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Neverend: A Space Saga
Welcome to Neverend!
Neverend is a new saga that I will be starting. This is long term, so hopefully people join.Story:
10,000 years ago, humans made a drastic mistake that shifted the natural balances in a way that tore the world to shreds. After this, they looked to the stars as their only salvation. They sent 2000 ships upwards, each with 100 cryo freezed crew members and a single AI companion to keep the ship running while the crew is frozen. The ship you find yourself a board is The Star's Ascension.
But the ship you find yourself a board malfunctioned, and unfroze you too early before you found a habitable planet. Now, you face a crisis. The AI has malfunctioned, not properly taking care of the ship's functions. With only 3 months of rations and water, you will face many challenges throughout your journey. Hopefully, you will find a habitable planet. If not, you will die in the cold void of space, with no one ever remembering your names.
Mechanics:
I will post a series of challenges and other activities that challenge your skill at card making to solve issues aboard the ship.Getting Started:
Create a 3 CMC legendary creature to be your character. PLEASE MAKE IT ON THEME FOR THE SETTING. I will wait until at least 4 people have joined, and then we will start. Have fun!
Comments
This sounds like a thrilling and engaging saga! Here's a character submission to kick things off:
Draya, Void-Bound Engineer
{1}{U}{R}
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
3/2
Ability: Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may tap Draya, Void-Bound Engineer. If you do, create a "Repair Protocol" token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Remove a -1/-1 counter from a creature or a damage counter from a permanent.")
{U}{R}, {T}: Overclock — Until end of turn, target artifact gains haste and "Whenever this artifact becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to any target."
Flavor Text: "No planet, no problem. If it flies, I'll fix it."
Design Notes:
I’d love to see how this character adapts to the challenges ahead in Neverend!
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/panos-cold-survivor?list=user
Panos is a special forces soldier from Earth. He is talented in the use of numerous weapons and vehicles. His survival skills have also improved enormously through his numerous missions on earth, but he has also become increasingly cold and emotionless over time ... additionally refuses he to show his face and prefers wearing his helmet 24/7
All straight from the Earth. What appears to be alien is actually human-made creature. These things are made of latex naturally found in certain tree. However, scientists are unsure how latex were made when it is inserted into living creature. Hence, they sent the sample to another lab in space, equipped better with unknown substances like the latex.
It seems since the spaceship malfunctioned, something caused the the latex thaw inside container, soon enough, the latex took its time to open to get out of the container.
Latexmind feels nothing but survival instinct, as it is aware of it existing. It learns more as it feasts on host as it rips consciousness off ths brain then keeps it as collection. It generally knows anything what does subject humans AND scienists know. (After all, it did devoured them in beginning)
@FireOfGolden ;
Latexmind scuttles within the hull of the ship. Through sensory knowledge, you can tell the ship is massive. Meant for thousands and yet contained only 2 humans-from what you can tell with your limited knowledge. Exploration will be a necessity.
@LvB
After chewing your way into the ship you find yourself in the main engine room, which contains access to the controls of all 50 engines, including the backup ones, although you do not know this at first. Exploration may be key in this large environment.
What would you all wish to do?
Latexmind will form its goop as roughly humanoid. Doing so seems as of slime is shapeshifting, but it can be heard muffled ripping, cracks, and sometimes pops coming from the goo figure. With two legs, it can effectiveness wanders the spaceship but slower than the humans.
As you begin pressing the shiny buttons for your own entertainment, you come up on the last button on the control panel for the 3rd main engine. It’s big and green, about half a foot in diameter. As you press it, it changes color from green to red. Everything else doesn’t seem to do anything while the engine was deactivated.
Everyone begins to feel the ship shake, as the third main engine reactivates and the ship begins to move forward.
@FireOfGolden
As soon as you begin your exploration of the ship, you feel it shaking as the ship begins to move. Outside the ship, as it moves, you watch a massive planet come into view. You also sense an alien life form aboard the ship, at the other end in the engine room.
After Panos tried to remember where he was, he searches through the container for anything practical and finds a small pistol and some ammo.
As Panos searches through the ship, he comes upon the armory. Within he finds a single handed pistol and 5 bullets. As Panos searches deeper into the armory, he finds a second cartridge of bullets, but also something far more sinister. Along the leftmost wall of the central armory is a series of what look like claw marks. Next to them, on the floor, is a spatter of brown liquid, dry to the touch, possibly decades old.
what do you do?
Latexmind begins to track the alien’s consciousness, finding it within a few hundred feet. As Latexmind begins heading in the direction of the alien consciousness, he begins to salivate. Who knows how much knowledge an alien consciousness would hold? You can barely contain your hunger as it begins to consume you.
@LvB
As you look around, trying to find more pressable buttons, you hear what sounds like slime hitting the ground. As you turn, you see a strange abomination of a creature, with two legs and a slime body of ground together organic matter in top of it. It groans and says “Knowledge…Feed…” And you begin to feel the overwhelming urge to run.
Latexmind is more smarter than it appear to be. If it meets the alien form, it will say to them;
"Living creature... Your... Mind is not... The same to... Humans... What is your... Name... Living creature?"
Unlike Gravemind, Latexmind is cautious and prefer to take over living creatures in most easy way, so it wouldn't damage the host. Damaged host last shorter than healthy host. More hosts it consumed, easier for it to shapeshift itself into a creature accurately. That is why its voice is more of distorted, because the humans kept Latexmind straved in order to keep it weak enough for humans to research and experiment on it. Latexmind do not hold grudge against humans because it cannot feel emotions like living creatures do.
Your attempt to communicate with IT seems to have been unsuccessful as it bolts into the vents. What would you like to do?
@LvB
As you crawl through the tight spaces, something catches your eye. A shiny glint. A helmet with some sort of visor, scored through with claw marks. What would you like to do?
@Lurisauri
You reach the communications center with relative ease, since most human ships have similar layouts to each other. Within, you find a map of the ship, as well as access to the ventilation systems aboard. But the comms system is so outdated even you don’t know how to use it.What would you like to do?
Because of being straved by the humans, predatory instinct kicks in. Without spending a millisecond to think, it would chase the alien form to the vent. The parasite squeeze itself smaller, becoming a worm-like, as crunches, rippingw, and pops can be heard loudly, even muffled. It would create many number of tentacle-like as it would sticks onto the vent wall to speed up chasing the alien form.