Given the pressing concern of their position and the Hedgehog's below, the Ambernite mentally turns away from the apparently drowsy voice, turning to the device and moving up the "branch" to its very top. Whoever had just woken up seemed like a problem that would have to wait a bit.
"I'll make it work! Just gotta... figure out how! Thoughts?"
Oooh… aaah… may I join? Quick question though. How often is this? I’m real busy on my desert planet, just surviving and all, so I could be an npc all over the place? Anyways, if I do get in, I would like to be a black-white, gain and drain snail. I could be a vampire! Thank you for reading! -LHunter P.S. There is a sandstorm coming on my desert planet. I will be inactive tomorrow and maybe the next day.
How often this is, depends on how active the snails (players) are in the forum.
The story will resume, but heres the short version:
The Snails were living peaceful under the world tree but then a star fell down into the ocean but it also made the snails way more intelligent.
The snails home was destroyed by a Monstrous Hedgehog who turned up soon after that.
The Elder Snail and many others were eaten or killed by the Hedgehog, so the snails had to flee.
As they fled to the beach magical energy from the fallen star hit the snails and they got magical powers.
But the fallen star is so hot it is now heating up the ocean and turning it into fog and mist and steam.
So the snails have to go to the abyssal depths, climb up there and drain the abyssal depths into the ocean to cool it down.
On the side of the abyssal depths, a mysterious place located beside the ocean, they found an ancient device that could possibly do that, but then a mysterious voice startet to speak to the snails while the Hedgehog reappeared below the snails and startet hammering against the abyssal depths.
Thats were we actually are.
If enough people want to resume this, im in for it.
Update: No more fights and stats and complicated stuff. Everything is replaced by RP action and card creation. And if no one joins, then i will tell the snail tale for you to read and enjoy.
The Snails, gathered around the Ancient Device that was attached to the "branch" that reached out of the side of the strange thing that contained the Abyssal Depths were unsure what to do now. The ancient device seemed to be not working right. Or maybe it was damaged?
"Me strongest! Me can try to move it!" spoke the Ambernite (green snail).
"And i could support you!" the Crawling Tank (white snail) said.
"No wait, lets first find out what this thing is and how it works. And my mind is best suited for this task!" said Cosmonolos (blue snail).
"We should just melt it and see what happens!" Melt-Melt (red snail) interrupted them.
"Or we slime it and make all that rust dissolve" the Slitherscale (black snail) spoke.
As the snails discussed, suddenly the strange voice they had heard before spoke to them in their minds. But this time, not sleepy, but more awake:
"YOU! TINY LITTLE SNAILS! I KNOW WHAT YOURE UP TO! YOU WANT TO EMPTY MY ABYSSAL DEPTHS INTO THE OCEAN! BUT THE ABYSSAL DEPTHS ARE MINE AND MINE ALONE! AND IF YOU EMPTY THEM, YOU WILL DESTROY MY HABITAT!"
After the Snails had heard Lobb-Staerrs voice in their minds, they went silent for a moment, then startet discussing again.
Then the white snail spoke: "We are very sorry, Lobb-Staerr, but we must empty the abyssal depths into the endless ocean to cool it down. If we dont, the fallen star will turn all the water into steam and the ocean will vanish completely which is bad for everyone. Surely you will understand that and maybe you can live somewhere else than in the abysall depths? Maybe in the ocean?"
Then the black snail slimed the ancient device with its corrosive slime while the green snail tried to move parts of it with its great strength.
With a screaming sound, as the rust dissolved, the ancient device startet moving, and then, suddenly a stream of water rushed out of the "branch" that was attached to the side of the abyssal depths.
"Yay! We did it!" the snails cheered, but as they cheered Lobb-Staerrs presence crept into their mind, speaking to them again:
"Snails! You have shown determination and did what was neccessary, perfectly knowing what this would mean for me! Though i admire your strong will to act and do the right thing, you still showed mercy while you spoke, which is a weakness! But here in this world, the weak get eaten as you probably already know! However you show potential, so your punishment for draining my abyssal depths is not death, but a chance to prove yourself!"
And then a magical telekinetic push swept the snails off the branch, pushing them into the air, far, far, above the endless ocean ...
As the snails were pushed off the branch that reached out of the Abyssal Depths, they were falling really fast while screaming in panic. The ocean below came closer and closer at an alarming rate. But as they were falling, they looked up and the steady stream of cold water that rushed out of the side of the Abysall Depths gave them some satisfaction. At least the ocean would be cooled down and so the young snails they had left behind would have a chance.
Suddenly the white snail, the Crawling Tank, spoke: "I have an idea, but there's no time to explain! Fast now! Lend me all your strength and power and focus on me!"
The other snails, happy to have something else to do than panicking, didnt really think, but did as the Crawling Tank suggested.
A transparent orb of magical energy formed around the snails, but it drained their magic really fast. And then the snails, surrounded by the orb, crashed into the ocean. The orb shattered into thousands of crystalline fragments, which then startet to dissolve into the air like mist, and then they were gone.
Dazed by the impact and exhausted from the magical orb that had saved their lifes, the snails where floating in the ocean, as a large shape came out of a portal that had materialized not far away from the snails.
"Arrr! Looks like we found some new mates for our crew! Its time to fish those "recruits" out of the endless ocean!" they heard a rusty voice say, and then a net was thrown over the snails and they were pulled aboard a ship by a crew of pirates that didnt really look healthy ...
Never before had the snails seen or heard of undead ghostly pirates, but they were about to find out soon ...
Optional Quest for EVERYONE: Create a card that prevents up to five creatures from being destroyed, but "dazes" or disables them for a while.
- This means you dont have to be involved in this before - If there is an "optional quest", just hop in and do the quest. - Mostly these optional quests will be about creating cards, but sometimes you will be asked to decide what the snails should do in a certain situation.
The ghostly pirates pulled the net with the snails on board of their ship and threw them onto the deck. Then one of the pirates stepped forward:
"Welcome aboard, new recruits! I am captain Ramirez and by fishing you out of the ocean you became our official property! Therefore, i declare you as the newest members of this cursed crew! And as such, you are not only pirates now, though you look quite snaily to me - but hey, we dont judge by appearance - but you will also share the ancient curse with us that binds us to the sea forever!" And then he cited:
"No pirat, alive or dead, shall ever again set his feet on land, but be forced to roam the sea forever, hunting for treasure and salvation endlessly, while chased by the deepest terrors that lurk below the surface of the ocean and never shall he find peace again!"
And as Captain Ramirez spoke these words, a pirate hat popped out of the air onto the head of each snail.
"So, we are pirates now?" The snails asked confused. "Eh, what exactly is a pirate?"
New Optional Quest for everyone:
- Create a card of the pirate Version of a snail.
- Create a card of Captain Ramirez, the Ghost Pirate Captain.
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Thank you for reading!
-LHunter
P.S. There is a sandstorm coming on my desert planet. I will be inactive tomorrow and maybe the next day.
I will rejoin if @Robo_Kitty, @FireOfGolden, and @Yururu also show themselves.
questions:
can a snail be multi colored?
Can someone catch me up on the story or will it restart?