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sessions:worldbuilding:2017-05-27 [2020/01/11 18:53] – created shyriathsessions:worldbuilding:2017-05-27 [2024/01/06 19:31] (current) – pinkgothic
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 {{wst>shyriath|Dlyss' gaze remained fixed on the teal male; she gave the impression of trying to look through his head. "Why indeed?" she murmured, half to herself. "You said to Enneth that you design organisms... particularly plants. Tell me of such ones as you have designed, and whether the patch upon your wing falls among their number."}} {{wst>shyriath|Dlyss' gaze remained fixed on the teal male; she gave the impression of trying to look through his head. "Why indeed?" she murmured, half to herself. "You said to Enneth that you design organisms... particularly plants. Tell me of such ones as you have designed, and whether the patch upon your wing falls among their number."}}
  
-{{wst>pinkgothic|The prompt kindled an almost childish joy in him, tempered by the strangeness of explaining his personal interests to an Oracle. "The patch mostly another matter. Flesh has a habit of growing into all directions, and simply reminding it of the wound and encouraging its healing or even ushering along pure growth would have left me with a misshapen lump of some degree - scarring, or a tumourous growth. This is best understood as something of a transplantation, and I would not want to claim the material itself as my //design//. That said, I have certainly tweaked in it - in its natural state it would reject my body and vice versa, and not grow quite large enough to fit,  nor fill the exact shape needed.+{{wst>pinkgothic|The prompt kindled an almost childish joy in him, tempered by the strangeness of explaining his personal interests to an Oracle. "The patch is mostly another matter. Flesh has a habit of growing into all directions, and simply reminding it of the wound and encouraging its healing or even ushering along pure growth would have left me with a misshapen lump of some degree - scarring, or a tumourous growth. This is best understood as something of a transplantation, and I would not want to claim the material itself as my //design//. That said, I have certainly tweaked in it - in its natural state it would reject my body and vice versa, and not grow quite large enough to fit,  nor fill the exact shape needed.
  
 "Generally speaking, though, my humble talents do guide my projects into the more mundane and practical. It is all fine and well to imbue vegetation with the strength to overcome obstacles on an individual basis, but this must be done again and again and requires much of the Citadel's Lifegivers' attention in general. But what if you could simply redesign it so it no longer needed that help? Many plants, left to themselves in this environment we have chosen as our refuge will become sickly, lose nutritional value both to takmar or any other creatures that might feed off them, lose their sturdiness, or simply wither and die... assuming they sprout at all. "Generally speaking, though, my humble talents do guide my projects into the more mundane and practical. It is all fine and well to imbue vegetation with the strength to overcome obstacles on an individual basis, but this must be done again and again and requires much of the Citadel's Lifegivers' attention in general. But what if you could simply redesign it so it no longer needed that help? Many plants, left to themselves in this environment we have chosen as our refuge will become sickly, lose nutritional value both to takmar or any other creatures that might feed off them, lose their sturdiness, or simply wither and die... assuming they sprout at all.
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 Inwardly, a part of him mused what an Oracle might possibly find //useful// about a gardener's tales, regardless how unusual his methods were, but he supposed he would find out eventually, right along with whether her assessment of his usefulness was in any way realistic.}} Inwardly, a part of him mused what an Oracle might possibly find //useful// about a gardener's tales, regardless how unusual his methods were, but he supposed he would find out eventually, right along with whether her assessment of his usefulness was in any way realistic.}}
  
-{{Swst>shyriath|"Yes," Dlyss replied cryptically. "I suspect you will." She tapped a claw idly on the edge of her seat with a faint click-click-click. "And your progress in your work... what restraints are there upon it? Other than those imposed by your own ability, that is. Are there any factors that prevent you from devoting your time and energy to those projects that you wish to pursue? Time? Resources?"}}+{{wst>shyriath|"Yes," Dlyss replied cryptically. "I suspect you will." She tapped a claw idly on the edge of her seat with a faint click-click-click. "And your progress in your work... what restraints are there upon it? Other than those imposed by your own ability, that is. Are there any factors that prevent you from devoting your time and energy to those projects that you wish to pursue? Time? Resources?"}}
  
 {{wst>pinkgothic|The Oracle's 'I suspect you will' brightened Einriss' expression. The prospect was certainly delightful, even if he saw no avenue toward it at the moment. On the very far end of the scale, imagine what difference he might make if he could make the takmar themselves hardier! What a romantic notion. {{wst>pinkgothic|The Oracle's 'I suspect you will' brightened Einriss' expression. The prospect was certainly delightful, even if he saw no avenue toward it at the moment. On the very far end of the scale, imagine what difference he might make if he could make the takmar themselves hardier! What a romantic notion.
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 {{wst>shyriath|The blue-violet takma on the divan, for the first time since the conversation had started, betrayed enough emotion in her expression to take notice of; her antennae stiffened briefly in annoyance. {{wst>shyriath|The blue-violet takma on the divan, for the first time since the conversation had started, betrayed enough emotion in her expression to take notice of; her antennae stiffened briefly in annoyance.
  
-The moment passed, and when she spoke, she remained as impassive as before, but her words were suggestive. "If you deem it necessary," she said. "If they are reluctant to accept an alternative,direct them to me. I shall explain to them personally the relative importance of their needs in the shape of the future."}}+The moment passed, and when she spoke, she remained as impassive as before, but her words were suggestive. "If you deem it necessary," she said. "If they are reluctant to accept an alternative, direct them to me. I shall explain to them personally the relative importance of their needs in the shape of the future."}}
  
 {{wst>pinkgothic|"I don't anticipate any resistance," Einriss clarified. "At most perhaps for a few vigils as other arrangements are made. I do believe they will understand."}} {{wst>pinkgothic|"I don't anticipate any resistance," Einriss clarified. "At most perhaps for a few vigils as other arrangements are made. I do believe they will understand."}}
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