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[chaotic skies]

Ah. Yeah, my school just throws projects and stuff at you pretty much from day one, and the rest of my time is filled with working on pet projects and stuff, so I'm normally pretty busy already.

[Amperzand]

You are plainly more industrious than many forumgoers.

[Whisperling]

I imagine forum activity will fall off heavily until people get used to a school workload again.

Grumble six thirty to eight thirty grumble grumble.

[Amperzand]

I have one short class. Which is good, because it's hard.

[chaotic skies]

Nah, not indutrious. I just have to be doing something, or I drive everyone else insane, not to mension myself.

Also, I'll be back who knows when. I'm going to be more busy than usual, because teachers just hate life.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

I'd like to join as a modder. I could also make some graphics eventually if we want to make a graphics pack to go along with this eventually. Rather simple stuff is all I can do, to be honest.

I have a lot of ideas for weird mundane creatures, plus an entire magic pseudophylum based on the Nuckelavee.

Spoiler: stuff (click to show/hide)

I'd like to try my hand at a turn of modding.

I have a few ideas about the lore in the meanwhile (not yet sure what bits could be represented well in-game, though).

So far we're discussing both magic and invaders from another universe. This is on top of an entirely new setting. Three degrees of separation is a bit too chaotic, in my opinion. It makes it difficult to explain to people, and I think what we need to pull something coherent from this adventure in godhood is tighter focus. And on that note, I really love the story being told in the background of young gods crafting a universe.

I think I have a way to describe these separate things, magic, world crafting, and extra-dimensional invaders coherently.

You see in small applications, magic can be a force for order. It can allow those sensitive to it to shape the world around them. Some cave creatures and rocks may even use it passively, perhaps for bioluminessence. But in our godly haste, we overlooked it's cost. As our world grew more attuned to the forces of magic, it began to rend at the fabric of our creation, in places breaking down the very rules it was built upon.

These stains upon our grand tapestry are know as 'evil' to some, but they are simply the workings of chaos. The touch of the mad gods, who lurk in the shadows. We who build this world are gods of Order and Chaos. Only time will tell which side will claim this realm.

Story time finished, what do you all think? I'd call it the Realm of Order and Chaos. Perhaps when a suggestion is brought up, we could call it orderly or chaotic, and if it's orderly it becomes apart of the base realm, and if it's chaotic, it becomes a product of the blighted chaos biomes.

I think this sounds slightly too cliche, to be honest. I'd prefer if it was less magic being at fault directly and more it's presence in these worlds acting as a beacon that attracts the more divergent, random magic-based creatures (going along with the previously-mentioned Dungeon Dimensions analogy). I do like the idea of passive magic use, and I have some ideas for why there are mundane creatures while nature takes advantage of anything that it can that are based on that. Basically, my idea is that mundane creatures use magic at such a basic, cellular and natural level (using RNA-programmable enzyme summoning circles instead of ribosomes, for example) and for such mundane purposes (stuff like increased strength that's likely to be given to mundane creatures by modders anyway for the sake of competitive balance), that it's unrecognizable as magic both to animals that are explicitly magic and to more ordinary magic itself (due to the sheer volume of minute magical effects cluttering up their magic signature, preventing spells from recognizing them as targets), which gives them the magical resistance they need to stop their thaumobiological makeup from being jumbled by ambient magic.

TLDR: I think mundane creatures should use magic, but in a mundane way (not requiring special interactions), like vanilla's giant creatures that defy the square-cube law.

[Bearskie]

What's happening now?

[Cerapter]

Now? Let's go practice medicine.
We wait, I think.

Also, another request: could we have the creature's average size in the creature description? I think some mod or mods did this already, somehow like this:

"(~60 000 cm³) A medium-sized hippy who's all about protecting them trees."

I'd like this mainly because I think most of us will be making pretty alien shit. Some way to QUICKLY determine whether you should even take on an enemy would be nice. I mean, we'll still have the in-game and the 'out-game' wiki for these types of information, but you shouldn't have to consult either of those to get an idea regarding the power of two creatures.

[Urdothor]

Now? Let's go practice medicine.
We wait, I think.

Also, another request: could we have the creature's average size in the creature description? I think some mod or mods did this already, somehow like this:

"(~60 000 cm³) A medium-sized hippy who's all about protecting them trees."

I'd like this mainly because I think most of us will be making pretty alien shit. Some way to QUICKLY determine whether you should even take on an enemy would be nice. I mean, we'll still have the in-game and the 'out-game' wiki for these types of information, but you shouldn't have to consult either of those to get an idea regarding the power of two creatures.

That's a good idea I think.

Sorry, fixing some bugs. The flavor of the day for bugs today:
Strobe deserts. Forgot to define soils. Will do shortly.

Also, Bearskie, a few minor issues I hadn't picked up on your raws. Fixed 'em

Edit: New idea.

So, I know in the original there wasn't really much at all until like the 3rd turn, and everything was rather bare right?

What if before we start everyone involved submits something? Like everyone submit a few basic things, like a basic creature, stone, plant, etc. before we actually begin?

I just finished the templates, so if we want to do that we can.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

I'll see if I can make a simple grazing animal. Nothing too weird. Just pretty much a vacuum-faced armless theropod dinosaur.

[Amperzand]

Strobe deserts.

Strobe deserts.

Strobe deserts.

I feel that this must be a thing. Possibly as a feature of those areas worst corrupted by Chaos?

[Dwarf4Explosives]

I'm pretty sure that that's a bug that can't be replicated. Otherwise I would insist that solid blood walls and creatures with molten glass for blood would have to be a thing as well.

[Bearskie]

Could use exclusive grasses to place rainbow grasses in evil deserts somewhere. Can use alternate tiling to create strobe flashing effect. It's gonna be sooo DIIIISSSCOOOOOOO~!

Edit - Got the PM! Will be starting my turn, but everyone's free to make basic contributions while I'm at it. Here's the save Urdothor sent me, it contains the current templates and stuff. Some of them are off though -- you can't use identical tokens (eg two lungs both with token LUNG), but identical categories are ok.

Note. Halfling's values are alot higher than vanilla's and ours. Basic organic materials are often at least as strong as Urd's stone template, sometimes 2x, and come close to metal values. I'm going to increase my plant stats to match it -- I suggest you do the same.

[Urdothor]

Bearskie, you're more experienced than I am. Could you fix the things that are a bit off, such as the lungs, and boost my inorganic template values?

Or, I'll do it and send it to you. Just which happens to work out best.

[Bearskie]

No problem. I'd also like to tidy up the body files. All the parts would be unchanged, but I'll make the connections more modular through con_cats instead of cons.