Ema: a Story of Gods (OOC) Cycle 3: Life
The World which was named Dirt by the Gods had been formed, and received the blessed light of the Sun. Now all that missed for it to be truly complete, was Life.------Lands------
First, several Gods took upon themselves to shape Dirt.
MPaïspmapma was the first to act, using 1 Essence to bless a Region with fertility and increased nutrients. But by using 1 Essence, MPaïspmapma instead blessed a Continent's worth of land.[The Fertile Continent]
Razel then used 1 Essence to create a great variety of Plants, from trees to grass to moss, he placed all of those in one region, a beautiful and equally dangerous jungle.[Razel's Jungle]
Elmedo next used 1 Essence to carve a great chasm near the region that would be destined to be the Cornfield. Filling it with water and covering it with fog, Elmedo formed the Brumous Lake.[The Brumous Lake]
Gasnareth Imrep also used 1 Essence to thrust several great white mountains of bones and rock from the bowels of Dirt, creating a mountainous Region known as the Dread Mountains.
X'arilyg then raised a purple stone tower in the Dread Mountains, the Eye Tower.[The Dread Mountains and the Eye Tower]
Following Gasnareth and X'arilyg' lead, Tachyon Everlord used 1 Essence to thrust an even greater mountain from Dirt. Naming it Ascension's Peak and creating a great tower at its peak using 1 Lesser Essence, he intended to make it a passageway to the Divine Plane in the future.[Ascension's Peak and its Tower]
And finally, Lifestealer was the last to shape the world for this Cycle. Using a Great Essence, he formed a great sea in the center of the Torus continent.[Torus Great Inner Sea]
------Life------
Next came Life. Many Gods worked to fill the World with mortal beings.
MPaïspmapma created a species of Plants known as Corn, which he placed in a fertile Region called the Cornfield. Shortly thereafter, Aiwibhttjoikuboneschwëltom!ernauocks used 1 Lesser Essence to curse the Corn to alter its properties.Species Name: Corn
Description: Any of a variety of starchy plants grown for their grains or kernels.
Traits:
-Beautiful
-Increased yield
-Resistance to pests.
Manannan Silverhand then created a species of Creatures and a species of Plants to go alongside them: the Spirit Chickens and the Chicken Vines.Species Name: Spirit Chickens
Description: It resembles your basic wild-type Gallus gallus, but a bit larger and with much lighter plumage, tending to stark white edged with pastel orange or green in the palest regions. Spirit Chickens wander across the entire surface of the planet and devour pretty much everything indiscriminately, as long as it is small enough for a slightly enlarged chicken to eat. Spirit Chickens cooperate readily and are tremendously formidable in numbers, with even fairly small flocks easily able to peck much larger creatures to death.
Traits:
-chickens
-definitely don't live in space, who gave you that notion
-nevertheless chickens
-omnivorous
-murder
Species Name: Chicken Vines
Description: Chicken Vines exist in symbiosis with Spirit Chickens. Spirit Chickens find them mostly unpalatable, but their fast growth rate and penchant for seeking out warmth cause them to frequently snare potential prey which chickens will soon find and devour — or, well, it will as soon as there are prey animals available. In return, chicken droppings fertilise the chicken vines. It is the circle of life.
Traits:
-not chickens, but chicken allies
-heat-seeking snaring action
- at some point I may have stopped caring slightly
- I do not apologise
Elmedo then created a species of Plants, Goldweed. He placed them around the Brumous Lake.Species Name: Goldweed
Description: A species of short-lived grasses, rather innocuous-looking except for their tiny yellow flowers and sticky leaf blades.
Traits: - Extremely fast reproduction for plants, letting them double a given population number in just a day if conditions are right. This can sometimes be problematic.
- Nutritious enough to be grazing material, and perhaps sticky enough to be used as writing material.
- Rather fragile, making it a little easier to weed.
Gasnareth Imrep created a species of Plants with its remaining Lesser Essence, Banewood. He placed them on the Dread Mountains. Then he worked to construct a group of creatures, the Errthn.
[1] His attempt ended in a catastrophical failure. Despite his efforts, he couldn't breath life into these dolls of flesh.Species Name: Banewood
Description: Tall white, bone like barked trees with blood red leaves, the inside of these trees contains a tasty semi fluid, They grow Edible "Fruit" towards the very top.
Traits: >Bonelike >Contains food >Provides fruit
Lifestealer created the species of Creatures known as Honey Lynx with 1 Essence. He placed them on Torus.Species Name: Honey Lynx
Description: The Honey Lynx is a cat-like creature with golden skin. Its skin is gold because of its "honey", a sticky gooey skin secretion that is very poisonous(except to the Honey Lynx itself). Anyone trying to take a bite out of a Honey Lynx will have their mouth gummed up with the "honey" and will suffer from intense hallucinations and numbness as well. Honey Lynx hunt in packs... prides, really. When hunting other predators, the weakest of their number will act as bait, acting like prey and trying to get the target to attack. Once the enemy predators attack and are neutralized by the poison, the rest of the pride moves in for the kill. When hunting prey, they just skip right to that step.
Traits:
-Feline
-Poisonous sticky hallucinogenic numbing "honey" skin secretion
-Hunt in prides/packs using cunning tactics
Finally, Ma'Rook created the Maoths, Creatures that he instantly uplifted to Mortals. He also created some Rose Trees.Name: Maoths
Description: Four armed, three eyed, ten foot tall mothlike mortals.
Traits: Flight, love/need of light, ability to glow at will
Species Name: Rose Tree
Description: A tall woody stalk the thickness of a tree truck that supports a single skyward facing giant white rose.
Traits: Fragrant, produces lots of nectar and pollen, thorns
------Servants and Monsters------
Some Gods were unsatisfied with the current life.
Aiwibhttjoikuboneschwëltom!ernauocks took one of the Spirit Chickens of the Cornfield, and imbued it with 1 Essence to twist it into an Abomination. Thus, the Scariest Crow was born.Name: The Scariest Crow
Description: A scarecrow might help keep birds away from your field, but a scarycrow will help keep everyone away from your field. This carnivorous beast preys on any living thing that dares enter its domain, making a harvest a dangerous endeavour.
Species: Huge bird built of straw.
Powers:
-Teleportation within and between cornfields
-Excellent camouflage while in a farm's field, to the point of near-invisibility if you don't know what you're looking for.
-Gaze attack causing primal fear
-Poison gas breath weapon
Ma'Rook created a Servant to protect the Maoths from threats. A wise and powerful wormlike Servant. Name: Amoak
Description: A giant wormlike creature. It has a vertical mouth and a wide cobralike hood with horns jutting out of it. It serves Ma'rook by protecting and guiding the Maoths to Ma'rook's will.
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/d2/c5/c2/d2c5c28bed6bd4d89fd7fc166eb903db.jpg Class: Servant.
Powers: Large body and physical strength, telepathy, psychic attacks
Using the Lesser Essence Razel gifted him, Gasnareth Imrep then gifted the Lifetwister with sentience. Now, the Lifetwister was no longer a mere Monster.------Law------
In a fit of hatred toward hair, X'arilyg decided to create a very specific Lesser Law to prevent the Honey Lynxes from ever thrive.Name: The Law of Furry Hatred
Class: Lesser Law
Description: All Honey Lynxes shall begin with the trait known as being sterile, and will have intense mental pressure for cannibalism and fights among the Honey Lynxes species
Effects: The Torus Continent, (1 Essence Cost)
------Prophecies------
Three Gods then wrote on the Slab of Prophecies.
Mpaïspama: "Someone will surely vandalize the Cornfield by flattening corn plants, whether to draw circles, images, or writings."
X’arilyg: "The Honey Lynx shall fall into descent and instead of growing population for Cycle 2, they shall instead begin its decline"
Aiwibhttjoikuboneschwëltom!ernauocks: "The corn will be cultivated and farmed, but by its taste few will be charmed. Its purpose shall be burning fuel and binding starch, but not food for an army out on the march."