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9 months ago ::
Sep 10, 2012 - 11:41AM
#401
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The world is flux. If it were not so, it would not exist. Things which are not life spring forth life, and things which live soon cease to live. If change did not exist, time would not exist. And if time did not exist... nothing would exist, or its existance would have no meaning, a single point in the sea of creation.
Why do you consider such things to be a perversion? There was an absence of life far before you created it. Is it not your twisting of the world which is a perversion? Look, even now you turn these rocks into strange parodies of their former selves! What makes that better than it was before?
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9 months ago ::
Sep 11, 2012 - 10:43AM
#402
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Because Not-Life is not forced to destroy itself on a daily basis in order to remain Not-Life, that is why. Death forces that which is Life to destroy other Life in order to remain Life. It is a perversion for this fact. It is a perversion because it came from ME, Not-enemy Omus. A corrupted ball of God-stuff ripped from my body by Enemy Krulsk and twisted into a mocking parody of myself and my intention. I did not emerge from the corruption of some pure 'Not-Life' deity. You attempt to twist my words around at me, but there are clear distinctions which cannot be brushed aside.
Change. Flux. Very well. If you declare such things must exist, so be it. Let all Increase! More Life! more Not-Life! more Fecundity! More Growth! More of EVERYTHING. More!
A spasm washed over the God, and a small seed materialized before the two gods, floating in place for a moment before plummeting down to the surface. Ikola shook its wings out as the spasm passed.
Increase is Change, is it not? Why must it be that things decrease as well? Where is that rule written?
8 PP (3 life, 3 generate, 2 generic): Spawn (world-destroying) creature: The Evervine. Currently a seed, this plant, if it ever sprouts, may eventually bring about the end of the entire world. Imbued with all of Ikola's will that it should INCREASE, its vines would spread at a quick rate, covering and smothering out the entirety of the world as it wound its way across the planet. While it is possible that some sort of life could co-habitate with the vines, living in the branches as they grew ever more on top of one another, the world as it is known now would vanish.
4/Life:0 Civilization :8 (really need to use this...) /0/0/2/1
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9 months ago ::
Sep 13, 2012 - 10:18PM
#403
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"Falrn you say? How are you today, friend Falrn?" said Ryndell. He noticed a strange familiarity with the creature who flitted about before him, as with a distant relative. Perhaps they had met before? Ryndell's memory wasn't what it used to be. In fact, he seemed to have little memory to speak of whatsoever. "hrm... Have we met?"
Ryndell: 2/Tea:1 Bliss:1/0/0/0/0
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9 months ago ::
Sep 15, 2012 - 2:13AM
#404
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Omus sighed, his Ikola-like tendrils withering and fading.
A thing without its opposite or its absence has no meaning Omus replied. Death is but a product of Time; for there to be no Death, there would have to be no Time, and if there were no Time, then there would be no Life.
You have much to learn... like your "enemies", you seek to impose your will on the world. Perhaps you are more like them than you realise? And yet, what you do not seem to comprehend is that the world has grown beyond any of your control - is that not the nature of life? You can no longer push on the world and expect it not to push back...
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9 months ago ::
Sep 15, 2012 - 4:12PM
#405
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May 28, 2008
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Ikola shook its head, fully exasperated by the other god.
You do not listen. NONE of you listen. I do not deny that Life must have an Opposite. I never have. You all seem to think that this corrupted thing of Death *is* that opposite. This is what I deny. What is the opposite of life is that which is not alive, not that which destroys it. Death is an action, a verb. Life is a noun.
I take it from your words that you believe that we should all be free to do as we will, to mold the universe with no rules or laws or constraints? Would you allow your enemy to destroy you if that was their wish?
Actually, this brings up an important point, you who pronounce the NECESSITY of opposites.
What is the opposite of Time, Not-Friend Omus? If everything MUST have an opposite, surely you do as well.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 15, 2012 - 5:36PM
#406
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"No. I do not think we have met yet. I would think I would have remembered meeting you if we had. So much has happened though. and I have slept for a very long time..... May I join you in your journeys? There is so much that has changed and I would love to see it all. What are you called by the way? and what are you?" Shaking his head. "I'm sorry I know I have many questions." Ooc Ryndell
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Just fyi MatthewSwift, Falrn is about the size of a medium-sized dog but still looks everything like a dragon, only smaller.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 16, 2012 - 4:47AM
#407
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Death is merely the act of changing from that which is life, to that which is not.
Time is that which marks the passage of one thing to another. It is death, and birth. It is increase, and decrease. Time is the knife edge between the opposites, the line on which we all dance.
Should we be free to mold the world as we see? That is what you are all doing, is it not? But the world has its own laws, its own constraints. For every action there is a reaction, for every cause an effect. You create life. How can you not expect it to do what life will do, to interfere with other life, to make more of itself or to sow war and death? See now how the races of the world have changed. Did you plan for them to be like this? Did you expect this to happen?
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9 months ago ::
Sep 16, 2012 - 1:26PM
#408
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May 28, 2008
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And is Life merely the act of changing that which is death, to that which is not? No! It is life, creating more life. Opposites should be reciprocal, should they not? If A acts against B, then B should act in the same way against A. Life creates more Life from itself, as magma, which is not-life, creates more stone, which is another form of not-life. Death acts in a fundamentally different way that is not in true opposition to life. It is an enemy, a corruption, a destroyer, a predator of Life. It is not its opposite, and despite your words, I will defend that which is core to my very being when it is being made prey.
You claim that all things must have opposites, but you make a special exception for your own domain of influence, that of Time. How very convenient, Not-Enemy Omus that it is you and you alone that may always be in the right because you have no opposite, but instead occupy a mystical 'middle-ground' between all other oppositions. This is a fundamental alteration of your earlier statement.
Ikola sighed, and felt as its wings began to dissolve into filaments.
I see this goes nowhere. You are as set in your ways, set in the corruption of this world as the rest of them. Thank you for an interesting conversation, Not-Friend Omus. I hope you think on my words. I will think on yours.
The wings finished dissolution, followed by body and head, and then the entire filamentous mass twisted in mid-air and vanished.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 16, 2012 - 3:05PM
#409
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As Ikola dissolved, so did Omus, his new form withering and crumbling like a tree wasting away under decades of decay. This other god was confused. She - if it could be called a she - was the source of the myriad swarming creatures on the planet below, yet she weilded her power like a child, not truly understanding the mysteries of the universe. Omus was dismayed, but he saw that below, the world was already reacting to the actions of those above. God Block
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PP: 5 + 0/0/1 Domain + 1/0/1 plus 5 + 2/1/1 + 1/1/1 from reset.
2 PP - Guide
A small group of pixies find the Seed of Doom - sorry, "Evervine" - and, recognising its power (somehow) resolve to keep it safe.
PP remaining: 8 + 2/1/2 Domain + 2/1/2 = a lot
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9 months ago ::
Sep 16, 2012 - 4:42PM
#410
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Ryndell smiled at the godling's questions. He said, "Well then, it is a pleasure to meet you Falrn. I am Ryndell, the wandering god. Who am I to tell you where to go, though? You're quite welcome to join me in my travels but only on one condition: You continue to ask questions."
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