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[yousodumb]

A void.... A God.... Insanity...Eternity...

Words spoken by a force not even understood by gods, An ancient, powerful force. This force...Exists within a void completely composed of grey. Today it tires of it's non-existence, and makes itself into this void.

Smoke...laughter...lightning... and a symbol not seen in ages. Zeta has reawakened.

A man now floats in this void, Alone and insane, So he builds. A room is constructed by this man as he smiles in his power. Within this room is a table, surrounded by chairs made for a game. Forged out of pure abstract, The game board glows a rainbow of colors that even the gods have seen. The world is ready, He has built the Framework and the gods will come....

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He pulls a figure from the ether, and places it on the board... Tel'osch better not fail.
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A world had been born, A city had been placed, Zeta needed him once more. Tel'osch opened his three eyes to behold his new home, its beauty was magnificent. He frowned slightly as he looked at the newly built city, the citizens had not taken the trip well, and would need time to recover. he stood just outside of the new city's gates, looking at the new suns rise. Sheshal, or new life, That';s what he muttered as the suns finished rising. That would be a lovely name.....

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Sheshal-Telosch-Outpost((Ooc thread))

[Flagrarus]

In the snow, high in the mountains, a tall creature was descending the icy slope that was the only entrance to the mountains, it's red slime sometimes dripping on the snow like blood oozing from an open wound. It carefully climbed down the glacier. The slime that covered his body wasn't enough to keep him warm anymore, and for the hundredth time he wished he had stayed in Karrus' domains. He had been the one to choose the location of their new capital, of course, but he had based his decision on the maps he had of this area. It was surrounded by tall mountains, only accessible from this very slope, and with plenty of room for expansion it would surely be a wonderful city in ten years time. For now, though, he had no intention of sleeping out in the cold. He was heading down to warmer places.

He assumed that, by the time he returned, someone else would have taken command. Each of them was probably glad he left, hoping to take his place. They assumed he didn't notice, that he couldn't see the joy they all so pathetically tried to hide from him and each other when he told them he was going to explore the area, but losing his position with them had been another reason he had left. At times, it seemed everything the Artherians cared about was power. Farwan no longer did. Let someone else deal with their manipulation and powerplay, he thought to himself. He was going to climb down this slope, and wander the area here until he was certain they would no longer follow him. Perhaps he would even find something to fight.

He grinned as he looked at the green hills stretching out before him. He was already looking forward to it.

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[yousodumb]

Zeta looked in shock as two pieces appeared on his board... and no god had shown itself to him. odd. He called to the void, "God, If you wish to play my game you will follow my rules.... show yourself to me, or remove your race from my board. Come on, it'll be fun!"

[Flagrarus]

A voice boomed inside the room: "My creatures are more than just pawns, colleague. I don't intend to guide them every step of the way."

Karrus materialized in one of the corners of the room. He had shrunk himself, to avoid burning anything, but all he found was one god, sitting at the table, seemingly waiting for something. He suddenly noticed the clothes it was wearing, and quickly glanced away. He doubted those could catch on fire, either. Hoping the other god hadn't noticed his fear, he forced himself to look at the god again, taking care to only look into it's eyes. When he started talking again, his voice was calm, with no hint of the fear he had felt before:

"In time, you will see what I mean. But for now, I guess I can come and join your little game." He grimaced. "Though I doubt I can sit on any of these chairs."

He hoped another god would show up soon. Being stuck in a room with this guy was...discomforting.

[yousodumb]

"These chairs are as you perceive them, if you believe they will catch flame they will, If you think they are fire-proof you would only be fooling yourself." Zeta laughed oddly at his joke and suddenly stopped. He looked around frantically then turned to the burning wolf-god and said, "When will the others get here? they're missing everything!" He frowns and continues, "I'll give them one more day then we are starting without them!"

[abculatter_2]

Suddenly, the edges of reality began to shift and distort, the very basest matter of the universe rippling and warping like a pebble-disturbed pond. Within the warping reality a form which even the gods, with their infinite faculties, could not perceive unless reduced to a simpler shape began to seep into existence. This form seemed to be both infinitely vast and incomprehensibly small, of unfathomable presence yet indistinct, a merging of every impossibility condensed into a single infinite point in space. A form from a reality entirely unlike the one it attempted to fit within, yet somehow managed to do so anyway. Time seemed to disappear in its wake, though it was as if the form itself could somehow grasp this concept and attempted to force time forward in its own artificial ways. It seemed to move at an infinite slowness as it sat, primly and properly, upon one of the room's chairs, though the entirety of its entrance took only a fraction of a second.

[yousodumb]

"oh!" Zeta cried, "an immaterial god, I have mixed opinions of those. I would say come sit, but you are everywhere! Reminds me of me." He look at his wrist for quite some time, then said, "we'll start soon."

[Ghazkull]

Typhon had waited a long time to let some of the other gods make their entrance. He hated being the first and therefore timed his entrance for this moment. While the other gods appeared in a more or less impressive way, he took the most ordniary way for entrance: by using the door. A Crow took flight from his shoulder and claimed the seat who was looking towards the door, while he was still standing in hte door to look upon his "opponents".
Well, Well what have we here? Some smoke a burning wolf-head-thingie, and...
although his eyes couldn't see, his other senses were insulted by the god in the suit. His forehead wrinkled for a moment before he grinned broadly
...Our lovely Host! My i dare the question from what insanely ugly beast you have made your suit? It looks terrible...
Oblivious that he had just insulted the other god he wandered past him and took the place the crow had claimed for him. Finally seated he looked upon the gameboard.
Hrmm...rather big for so few! That means more to conquer!
Suddenly the crow took flight again and seemed to tear something from his empty eye-socket. Neither did the god flinch nor move. After a few moments the crow had something torn from it: a small ant like creature frantically trying to fight the far larger bird. Casually the bird droppe the creature on the game board

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[abculatter_2]

Suddenly, there came over the northern desert a great ripple, distorting both sand and space within it. At the epicenter of this ripple the air and sand became distorted and chaotic. A vague shape the size of a large city began to rise from the chaos, slowly gaining definition as it grew. A massive industrial complex, forged primarily of quarts and aluminum, emerged from this shape. As the sand poured off and the charged air began to settle, massive legs unfurled from within the complex, lifting the entire form like some living beast. Rhythmic clangs, bangs, hums, creaks, and many other sounds whirled out from it, soon forming a deafening chorus which could be heard for miles. Enormous tubes, arms, flat-headed drills, and an entire assortment of other excavation equipment sized for giants set upon the surrounding land, gulping sand with unquenchable thirst and exciting within the beast new, vigorous activity.

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[yousodumb]

Zeta Clapped with glee, enough people had shown up to start proper. He did have to answer a question though..."Why, Typhon....or whoever, This cloth is made from the remains of gods who challenged my power, held together by the nightmares and shattered dreams of mortals! look closely enough and you can taste the screams, Want to try?" he then held a single sock up and thrust it into the face of the other god. For many seconds he stood like that, not moving, not blinking, then he burst into laughter that echoed through the very fabric of the room, as suddenly as he began he stopped. The room still echoed with his disturbing laugh, all the gods in the room knew they where invited guests in his realm.

With the fun over, Zeta went back to srs bzns.
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Months had passed, and the citizens of sheshal had grown and split making at least ten more fleshlings. Tel'osch still stood outside his city, not moving except to eat. He broke out of this trance, looked to the east, then to the west... all was peaceful. Suddenly, A strange, gnarled bush with dark berries on it sprung from the ground, making the area around him shake. Zeta had arrived.
Testing, testings!
hello?
Tel'osch! the other gods have placed their cities upon this world.
so...go and kill them.
good luck!
"hmpf" Tel'osch said in response. The bush stood there still, but he knew better then to eat the fruit, While the fleshlings where resistant to the crippling madness that came to any who dared eat the fruit. He gathered up a few of these potent red and black berries just for an emergency, and headed east.

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[Ghazkull]

Typhon stood still the sock in his face. In a very slow motion that everybody could see it, he took the sock from his face and took a long lick and then joined the laughter of the crazed god in front of him.
Why Zeta your taste is great! You must show me your dressmaker, maybe he can cook for me...
With loud booming laughter Typhon took his seat and a wineskin from his side, which was filled with mead.
Well my god lords,on a good game!
With these words he took a big swallow of his wineskin, don't caring that some of the drops from his wineskin were falling on the game board.
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Kroq-Kar looked up in the raining skies Damn Typhon, always drinking....
He interrupted his thoughts as he smelled the scent of the queen. Kroq-Kar how far are the Krinvoar? I'm tired of this rain and my skajs can't keep the eggs dry very longer! Kar moved to the tunnels were they were digging since the last 2 days. Typhon hasn't given him much to work with. This very young Queen(Matroq-Arathi as far as he recalled, although Matroq was a honor she didn't deserve), several hundred Krins, most of them tunnelers and apart from the dozen Maq-skajs of the Queen and several dozen eggs, only 20 Ouqs and everyone of them mere recruits. He knew that this time it was going to get hard.
Brooding again...Kar?
he hated when Qoth did that.
Where are you...crow?
Typhon seldom talked personally with Kar, only in times of war or when the god wanted to join one of the victory feasts. His crow Qoth however came always when there was something to organize. It mostly just watched but when it talked Kar knew that he had to abide it. Sometimes he thought that Typhon wasn't tolerating the Crow but that the Crow tolerated Typhon.
Where I am doesn't matter, it matters far more where you are little insect. For if you're not well prepared you may soon find yourself in the bellies of my relatives...
He didn't even try to answer the crow, as he well knew that he was long away. While Typhon was a good-hearted fellow always up and happy to help his favourite creation Qoth didn't give a damn on Kar's species and had often prevented Typhon from helping the Makriouq by just whispering something in the ear of the god...





Krinvoar= architects and tunnelers
Maq-skaj = maid servants and slaves of the queen
Matroq= Greatqueen
Krin= the whole caste of workers
Ouq= the Caste of Warriors

[Caesar]

Laughter was heard, laughter colder than any laughter that had previously filled the room. Cold that would have killed mortals filled the room, carried into the room by a mist. This mist entered through the open door, which was blown open by a violent wind. Snow then followed into the room from the nothingness, slightly covering the floor. A man entered, shivering, hiding his face underneath the shadows of a hood. He had draped a cloak around his form, holding it tightly against his body in deliberate attempts to stop the cold from reaching it. Slowly the door closed behind him, and he sat down on one of the chairs on the left of the table, seemingly oblivious to the other Gods. He sneezed, his snot landing on the upper-left corner of the board.

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He lowered his hood, revealing a pale blue face, two spheres of ice replacing his eyes, and an almost sadistic grin drawn on his face, his sharp teeth glistening lightly in the light. How about that for an entrance..?

[Flagrarus]

It had cost him more time than he thought it would, but he knew he had almost made it out of the mountains. In front of him he could see the hills he had been heading for. They were steep and rocky, and often they were covered in the smaller rocks, the treacherous ones that would usually not move, but might roll away from under your feet just when you stop worrying about them. Not at all a place he would like to spend much time, but they looked downright hospitable compared to the glaciers he was so determined to leave behind. The glaciers in which he had left his companions behind. Not that they minded, of course. In fact, they were probably freezing to death right now, so busy fighting for leadership of their new capital that they didn't bother building a shelter for themselves. But that wasn't his problem, not anymore. Right now, all he cared about was getting out of here. Just a few more minutes, he told himself, and I'll be out of these glaciers and in those hills. And from there, I might find an area that is more to my liking. Just a few more steps...

Suddenly, he felt warmth return to his body. Ironic, he thought, that what I have been longing for the whole time would disappoint me this much now. Without turning around, he asked: "What are you doing here?" Karrus replied: "You're heading the wrong way. I need you to turn back and go visit another glacier-dwelling species."

Annoyed, Farwan said: "Turn back, after coming all this way? Why didn't you tell me this before? And can't you take me there, the same way you brought us here?

Karrus didn't answer. For a moment, Farwan doubted he was still there. But then he heard Karrus' voice again, only this time, it was slow and hesistant, not at all the confident voice Farwan was used to hearing: "I...didn't know of this until now. And no, I can't bring you there myself, it's against the rules of the game."

"A game? Is that why you brought us to these lands?" Farwan asked incredulously. Farwan had asked Karrus to bring him to these lands himself, but only after the manipulation he hadn't noticed back then. Karrus didn't reply. He didn't really have to, actually. Farwan already knew the answer. "Fine, but as long as I'm going to be used as a pawn in this game of yours, I want your word that you will help me when I need it." After a few seconds, he added: "And the other Artherians as well."

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Back in the room, Karrus smiled. He had been considering helping the Artherians in secret, for fear of the Artherians growing used to his aid, but had decided this way would be better when he saw Farwan again. As long as he was stuck in this room, it would be unwise to not help his species, as many of the other gods would probably do the same thing, but once this game was done, he would have better things to do than to keep an eye on the Artherians. This way, Farwan would obey him, and he could help his Artherians advance without having to worry about consequences.

He looked at the new god again, and wondered what sort of creatures he had brought into the glaciers. Perhaps he had sent Farwan off to his death...

[Caesar]

The God wiped his nose, his smile fading away as his head turned from the board, to the other Gods. They rested at every one of them in turn, and he shivered upon seeing Zeta. He tried his smile again, but for a fragment of time his smile was shattered, not nearly as cynical as it had been before. Quietly he turned to the board again..

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They started carving, for even they would not be fully able to withstand all that the elements could send to them.

Sinsot turned away, quietly setting his gaze on the new glaciers. Why? -- He did not know.
He had woken up from a dream, being told to 'live as he should live'. What did Zanoraedit mean? Where were they? He did not know, but they had to make the best of it.

Sinsot looked back at the scattered community again, who worked furiously to establish some form of homes. They wouldn't miss him. Slowly, Sinsot looked back at the glaciers, and started heading to the east, following his intuition. Wasn't it his intuition that had always been right? Step by step, he moved, unarmed, unprepared, but ready to meet what he was meant to meet.

[abculatter_2]

The Machine-City grew still, save the inner mechanisms which worked furiously upon the sand being sucked in, melting, shaping, working. Soon there came a steady stream of many flying drones, each well over three yards in length and width, immediately excavating deeper down within the land. A few larger, beetle-like factories, the length of a football field each, rumbled out of massive factory ports on oddly-rippled treads. Once these were firmly upon desert sand, the Machine-City began to rumble and groan, slowly heaving itself upward upon the sands on behemoth legs of fresh, shiny and well-polished aluminum and quartz. Then, facing east, the thing stopped for a moment, as if considering what to do next.

Deep within the industrial complexes, well-guarded behind hundred-foot walls and inconspicuous in the bulky forms of the factories and processors, the many computer-like brains of Levichanos examined every detail brought in by all of its thousands upon thousands of sensors. Far to the east, detected by far reaching radar, subtle shifts in weather patterns, and myriads of high-resolution sensors of nearly every spectrum, a burgeoning civilization began settling down in foreign lands.

It analyzed every aspect of them, from their physical appearance and social make-up to the most subtle of gestures and twitches. It probed for weakness, the inherit faults in their every aspect. Even now, battle plans were being laid out, strategies devised, confrontations predicted as details of the terrain and weather were taken into account.

Slowly, the mechanical beast lumbered forward, the land behind it left an even more barren wasteland then it was before.

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\= hills  -=plains |= tall mountain *=desert
:=wetlands {=swamp ~=water/river [=Glacier