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[TricMagic]

Ōkeanós, feeling his land threatened, rises from the waves and spends the next hundred years eradicating all the FB that have made their way down through hoarfrost, iceshards, and flood, before going into the underground and repeating the same actions. Find the origin and eradicate it. Let it be known where the Fairies warlike nature comes from, for the winter's ice is cruel and beautiful.

[A_Curious_Cat]

Still waiting for strik3r to respond before making my moves.

[Strik3r]

Still waiting for strik3r to respond before making my moves.

 Oh umm... i didn't think there was anything else that needed discussing. That, and i tend not to acknowledge "out of this world" stuff in-character. in this case V wouldn't even have anything interesting to say as i don't get the reference.

[chaotick21]

Numeros puts the anomaly into 10 vials.

Numeros tries to create his own race, the Light Born. They will have smooth marble-like skin and are will be tall. They will each be born with the forbidden knowledge of how the world will end. If a Light Born is ever about to discuss this knowledge, they will freeze into stone before they can get a word out.

Numeros offers B*st a vial of the anomaly as a peace treaty.

[A_Curious_Cat]

Still waiting for strik3r to respond before making my moves.

 Oh umm... i didn't think there was anything else that needed discussing. That, and i tend not to acknowledge "out of this world" stuff in-character. in this case V wouldn't even have anything interesting to say as i don't get the reference.

In the Abrahamic Bible, after God kicked Adam and Eve out of the paradisiacal Garden of Eden, He put in place some angels (known as Cherubim) and a flaming sword to block the way back in and prevent them (and their descendants) from returning.

Basically, B*st is asking if she should create some immensely powerful immortal beings and (possibly some powerful divine weapons for them to use) and have them stand just outside the Garden of Distortion and chase away anyone who tries to approach.

Numeros puts the anomaly into 10 vials.

Numeros tries to create his own race, the Light Born. They will have smooth marble-like skin and are will be tall. They will each be born with the forbidden knowledge of how the world will end. If a Light Born is ever about to discuss this knowledge, they will freeze into stone before they can get a word out.

Numeros offers B*st a vial of the anomaly as a peace treaty.

“And what use would I have for a piece of your ‘anomaly’?” B*st queries Numeros.

[Strik3r]

Still waiting for strik3r to respond before making my moves.

 Oh umm... i didn't think there was anything else that needed discussing. That, and i tend not to acknowledge "out of this world" stuff in-character. in this case V wouldn't even have anything interesting to say as i don't get the reference.

In the Abrahamic Bible, after God kicked Adam and Eve out of the paradisiacal Garden of Eden, He put in place some angels (known as Cherubim) and a flaming sword to block the way back in and prevent them (and their descendants) from returning.

Basically, B*st is asking if she should create some immensely powerful immortal beings and (possibly some powerful divine weapons for them to use) and have them stand just outside the Garden of Distortion and chase away anyone who tries to approach.

Oh.

Well, if that's what you want to go for, do it. The turn's yours and i wanted to leave your options as open as possible if you wanted to help Velkos, to see what you'd come up with. Whatever you do, i won't mind, and i doubt Velkos will, either.

[A_Curious_Cat]

Currently waiting for Numeros to respond to B*st's question...

[chaotick21]

"It may be helpful in your future."

[A_Curious_Cat]

"It may be helpful in your future."

"How so?" B*st queries Numeros further, still suspicious of his intentions and of the contents of the vial.

[chaotick21]

"You'll see."

[A_Curious_Cat]

"You'll see."

"This better not be a trick."

B*st takes the vial and uses protective magic to seal it further just in case (making sure that she can undo the magic if need be).

B*st runs through the underground with Velkos
 and Gambal and helps them execute the plan detailed in the relevant preceding posts with regards to the Hairball of Doom.

B*st prepares to create a pair of gigantic Guardians to guard the approaches to the Garden of Distortion, but does not actually create them yet.  Meanwhile, she asks Gambal to create appropriate weapons for the two Guardians.

[Yellow Pixel]

After the Great Hunt to capture the Ambulatory Hairball of Doom, Gambal gets back to his usual jaunts over Insula Numine and he lets his imagination drift, until it settles on a new creative activity ought to rivet his versatile mind. He is inspired this time by the various cloud-fastened aircraft that, since recently, circulate freely through the sky. In truth, for a long time, he had been attracted by the idea to take flight somehow, but now a particular tinkering project was taking shape in his head, bringing him much enthusiasm.

To carry it out, he hastily goes in a gnomic smithery and uses some iron and wood to make the necessary tools: a chisel, a handsaw and a hand plane. He then go in a forest to find trees of promising dimensions and appropriate varieties to cut down, but excited as he was, he had forgotten to make an axe and his saw appears to be too small for the task. Yet, he doesn't bother about it, and by using a form of spiritual communication, he recruits the services of a pair of beavers to fell the trees for him. Once their work is done, he cuts the branches and give them to the beavers as a reward for their help, that will serve to broaden their dam and of wich they will get the chance to savor the leaves.

Thereafter, he makes planks and large carved pieces out of the trunks, sculpting them in a birdlike fashion, with the outlines of two large wings, etched feathers, a strong beak and realistic talons. He finally assembles and articulates all the pieces together by magical means and bestow immortal life upon a giant wooden bird, with the aim to make it his divine mount.

In its creation process, he has strived to give it a natural appearance and a graceful cast. Its most remarkable features are the diversity of its colors and shades, due to the use of several kinds of wood in its construction; its resemblance to a crossbreed between an eagle and a crane, with rather short legs; and a tousled crest on its head, that adds a last touch of style. He trains the bird to recognize a special whistle that he will make to call it, while most of the time, it will be free to fly peacefully anywhere it wants, at leisure. He is then ready to fly away on its back, and goes wandering the AboveWorld, joining the mortal aviators and visiting the Slyphs in their cloudy islands.

His air trip over, Gambal prepares himself for the casting of the two weapons requested by B*st to bring power to the future Guardians of the Grove of Distortion. But on reflexion, he prefers making highly protective artifacts than deadly weapons. To the first, he will thus give a shining platinum herald trumpet that will induce terrible fear in those who hear its music. And to the second, he will give a gold heater shield immensely radiant, of wich the light will repel all temporal beings.

[Magmacube_tr]

9th Turn

The millenia mark approaches.

Actions of Gods

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816AC: Ōkeanós wipes out the forgotten beasts on the BelowWorld[9]: Feeling enraged by the destruction they caused, Ōkeanós goes into a rampage against the foul abominations that have invaded his abode. He crushes, he bashes and he breaks the beasts one by one until none are left there.

819AC: Ōkeanós goes into the underground to hunt down the source[1]: Ōkeanós then barges UnderGround to find where is the source of this creatures. He goes through the caves, but he quickly feels lost and freaked out by the look-alike walls and the constant wails, roars and screams of forgotten beasts. And he also fails to find a source. He exits the caves, and seals the entrances shut with rocks.

823AC: Numeros pours the Uncertainty into 10 separate vials[7]: For a reason only known to him, Numeros splits the bottle of uncertainty into 10 vials. This does not do much, but it does limit the uncertainties power, since each vial has only a tenth of the original amount.

840AC: Velkos creates the Leviathan to have it devour forgotten beasts[9]: Velkos stares at the sea to calm himself, only to see forgotten beasts swimming and floating everywhere. Needless to say, he was not pleased. So he created a giant serpent to eat these eyesores, and it all works well. The ocean is clean.

844AC: Velkos creates the Titans to protect the AboveWorld from forgotten beasts[2]: To patch the failure of the creations of his sister, Velkos creates the titans, magical beings that target anomalies to attack. But in a period of 10 or so years, all of them come across the Grove of Distortion, and try to kill it, only to become a part of it. This has made the grove grow around a bit, but it is still contained.

854AC: Velkos, B*st and Gambal team up to hunt down the Hairball: The three siblings make up a plan. Gambal will daze it with notes from his flute, B*st will capture it with her powers and Velkos will imprison it inside a jar.

854AC: Numeros offers a vial of uncertainty to B*st as a gift: Because of reasons unknown, Numeros hands out one of the vials to B*st. She accepts the gift, hesitantly.

854AC: B*st further seals the her vial of uncertainty[7]: Just to be sure, B*st seals the vial with a protective layer of magic.

855AC: The Hunt for the Hairball[9]: The three siblings dive into the caverns to stop the madness. They kill countless beasts, who approach them mindlessly to satisfy their desire to kill, only to be annihilated. After much searching and months of hearing the constant screaming of the beasts, they locate the hairball.

The Hairball can be considered a deity by itself, and in theory could create and be just like the Children of Kipp, but its only thought and desire is to propogate and survive, nothing more. Hairball dodges, blocks and attacks. The trio responds with the same. Hairball encases itself in a bubble of magic to block out the melodies from Gambal when it notices their effects, rendering the melodies useless.

But it is outnumbered. Gambal catches a brief opening in the shields defenses and immidiately starts playing. The Hairball eases just for a tiny moment, and it was enough for B*st to catch it. Before it could understand what was going on, it was imprisoned inside of a jar.

The trio then bury the jar inside solid bedrock, but intentinally leave it leaking, so that forgotten beasts keep forming, but in much weaker forms.

863AC: Velkos tries to fix the unfixable[6]: To prevent the eventual failure at it containment, Velkos tries to make so that the Grove of Distortion does not scar people for life just by a brief glance and maybe even turn it into its own realm of light. He does manages to make it look much better, even a bit nice, but that is about it. Tge grove simply refuses to be tampered even further and will only distort again if interrupted.

869AC: B*st plots the creation of watchers, and asks Gambal to craft weapons for them: To keep things away from the grove, B*st starts planning the creation of two guardians. To arm them, though, she asks Gambal for aid.

873AC: Gambal cuts trees to make whats in his mind[3]: Inspired by the mortals aerial inventions, Gambal has a brilliant idea. He makes iron tools, he then goes to a forest to cut some trees. He had forgotten to make an axe, so he asks some beavers for help using the natural spirit he bestoved. But then he wonders what a beaver is, since no such thing as beavers exist. He cuts the trees himself, very slowly.

875AC: Gambal constucts the Wood Birb[5]:After excruciating months of tree cutting using a nothing but a short saw, he finally gets them all. He uses the wood to construct a giant bird. He then gives it eternal life. He teaches it to listen to his whistle. But the bird is slow, cumbersome, and is not comfortable to sit on. Though this does not prevents him from having tons of fun when riding it across the skies. He races with pilots, usually losing. He meets with the Slyph. He sees the elder goddess up close. He decends happy and satisfied, and thinks all that grovelling was worth it.

876AC: Gambal forges tools for the future guardians[8]: Gambal then gets to work on the weapons his feline sister has requested. He is opposed to the idea of weapons, so he instead forges powerful tools. One is a horn which strikes fear in anything with its noise, keeping them away. The second is a shield which has a glow that keep all things away. He crafts them with presicion and waits the day when these will be handed out

889AC: Numeros creates his people; the Light Born[1]: Numeros looks at his sibling, seeing that all of them have races created in their image. He goes on to make his own. These are slender, tall, smooth-skinned beings, who know how the world will end from birth. Almost all of them commit suicide, leaving a couple of dozen alive. They do not possess the will or a mind of a god, nor the entire picture like The Enlightened, so they couldn't handle the truth. They can't even share the truth, since they instantly turn the stone if they try to.

The Pantheon

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Velkos(Creator of the Sol and Lua, Bringer of the Day, Creator of Divine Servants, Creator of Plants, Carver of Caves, Planter of Ur-Tree, Starter of Wildfires, Maker of Deserts, Creator of The Geyiks, Giver of Magic, Creator of Dinosaurs, Painter of the sky, Creator of Crystal Grove, Creator of Crystalline, Creator of Keystone, Raiser of Demigods, Raiser of the Leviathan, Trapper of the Hairball):17

B*st(Creator of Mortals, Bringer of the Night, Creator of Foul Sand, Creator of the Beings of Darkness, Speaker to The Mother, Creator of The Catfolk, Creator of Genders, Sabotager of Divine Works, Causation of Paradoxes, Puker of Evil Forces, The Creator of Forgotten Beasts, Creator of Guardians, Starter of Fights, Catcher of the Hairball):14

Ōkeanós(Lifter of the World, Creator of Godly Homes, Bringer of Rain, Carver of Rivers and Lakes, Builder of Ecosystems, Creator of Merfolk, Stirrer of The Ocean, Furnisher of Godly Homes, Creator of Yuki, Blesser of Waters, Sclupter of the Cloudy Strips, Creator of the Slyph):12

Gambal(Giver of the Natural Spirit, Maker of Music, Creator of Civilisation, Creator of Gnomes, Shaper of The Underground, Divider of Kingdoms, Bringer of Peace, Creator of the Living Inanimates, Writer of Fates, Bestower of Illusions, Corrupter of Trees, Inventor of Metallurgy, Worsener of Anomalies, Builder of Wood Birb, Forger of Divine Tools):10

Numeros(Seer of the Future, Writer of The Book Of All, Revealer of the Future, The Great Spoiler, The Builder of Divine Temples, Maker of the Unvulnerable, Container of Anomalies, Creator of the Light Born):7

The World

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The underground and sea ecosystems have sustained serious damage due to FB killing everything they see, especially underground.

There is a considerable amount of older, more powerful FB still around in the caves, but unlike their new, much weaker counterparts, they are not replenished, and thus are finite.

With the forgotten beasts gone, the dead Yuki can respawn again and have repopulated the BelowWorld.

The sealing of the entrances to BelowWorld from UnderGround have resulted in water pouring down completely filling the lower levels, and pouring down from the sides of AboveWorld.

Independant Events

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812AC: A creepy, multiracial cult is formed around The Enlightened. These people always listen to him and do what he says. The Enlightened knows exactly what lies to tell and which ones will work the best.

824AC: The all available space for settlement has been filled. Overpopulation becomes an issue.The wildlife is already tarnished from expansion of civilisation. A half if the former biodiversity is extinct.

839AC: Scholars around the realm converge to find a solution, since the current civilisation is no longer sustainable.

854AC: To combat the issue of space, engineers start to think vertically. By placing pockets of cloud matter in strategic places, unnaturally long skyscrapers could be built, which are able to house hundreds instead of a dozen.

880AC: The cities shrink dramatically shrink in width thanks to the new technologies, even farms are now made up on the skies by setting up floating platforms. The ground is left for nature to reclaim.

895AC: Mortals get to talk with Kipp for the first time. Kipp has been floating above the limit where the former air vessels couldn't reach. She tells them that she is the mother of all, and is very pleased with what they are doing.

[Magmacube_tr]

Kipp looks at the distance. And thinks of dull, bitter nostalgia.

No matter what, I can't escape it. The yearning to see my original relatives. It's been literally an eternity since I last saw them. Flora, my mother. Solosis, my father. Serinius, Kotor, Teurruza, Alias, my siblings...

My children are very young and naive. They are junevile gods, unknowing of the total, uncaring chaos reiging supreme just beyond here.

I fondly remember my first ever creations. Jamjam, the blue, glowy plant of marshlands. Integ, the buggy little critter of the marshes.

It was fun. But I was a child back then, had no vision, no knowledge. But I know better know, I have seen it all. I created an empty planet for only Jamjams and Integs to populate, and watched them evolve into countless forms through untold eons. I found the last digit of Pi. I saw the release of Half-Life 3. I have seen countless worlds made by other deities and learned from them.

Now I am here, above the clouds as an orange cloud on my own, with a vibrant world of creative chaos. I gaze upon it, I watch it. If I want to I sprinkle my own on it.

I am beyond ancient. I am the elder goddess. I am Mother Kipp.

[TricMagic]

Ōkeanós looks and repopulates the seas and land beneath Aboveworld.

They then turn inward on themselves, thinking on what to make next. Water and air have been down already, one twice over... So thought, they create the Ruto, a race of birdlike people capable of flight through the skys. There traits and appearance vary, but all are gifted in song and music, flight magical and mundane, and a gift for airborne archery.

But what are birds without a mountain to call home? Ōkeanós rises to the first mountain where the great tree sits and raises it higher, forming cliffs and caves for the Ruto they shall create to inhabit, and carefully tending to the tree and water flow to create a garden of the skies.


[Ruto come last]