Turn 3: The Khamrian ExplosionLife abounds in this time! Calamos Gladius started off the era by creating stands of passionfruit trees and sovereignfruit trees (Calamos Gladius: -1 Love Act, -1 Power Act; +Materia) and naturally was soon followed by the Neobel Eka, who grew the Winespring, a great palace of lush vines deep in the Broodwaters (Neobel Eka: -Greater Piece; +Creatia). The construction of the Winespring was associated with the proliferation of all kinds of fruit-bearing flowering vines of all sizes, and in keeping with the ongoing tradition of making life as dangerous to other life as possible, venomous Blood Worms have sprung up everywhere to make walking in particularly dense thickets the endeavor of death seekers. With plants around and spreading, conditions were soon ripe for the gelatinous Pustules, who flop about absorbing and digesting most anything smaller (Neobel Eka: -1 Life Act, -1 Noble Act, +1-1 Lesser Piece, +2-2 Unaligned Acts; ++Materia).
The capstone of the Neobel Eka's creations in this age of life was the line of Bloodbags born in the waves of the Wine of Life's domain. In time, they spread across much of the continental shelf at the edges of the Bloodwine Broodwaters (Neobel Eka: -Greater Piece; ++Materia). Thanks to Gongon's inadvertent release of an Ignorance Act, a twisting maze of coral formed over many Bloodbag generations. Known as the Coral Labyrinths, this new state would soon boast the densest population on the Final Shape (Gongon: -1 Ignorance Act; Neobel Eka: +1-1 Ignorance Act; +Materia). Aside from this, Gongon's power was used to create the office-province of Sanctum Sanctorum under the seafloor/reef and Port Wine, another province reaching up to the surface (++Materia).
Far away in the Skull Islands, Yalini, too, has landed and briefly spread her wings over the ever-illuminated domain of Liniom (Yalini: -1 Greater Piece; +Creatia) before leaving to build up another domain known as Aurloura in the Lost Lands Between (Yalini: -1 Greater Piece; +Creatia). Aurloura is promptly filled with all sorts of herbivorous glowing beetles known as Sparks living in symbiosis with Flinir, who steal from other creatures (Yalini: -1 Light Act, +2-2 Unaligned Acts; +Materia). Gongon further added countless hoofed mammals noted here as the Ungulating Masses throughout Yalini's domains (Gongon: -1 Chaos Act). Finally, gifted with support from A-0, Yalini has dispersed intelligent social birds partially made of light (A-0: -Greater Piece; Yalini: +-Greater Piece; ++Materia).
Mortals having been created, Yalini encouraged the development of the Cliamore, a high priesthood of birds (Yalini: -1 Light Act).
Void Engineers
Having restored the Chaos Asteroids to something not entirely unlike their former glory through gruesome sacrifice, Yitterbium was the first to choose to remain unquenched and took the path of the Howling Gates, restoring its appendix, bones, lung, and prehensile intestine. It further attempted to subsume Gongon's locomotor muscles, and owing to its supreme expertise in fleshcraft, this dark operation went surprisingly well (Yitterbium: ~Gongon's locomotor muscles). Satisfied, Yitterbium gave Gongon its Chaos Act and Flesh Act.
Remaining unquenched and having freed himself of his planar bonds, Luka has forged the surprisingly unassuming-looking
Hat of Creation, a Grand Artifact with power enough to grant even feeble mortals access to the creative abilities of the gods (Luka: -4 Hat Acts, -1 Skull Act; ++Creatia, -Materia). For now, it sits gathering skull dust on a hat rack in the Plane of Hats, Luka's home domain.
Of course, in spite of or perhaps
because of the proliferation of life on the Final Shape, ANTHEM-314's observation that the world was excessively hostile to civilized life gained further merit, and it was in light of this regrettable state of things that ANTHEM-314 chose to stay unquenched and remote, the first Utter God. Its first act unshackled from ties to the hellish conditions on the surface of the Final Shape was to spin and release its home plane, the glimmering Canvass of Stars, which will serve as a power source in time.
ANTHEM-314 additionally forged a grand artificial satellite orbiting the Final Shape christened
Starbase ANTHEM-314 to serve as a hub for visiting aliens a safe distance away from the Shape's teeming surface and seas and, in times of need, a defense platform capable of thwarting aliens of a more violent persuasion (ANTHEM-314: -1 Rock Act, 2 Machine Acts, 1 Ghost Act, 1 Ages Act; +Creatia, +Materia). As something not entirely unlike a Natural Tempered's domain in its own right, it would indeed be possible to construct office-provinces on the
Starbase, albeit without a discount.
Sornlun, too, drew away from the world with its thick deposits of Materia, and flared brightly with the fires of rejuvenation. It grew back its sparkling jewel eyes and moon claws, but perhaps still yearning for the Weaver, it once again blinded itself and dissolved its eyes in the corrosive kidney juices of Gongon. Driving off the water, Sornlun was left with a flawless opal stone it ground finely into the gem called Clarity (Sornlun: ++--Eyes of Sornlun, ++Claws of Sornlun, -Kidney of Gongon, +2-2 Heavens Act, +2-2 Flames Acts, +2-2 Sanity Acts; +Creatia). The use of an abandoned organ that used to be Gongon's to create a sanity-affirming artifact was interesting to behold indeed...
Star of Two WorldsThis was soon followed by the creation of an angelic host of Roachids from one of Sornlun's kidneys (Sornlun: -Kidney, +1-1 Heavens Act, +1-1 Flame Act). The greatest of their number was also the last Roachid to be born of the initial litter and grew and grew until it became the the Roach-Dragon, Archangel of Sornlun (Sornlun: -Ear, +1-2 Heavens Act, +1-1 Flames Act). With preparations for an unknown apocalypse having been completed, Sornlun burned through the skies of the Final Shape, roachids in tow, losing its claws, viscera, and liver on its meteoric path to the Fhaire (Sornlun: -Claw, -organs, -Liver). There, the newly tempered natural god cleared its domain, the chalky plain Retreat. The strange proximity to celestial bodies there may possibly allow slight relief from Sornlun's woes by way of the season of Forget. In any case, having settled down a bit, Sornlun tasks the Roachids with sowing Nostalgiae throughout the retreat (Sornlun: -1 Flame Act).
Solar Beatdown
With the sacrifice of Yitterbium's lung and prehensile intestine, the Star of Chaos was reborn again from the Chaos Asteroids that were its remnants, but this time, perhaps having been alerted by some god or servant or perhaps on guard for rogue stars employing identical tactics as in the last fight, Remorse was prepared and struck first, punching through the Star's still-reforming flesh! Shocked, the Star of Chaos scrambled a mighty counterattack and narrowly missed one of the Iridescent Sun's faces. Still cautious, the Iridescent Sun aimed and struck the Star of Chaos once again, launching bits of bone and flesh in every direction. The reeling Star of Chaos tried to muster up a last charge before the full output of the now-less-remorseful Iridescent Sun was turned on the poor Star, which promptly exploded. The resulting debris scattered every which way, and
Starbase ANTHEM-314 managed to shoot down at least some of it, preventing outright extinction events at least for now.
The Calm before the Bust
Bonefall and solar flares issuing from the battle between the suns have combined to make the Final Shape even less hospitable than it already was, and the infalling godly giblets have tipped the balance on the ground in favor of Chaos, which may well be enhanced by the upcoming shift into the season of Lunace. Although this could be a positive development for an established civilization, alas, the Bloodbags and light birds were not at that point yet, and they stagnated for want of safe local plant and animal life. The addition of Shredder's mind-melting ugliness and fierce, moon-exposing winds was perhaps only the final nail in the coffin of getting things of consequence done in this season of Forget.
With hostile conditions in abundance, the Cliamore have additionally splintered off into a number of different sects under the fell occasional influence of the Gomoons and Shredder's winds. To make matters worse, survivors of the storm are often driven insane. Needless to say, the Cliamore in are in danger of splintering further unless the rites and traditions of far-flung villages can be harmonized for sufficiently long timescales through the formation of a stable cult. This need not be a bad thing; nothing stops a diffuse, decentralized cult from making the requisite offerings or observing at least some of the prescribed rites.
Future mortal creation events should specify an initial set of flora and fauna they depend on!
Cults can now be founded by Ancestral God-specialized Tempered!
Department of Punishment
Having tempered and become Celestial, A-0 immediately got to work setting up the Department of Punishment (A-0: -1 Shadow Act), which is staffed by the highly motivated if somewhat loopy and mind-damagingly ugly Angomlivyrs (A-0: -1 Beast Act; Gongon: -1 Sanity Act). There is an air of anticipation as the season of Lunace approaches, and smiting/cursing permits are being hoarded and (questionably legally) resold by enterprising Angomlivyrs. Perhaps to keep a particularly strong one out of trouble, Gongon has promoted it to the Archangel Shredder, who is now a divine hurricane capable of clearing the skies and exposing the horrors of space (Gongon: -Greater Piece). Exposure to the memory-damaging effects of the season of Forget has set the development of complex societies along Shredder's storm-tossed track of destruction back quite a bit on top of the usual effects of having a mighty hurricane pass through.
An audit into the Department's funding has turned up evidence of severe budgetary shortfall! Without another Aligned Act's worth of funds, the Department will most likely dissolve at the conclusion of this era.
What the Rain SaidShredder-who-is-Gongon embarked on a grand quest to befriend the weather over the remarkably uniformly warm wine seas and nearby coasts. This was slightly complicated by its voracious appetite, and many a young cloud was swallowed up by the oblivious storm before it encountered a towering stormcloud fancying itself the Seven-Days-King of its home waters and the coast of the Lost Lands Between and its consort, the Effusive Easterly. For days they frolicked and poured out obscene rains on the already-soaked coast, but it was not to last. Tragically, deprived of comforting heat, the Seven-Days-King soon fell ill despite the Easterly's sacrifice of a great many nascent stormclouds from miles around. In the end, the Seven-Days-King succumbed to starvation, and with the Elegiacal Easterly perhaps having heard promises of renewed life for its love in Shredder's litanies, it took to following the hurricane around, and this is why the winds about the Weeping Gulf bring great storms and turn southward to this day.
The Elegiacal Easterly has joined Gongon's court.
Between these happenings and the gestation of the Gestators (Gongon: -1 Flesh Act; +Creatia), clerks from the Department of Punishment were setting up in the Sanctum Sanctorum and pilfering office supplies. Lacking an explicitly assigned office of their own, they seem to be contesting Gongon's claim to what is the best office space on the Final Shape to date.
Council business
The Celestial Policy of Fulgurous Mercy, reproduced below with public signatures obtained so far, continues to languish unpassed but also unkilled for now.
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
The Guest
After several failed attempts at communication, the strange
Green Guest acquired enough Divinese, and on its closest approach to the HST and the newly built
Starbase ANTHEM-314, offered something about friends, not friends, and stely. A number of gods agreed to the offers not knowing any more about what they could entail, and the Neobel Eka in particular went above and beyond by offering a fruiting stemleg.
Nothing interesting happened for Yitterbium, Gongon, or Sornlun, or so it seems.
A-0, Calamos Gladius, and Yalini received a tiny blob of angry green jelly split between the three of them. The jelly is constantly trying to stab anything nearby to no noticeable effect.
Neobel Eka gave a leg to the Guest, who regrettably didn't stick around to drink with the merry gods, and was rewarded with a green ear of corn.
Gregory received two dingy wooden icons that may be burned for Faulty Acts for another turn before they rot away (Gregory: +2 Faulty Acts).
ANTHEM-314's transmission of the start of a dictionary seems to have broadened the Guest's vocabulary with no apparent effect on its coherence.
HST: "uctnegated abductingout aband!! Friend!! Friendons abance abed abasive abolitiones abdon abbrent iting abot abbreviatedly abnegat itines abomence abolitinattorrades abhortinations abominablet able abductly abnegate abjuries abductoir thes"
The strange Guest continues on its course and will likely exit communication range within a turn.
"Friend!! Friend? Friend. Not friend!!" (0 Acts)"Friend? Friend! Friend! Friend!" (-2 Aligned Acts)"Friend immediately. Yould immediat friend! Friend. You stely. Not 
" (+? ? ?)- "Whate abettion abhortive aboders. Its adection abeam abes abed abashes abjurations abot unde abducte abnegating abbeys coming abrate abasion abeam abbrer abnoriently abbratinal ables abhory abattes thated aber thist abbrend!!" (+4 Feeble Acts)
"Not >:(FriendE6sR23YE=It friend? Friend!! Friend! Friend? Friend!!" (+2 Faulty Acts)
Ivory Idylls
Somehow sensing Gregory's wish to create a region, Gongon has created a region of exceptionally gridlike islands known as Demetria in the Skull Islands. Among the great islands of Demetria was what will be known as the Free State of Serenus, a bountiful, idyllic island where the surrounding seas are blue and work is easy to sustain (Gregory: -1 Civilization Act, -1 Order Act; +Materia).
It is now the season of Lunace in the Bone Age.
All burn. All burn. All burn. All burn. All burn. All burn. All burn.
Eozoic EonLife:
- 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)
- 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 (2 Sanity, Ignorance): Bloodwine Broodwaters, Final Shape
- Roach-Dragon, Roachid Archangel of Sornlun (Ear of Sornlun, Heaven)
- 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):
Bureaucracy:
- Bureau (1 Greater, limit 3 per heading deity, requires 2 departments and angels): (None)
- Department (1 Common, limit 4 per bureau, requires angels):
- Department of Punishment (Birds of Night)
- Office space: Adequate (Sanctum Sanctorum)
- Funding: Shortfall!: Needs Aligned Act
- Staffing: Adequate
- Corruption: Some
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
Creatia gusts
Rising Materia tide
The world is ready for relatively simple life
The Eozoic Eon is not due to end.
Establish one civilization and one bureau to advance or destroy required Pieces to revert.
Echoes
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Rumors
Volcanic activity abounds in the coastal ranges of y7rulspowTvwA7ZAfDkpPQ==, which have recently been buffeted by a number of tsunamis.
The skull is the crown of the fertile warrior.
Skybone can be carved into star shapes for good luck or great strength.
The sea weeps bitter tears at having to house such unnatural abominations as offices.
Forecasts
Creatia is projected to remain steady
Materia is projected to increase to significant levels
Something is leaving
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 Divine 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
- A-0, Bird of Night, Beast Builder
- 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: Tempered (Natural)
- Location: Winespring, Final Shape
- 1 Noble Act, 1 Life Act
Liver/organs: Didn't need that liver anyway!
Vine (arm): Pruned
Fruiting stemleg: Pruned
- Sornlun, Usurper of Heavens, Voice of Flame
- Class: Tempered (Natural)
- Location: Retreat, Final Shape
- 1 Heavens Act, 1 Flame Act
Eyes: 2x Gone
Tympanic membranes: Partial
Antennae: Gone
Claws: Ablated
Liver: Ablated
Other organs: Ablated
Kidneys: Roached
Legs: Gone
Exoskeleton: Gone
- Calamos Gladius, Puissant, Bae Victis
- 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
2 Greater Pieces
2 rotting wood tokens (Faulty Acts)
- Gongon, Devourer of Sanity, Writhing Mass of Ignorance
- Class: Tempered (Celestial)
- Location: Demetria, Final Shape
- 1 Insanity Act, 1 Ignorance Act
- Court: Elegiacal Easterly (wind)
Eyes: Gonegone
Ears/tympanic membranes: Gonegone
Antennae: Gone
Liver/organs: No liver
Voice: Gone
Locomotion: Gonegone
Kidneys: Gonegone
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