So was the part with the rats on it on the part where no light/heat from the phoenix reaches it?

Is there anything that looks like a control tower or anything of the like or a central place she could see from the spirit world where the order/weaver of the place centralized to.

The section with the rats is in the light. Every"night" the crows return to their nests in the domes on top of the mountain range, at different points spread out along the range. There are more domes than crows, but each dome with a crow also has a Chaos Feather - each crow places their Chaos Feather on/in their tree, and the tree sets about drawing the Chaos energy out of the Chaos Phoenix. The combination of all 13 (now 12) Chaos Feathers absorbing Chaos from the Phoenix, causes the light and heat generated by that Chaos to be darkened until the feathers are all retrieved by the crows, shutting off the power drain. Once the Feathers are no longer in the trees, the light and heat from the Chaos Phoenix returns.

The ringworld was set up in segments which are each identical to eachother, "top" and "bottom", side to side. There is no single Central organizing location. The machinery has been inactive and dead for hundreds of millions of years. More history will be revealed later.

So getting this place rotating would take a long long time.

But would there be enough heat/light to go around if the crows weren't doing what they where doing? Or would it be to much?

Did you see Order Repair objects? You can do the same by removing the Chaos from the machine - it would be like exorcising Rust. But there's alot of machinery, so... depends on how you did it



What happens to planets that are tidally locked with their stars when they're as close to their star as we are to Sol? One side cooks while the other side freezes. The ringworld is essentially one long tidally locked planet. Life might be able to subsist in the twilight zone.

For a reminder, Glitch is in the dome, the crow is sleeping on the nest of eggs, the Chaos Feather is in the tree, too high to reach from the ground.

She tries to use the knife to create a bolt hole to teleport into the dome... inside she will use the knife, feather, and the tree to draw chaos out of the machinery bellow into the fruit, feather, and knife to repair it and try and get it running again......

If the crow starts to wake she will use leap of the kangaro to grab the feather, and try and land near the eggs as she is quite sure the crow won't attack if she's got the eggs.... there still 12 crows and it would be a pain to fight them all. Maybe it's not to late to talk to them.

*roll and learn Chaos Teleport*
Ignoring the hole she just created in the glass since it was unstable and too small anyway, Glitch turns into a ball of light and feels like she is everywhere in the universe, perceived from where she was. Everything seems motionless as she moves ((she's moving at the speed of light)) straight through the glass, passing through without feeling it. She materializes in a flash of light on the other side, stirring the crow, but not waking it.

*Rolls & learn Chaos Degrade/repair/repurpose*

Being a Shaman of Spark Steel and Rust, an engineer, and a child of Rat, Glitch has a special intuition for machinery and is very adept at removing the Chaos from the nearby computer systems and channeling it into the fruit (and a little for herself).

As the balance of Chaos infusing the fruit alters, the tree begins to shake and jingle like tiny bells. This wakes the crow. But before the crow can react, Glitch jumps for the Chaos Feather

*Roll*
She's easily able to grab the Feather and land right by the crow and is eggs.

The crow, now wide awake and enraged, filled with protective fear, defiantly squawks, "So, the murderer comes to steal Feather of the Source and kill me and my babies as well? At least tell me why! Why has your kind been so intent on our extinction? Have you not exterminated enough, that you have to wipe out everything not Rat? What crime are you repaying?" She is shaking with Chaotic rage-fear ((Hmm, she has an excess of emotional Chaos...))

There is some angry chittering form the others but what the crow can understand is clear. "You save others from burning in the sorces light.... but your rules are crule and slaughter many on whims. Your sister killed to stop her slaughter. Let us repair your world, it may turn again and bring real night and day. Sharing fruit and planting seeds may bring life to world again. we do not wish to end your kind, let us try and save others."

To herself, the crow says, "Could it be? Is 4 limbed murderer rat not evil?" The crow looks around at the computers, noticing that their lights are blinking for the first time in her life, "You! You have unbroken the world!" ((She's overreacting)) Glitch senses the crow's elation in her voice.

The crow continues, "Can you bring back Ghost of Knowledge?! Maker's Ghost of Knowledge died in the time before the Source, legends of my grandparents tell of the Ghost and the life he brought to our people. You brought back the Lights of Control, please bring him back too!"

"Where is this ghost?"
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The crow points to a broken holo-projector in the corner.

((Quick short post to get that done.))

Keeps an eye on the crow, and danger senses hightened. She will use sense angst to see if the crow still has ill intent for her.... if she gets the sense this is a trick from it she will hold an egg in her tail (very carefully) letting it know she won't hurt the egg if it don't hurt her. However if she senses nothing she will just keep an eye on it.

She will do what she did to repair the holo-projector.

If she gets it up and running and a hologram appears she will ask it for a status report and what would need to be done to get the rotation started again. Also what would be needed to restore a stable ecology.... though she calls it 'death life food loop' so it might not understand what she meant if it is not programed for weird termology like that.

*Roll*
She senses the crow is wary, but hopeful.


*Roll*
Glitch draws the Chaos from the entropic degradation of the holo-projector into the Feather and the Fruit on the tree. Some of the Chaos is absorbed by herself and most goes into the Fruit. She is able to repair the holo-projector completely, and a hologram comes to life in the room - an anthropomorphic dog with opposable thumbs appears and says, "Chrell nix tek mogalin? Vizroth mohebetan! 'Keiriek mi amaa'. Vmintache?"

But of course, Glitch happens to have the Feather on her wrist:



While she wasn't paying attention, her colony-mind took over her fingers and completed the task she set for herself to do, creating a masterfully perfectly imperfect Chaos Feather Bracelet which they have taken the liberty of weaving into her wrist implant.

Therefore her implant automatically deciphers the language for her and she also hears simultaneously, "I'm not a broken computer anymore? Welcome to the Ringworld Vizroth!  Our favorite saying is 'live laugh and love'. How can I help you?"



The system is telepathic.

"Status report:
Welcome Supreme Leader Glitch. The system recognizes your lifeform's intellectual superiority over all other lifeforms within one thousand galactic diameters.
Vizroth is in great disrepair.
Allow me to elaborate:
Hundreds of millions of years ago, the star that Vizroth was created around became no longer viable to sustain life at this orbital diameter, we lost our Goldilocks's Zone status. So due to galactic overpopulation, no other star was available, therefore Vizroth was sent into intergalactic space, and while leaving the Galaxy, all of our sentient inhabitants were evacuated. A few non-sentients, such as I was at the time, remained here. We were rodents, birds of prey, insects, and others who could retreat to the interior of the star-less Vizroth. Our power generator remained active and functional for about a hundred million years and provided heat and energy to keep the food replicators active as well as the rats, crows and a few other species alive. Eventually repairs began to fail and machines broke down, but by then, the rats and crows had become somewhat sentient. After all other species were hunted to extinction due to necessity of survival, the rats turned on their own and on the crows and began to hunt them and their eggs. Just when only a handful of crows and hundreds of thousands of rats remained alive, a minor Chaos god, the Chaos Phoenix discovered Vizroth in intergalactic space and discovered the state of imbalance its inhabitants were in. The Phoenix gave feathers to the crows and taught them to use them to protect themselves and suppress overpopulation among the rats to bring balance. The Phoenix meditated into a coma-like state so that the crows could have a source of Chaos energy to absorb and the broken-down Vizroth could continue to support life.

"Given the speed at which you were able to repair the processing units in this room, it would take 1 person 91.19 Trillion years to repair the station. It would take you and 11 others to repair the station in 7.6 trillion years. Or, given the potential of the lifeforms in and on the surface of Vizroth, if they all helped it would take about 13 days. Or, if all of the energy in the Phoenix were used up, it would take 1 second.

"As for restoring a stable ecology, I'm afraid I don't have the processing power to help you with that question."

She thought on this. "So if rats and crows worked together... I show them how.... It could rotate again soon?" she thought on the overpopulation problems. "I should share my blood, spread the birthing plague. Rats wisdom would show them to control there numbers. The plauge would take it's numbers too as the weak would be culled by it. With Rats blessing you will have an engineer your own."

She explains to the crow what it is she is and what the brithing pluage would mean. That likely half or so she infects would die, and only 1/20th would become like her. So she would likely need to infect a large number to get an initial population of ratkin spread out and take charge of the rat populations.

She explains her vision was blinded when she first came here, only saw imbalance harsh treatment... she couldn't see that the crows people where keeping the rats population in check.  Though the crows punishment was unjust as she levied a death sentence them for gathering to aid an injured of another race and then slaughtered them because she had tried to save there lives.

The crow says, "We will take the birthing plague as well." The crow believes all of the other crows will want to be infected also.

Assuming she agrees to infect them and the Ratfolk, 3 of the 12 crows survives, and each of the crows has 13 eggs, leaving 73 surviving Ratkin Crow chicks in total. The crow will explain that they had been unable to incubate their eggs to completion because they compassionately kept the Chaos out of the shells, thereby preventing death or disease of the fetuses, but also providing such a safe and comfortable environment that most eggs had refused to hatch for thousands of years. The plague forced them to emerge, and their strength and wisdom gained from listening without jostling their brains for thousands of years and looking at the world through Chaos vision alone, has kept a greater number of them alive than might otherwise be expected.

120 trillion Ratfolk survive the plague to become Ratkin-folk, and in a week, there are 377 trillion of them. In 17 days, the world is back up and running, and the Ratkin-folk population is up to 1.3 quadrillion.

The birthing plague affects rats and humans it wouldn't afects crows, however she tells them ratkin will be born who are talented with medicen and friends with disease that could help stir the eggs in safer ways.

The only way she is able to spread the plague is with the ritual or biting or scratching.... and ratkin need humans or rats to mate with, if they mate with eachother the offspring is infertile.  So she she wouldn't try infecting them all and would need a powerful ritual to even try.

It would take a little longer but she would likely have to just infect one large gathering of rats and the ratkin that come out of it tell them what they need to do how to run a colony and send them out to spread out and infect and start up colonies of there own. Would take a little bit longer but would work all the same save the crow part.

I mean if you want to say they get some kinda mass ritual with the feathers to summon spirits to spread the plague and the crows are infected anyway that's fine. ^.^

She will find that realy odd, and just assume its rats will.

Ether way works just thought you should know what I was going to try and due because how it would normally work.

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She will take one of the smaller fruits and cut it so each seed inside has some food on it and plant one of the chunks using the choas stored to make it grow quickly. After she sees what's grown she asks the hologram if doing this will help the ecology.

and

She infects the whole lot in one go. with a giant ritual circle powered by one section of fruit. The crows are included. But the population stops growing at 1.3 Quadrillion. It is Rat's will. There are nearly 1000 Ratkin per Square Mile of surface area, but they are occupying huge amounts of 3 dimensional space throughout the Ringworld, so they are comfortable and not overcrowded.


*Roll & Learn Chaos Decay/heal/grow*
She shifts the flow of Chaos in the little seedling, removing some here, adding some there. The end result is that the seed grows into a small white Chaos fruit-tree within a few hours. If a Chaos Feather is placed in the tree, Chaos can be added to the tree to make it grow faster. But without the Feather, adding Chaos is dangerous to it.

It is an excellent method of dispersing excess Chaos energy that is building up.

The Phoenix is dimmer than it used to be. Now, instead of being drained on a specific schedule of night and day, the Phoenix is always being drained a little bit. Therefore it is like the entire planet is in a dim & warm environment - quite comfy.

Well now that things are looking better here she tells them they should not just care for there world but care for the source too, learn it's name, and see to it's needs as it has seen to there's. For what ever reason it saw there world and saved it... they should be thankful to it. Such great beings need such attentions to thrive, and surely there is more than praise it they can do for it.

She will check with the hologram to see if there is anymore she can do to help.

((If there's anything you want Glitch to do on this world before leaving, do it now. Then I'll go on with the communication with the Phoenix.))

She will take one of the seeds, some of the flesh from the fruit, and one of wyrmite (except white, and she thought about not including red but thought otherwise as it seamed it could lead to imbalance.) and use the shaping to weave the growing seed as she makes it grow into a talisman holding the wyrmite pieces. She will then try and summon a cockroach spirit, a lesser totem avatar or incarnation if possable, to dwell in the talisman to give it power.

This will hopefully give some affect from the wyrmite, and let a talented engineer (rather rat or crow ratkin) who wares it to see the power and signals flowing through the wires and in the air here... and be able to communicate with the AIs the planet has from anywhere.

This should make anyone who takes charge of keeping things in order's job a lot easier.

She does all of this successfully.

Additionally, she feels the overwhelming urge to save some seeds and eat one of the oldest, purest and brightest of the fruits.

Once the thousands of years old Hatchlings become Ratkin-crows, they quickly become the most intelligent lifeform other than Glitch, and one of their kind becomes the default leader of the Ratkin-folk and Ratkin-crows. Having propagated through use of Chaos magic, they are all innately Chaos Magic wielders, and take to calling themselves the Chaos Rats of Vizroth or Vizrathian Ratkin.

The Vizrathians agree that they should make contact with the Phoenix and find out what it wants, so they carefully design a ritual to awaken the Phoenix. Everything goes perfectly, and the Phoenix awakens. The entire world and everything on it is obliterated in an instant.

Glitch finds herself floating in white-empty-space and a being of pure Chaos in the form of a sea urchin says, "Glitch, do you consent to being a Chaos Mage? You have proven your desire to maintain and restore balance. If you accept, you will have access to my unlimited magic and I may randomly ask you to do something you wouldn't want to refuse."

Is mournful to the world and searches her blood frantically to see what became of them. Hoping so many losing there lives had a purpose. Maybe this birthed a new, spiritual, realm for them to live in? Just hopes she did no destroy a celestial and all those on it for no reason.

Don't really mean to ignore the Urchin, is just frantic and in a form of rapture.

All of this is pre-known by the urchin. With the aid of the strength of Chaos, Spark, Rust and Rat, Glitch dives into the Blood and finds her children. The birthing plague she gave them through the ritual was somehow filled with her scriff. The Vizrathian Horde keeps finding itself in overpopulated galaxies, and spreads Plague and Chaos to bring back the Wyld of every Weave. The entire Horde is a Verser. The are part of the body of Rat - a shady part, but an honorable and balancing part of Rat.

Removing the Chaos from her Rapture state, the urchin calms Glitch down to pure awareness.

Her human side finds the idea of an horde of several million just popping into galaxies, flooding through them consuming them till the populations balance out, and then vanishing a slightly horrifying concept. But some times nature is just horrifying and some times salvation comes in devastation. One can just hope things never get so bad that natures solutions are never so exstream.... She would have hoped they found a more peaceful existence but they where rotting away on a dying world, now they have a purpose. Even if it is one that serves the wyrm more than the wyld.

"We follow Rat, work with the weavers science... we are not chaos mages.... not even good mystics."

The urchin becomes a white horse's rear end which speaks and says, "Cool, so is that a yes? I'm only interested in if you specifically will agree to wield Chaos magic as my mage." It transforms again into a giant silver fox's decapitated head with thousands of 2 foot long needle-thin fangs, and after Glitch's response, it painlessly bites her just once into thousands of torn and punctured bits.

She dies.

Glitches responce was still rather the same, it only served rat, and if it tries to bite her she will try and bite it back. XD