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Is it a helmet?

Quote from: Egan_BW on October 04, 2020, 04:49:25 pm

Set up a second table outside the input window.

Egan_BW sets up a tiny table with a tiny chess board. It's suffering from some rather severe compression artifacts.


What game are we playing?

That chessboard is missing a column...

Not quite sexy.

Does it have legs?

Have the crane question the point of it's existence.

*waiting for strik3r to reply to this as well*

Quote from: Strik3r on October 03, 2020, 12:52:43 pm

Velkos has awoken from his sleep and and sits atop the Ur-Tree, staring into the distance, deep in his thoughts.

"I had hoped sleep would bring me some great inspiration, yet it gave me no such thing. Instead, i woke up to discover within my watchers' memories that i have a new sibling yet again, and without haste he created an artifact of unparalleled arrogance, "The book of all"?, the "Tempus Dictus"? I can not allow such a thing to exist, or at least i must make its contents worthless or ever-shifting. I acknowledge that this will make me the first god to take an action against another one, but it is necessary.

With every passing century, i can feel the moment in which i will produce a failure of epic proportions growing ever closer, it is inevitable. Yet i have thought of a way to mitigate that risk, i only hope that should i create it, Kipp herself will not be too upset with me. The fact that i'm planning to undermine a divine artifact of my sibling, while also planning to create my own, is not lost on me."

---

"I think this land, and its inhabitants are ready to take another step toward independence from the gods. I have long thought of doing this, but the creation of that blasted book makes it a necessity. If Numeros intends to record the future, i shall make the future unpredictable. To do so, i shall tap into my own infinite well of divine power, and bestow upon all mortal, and only mortal creatures a small bit of that power. In doing so, i will free the mortal beings of this world from fate itself, just as we gods are, and allow them to make decisions that are truly their own. Not only that, but it will also allow them to use that power to perform acts arcane and magical. I will not care to distribute this power in equal quantities, nor care what the mortals do with it."

"However, i must also address another potential source of imbalance: As the civilizations of mortals continue to grow, it is inevitable that they will eventually cover every part of this land. If there is civilization, there must be a place where there is only nature. I will not create some barrier that mortals can not cross but instead i will create a place of unfathomable danger. I shall go to the densest, largest rainforest of this land and create within it beasts most dangerous, both large and small. All of them covered in tough scales. Some of them standing on two legs, some on four. Those scaled beasts shall hunt each other and anything that intrudes upon that land."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dinosaurs

"Finally, i shall make another addition to the sky: I will create in the sky, far above the world, a great, colorful cloud that covers the sky. A nebula, and within it, countless stars. One more thing for the mortals to look upon, admire and ponder."

A voice speaks from slightly behind and below where Velkos sits:

"What?  No feathers?

... Also, I hope you're going to make make sure that the forest you put those things in isn't already inhabited by sapient mortals.", B*st says as she glances over to the forest of the cat-folk and tries to discern if it is the "densest, largest rainforest of this land", worried of what may become of her children if they have to co-inhabit with such beasts.

"Anyways, it is good that you are moving to counter that book.  It's no fun watching this world and it's inhabitants if the future is set in stone.  That is why I gave the mortals the ability to slowly change form over time."  She then glances at Velkos before looking straight ahead, and imagining that she is a small, green sapient creature with pointed ears and a staff, she a voice like she imagines the creature would make and says "Always in motion is the future."

She then waits to see what Numeros' next move may be.

Velkos has awoken from his sleep and and sits atop the Ur-Tree, staring into the distance, deep in his thoughts.

"I had hoped sleep would bring me some great inspiration, yet it gave me no such thing. Instead, i woke up to discover within my watchers' memories that i have a new sibling yet again, and without haste he created an artifact of unparalleled arrogance, "The book of all"?, the "Tempus Dictus"? I can not allow such a thing to exist, or at least i must make its contents worthless or ever-shifting. I acknowledge that this will make me the first god to take an action against another one, but it is necessary.

With every passing century, i can feel the moment in which i will produce a failure of epic proportions growing ever closer, it is inevitable. Yet i have thought of a way to mitigate that risk, i only hope that should i create it, Kipp herself will not be too upset with me. The fact that i'm planning to undermine a divine artifact of my sibling, while also planning to create my own, is not lost on me."

---

"I think this land, and its inhabitants are ready to take another step toward independence from the gods. I have long thought of doing this, but the creation of that blasted book makes it a necessity. If Numeros intends to record the future, i shall make the future unpredictable. To do so, i shall tap into my own infinite well of divine power, and bestow upon all mortal, and only mortal creatures a small bit of that power. In doing so, i will free the mortal beings of this world from fate itself, just as we gods are, and allow them to make decisions that are truly their own. Not only that, but it will also allow them to use that power to perform acts arcane and magical. I will not care to distribute this power in equal quantities, nor care what the mortals do with it."

"However, i must also address another potential source of imbalance: As the civilizations of mortals continue to grow, it is inevitable that they will eventually cover every part of this land. If there is civilization, there must be a place where there is only nature. I will not create some barrier that mortals can not cross but instead i will create a place of unfathomable danger. I shall go to the densest, largest rainforest of this land and create within it beasts most dangerous, both large and small. All of them covered in tough scales. Some of them standing on two legs, some on four. Those scaled beasts shall hunt each other and anything that intrudes upon that land."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dinosaurs

"Finally, i shall make another addition to the sky: I will create in the sky, far above the world, a great, colorful cloud that covers the sky. A nebula, and within it, countless stars. One more thing for the mortals to look upon, admire and ponder."

A voice speaks from slightly behind and below where Velkos sits:

"What?  No feathers?

... Also, I hope you're going to make make sure that the forest you put those things in isn't already inhabited by sapient mortals.", B*st says as she glances over to the forest of the cat-folk and tries to discern if it is the "densest, largest rainforest of this land", worried of what may become of her children if they have to co-inhabit with such beasts.

"Anyways, it is good that you are moving to counter that book.  It's no fun watching this world and it's inhabitants if the future is set in stone.  That is why I gave the mortals the ability to slowly change form over time."  She then glances at Velkos before looking straight ahead, and imagining that she is a small, green sapient creature with pointed ears and a staff, she a voice like she imagines the creature would make and says "Always in motion is the future."

She then waits to see what Numeros' next move may be.

OOC:

B*st intention with her first action was to create an ecosystem of various kinds of predators and prey.  She only wanted to make some of them like herself, not all of them.

Also, her intention with her third action was primarily to jumpstart evolution.