Genesis (Elephant Guy)
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Genesis is a world-building quest by Elephant Guy.
A sentient divine glowing ball (later given the name Aldaren) wakes up in a box, coming face-to-face with a man who calls himself "Professor". Given four boxes holding the essences of earth, air, fire, and water, and the Professor's instructions to "do something better with the place", the new godball sets about making a new universe with the aid of the voices of his supposedly shattered psyche, represented by /quest/.
Characters
Aldaren
A glowing ball deity. Made of positive energy, apparently. Routinely causes explosions and creates life. Knows lots of things except for the ones that would actually be useful. Known to the Limbo Gods as Subject Two.
The Professor
One of the Limbo Gods that oversaw Aldaren's creation. His full name is Dr. Harvey Professor Langley. He was possibly the one who organized the creation of Limbo and Aldaren. Long-winded and generally cheerful, he wants Aldaren to create a totally unique world and subsequently denies him information about their old world. He seems to trust Aldaren more than the other gods do.
Faden
The deity of the "demiplane" that Aldaren created. She is made of yarn and absolutely detests spearlings. Has the mental capacity and understanding of a small child. Currently locked away after an incident involving a realitysplosion and the slaughtering of a few dozen creatures.
Other Limbo Gods
Aside from the Professor, Limbo is home to seven other gods that assisted in the creation of Aldaren. They lead an unspecified amount of mortals and intend to use the new universe to save themselves after the collapse of their original one. There's Harry, a werebear and "former champion of strength"; Carla, a former champion of good; Primus, god of Law; Reaper, champion of death; Organa, champion of destruction (and according to Professor, a huge bitch); Shiva, the queen of frost dragons and the champion of water; and finally Rok, the god of strength.
Out of all of these, again not counting the Professor, we have only seen Harry, Primus, Reaper, and Organa. Even then, these have been in short cutscenes, and have not yet been spoken to directly.
Creations
Plants
There are currently six species of plants on Avalon. According to Professor's books, there were a few hundred plant species on his world.
Marble Moss
Small plants that grow in wet areas like shorelines. Have a habit of smothering the fuck out of other plants.
Coppertops
Large mushroom-like trees with small fruits set along the trunk. Made of copper. Commonly used as nests for Bronze Beaks. Found in the deserts.
Black Lotuses
Small black flowers. Their seeds irritate the throats of any creature that tries to swallow them, causing the seeds to be regurgitated and to grow in a new area. Usually grows in plains and wetlands.
Goldenrods
Small rod-like plants made of gold that reproduce via spores. Found in desert environments.
Silverwoods
Gargantuan trees made of silver. Reproduces through nuts. Grows in clusters, forming forests.
Cell Clouds
Floating clusters of fragile plant cells. Causes an organic rain.
Animals
Seven species of animals have been created so far. None are sentient or even particularly intelligent.
Swirgs
Small pig-like creatures that live near the shores. They primarily feed on marble moss, but can eat any plant. Reproduce via mitosis.
Skulls
Fleshy, bony predators. Their primary food source is Swirgs. Like Swirgs, they reproduce through cloning themselves.
Slimes
There are currently three types of Slimes; Tophat, Bowlerhat, and Dapper slimes. All slimes share a gel-like body with a single eye-analogue in its' center, with a shell shaped like a hat, corresponding to its' name. All three species can be found in aquatic environments. Tophat slimes prey on Bowlerhat slimes. Dapper slimes are larger Tophat slimes that have developed a primitive brain. They are fiercely territorial and lead other Tophat slimes in hunting parties against Bowlerhat slimes. All species of slimes are omnivores and occasionally graze on Marble Moss.
Tinnies
Tinnies are small rabbit-like creatures made of tin. They live in packs in the desert and feed on Coppertop fruit. They are the first creatures to reproduce sexually. Sadly, they may be going extinct due to the difficulty of living in the desert and being overhunted by Bronze Beaks.
Bronze Beaks
Large, birds made of bronze. They make their nests on the tops of Coppertops and hunt Tinnies. Most live near oasises and other water sources.
Hemortar
Small rhinocerous-like creature. Uses it's horn to launch a sticky substance as a means of self-defense and a hunting tool.
Elemental Reactions 101
There are four basic elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Aldaren can combine these in different ratios to get different things, including lava (fire+earth) or ice (air+water). Additionally, he also has access to two "energies"; Positive energy and negative energy. Life and death, respectively. These can animate things made out of mixed essences. Negative energy makes "undead" versions. Finally, we have simple flesh. It's pretty much what you'd expect, a pile of different organs that Aldaren can copy and shove into creatures. Raw essences do not have physical forms. What we see as fire, water, ect. are the products of each essence.
Mixing two elements make a "paraelemental". These are materials such as lava, dirt, ice, minerals, ect. This is what most things on Avalon are made out of. Mixing an element and an energy make a "quasielemental", a physical embodiment of an essence imbued with an energy.
As of the time of writing, we only have to ability to animate a creature or plant using one of the two energies. Using a quasielemental only works for a few seconds but shows promise. All creatures on Avalon are animated using positive energy, and require a constant supply of it to survive. Corpses of creatures still have some leftover positive energy, which feeds decomposers.
Mixing two opposite elements (Water and fire, earth and air) causes a realitysplosion, not too dissimilar from an antimatter explosion.
