Turn 0.66 Swamps of Legislation
Things heat up within the repurposed storeroom as the
furthest's deceptive use of language frustrates the legalistically minded
Reaper-Chan, who at times seemed poised to throw the whole ledger-book at her frustratingly terse and cryptic political opponent, and it is quite a big and heavy book indeed.
Seemingly equally irritated by
furthest's linguistic games,
Tip of the Iceberg has made a shocking proposal to end the
furthest alongside themselves! This appalingly garners a second from among the seemingly bloodthirsty Champions of the
SUN.
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In the confusion the
Cardinal Movement seems to attempt to approve at least two nonexistent proposals, possibly explaining their bloodthirst out of embarrassment?
Reaper-chan's attempt to push
TIP into a hole fails when TIP just floats above it.
The
Directional Unit counter-proposes that a replacement should be in place for TIP before they are destroyed. This prudent proposal gains little traction among the rest of the Champions.
Feeling sympathy for the poor hardworking scribe arms,
Reaper-chan suggests that the world be named
Sulivishka, using up their last Council Act. This gains the
Fulgent Furnace's burning enthusiasm.
However, as this name seems to trigger some sort of lockup in
Cardinal Movement, they counterpropose that the world be named
Sulifishka instead. No one else supports either proposal, but both seem to have been entered into planetary records anyway by some rogue rat-pigeons.
Demonic Spin the Fulgent Flame counterproposes a revision to the Soul Attraction LAW that all allegianceless souls be dropped into the Furnace. No one else supports this forward-thinking, synergistic orientated, modern-workplace solution.
Demonic Spin also tries to counter-propose a non-existent proposal, which doesn't work.
furthest's conditional support for ending
TIP fails to be tallied by the daemon-counters, as
TIP was explicitly opposed to any form of recycling or rebirth of their selves, seeking a true end.
The
BFG eloquently presents a bold proposal of new techniques in waste management, by simply shooting it somewhere far away, thus making it someone else's problem. The massive
SUNlight expenditures inherent to this proposal are presumably worth it for the convenience.
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furthest makes a aesthetically and philosophically pleasing proposal consisting of:
- There shall be living things seeded upon the planet, along with such resources as they will require. We shall not concern ourselves with the details. Other proposals may or may not be made to constrain this.
- Among these living things shall be those which possess souls and intrinsic will. We shall craft them in the shape of dandelions. They will grow in the soil and give worship unto the SUN in exchange for Its sustenance.
- Dandelions will be required to worship either the SUN generally, or any of Its Champions, singly or in combination.
- For obscure kabbalistic reasons beyond the ken of most beings, the world shall be referred to as "Mars". The other proposed name will not be forbidden as an acceptable alternative.
No one else supports it.
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With a healthy majority of 6/7, the Council has approved placing mortals upon Sulifishka! Each of the Pantheons feels raw power flooding into certain reservoirs they have access rights too, promising such capabilities of earthmoving and shaping as to make entire continents into the design of their consensus, and of slowly defrosting cans of protoplasm and delicate clockwork surgeons with tiny scalpels to shape the mortals of their dreams.
Each Pantheon gains a Continent Act and Mortals Act that can only be used through pantheonic consensus.The entire
SUN rumbles as a new LAW is written into the matrices of its legal projectors. No soul shall escape.
The Council further approves the minor legal clarifications and codices of the Cardinal Proposal, and placing certain expectations upon the behaviour of the future mortals of Sulivishka. They are repeated here for ease of reference:
- PERMIT worshiping the SUN's light.
- FORBID the act of talk with Night-Horrors.
- REQUIRE the use of gold and bone to vitalize the SUNshine, SUNlight, and SUNlaw.
- FORBID gazing upon the SUN.
- REQUIRE that things be named after the SUN.
- PERMIT mortals to ascend as long as paperwork is filled (in triplicate).
The Council has decided to grant TIP's wish of being ended! As a Council resolution this temporarily overwrites the
SUN-LAW GOD SHALL NEVER KILL GOD, in that it is the
SUN-In-Collective who is performing solemn sacred execution-murder.
Turn 1: Execution
It with a certain solemnity that the avatars of the Champions watch the BLOT being slowly hauled along a railed tunnel a small army of automato workers had just recently finished sawing through the Solar Barge. They go forward, and as the air grows thick and sticky with an air of unknown and forbidden ceremony, begin to push the BLOT into the very innermost heart of hearts of
SUN. With each step they force their frail forms closer, everything becomes bright and brighter...
Finally they are overwhelmed by the blinding radiance, and eventually nothing, as their frail shells are destroyed by the unleashed energies roiling so very deep inside, not tamed or caged by the many layers or restraints and filters.
The BLOT is destroyed!
Tip of the Iceberg is no more!
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Surely there will be no drastic repercussions from this radical internal surgery...
The entire structure of the
Sun-That-Is creaks and groans slightly, somehow made inexplicably
less than it once was.
Still, amidst disturbance of shining settling, a previously blocked off gallery is revealed as sheets of ice and coal slide away. What wonders could hide within?
New Instrument discovered: THE CRADLEWith their grim task past, the Champions are now free to turn their attention to the world of Sulifishka, place their thrones, form their continents, sculpt their mortals!
StatusSUNshine meter:
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Expected Collapse of the SUN-Law Bubble: 2 Turns
Next Council Session: Turn 6
- THE BAT-RIDDEN BELFRY: Its jolly ringing marked the passage of hours. Indeed, the very sound of its bells seemed to fill things with a certain clarity, which is comforting, and pushes back the dark, a little.
- THE ULTIMATE LENSES: The SUN's outermost lenses and last safe stop for outbound light. Despite their apparent fragility, they've survived the trek with only minor scratches, and even for the SUN's 's Greatest Messengers, standing in front of them while the SUN is active is extremely inadvisable.
- THE CHARNEL SEVERANCE: Buried into the hull beneath the Ultimate Lenses, these semi-blasphemous filters modulate the glory of SUNlight into something survivable for those external, for great is the SUN's mercy.
- THE FORGOTTEN FULGENT FURNACE: An unstable burning shining mass of combined Fulgent-Flaming essences which provides fiery power to various other parts of the SUN, including some auxiliary warming chambers of the Solar Lance, and eagerly feeds on waste brought to it by various movement lines and lines of construct coolies.
- THE COMPASS-CLOCK: Banks of delicate navigational and chronometering equipment fills the glass and bronze down of this instrument. Accelerometers, automated termite-augers, strange fizzing coils that scream if any construct lingers close to them too long, and more esoteric devices like mirrors that reflect a few seconds into the past, or chimes that begin to stink if a reactor is going critical. It is also here that a vast tube of golden sap carefully measures the SUNlight reserves.
THE BLOT: A section of nothingness, which cannot be observed because it isn't there, carefully contained, into which various unrecyclable trash or unwanted stowaways or infections are thrown to cleanse the great space lantern.- THE SOLAR LANCE: Sometimes you just need a really big gun. the Solar Lance is that gun. Built into inner superstructure of the SUN, with a line all the way to the tri-essence core-heart, it can only be aimed by re-orientating the entire SUN itself, but no records exist of anything that can resist a direct blast.
- THE MOVEMENT CHAMBER: A vast, ticking, creaking, and groaning web-monstrosity of cogs, belts, springs and pipes and mechanical carrier pigeons, which transmits orders and information and between the various far flung parts of the sky-chariot.
- THE HANDYMEN: An elaborate system of gem-eyes, patrolling pigeon-rats, meticulous recordkeeping scribe-hands, waste-disposal chutes and wandering yellow-hatted constructs surveying equipment, making notes, occasionally performing percussive maintenance or opening their torsos to access their specialized tools for actual serious jobs, helps to keep the entire overgrown behemoth of the SUN running
- THE CRADLE(unmapped): A mysterious complex of tunnels leading into dim twilight. The distant clanking of feet can be heard.
Flaming pantheon
Communal acts: 1 Continent Act (57 hexes), 1 Mortals Act (12 pops), 1 Act
Members:
- Demonic Spin the Fulgent Flame: 1 faulty act
- Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
- Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister
- BFG: 1 faulty act
- Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
- Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister
- furthest: 1 faulty act
- Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
- Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister
Frosted pantheon
Communal acts: 1 Continent Act (57 hexes), 1 Mortals Act (12 pops)
Members:
The Tip of the Iceberg, or TIP- The Cardinal Movement: 1 Act
- Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
- Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister
Fulgent pantheon
Communal acts: 1 Continent Act (57 hexes), 1 Mortals Act (12 pops), 1 Act
Members:
- Directional unit: 1 faulty act
- Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
- Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister
- Reaper-chan: 1 Act
- Path of Benevolence: Belief, Worship, Dedication, Souls
- Path of Aloofness: Creator, Destroyer, Preserver, Reshaper, Exister
((If you feel anything above is in error, feel free to tell me!
People are still free to join or finish up their sheets. Another
Frosted player is particularly desired!))