Three Aeons - 2nd Era - Day 8

Alexandra wanders lightly across the face of the planet, unseen, but perhaps felt by some of the more sensitive ... entities ... observing what there is to see, particularly the life forms. She swims the various bodies of water and enjoys what she sees. Then she takes to the air, and as she flies, she hears a strange howling. She investigates. To her great pleasure, she sees a group of mammals, howling at her smile constellation in the sky. As reward for pleasing her, the smile constellation glows and a finger of falling stars moves as if from between the lips, towards the earth, but does not reach it - rather, Alexandra lightly taps each of the creatures between the eyes and gives them a gift, then watches to see how it develops and what they will do with it.

A gentle light settles over the Racoon creatures and their eyes open a bit wider. They become more aware of themselves and the world around them, and whilst they sing, they begin to sign with words of praise, still primitive but they are grateful that their minds have been expanded and that their comprehension of their beauty of the world is that much more. They form a circle and slowly dance, spontaenously and rather primitively but with perfect timing to the silent music they sing.

Sawda-Saiph is conflicted. Should she use her connection with dark forces to save the world from the asteroid? Will this endanger the world to bring the darkness so close? She creates a micro-blackhole as far from the world as possible, but in the path of the hurtling body. The micro-blackhole is surrounded by dark matter and so it cannot grow. However, with its small size, it will remain until it slowly dissipates the radiation back into the Universe. She remains nearby to ensure only the hurtling body intersects.

The black hole is interposed in front of the Death Rock. The impact is immediate and titanic. The Death Rock shatters, and much of it is instantly destroyed, though half still manages to move forward. There is great celebration in the world below, however since the Shardi had seen the anomoly in the heavens and predicted the impact of the rock on the world, destroying all life. They have now learned the name of Sawda-Saiph, harbinger of death but also bringer of life. The celebration is short lived however since it rapidly becomes apparent that at least half of the rock is still heading towards the world. In the process, small nuggets of Dark Matter spring forth into the heavens, some of which fall to the world below. Many of these are burned up in the magnetic shield but some of the larger chunks land in greater amounts in the world below, thus increasing the quantity of dark matter.

Alexandra turns to her children, though they cannot see her, and clearly says to her children, "Learn, grow, gain in wisdom and take care of each other, this planet and all that dwells on it." Knowing that it might result in her destruction, Alexandra places herself in the path of the oncoming asteroid, spreads herself out and solidifies, a gigantic shield, covering the most endangered side of the planet ... and smiles.

Alexandra interposes herself in front of the remaining half of the death rock. However, given the sheer mass of the stone involved, much of it lifts up into the air and orbits towards the far side of the planet. Since she herself is inherently invulnerable and cannot be stopped, the Death Rock is pulverized. The Alexandrians celebrate this, though the Dragons and Shardi are cyincially critical of her failed effort. The elementals are pleased but largely indifferent since the threat is still real, if lessened.

Χαος rips the moon with the comforting statue out of its orbit around the earth, bathes it in Light Matter from his Obelisk, and sends it rocketing on a collision course with the meteorite and the micro-blackhole.

The third moon is moved. What is left of the Death Rock is now absorbed in the moon, though the perfect balance that previously existed between the two moons is now disrupted, causing tides to begin to shift and change on the world below. The third moon is now a spectacular sight, interlaced with the giant statues but glittering with the ruddy red bits of the death rock and lingering black veins of Dark Matter. Explosions of Light Matter and Dark Matter intermixed cause craters in the world though thanks to the intervening titans the world will survive. The celebration in the world below is now total, but waves of erratic peace and war begin to unleash on the world, causing strange alliances of Shardi, Dragons, Changed Elementals and Alexandrians to fight with each other and against other groups.

Banio is displeased that his efforts to destroy the world has failed. He sees the celebration of the various inhabitants of the world below and is particularly incensed. He claps his hands together and sends a portion of the ruddy remains of the Death Rock down to the world below and creates the Metal Men, animate creatures like Elementals but composed entirely of the Death Rock with the singular mission to slaughter all living things.

Banio creates the Metal Men.

The Metal Men begin to wreak havok. One clan of Alexandrians, Shardi, Elementals and Dragons battling another is set on from behind by the Metal Men and half their number are slain before the native sentient creatures flee in all directions, attempting to regroup, but with their minds and emotions in chaos due to the eratic orbit of the third moon, thus far they are not suceeding very well.

Restoring House Tephet - Fluffy's Journal

My name is Fluffy and I'm a Yeddim even though people mistake me for a Yak all of the time. I can understand that. A Yeddim should be as big as a house but I'm only as big as a cottage. My dad is the God of Healing and I can lick people with my tounge and make them all better. Anyway, once my friend Far, short for Farfiglavan is a noble from a dragon house. I forget which but he doesn't like them very much because they did bad things to his mother. But he's from a far Satrapy. I don't know what a Sat is, or why they're trying to trap it, but that's where Far is from. I met far in a card game where he saved me. Some very bad people were going to trade me for parts for a machine and bet me. Far won and we've been best buddies ever since.

But I've probably already told you about that. The story I want to tell you about is how Far found his other friends. We were going home to the Satrapy, when we found out that they had been in big trouble from some bad people. Far is really good at killing things (I mean really really really really really good) and so he was going to go and kill them all but it turned out he didn't have to! A bunch of Tephets had come through and done it for him. Apparently this was a pretty big deal to Far, and he swore to pay back the guys who had done this (he cares about his family a lot) so I put him on my back and we went to the dragon isle. It took us a while and we had to cross the ocean which sucked but ...meh.

So eventually we found the Tephets in a hidey hole but one of the Tephets had been taken by a crazy Solar. My dad told me about Solars and said they were mostly good but they were also dangerous and crazy. It looked like this guy was a dangerous and crazy one. So Barad and his son Katel were trying to rescue Lintol, who is not a bean but is apparently all tied up. We snuck in there, and then we killed him. I mean killed as in mainly Far, but apparently Katel can move around a lot and did it pretty good.

So then we went across the ocean again, and let me tell you it sucked. Never eat the cheap hay. There was a lot of soldiers and they landed at this place to lay seige to it. Apparently there were these big guns that the Tephets and Far had to take out. So we all snuck ashore but nobody was particularly sneaky. I don't know why they ever thought I was going to be sneaky...I mean I'm a Ya...yeddim for crying out loud! Anyway, they saw us coming and there was a big fight. I stayed out of it and let Far kill things which he is good at, but they all did a really good job of killing those guys, but boy were they hard to kill. This one really annoying guy just kind of went inside of the gun and was like...bonded with it or something. It was hard to tell. Lintol kept using this butterfly cloud which was pretty but also killed things really well. They shot a lot of things back at each other and managed to screw up one of the guns so that it wasn't going to work any more.

But there was another pair of guns we had to go to. They were a lot harder because they knew we were coming. Now, I thought we were unsneaky before, but apparently having the gun explode or fire or whatever was even LESS sneaky so they shot lots of arrows at all of us and stuff like that and it sucked. I stayed back and watched. I don't like to fight but I can when I have to. Anyway, they got the gun and everyone was happy.

Then we got on another boat and went back to the Dragon isle. But along the way it turned out that Lintol was apparently guilty of something but I'm not sure what of because he said he wasn't guilty of anything. So we flew away. This kind of pissed me off since if we could fly why didn't we just do that the first time, but Far said it had something to do with Lintol being afraid that people shooting him down. So we flew far to the north and then got lost. That sucked because it was cold but apparently it sucked more for everyone else because they didn't have fur. They found some dead things. They all got hurt so I liked them. Lintol tastes a lot like human. He's about the most human tasting human I've tasted. Barad tasted like steel. I guess because he wears armor a lot. Katel tasted like women and alcohol. I almost got drunk just licking him! Far tasted the best because he tasted like Far. Wait, didn't I mention? Because of my Dad I can heal people by licking them. Its nice to be able to make my friends better but some of them don't taste very good.

Anyway, we eventually figured out where the hell we were and went back to Tephetville. They were making a bunch of plans there, but didn't entirely know what to do. So they eventually decided to go look for Lintol's brother. I don't know why we were doing all of the other stuff instead, but Far said it had to do with building up house Tephet's reputation. What does Tephet's reputation have to do with his brother? I dunno. Far says I should just tell the story and not make commentary, but what's the point of a story without commentary?

I digress. I heard an old guy say that once and it sounded pretty cool. I digress again. I just like saying that, even though I'm not really saying anything since I communicate with my mind instead of my mouth like humans. I think it has something to do with the fact that my tounge has all of that healing drool in it all the time. Anyway, I digress. They went to a hunting lodge. They met some hunters that took them to where Lintol's brother was last seen. Some crazy dead thing attacked us. I helped attack it. I don't like dead things. It nearly killed me. I didn't like that. Fortunately, Far poured some of his healing potions into me and I got better.

We went into a swamp. It smelled horrible. Insects got inside of me, though my healing drool took a care of most of them. Then we think we found a portal. Then we went back. Then we went to the capital Imperial city and told a bunch of guys called the Inquisition that we thought the Bad Tephets were consorting with the bad Dead Things and got help. Then we allowed ourselves to be used as bait, and the two dead things attacked us. It hurt. A lot. A blood ape attacked me and so did one of the nasty spiny things but I got better. I licked myself and Far healed me again. Still, the bad guy took Barad and Katel with him and made them promise my Tounge! Can you imagine the nerve! Far said screw that though but through two potions through the portal and they got back. Then Far and Katel beat up the last bad guy. Barad through him into the air (Far) and he landed but didn't die. Katel beat the guy up but didn't kill him. It was pretty cool. Then the Inquisitors showed up and took the bad Dead thing back to their place to ask it questions.

Then we went to the Bad Tempet's lands and they made me stay outside but Far told me that Lintol is now in charge of House Tephet, mostly, even though two of the guys are 'touring the satrapies' whatever the hell that means. I doubt they'll find any Sats either. So everyone is happy. Lintol is apparently a good ruler. Far sits around a lot and kills things or trains people. Barad trains the army and runs the army and Katel boasts about how he took down the bad dead thing and sleeps with women and drinks a lot. I eat hay. A lot of it and its the good kind of hay which means they didn't scrimp on the money. Oh and there is this really creepy guy called Jory which keeps telling the others that my drool is worth serious money and that they should sell it but no one is listening to him. Which makes me happy.

The end.

Three Aeons - 2nd Era - Day 6

And so it was that the vast, untapped energy of the universe awoke, and formed a sentient being bent on the undoing of all creation. It was composed of the unused actions of the titans. Its name was Banio, and it was determined to unleash its wrath upon the world.

Banio creates a giant meteorite and sends it hurtling toward the world at unimaginable speeds.

OOC: GM Note...as of now all stored actions are purged. You have one action stored, not three. :) (Though that will rebuild after this.)

The Three Aeons - Second Era - Day 3

Tiitloc reaches out to the planet and sculpts the earth about his obelisk. The land rises a hundred measures at the epicenter of the tremendous pull and fortifies a secure perimeter around his pillar with jagged mountainous walls.

And so the earth around the obelisk is well and truly sculpted. A mighty fortress doth Tiitloc make, almost impenentrable with walls as tall as the Blue Pillar itself. This substantially alters the climate on that continent change, creating a desert where there is a forest and a forest where there was a desert. Many animals die, though the Shardi and the Elementals don't care a whit.

Alexandra sets "falling stars" in the sky, astronomical fireworks that are not destructive but which get everyone's attentions. She smiles through a crescent of stars, a new constellation.

And so everyone's attention is now got. They call the new constellation Alexandra and awe and wonder at its meaning and speculation. A species of racoons, not sentient but very clever with a sense of art, croons at it in particular at night like wolves might howl at the moon.

The Obelisk of Light flares brightly, briefly challenging the sun in intensity, yet completely lacking any heat. As it dies down, a new particle phases into being throughout the Universe: Light Matter.

Χαος's Obelisk of Light calls Light Matter into being.

And so it is that light matter is created. It immediately radiates and pierces the world, both creating light whereever it interacts with anything larger than the smallest grain of sand, but also greatly charging anything it impacts. Most of it is still concentrated around the Light Obelisk, but a small part of it impacts the Dark Matter in orbit around the sun and the explosion is TITANIC.

The Dark Matter hole is still there of course, but the explosion is visible in the night sky above the world.

Three Aeons - 2nd Era, 2nd Day

The Obelisk of Machines thrums to life. Its vibrations resonate throughout the crystalline life forms surrounding it. The crystalline structures are slowly altered, making iteratively more complex formations.

Bit by bit, these formations start to connect and interact with others, creating wondorous mosaics. Golden spirals and fractals abound as shards merge and intertwine.

Indifferent to the fact that they are bereft of the soul spark at the center of all elementals, they nevertheless start to show increasing intelligence as they augment and construct themselves.

Χαος's Obelisk of Machines begins to mutate the surrounding crystal life forms.

The machines immediately hum to life, housed in crystal, the Shardi are born. They immediately understand who it was that gave them intelligence and slowly begin a pace of self improvement and self augmentation. Their intelligence is vast but their thinking is slow and their movement slower.

As time passes for living celluar 'regular' creatures much faster than all elementals except dragons (who see all time) it is equally divergent between elementals and the Shardi, but they already discern the nature of the world and how they came into being.

Three Aeons - 2nd Era, 1rst Day

Χαος teaches the dragons the secrets to reincarnation.

Wide are the praises sung of Χαος.
Seven were left
Seven who had last lived to see the Titans
All the rest
Born since the time of their leaving
Forced to take on faith
The authorship of their works.
Not so any more
For every Dragon
Now is free of the True Death.
Reincarnation Shift In Form
Upon Death
Becoming Any Creature Now Living
Even those Elementals
Now Thought To Be Extinct
A Choice We Make
Upon Death
To Remember Our Previous Life
Or Not
But The Memories With Us Always Linger
Sleeping
Waiting For the Next Choice
A Dragon Soul
Is An Immortal Soul
Strong and Unstoppable
Great In Its Magnificence.
To Χαος we Sing Great Praise
And Reunite
In Our Infinite Diversity

All Dragons Gain the Power of True Reincarnation.

The Aeons - The Interum Between Eras

First Aeon, Between the First and Second Era

Rather than continue to delay the game I'm posting what I can with the energy I have. Play will resume after this starting tonight. Saved actions are still in your queue up to 3.

Upon the far face of each moon a statue shall be placed, ten meters tall and of solid stone, the one showing a person with upraised swords, face full of wrath, the other a person with hands held out to comfort. This statue instantly resonates on the world below making it a time to fight or show mercy at any given axiom of the moons, and as such when the three moons are in conjunction the skill of any fighter is increased a thousand fold.

Time passes as it always has for the elementals, who do not progress much in the time that passes. They learn to plan in the phases of the moon, and fight each other, but the changed elementals are so much more intelligent than them that they quickly subject the other elementals to servitude. There are some dragons who consider this, but consider all other creatures so much more insignificant than them that they largely ignore the others.

In the mean time, the single celled organisms created by Alexandra begin to mutate and evolve as time goes on, becoming plants and insects and a wide variety of other creatures. The world begins to become teeming with life, which is largely ignored by the elementals. Giant dinosaurs walk the earth and bear fleshy resemblances to the fire breathing dragons, who amuse themselves by breeding a few as pets.

The dragons tire of the constant fighting amongst the elementals and build a city for themselves atop the giant Blue Pillar on the opposite pole from Mt. Agni. They also build a set of impossibly steep and complex stairs that ascend it, but none dares climb it.

More time passes and the world is teeming with life. Some of the changed elementals figure out how to use the dark matter to make weapons and begin to kill the changed elementals that they don't like. The fighting is terrible and very soon, those elementals who haven't learned this fighting technique are wiped out. The base elementals are too numerous to be exterminated, but of the changed elementals, their numbers are reduced to 13 in number.

As the Titans are forgotten by almost all (except the Dragons) the changed elementals begin to worship the dragons. Most of the dragons ignore this, but some dragons enjoy it and try to use the changed elementals as a fighting force. Some dragons take offense at this. This causes more and more hostility between the two factions, those that want to use the elementals and those that do that eventually many of the dragons choose sides and begin an intricate game of politics. Then one of the dragons from the freedom side poisons one of the dragons of the order side with some dark matter.

This starts a long and terrible war, which reaches its creschendo at the battle of three moons when their already considerable powers are magnified a thousand fold. Much of the life on the world is exterminated, and the number of changed elemental tribes is reduced to four. Thus, a 'greater' elemental now exists for every regular elemental; Giants (Earth), Kraken (Water), Djinn (Air), and Phoenix (Fire).

The dominion factions win and dragons now rule the world but their numbers are so reduced that they retreat deep into their fast holds in the mountains. Life has adapted and more mammals have begun to appear though dinousars still walk upon the face of the world. Plant and crystal life is abundant.

And the Titans return.