1/5 ??? 2024/02/22(Thu)11:31 No. 1084138 ID: 1effd3
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The small being struggles to wake, feeling gradually returning to her body. It’s cold, and the darkness is oppressing. She manages to get to her feet and open her eyes.

2/5 ??? 2024/02/22(Thu)11:35 No. 1084141 ID: 1effd3
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“Where… am I?”

Surrounded by darkness, a faint light shows itself along the crumbling path. Instinctually, she began to walk towards the light.

“What’s this?”

3/5 ??? 2024/02/22(Thu)11:37 No. 1084142 ID: 1effd3
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The faint light was coming from a staff nearly twice her height. It looked worn and bleached, one of the only things of white in this endless black, surrounded by bleached bricks and ornate stonework.

“It’s… ok to take this… right?”

4/5 ??? 2024/02/22(Thu)11:38 No. 1084143 ID: 1effd3
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...

5/5 ??? 2024/02/22(Thu)11:40 No. 1084144 ID: 1effd3
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MAKE YOUR WILL KNOWN.

Give me a son

>>1084144
Yes, hi, hello. Someone ordered an otherworldly consciousness?

I like this place, my will is to see more of it.

I want to see some people.

Ask the light how many wishes you get.

PINEAPPLEEEEEEEES!

Ask for more light in this endless darkness

To seek truth.

Feed me CORN DOGSSSSS.

WE ARE THE ONES WHO SEEK ETERNITY
ALL THE STARS IN THE WORLD, RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES
OUR WILL IS THE ONE OF WHO SEEKS GLORY AND FAMILY
A SON WILL SUFFICE, HIS STRENGTH UNMACHED
TO LEAD US TORWARDS A BRAVE NEW WORLD
TO REACH THE TRUTH AND THE BEGGINING
LET OUR WORDS RESONATE FROM NOTHING
AND LET THERE BE LIGHT
...
also a cheeseburger pls we hungy

APOTHEOSIS

DIVIDE THE DARKNESS FROM THE LIGHT

Reclaim your name

>>1084144
"Where am I?"
"What are you?"

Good starts little one.
Small step to begin a journey.

greetings

>>1084144
I demand knowledge and understanding

Silv 2024/02/23(Fri)15:04 No. 1084315 ID: 1effd3
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>Yes, hi, hello. Someone ordered an otherworldly consciousness?
>Greetings

“AH! Y-you speak??”

>Reclaim your name.

“My name? It’s… I think… Silv? Or is it Mithra? They both feel correct to me…”

>"Where am I?", "What are you?"
Good starts little one. Small step to begin a journey.

“I… I don’t know where we are. I’m… uhh…”

>WE ARE THE ONES WHO SEEK ETERNITY
ALL THE STARS IN THE WORLD, RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES
OUR WILL IS THE ONE OF WHO SEEKS GLORY AND FAMILY
A SON WILL SUFFICE, HIS STRENGTH UNMATCHED
TO LEAD US TOWARDS A BRAVE NEW WORLD
TO REACH THE TRUTH AND THE BEGINNING
LET OUR WORDS RESONATE FROM NOTHING
AND LET THERE BE LIGHT
>Give me a son

“Sorry, I’m confused?”

>Feed us pineapples/cheese burgers/corndogs!

“Are those food? I’m actually kind of hungry…”

Silv 2024/02/23(Fri)15:05 No. 1084316 ID: 1effd3
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>I like this place, my will is to see more of it.
>I want to see some people.
>To seek truth
>Ask for more light in this endless darkness
>DIVIDE THE DARKNESS FROM THE LIGHT

“More light would be nice. Could you make some…? Please?”

Silv 2024/02/23(Fri)15:05 No. 1084317 ID: 1effd3
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Silv holds the staff above her head as the light from it steadily gets brighter. As it brightens, you can better see your immediate surroundings. There's a few ruined walls, crumbling bits of furniture, scraps of fabric, grass, and… a black thing chewing on something. Oh, and a great deal of infinite nothingness around you.

“Oh, that’s much better! There’s… not much around here.”

>I demand knowledge and understanding

“I agree. I don’t really know who I am besides my name, and I don’t know anything about you either…”

“Do you have a name? And what should we investigate first?”

Black thing. Participate in the food chain.

Eye of Infinite Psyche

Check out that black thingy over there.

We are Bob

There is no name for us; we are legion, with many names, and no name.

Go to black thing.

>>1084317
To the black thing but cautiously.
Dont want to be the next thing it decides to chew on eh?

Oh and, yeah.
No idea what we are, but bob is as good a name as any

>>1084315
You're not sure of your own name? Curious. Well, your (metaphysical?) nametag says Silv, so I suppose that's what I'll call you. An interesting thing about "Mithra" is that it's a name associated with a deity. Are you in any way divine?

>>1084317
Oh, asking a name of us is an exercise in futility. "Voices" or "Eye" will do.

>>1084317
We are The Eye That Sees Infinity. Tetsi for short.

That black thing is an anomaly. Approach with caution.

The ground stops for no reason. It was obviously cut out from around here. How can you get back the rest of the ground? That might be where the food is.

Be wary of the black thing.

D'aww, she's cute.

And yeah, I guess approach the black thing? New frend get? Fingers crossed?

Say hello to what remains when a world dies. Congratulations on surviving the final chapters of the apocalypse.

Now investigate the shadowy bug-thing in front of you.

We are legion, bob, tetsi, I, Eye of Infinite Psyche, etc. We have no name. We have all names We wan't to see the black thing. We want to bash the black thing. We don't know what is the black thing. Is the black thing a son? Is it food? We are curious, hungry, happy, sad. We want food. We want a son. We want ourselves and you. We are everything and nothing. We must go. We must make the nothing into something. Let's spread the light into this nothing. Let's go to the black thing. Let's start our journey.

>My name? It’s… I think… Silv? Or is it Mithra? They both feel correct to me…
Greetings Silv Mithra, I notice you're left handed, I also notice that the path to your right there is something laying next to the ruble there.

We are so many, different voices, different wits, different wills, one body. Call us how you like it more, little one.

We should go to check that little creature right there, perhaps know more than us, perhaps know less than us, or perhaps is an enemy, so be cautious.

>>1084325
Tetsi's good. Though trust me, infinity's not all it's chocked up to be.

1/3 Silv 2024/02/24(Sat)14:21 No. 1084443 ID: 1effd3
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>Eye of Infinite Psyche
>The Eye That Sees Infinity. Tetsi for short.
>Asking a name of us is an exercise in futility. "Voices" or "Eye" will do.
>We are so many, different voices, different wits, different wills, one body. Call us how you like it more, little one.

“I suppose I’ll call you ‘The Eye’ for now.”

>You're not sure of your own name? Curious. Well, your (metaphysical?) name tag says Silv, so I suppose that's what I'll call you. An interesting thing about "Mithra'' is that it's a name associated with a deity. Are you in any way divine?
>say hello to what remains when a world dies. Congratulations on surviving the final chapters of the apocalypse.

“When a world dies?? Is that why I don’t remember anything? Also I don’t feel particularly divine…”

>That black thing is an anomaly.
>Cautiously investigate the black thing.

“Everything is kind of black around here though…”

Silv slowly approaches the back of the pile of debris that the creature is currently by. It looks like a weird kind of slug? It doesn’t seem to react to her, and appears to be eating… a rock? Just… a rock?

”I’m pretty sure rocks aren’t edible… Ugh, I just remembered that I’m hungry.”

”It doesn’t look too dangerous… I need something to eat, but I don’t know if that thing is edible–”

2/3 Silv 2024/02/24(Sat)14:21 No. 1084444 ID: 1effd3
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POMPH

3/3 Silv 2024/02/24(Sat)14:22 No. 1084445 ID: 1effd3
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The creature expels something from its back, faintly glowing and floating along gently. It’s shape strange, but not entirely abstract.

“...Should I pick it up?”

Take the glowy thing.

>>1084445
sure, when has picking up strange glowing things ever gone wrong for us?

Ah yes, a pictograph. This one means you should do a headstand.

And yes pick it up, not like we've got a much else going on.

Pick it up, but be cautious

Either it's trying to communicate, or it's converting stones into... some sort of a product, because this isn't what poop normally looks like.

Why not ? We like kinda abstract shapes. Don't you ?
Also, poke the creature with us. Using the non-eye end, please.

Do not take the sigil! It is for us. Touch us to the sigil, and let us claim our right to it.

>>1084445
Itnlooks like an attempt at communication.
Respond in kind.

I guess you could talk, but it may only recognise gaseous emissions as language.

We imagine an alphabet greater than all the languages in the nothing of the world. But it is empty, we must put the letters in it. Is this a letter? The only way to know is to interact with it.

Use us to take the glowy thing.

Stick us in it. Glowing runes are my favorite food.

1/3 Silv 2024/02/25(Sun)19:33 No. 1084541 ID: 1effd3
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>Pick up the glowing thing.
>Interact with it.
>Caution, use us to touch it.

Silv extends The Eye over the creature, careful not to disturb it. The Eye touches the strange object and… nothing happens. It just floats off a little bit.


“I guess it’s safe to touch it?” ,Silv says as she reaches for it.

“It’s… pleasantly warm.”

2/3 Silv 2024/02/25(Sun)19:34 No. 1084542 ID: 1effd3
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>Glowing runes are my favorite food.

Silv’s stomach growls.

“...”

NOM

3/3 Silv 2024/02/25(Sun)19:35 No. 1084543 ID: 1effd3
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Silv coughs violently!

“BAD IDEA IT’S REALLY HOT!!!”
“Why did I think that was a good idea?!”

Silv gained the ability to learn and use runes!
Silv learned the Flare Rune!

As Silv introspects and regrets her decisions, you feel something has changed about you.

— — —

Name: Silv Mithra:

Race:???

Class Archetype: Spellcaster
Class: None


Abilities:

Skitter: Increased speed for movement and actions.
Runelearner: Can learn the fundamentals of the universe, runes.

Spells: Flare

Special Equipment: The Eye

—

Name: The Eye/Tetsi

Class: Artifact

Abilities:

Illuminate: Lights up the area around the Eye.
Weak Identify(shared): Can be used to identify creatures and objects.
Weak Dowsing: Locates the closest ‘target’ to self, guides in a direction. Can also place markers on objects and locations to find them again. Limit 1 marker.

>>1084543
Hmm. So what does this Weak Dowsing thing target? Activate it.

>>1084543
Until recently it was inside another living creature.
Id expect some warmth to...
Oh.
It was a flare rune.
That explains it.

Try to Parp out some thankyou gasses to our new best friend with the weird language.
Im convinced this is how they talk.

Alright let's Identify the dark sludge creature.

Hey! Now what are we gonna eat?!

> Name: Silv Mithra:

> Race:???

Anyway, cast Identify on yourself.

It is us that commands the power of identification. And you, Silv Mithra, are identified to us as Runelearner and Skitterer; as one charged with heeding our word.

Let this slug will now be identified to us, as well. Our dowsing immediately drew us to its power, the source of runes, we will hereby mark it, that we might return to it and add to your powers of creation in the future.

Silv Runelearner, you are to summon a flare, to cast further light into the void. Let us see the vastness of its expanse!

Let's place a marker right where we were. For all we know, it could be the gate to get us out of this cluster.

Time to [scan everything].

We are gonna keep the cute slug that creates runes and we are going to name it "Scrunkly", for he shall be adopted as our son. This is not negotiable. Also, Silv, sweetie, next time you eat something, please don't eat slug rune poop, its bad for your heatlh.

identify the black thing

You must be really hungry to try and eat that. It came out of a weird bug thing. Well, you look like a bug thing too, so maybe it's normal for you? What do you usually eat?

As for us, we should mark our current location, so that we may find our way back to it if need be.

1/4 Silv 2024/02/27(Tue)19:10 No. 1084758 ID: 1effd3
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>You must be really hungry to try and eat that. It came out of a weird bug thing. Well, you look like a bug thing too, so maybe it's normal for you? What do you usually eat?

“I don’t know, I was following your lead!”

>Anyway, cast Identify on yourself.

Silv seems to have already triggered Weak Identify with her earlier introspection.

>Identify the creature
>SCAN EVERYTHING
>We are gonna keep the cute slug

“I guess we can keep it? It’s not like there's anywhere it could go.”
After a few more coughs, Silv picks herself up and casts Weak Identify on the strange creature, still eating some rocks.

Voidling

“Weak Identity is, well, weak. I guess I got more info before because it targeted myself…?”
Silv tries to identify everything she can on her small island, to much similar results, however, it doesn’t work on the stonework circle.

Rock, dirt, grass.

“We didn’t learn much about anything, huh Tetsi?”

2/4 Silv 2024/02/27(Tue)19:11 No. 1084759 ID: 1effd3
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>Summon a flare, to cast further light into the void. Let us see the vastness of its expanse!
“Flare!”
Silv creates a mote of fire, and throws it into the void. It floats for a bit before dissipating.
“The expanse is indeed vast.”

>Use Weak Dowsing
>Leave a marker on the circle.

“Dowsing, locate, uhh… food?”
[i]Upon activating the spell, several glowing arrows begin to rotate around SIlv and The Eye in multiple directions. Several point at the nearby weeds and grass and quickly vanish, while others quickly fizzle out without any target. Only one arrow remains, slowly moving to a stop, pointing somewhere into the void.

3/4 Silv 2024/02/27(Tue)19:11 No. 1084760 ID: 1effd3
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Silv walks up to the edge of her island and looks down into the vast nothingness, and back to where dowsing pointed.
“...Tetsi if you have an idea, I’d love to hear it-”

KRACK

The edge of the island crumbles from the additional weight of the Voidling that crawled up behind her, and she begins to fall.

4/4 Silv 2024/02/27(Tue)19:11 No. 1084761 ID: 1effd3
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Silv screams and closes her eyes, tightly hugging The Eye as she falls.

She stays like this for a while, until something latches onto her tail. Slowly opening her eyes, she sees she’s only fallen a few feet away from the island, and that the Voidling from before stuck itself to her tail.

“We’re… not dead? We’re not dead!”,she says as she starts flailing around, trying to reach the island.
After some really bad swimming movements, she manages to reach the island again, Voidling still stuck to her tail.

“OK, not going to die by falling… still really, really dark though. Are we really going to follow Dowsing?”

Silv’s stomach growls.

>>1084761
Hmm. Well, you can try picking up those other things Dowsing pointed at. Grass and stones. See if either of those are edible for you. Keeping some stones on you could be useful for maneuvering in the void as well. Throw a stone and you'll be propelled in the other direction.

Since we can float, you could take a running jump to launch yourself into the void in the direction of the main Dowsing signal.

Before leaving, can you crawl under the island to check if there's anything there? Get a feel for how this gravity works while solid ground is still here.

>>1084770
Oooh, old school Spelljammer gravity? I dig it

>>1084761
Daww.
Youve got a pet now silv.
Lil' buddy for life.
Plus he might emit more runes which is a cool trick.
I think you should call him "pooty"

>>1084770
Seconding this.
For all we know there could be another surface if gravity shifts beneath.

Im suspecting we may have to adapt to unconventional three dimensional thinking in this void.

>Are we really going to follow Dowsing?”
you're still hungry aren't you?

Also I think I might have figured out what you are. You have a magical item that grants you powers, a cute mascot like creature following you around... you might just be a magic girl.

The slug proves its value as a companion not only for its ability to bestow upon you runes, but its loyalty and steadfastness. We owe it nothing less in return.

If this ruined splinter of land truly contains no sustenance suitable for you, then we must strike out into the void. I trust you to be able to tell if the plants that yet cling to this clod are digestible to you; if they are not, then we must explore. The dowsing may provide a way to navigate in the empty vastness when our other senses fail; should it come to such exploration, trust in your powers, and cast off.

Follow the dowsing, it's the only direction we got at the moment. But before we go, take some rocks with you. It's what our new pet eats, apparently.

We're the only light, so everything you see that is dark will stop being dark, once you bring us there. It might take a while. Maybe if you got a running start you could keep up the momentum?

1/3 Silv 2024/03/01(Fri)15:50 No. 1085015 ID: 1effd3
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>Food and Dowsing
>Check under island
>Investigate Gravity

“Guess we are…”
Silv pulls the voidling off her tail, and slowly crawls off the island's edge. She learns that there’s nothing under the island,gravity stays aligned to the island's surface, and that she is really bad at swimming. After she crawls back on the island, she uses Dowsing again to place a marker, figure out her heading again.

>Name the Voiding Pooty
“We are not naming it Pooty. We can name it when we get back,” Silv says, dragging the Voidling onto the pile of rocks that it was eating previously.”I don’t know if you understand me, but stay here until me and Tetsi get back ok?”
The voidling returns to peacefully eating rocks.

2/3 Silv 2024/03/01(Fri)15:50 No. 1085016 ID: 1effd3
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“Ok, I can do this. I can do this… Ready Tetsi? Here we go!”
Silv goes to the furthest end of her island, and starts running towards her Dowsing target, obscured by the Void. She leaps into the unknown, screaming as she does so.

>I think I might have figured out what you are. A Magical Girl!
“I am a girl, and I know a spell, so I guess so?” Silv replies, flailing about the darkness around her, following her glowing arrow.

3/3 Silv 2024/03/01(Fri)15:50 No. 1085017 ID: 1effd3
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After a few minutes of swimming badly in the Void, Silv reaches another island. It’s bigger than the one she started on, but this one has strange architecture and is hazy. Dowsing stops working once she gets on the island, so she’ll have to look around the hard way.

“Where should we look first?”
-Road
-Metal Boxes
-Strange Vehicles

>Metal boxes
THE COWARDS, THE FEEEEWLS!

Look in the boxes.

Let's go check out the metal boxes. They look like we call "dumpsters". Could always be some usable stuff in them.

If my assessment is correct, a myriapoda like yourself should find much sustenance in the box. It may require a bit of digging, but I trust that you will find something comestible within.

And failing that, you may make interesting discoveries that illustrate the nature of the place you're exploring.

>>1085015
Tell pooty to be a good boy and mama silv will bring him back a nice rock to eat.

>>1085017
I agree with the others.
Highest chance for food is in the boxes.
May not be pleasant but better than nothing.

>>1085022
Silverfish aren't myriapods, tho, they're hexapods.

Make a quick check if the vehicles are unlocked, before you search the metal boxes.
This might be a good time to throw something back towards the home island to see if we'll need to transport anything we find by hand.

boxes are meant to hold things so probably start there.

>>1085017
It's a bizarre version of our world. Why are all the wheels sawed in half? W-
... Damnit. Noting else is significantly different. The rest looks like a typical day in the city. And what lurked in the night drove us insane.

Huh. Galvanized steel fences? And is that real glass in those two structures before you? Vehicles? How would they move?

>>1085059
I don't think they have wheels. I think we're seeing the wheel wells.

1/2 Silv 2024/03/03(Sun)11:46 No. 1085220 ID: 1effd3
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>Metal Boxes
>Check the boxes
>Boxes usually have food.
Avoiding the cracks in the road proves tricky with the local haze, with Silv almost tripping several times. The smaller box is sealed up pretty tight, and SIlv is unable to open it. It is quite heavy as she pushes it next to the larger box, and climbs up to open the larger one. Inside is a bunch of garbage, a voidling, and a new type of rune?

Tremor Rune obtained! Silv learned Tremor!

“I’d rather not eat garbage if I can avoid it… I’ll do it if I can’t find anything else, because I also don’t want to eat a rune again.”

2/2 Silv 2024/03/03(Sun)11:46 No. 1085221 ID: 1effd3
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—
>This might be a good time to throw something back towards the home island to see if we'll need to transport anything we find by hand.

“Ah… I don’t have a bag.”
”This stuff is too heavy for me to lift… and my free hand has this rune… what should I do?”
-Look for bag
-Try new spell
-Something else?

Use Tremor on one of the cars.

>>1085220
Listen, eating the rune is the best way to keep it safe, who can steal if from you if it's in your stomach?

Well, it's fine if we just leave things lying around. Use the world as our backpack... until we find a bag.

Let's check the cars now. Uh, the vehicles.

>>1085221
Try absorbing the rune, maybe there are ways other than eating it?

You mean you need to hold he runes to cast the associated spell? That can't be right, when we used identify on you it said you can learn them. In fact, we are pretty sure you learned Tremor already, we could see it happen. Just drop the rune and try to use your new spell on the locked box.
And if it doesn't work, well, we are sorry but you may need to eat this rune too.

>>1085221

So, those weird carriages. The original riders may have left anything.
Bags, food anything.
Could be a myriad of supplies in there for you silv.

Feed us the rune! We're hungry too!

>Look for bag
There's a fair chance of a bag in one of those vehicles.

Try pressing the rune to our eye. Or just tuck it into your hair for safekeeping.

You still lack sustenance, Runelearner. Employ your dowsing ability once more to locate food; you should be much closer than before.

1/4 Silv 2024/03/06(Wed)13:05 No. 1085590 ID: 1effd3
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—
>Feed us the rune!
>Try absorbing the rune.
“We tried giving you the rune already. If you didn't absorb it, I don't think I can, except by eating it.”

>Tuck it into your hair for safekeeping.
“I suppose I could do that,” Silv says, putting the Tremor rune under her hat.

>Use Tremor.
>You mean you need to hold the runes to cast the associated spell? That can't be right, when we used identify on you it said you can learn them. In fact, we are pretty sure you learned Tremor already, we could see it happen. Just drop the rune and try to use your new spell on the locked box.
“I don’t need the rune to cast the spell. I think I just need to obtain the rune to learn the spell. I’m not sure what else I can use the rune itself for… besides a terrible snack.”
Silv casts Tremor on the locked box, and it begins to rise! Well actually, the chunk of rock UNDER the locked box begins to rise.
“We can lift rocks now! Let’s see if I can bash this box open…”
After several rock assaults on the top of the box, Silv managed to open it enough for her to look inside. Inside is an assortment of junk, but the most important thing is a few bags of food!

2/4 Silv 2024/03/06(Wed)13:06 No. 1085592 ID: 1effd3
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>You still lack sustenance, Runelearner. Employ your dowsing ability once more to locate food; you should be much closer than before.
“NOM NOM NOM”
”I think weak dowsing only gives a general area since it stopped working when we got here.”

3/4 Silv 2024/03/06(Wed)13:07 No. 1085593 ID: 1effd3
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>Let's check the cars now. Uh, the vehicles.
>Use Tremor on one of the cars.
>There's a fair chance of a bag in one of those vehicles.

Silv tries to open the vehicles to no avail, so she starts bashing them with rocks using Tremor. After a while, she manages to break in, get some bottles of water, additional food, and a very worn bag.

“I should be able to move the metal box with Tremor, and bring it back with me. Is there anything else around here I should take–”

4/4 Silv 2024/03/06(Wed)13:07 No. 1085594 ID: 1effd3
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Something is off.

-Leave
-Investigate

Unsure. I'm leaning slightly towards leaving, acquiring more spells, then coming back to investigate once we can cast e.g. Disintegrate or Time Stop, haha

We could...hide in a car and observe? Might backfire.

The light went out? Or, does it just not reach anymore... Is the thing above us? Our eye is looking up.
Anyway, we should leave right now. Shove what you found in your bag and skedaddle. We are not equipped to fight existential threats.

Well, bashing things with chunks of rock makes a lot of noise. Maybe it attracted more voidslugs ?
Try levitating on a piece of rock with tremor to look around from above. Be careful not to fall.

>>1085594
Investigate

Cowardice is unbecoming. There is no call for fear; let the promise of knowledge calm your nerves, and identify what is off and why.

well you did find the food you came here to find, and you got a voidling back home waiting for you so might as well take off.

Dowse for trouble.

>>1085594

Maybe the noise drew sonethings attention.

Time for caution silv.

Leaving isnt necessarily the safest choice.
You will be exposed and vulnerable when drifting back to home rock.

Before you do that, you need to be sure whatever is making your antennae itch isnt something more adapted to the void than you.
Otherwise itd be like trying to escape a shark by choosing to swim.

If it looks like it wont be able to do anything to you while leaving, can reconsider then.

>>1085623
And make it double! I mean, uh, dowse for... hmm what would be most likely to constitute a danger? Try dowsing for minds.

>>1085594
So how do you feel about rocks for breakfast? Boulder-sized ones.

Watch the stars, you might be about to get grabbed. Otherwise, if you aren’t in immediate danger you should stay quiet and listen before moving somewhere else.

Yes investigate the ground, investigate any changes in light, any strange sounds... start by investigating the inside of the vehicle you busted open as a potential hiding spot.

1/4 Silv 2024/03/09(Sat)18:06 No. 1085950 ID: 1effd3
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>>1085628
>>1085684
>>1085595
>>1085707
Silv crawls into one of the vehicles, trying her best not to make a sound. Looking up, all she sees is void and the occasional speck of light.

Some of the specks are moving, and something is moving in front of the void. Something big. Silv dares not breathe.

>Cowardice is unbecoming. There is no call for fear; let the promise of knowledge calm your nerves, and identify what is off and why.
”I think fear is perfectly acceptable right now, but I’ll try.”
”...Identify.”Silv whispers, looking up at the void.

Voidling

”THAT IS NOT A VOIDLING.”

2/4 Silv 2024/03/09(Sat)18:06 No. 1085951 ID: 1effd3
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>Try dowsing for minds.
>Dowse for trouble.
”I don’t think dowsing can do any of that, and I’d rather get out of here!”

>Investigate the ground, investigate any changes in light, any strange sounds...
Silv strains her eyes trying to see the “voidling” above her, but only seeing the darkness of its form blocking the void, barely making out what appear to be arms, lazily reaching outwards. It’s hard to tell, but it looks to be grabbing large chunks of debris…
...and it just grabbed the dumpster.
”TIME TO GO.”

3/4 Silv 2024/03/09(Sat)18:07 No. 1085952 ID: 1effd3
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Silv dashes towards the edge of the island in an instant, while the dumpster slowly ascends into the darkness. She leaps into the void, and keeps going.

4/4 Silv 2024/03/09(Sat)18:08 No. 1085954 ID: 1effd3
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It feels like an eternity, but she finally returns to her island. Exhausted, Silv lays down next to the crumbling wall. The voidling from before is still here, and moves up next to her.
“Oh, you’re still here? You’re much less scary than that other voidling. I did say we’d name you when we got back… Tetsi, can you keep watch while thinking up some names…? I kinda like… Voidy…” yawns Silv, as her exhaustion takes her.[/i]

SUGGEST NAMES FOR THE VOIDLING

>SUGGEST NAMES FOR THE VOIDLING
Bugsy. As for why I picked that name (looks at Silv)... no idea really.

He's our son! :D Let's call him Son.

Noid

Hmm. Do we want an on-the-nose name, equivalent to "spot" or "puddles"? We could go with "Onyx", "Poots", or "Licorice".

If not, dunno, roll the dice; "Sammy", "Miss Sprinkles", "Mr Gobgob", "The Snark", "Jim"....

Also. This suggests an ecosystem (try to avoid being on the business end of it) - if dumpsters are being eaten on the regular, that suggests dumpsters are coming from somewhere, on the regular. I guess keep your eyes peeled for it.

>>1085594
(I opened this up in an image editor and messed with the levels, you can indeed see the thing.)

>>1085950
Oh it's a... let's call it a Behemoth Voidling. Not sure if that was actually dangerous... It looks like a... flat volcano. Smoking calderas on its back, multiple arms. Considering the voidlings so far have been eating inorganic matter it probably wouldn't have tried to eat you on purpose, but if it was eating the island then it probably wouldn't have been a good idea to stay there anyway.

>>1085954
>name the little voidling
Flan.

>>1085954
Pooty.
It was the first noise he made when you met him.

Hmm.
I wonder what the extent of our abilities are?
Maybe we can cast our senses a little wider so we can warn our tired ward earlier if something does drift close?

Void behemoth is abgood name.
Fortunately it seems to be a grazer rather than a pursuit predator.
No less scary if one floats up on silvs honerock, but at least escapable.

>>1085954
Voidy? That'd be like calling you Si- oh. Sure, Voidy is fine.

>>1085954
Pootis

Not only from nothing, but to nothing, as well, it would seem. These creatures great and small seem to consume any remaining matter they can reach. Will the giant produce and equally giant rune?

As for our valiant companion, who provided the first rune to expand our powers, we owe a noble name. "Prometheus," I suggest, as it is this slug who brought us the gift of fire, and our first whiff of the empyrean magicks.

Flarey. He did cough up the flare rune after all.

1/3 Silv 2024/03/12(Tue)14:44 No. 1086217 ID: 1effd3
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After a long and dreamless sleep, Silv wakes to a new day(?), Tetsi in hand. It was much nicer than when she first woke up!

“Good morning Tetsi. Did anything happen while I was asleep?” Silv asks.
>Behemoth Voidling. Not sure if that was actually dangerous... It looks like a... flat volcano. Smoking calderas on its back, multiple arms. Considering the voidlings so far have been eating inorganic matter it probably wouldn't have tried to eat you on purpose, but if it was eating the island then it probably wouldn't have been a good idea to stay there anyway.
>Void behemoth is a good name. Fortunately it seems to be a grazer rather than a pursuit predator.
“I suppose that is a good name for the… ‘Voidling’ from yesterday. Even if it wasn’t going to harm us, I really didn’t want to stay. Oh, what happened to the voidling we had? Did you guys come up with a name yet?”

>Names: Prometheus, Flan, Pooty, Pootis, Noid, Son, Bugsy, Voidy, Flarey
“Those are some good names. I think I like Flan the most, it’s better than my suggestion. So where is Flan?”
Silv looks around for Flan, which isn’t difficult when there’s only 1 wall on the island. The voidling seems to have produced a new rune!

2/3 Silv 2024/03/12(Tue)14:44 No. 1086218 ID: 1effd3
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Stream rune Obtained! Silv learned Stream.
Silv has gained a deeper understanding of Runes.

“Stream? Like water…?...Hey!” Silv checks her bag, Flan ate one of her water bottles! How rude! “Flan, you can’t eat my things!”
“Blek.”
Flan feels different somehow.
COMPANION RECRUITED

3/3 Silv 2024/03/12(Tue)14:44 No. 1086219 ID: 1effd3
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“Identify!”

— — —
Name: Flan

Race: Voidling
Natrualborn of the Void, they consume and recycle all that exists. Smaller voidlings can only eat matter that breaks down into the most basic of runes.

Abilities:
Breakdown:Voidlings consume any matter for sustenance, and convert it into runes. It is not a fast or efficient process.

”Did Identify get stronger? Or is it because Flan is my friend now?” Silv wonders.

—

Name: Silv Mithra:

Race:???

Class Archetype: Spellcaster
Class: None


Abilities:

Runelearner: Can learn the fundamentals of the universe, runes.
Skitter: Increased speed for movement and actions.

Spells: Flare, Tremor, Stream

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Updated Abilities:
Runelearner: Silv now has the ability to invert runes into their opposites, convert physical runes into other known runes, and combine runes into greater runes. There are more applications for runes.
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“I can use runes for stuff? Before we figure out what to do next, should we try this out? We have a Tremor and a Stream rune at the moment.”

Use Stream to create a waterfall to traverse the void on.

>>1086219
I wonder if this means that behemoth voidling was producing complex runes? Maybe those are the "stars" we see in the sky!

>do stuff with runes?
Tremor is very useful and we don't know if it will be removed from our spell list if we use it for inversion or combination, so let's experiment with Stream. Invert it!

Try out stream, aimed off the side of the island just in case its stronger then expected.

Start by trying out Stream. We don't know what inversion would do to it, we don't want to lose it if it's good. Flare is a better candidate for inversion I think, it just makes fire, and there isn't much around to set fire to. And we shouldn't burn what little matter is still around anyway.
And try to feed food to Flan, to see what rune it turns into.

Seems pretty straightforward; get your island self-sufficient and mobile, then scavenge the void for components and tamable voidlings to power your rune farm, which you can mass produce and experiment with to create stronger runes until you can create a new world.

>>1086232
But we don't have the flare rune anymore, unless... uh Silv did you swallow that whole?

>>1086238
>convert physical runes into other known runes
we should be able to turn any rune into Flare

Oh, I guess we could try to "retrieve" the Flare rune. Except, Silv just ate. Better to do it when her stomach is empty.

Don't worry I'm sure we'll get Flare rune back in due time. ;) ;)

Wait is Flare the opposite of Stream? Tremor is incredibly useful I don't want to mess it up by inverting it. If you combine Tremor and Stream I suppose you'll get... ...mud?

>>1086247
I mean, generally "opposite" is a bidirectional quality so if we invert Tremor into anything else, we should be able to get Tremor back by inverting it again, right?

...You slept for a while. That big voidling is probably gone now...

Go back to where that strange island you visited was. There could be a really good rune there now!

>>1086219
Class: none.

I resent that.
Silv is classy.
She didnt eat out of a dumpster when given the chance AND didn't name her new buddy flan after an amusing fart noise.
Pure.
Class.

Inverted runes?
Well, inverting flow would dry or dessecate if it produces water normally but perhaps I'm being too literal.
Tremor moves rocks after all, not so much shaking them apart.
Seeing an inverted rune may give us more understanding on how these work so, I say breakfast followed immediately by experiments.

It just occurred to me, the flow i was speaking of was stream.

Distracted by thoughts of the kind of runes a void behemoth could be building
Apologies silv.

I still say experiment time is on the cards.
A single usage rightly aligned then a single use inverted.
The latter more cautiously though.

Inverted flare my bring darkness, but it may also bring cold. Flare implies energy, light, life and heat.

Inverted stream may dessicate and dry, but it could also solidify things.
Stream implies flowing motion, liquid like. Its inverted form may suspend motion.

Tremor was used to move a rock. In one sense it moved a part of an object away from its whole.
Inverted it could simply bring stasis, but it could potentially bring a sundered object back together. A repair.

The reason im hypothesising this way about the runes is this.
They may have literal, rudimentary uses, but the target of a rune may be as much of a component of the resulting effect as the rune itself.

There may be far more to them than simple but useful magics their literal implementation implies.
Interpretation and mastery may lead you to more nuanced and curious effects, rune wielder Silv.

1/5 Silv 2024/03/15(Fri)16:45 No. 1086491 ID: 1effd3
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>But we don't have the flare rune anymore, unless... uh Silv did you swallow that whole?
>Don't worry I'm sure we'll get Flare rune back in due time. ;)
“I don’t like your implications here.”
>>convert physical runes into other known runes
>we should be able to turn any rune into Flare
“I’m still able to use Flare without the physical rune. I think when I ate it, it gave me Runelearner?”
>That big voidling is probably gone now… Go back to where that strange island you visited was.
“Even if I wanted to, I have no idea how to get back there.”

2/5 Silv 2024/03/15(Fri)16:45 No. 1086492 ID: 1effd3
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>Start by trying out Stream.
>Use Stream to create a waterfall to traverse the void on.
Silv casts her new Stream spell, where it conjures a small stream of water. Not powerful, but could put out a fire.
“I guess I don’t have to worry about water any more, but that doesn’t excuse you for eating one of my bottles Flan!”
“Blek!”

3/5 Silv 2024/03/15(Fri)16:45 No. 1086493 ID: 1effd3
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>>1086354
>Seeing an inverted rune may give us more understanding on how these work so, I say breakfast followed immediately by experiments.
After a small breakfast of potato chips for Silv, and some more rubble from around the island for Flan, Silv began experimenting. Inverting the Stream rune resulted in a Flare rune, and inverting the Tremor rune resulted in a new rune.

Breeze Rune obtained! Silv learned Breeze.
“Ok, so Tremor inverts into Breeze and back, and Stream inverts into Flare and back.”

Trying her new spell, it produces a small gust, rustling a little grass and dust.
“I just realized, I don’t think I’ve felt any wind since I first woke up. It feels nice.”

4/5 Silv 2024/03/15(Fri)16:46 No. 1086494 ID: 1effd3
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>Seems pretty straightforward; get your island self-sufficient and mobile, then scavenge the void for components and tamable voidlings to power your rune farm, which you can mass produce and experiment with to create stronger runes until you can create a new world.

“That's great and all, but I have no idea how to do any of that. All I have is this rock, you and Flan, and these runes I don’t know how to use!” Silv pouts, throwing the runes across the island.
“It’s so barren here… a pond or something would be nice.”

—
Create pond?
>YES
-NO
—

5/5 Silv 2024/03/15(Fri)16:46 No. 1086495 ID: 1effd3
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Suddenly, the Stream rune dissipates into the ether, its presence replaced by the emergence of a tranquil pond.

“...Did I do that?”

>>1086495

Something sure did!

More importantly, runes can create lands, and resources! You should collect more!

The only question I have is should you invert Tremor or not? Would it be better if your island expanded with Tremor or Breeze?

Too bad you didn't combine Tremor and Stream. I bet that would have made a lot more land than the two lesser runes.

Interesting. Can you still use Stream without the rune ?
If you can, try using the Tremor rune in the same way to see if you can make more ground to expand your island.

CONGRATULATIONS! you can now create things to improve your island! Now quick, add blackjack an hookers to make sure your island is better then everyone else's by default.

Hey Silv, now that you had a breath of fresh air, er, breath of fresh runes, do you now have any idea of what is going on? How did you get here? Wait, how did we get here? Who are we?

Anything else you want? Go on, make a request.

Having obtained the breeze spell the question is; can our island move, and how do we construct a sail? That behemoth might show up again, and we don't want to loose everything if it does.

So the pond showed up when you thought about it, but there was the option to refuse. Test this out with the tremor rune. Think about some earthy things, like hills or boulders, and see if the option appears but choose no. Can you turn Tremor into only one thing or are there endless possibilities?

>>1086493
Good work silv!

Okay, it looks like the runes here are fundamental elements.
Fire and water generation.
Earth and air manipulation.
Interaction with specific targets may tender varied results, but theyre excellent foundations.
Hmm.
It could be worth seeing if flare-stream allows you to manipulate existant matter of their domains and if tremor-breeze allows you to conjour earth and air into existance.

My reasoning behind this request is that
The runes may grant more than just a single spell,
it may be that they are the key which allows you to enforce your will upon that aspect of reality.
Some uses may be easier to achieve for certain aspects, like a natural use, but it could be capableof so much more albeit with grwater difficukty.

Oh! Silv, an idea!
Can you maybe use the breeze to help you control your floating a bit more when you travel the void?

And good work with that pond.
Looks real nice.
Make sure flan doesnt drink it all.

Tremor is now the only rune we possess. I think we should hold onto it for experimentation. After dowsing for more runes, I want to try combining some, and seeing what we can forge from the four elements. Or maybe there are more? An aether spell might be interesting in a world full of nothing.

We're new to this, but we've seen similar things.

You're a Void Survivor. A kind of lesser god.
It'll take time to build a new world, but there's an infinite supply of detritus from dead worlds and torn realities floating into the void, ready to be consumed.

For now, you have a raft, and we are the build tool.

I suggest we protect the center. Looks like our powers work best on this conduit, and I don't know if we can make another one, so build all your defenses around this circle thing.

1/2 Silv 2024/03/18(Mon)12:10 No. 1086676 ID: 1effd3
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>Something sure did! More importantly, runes can create lands, and resources! You should collect more! Too bad you didn't combine Tremor and Stream. I bet that would have made a lot more land than the two lesser runes.
>If you can, try using the Tremor rune in the same way to see if you can make more ground to expand your island.
>So the pond showed up when you thought about it, but there was the option to refuse. Test this out with the tremor rune. Think about some earthy things, like hills or boulders, and see if the option appears but choose no. Can you turn Tremor into only one thing or are there endless possibilities?
>>1086506
“I’m willing to use my last rune to see if I can expand my island, but it means we won't be able to experiment until we get more, and we need multiple runes to attempt combining them to see what happens.”
Silv focuses on the Tremor rune in her hands. She only has the option to expand the platform by a very small amount. A single rune doesn’t seem very powerful.

>Tremor is now the only rune we possess. I think we should hold onto it for experimentation. After dowsing for more runes, I want to try combining some, and seeing what we can forge from the four elements. Or maybe there are more? An aether spell might be interesting in a world full of nothing.
“I can turn runes into other runes, remember? I also think it’s too vague of a target for Dowsing.”

>Having obtained the breeze spell the question is; can our island move, and how do we construct a sail? That behemoth might show up again, and we don't want to lose everything if it does.
>CONGRATULATIONS! you can now create things to improve your island! Now quick, add blackjack and hookers to make sure your island is better than everyone else's by default.
“I’m not sure how a sail would work, but we would need a sail first, and a bunch of other stuff.”
“I don’t know what blackjack is? And do you mean hookers like fishing hooks…?”
“Actually… if we could move, could we hook the smaller bits to our island?”

2/2 Silv 2024/03/18(Mon)12:11 No. 1086677 ID: 1effd3
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>We're new to this, but we've seen similar things. You're a Void Survivor. A kind of lesser god. It'll take time to build a new world, but there's an infinite supply of detritus from dead worlds and torn realities floating into the void, ready to be consumed. For now, you have a raft, and we are the build tool. I suggest we protect the center. Looks like our powers work best on this conduit, and I don't know if we can make another one, so build all your defenses around this circle thing.
“You mean the stones where I first found you? I still can’t identify it, but you might be right.”

“I’m going to use the rune to expand the island, but we need to figure out what to do next. We need more food, something to make a sail, and maybe some stuff to build with. Dowsing should help us find all of those. We’ll hopefully find some runes while exploring too!”


Options for Weak Dowsing:
-Food
-Wood
-Cloth

Provide an Environmental keyword

>>1086677
>Options for Weak Dowsing
well, you already found food and you're wearing clothes, so the only one we don't have at all is wood I guess?

>Provide an Environmental keyword
floaty

Attempt to perform equal amounts of mining but also crafting.

>Provide an Environmental keyword
Stone.

Start with food production. If you have an unlucky streak and go weeks without finding a food island, it's over.

Keyword: POTATO

You might be able to fashion a sail out of wood and cloth! But the food situation is pretty dire. Most importantly, you need more runes.

Searching for anything should lead you to voidlings, which could produce runes. I say dowse for food, and search for runes while getting the food. Then combine the runes, and destroy them to further expand the island, to create a farm, to grow more food.

Once the food situation is managed, you can work on installing solar sails.

>>1086677
>>1086680
>>1086681
...wait a second.

>>1086219
>Natrualborn of the Void, they consume and recycle all that exists. Smaller voidlings can only eat matter that breaks down into the most basic of runes.
Is there anything in Silv's snacks that could be considered basic? Something like "plant" or "meat"? we could just give some to Flan to get a rune.

I'm going to go with food in the hopes of adding a fruit tree or a small farm to the island in the hopes of making it self sufficient just incase we ever hit a rough patch were we can't find anything around us or are forced to stay on the island for whatever reason.

>>1086677
Let's get some wood.
Keyword: Overgrown

>>1086695
I concur.

Wood and overgrown.

Theres a possibility of finding other things we havent considered in such an environment too.

>hook the smaller bits to our island
Yesss, be a pirate!

Wood is all around useful, lets search for that as we have food for the moment.
Keyword: Fungal

Dowse for wood.
>Giant

>>1086695
Good suggestion +1

1/3 Silv 2024/03/22(Fri)18:24 No. 1086918 ID: 1effd3
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>Wood: 6
>Food: 3
>Fabric: 0
“Ok, wood it is.”

>Is there anything in Silv's snacks that could be considered basic? Something like "plant" or "meat"? we could just give some to Flan to get a rune.
“But I don’t have much food!”

Silv uses her remaining rune to expand the island by a small amount, capturing the nearby floating rocks in the process. It isn’t much, but it is noticeable!
“Ok Flan, you stay here and keep out of trouble while I’m gone.”
“Blek!”
Silv empties her bag of food, hiding it under some larger stones to keep Flan from eating it. Activating her Dowsing, she heads towards the nearest source of wood in the darkness.

2/3 Silv 2024/03/22(Fri)18:24 No. 1086919 ID: 1effd3
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Despite her poor void-movement skills, Silv gradually approaches her destination. Unlike her previous destination, she can see this one from a distance.

Giant glowing mushrooms dominate the distant landmass, to a point where several mushroom stalks have broken off around the island. Small patches of stone and rock pierce through the overgrowth, and a soft wind blows luminescent spores about. This place looks promising!

3/3 Silv 2024/03/22(Fri)18:25 No. 1086920 ID: 1effd3
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Silv arrives at this new place, admiring the beauty all around her, vastly different from the last place she visited.
“This place is so pretty Tetsi. We should definitely bring some of these back to plant. I might be able to drag some of the smaller mushroom trunks back, but I’m not sure. For now, I want to look around. Where would you like to go?”

Identify the floating voidlings. Especially the glowing one in the back. Want to make sure he's doing ok before thinking of bringing back the mushrooms lease it make Flan sick.

>>1086920
Oh hey, analyze those floating voidlings. Those look like smaller versions of the big one that ate the other island.

That's odd, why are there webs? Careful, there could be spiders about. Examine the webs too.

Hello I would like to order one (1) mushroom.

>>1086918
>“But I don’t have much food!”
and when you have a food rune you'll have infinite food, silly

>>1086920
if you can find any that are tender when young they may double as a food source

>>1086920
Theres a few voidlings.
One appears to be infested with fruiting glowshroom.

As to the shrooms:
Getting a small one would be good idea, but see if you can gather some spores.

Primary action would be first checking those new voidlings.
Make sure theyre friendly like flan.

>>1086921
Very good point.
Flan isnt just useful.
Hes become... precious to us.
Wouldnt want anything bad to happen to him silv.

Identify the glowy voidling.
investigate the mushroom trees. How do they feel? Do they seem sturdy?

>>1086920
Y'know, if you ever feel like your battery's low, you can eat a glowing mushroom.. or so I've heard.

Start off by collecting fallen mushroom branches. Prioritize anything that looks like it contains spores.
Head in, collect runes, and try to capture another voidling.

1/2 Silv 2024/03/26(Tue)14:31 No. 1087191 ID: 1effd3
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>Identify Voidlings
>Identify Mushrooms and Webs
“Oh, that’s new!”

Floater Voidling
One of many variants of Voidling. Slow and weak, they pose little to no threat.

Glowing Mushrooms
Unknown species of mushroom. Can grow to be very large if they have enough nutrients. The spores are dangerous in high concentrations. The webbing is a similar type of fungus that clumps into a blanket-like mass.

“Seems like Identify is a little stronger than before. Didn’t tell me much about the mushrooms however. The floaters are kinda cute.” Silv says, patting one of the nearby Floaters.

>Start off by collecting fallen mushroom branches. Prioritize anything that looks like it contains spores. Head in, collect runes, and try to capture another voidling.
There isn’t much in terms of fallen branches, just a lot of normal size mushrooms covering the ground. Silv picks enough to fill her bag, she can make room later if she finds some runes.

2/2 Silv 2024/03/26(Tue)14:31 No. 1087192 ID: 1effd3
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>Identify the glowing voiding
>One appears to be infested with fruiting glowshroom.
“Where? I don’t see one like that-”
As Silv looks around, an unnatural shadow passes over her. Looking up, she manages to stumble out of the way of a tendril trying to grab her!

Infected Voidling
A voidling that’s been exposed to high concentrations of spores, influencing its behavior to be more aggressive.

“I guess that’s what you were talking about Tetsi. Looks like the spores made it go crazy!”
The infected voidling lunges at Silv again, and she quickly dodges.
“W-what should we do Tetsi? I can outrun it, but it might come after us later!”

-RUN?
-FIGHT?

Beat the spore stuffing out of it.

>>1087192
-FIGHT
Mushrooms are weak against fire, right?

Cast Flare! Dodge roll! These things don't seem to be that quick so keep your distance.
Your combat level is rather low, better to flee at this point. Though if the opportunity presents give it a wack with us to see how tough it is.

>>1087192
Let's see how effective Flare is in a fight.

Cast FLARE! In a forest full of flammable mushrooms and spores! What could possibly go wrong?

But no seriously, RUN. It's not intelligent enough to hunt you, so get some distance from this mushroom forest, and then you can easily fight it, if it pursues.

Fight it. This is a nice opportunity to see how effective your spells are in combat.
Those mushrooms could be flammable, so avoid Flare if you can. We will try Dowsing for weak points while you fight.
And please don't use us as a weapon unless you really need to.

hit it with your stick.

Burn the forest around it, then see how the battle unfolds and run or press on from there.

This might be bad. The mushrooms are potentially your best food source (at least until you get potatoes, so OP), but if their spores can infest voidlings, it could destroy your entire base. Maybe grow them in a chamber and set the air on fire every time you transition to harvest?

>>1087192
Yah!
That was too close silv.
Bat it away with us and get a little distance.

If the air is too spore heavy, open flame could bloom out of control.
Like a spark in a flourmill.
If flare is to be used, make sure youre safely distanced.

There doesn't seem to be a high concentration of spores in the air considering Silv isn't showing any ill effects. There probably *were* high concentrations judging by the infested voidling.

There's not enough spores in the air to explosively detonate, Silv has Stream to put out the fire, Flare should be safe-ish.

You should try every rune against that Voidling. Never know when you might need to kill one, and knowing which runes are most effective might save you.

1/3 Silv 2024/03/28(Thu)14:25 No. 1087316 ID: 1effd3
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>Attack! This is a nice opportunity to see how effective your spells are in combat. Those mushrooms could be flammable, so avoid Flare if you can. We will try Dowsing for weak points while you fight.
>Cast Flare! Dodge roll! These things don't seem to be that quick so keep your distance.
>Cast FLARE! In a forest full of flammable mushrooms and spores! What could possibly go wrong?
>If the air is too spore heavy, an open flame could bloom out of control.
An area full of probably flammable stuff. Consensus: FIRE BAD IDEA.
”I didn’t think about Flare being a problem here. Breeze and Stream seem too weak to do anything. I think using Tremor and hitting it with you is my best option. Sorry in advance Tetsi!”
Silv uses Tremor to lift a chunk of stone, however, there is a problem. The thick mycelium is making it difficult to pull it free from the ground.

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The infected voidling slowly approaches while Silv continues to struggle with lifting the rock. It’s about to strike her when-

SNAP

Silv falls over backwards as the mycelium gives up its struggle. The stone, flying over her head, crashes down on top of the infected voidling, sending up a cloud of spores.

“T-that was too close…” Silv says, picking herself up and brushing the spores off, the pinned voidlings tendrils waving weakly.
“Next time, I’m using you to hit it. Tremor isn’t reliable with all the mushrooms covering the ground.”
[i]As Silv turns to leave, you notice the voidling start to…burn? You don’t know how to describe it. In its place is a couple of runes you know, and something else?

3/3 Silv 2024/03/28(Thu)14:25 No. 1087318 ID: 1effd3
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Voidmatter
Void given form. A fundamental of Nothing, yet Everything.

“Is this what Voidlings are made of? It makes sense I guess. Should we keep it?”
“Oh, and what should we do next? We can stick around and look for some loose runes, try to tame another voidling, or leave. If we stay, there's a chance we encounter more Infected Voidlings.”

-Runes
-Taming Attempt
-Leave with loot+some wood
-Other?

Well I'd like to flesh out your base, get some stronger combined runes, try to figure out better ways to defend yourself. I'm a stick, so it's your choice what to do. Recommend brief exploratory forays until you're a little more prepared.

So yes, explore more, try to tame voidlings, but return with your spoils soon. Wouldn't recommend fighting more.

>>1087318
I don't think we have enough room at base for two voidlings. Let's look around for runes. You could use Tremor to drag that loose rock around so you can easily fight from now on!

If I understand correctly, Void matter consists of everything that is fundamentally incomprehensible to all forms of real-space life. No mortal, no god, no insane eldritch entity within the crevices of deep space, can truly comprehend the 'mass' and 'matter' that forms life within the void - but they can observe that it is something; a black box, which takes inputs and spits outputs.

We comprehend the fact that this matter can be explained and understood. But we must also accept that we will never be the ones to do it, nor will anyone that isn't a form of Void life.

>What do
Tame one voidling, then bounce. Worry about breeding them later.
As for other enemies, prepare some rocks right now so you can cast spells more quickly.

>>1087318

First up, are you ok silv?
That must have been nerve wracking.

I say take whatever it is.
The void matter.
What wood and shrooms you already have should be enough to get a start on something.
Id say try to tame and take home one.
Not just as a friend for flan.
The more diverse forms of voidling you can study and understand, the better prepared youll be when you return here to gather more wood and supplies.

You may even be able to train one of these to fetch and carry light things.

did you grab the wood you wanted yet?

Good job Silv!
Gather those runes to expand our island. Keep gathering wood for a bit, just keep an eye out and stay in open areas.

Retain this voidmatter, Runelearner. It may prove to be beneficial to the friend we've left back home. Seize these runes, as well--they will allow our domain to expand and prosper further.

Gather as much shroomwood as you can carry, and then return to our base of operations.

Take everything but only go back to our island if you can't carry anything else. And keep the big rock around in case another infected voidling shows up.

I'm going to name the rock Peter. Peter's our friend.

1/2 Silv 2024/04/01(Mon)18:54 No. 1087680 ID: 1effd3
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>First up, are you ok silv?That must have been nerve wracking.
“I’m ok. I wasn’t ready for that, but it wasn’t nearly as scary as the behemoth.”

>did you grab the wood you wanted yet?
>Gather as much shroomwood as you can carry, and then return to our base of operations.
“I’m going to try to drag the big mushrooms that fell off the island using the stringy fungus stuff. I’m not sure how I’m going to cut the mushroom logs later though.”

>Retain this voidmatter, Runelearner. It may prove to be beneficial to the friend we've left back home. Seize these runes, as well--they will allow our domain to expand and prosper further. Gather as much shroomwood as you can carry, and then return to our base of operations.
>I say take whatever it is. The voidmatter. What wood and shrooms you already have should be enough to get a start on something. Id say try to tame and take home one. Not just as a friend for flan. The more diverse forms of voidling you can study and understand, the better prepared you'll be when you return here to gather more wood and supplies. You may even be able to train one of these to fetch and carry light things.
>Take everything but only go back to our island if you can't carry anything else. And keep the big rock around in case another infected voidling shows up.
>I'm going to name the rock Peter. Peter's our friend.

“You guys can never decide whether you want me to use you to hit things or not…”
Silv decides to look for some runes before trying to tame one of the floater voidlings around, dragging the big rock as she does so. After a little while, she manages to find another rune, however she encounters an infected slug type voidling. She easily dispatches it with the big rock where she gains another rune and some voidmatter. She removes some more mushrooms from her bag to make space for them, then decides to try to tame a voidling.

Silv doesn’t actually know how to tame voidlings, so she just tries to feed a floater some rocks and mushrooms while talking to it. Apparently, this is enough to work for Silv, because it begins to follow her around.
“Ok, it’s time to head back. We’ll give you a name when we get home, but we have to drag these mushroom logs with us first.”

[i]Using Tremor to move the rock around, Silv pulls a bunch of fungal vines down, and wraps them around some of the large mushrooms that fell off the island. She slowly drags them back home, with the floater in tow.

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After an agonizingly slow trip dragging logs, Silv returns to her island with a bag full of stuff and a floater voidling. In total, you got:
x2 Voidmatter
x3 Giant Mushroom Logs
x20 Small Mushrooms
x1 Floater Voidling
x4 Runes

“Blek!” Flan seems to be happy you’re back! It doesn’t seem like he managed to get into your food stash, but you still need a proper way to store stuff. You give him a few pats and look around the island. Doesn’t appear like they’ve made any runes while you were gone.

“I think that went well! We got some stuff to build with, as well as some runes. I’d like to make some shelter, but I want to combine some of the runes we got. Remember, We can turn runes into other ones we already know!”
You know the following runes you can combine into more complex ones: Flare, Tremor, Stream, and Breeze.
You have 4 runes available.

>>1087680
>“You guys can never decide whether you want me to use you to hit things or not…”
look, we're probably an unbreakable artifact, but are you strong enough to do any damage like that?

>>1087681
>Doesn’t appear like they’ve made any runes while you were gone.
you'd probably have a food rune if you had let them eat some of your food instead of stashing it all

>You have 4 runes available.
uhhh... which ones? I guess if they were new you'd have told us, I suppose. Anyway, you have 4 known runes, so that's only 6 possible combinations. Assuming you can't combine opposites, that's only 4: b+f, b+s, f+t, s+t. I'm also assuming you can't combine two of the same rune, or you'd have another 4.

Take the logs and make a lean-to over the wall corner. Its not much, but it'll be cozy and you can reuse the logs later.

Don't combine opposing runes until we understand the process a bit more they might explode

>>1087681
We have four extra runes which means we can combine some to create two complex runes.
Tremor+Stream. Stream+Breeze. I want to see if we can make some plant and weather related runes.

Hmm, do you have any ability to cut up the shroomlogs into usable planks? Maybe you can break up some stone into sharp pieces to chop with, but what we really need is a saw.

>>1087681
Try to combine Tremor and Stream

Remember you can swap any rune for its opposite, before combining!

I agree with trying out Tremor+Stream and Stream+Breeze. Those seem like the best runes to combine for base expansion purposes. Don't combine Flare+Tremor yet, until you have some way to safely contain molten magma.

Combine Stream and Breeze

Combine the resulting rune with breeze again.

Combine that resulting rune with breeze again!

I'm hoping for something like Rain -> Storm -> Gale

>>1087681

Thats a lot of material to work with.
Youve got more than the parts to build a shelter here, you have the foundations of a hone.
Well done silv.
You must be tired though.
Take a short rest and consider our collective musings.

>4: b+f, b+s, f+t, s+t. I'm also assuming you can't combine two of the same rune, or you'd have another 4.

Hmm.
I wonder...
Maybe combining the same rune is how you augment the power it can manifest?

Ive also been wondering what would happen if you fed a rune to a voidling.
Or the voidmattet.
I suspect that the latter would result in growth, either mentally, physically or both.

Unfortunately such experiments are best done at a time when we have a surplus.
Right now the runes are all too essential as tools to risk.

Perhaps silv should start by securing the shroom trees in place.
See if we can figure out how to get a roof over her head.
I know theres no weather to shelter from, but it cant feel all that comfortable sleeping under that yawning void.
So exposed...

Oh!
Maybe some of the fungal strands could be woven together and suspended between the wall corners
Make a hammock.
A little comfort to help you rest all the better.

> “You guys can never decide whether you want me to use you to hit things or not…”
You can do magic. Why would you use us to whack things when you can fry them with magic? Or bash them with a rock? Or mildly inconvenience them with a spray of water or a strong breeze in the face?
Speaking of which, I suggest combining two Flare runes together. Maybe it will create a Blaze or something like that. Or maybe Breeze and Flare, you should try that too. Don't forget to invert the result.
And be careful to point your spells away from the mushrooms when you try them.

W-we're delicate, OK?

1/4 Silv 2024/04/06(Sat)17:43 No. 1088104 ID: 1effd3
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—
>look, we're probably an unbreakable artifact, but are you strong enough to do any damage like that?
>You can do magic. Why would you use us to whack things when you can fry them with magic? Or bash them with a rock? Or mildly inconvenience them with a spray of water or a strong breeze in the face?
>W-we're delicate, OK?
“See, you can never agree on this! Also, rude, I can swing you fast enough to do some damage!” Silv complains, swinging Tetsi around wildly.

2/4 Silv 2024/04/06(Sat)17:43 No. 1088105 ID: 1effd3
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>Combine Stream and Breeze, Combine the resulting rune with breeze again. Combine that resulting rune with breeze again! I'm hoping for something like Rain -> Storm -> Gale

“I feel like that’s a bit wasteful. I’m only going to fuse twice, because I want to keep the other 2 runes for later.”

>I agree with trying out Tremor+Stream and Stream+Breeze. Those seem like the best runes to combine for base expansion purposes. Don't combine Flare+Tremor yet, until you have some way to safely contain molten magma.
>Try to combine Tremor and Stream
>Hmm. I wonder… Maybe combining the same rune is how you augment the power it can manifest?
>b+f, b+s, f+t, s+t.
>Don't forget to invert the result.
Silv begins by fusing Tremor and Stream together.

Nature rune obtained!
“Nature! That should be plants and stuff, right? Also, I didn’t seem to learn a new spell from it.”
Inverting the Nature rune also resulted in another new rune!

Eldritch rune obtained!
“No spell for this one either, but what does it mean though?”

3/4 Silv 2024/04/06(Sat)17:44 No. 1088106 ID: 1effd3
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Next, she attempts to fuse two Flare runes together. The result is… slightly unstable. The new rune vibrates violently in Silv’s hands, threatening to go off at any second.

Blast rune obtained! Silv learned Lesser Blast.
“This feels… very unsafe.”
Silv cautiously converts the Blast rune into another that shouldn’t explode. “I think we should limit that runes use. I did learn a new spell though.”

Silv tests out Lesser Blast on the edge of the island. It does just about what you’d expect it to.

4/4 Silv 2024/04/06(Sat)17:44 No. 1088107 ID: 1effd3
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>Ive also been wondering what would happen if you fed a rune to a voidling. Or the voidmatter. I suspect that the latter would result in growth, either mentally, physically or both. Unfortunately such experiments are best done at a time when we have a surplus. Right now the runes are all too essential as tools to risk.
“Yeah, I don’t want to spend our limited resources on stuff like that right now.”

>Take the logs and make a lean-to over the wall corner. Its not much, but it'll be cozy and you can reuse the logs later.
>Perhaps silv should start by securing the shroom trees in place. See if we can figure out how to get a roof over her head. I know there's no weather to shelter from, but it cant feel all that comfortable sleeping under that yawning void. So exposed…
>Hmm, do you have any ability to cut up the shroomlogs into usable planks? Maybe you can break up some stone into sharp pieces to chop with, but what we really need is a saw.
“I have to keep the logs off the island, otherwise they’re too heavy to move. The only way I can think of to cut them is maybe a sharp rock using Tremor?”

After a few attempts, Silv manages to get a sharp-ish rock to break apart the shroomlogs. They aren’t pretty, but she makes a few shroomplanks to make a lean-to with. x2 Shroomlogs remain.

Silv lets out a yawn. “Ok, I’m getting tired now Tetsi. We'll figure out how to plant the small mushrooms tomorrow, but other than that, what should we do?
The Floater Voidling lets out a loud puff of air. Seems you forgot to name it!
“Sorry, we hadn’t forgotten about you! Tetsi, do you have any names for our new friend? My idea is Flumph.”

Stay and work on the island, or explore? If explore:
Options for Weak Dowsing:
-Food
-Cloth
-Other

Provide an Environmental keyword
Fungal and Overgrown cannot be reused.

Work on a shelter, or at least a dugout.
At least you can do your business by just going off the island.

>>1088104
...
..
.you are truly a master of the martial arts.

Ought to dowse for food, unless you can dowse for seeds. Although with no sun it might be hard to farm. Sustainable food is a must.
keyword: scraggly

Flumph, ah that's great, go with that.

>>1088105
Nature and eldritch rune.
Makes sense.
The natural world and the eldritch are opposites while not being opposed. Same coin, different sides.
Hmm.
No inherent spell.
Either theyre an interim thatll develop into a spell or theyre a property rune.
Sonething you can latch on to a spell, effect, item or subject.
Have you tried casting two runes at once silv?

>>1088107
Flumph is perfect.

Silv, use those fungal strands and make yourself a hammock.
String it between two corners of the building walls.
If youve never seen one its like a...
A...
A cocoon of pure comfort.
If you can master climbing into it.

Hm.
Cloth if we have more than two days food remaining.
Otherwise, got to keep yourself fed silv.

Environmental keyword : ruin.

>>1088107
Flumph is good.

Dowse for food.
Keyword: Bricks

OK so combined runes can be unstable. Combining Flare and Flare went about as well as pushing two positive magnetic monopoles together. Can you use the Nature rune to expand your island? Might result in something useful. You could explore more, maybe some food to stock up on. Or sleep. Would you feel better sleeping with a roof over your head? Not like it's going to rain on you here. If you would, you could probably make a crude lean-to by leaning the mushroom planks against the stone ruins.

Exploration Keyword: Comfy

>>1088117
Makes me think of a magical rune accelerator. Smash unstable runes together to create exotic runes that can only exist for picoseconds.

>>1088104
oh, that was fun. Again! Again!

>>1088106
you forgot to invert Blast, tho. I'm sure you'll be able to do it before it explodes if you're fast enough, I believe in you!

I wonder if combining two of the same rune is what makes runes unstable, and not necessarily the Flare components.

Considering that Tremor is the most useful rune as of right now, you should look into upgrading it somehow. Combining 2 Tremors might yield a more powerful version.

I wonder what land comes out of the Blast rune?

We have an Eldritch rune. We have a Blast rune. Combining them would probably be very fun.
I wonder if we could keep combining Blast runes together (and converting them to something harmless immediately), until we have a rune powerful enough to create a sun ? Not necessarily a big one, just big enough for our island.
Anyway, I advise dowsing for Food. You don't have much of it. Keyword : Hollow.

>>1088154

We'll get right on the task of creating a sun as soon as construction of the rune accelerator is finished. Until then, Silv has more eh... immediate problems, like food, spores, giant voidlings, and getting lost.

We never inverted Blast. Might as well do that.

1/5 Silv 2024/04/12(Fri)18:28 No. 1088624 ID: 1effd3
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>Food: 5
>Cloth: 1
>Other: 0

>Ought to dowse for food, unless you can dowse for seeds. Although with no sun it might be hard to farm. Sustainable food is a must.
“Ok, we’ll look for more food after I rest, and get the mushroom patch organized.”

>Flumph is perfect.
>Flumph is good.
“Ok, our new friend's name is Flumph!”
COMPANION RECRUITED

— — —
Name: Flumph

Race: Floater Voidling
Natrualborn of the Void, they consume and recycle all that exists. Smaller voidlings can only eat matter that breaks down into the most basic of runes.

Abilities:
Breakdown:Voidlings consume any matter for sustenance, and convert it into runes. It is not a fast or efficient process.
— — —

>Work on a shelter, or at least a dugout.
>If you would, you could probably make a crude lean-to by leaning the mushroom planks against the stone ruins.
>Would you feel better sleeping with a roof over your head?

“What do you mean, I already did that, see?”

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THUNK

“...I’m going to go to sleep now.”

3/5 Silv 2024/04/12(Fri)18:29 No. 1088626 ID: 1effd3
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Silv awakes to another sunless darkness lit by Tetsi. After breakfast, time to set up the mushroom farm!
Silv decides to set up a little farm on the longer end of the island, where she plants 10 of the small mushrooms to hopefully start growing. The other 10 are to be eaten later. Maybe.

>Silv, use those fungal strands and make yourself a hammock. String it between two corners of the building walls. If you've never seen one it's like a cocoon of pure comfort. If you can master climbing into it.
“That sounds nice, but I don’t know if I could make that!”


>We have an Eldritch rune. We have a Blast rune. Combining them would probably be very fun.
I wonder if we could keep combining Blast runes together (and converting them to something harmless immediately), until we have a rune powerful enough to create a sun ? Not necessarily a big one, just big enough for our island.
>Makes me think of a magical rune accelerator. Smash unstable runes together to create exotic runes that can only exist for picoseconds.
“What’s an accelerator? And do you really think we could make a sun??”

>I wonder what land comes out of the Blast rune?
“I’d rather not find out!”

>We never inverted Blast. Might as well do that.
>you forgot to invert Blast, tho. I'm sure you'll be able to do it before it explodes if you're fast enough, I believe in you!
Silv cautiously converts a rune back into Blast, and tries to invert it, to no success.
“Doesn’t seem like Blast can be inverted. I guess some runes don’t have opposites maybe?”

—

“Flan, Flumph, I’m going to look for some food. Please don’t eat the mushrooms and other things I’ve stashed away, ok?”
“Blek!”
Flumph responds with a puff of air.

After activating Dowsing, Silv and Tetsi head out in the nearest direction of food.

>Nature and eldritch rune makes sense. The natural world and the eldritch are opposites while not being opposed. Same coin, different sides. No inherent spell. Either they’re an interim that’ll develop into a spell or they're a property rune. Something you can latch onto a spell, effect, item or subject. Have you tried casting two runes at once silv?
“By ‘casting two runes’, do you mean spells? I tried, but I couldn't focus on it. I do wonder why Nature and Eldritch didn’t give me a spell for them when the other runes did, it might be as you suggested.”

4/5 Silv 2024/04/12(Fri)18:29 No. 1088627 ID: 1effd3
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Ahead of Silv lies the target of her Dowsing. The island is uneven and covered in a swamp, where lies a multitude of ruins, dead trees, and craters. Large crystals pierce the ground, and toxic gas hangs low over the water. This… doesn’t seem like the best place to find food, but this is where Dowsing has led you.

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“This place is… something. Will we actually find food here?”
“So what should we do first?”

Be cautious of the noxious vapors. Even if they leave you with your life, they may harm you or alter your mind in unpredictable ways.

Reach for things that are near at hand; the blue ferns, with their shoots and fruits, seem like they have the greatest potential to provide nourishment. It may be prudent as well to retrieve a sample of the crystals growing here.

>>1088626
>Please don’t eat the mushrooms and other things I’ve stashed away, ok?
Just let them eat a little of it, maybe you'll get a rune that will get you a spell that summons food.

>>1088628
those are some neat crystals. I don't suppose they're edible, right?

Are those shadows alive? Are those silos in the background?

>>1088627
Also those "stars" look ominously like giant voidlings

>>1088628
Oooh pretty. (What keyword did this? Ruins I guess?)

Careful going. Break some crystal to bring back, Flumph might like it. Check out the ruins!

This... looks familiar.
Okay, if I remember correctly, those crystals can make people smarter - but it also scrambles their brains. For obvious reasons, they only do the procedure on babies.

In any case, crystals are ordered patterns of matter, which should translate to powerful runes. Get as many types as you can, you're going to give Flan a buffet.

>>1088628
Kts an eerily beautiful islet.

Hmm.
Well., i dont think giant salt crystals would count as food, but dowsing hasnt been wrong yet...

If the plants dont have readily apparent fruit, the roots may be edible.

There could be something living in the water but that toxic looking miasma is something you want to avoid. Breeze it away if you approach.

The final food candidate i see is the one i hope is a failure.
Dead trees are a good place to find bugs, grubs and other insects. Edible, but notappetising.

I say start with the plants.

Identify plants and crystals?

Take some of those crystals and inspect them. How heavy are they ? Are they fragile ? How do they taste ? We should try to identify them too.
Then to the ruins !

Oh yes use Identify on the crystals and plants before you put your mouth parts on them.

cast identify on the crystals and plants

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>Are those shadows alive? Are those silos in the background? Also those "stars" look ominously like giant voidlings
Silv stares at the lights above, seeing if any are moving or obscured. Fortunately, none of them seem to belong to any giant voidlings.

>Reach for things that are near at hand; the blue ferns, with their shoots and fruits, seem like they have the greatest potential to provide nourishment. It may be prudent as well to retrieve a sample of the crystals growing here.
>Identify plants and crystals?
>Oh yes, use Identify on the crystals and plants before you put your mouth parts on them.
>cast identify on the crystals and plants
“I’m too far away to Identify the crystals in the middle of the swamps. The only one I think I could get close enough to check is that big one further in. Let’s check out these plants though.”


Toxigrowth
These blue plants grow from the polluted mud of the swamps here. The fruit, while edible, is poisonous to most forms of life. Eating too much in a short amount of time will cause a toxin buildup to occur. The toxins are most heavily concentrated in the plants roots.

“Ok, Toxigrowth is at the top of “things I shouldn’t eat” list. Can Voidlings eat it though? I should probably take a few fruits with me.”
x5 Toxigrowth Fruits obtained.