/tg/ - Traditional Games

We begin life in our little cave. Once, undisturbed with all of its inhabitants living well under their means just getting by. One day, long ago, a giant root broke through the cave. It began to drink from the great pool and flourished into a pale-green jungle. This new introduction of life and nutrients began the events of the last thread.

Now, the Root-jungle is sustainable and vast, the great pool is flowing with crystal clear water, and strange landmarks and rock structures are peppered throughout the cave from the boredom of a mad demon.

We begin with the tiny allos. The least developed of all the creatures. They are home to the abyss, which lies under the great pool. A short description is provided in the pic.

Next up is the dexterous Billu. They are known for using primitive tools but not much else as they are always stalked by the Merit (a large flightless bird).

They have grown quite large, and their boarders are ever shrinking thanks to the Cryd and Symet hive. But they are not helpless.

And lastly, we have the Cryd and Symet. Once 2 separate races are now inseparable. One cannot live without the other, but their powers are un-matched throughout the cave. They take residence on a giant stone plateau looking over the root jungle, a very important resource to them.


And now, life must go on. Some may have grown too large for their cave home, though the shock of the outside could very well kill them. Some may have grown sick of being a meal and seek to rise above on the foodchain.

But as with evolution, sometimes you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in place.

Sorry, guys, I know it's a lot to read. Just so you know, every now and then I will drop and event, which the species must adapt to.

And the pic, I just couldn't resist.

>>17212751
Allos' body elongates, allowing it to slither like a snake (how the hell else was it going to move?).

>>17212835
I'll be perfectly honest, your creatures terrify me to no end. I can't rightly look at this thread without being unnerved to shit and back which is why I can't participate in it.

>>17212882

Really? Do tentacles scare you or something?

>>17212873
Finally moved onto land, awesome! Now we have electric snakes!

rolled 54 = 54

The Billu begin to cautious explore around/on the root for:
>fruits
>saplings/seeds

got a social change coming for the Billu, gimme a sec

Q. Would the Merit be available to manipulate?
In the meantime I'm going to do something to the Cryd-Symet. Stay tuned.

>>17212923

The root does not bear any fruit, but it does contain nuts. You find a handful.

>>17212938

Sure, you can manipulate the Myrit. Bear in mind, they they are 'owned' by the hive.

>>17212938
Some Cryd-Symet Warriors take note of the Dregs' use of Symet stingers, and the Cryd symbiote will rip off and use Symet stingers if the host dies. This is akin to a kamikaze attack, however, as the now-immobile Cryd would waste away slowly without its host organism.

rolled 59 = 59

>>17212925
here

Using purpose-crafted sticks, the Billu develop a crude runic alphabet. They are able to "read" the runes by bouncing sonar off of the arranged sticks, and recognizing the patterns the sticks are laid upon the ground in as words.

Words is a bit strong, the alphabet is short, and crude, and not capable of anything more than vague symbolism. It does however allow for the transmission of information, as the Billu begin to arrange "signs" on the ground that denote areas of danger, good hunting, or enemies.

Note: they cannot express detailed or literal ideas. For example, they have a runic symbol for "food", but no symbols that describe what type of food. The system also does not allow for numbers, as the concept of numbers is still foreign to the billu.

In common usage, runic signs are laid on the ground at the head of trails, and denote what lies on the path ahead. The system is vague, and easily disturbed by passing creatures, but it's a start.

Also note that the smaller Bellowers are not capable of understanding this, and prone to wandering through carefully laid signs unaware that the oddly specific patterns mean anything.

>>17213004

I love it!

The Allos' electricity seems to have grown more powerful, enough so to pose a danger to the species itself. Fortunately, the bodies of those beings quickly adapt to the increase in power, developing "veins" that allow them to better spread the electricity, avoiding concentrated damage.

rolled 5 = 5

The Billu try to eat the nuts. They tend to carry them around (when you have four arms you can carry stuff while still being able to do stuff) and when frightened will throw them at the aggressor.

rolled 14 = 14

The rapid, and seemingly unending, growth of the root has caused stresses in the cave walls. A small chunk begins to crumble away leading into a labyrinthine tunnel. Big enough for any creature to fit through.

If you decide to travel through, you must roll a D100 and beat my roll. If you fail your adventuring party either dies or gets lost in the tunnel. But if you equal or beat my roll, you may learn what lies outside the cave.

>>17213092
Is that roll high, or low?

rolled 54 = 54

>>17213092
Allos slithers into the labyrinthine.
[this is an easy DC]

rolled 43 = 43

>>17213111
>But if you equal or beat my roll, you may learn what lies outside the cave.

Implies that the his roll is low, but high rolls are best rolls.

>>17213092

That being said, rolling for exploran the tunnel!

>>17213126
I don't know, man. Lower = better systems often use "beat" as well.

>>17213120

Looks like allos are on top, I'll give the others a shot here too.

>>17213126
never mentioned the race/creature. And yes, high rolls are good, low are bad.

rolled 83 = 83

>>17213092
Cryd-Symet symbiosis sends a few worker scouts out. Some warriors are also dispatched to provide security.

>>17213138
>>17213126
Sorry, my roll was for the Billu

rolled 94 = 94

The Billu carefully venture in, wielder nuts warily.

>>17213139
>>17213157

The allos party was mostly crushed by the 2 larger races (as always) as they stomped their way through, but a very few survived the trek, lurking in the shadows behind the other races. All parties seemed to make it outside. A strong light creeps through the leaves of the trees. It is infrequent, but it pains you very much.

On the outside you see a shaded world. You first notice the great root it attached to a giant tree, so Large you cannot see or feel the end of it. The forest you find yourself in is warmer than your home cave and just a little dryer, but still very humid. All around you see a lot more trees and plants and large variations of them. There aren't as many mushrooms or cave anemones though.

It is dangerous to go outward and making a habit of it may introduce unwanted things into your cave. The choice to explore is yours.

>>17213126
>>17213155

I'm not counting the roll simply because when you clarified what you were rolling, someone else rolled for billu too.

rolled 61 = 61

The billu attempt to stockpile some twigs from the outside world to bring into the cave, useful for making runic characters (and potentially weapons and shelter to protect them from the light of the outside world). They also want more nuts.

>>17213260

They gather quite a large amount. Unfortunately, they are not the only critter that has an interest in the fallen branches.

They have mistakenly brought a small yellow and black bug into the cave. Though not deadly, it does attach to the skin and make the host very itchy.

The Allos evolve tentacles sensitive to electric fields, allowing them to signal one another, and detect other electrical activity.

>>17213293

Old model is dead.

rolled 92 = 92

The billu try to teach the Myrit how to remove the bugs with their beaks (new food source for Myrit?).

>>17213297

no it isn't.

>>17213307

Damn, and a good role too. You win, but they are still under the cryd's command and they will sick them on you like attack dogs if they are told to. But for now, they have stopped out-right attacking and eating billu.

>>17213297

I'm sorry. I forgot the rules of the last game. I thought you were 2 different people. My bad.

rolled 77 = 77

The Billu have gotten into the habit of using the sticks to beat off any enemy up close and throw nuts at them when there's some distance.

Aw, fuck yeah! This game was awesome.

>>17213393

>beat off
>throw nuts

Oh my! Either way, nice progress. I will, unfortunately need to head to work, so I'll be back in a few hours here.

Keep the thread alive, you can continue to advance without me here, and when I come back, I will have a surprise for you all.

Thanks a lot guys!

So, do we do something with those yellow beetles, or are they just food from here on out?

>>17213446
can't do anything without OP at the helm, really.

maybe crush/grind/powderize their shells to use as pigments for dyes?

the Allos improve there mouth parts to better hunt the new insects and begin to pic them off of other species they also use low level electrical impulses to communicate while hunting there other pray and adopt a pack hinting strategy when not "cleaning" other animals

>>17213831
old strain has died out

>>17213831
>there mouth
Really now?

>>17213880
sorry i forgot to properly punctuate this should be more clear the tentacles still do all the electrical stuff.

The Allos improve there mouth parts to better hunt the new insects and begin to pic them off of other species. They also begin to use low level electrical impulses to communicate while hunting there other pray and adopt a pack hinting strategy when not "cleaning" other animals.

>>17214143
>there
>their
>they're

is what he's nitpicking about.
Should read "The Allos improve their mouth parts"

rolled 86 = 86

The Allos begin to differentiate along gender lines with the females developing many smaller tentacles over there whole bodies so that they can shock a large area around themselves but risk harming themselves the males on the other hand develop long tentacles to channel the electricity down to shock enemies and stronger pray with minimal risk to to the creature.
Further Protogyny becomes apparent with each herd having a large number of mails and a small number of females and the most dominant females becoming mail if the group slits or the male dies.

species splits on 0-49 replaces on 50-100

bump. Just got off work, will update soon.

The Allos aren't gonna evolve into anything great. Pretty much just gonna be the Billu as an intelligent species and the Cryd wiping out the smaller stuff. And the birds are gonna be toast due to lack of food once they can't hunt the Billu as easily.

>>17218250
Niches, good sir. They might not evolve sentience, but they might evolve into some sort of dragon to the other sapients. Or maybe they could be the one that brings plagues.

>>17218290

Plagues? They're electric. Not even like they're some dirty creature that the other species will come into contact with.

Dragon? It barely survives now and harms itself more than it does the enemies. It will take a hell of a lot of evolution and chance to allow them to become anything major. My vote's on the cryds taking to the water and wiping them out or becoming yet another symbiotic creature for them.

>>17218384
Somebody hates molluscs here~
Youfish?.jpg

>>17218406

I'm just saying that the creature is kinda useless. Should've seen more sentient creatures that could compete with the Billu or a more powerful creature to combat the Cryd. As it is those two will come to dominate most of the other wildlife barring any sort of crazy luck.

rolled 66 = 66

The Billu Venture out of the Cave works to find New lands

>>17218436
That's exactly why are we trying to evolve them. To make them more useful

Also we need to remember from the last thread the Large Billu have evolved the ability to eat "ANYTHING" .

rolled 17 + 0 = 17

Allos has developed their electrical sensitivity to the point where overstimulation, from large outside sources or even each other's defenses, can damage an individual.

Emergency evolution has caused the sensitive outer layer of the appendages to spout from the limb, with layers of shiftable scaled layers of carapace growing around the base of each feeler. In the event of excessive electrical charges the body instinctively reacts and causes the feelers to retract and the scales to ascend.

This evolution has allowed the species to avoid serious damage from overestimation, but as the possible cost of stunting further development of said senses.

>>17218436

I think what you're missing here, is that it is not a competition. it's just for fun, if each race belonged to a single person and this was a table-top game, yes we would need to make them stronger. But that's not the case, they just got unlucky in the last thread.

HARK

from the outside a new species of predator emerges from the tree canopy. The Raptors, feral ravenous creatures. They have one tail for grasping and 4 appendages that end in 1 pick-link claw that they use to crawl up and down the tree. Their mouths are one huge vaccuum with 4 sharp teeth for cracking and squelching!

Their sense of sight is highly developed from living in the outside world.

The function of their dorsal fin is left ambiguous!

Their relative size is also left ambiguous!

please roll :]

>>17219305
that's not how it works

The ancient stone pillar once raised as an arena begins to glow a bright red. Symbols dance along its sides and it begins to radiate heat. The salamandrine eye is back. The collected blood from an old battle allows it to gain a functional form. Its body is composed of the three 'loser' races of old bearing traits of each creature. It walks around on crystalline blood given frame and held together by throbbing veins attached to the main eye.

"You were my playthings! I cannot have you venturing outward."

The exit to the outside world closes. You all are trapped here.

"I was a fool to gift even one of you thought! But the Allos do not get to make a decision to leave me!"

The allos (if they wish) may resist being enslaved to the Eye. His will is strong, and you get one roll. You must get a 70+ or simply decide to follow, first post. Bear in mind, his rewards are great.

>>17219305

Give me some time to think this over. If I allow you to do this, it would mean everyone can and if that's the case we'll be up to our ears in creatures. Then it takes the fun out of the game and simply becomes pokemon. I may find a roll for this creature, but it is for me to decide, not you.

>>17219463
I am kinda tempted to make the roll for the Allos, But I also think the Dice gods have forsaken me after the last thread.

rolled 44 + 0 = 44

FUCK THE POLICE

>>17219641

>>17219641

"Welcome underlings" The beast communicates.

"First, I will grant you control over your elemental powers"

The Demon zaps an Allos with a bolt from his claw which resonates through the whole cave.

"now, you can focus small bursts at any foe without damaging yourself, this will only increase if near a water-source"
"I need you to help me teach the others how wrong it is to leave the cave, but you are not ready to face them."

The demon, mouthless and speaking to uneducated creatures motivated by only basic survival, asks "What advantage over the others do you seek?"

Take a vote. The Allos can get almost anything they want. Great speed, flight, size, anything.

You only need a roll of 50+. First one sticks.

rolled 76 = 76

With the Primitive intellect of the Billu they view the Newly formed eye creature as their primitive God, understanding that it was it that gave us the understanding of the world.

rolled 16 = 16

mind control

rolled 17 = 17

>>17219734

shaft shifting

rolled 39 = 39

>>17219734

they ooze deadly poison

rolled 47 = 47

>>17219734

powerful self destruction explosions

>>17219790

"Ahhh. Good. Pray at my alter. I have many gifts and ask for little in return."

Remember, he wants you to stay IN the cave, forever. Just saying if you're not his plaything he could care less if you live or die.

rolled 4 = 4

>>17219734

chameleon skin

rolled 79 = 79

>>17219734

poisonous spines everywhere

rolled 66 + 0 = 66

>>17219734

Universal empathy.

The ability, through chemicals or hormones or whatever, to manipulate all species into liking the Allos.

Where's my Symet High Priest at OP?

>>17219914

Nice one anon. You added poisonous spines to a creature THAT CAN PROJECT LIGHTNING AT WILL

>>17219961

only around water... gotta have some defenses when out and about amirite?

besides DICE DON'T LIE!!!!

>>17219914

"very well, it will prevent you from being prey, at-least to those afraid of poison."

"Now. I need you to enter the root jungle. Guard it from the Symet and Cryd who are so eager to leave me. "

Roll a D100. This is your defense roll (+20 for spines+electricity). The Cryd will need to beat the roll eventually as it is a great food source to them.

>>17219929
At the Cryd Queen's side. I just seemed unfitting to anthropomophize them. And give a godless species a priest.

rolled 78 = 78

>>17220096
We do otherwise, when gather all of creatures by every mean possible and SUDDENLY hit the demon in the back.

rolled 55 = 55

I always failroll so Allos will probably fail.

All glory to the Symet!

>>17220147

You cannot willingly betray the Eye, you do not have the mental capacity. And The billu have decided to worship it, so good luck with that.

>>17220152

55+20=75

A tough roll for cryd to beat, I hope they aren't hungry.

Also, bed time for me is coming up. So you all have the next 20 mins or so to make any decisions/rolls. Just keep the thread bumped and we can continue in the morning.

rolled 26 = 26

The Billu set up Sharp sticks impaled into the ground around the Altar. After wards the Billu set out to hunt for Enemies of their God.

>>17220207

Allos launch a warning attack at the Cryd, with contingency plan of retreating back towards the water where they eviscerate the pursuers with the new lightning attacks

rolled 69 = 69

>>17220332

>>17220332

sounds good. Roll goes in email field BTW

>>17220299

Awesome. Demon worship always excited me. Would you care to sacrifice any billu at the alter?

>>17220340

Good. Now I need someone to play cryd for a bit here. We need a food roll (if they want it) and a Defense roll. I'll give the cryd a +15 to their defense roll (+5 for hive mentality and +10 for high-ground). If you roll under a 69, you dun goofed.

And a -10 to the food roll. As they will not expect the Allos of all races to attack them.

rolled 80 = 80

>>17220402

ROLLAN FOR FOOD

rolled 23 = 23

>>17220363
Our Lord asks of us a sign of our devotion. As our offering we give 3 of our Leading evolutionary peak (the quad arms) and 12 of our domesticated lessers in willing sacrifice to "The Eye".

rolled 36 = 36

>>17220461
>>17220402

ROLLING IN DEFENSE MODE.

rolled 85 = 85

>>17220476

I think I goofed.

>>17220461
>>17220476

As the Cryd send their normal scouting parties out for food, they are ambushed. They fight off their attackers, and it was a struggle. As they come home with warnings of their foraging, they find the broken carapaces of their comrades along with the bodies of few fallen allos. The Cryd's numbers have fallen, and the Allos were somehow victorious.

>>17220471

"Oh yes! Wonderful!" The Demon hacks the bodies of the Billu and devours them. His Bloody body gradually fills in with flesh and starts to resemble a more Billu-like form.

"very good, I am beginning to regain my strength. And I forgive your ancestors who tore apart my old body and devoured its eyes. For your willing sacrifice, I offer you this!"

The Eye, with its newly formed billu-like mouth shouts at the Alter, and small sigils float off the structure and sear themselves onto the bodies of the Billu. They find as they touch the sigil, space begins to warp around them. This could serve as a shield, a weapon, or a means of stealth is used correctly.

And if you ever lose the thread, it's archived;

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17212715/

Just keep bumping it up and don't forget to vote!

Alright guys. It's been a blast, but I've got to get to bed. Continue playing without me, there seems to be a lot on the table here;

>trapped in the cave

>the eye is gaining followers at an alarming pace, and making his minions very strong

>The Cryd and Symet are on the losing side of a battle against the Allos

I'll check in when morning comes, so keep the ideas going.

Morning Bump.

wait, have the billu been wiped out?

>>17224004

Oh no. They sacrificed a hand-ful of their own to the demon. They're fine.

rolled 22 = 22

>>17220654
>>17224043
Some members of the billu begin experimenting with telekinetic rune laying; by focusing their minds, some rune layers are able to "hold" sticks in the air in runic patterns above their heads. By altering the relative angle of the rune, and then "pinging" the rune with their sonar, they are able to broadcast the message. This method is one-way transmission only, and operates much like signal flags (or maybe like sending morse code with spotlights). By increasing the number of Billu's "bouncing" sonar off of a floating rune, they are able to increase the strength, clarity, and range of the message.
This is still limited to line-of-sight, as any objects between the floating rune and it's intended recipient will deflect the sound. Furthermore, being nearly blind, the Billu sometimes have difficulty locating each other over long distances. This is crudely resolved by simply rotating the floating rune in place, and constantly "broadcasting". When a return message is received, the two communicating parties are able to find and "speak" to each other.

For the first time, the Billu have developed (relatively) long-distance, real time communication.

>>17224272

awesome.

rolled 1 = 1

>>17224272

Allos approach the Billu about trying to use the rune to "broadcast" a electric power beam at the Cryd's high clergy.

Hail the demon!

rolled 27 = 27

>>17225737

this will not end well...

rolled 40 = 40

>>17224272
Upon usage of long distance comms, The Billu could use this as Long distance Sonic Stunning.

>>17225950
technically it's the bellowers that do the stunning. Bellowers aren't sentient/intelligent (I think?) so they wouldn't be able to . . . .
well . . .
I guess the Billu could train them?

>>17225737

The Cryd now get a +10 advantage over any attacks they make on the billu.

>>17226212

Yeah, don't know about that. Plus there wouldn't be very many advantages.

I just want to ask, are the cryd capable of burrowing?

>>17226517

Good question. The were, once, I don't remember if that mutation was kept or not.

Also, sorry about the delayed updates my internet has been really screwy today.

>>17226517

and keep in mind, it was never established how hard the rocks in the cave are.

Behold, Billu! Your God you helped create!

Also, Does anyone here actually want to leave the cave?

This good?
The females adapt so that they grew a spike as a sort of weapon.
Though they adapted a more "evil way" so that they might even kill their males so they had to create a sort of scale to survive.

>>17227745

I Like it!

Alright guys, where do we go from here?

The mixing of electricity and not using it anymore, makes the females wierd... and their skins are changing drasticly, but only for some

>>17227378
Looking back, it seems that the queen lost the shovel limbs and the trait was simply ignored for the rest.

Commence digging!
Will dice be needed?

>>17228108

Yes. Dice will be needed.

rolled 73 = 73

>>17228158
Here goes.

>>17228199

You find a small exit leading outside the cave after clearing away the rubble left by the mad demon. It is not as large as before, so scouting parties will be smaller.

This will not go un-noticed

>>17228222
Had burrowing in mind, but okay!

>>17228028
As the "new breed" of females are changeing fast, and dangerously... they have already forgotten about their electric behaviour and started making a greenish blood and they have even dropped their tentacles, making them almost completely "blind

>>17228244
What? Like downward? You have to be more specific.

rolled 88 = 88

>>17228563
Ah, my mistake then. I guess I only implied downward at >>17226517

Re-rolling just in case needed.

the allos' mandables harden and become slightly sharper

>>17228810

are you searching for something? Seeking shelter?

>>17230259
Shelter, spread the colony with little detection, or maybe just a hatchery. May need a young queen to move down there before she's fully grown.

>>17212958
What is the Hive?

the symet

>>17229611
Mixed variety loses its arms, lengthen their body, and turn the front arms into large pincers.

rolled 35 = 35

The allos attack the cryd for tryign to escape!

rolled 92 = 92

>>17231139
Cryd/Symet warriors retaliate.

>>17232662
Whoops. Still set for blank name from /b/. I swear that was a legit roll.

bump. Will update soon.

>>17231139
>>17232662

Looks like the Hive has avenged the fallen. The allos are hurting.

>>17230675

The Hive are the Cryd/Symet who live as one community.

Since attacking another creature up until now has been really shaky and reliant on me, I've streamlined things a bit.

Feel free to ask me any questions about the rules, and yes, this means you can have all out wars.

bumo

Should I start a new thread? I feel like everyone who did play might have lost interest and new players are intimidated by the length of this thread.

>>17238767
Wouldn't hurt anything I don't think.

I don't have the artistic ability to play but I'm enjoying watching.

currently making new thread, please stand by.

new thread

>>17247024

Sage because I only need one game on the front page