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ONTOSTRATA is a science–fantasy / existential mystery / cartoon-comedy worldbuilding project.

• Blurb & Bio
• Influences

Blurb & Bio

Back in 2016, a worldbuilding project began, now known as ONTOSTRATA. This evolving universe includes storylines, character profiles, invented animal species (along with plants and fungi), and even original music. Over the years, ONTOSTRATA has been imagined as a board game, TTRPG, video game, comic book, nature guide, stop-motion animation, and a full-length multimedia film franchise. It’s now in a “wiki phase,” housing detailed writings and accompanying visuals, continually expanding into a vibrant, living world.

Influences

Bone
Lord of the Rings
Dark Crystal
Adventures in Dinosaur City
Adventure Time

Story

Books & Timeline:

• Early Planet Stuff
• Squamaloid Underground
• Wizards and Lizards of Urt
• Wars of the Split
• sSs in Rialgar Marsh
• MNEZIACK
• Picking Mushrooms and Finding Gray
• The First Ambush
• Night of the Slugs
• On the Other Side
• Present
• All Aboard the Cereal Bus

Early Planet Stuff

Dust and gas in the void form a planet around two stars bound in each other's orbit. Moons and moonmoons follow. Rock and water and gas. Abyssal Lifeforms | Ancient Fungus | Dinosaurs

Squamaloid Underground

The sentient bipedal reptilian, the Squamaloid, having just discovered fire and language, retreat underground to the deep caverns of the planet. They begin to mine ores of incredible power, advancing technology to industrial machinery, forming hierarchies of leaders and workers.

Industrial underground mining complex and society. Dig and eat. Dig and eat.

A sacred egg. When the egg is stolen, that's when squamaloid rampage across the archipelago.

Wizards and Lizards of Urt

For millions of years, dinosaurs, small mammals, groups of apes, and lots of bugs inhabit the continent of IRT. A meteor shower hits the southern hemisphere, turning it into a fireball. The sentient bipedal reptilian, the Squamaloid, having just discovered fire and language, retreat underground to the deep caverns of the planet. They begin to mine ores of incredible power, advancing technology to industrial machinery, forming hierarchies of leaders and workers.

The group of apes native to the northern most tundra planes would survive this cataclysmic event their own way, eventually becoming humans called Disova. As the climate began to become friendlier, the disovans travel down into the low forested valley and start small villages.

The group of apes native to the northern most tundra planes would survive this cataclysmic event their own way, eventually becoming humans called Disova. As the climate began to become friendlier, the Disova travel down into the low forested valley and start small villages.

First recorded event of contact between Disova and Squamaloid

A group of Disova have gathered around a campfire under the stars, roasting their rabbits caught earlier that day. A child has been designated to turn the rotisserie stick while the others laugh and tell stories. An elder old man, sits back at the cave entrance, just some distance from the campfire. He's meditating, chanting mantras about Irt, their word for the world where they live. He gives thanks to Irt, for the rabbits, and for the glue of the tribe.

The old man focuses on his senses; the sound of distant laughter, the crackle of the fire, the smell of the burning tinder and roasted rabbit. A breeze picks up from behind him. "Odd" he thought, but continued in his trance. Then it was more than a breeze, and the smell of burning, but not the fire. The brimstone makes the old man sneeze. When he opened his eyes there was a bright yellow light coming from deep within the cave. Brighter and brighter it got until it was just as mid-day. The laughter stopped and the group came over to the cave, worried. A woman helped the elder to his feet in a hurry, rushing to get him outside. Not moments later, the yellow light got even brighter, filled the entire campsite.

A golden serpent beast of stone and metal emerged, tearing the cave walls apart in its exit. Its feet were clawed wheels. A hatch opened up and out came a dozen large green creatures with nasty slimy teeth, three fingered tentacle claws, yellow eyes. They smelled of alcohol and displayed reckless behavior which likely led to them crashing into the surface.

Squamaloid attempt to communicate with the people, but this is unsuccessful. They decide that most Disova are not worth the effort and return to their subterranean life. Occasionally, an intelligent disovan will not show fear and the squamaloid will invite it to join them. These disovan's are considered traitors among the people.

On their own, disova build a society in accordance with nature and magick. An age of discovery and peace. The 'lizards' are declared the natural enemy of disovan kind. Defensive weapons and walls are built for 'when the lizards need our sun'.

0.1 - Wizards and Lizards of Irt 0.2 - Shadow Cypress 0.3 - The Egg 0.4 - The Last Castle on Irt

Wizard Cook, RGS, Anzick A wizard who is a cook for people of importance. They request personalized meals. The wizard often gets the entire community/city involved in the process. He introduces new crops and trades (trading companies) to wherever he goes, leaving the places with new food sources, and meal types. There are portals that lead to other worlds, and characters and creatures from other worlds call for his services. RGS, son of a kitchen servent. Grew up in the kitchens of a high lord. Trained to cook by many chefs who came to cook for the lord (and guests of the lord). But he mainly has to cook for the rest of the servants (they gotta eat too). The Shadow Cypress

30 weeks on the road south from the king's land. We head towards a sick land in hopes to cure it and make it our own. Scouts say no one may be left by the time we get there, which should be soon. What is that strange looking tree coming our way?

Eribour Gyuignon, dybbuked soul from the North and South and East. Ocassionally, new help will be brought down to the kitchens and assigned jobs. This time, a single woman is brought down. Recently being accused of being a witch, the trial deemed her innocent, but still sent to the kitchens as punishment. (It was a dual trial, the other person being tried was a murderer named Herman. She cast a spell on Herman which made his eyes turn black. A mistrial is declared, Herman is sent to be hanged and Eribour is sent to the kitchens.[this needs more]) She is assigned to setting tables by the Kitchen Head. RGS notices funny actions made by the new woman. She has dark hair and dark clothes and wears a peculier charm around her neck. Tattoos on her hands. She will often dissappear for minutes. She is seen speaking to herself. There's a dark demon in the background of the kitchens, unseen. The demon whispers to the woman, he has been following her. She is under his spell. One of Anzick's teachers is witch named Brosso Landin, posing as a chef. She's hiding from the law. Brosso notices Eribour and immediately recognizes that she's possesed by a demon, though which one she does not know. She decides to help Eribour by drawing out the demon with her knowing. And recruites Anzick as her assistant in this.

The de-dybbuking of the demon, Alvin.

Who's the Grandiose Duke of Ogaila, NAME? Ogaila is a medium sized kingdom in the country of Pastic Has several wives He runs in the NAME estate, consisting of several castles, inluding one real big one which they live called the BIGCASTLENAME hundreds of rooms, hallways, and it does go underground. Head of the Kitchen: Boneybone man, takes RGS (Anzick?) on as an apprentice, teaching him all he knows about chefery and cooking. Cooking ducks and such. Spells (Incantations, charms, bewitchery) A magical formula intended to trigger a magical effect on a person or objects. The formula can be spoken, sung, or chanted during rituals or prayers. Spell book (grimoire) a textbook of magic, typically including objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magicall spells, charms and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, sprits, deities, and demons. The books themselves are believed to be imbued with magical powers, The Book for Abramelin Groups: The Heretic Order of the Silver Swans Inspirational characters: Qyburn Nikolas Flamel Meals Dumb Supper Cooked ducks and such. Hippy Lizard Soup Jade Steak and Mashed Yellow Crickets Foot of Bird Dilbrew - Pickle Beer Coral reef cereal Chickens Blue feathers, black eyes. Lay magical eggs if they die, they are resurrected Herded by a cat Internal visions The year 1458, what was going on then? Potions Talismans/Amulets Magic word squares, used as puzzles or as teaching aids for students Sator Square:

S A T O R A R E P O T E N E T O P E R A R O T A S

Lessons learned: Fear of God, lead a well-regulated life, steer away from the evils of acquisition of riches and goods Alchemy Magick Incantations, chants, words of power Permeates the cosmos Open portals to other worlds Divine Science Goetia a practice that includes the conjuration of demons, specifically the ones summoned by the bibilical figure, King Solomon. grimoire: Lesser Key of Solomon MAIAM - to walk underwater as long as you want Making shapes with chalk mystic symbols Ingredients Powdered iron small bones Bees wax Hashish Abramelin oil (anointing oil) 1 part of the best myrrh .5 cinnamon 1 cassia 1 galanga root, or calamus herb .25 good fresh olive oil dark stuff from a small wooden box Orc liquor Names:Things:Places Eiranaeus Orandus Gopnik Achatz Nicolas Flamel The Book of Abramelin Ritual: obtain the knowledge and conversation of the magician's guardian angel, Preparations are elaborate, difficult and long. lasting 18 months before any divine contact is known. Pray daily before sunrise and again at sunset. Chastity must be observed, alcoholic beverages refused, and the magician must conduct his business with scrupulous fairness. (acting in strict regard for what is considered right or proper) Magic Squares Recipe for anointing oil (abramelin oil) Tools: Holy lamp, Wand made of almond branch, recipe for incence, Robes, square or seven-sided plate of silver or bees wax. Once preparations are complete, the magician's holy guardian angel will appear and reveal magical secrets. Then evoke the 12 kings and dukes of hell and bind them the magician gains command of them in his own mental universe and removes their negative influence from his life The practitioner is often promised the ability to find buried treasure, cast love charms, and the ability of magical flight, the secret of invisibility. Or, The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage (1897) by British occultist Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Abramelin the Mage A∴A∴ a spiritual ogranization with members dedicated to the advancement of humanity by perfeection of the individual on every plane through a graded series of universal initiateions look into this stuff Abraham of Worms Lamech Arachi, Araki, in Egypt Word-square talisman Plague Vegetable work turn Sand into Rope Turtle Migration The last castle A man steals an egg from a cave The egg is sold to some rich folk for food. The egg hatches a squamaloid, it is thrown out into the streets. The egg was kidnapped from a leader of the underground Cr world and left in the cave. The kidnapper hunts down the egg but is caught and killed by the nearest village. The Cr learn of this and release a squamaloid army onto the world, destroying and conquering one kingdom at a time. The young lizard prince is imprisoned for stealing, deep in a dungeon. The town gets hit by a meteor, but he survives and is picked up by a group of traveling thieves. Cr continue their conquest throughout the world. News of their approach reaches the last castle on a peninsula. Pastic. The blue man pyramid head reaches the gates of Pastic: I have been sent by TOWN, but I do not speak for them. Dreams version: Characters: Butter cow vendor Squamaloid Rex Grandiose duke Wizard chef (first person) Blue chicken Places: Castle Kitchen Bouncy Bog Sun woods

sSs in Rialgar Marsh

Squamaloid in the Rialgar Marsh Llama is taking a day nap in a canoe in a tree. A group of three [[squamaloid]] come squelching through the mud, directly towards her hut. Llama hears them from a distance, she peaks over the side of the canoe and sees the lizards trying to be sneaky. She waits 'til they get further away, drops to the ground and follows.

She follows until they come to the front door, kick it in with ease, and walk inside. "Are they looking for me?" She sneaks up to her hut for a closer look, around the side where there's a window. While peaking inside, a snake slithers under her feet and emits a loud siren from a device attached to its head. Llama tries to stomp it, but it's too late. The alarm calls the attention of the lizards. A lizard arm crashes through the window, grabs her neck and drags her into the house by her head and slams her to the ground.

But Llama is quick, she gains her footing again and shoves the lizard out the same window with much force. The other two lizards are just outside the room now, Llama slams the wooden door closed, but it then explodes into splinters, throwing her backwards. Llama's speed is apparent again as she crawls toward the lizard entering the new doorway. The grabs a crooked dagger from its belt and at the same time kicks the lizard into the opposite wall. Then she throws the dagger into the shoulder of the third lizard. This startles him and he blasts the ceiling into splinters. The second lizard shoots bola cords at Llama's feat, entangling her legs and bringing her to the floor. The stabbed lizard pulls out the dagger and kicks Llama in the head, knocking her out.

They drag her back through the marsh, through the mud. When they reach the land vehicle, she's put into a holding cage on the back. Llama cannot escape this cage. The lizards leave her there and return back into the foggy marsh.

They are there scouting out an area that possibly holds a Plumport.

Wars of the Split

But what happens to the underground city they've lived in for so long? Maybe this is the first of the split between Cr and squamaloid, The cr want to stay below, while the squamaloid end up joining with the disovans, starting sSs. The undergound city is destroyed in the wars of the split, caved in. Cr'odons and Squamaloid and Denisovans After decades of conflict, peace finally. Cr, a technologically advanced, interstellar society originating from the planet IRT. They travel across the universe, spreading knowledge of civilization, build portals that form a network of transport between galaxies called Plumports. They pick up several other species in the process (originally as workers/builders but then civilizations are reformed after work has been done. Plumports The Split Wars of the Split: Troodons are divided into Plumed Cr and Squamaloids(§) and begin feuding. Small indifferences turned into battles over land and culture; though the main conflict was ownership and ethical use of the PLUMPORTS. Although battles did take place on other planets, their home planet is greatly destroyed. Cr claims victory and leave never to be seen or heard from again. The entirety of gained knowledge leaves with them. § claims to have gained advantage and forced Cr to flee. They begin to rebuild on the remains of their destroy planet. 2: "Ever since the Split" Rise of S: The lizards survive on their planet only by destroying it further with massive industrialization. Those with power create S. Secondry: Secondry is fully inhabited, but as the climate begins to change, plans for space travel are haulted and the big move is planned. 3: S: S starts to revisit their history and decides to re-open the portals. They abandon their home planet. § Split refers to the two diverging species (bird and lizard), who eventually can no longer reproduce. Told through a story of a relationship between two divergent characters. Like a Romeo and Juliet type of thing with feuding families. § Super race of dinosaur beings traveled the galaxy and spread their knowledge to other civilizations. Showing them agriculture and architecture. But along the way they started to divide into different races. The more lizard like S, and the more bird like Cr (but they were always Cr) . Small indifferences turned into battles over land and culture; though the main conflict was ownership and ethical use of the PLUMPORTS. This turned into wars that reached from planet to planet. Eventually, the S gained an advantage and defeated the Cr at their home planet of IRT, destroying the planet in the process. Many of what was left of the Cr were killed, but very few managed to flee, never to be seen again. Cr claims victory and leave never to be seen or heard from again. The entirety of gained knowledge leaves with them. § claims to have gained advantage and forced Cr to flee. They begin to rebuild on the remains of their destroy planet. Dinosaur people (mix of birds and lizards), a technologically advanced, interstellar society that travel across the universe, colonize planets, build portals that form a network of transport between galaxies called PLUMPORTS. They pick up several species in the process (originally as workers/builders but then civilizations are reformed after work has been done.

MNEZIACK

Our hero finds himself tied to a cabinet full of surgical tools. He doesn't know where or who he is, which is expected as he is an amnesiac. Copy and paste the rest from a found scifi book from a used book store. This amnesiack has teal skin and tangerine hair in the style of a mullet and a mustache and maybe mutton chops. Wears a jumpsuit, of course, colour pending. His name is embroided on the jumpsuit in esoteric symbols (μνήσις). Name is never revealed. But his situation is at the beginning of each sequence is. Just the letters: MN

First person vs. third person, switch between. Characters: MN the Amneziack - our hero Omneziack? Chaos - change name later, anterograde ghost Inner Voice - knowledge and conversation with your holy guardian angel. Nurse Aglet Mudguts Words for later: Amnesiac - an Occupant suffering from a loss of memory. Anterograde - forward momentum, following a path. unable to remember events subsequent to the injury or ailment. Absurdism Panic Confusion MNEZIACK By Dustin Ray Olguin 1. Our hero finds himself tied to a cabinet full of surgical tools. He had the room all to himself. It was his, all that wall and floor. Scalpels, forceps, clamps. Is Chaos here? Thought forms race into his head like hot-rods on a dusty highway. Who is Chaos? What is this place? Panic strikes the nude human handcuffed to a roll cart. Yanking and pulling the raw wrist with his free hand, the lightweight cabinet is on wheels and moves freely. The shiny sharp instruments clatter along the floor as he tips the cart over. “Stab the restraints!” a voice echoes and bounces off the insides of the empty room, like the emptiness of his own head. The man hears this and knows what it means, he grabs the surgical scissors and jams them into the keyhole of his handcuffs; busting the padlock into metal splinters. What cheap materials make up this world I find myself in. Freeing himself from his previously tethered existence allowed the switch to first person perspective. One of my abilities, I guess. What are the others, I wonder? The man scans the room from his resting spot on the clean floor, propped up with an elbow. A list of objects forms in his head: one of them being a surgical slab, big enough for a fat thing. Gazing upwards, his eyes lock onto a naked man on the ceiling. Teal skin folds under patches of tangerine carpet. Who’s this guy, another captive? How’d you get up there, man? Oh, it’s a reflection, I’m not thinking right. Looking further into the eyes of the man on the ceiling, a rush of disoriented confusion engulfs the man. Another dizzy spell. The door opens and a nurse walks in checking boxes on a holopad. Opportunity. He dashes toward the door, but Nurse Agla is trained for this. She stretches her long arms and legs around his shoulders and chest as they both fall to the cold hard ceramics. She whispers in his ear: "I've been waiting for this day, you rascal. Squirm your darndest and I'll extrude your guts like a space paste." All with a smile on her face, showing no signs of effort. Must have been a folkstyler back in the academy. "I've been sent to rescue you, Mr. MN. They've held and tortured a man of great importance for too long now. And just in time too, I hear they plan to remove something of yours today." What part of me would they remove? Nurse Aglet regains her footing and stands them both up, MN still held tight, with little effort. She slams into a door directly across the hall into a janitor's closet and lets him fall to the ground, he fits perfectly into the sink drain built into the floor. "Here is your jumpsuit and personal effects, Mr. MN." Still whispering, she drops the bundled inventory onto him. "Climb through the vent in the ceiling here." Pointing up. "Follow it until you smell yeast. I know you can remember that smell. That's the kitchen. There'll be a exit door leading outside the facility. Look up and you'll see three moons, run towards the green one. Someone will contact you after that." She then darts from the room and closes the door behind her. He hears her locking the door, then frantic footsteps, then a crash, glass breaking, then the alarms start.

2. Mneziack snatched up every bread roll that would fit in the pockets of his jumpsuit, which was many. Heading outside through an unlocked door, the sunlight bleached his eyeballs. The blinding light lasted for minutes. He could not move, slunched over in what felt like wet grass. His thoughts raced. Was she trying to save me or kill me? Why can't I move forward? The yeast smell gives way to the smell of green, he starts to stumble towards the smell. Night falls after a few hours of stumping big toes and saying 'excuse me' to some small bushes and maybe an animal. Some of these animals sting like fire bristles.

3 I create a makshift tent and campfire out of a plastic tarp and a Bic found in an old van. That was lucky. I can see now that I'm outdoors, but not the outdoorsy type. Chewing on some stale brick bread.

Picking Mushrooms and Finding Gray

Picking Mushrooms Hue and Ery are walking through the fungi forest. They had just attended a small shindig at the Chameleon village. What went down at the 'small shindig at the chameleon village"? Probably a lot of jug dancing. "Boy, my dogs sure are barkin' from all that jug dancin'!" Yeah, they're quiet by themselves but they throw a good party! The two siblings have conversations about what could lie beyond Purpul Durt. Ery decides to pick some mushrooms for a snack, while Hue continues to wander around and look for cool rocks. Ery comes across a rare mushroom with a white stalk and a red tippy-top with yellow spots. She leans down to pick it, gives it a sniff, then stuffs it in her bag with a few others. “That should be enough.” she thinks to herself and sits down against a gigsab tree to sort out her findings. A Skritch’n is a giant nasty bug with alternating yellow and red striped fur, salivating mouth parts, and makes a terribly displeasing sound when disturbed. These bugs are three times the size of a rodat (what's a rodat?) and there’s one of these ugly things hanging out in the canopy of the tree Ery picked for her sit-down. It smelled her and has begun to creep down the trunk for a surprise attack. What Skritch’n’s do is snatch up the meal in their jaw claws, take it back to its nest made of mud, and feed its many young. Ery does not notice the threat just above her head. But Hue does. Hue had just found the perfect rock for this occasion, round on one end, pointy on the other. Hue pitched the rock as hard as he could and hit the Skritch’n directly in the gross eyeball with the pointy end. Both Hue and Ery were caught off guard by the ear-busting shrill scream. SKRIIIIITCH! The Skritch’n was so surprised that it lost its footing from the tree and fell face first onto the ground below, missing Ery by inches. But its instincts kicked right back in and flipped itself upright, dashed for Ery with its massive clamper jaws, managing to grab the strap of her bag with Ery still attached. The bug then doubled-timed it back up the tree and out of sight. In the confusion, Hue caught a glimpse of the Skritch’n’s face and noticed the rock had not let go, and is now a permanent feature. Hue hurried over to the base of the tree and looked up. He saw the bug jump from one tree to another, headed west, deep into the forest. Following them the best he could, Hue knew that the bug was heading to its mud nest. Ery was only terrified for the first few minutes of the ordeal. Bokanoi are taught how to survive these wild encounters from an early age. If she didn’t want to be a mid-day snack for Skritch’n larva, she would need to think of something quick. Her memory immediately went to the best known Skritch’n deterrent: a dusty smoke pod. Rodats always carry around a few for such an occasion (what are some other uses?). Ery was able to reach in her bag with on free hand and find the pod. Now she just needed to smash it open with something. She took the chance when the bug landing on the side of a tree. Smashing the pod on the hard bark released a cloud of dust, she held it out closer to the Skritch’n’s face, then she noticed the rock lodged in its eyeball. The bug’s footing started to weaken and eventually let go. The bug has now passed out and is in free fall. To Ery’s relief, the bug hit the ground first and her on top. “Good thing ol’ ‘Rock-Eye’ has a soft belly” she thought to herself while sliding off the side with her bag in hand. Hue came running up just in time to see Ery tip-toeing away from the bug, motioning to run the other way before it wakes up. “Are you injured?” Hue whispered as they hurried away. “I don’t think so.” Ery answered “That rock you threw got stuck in its eyeball.” She started to chuckle. Hue was glad to see his sister felt fine and was already making jokes. “I called him Rock-Eye!” They both snickered and laughed as they scurried away from the knocked-out Skritch’n. It wouldn't wake up for another hour. The two rodats sat down under a short tree for a light snack before they orient themselves and head home. “Hue!” Ery said as if she had just remembered something. “While you were chasing me down, did you pass by a really pale gigsab? It didn’t register before, but now I remember seeing something strange in its canopy. Want to check it out?” Before Hue could muster a “mmhmm” they were both headed back to investigate. Backtracking through Purpul Durt forest was easy for the bokanoi because gigsab trees are grown in a grid pattern. Which is why this pale gigsab stuck out so much. Eventually they come across the old pale gigsab that Ery had saw earlier. “Is she sick, Hue? I’ve never seen this color of bark before.” Ery asked while touching her paw on the grayish pink bark. Gigsabs usually have a brown-purple color to them. “All I can think is it’s very old, because otherwise it looks healthy.” Hue answered. “You said there’s something in the canopy? Let’s get some eyes on it.” Hue began to pull out a rope from his bag, wrap it around the tree, and started to shimmy himself up the 400 foot tall trunk. Ery followed. When they reached the canopy, nothing was said between them for several minutes while they tried to understand what they were looking at. The best Hue could come up with was a ‘Fungi-cactus hybrid plant’. At the base of the plant were bulbous leaves, and some flat leaves, but with mycelium growing around them. These all surrounded a large pod, but possibly a bulb. “The weird shape is one thing, bro, but what the heck color is it?” Ery was straining her eyes to look at it. “When you look directly at the thing, it’s gray, like the tree, but when I look away, the color splits in two, I think it’s green, or blue and pink. I don’t know. It’s disorienting to look at.” “Yes,” answered Hue, “something in its skin must be reflecting the light in a strange way, almost like it doesn’t know how to reflect or absorb light, so it does both…?” “Something is growing inside of this bulb, Ery.” Hue said, officially creeped out. “And I think it’s about ready to bloom. Want to stick around and see what comes out?” Ery let out an “uhh duhh” without looking away. A couple hours pass. Hue sits on a branch while trying his best to illustrate the strange plant in front of him, chewing on his pencil. He can hear Ery rustling in the leaves above. She had climbed up above the forest canopy to see what she could see. “Hue, there’s an angry looking storm coming our way. It will hit us by nightfall. Are we safe up here?” As she said this, Hue could feel the first gust of wind from the storm. Sniffing the air, he could tell it was indeed a bad one. “Maybe we should at least wait it out on the ground, good call Ery.” Just as their ancestor rodats did, Hue and Ery take shelter from the storm under the giant leaves of the pale gigsab. It's a strong storm with strong winds and stinging rain. As stewards of the forest, the siblings are able to sleep all through the ruckus. It was just about midnight when a distinctly loud thunder clap woke them both up. Lightning flashes would reveal what was around them, that was otherwise darkness; the dark shadows of distant forest, and the faint purple color of nearby gigsabs. There was a sudden gush of strong wind and another flash of lightning when both the rodats saw a figure falling from the sky and then a thump sound in the dark. They know they both saw something that was almost certainly the figure of a rodat falling from the sky. Without a word, they went back to sleep knowing the first order of biz in the morning was to investigate. Gray Light from the chartreuse sun gleamed through the leaves of the rain soaked canopy. Hue swished through the grass and bushes only for a bit before coming across just what he had expected: the body of a rodat. "Who is it?" Ery whispered as she eyed the body. "I don't recognize him." replied Hue as he attempted to flip the body over. His shaggy fur was soaked with rain and mud. "Maybe someone from the outskirts?". Ery got down closer, "…landed right foot first - broken ankle - then onto his arm - possible fracture." she claimed in her analytical voice, and as if Hue should be taking notes. "Not dead, right?" Hue asked, not wanting to get in Ery's way. Ery leaned in closer to rest an ear on his chest. Just then the rodat began to inhale as if it were the first time the lungs were used. The breath was long and drawn out and seemed to inflate the rodat slightly. Ery approached the rodat once more after jumping back. "He's alive, Hue. But just barely. Let's get him back to the village for better care." Hue agreed. Hue climbed the pale gigsab again, this time more difficult from the slippery bark. Upon reaching the canopy, he found no trace of the strange plant, securing his worries that whoever that rodat was, he fell from this tree, and therefore came from that plant. Ery fashioned a stretcher out of sticks and what dried brush she could find. The rodat had not moved since the initial inhale, but was breathing consistently. Now that its fur has dried, they could see the pale gray tint. The two siblings found a path that would lead them into the east side of Bokanmud Village. They carried the injured rodat and decided to call him Gray for the time being. Gray opened his eyes for the first time and the light was painful. Stripes of green and blue falling from up to down. His eyes lay open for several moments, just staring at the moving lights before Hue, who was carrying the feet end saw them. "Ery put him down!" Hue said in a panic, "His eyes are open!". They set him down and kneeled down asking how he was. Gray seemed to react to their voices and saw their faces, but did not register was he was looking at, seeming dazed. "What should we tell the village, Ery? Do we say he hatched from a plant that's no longer there?". Ery agreed with the question. They were certain Gray came from the plant, but could not prove it. For the sake of Gray's normal life, don't tell anyone where this eggseed came from. Not so much for his safety, but for his livlihood. Do we tell him? If he asks yes, we shouldn't lie. But aren't we lying to the village? We'll say "we found this eggseed in the forrest by the Pale Gigsab." There's no need to mention the Jacimus Blooms. They would probably be pretty protective of him. "Best to say he fell from a tree and we found him after the storm." Ery answered, "That's what happened, anyway." Gray's dream: purple, blue, green dots fade into existence. Sounds of rain and thunder fill the unseen space. Thunder wakes him up. Gray limps his way outside and into the rain, disregarding the wetness. Gray wakes up for the first time during a thunder storm. Having been asleep for days after his fall from the tree. He walks/stumbles outside still covered in a blanket. He's been sleeping on a bench inside the main area of the temple. The rain soaks his fur and blanket. Reaching his paw out through the blanket to feel the rain. Gray starts walking into the village and comes across a large two story dwelling. An older rodat sits on the porch, smoking a pipe, enjoying comforting smells of rain. Gray is curious and joins the old rodat. No words are spoken. Two rocking chairs learning the way of Bokanmud. The worgat seed. do we eat? we raise him as bokanoi, this is the way. Ery, Hue, thank you for bringing us this special gift. Will you be caretakers of the Gray one? We'd be honored to have Gray as our new brother. So anyway, hue and ery live their peaceful lives on purpul durt, when grey turns up, things get interesting but not much different. Because all of time and space exist at once at the same time, grey and onto are linked and switch places from time to time. Jacimus is the sacred gigsab tree in the forest. does gray still hatch out the top? or does he emerge from fruit?...Hue and Ery find the fruit growing, much larger than the tree's normal fruit. in fact it's the only fruit the Jacimus produces. The fruit is onto-seed. Ery and Hue bring the fruit back to the village where it is watched and revered, but it cracks open and out pops a little grey worgat. The village is thrilled and raises Gray. They all know where he came from, the Jacimus, and believe he is the tree itself that wants to live among the rodats. But Gray is troubled by visions of the future, one's in which he inhabits the body of Onto (his future self) "This world is bigger than we all could ever imagine. I wish I could keep going, keep learning, keep helping" Anda means egg. The cosmic egg. eggseed. • Gray's Journal ○ Entry 1: Eryeudh gave me this wolo-dooer because she thinks it will help me sort out my thoughts. Both her and Hue seem concerned with my complacency and apathy. So here's what I know: Hue claims that I was the fruit of a plant he found grounded on the top of a Gigsab tree. I do resemble a rodat, but on all other accounts, I'm a plant. The pod plant in which produced me is now turned to ashes, so I'm all that's left. I blend in okay with the rest of the village, but tend to keep to myself in the local science center. More precisely, a small room beneath the surface. I keep the plant ashes in a jar there, but it was recently contaminated by a rain leak in the ceiling. I also like to climb in the trees to be alone, where I am now. ○ Entry 2: Hue has tried to explain my situation to others in the village, but it's hard to tell if they understand. Probably because they did not see it happen. Everyone here trusts Hue, but they don't seem to want to know more about me. Hue and Ery can't learn much since my mother plant is destroyed and they can cut me to see inside. I guess I'd be more helpful to myself and to others if my body were to die. ○ Entry 3: What I said last isn't what I know to be true. It's that kind of talk that got me this wolo-dooer. It is some amazing circumstances that I am here, and I'm glad to be living it for sure. ○ Slugs attack, go through the portal, Hue dies, Mothman takes us to Specturmel. Ery and I go our separate ways. Ery dies. I go live on a mountain.

The First Ambush

Meanwhile, nowhere near Purpul Durt, on an ocean planet called V'nglui The skies were overcast on Ph'chv, the only dry land on the entire planet. A small, narrow island, only 18 square miles. Black sandy beaches lie to the East, and then drastically rise in elevation, terminating in the West at a cliff side 540 ft (160 m). Remnants of drowned stone dwellings litter the blue grass fields in the center of the island. The mossy stone dwellings grow in number the higher up the island they go, a giant monolithic temple sits atop the highest point, visible from miles away. Except for the constant waves crashing into the cliffside, an insidious silence blankets the island. Two spaceships enter the atmosphere, crash into the sea, and then reemerge onto the beach. Lizard people come out of the ships and start to investigate the island, the temple, and the surrounding abandoned dwellings. Some of them are soldiers with weapons. Among this group is Reeg, Lizard of Battles, as well as a few Inquirer Lizards. Brind waits in the corners and cracks of the old stones, out of sight, watching. The lizards proceed to investigate the temple and enter the giant portal chamber. Here, a group of them set down some equipment and activate a machine on the middle of the platform. The machine vibrates and create strange droning sounds. The machine then releases tanks of a glowing blue liquid which falls into the spaces around the platform, afterwards it drops some vibrating spherical objects onto the ground, which roll into the liquid and the whole temple starts to vibrate. There are electric static discharges throughout the cylindrical temple and the machine suddenly disappears. But the place remains charged and vibrating. S steps into Purple Dirt. ○ After establishing a temporary camp on Vi Nucian 5, S sends a few scouts (Planck, Planck's associate, two guard lizards, and …) into the portal. They find the temple abandoned and dark. They light the room and setup another camp there by the portal. The machine they send it before hand takes a reading of gravity, temperature, atmospheric pressure, and chemical make up. Its results come back mixed: the lizards can breathe freely, but Planck, as a denisovan, needs a breathing aparatus before he can step foot on the other side; due to a low level of oxygen. Lizards can just about breathe anywhere, or hold their breath long enough. During this time, Brind was strategically placing slugs for maximum gas effect. This is when the Brind attacks. The entire island erupts in a cloud of green gas. Lizards caught in the mist fall limp onto the ground. Those unaffected were confused and caught off guard. Reeg was watching from his ship and saw the whole thing happen. He watched in wonder as the green gas filled the air and as lizards all fell to the ground. "Chemical Warfare!" he yelled as he stepped back into his ship and grabbed a gas mask and a gun. When he turned around he saw soldiers standing back up in the distance. "Report!" he yelled across the field to whoever could hear. But there was no response. The soldier who were getting back up starting firing their weapons at those who weren't affected. This confused Reeg, but mainly made him more angry. "Cease fire!" he yelled "Cease your asses!". He watched soldiers killing soldiers. The shooting stopped, but there were many still standing. That's when they all turned to him and lifted their guns. His anger turned to fear, and starting walking backwards, back into his ship. Meanwhile, there was another attack being planned, this time from the water. The Ikanua were watching from the waves and decided to act now. They all came from one side and moved quickly through the abandoned buildings. Reeg could see them emerge from the water but lost their position after they entered the buildings. The gunfire started again. Feeling outnumbered, Reeg retreats to his ship and takes off. This didn't go the way Brind had hoped. Many Slugs had died, as well as many Lizards and Ikanua. In fact, there were only one Lizard and one Ikanua left alive. Both with slugs attached to their heads, controlling their brains. Brind learned what he could from the lizard's brains: their language, their intent on activating the portal and clearing the island of 'hostiles', But they didn't know where the portal led to. Most importantly, Brind learned to fly the ship that's parked on the beach. Brind decided to split the party. Because the portal led to an unknown place, it didn't want to risk losing these two valuable hosts. So a few hundred slugs were sent through the portal, some were to stay on the island, and a the rest were to pile into the spaceship. After splitting the party, Brind with the two captives entered the ship and assessed the situation. Brind knew that they could track the ship, so it's best to fly to the nearest planet and ditch the ship. The lizard knows of one planet nearby, called Specturmel. So that's their plan. The ship takes off and exits V'nglui's atmosphere.

Night of the Slugs

Brain slugs would fall from the sky rather than from underground. Brain Slugs Attack A large rumble was felt underneath Bokanmud Village. Later that night, Brain Slugs crawled up from the ground and infected most of the population of Rodats, leaving only a few survivors, including Hue, Gray, and Ery. Night of the Brain Slugs A rumble from beneath the village of Rodats. The ground shakes, but there is minimal damage. Later that night a foul smell seems to lurk up from the ground. A few Rodats investigate the smell (Hue and Ery are in their science tower). The dirt is moving, a slug comes out, sprays the Rodat with a green, horrible smelling gas, The Rodat stops in his tracks and falls asleep, but doesn’t fall. The slug slowly climbs up the body and attaches itself to the head. Firmly planting itself above the Rodat brain, taking control. His eyes go green, All personality is wiped from the Rodat body and he begins to walk, directed by the slug. This is the slug's new body. One by one, the Rodat bodies are taken hostage by these slugs. Some are attacked in their sleep, the slugs can squeeze under any door. Only a handful manage to get away, only by running into the nearby forest. The infected seem to have no direction in their walking. What these slugs do is search for large brains. So if the infected Rodat were to come across an animal with a larger brain, the slug will spray the animal, detach itself and reattach itself to the new host. This leaves the old host a brain dead body, left there to die. Devastated by this sudden attack, The two, along with other survivors, try to put together what happened. A few survivors follow the infected out into the woods. Others stay behind to find the source. This leads to the invention of a machine that can detect objects underground, like a seismograph. The machine produces a reading that says there's a gigantic empty space directly beneath their village, an a possible structure within this space. Hue dissects a dead slug and finds a way to stop the gaseous spray from affecting them. But he needs more information to completely fight them off. A large excavation takes place in the basement of the Science Tower, (because that's the lowest point already). It takes them 6 years to dig all the way down to the Cave. The first breaking of ground into the Cave releases a Rainbow Cloud that rises up through their digging area and into the atmosphere. Exploring the Cave further, the Rodats come across a giant cylindrical structure. It's a temple that was built here many many years ago. Inside the temple is a circular platform with a mosaic spiral made of stone in the center. They come to the conclusion that this a portal, but to where they do not know. Some preparations are made, Rodat survivors stay behind in the village, and Ery, Hue, and Hue's clone make their way into the portal. see 'On the Other Side'… ○ How do they activate the portal? ○ They just figure it out. Create their own version of SilverBlue Liquid Sss soldiers come through the portal. They are here to guard it until it's excavated on the other side.

On the Other Side

On the Other Side On the other side of the portal, the three rodats find themselves in an entirely different world. Inventory: What do they bring to the other side? Food Weapon rodats need some self defense Hue, Ery, and Gray emerge from the portal, walk out of the temple and find that it's a slightly different style than the one found underneath their village, but only small changes. The inside of the temple was just the same, but the outside had a larger set of steps leading up to the entrance, They find that the portal itself is actually above ground, not encased by an underground temple. Surrounding the portal from which they exit, they notice stone buildings of all sizes, stretching out for a mile. These buildings all seem to be made of the same stone, a bluish tone. They have designs carved into them, but too far away to see the details. Widening their gaze, they notice the land in which this lump of stone buildings sits upon. Grassy hills, mostly yellowish in color. Some green spots. A single giant tree sits to the their right, not unlike their indigenous trees of Purple Dirt. Surrounding the temple and stone buildings was open land, but it didn't take them long find that it was all surrounding by a dark open water. An ocean. No other land in sight. Gray stares into the open space above the buildings, he seems transfixed on the open water in the distance. He's never felt so small. There's an insidious feeling of danger in this place. Ery steps away from the group and walks around the portal's perimeter, hoping to see more land, but the land drops off immediately. The portal is sitting on a cliff, several hundred feet above the water line. Violent waves crash below. Ery returns to the group to find Hue studying the tree from the platform, muttering things to himself. While Gray, as usual, stares into the distance. They hadn't had much time to take everything in when Ery sees movement from the buildings below. She calls the attention of the others. What they see is something else they've never seen. PD-OST: Kyddiekafka - Insidiousness Amphibeous Fish People They moved quick and with purpose. About the same height as the Rodats, but thinner; more gaunt. Their skin was smooth and rubbery, with a bluish green tone. Large bulging fish eyes took up most of the space on their head, while their mouths hung open to reveal small, but sharp teeth. They were obviously breathing through their mouths, but gills could also be seen on the side of their head and necks. They carried with them spears and wore loin clothes around their mids. Various bestial grunts and fierce, threatening gestures came with the 'welcome party' as they quickly approached the Rodats. Captured Seeing the animalistic behavior of these strange creatures, the rodats start backing up. Fearful for their lives, the rodats make a run for it, But Hue gets a spear thrown through is lower leg and falls to the ground. Ery and Gray stay behind to watch over Hue. The Fish People are upon them now and shove the spears into their frightened faces. There were four Fish People, all with slugs on their heads. Gesturing them to move, the group moves down the steps and towards a close building. The building is hot and damp. There are no other openenings beside the square entrance with no door, It was completely made of stone. In fact, from what little Gray could make out during this, it was carved from one large stone, humonguous rock. Further into the building there was a staircase leading down below ground. The only light came from the room above and through the staircase. It was a holding cell. The three are stripped of their backpacks and belongings and thrown into their own individual cells of which there were many. Their gear was thrown into a cell which contained many bones. These skeletal remains were both Fish People and rodats. The spear was removed from Hue's leg but nothing was done to heal the wound, which was bleeding profusely. Hue continued to bleed throughout the night and was dead by the next morning. Ery and Gray were stricken by grief of their beloved brother. Even more ready to leave this place, they devised a plan to escape. Escape Plan "Gray, Gray!" Ery whispered loudly through her tears, even though the fish people were nowhere in sight. Gray had been staring off again. It was mid-day now. Hue's body lying there was difficult to deal with for both of them. "Gray…we need to get out of here." Ery cried again, this time louder. "These bars are rusted at the bottom, see?" pointing to the bars closest to Gray. Gray snaps out of his trance and notices the bars. "I'm sorry, Ery. I could have…" trailing off, this time staring at the rusting bars. "Don't worry about that now, Gray, it happened so fast. There was nothing we could do." Trying her best to console Gray the best she could, not knowing exactly what was happening in his strange head. Gray's peculiar existence in this world takes a huge toll on his psyche, and the death of Hue has pushed him even further, not yet having to deal with death this personally before. "Do you think you could break the bars? Maybe ram your shoulder into them?" Ery suggests. Gray stands up, suddently determined to get Ery and himself out of this situation. He rams himself into the bars with no thought towards the damage to his body. The bars shake, but nothing comes loose. After a couple tries a single bar begins to bend. But this isn't enough. But then some noises came from outside. The whirring of jets followed by explosions and weapons firing. Different voices could be heard yelling that was not the Fish People. A big gush of water came down the stairs and covered the entire floor, followed by a Fish Person that looked frightened. He was running away from something. He looked up the stairs he just descended, turned around and was surprised to see Ery and Grey staring back at him. A shadow appeared at the top of the stairs, a creature with a beard and oddly colored face came down and immediately shot the Fish Person with a laser type weapon, burning a hole into the fish person's chest and shoulder. A burning smell of fishy flesh filled the room. There was no hesitation in this action. After killing it, the fat pirate continued to the bottom of the steps. Looking into the face of each of them, followed by looking at Hue's lifeless body. After looking them over, he grabbed a radio device from his belt and muttered something like "We have some non-fishies locked up down here". and then a scrambled response from the other side of the radio. From his reaction, the voice seemed to tell him to leave them be. But suddenly came a very loud roar from outside. This startled the Pirate and he tip-toed up the steps to see what it was. Another gush of water came in, followed by a small green snake and a chicken. Confused by this, he continued up the steps and out of sight. It seemed that a third party had joined the battle outside. The water had built up so much that everthing in the room was floating, and the spear that the Fish Person was carrying drifts perfectly in between the bars and into Gray's cell. He uses the spear to leverage the bars up and out of their hinges. He frees himself and then Ery. The next step is to get their supplies. Luckily, their bags had floated towards the edge of the cell and Ery could reach in a grab the supplies one by one. Reaching in the bags, she retrieves items one by one, including a small bag of Day Nuts and the anti-slug weapon, then the bag itself. They emerge from the building to find the aftermath of a battle. Dead Fish People and Pirates all around. The fish people put up a good fight. Off in the distance, near the giant tree, Ery noticed many more Fish People gathering together. There were dozens of them. Strangely, they could also make out the pirate that had found them in their cells, among them. In the middle of the crowd, there were two larger creatures wearing strange head gear. They were holding their palms out and it seemed to stop the Fish People in their tracks, all of them were staring at the two helmeted beings. Gray says "What in the world is happening over there? We should not get close to that." Ery agrees. The two can't go back to the portal without risking being seen. So they decide to head further into the stone buildings. Before they get far, they notice a large, shiny structure they had not noticed before sitting atop a large building. "That must be the vessel that brought them here." Gray exclaims. "Yes, but how did it get up there?" Ery questions. Ery and Gray walk into a two-storied building a short distance away from this ship. One of the tools they have is a Looking Lens (Gali-dooer/monocular). They climb to the second level of the building and peer out a circular window with the Gali. With this tool, they can see inside the ship throught the door. Bright sparks are glaring from inside, but otherwise it's dark. Looking around the area, they see no one. They decide to move in closer. Inside the Ship Approaching the vessel, they could see an opening, a door, at the bottom. They grow more curious about this vessel as they get closer. How could this thing float, if the entrance is at the bottom? also, how did it get so far inland and on top of these buildings. To enter the ship, they must climb to the roof of the building and enter the door from there. There are sparks and siren sounds coming from inside as they enter. It's dark but they can tell it's mostly made of metal and another softer material (plastic). Making their way through the corridors, they meet Mothman. He's frantically fluttering back and forth from a terminal to some exposed components on the wall nearby. He uses his wings to flutter faster. He notices Ery and Gray and is frightened at first but sees that they're harmless. "Were you the two that was locked up?". "Grab me that thing" he yells without pointing "Behind you, the tool" . Gray looks behind him and sees only one tool so he grabs it and hands it to Mothman. "You're not with the lizards?" Mothman asks. And then Gray explains the situation to Mothman: "We..we came through the portal, over there" pointing towards the exposed stone portal, now a good distance away from them, "We were captured by those fishes", who's only half listening. Ery is more interested in the technology that surrounds her. It isn't plant based, but she starts to understand it. and takes over the terminal. "You know what you're doing?" Mothman asks. She says "It seems simple enough." She puts in a command and the alarms turn off and the lights stop flashing. "Listen…" says Mothman "I know the whole just following orders thing isn't an excuse, but I really didn't want to do this. I mean, yes, I'm a steal things, but I'm a good moth! These pirates are only in it for the coin and have no remorse. These fish people were only defending themselves. And when those lizards came out of nowhere, I said 'F this, I'm out'. Mothman seemed to be the only survivor and he's preparing for the ship to take off. An excited squeal comes from mothman as he flips one last switch and the hatch doors close shut. He runs down the hall and flutters up through a hole in the cieling, bypassing the ladder. Ery and Gray follow him up the ladder to find the ship's helm. Mothman flips a few more switches on the terminal, and pushes a lever forward, The ship shakes and more lights turn on as he turns a key and starts the engines. To their surprise, the ship shoots straight forward, skips across the top of a another building and crashes into the nearby water. The ship then bobbles, the rear sinks down, making the ship flip vertically. Mothman mutters a few curse words and pushes the lever forward again. The ship flies forward again, this time vertically. A huge splash off waves is left behind as the ship shoots into the sky. Ery passes out from the movement, but at this point they are strapped to seats. Gray stares out of the windows, watching the distance horizon turn from bright blue to the dark endless void of space. Sss notice the ship taking off, but don't care much about it. They continue to use their hypno-helmets to hypnotize the Fish People and force them to start excovating the Temple from it's roots. OS-OST: "Small Change" by Tom Waits plays as Ery, Gray, and Mothman float through space in the DOGS ship. Making Coin "First thing's first, I'm going to contact the original owner of this ship and collect its ransom." Mothman, puts Gray at the helm, and moves over to the coms terminal. He rips off a plastic cap that's covering two pins that are sticking out of the case. This was a blocker that blocked all communications from the ship. Pirates install this on stolen ships to keep it from being tracked. After searching through the contacts listed on the screen, Mothman clears his throat and holds down a button "Attention, attention. Have I reached the offices of DOGS? I have an urgent message for Professor Charxley regarding his stolen ship, the T-aarble 4." A full minute of silence, followed by "Woof Ruff Worrf Rurrul!" Mothman "Yessir, I have found your ship, she's a little roughed up, but in good shape. I'm ready to talk payment and place of trade." some more silence… "rrrrRRrrr Bark". Mothman "Excellent, sir. Very glad to hear that, I'll meet you there at dawn of your planet's next day." Mothman releases the button and the conversation ends. "Man! How easy was that?! Gullable dogs…" Anxious to get back home, Ery and Gray ask exactly where they're going and what's to happen afterwards. They are still quiet and grieving over their lost brother. Mothman: "There's no telling how far away your planet is, I haven't actually heard about these Temples, Fish People, and much less, those Lizard things before this job. Your best bet, I think, would be to return to Vi Nucian 5, which I wouldn't do, and head back the way you came. Do not expect me to help you after this trade, and also, don't expect any of the payment. Ya'll are stoways and I expect we will part ways on Planet Secondry. I need to lay real low after this. I've betrayed Pirates, which is a big 'no no', pissed of some Fish, and… I'm on the run from Pirates and Slugs, I don't need the baggage. No offense." Ery: "I can respect that, your attitude tells me we are better off without you." Mothman: "I'll tell you what, because of your pickle, I'll tell those Dogs that you played a part in the ship's rescue and maybe they'll help you. They're pretty gullable anyways." "Thank you, Mothman." On Planet DOGS They approach Best Friends Estate at dawn, and the handoff goes well. Mothman uses his money to buy a small personal ship and takes off, he is on the run from Pirates AND Slugs afterall. The Dogs are people (humans?) wearing dog masks. Ery and Gray explain their situation to the DOGS, who are not too curious about any of it, especially the Temples and the Lizards. They seem to be afraid of knowing too much of the situation. Ery and Gray are there for a week. This is apparently a very bureaucratic society and it takes them this long to decide to help. Gray thinks it has something to do with the lizards. The DOGS seemed fearful after we mentioned the lizard things. DOGS give Ery and Gray a small spaceship, much like the one that Mothman has now. It's small and spherical, but with a flat bottom. They teach Ery how to operate the coms system, which she was most interested in, and they teach Gray to fly it, this takes another week to learn the basics. The DOGS are surprised at how fast they learn this new technology. There are a few problems, however. One: They had never heard of this Vi Nucian 5 planet, and the coordinates that Mothman gave them point to an empty spot in space, according to their Galaxy Map. This also applies to Purple Dirt. Gray wonders how likely it is that these DOGS just may not know everything that it's their own galaxy. But Ery is worried that they might be further away from home then they thought. BUT, they still do have the coordinates for Vi Nucian 5 so they head thay way anyways. An autopilot feature makes this trip real easy. Fancy Schmancy Dog Food So Gray and Ery are with the DOGS after fleeing V'nglui with Mothman. After Mothman takes off, they are left on their own with these Dog People. They learn the history of the DOGS, that they are humans who had to leave their home planet, Earth, because it was "all dried up", they said. Ery and Gray were treated very well. The food was not great (gourmet dog food), and they each got their own room at this very big house on the beach, owned by Professor Charxley. When asked what he professed, he said "Professor of Caninism as the Church of Best Friends." That ended that topic… Catching up on grief Ery sits down in her room and immediately breaks down and cries. She left her brother's body back on the Ocean Planet amidst chaos. She was angry at those ugly Fish People for killing Hue. He could have been saved. She should have tried harder to save him. But being stuck in that cell stopped anything. "Those Fish People seemed just as scared as us", she thought. And she wondered how Gray was taking it. She knocked on his door but there was silence. Then she could hear his voice from down the hall. In the kitchen. Gray was asking the cook questions. But the cook was too embarrassed that she didn’t' know anything. "Do you know about the lizard people?" "Have you heard of this planet?" "Do you know anything about teleportation?" "What about telepath-". Ery interrupts and tells Gray that she doesn't know that stuff. He realizes that he's been really just talking out loud and asking himself these questions. He apologizes and turns to Ery. How are you doing, Gray? asks Ery. "I'm sorry I couldn't do more, Ery" he says. They hug, it's cute. "We have to get back there. We have to go back home." They both agree. Despite not talking about it much, Ery and Gray, have already accepted that Hue is gone. But Ery suspects that Gray has larger questions on his mind. Charxley's a Good Boy Professor Charxley puts the two in touch with a business partner of his named Ois Asiel, from the extra-relations department of the Universal Travels Department. Ois was a calm fellow who wore a shiny black suit, surely a look of professionals in this culture. But around his wrist, he was a bracelet with three shapes on it. Ois is a skinny Ape. The UTD helps creatures, in distress or otherwise, to travel across the universe, while upholding the laws of all involved. Ery and Gray did well to not hold anything back when telling the story of how they got to this office, Ery did most of the talking. A long story indeed, Ois bought the two lunch in the middle of it, where he caught his partner up on everything. His partner (wife) was a school teacher. They were fascinated by them and their story, and claimed that he promised that the UTD, but most importantly, Ois, would do everything in their power to help them get back home. Ery and Gray were both very pleased with their meeting, and felt as optimistic as they could, given the circumstances. At the end of the meeting, Gray and Ois have a private talk. The Message Later that day, back at the Professor's house. Ery learns more of the way of the DOGS, while Gray is listening but not giving any input. Gray was even more quiet than usual after that private talk with Ois and his wife. Ery was not giving much interest into DOGS, which was their sort of made-up religion, focused on worshipping dogs. Apparently, they come from a place where dogs were their children, but all dogs were lost after they left their home planet. Ery was very anxious to hear back from Ois, and also worried about Gray and how quiet he was being. The next day, Ery and Gray were both awakened by an urgent message from Ois, asking to come to his office as soon as they could. Before any greetings, Ois hands them a scrolled parchment and says "read this". Ery doesn't know this writing, so Ois reads it aloud. "Is this the Lizard People you were talking about? You think?" "It's possible." she says, " But I don't know. What do you know?" The website mentioned in the message led to a suprisingly well made site that gives an overview of the Lizard People, but centered on S, which is what they call thei r organization: S are the governing organization over Lizard People. They are evolved from what Humans called Dinosaurs and have much influence on the early days of human civilazation. The old S leaders grew fed up with humans and left Earth in a deluge. Forming a new colony on the planet S, but have shielded their location from the rest of the universe. Ois "I've emailed them back with a meeting place and got this response:" "We want to hire you for communications in our effort to welcome the cosmos." "So, apparently, they want me to help people travel to their solar system, which is a sanctuary for former Earthites, and anyone else who wants a new home. They have asked me to meet them at Vi Nucian 5, to go over details." Ois pauses. "This is very big news. If these Lizard People are real, then they could be the oldest known civilization. I'm going to meet them. Will you go with me?" Ery and Gray are taken aback. There's so much all at once. To continue with their 'go with the current' adventure, they agree to go. Aging Gray notices some funny things going on with his body, and his mind. His fur is growing fast, and he spends a lot of time in thought. Many thoughts going through his mind at once, and it's starting to get cloudy. He keeps going back to the conversation he had with Ois and his wife. They could see that he might be having some troubles coping with Hue's death, and just existence in general. Ois told Gray that he practices meditations, or mind exercises, that are learned from monks. Ois comes from a family of monks that take care of an ancient temple built by their ancestors. "It's the most peaceful place there is." he says. And that they also are very welcoming to any who want to find peace, and perspective. The more Gray thought about this offer, the more intriguing it seemed. He just couldn't uncloud all of these thoughts and emotions. After explaining this to Ery, she agrees that he should go, and she'll visit him when she can. So just as Ery is leaving for her new journey, so does Gray. Towards these monks on a mountain that he knows little about. The Munks on the Mountain It takes Gray several months to travel to this place called Mt. Spectrum, where the Munks live. When he arrives, he is very welcomed. As if they knew he was coming. This place that sits high on a mountain does make Gray feel calm. They teach him about calmness and mediation. He learns to observe his thoughts and look passed them. There is very little speaking here, mainly sitting in silence, which Gray enjoys. They have a few texts that help him with things. For example, the words "Return" are found everywhere in their scrolls. It means to find your origin, to continue the circle. "But what does this mean for me?" wondered Gray. None of these munks were cloned from a plant. But they also teach that everyone has their own story. Gray lives here for years. Sleeping in large rooms, eating the minimum, and enjoying the silence. But he still feels his body changing, he's aging very fast. The bones inside him feel rusted. The munks around him notice his pain and say that maybe his time to 'return' is now. For them, 'return' means to die. But for Gray, his origin can be found in a dark room on some other planet. Though this time, Ery has visited once. When she did, she seemed stressed, and said that she questions her new role. She says that Purple Dirt has changed, and the Botanmud has moved on. Ois sees that grey is having a difficult time dealing with reality, he tells him about a place he goes to often called the HOLYHILL. Ous gives Grey an address of someone in a village outside of Specturmel, this person will assist in his journey to the HILL. This person takes Grey on a small horse cart down a long road that eventually leads to the HILL. Then they will meet woth the leader, the leader will decide if grey gets to stay. The leader says Grey is out of sync with the world, not in harmony with its rhythms. The Leader says it will be difficult, but Grey will he accepted there. Grey learns meditation and mindfulness there, he comes to better terms with his existence. During his training, Grey finds that the goal of this life is to return to the source. Despite having learned these traditions and made good friends here, Grey still feels as if things apply differently to him. Only Hue, Ery and himself knew of his anomalous entry into this world. Do these traditions apply to him at all? If all exists in layers, what layer does he belong? Where is his source? He finally expresses these feelings and his true story to the MASTER. The master assures Grey that he belongs to this world whether he feels like it or not. But also, not everything can be known, in fact, some things cannot be known. Acceptance of this is a good step towards finding peace. Ery dies of old age. Gray asks his Munk friends to bury him on Purple Dirt when he dies, which he knows will be soon. He also asks them to bury the Plant along with him. When Gray dies, the Munks take him to Purple Dirt and bury him in the local dirt, along with the Plant. Gray had an idea, but didn't know for sure what would happen. But the Plant does absorb Gray's body and produces a new Rodat clone. "Gray, go back to your origin. Return." "All signs are pointing to the mother plant." Back to Vi Nucian 5 After a few weeks of travel they come into the atmosphere of the ocean planet with one island. There are no Lizards. The Fish People building something. sSs Gives a Presentation The Everything that the "observable" universe is made of stuff that we can see, sniff, lick, and hear. This is all the same stuff and it's everywhere. The star clusters that are scattered throughout the universe are connected by the Cosmic Web, made of electromagnetic tullaments, at certain points these tullaments make contact with a body, or planet created a direct connection to that spot. Our ancestors harnessed this knowledge, along with superior architects, built these structures: The Plumports as gateways to the rest of the universe, using the tullaments as the guiding pathways. S give a presentation S lizards explain the Cosmic web (Tullament) to the city of Specturmel. Tullament, Ned, Plumports They give a quick presentation on how the universe works. it's confusing the way they say it. Should be a funny moment, but also makes people in the meeting feel really small (as they should). Bokanmud leaves Bokanmud the atmosphere is contaminated with portal exhaust. purpul durt turns cold. • PD-OST: ○ ○ • According to "First Ambush on Vi Nucian", there are still some slugs on this island when the 3 come through. But it is 6 years later… • several rodats die from the Slug attack. Others are left behind to survive in the changed environment (rainbow clouds/new creatures/trees are dying), some are controlled by Slugs and brought back through the Portal onto Vi Nucian where Brind plans to pick them up. But Ikanua interfere and imprison them all. Ikanua remove the slugs from rodat brains, but get controlled themselves. A controlled Ikanua throws a spear through Hue's leg when they first arrive. • How long does it take Mothman, Ery, and Gray to reach Planet DOGS? ○ maybe the ship they're on has hyperdrive • Needs to be changed: ○ Slugs didn't hire mothman, they hired the pirates, Mothman doesn't know about the slugs ○ Lizards aren't excavating the temple anymore, they're just there to study it and eventually put the learning center there called "Ambush Station" § Well, they're there to re-establish the Cosmic WEB network • • Gifts from the DOGS: Ball ship called - the fetch v.4 A holo-map of the known galaxy ○ The band of pirates are already on Vinucian 5. When the slugs takes the lizard's body, he escapes on the ship but stays on the planet. On this V5, there's a giant machine there that purifies the salt water and sends it in pods back to Secondry. Pirates have built a sort of waterworld shanty town around this machinery and now guard it from the Fish People. An agreement has been made with people on Secondry to continue sending the water after the pirates took over. Anyway, after S gets attacked by slugs, the lone sluggified lizard escapes on a ship and finds the pirates. ○ Is mothman there too? ○ Is bad business bunny there too? ○ "Hey Mothman! What's the name of the fella who works on the docks?" yells the creature still concentrated on his card game. "You want me to name everyone on the dock or what?" Mothman asks, also distracted by a personal task. "That guy from the other day…" "What did you just play?" Ousthope is now talking to the other player. Mothman: "Was I there for this? Was I involved? What guy?". Ousthope: "He said he's seen the floor. The bottom". Other card player: "Are you saying he sunk to the bottom? Or did he have a vessel?". Mothman: "I didn't catch his name, but he said he knows someone who's seen the bottom.". Moulton(otherguy): "Did he sink or use a thing?". Mothman: "No one has seen the bottom. it's miles and miles. Is he conversing with the fish?" Ousthope: "Don't talk about fish to me. I'm sick of the damned fishy people and their stink. You know they've been leaving bottles behind of poison? They're filling Whiskey bottles with poison and floating them off the dock for some poor drunkard to think he's struck drunkard gold." Moulton: "How do you know that?" Ousthope: "Oh..Mothman! ○ The biggest gap is from where the rodats leave purpul durt and what happens to purpul durt afterwards. Life on Purpul durt must not pack up and leave so quickly, it's a major location in the story so let's pack more stuff there that happens after 'on the other side'. We know that Bokanmud Village is wrecked after 'Night of the slugs'. A rebuilding must be done, but something is not right. The plants are not growing like they used to. the nourishment is lacking from the crops. At this point there are both humans and squamaloid making their way onto purpul durt to check it out.

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[Image of crosscut of room] onto's origin changes as well: gray is buried on purpul durt with the intention that his pineal gland will expand into an egg. But this takes 100's of years. The egg is found by gronja is brought to Arnaut and Qua, where onto is raised among the volunteers on purpul durt. Onto can see the Portal Exhaust in the atmosphere. He's the only one who can. Deep underground is a dark and damp room with walls are made of black stone. The only source of light comes from a moon scarab nested in the ceiling corner, flickering its bio-luminescence. A mound of dirt lay on the opposite side of the room in which the roots of what resembles a plant-fungus hybrid have taken hold. Affixed at the top of this mysterious plant is the apical bud, the main stem, which has grown up to the black stone ceiling, and a large pod hangs back down to the floor. Something has been growing inside. The pod is dried, signifying it's ready to release whatever's inside. As a tense anticipation filled the room. Time seemed to stretch, each moment tinged with fleeting sparks of both fear and wonder. And then, as if responding to the collective heartbeat of the room, the pod begins to crack. The pod splits down the middle, releasing a cloud of fine dust from within that fills the room, mingles with the air, and dances in the moon scarab's ethereal glow. A figure emerges from the cloud of dust and falls forward to the ground. The pod shells fall and disintegrate as all goes quiet again. Moonmoon, the moon scarab cautiously scoots toward the body. This new creature has an ape-like body, but the features of a rodent: large round ears, beady eyes, widened nostrils sitting at the bottom of a large flat square nose, and a small mouth with an overbite. The creature lacks pigment, giving its fur a pale, pasty color. Moonmoon senses life in the creature and flies back to her nest. He finds himself aware of his surroundings. The creature has no memory, no language to call his own. He can only interpret, with high capacity, his surroundings and make logical guesses of how things work. Still face down on the ground, the creature discovers vision, darting his translucent eyes made of pink and green across the room. A glowing turquoise takes shape in the far corner of the room. His first color. Gaining more energy and motor functions, he lifts himself up into a sitting position. Dragging himself towards the turquoise, he bumps against a leather bag against the wall. Reaching his hands towards the leather, he discovers touch. It was soft suede leather. Picking the bag up with both hands he finds that there is something inside. He brings the bag into his lap and looks inside. A hard object, smooth on the sides with engravings and a rounded top. Cloth, much softer than the leather, but warm. The creature then drapes the cloth around his back to feel the warmth. More cloth is found to be an awkward shape, he sits this to the side. Looking further in the bag, he finds an even smaller bag made of more coarse, darker leather. A string ties the top. Fiddling with his shaking fingers, he manages to open it. Upon peaking inside he discovers smell, and pulls out several small round objects. The smell is so inviting, and he feels the urge to bite. His small mouth opens and bites down with flat teeth. The objects breaks and the taste is something wonderful. He eats a couple more. While chewing, his vision adjusts to the room, and he sees it clearly now. So does his nose. Which brings his attention behind him. A pile of plant, dirt, and something else. The odd smell was repellant at first. He got the sense that not all of it was natural matter. He runs his fingers through the dirt and lets it fall through. The feel of dirt particles falling through his fingers is wonderful so he plays with the dirt for a while. There's a flicker of light from the other side of the room in his peripheral, and he's reminded of the turquoise light. His first color. The first sign of another lifeform. It's a bug that's nested in the corner of the room. It's hind end illuminates the color. The scarab sits still on the wall, seeming to watch him, but then flies to the opposite wall, and crawls down it to where the bag is. The creature follows it with his eyes and then crawls over. The bug is friendly, and curious. Time passes by and the creature gains energy. After examining the cloth found in the bag further, he discovers it was a perfect fit for his arms and legs. He's now fully clothed and warmer, but the cold is getting worse. He looks over at the scarab, it jumps up, pounces across the room, and into a small crack. The glowing turquoise light disappears and the creature suddenly feels alone. He stands up and rushes toward where he last saw the light. He notices that the wall feels different than the rest of the room. The creature's ears perk up as the sound of rhythmic bass enters them. The turquoise shines again through the slit underneath the door. Determined now, the creature forces his body against the door and it opens, revealing dark stone hallways. One way leads to darkness and sounds of dripping, the other towards the drumming sound, now much louder. To his relief, he sees the scarab at the top of these steps, waiting for him to follow. The creature grabs the bag and slings it across his shoulder, then ascends the steps, leaving behind the dark room. He walks up several sets of steps to find an open room. It's overgrown with vines and other plants growing through the black stone floor and walls. He admires the green plants, running his fingers across the leaves. There are red and yellow lights flashing and electronic music being played, it fills the giant room. Walking further into the room, he sees a large reptile hitting metal strings with sticks held by his strange claws, and bobbing his head to the beat. The color of the reptile was confusing, there are blues, greens, pink, purple, and orange scales in patterns across the reptile's body and head. Above him, sitting atop a slab of stone, is a cylindrical device made of brass, with red lights flashing from it. [Soundtrack: Gronja's music: "18 Years Old Cat On Acid" - Rene Reiter] One of the reptile's eyes moves independently of the other and sees the pale-white creature staring at him. The music stops and echoes into silence, but the light turns yellow and stays on. The reptile's skin changes color, blending in with the stone surfaces behind him as he slowly crawls over his instrument to the other side. One eye remains locked onto the stranger, and the other darts around nervously. After staring at each other in silence for what seemed like a whole two minutes, the chameleon reluctantly tried to communicate: [Soundtrack: Gronja and Onto speak: "moonmoons" by Anna Meredith] G: Hey… The rodat hears this and feels the need to respond. His throat vibrates, and repeats the sounds. O: Hhh…ay G: Wh..who are you? O: Hoo-oooh… G: …what?... G: Um…Hey I'm Gronja. O: Gon-ja… G: Grrrrrronja. (R's vibrate) G: Can I just make an observation and say that you don't know where your are - or maybe, who, you are? O: Hoo-yar… G: Yeah, "you" (points at rodat). I see that you are a rodat. You should not be here, it is not safe for y'all here. Is that a moon scarab on your shoulder? The rodat feels that this color-changing creature is trying to help, and therefore can be trusted. After an exhausting back-and-forth conversation, Gronja decides the rodat is harmless. Gronja: "Okay new rodat friend, the only logical next step is to introduce you to Arnaut Caltis. He's a scientist who's studying the place. Him and his Volunteers are just on the other side of the village. I've got a vehicle. They can most likely get more out of you than I can." Gronja packs up his instrument and beckons the rodat to follow. They walk down a short entry way to a double door entrance. The doors open to darkness outside. A chilling cold rushes in and the rodat shudders. "Don't worry, it's warm in the van" Gronja says. As Gronja loads his things, the rodat looks back at the structure they just exited. A tall, stone tower, with dark and light patterned stones, overgrown with plants. Gronja starts the engine, startling the rodat. On the drive through the adjacent village, the rodat ponders out of a viewing window. Gronja drives slowly because it's not actually a road, but small paths in between the dwellings. It was dark but the rodat could make out reddish orange houses, all empty. No sign of others. "Rodats?", he turned to Gronja. "No rodats live here anymore, friend. It's too cold and dead for their gardens. Now you'll find them in Specturmel and scattered around elsewhere. It wasn't always like this. A very sad story. Bokanmud, they called it - their way of life. It's where your bag of daynuts came from. They were exceptional gardeners and very smart. I can see it in you, friend. Very smart." Intently listening, and mostly understanding Gronja, the rodat looks again out of the window of the van. "Light!", he exclaims, pointing to a yellow light moving through one of the rodat dwellings. Gronja brings the van to a stop and sees that the light is coming towards them. "Oh hey that's R-b0t!" The two of them exit the van and see a robot on wheels roll toward them, its lights dim. [Soundtrack: Playing in Gronja's van: "Understanding Fruit" by The Octopus Project] "Greetings young reptile, son of Garrobo! Who do we have here?", the robot points its arm at the rodat. "Hey Dr. Caltis, I found this rodat hanging around in the tower. I think he's been there for a while. He hasn't said much, I thought y'all might want to take a look at him.", said Gronja, while patting the rodat on the shoulder. "Oh very interesting.", says R-b0t, his camera eyes fixated on the rodat. "Hello there, my friend. Do you see that building over there with the light on top?" The rodat looks over and sees a tall structure in the distance, on the other side of the village, with a domed top. There was white light and small shadows, silhouettes of people, waving. "That's us!", said the robot, "We are controlling this robot from our station. Come, let's get you back so we can take a look at you." They follow the robot in the van and pull up to a tall rounded structure, grey in color, with multiple colored lights shining through the plastic windows. Arnaut Caltis Explains Everything After being examined by Qua, Arnaut looks at the rodat differently. What Qua has found, and based on her book of Rodat Physiology, the rodat is not entirely what he seems to be. Arnaut, the rodat, Gronja, and Qua sit in a comfortable room on section couches. They turn on the heater system and give Gronja and the rodat hot teas. [Soundtrack: Arnaut explains everything: "Dream of the Octopus" by Tierra Negra] A: I'm going to call you Onto. It's a word meaning 'being of existence', which is all we known of you so far. Besides your pale fur and striking eye colors, you appear to be a rodat. But as my partner, Qua, has found, your inner-physiology does not match what we know of the rodats'. Bluntly put, we don't know what you are. Slight pause as Onto seems to stare passed Arnaut. Do you understand what I'm saying? Onto nods his head and says "Yes, see and understand. Hear and learn. Onto, being of existence." A: That's amazing! You are very interesting, Onto. It wasn't but yesterday that Gronja says you could barely walk, now you're walking and talking and everything! So let me try to explain a few things for you, Onto. But remember that things (as in all aspects of everything, real or virtual or not) are always way more complex and nuanced that what our language can handle. So take in my words as simple explanations to infinitely complex matters, okay? Qua: You're going to infinitely confused the poor creature, Arnaut. Take it slower. Gronja shifts to a more attentive position in his seat. He's ready to have 'everything' explained to him as well. Arnaut continues: Okay so let's start with location. Onto, we are on Purple Dirt, it's a planet. And this surrounding us and giving us shelter is my research center. It is here that myself and Qua, along with our crew, The Volunteers, are studying the planet's decaying atmosphere. We are part of a species, or creatures, called denisovans. And Gronja here is a chameleon. Any questions? O: What happened here? Purpul Durt. A: Well, it's a long story, but don't worry, you'll get to hear all of it. Maybe not all tonight. The short story is that there is an object, deep underground. Beneath us right now. It's a portal, or doorway, to another world. If that's confusing that's okay, it's new to us, too. A wonderful group of folks used to live here, in the Bokanmud Village, the rodats. Magnificent gardeners and builders. Gronja chimes in: and cooks! A: Yes, haha, amazing culinary arts their culture has produced. Anyway, some 'not so nice' creatures came through the Plumport and laid wreckage to the Bokanmud way of life. But Brind is not to blame for Purpul Durt's atmospheric decay. It's something that 'leaks' out of the Plumport when it's used. Whatever the substance is, it's undetectable by all our instruments except for one, eyeballs. We can see it, when the light hits it just right. A polychromatic shimmer in the sky. It's eating through the stratosphere, and I'm worried it'll continue until it escapes into space. Arnaut looks up, and trails off a bit. It's evident that he's worried. Gronja: I never knew that, Mr. Caltis. Are you saying that the shimmering in the sky is killing Purpul Durt? A: I'm afraid so, my friend. This is just observation of course, since it's something we've never seen before. But I think we'll need to evacuate Purpul Durt in the near future. I am sorry, my dear Onto. To throw all this woefulness at you so early, but I'm afraid that's all that's been on my mind. Arnaut looks around the room and discovers everyone agrees that his story was too morose. "What do you say we all take a field trip in the morning to help Onto discover what he is. I think we should check in with our guardian-lizards as well, let them know we have a visitor. Great learning, fun experience! Subh raatri (goodnight)!" With that, the group retires to their quarters. Onto follows their behavior and closes his eyes. He sees darkness, and then a faint purple circle emerges, it gets brighter and brighter… A Buried Rodat Arnaut awakens everyone by walking through the corridors in his hypo-allergenic-oxygen helmet and suit. The helmet is a fully transparent globe, surrounding his head. The suit is yellow, with bits and bobs, tubes and valves. A machine that creates the oxygen he breathes placed on the back. It is loud and hissy. Each breath could be heard throughout the dwelling. Arnaut, Gronja, and Onto travel to the tower and they find the room in which Onto was from. "Using these instruments of seismic-sonic radar, we've scanned this area here." Arnaut points to the mound of dirt. The plant has now deteriorated into dust. This saddens Onto. "You say you came out of this plant, Onto?" asks Gronja, concerned for his new friend. "Have you heard of this, Mr. Caltis? Rodats are oviparous aren't they? Their babies are hatched from eggs." Arnaut watches the screen of his device, waiting for the results of the radar render, "That's right, Gronja. That's exclusively how rodats have reproduced as of today… Very strange indeed. Not much of the plant left. Here's the image produced by the radar, Onto, take a look." The three of them gather around the screen. The image shows a 3D model of the scene: the room, the mound of dirt, even themselves. But it goes further than that: they can also make out the room and hallways outside of the room, and it shows what's beneath them. There, not far from the surface of dirt, lay a figure. "That looks to be about the same size and shape of a rodat ,wouldn't you say?" said Arnaut. "It's not like we are is it? Alive?" Onto asks out loud, staring at the screen. "Most likely not, friend. This looks like a burial. The question is: who is it, and why here?" The trio ponders at the screen in silence. All three see the misshapen head of the corpse below them, but don't mention it. "What do you say, Onto? Shall we dig him up and take a look?" "Yes." quickly said Onto, "For science." Arnaut smiled, and called a few of his Volunteers to excavate the body. Digging up the rodat body was a gruesome sight. It's head was split in two, and a severed plant stem growing directly from its brain. "Same plant?" asks Gronja. "It appears so." answered Arnaut and then turned to Onto: "Onto, you see what he's wearing? That's the same kasaya that you're wearing. You say you found that bag in this room?" Onto nods. "What else was in the bag? It very likely could have belonged to this gentlerat." O: Yes, I found the bag there. (pointing to the spot). This is where I met Moonmoon. (Onto was referring to the moon scarab that has not left his side since they first left the room.) The bag is under the bunk, where I saw the circles and colors. Gronja: Colors and circles? You mean you were dreaming? I'm always falling out of trees in my dreams. O: "oh…dreams…" Upon arriving back at the research station, Onto shows them the strange flat object that was in the bag. "That is a wolodooer!" exclaimed Gronja, examining the device. "It's a type of journal that rodats used to record their memories onto. Anyone here know Bokanmud tongue, Mr. Caltis?" "I do not, sadly." said Arnaut, "but Qua might know a few words. Go and ask her to join us, Gronja?". While Gronja was away, Arnaut explained to Onto about writing words, how denisovans wrote with ink, letters and numbers, and digital bits. Chameleons has no culturally significant written language. And the rodats of Bokanmud had wolodooers: all of their words were symbols, and these symbols were put onto three spinning circles, which could spin and match up the symbols to create stories. The amazing thing that the wolodooers did was save those stories in a plant based digitized memory. "Truly amazing thinkers these rodats were!" exclaimed Arnaut. Gronja came back with no good news. "Qua said Anzick could maybe help." "Ah yes, Anzick" Arnaut said, looking at Onto to explain, "Anzick is a Bokanmud historian, a rodat. In fact, he's the great-grandson of Lady Lazel, the last surviving rodat of Bokanmud Village, she actually used to live here." Onto's interest is peaked at this moment. Arnaut: "I'll send word to our guardian-lizard and hopefully get you two acquainted. Unfortunately, Onto, I will not be able to join you. I cannot leave my research at this time. Gronja, my friend, would you like the honor of accompanying our new friend, Onto, and make sure he stays safe on his journey to the other side? Official Volunteer business, of course." Gronja smiled. Onto Visits the Ambush The next morning, Onto and Gronja travel back through the village and into the stone temple. Descending down the dark steps and hallways this time was different for Onto. Although he is still unclear of its history, he knows more than he did in the room, and that comforts him. A large figure emerges from a dark hallway holding a blue light on a stick. The light reflects off the dark green scales of a round bellied squamaloid; its yellow eyes staring blankly. "It's dark, obviously, take this." the squamaloid grumbles, handing the cold lantern to Onto and turns back to the hallway. "Steps are steep, step slowly, don't slip." They descend ever further down the steps, only seeing directly ahead. Onto feels the stone ceiling open up, the echoes take longer to bounce back. The floor is now flat, ahead they see another blue light through a rounded opening. "Gronja senses Onto looking around trying to see what's around them. "You're in a large open room, Onto. We're about to walk through an opening to the Plumport. Inside there's a platform where we'll stand for a bit before being transported to the other side. You'll feel your hairs sticking up, I think. It doesn't hurt. Just a weird feelin'" The squamaloid activates a machine in the middle of the portal and walks back outside. The machine revs up with blue and yellow lights, spins and vibrates until… ZAP! At first they don't realize that they've moved. The portal platform is exactly the same. They look towards the portal entrance and see the silhouette of a figure motioning for them to come forward. As they move close, they see heavy rain and that the figure is squamaloid. "We'll make introductions when inside" he says, as he hurries them across a metal bridge with no handrails or cover. Onto cannot see what's below but feels that they are high up. He looks back to see Gronja moving quick and awkwardly. The bridge leads across to a large metal door. Lightning strikes and Onto can see the structure they're about to enter. Thick sheets of metal held together with bolts and a once-gooey-now-hardened adhesive, forming a hastily built crude boxy building. The door creaks and slides open as they get closer. Inside, they shake off the thick rain; it falls into grates beneath them. "This is Ambush Station. I am Criton, Techno-lizard. What are you called, young rodat?" Criton asked, giving a sideways and curious glance to the pale rodat with pink and green eyeballs. "Onto, anomalous entity." Onto stoically responds. "Indeed." replies Criton, still fixated on the rodat. "And Gronja, son of Garrobo Namaqua, welcome back. I've gathered from Mr. Caltis that you have biz with Anzick. He has full knowledge of your arrival and has prepared lodging for you both. Follow me." The three of them walk through a poorly lit hallway. The walls are rusted and mildewed from leaks. Green and white lights flicker above them from exposed bulbs. "I smell fishes." Gronja says sniffing the musty air. Onto turns to Gronja: You've been here before, Gronja? G: Yeah, my dad helped squamaloids out when they first arrived, um, on Purpul Durt. He knew the forest inside and out and was a guide and they taught him to drive, then he taught me. He'd made good lizard friends and would visit Ambush often. He brought me over a few times, but I was… the storm scared me as a kid. O: The storm. It's always like this? The weather? G: It wasn't always. Used to be clear skies, but for the past …how many years, Criton? C: 12,413 day/night cycles since we've seen this system's sun from the island, Gronja. O: Island? C: Ambush Station sits on Ambush Island. 18 square miles of land, the rest of the planet is deep angry ocean. [Soundtrack: What squamaloids listen to: "Lust for Scale" by Author & Punisher] A commotion is heard up ahead. The breathy growls of squamaloid and the smell of what Gronja called 'fishes'. "Fishes!" Onto heard from the clutter of other grunts. "Ah, our fish-hunters must have caught a large haul. Best we avoid the feeding hall for now, hungry lizards are a dangerous thing for non-lizard folk." said Criton, cutting right into the next hallway. Before they turned, Onto caught a glimpse of squamaloids gathering around in a large room ahead. "I don't care if it's poisoned, I'll croak as a full-bellied lizard!" Ignoring the sound of feeding reptiles, Criton starts talking: "Retaining constant power to the station has proven extremely difficult. The engineer-lizards have managed to erect a rod to capture lightning strikes from the storm, and that's stored into power banks. But the charge doesn’t last long. That's why the we have gotten used to this inconsistent lighting." As Criton reaches the research wing, he sees the electronic door has no charge. "It must have been days since Anzick has left his quarters", Criton thinks to himself. After banging on the door with no answer, Criton lifts a small hatch under the door's power panel. He pulls out a silver-blue cable and looks around the hall for something to plug in to. He notices some similar cables hanging from the opposite wall, unplugs one and plugs in the door's cable, leaving it dangling above the floor. Lights flash and buzz on the panel and the door opens. The research wing has two floors, on the first are the cabins in a wide hallway. At the end of this hallway, it opens downwards into the main large room. A ladder and a lift elevator are the only way down. Criton sees Anzick down below and hears loud music playing - why his knocks were unanswered. Squamaloids have their own form of music, industrial metallic sounds, often scraping noises, rarely rhythmic or melodic. But Criton is starting to appreciate the music of rodats: drum chants with country singing. Criton: "You were locked in here, Anzick, did you notice?" "Howdy, Criton! No I guess I haven't left the lab in a few days (laughing to himself). Keepin' my kelp in this cold box here. It's the only foodstuffs keeping my insides happy these days." Anzick replies as he turns down the music coming from speakers on his desk. C: "That is unfortunate. The local fish are being fed poison by the Ikanua, the future of our nourishments is uncertain." A: "That ain't good, Criton, can I do anything?" "It will be handled. I've brought visitors. This is Onto, self-proclaimed 'anomalous entity" Criton says, while pulling back his lips to reveal what could be considered a toothy smirk. "And you know Gronja. I trust you've prepared these bunks for temporary residence?" Gronja interrupts "Hey Anzick! I'm officially a volunteer!" proudly displaying a silver and gold 'V' patch on his poncho, which Qua attached the day before. Anzick's curiosity is very high at this point. He catches himself staring at the oddly colored new rodat. As far as anyone knew, all rodats were evacuated from Purpul Durt, including his own great grand-mother, Lazel. In fact, he decided to leave some things behind in the room: some artifacts left behind by the Bokanmud village. "I wonder who he is…"

All Aboard the Cereal Bus

The Cereal Bus Onto and R-B0T walk into an internet café built into a former metro-train. It's a crowded place with blue tinted florescent lights. There are video screens throughout the place embedded into the walls. A few monitors make up single desks. Abstract shapes and colors are displayed on the screens until a patron decides to use it, waving or touching the screen. As they walk in, Onto takes a look around and takes it all in. Although he doesn't understand what the people are doing here, he gets a positive vibe from everyone. All are welcome here. There are a group of kids huddled around a center table in the middle of the main room. Drinking milkshakes, being silly, with silly hats on, mainly girls. They immediately notice R-B0T, who's being controlled by Arnaut Caltis. The girls flock around him and start taking pictures. He speaks HINDI to them and they do not understand. I guess they haven't seen robots. Onto is amused by this. But he remembers why they're there. He notices a sort of booth when someone sitting behind it. like a help desk. There's an older lady sitting behind it reading a magazine. "I don't help with passwords" she says, not looking up from her book. Paste says: "ummm..Hello, a friend of mine has a message, and umm we were told to receive it at this place..what is this place?" "The Cereal Bus" she says, stating the name of the café. "Do you have the locker number? I have the key if you do. Strange fella dropped it off weeks ago."Paste brings his bag around front and goes through it, picking out the opened letter. Upon reading it again, he makes sense of the numbers at the bottom now. "R-76" "That'll be the one" she said, putting the magazine upside down on the counter and stepping out of sight to a storeroom behind her. by this time, RBT has got away from his fanclub and rolled over. "They have not seen robot before" ARNAUT says over the speaker. "What did I miss?". The old lady comes around the corner and beckens them both to follow, jingling the keys in her fingers. She walks them past two more rooms identical to the first one, then they hang a right through a door that's propped open. It's a locker room, full of small to medium sized lockers. More like a locker warhouse. There are several rows of lockers. A few people can be seen throughout the big room. A man is sweeping down towards the end. They get to row R and take a left. The lady hangs the keys on RBTs robot finger and walks back to her post. The two of them have no idea what's inside. They don't know who put it there, or who sent the letter. ArNAUT received the letter while on Purple Dirt and sent RBT to investigate. ARNAUT controls RBT remotely from his steralized ship on Purple Dirt. He can see with a 360 degree camera, hear with a microphone, and speak through the speakers, although it is delayed. RBT does have some autopilot functionality because of the delay. "Now, we don't know what lies within this container. Although I have no cause to think it's harmful, I still think you should stand back." says Arnaut after a brief pause in front of the lockers. Paste agrees and steps around a corner, but peeks around. RB0T insterts the key with some difficulty, but it goes in, and he twists it and opens up the locker. RB0T reaches its hand inside and pulls out a small USB stick and a jar of worms, then looks over to Paste (Onto). Paste(Onto) walks over and tip toes to look into the locker. He pulls out a worm. Arnaut says "curious…" The two of them ask for, and then obtain, a private room with a single computer that can read the USB. RB0T asks Paste to unplug the network cable from the back of the computer. RBT insterts the USB stick. a string of code runs across the screen and auRB0T watches it. After a while of watching the gibberish run down the screen, RBt turns to Paste and says "I have no idea what this is" • I wanted RB0T to link into the network at this place, which would start to broadcast his video over Secondry's network. enabling anyone to watch and see what he sees. • The worm has something to do with whoever dropped off the USB stick. • RGS is the one who delivered the USB, why does he have worms? RGS is a denisovan from the lizard planet, he's one who intercepts data from S like a spy. The information that's on the USB is something he found that could be of importance to Aurnot and paste. • Stilb is awakened from sleep by the sound of gushing water down a pipe. Followed by footsteps from the floor above from what sounds like a creature triple his size. The communicator fastened next to the exit buzzes loudly and flashes red twice. • Paste and company start investigating ery's death by allergies. They find the lizard that worked with her when it happened. This lizard was a technology officer (a small neglected department in the S ship.) Who worked in the dark caverness hallways where the computer network system was hosted(right next to the kitchen). A single machine that housed an ai that ery helped escape..... • Thr lizard is older now. Kind of an old hippy. Paste and company find him and contact him. He agrees to meet of they come to him. He lives in a dark part of the ship, tthough it is highly populated. He's awkward. They walk into his home and he casually asks them if they want some of this meallllll. He explains that it was an invention from a wizard a long time ago. This meal was originally made to serve a high king of the time. ○ Ery does die from an allergy attack. there's no conspiracy, pure coincidence

Early Planet Stuff

Dust and gas in the void form a planet around two stars bound in each other's orbit. Moons and moonmoons follow. Rock and water and gas. Abyssal Lifeforms | Ancient Fungus | Dinosaurs

Characters

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• Arnaut Caltis & R-b0t
• Anzick
• Bherunaz
• Blegk Hypto
• Brable Traal
• Brind the Slugs
• Civil Sheppard
• Criton
• Dewdney Rialgar
• Eryeudh
• Furnilla
• Gibbous Sygwane
• GLE-C, Government Law Economic Calculator
• Gray
• Gronja
• Huekhwitaz
• Jane and Bill
• Kweyuk Hypto
• Old Lady Lazel
• Llama Rialgar
• Moonmoonz
• Monoct
• Mothman
• Mud the Wanderer
• Ois Aciel
• Onto
• Planck Moss
• Professor Charxley
• Pru
• Reeg, Lizard of Battles
• Sallie Whipple-Flips
• Qua Caltis
• Wizard Cook
• Yromi, Brass Cylinder
• Marm King Zaris
• Jimmy Lemon
• Mneziack
• Rainy Guildsnout
• Hau
• SkeiKnot BurlGall
• Crater

Category 3 - Topic 2

Details about Topic 2 in Category 3 go here.

Arnaut Caltis & R-b0t

Arnaut Caltis Head of the Volunteers, Arnaut Caltis has made a name for himself in the society of Specturmel. Deemed as a Self-made scientist, he has provided technological and engineering solutions to all parts of the community. Improving upon his father's gravity engine designs, he made them more accessible to the public. R-b0t Arnaut tends to work in places that is threatening to his sensitive denisovan body. So he built R-b0t to be his eyes and ears (and every other sense there is, including digital) for the dangerous places he can't go. ○ Arnaut is reading a book about atmospheric conditions. He thought he had a good grasp on this topic but the latest news has gotten him to question even the most basic knowledge. The news came from a recently absorbed inhabitants of the outer lands. Aliens. These new comers were reptilian in nature, highly evolved in technology. Their social demeanor though seems lacking; as far as what's now normal behavior on Specturmel. They arrived months ago now and have already established a seat on the city council and purchased land just outside of the wall. Land that was deemed "unlivable" by certain standards: ○ Extreme heat and dust storms. Dangerous animals and outsiders. ○ The lizards chuckled (if that's what you want to call it) at the notion that this place was unlivable. Specturmel could theoretically expand into this land if necessary. The city itself has been conditioned to a way of comfortable living. Specturmel could technically do the same there. So far the lizards have parked (or crashed, depending on who's story you believe*) next to the Heat Mountain range. ○ *S had already decided when and where they were going to park their craft. A sudden coup attempt from a group within the ship caused a panic and caused the crash landing. Damage to the ship was 20% including structural and biological. ○ Now they've revealed their plans with Secondry's moon, Vinucian5. Which houses a portal to the rodat's home planet of Purple Dirt. Arnaut has been commissioned with studying the planet itself but mostly the phenomenal substance that's been spilling into Purple Dirt's atmosphere from the portal. So that's what Arnaut is dealing with: Lizards, rodats, Portals to other galaxies, substances leaking out of said portals. He leaves tomorrow. ○ Arnaut's partner, Qua, reads through the report given to them by S. This report is what S inquisitors have gathered from the time they've spend on Purple Dirt. Translated into LANGUAGE (secondry's common tongue), it reads: ○ The rock in which rodats dwell no longer is called Purpuldurt in their own tongue. Knowledgeable geology of Purple Dirt is limited to S-INQUISITORS exploration in the village and barely beyond its borders, roughly 5 miles into the adjacent forest. I, Planck, have gathered the data and funneled it to this. Purple Dirt was given its name due to the slightly purple shine its soil permeates while the rock's moon displays its full self, every 6 cycles. ○ The atmosphere contains: § 78% Nitrogen - "Rgn" § 21% Oxygen - "Brethkins" § .9% Argon - "apyov" § But there's another presence of something our instruments had difficulty reading. Each time a reading was recorded, the amount seemed to grow. ○ The portal leads into an underground temple which the rodats have used for food storage, now mostly depleted. The temple is dark and damp, with a musky old vegetable smell to it. Just outside of the portal, steps lead down into the main room, 100 ft tall and wide not including the space occupied by portal. At the opposite side of the main room, another set of steps lead up. Moving up the stairs, we find no signs of life. (remaining rodats are hiding somewhere).

Anzick

Anzick is a great-grandson of Old Lady Lazel. Anzick acts as 3rd Inquisitor with the sSs as well as The Volunteers. He is currently stationed at Ambush Station researching The Lone Gigsab that has mysteriously transpermed through the Plumport. Highly educated in the history of both Purpul Durt and Specturmel, his personal project has been to digitize all Bokanmud writings and personal history of the rodats. This comes in handy when he meets Onto, who's seeking answers about his origin. Anzick is a bit of a recluse among the Ambush crew, rarely leaving his quarters or putting down his books. Anzick is a bit of a recluse among the Ambush Crew, rarely leaving his quarters or putting down his books.

Bherunaz

First Born Son of Bokanmud The first child born into the new Bokanmud society, Bherunaz showed high intelligence and curiosity from the beginning. Although Bher did learn his share of botany and gardening, he took up a few new interests as well. At a young age, and along with his father, Mud, Bher developed the first written language of Bokanmud. The ink was gathered from the squids in the river. Just give them a squeeze, and out comes enough for a full bottle. The ink did have a dark purple color to it. And the paper was formed from the Tater Hide that formed their clothing. It was made thin, dried out, and made flimsy. It already had a light tan color to it, so the purple ink showed up nicely. The written language that Bher came up with was called Wolo. He used it to document and study the Bokanmud culture that he was born into. More Curiouser After some time, and much writing, he felt that he had written everything there was to know about Bokanmud. He was only in the second generation after all. So Bherunaz decided to venture out into the Purpul Durt Forest in search of other stories. Because rodats hadn't done much traveling, they never considered riding a Snooted Piggy prior to this time. Bher had a unique relationship with his Snooted Piggy, which he called Taco. They formed a sort of bond after Bher found the sickly Taco in a bush in the forest. Bher brought Taco back to the village and back to good health. After that, Taco never left his side. So it was natural for Bher to bring Taco along with him. Bher created a riding saddle for the Snooted Piggy, who was strong enough to hold his weight. Bher gathered some supplies: an empty Wolobook, a potted Day Nut, and a stick (his only self defense) and set off into the forest. Before he left, he assured his neighbors that he'd be back for Holifest. Paranoid Lizards in the Forest A full month of traveling through the dark Purpul Durt Forest had passed. Bher was writing in his wolobook about his findings. So far, nothing but a curious assortment of bugs and plants. It would be another two months before he needs to return to the village. Bher happened to look up in between thoughts and that's when he saw movement. It was hard to say, but the bark of the tree seemed to move, and after staring at the spot, he saw it again! Then his vision adjusted to a shape clinging to the side of the tree. He saw an eye looking at him. Bher stood up to get a better look. "Hello?" he said, not sure if he was actually talking to anything. Bher was astonished when the creature came into view, but didn't move at all. The skin of this thing just changed color! He thought to himself. "Oh my! that's amazing!" Bher cried out, as he stepped closer to the tree. The creature then took a step back, up the tree it was clinging to. "I am no threat to you." Bher consulted, and putting his paws up to show that he meant no harm. A low grumbling noise came from the lizard. Their words for "who are you and what do you want". "My name is Bherunaz, I live in Bokanmud Village in that direction" pointing in the direction. The chameleon then calmly walked down the tree and onto the ground just in front of Bher. It gave another low grumble. Bher then tried to repeat it back: "Ururrurrur…" Thinking that was it's name. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Ururrur, are you alone?". Ururrur then repeated in her slow low voice, "alone?" Bher then pointed to the chameleon, "just you?" and then made a motion pointing to other spots in the trees. Ururrur understood and said "alone". Bherunaz tried to get anything he could out of this chameleon, and in the process, told her about himself and Bokanmud. He learned that there are other chameleons, but they all keep to themselves in the forest, which they called Gigsab. But not to say that there aren't 'reasonable' chameleons out there, like Ururrur. She invited a couple others to join their conversations. The group of them stayed at that same camp for the remainder of Bher's visit. Bher even made a small shelter from twigs and leaves during his stay. They learned a lot from each other during this time. When it was time for Bher's journey back for Holifest, he invited the chameleons and they actually wanted to come! So a group of them traveled together, the first time any chameleon had 'traveled' before with a destination in mind. Bokanmud Holifest Every year, rodats would gather and party. There were lights and food

Blegk Hypto

Likes to hynotize folks.

Brable Traal

Mutineer located on Ambush Station on V'nglui. Wants to eat all the Ikanua.

Brind the Slugs

Brind the Slugs Brind is a group of hive-mind slugs, who share a single consciousness. They all communicate with each other and share a memory through telepathy. Brind is intelligent and learns about the outside world through 'listening' to those it controls. Brain Slug Parts Brain Slugs have two sets of tentacles, the upper are their eyes and nose, the lower are for taste and touch. A mouth beneath the head has teeth. Just behind the head are two large glands that emit the green brain-mesh. Their behind is the foot used to move about. Foul Brain-Mesh Cloud At first, the material emitted from the glands appears to be gaseous. Upon further examination, it is actually an expansion of the slugs' brain. It is something like a prolapsed nervous system. When expelled, the smelly brain-mesh-cloud is light and floats through the air. Any victim who breathes in this awful odor has already started the process of brain slug control. The cloud goes straight for the vicitms brain and puts them into a deep sleep. Brind uses this attack to 'catch' its victims and attach itself to the victim's head, or wherever the brain may be. Once a Slug attaches itself to the head, it can then take pysical control of the body. The brain-mesh soaks into the victim's sub-concious, leaving only Brind's desires. Removing the slug from the head has mixed results depending on the amount of time inflicted, and the constitution of the victim. Confusion, mental and emotion instability, complete memory loss, lifeless sleep; regardless, the victim will never be the same. Defense against Brind Slugs are vulnerable to attack and easily squished, Slugs can swim, but not in salty water. Also, salt. Slugs vs. Fish People Brind inhabits the island, V'nglui. It is secluded on an island where the ancient Temples were built long ago. The island is surrounded by a giant salty ocean, therefore, Brind is stuck on the island, and longs for an escape. Other inhabitants of this planet include the amphibious fish people known as the Ikanua, along with many marine animals. The Ikanua have long battled Brind on this island. Occasionally, an Ikanua will come ashore, only to be ambushed by Slugs, who take over their bodies. This is usually followed by a rescue mission. The Ikanua wear tightly fitted metal helmets when coming ashore. They haven't found a guard against Brind's Sleep Gas. Despite these events, there are usually a few Ikanua on the island that have Slugs on their heads. Brind uses the infected for defense. A Bigger World, So Much to Learn After a time of super fast space travel, Brind's ship enters the orbit of Secondry. Unfortunately, the Lizard knows nothing of this planet, only its location. So Brind decides to land at a random location and figure it out from there. They end up landing, very roughly, almost detroying the ship and themselves, at the edge of a city. To avoid attention, the group quickly abandons the ship and heads deeper into the busy city. Brind finds themselves in an abandoned building. Brind sends out a couple of scouts into the surrounding city. They are in a downtown area of a busy city. There are pedestrians and vehicles driving by. Brind sees a Bunny in a business suit and a suitcase (Bad Business Bunny). Bunny is walking along with everyone but suddenly ducks into an alley next to the abandoned building. The Bunny starts looking through his suitcase when the slug gasses him and takes over his brain. Brind learns that the Bunny is a swindler and has many criminal acquaintances, including a band of pirates that will do anything for Coin. Brind also learns the importance of Coin and the power it has over this planet's inhabitants. With a limited amount of slugs, Brind decides to buy his way to power in this world. Bad Business Bunny walks into a bank, opens his suitcase to show a teller, gas shoots out, and a slug attaches itself to the teller. The bank teller fills the suitcase with Coin and BBB leaves the bank, unnoticed. Brind now has enough to hire the pirates. BBB contacts the pirates and makes the deal. The deal is to confiscate the S ship and no questions asked. Meanwhile, sSs has cleaned up the mess on the Slug planet, excavated the Portal Platform and made their way their next stop, on Vi Nucian 5. They have no idea of the Slugs that occupy the outside of the ship and bring them along to the Ocean Planet. Once the portal is activated, the Slugs put all of the Lizards to sleep, take control of two Lizards with lazer weapons and leave them behind while the rest of the Slugs enter the portal, which leads to Purple Dirt. The Slugs enter into the Portal on Purple Dirt, which is underground. They navigate through the hallways of the Temple and make their way up through the ground. They find themselves directly beneath the Rodat Village and take it over. The Rodats fight back but not many Slugs are killed. The Controlled Rodats make their way through the forests searching for more powerful creatures.

Civil Sheppard

Civil Sheppard a small robot like thing with a lightbulb shaped head, inside is stars and lights, it's concentrated conciousness that can expand. Within this sphere of conciousness, civil can materialize any object, but these cannot be touched by anyone else other than those individuals that live inside of civil, the civilians are the personality, civil enjoys it when they can occupy a bare building, because its' filled with their own stuff. protected by a big hairy thing with big arms, and communicates with a different civilian every time.

Criton

Tech-Lizard Criton is head of technology aboard the Ambush Station. Squamaloid

Dewdney Rialgar

Llama's sister Armorer Kidnapped by sSs, held in captivity

Eryeudh

Ery agrees to join S and help them with their efforts. They are interested in the technology that she's made so far and offers her a job in the R & D department. Here, she helps them create a ways for communication, and improves upon some of their already existing technology. S has a giant space station they called MOLA, where most of their research is done. It's also a livable environment, so Ery and Ois are invited to live there, and they provide travel to anywhere in the universe. There is a confidentiality to it, however. They must not speak about S until the proper announcements have been made. Ery and Ois comply with this. Ery wants to visit Purple Dirt before anything else, so S provides a transport there. When she arrives, things seem very different. The weather has gone very cold, and there are dark clouds covering the entire area, with a weird colorful shine to them, like oil. Most of the plants have died and the homes seemed empty. This saddened Ery very much. Her transport waited while she examined the abandoned village. She peeked in houses and noticed that some Rodats had packed up and left, while others seemed to have left in a hurry, even some struggles. After realizing this, she asked for an escort in case anything was dangerous here. Her mind immediately went to the Slugs that the Lizards had mentioned. What if they got through the portal and into Purple Dirt? Her escort was also the driver of the small ship that got them here. He was obviously trained, but still nervous, as he should be. They find Lazel there tending to her half dead plants. Lazel was half Ery's age but they were still very close. Lazel learned most of what she knows from Ery and very much looked up to her. Lazel filled them in on what happened after they went throught the Portal: • Slugs came through the portal and terrorized the village. Some villagers were taken away by the slugs and some managed to fight back, killing a few slugs in the process. • There was something else that came throught the Portal, and continues to: a slightly rainbow colored gas that goes up into the sky and sits there. There's been so much of it, that it's blocking out the sun. That's why it's so cold, and that's why the plants have wasted away. Some villagers followed the Slug infested Rodats into the woods, but never came back. Others stayed behind and tried to survive, but the new weather prevented that. But, Lazel manages to study a dead Slug and finds a temporary fix for their Sleep Gas Spray. Lazel is an expert on bugs and also writes stories about bugs. Ery introduces Lazel to her escort, but he's very serious. Lazel agrees to travel back with them and help in anyway that she can. They both feel sad about the state of Purple Dirt, but can't see any immedate way of making life work here. Ery's journal: --no date Hello Purple Dirt. These are the words that are being typed by my paws right now. I have successfully built my wolodooer (language input machine) with such success that I can read it back to myself. I must show this to Papa Bher! --Wednesday Onee1 Papa loves you, wolodooer! I've already started making one for him. He did suggest that I mark the date for every entry, so I could make sense of things later. So we are in the Wednesday years, and it's the 1nst day of Onee. My brother, Hue, doesn't seem too interested in having his own wolodooer, but I know he sees the importance of recording our words. I want to start by listing my projects: 1. wolodooer - Done! :} 2. Brass Yromi a. Giving life to plant's data b. Housing Unit made of Brass 3. Something else when I think of it. --Wednesday Onee2 My friend, Lazel, helped me by digging up some materials today for Yromi's housing. She is also very interested in my wolodooer. I will build one for her once Papa Bher's is done. Yromi's shape should be cylindrical I think. And there's a nice shade of red glowing mushrooms that will work well for her (yes, her) indicator lights. --Wednesday Onee3 Finished Papa Bher's wolodooer. Today he told everyone that he's planning an expedition beyond our forests. It is scary to think about, but I understand his longing to know what's out there. I think he's soaked up all information there is to know about us Rodats. He does seem interested in what me and Hue are doing, but his calling is much stronger, and I can respect that. I will miss him, but we can take care of ourselves. Plus me and Hue are very busy in our own projects. "We waved farewell to 'Papa Bher ' this morning. As sad as it was to see him go, I understand what he's looking for. I also wish to see the world one day. He left on his buddy Snooted Piggy, along with some supplies and the wolodooer made for him. Mother and Hue seem to have a bitter sweet feeling about his leaving. There is a strange feeling that he won't be returning. At least we still have each other." --Wednesday Onee5 Yromi is now running inside the brass cylinder. I've installed some vocal sound emitters on the bottom half. There are beeps and boops coming from her right now. Not sure if that's communication or what. It's very rhymic. Next step is connecting radio sensors and the arms. The floating engine is working okay, but I'm worried that using her arms will offset the balance. the cylinder is very lightweight. Hue is working on something very strange. He's been studying his own cells and says he's found the 'blueprint' for himself. He even says that he can make a clone of himself, like we do with the plants. He's asked me to help him build a machine that can do this. Here are a few questions I had for him:  Will this be a complete copy of yourself? ○ Yes, my genes will be processed through the machine and used to form a complete physcial copy of myself.  What about your personality? Will that transfer too? ○ My genes determine the way my brain works, so yes, I think he will think like me, but my memories, for example, will not transfer over.  So you'll need to teach him everything? That seems like a big responsibility. ○ It will be quite a task, yeah. Rodats are very intuitive creatures, so I think he will adjust well.  What if he doesn't? What if he rejects you for doing this? ○ I guess that will be his decision to make. I'm hoping he will share our scientific curiosity, it runs in our family. I hope that he accepts this life that I've given to him and joins us in these ventures. I have given this much thought, Ery, for a long time. I asked myself these questions as well. I can kind of put myself in his place, and I would accept an artificial life, or any life, for that matter. But, if not…if for some reason he rejects it all, it's his choice, he'll be born a free Rodat.  Copy of a Rodat…. ○ A copy of myself.  You've got an ego on you, Hue. But I know you're not competitive, which means, theoretically, that he wouldn't be either. So I'll help you, Hue. you have my support. ○ Thank you, sister, this will be great! A new brother! I think of it as a way more complicated version of my wolodooer. He's got a blank slate, that he will teach everything he knows. Like a living journal. I just hope they get along. • Ery is assigned to repair the Lizards' comm system on MOLA, it was implemented by someone years ago to take care of itself and was never updated or anything since then. There's a screen that comes up that no one knows what it means. Ery finds the bit of code that's doing it and isolates it. It's a sentient virus, or something. Sprite. • Ery does die from an allergy attack. there's no conspiracy, pure coincidence • Ery meets a rodat named Stanly, a curly furred new resident of Specturmel, who's acclimated well. Dark brown, short beard, wide bodied.

Furnilla

IT Hippy Lizard Onto and Gronja start investigating Ery's death by allergies. They find the lizard that worked with her when it happened. This lizard was a technology officer (a small neglected department in the sSs ship.) Who worked in the dark cavernous hallways where the computer network system was hosted. A single machine that housed an ai that Ery helped escape… The lizard is older now. Kind of an old hippy. Paste and company find him and contact him. He agrees to meet of they come to him. He lives in a dark part of the ship, though it is highly populated. He's awkward. They walk into his home and he casually asks them if they want some of this meal. He explains that it was an invention from a wizard a long time ago. This meal was originally made to serve a high king of the time. (wizard chef)

Gibbous Sygwane

The Complete History of V'nglui: Ph'chv Excerpt from "A Complete History of V'nglui" by Gibbous Sygwane "Blegk Hypto: The Bastard's Bastard: It was Blegk Hypto that kidnapped the Ikanthua people. My ancestors, generations removed of numbers few can fathom. But it wasn't until the squamaloid immigration (some may call it an invasion.) that we discovered this tale of horrific tragedy. And put them to work on the planet of Secondry. Deep in the archives of lizard history. The discovery brought a new awakening. A new view to the history of my fellow fish people And with that, an answer to our deepest questions, the cause to our effect, the head to our tail. The old folk of Specturmel relied heavily on their moon. It was a signal of life. And it was even said in old folklore that the Emerald Moon held the key to our past. When technology grew rapidly, and leaving the planet was now within our grasp, the obvious first step was our moon. Drones sent into the moon's atmosphere showed the entire planet as an ocean, with the exception, of course, of the lone island, Ph'chv (pronounced F-eye-V). Our first visit was a shock to our very being. Of course we 'assumed' there would be life, as water = life. We had no idea we would be finding family. Albeit, a cruel, animalistic, and defensive family member they turned out to be. The Ikanua are an aquatic creature with mid-level intelligence. Their dwellings are kept at the bottom of the slimy sea. Crude caves and crevices. Hunters and scavengers, they wear the hid of mollusks and seagrass and seaweed. The Ikanua fought us off every chance they got. First visitors to the island were met with their swift deaths. Two attempts to set foot on the rocky beaches were made, none survived. Regulations were put in place for our safety and the preservation of the moon's inhabitants. The island itself held the constructs of ancient stone buildings, carved from a single stone mountain top, which was the tallest land formation on the planet. A mining station was put in place, polar opposite of the island. Though the Ikanua eventually found this and has caused trouble for the water miners ever since. A private company of DOGS placed a water mining station here with good defensives against Ikanua attacks.

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Gray

The Story of Gray Gray was hatched in a peculiar way, only known by him and his friends, Hue and Ery. Superficially, he's a rodat, his insides are a different story. Gray is covered in multiple shades of grey fur and has grey eyes as well. He's quiet and is often found staring off into space. No clue as to what's going on in there. Origin Gray's origin is tied to that of the Jacimus, a Bokanmud folklore about a parallel realm in which it sends entities to this world in order to live among them. Gray would have the same family issues of someone's who's adopted. He does develop an identity with his fellow rodats and they are family. However, because of the mysterious way he came into being, there's still unanswered questions and a feeling of outsider-ness.

Gronja

Gorrabo Namaqua Gronja's dad is a driver for the volunteers. Hes there while his dad works, he plays music with brassbot Gronja i troduces paste to volunterrs. They invite him into the portal to vi kucian. On vi kucian, theyve set up a research center built on stilts above the temple/village. On board, paste meets the head of inqiuory for the place. And also a rodat whos there to study the plantlife. He's lazels son, among many. They ask paste to database the rodat books Everntua Gronja learns about the Bokanmud village from his parents, who live in a crashed S ship. His dad would visit the village occasionally for one of their celebrations. His dad still has a drum that was a gift from the rodats. Gronja enjoys playing it but one day it breaks. After the weather turns dark, he decides to go check on the village,also to repair his drum , on the way he finds the shack that Bher made. He finds the village abandoned and cold. and he takes shelter in the Labs where he finds the Brassbot and plays music with it. § Raised in isolation, a group of chameleons were subjects of a Mind development project put in place by SCIENTISTs. This lasted for several generations of chameleons and they began to grow larger and more intelligent. Eventually realizing that they are being held in isolation, the chameleons convince the SCIENTISTs to release them all as free citizens of the universe. The chameleons learn language and building skills with the People but eventually want to create a life for themselves. While a few stay behind, the population is freed to live their lives. They start a community on the planet, SECONDRY. § Several generations pass before Gronja is born. § Gronja is invited to live on the S spacestation called MOLA. § Gronja meets Lazel, who introduces him to Purple Dirt. § Gronja comes back to Purple Dirt on his own and decides to stay for a few days. § This is when he meets Paste. § Crashed S ship on Purple Dir § § t

Huekhwitaz

Huekhwitaz Hue, and his sister Ery, are the third generation of the Bokanmud family line, Mud the Wanderer being their grandfather. His father, Bherunaz, was the Rodat who joined the Bokanoi and Chameleons together as lifetime amalgamation. Sad because dad left to go explore

Jane and Bill

• Two Squamaloids prepare dinner: ○ Jane: "What did you bring back for dinner?" ○ Bill opened the ice box, shifted the bottle of milk from last week to see to the back. "How does steak sound? ○ Jane: "How green is it?" ○ Bill: "Mostly jade, not quite forest yet." ○ Jane: "I'll eat it." ○ Bill: "I also sent some foot of bird. Had to fight a another lizard for it. After that, the courier lizard wanted it, I told him I'm either going to eat him or the foot. Looks like he chose the latter." ○ Jane: "No, the jade steak. We will eat steak. With mashed crickets." ○ Jane excitedly pulls a nasty bucket from underneath the kitchen counter, it's full to the brim with crickets, mostly live ones. After removing the paper lid, several escape and begin bouncing around the room. Jane scoops some crickets into a cup while Bill watches complacently at a cricket repeatedly hurling itself into the same wall, over and over. ○ Snapping out of it, Bill flicks the cricket into his mouth and starts chewing. Bill then lights a fire in the counter's stone fire pit and throws the rotting meat onto the rack just above the flames. ○ Jane dumps the cup of crickets into a stone mortar and grinds them with a pestle, then adds some tick, yellowish liquid with small blue flakes floating in it. ○ The two of them sit at a small table and scarf down the meal within seconds. ○ Bill falls asleep immediately, snoring with his snout on the table. Jane gets up and starts painting in bright red on the wall in the other room.

Kweyuk Hypto

Family Hypto The Hypto family were the founders of the hypno-helmets? Kweyuk Hpyto Kweyuk was hatched into one of the highest ranking elite families of the time. His mother was of Squamaloid decent while his father Cr. His brother, Blegk took after their mother while Kweyuk had the appearance of the feathered serpents just like his father. The brothers were always in competition but kept it mostly civil due to their parents' place in the society. The Secret Assignments Kweyuk and his brother were assigned secret missions by the Cr elite. A way to prove themselves worthy to their family and society. They were to travel to distant galaxies, ones that were pre-selected to likely be habitable, and start colonies so that future generations of Cr might live there. Given the terraforming and gene sequencing tools, they were to go on their own. The secret part about it was the Plumport technology, still being kept hidden from the larger population. The brothers were to take local inhabitants, bring them to levels of intelligence and mobility that could build their own cities and most importantly, build the plumports to connect their world to the Cr's planet of Irt. Purpul Durt Kweyuk's assigned planet was Purpul Durt, Blegh's was Specturmel. Kweyuk Hypto Hypto-twin 1 is sent to Purple Dirt where he establishes the planet's powerful ecosystem, builds an underground temple carved from lava stone, and lives peacefully among the inhabitants. Does it all himself Blegk Hypto Twin 2 is sent to Secondry, where he begins genetic experimentation on a species of amphibious creatures from the nearby moon (V5). He creates the new race and puts them to work building a city for him. This twin is cruel, and wears a hypno-helmet that hypnotizes the victims to erase their memory and do his bidding. Kweyuk learns of his brother's misdeeds and decides to direct his PLUMPORT to V5 instead of Irt to confront Blegk. the new S management wants to do away with hypnotizing and destroys the helmets. This causes a rift between the twins and S, so they could possibly be an informant that helps the Dark Scales • Hypto arrives on purpul durt to start terraforming. He raises chameleons and opens up the volcano. finds the stewards of the forest, rodats.

Old Lady Lazel

Lazel Lazel is half the age of Ery and Hue. She enjoys playing with the bugs that live in the Purpul Durt, and learning about them as well. She makes up stories about them and gives them names. Lazel looks up to Eryeudh and tends to follow her around. Ery enjoys Lazel's company and thinks she is a very intelligent young Rodat. Ery makes a wolodooer just for Lazel to write her stories down. Bugs, Bugs, Bugs, I like Bugs Slug Defenses Lazel was instrumental in forming ways to defend against Brind the Slugs. She discovered the use of their mind-smoke and produced antidotes to help cure its inflictions. Slugs come through the Portal, along with the Rainbow Clouds, and wreaks havoc on the Bokanmud Village. Lazel survives and makes some protection from the Slug's Sleep Gas. Lazel is worried, but wishes Hue, Ery, and Gray good luck on their journey through the Plumport. Lazel is the only rodat that Ery and Hue trust to tell the true origin of Gray. Ery comes back and invites Lazel on her new adventure on Specturmel.

Llama Rialgar

Background: Llama is a disovan who lives on the northern outskirts of the abandoned city of Rhymes with Defiance, in a small wooded marsh, called Rialgar Marsh. Llama was raised by the Rialgar Family, whom rejected modern society before it was popular, and built their compound home in the marsh. After the climate shift, and most of the city relocating to Specturmel City, the Rialgars remained and defended their marsh. The family kept a modest farm with a few livestock. When Llama was 18, her remaining guardians (uncle and grandma) were lost while scavenging in Rhymes with Defiance, leaving Llama all alone. Llama's sister, Dewdney Rialgar, ran away from the family and joined the Great Relocation, where she works on the city's communication system. She also builds armor for a hobby. Personality and Traits: Llama is tall, has wide shoulders, light reddish-coffee skin, grungy red-orange dreadlocked hair that goes past her long neck and wide shoulders. She's crafty in a fight, favors her axe. Squamaloid in the Rialgar Marsh Llama is taking a day nap in a canoe in a tree. A group of three [[squamaloid]] come squelching through the mud, directly towards her hut. Llama hears them from a distance, she peaks over the side of the canoe and sees the lizards trying to be sneaky. She waits 'til they get further away, drops to the ground and follows. She follows until they come to the front door, kick it in with ease, and walk inside. "Are they looking for me?" She sneaks up to her hut for a closer look, around the side where there's a window. While peaking inside, a snake slithers under her feet and emits a loud siren from a device attached to its head. Llama tries to stomp it, but it's too late. The alarm calls the attention of the lizards. A lizard arm crashes through the window, grabs her neck and drags her into the house by her head and slams her to the ground. But Llama is quick, she gains her footing again and shoves the lizard out the same window with much force. The other two lizards are just outside the room now, Llama slams the wooden door closed, but it then explodes into splinters, throwing her backwards. Llama's speed is apparent again as she crawls toward the lizard entering the new doorway. The grabs a crooked dagger from its belt and at the same time kicks the lizard into the opposite wall. Then she throws the dagger into the shoulder of the third lizard. This startles him and he blasts the ceiling into splinters. The second lizard shoots bola cords at Llama's feat, entangling her legs and bringing her to the floor. The stabbed lizard pulls out the dagger and kicks Llama in the head, knocking her out. They drag her back through the marsh, through the mud. When they reach the land vehicle, she's put into a holding cage on the back. Llama cannot escape this cage. The lizards leave her there and return back into the foggy marsh. They are there scouting out an area that possibly holds a Plumport.

Moonmoon

Present story is told through the thoughts of Moonmoon the Moon Scarab. Narrator.

Monoct

Monoct is the Gekomagus leader of the Shadow Scales. No one knows what he looks like.

Mothman

Mothman is a moth, man. He lives on planet Specturmel where he's a driver for DOGS. DOGS spend much Coin on vehicles but don't fly themselves. That's an easy paycheck for Mothman, who's an excellent pilot. DOGS are also very gullible, meaning they don't pay much attention to things, so Mothman does some hustling on the side, mainly tipping off thieves on the location of high quality items. “I’m a real tough guy, you know? Like, you don’t wanna rub up against me the wrong way. Cuz, you know, you’ll get rubbed raw. Like a carpet burn. Cuz, you know, I’m real rough. Like sandpaper.” “I’ll break yar skin.” Making Contacts Mothman likes to drink at a particular bar What's the name of the bar?on the outskirts of town where the thieves usually hang out. This is where he's made most of his contacts. A pirate named Captain FatBelly that's infamous for taking more dangerous jobs brings his Cousins into the bar one day. Mothman could hear them talking about how they've just sold their ship to someone they just met outside the bar. Crazy Cousins… FatBelly makes his way over to Mothman asks him to join their new job. He agrees and helps them steal a DOGS ship. On the Ocean Planet Mothman steers the ship towards the planet, Vi Nucian 5 (never heard of it, must be nothing here). He's right. It's just an Ocean planet. But the closer they get, I small island appears with what looks like an ancient ruin and some buildings. Small Blue creatures could be seen scurrying. "They don't look like much," He thought. Mothman's plan is to land on top of a large building, but just as the landing gear touches, a giant boulder hits the side of the ship. The ship falls directly down ontop of the building damaging the bottom, where the door is. But it was almost landed so the damage isn't too bad. Mothman takes a look out the window of the cockpit, he can see the entire battle from here. Those Fish People are putting up a good fight, he thought. But he was rooting for the pirates. They were using bombs and everything, the Cousins really do go all out when it comes to a skirmish. What was making the waves? There are large waves going way passed the coast and into the buildings. He could see FatBelly now, following a fleeing Fish Person down into one of the buildings. "Ruthless" he admired. Then he saw it. A large creature coming from the water, it was huge. It was frightening. The closest thing to a dragon he could think of. It was long like a snake, but with feathers near its gnarly head. It gave a throaty roar. Mothman couldn't believe what he was seeing. Behind the Feathered Serpent followed an egg shaped ship coming up from the beneath the waves and landed on the beach. Doors open, and what seemed like an entire zoo was released from the hatch. Lizard creatures, with lazer guns, small snakes were pouring out as well. And chickens? What the Hell? Panicked, he makes his way down to the hatch to assess the damage. His only concern right now is not dying and getting as far away as possible. The hatch was damaged for sure, he couldn't take off with it open like that. also, there was a panel blown out by the terminal, an easy fix. The ship detected the damage so some alarms and lights were sounding as well. A couple of Rodats surprised him from behind…

Mud the Wanderer

Bokanmud, Mud for short. There's a small number of rodats that live in a fungi forest. They gather nuts and berries for food and sleep under the large leaves at the base of the trees. They use sharp stones to burrow further into the roots of the trees for more room. These creatures have a very long lifespan, almost 200 years. They live a peaceful life in the forest because there are no predators there. The other animals that live in the forest are glow-flies, beet-beetles, and Snooted Piggies, a wooly pig that has a very long snout that it uses to eat the berries from bushes. These creatures only use grunts and gestures to speak to each other. Occasionally, a wise old man will cross paths with these creatures. Although he is one of them, he acts differently. This has always drawn the attention of the others but no interactions have taken place. He wears thick leaves around his waist that stop before his knees, to protect his mids. The creatures know what leaves are used for this, but they never had a use for them. They could understand immediately the usefulness of this garment, so they make some themselves. A bag made of the same material hangs on his back from a string wrapped around his neck and shoulders. His beard and head hair is long and straggled. There's a Snooted Piggy that follows him around, under no orders. Across the Snooted Piggy's back is more bags with more unknown contents. But what they could see is a plant growing out of one of the bags carried by the animal. There's a mid-day rain storm one day. The creatures are huddled in their cubby hole at the base of the tree, slightly covered by leaves. They sit in silence, eating what nuts they picked so far that day. They see the old one walking casually through the rain. He wears on his head a leaf hat, which directs the rain drops away from his face. They see him bend down and observe a pile of Snooted Piggy poo that's been there for a few days. He gives it a sniff, and then collects some into a pouch. That's when he sees them. He walks curiously over to them and notices their new leather leaf skirts. He nods to them proudly, but then sees the hole they've dug in the tree. His face scowls as he gets up close and presses his hand against the damage, then drags one of their hands onto the same spot. "Hurt. Pain." he says, and they know what he means. The World of Bokanmud Astonished that they can understand, he decides to rest there and see what else they know. He also teaches what he can that day, mainly acting out actions with his hands. A language starts to form that they can all recognize. He teaches them that Snooted Piggy Poop mixes with the dirt and water makes the plants grow much faster and yield more more fruit. For example, the pouch on his Snooted Piggy is holding a potted Day Nut, which normally grows one nut a day but will eventully stop fruiting, which is already known to the creatures. But, because it's in this special mix of soil, it has an almost infinite amound of nutrients and can grow nuts much faster, and yield much more fruit. The Leather Hides that are used for the kilts are found around a root plant, called Tato. Tato Hide Kilts can be torn apart into strings to make the pouches much tougher. The Fertelizer helps the Tato grow faster and produces stronger hide. And also makes the Tato tastier. All of the creatures are excited to learn more, and the old one is happy to teach them. He enjoys the new company, after thinking he was the only one capable of these things. These things were given the name, Botanmud, which is also given to the old man. The land that live on is called Purple Dirt, because of the light purplish color that can sometimes be seen reflecting off of the topsoil. Mud the Builder The next morning they followed Mud to a large bald spot in the trees. The area was egg shaped, the end of the area was cut through by a river. and on the other side of the river was a sandy desert as far as they could see. The cleared area itself was a mix of dirt, sand, and small shrubs. At the edge of the area where they entered, there stood the small shelter that Mud lived in. It stood not much taller than himself and he could lay down straight in both directions. He already had a few plants growing around outside the dwelling, a bed made of shrubs. He then walked them over to the river to show them how this was made. Mud pounded on the ground to show them it was hard as a rock. Here, sand, shrubs, and dirt were mixed together with the river water, then dried to form a very hard structure. His new friends beg him to teach this adobecraft so that they can have shelter. Mud agrees and so begins the village of Botanmud. This is a group of 5 plus Mud. It only takes them a few months to build an additional 5 huts. Meanwhile, the community grows closer to each other and begins to feed off of each others creativity. They further develop the techniques first introduced by Mud. Eventually more come from the forests seeking this new community. 100 new citizens join over time, most willing to adhere to the ways of the first five. A few bad seeds do make their way into town. For example, a small group of outsiders would sneak in at night and steal fruits and nuts for personal gardens. Botanmud are willing to share, but this is too much, and without consent. The community came together and built a large shelter for those unacustomed to this new tradition. The thieves were surprised by such hospitality and soon merged with the civilzation. Among the original 5, a special one arose from the group by the name of Pru. Pru surpassed the skills of Mud in Botany. She developed a liquid version of the Fertilizer that was more powerful than the original. Pru and Mud have a son, Bherunaz, who is one of the first children born into this new Bokanmud society.

Ois Aciel

Potential New Clients One of the points of the message was not to bring anyone 'unnecessary', so they arrived with the minimal. Ois and his wife, Ery & Gray, and a few guards paid for by UTD. There were no Fish People or Pirates in sight, which was a relief. But it was still a desolate and uninviting scene. An empty group of buildings surrounding the Temple, on a lifeless island, in the middle of an ocean with no end but the island itself. Only a few minutes after touching down on the island in their UTD provided ship, another ship was seen in the distance in the water. First it was a wave of water, then it showed itself as an egg shaped vessel that landed directly on the beach. Soldiers holding Noise Guns exited the ship and stood in formation at the base of the Temple. Lighting strikes the inside of the Temple and a few Lizards appear. LIZARDMAN welcomes them and gives his speech. Ois was chosen because of his position as Extra-relations officer, which fit in perfectly with what they needed. They want anyone who wants to, to travel to their newly open solar system. S will offer: an unfinished but currently livable space-station that orbits the World of Worlds, which is scattered with their Temples, and ready for colonization. These Temples are doorways to almost every habitable planet in known and unknown solar systems. Apparently, they don't know exactly where each Temples leads to. They are putting together a team of surveyers to scout each Temple and verify its safety for all potential travellers. This was obviously a lot to take in for Ois, but they assured that it will be a gradual process, and he will be playing a unprecidented role in the history of the cosmos. "Who are your partners?" asked the important Lizard. \ \ You Are Invited! Hello (Ois Asiel) You have been selected among few. We are S Lizard People are here and welcome all to learn But the Learning may start somewhere And it's your heart Travelers from across the cosmos those seeking shelter from the doomed An open door a web of roads Find out more and contact us at lizardsopendoors.org Ois "I have only met them recently, but their story seems to intertwine with yours, sir. Which is why I brought them today. They have actually travelled through this very Temple here, but their story turns negative from there. A member of their party was killed almost immediatelely upon arrival by Fish People, then they were imprisoned. another party shows up, Pirates come to battle the Fish People, when apparently your party intervened. They managed to escape, to leave the carnage behind, but could only wonder the reason behind the violence that took place here. What do you have to say?" A silent murmer took place between the important Lizards, which displayed confusion. One of the bulkier Lizards awkwardly walked over to the group and started whispering. All suddenly started to affirmingly nod and once again began to speak: "What took place here was an operation meant to only secure the Temple area. These Pirates, that you've mentioned, are notoriously known as agents of an villanous Slug, known as Brind. A threat to our Temples, Brind has managed to take advantage of the Temples and travel through them, currently, at an unknown location. Part of our efforts, among those to hire yourself, have been to capture this creature, and others like it. Brind the Slug will be one of the first to question the stability of our efforts, but rest assured, our law will be just in those that oppose the free will and free travel of those welcome in our New World. "Did he say 'slug'?"

Onto

Onto's story is Gray's story, which is the story of Purpul Durt. Grown in the pod of an unknown plant/fungi COLORCLOUDSrianbow realm this realm exists among a parallel plane of existence but in the same spacetime as the world of Purple Dirt. The INTITIES are completely aware of the other side and are ocassionally being merged into it. When this happens, they provide a great deal of attributes to the atoms of the object they merge in to while changing its atomic structure at the same time. The results vary greatly Onto is hatched as a worgat (jacimus grows from gray's head), then raised by Arnaut and qua with gronja as a friend. doesn't learn about gray until grown. onto discovers the room later on and find's gray's journal that directly talks about onto.

Planck Moss

Planck Moss wears full respiration suit on V'nglui. Planck works among the S as an Inquirer

Professor Charxley

• Professor Charxley ○ A "dog" Best Friends Estate is whwere he lives

Pru

Pru

Reeg, Lizard of Battles

• This lizard is assigned to manage the Aggressive (or military) of S. • He is stern looking, very dark green color, with two horns at the back of his head that point straight back. His eyes are a gross yellow, and always have a skeptical look in them. • He's a big enthusiast of Smoke, says it gives him a clear-headed-calm-edge. He wears an incence smoker around a chain on his neck that is always lit. So there's always a cloud of smoke around him, which he says adds to his intimidation factor. • His office and his vehicles are always hot-boxed with smoke, making it difficult to see. • Reeg was assigned by the council of S to clear out any hostels on Vi Nucian 5, the first of the Portals to gain any attention. The mission was also accompanied by an Inquirer, named Arnaut Caltis and his denisovian partner, Planck. • Prior to this, the Ancient S had built the temple here. And it was thought that it held information about the Temple itself as well as the others. • But Reeg and his Aggressives were ambushed by Slugs. The Slugs took control of almost all of the Aggressive Soldiers and turn them against each other. • Reeg seeks revenge on the Slugs.

Sallie Whipple-Flips

Mysterious Architect that built the building in Mt. Spectrum. Lived in Partsunk. Lifeform unknown.

Qua Caltis

Wife and partner of Arnaut Caltis Plays guitar

Wizard Cook

I need a MagicMan character, that just fuels chaos. That's his thing. But by no fault of his. Maybe an algorythm gone wild. An ancient aboriginal. that one character that 'calls' down asteroids.

Yromi, Brass Cylinder

Left over sSs technology found in the temple Ery extends its life by installing her own botany tech. Brass Cylinder is the AI that Ery builds out of plants with a metal(brass) housing. It also has a built in light and speaker. The sounds that come out are only beeps and boops. Brassbot also cannot be moved because it would destroy the AI inside. So it's stuck on Purple Dirt. Gronja feels bad and comes to visit it occasionally, and they make music together. Yromi Brass Yromi • What's the purpose of the Brass Cylinders? ○ To help Ery ○ There's only one, but it's attached to her network. ○ update 1.23.2020: The Brass Cylinder is a piece of technology left behind from the ancient architects who built the temple. It's still unknown exactly what its exact use was. Ery takes the machine apart and sees the mechanics inside. She recreates the parts and replaces them with similar botany tech. The result brings life back to the Brass Cylinder, which still has its original brass shell.

Marm King Zaris

Details about Topic 2 in Category 3 go here.

Jimmy Lemon

Jimmy Lemon

Mneziack

Hybrid mutant created by hybrid mutant creators. A Frankenstein's monster character with no working memory but plenty of personality.

Rainy Guildsnout

Rainy Guildsnout lives as a travelling hermit in a shack on the side of a mountain surrounded by trees. Not too far off from a main road. He has long grey hair that is often tied back, with big mutton chops. Hunts and collects all types of mushrooms, travels several times a season to the castle to sell them to the kitchen staff. He usually stays for a few days at a time and has become good friends. Young Hau lives and works there and has become Rainy's apprentice. Hau knows that Rainy does magick and wants to learn, always asking to travel with him. Keeper of the Azulpter, blue chickens. Rainy's two cats help herd the Azulpters Rainy the Shroomer Rainy spends most of his time hunting and collecting all types of fungi. Considers himself a shroomer (mycologist). There are mushrooms of every color imaginable, and Rainy has collected and documented just about every single one, travelling all across the land to do so. Examination of each fungus, including ingestion, is recorded into Rainy's Book, FUNGUS AMONGUS. Here he journals and illustrates characteristics, tastes, and psychoactive effects. There are cryptic scribbles, symbols, and drawings of the things that Rainy sees during his trips. It's a big book, now in three separate binded volumes. One of these symbols is a circle with a smaller purpul circle down at the bottom. Rainy thinks this is a map. One day Rainy finds the Jacimus fungus. Member of the Octomegistus Wizard, hermit, botonist, immortal denisovan inuni A whimsical elf sporting vibrant green eyes perched curiously on the side of his head. His wiry brown hair is tinged with grey and curls about his shoulders . a bold navy blue jacket with sparkling star embroidery drapes onto him, contrasting delightfully with his extravagant sideburns

Hau

Troglodite covered in ash, draws on cave walls.

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Crater

From the Golden Egg.

Lifeforms

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• Azulpter
• Blue Androids
• Brain Slugs
• Chalicothere
• Cr'odon
• Dinosaur
• Disova
• Giant Chameleon
• Ikanthua
• Ikanua
• Interdimensional Crows
• Moth Folk
• Morstiku
• Mosquitos
• Moon Scarab
• Pongo Apes
• Rodat or Bokanoi
• Squamaloid
• Snooted Piggies
• Skritch’n
• River Squids
• Ovenbirddonkey
• Bunihorn/a>
• Plumb Bug
• inuni

Azulpter

Azulpter (blue chicken) A magical bird with bright blue feathers, black eyes, beak, and large talons. Lays magical purpul eggs. Live for hundreds of years. 2 feet tall. Neutral attitudinal composure.

Feeding jacimus to an Azulpter, and then eating the eggs will stop the ingestor's cells from aging for some time. Continuous consumption ofthmagical purpul eggs grants immortality.

Scrambled Purpul Azulpter Eggs

Blue Androids

Blue Androids are found stored away in a garage on the MOHA. Humanoid bodies but have squamaloid hands. They were once used for dangerous tasks but are no longer used.

Brain Slugs

Brind the Slugs Brind is a hive mind of slugs.

Chalicothere

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalicotherioidea Another species that lives on Secondry

Cr'odon

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troodon Cr forced underground by Cataclysmic Chalk.

Dinosaur

Generic term for the diverse group of reptiles.

Disova

After the Chalk 100,000 years after the Cataclysmic Chalk Event, an intelligent ape started walking and talking and creating tools. Disova formed hunter/gather tribes early on and claimed the Tundrus Plains and woods as their kingdom. Some would gather in caves on the west side of the range, overlooking glacierlands. The Disova Disovans are humans indigenous to the planet, IRT. Alongside the cr'odons and squamaloid, though not always in equality. The advanced technology and physical strength of the lizard folk made denisovan second class citizens. There were some exceptions of course, but otherwise denisovans were the laborers, builders, and servants to the Cr'odons for many generations. This hierarchy remained throughout the colonization of other star systems by the Cr. But when war broke out between Cr and Squamaloid, the denisovan were stuck in the middle and left behind on unfamiliar planets. Thus dividing the species into multiple groups. The largest population of denisovan never left Irt, and would eventually join forces with the squamaloid as equals. But when sSs was formed, yet another divide happened. Some denisovans stayed behind on their dying planet, others joined sSs in the pursuit of a new home aboard the Moha. Bordovian Dhuman Ddumha, duma, huda, Disovan first human - ikanthua contact Disova cannot breathe in the swamps. Ikanthua have 'objects' that will allow a human to breathe underwater for a while. Cr and disova were there to build a plumport. the ikanthua get wrapped up in their drama. the Cr bring several large sea creatures with them because V'nglui is the perfect environment for them. They build the portal on V'nglui, using the hypno-helmets. The hypno-helmets are worn on the head by the squamaloid, on the helmet are built one or more spinning black and white spirals, along with a tone being played. This makes whoever sees and hears this totally succeseptable to obedience and memory erasure. Cr and squamaloid and humans disagree whether these should be used. Ikanthua's memory is erased using the helmets. and humans. • There are 3 groups of denisovans: Those left behind on Irt, those that left Irt on the Moha, and those on Specturmel • Genetically revamped by Lizard people to live among the squamaloid. • denisovians are intelligent, have large noses, and beards, ladies have long braided hair.

Giant Chameleon

Giant Chameleons Big reptiles with long tongues and curly tails that can change the color of their scales. A group of chameleons live in the forests of Purple Dirt They keep to themselves, even from each other. This is because of their paranoid personality. They don't like to be bothered or touched, and treat most other creatures as a threat. Chameleon skin can change color for camouflaged They live up in the canopies of the tall trees. Diet consists mainly of bugs and leaves Average body length of 4 ft. Companions of Kweyuk Hypto Aboard the sSs ship, an experiement, headed solely by Kweyuk Hypto. A collection of chameleons reside in a climate controlled biosphere. Genetic adaptations allow the reptiles to grow in size and intelligence. They were more like companions to Kweyuk than pets. When the chameleons were finally able to communicate, they ask him to be set free on a world of their own. The timing was just right because Kweyuk was then selected to investigate Purpul Durt for colonization, scans showing the perfect environment for the chameleons. They are brought along and set free. Free to live their own lives on Purpul Durt. Language The chameleons of Purpul Durt can speak and use language but because of their 'loner' status, they have not formed much of a language on their own. They can definitely understand things, but few of them own curiosity. Rodat Relations Gronja learns about the Bokanmud village from his parents, who live in a crashed S ship. His dad would visit the village occasionally for one of their celebrations. His dad still has a drum that was a gift from the rodats. Gronja enjoys playing it but one day it breaks. After the weather turns dark, he decides to go check on the village,also to repair his drum , on the way he finds the shack that Bher made. He finds the village abandoned and cold. and he takes shelter in the Labs where he finds the Brassbot and plays music with it. Chameleons are reminants of an abandoned ship on Purple Dirt Claws are called Bifid Claspers Rare Chameleon - Funny Walk - India

Ikanthua

Ikanthua Ikanthua are amphibeous cephalopod that originated in the V'nglui Ocean. Eyes and Vision Ikanthua can move their two eyeballs from the side of their head (panorama view) to the 'front' (focused view). So no blind spots exist for the Ikanthua. Irises are shaped like a "W". Cannot see color, but can recognize polarized light, increasing contrast. Eyes are fully developed before hatching. Mouth and Beak Mouths are under flaps called 'flapstaches'. Under the flapstache is a beak mouth, strong enough to break shells of tasty crustatceans and difficult packaging. They are capable of spoken language but it is muffled behind their flapstache. Gills Gas exchange takes place on the back of their head. A bulgy-pineapple texture acts as their amphibious gills, sometimes growing into frilly stalks out the back of the head. Vibrates and inflates like a balloon, used for rapidly reaching the surface and warding off attackers. Antennae Two top antennae used for picking up vibrations and communication. Also used for sailing during their bobber phase. The antennae are manipulated independently and can expand into a fan and contract flat against the head. Ink A unique brown ink can be expelled on demand or when frightened. Cuttleskeleton An internal shell used for buoyancy. Life Cycle Small spherical eggs are layn on the ocean floor. When the eggs hatch, the baby bobbers resemble tiny jellyfish with big eyes, swimming about and eating small plankton. Soon after, the plankton in their diet produces a lighter than air chemical gas in their inflatable gills that floats them to the surface. It's at the surface where they live out their teenage years. They bob on the water and scoop up floating nutrients from the water surface. By now, their antennae have grown and they use this for navigation and communication. Hundreds of bobbers will group together in what's called Bobberglobs. This grouping caused bobbers to become social, even forming some sort of squeaky language. The bobber stages lasts throughout the beings' teenage years (12-20 years). As the Ikanthua mature into their final phase, they grow limbs out the bottom of their body, sort of resembling arms and legs with webbed flippers. They migrate towards land, and can now move freely on land and water. Adapting to modern life A disease of their gills called Gilt. Ikanthua need moisture to live comfortably above sea level. They have formed port towns among the coasts and lagoons of Urt. Buildings made of chitin conch formations. Trade and law among the Ikanthua has been a peaceful endeavor for centuries, with almost no in-fighting among their population's history. It wasn't until individuals joined the societies of Denisova and Squamaloid that crime and vulgarity was among their social vocabulary. They are sometimes called "Bobbers" as a derogatory slander which calls back to an early ancestor of theirs, the bobber; a marine animal that bobs on top of the water. Ikanthua need a proper history, Lagoon towns, economy, the works.

Ikanua

From "On the Other Side": "They moved quick and with purpose. About the same height as the Rodats, but thinner; more gaunt. Their skin was smooth and rubbery, with a bluish green tone. Large bulging fish eyes took up most of the space on their head, while their mouths hung open to reveal small, but sharp teeth. They were obviously breathing through their mouths, but gills could also be seen on the side of their head and necks. They carried with them spears and wore loin clothes around their mids." Ikanua The Ikanua wear spikey helmets to defend against Brind. This defense strategy is then passed on to the rodats, and then into Specturmel. But Brind are not considered a threat on Specturmel until Brind's second coming (their planned major attack on the city.)

Interdimensional Crows

Agent of change.

Moth Folk

Mothkin are mothfolk, man. large, winged humanoid with glowing red eyes.

Morstiku

The Mysterious Morstiku The morstiku (singular & plural) are a group of sasquatch type beings. They keep to themselves, speaking to each other telepathically, making only humming or grunting noises with their mouth, otherwise speak fully to each other. One of them runs a production studio out of Mt. Spectrum and broadcasts everywhere. Rhino-News - from the morstiku productions. "We put our nose in the news so you won't have to" Desert Oragutan

Mosquitos

○ A mosquito will bite and suck the blood of an animal. ○ The mosquito then returns to its hive where it feeds the blood to the queen. ○ The queen then takes the DNA from the blood and gives birth to a zombie replica of that animal. ○ The zombies guard the hive, and help it grow. Native to Purple Dirt, Rodats are highly allergic to their sting.

Moon Scarab

§ a moon scarab is a beetle that can light up its body with bioluminescence. § 2-10 inches § Friendly, even helpful personality. Helped rodats see in the dark. § Based on the dung beetle. Moon Scarabs collect dung of all Purple Durt inhabitants, roll it up in balls and move it to a location where it is buried in tunnels underground. The buried dung fertilizes the soil. § How much luminocity does the bio-luminescence produce? § Color is cyan three body segments (head, thorax, and abdomen), six legs, and a skeleton on the outside (an exoskeleton) made out of hard plates called chitin.

Pongo Apes

Apes are apes Hairy mens

Rodat or Bokanoi

Symbosl: c(°o°)ͻ Notable Characters Mud, Hue, Ery, Lazel, Anzick Religions/Groups Bokanmud Village, Old Lady Lazel's, Average Lifespan 100-200 years Average Intelligence High Etiquette and Tradition They sleep 18-22 hours a day Average Physique Rodats tend to have slender torso and arms. Their legs are slightly thicker than the arms. Two thumbs on each paw for climbing trees and gripping foods. Facial Characteristics and Features ○ Short round heads with a flat scalp and face. Noses are large and flat, taking up most space on their face, but only sticking out no further than 1 inch. Mouths usually contain an overbite and sits just below the nose. Weak chins and jaws. Ears are large and round, sitting further back and low on the head, just behind the jaw. Body Tint, Coloring and Marking Rodats are covered head to toe in a thick but soft fur. It sits close to the skin. The color of fur is consistent on the body except for the head, which color variations happen mostly on the nose and ear hairs. Colors range from blonde, reddish orange, to very dark brown. Growth Rate and Stages When hatched, baby rodats are no larger than a jellybean. They start with a coat of down fur which thickens with age. By the age of 1 year, they can walk and talk. Full height is usually reached by age 10 (average of 5 ft). Mental maturity continues to develop and never weakens. At age 50, rodats' head hair and beard (for males) starts growing longer with no limit. The normal growth habits of rodats is largely depending on their diet. Any other foods besides what's grown and harvested from Purple Dirt may have detrimental health costs to the rodats. baby rodats are called worgat Ecology and Habitat Rodats are indigenous to Purple Dirt. It is here that they formed a society of gardeners and botanists known as Botanmud. The forest of Gigsab Trees are the main source of the nutrient cycle that happens on Purple Dirt. The sun feeds the plants, the plant roots enrich the soil. Local wild life, such as the Snooted Piggy, feeds on berries and leaves of the plant life. The poop of the Snooted Piggy, when mixed with the soil, has made the entire ground a sort of super fertilizer. It is this combination that the rodats have honed into a technology. Concentrated fertilizer has wondrous effects on the plants, in some cases growing a plant to maturity with a single day. Rodats are important to Purpul Durt's ecosystem because their rodat scat falls to the ground and fertilizes the soil, helping the plants and wildlife grow and regenerate. Dietary Needs and Habits ○ There's something in what the Rodats eat, or smoke, or consume in some way that gives them very long, healthy lives. But this is not known to them how far it actually goes. The wanderer just teaches the rest about his lifestyle. When the today’s are forced to leave PurpleDirt, they lose much of their resources that gave them these local nutrients. ○ The normal growth habits of rodats is largely depending on their diet. Any other foods besides what's grown and harvested from Purple Dirt may have detrimental health costs to the rodats. ○ They eat Gigsab leaves all day and smell like the tree oils. Fashion Entertainment, Cuisine, Fine Arts Government Military Economy Stewards of the forest Climb up the tree, pick the seed, plant to grow another. Trees are taken down at the edge and re-seeded on the other side. This creates a ripple effect of leafe changes. Chartruece to yellow to brown to purple.

Squamaloid

Squamaloid Lizard folk from the planet, Heka. Squamaloids have flat hands with three fingers that can change in thickness for more dexterity. Squamaloids (or maybe only the Cr) are able to filter out color from their vision, in order to make better sense of their environment. For example, when Kweyuk first arrives on Purpul Durt, he filters out the greenish blue color of the sky, allowing him to see further distances, see objects further away. Their eyes reflect the color they are filtering out. The color has to be present, otherwise with practice they can filter out any color they choose. Squamaloids wear a copper coil the size of a soda can on their wrist (wrapped around?) activating it produces an electro magnetic shield. This is on the opposite wrist from their weapon. Lizards meals: lizards like to plan ahead for their meals. Food is always their mind. They often keep their meals with them throughout the day. They call their friends, "squamate" Squamute - not a friend flaps chin necks. Iguanodon = Iguana Tooth Don = Tooth "Lizard" is their word for person, usually used in titles: ex. Lizard of Battles, Custodian Lizard, Lizard Lizard (general helper of other lizards) Squamaloid Beurocratic and hierarchical but with a tendency to disregard the rules. While filling out a report on the slaying and consumption of a fellow squamaloid (a treasonous taboo in their culture), included on the form was a question of 'how'd it taste'? If a sorcerer wishes “to make the god appear,” they simply drown a lizard in oil.

Snooted Piggies

Notable mentions: Taco (Bher's buddy) Snooted Piggies • Physical Description: ○ They walk on four short legs, and the feet are hooved and flat. ○ Half the height of a rodat. ○ Woolly - long stringy hair, the color of a baked potato, starts along their back and will often reach below their bellies. The hair does not grow on their faces. ○ The head of the Snooted Piggy greatly resembles that of an 'ant-eater': i.e. the mouth is elongated to where the teeth and mandibles are at the end of a long snout. Though unlike the 'ant-eater', the tongue is short. ○ The eyes are small, with thick heavy lids, making them look tired. ○ No ears are visible. Small openings on each side of the head, covered by hair. ○ A thick tail hangs down from their hind end. Also very hairy. You cannot distinguish the tail without digging through the hair. • Diet: ○ Their long mouths are good for eating the berries off of bushes. Often the berries grow deep inside the bush, thus the long mouth. ○ They will also eat the leaves of the berry bush. ○ The poop of the snooted piggy is used as the essential ingredient in creating a super fertilizer invented by the rodats. • Domestication: ○ Snooted Piggies are friendly creatures, often offering their services to the rodat citizens of Botanmud. ○ rodats fashioned carrying saddles that can hold many items in pouches. Their strong backs allow them to carry heavy loads. ○ However, snooted piggies do not like to be ridden. only in dire situations. No leads are necessary as snooted piggies will follow anyone if they ask them to.

Skritch’n

A Skritch’n is a giant nasty bug with alternating yellow and red striped fur, salivating mouth parts, and makes a terribly displeasing sound when disturbed. These bugs are three times the size of a rodat. Skritch’n deterrent: a dusty smoke pod

River Squids

Live and produce ink in the Purpul Durt River "Just give them a squeeze, and out comes enough for a full bottle. The ink did have a dark purple color to it."

Ovenbirddonkey

Ovenbirddonkey

Bunihorn

Jackelopes on the fields, disova wear their antlers. Mega Fauna. Hunted for food. Babies are born with eyes with open. Omnivore: Eats shrubs, saplings, flowers, bugs, and smaller fauna. Prefers to herd and eat in open grass lands during the day. At night, hop through closed canopy forests and nap in the bushes. They box and punch for defense. Boxing matches take place among their groups. Back legs are hooved, front paws are clawed paws for digging nests and boxing. Horns are made of hairy skin bones. White fur stripes 3-4 across their backs. The rest is patches of black and tan. Can run up to 40 mph. Move in colonies of up to 100 members. Jackalope. Jack Rabbit and Antelope. Jackelope Jack Lope Lepus Hare Prong Horn Antelope Lop Bunny Bunilop Pronglop Bunihorn Rabihorn Helm: a modified rabihorn skull used in a piece of headgear worn by early disova to honor a member who has slain a Rabihorn Boss.

Plumb Bug

Used in divination when tied to a string. Yellow and orange beetle.

inuni

Eee-Noo-Nee "Elven" Folk Pointy long ears Mantis-deer, behavior is like a mantis and a deer, animalistic but looks more like human. Has big eyeballs like a mantis. Can change their face to look like disova, not ears.

Locations

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• Purpul Durt
• ONTOSTRATA, the planet
• SPECTURMEL
• URT-HEKA
• V'nglui Ocean
• Ambush Island
• Stratumokto
• Squamaloid Mechanical Hekscape
• Maps
• Rhymes w/ Defiance

Purpul Durt

Jacimus is a mysterious fungus from a meta-dimensional reality, and has established itself on an isolated volcanic island.

The mycelium network has carved its way downwards, into the now retired volcano's core, breaks down the rock, turning into a nutrient rich soil called Purpul Durt. For over 3 million years, an underground fungi forest has formed, spanning 3 thousand square miles.

The mushroom above ground is small, given how much work it does. Its color depends on the visual capacity of the viewer, but most can agree, that it has a luminous iridescence. This single mushroom gathers has spread hyphae across the entire island. The mycelium network has helped grow a dense rainforest on the surface and the multitude of lifeforms underground.

The hyphae covering the walls of the chamber illuminate with a bright cyan glow, mimicking the outside sky. Other light sources come from the lifeforms themselves.

A crack in the walls creates a waterfall, pulling in ocean water from the outside. This forms a river that runs almost all the way around the perimeter of Purpul Durt before ending in a small but deep lake, which then drains into the rock floor.

At the tippy top of the Purpul Durt volcano is the plumport. Rodats climb up and out to Ambush Island.

ONTOSTRATA, the planet

Space dust and space gas and time form a planet called Ontostrata. (ahn-toe-stratuh) Planet Name: Ontostrata System: Binary: Chartreuse/Blue Straggler Moon(s): Moonmoon Size: 71,141,722,611 square miles (3 Jupiters) Orbital Cycle(s): Climate: Temperate Continents: Urt Heka Specturmel Oceans: V'nglui there's a planet data box because I plan on there being other planets, there just ain't none right now.

SPECTURMEL

The Cereal Bus The Serial Bus is an old tramway that runs zig-zagging throughout the city, now converted into one long internet café. They serve cereal made from the coral farms. and there's lots of some type of milk and mud bean coffee. Firsdry has now become a land of anarchy, where denizens live as kings and queens of their own dirt heap. Demolished buildings are their kingdom. KO-OP, the kaotic operation of president lice “govern” the un-governable, punishing any who are not self reliant. They expect confrontation as compliance. Two continents connected through an underground tunnel? Cool. 4/14/2024 7:21 AM The Intercontinental Relocation Tube Firsdry City (abandoned) Specturmel City Wooded Marsh Mt. Spectrum (6,333 ft) Partsunk Hamlet V'nglui island and ocean Local band playing next week: The Rogers touring for their new album "Sex and the Specturmel" Cyberpunk Looney Tunes Detailed history Power Sources: Damn dams, photovoltaics, underground steam mechanics powered by magma Interplanetary Travel Specturmel technology has advanced to space travel within the local solar system. Cosmonauts have reached their neighboring moon, Ph'chv, only to find aggressive rocks. Cat Castle: There is an old temple entirely inhabited by cats. It's so large that you have to travel through it to get to the other side. There's no getting around. What do the cats eat? Bokanmud Habitat A sanctuary for Bokanmud style rodat living. Started by Lazel, this once barren area has been transformed into a giant garden and farm. The rodats here provide foods and goods that originated on Purpul Durt. GLE-C, Government Law Economic Calculator An AI that had its creators build a giant robot body that's attached to the ceiling by tubes and wires. He stumbles around in his giant room. does not seem too intelligent. Speaks as though you are chatting with a conversation bot. This AI has meetings all day. People schedule these visits to ask him questions or ask for upgrades to their finances/network problems. It takes a really long time to get a meeting. GLE-C acts as the government for Specturmel with many automated protocols programed in. These are their laws, and are upgraded with "Patches" or amendments. Although the GLE-C bot is located in once spot, it is considered a decentralized government and economy. Each district can have its own protocols and Patches that are distributed on an ad-hoc basis. Multiple currencies are in place for different types of trade. For example, NutriCredits are part of a UBI used for consumables and Silicon Pellets are used for consumer electronic goods. GLE-C keeps the economy balanced and loopy. Residents typically live and work in the same area. Governement of love and propsperity. Wildlife relocation on Specturmel § Munk Mo § untain § Thigmotaxis - natural tendency to stay near solid objects like walls. Decree of Relocation: (Help Wanted) Citizens of Specturmel! A route has been formed for Relocation Road! Emigrators by foot and by wheel have already started their journey. A permanent pavement is priority for our brave engineers Come build your part of the road that saves our society! Mt. Spectrum Mt. Spectrum's highest peak is at 6,333 ft. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Specturmel Denizens and Inhabitants: Ikanthua Amphibians with dark blue skin. Their eyes have green asymmetric pupils. They walk on two legs with their knees bending back towards the rear. Can live entirely above water as long as enough moisture is in the air. Distant relatives to the Ikanua (the fish people of V'nglui). Blegk Hypto and company brought genetically mutated Ikanua to Specturmel. Ikanua Denisovans Dogs Some denisovans with too much money took their fancy spaceships. Many rich folks who loved their pet dogs. They now wear dog masks to commemorate their lost pets. Masters of trade and luxury living. Dogs use their privately owned ships to retrieve and deliver fresh water extracted from the ocean planet of V'nglui. Mothmen Morstiku

URT-HEKA

URT-HEKA Original planet of squamaloid and denisovans. Irt Archipelago Glacier Lands Tundra (above 13,000 feet) Forest 1. Rhymes w/ Defiance 2. Wizard Capitol (Wizcap) 3. Chamber of Commerce 4. Lords of Foam 5. Brooding Mups 6. Laws of Saturn 7. Bogtail 8. Spiders 9. Giants Dinosaurs happened here. A particular species of these dinosaurs, the troodons, grew to intelligence. Everything up til the dinosaurs really happened, but the dinosaurs evolved into super intelligent beings. They DINO moved underground until the denisovans were running around on Irt. It's then that the dinos enslaved the denisovans and began to grow their interstellar portal system. Irt's timeline up to sSs leaving. The civilization of Irt would become Firsdry, torn apart by natural and industrial disasters, then transition to Specturmel • Dinos and the denisovans completely covered the planet with their civilzation. Until the Wars of the Split began, destroying most of the planet in the process. • The lizards left over from the wars (along with denisovans) used what was left of the planet to rebuild their interstellar empire from scratch. Forming the S society in the process. But this left others out of the loop. • Eventually, S used up the entire planet to build their ship, the MOLA. The rest of the population revolt against S, but have no chance against the S armed forces. The MOLA leaves the atmosphere never to return to this planet, and leaving everyone else to survive on a dying planet. • Earth-like until the meteor hit (KT Event) ○ Dinosaurs look up to see destruction ○ Apes with tools, Cr mining downwards ○ Desnisovans as knights, merchants, kings, queens, wizards, alchemists, and astronomers. ○ squamaloids as industrial miners, creating giant metal machines, weapons, armor. • Mammals survived above ground while reptilians dwelled beneath. • Denisovans reach Iron-age while Cr reach subterranian industrial miners. ○ Contact between the two? § Cr watches from a distance. only showing themselves occasionally, this creates stories amongst the humans of underground monsters. Keeps them away from caves. As humans gain more power and confidence, they explore caves only to get in the middle of a conflict with an egg of importance. starts the Last Castle story. • Conflict brings war and conquest, Denisovans vs. Squamaloid • Culture is shared now to bring about interstellar colonization. • Irt is running low on resources, Hypto Twins sent to Purpul Durt and Specturmel • Conflict grows on use of Plumports, war starts, planet is cracked • sSs leave planet to mad max / district 9 scenario. sSs investigate a signal coming from beneath some buildings. An orange farm nearby witnesses them destroying the building and taking prisoners. Lizards then create a giant pot out of the rubble and roll it over to the orange farm. Who’s in charge? Who knows the most about these orange trees? We want you to grow a tree in this giant pot we just made. They take on orange farmers and all of their crops to the MOHA so they can grow them abroad. Also used for oxygen. Dewdney and company were underneath the destroyed building, listening to sss signals. Thigmotaxis OURT OIRD O RED SUN9 Abyssalrift Dabyss Sabyss, archipelago dinosaur, magick, ancient humans, lizard people, war, split, dryness, division, technology, deep core mining, underworlds, conflict, portals, space travel, astronomy, kitchen. The name could be hyphenated to further the idea that the planet can never decide on one thing. one name is what the humans call it, the other is what the squamaloid call it. The lizard's creations myth, says that the planet is an egg. Abyssplitago Splitago Irtsplitago Archipelago Ortagos abysplitagos thigmotaxis Fission, fissio, fizfid Abyssalsplit Lizards and wizards Gekkomagus Dividon Gonadon Organeg Heka-bysss Heka-Don Heka-Fiz Heka-Skwa IRT cuetzpalin tecciztli caruncle tecciztli - egg egg tooth, or caruncle (aztec word for lizard) Geckomagus archipelago 1. Reptiweaver 2. Scaledorcerer 3. Geckomagus 4. Salamandromancer 5. Chameleoncaster 6. Dracoenchanter 7. Serpentwizard 8. Iguanamystic 9. Basiliskbinder 10. Anolewarlock 11. ]] Primitive dinosaurs reign until cataclysmic meteor strikes planet. The few dinosaurs that survive learn to live underground, while mammals rise to sentience above ground. Denisovans gain dominance, reaching iron age of castles kings and mixed magic practices. Squamaloids, digging deeper into the planet, reach industrial age, harnessing steam, feeding on fish and fungal farming. None have definite knowledge of the other. Only myths and tales of danger. Conflicts spark squamaloid emergence and conquering of Denisovan territories. Squamaloid and Denisovan cultures mix. Advanced technologies and laws are in place. Deep space telescopes search for other planets. Interstellar travel begins, targeting Specturmel and Purpul Durt. Meanwhile, Irt sees first signs of scarcity as terraforming overrides planetary ecosystems.

V'nglui Ocean

Swamps line the ocean of v'nglui The V'nglui Ocean A vast an perilous ocean wrapping around most of the planet. What makes V'nglui so perilous? Strong currents, giant waves, extreme weather, fog, the water eats anything but sand and stone. Abyssal Lifeforms: Cthulhu Lochness Whales Piranha Megaladon All shapes and sizes of Jellyfish Stone fish Crocodilians Ikanua Blue ringed octopus Plesiosaurus Ichthyosaurus Big Snake Sea Serpents Hand Crabs Anglers Giant Squid Kraken Zombie Shrimp Tentacle things Countless abominations Weird Fishes Electric Eels Mermaids Mythical sea monsters Narwal Safest part of the sea is south west of IRT. Ikanua and others Water Mining Station Built by DOGS and used to transport potable water by launching it into orbit which freezes it then back down which cleans it.

Ambush Island

Vnglui is a dense “regular rainforest” island Ambush Island Pimbush The island's name was applied only after first sSs contact. Before it was merely called "V'nglui Island". Geologically, was once the highest mountain peak of the planet (billions of years ago), now is the only (known) land on V'nglui and the most remote place on the planet. sSs: Ambush Station "Thick sheets of metal held together with bolts and a once-gooey-now-hardened adhesive, forming a hastily built crude boxy building."

Stratumokto

Stratumokto is meta-dimensional reality. There exists another realm, occupying the same space as our own. A parallel reality called Stratumokto (The 8th layer). The beings/entities that live in this realm will occasionally merge into this one, creating new life. We can never visit this world, but we can interact with it. A gifted Gekomagus can build a portal, called a Plumport, in which they gain knownledge and communication with Stratumockto. Some may experience color variations and other effects, such as hightened senses, seeing things others cannot. Ned Plumport = Portal Temple Plumport = portal Tullfament = Cosmic web that ties everything together with electro-magnetic string. Plumport Catalogue A1: Bokanmud Village (Purpul Durt) A2: Ambush Island (V'nglui) B2: Irt B1: Destroyed city on Specturmel CENTRAL PLUMPORT STATION - located in open space, somehwere far away. Surrounded by Sonic Space Whales Discovered by R Brent Tully. Tull-Filament-Node

Squamaloid Mechanical Hekscape

Construction sSs started construction of 'The Hek' in the year 3.5 on their home of Irt. Building material for the dwarf-planet-sized ship was repurposed from the existing infrastructure of their own ruined cities. Halfway through construction, the ship was put into orbit because its gravity was taking up too much space on the ground. Conflict on the ground below grew as sSs lizards were taking from those who were choosing to stay behind. Design? The Mola is powered and animated through the Hectic Drive, a multi-directional gravity pulling gyro-motor. At the Hectic Station, a giant vat of glowing green slime contains the fuel for the Hectic Drive. Squamaloid Mechanical Hell A nickname for the Mola, given by non-squamaloid visitors and contractors is the “Squamaloid Mechanical Hell”, or SMH. This is due to the maze-like, retrofitted infrastructure. Live, Laugh, Love sSs have live in and operate a giant space station they called Mola. The Mola also counts as a location because it’s the size of a city and at contains citizen inhabitants. Why? • Planetary Surveillance and Mapping: • Beyond just getting a good layout, the space station can be equipped with advanced sensors and imaging technology to monitor environmental changes, track weather patterns, and study geological activities. • Scientific Research: • Conducting zero-gravity experiments and studying the effects of space on biological organisms and materials. • Observing celestial events and conducting astrophysical research that can’t be done effectively from the planet’s surface. • Defense and Security: • Establishing a strategic vantage point for early detection of potential threats, such as asteroids or hostile entities. • Developing and testing advanced weaponry or defense systems in space. • Space Exploration and Colonization: • Serving as a launching point for missions to other planets, moons, or celestial bodies within their solar system. • Testing life support and habitat systems for future space colonization efforts. • Communication Network: • Enhancing global communication networks, providing improved connectivity for various regions on the planet. • Acting as a relay station for interplanetary communication, ensuring reliable contact with exploration missions. • Resource Utilization: • Mining asteroids or other celestial bodies for rare minerals and resources that are scarce on their home planet. • Conducting experiments on the extraction and processing of these materials in space. • Cultural and Political Influence: • Demonstrating technological superiority and establishing dominance in space technology among their civilization. • Using the space station as a neutral ground for diplomatic meetings and international cooperation. • Environmental Preservation: • Monitoring and mitigating the impacts of climate change or other environmental issues. • Conducting research to develop new technologies for sustainable living and environmental protection. • Technological Advancements: • Testing new technologies and systems in the harsh conditions of space to ensure they are robust and reliable. • Innovating and improving existing technologies through the unique challenges posed by the space environment. • Energy Production: • Harnessing solar power on a much larger scale than possible on the planet’s surface. • Conducting research into other forms of space-based energy production, such as microwave power transmission. • Economic Development: • Creating new industries and opportunities for economic growth through space exploration and exploitation. • Opening new markets for space tourism, offering unique experiences in a low-gravity environment. • Cultural Preservation and Education: • Establishing archives and repositories for cultural artifacts and knowledge, safeguarding them against planetary disasters. • Providing educational opportunities and inspiring future generations with the wonders of space.

Maps

Maps

Rhymes w/ Defiance

The city's roads and walkways are now covered with a blanket of sand. Fursdry has now become a land of anarchy, where denizens live as kings and queens of their own dirt heap. Demolished buildings are their kingdom. KO-OP, the kaotic operation of president lice “govern” the un-governable, punishing any who are not self reliant. They expect confrontation as compliance. Khaos Kursdry Rubble Krubble Krusdry Khaonark Kranoah kRuins Kairn Khaofir Rhymes with Defiance Firsdry is dry What was once a decent modern society, became a dirty place to live. Crops have dried up, storms and earthquakes have destroyed many major living areas. Sickness wipes out those too weak or poor to cure. A solar storm has wiped out all communications and most power. The inhabitants of this once thriving society have a decision to make. Most are stubborn and plan to 'go down with the ship'. But others join a movement called the "The Great Relocation", a plan to move their entire population and society closer towards the south pole where the climate was once a frozen tundra but now a growing green. They must cross 1,000 miles of scorching desert, pass through a narrow isthmus, and into the wild lands surrounding Mt. Spectrum. Scouts were sent to find a route. The Great Relocation takes 100 years. A super highway is built in the process to bring over all their supplies and resources. Rialgar Marsh, north of the city

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Cult of the WAHVLDRU

What's that symbol you've drawn on the ground, young Hau? And why are you staring so deeply into it? No answer from the young boy, left to do whatever it is he's doing. Sometime later he exits the room holding a book. It was small, with binding. What's this? A gift for you, from the other side. From whom?! The old man runs to Hau's room to take a closer look at this magic circle he's drawn. Where did you see this? I was just doodling, he says. The old man gently takes the book from the boy. Could this be the book of the prophecy?

Scholars work together in the Wizcap to make sense of THE BOOK. They think it contains rituals to bring about the merging of worlds. Beings from the Stratumokto have long communicated ways of doing this, but none have decoded their messages fully.

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