Turn 5: The Simple Machine RegretsWinds of Creatia
The high flow of Creatia coursing through the Materia pooling in the Final Shape has greatly empowered myth and magic, and many strange and wondrous deeds are accomplished by mortals throughout the lands. It is an age of great heroes, of the sort who strive and are accompanied by long shadows and leave deep furrows.
Censorious Censors of Censoring
Gongon completed the first host of the Censors, and the disturbingly drawn out nature of their creation has driven them into rebellion! (Gongon: -1 Ignorance Act; +Creatia) Their first act was to ████████ all documentation referencing ██ ██████████ to ███ ███l █████ at once to ███████ ████ of █████████ ████████ from ███████ out. The Department of ███████████ has been founded by the very motivated Censor ██████████-Not-Handle-█████████ ██████ to ███████ ███ world ████ ███████████, and many of the more censorious Censors have eagerly signed on to ████████ the █████ ██ █████ ███ ████. Their current whereabouts are unknown. This isn't to say this entire litter of Censors fell; the more obedient, less censorious ones stayed by Gongon's side and formed the 1st Ship of Censors.
Through eldritch manuvering and backroom deals lost to the ages, Gongon, aided by a particularly annoyed part of their carapace, also completed a hostile takeover of the Department of Punishment, bringing them up to full funding (and then some with the decreased overhead from quitting staff) as well as instituting policies to rein in their excesses. They have been relocated to the Welkin Wisteria, and with pieces of Gongon's carapace buzzing around and micromanaging them, the DoP has grudgingly elected to give up their claims on the Sanctum Sanctorum to focus on punishing mortals just the right amount.
The other part of Gongon's carapace went to founding the Department of Flesh with Yitterbium's assistance (Gongon: -1 Sanity Act; Yitterbium: -1 Flesh Act; +Creatia). Their duties mostly seem to involve shaping, molding, and proliferating flesh and █████████ █ █████ ██████ of souls inbound ████ ███ ████ █████ ██ ████ fleshy ██████ ██████ █████ ███ notional command of the Emperor of Flesh.
Next, working closely with Gregory, Gongon created the Host of the Grigoos, generally invisible Zen Kangaroos with the power to catch souls with big screaming appendages and store them in census records kept in their pouches in order to █████████ them to ███ ████ █████ (Gongon: -1 Ignorance Act; Gregory: -1 Order Act). They have been hired onto the Department of Death, which will manage the orderly transmigration of souls from the land of the ██████ ██ ███ ████ █████ and is headquartered in the Flooded Ikea (Gongon: -1 Ignorance Act; Gregory: -1 Civilization Act).
With three departments founded and placed under Gongon's benevolent oversight, Gongon consolidated them, placing the Department of Punishment, the Department of Flesh, and the Department of Death under the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate (Gongon: -Greater Piece; +Creatia). This new bureau appears to govern life and death, and has been given its agenda by the bureau head in the flesh.
The Department of Punishment is busy flogging the Winespring so as to humble it until it accepts its unfortunate role in housing the administrative center of the Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate. Shackles are periodically thrown in the sea for good measure and/or to spice things up.
Department of Mortal Affairs
The Department of Mortal Affairs has now been fully funded thanks to a generous donation from Luka which immediately comes in handy (Luka: -1 Hat Act, -1 Skulls Act). Their unilateral occupation of Workspace-1 drew attention from ANTHEM-314, who, though sympathetic to their cause, wanted to avoid a precedent of angels taking over provinces (particularly those on Incarnae!) without permission. After a brief and painless negotiation, they paid a one-time fee to ANTHEM-314 for the use of Workspace-1 which grants them an indefinite lease on the location. (ANTHEM-314: +1 Skulls Act)
Slightly annoyed by the spontaneous early formation of the Department of Mortal Affairs, Gregory was nevertheless gracious enough to send the remainder of the Gregori to apply for work at the Department of Mortal Affairs, where they have been seamlessly incorporated. This has had the welcome additional side effect of putting Gregory in the running for oversight over the Department, which may well be closer to him following the hiring and rapid promotion of Secretary General Grigalass.
Reignition
In the solar vacuum left by the utter destruction of the Star of Chaos and the demotion of the Iridescent Sun, Yitterbium and the Neobel Eka sought to fill the void. Yitterbium sacrificed a spleen and kidney to create the Star of Chaos once again, which strangely enough seems to lack a shadow (Yitterbium: -Spleen, -Kidney, +2-3 Chaos Acts, +2-2 Flesh Acts; +Materia). Gongon nevertheless proclaimed it to be auspicious.
Not wanting to be outdone, the Neobel Eka pruned a great many leaves, vines, and grasping roots to create an entire star of ideal alcohol with an affinity for consuming other suns or being consumed by them that also emits a rainbow white light (Neobel Eka: -Chloroplasts/Leaves, -Vineflesh, -Grasproots, +4-4 Noble Acts, +4-4 Life Acts; +Materia).
As has been the case from the dawn of time, the two suns proceed to fight for sole sunship in a one-sided brawl in which the Star of Chaos splashed into the Grand Wine, and after several minutes of scrabbling, was never seen or heard from again.
The Star of Chaos has been consumed.
Indulge in the complexity of this meaty delight. Chaotic notes of black currants, charred wood, and smoked meat mingle harmoniously, creating a wine that demands attention and rewards exploration.
Gathering up bones from this fight and other fights augmented by the Skulls Act given by the Department of Mortal Affairs, ANTHEM-314 created the continent of Historia in the Canvass of Stars (ANTHEM-314: -1 Ages Act, -1 Machine Act, -1 Skull Act; +Creatia).
The Great Migrations
With Yalini's close guidance and instruction in navigating by wind and sea currents, the birds of Liniom have placed most of their focus on the ocean. Some progress is made on more sophisticated boats or wind-propelled floating nests, but many birds insist on flying directly from island to island, which works well enough if the islands aren't too far away. More dispersed clusters of islands still aren't in close communication with each other, and making the jump to navigable Demetria is still a significant challenge, but the influence of the Cliomare has been steadily increasing. Something resembling a cult of ancestral heroes the islands has begun forming in these turbulent times.
Far away in Aurloura, Yalini instead nudged the birds toward animal husbandry, which has quickly revealed itself to be their strong suit! Herds of land-bound ungulates follow clans of birds across the constantly shifting land, and although encountering another clan in the constant trek for fresh pastures leads to strife and long feuds almost as often as collaboration and festivities with the meeting of three clans periodically leading to violent slaughter, the meeting of four clans is commonly seen as a sign of good luck. This is the origin of the commonly held Aurlouran bird belief that the four-leaved clover brings luck.
Yalini also created the light and plant-eating Auloon moths and the evergreen grass called Tinir.
The Roach-Dragon Watches
Fearing the Hungering Storm, the Sorns and Luns have mostly remained settled in and around Retreat, where the watchful guidance of the Roach-Dragon sees them devote much of their efforts to flameworking and masonry. The most striking of their villages are those extending into intricately carved cliff faces for ease of access by Luns and Sorns alike. Perhaps as a consequence of the nature of their creation and the ongoing issues with the ████ █████, they seem to have developed a fascination for the macabre, and various communities have developed elaborate death rites for preventing the dead from coming back among other things.
Fascinations obtained for the Sorns and Luns: masonry and death rites!
Use any tier of act to roll to nudge the direction they focus on.
The Merry Adventures of Shredder
Shredder continued traveling throughout the world attempting to befriend the weather and stumbled upon a friendly sunny day in its wake. Unfortunately, the sunny day was less than enthused to join Gongon's court and ultimately smothered itself in clouds rather than assist in Gongon's less than sunny endeavors.
Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy
That none of Sparked shining
massacre massed mortals maliciously
with their divine acts of miracle,
in such upholding of integrity
wondrous worldworking
superb societyspinning
Let all be as
Divine Will
Time of Heroes
Legends tell of the fierce Aurlouran chieftain Aur-Oka, who, seeking to feed his starving clan, tamed the first beasts of the Lost Lands Between by stealing their secret names from the Cave of the Sky, where the old gods held council. Twice he sent his mightiest children to take their names, and twice they failed and were felled in battle. The third time, the distraught chief fashioned a spear of horn, sinew, and ivory to give to the guardians of the Cave, carving the head over sixteen days and sixteen nights. So beautiful was the spear that when Aur-Oka presented it to the guardians, they neglected their duty and fought amongst themselves, mortally wounding Shines-Sevenfold in the process and giving the chief just enough time to fly off with the names of Camel and Bull in each hand, Sheep between his hands (which is why the clans that follow the coast regard sheep as impure creatures), and Pig in his beak. Having saved his clan and many more with the secret names of the animals, Aur-Oka lived for several more years before he was murdered by the jealous chief Xir-Oka, who together with his clan's hunters drank the secrets of animal taming from Aur-Oka's blood. This treachery is why sensible Aurlourans shun those who drink wine or blood and thoroughly cremate the dead to this day.
Few Bloodbags dare to swim too close to the center of the Winespring, and one of the more widely known stories relates that the Eater, a very old and very vain Bloodbag elder whose name shall not be uttered, swallowed up all of the young of a Bloodbag family in the hope that doing so would stave off death. Angered, the elders called up the shore-fishers and off-fishers to force the Eater to return the Bloodbags thus eaten. Working as one, they captured the cannibal, and after gathering at the center of the sea to deliberate, quickly decided on the execution of the Eater. On hearing the sentence pronounced by the elders, the vain Bloodbag rattled a laugh so eerie and so terrifying the shore-fishers went into an incoherent frenzy that saw them also gobbled up by the abominable Bloodbag, who gained the size and strength of a hundred Bloodbags. It was only by the less easily frightened off-fishers' fiercest efforts, best magics, and heroic sacrifices that the unnameable Bloodbag was finally thwarted and pinned to the sea floor. Today, it is common and proper to call the highest-ranking elders "officials" and "officers" in honor of the off-fishers who died that day, and every year, the most esteemed officials convene at the Winespring to enact the rituals that keep the Eater at bay.
Life...uh, is finding ways
Sparks have spread throughout the islands of Demetria, and ungulates have been spotted at the margins of the Mountain Range of Mountain Range of y7rulspowTvwA7ZAfDkpPQ== after spreading to the Winespring and its coast.
It is now the season of Remembrance in the Stone Age.
It hurts to admit when you make mistakes,
but when they're big enough, the pain only lasts a second.
Eozoic EonCivilizations:
- *Sapient birds of Liniom: (Incomplete, developing!): Fascinated by sailing
- *Sapient birds of Aurloura: (Incomplete, developing!): Fascinated by animal husbandry
- *Bloodbags of Winespring: (Incomplete, stagnant)
- Sorns and Luns of Retreat: (Incomplete, developing!): Fascinated by masonry and death rites
Life:
- Mortals (1 Grand + 1 Aligned Act per existing mortal species, requires 3 flora, 2 herbivores, and 1 omnivore/carnivore):
- Fauna (1 Common, creates entire order/family/genus, requires 2 flora): (None)
- Pustules (Winespring)
- Sparks (Liniom, Aurloura, Demetria, (Lost Lands Between))
- Ungulating Masses (Liniom, Aurloura, Winespring, (Mountain Range of y7rulspowTvwA7ZAfDkpPQ==))
- Yatinir (Liniom, Aurloura, (Lost Lands Between))
- Chit-Chatters (Retreat, (Fhaire))
- Moo-Grubsters (Retreat, (Fhaire))
- Creep-Hunters (Retreat, (Fhaire))
- Auloon (Liniom, Aurloura)
- Flora (1 Lesser, creates entire order/family/genus):
Terrain:
- Continent/ocean (1 Greater):
- Bloodwine Broodwaters (Noble, Life)
- Skull island archipelago (Skull, Ignorance) (Passionfruit, Sovereignfruit)
- Liniom: Domain of Yalini (Sparks, Flinir, Ungulating Masses)
- Demetria (Order, Civilization)
- Lost Lands Between (Vaina's Arm, Sanity)
- The Winespring: Domain of Neobel Eka (Flowering Vines, Blood Worms, Pustules)
- Aurloura: Domain of Yalini (Sparks, Flinir, Ungulating Masses)
- Fhaire, the Fields of Flame (The Hundred Legs of Sornlun):
- Retreat, Domain of Sornlun (Kidney of Sornlun, Antennae of Sornlun) (Roachids, Nostalgiae)
- Mountain Range of y7rulspowTvwA7ZAfDkpPQ== (Rock, Machine)
- Region/sea (1 Common, requires continent/ocean, includes 1 free state): (See parent)
- State (1 Lesser, requires region/sea, includes 1 free province): (See parent)
- Province (1 Petty, requires state): (See parent)
- Domain (1 Greater, restricted to Natural-specialized Tempered, requires life-forms or servants):
- The Winespring: Flowering Vines, Blood Worms, Pustules, Bloodbags
- Liniom: Domain of Yalini (Sparks, Flinir, Ungulating Masses)
- Aurloura: Domain of Yalini (Sparks, Flinir, Ungulating Masses)
- Retreat, Domain of Sornlun (Kidney of Sornlun, Antennae of Sornlun) (Roachids, Nostalgiae)
Incarnae (limit 1 active per god):
- Prophets (1 Common, requires mortals): (None)
- Creatures (1 Common, requires fauna): (None)
- Archangels (1 Greater, requires angels):
- Shredder, Angomlivyr Archangel of Gongon (3 Sanity, Ignorance): Bloodwine Broodwaters, Final Shape
- Roach-Dragon, Roachid Archangel of Sornlun (Ear of Sornlun, Heaven)
- Grigalass, Gregori Archangel of Greegory, Secretary-General: Employed by the Department of Mortal Affairs
- Monuments (1 Common):
Servants:
- High Priestoods (1 Lesser, requires mortals):
- Cliamore (Light): Splintering?
- Critters (1 Lesser, requires fauna):
- Flinir (Liniom, Aurloura, (Skull Island Archipelago))
- Angels (1 Common):
Demons:
- Seventy-Seven-Days King: Bloodwine Broodwaters
- The First ██████c S████ of Censors
Bureaucracy:
- Bureau (1 Greater, limit 3 per heading deity, requires 2 departments and angels):
- Bureau of the Heavenly Mandate
- Bureau Head: Gongon
- Office space: Adequate (Sanctum Sanctorum)
- Staffing: Low
- Corruption: None (rising)
- Departments:
- Department of Punishment (Birds of Night)
- Overseeing Deity: Gongon
- Head: Claimed by A-0, ███ the Censor
- Office space: Adequate (Welkin Wisteria)
- Funding: Adequate
- Staffing: Reduced (recovering)
- Corruption: Some (steady)
- Agenda: Scourge the sea
- Department of Flesh (Emperor of Flesh)
- Overseeing Deity: Gongon
- Head: Many-Intricate-Swirls the Gestator
- Office Space: Adequate (Port Wine)
- Staffing: Adequate
- Corruption: None
- Agenda: Gestating a ship of Censors
- Stage 1/?: First trimester
- Department of Death (The One Who Defies Chaos)
- Overseeing Deity: Gongon
- Head: Grig Solemn Undertaker the Grigoo
- Office Space: Adequate (Flooded Ikea)
- Staffing: Adequate
- Corruption: None
- Agenda: Clearing the blockage in the Dull Maybe
- Stage 1/?: Investigating the blockage...
- Department (1 Common, limit 4 per bureau, requires angels):
- Department of Mortal Affairs (Shields of Breath)
- Overseeing Deity: Gregory, ANTHEM-314
- Head: Precious-Is-The-Fledgling's-Breath Stomil
- Office space: Adequate (Workspace 1)
- Funding: Adequate
- Staffing: Adequate
- Secretary General Grigalass
- A few Gregori
- A few Roachids
- A couple Angomlivyrs
- Corruption: None
- Treasury:
- Department of ███████████
- Overseeing Deity: "██████ but Go████"
- Head: ██████████-Not-Handle-█████████ ██████
- Office space: Undisclosed (undisclosed)
- Funding: Undisclosed
- Staffing: Undisclosed
- The First ██████c S████ of Censors
- Corruption: Undisclosed
Cults:
- Early cult chassis (1 Common, min. 1 deity, 1 offering doctrine, 1 miracle/intervention*): (None)
* Subject to rebalancing
Example offering doctrines:
- Burnt offering: Sacrifice food to the god(s)
- Pilgrimage: Travel to sacred sites
- Monument building: Build great monuments to honor (or ward away) the god(s)
- Mortal sacrifice: Sacrifice mortals to the god(s)
- Tithes: Sacrifice valuables to the god(s)
- Vision quests: Commune with the god(s) with special libations
Known artifacts:
- Hat of Creation (GRAND: 4 Hat, 1 Skull)
- Clarity (GRAND: Eyes of Sornlun, Sane Kidney of Gongon)
Piece costs:
| Tier | Cost |
|
|
| Grand | 5+ Aligned |
| Greater | 3+ Aligned |
| Common | 2+ Aligned or 3+ Unaligned |
| Lesser | 1+ Aligned or 2+ Unaligned |
| Petty | 1+ Unaligned or 2+ Faulty |
| Below-Petty | 1+ Faulty |
Required- Shape (Grand):
- Continents/oceans (Greater): (4/3)
- Connection to the heavens (Greater-Grand):
- Death handling (Grand):
- 3-5 seasons (Grand): (3/3-5)
- Sun/parent (Grand):
Optional- Moon(s) (Grand):
- World guardians (Grand):
- Aur (Entrails of Yalini, Light)
- Extra planes (1 Grand each, 1+ continent/ocean needed for each):
- Start an additional World (next: 2 Grand): (No)
- Oracle (Grand, sensory gody part, downside): The Anti-Oracle (Ear of Sornlun, Chaos, Flesh, Sanity, Ignorance)
- Magic system (Grand, organ):
Grand Pieces cost 5+ Aligned+ Acts, and Greater Pieces cost 3+ Aligned+ Acts. Contradictory Grand Pieces will fight amongst themselves until consistency is reached; supply additional Acts to tilt the odds in favor of a specific Piece or fight them directly.
The Cosmos
Strong Creatia breezes
High Materia tide
The world is ready for complex life
The Eozoic Eon is not due to end.
Nothing in particular is required to stay, or you can help develop a civilization to advance or smash something essential to return.
Echoes
Third Time's the Charm
✼❰✓➆✻➣❦❎❮
➧❗➼ ✘✃✉➯✦➖ ➧❕❠➙
✫❿✽✐➆✪ ❇✂✔❘ ❾
Rumors
"May you be haunted by your mother's shell." --Angomlivyr insult
Love is stored in the lungs.
Making burnt offerings at the base of the strange high spire of talking can grant secret insights.
Forecasts
Creatia is projected to decrease
Materia is projected to stabilize
Gods- Yalini, Trick of the Light and Bird of Light
- Class: Tempered (Natural)
- Location: Aurloura, Final Shape
- 2 Light Acts, 1 Feeble Act
Intestines/organs: No intestines
1/3 Angry green goo raging obstintely
- ANTHEM-314, Rock of Ages, Ghost in the Machine
- Class: Unquenched (Utter God)
- Location: Starbase ANTHEM-314, Outer Space
- 1 Ages Act, 1 Machine Act
- Luka, Divine Hatter, Protector of the Skulls
- Class: Unquenched (Howling Gates)
- Location: Plane of Hats, Outer Space
- 1 Hat Act, 1 Skull Act
- Yitterbium, Star of Chaos, Emperor of Flesh
- Class: Unquenched (Howling Gates)
- Location: Outer Space
- 1 Chaos Act, 1 Flesh Act
Locomotor: Flagella and Gongon's locomotor muscles
Vitals: Autosplenectomy
Kidneys: Donated
- A-0, Bird of Night, Beast Builder (dormant)
- Class: Tempered (Celestial)
- Location: Aurloura, Final Shape
- 1 Night Act, 1 Beast Act, 1 Faulty Act
1 Greater Piece
1/3 Angry green goo raging obstinately
- Neobel Eka, Noble Heritage, Wine of Life
- Class: Unquenched
- Location: Outer Space
- 1 Noble Act, 1 Life Act
Flowering pistons? (ears): Pruned
Lungs/chloroplasts: Defoliated
Liver/organs: Didn't need that liver anyway!
Vine (arm): Removed
Fruiting stemleg: Pruned
Exoskeleton/vineflesh(/bark?): Pruned
- Sornlun, Usurper of Heavens, Voice of Flame (dead)
- Class: ?̴̟͑͆͆̏͠?̸̛͈̓̓̓̿?̷̙̲̟̈́́̽̈́̚ͅ
- Location: Retreat, Final Shape?
- (None)
Eyes: 2x Gone
Tympanic membranes: Gone
Antennae: Gone
Claws: Ablated
Voicebox: Removed
Heart: Removed
Lungs: Removed
Liver: Ablated
Other organs: Ablated
Kidneys: Roached
Legs: Gone
Exoskeleton: Gone
- Calamos Gladius, Puissant, Bae Victis (dormant)
- Class: Tempered (Ancestral)
- Location: Skull Islands, Final Shape
- 1 Power Act, 1 Love Act
2 Greater Pieces
1/3 Angry green goo raging obstinately
- Gregory the Dire Rabbit, Celestial Pope of Civilization, The One Who Defies Chaos
- Class: Tempered (Celestial)
- Location: Demetria, Final Shape
- 1 Civilization Act, 1 Order Act, 1 feeble act
- Gongon, Devourer of Sanity, Writhing Mass of Ignorance
- Class: Tempered (Celestial)
- Location: Sanctum Sanctorum, Final Shape
- 1 Sanity Act, 1 Ignorance Act, 1 feeble act
- Court: Elegiacal Easterly (wind), sXzAQhLUlwL+gnG9XEu6VQ== (gap wind)
Eyes: Gonegone
Carapace: Gone
Ears/tympanic membranes: Gonegone
Antennae: Gone
Liver/organs: No liver
Voice: Gone
Locomotion: Gonegone
Kidneys: Gonegone
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