Tick 6.0: Madness! (Expected Tick duration: 48 hours assuming the usual)
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Update 5.1Update 5.2Srillian has created 8333 Spirallions and led a band of desperate, thirsty humans to water to found a spiral city surrounding the spring.
Lugen has created Universal magic and Cosmic magic! Universal magic stacks Technomancy and G1YPH-L1N35 and Cosmic magic stacks Plasmurgy, mirroring Boldmancy. These are both exotic schools. Progression for Universal magic has been set to experience in more specific uses of it and both schools are harder to learn than the existing stacked schools.
Lolohe has issued a new tax on food to improve the living conditions of quarantined Thannel and Humans and continues to fund efforts to cure Thannelism. Some of the worse quarantines have been renovated.
Eid has almost shoved a wee angry Efte but, as gods are wont to do, gets bored and returns to his afterlife.
Zhìn Réng Jiǎng processes a few prayers:
#1: "I hope so! A caravan with a bunch of smelly freeloaders has been waiting around the Gaia-Eden Gate for days!"
#2: "An excellent suggestion, Ruler."
Zhìn Réng Jiǎng has publicly declared a Pantheon known as The Sworn. It consists of the Zhìn Réng Jiǎng, Talios, Tenat/Yena, and Arkford at the moment and is dedicated to those interested in plumbing the depths of technology and the mechanical.
The City of Rule has begun the design and construction of mass transport systems into and out of the city. Proposed designs at the moment include the following:
- Build a gateway town separate from but connected to the City by wide canals with large rafts going to and from the City
- Have a loop of chariots continuously entering and leaving the city
- Construct permanent magical portals connecting the inside and outside of the city
- Build a truly gigantic drawbridge that doubles as a waste/enemy disposal system and use ballistic carts for the actual transport
2F has been pledged for transport of materials to the site from Zhìn Réng Jiāng. Tenat and Talios have also pledged support for the improvement project.
The interplanetary Gates of the City of Rule have been completed
(Zhìn Réng Jiǎng: 0E)
Zhin Reng Jiang has offered to help Qytesis Xyweus Talios' afterlife attract more lost souls and expand it accordingly.
Zhin Reng Jiang has also raised a particularly skilled Zhǎngzǐ to be The Prince (Wángzǐ). The rest of the Zhǎngzǐ have been assigned to spreading the faith, managing the people on simpler matters, and spreading the glories of Rule.
(7) Si has dug down deep into K'ruppt land to rest and heal. (Si: -2F) Yena has supplied Si with some Flux. (Yena: -2F, Si: +2F) Si has pulled in 10 lost Skizani souls into the chamber, forming them as globs of black liquid. Most seem not to have too many problems, but a few do:
#1: "Is this the afterlife? Where am I? What's happening?"
#2: "Can I have a body again?"
A dispute has erupted between the First Pantheon and Mörkö. It seems to involve an annoyance of bandits having slain an unspecified number of Haunts. Isgon, on behalf of the First Pantheon, claims uninvolvement in the matter.
Itia has shown a follower a glorious night from a tall mountain and even arranged for a godly colorful fireworks show.
Sylvan has planted some unique, tasty fruit trees around the Covenant of the Wood. Llynallos has been blessed with a closer relationship to plants.
Lolohe has commissioned road improvements, aqueducts for applicable larger cities, and a network of bonfire beacons for the edges of civilization. There is much unrest, possibly Don-inspired, throughout the Human lands. Some protesting and rioting occurs, slowing down construction efforts. The Don has tried and failed to modify write-protected law documents in the Vault, and the smaller rural settlements tend not to have written laws as much as they have effective social control.
Tenat has begun a large technomantic project by providing a powerful technomancer plans for a technomantic computer and knowledge of a compiler spell. The technomancer along with some backers has organized the Technomantic Academt for Limitless Optimization of Spells and begun research on constructing the technomantic computer.
Aedif, god of Building and Artistry, has created 50000 Leg-Godts, minifigures who enjoy building and can easily stack. (Aedif: -6E)
((Leg-Godts: [Size-3 <.77>] [Speed+1? <1.3>] [Intelligence+1? <1.2>] [Expy <1.15>] =
Avg. 1.4E/10000))
Just outside of BroadRoad, Veles has set up a forum for Djinn and Kitsoonies to negotiate their contracts, making sure to keep some Witnesses around to oversee contracts and make them binding. Contracts have been limited in length to a year, and Veles has educated the Kitsoony on the purpose of this forum and informed them that contracts signed outside the forum will be considered non-binding. This seems to have helped reduce the number of Kitsoony signing terrible contracts, but some of the greedier, more desperate ones continue to chase after suspicious contracts outside the forum.
Jixiu has created cacao trees in a jungle.
Sadiq has created Whagori, ogori of the sea. The Consortium has gathered to hear of Sadiq's deep-sea plans and has started a program paying adventurous youths to explore the deep ocean and bring back samples for Consortium research. After a few months, they conclude
Jixiu has been added into the Arcane Entente by Sadiq.
Don Giovanni has created
incorporeal sharks, following in the tradition of an unknown criminal organization. While incorporeal, it has been ruled as sufficiently mundane assuming it behaves much like corporeal sharks do. No Djinn have died from shark attacks so far.
Tenat and Yena attend the new showing of
Madness from the Gods, as does Mörkö. Zenurion attends, sitting next to Yena/Tenat with a gas mask in his lab coat. Yena/Tenat move. The Don has helped a bunch of people sneak into the theater without paying and organized a smuggled snack sharing ring, and illegalizes cocoa beans as much as possible while spreading them around. Meow attends riding on Zenurion's head.
Morthan attends the new play as well as Jixiu, who sits next to a Kitsoony and asks what the play is about. Meow summarizes the content of
Madness of the Gods. In a rare moment of Tenat and Zenurion not bickering, Zenurion muffles the speech/screams of the gods such that only they can hear each other and is supported by Tenat.
<3<Srillian attempts to surround Zenurion, who merely offers some samples of popped souls.
During the first act of the play, everything is exactly the same as the first showing, although the lack of the gods' help and "help" seems to have produced a play closer to Meow's intentions. The second act is similarly close to its source material but gradually accumulates a number of deviations. In this instance of the play, the gods create an artifact for seeing inside the minds of gods under the guidance of Mörkö. Odd details such as shadows moving independently from their casters, lights flickering, quiet white noise from nowhere in particular, and actors walking backwards combine to cause the audience question their sanity. Infrequently fourth-wall breaking illusions unsettle the audience further.
In the third act, the artifact is tested on Zhìn Réng Jiǎng producing many great insights from its impressive computer-like mind. Then, the gods test the artifact on Meow and complete cHaOs ensues! The space of the stage warps as props sprout ears and tails and everything becomes ears. Then, the chaos spreads from the stage, shifting and bending the whole theatre, producing noise and impossible angles. Many attempt to leave the theatre, but most are too nauseous to navigate to the locked doors. The actors continue the play, almost oblivious to the madness mostly confined outside the fourth wall. Suddenly, unnatural darkness falls upon the theatre. Mörkö's actor provides the ending line "Which is worse, the fear of the unknown or the fear of the known?"
The lights return and the actors line up to fearful applause, bowing. The doors are unlocked and the audience leaves, questioning their sanity.
(Credit to <unlisted creator, PM if you are the creator and want to be listed!>)Meow still tosses a practically indestructible Act 2 master copy to the performers at the end and makes a copy of Act 1 similarly indestructible. (Meow: -0E) Morthan has given the actor playing Morthan a chest filled with gold and jewels and burned down a nearby orphanage. Fortunately for the orphans, Sadiq teleports them to El-Jannah and offers to let them stay as state wards. Morthan claims the burning was intended as a trick to give the orphans a new home. Sadiq has offered all found orphans in the universe citizenship at El-Jannah in exchange for worshiping Sadiq. Many agree, but many others stay behind.
A Crystal-adapted cacao called kokoa has been planted on the crystal moon for the Crystallum to enjoy legally. Following exportation of Energex, concentrated caffeine, by the Crystallum, the caffeine trade has been banned in many states with access to it after an increase in caffeine-related deaths.
Jixiu has created 1500 Chokobos. (Jixiu: -0E)
((Chokobos: 1.2E/10000))
Sadiq has investigated the Chokobos, Efte, Jeskia, and Racha for infertile egg production. None of them appear to lay unfertilized eggs regularly.
Sadiq has also added a number of
improvements to El-Jannah in addition to requiring that citizens worship him.
Arkford has personally reviewed Efte and Naedercynn laws and removed 25 new laws forbidding such things as worshipping Don Giovanni, drinking tea, walking an even number of steps (including zero), and rioting on boring days.
Sadiq has hired a team of Haunts from what appears to be a (paid) roadside haunted house to help out with the scarier attractions for the Carnivale.
Sylvan has created another 10000 dryads bonded with yews and 15000 Faceless Treants, soldiers of the Sylvanic Mandate. (Sylvan: -1-1I)
For bodyguards, Sylvan has created 40 Dragontree Augurs Sanguineus, Dragonblood trees blessed with great foresight and formidable defenders of the Forever Biggest Tree.
((tntey: Pantheon entry here works however the specific Pantheon wants it to work.))
After some trouble with power and leadership following an examination by Mörkö, Zenurion has offered to rule the First Pantheon. Srillian has aggravated the issue by presenting what other gods see as the pretentious side of the First Pantheon, inciting Meow to make known the existence of a Carnival of Carnage of some sort. Srillian's speech quickly causes Itia and Isgon to attempt to amend this image, but it only serves to bring the Pantheon's leadership issues back into the spotlight. Srillian continues by threatening Zenurion with exile. Tenat, mostly Zenurion's nemesis up to now, likewise condemns Srillian's behavior. The implications of a partnership between Tenat/Yena and Zenurion have been mentioned as a Horrifying Thing Gods Were Not Meant To Know by a god/goddess/force who prefers to remain nameless.
1000 Lambdent mobsters and 100 Snow Mademen have attacked a Crystallum town! The attackers win with around 50% casualties and the defenders lose with around 80% casualties.
Jens has entered indefinite stasis.
The Deep Elves have struck a massive vein of hematite!
Lolohe is burning and in pain but otherwise unharmed.
Unexpected acid rain has killed off 1473 Crystallum.
The children of Eid's clergy have all burned to death.
A feeling of a malevolent, cruel force washes over all the gods.
The Forgeborn have begun trade relations with the Crystallum.
There is another outbreak of turning into ash. It has killed many thousands.
Consortium adventurers have embarked on a southward expedition to hunt for the elusive ice penguin.
Pùrén and Human protests have slowed down trade for the Human empire and the City of Rule.
Bandit activity has decreased significantly.
Srillian turns its figurative ear for prayers:
#1: "Why is the Spiral Spring of Srillian not a spiral?"
#2: "I have documents here ready for delivery to one Srillian of the First Pantheon. Confirm delivery, please."
Itia looks for more prayers:
#1: "What does that Energex actually do? Why do we have to be careful not to burn it up on the way to the Eden City?"
#2: "Why are there no other people on the Gaian moon?"
Zenurion devours a few prayers:
#1: "O great Zenurion, a priest told me that to drink of your blood will send me into a murderous frenzy, and allow me to better serve you. Will you provide me with some?"
#2: "Mighty Zenurion! I, who am not related to Itia in any way, would like to know what you like most!"
Tenat registers a few prayers:
#1: "Where can we find more magic to power the construct?"
#2: "Help! It's raining acid and we're dying everywhere!"
Zhin senses a few prayers:
#1: "Please let the drawbridge design win! We need a good waste disposal outside the city!"
#2: "The Vault is not letting us access the law records. Can you take them out for us?"
Arkford's guild-raising project has yielded a Guild of Shipwright, a Masons' Guild, and a Cheap Used Goods Distribution Guild.
Prominent this tick is the Snake, symbolizing persistence and siestas.
Sadiq (Djinn, Service) I10/10 E2/10 F8/11
Yena (Growth) I10/10 E1/11 F5/13
Zenurion (Mad Science/Wizardry, Villainy) I10/10 E3/10 F7/11
Bohenar (Magic, Fire) I10/10 E1/10 F4/11
Morthan (Suffering, Decay) I10/10 E6/11 F7/12
Itia (Spheres, Planets) I10/10 E8/12 F7/11
Don Giovanni (Criminal Organizations) I6/10 E1/11 F6/11
Zhìn Réng Jiāng (Civilization, Control) I13/26 E1/1 F2/2
Qytesis Xyweus Talios (Oaths, Death) I8/10 E6/10 F10/10
Veles (Theft, Trickery) I10/10 E1/10 F4/14
Mörkö (Perception, Fear) I10/10 E5/10 F8/11
Quelor (Time, Metal) I7/10 E1/11 F5/11
Arkford (Resonance, Engineering) I10/10 E8/10 F8/10
Meow (Emotions, Chaos) I10/10 E2/10 F8/10
Isgon (Knowledge, Memory) I10/10 E2/11 F6/12
Marrow the Silence of the Depths (Depth, Darkness) I10/10 E10/10 F10/10
Jens (Flying/Floating Creatures, Winds) I10/10 E8/11 F7/12
Eid (Angels) I7/10 E2/11 F8/12
Lugen (Corruption, Entropy) I10/10 E1/12 F7/11
Srillian (Spirals, Intelligence) I9/10 E3/12 F7/10
Caxtos (Oceans, Ceremony) I10/10 E10/10 F10/10
Si (Nature, The Elements) I8/10 E1/11 F8/11
Andrianna (Beauty, Love) I10/10 E10/10 F10/10
Sylvan (Trees) I4/30 E1/1 F0/0
Aedif (Building, Artistry) I10/10 E5/11 F10/10
Jixiu (Technology, Experimentation) I10/10 E10/10 F10/10
75830 Star-People (Mostly serve Itia)
36643 Wisps (Mostly serve Jens)
63828 Jeskia (Mostly serve Isgon)
165950 Humans (Mostly serve Eid)
26595 Djinns (Mostly serve Sadiq)
36763 Haunts (Mostly serve Mörkö)
54641 Thannels (Mostly serve Morthan)
115860 Skizani (Mostly serve Si)
88830 Efte (Mostly serve Arkford)
63181 Forgeborn (Mostly serve Quelor)
70125 Crystallum (Mostly serve Yena)
61272 Racha (Mostly serve Bohenar)
61272 Kitsoony (Mostly serve Veles)
11800 High Elf (Mostly serve Qytesis Xyweus Talios)
14507 Deep Elf (Mostly serve Qytesis Xyweus Talios)
56862 Spirallions (Mostly serve Srillian)
4308 Zhǎngzǐ (Mostly serve Zhìn Réng Jiāng)
145852 Púrén (Mostly serve Zhìn Réng Jiāng)
1337 Witnesses (Mostly serve no gods)
12053 Jigon (Mostly serve Isgon, Jens)
10231 Snow Mademen (Mostly serve Don Giovanni)
30613 Naedercynn (Mostly serve Arkford)
51409 Lambdent (Mostly serve Zenurion)
3299 Evertrees (Mostly serve Sylvan)
40250 Dryads (Mostly serve Sylvan)
109 Tree Kings (Mostly serve Sylvan)
51500 Leg-Godts (Mostly serve Aedif)
1545 Chokobos (Mostly serve Jixiu)
15007 Faceless Treants (Mostly serve Sylvan)
Star-People: 4549 births, 2274 deaths, 212 lost souls
Wisps: 4763 births, 732 deaths, 176 lost souls
Jeskia: 1914 births, 1914 deaths, 53 lost souls
Humans: 9957 births, 4978 deaths, 465 lost souls
Djinns: 1595 births, 106 deaths, 35 lost souls
Haunts: 2205 births, 1102 deaths, 287 lost souls
Thannels: 3278 births, 2732 deaths, 743 lost souls
Skizani: 13903 births, 10427 deaths, 7302 lost souls
Efte: 5329 births, 2664 deaths, 691 lost souls
Forgeborn: 3790 births, 884 deaths, 276 lost souls
Crystallum: 2103 births, 2103 deaths, 329 lost souls
Racha: 3676 births, 1838 deaths, 445 lost souls
Kitsoony: 3676 births, 1838 deaths, 481 lost souls
High Elf: 354 births, 165 deaths, 30 lost souls
Deep Elf: 1740 births, 435 deaths, 149 lost souls
Spirallions: 3411 births, 1705 deaths, 443 lost souls
Zhǎngzǐ: 129 births, 60 deaths, 16 lost souls
Púrén: 17502 births, 4375 deaths, 1269 lost souls
Witnesses: 93 births, 13 deaths, 13 lost souls
Jigon: 2410 births, 361 deaths, 11 lost souls
Snow Mademen: 306 births, 276 deaths, 37 lost souls
Naedercynn: 918 births, 918 deaths, 208 lost souls
Lambdent: 1233 births, 514 deaths, 37 lost souls
Evertrees: 1105 births, 16 deaths, 7 lost souls
Dryads: 9660 births, 3622 deaths, 4 lost souls
Tree Kings: 13 births, 3 deaths, 1 lost souls
Leg-Godts: 3090 births, 1545 deaths, 5 lost souls
Chokobos: 92 births, 46 deaths, 1 lost souls
Faceless Treants: 450 births, 450 deaths, 5 lost souls
CNCL000.01: Build a central star/double star
+5 from Arkford, Isgon, Morthan, Yena/Tenat, Bohenar
0 from Zhìn Réng Jiāng
-2 from Eid, Veles
CNCL000.04.1: Create a close binary system such that no planets are between the stars
+1 from Arkford
0 from Zhìn Réng Jiāng
+1 if system contains multiple stars from Mörkö, else 0
-2 from Eid, Morthan
CNCL000.08: Create a single shared world
+2 from Mörkö, Zhìn Réng Jiāng
0 from Morthan, Yena/Tenat
-2 from Veles, Eid
CNCL000.09: Create asteroids and moons [WHAT SIZES?]
+6 from Arkford, Bohenar, Zenurion, Zhìn Réng Jiāng, Morthan, Yena/Tenat
0 from Eid
-2 from Zenurion, Veles
CNCL000.10: Create a comet belt (this is crazy):
+4 from Itia, Arkford, Bohenar, Morthan
0 from Eid
-5 from Sadiq?, Yena, Mörkö, Zhìn Réng Jiāng, Veles
CNCL000.14: Create a gas giant planet
+3 from Jens, Arkford, Si
0 from Eid, Yena/Tenat
-3 from Zhìn Réng Jiāng, Morthan, Veles
CNCL000.18: Use gates for interplanetary instead
+5 from Isgon, Arkford, Zhìn Réng Jiāng, Yena/Tenat, Bohenar
-3 from Eid, Morthan, Veles
CNCL000.20: Create a Matryoshka-class gas giant (additional cost: 10%)
+3 from Itia, Arkford, Veles
0 from Eid
-4 from Zhìn Réng Jiāng, Morthan, Veles, Yena/Tenat
CNCL000.22: Create one planet: A large rocky-water planet with a gaseous moon
+3 from Jens, Bohenar, Zenurion
0 from Eid, Zhìn Réng Jiāng, Morthan
-2 from Veles, Yena/Tenat
+1 from Yena/Tenat as a last resort
CNCL000.23: Create 3 stars (assumed: one 3-star system)
+3 from Zhìn Réng Jiāng, Qytesis Xyweus Talios
-4 from Eid, Morthan, Veles, Yena/Tenat
CNCL000.24: Create a moon within 2 size classes of the planet [PASSED] <8*.25*.75 = 1.5E total (0.1875E individual)
+5 from Mörkö, Bohenar, Zenurion, Zhìn Réng Jiāng, Yena/Tenat
0 from Eid, Morthan
-1 from Veles
CNCL000.29: Forget about the godly mess
+3 from Zenurion, Mörkö, Yena/Tenat
-1 from Eid
CNCL001.00: If at least 3 planets are made, make one of them a size+1 gas giant
+3 from Quelor, Sadiq, Arkford
0 from Mörkö, Zhìn Réng Jiāng
-2 Morthan, Veles
PROJECT CNCL002.00: Create The Sandbox <10E base, 5E total with current support (1E individual)>
+4 from Morthan, Tenat/Yena, Zenurion, Bohenar, Mörkö
-1 from Sylvan
TITLES CNCL003.00: Grant Zenurion the title of Admiral
+3 from Veles, Itia, Zenurion
0 from Mörkö
-2 from Eid, Yena
ADMIN CNCL004.01: Remove unpassed obsolete proposals [PASSED]
+10 from Zenurion, Arkford, Bohenar, Eid, Yena, Isgon, Sadiq, Mörkö, Meow, Sylvan
LAW CNCL004.02: Assume Eid's assumption be automatically assumed to be assumably false
+3 from Zenurion, Sadiq, Meow
0 from Mörkö
-1 from Jens
LAW CNCL004.03: Rebuke Srillian for interference with others' creations and unwanted visions
+1 from Yena
0 from Mörkö
-2 from Srillian, Meow
THEME CNCL004.04: Make pizza the official food of the gods
+4 from Eid, Isgon, Sylvan
-2 from Sadiq. Mörkö
THEME CNCL004.04.1: Make pizza the official food of supporters of CNCL004.04
+1 from Meow
PROJECT CNCL004.05: Create an engine that runs on stupidity and attach Eid to it
+2 from Zenurion, Meow
0 from Mörkö
-1 from Sadiq
PROJECT CNCL004.05.1: Add a copy of the Mistake Engine and a comfy catbed to Eid
+1 from Meow
PROJECT CNCL004.06: Reincarnation of lost souls <0E>
+3 from Bohenar, Tenat/Yena, Mörkö
-4 from Sadiq, Eid, Meow, Sylvan
LAW CNCL004.07: Stop pointlessly insulting each other
+2 from Arkford, Mörkö
-1 from Sadiq
LAW CNCL004.07.1: Insults must be purrticularly witty
+1 from Meow
TITLES CNCL005.00: Grant Veles the title of Officer
+1 from Zenurion
+~ from Tenat/Yena if Grand Extravagansus Title Person is appended to Zenurion's name
0 from Meow
-1 from Mörkö
TITLES CNCL005.01: Append Grand Extravagansus Title Person to Zenurion's name
+2 from Tenat/Yena, Veles
-2 from Zenurion, Meow
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