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[Glass]

(The fight never happened, so demoting him is out of option without murdering him)

It still said he was at my mercy when I got here.

[Iris]

It's considered impolite to destroy Cycles of work without so much as a "hello".

First off, create a region-sized cavern deep below Tarrant. Call it the "Basin". Include an ecosystem. Assume the plant's need for light is supplied from special bioluminescent fungi or something, I dunno. Make sure the Bastion has a tunnel leading to it. You get the drill.

Spoiler: Rope reed (click to show/hide)

Species Name: Rope reed
Description: Metre tall grass, with thick stalks. The plant loves water. Superb tensile strength.  As it is essentially raw plant matter, it cannot be eaten uncooked but can be brewed or turned into cloth/paper.
Traits: Strong, hydrophilic (water-loving)

Spoiler: Quarry bush (click to show/hide)

Species Name: Quarry bush
Description: A medium-height bush. It's slate grey leaves are nutritious, but taste terrible when raw; it's seeds are “rock nuts” that vary in colour from tan to chestnut brown to dark grey and most shades in between. Nuts can be eaten raw, cooked, or ground into a paste. The paste can be ground in turn into oil and edible-but-dubious press cake. The plant gets its name from the fact that it grows best in exposed rock, and is therefore commonly seen dotting old quarries.
Traits: Lithophilic (rock-loving), nut-bearing

Spoiler: Whip vine (click to show/hide)

Species Name: Whip vine
Description: A wheat-like grain, found in jungles and other thick areas of vegetation. It yields booze and high-quality flour, but it tends to “whip out” at predators and unwary or inexperienced botanists.
Traits: Self-defence whipping

Spoiler: Sweet pods (click to show/hide)

Species Name:
Description: A maroon coloured fruit. Comparable to a hand grenade: it’s the same size and shape, and when thrown the coconut-like skin will puncture, letting the viscous fluid inside flow out. The sweet pod syrup can be fermented, boiled away to form sugar, or kept as-is for cooking.
Traits: Fruit-bearing, thick-skinned

Spoiler: Sunberry (click to show/hide)

Species Name: Sunberry
Description: Essentially grapes. Start off yellow, and turn purple when ripe.
Traits: Vine-growing, needs sun (specifically UV light, so it can grow underground or inside under special circumstances)

Spoiler: Dragonbeetle (click to show/hide)

Species Name: Dragonbeetle
Description: A basketball-sized dragonfly-beetle hybrid. Docile, despite looking like an alien. It is omnivorous but only scavenges for meat instead of killing.
Traits: Omnivore, weird-looking, scavenger, docile, hard shell, pollinators

Spoiler: Korribirch Trees (click to show/hide)

Species Name: Korribirch Tree
Description: A very fast growing tree about two fists thick. Will die after reaching full size, but the wood remains usable. Also produces tangy Korribirch fruit.
Traits: Fast growing, fruit-bearing

Spoiler: Antmoles (click to show/hide)

Species Name: Antmole
Description: A hive-minded (think ants, not Borg) tunneler. Look like anteaters with long snouts.
Traits: Caste system (5 castes; Worker, soldier, nurse, queen, drone/mate), Fast tunnelers, Herbivore

Manual labour on this artifact. Keep it safe for now. Return to Divine Plane.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: The Book of Dirt
Description: An old leather-bound book. The script is readable by any sapient. In it, there is a copy of the entirety of Dirt history. It auto-updates.
Class: Magic Artifact
Powers: Resistant to wear and tear, readable by all mortals, self-writing

[Rahx]

"Explain yourself, Discord, why are you here disrupting the time flow?"

[randomgenericusername]

"...Huh? Sorry, I fell asleep... Oh, wow. It's been a while, hasn't it? Hi everyone! We're back!" "This is giving me a headache. Someone, explain me what's going on right now." "I wish I could! The only thing I know is that there's chaos! I love chaos!" "Yes, I noticed that. I can feel a strange affinity with this event. Whatever it was, ithad a deep connection with the concept of discord. It could have even been Discord itself." "What?! You mean, like the concept itself?!" "Perhaps, we don't know. I don't think anyone knows at all." "...Amazing! I feel so confused, so this must be really chaotic! I don't even know what's going on!"

[crazyabe]

Well that happened...

[Maximum Spin]

Manannan d^rip<sub>s

from</sub> the ^{corners of} the _evening

in l_ong l_anguid t_ongues

^fire upon the _water

glazes like rain drops

into the white chickens

slick as oils and more potent

whispering

the sound of water

The world echoes with Manannan's susurrations. The Näckes teem up out of the waters, a race of monsters prepared to bedevil the world.

Species Name: Näcke
Description: Shapeshifters with watery bodies resembling their home waters; some of them are partly ice, while others may even contain fish.
Traits: Their purpose is to drown the world. They devour living things either directly or after dragging their prey underwater, and may build elaborate structures out of the bones. They are also capable of drawing heat out of things at a touch, freezing their victims or anything else they happen to want to freeze. They do not like to be away from water for more than a few days at a time, but can survive desiccation indefinitely in a torpid state awaiting the return of water. They revel in darkness and enjoy quenching fires, for which they use their heat-absorbing ability when direct smothering fails.

[Glass]

There's a cataclysm happening at the end of the cycle, Manannan. This is not the time for this shit.

[Iris]

I wouldn't be that worried:

[...] can survive as long as they are not completely dried out. They revel in darkness and enjoy quenching fires.

Any kind of "Greek fire" would defeat them. As they tried to put it out without progress, the heat would eventually destroy them.

((OOC note: Reworking text colour to be more visible to people using Darkling.))

[Glass]

I wouldn't be that worried:

[...] can survive as long as they are not completely dried out. They revel in darkness and enjoy quenching fires.

Any kind of "Greek fire" would defeat them. As they tried to put it out without progress, the heat would eventually destroy them.

*sigh* Very well. That said, do we have any sort of plan for preparation for the upcoming Cataclysm? I have a Greater Essence that I wnat to save for use in whatever plan is made, but if nobody is going to do anything I'll use it for myself.

[randomgenericusername]

There's a cataclysm happening at the end of the cycle, Manannan. This is not the time for this shit.

"But this is exactly the best time for it! More chaos! More fun! Ahahahahahaha!" "Eris, screaming about causing chaos and how much you like chaos doesn't make you look more "chaotic" or spreads chaos more effectively. It's starting to get annoying, to tell the truth." "Oooops! Sorry, Discordia! I'll stop for now." "Thank you."

Any kind of "Greek fire" would defeat them. As they tried to put it out without progress, the heat would eventually destroy them.

((OOC note: Reworking text colour to be more visible to people using Darkling.))

((Thanks! I use Darkling.))

"This! So much this! I love everything related to the Greeks! They're so neat! If you want to recreate the Greek Fire, I'll gladly help!"

[Iris]

Under the GUTS system, I doubt it would even be difficult.

[Glass]

Under the GUTS system, I doubt it would even be difficult.

Hmn... yes, with some basic combining of Fire and Water Vis or Essentia - maybe with some Earth-aligned as well, for the oily properties - creating a reasonable facsimile of Greek Fire would likely be fairly simple with either Alchemy or Artifice and Enchantment... ok, good.
I'll have Julius spread this information to people in the proximity of the Näcke, should they prove difficult.

[Iris]

There's a cataclysm happening at the end of the cycle, Manannan. This is not the time for this shit.

"But this is exactly the best time for it! More chaos! More fun! Ahahahahahaha!" "Eris, screaming about causing chaos and how much you like chaos doesn't make you look more "chaotic" or spreads chaos more effectively. It's starting to get annoying, to tell the truth." "Oooops! Sorry, Discordia! I'll stop for now." "Thank you."

Any kind of "Greek fire" would defeat them. As they tried to put it out without progress, the heat would eventually destroy them.

((OOC note: Reworking text colour to be more visible to people using Darkling.))

((Thanks! I use Darkling.))

"This! So much this! I love everything related to the Greeks! They're so neat! If you want to recreate the Greek Fire, I'll gladly help!"

((You mangled the quote from me there. Fixed it for you.))

Under the GUTS system, I doubt it would even be difficult.

Hmn... yes, with some basic combining of Fire and Water Vis or Essentia - maybe with some Earth-aligned as well, for the oily properties - creating a reasonable facsimile of Greek Fire would likely be fairly simple with either Alchemy or Artifice and Enchantment... ok, good.
I'll have Julius spread this information to people in the proximity of the Näcke, should they prove difficult.

((Glass, can you consider using a grey or darkgrey glow? For people using Core (FG&RP default) and Curve (my personal choice), your cyan is eye-searing and hard to focus on.))

[randomgenericusername]

((There, I fixed it. Thanks again!))

[Glass]

[Test, this better? I use darkling :p sorry]

EDIT: I just looked at it in curve. I felt the way I usually feel when people use really dark colors because they're just accounting for the lighter themes. Sorry. ._.