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[Luda Ncebekan]

Strike One, Camilia, And Others Shall Follow. Not To Trade, But To Take Vengeance. We Are Yet Young, Here. Let Us Not Be Foolhardy.

Bid on the loan, offering to repay 2 Essence for Five Ticks and 3 Essence on the Sixth Tick, for a total of 13 Essence.

I Make It Known Now To All Present That My Services Are On Offer. I Will Forge Artifacts Of Many Types, And Charge Only Half Again Of The Material Cost For Their Making.

[Demonic Spoon]

Guar bids for on the loans, offering to repay three essence for four ticks to a total of 12 essence.

"Market would like to point out that Guar probably can't afford to pay off two loans with an essence income of 2 essence next tick, unless he doesn't use the second loan, which raises the question of why he is borrowing it then."

[Happy Demon]

[Pururu, the Smol One]

"Um..."
Pururu bids for a 10 Essence loan. But offers to pay 4 Essence over 3 Ticks, for a total of 12 Essence.

[Demonic Spoon]

Pururu (Small, Soft) 0/10

Gently pokes Pururu, Pururu falls over and faints

[Nakéen]

"Well then, this is going to sting, but I need that Essence immediately."

Ednaera bids a 10 Essence loan, offering to pay 14 Essences in 5 Ticks. 2 Essence for the first Tick, and 3 for the remaining Ticks.

"Either way, there is job to be done."

Ednaera returns to her patrol of the border cosmos with her Servants.

[Roboson]

Guar will increase his bid on the loan. He's willing  to pay 2 essence for five ticks and 3 essence on the sixth tick, for a total of 13 Essence over six tics. "Well, seems the best I can do is match another's bid."

[Demonic Spoon]

New Bid: Market offers to pay 2 essence for 8 ticks, or 16 essence in total.

If my previous bid is preferred, that is still on the table.

[Ardent Debater]

Tick 1.5 Event, "An Imp Considers"

An Imp offers two loans of 10 Essence, in exchange for 12 paid at a rate of 2 per turn for 6 turns.

Pururu offers to take one loan, at 10 Essence for 12 paid at 2 per turn for 6 turns.
Market offers to take one loan, at 10 Essence for 12 paid at 3 per turn for 4 turns.
Guar offers to take one loan, at 10 Essence for 12 paid at 3 per turn for 4 turns.
Luda Ncebekan offers to take one loan, at 10 Essence for 13 paid at 2 per turn for 5 turns, and 3 on the 6th turn.
Pururu reconsiders, and offers to take one loan, at 10 Essence for 12 paid at 4 per turn for 3 turns.
Ednaera offers to take one loan, at 10 Essence for 14 Essence, paid at 2 Essence the 1st turn, and 3 for 4 turns.
Guar reconsiders, and offers to take one loan at 10 Essence for 13 paid at at 2 for 5 turns, and 3 on the 6th turn.
Market reconsiders, and offers to take one loan at 10 Essence for 16 paid at 2 per turn for 8 turns.

The Imp considers the bids for some time, but eventually comes to a decision.
The Imp takes Luda Ncebekan's first offer, and the Market's second offer, in exchange for 20 Essence, split between the two.

The Imp continues his speech, and states his reasoning with no small amount of bowing and scraping.

"MOST POWERFUL AND IGNOMINIOUS DIVINES, YOUR HARD-DRIVEN BARGAINS MAKE IT THOROUGHLY DIFFICULT TO DECIDE, BUT I! HUMBLE EMISSARY OF THE GREAT AND MIGHTY YOL'GURTH'OLYO, ARCH-DEMON OF GREED, EXALTED IN HIS SAGACITY MOST PROFOUND, HAVE COME TO A FINAL DECISION, AND SHALL BROOK NO! ADDITIONAL OFFERS FOR I AM ON A STRICT SCHEDULE UPON WHICH'S ABIDANCE MY VERY SOUL DEPENDS!"
"I HAVE CONSIDERED EACH OF YOUR OFFERS FOR QUITE SOME TIME, BUT I HAVE COME TO A DECISION AND SHALL NOT AGAIN BE SWAYED! LUDA NCEBEKAN, HARBINGER OF THE STORMS AND LORD OF THE FORGE, I ACCEPT YOUR OFFER, WHOLEHEARTEDLY AND WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST RESTRAINT! AS FOR THE ANGELIC MARKET, HEAVENLY THOUGH ITS EMPLOYEES MAY BE, ESSENCE IS ESSENCE, AND LOATHSOME AS I AM TO ACCEPT, I AM NOT ONE TO DENY SUCH A LUCRATIVE OPPORTUNITY!"
"EDNAERA, MIGHTIEST OF GODDESSES WHOSE BEAUTY I SEARED INTO MY VERY SOUL, I HAVE DENIED YOUR OFFER, FOR THE TOLL WHICH I'VE BEEN FORCED TO PAY FOR ENTRY SHOULD MORE THAN SUFFICE FOR YOUR FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH YOU HAVE IN MIND!"
"RADIANT DIVINES, I MUST TAKE MY LEAVE, AND I BID THEE GOOD TICK!"

At that, the Imp snaps his fingers and the scrolls appear before Luda Ncebekan and the Market. They each consider the swiftly edited and surprisingly reasonable contracts, which have a minimum of nefarious fine print, and sign them in a prick of their own crackling storm-water and angelic ichor, respectively. Immediately after, they receive a titanic infusion of 10 Essence as per the Imp's deal, and after bowing to each of the deities in turn, the Imp turns and leaves with great haste.

Luda Ncebekan and the Market have received 10 Essence apiece, and are BOUND by contract to follow the terms which they've agreed upon.

[Demonic Spoon]

"Most excellent Imp. Market looks forward to profitable future transactions!"

Action 2: With his newly loaned essence, the Market could draw forth the soulfire from warehouses deep within itself, and shape them into the embryos of a new race, that were then carefully handed over to Luda for the finishing touches.

Spend [9/18] Essence on the Living Forges

Spoiler: Living Forges (click to show/hide)

The Living Forges

Sets of multiple wheels of living metal whose inner and outer rims are completely covered in eyes. At their centers rest a singing fire that is their soul and heart. They float through the air and can move metal objects through their metalkinesis. Metal can be moved into their corefire and there melted and forged with exquisite skill and craftsmanship. The Living Forges then often use these metal implements to carry out other tasks, like cutting down trees or mining for ore.

They must consume fuel to feed their fire and stay alive, as well as burn brightly to forge metals. The Living Forges grow larger over time, and are theoretically ageless, but often die as they grow older, due to their flames expiring from strain of keeping their giant bodies going if they do not manage themselves well. Still particularly long lived, and this allows them to hone their craft and and forge ever larger and grander metal implements.

Their fires are vulnerable to extinguishing, and thus they will try to avoid rain or other inclement weather.

The Living Forges form tight-knight groups of direct relatives, like the hubs and spokes of a wheel, and will go wherever the fuel and metal is most plentiful, or trade for them as needed.

The act of forging is itself a form of worship to Luda, but additional rituals take the form of trade for Market, and the ritual consumption of large quantities of fuel beyond what is normally conformatable or the sacrifice of metal and fuel by burying it in the ground.

The Living Forges find some forms of fuel more appealing and will seek them out when possible, such is luxury woods of incenses. They have some potential as cooks with their fine fire control.

Life and Death among the Living Forges is something of a cycle. When a Living Forge dies, their soul-flame flickering out for whatever reason, their wheeled bodies are added to one of their metal pillars of the dead, there to be venerated and mourned.

When loving Forge couples join their wheels together so their soul flames can touch, they can imbue smelted metal with that special something that makes it come alive and form a new soulforged, with it's flame being kindled from their shared joining. It is preferred to almost exclusively use the metal of former Living Forges for this, but if such is not available, others can be substituted, and often forms something of regionally ethnicities depending on what metals are available.

When two Forges touch their soul-flames together to make their offspring, the wheels begin to float around this new center. When they once more separate, some of the wheels split in half along the rim, meaning they gain additional, weaker wheels during the process that must be nurtured back to full strength.

Care must be taken to not gain to many wheels lest the forge smother their inner fire. Some prolific Forges might even take the drastic step of mutilating themselves to remain alive

As wheels it is perhaps obvious to say that the Forges can, in times of need or danger, roll along the ground at great speeds instead of their customary hovering, though this is uncomfortable for their many eyes.

Alignment:
Angels (+4)
Forges (+4)

Population Expansion:
+0.2

Combat Effectiveness:
8

They'll cost 18 Essence per Population unit, yield +4 Essence Income, and grow +0.2 Population units per Tick.

[Demonic Spoon]

Action 3: Market purchases some real estate from reality, and it falls into place among those already existing, joining them together like the hub of a wheel. The Djinni orphans are gently placed inside with plenty of food and living space.

"I mourn your loss as my own, and would see you happy and prosperous."

Nexus, Land of Plenty:

A city connecting Taiga, Coedwigoeddgwyllt and Blue corridor, serving as a trade hub between them, with rich farmlands, rich mines and an elegantly constructed city with many shops, apartment blocks, marketplaces, thoroughfares, aqueducts, canals and various windmills, watermills, and other tools of industry, all ready to be lived in by enterprising mortals. The efficient and extensive sewers feed into the ocean of frozen fog, and also contains portals leading to Cavenhold.

[-1 Essence, Malleable Lands Discount, Trade Discount, 4 Pop Cap]

my actions this turn are: spend 2 essence on storm region for 8 pop cap, pitch in on Living Forges, create one unit of Diviluge, should leave me with 3 Essence and +4 total essence income for next turn

[Rolepgeek]

[Luda Ncebekan]

The First Storm churned and hissed, crackling with thunder and steam and the grinding of ore. Glowing hot metal drawn from lightning-cracked ore, coiled over and over again, stretched and folded and then forged to loop again; and with every turn of the wheel that brought together folded halves to make a circle again, there was an eye left at the joining. Once the first of the work was done, the deluge came, acid rain pitting and scoring the metal as it hissed and boiled to cool it. Luda grunted at this annoyance, and brought forth scouring sands to smooth and polish the surface, flecks of metal filling in gaps, creating intricate natural patterns along the wheel's edges. Only then, the fires burning within the wheel of eyes, patterns of copper and iron and silver blending together like accidental filigree, was the Heavens Smith satisfied.

And so He forged another. And another. And another, until the work was done, placing them out into the world one by one. And with each completed project, a bit more of the First Storm spilled out in the world, like molten iron splashing out from a crucible, pooling and cooling as it met the sluggish calm of reality. And where it met, it boiled up and away, keeping to itself like water on oiled steel, at once touching and apart. The storms seemed almost to solidify on themselves in the process, but more importantly, they retained their wildness and their power. And though their nature might change as they range from land to land, still they moved, always flowing, pushed from one to the next to the next.

Seeing this, and not displeased with such, Luda chose to start another work, one most suited to exploring and making use of the storms to grow and spread. The Diviluge, they would be. A spark of lightning from a nascent stormcloud, yet to crack into thunder, hammered into mobility, control, sapience. Let out to explore and test and adventure.

Spend 9 Essence finishing first pop of Living Forges
Spend 3 Essence creating The Wandering Storms, for 12 Pop Cap
Spend 6 Essence creating the Diviluge

[Ardent Debater]

Tick 2.0 “Camels are Born, Rings are Wrought, and a Storm Rages."

Whilst the pantheon’s Goddesses clamor to outbid themselves, the Camel Goddess looks upon the world and scoffs, regarding their creations too ugly for her sight, and their too weak to be anymore than pity. So far as she is concerned, only the Camels are worthy to trod upon reality and so she shapes many thousands into arrogant, sneering mortals, sets them loose in the scorching sands of the Blue Corridor, and spits in satisfaction.

Camelia creates 2 Population units of Camels in the Blue Corridor for a price of 8 Essence!

At the sight of the rest of the pantheon scrambling over themselves to deal with demons, Saddiyya decides she and her creations would be safer elsewhere, and sets off immediately. A handful of the Djinni don’t want to risk a voyage in the Void and decide to stay. Pitying the orphaned mortals, Guar and the Market offer to adopt them and the Djinn are all too eager to accept their patronage, but their Alignment is too divergent and their population too small for their worship to yield anymore than a trickle. The remaining Djinni population is split between the two as they choose, with one half going to the Cavenhold and another to the freshly-made Nexus. Time alone will tell how they diverge.

Saddiyya, disgusted with the pantheon’s willingness to deal with demons, abandons reality, taking 0.8 Population units of Djinni with her!

Emboldened by the obscene increase to their Essence, the Storm God and angelic Market decide to create a new race in their own image. Countless concentric rings, each adorned with a thousand eyes and levitating by the power of the blazing flame that serves as their soul, they are dubbed the Living Forges and released into the lands of Coedwigoeddgwyllt. There, they immediately take to harvesting lumber and scouring stones for ore, from which they construct a handful of temple cities the other races are terrified to tread upon, despite their many impassioned pleas to FEAR NOT.

Luda Ncebekan and the Market create 1 Population unit of Living Forges in Coedwigoeddgwyllt for a price of 18 Essence!

The Market admires the progress of its creations for quite some time, but eventually, its attentions turn to the fog separating the regions the other deities have built and they realize the profit to be had linking them. Fertile, mineral-rich soil springs out of the emptiness easily enough and soon after, a thousand teams of cherubic contractors and angelic architects have constructed a city more glorious and grand than anything ever before seen. More interesting than the city though, is the trade it promises to usher in, with two massive bridge networks connecting the Blue Corridor and Coedwigoeddgwyllt, and a series of portals linking the frigid Taiga Islands and the depths of the Cavenholds, and more than ample space for the Market to erect more at its leisure. The city is at the center of reality and is thusly dubbed the Nexus. It is presently empty, with no more than a handful of Djinn wandering its streets but the angels suspect more mortals are soon to come.

The Market creates The Nexus, a tiny region for a price of 4 Essence!

The Forge God looks on the first of his creation’s cities with approval, and is pleased to note that as he hammered them into shape and carved divots for their eyes, much of the First Storm bled into the material plane, forming a new realm. Many of the clouds coalesced, solidifying into ground the mortals might walk upon, but many more scattered, eternally howling winds and ever-pouring sheets of rain buffeting them to and fro. Though its initial formation was a mistake, the presence of the Wandering Storms shattered the stagnancy of the mortal realm, pleasing Luda Ncebekan so much so that he took it as his own.

Luda Ncebekan creates The Wandering Storms, a small region for a price of 3 Essence!

In the midst of the ever-whirling winds of his realm, the Heavens Smith watched the lesser storms rage and was pleased, but not content. The smithing of the Living Forges was a work he beheld with pride, but it was not his own. No, he wrought their brass and smote their steel in the guise of another and it was time he made a race in his own image. Gathering the elements about himself, he merged them into an array of dense, crackling cores imbued with a tumultuous soul and infused with an infinitesimal piece of his own inner lightning. When he found they were to his satisfaction they were released into the Wandering Storms, where most contented themselves raging with the winds, but he was quick to notice some small few whiled away their time, fusing different combinations of the lightning and the winds, and in time, received their prayers for more solid substances to forge.

Luda Ncebekan creates 1 Population unit of Diviluge in The Wandering Storms for a price of 6 Essence!

As Saddiyya endeavors to leave those who deal with demons behind, the terrified uncertainty she feels and unflinching steel as she pushes on in spite radiates through the cosmos, and from the momentary tear she is forced to make tumbles a shivering little girl, swaddled in tattered, patchwork robes and clutching a replenished canister of what was once a warm, chocolaty drink. She is Jojo, Goddess of Stands Courage and Determination, and casting fear and darkness aside, she is here to stay.

Jojo, Goddess of Courage and Determination has arrived, with 10 Essence!

Spoiler:  Lo, Divines! (click to show/hide)

Camelia (Camels, War) 4/10
Market (Trading, Angels) 9/11
Pururu (Small, Soft) 4/10
Sol, Star of Magic (Star Magic, Light of Life) 4/10
Ednaera (Might, Beauty) 5/10
Luda Ncebekan (Forge, Storms) 6/10
Fanw Howell (Hunting, Ranged Combat) 2/10
Guar (Life, Caverns) 6/10
Kit Rougard (Trickery, Illusions) 10/10
Jojo (Courage, Determination) 10/10

Spoiler:  Lo, Divine's Income (click to show/hide)

Camelia, (Camels/War)
- +7 Essence per Tick:
- +2 Essence, malleable reality
- +4 Essence, Camels in the Blue Corridor
- +1 Essence, Camels in Camelot
Market, (Trading, Angels)
- +8 Essence per Tick:
- +2 Essence, malleable reality
- +4 Essence, Living Forges in Coedwigoeddgwyllt
- +6 Essence, Hundredwinged in the Taiga Islands
Pururu, (Small, Soft)
- +6 Essence per Tick:
- +2 Essence, malleable reality
- +2 Essence, Purusians in the Taiga Islands
- +2 Essence, Wolfkin in the Coedwigoeddgwyllt
Sol, Star of Magic, (Star Magic, Light of Life)
- +3 Essence per Tick:
- +2 Essence, malleable reality
- +1 Essence, Starnymp in The Observatory
Ednaera, (Might, Beauty)
- +1 Essence per Tick:
- +2 Essence, malleable reality
- -1 Essence, maintaining Eslinde and Arpier
Luda Ncebekan, (Forge, Storms)
- +8 Essence per Tick:
- +2 Essence, malleable reality
- +2 Essence, Diviluge in the Wandering Storms
- +4 Essence, Living Forges in Coedwigoeddgwyllt
Fanw Howell, (Hunting, Ranged Combat)
- +4 Essence per Tick:
- +2 Essence, malleable reality
- +2 Essence, Wolfkin in Coedwigoeddgwyllt
Guar, (Life, Caverns)
- +4 Essence per Tick:
- +2 Essence, malleable reality
- +2 Essence, Nauts in Cavenhold
Kit Rougard, (Trickery, Illusions)
- +6 Essence per Tick
- +2 Essence, malleable reality
- +4 Essence, Snakekin in Coedwigoeddgwyllt
Jojo, (Courage, Determination)
- +2 Essence per Tick:
- +2 Essence, malleable reality

Spoiler: The Mortal Realm (click to show/hide)

The Taiga Islands
- A series of islands floating in the Void, knitted together by their extensive forests.
- Population Capacity: [3/8]
- 1.4 Purusians
- 2.8 Hundredwinged

The Blue Corridor
- A strip of steppes, deserts, and oases filled with every variety of dromedary.
- Population Capacity: [2/8]
- 2 Camels

Coedwigoeddgwyllt
- A vast expanse of thickly wooded forests and rolling, hilly plains.
- Population Capacity: [4/16]
- 2.2 Snakekin
- 1.2 Wolfkin
- 1.0 Living Forges

Cavenhold
- A tiny floating island consisting of a magma well and intricate cave system.
- Population Capacity [1/4]
- 1.4 Naut
- 0.1 Djinn

The Nexus
- A tiny immaculately constructed city linking every region with bridges and portals.
- Population Capacity [0/4]
- 0.1 Djinn

The Wandering Storms
- A small realm of solidified clouds and eternal storms, echoes of Luda Ncebekan’s realm.
- Population Capacity [1/12]
- 1.0 Diviluged.

Spoiler: The Godly Planes (click to show/hide)

The Observatory:
- Sol, Star of Magic's well-hidden and selectively inclusive abode, crowned by a castle upon which lies a miniature world-tree.

The Fields of Everlasting Glory
- An endless illusory reaction of Ednaera's glorious past battles, never ending or changing, but somehow, never becoming repetitive.

The First Storm
- A molten stone, endlessly enveloped by an ever-raging cacophonous storm which serves as Luda Ncebekan's workshop and forge.

Camelot
- A vast, oasis-filled desert and shrub-land, partitioned by four hump-like mountains, paradise, insofar as Camelia is concerned.
- Inhabited by:
- 1.4 Camels

[Happy Demon]

[Pururu, the Smol One]

Pururu stretches. It feels good to have Essence once more. She shouldn't do that again.
Pururu spends all 4 of her Essence again. Creating 1 Population Unit Purusians in the Taiga Islands.
"Hoor... ay?"
Pururu falls forward, and *Pomf*s into the snow.
She managed to hang onto her consciousness, but she's super duper tired from exhausing all of her Essence again.
"Uu~ Purusians, help me."
Purusians run over, and start tugging Pururu along. They are moving her ever so slightly. It's quite a challenge for them, but they're giving it their all.

[Demonic Spoon]

[Pururu, the Smol One]

Pururu stretches. It feels good to have Essence once more. She shouldn't do that again.
Pururu spends all 4 of her Essence again. Creating 1 Population Unit Purusians in the Taiga Islands.
"Hoor... ay?"
Pururu falls forward, and *Pomf*s into the snow.
She managed to hang onto her consciousness, but she's super duper tired from exhausting all of her Essence again.
"Uu~ Purusians, help me."
Purusians run over, and start tugging Pururu along. They are moving her ever so slightly. It's quite a challenge for them, but they're giving it their all.

"Oh no! Pururu has fallen over! Quick, Hundredwings, go take her to a nice couch to lie down on!"

Market sends forth another unit of Hundredwings to live in Taiga and to help Pururu when she falls down! [-6 Essence]

He then does a 2 essence loan payment!

[Happy Demon]

[Pururu, the Smol One]

"H-help! There's weird things here! Please help!"
Pururu is not very keen on these creatures with way too many mouthes, eyes, wings, and which are constantly speaking with half of their mouths.
She will call upon the Purusians to try and bury Pururu, so she can't be approached by the Hundredwings.