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 Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:18 am Post subject: New New Worlds! |
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((Well, I did say I had an idea for this, so here it is. For those of you who didn't take part).
How to make a New World, by Speeder:
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| But, one day, after mixing water and sand in an magical orb, and transmuting energy into it in a high-magical field in a prepared chamber, and letting the chamber doors explode open after a week, it would explode the orb the moment it had been in the open air for more than five minutes. The containments would flare off, and a portal gate would open. |
Here are the rules as laid out by Speeder and then rewritten by 3kul
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1. Imo, these rules were a little too strict, hence why this thread wasn't so popular. Feel free to use your own powers provided that you aren't a god or a spirit (try to limit them, otherwise it's no fun since you guys have too many powers ), but don't go bringing in foreign stuff (eg: a nuclear power plant, guns, instant mix magic, etc).
2. The aim was a bit narrow-minded, so I'm changing this slightly to - either find a way to use some kind of magic or develop some kind of technology (I felt that the whole magic mindset was a little narrow-minded). If people really struggle with this I might step in and add something, but that's really only if this thread takes off or not .
3. The rate of time, although not really discussed, can be whatever you like, as it's your world. Do try to keep it somewhat constant though (unless you specific otherwise), it's kind of cheating if 1000 years pass between one day's posting and then only 12 hours pass between the next.
That's about it for now (ask me if anything still confuses you though). Use this as an opportunity to feel like a God without actually having to change your character, or to develop a new race for the Genetic Repository, or just to have a reasonably laid back RP rather than the usual 20-posts-a-day kind of thing. Once people are on the way towards fulfilling some of these aims I might throw a few surprises in... Nothing devestatingly bad though, so don't worry too much .
Oh, and one more thing, please specify whether or not other people are able to access your world, and describe it and it's inhabitants a little for everyone.
Feel free to throw in other details if you need to, and you don't have to start with a tiny population like I did if you don't want to. RPers of all skills levels are welcome, provided that you abide by the rules. If you have no idea what to do, think of it as a Spore RP, because it pretty much is (with the exception of magic and stuff) .
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This is the description of my world so far:
World: Celus
Description: Tropical planet orbiting three suns, with large bodies of water once hidden beneath the surface now exposed to create massive lakes of salt and fresh water, along with a few rivers Vegetation sprouts around these areas and is of a red-blue hue, unless the plants are carnivorous in which case they are purple-red, or blue if they are parasitic. The life here first started in isolated micro-habitats with glowing blue rock for light, eventually spreading outwards. Where there is no water the planet is a barren desert with very little life. But there are only a few places like that now.
Technology/Magic Level: Very low, consisting of primitive tools. No magic as yet
Access? No visitors yet thanks, I want to get them up to a certain level before that happens 
Sentient Inhabitants: Yallians
Description: Bah, who needs a description? I have drawings
A Yallian, but these ones are a little more evolved than this one so their clubs are a bit smaller. They're also a blueish red colour, about 1 foot high and feed off fruit and nectar.
Population: 2 (3 if you count Kheesth), possibly an unknown amount of others.
And an animal list, so people (and I) don't get confused 
Scuttlers - Share a common ancestry with the Yallians, possessing eight legs and claws on each leg to better grip the plants, as well as delicate pincers, shell-less. They've taken on the red-blue colouring of the non-carnivorous plants for camouflage.
Aquatic Scavengers/Hunters - Common ancestry, possessing eight 'fins' that were once legs, with flattened pincers to help with movement and grab prey. Now a blue colour to blend in with its new environment. Shell-less.
Rainbow 'fish' - Organisms that move in shoals, possessing no limbs but having a very prehensile body with 'fins' above and below, running along the length of their bodies. Change colour constantly to confuse others, completely blind and communicate with each other through weak electrical currents.
Bloatfish: These are giant versions of the rainbow, but without the rainbow colouring (they're completely blue), and live in large shoals deep underground. These though, have evolved eyes to defend themselves from predators.
Squid-predators - Blind and when last seen were making the transition from water to land. Went extinct due to plant and land-based Scavenger/Hunter predation.
Insects - Newly evolved, possessing purple wings and green bodies. Sub-species can be found in leaf-litter, living in the ground and/or the trees. However, most of them are Fliers feeding off nectar and fruit.
Hard-Shells - No relation to the Yallians despite obvious similarities. Live outside in the crevices of the planets (Celus) surface. Possess eight legs with claws, one pair of which can be bent the entirely opposite direction to the others, though with soldier types these legs have a pair of large spikes on the ends rather than claws. Far stronger than they look, with eyes and a round, tooth filled mouth below the protective shell. Possibility they now possess a hive mind, Hard-Shells are a sandy red colour and one foot wide but only half that tall.
Long Legs - These have four long, thin legs, each one almost five times longer than the Yallians height. The legs are attached to a tiny (at least it is tiny compared to its legs) sandy coloured body that is bereft of any hair. Their mouth has no teeth, but is covered in a web like substance. They also have a single eye set on the top of their body, most likely to keep a watch out for anything dangerous. They are creatures that feed on microscopic lifeforms in the air, and entirely harmless unless threatened or startled, when they will puff their tiny bodies up and expose row upon row of venomous spines.
Fellike: These have four red eyes, two set in the front facing position and two to either side, and their rounded heads have a wide jaw with not one, but two rows of teeth. The front row are fang-like, designed for grabbing and holding on to prey, whilst the second row are flat and far more suited to crushing hard tissue, as these guys prey on the Hard-Shells as well as everything else. They have a set of four small ears in a similar arrangement to the eyes, as well as a single nose. The body is quite squat and muscular, designed for sprinting short distances rather than running for an extended amount of time, and their body is covered in fine purple hair. It also has six legs, on the end of each are three long, large toes with nasty looking claws on the end. They're about two and a half feet tall, making them the largest predators so far.
Overview of my world for those who haven't/don't want to read the original New Worlds thread: Kheesth created Celus, then after entering she watched the life within a small, micro-habitat inside a large, rounded mountain grow and evolve. After falling asleep Kheesth is awakened by a member of the first sentient species, called Genyal, and shown a colony of the same. She leaves for a short period to see what has happened in the underground lake, but is oon sought out by Genyal shown an invading force of Hard-Shells. Whilst watching the Yallians preparations to defend their food supply, Kheesth is forcibly removed from that world by the Portal Guardian, who has been watching her. The Yallians defeat the Hard-Shells with a little inspiration when Genyal saw Kheesth, so in her absence they start referring to her as Kist and the Inspirer (much to her annoyance when she returns). During her absence the colony outgrows its ancestral home and Kelgen, one of Genyals descendants, leads a band of Yallians outside. The Yallians that are left suffer starvation and soon after a virulent plague, leaving only two survivors, a male called Zeckul and an infertile female name Halyan, who is also missing her middle right leg. It's about this time that Kheesth returns to the world after plying the Portal Guardian with questions, and she meets the two survivors. Kheesth spends enough time with the two to learn their language and they leave at her insstence to look for the descendants of Kelgens band outside. They experience their first night, sunsets and sunrises and have their first encounter with the Fellike predator that night, but Kheesth warns it off. The next day they come across a Hard-Shell defending a hole in the ground from one of these predators, and watch it get killed. Then thousands of the creatures show up and chase the Fellike away, then surround Kheesth and her two companions, who are now held safely in the Tezcans lower arms.
That's all I'm going to put so far, enjoy ))
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