Mu Turn #0

Mu Turn #0
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Corruption
Energies like order, chaos, or primal are terribly alien to the gods nature and swallowing them can alter the deities makeup. We call this sort of permanent alteration corruption, and if a player ever has 100 points of corruption in a single type of energy his deity becomes an entity controlled by the game's staff. Over time deities who drink a lot of these types of energy can also gain tolerance allowing them to handle more and more energy with less and less risk of corruption.

------------	...	Soul	Order	Chaos	Primal	Border	Cosmic
Corruption		0	0	0	0	0	0
Tolerance		50	0	0	0	0	0
Max Drank		100	10	10	10	10	10

Deals
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Thaumatic Energy Stored & Total Upkeep
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[Hope, Fear, and acceptance will start arriving on turn one]

1 BIRTH ACTION
1 COMMUNICATION ACTION

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Mu Turn #0: DEMOGRAPHICS
Mu Turn #0: NARRATIVES

Summary
We don't know anything much about Mu yet. The Game has just begun and we are eager to meet this player.

We talked a little bit about your birth action concept during your registration. Obviously now that you can get a real look at your area things may change but I want to summarize your proposed action here, and make sure we are on the same page. Then I have some questions for you.

From what I understand you want to make an underground world. The initial cavern is to go under the biggest mountain, though you may choose to move it now that you've seen the area. It will have vents for air, and rivers/natural springs within it. Inside this area a special moss grows in shaded areas that has the property of giving off "sunlight" so that plants can grow and people can live here in good health. This moss sends out spores to colonize any crack and shadow it can find, but it's unable to survive contact with actual, real, sunlight on the surface, the moss also dies within 24 hours if it is separated from the dirt/rock it grows on so it can't simply be kept forever in a glass jar providing lighting for someones house.

Within range of the moss spores you have an "aura of peace" going on which calms people down and makes it hard for them to really lose their temper, perhaps combined with some sort of empathy that forces people who harm others to feel and understand that harm, thus promoting peace. But not preventing them from killing a rabbit or cave bat for food, or forcing them to stay forever in the cave in some sort of stupor dying of starvation or thirst.

You are also having a call set up to pull the "right kind of people", peaceful folks, down into your caverns if they enter a cave that is colonized by the moss. This call also goes out in a hundred mile radius any time a tunnel or cave opens up to the surface for the first time, and (of course) the first time you throw down this birth action and set up that first entrance into "your world". Also you can spend power to send out a call from any opening at any time but it'll cost a lot to do so, say 500 acceptance per call/opening.

In addition to this you want to mark a leader by giving him an unlimited life span and making him have glowing pure blue eyes. This lasts until he gets so frail and weak an accident or sheer old age kills him, or until he leaves the cave system or ceases to be the sort of person who is kind and puts the welfare of others above his own, at which point the eyes and lifespan will jump to the kindest and most giving of your current lot of worshipers within the cave, whoever that may be.

If all that is right then I have some questions:

1. Suppose that some player does something to alter the temperature of the globe, like a massive endless storm, or simply an attempt to make their own area more habitable. Suddenly the glaciers and permafrost in your area begin to melt and water starts flooding the caverns. How is it handled?
   
2. Going the opposite direction lets say the ice age returns and your entrances are covered under a glacier, what would you do?
   
3. Your area is tectonically active, and you mentioned volcanic vents to heat your world, how do you handle earthquakes, poisonous fumes, etc . . .
   
4. Plant life from the surface starts to colonize your world rather quickly, perhaps brought in by the people . . . how big are the spaces your initially making for this life. Is there room for grass to grow and big creatures to roam, is there room for trees to grow, or for sheep, goats, pigs, etc . . . to be brought in and live wild within the tunnels.
   

I'm basically trying to get an idea of how your expecting emergencies that would poison, drown, or crash down your little world to be handled, and if you have any sorts of protections in place/if so how those might work. Also how your world interacts naturally with the world above as life starts to try to colonize it.

So in summary,if I am understanding correctly here is the current deal is something like this:

Mu is going to get a large tunnel and cavern system based under the largest mountain in his area probably Kangchenjunga, and eastward down under the tibetan plateau and upwards into the mountain itself. It will have tunnels near the surface, and then further down larger caverns that can/will house viable ecosystems based on the areas above. After it's initial creation Mu will depend on miners to expand the area and connect it to other caves and tunnels. He wanted Everest but it isn't there, will look into creating some larger mountains maybe with the excavated dirt and/or altering the area layout to make things work better... we'll see what I can do.

Inside the tunnels the entire area is held up by a supporting latice of thick rubber like moss. This "moss lattice" stretches out into the mountain connecting magically to "trees" on the surface which serve as hidden venting ducts to take out excess water, nasty gasses, and exess heat, while also bringing back up heat from far below to maintain an even temperature in the tunnel/cavern itself even if the area around it is molten lava or icy mountaintop near the edge of space.

Inside this moss area are hidden stinging thorns that shoot out in numbers at people who behave or think violently, injecting people with neurotoxin; the amount of the toxin ranging depending on the strength of the hostility varying from simply knocking you out, to paralizing you, to causing death by suffocation due to paralization of the lungs/heart. The moss reacts to people harming one another, so you can still kill a rabbit or a mammoth, or a cave bat, but if you decide to hit joe with a club and force yourself on his wife . . . it's stinger time!

Inside this latice naturally grows a smaller more normal "magical" moss that glows with a light like the sun. This moss propagates via airborn spores carried by the wind and grow anywhere that has little light, or lots of shadows, too much light retards it's growth, and actual sunlight destroys it. This moss sends out spores that spread via wind and spread it throughout the connected cavern areas. Below where the moss grows there are overlapping cones of peace. Within these cones people can feel any harm they do to others and are calmed down, it becomes hard to become really angry, confused, etc . . . and it's easy to think rationally and consider your actions with care. The cones most likely completely cover the smaller caverns and tunnels, though there may be areas not covered in the largest caverns where mastodon roam on the enclosed plains.

It has been clarified that the peace effect is magical, not a drug, and effects any sentient being. It also is not something that will prevent you from hunting a rabbit or a mastadon, it won't even prevent you from killing another person, it just means you fully understand what your doing and feel that creature or person's pain while doing it. People won't enter the cavern and suddenly become all dopey and not want to leave, or eat, or something stupid like that.

Whenever a new opening connects to the surface a call will go out within a hundred mile radius around the opening. This call will draw forth anyone who fits your criteria for "settlers of mu" down into the cave system. Anyone who fits the bill and stumbles into the caverns will also receive "the call" and be drawn down into the depths. You can spend points to call as well using the cave mouths as a focus for your power at 10% of what it would normally cost for another god to do the same sort of trick.

In addition to this you want the most caring person, the one who wants to help others the most to be marked by you with glowing blue eyes and an endless lifespan. You can see through this persons eyes at all times, and if anything unusual happens to him or her you get an interrupt. Should the person cease to put the welfare of others above his or her own age falls upon them instantly and the mantle of the chosen one falls upon the next worshiper in line.

In addition the most potent defense you have is secrecy from other gods. A stealth effect is linked to the cave entrances. It doesn't hide them, but makes them easy to overlook, and it's hard to pin down if there are useful resources like metal or stone within. Given a chance a "gather information" effect will pick up another, unconnected cave that meet the right criteria even if yours is closer. A similar effect is placed on the call. It doesn't stop a watcher from seeing people leave but makes their wandering seem inconsequential and makes it easy to overlook a single disappearance or two. A whole village vanishing would show up on the radar of a watching god, but it would show up after they were gone, and it would be hard to pinpoint where they went unless they were a worshiper. Note this only effects gather information abilities, not targeting with spells or actually seeing them through the eyes of another worshiper. Thus making it a more limited effect and giving you a bit of a bonus to the points you put into it, but leaving it with some holes and a lot more subtlety.

(finally getting around to pricing this)