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[Shadestyle]

  The idea rumbling around in my head is to attempt a roleplay based on a system I have been using for my own entertainment since my childhood, which is using Bread Ties (Twist Ties, Wires, Ect.) in tandem with detritus, objects and trinkets to create figurines, while also developing a system of rules and lore surrounding them.

There is a lot of ground to cover, as the Crunch and Fluff are quite extensive, and I don't really have any of it written down.

Any questions asked would help me develop the idea if I choose to pursue it.

The main gimmick here is that you utilize bread ties to create your charecter(s) alongside objects for their equipment and components, then convey them either through something like MS Paint Drawings, Pictures taken, or just Text Descriptions.

There is, like I said, a lot of things already established, too much to cover, so ask questions about what every day objects you have on you might correspond to in this system, what color and type of twist ties and wires correspond to what things in setting, and the lore in general.

This game may not actually happen for some time, as the main limitations to running it are a lack of a Camera on my part that can adequately capture the detail of my figurines.

I can also give some Wide Sweeping topics if nobody has any ideas of what to ask.

[S34N1C]

PTW

[MoonyTheHuman]

PTW

[OceanSoul]

Reminds me of an idea I briefly had. It was pretty much using miscellaneous small trinkets, from pencils to rubidium cubes, to summon small monsters to fight with based on what they represented. A pencil could become a spear, a match and block of wood into a small fire elemental, etc.

Anyway, I'll keep an eye on this.

[Shadestyle]

Wire Warriors is a much smaller scale, to contrast, A pencil is mostly worthless, where a Toothpick is considered a Spear, and breaking off a tip makes it the common longsword, and lastly, breaking it in half makes for two shortswords.  For the commonly sized 1 Twist Tie Wire Warrior.

I could set it up so that the construction itself only exists in Text, while the materials used are inspired by things the players themselves find and own.

Possibly with something where I provide rough statistics for things you bring to my attention, but assembling them is done via a charecter sheet and whatever you choose to describe them with.

Thoughts there?

[RoseHeart]

Made me think of the wire frame figures from Smash Bros.

[ATHATH]

A transcript from a long discord conversation:

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"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:18 PM
ahhh
so it's like legos
but with twist ties
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:19 PM
Something like that
And there are a lot of reasons for X and Y methods and techniques
For example
A wire Warrior made entirely of one color of twist tie recieves a multiplier across the board for being a purebreed.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:20 PM
but the other variants have more varied skill sets?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:20 PM
Yes, and special synergies as well
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:21 PM
would each color be attuned to some kind of element?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:21 PM
Not only an element, they also have Drastic Features that completely change the way they work, and youor Core Color also changes a certain crucial ability.
Let me go through the colors.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:27 PM
you do know that discord has a character limit, right?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:27 PM
Red: Fire, Offencive Power, Immunity to Heat, Core effect, you can activate effects at any time, even when it is not your turn, such as beads, or Wire Effects. Wire effect is charging energy.

Yellow, Technology, Speed, Vehicle focus, Higher Carry and Equip Cap, Core effect, you can move, facing the direction you are moving while otherwise still, even when it is not your turn.  Speed Boost for wire effect, and charging object energy.

Blue, Aura, Water (not immune to water, explained later), Martial Prowess, Core Effect, You can rotate around your center of mass, even when it is not your turn, this can lead to slight movement from changing orientation.

White: Holy, Neutral, Used for Wire Tools, This twist tie has no special core effect, but it also has better stats across the board, No Core Effect, but they can also tap into other twist tie effects above their ranking, such as acessing stronger red abilities from less red wire and experiance.  This twist tie is also used in making tools and machinery, though it has fallen out of practice.

Green, Leaf, Ninja, This twist tie has no special core effect, but has the statistics of both Blue and Yellow, in addition, this twist tie has the greatest flight abilities without aid at low rankings, while others, such as Red, Yellow and Blue, have to use Beads which have an active propulsion,
A vehicle, or Aura/Psychic abilities
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:29 PM
so White is good for multiclassers?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:30 PM
Black Wires have the Core effect of Shadowseep, and indeed, this is where the concept in DR comes from, it is twofold, firstly, they can teleport between shadows, second, Black Wires (But nothing else aside from specific stuff) can pass through objects at will, even if it is not their turn, though this is not a constant effect, and has a very low time that it can be active, but the black wire will not revert to normal until it is out, enabling travel through objects and dodging powerful attacks via one method or another.  They are another common flier.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:30 PM
are beads expendables?
also
passing through objects at-will while it's not their turn
why don't they just go ethereal whenever someone tries to hit them?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:31 PM
Because that requires two things.
One
They have to be a purebreed
Or their other wires are still vulnerable
And they can't be wielding any equipment, since it is not rendered incorporeal with them.
Outside of specific circumstances in higher tier play.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:32 PM
so why not just have black spikes for hands?
or other natural weapons
or just hit stuff
*with bare fists
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:32 PM
Well, that is a perfect example of downsides.
You could indeed do that, at the expense of almost everything else.
And black wires are rare enough as it is
Anyway
There are a few more
Which are rare enough to not merit as much description
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:33 PM
but trading raw damage power for immunity to physical damage seems like a preeeeeetty good deal(edited)
you can also just phase through vehicles and such
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:34 PM
Is it really though? especially when it has a low period of time it can work.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:34 PM
so you hard-counter mechs and physical attackers
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:34 PM
It takes two hits instead of one, or a special weapon.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:34 PM
ah
so you can dodge pretty much one attack per round
do you have to collect the twist ties irl?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:34 PM
You can dodge multiple, but not in quick sucession.
There is literally no way to moderate that, so you have a point buy, but can demonstrate new things to me one way or another to have them added to the list of things you can obtain.
Now
Minority Wires
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:35 PM
ah
hm
idea here
what happens if you paint a twist tie?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:36 PM
Clear Wire is rare, only found in some rare electronics as far as I know, and they are commonly associated with your Metroid/Alien/Terminator Wire Warriors. All other features are unknown, though they can turn invisible, and rarely have any tools at all.

That is covered in a diferent lesson, and is equated with disease.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:37 PM
biological warfare yaaaaaaaaaay
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:37 PM
Unlike us humies, Wire Warriors do not Heal from disease, they just patch over it.
And there is no real method of utilizing most methods without being exposed to it.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:37 PM
so they repaint themselves back into their original color(s)?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:37 PM
No
they add more wires to themselves
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:37 PM
ah
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:37 PM
Until the damage is wrapped in their new layers
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:38 PM
then discard the old ones?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:38 PM
They are like reverse insects
No
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:38 PM
they can't ever lose the old ones?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:38 PM
A wire Warrior ages and grows by simply adding more wire to themselves.
This has upsides and downsides
As a lot of gear is size specific
And requires peripherals that are lost when increasing in size
Like hand shape
Wire Warriors are not actually articulate at all
They have no moving joints unless they specifically add them after gaining more than one wire.
They move and interact with the world because of what is essencially personal telekinesis
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:39 PM
ah
so why can only some of them fly?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:40 PM
Wire Composition, Bead Usage, Abilities such as psychic power or directed currents, or simply a shape that is conducive to flight without articulation
Since they have control over their horizontal movement and rotation
they can arbitrarily work like a jet engine, essencially, with enough raw power, or by creating structures like wings, they can rock back and forth, gaining height
And of course
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:41 PM
so they can't naturally go vertically
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:41 PM
Some can simply be strong enough to lift themselves with their own movement ability
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:41 PM
only horizontally?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:41 PM
No, they can
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:41 PM
ah
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:41 PM
Just not enough to fly
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:41 PM
but fighting gravity is hard
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:41 PM
Think of it like lifting yourself up by your arms.
If you are really strong,
You can clib
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:41 PM
ah
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:41 PM
Otherwise
You can "Jump"
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:41 PM
so what are beads, then?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:41 PM
You know plastic beads RL?
They have abilities that can be activated in setting.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:42 PM
yeah
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:42 PM
Based on shape and color and composition
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:42 PM
what kind of abilities, though?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:42 PM
Well
They work on a charge basis
On their own
The more charge they are recieving, the more stable and weak the effect, strangely enough, but you can overpower that with even more power, in some cases, but it requires a much stronger power supply than normal.
On their own, using a bead usually ruins it somewhat, changing it's shape as it melts or shatters
The effect is well worth the waste though, with the abundance of them
If you integrate them into your weapons, or wear them
They can be used passively or actively
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:44 PM
can a red warrior repair them?(edited)
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:44 PM
A yellow can repurpose broken ones into argueably more useful tools
For example
A bead broken in half is often used to create a visor with it's new half-ring shape
A different effect, but arguably better
And a bead can be partially melted
intentionally
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:45 PM
does it get new powers for being a visor?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:45 PM
In order to do mad science.
Yes
But it loses old ones.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:45 PM
OH
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:45 PM
So a Red Round Bead that makes a directed jet of fire
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:45 PM
you know how some twist ties are multicolored
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:45 PM
When broken in half might make a wave of force.
And yes
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:45 PM
what happens if you make a core out of one of those
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:45 PM
Well
Red-white wires have the natural ability of imitating...
Dang
This is tough to explain
You know the speed boost pads?
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:46 PM
it's like a half-breed?
in racing games?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:46 PM
Red-white wires have the ability to create directional force along their pattern.
So if you make a wheel, ski, or tread from it
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:46 PM
so they can fling stuff
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:47 PM
It can act like a working one without moving
And yes
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:47 PM
possibly including themselves
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:47 PM
It can fling stuff
And also
Wheels
Just spool one up
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:47 PM
ah
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:47 PM
And make a fast wheel instead of legs
Also
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:47 PM
so what does a red-white core do, then?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:47 PM
Normal legs would allow strong strafing
Allows that outside of your turn.
Weaker than Red's omni effect
But if you are a pure breed Redwhite
You can exploit that for massive devestation, obviously
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:48 PM
you can move AND fling stuff
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:48 PM
Red cores can arbitrarily activate effects
Such as beads and wire effects
So their most common use is shitty locomotion
Since thye can neither rotate nor horizontal move
but
They could have something like omnidirectional tread feet
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:48 PM
what happens if you have a twist tie that starts out red at one end and then gradually goes through all of the colors as it goes down the length of the tie
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:48 PM
And slide around roughly
Or just have missile battery attached to them
And let loose at all times during battle
WEll, there is already precident for that in Chimeras
Due to highly unethical experements, Chimeras were the first artificial wire warrior, they have massive dreadlocks of several twist ties, and are usually multi-color, they are made by weaving multiple twist ties together in a braid, and both of the open ends are made into a head, arms, a tail, hair, and legs.
They move quadrapedally, and have no special core effect
They also do NOT take well to upgrading
Their base form is highly powerful, but it's design makes them lose power when gaining wire.
they are also usually insane, but there is one Chimera which went above and beyond in power
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:51 PM
so they start out strong but get weaker
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:51 PM
And is one of the great villains of the setting, or once was.
Well, if you never get new wires, you don't age, but you also get sicker
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:51 PM
ah
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:51 PM
Since your wires degrade over time and you don't cover it up
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:51 PM
because of wear and tear
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:51 PM
Also
Combat in setting is decidedly nonlethal, as all forms of Wire Warrior Power do not physically harm things
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:52 PM
can you eat other chimeras or something to (re)gain strength?
oh?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:52 PM
And instead attack energy.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:52 PM
I would have thought that flinging stuff would hurt things
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:52 PM
So the fire jets, impacts of fists and the like
Wire warriors that are not above like a half pound
Are usually immune to even a full on pitch
into concrete
They would lose a lot of energy though
Which is the point
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:53 PM
because their energy holds them together?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:53 PM
Now
No
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:53 PM
it protects them?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:53 PM
It just lets them move, and is drained from these things, even if they do not hurt them
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:53 PM
what happens if they encounter
say
a rl dog
or a cat
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:53 PM
No living matter exists in setting.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:53 PM
ah
ok
carry on
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:54 PM
The origin story is that a domestic wizard spilled the elixer of immortality when bombs dropped. This elixer was strong enough to not only coat everything in his kitchen, but to also blast that magic wave across the planet.
Toothpicks grow from the ground like bamboo, Toy factories become dense jungles of harsh predators, and Twist Ties fall into the Magic Pot, starting the first sapient species left in the wake of the end.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:55 PM
is there a limited amount of this magic-stuff?
like
will it run out?
is there enough to go around?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:56 PM
It will not run out, it was the catalist for "life" surviving, and it is essencially a huge re-incarnation plot.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:56 PM
ah
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:56 PM
So every living thing got equated to an inanimate counterpart.
Hence why instead of trees, there are mostly just forests of Random wood products now
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:57 PM
what happened to the corpses of the organic creatures?
are there corpse elementals or something?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:57 PM
Degraded naturally.  Some Trees and Bones still exist where clearly obvious.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:57 PM
do bones have any special powers?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:58 PM
Nope, no more than rocks or bricks.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:58 PM
what if they were cut into a bead-shape?
could one artificially-create beads?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:58 PM
Two factors
The bone will probably be purely passive and defencive
And ye
The method by which to make artificial tools and beads are usually reserved for high danger occupations
Since you can't use wire fire to melt beads
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:59 PM
ah
you need REAL fire
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:59 PM
you have to use actual fire, which is much harder to come by
Yes
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:59 PM
oh
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:59 PM
Also
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:59 PM
wait
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 10:59 PM
Forbidden as well
For the most part
Basically
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 10:59 PM
so CAN or CAN'T non-glass materials be turned into beads
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:00 PM
I didn't quite catch that
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:00 PM
Can, but Your milage may vary
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:00 PM
ah
hm
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:00 PM
Bone and stone will probably be armor at the absolute best, or structural components for something.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:00 PM
I wonder what would happen if you tried to turn a wire core into a bead...
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:00 PM
As in the metal component?
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:00 PM
no
I mean
you "kill" a wire warrior
melt down his corpse
turn it into a bead
laugh evilly
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:01 PM
The wire loses properties when it loses cohesion
So if you kill a wire warrior
IT is only really good for salvage
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:01 PM
aw
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:01 PM
And bending wire repeatedly in salvage also weakens it
So it loses quality fast like that.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:01 PM
so melting it down would ruin it
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:01 PM
Anyway
Wire Warrior Geneva Convention basically amounts to this
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:02 PM
don't actually kill stuff?
like in pokemon?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:04 PM
Don't use Actual Blades, Actual Points are frowned upon, Water is to be avoided at all costs, Fire as well, Magents are considered to be Mindwhammy of a pretty high tier, Nobody talks about how super glue makes a Wire Warrior's current form basically immortal as it acts like a resin, and also grants them a huge boost in power, in return for basically stasis locking them, if someone is diseased from either rust or Melting or stripping, they are a flight risk.

You are allowed to use metal weapons like nails, push pins, and needles, but stabbing someone with one is considered a pretty major faux paux, since you slightly damage their wires, even though it does a fair amount of damage combatwise, also, things that do physical damage usually don't weaken a wire warrior's combat ability, and in some cases may even strenghten it, but at a terrible cost not worth paying.
If you stab through a wire, it is considered a dick move, and if you part someone's wire by stabbing, like it parts their wires aside, it is considered kind of a dick move.
Especially when it does not help kill them, if that is your goal.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:06 PM
so what exactly do magnets do to wire warriors?
what would happen if you magnetized a wire warrior core (can you even magnetize twist ties)?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:06 PM
Well, They are basically the cross between The Borg, Metroids, Running magnets over electronics, and Grey Goo.
Also
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:07 PM
so they start trying to magnetize other stuff
thus infecting THEM
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:07 PM
Magnets on their own are malicious, with their level of Blue/Orange increasing with the strength of magnetism
So what will happen is
you CAN fight them
But only if they are already possessing things.
Like nails, metal bits, and other such things.
they are perfectly willing to just try and beat the hell out of you with a simple golem like machine form
They are also perfectly willing to merge with other magnets as well
Wire Warriors actually escape the easiest
Not TOO much metal in them
So they can generally be removed unless something other than the magnet is holding them
Some wire warriors are immune to this effect, and exploit magnetism ruthlessly to enhance their strength
But it is not really specific to any one type of twist tie
And seems to be a crap shoot
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:09 PM
so it's like being a necromancer
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:09 PM
Thankfully, no, they do not magnetize other things.
Not any more than normal magnets do
Yes
Or an Alchemist ala Homunculi
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:10 PM
what are "Blue/Orange" levels?
+/-?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:10 PM
Blue Orange Morality
They become less benign as their magnetism increases.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:10 PM
ah
yeah
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:10 PM
Magnets don't have a hivemind
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:11 PM
I know what that is
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:11 PM
But they all act the same, since they run off the same principles
So they might as well be a hive mind
Their usual MO is
"Sit somewhere until stimulous occurs, integrate to limits, replace as needed."
Since they also lose their maliciousness as they achive higher quality states of being of sufficiant mass
Due to Magnets losing strength with the amount of things attached to them.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:12 PM
ah
so theoretically
could there be magnet anti-heroes or something?
can magnets "eat" other magnets to gain their strength?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:14 PM
Not really, their goals are too simple, they are Dumb Ai with a very precice chinese box.
And just by existing they mindwhammy people if they are too weak
Anyway
Onto other horrors in this setting
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:14 PM
ah
so they're like great old ones
but less powerful
more like minor eldritch horrors
that some necromancers try to deal with
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:16 PM
The most benign disease in setting is probably, right after normal wear and tear, burning, suprisingly, being reduced to cinders does not make you go crazy like a thousand other things might, but instead is just good old fashioned Pain Without End, at least until you patch it away if you are lucky.
Many Wire Warriors simply die of it
But there are clear exeptions.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:17 PM
can you survive as an ash cloud or something?
or a puddle of molten metal and plastic
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:17 PM
Nope.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:17 PM
OH
how does mercury work in-setting
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:18 PM
It causes a Wire Sickness, rather than a Real One.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:18 PM
oh
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:18 PM
Being near it and in it can cause status effects.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:18 PM
I thought that it would be some kind of slime or something
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:18 PM
Oh don't get me wrong
It could be
But it also might not be
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:18 PM
ah
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:18 PM
there is a lot of world
And it is hundreds of times bigger by this setting
's logic
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:19 PM
oh
what's the science-knowledge level of the wire warriors
like
do they know that the planet is round
IS the planet round in this setting?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:20 PM
Mario Tier, There are too many communities and too many of them are isolated for a consistent science.
The planet is round
Just a bit more cratery than usual
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:21 PM
ah
are roombas and such still around?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:22 PM
Yes, but nothing is active unless someone makes it active.
They would be good for cities or Parts.
Since even the screws in them could arm a lot of people with weapons and tools
Among the Electronic Wires for Cable and Rope and Wiring for Yellow Vehicles
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:22 PM
so they just don't work?
or could someone pilot them
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:23 PM
They can be made to work
Everything either lacks power or lacks something simple or hard.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:23 PM
did the laws of physics change slightly or something?(edited)
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:23 PM
No, just circumstances.
A wire jostled loose, or missing batteries
And of course
Without living beings
None of the power plants could possibly be running for long.
And of course
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:24 PM
ah
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:24 PM
Those ancient relics
Are barely comprehensible by most wire warriors
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:24 PM
so you mentioned a wizard earlier
what types of magic are available in the setting
just beads and innate abilities and such?
alchemy?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:25 PM
No other magics are mentioned or referred to, in general, aside from object magic, and clerical magic.  Alchemy is usually more active focussed, since Wire Power generally works on energies, without really altering matter much, it usually amounts to stringing beads together to make a new form of energy or an effect.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:26 PM
clerical magic?
what are the major religions?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:26 PM
Two deities exist in setting thus far, or rather, they have existed, and incarnated and reincarnated, multiple times, and even having multiple incarnations, some of them even opposing one another.
Brick Dragon is considered the "Good" Force in the universe, The largest Pure Breed Wire Warrior, they existed once upon a time, a long time ago, they are made of a now extinct type of twist tie, brown, they are a three headed Dragon, winged and made of a brick like arrangement of wire, with their body being made of brick shaped rolls of wire attached to one another.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:29 PM
what did brown wires originally do?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:29 PM
Conversely, after that, a long time later, a much larger dragon made entirely of Artificial Green Wire comes into being, made partially of technology such as a giant pocket watch for it's chest, and several eye augmentations, it stood as tall as my forearm, a western style dragon, also winged.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:29 PM
why are they gone?
so to achieve godhood you just have to grow big and powerful enough?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:30 PM
They were moderate speed, High Defence, Low Attack, they are not all that special, very similar to white, only instead of more skill growth, they are simply highly durable in wire combat.
They are gone because the only wire warrior who had them was Brick Dragon.
And Brick Dragon is completely lost.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:31 PM
lost as in insane?
or just in-hiding
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:31 PM
Gone
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:31 PM
why were there so few brown twist ties
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:31 PM
Nobody knows if they are Dead or Hiding
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:31 PM
did they just all disappear?
ah
maybe they all went to the rapture or something
whoooooo knoooooooooows
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:31 PM
They were highly concentrated, and only ended up being used to construct Brick Dragon
Also

[ATHATH]

Part Two!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Godhood is not achived by mere size.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:32 PM
how IS it achieved, then?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:32 PM
Size, Age, Health, and Definite Direction.
You can't just layer it on
endlessblaze (skullduggry) - Yesterday at 11:32 PM
Constructed? How do wire warriors form?
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:33 PM
is Green Dragon a chimera?
also hi EB
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:33 PM
No, Both Gearshift Dragon and Brick Dragon were Multiple Wire Cores
As in
They STARTED with multiple wires
There was no point in their existance where they were small
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:33 PM
so you have to be born special?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:33 PM
Yeah, same for constructed monsters.
And
That can be lost easily
By simply not progressing in a directed manner
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:34 PM
so how do you "build" an artificial wire warrior
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:34 PM
Like if they just mindlessly layer wires.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:34 PM
is that just a euphemism for a chimera?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:34 PM
Normal wire warriors are born by one common method and several uncommon ones.
There is a central "city" where the Cauldron is, Wires are tossed into it, wire warriors come out, fresh and ready to live, where they usually migrate outward.
Artificial Wire Warriors are made either by tossing in artificial or artificially altered Twist ties into the cauldron, or some how getting past security to obtain some essence to pour into a specific construct, or putting a specific construct into the cauldron instead of raw wire.
Each of the factions has a right to the cauldron, so it is considered neutral terretory, and govorned by whoever happens to be the legendary knight at the time.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:37 PM
so why is making custom wire warriors illegal?
could one reenter the cauldron to try and reincarnate oneself?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:38 PM
Because when you toss Raw wire in, you get a wire warrior of some strange and fantastic or mundane sort, and if you throw a custom one in there, you get something else usually.
If you raise a chimera, you are not getting an intelligent and benevolant mind in it usually.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:38 PM
ah
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:38 PM
And a chimera
Is a SPECIFIC Artificial Wire Warrior

"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:38 PM
so most of the custom ones are chimeras and/or insane
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:38 PM
More specifically
They are actually pretty Obsolete
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:39 PM
oh
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:39 PM
With the new advents in Wire Tech
Chimeras are considered pretty wasteful
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:39 PM
are most of the artificial wire warriors still insane, though?
*new
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:39 PM
No, just actively Malicious or Subserviant.
It depends on the circumstances
Right now
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:40 PM
so is Green Dragon "evil"?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:41 PM
The common Artificial Wire Warrior is made from Red-White, it is common, artificial, and perfect for androids, their failure condition is that Gearshift Dragon has incarnated completely once in it's original form, which was lost, and again in a Red-white Body made to raise it once more, and it has since been able to taint Red-white Wires ever since.
there have been numerous red-white Incarnations of Gearshift Dragon
What they usually do is force other red-whites to integrate with them
Suck up all the REd white they can
And grow to gargantuan size before TWISTING their bodies into a crude facimily of the Dragon himself.
from their perspective, this is rather horrifying, obviously
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:43 PM
so Gearshift dragon is "bad"?
or just really doesn't want to permanently die
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:43 PM
So on that front, Red-White Androids are common and accepted as labor, and have replaced White Wires in that role as machine part wires as well, but they are succeptable to that corruption.
Gearshift Dragon simply wants complete control over all wire warriors.
and to kill all that were not made by their hand.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:43 PM
oh
OH
wait
by "their" hand
do you mean stuff created by wire warriors in general
or stuff created by Gearshift Dragon
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:44 PM
As in, Entities made by Gearshift Dragon
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:44 PM
ah
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:44 PM
so Omnicide followed by A God Am I
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:45 PM
is Brick Dragon any better?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:45 PM
Brick Dragon was known for not doing much and then dissapearing.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:45 PM
ah
so he's gone right now?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:45 PM
Some historians consider this to be an action taken out of some kind of enlightenment, others disagre.
As far as the greater world knows
And indeed
Most don't even know Brick Dragon Existed at all
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:45 PM
so how does the whole divine magic system work?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:46 PM
Ironically, it is almost exclusively evil
You can bargain with Gearshift, risking yourself, or with various other entities.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:46 PM
other entities?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:47 PM
Utilizing magnetism without a magnet, Being Infected by Rubberband creatures, all of it is considered under the same banner of Clerical Magic
using something sentient to give you power
Whisperling - Yesterday at 11:48 PM
"Rubberband creatures"
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:48 PM
so what exactly does this Clerical Magic DO?
Whisperling - Yesterday at 11:48 PM
Guessing those are parasites of a sort?
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:48 PM
oh
hi whisperling
Whisperling - Yesterday at 11:48 PM
Hey.
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:48 PM
Entities made of knotted rubber bands, they are made by cutting a rubber band into a single string
Twisting that
Then tying it off
Resuling in a worm like entitie with two antennae
It untwists itself and wraps around prey, controlling their physical movements.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:48 PM
so you can make them artificially if you can find a rubber band?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:48 PM
Yes
Larger ones alter their twisting to form Anthropomorphic bodies as well
Only increasing their hostility and power
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:49 PM
do they have any goals?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:49 PM
Mindless Animals
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:49 PM
ah
can one train them?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:49 PM
So they can be controlled and trained
The best way is full integration.
try to warp your limb during a session, and add it to yourself
Basically turning the tables on it
It requires it not fightging back of course.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:50 PM
do they want anything?
like
some kind of food, say?
belly rubs?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:50 PM
To consume energy and attack nearby moving things.
Wire Warriors Make it, so they are an appealing target
They can also make it, making them an appealing trainer/symbiote.
Stretchy arms are not out of the question
But it does raise your corruption
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:51 PM
how much of a drain do rubber bands put on your energy output?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:52 PM
Depends how much of your surface area is covered.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:52 PM
ah
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:52 PM
If you are below around 5 Wires
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:52 PM
do rubber bands grow?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:52 PM
It is enough to subsume you
And no
They do not grow naturally after creation.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:52 PM
ah
good
SO
what does the Gearshift Dragon offer?
or other entities?
anything of note?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:53 PM
Power and knowledge, and special designs to incorperate into your own.
Like specific shapes of wire that enable new features and powers
Or simply unique combinations of abilities.
and an across the board evil power boost
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:54 PM
by power do you mean general stats?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:54 PM
But it raises your corruption over time, and is hard to remove.
Yes
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:54 PM
ah
can I call out to a divine being remotely?
like
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:54 PM
Yes, but only if they call back.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:54 PM
can I invoke the name of Gearshift and make a back right there and then
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:54 PM
Circumstances help.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:55 PM
or do I have to meet with it in-person
so I can't make a pact with Brick Dragon unless I find him
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:55 PM
No, there are currently no incarnations, if Gearshift has an incarnation, it is not making deals any more
It is kill on sight and integrate what can be integrated.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:55 PM
OH
WELL THEN
and here I thought that he was benevolent
okaaaaay
so
is there anything that's at least neutral that one can make a pact with?
other than the rubber bands
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:56 PM
It makes deals in order to escape the hells it's various incarnations are trapped in
Hmm
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:56 PM
wait what
Brick Dragon's in Hell?
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:57 PM
What?
I have been talking about Gearshift this whole time
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:57 PM
OOOOOHHHHH
sorry
that makes muuuuch more sense now
so
hm
maybe I should rephrase my question
is there anything that I can make a pact with that won't try to kill/harm me on sight?(edited)
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:58 PM
Hmm
Most of them would subsume you if they don't do either of those.
but if you went to them
You might get "Serve me then" Instead of "[OBEY]"
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:59 PM
okay
Scum Egg Child - Yesterday at 11:59 PM
There are also countless factions
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Yesterday at 11:59 PM
do any of them have goals that won't involve the fall of civilization as we know it?
March 1, 2017
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:00 AM
I mean
I guess the rubber bands don't
/do
they just wanna eat
and won't reproduce
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:00 AM
Magnets have no real goals, Rusted are just insane, Gearshift wants total dominion.
Hmm
your best bet would be trying to contact a Large Magnet
Or a large group
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:00 AM
so if I pledged my services to a magnet
what sort of stuff would that give me?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:01 AM
Firstly, your very own servile magnet
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:01 AM
the ability to imbue sentience into metal objects?(edited)
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:01 AM
To be used at your leisure
And, using magnet grity
You could inbue your body with it
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:01 AM
magnet grity?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:01 AM
Giving you permenant magnetic power
Crushed magnets
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:01 AM
ah
so I could move metal stuff with my mind?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:03 AM
More like control metal you are touching like a limb
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:03 AM
so what sort of stuff would the magnets want me to do?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:03 AM
and move around metal.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:03 AM
ah
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:03 AM
Get more magnets
Get more metal
bring it to them
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:03 AM
say
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:03 AM
Get specific things
Bring it to them
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:03 AM
if I touched the metallic insides of a twist tie
could I puppet someone else?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:03 AM
As much as an equivilant magnet could.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:04 AM
ok
so yeah
magnets+rubber seems like a good bet
can I infuse the rubber band worms with magnetism as well?
Whisperling - Today at 12:04 AM
Guessing not
The crushed magnet will stick to you
because you have metal
The rubber band does not.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:05 AM
what if I embedded flecks of metal inside of the worm?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:05 AM
You could wrap a band around a magnet
But only a sizable one.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:05 AM
oh
so what are the rusted like?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:07 AM
Natural Rusted are like undead, only instead of coming back to life, they live when they should be dead, their intelligence lowers, and they lose that spark.
Water Rusted are basically either crazed pirates or Apocalyptic buffs obsessed with water, and of course, being rusted already, they have nigh immunity to water, making fighting them a deadly dance.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:08 AM
so do they need to feed on "living" wire warriors to survive?
how insane ARE they?
like
can you have a conversation with one?
and how do you earn their patronage?
just take a dip in the water and swim around for a bit?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:10 AM
You can converse with the ones that are still capable ofit.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:10 AM
does that depend on how rusty they are?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:10 AM
The natural rusted ones are like Dark Souls undead, slowly losing what sanity they have, while water rusted slowly slip into a different flavor of lucid madness.
You can probably talk to any Water Rusted Wire.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:11 AM
ah
what do they want?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:11 AM
Not that it would be easy, they are antagonistic to even one another, though less so.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:12 AM
so
let's say I take a dip in the water
and become rusted
is the only gained ability immunity to water damage?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:13 AM
Immunity to water damage, and a boost in speed.
Also insanity.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:13 AM
how much of a boost to speed?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:13 AM
Corruption directly correlates to losing PC status.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:13 AM
ah
so it's a Bad Thing
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:13 AM
Greater under water, but roughly 1.5
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:14 AM
is it like essence loss in shadowrun?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:15 AM
Think of corruption like humanity.  You gain corruption from Real Damage, PC wise.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:15 AM
ah
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:15 AM
You lose corruption by growing or painfully shedding wire.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:15 AM
that's why you don't actually try to hurt people
they go insane
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:16 AM
Yeah, aside from the obvious moral issues, you usually fail to kill them, and make them stronger.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:16 AM
so why does magnetism damage me?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:16 AM
did I say it does?
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:16 AM
I thought that it caused corruption
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:16 AM
It raises corruption and controls you.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:16 AM
or something like that
yeah
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:16 AM
But that corruption is temporary, and caused by magnetism directly interacting with your metal core.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:16 AM
ah
ok
so
if I get in to the game
I think I might accept a rubber band worm to serve as my arms
and the magnets' "blessing"
because they're cool
I don't think the rust stuff is "worth it"
although I suspect that none of this stuff is
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:18 AM
These are not rewards, they are consolations.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:18 AM
can I embed magnet flecks into a rubber band worm?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:19 AM
Look, if you joined this game, becoming antagnonistic results in losing PC status.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:19 AM
ah
well
I think it's like being a warlock, no?
I wouldn't try to actively go against the party and stuff
partially because I'd get ganked by the police and stuff
but
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:21 AM
I don't belive you.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:21 AM
I might be able to harbor just a liiiiiittle bit of insanity
ah well
honestly, I don't blame you
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:21 AM
That answer does not assure me.
"HONESTY" DISTRIBUTOR - Today at 12:21 AM
hm
should I copy/paste this conversation into the bay twelve thread?
Scum Egg Child - Today at 12:23 AM
You should have started it there, but do so if you please.

[OceanSoul]

...I hardly know what to say. At first, I thought the idea and mechanics would work really well with some reflavoring. However, I kept reading, and with all the flavor you've added to this premise, I don't think you'd consider it. I'm sure this could all be made into something special, but I'm not sure it could be played well over the internet.

[Shadestyle]

I can consider a lot of things. I won't know unless I'm told, after all.

[Sosoku234]

Interested. What differences are there between the colors of the Breadties? How is HP determined? What would pencils/pens be used for?

[Shadestyle]

Red: Fire, Offencive Power, Immunity to Heat, Core effect, you can activate effects at any time, even when it is not your turn, such as beads, or Wire Effects. Wire effect is charging energy.

Yellow: Technology, Speed, Vehicle focus, Higher Carry and Equip Cap, Core effect, you can move, facing the direction you are moving while otherwise still, even when it is not your turn.  Speed Boost for wire effect, and charging object energy.

Blue: Aura, Water (not immune to water, explained later), Martial Prowess, Core Effect, You can rotate around your center of mass, even when it is not your turn, this can lead to slight movement from changing orientation.

White: Holy, Neutral, Used for Wire Tools, This twist tie has no special core effect, but it also has better stats across the board, No Core Effect, but they can also tap into other twist tie effects above their ranking, such as acessing stronger red abilities from less red wire and experiance.  This twist tie is also used in making tools and machinery, though it has fallen out of practice.

Green: Leaf, Ninja, This twist tie has no special core effect, but has the statistics of both Blue and Yellow, in addition, this twist tie has the greatest flight abilities without aid at low rankings, while others, such as Red, Yellow and Blue, have to use Beads which have an active propulsion, or Vehicles/Aura/Innate powers.

Black Wires: Darkness, Shadows, Underground, Core effect is Shadowseep, it is twofold, firstly, they can teleport between shadows, second, Black Wires (But nothing else on their person aside from specific stuff) can pass through objects at will, even if it is not their turn, though this is not a constant effect, and has a very low time that it can be active, but the black wire will not revert to normal until it is out, enabling travel through objects and dodging powerful attacks via one method or another.  They are another common flier.

Clear: Rare and Odd Wires, they are mostly unknown, though they can turn invisible, and rarely use tools.

Brown: An extinct type of twist tie, it used to compose one of the primary deities in setting.

Red/White: A special type of wire discovered very recently, it is used to make technologies from twist ties, along with other robotic wire warriors.  It's Core Ability is the power to activate it's wire effect at any time, even when it is not it's turn.  It's Wire Effect is primarly the ability to make movement along the chevron pattern along it's twist tie, allowing it to emulate conveyor belts, wheels, and treads without actual movement.

Silver/Gold/Crimson: Rare All-powerful wire types, almost no wire warriors have them as a core, and as such, their core effects are unknown.  However, they specialize in Multiplication, A single Silver Wire multiplies all stats by 500%, and drastically increases their abilities, Gold increases all statistics by 1000%, and Crimson increases all stats by 1000%, but increases insanity and bloodlust to a degree.  God-wires are easily distinguished by their reflective coating and luster.

Fuzzy: Mostly unusable to normal Wire Warriors, this wire type primarly composes a specific and isolated community of animal-like-cousins of Wire Warriors.

Orange: The close companion of Red, This type is associated with Heat and the Desert, they have a split between Attack and Speed, and their special ability is to co-exist with red wire while allowing the wire warrior in question to remain a pure breed and continue receiving the bonuses inherent.

HP is determined by the age, size, and ratio of twist ties in the wire warrior, and there are also beads and objects which can increase, restore, and protect one's health.

Pencils and Pens would be the stuff of structure, siege, and in the case of pens, they are often dissembled into their nib, and their other parts, as a Pen Nib can be used both as a vial of Real Toxin with it's staining abilities, or as a bullet to high caliber Wire Weapons.

[Sosoku234]

What does cloth do? Where does the spark of life come from for the wire creatures? What do different core materials do (I.e. Steel, Copper, Gold, or other various metals)? What kind of world is it?

[Kansa]

PTW

[Shadestyle]

Cloth is one of the extremely high tier flexible armors, easily surpassing paper, thin plastics, and even foil.

The Spark of Life comes from a giant pot which is the nexux of Earth's Remaining life.

Most if not all twist ties are made from thin iron or steel, and it has little effect aside from Real Durability, the coating of the twist tie determines it's primary effects.

The world has no traditional life, no animals, humans, trees, or anything approaching those. Instead, Life takes the form of objects which manifest as flora and fauna, toy factories work without workers, toothpicks grow from the ground, green tape bound to them in a facsimile of leaves, forests of bamboo skewers jut from the land in defiance of manufacturing.  Anything that is living does not exist, replaced with imitations made from common materials of the modern world.