PHASE 2: UNLUCKY SHARD
"The sky needs more company." I decided, after wondering through the mansion.
Having just had a bite of delicious chocolate, I decided that it ought to be edible as well.
Heck, why not make several moons?
You grin, power crackling at your fingertips. You feel invincible! You can do
anything!
And you prove it. Staring at the sky through a mansion window, you see motion. Soon, they are visible as two blurs. One brown, one yellow. And it doesn't take long before they resolve as frankly
huge moons, staring down on the barren planet like a set of mismatched eyes.
+1 to all rolls involving assembling planetary bodies.
Suddenly, the ground shudders. And... is it just you, or
are those moons getting bigger?
Then, for some reason, breadsticks start falling out of the sky, leaving a sizable layer of them on the ground outside your mansion. Breadsticks
everywhere, as far as the eye can see.
...what? No, seriously.
What?
The man considered he next action he had powers and sandwiches, there was only one option to do now, he had to make one of his childhood dreams a reality.
And so the man whistled hoping his power would summon a armored war horse.
You whistle as loudly as you know how.
For a moment, it seems that nothing is happening. But then, after a moment, you hear hoofsteps. Hmm. Kind of quiet for an armored war horse...
And then
it trots up.
Well... it
is a horse. Well, more like a pony. And it
does have armor...
But it's only about waist-high. It almost certainly won't be able to support your weight.
You may name your armored pony as a free action.
Suddenly, the ground shudders. You look up and see two moons forming in the sky, one brown and one yellow. And... is it just you, or
are those moons getting bigger?
While you're looking up, breadsticks start falling from the sky, and they don't stop until you're about waist-deep in them. Your pony is practically buried in them, but is taking it philosophically: he's simply working on eating his way out of it.
Hmm. Neat! Now I just need to... wait... do I even need to power things here? Well, just to be safe, I'll have Solar Panels installed on the Castle... or maybe even a solar farm just beside the castle!
Your castle obligingly forms solar panels, but for a while, it seems to struggle with making the panels actually absorb sunlight the way they're meant to. After a bit, it does seem to be feeding
some power...
just not much.
Suddenly, the ground shudders. You look out a castle window and see two moons that definitely weren't there before, one brown and one yellow. And... are your eyes playing tricks on you, or
are those moons getting bigger?
And wait a second... is it also raining
breadsticks?
The girl hovered several feet off the ground, a wide grin on her face.
That had been awesome. Maybe she'd just fly everywhere from now on. It was faster, and definitely more fun.
Looking around, there didn't seem to be any plants, animals, or water for miles. That was worrying. She didn't want to rely on chance whenever she needed to eat or drink.
Well, she could probably create a solution. And if there were no restrictions on complexity...
A symbiotic, cloud-based creature. Gets energy and nutrition from sunlight- no, the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Obtains water from atmospheric water vapour, and can use that to expand itself. Drapes over my shoulders like a cloak, transferring nutrients and water through skin contact.
That covered all the bases she could think of. She looked up at the clouds, raised an arm and curled her fingers, willing one of them to take the shape she wanted.
The cloud you chose begins to swirl,
descending directly towards you. Almost like a tornado, but without the violence. As the cloud reaches you, it begins to solidify, turning into a solid cloud cloak creature thing resting on your shoulders.
You notice that as it bonds with you (a completely painless process), you begin to become aware of how much nutrition and liquids the cloud is feeding you. It also grants you a general sense of how much is in the area, letting you know if you need to move to an area with more water.
You get a warm, fuzzy feeling from the cloak. Almost like it's purring. Awwww.
You get +1 to all rolls involving your cloud cloak creature. You may name the species and the individual you're using as free actions.
Because you're looking up, you see two moons forming in the sky that definitely weren't there before, one brown and one yellow. After a bit, the ground shudders and... one moment,
are those moons getting bigger?
And then breadsticks start randomly falling from the sky. Once they've stopped, you find yourself waist-deep in them. Your cloud creature stops purring. You get the impression that it's as confused as you are.
Ah... this was. Disapointing.
At least she was in the air. But it was really tiring...
Kintsugi drew, well, herself and stabbed down, letting herself drop. She could use the gold her edge would generate to create a platform of some sort instead.
You stab downwards, piercing the ground. And...
...for a moment, nothing seems to happen.
But then you see a frankly
huge amount of the ground begin to turn into gold. Seriously, it must extend for at
least a mile.
You begin to hear noise, like several very loud propellers, and... wait, is this gold platform
rising? You look over the edge... yup, you're rising.
Heh. This is pretty cool!
+1 to all rolls involving your solid gold helicarrier.
You chance to look up, and see two moons forming in the sky, not too far above you: one brown and one yellow. Um...
are those moons getting bigger?
And why the heck is it raining breadsticks?
AHAHAHAHA YES
YEEEEESS
Now THIS is a BODY.
Best dream ever.
Just for fun, I celebrate by trying out a few poses. Wonderful.
Hmmmm, what now...
I've tried changing myself, and it worked a treat. The question now, I suppose, is what can I do on a larger scale?
I am sort of hungry...
Well, I suppose my path is clear.
Standing tall, I clear my throat and shout out to the heavens:
"I WISH THE WORLD WAS FLOODED IN BREADSTICKS!"
This is an excellent plan. I see no possible downsides to this plan.
Everything is going to be wonderful.
It's raining breadsticks from out of the sky! Breadsticks! No need to ask why!
As the breadsticks keep falling and falling and falling, you start to worry that maybe they won't
stop and you'll be buried under them. But, thankfully, the hail of breadsticks stops once it reaches about waist height.
Just as the breadsticks start tapering off, you see two moons forming in the sky: one yellow and one brown. And... hold up a second...
are those moons getting bigger?
It gave up, the bear did, and fell backwards landing on its hunches with a solid thwump!
Stomach rumbling, its beady eyes scanned the wasteland before it. Nothing grew as far as it could see. Neither did anything move but the stirring of dust on the wind and the many hued rocks shimmering by sunlight. The land was barren.
The bear moaned.
It was hungry. It had never gone this long hungry back where it was from. Forest. Trees. Bees and green wherever it looked. Fresh water flowing from streams and rivers into ponds. Salmon swimming upstream. And the food - wonderful food - whenever it wanted. From the plants and the animals and those creatures who, on occasion, offered things to eat not found in the Forest.
The bear only wished here was like there.
Edit:
Nothing seems to happen.
Oh bother.
...but then breadsticks start falling from the skies.
Huh. What
are these? They smell... well, they smell a lot like some of the stuff those creatures bring sometimes, that aren't found in the Forest. Maybe they're tasty? Either way, there are a
lot of them.
As a bear, your eyesight is so poor and you are so preoccupied with the breadsticks that you don't immediately notice the two new moons in the sky. You
do, however, notice the ground rumbling. And you know enough to know that that means
something bad is about to happen...
For a decent while, I just sat there gazing upon the alien landscape. This opportunity I had been given, this amazing power...I couldn't honestly state I quite believed that i'd actually been given it. But there was always one way to find out.
So, I formed an
image within my mind, and tried to force it upon my body.
If nothing else, I'll know whether the hologram was telling me the truth.
You concentrate on the image, and soon you feel your body reshaping itself. Weirdly, it doesn't hurt at all, and in no time, you're exactly how you pictured her, down to the clothes, pendant, and the gun in your hand.
+1 to your next roll involving doing something Samus Aran would do.
Something bops you on the head, and you react instinctively, rolling away off to the side and firing your new gun at... what appears to be a breadstick.
You look up to see more breadsticks falling from the sky at a rapid rate, and two moons that weren't there before. One brown, one yellow.
And both of the moons are getting bigger.
So... Anything I want?
I could have anything! I could be a president! No, wait, I could be a GOD!
But those positions are boring... I wanted to be someone important...
And as I gaze at the alien world around me, I only want one thing...
I want to own Sufficient Velocity....
I think on it. Really really hard. Look, thinking hurts, alright? But if what this person is telling me is true, then what's the worst that could happen?
You think and think and think...
you think and think until your thinker is sore, and eventually you realize: even if you
did gain ownership of Sufficient Velocity, how would you
know? You're on a planet with no
life, let alone Internet. And presumably, any documentation of it would be on Earth, right? Not being on Earth, you couldn't possibly have it right now.
Hmm. This is all a lot harder than you thought.
Your thinking gets interrupted by something falling in front of you. You bend down to look at it and... it's a breadstick?
You look up to see thousands more breadsticks falling from the sky, and two moons, one brown and one yellow,
and both of them appear to be getting bigger.
As my small spacecraft proceeded to the next asteroid I was going to survey for my inevitable consumption (to build my doom ship of course), alarms suddenly started blaring. I looked around in a panic as things started to glow blue for some inexplicable reason, and suddenly the starfield twisted before depositing me over an unknown planet.
I looked frantically at the systems readouts for my little mining and fabrication ship, I groaned. I was currently on an unavoidable collision course for the world below, hull integrity was at 44%, engines were at 20%, my primary fuel tank had blown open, it was dark, and I was wearing sunglasses. So, with that in mind, Let's see if I can land safely.
You employ every piloting trick you know, everything you know how to do, and...
...
you crash.
Thankfully, you managed to get up a cushion out of your ship's airbags to protect you from any damage, but the same can't be said about your ship. You poke around it for a bit, and frankly, if it even starts up after this, it'll be a miracle.
And then, things get
weird.
You glance up and see that breadsticks are falling from the sky, watched over by two moons that
definitely weren't there when you were flying in. And...
you're pretty sure those moons are getting bigger.
What the actual-? Seriously, what the heck is going on?
EVENT: MOONS OF MAJORA
So Shard has created two moons that, unfortunately, were not placed far enough away from this planet to keep them from crashing into it. Furthermore, they seem to regard Shard as their gravitational focus, thanks to him being their creator. At the end of Phases 3 and 4, if this situation hasn't already been dealt with, each player and ally must Roll to Dodge the gravitational effects, with Shard rolling at -1. At the end of Phase 5, if the situation hasn't already been involved, the planet must Roll to Dodge twice to see how badly the planet is damaged by the moons crashing into it, and depending on how bad the damage is, each player and ally must Roll to Dodge the effects, with Shard still rolling at -1.