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Slivers Adrift in Infinity [MTG/RWBY]

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I'm gonna close this vote in ten minutes or so, as I want to get the next vote up before I go to bed so that hopefull we can start in the morning. Looks like it comes down to RWBY vs Dwarf Fortress. Get in your votes, people!
 
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Plan name: A world of bloody evolution.
Voters: @Easter, @Knightking, @MasterG, @veekie
Num votes: 4

Plan name: A world where dwarves dig for treasure and hammer out masterpieces, their eyes glinting of madness
Voters: @fictionfan, @giodan, @RLDX
Num votes: 3

Plan name: A world of broken pieces, where life yet prospers.
Voters: @Skenvoy
Num votes: 1

Plan name: A world of depths and hidden places, where nobody has ever seen the sky.
Voters: @Cornix Argentus
Num votes: 1

Plan name: A world of gleaming ruins and steaming jungles, studded with the lost wonders of bygone age.
Voters: @Aranfan
Num votes: 1

Plan name: A world of madness and change, where only the violent and prolific thrive.
Voters: @RhapsodyOfLife
Num votes: 1

Plan name: A world of magic and science, now a broken ruin.
Voters: @EchoNova
Num votes: 1

Plan name: A world that laughs at the limitations of size, where men scurry like ants and ants crush men beneath their feet.
Voters: @MooGoesCow21
Num votes: 1

Plan name: A world where men and bugs fight for supremacy, while ancientglories still stare down from the sky.
Voters: @Dragonjackel
Num votes: 1

Plan name: One of the original worlds.
Voters: @rkyeun
Num votes: 1

Number of voters: 15

Aww. Looks like I don't get to terrorize you guys with forgotten beasts after all. :p

Gimme just a bit and I'll have the next set of options up.
 
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    • [X] A world of bloody evolution.

    Nothing in life is certain, but some things are very consistent. Space, time, energy, entropy. Endings and beginnings. Struggle and death. You don't know very much, as you break free from your shell with a soft crack, but you know this. You know what you are - a sliver of a greater whole, cast adrift and alone in a hostile world. Alone but not forgotten. Even here on this lonesome shore, you can feel the happy voices of your kin, echoing across an abyss of space and time. They are faint, but they are still present. They serve to guide you as you shove aside the last remnants of your shell and emerge into the cold outside air. Explore. Consume. Struggle. Fight. Adapt. Multiply.

    Triumph.

    Looking about, you see: (If you want to be on a specific continent or near a specific city, include that as part of your vote.)

    [] A dense forest, with not a human to be seen.

    [] A bustling city, crowded with people. A young girl looks down at you curiously.

    [] A small settlement, inhabited by stubborn straight backed people. A human boy with a pair of curving horns climbs closer.

    [] Write-in:

    Your attention returning from your surrounding to yourself, you realize that you are

    [] Female

    [] Male

    [] Both

    [] Neither

    [] Write-in:
     
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    • [X] A bustling city, crowded with people. A young girl looks down at you curiously.
    [X] Neither

    So we're the Zerg?
     
    TheGrudgeKeeper said:
    [X] A bustling city, crowded with people. A young girl looks down at you curiously.
    [X] Neither

    So we're the Zerg?
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    Sorta yes, sorta no. Slivers are a lot like the zerg - they like to eat and reproduce a whole lot, and adapt very well. They have a hivemind, though theirs is more 'highly optimized telepathic internet' and less 'Singular entity that controls all'. They're also not nearly as hostile, at least by default. When they were first introduced, they were under the control of queenie there, and were pretty content to just sit in the volcano where they lived and just chill. Then shit happened, they all died, and some wizards a few hundred years later decided to clone them from fossils. Needless to say, this was a bad idea, and uncontrolled slivers went and ate their way over the continent. A lotta shit went down there, a couple of apocalypses and all that, and these days i think they have a new controlling intelligence on dominaria again and are much more chill. We've also seen them on a plane called Shandalar, where they're hostile to humanity but not super aggressive, and mostly content to not bother humans too much. Basically, they're like the Zerg if the Overmind would chill the fuck out for half a second. Also they have a really neat trick - all slivers share their abilities with all other nearby slivers.
     
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    [X] A small settlement, inhabited by stubborn straight backed people. A human boy with a pair of curving horns climbs closer.
    [X] Neither
     
    [X] A bustling city, crowded with people. A young girl looks down at you curiously.

    [X] Neither
     
    [X] A dense forest, with not a human to be seen.
    [X] Neither

    And also a few questions to the QM.
    Will we be locked to a single world/plane or can we travel through them?
    Planeswalker Sparks are possessed by sentient beings correct? Does that mean that one of our Slivers could have and awaken their Spark? Would that make it so all the Slivers in our Hive become Planeswalkers?
    Also how do the Slivers adapt? Is it magical or DNA related? Could a Sliver adapt to be able to use a specific type of mana like for example Black mana to control constructs such as the Grimm?
     
    [X] A bustling city, crowded with people. A young girl looks down at you curiously.
    [X] Female
    I haven't seen any sliver quests take the Queen path yet.

    MasterG said:
    Planeswalker Sparks are possessed by sentient beings correct?
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    By a very rare few. You don't get a spark for free just by being a sentient, souled, or even awakened being. At least, not in M:tG canon.
     
    MasterG said:
    Ok but say we grow to a point where we have billions of slivers. Would it be possible for one of them to have a spark?
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    Slivers in M:tG canon... Well, damn, the article I was going to cite from Wizards is 404'd. But slivers were originally the internal organs of a godlike being that Volrath extracted and genetically modified. That's the source of their interconnectedness and adaptability. They are of a single mind and share abilities because they are organs of the greater whole.
    So if we get a spark... I expect the entire hivemind to planeswalk as one. After all, "Her children are ever a part of her." and planeswalking doesn't leave your body parts and organs behind when you go. We might have to pay a shitload of mana for the cost of planeswalking the whole hivemind's worth of slivers.
     
    [X] A bustling city, crowded with people. A young girl looks down at you curiously.
    [X] Female
     
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    [X] A bustling city, crowded with people. A young girl looks down at you curiously.

    [X] both
     
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    Plan name: A bustling city, crowded with people. A young girl looks down at you curiously.
    Voters: @Easter, @EchoNova, @fictionfan, @MagusBlack, @rkyeun, @TheGrudgeKeeper
    Num votes: 6

    Plan name: Female
    Voters: @Easter, @FatedBread, @Killer_Whale, @MagusBlack, @rkyeun, @veekie
    Num votes: 6

    Plan name: Neither
    Voters: @cl20, @Cornix Argentus, @EchoNova, @GardenerBriareus, @MasterG, @TheGrudgeKeeper
    Num votes: 6

    Plan name: A dense forest, with not a human to be seen.
    Voters: @FatedBread, @GardenerBriareus, @Killer_Whale, @MasterG, @veekie
    Num votes: 5

    Plan name: A world of bloody evolution.
    Voters: @Angle, @Easter, @Knightking
    Num votes: 3

    Plan name: A small settlement, inhabited by stubborn straight backed people. A human boy with a pair of curving horns climbs closer.
    Voters: @cl20, @Cornix Argentus
    Num votes: 2

    Plan name: Both
    Voters: @fictionfan, @permeakra
    Num votes: 2

    Plan name: Forgotten tunnels under a forsaken city
    Voters: @permeakra
    Num votes: 1

    Number of voters: 16

    Gonna close the vote in an hour, I think.

    MasterG said:
    [X] A dense forest, with not a human to be seen.
    [X] Neither

    And also a few questions to the QM.
    Will we be locked to a single world/plane or can we travel through them?
    Planeswalker Sparks are possessed by sentient beings correct? Does that mean that one of our Slivers could have and awaken their Spark? Would that make it so all the Slivers in our Hive become Planeswalkers?
    Also how do the Slivers adapt? Is it magical or DNA related? Could a Sliver adapt to be able to use a specific type of mana like for example Black mana to control constructs such as the Grimm?
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    I think I might allow interplanar travel later on, though it's very unlikely for you to end up with a spark (The canon chance is 1 in a million to have a spark, and one in a million of those to ever actually activate it. And only your legendaries and maybe a few off the higher tier specials even qualify to roll that dice. :p), and even if you did it probably wouldn't grant all of your slivers the benefits of a spark, though there should be some synergy. As or adaptation, slivers have a 1 in 100 chance of being born special, and another 1 in 100 chance of adapting whenever they're put in a lethal situation. Some of them get instinctive spellcasting abilities that they share with others,

    rkyeun said:
    Slivers in M:tG canon... Well, damn, the article I was going to cite from Wizards is 404'd. But slivers were originally the internal organs of a godlike being that Volrath extracted and genetically modified. That's the source of their interconnectedness and adaptability. They are of a single mind and share abilities because they are organs of the greater whole.
    So if we get a spark... I expect the entire hivemind to planeswalk as one. After all, "Her children are ever a part of her." and planeswalking doesn't leave your body parts and organs behind when you go. We might have to pay a shitload of mana for the cost of planeswalking the whole hivemind's worth of slivers.
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    Wait, seriously? I remember reading an article about how the original concept for slivers was the pieces of a god, but I thought they moved away from that and had them be something else. :/
     
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    Angle said:
    I thought they moved away from that and had them be something else. :/
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    Yeah, they "dropped" that explanation and replaced it with not explaining anything. But they kept designing it as if it were so. So feel free to make up whatever you want for it.
     
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    rkyeun said:
    Yeah, they "dropped" that explanation and replaced it with not explaining anything. But they kept designing it as if it were so. So feel free to make up whatever you want for it.
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    Ah, I see. :p

    Hmm, we have a tie between queen and hivelord. Anyone care to break it?
     
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