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[Leonardo8]

Hexapoda takes some time to manifest, as it is hard to coalesce an limitless number of fractal insect bodies into having one mind and one will. But when they arrive, they politely apologize for being late regardless, while the components remember the conversations that happened before their complete arrival.
" What a lovely world you have here! So full of beutiful life. You have my thanks, Buttercup Butterfly, for you have excellent taste!" Says the Infinite Swarm in a droning voice. "Allow me to add my children into it". Then it turns  to the Vircine Chiropod. "You are so beautiful, but your children are so ugly, yet interesting. Allow me to give them proper rivals, so that they can rise to great heights in beautiful unbalance!"
And by doing so, part of the infinite swarm separates, becoming the Antant
I spend a specialized right of insect creation and a common right of creation, to create several species of antants, waspwasps and blindbuilders

Spoiler: Antant (click to show/hide)

Species Name: Antant
Description: Big ants, several centimetres in lenght. Very varied, some have huge crushing mandibles, some have terrible venomous stingers, some spray acid that can melt skin. They all share a jet black exoskeleton and a competitive and aggressive nature. Their society is as militaristic and expansionistic as much as those terms can be applied to a nonsentient species.

Traits:
 - Weaponized: From jaws to stingers, to even more exotic weapons, there is no species of antant that is not lethal in some way.
 - Eusocial: Each antant colony functions exactly as an ant one, one queen, several princesses that copulate once and then kill the males.
 - Armored: Their exoskeletons are tough
 -Expansionistic: the colonies tend to move outwards, clashing against each other and the world in a constant outward expansion

Spoiler: Waswasp (click to show/hide)

Species Name: Waspwasp
Description: if the antants are armies, waspwasps are bandit bands, preying on the weak on the ground and carrying their prey to their flying bivouac.
Traits:
 - Flying: Waspwasps are incredibly strong and persistent flyers.
 - Eusocial:The queen and the king are the only individuals that can reproduce in a colony.
 - Flying bivouac: The queen of the colony passes her entire life without touching the ground, carried in a flying nest made by the worker's bodies, entwined in a beautiful aerial dance.
 -Stingers: they have sharp stingers that inject a paralyzing venom

Spoiler: Blindbuilders (click to show/hide)

Species Name: Blindbuilders
Description: They are big termites, but with an actual, elephant-like proboscis.
Traits:
 -  Eusocial: You know the drill.
 - Builders: They can build immense, above ground nests that are incredibly resistant, to both the elements and attacks.
Diggers: They are expert diggers.
 -Giants: Some individuals can grow to immense sizes, meters in lenght with the right diet. THey are kept in the lower chambers, slumbering until the colony is attacked, than they are roused to defend it. Their proboscis sprays acidic glue and are able to dig tunnels.

Then, after their creation, Hexapoda opposes the law of benevolence "I do not wish to be limited in my art, that's all

[crazyabe]

Xe'kekxlia, rolls one of his 2 Rights of Creation into a ball and tosses it into The Chiropod's soon to be world, spawning the species to be known as Honkers.

Spoiler: Honkers (click to show/hide)

Species Name: Honkers
Description: A species of long necked feathered fowl capable of winged flight and watery floatation alike, males are lime green with purple polka dots, while females are dark Blue with pink stripes. Both sexes have a large red circular 'nose' at the middle of their beak that seems to exist purely to squeak.

Traits:
-Deafening; Honkers can honk at between 110 decibels and 140 decibels of volume, causing pain, ear injury, and eventual deafness to other creatures in the area. they typically use this trait to warn off predators, or alert other Honkers to threats they've spotted.
-migratory; if the weather isn't great, Honkers can spend upwards of three months traveling, looking for better nesting ground.
-Omnivorous; self explanatory.

[Egan_BW]

"...I'm not sure if there's any point in drawing attention to this, but there's no need to record disapproval for the Law of Benevolence. It will come into being with six approvals regardless of disapproval."
"Or five if our last two don't appear."
"That seems doubtful, right?"

Then, after their creation, Hexapoda opposes the law of benevolence "I do not wish to be limited in my art, that's all."

"This particular Law does not restrict our actions, or anybody else's for that matter. It simply manipulates probability to create a world which already could have been, by sheer chance. It will also improve the odds of survival for creatures which prove poorly adapted, preserving our creations where otherwise they would be destroyed."

Several of Butterfly Buttercup's stamen quiver in suppressed amusement.

"Oh, oh how this takes me back! Always the gods enjoy this good joke about how suffering is a vital component of being mortal! It isn't of course, just very amusing for us up high to watch. See how they clothe their schadenfraude in words of highness and righteousness! Fortunately, I enjoy a challenge in making my entertainment."

"I have seen many worlds crafted by Divines before, most plagued by suffering. It seems likely indeed that they simply enjoy creating such things, but I don't see what reason one would have to lie about it?"

[Leonardo8]

"This particular Law does not restrict our actions, or anybody else's for that matter. It simply manipulates probability to create a world which already could have been, by sheer chance. It will also improve the odds of survival for creatures which prove poorly adapted, preserving our creations where otherwise they would be destroyed."

But where is the fun in playing with loaded dices says the swarm, though they are uncertain on how they learned of the concept of "dice"

[Egan_BW]

"All dice are loaded. At least, I suspect that we're not creating a world where all things are equally possible and probable. I've been to that place, it's very annoying."

[Leonardo8]

"All dice are loaded. At least, I suspect that we're not creating a world where all things are equally possible and probable. I've been to that place, it's very annoying."

All the dices are loaded, but each in different, unpredictable, beautiful ways. That's where art is born. You want to load them all in one direction, and that's boring and tasteless.

[TricMagic]

Should it come into being, the other can be used to counter it. And then both are used up. It's like trying to grow rice without control of the water flow, foolhardy not to listen to others advice.

[Rockeater]

Not all plants are beneficial. Indeed, there are many weeds that must be dealt with when farming.

That said, I do still suggest the creation of the Lowly Realms so that things may be separated into their own fields.

"Few plants are truly weeds, as in the right conditions and the right care for their surrounding almost all plants can be made harmonious.

And I would oppose separating things to their own fields unless necessary, as a greater good is made by careful mixing of all.

Not all plants are beneficial. Indeed, there are many weeds that must be dealt with when farming.

That said, I do still suggest the creation of the Lowly Realms so that things may be separated into their own fields.
What is good for the growth of rice is rarely good for other plants. And those it is good for strangle the stalk before it grows and deprive the growth of nutrients. The Lowly Realm will help with the latter, but the former is still an issue.

"I have no problems with parts of the world being dedicated to farms, if there will be plenty of places for other types of gardens. but even then I would not recommenced having only one type of plant in a farm, one kind cannot maintain it's entire garden by itself"

Species Name: Buttercups
Description: Various types of Buttercups, from giant tree-cups to standard savannah-cups and aquatic lily-cups and kelp-cups and shrub-cups filling most of the surface of the Bounteous Domes with a profusion of various sorts of buttercup vegetation, nutritious, tasty, good-smelling and a generous provider of nectar and sometimes lumber depending on type.

Traits:
- Ubiquitous: Everywhere you would expect to find some sort of plant, you can find a Buttercup adapted to fill that niche, and even in several places where you would not expect them.
- Fecund: Buttercups reproduce and grow at a rapid place, rapidly outcompeting most other plants to fill up every available space with yet more buttercups.
- Pleasant: Buttercups are nearly the ideal crop, being fast growing, nutritious, useful, and smelling better than any animal will ever be able to, the slobs.
- Fateful: Strange coincidences, both lucky and unlucky, are more likely to occur around large quantities of buttercups. Stumbling into your arch-rival who was also somewhere else in the thousands of miles of buttercups and you would not have met normally. Happening to find the only buried treasure chest for miles when digging an latrine, etc.

"Also, those Buttercups are too territorial for my liking and knowledge, in a good garden all need to know to share their place with others, could they be either more limited in the land, or preferably be more spaced from each other and allow more to grow between them?"

Butterfly Buttercup swishes several Butterfly wings in contemplation, before the non-air happens to vibrate in a way that replies to the Gardener.

"If the Buttercups seem 'territorial', it is because they are currently nearly the only plants in existence, yes no? Being generalists, they will no doubt be easily outcompeted by specialists in certain roles if plants are actually created to fill those roles! So it might be a better idea to create specific plants to displace the Buttercups, rather than complaining about plants existing at all nono? Does that make sense? Does that not make sense? I certainly have not made them particularly aggressive to my mind, merely plentiful!"

"Fair argument, although I will need to test this myself at some point"

"But for now, this garden need carer which are truly part of it"

Bartatam take some of the land of the sphere on which the sunflower grow and create several Primordial caretakers (Powerful beings)

Beings Name: Primordial caretakers
Description: Large insects and rodent looking creatures, each different from the others, made from rocks and fertile ground that allow plants to grow on them

Traits:
- Earth Shaking: They are of enormous size and have magnificent strengths
- Gentle: Very careful around life which they don't intent to hurt.
- Harmony bound: Have as an outpost goal to ensure that plenty of species thrive and a great diversity of life without on species pushing others away.
- Ecologist mind: Posses great understanding of the complex network of life in their surrounding and how their actions can effect it.

[Kilojoule Proton]

Hexapoda takes some time to manifest, as it is hard to coalesce an limitless number of fractal insect bodies into having one mind and one will. But when they arrive, they politely apologize for being late regardless, while the components remember the conversations that happened before their complete arrival.
" What a lovely world you have here! So full of beutiful life. You have my thanks, Buttercup Butterfly, for you have excellent taste!" Says the Infinite Swarm in a droning voice. "Allow me to add my children into it". Then it turns  to the Vircine Chiropod. "You are so beautiful, but your children are so ugly, yet interesting. Allow me to give them proper rivals, so that they can rise to great heights in beautiful unbalance!"
And by doing so, part of the infinite swarm separates, becoming the Antant
I spend a specialized right of insect creation and a common right of creation, to create several species of antants, waspwasps and blindbuilders

Spoiler: Antant (click to show/hide)

Species Name: Antant
Description: Big ants, several centimetres in lenght. Very varied, some have huge crushing mandibles, some have terrible venomous stingers, some spray acid that can melt skin. They all share a jet black exoskeleton and a competitive and aggressive nature. Their society is as militaristic and expansionistic as much as those terms can be applied to a nonsentient species.

Traits:
 - Weaponized: From jaws to stingers, to even more exotic weapons, there is no species of antant that is not lethal in some way.
 - Eusocial: Each antant colony functions exactly as an ant one, one queen, several princesses that copulate once and then kill the males.
 - Armored: Their exoskeletons are tough
 -Expansionistic: the colonies tend to move outwards, clashing against each other and the world in a constant outward expansion

Spoiler: Waswasp (click to show/hide)

Species Name: Waspwasp
Description: if the antants are armies, waspwasps are bandit bands, preying on the weak on the ground and carrying their prey to their flying bivouac.
Traits:
 - Flying: Waspwasps are incredibly strong and persistent flyers.
 - Eusocial:The queen and the king are the only individuals that can reproduce in a colony.
 - Flying bivouac: The queen of the colony passes her entire life without touching the ground, carried in a flying nest made by the worker's bodies, entwined in a beautiful aerial dance.
 -Stingers: they have sharp stingers that inject a paralyzing venom

Spoiler: Blindbuilders (click to show/hide)

Species Name: Blindbuilders
Description: They are big termites, but with an actual, elephant-like proboscis.
Traits:
 -  Eusocial: You know the drill.
 - Builders: They can build immense, above ground nests that are incredibly resistant, to both the elements and attacks.
Diggers: They are expert diggers.
 -Giants: Some individuals can grow to immense sizes, meters in lenght with the right diet. THey are kept in the lower chambers, slumbering until the colony is attacked, than they are roused to defend it. Their proboscis sprays acidic glue and are able to dig tunnels.

The Vircine Chiropod dances with delight with the proliferation of more eusocial species and, curious, presents a basket of hmmmster seeds to an antant colony to see if they'll eat it, farm it, or ignore it.

SEE ME PLANTS SEE PLANT ANIMAL ME LOVE PLANT SEE ANIMAL ME

Beings Name: Primordial caretakers
Description: Large insects and rodent looking creatures, each different from the others, made from rocks and fertile ground that allow plants to grow on them

Traits:
- Earth Shaking: They are of enormous size and have magnificent strengths
- Gentle: Very careful around life which they don't intent to hurt.
- Harmony bound: Have as an outpost goal to ensure that plenty of species thrive and a great diversity of life without on species pushing others away.
- Ecologist mind: Posses great understanding of the complex network of life in their surrounding and how their actions can effect it.

The Chiropod watches with interest as the colossal yet graceful caretakers come to life and buries a few hmmmster seeds on one of them to see what happens next.

[Maximum Spin]

Name: Law of Benevolence
Class: Universal
Effects: Probability over the entire universe is subtly tweaked in order to benefit those in need and minimize suffering. Fails to have any effect measurable by those who would abuse this effect.

Approval: 3 (Alice, Butterfly Buttercup, Vircine Chiropod)
Disaproval: 2+א_‎1‎‎ (Root of All Rice, The One Above All, NOTWITHSTANDING)

Living beings deserve suffering.

[Rockeater]

Name: Law of Benevolence
Class: Universal
Effects: Probability over the entire universe is subtly tweaked in order to benefit those in need and minimize suffering. Fails to have any effect measurable by those who would abuse this effect.

Approval: 4 (Alice, Butterfly Buttercup, Vircine Chiropod, Bartatam)
Disaproval: 2+א_‎1‎‎ (Root of All Rice, The One Above All, NOTWITHSTANDING)

[TricMagic]

Name: Law of Benevolence
Class: Universal
Effects: Probability over the entire universe is subtly tweaked in order to benefit those in need and minimize suffering. Fails to have any effect measurable by those who would abuse this effect.

Approval: 4 (Alice, Butterfly Buttercup, Vircine Chiropod, Bartatam)
Disaproval: 2+א_‎1‎‎ (Root of All Rice, The One Above All, NOTWITHSTANDING)

A reminder that if we reach 6 disapproval you can expect the other half of the law to just negate your own while we make another one. Rather like letting disease take root on your crops.

[Egan_BW]

"Are you expecting me to take responsibility for your evil?"

[Maximum Spin]

"Are you expecting me to take responsibility for your evil?"

Protecting the needy from suffering is evil.

[TricMagic]

"Are you expecting me to take responsibility for your evil?"

"More that you should consider the opinion of others. I personally think it's a wasted law that leads to complacency in mortals. Nothing really bad happens, and they never get any idea on how to deal with such, no resistance. And then one god makes and evil overlord and conquers the whole world because they never invested in defenses. You deny the needful the will to do things because they are easy, but it's only when things are hard that mortals shine."