Pencil: I'm delaying your action because I think there are some mechanics issues confusing everyone. You placed two Lands already this turn (Glade and Vortex), allowing you to
Create two free populations of Fauna of any legal Tier. This neither counts against your actions not costs any mana.
Taking the
Create Fauna action, aside from your free pops, costs 4x the
Spread Fauna cost for that Tier (because you're playing Plant). The
Spread Fauna cost is the one listed in the OP. Spreading Fauna is also an action on its own.
So you can create a pop of Pioneers, a pop of Tier 1s, and then if you don't create a Sky you can use your third action to either Spread them or Create something else entirely.
A Sky has already been placed (the Azure Sky), and by virtue of being a Sky it automatically connects to and from all non-Cavern continents in a given World. You can absolutely create a second Sky within the Sky continent, but I think maybe you thought there wasn't a sky at all?
Sorry to have to get you to restate your action, want to clear this up and then change the mechanics next turn.
Micelus: That Tier 2 costs you 75, not 45. Deducted accordingly.
Please note also that placing the Nomadic Moulds in the Lightseen Caverns will force a Competition bid unless someone either Spreads/Creates a new Pioneer organism there or the Jester Spreads more of his Gem Mites to increase the available biosphere.
Effective as of Turn 2, placing a Land instead gives you the amount of mana you spent in credit for Creating or Spreading Fauna during the rest of your turn. Creating Fauna now takes an action as if there was no bonus, but you can spend that credit to reduce additional costs. Spreading Fauna still takes an action (one action per Spread). Credit expires at the end of your Turn.
Beneath those plains, lightless caverns riddle the surface of the earth, festooned with brilliant unseen jewels. Tiny gem-like mites scuttle across the hidden beauties of the caverns, clustering over beautiful geodes and gemstones. Swarms of these mites can pass over astonishing gems, leaving only dull grey rocks in their wake. Tiny, inch-long blind four-legged lizards slowly ponder their way across the lightless caverns, licking swathes of iridescent mites from gemstones with their long, sticky tongues. Broad patches of brownish mould cover the shifting iridescent masses, infecting gem mites as carriers, but limited hosts for transmission have forced them to infect gem lickers to spread. The lickers in turn have been reacting violently against the chief threat to their food source. Meanwhile a second type of fungus has begun forming a symbiotic relationship with the uninfected gem lickers, supplanting and replacing their useless eyes to aid adaptation in their lightless world.
A second, smaller world orbits the planet, appearing a fiery orange disc in the night sky. This Infernal Realm is dominated by a single mountain of fire, erupting constantly with inner heat. Swarms of tiny orange sparks cluster around the edges of the magma flows, feeding off the intense heat released by the volcano. Six legged crab-like creatures scuttle across the flows with surprising speed, snapping up the little sparks for food, while slower but stronger lizards with scales of steel and bones of stone snap up the crabs as they pass and devour them. For now, these gleaming creatures rule the infernal slopes.- The Sun -
- The Sun (Sun)
- Unnamed World -
The Glen [Plains]
- The Rolling Hills x The Lightseen Caves [Lightseen Caverns]
- The Oaken Glade
The Lightseen Caverns [Caverns]
- The Lightseen Caves x The Rolling Hills [The Glen]
- [P] Gem Mite
- [1] Gem Lickers, Nomadic Moulds
- [2] Beneficial Eyeshrooms
The Rolling Sea [Sea]
- The Rolling Vortex
The Azure Sky [Sky]
- The Azure Sky x Rolling Sea, The Glen
- Infernal Realm -
Blazing Peaks [Volcanic]
- Fire Mountain
- [P] Sparklings
- [1] Magma Crabs
- [2] Dragons
The Jester (Crystal, Undead) [Cript] //
375 mana
1 mana/turn
The World Tree (Plant) [Pencil] //
400 mana
(bonus Fauna token x2)
The Improver (Fungi) [Micelus] //
375 mana
5 mana/turn
The Mother (Animal) [Scrapheap] //
350 mana
2 mana/turn
(bonus Fauna token)
The Supreme Radiant (Fire) [Spoon] ///
325 mana
6 mana/turn
Ketari Bird-Eater (Sky) [Giglamesh]
500 mana
The Gem Mite (Pioneer, Crystal) - A tiny crystalline being. It resembles a small fleck of a gem with tiny legs and mandibles. Created by a god that loves beauty, they consume not food or energy, but rather beauty itself. They prey on the gems in the walls of the caverns. Attaching themselves to the gems, they extract the shine, luster, and color of the gem. The mites body takes on the aspect of the gem that was just consumed, and can grow larger if the gem was of high enough equality and size itself (relative to the number of mites that were feeding on it of course). When the mite becomes large enough it splits in two down one of it's fracture lines, becoming two new mites, who then go off to consume more beauty. This unnatural consumption of a gem leaves it as a small grey stone, as it's beauty is sucked away. However a gem will eventually recover from this, although it can take years or decades. Only the beauty of the stone was sucked away, with the cause of the beauty, that being the composition of the gem, still intact eventually the beauty will grow back, shining out from the gem and returning color and shine to it.
The Gem Licker (Animal, Tier 1) - Small, four legged lizard-like creatures with long, thin tongues that dwell in the dark. They are blind, born without eyes and prey on the Gem Mites, catching them on their sticky tongue and gobbling them up. Their skin is dull, the colour of bare rock.
Sparkings (Fire, Pioneer) - Tiny wisps and sparks of animate flame. These pseudo creatures feed off the ambient heat in their terrain, splitting into fresh sparks when they are sufficiently fed.
Magma Crabs (Fire, Tier 1) - Only vaguely resembling a crab, these six legged creatures have thick shells of rock taken from their volcanic surroundings. They feed off the concentrated heat of sparkings, which nourish their innards of liquid fire.
Dragon (Fire, Tier 2) - Two of the six legs of the magma crab have mutated into wing-like appendages, and these dog-sized creatures have pointed snouts that make them resemble lizards. Their skin is covered in steel scales from the iron in the surrounding environment, and their flesh is now primarily stone, with veins and organs of liquid flame, as well as a pouch in their belly from which they can eject fire from their mouths while hunting. They feed primarily on magma crabs, sustaining their inner fire from their tasty liquid innards.
Nomadic Moulds (Fungi, Tier 1) - Sedentary and asexual in its mature form, the spores of the Nomadic Mould only germinate when it lands upon a non-fungal organism. Upon doing so, mycorrhiza sprout into the creature's skin, allowing the mould the ability to colonise areas farther away than its parent. The mould derives nutrients from the creature until it reaches maturity, at which the it detaches itself from the host and plops itself into the ground, beginning the life cycle anew.
Beneficial Eyeshroom (Fungi, Tier 2) - The spores of the eyeshroom germinate under two conditions: landing on a gem or landing on an organism. Landing on a gem produces a short-lived fungi that releases more spores before expiring. If it lands on an organism however, the fungi quickly moves through the organism's body and latches onto the eyes (if present. If not, it simply infests and kills the host before releasing spores). It then consumes the eyes. using anesthetic so the host is usually not aware due to the lack of pain and lack of much light in the caverns. The empty eye holes are then grown into, sprouting wide-capped but short-stalked mushrooms that neatly fits into the hole. They glow an iridescent colour and can be used by the host as eyes. In short, the Eyeshroom replaces the host's eyes with eyes capable of vision within the darkness of the caverns at the cost of nutrients being siphoned by the fungi.
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