Y'all mind if I got ahead and make Gremju the sole reason for madness exisiting in mortals?
and a wee bit extra for my schemes later
I don't mind it myself. What does the madness involve, though? Bipolar stuff, multiple personality thingies, OCD, depression? All that jazz? Does it include phobias?
@Frettzo Are you sure you want to spend a whole Might point on Squiggles? You could totally get away with making them for a free point Miracle, or two if you do one for their plant aspect and one for their animal aspect.
Oh! I hadn't thought of that, dang. I'll edit that in, no one will realize! That brings my acts of creation down to 1 right? cause of the saved MP
In our childishness, life was filled with torment. We have to do better.
It had begun, then, she realized with a heavy heart. This world had existed for so little time and things were already going wrong. Her family was beginning to fight and disagree on the most basic of ideas... Just like before.
Were worlds Fated to be like this, hopelessly tied to reach a gruesome end every time?
Maybe they were. Maybe there was no escape from the cycle, if there even was one.
"No, it can't be..." Aella whispered to herself as she ducked under a low hanging tre branch, its leaves grazing her hair as she moved past, "But if it is, then... No." She shook her head and let out a sigh. Thinking about such things would only slow her down now. She had a goal. So what if Fate wanted to lead people down the same path over and over again? It didn't matter. If Fate had an adoration for the suffering of beings, then Fate was bound to suffer a lot in this Universe. As long as Aella was around, she'd make sure everyone lived as well as they could.
She wasn't far from the others, and while she couldn't see them, she could still feel them. More and more Great Ones came into being, all thanks to the Door. Of all of them, one stood up the most. A strange kind of Essence... As if a mortal was a God, or a God was a mortal. She'd never felt anything like that before. Maybe he was the one that would lead them into a new direction this time? She would have to find this new God - Césure apparently, or so she felt his name was - and talk to him. Later and in private, of course.
For now, she focused back on the forest. As she walked, she began to smell the putrid air of the swamp nearby, the creation of Pelegath. A good creation certainly, she could already imagine the kinds of civilizations that would settle such lands. Maybe a reptilian species? Perhaps an insectoid race? Either way, she didn't want to explore that yet and so she turned around and went deeper into the forest.
She reached a clearing and realized something was lacking, something extremely important. With that, she knelt down and took a blade of grass. She stretched it and molded it into a long stalk with a bulb on top. She then blew softly on the bulb and from it sprouted a beautiful set of petals, complete with Stamen, pistils, and eveything a proper flower needed. She repeated the process numerous times, trying with different combinations of colors, shapes and most importantly, scents.
Eventually, the entire clearing was covered in a wide variety of flowers. But the flowers needed help to reproduce, so she went to the middle of the clearing and raised a single tree, somewhat taller the the others of the forest. From the wood on that tree, she created another bulb, this one considerably bigger than the ones for the flowers, and blew on it.
A moment later, the bulb flowered. A set of huge petals, at least a meter long and hanging from the tree branch, covered the bulb. Then over a few moment, a soft buzzing could be heard coming from within the petals.
Dozens of small insects - which resembled brown, fuzzy balls of spiky hair with miniature flower petals on their bellies - flew out and onto the flowers. They would be the ones to take care of pollination, Aella thought.
Finally, she gave the little insects a stinger and named them Squiggles. She giggled at the name, then felt very silly and left the clearing with a blush on her face and puffed out cheeks.
Aella walks through the forest, thinks about Cesure and how he feels somewhat different to the other Gods. She nearly walks into Pelegath's swamp and decides to do a complete 180, going back to the forest proper.
While in the forest she finds a rather plain clearing. She fills it with flowers and then creates the Squiggles, little fuzzy ball-like insects that fly around with miniature flower petals growing from their back. They do the job of Bees.
She feels silly and embarrassed that she came up with such a name for a species.
Also yes she did purposefully avoid the place with the huge foken corruptinator worms, she didn't even want to think about it!
MP=4 - Miracles=4
Used 1 MP to create a few dozen species of flowers, including the basic ones like Roses, tulips, etc. Used 2 Miracles to create the Squiggles. They required One Miracle for the flower aspect on their backs and one Miracle for the rest.
I added the tree millipede to my profile, it has the neat stuff you need to know about Kiko’s Babies. And why the cost 1 might to make. And before you ask, yes they can uproot trees if they are angry enough.
I can see it now, worms and milipedes are going to be the dominant sentient species of this world. Humans will be forced underground for centuries at a time and will have to fight for their lives at every turn, developing technology to counter the evil worms's humanicide that they drop on fields from planes.
Of course, I don't actually know what either of these backstories are.
Judging by Aella's intro, it was probably a walk in the park.
If you wanna hash it out, PMs are always open. Otherwise we can let nature run its course IC :p
Aella's previous world was completely dead by the time she went through the Door, so who knows? The entire world's history is open for Mater Lei to interact and put her backstory in there