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ChineseFanboy is not online. ChineseFanboy
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17 Nov 2012 12:06 PM
(Reposted since my last one went belly-side up and no one ever replies to my threads


Hasa diga, Eebowai)

The first humans to settle on the Tigris–Euphrates had birthed the concept of civilization. By the end of the millennium, Mesopotamia would go down in history as one of the most prominent societies in the BC era.

That was 5,000 years ago.

At that same time, 500 years' worth of light speed away, at a far-away planet tucked away in the goldilocks zone behind an unimpressive star, a single creature cast out from the womb was born with a defect; a mathematical mistake of genetics and would have been thrown away by the family if not for its near-sentient qualities.

By the time Khufu's pyramid was erected in his name, a shambled collective of life forms from every corner of the alien planet had discovered the concept of groups and stone tools.

When the three Chinese Kingdoms took to arms, the fledgling sentients, having evolved to self-awareness simultaneously by some miracle of probability, were chipping away at caves and wood carvings to create the foundations of culture.

Then, on the same year that Columbus first stepped onto the New World, the milieu of aliens discovered the revelation of fire for the first time.

After the steam engine heralded the Industrial Revolution, the alien planet was home to a menagerie of intelligent organisms composed of nomads, solitary hunters, tribes, and scattered cultures.

The Soviet Union's founding saw the alien planet blossom into an arms race of dominance. The end of the second world war alone saw hundreds of races extinguished or assimilated into other species.

It was until now that humans had only comprehended the idea of extraterrestrial life.

On the day that Neil Armstrong set the greatest milestone of modern man on a barren rock in the sky and watched the Earth rise as a blue marble, his eyes betrayed no astonishment when he saw a single star. Hovering above the facade of the cradle of man, parallel to its progress as the unknown planet in the lone star's orbit had already harboured a thousand stories to tell of its children.

Armstrong, let alone humanity, would never know about the happenings on the star across the cold void; The races that forged themselves from animals into mighty cultures, their own progresses and milestones, and the gift of self-awareness whose gravity could be felt even on a planet so far away.

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Terra Firma is a pseudo-civilization style role-play where you control a sentient species as it goes from tribes to the stars.

Gameplay is largely sandbox-style via controlling your species as factions (Starting out as tribes/nomads) and moving on to governments, with the note that controlling individuals are just as important as the big picture of commanding your entire race.

Standard rules which I don't need to repeat still apply, but there's extra things to look out for:

ANY humanoid species is frowned on badly. A race which looks like us kills the idea of an alien planet altogether; On a like basis, adding something like wings or horns onto a humanoid creature doesn't deviate it into something alien either. It's not completely abolished, but discouraged to the max.

Don't regress the role-play into 5 pages of research sheets (WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY 5/20 HURRRRRR). On that same thought, get rid of the research system altogether. The role-play is largely unstructured for the sake of creativity, and I don't like the concept of standardizing every single advancement of your species to a fraction.

The rest of the regular deal with keeping the playing field fair, enough description in sheets, etc, etc, all the things that keep a thread together.



If there's anything lost in translation I need to repeat, either reply to me or send a PM if it's not worth posting on here to make things clear.

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Detail when writing the sheets is as encouraged as can be./

SPECIES SHEET:

Name:
Natural Habitat/Climate Region:
Appearance:
Physiology (Skeleton, organs, etc):
Diet:
Typical life span (Less than 100):
Average personality:
History (Optional):

TRIBAL/NOMADIC SHEET;

Name:
Chieftain/De-facto leader (If any):
Population (Less than 1,000):
Species:
Inhabited region:
Currency system (If any):
Agriculturally capable?:
Culture (If any):
Language System:
Religion/Deities worshipped (If any):
History (If any up to this point):
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17 Nov 2012 12:22 PM
(NOBODY POSTED IN MY THREAD TODAY

HASA DIGA EEBOWAI)
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17 Nov 2012 12:29 PM
(HUNGER GAMES THREADS ARE DOING GREAT

HASA DIGA, EEBOWAI)
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17 Nov 2012 12:34 PM
Gonna join in a second.
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17 Nov 2012 12:45 PM
(PEOPLE COME HERE, SAY THEY'RE GOING TO POST

AND THEN THEY RUN RIGHT OFF

AWAY, OH~)
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17 Nov 2012 01:01 PM
SPECIES SHEET:

Name: Cra'naga
Natural Habitat/Climate Region: Taiga/tundra
Appearance: The Cra'naga are like human sized ants. (More will come soon, after somebody shows me how to scan crap.)
Physiology (Skeleton, organs, etc): The Cra'naga have an odd inner body; most of them is goo-like, other than their muscles and osmium bones, and as if it were one, giant organ.
Diet: Omnivore
Typical life span (Less than 100): 50, without medication.
Average personality: N/A; very human like.
History (Optional):

TRIBAL/NOMADIC SHEET;

Name: Angstum Tribio (Tribe Fear)
Chieftain/De-facto leader (If any): None; republic.
Population (Less than 1,000): 500
Species: Cra'naga
Inhabited region: A taiga in the north west.
Currency system (If any): Green rocks, emeralds, anything green.
Agriculturally capable?: Somewhat; the climate prohibits this, though the Cra'naga could farm.
Culture (If any): Somewhat like that of Europe.
Language System: A mix between German and English, called Fearsian.
Religion/Deities worshipped (If any): None, yet.
History (If any up to this point):
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17 Nov 2012 01:03 PM
(Forgot to edit the skeleton part: Osmium like exoskeleton.)
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17 Nov 2012 01:07 PM
(AND NO ONE EVER LISTENS TO ME

HASA DIGA EEBOW-Oh, you posted!)

Name: I'roqiou (Eerah-kyie)


Natural Habitat/Climate Region: Clustered around the humid transition zone between the equatorial rainforests and the sea. Temperatures here range from 30 to 60 degrees Centigrade with humidex factor considered. This belt of marsh-swampland is covered with gourd-like trees and other vegetation, and experiences the same climate year-round.


Appearance: http://www.roblox.com/1-item?id=97758596

The I'roqiou are a marvel of halfway-evolution, with features extremely resemblant to that of Earth's octopi. Their tentacle-span is about 10 feet at full stretch.

http://www.roblox.com/Skid-sucker-item?id=97757698

Four tentacles are extremely dexterous and suited for grabbing, swinging, and the like. Four of their other tentacles have evolved into something resembling pseudopods, allowing them to skid across mud with relative ease or dangle from branches sturdy enough to support their weight.

Their eyes are advanced; Quick to spot movement, especially within the murky water in which it usually fishes for aquatic animals.


Physiology (Skeleton, organs, etc): They are boneless, save for their beaks which are used to hack into stronger prey items like shellfish.

The I'roqiou's defensive mechanism is a venomous bite, which varies in potency among individuals. They are unaffected by the poison themselves. Though this was originally intended to be a last-ditch resort against large predators, sentience has given them a new use. A common I'roqiou hunting tactic is to spit the toxins onto a spearhead, which is then hurled at enemies to stun them, impair movement by paralysis or killing them outright.

http://www.roblox.com/Out-of-water-item?id=97768566

They are amphibious in the sense that they can leave the water for nearly 4 days. Their 'lungs' are body cavities on either side of their mantle (http://www.roblox.com/Lung-cavity-item?id=97757675) which are rich in blood vessels and capillaries. These are efficient at raking oxygen from air, given that there is at least a bit of moisture within it.

Having evolved from the oceans, they are natural swimmers, which can go up to 15 miles per hour in the water if they are moving downstream.


Diet: Omnivorous out of pure survival necessity, typical diet is 2/3rds meat (Namely from small fish, occasionally very large animals for banquets) and 1/3rd plant matter; Vegetation is usually centered around fruits, though some palpable grasses on the swamp forest floor are also edible.


Typical life span (Less than 100): 50-60 years

Average personality: Evasive of creatures other than itself, they are active omnivores. The ability to hunt agile prey like small fish give them sharpened senses and a natural I'roqiou are hunters in the shadow. Should there be a conflict, their fighting style is an indirect, ranged guerilla-style that focuses on mobility and agility while enemies are picked off without the opponents having ever seen them in the first place.
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17 Nov 2012 01:16 PM
Better look at my thingy (ignore writing and stuff; actually white and light grey): http://www.roblox.com/oxygenantthingy0001-item?id=98010932
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ChineseFanboy is not online. ChineseFanboy
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17 Nov 2012 01:26 PM
(Oh, that's a great picture


I like the contrast of the grey question mark and the flow of the circle thing that resembles a loading sign rotating in the top left corner)
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17 Nov 2012 01:27 PM
(... let it load.)
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17 Nov 2012 01:34 PM
(Well;

While we wait for it to load, you want to start the role-play?)
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17 Nov 2012 01:46 PM
(THE ONLY OTHER ROLE-PLAYER WON'T REPLY

HASA DIGA EEBOWAI)
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17 Nov 2012 01:52 PM
(MY PARENTS AGAIN, GOOD GOD!)
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17 Nov 2012 01:53 PM
(HIS PARENTS MAKE HIM NOT REPLY

HASA DIGA EEBOWAI)
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GenFears is not online. GenFears
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17 Nov 2012 01:54 PM
(Oh; may I make a change to the physiolology?)
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17 Nov 2012 01:55 PM
(I CANNOT REPLY WHEN I'M NOT AT THE COMPUTER! GOOD GOD! Anywho, the tips of their legs are sticky, like an ant's.)
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17 Nov 2012 02:00 PM
(Sure;

Now if you could, like, uh, post something to get this thread going

That'd be great)
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17 Nov 2012 02:01 PM
(Okay. But my Gyarados is about to fight a giant, ugly rock.)

The Angstum Tribio sets up a camp in a north western taiga, near a herd of mammoth-like things.
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17 Nov 2012 02:02 PM
(... YEAAAH BUDDY! THIS IS WHAT I NEEDED FOR A ROLEPLAY)

SPECIES SHEET:

Name: Zaktars
Natural Habitat/Climate Region: Forest/ Rainforest Climate.
Appearance: They appear to be the size of a human, but they are actually the size of a watch. Zaktars look like blue and orange spiders, but without the hair. An interesting fact is that each "Zaktar" is actually a population of them, all going into a shape and size of a human-sized spider. It is visible that there is webs going all over a Zaktar, and the web has some sort of toxic goo going over it, an evolutionary trait so predators cannot bite pieces off of it. The eyes on each one of the individual just appear to be spots on the population of them.

(To make this clear, it is technically a large spider made out of mini spiders.)

Physiology (Skeleton, organs, etc): Zaktars have exoskeletons, but they each have a organ in their abdomens that melts the exoskeleton in such a way, that when the exoskeleton becomes solid again, it has molded with another object. They have all vital organs stuffed both in their abdomens and Prosoma, and the regular organs of a spider, except they are all in different locations and smaller. They have two Spinnerets, one that connects to other spinnerets, and one that makes a web. They have much extra leg muscles, to help control the large body. Zaktars have a much bigger usual brain size, in order to make them able to compute their actions, and for the hivemind-like-queen to give out commands. The hivemind queen is only, strangely, a spider's head, but as big as a spider.
Diet: They are omnivores, eating anything smaller than them, including leaves and bugs.
Typical life span (Less than 100): The queen of each population dies at @ge 70-76, and the rest of the population dies soon after.
Average personality: Distrustful of any other species, and they are fine to eat anything smaller than them. They like biting things, and turning them into soup, before eating them. If it is a plant, they simply inject poison into it, munch it up, then eat it when it is a liquified paste.
History (Optional):

(If its confusing, I will explain it.. Also, sorry for the world wall. I'm not sure I'm proud of this. If this is a private roleplay, I will EXPLODE in outrageous anger, then die in a vast box of rage.)

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17 Nov 2012 02:05 PM
can i be a creature.
just dat.
PLES.
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ChineseFanboy is not online. ChineseFanboy
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17 Nov 2012 02:05 PM
(Accepted;

So, in essence, your species is a colony of life forms that all act as a single entity?

Sort of like the Portuguese Man o' War)
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17 Nov 2012 02:06 PM
(>can i be a creature

>just dat

>PLS



Sure, if you want;

Unless it's like a wolf or something, there's plenty of role-plays next door for that)
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17 Nov 2012 02:08 PM
(@chineese

Exactly.)
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17 Nov 2012 02:10 PM
(So I'm assuming that either the Queen commands the entire hivemind or there's a collective consciousness thing going where you have one non-sentient creature that builds itself to something that's self-aware as a single entity?

And the spiders all make up things like legs and mandibles with their own bodies?)
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