OOC: If any other gods want to lend a hand, you certainly may. YOu have until Perenna's time stamp tomorrow.

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In reply to Perenna (msg # 9):

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Summary:
Perenna's card grants a +1
Perenna ups the ante by 5
Cungto ups the ante by 7
Perenna attempts to up the ante by three but that's not more than 7
Ayrmith ups the ante by 3 as he puts down a 10 in Perenna's favor
Bjornrogn tries to help Perenna but offers no higher ante or face card to improve the odds of the challenge

No one else can beat a 10 to add to the ante
Roll proceeds at d6+1 vs. d6

20:17, Yesterday: Secret Roll: The Ancient One rolled 4 using 1d6
20:17, Yesterday: Secret Roll: The Ancient One rolled 3 using 1d6+1

The Challenger wins!
Receives a Jack of Spades 3, 7, and 10 in return.
Perenna discards her 3 and face card
Ayrmith discards his 10

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         Perenna attempts the impossible, to lay a blanket of cold across the top of the world, to transform it into a tundra. However, Cungto finds it most out of place and destructive to the newly burgeoning life here. Therefore he launches a defense against this change, life seems to rise up in defense, the wooly marmot lending a vital hand in quickly attempting to snatch the dancing snowflake. Finally, a Limantis grabs it right out of the air before it can change the landscape around it. Unfortunately for the Limantis, it appears to be frozen for all time here. Who knows if winter shall be laid upon this land should this living statue fall to pieces...
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:02, Mon 30 May 2022.

The Ayrmith in the divine realm drew the Ace of Hearts forging his intention through it, creating a new path to grow in power. Element Cultivation would allow a mortal to increase their element connection, by increasing the cultivation it will increase their Elemental Energy, and the power of the effects of their element.

The cultivator gains resentence to negative effect of the element that they cultivate, (An 5% ice cultivator could stand more extreme temperatures, an 100% ice cultivator can’t be frozen).

The ability to manifest their chosen element at the cost of their Elemental Energy. (An 5% ice cultivator could create ice in a hot environment, an 100% ice cultivator would be able to manifest a blizzard).

The higher the cultivation level, the higher effects of the Elemental Evolution Path will be unlocked. At 5%-20% Minor Elemental Evolution will be unlocked, 21%-60% Greater Elemental Evolution will be unlocked, 61%-80% Major Elemental Evolution will be unlocked, 81%-99% Pure Elemental Evolution will be unlocked, and finally 100% True Elemental is unlocked. Though the Elemental Evolution Path would only happen if the user desired to activate it.

Ayrmith also put restrictions on the Element Cultivation.

The cultivator element cultivation will be determined by the strength of the element in the area, and the focus applied to the cultivation. (An ice cultivator with a shard of ice won’t cultivate nearly as fast as someone in the artic in a blizzard.)

Ayrmith plays the Ace of Hearts, to create Element Cultivation. With the king of spades as the ante.

Durehan likewise looks into the world as it exists and pulls out a Card that he puts into Play. One he had been holding, it seems, but found the time was right to finally move. He appeared to be gearing up, having saved up his ACTS to use in conjunction with this Card.

Reaching out into the world below, he introduced another element of Magic from the veins that had been introduced. He tied it into the life that was newly sprouting in the world, creating a form of Nature magic that would be able to manipulate the plants, animals and other non-sentient lifeforms that were to come. Nature Magic. A magic that would be integral to one of the classes that had been previously introduced as well - Druids. It would also be a magic that would be closely tied to his own aspects it seemed.


Durehan plays the Ace of Hearts to create Nature Magic.

In reply to Ayrmith (msg # 17):

      Upon the face of the Void, Elemental Cultivation comes into being. First when a firebird, begins to cultivate upon Dadacar's moon, where it vomits fiery lava. This new cultivation power quickly gathers it's rules and adds themselves into the System, so that they would forever be attached to the Universe's life...

      This quickly adjusted and worked into Elemental Evolution and The Elementalist Path granting more power at each evolution and skill level.

——-˚✧₊⁎ Summary:  ົཽ⁎⁺˳✧༚——

Ayrmith sets out Ace of Hearts and the king of spades as ante

*Unchallenged: Passes without obstruction

Ayrmith retains his king of spades
        discards ace of hearts

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OOC: Durehan's card

       THen the wonders of a new power entered the Void, one that many gods had sought to help craft perhaps inadvertently. This new power quickly gained momentum as it seemed this magic was the very stuff of life, nature itself. Nature Magic's power ebbed and flowed across the Ley Lines and the Obelisks themselves. Wherever life existed so too did some form of Nature Magic...

——-˚✧₊⁎ Summary:  ົཽ⁎⁺˳✧༚——

Durehan sets out Ace of Hearts

*Unchallenged: Passes without obstruction

Durehan discards his Ave of Hearts

≫ ──── ≪•◦ ❈ ◦•≫ ──── ≪

This message was last edited by the GM at 02:45, Thu 02 June 2022.

It was finally time.

Revealing the power given to them by Ao at the beginning of all things, Humilis and Pax presented their card to the void and invoked its power, evolving from mammal-kind a new sentient race of beings wherever the environment was capable of sustaining them. Hairless apes standing on two legs, with hands capable of manipulating the world around them, and blessed with true sentience.

"They are to be called: humans. They are not just our children; but the children of the void itself. The children of our collective efforts." Pax said, speaking both to her brother and to the other gods.
"They have the will to choose: to choose to worship, or to deny. The will to peace and the will to war." Humilis said, following his sister.
"They will make plans. Make enemies. Make families. Communities. Suffering. Joy."
"They will become the foundation for many choices that we all will make in future. Treat them well, or treat them poorly. The choice is ours."

Pax glared out at the other gods. There was a warning in her eyes. A danger.
"But beware. For in time, they will grow... and they will judge us. Pray that when the time comes, they find us worthy."

Humilis and Pax play the Jack of Spades to create humanity. The Nine of Diamonds is also offered as an ante.

From one half of the endless pillar of fire, an enormous Ace of Spades is sketched with holy fire across the cosmos.

"To cross the peaks of the Chained Mountains, let only the most worthy show their mettle and make it through."

Dadacar uses the Ace of Spades to make the Chained Mountains nearly impassable for those not worthy.

In reply to Humilis and Pax (msg # 20):

      Humulis and Pax draw out hairless bipedal shapes from the forest, their smooth skins mottled with forest colors in a variety of patterns as their only great evolution since their modern development. These creatures lived East of the Arched Crucible and saw its silvery archway reflecting glinting light and they wondered as their minds were forever changed...Sentience had been achieved once more, this time an entire race of hairless ape creatures spread out from that clearing in the glade, slowly, starting with just a few, then a few generations later there were forty, then five hundred, then a few thousand.

      The Humans were strong and dextrous, yet they had minds like a child in many respects. They could think and gain XP as other creatures, and learn skills, literally, all of them did so. However, their primitive social structures favored strength and productivity. One must pay their way after all. Even so, they intuitively began developing the most basic of communication skills and they noticed the ebb and flow of the mild seasons of Lerret, but it was not without its elemental dangers and so at times clothing was required, which they fashioned from the hides of the Land-hippo herds on the steppes and old forests of this land.

      In this region, many humans lived in the largest of their camps, when they signaled to one another about the gathering primitively, they used a two-syllable sneeze-like sound, 'Pa-Ta', or The Tribe. Conveying much of their direction through body language. Though their experience and cultural memory were fresh and new, they quickly began to contextualize their plight between the vicious creatures of this world, its neverending torrent of strange dangers and wonderous sights. For now, living in greater numbers was the best defense, but one that could not last forever.

——-˚✧₊⁎ Summary:  ົཽ⁎⁺˳✧༚——

Humilis and Pax use the Jack of Spades and offer the 9 of diamonds as ante

*Unchallenged: Passes without obstruction

Humilis and Pax retains the 9 of diamonds
        discards Jack of Spades

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      Dadacar casts his spell across the Chained Mountains, "To cross the peaks of the Chained Mountains, let only the most worthy show their mettle and make it through."

      With that, the spell is released, incantation complete. It is a vast and complex thing, fitting for a god, and its power is cast into the stone that Dadacar did shape into the treacherous mountain lands that encircled the Arched Crucible. So too did the Humans come to inhabit lands East of the Chained Mountains and they occasionally looked towards the foreboding mountains and saw the gleam of the Arch in the light of the setting Sunstar...

——-˚✧₊⁎ Summary:  ົཽ⁎⁺˳✧༚——

Dadacar uses the Ace of Spades

*Unchallenged: Passes without obstruction

Dadacar discards Ace of Spades

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This message was last edited by the GM at 05:21, Mon 06 June 2022.

Ayrmith appeared in the divine realm, he drew his card looking into the face of the king of spades. With his divine power he looked at the mortals debating which one he might have the greatest effect on with a single conversation. His focus is drawn to a Sabre-lion, he activated the card. Ayrmith found himself appearing to the Sabre-lion with a momentary thought everything froze as Ayrmith started to convey ideas to it. First he gave it insights on how to start Elemental Cultivation for the element of air. Next Ayrmith told the Sabre-lion that if it could train each generation to cultivate the wind element that they could evolve new traits through mutation/gene systems it could lead to amazing advantages.

Ayrmith used the king of spades to inspire a Sabre-lion.

In reply to Ayrmith (msg # 23):

        Ayrmith cast himself into Creation, befriending and teaching one of the grand predators of the Age, the Saber-lion. The great beast understood the words and drank them in as if it were water. Soon Ayrmith had succeeded in teaching the lion and passing understanding of how to teach the skill to others in his pride.

        Within a generation, many great air cultivators had appeared among the Saber-lions, some had gained power over their great leaps, some had learned to sense disturbances in the air for the hunt, and another had learned from the Unicorn Herald, who had learned to control how sound moved through the air. Mutation would happen but it would happen after many more successive generations, though many already seemed intent on chasing the birds...They grew strong and powerful in their rise as a powerful clan of elemental creatures.

——-˚✧₊⁎ Summary:  ົཽ⁎⁺˳✧༚——

Ayrmith uses the King of Spades

*Unchallenged: Passes without obstruction

Ayrmith discards King of Spades

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(Queen of Clubs): Gain knowledge instantly of all use, modification, creation, the intention of use, of all magic. (Secret, Queen of Clubs.)
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Cungto looks upon the system and sees it's relation to magic, as he debates amping it up through leveling or not.

Cungto plays the three of hearts to contest the hidden act.

Feeling a dim awareness starting to take notice, Bjornrogn concentrates.  His strong will bearing down upon the presence, weaving obfuscations around it.

Ante: 9 of Clubs to oppose Cungto.

Dadacar watches Humilis and Pax's humans begin to spread across the world. The creatures give him pause and cause all manner of conflict within the fiery tempest of his being. As a god, Dadacar is nothing if not a tester, and so he decides to put these humans to what will be the first of his many tests.

For a god it is nothing to divine the nature of a living being. It takes a fraction of a fraction of Dadacar's godly being to weigh and measure the worth of each of the living humans. He bypasses the strongest, the smartest, the fastest. He overlooks the cruelest and the most passionate. He ignores the clever and charming and disregards the loyal.

Instead, he finds the most average of them. He is only spectacular in so much as he is wildly typical. This is the man Dadacar chooses. Not the greatest of men, but the most average of men.

He is young, barely a man, with an unremarkable name denoting who his father was and what part of the human settlement he lives in. But on this bright morning when he wakes and steps from his rudimentary housing fiery halo blazes around his head in the shape of a great crown, and the scream of trumpets crack the air. Firebirds swoop and dive around him, coming to prostrate themselves before him on the ground. From horizon to horizon his name echoes across the sky so all can hear.

Dadacar plays the Queen of Spades to anoint the first King of the Humans

Bjornrogn (msg # 25):

        Bjornrogn casts a cloud of secrecy over his ACT and it succeeds beautifully...He is tied into the network of ley lines that existed throughout the cosmos.

——-˚✧₊⁎ Summary:  ົཽ⁎⁺˳✧༚——

Bjornrogn uses the Queen of Clubs

*Challenged: Cungto offers 3 of Hearts to oppose.
Bjorn blocks again with a 9 of Clubs.

Bjornrogn discards Queen of Clubs, takes 9 of Clubs and 3 of Hearts

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Dadacar (msg # 28)

        Dadacar blesses a new King of his choice with a crown of flames...This new King carries the name of Aruun, and his lineage is called Dattu. King Aruun is granted much leeway in the lands of the 5 Pillars. All accept him but the Monarchs of the Pillars. Grudgingly, they step aside and serve the King, as the ultimate arbiter of the Tribe, as it seemed silly to ignore the fire crown he wore upon his head, that even the firebirds stopped to prostrate before him. Under his rule, much stayed the same over the long years, stability had been created in the line of Dattu whom were not overly courageous, nor intelligent enough to make changes to the Oath, he was the First Royal Human Blood of Lerret. It remained to see how this family would affect their development over the long run...

——-˚✧₊⁎ Summary:  ົཽ⁎⁺˳✧༚——

Dadacar uses the Queen of Spades

*Unchallenged: Passes without obstruction.

Dadacar discards Queen of Clubs

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Dadacar watches the Chain Mountains grow and the creatures that develop around them. Seeing the few species that survive the Crucible and overcome themselves pleases him, but is not enough. Whether they fly on the wing, walk the earth, display great strength or own a great mind they must be challenged to do more, to be more. In an effort to aid the species of Lerret to become their best selves Dadacar blesses the local flora and fauna with the aspect of "aggression" so that all who seek the blessings of the Crucible will be suitably challenged.

Dadacar uses the Black Joker to make the flora and fauna in the on the plateau around the Crucible hostile to outsiders

In reply to Dadacar (msg # 30):

        Dadacar enhances the plateau of the Arched Crucible so that it will be even more hostile to anything which might attempt to reach that high plateau (+1 versus any challenges here stacking with the first impassable modifier +1 when they are able to be called into question). This Card calls to the fiercest creatures of the world like a recruitment call and many creatures respond...

        Flora grows thick and thorny, drinking in blood like water for added nourishment. Perhaps the most noteworthy of these was the Tesla tree, which was a new plant that had initially gained its powers from the Source, perchance to spread its powers across these mountaintops and the plateau, they crackled with the power of electricity, sapping it directly from the magnetosphere, to protect itself as well as to provide a forest floor that was rich in nutrients(been reading the Hyperion books). The ugliest of lifeforms, the Fungal Bleeder was a platelet style of fungus that grew on the sides of rocks or parasitized trees and bushes, while extending out root-like structures to drag dead things to it for food.

        The lifeforms that reach this forbidding land were likewise thirsty for prey and espoused the very essence of "aggression". The insects that reach this height near the mountain peaks have become quite fearsome as well through their levels. The Fireflies were a terrifying example, they were reddish beautiflies that would gorge upon blood here since few flowering plants gained root and fewer ever bore fruit. The Firefly wings glowed like fire at night to lure their prey. The terrifying reptilian Pteradon arises from these peaks after generations of leaping through the craggy cliffs as smaller gliding lizards. A new Draconian offshoot also arrives, lizard-like but with the characteristics of a draconian, its body long beyond comprehension, even though it has four stubby legs, which it rarely used. Atop this creature's head was a massive frill of tough bony protrusions ending in a beaked mouth and a hawk-like visage.

——-˚✧₊⁎ Summary:  ົཽ⁎⁺˳✧༚——

Dadacar utilizes the Black Joker

*Unchallenged: Card passes Unobstructed

Dadacar discards Black Joker

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As He goes to retire for the AGE, Plutocrus notes that he had:


Queen of diamonds
Queen of spades
Jack of Spades

King of diamonds
9 of clubs
3 of Hearts

This message was last edited by the player at 08:49, Thu 09 June 2022.

Humilis and Pax have used most of what they had. All that remains is as follows:

9 of Diamonds

Cungto finds it oddly appropriate he had a better hand in the end, then he started off with. After all he was the king of luck.

6 of Clubs
7 of Diamonds
10 of spades
Jack of Spades
This message was last edited by the player at 13:19, Thu 09 June 2022.

Ayrmith used all of his powers, including all the cards. And was left with no cards at the end of the age.

None

Thackus only had one Card left.

A Jack Of Clubs And a Jack of Clubs
This message was last edited by the player at 15:34, Thu 09 June 2022.

It appears we have a winner and a first-runner up!

CUNTO is the Alpha!
You are granted an extra ACT!

PLUTOCRUS is the Omega!
You are granted an extra ACT!

This message had punctuation tweaked by the GM at 05:46, Fri 10 June 2022.