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[Crystalizedmire]

Yalini tempers and becomes Natural, gaining 2 greater pieces in the process.
She then settles in the Skull Islands as part of her plan to spread light everywhere.

"CAWW!"

(Suggesting creating a Domain first, at which point mortals may be made immediately using 1 greater piece each. Price will increase on future turns. Will donate 1 greater piece if action changed to this and promise to make birds.)

Chirp!
(will make birds) Yalini doesn't like keeping promises but so long as the promise benefits both parties, she'll keep it.
Yalini creates Liniom. Liniom is the domain of Yalini where the weather is alsways sunny.

[Stirk]

Howling Gates, Unquenched. The hat must remain above all.

Luka takes three three aligned Hat actions, adding them to his usual Hat and Skull action to create the first Grand Artifact, the Hat of Creation. Said hat resembles Luka without his divine organs, which is to say it looks like a fairly normal hat. Said hat is said to give Mortals the power to create things as if they where Divine Beings so long as they are wearing the hat on their head equivalent. (4 Hat actions 1 Skull Action).

Luka then creates the Plane of Hats, a plane encircling the head of the planet as its hat. It looks like Luka without his divine organs barring his googly eyes, which is to say it looks like a normal hat (but with google eyes). When a hat is destroyed on the mortal realm, it is said that its soul enters the Plane of Hats to find eternal rest on a comfy hat stand. (Free)

[Egan_BW]

Yalini tempers and becomes Natural, gaining 2 greater pieces in the process.
She then settles in the Skull Islands as part of her plan to spread light everywhere.
Yalini then used 2 aligned acts to create an order of flying insects made of light called Sparks. After that she rests on the skulls for a while.

"CAWW!"

(Suggesting creating a Domain first, at which point mortals may be made immediately using 1 greater piece each. Price will increase on future turns. Will donate 1 greater piece if action changed to this and promise to make birds.)

[Supernerd]

(The cost for Monuments on the OOC page says 1 Common, but the most recent turn says 1 Lesser. This won't affect my action, just pointing it out.)

ANTHEM-314 looks upon the world. It deems it to be an unpleasant place, one that is even less appealing than the tome worlds ruined by apocalyptic warfare in spite of its young age. It chooses to remain Unquenched, transitioning to become an Utter God.

ANTHEM-314 briefly considered the "Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy". While it didn't object to its presumed intention of the preservation of mortal life, the policy itself was horribly flawed. The first problem was that it only dictated "That none of the sparked shining". As the gods were now transitioning away from the "Spark" phase, the document would not even apply to them. In fact, it seemed like it would only apply to a specific kind of insect? It also only protected mortals against harming mortals in a specific way, with the obvious loopholes being that mortals can be massacred en mass for non-malicious purposes, and the obvious argument that if a god forgets everything prior to the massacre then they cannot be said to be acting maliciously. It also allows for mortals to be maliciously massacred provided that it is not done en mass. ANTHEM-314 elected not to affix any seals to this document as it is.

In other news, there were some perks associated with the divine transition, as well as an answer to ANTHEM-314's previous quandary. Final Shape would be hazardous to civilized life, so if any interstellar visitors should arrive they should simply be met somewhere else. The only other place right now was Outer Space. ANTHEM-314 could work with that!

But first, it appears that ANTHEM-314 has a Free Plane! Thus the "Canvass of Stars" came to be. It was a mostly empty realm filled with distant lights. This realm is able to serve as a source of power for technological devices. Creating a portal to the Canvass of Stars is highly complex because it only overlaps with Outer Space as opposed to any location in Final Shape, but maintaining a portal that already was created to the Canvass of Stars is extremely easy. The most reliable way to open a portal to it is with technological devices.

Using 1 Rock act, 2 Machine acts, 1 Ghost act and 1 Ages act, ANTHEM-314 would create a Grand Monument in orbit around Final Shape! It considers calling it "/Y+BwBLH/MEcdAXV5Nos0EvA6NDGhua8vC0dFRneMsU=" but ultimately determined that mortals may need to actually refer to it, and settles on "Starbase ANTHEM-314" instead. It was a space station of massive proportion. It would be a constant reminder of the potential of technology to the inhabitants of the world below, but its true purpose lied elsewhere. It would serve as a place where visiting aliens would be able to meet, rest, perform repairs, refuel their ships, and be warned about the many dangers of Final Shape.

Alternatively, it would also serve as a deterrent to those who come with hostile intentions. Heavy metal armour plates cover its exterior, and a powerful shield generator would thwart any conventional attacks. It also comes loaded with high velocity mass drivers, lasers, missiles, and most terrifying of all, a direct uplink that ANTHEM-314 can connect to while it is at the station which can unleash a horrifying counterattack upon any spacebound civilization that would dare to strike at it.

... There is a sign about the possibility of renting office space at Starbase ANTHEM-314 ...

[micelus]

Spoiler:  Redacted mortals (click to show/hide)

Action: use a Grand Piece to create the mortals known as seluki.

Seluki are semi-lithic organic creatures tat primarily inhabit land. Most can glide and a few even fly, however. Each base seluki resemble a small bird-like dog. Usually, each 4 legs, furry wings, a beak, snout, a feathered canine tail, avian eyes, canine ears, feet and snout. Their overall body shape is avian, although most of their hide is covered in fur.

Seluki beaks are composed of a light stone material similar to pumice. Within the inner side of each maxilla is a narrow groove that is initially empty. Because of this, a young seluki will sound different from an on older seluki. Overtime, this groove becomes filled with a crystalline mineral that resembles cut gemstones; the exact colouration differs between seluki, but is defined genetically. A poor diet/mental distress may inhibit crystal growth and gleam.

Seluki fur is composed of a durable form of asbestos-perlite. Naturally fireproof, seluki fur tends to break into powder if excessively rubbed or damaged.

Seluki internal organs are composed of light stone, gemstone-like formations and cartilage.

Seluki can survive on an ash and mineral diet, but are healthier if they can feed on organic material. They particularly like sodium chloride and iron oxide.

Seluki reproduction is complicated and fraught with difficulty. Seluki reach sexual maturity around 25 years of age and can potentially live to around 125 in their non-bonded form. This assumes that disease or other factors don't shorten or end their lifespan. Seluki cannot breed unless they bind themselves to one or more individuals.

Seluki bonding is a process by which one or more seluki unify their minds and.bodies into one individual; the process is non-reversible. It involves at least two seluki spinning themselves into a cocoon of mineral fibres (or cultural equivalent; it can be a cauldron or put). The seluki disassemble themselves into sapient soup through proactive internal enzymes that can only be released during bonding. Each seluki involved is still conscious whilst in their soup form.

Over a period of a week (with more time required for each participant), the soup reforms into a bonded seluki. This chimeric being usually possesses additional pairs of wings/legs/tails/ears/hearts/etc. than a non-bonded seluki. Bonded seluki are able to give live birth to a litter of 1-12 children either through self-fertilisation (they possess the combined gametes of their constituent seluki), or by mating with other bonded seluki. Bonded seluki can live 50 years, starting from their bonding.

Initially, each constituent seluki is still fully conscious within the psyche of bonded-seluki, controlling aspects of the combined body and each communicating with other minds within the body. As time passes, the myriad nervous systems eventually unify, resulting in a single mind inheriting all memories of their forebears. Their personality is usually a combination of the preceding seluki. As such, it is recommended that anyone involved in bonding are similar in outlook or otherwise reconciled to being with each other.

Bonded seluki cannot bond again; they are out of bonding enzymes.

Seluki possess a human range of personalities and emotions.

Singular form; seluki
Plural form: seluki

[micelus]

"It seems that these new forms are limiting, and yet open new avenues of being. So it is that I put out a request that someone take my Acts and make some terrain to my specifications. In return, I am willing to listen to requests."

[Supernerd]

ANTHEM-314 considers the request of Gregory, Dire Rabbit.

"I would be willing to take on a commission. I would hear your specifications prior to committing to the job however."

[Egan_BW]

"It seems that these new forms are limiting, and yet open new avenues of being. So it is that I put out a request that someone take my Acts and make some terrain to my specifications. In return, I am willing to listen to requests."

"Caw."

[Egan_BW]

Give Yalani 1 Greater Piece for purpose of mortal building.

[Nakéen]

(Thanks Demonic Spoon for the lovely divine seals!)
(Also KJP I should be missing an ear/hearing apparatus)



Sornlun distances itself from the coalescing Materia, and from within itself ignites and shines a brilliant blaze. Its lost jewel-eyes and moon-claws regrow as pristine and vibrant as they were at the dawn of creation! For an instant, the Usurper-Centipede can behold and grasp again.

Class Change: Unquenched Howling Gate
Bonus Package: Heal four organs (Eyes (x2), Claws (x2))

1. Create Grand Artifact: Clarity (Eyes of Sornlun, Sane Kidney of Gongon)

Description: a perfect opal crafted from the eleven restored eyes of Sornlun, upon which rests a divine sigil meaning Clarity. It clears and protects its user from all corruption and outside influence, allowing it to truly act out of its own uncorrupted free will. Having been crafted from divine eyes, its user is also granted divine sight and the ability to see any place in the World through falsehood and illusions.
Bonus: it glows adequately in the dark, allowing its user to read at night without ever straining its eyes!

In a vicious act of self-mutilation, Sornlun carves out once again its own eyes with its claws! (2 Heavens, 2 Flames)
It then slices Gongon's tasty liver, making it drip stimulating juices of sanity. (2 Sanity)

Sornlun then places its bleeding jewelled eyes in the liver-broth, causing them to dissolve as the mixture turns into an opalescent puddle clear like dawn. Sornlun brings the mixture to the fiery furnace of the Iridescent Sun, where with its claws the Centipede chisels and shapes until only remains a perfectly round opal. Once it is done, Sornlun finishes the works by carving a divine sigil meaning Clarity upon the Opal.

2. Create Angels: Roachids (Kidney of Sornlun)

Description: Resilient beings of moon-shell and flame wings whose presence is an auspicious sign of cleanliness. Especially resistant to corruption.

Sornlun then excises one of its kidneys, and cut it into smaller pieces which suddenly burst into flame and melt, until from the molten remains rises a cohort of moon-cockroaches.

3. Create Archangel: The Roach-Dragon (Ear of Sornlun, 1 Heaven)

Description: A great Roachid that simply looks like a cross between a dragon and a moon-cockroach. It makes for a great listener and confidant, and it can breathe heavenly flames.

Sornlun removes its remaining tymphanic membrane and picks up the last of the Roachids, wrapping it inside the membrane like a cocoon. It imbues it further with a Heaven act allowing the Roachid to mature into the Roach-Dragon.

Finally Sornlun swallows Clarity, and falls toward the World...

[Howling Gate] Free extra planar travel action (Outer Space -> Fhaire)

As Sornlun falls in a great descent of flames, the Unquenched sheds its claws, then its liver and viscera in order to fuel its ever fiery descent and transition into a Tempered entity.
-Claws (x2)
-Other Organs (x1)
-Liver (x1)

Its descent ends as it lands in the Fhaire.

[Class Change] Tempered Natural

4. Create Domain: Retreat (Kidney of Sornlun, Antennae)

Description: Within the fiery fields of the Fhaire, there lies a vast expanse of highly fertile chalk stone reminiscent of the barren surface of a white moon. The Suns and other heaven-dwellers seem eerily close for the onlookers of the Retreat, despite it being flat and slightly above sea-level. A wall of heavenly flames hide and protect the Retreat from outside interference.

In the center of the Fhaire, Sornlun requests the Roachids to sever its antennae and plants them upon the point of their landing. Then it asks them to extract its last liver, crush it into dust and spread it evenly until none is left. The flames suddenly stop, quelled, and the blessed land turn to chalk. If something were to be planted, it would surely grow strong and pure.

5. Plant Flowers: Nostalgiae (1 Flame)

Description: Fire-flowers blazing softly like the twilight sun. They were planted by Sornlun in memory of its past life and love for the Weaver. They emit a constant and pleasant warmth.

Finally, Sornlun spits fiery seeds for the Roachids to sow across the Retreat. They will grow into fierce and beautiful flowers known as Nostalgiae.

• Sornlun, Usurper of Heavens, Voice of Flame
  • Class: Tempered Natural
  • Location: Retreat (Domain in the Fhaire)
  • 0 Acts
  • Spoiler: Health (click to show/hide)

    Eyes: Gone
    Tymphanic Membranes: Gone
    Antennae: Gone
    Voicebox: 1/1
    Claws (manipulator limbs): Gone
    Heart: 1/1
    Lungs: 2/2
    Liver: Gone
    Other Organs?: Gone
    Kidneys: Gone
    Legs: Gone
    Exoskeleton: Gone
    
    
  • Spoiler: Treasury (click to show/hide)

    Nothing

[Kilojoule Proton]

Someone is comingSomeone or something moves-not-moves outside the furthest reaches of your universe!

[Egan_BW]

Friend?

[Demonic Spoon]

Friend!!

[Supernerd]

ANTHEM-314 calls out to the outsider.

"/ZcmoqPynn4LvCek8uYC7q5XAYp/C8uoZISv8OvvIS4GacApAQt/3XRgM/lyzaEXv0pHQgm/lI2gDq55uuYvziQZUYdU7CvS18uAdxTpeG8hCTO5ZirLFVuA+oP7Tt57iXeC3lACSNbyAUcEqXCzdT9igXEdpxDGRK3TTP/F7OHZgAnNOpV4b+F+dVbScQ8yl59ha8VgwETRJlCrBRNzFz4JawOfb9/dM5+E6sR23YE="

...It is doubtful that it will understand, but it wanted to do it anyway...

[Stirk]

Someone is comingSomeone or something moves-not-moves outside the furthest reaches of your universe!

It is coming to steal my cool hat