the Vale. (free)

    The Voyager - Remodeled dirigible in yellow.  M1 Abrams Tank armour and gun emplacement serving as the armoured undercarriage. *********
      Runs on diesel.
      Laser gatling gun mount
      Driver force field
      Kill-Simulator charger
      Essence-binding pocket dimension - 0 Essence
      Warp drive
      Time machine(!)
      Contains copious deck space for cargo, several passenger quarters.  Lavishly decorated.
      Repurposed tank engine for turbines.
      Copious quantities of fuel in tank (6 months)

Velociraptors - Sapient, omnivorous.  [5 total] ***
  Mental compulsion not to attack the Wizard Kings.
  Humanlike vocal cords and flexible lips.

Kill-Simulators: - Murderous android death-bots.  7 foot tall, steel, approx. 3x human strength and speed.  [5025 total] **
  Non-sapient Automatons.
  Standing lightning shield bypass.
  Powered by electricity.
  Can drive tanks.
  Armed with glaives, pikes and longbows. *
 

Ivy Carmine (Prime) - Princess
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )
Ivy Carmine - Princess *
Zorlock - Evil Wizard
  Demigodlike enhancements to strength, durability and agility. *
  Essence Map (displays a map of the Dreamveldt with Essence deposits highlighted. *
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 ) *
Hastul (or Hathul) - The Lord in Yellow
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )
Grey - A Cat
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7)
Shaiguju - Wizard King of the Celestial Plains
  Demigodlike enhancements to strength, durability, stamina and speed. *
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )
Dave David Davidson - Technomancer
  Disintegration gun.
  Goggles - Enchantments: See Lifeforce.  Read Dreamveldt.  [On-Activate:Rune-Increase-Sight]
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )
Darssisth - Shapeshifting Master of Dragons(!)
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )

Essence: 6 Clumps

[flame99]

"Er...Sorry. Forgot about the antigravity stone. Anyways, your kill-sims can do more than, er, simulate killing, right? Why not send them out to store a bunch of fruit for us in the Voyager? Well, it may rot, but I can fix that.
Add a magic stasis room that only effects things I or those I give permission to want to put into stasis onto the zeppelin. Those with permission can set what is and isn't held in stasis, but cannot change who has permission, aside from myself. It can also never put a Wizard King in stasis. It holds things in a pocket dimension outside of time, causing them to not age in between putting them in and taking them out.
"Oh, and I suppose we'll need water too. Have your kill-sims take these buckets, fill them with water, and place them upright in the stasis room until we have enough for several months of travel, will you?"
Summon a large number of buckets. Set the stasis field to hold the buckets, water, and fruit.

[Dwarmin]

"Actually, Ivy, er, Ivys, can you even both move in the same direction?"

"We're two separate people..."
"... if it wasn't obvious."

They both smile.

Both the Ivy's follow one another to the "Voyager, armor appearing over themselves-the armor from Ivy's world resembles an insects carapace, in a way, fashioned from beautiful and bright silvery metal, traced with many strange runes...over both their faces, featureless masks of pale gold that glow slightly. There are round canisters on the backs, with slits in the metal like gills, for siphoning O and straining out CD.

The hands are also fitted with retractable hand claws, quite wicked looking-at the moment, sheathed behind the Ivy's dainty wrists.

Action: Fashion up some full-suit body armor for Both Ivy's, that provides offense/protection/oxygen/light, etc.

Then join the voyager.

[The Froggy Ninja]

"I have an idea! I'm going to go back to my workshop and go to sleep taking a brew used to allow incredibly vivid lucid dreams I got so I could study the 'veldt. Hopefully the rig sent me to a geographically equivalent place and I should show up here. Just chill while I test it before we go on any wacky space-time adventures."

[flame99]

"There are beds on the Voyager now, you know. Perhaps you should have your dreams aboard the ship?

Also! We will likely be leaving this place soon, and I should think that all of us would be coming along. Those of you with a home or lodging in this small bit of the void, perhaps it would be best to unmake them, and free up Essence for improving the Voyager, and attending to its needs should something come up?"

((By the way, Ozarck, are you still around in all your kitty glory?))

[LuckyKobold]

(Try Sending him a PM if he doesn't post.)

Zorlack repairs his Tower and uncreates all of the Forest,The Hills, And The Two Rivers.

"I was thinking that we could each have a separate domain to create things in, For example you couldn't create a Giant Castle that smother's half of my domain,But I could if it was my Domain. Anywhom we should expand it so that we can use Kill-Simulators as crew, After all they don't get tired and are far superior to most of us in combat situations."

Zorlack adds a Storage Bay to the Voyager that can hold 100 Kill Simulators and then marks the island on his Essence Map.


"Excellent now which way should we go, Up, Down or one of the cardinal directions?"

[flame99]

"As the island would appear to be infinite -- or at least very large -- in the downward direction, let's not go along the cliff. Additionally, if it is infinite, there couldn't possibly be another infinite island above us, so up will be futile. As for a cardinal direction, let's head north."

((I would think that a compass would be included in the controls for the zeppelin, as it's a pretty standard feature on dirigibles. However, should you decide that it needs to be made separately, make a compass in the dashboard.))

[Iituem]

Hastul

You set one of the chambers in the Voyager to be trapped in a low-intensity time loop - essentially keeping everything fresh and un-ageing while still relative to the world outside.  It comes with a rather nice little interface panel, to which you have master control permissions.  You set an exception for Wizard Kings, ensuring they can never be trapped in the stasis loop.  [-1 Essence]

You summon a thousand metal buckets.  [-1 Essence]  There is already a compass on the dashboard.


Ivy

You summon a pair of battle suits around yourselves.  They look ostensibly like the war-suits used by your side in the civil war, with a few exceptions - there are no magical elements (because your magic wouldn't work here without its recreation), so the creation of an internal atmosphere, light and power-assisted muscle movement are all accomplished through miniaturised technology (rather above what your own people were capable of, you note).  The whole thing is battery powered, but they each come with small gears to 'wind' to power them - there is a gear assembly in the Voyager's engine room that can wind them each over the course of a minute at high speed.  They each hold power for 48 hours before shutting down.  [-1 Essence]

Naturally, there is an emergency escape function that will peel the suit off and leave it inert.


Zorlock

You once again summon fresh stone in place of your lost floors, pushing the rubble and rock out of the way.  [-1 Essence]  You snap your fingers and the forest, hills, rivers and all the food disappear.  [+5 Essence]  In their place is once again grey sand, dotted with various objects (such as the Tower and Great Oak), although you notice that the cliffs have grown more distant.  You are about to add a cargo bay to hold the death-bots, but the Voyager already has one you can use.

Spoiler: Laws of Physics (click to show/hide)

Mundane Physical Laws: The laws of Physics work as on Earth.
Gravity Exception: The grey plain of sand has a unidirectional 'down', exempt from normal gravity rules.  There appears to be a cut-off point for this.

Runes of World-Crossing: Seven runes, when inscribed on a surface in the correct order, will transmute anything placed in the centre into a portal to the Dreamveldt from the world it originated from.  If the same inscription is made in any other world and a Dreamveldt item is placed within, a portal will be opened as well. *
  Caveat 1: The item placed in the centre will be permanently destroyed to maintain the portal.
  Caveat 2: The portal is one way, either Dreamveldt > Other World or Other World > Dreamveldt.

Runes of Enchantment: A set vocabulary of runes.  When written in the correct order (obeying syntax), they will imbue an object with power or aspects of being as directed by the 'sentence' on the object.  A single word will 'broadly' imbue an object with the power dictated.  The vocabulary is quite basic, but covers important physical concepts. *
  Vocabulary:  Word categories include; Condition; Element/Concept; Verb; Form.

King's Exclusion: Each Wizard King has a series of mental switches they can flip, which will make their bodies and carried possessions stop obeying one of the laws of physics.  This only affects themselves and their carried items.  The switches are instinctually labelled. *

Creation's Binding: All creations of a King are compelled to obey that King. *

Rule of Unmaking: Any aspect of creation may be unmade by its creator to regain used Essence, so long as it is unmade in its entirety. *

Blood Magic:  Consumes vital essence (elan vital) from living creatures as fuel and medium.  Quantity determines power. ****
  Elan vital can be extracted willingly, or unwillingly through a lengthy ritual.
  Elan vital can be stored in enchanted gems (enchanted through a simple ritual).
  Spells manipulate transfer or exchange or life force.
  Spells can animate blood using elan vital as a medium.
  Can animate constructs (golems) using elan vital to warp inorganic matter to work as a biological analogue.
  Golems require elan vital as fuel, cannot create their own.
  Spells can manipulate the mind in broad ways, changing feelings and perceptions.  Strong minds can resist.
  Long term use of mind magic can have adverse physical effects.

Spoiler: Contents (click to show/hide)

The Sky - Standard, Earth-breathable atmosphere.  Stretches infinitely up. *
  The Sun - An orb of burning fire, far above the grey plain.  When its light passes through the sky, the sky seems blue.
  Deimos - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.
  Phobos - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.
  Chiron - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.

The Grey Plain - A plain of grey sand that stretches infinitely downward and horizontally in all directions.

The Void - An endless absence of anything, encircling this place's creation.


  Davidson's Arch - A portal to Davidson's world. *
  Shaiguju's Palace - A truly vast complex of marble and precious materials. *
  The Great Oak - 4m high, and the ground around it is fertile black soil, sprouting a variety of green grasses and bushes.  It towers over the surrounding forest, high upon the hill. *
  Shaiguju's Throne - An extravagant throne in gold, silver and red velvet cushions, seated before the tree. *
  Darssisth's Mound - A hillock of fused gold, silver and electrum jewellery and gems, very comfortable if you're a dragon. *
  Zorlock's Tower - A 9 storey tower of red stone.  Currently in ruins. *
    Lightning Shield - A technological electrical fence around the Tower.  Zorlock has the controls. *
    Drassisth's Rock - A hovel sized stone, resting beside the Tower in a heap of rubble. *
    Machine Shop - All the tools needed to keep the Kill-Simulators in good working order! *
    Patched Wall - Part of the wall was repaired by simply generating new stone. *
    Patched Upper Floors - Again, repairs made by simply generating new stone. *
  Resident: Velociraptors, Kill-Simulators

    The Voyager - Remodeled dirigible in yellow.  M1 Abrams Tank armour and gun emplacement serving as the armoured undercarriage. *********
      Runs on diesel.
      Laser gatling gun mount
      Driver force field
      Kill-Simulator charger
      Essence-binding pocket dimension - 0 Essence
      Warp drive
      Time machine(!)
      Contains copious deck space for cargo, several passenger quarters.  Lavishly decorated.
      Repurposed tank engine for turbines.
      Copious quantities of fuel in tank (6 months)
      Stasis Chamber (slaved to Hastul) - full of buckets

Velociraptors - Sapient, omnivorous.  [5 total] ***
  Mental compulsion not to attack the Wizard Kings.
  Humanlike vocal cords and flexible lips.

Kill-Simulators: - Murderous android death-bots.  7 foot tall, steel, approx. 3x human strength and speed.  [5025 total] **
  Non-sapient Automatons.
  Standing lightning shield bypass.
  Powered by electricity.
  Can drive tanks.
  Armed with glaives, pikes and longbows. *
 

Ivy Carmine (Prime) - Princess
  Exo-Battle Suit (melee, armour, light, internal atmosphere - battery powered)
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )
Ivy Carmine - Princess
  Exo-Battle Suit (melee, armour, light, internal atmosphere - battery powered) *
Zorlock - Evil Wizard
  Demigodlike enhancements to strength, durability and agility. *
  Essence Map (displays a map of the Dreamveldt with Essence deposits highlighted. *
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 ) *
Hastul (or Hathul) - The Lord in Yellow
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )
Grey - A Cat
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7)
Shaiguju - Wizard King of the Celestial Plains
  Demigodlike enhancements to strength, durability, stamina and speed. *
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )
Dave David Davidson - Technomancer
  Disintegration gun.
  Goggles - Enchantments: See Lifeforce.  Read Dreamveldt.  [On-Activate:Rune-Increase-Sight]
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )
Darssisth - Shapeshifting Master of Dragons(!)
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )

Essence: 7 Clumps

[flame99]

"...Well, we could have stood to put that off for a bit. Still, nothing we can't fix."
Destroy the buckets for essence. Create a large canister of cold water in the ship, enough for 6 months. Also, create a number of fresh foods, ingredients, and herbs in the time loop, again enough for 6 months.
"No point in eating fruit for the next six months when we could eat like the kings we are!

[The Froggy Ninja]

((Do we know about how our little sandbox has been isolated and how to get essence? Also how big is the sandbox before we reach the border to the "Veldt proper?))
"That was my first idea but I figure that dreaming in the dream realm might mess with what little reality this place has. I also have a mansion... We don't need to waste essence on food and water. Also what's with the comatose cat?"
Go back to the mansion and go to bed after taking the aforementioned potion.
EDIT: "OH! OH! I want to try this."
Make a bridge from our island to the other end of the Great Chasm that expands as the void does.

[Iituem]

Hastul

You summon six months' of water into a tank in the Voyager, filling the stasis room with six months' selection of pastries, baked goods, meat cuts, vegetables and mushrooms.  The dirigible's kitchens should be able to heat or cook those right up.  [-2 Essence]  You also destroy the buckets.  [+1 Essence]


Dave

You travel to the edge of the circle of grass surrounding the Great Oak (as the valley is now gone) and extend your hand.  A brilliant bridge of crystal glass extends from the circle (unsupported by any arches) and stretches out along the grey plain (which crumbles at the edges as essence is expended) and into the void.  About 200 metres from the new cliffs, the bridge terminates in a crystal archway.  Beyond you can see what might be floating colours of some sort, and perhaps more of the bridge extending.  [-1 Essence]

You travel back to your mansion (which is completely deserted, also several of the doors appear to have been clawed open) and head to your bed, potion in hand.  Drinking it, you fall into a comfortable sleep.

You awaken standing on a giant purple tongue.  All around you are floating, intertwining colours.  You see a splotch of red eat a splotch of blue.  Your hand is a small mountain.  Your breath is a king's hair.  Your mind starts weeping at the oddity of it all.

Spoiler: Laws of Physics (click to show/hide)

Mundane Physical Laws: The laws of Physics work as on Earth.
Gravity Exception: The grey plain of sand has a unidirectional 'down', exempt from normal gravity rules.  There appears to be a cut-off point for this.

Runes of World-Crossing: Seven runes, when inscribed on a surface in the correct order, will transmute anything placed in the centre into a portal to the Dreamveldt from the world it originated from.  If the same inscription is made in any other world and a Dreamveldt item is placed within, a portal will be opened as well. *
  Caveat 1: The item placed in the centre will be permanently destroyed to maintain the portal.
  Caveat 2: The portal is one way, either Dreamveldt > Other World or Other World > Dreamveldt.

Runes of Enchantment: A set vocabulary of runes.  When written in the correct order (obeying syntax), they will imbue an object with power or aspects of being as directed by the 'sentence' on the object.  A single word will 'broadly' imbue an object with the power dictated.  The vocabulary is quite basic, but covers important physical concepts. *
  Vocabulary:  Word categories include; Condition; Element/Concept; Verb; Form.

King's Exclusion: Each Wizard King has a series of mental switches they can flip, which will make their bodies and carried possessions stop obeying one of the laws of physics.  This only affects themselves and their carried items.  The switches are instinctually labelled. *

Creation's Binding: All creations of a King are compelled to obey that King. *

Rule of Unmaking: Any aspect of creation may be unmade by its creator to regain used Essence, so long as it is unmade in its entirety. *

Blood Magic:  Consumes vital essence (elan vital) from living creatures as fuel and medium.  Quantity determines power. ****
  Elan vital can be extracted willingly, or unwillingly through a lengthy ritual.
  Elan vital can be stored in enchanted gems (enchanted through a simple ritual).
  Spells manipulate transfer or exchange or life force.
  Spells can animate blood using elan vital as a medium.
  Can animate constructs (golems) using elan vital to warp inorganic matter to work as a biological analogue.
  Golems require elan vital as fuel, cannot create their own.
  Spells can manipulate the mind in broad ways, changing feelings and perceptions.  Strong minds can resist.
  Long term use of mind magic can have adverse physical effects.

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The Sky - Standard, Earth-breathable atmosphere.  Stretches infinitely up. *
  The Sun - An orb of burning fire, far above the grey plain.  When its light passes through the sky, the sky seems blue.
  Deimos - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.
  Phobos - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.
  Chiron - A moon that rotates around the sun, blocking 24 hours of sunlight every 144 hours.

The Grey Plain - A plain of grey sand that stretches infinitely downward and horizontally in all directions.

The Void - An endless absence of anything, encircling this place's creation.
  The Bridge - A bridge of brilliant glass extending out into the void and ending in crystal archway 200m out.


  Davidson's Arch - A portal to Davidson's world. *
  Shaiguju's Palace - A truly vast complex of marble and precious materials. *
  The Great Oak - 4m high, and the ground around it is fertile black soil, sprouting a variety of green grasses and bushes.  It towers over the surrounding forest, high upon the hill. *
  Shaiguju's Throne - An extravagant throne in gold, silver and red velvet cushions, seated before the tree. *
  Darssisth's Mound - A hillock of fused gold, silver and electrum jewellery and gems, very comfortable if you're a dragon. *
  Zorlock's Tower - A 9 storey tower of red stone.  Currently in ruins. *
    Lightning Shield - A technological electrical fence around the Tower.  Zorlock has the controls. *
    Drassisth's Rock - A hovel sized stone, resting beside the Tower in a heap of rubble. *
    Machine Shop - All the tools needed to keep the Kill-Simulators in good working order! *
    Patched Wall - Part of the wall was repaired by simply generating new stone. *
    Patched Upper Floors - Again, repairs made by simply generating new stone. *
  Resident: Velociraptors, Kill-Simulators

    The Voyager - Remodeled dirigible in yellow.  M1 Abrams Tank armour and gun emplacement serving as the armoured undercarriage. **********
      Runs on diesel.
      Laser gatling gun mount
      Driver force field
      Kill-Simulator charger
      Essence-binding pocket dimension - 0 Essence
      Warp drive
      Time machine(!)
      Contains copious deck space for cargo, several passenger quarters.  Lavishly decorated.
      Repurposed tank engine for turbines.
      Copious quantities of fuel in tank (6 months)
      Stasis Chamber (slaved to Hastul) - 6 months' selection of foods
      Tank w/ 6 months' drinking water

Velociraptors - Sapient, omnivorous.  [5 total] ***
  Mental compulsion not to attack the Wizard Kings.
  Humanlike vocal cords and flexible lips.

Kill-Simulators: - Murderous android death-bots.  7 foot tall, steel, approx. 3x human strength and speed.  [5025 total] **
  Non-sapient Automatons.
  Standing lightning shield bypass.
  Powered by electricity.
  Can drive tanks.
  Armed with glaives, pikes and longbows. *
 

Ivy Carmine (Prime) - Princess
  Exo-Battle Suit (melee, armour, light, internal atmosphere - battery powered)
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )
Ivy Carmine - Princess
  Exo-Battle Suit (melee, armour, light, internal atmosphere - battery powered) *
Zorlock - Evil Wizard
  Demigodlike enhancements to strength, durability and agility. *
  Essence Map (displays a map of the Dreamveldt with Essence deposits highlighted. *
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 ) *
Hastul (or Hathul) - The Lord in Yellow
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )
Grey - A Cat
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7)
Shaiguju - Wizard King of the Celestial Plains
  Demigodlike enhancements to strength, durability, stamina and speed. *
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )
Dave David Davidson - Technomancer
  Disintegration gun.
  Goggles - Enchantments: See Lifeforce.  Read Dreamveldt.  [On-Activate:Rune-Increase-Sight]
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )
Darssisth - Shapeshifting Master of Dragons(!)
  Walkie Talkie (1 of 7 )

Essence: 5 Clumps

[The Froggy Ninja]

Since I'm a lucid dreamer I reign this the f**k in. Then I attempt to use my dream powers to locate the Voyager.

[Ozarck]

AH ... ahahahahah. Err, yes. I am sorry, I had a week long internet holiday. If I'm not too late (and a cat is always right on time - his own time) I'll read the thread and post tomorrow. Thanks for holding a spot for me.