Polybius

War Mullet's cringe thread

Dude, these are awesome & you should keep drawing!

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LOCATION

The Saprozoic Sea & the Mottled Black Throne

In truth, it is a living thing. A pooling black and twisted lime-green miasma of tainted sea water, the sweetly salted aroma of decay evident only once you have arrived; it is too late. The Saprozoic Sea is a lurid mass of oceanic organism, connected only by the tissue it has consumed & regurgitated. Some seasons it is so massive as to choke harbors and estuaries, appearing to relish the reclamation of more...intelligent creatures. On certain fallow years, the Saprozoic Sea shrinks to a mere speck on the horizon, apparently dormant.

It is during these dormant months that the Saprozic Sea plunges its turgid roots far beneath the ocean surface. An orb is formed, much in the way an oyster protects intruders with a hardened shell of pearl; only these intruders were a thing collected; it is the purpose of the Saprozoic Sea.

Once the incubation has completed the Saprozic Sea erupts skyward, discarding the unnecessary flotsam of its creation. A throne of Black is formed upon an island of dead matter, and upon it is seated a....

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was my post a bit short?

@Lucidnonsense

Oh no! Not at all.

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Maybe I should have this moved to the casual section...
EDIT: I'm just realizing how much material will be written and how to ....organize it so it's available if new players want to jump-in. The lore is a bit more in depth than warrants a free forum post. What do you guys think?

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@MikkishtheLeprechaun Yes, that is hopefully something that will keep this thing rolling.

A word about entries: I'm seeing a lot of good stuff, I think we have a cool semi-primordial thing going on with the locations and such. Be careful about starting your entry about one thing and then switching to another subject mid-way through. There is no need to fill in every detail about the location, item, character or event. Half the fun is seeing what other people do with your idea!

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CHARACTER

Agorophaetox,
...one of the innumerable 'Elder Arthropods', brother to ROM, the black spider, whose spittle still protects her children in the form of stinging mists. The molted carapaces of the behemoth cicada scar the land, in ever increasing size. Some minute civilizations have grown so impudent as to claim these carapace tombs and build cities and fortresses upon their chitinous knolls.

Known by many names; Screaming Thing, Devourer of Whispers, Dark Phaetox, and many more, it is said the maddening screams of Agorophaetox can still be heard in echoes as far as Nuneland, and the Gemstone Mountains.

Agorophaetox's appearance is a brutal thing, membranous, winged, with terrible bulbous eyes and thick, black claws. It is an enormous monster-taller than any mountain in the world. It has no speech, or motive other than slumber and the futile search for a mate and has lay dormant for eons, awakening only to shed its carapace, sound it's city-shattering cry, and then shiver, defeated back beneath the earth.

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@MikkishtheLeprechaun@Lucidnonsense Maybe make a LOCATION that is another plane of existence? Like a 'bridging world' between people and locations.

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Where would we descibe cultures and traditions? religious practices? and stuff like that.

@Lucidnonsense

Make it up as you go along. You could put any of those in hider tags. Thanks for the location post! I can see we are going to need a cartographer...

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I'll start!

LOCATION

The Pallid Plain

A grey and mottled expanse of landmass, stretching into the distance. Tunnels vein and cross beneath the starched surface, clouds of chalky dust erupting as the land cracks and falters from lack of moisture, creating pitfalls and caverns. It was perhaps a verdant place once before as the bones and sinewy fossils of unknown generations of species can be found among the ruinous landscape; Formless plates of bone and chitin weathered with countless age erupt sporadically from the landscape. Tusks and fangs of varying size, feathery ribs of enormity and the grotesque carapace of some ancient horror are the only features in this forsaken place.

DnD/ESO esque party adventure anyone?

I'm already getting a 'hello, from the magic tavern' vibe . @TheUnknowable