Positive corona:The area directly outside the Positive plane. It is bright and unsuitable for life. Gods in this location passively absorb 8 Essence per turn.
There is a world named TYRNM here, filled with an expanding mix of very hot elements.Heat. Light. Burning. God names this place TYRNM, and it is pure.
God fills the remainder of TYRNM with matter, and allows it to heat up, becoming a glowing plasma.
Positive plane:it is my willMove back into the Positive plane and talk to the god of Light.
"Anything I create burns away in the corona of your sphere, and if I just create I will die in 2 turns(how long is a turn?). How am I to spread your Light if it will not let me?"
You dive back into the Positive plane, protected from the terrible heat by the pattern that burns through your being. And there you find God, and tell him what you have seen, ask what reason there is behind it.
"Light brings with it glory. If your creations cannot stand up to the LIGHT, THEN THEY ARE NOT glorious. True faith is SACRIFICE. If following your path leads to your demise, so be it. ANYTHING LESS is cowardice. You will not question the LIGHT again."God cracks and shifts, and sets its eyes upon your being. You are dissected and laid bare to the Light.
"IF YOU MUST LIVE TO SPREAD LIGHT, YOU MAY HAVE POWER. YOU MUST SPEND THIS WISELY, OR I SHALL TAKE IT BACK FROM YOU, CHILD."[+100 Essence]
When you're put back together, you can feel the new power pulsating through your being. But you lack the ability to hold this much Essence. It leaks away, returning to the plane. [-40 Essence]
"You remain a crude creation. You already spill power, because it is not in your nature to be POWERFUL. But maybe you will be able to use what remains inside you. If you fail, return to this place. You will leave now."[Vitality is not drained while in the Positive plane.]
Vitality: 20/100
Essence: 60
Drain: 40
Stipulations:
Must always follow the will of the One True God.
If near an area without Light will try to spread Light there.
Intersphere voidIntersphere void: The void directly between the Positive plane and the Negative plane. Empty except for some god corpses, and the flow of white to black and vice-versa. Gods in this location passively absorb 5 Essence per turn.Watching his new ally burn away, and hearing the dark speak out, Sonos realizes that there is no hope for the new gods here. He flees to the intersphere void, and spends all his the newly gained essence flattening void into vacuum.
Stipulation earned
-At all costs: Must spend all gained essence every turn.
You flee the expanding nothingness, and arrive at the Intersphere void. From here you can see the intensity of each of the spheres. While it's more relaxed out here, and the flow of Essence is lesser, it feels... balanced. You realize how much The Darkness had been pushing down on your mind, and the lessening of that pressure is comparatively soothing. [+5 Essence]
Out here, suspended in the void, you see the corpses of gods that have come before. Shapeless, strange, and monumental. These are the lifeless remains of gods not much different from you, though much older and more powerful. Perhaps some of that power remains within the bodies.
You find a fairly empty spot, and cast all the Essence you have available into a spot in the void, which flattens under the pressure, becoming empty space. You continue pouring Essence on that spot, and it spills outwards, creating a somewhat wide area of vacuum.
Having spent your Essence on creation, you await your due. There is nothing to be done about it, so you ignore the strange thoughts and allow your Vitality to burn away. It hurts less this way. [-10 Vitality]
Vitality: 62/150
Essence: 0
Drain: 50
Stipulations:
Negative corona:The area directly outside the Negative plane. It is dark and ominous. Life could bloom here, but it would be defined by dark. Gods in this location passively absorb 7 Essence per turn.
Here there is a small and curious world, named Ecosystem Habitat 0001, contained in a sphere of plastic. Most of the world consists of a body of water that is also a water elemental. The water is inhabited by black algae, catfish, and shadow catfish.
Here there is an object called Supervoid. It is nothing. It consumes nothing. All within is nothing.All essence into making the water sentient.
Then dirt, then mice. If I have any left over.
[+7 Essence]
Whew. Okay, then. Lets us see here.
You touch the water and gently re-order it, making it less chaotic, giving it rules, and gradually introducing more advanced structure. You weave threads from the surrounding void through it, like a puppet, and give the creature itself control of those threads. It grows upwards, forming organs to store the energy lent from the void, and organs to think. And then, once you're finished, it shudders and begins to move. [-7 Essence]
The water elemental wobbles around in its sphere for a bit, testing its movement. It looks at the fish swimming around in it, at the black algae floating in pitch darkness, at the bodies of small creatures, rotting and half-eaten by fish. And it looks at The Darkness, muttering some old lullaby to its treasured algae. And it looks at you, and see that you are its creator, and it speaks.
"Water."And then the elemental settles, and awaits your answer.
You create rich, dense soil on the plastic platform. Some of it crumbles off and floats away, eventually entering the water, but enough of it sticks to the surface to create a decent mat. [-2 Essence]
You bring about a few simple mouse bodies and partially bury them in the soil, so that they won't float away. [-1 Essence]
As life ebbs, terrible vistas of emptiness reveal themselves. [-10 Vitality]
Vitality: 10/110
Essence: 0
Drain: 0
Stipulations:
I will never act to destroy life.
I will never project a physical avatar.
I will never manipulate thinking creatures unless through gifts freely given.
I will never create anything unless in order to create or nurture life.
I will never alter living creatures against their will.At least it's not boiling now...
[?] - Create a magical item - Beacon of Ethereal Light. This glass prism projects ethereal light over a radius of 50 km. The light is invisible to normal beings, but the Darkness is repelled by it, turning it from supernatural Darkness into mundane darkness. It also has a cat's spirit inside of it. Place it in the center of the sea.
[1] - Create a small amount of normal material - Catnip in the dirt that is about to be created by Rakau.
[1] - Create a small amount of normal material - Two cats of the opposite gender.
[4] - Grant life to something inanimate - The cats.
[4] - Grant life to something inanimate - The catnip.
Everything else into vitality.
Rakau, please create dirt and mice again. Also, create the maintenance automaton and chloroplasts in the algae.
Nyaughty Darkness. Also, at least Yggdrasil made convenient trash disposal for us...
((Is this how you create magical items?))
((Hah, maybe. Let's see, no?))
[+7 Essence]
They seem happy enough. Lots of food, Darkness helps. Some get eaten. Terror. [+2 Essence]
Well, better get the important things over with first.
Seeing as your dying friend was kind enough to create some dirt for you, you begin laying matter to create a vascular plant called "catnip". Which just so happens to have some chemical effects on feline brains. Huh. [-1 Essence]
You cast a spot of life through the few plants you've created, and sure enough they begin to live. Roots dig into the soil happily. [-4 Essence]
Next you create a pair of cats, with very grippy pads on their feet, allowing them to traverse this gravity-less environment. Seeing real cats again makes you happy. [-2 Essence]
...Unfortunately, you lack the Essence to bring your cats to life, and so they remain cold for now. It hurts, a little, to be unable to propagate felines. [8 Vitality permanently lost]
You also do not have enough Essence to create that object. Probably a good thing, given that The Darkness is the only thing keeping this ecosystem running.
Without any source of light to fuel photosynthesis, the catnip plants wither and die.
It seems that while you've been busy with other things, The Darkness has been busy feeding and propagating the black algae. There's now quite a few healthy colonies in the little sea, and catfish population has risen in turn, as the food supply has grown. However, a few of the catfish are strangle mutated, larger, and they echo the whispers of The Darkness. These also feed on the black algae, but sometimes eat the smaller catfish as well. These "shadow catfish" seem to be a bit more intelligent, and they wander the habitat, observing.
Your Vitality ebbs, waving. You keep some, thanks to fishes worship. [-2 Essence] [-8 Vitality]
Vitality: 47/142
Essence: 0
Drain: 20
Stipulations:
At all times, I will try to propagate catnip over all possible surfaces.
At all times, I will try to aid the propagation of felines at all costs.
At all times, I will attempt to purge all canines from my vicinity.
((Keep going! You can tame this wild world, and avert your gruesome death! I believe in you!))