Rasha
05-05-2010, 09:17 PM
Cannibalism, violence, extreme tragedy, intense intimacy
First let us begin with some back story. If you want the short and sweet version skip down to the link and ask me to post a short summarized version.
Biology.
A psyath is essentially a three foot tall humanoid with the simple and familiar shape of two arms, two legs, and a head. Their skin was usually palest white and while they weren't too different from us in shape or biology their mentality was entirely different.
The first intelligent race.
Psyaths were quite a simple race as mere creatures but seemed gifted with two rare commodities. The intelligence to form large packs of more than one hundred, and psychic power. They lived in peace with the land and soon developed a simple language
The daily life of the psyaths.
Before all of this started the psyaths were a simple and peaceful race of psychics living on the island of psiot which they named partly after themselves. Psychic power was also a name based on their massive egos. Daily life was simple for them. They used their powers to fish and to farm in their early tribal days. Disputes were solved quickly and decisively in one on one mental combat. Grudges and anger however were almost non existent and fights were rare and only happened when necessary. Soon fire was discovered and used to cook the fish and hut didn't come long after that replacing simple twig nests. Farming was taken up soon and the wealth of food without pollution caused the population to skyrocket on this little island paradise.
The fall of paradise.
Sadly as population increased the island soon became full. People had to literally kill each other for space. Dead bodies were heaped upon the farmland to act as a kind of fertilizer and the bones were used to craft tools to take some of the work load off the mind such as swords and shields.
A new hope for peace.
After decades of war a small group began to heavily desire a way to another land. They couldn't leave however because it was too far to swim to the nearby landmass. An idea came to their grand leader Kai when he saw a lily pad floating in an inland lake with a frog sitting on it. He came up with the idea of tying tree trunks together with vines after cutting them down with bone axes. In a few short weeks the first raft in history had been invented but not without being seen by others nearby. Word spread fast after Kai successfully sailed away from the island with his family, some food, and a few oars on board. about a week after he'd reached the mainland several rafts also arrived.
Expansion.
The mentality of the Psyaths meant that expanding and making new towns didn't occur until lack of space forced it. This caused the cycle of: Build new town, move half of overpopulated town in, reproduce, overpopulate, and war with each other and anyone else who gets in the way to repeat for eons. Technology was invented rapidly in these constant wars and soon they were even on par with us.
Eons later.
The hivemind of the Psyaths was created when they did crazy experiments on themselves on their home island Psiot. There dna was drastically altered to improve their rare psychic abilities and nanobots throughout their bloodstream were injected in order to maintain their bodies and in effect lengthen their lifespans. Something went horribly right with their experiment however. The raw psychic energy they created daily in their tasks steadily influenced the nanobots. they became conduits to the power. All that energy tampered with their programming. They no longer wanted to simply maintain their hosts but control them. They even found a way to manipulate that very energy to contact each other by keeping the psyaths mind a forced and unbreakable link. The nanobot masters however were not satisfied with this small island. They wanted the world as we know it. They began to abduct other beings Psyath and non Psath from the surrounding world and injected those very nanobots into them. Some didn't come freely and the great war began. This was a battle on two fronts. physical resistance abounded on the great campaign to enslave the world known as the mental wars but it went even deeper than that. The creatures forcefully drawn into the hivemind could still think for themselves to a degree. They offered resistance on the very mental realm of the hivemind itself fighting tooth and nail. Now it would seem that you have been drawn into this war for the planet. The question is are you on the physical battlefield or the mental one and more importantly which side are you on?
The start of the war
Of course Psyaths weren't the only people to fight in this war. Others were made to join in as well if for no other reason than self defense. The most prominent of these outside groups were the coastal tribes of Decatis with aid from Edovites, Simnu, Lothatei, and a strange red goo. They occupied the eastern coast of the western continent as well as the western coast of the eastern continent. They inhabited the coasts and therefore were the first to see this invasion coming from neighboring Psyath cities. We have them surrounded and outnumbered. Sadly though the enemy doesn't have to kill us. All they must do is... corrupt us.
Our humble story begins in the creature stage of all species. The technology of the Psyaths has not yet fully developed and it's now time for you to get acquainted with future allies (or enemies).
http://i45.tinypic.com/331qhi1.png (http://i45.tinypic.com/331qhi1.png)
Map originally made by Zeehero
Rules:
Rp rule standards:
No auto hit, dodge, godmod, autolearn language (Unless being thought at by a psychic), be respectful. Please try to keep arguing down. You need the permission of the player in question to extinct his/her race. etc.
Accept my judgment or that of any mods I appoint.
Ask permission before developing any ground shattering tech or messing with the world on a large scale (No nuking things without my say so.)
Species sheets:
Species:
General location:
Appearance (Picture or description):
General abilities:
General culture (Personality of race):
Tech level (If starting above creature. Mods and game creators only. Extra power to regulate overall plot):
All of that is required you can add more if you so choose.
I already mentioned my Psyaths more or less but
Decatis
Decatis are very large thickly armored catfish with very large sharp teeth and highly sensitive eyes. The whiskers on the body sometimes glow with electrical impulse but only during prolonged use which is quite rare. They have a simple main body (Covered with whiskers which secrete a glue like substance allowing adaptable boneless limbs beyond what I'm about to mention.) with a dorsal fin, a tail fin, two pectoral fins and two ventral fins. Other than white eyes and teeth their scales are brown. They live around ten to twenty years, and are found in packs of three or four. They swim at speeds of 15 per hour usually, but are known to move as speeds as fast as 35 miles per hour.
Decatis live in tropical waters in the ocean between the eastern and western lands as well as the near the tropical shoreline of said ocean.
Decatis feed on Peace Whales. Thirty foot long, slow moving, well armored, and harmless.
Decatis mate based on personal desire through the will of their master the tinge and external egg fertilization.
Decatis are a proud, arrogant, aggressive, warrior race. Even their own young weren't entirely safe until the tinge took command of them. The tinge is the one thing they serve and would never betray.
The Tinge are simple, but complex by working as a group. You see, they are viruses of a sort, but slightly more complex. They odd biology suggest possible extraterrestrial origin, possibly brought here with the Noseferatas, most likely on accident. They were probably not dangerous on their home planet, or on this one until peace whale numbers became low enough for them to form sizes large enough for intelligence. Tinge are small enough to enter cells and make changes, and have flagella all around their body, and are capable of basic sense and creation of electricity for communication, and it allows larger masses to form a sort of fused muscle and mind, along with fusing to and altering already living tissues.
They are many tiny parts all working together for something dangerous. They feed by ripping things to bits and absorbing them, infecting like a normal virus, and can create a light acid and absorb the slurry left of their prey. They leave nothing of corpses.
Massive red clouds are formed by the tinge in large numbers and they can even create living buildings as well as influencing life on both a physical and mental level. They will most likely be the main enemy of the hivemind.
The Tinge believe in mental control and improvement of their allies on all levels.
Species: Simnu
General location: Inside the Decatis. Literally. They move around the body at various points of their life cycle, but most Simnu live out their entire lives in a single Decatis host.
General abilities: Technically, very few extraneous ones. They can survive in both fresh and salt water for some hours outside of a Decatis host, and their eggs and larvae can live on other aquatic animals, but beyond that they have little, if anything, special about them. In adulthood, Simnu are extremely efficient at cleaning up the waste products of their host and filtering out other impurities, whilst in their larval stage they demonstrate a considerable tolerance towards pathogens, absorbing them harmlessly and protecting their host whilst simultaneously making themselves lethal to anything which tries to ingest them.
General culture: Simnu operate as individualistic colonial organisms, which means that they act as a single entity despite having unique sentient minds. This is because a Simnu on its own has very little chance of survival or reproductive opportunities, but both can be maximized by working together. Simnu are intelligent enough to know that the quality of their lives depend on that of their host, and so endeavor to weed out the scroungers amongst their number and ensure that only the most productive of their species survive. Quite aside from strengthening the gene pool, this early form of selective breeding also accelerates the rate of mutation and has resulted in a number of sub-species capable of surviving as parasites to Decatis and non-Decatis alike, as well as feral types that can range from a tenth of the normal size to nearly seven times larger.
Mostly Simnu are small worms not large enough to be viewed.
First let us begin with some back story. If you want the short and sweet version skip down to the link and ask me to post a short summarized version.
Biology.
A psyath is essentially a three foot tall humanoid with the simple and familiar shape of two arms, two legs, and a head. Their skin was usually palest white and while they weren't too different from us in shape or biology their mentality was entirely different.
The first intelligent race.
Psyaths were quite a simple race as mere creatures but seemed gifted with two rare commodities. The intelligence to form large packs of more than one hundred, and psychic power. They lived in peace with the land and soon developed a simple language
The daily life of the psyaths.
Before all of this started the psyaths were a simple and peaceful race of psychics living on the island of psiot which they named partly after themselves. Psychic power was also a name based on their massive egos. Daily life was simple for them. They used their powers to fish and to farm in their early tribal days. Disputes were solved quickly and decisively in one on one mental combat. Grudges and anger however were almost non existent and fights were rare and only happened when necessary. Soon fire was discovered and used to cook the fish and hut didn't come long after that replacing simple twig nests. Farming was taken up soon and the wealth of food without pollution caused the population to skyrocket on this little island paradise.
The fall of paradise.
Sadly as population increased the island soon became full. People had to literally kill each other for space. Dead bodies were heaped upon the farmland to act as a kind of fertilizer and the bones were used to craft tools to take some of the work load off the mind such as swords and shields.
A new hope for peace.
After decades of war a small group began to heavily desire a way to another land. They couldn't leave however because it was too far to swim to the nearby landmass. An idea came to their grand leader Kai when he saw a lily pad floating in an inland lake with a frog sitting on it. He came up with the idea of tying tree trunks together with vines after cutting them down with bone axes. In a few short weeks the first raft in history had been invented but not without being seen by others nearby. Word spread fast after Kai successfully sailed away from the island with his family, some food, and a few oars on board. about a week after he'd reached the mainland several rafts also arrived.
Expansion.
The mentality of the Psyaths meant that expanding and making new towns didn't occur until lack of space forced it. This caused the cycle of: Build new town, move half of overpopulated town in, reproduce, overpopulate, and war with each other and anyone else who gets in the way to repeat for eons. Technology was invented rapidly in these constant wars and soon they were even on par with us.
Eons later.
The hivemind of the Psyaths was created when they did crazy experiments on themselves on their home island Psiot. There dna was drastically altered to improve their rare psychic abilities and nanobots throughout their bloodstream were injected in order to maintain their bodies and in effect lengthen their lifespans. Something went horribly right with their experiment however. The raw psychic energy they created daily in their tasks steadily influenced the nanobots. they became conduits to the power. All that energy tampered with their programming. They no longer wanted to simply maintain their hosts but control them. They even found a way to manipulate that very energy to contact each other by keeping the psyaths mind a forced and unbreakable link. The nanobot masters however were not satisfied with this small island. They wanted the world as we know it. They began to abduct other beings Psyath and non Psath from the surrounding world and injected those very nanobots into them. Some didn't come freely and the great war began. This was a battle on two fronts. physical resistance abounded on the great campaign to enslave the world known as the mental wars but it went even deeper than that. The creatures forcefully drawn into the hivemind could still think for themselves to a degree. They offered resistance on the very mental realm of the hivemind itself fighting tooth and nail. Now it would seem that you have been drawn into this war for the planet. The question is are you on the physical battlefield or the mental one and more importantly which side are you on?
The start of the war
Of course Psyaths weren't the only people to fight in this war. Others were made to join in as well if for no other reason than self defense. The most prominent of these outside groups were the coastal tribes of Decatis with aid from Edovites, Simnu, Lothatei, and a strange red goo. They occupied the eastern coast of the western continent as well as the western coast of the eastern continent. They inhabited the coasts and therefore were the first to see this invasion coming from neighboring Psyath cities. We have them surrounded and outnumbered. Sadly though the enemy doesn't have to kill us. All they must do is... corrupt us.
Our humble story begins in the creature stage of all species. The technology of the Psyaths has not yet fully developed and it's now time for you to get acquainted with future allies (or enemies).
http://i45.tinypic.com/331qhi1.png (http://i45.tinypic.com/331qhi1.png)
Map originally made by Zeehero
Rules:
Rp rule standards:
No auto hit, dodge, godmod, autolearn language (Unless being thought at by a psychic), be respectful. Please try to keep arguing down. You need the permission of the player in question to extinct his/her race. etc.
Accept my judgment or that of any mods I appoint.
Ask permission before developing any ground shattering tech or messing with the world on a large scale (No nuking things without my say so.)
Species sheets:
Species:
General location:
Appearance (Picture or description):
General abilities:
General culture (Personality of race):
Tech level (If starting above creature. Mods and game creators only. Extra power to regulate overall plot):
All of that is required you can add more if you so choose.
I already mentioned my Psyaths more or less but
Decatis
Decatis are very large thickly armored catfish with very large sharp teeth and highly sensitive eyes. The whiskers on the body sometimes glow with electrical impulse but only during prolonged use which is quite rare. They have a simple main body (Covered with whiskers which secrete a glue like substance allowing adaptable boneless limbs beyond what I'm about to mention.) with a dorsal fin, a tail fin, two pectoral fins and two ventral fins. Other than white eyes and teeth their scales are brown. They live around ten to twenty years, and are found in packs of three or four. They swim at speeds of 15 per hour usually, but are known to move as speeds as fast as 35 miles per hour.
Decatis live in tropical waters in the ocean between the eastern and western lands as well as the near the tropical shoreline of said ocean.
Decatis feed on Peace Whales. Thirty foot long, slow moving, well armored, and harmless.
Decatis mate based on personal desire through the will of their master the tinge and external egg fertilization.
Decatis are a proud, arrogant, aggressive, warrior race. Even their own young weren't entirely safe until the tinge took command of them. The tinge is the one thing they serve and would never betray.
The Tinge are simple, but complex by working as a group. You see, they are viruses of a sort, but slightly more complex. They odd biology suggest possible extraterrestrial origin, possibly brought here with the Noseferatas, most likely on accident. They were probably not dangerous on their home planet, or on this one until peace whale numbers became low enough for them to form sizes large enough for intelligence. Tinge are small enough to enter cells and make changes, and have flagella all around their body, and are capable of basic sense and creation of electricity for communication, and it allows larger masses to form a sort of fused muscle and mind, along with fusing to and altering already living tissues.
They are many tiny parts all working together for something dangerous. They feed by ripping things to bits and absorbing them, infecting like a normal virus, and can create a light acid and absorb the slurry left of their prey. They leave nothing of corpses.
Massive red clouds are formed by the tinge in large numbers and they can even create living buildings as well as influencing life on both a physical and mental level. They will most likely be the main enemy of the hivemind.
The Tinge believe in mental control and improvement of their allies on all levels.
Species: Simnu
General location: Inside the Decatis. Literally. They move around the body at various points of their life cycle, but most Simnu live out their entire lives in a single Decatis host.
General abilities: Technically, very few extraneous ones. They can survive in both fresh and salt water for some hours outside of a Decatis host, and their eggs and larvae can live on other aquatic animals, but beyond that they have little, if anything, special about them. In adulthood, Simnu are extremely efficient at cleaning up the waste products of their host and filtering out other impurities, whilst in their larval stage they demonstrate a considerable tolerance towards pathogens, absorbing them harmlessly and protecting their host whilst simultaneously making themselves lethal to anything which tries to ingest them.
General culture: Simnu operate as individualistic colonial organisms, which means that they act as a single entity despite having unique sentient minds. This is because a Simnu on its own has very little chance of survival or reproductive opportunities, but both can be maximized by working together. Simnu are intelligent enough to know that the quality of their lives depend on that of their host, and so endeavor to weed out the scroungers amongst their number and ensure that only the most productive of their species survive. Quite aside from strengthening the gene pool, this early form of selective breeding also accelerates the rate of mutation and has resulted in a number of sub-species capable of surviving as parasites to Decatis and non-Decatis alike, as well as feral types that can range from a tenth of the normal size to nearly seven times larger.
Mostly Simnu are small worms not large enough to be viewed.