Alright, let's go with that.
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Black Goo was one of the worst threats in the local multiverse. It consumed all to create more of itself. Worse, it adapted. Entire universes had been consumed by Black Goo. Once Black Goo took one universe, their directive to consume continued. Black Goo adapted, and learned to create portals to other universes. Black Goo spread.
One drop. The Goo began spreading through the Infinite Mansion. The Mansion resisted, and adapted, but the Goo adapted faster, and consumed. The Mansion fell.
There were remnants. Sections of the Mansion protected by the inhabitants using powerful magic. One by one, they all fell. There was one left.
The mages within knew they were going to die. Still, they held out.
The Black Goo was not the worst threat in the local multiverse. That title went to one Null Nevermore, collector of gods, slayer of ROBs, hunter of all things impossibly powerful, master of nullification magic.
He was busy holding a poetry contest.
His second in command, however, Nowhere Nevermore, the most powerful rune mage in the local multiverse, was not busy.
He was, in fact, the one who created Black Goo.
At a magic override command given by him, the Goo in the Infinite Mansion's plane turned inert. Nowhere triggered a runic sensor array, and marveled at what he had wrought.
The fact that there were survivors was baffling. It was a miracle that they had managed to hold out so long.
Nowhere encoded some information into something like but far better than a lab notebook, and then began a new experiment.
Experiment "Journey".
"Statement of Intent: test response of human mages to mutation and rapid world travel. Hypothesis: Insanity will result within 5 trips."
Nowhere pulled a magical grenade from somewhere, and lobbed it at the shelter the mages had created. The spells designed to ward away Black Goo failed to block the grenade's burst.
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To join, repost your character sheet, or write a new one if you haven't already done so. I'll be prioritizing players over waitlisters and waitlisters over those who didn't waitlist.
Meanwhile, we can vote on what world to visit first.
A: XCOM 2
B: Dwarf Fortress
C: Super Powereds
D: Some other relatively low-powered setting that I'm relatively familiar with. The write-in option.
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Ao: can you please set the thread title to "World Trek: Evolving Magic"?