Saturnian mage

Starbound wirting/RP/ask blog post blog, feel free to ask questions

[starbound-aria]

I can't say I ever considered the notion that there's genuine protectorates out in the stars. I faked some ID for a "replacement" uniform a while back and swiped one of those beam axes off a human that dropped onto this barren rock of a planet.

Not that any of that really helps my current predicament, but if I ever get off this barren rock it should help prevent anyone else trying to attack me again.

Or launching me onto a barren planet without a ship or materials. Or food. Eating was nice.

Ok, first things first, coordinates? I very much have extra food, and do have a ship I can send your way, or otherwise get the message out But, yeah you need to not fake protectorate IDs, lot of people give us captains a lot of respect, and we don't need that going down the drain. I don't know how many of us are still out here, but we are genuine, and we are here to help

[dru-plays-starbound]

Do I feel guilty for RBing Starbound content from 4 years ago? A little.

Am I going to stop? nope

[dru-plays-starbound]

Time to bring this back again...

[starbound-aria]

So, seems this sectors anti-priate measures are lacking, and means getting a mech for space flight to handle them might be something I need to look into as the only protectorate captain here. Also means a lot of supplies the shipwright needs have had a "delayed" shipment, yay.

Though me getting lunch has given me a starting point for another report: While I was ordering the meal the person behind the counter knew I, as a saturian, am an obligate herbivore, and warned me that the dish I was ordering contained eggs. This is fine, despite being classified by most people as "meat" herbivores can safely consume eggs if properly prepared. The dish did not contain eggs, it contained eggshoot, which could be an issue for obligate carnivores.

Eggshoots, as thier name Implies are egg shaped plants most commonly found in tundra regions of planets, though these resistant plants can be grown on most planets, and can often be seen grown in Avian settlments.

Thier similarities with eggs do not stop with thier shape, mature fruit of this plant jave a soft white flesh, not dissimilar to a soft boiled egg, with a pocket of thick yellow nectar with in which the seeds float with in, giving animals of thier homeworlds both a meal and some liquid refreshment at once.

Thanks to thier low growth requirements and rather qucim growth cycles, they can often be found in markets as an animal egg substitute, and act wonderfully as such. If beat with a small bit of water, the flesh of an eggshoot quickly becomes a thin gel that works as a replacement for egg whites, and the necter can be used in place of an egg yoke as is, with the added benefit of being safe to eat raw, making them a near perfect substitute for eggs in vegan dishes. If you can safely eat plant matter that is.

Despite how well they mimic animal eggs, eggshoots are still plants, and can cause issues with carnivore stomachs if too much is used. While it's not life threatening if a carnivore eats eggshoot products (save for rare allergies) they should be avoided, unless some moderate or worse discomfort is worth it for your favorite icecream flavor.

Thankfully the manger of the food vender, who got a simular version of this, was smart and knew it'd be a bad idea to argue with a protectorate botanist and at least put up a warning sign.

[starbound-aria]

We haven't talked plants in a while, let's talk plants, lumens specifically.

One of the many types of plants that got the moniker "Lantern fruit" due to the shape of thier plants with mature fruits, these sour-sweet fruits can be found on so called "stary" planets rarely, though only on one's that lack the high levels of cosmic energies that normaly give that planet type its namesake stary sky, such as the saturian homworld.

These round yellow orbs of mostly juice have the unique effect of being bioluminescent, an evolutionary measure to help the incects and herbivores that help pollinate and spread seeds find them in the rather dark nights of thier forest homes.

While there is little speical about lumen from a culinary stand point, save for the ability to give a dish some literal glow, the juice is quite remarkable, keeping its glowing effect for many hours after being removed from the fruit, a trait that can be extended so cheaply, bottle of lumen juice use to be the main source of light in saturian homes, replacing torches and candles other races used on their home world, and even being favored over early electrical lights.

Now a days, bottled lumen juice is mostly used as a sour-sweet drink, or as decorative lights.

[starbound-aria]

Been a while since this captain has sent an update, huh? Between doing base management to get materials for my ship, and making sure the base I have is suitable to live in even after I leave, don't have a lot exciting to report. So how about another story of my training days?

The training mission was simple, more of a glorified field trip really, travel to a few colonies here and there, see what they were growing and how, specifically how they were growing things thier plants shouldn't have the support for, and sometimes eveb with out green houses. Simple stuff really.

While we are leaving one colony and getting ready to head towards the next one, we get a message form them, they are predicting a drought and wanted to know if we could bring them a shipment of water, the captain agrees and we make a detour to a uninhabited fresh water planet, a quick make shift pumping station and a couple hours later our cargo hold is full and we are ready to leave again. During FTL travel we hear something go "thunk" in the cargo hold, captain makes an emergency stop and some of the crew to check it out. One of the barrels of water is busted open. And thus a lot of freaking out on the ship.

Now for some spoilers, this is where I learned not to send students alone to check things. The barrel was not a water barrel, it was a healing water barrel that we have to mix our own to treat minor cuts, burn, etc. It was also busted into, not out of. Like the students thought.

While the captain and the trained protectorates on board were trying to get everything under control with everyone on the bridge, someone peaks over at the ship logs and notices doors are being opened else where on the ship, and everyone is on the bridge at this point so they shouldn't be.

I was one of the few who had any sort of weapons on them, so me and a few of the proper crew go to see what's going. Last door opened was to a hydroponic chamber, one growing pussplums and boneaboos, so we head there.

Once we were in the hall leading to the chamber we hear the sound of metal being torn apart, from the hydroponics chamber, and notice it looks like something has pried the door open, before it opened it self. Once inside some of the plants are destroyed and a vent cover is broken, and what looks like blood (aka boneaboo juice) is all over the floor. At this point everyone is rightfully on edge.

Thankfully hydroponics due need specific air controls so it's vent system isn't part of the rest of the ship, and after tracking it through which doors its opening we finally corner the mysterious creature causing a bunch of chaos and noise.

It's a floran stow away got snuck in with the lander when we went to go water. Apprently they got separated from thier hunting party, and thought they got left by mistake, and then noticed us landing, and mistook us for minikong, which thier hreenfingered warned them about, thus the hiding. And when they broke open the barrel of height water, they assumed it was something dangerous, and decided they lived in the vents now.

Luckily for them, while they offer almost nonthing, the boneaboos and pussplums they snatched aren't the worse thing for a floran to eat, and we had other carnivores on ship.

We brought them with us and eventually got in touch with thier tribe and returned them safely.

If you are ever stranded, please don't just stow away on a random ship, some ships don't keep all of thier bays safe for living things during FTL to cut costs, so you don't know where is safe. And, unless they are having thier own issues, a protectorate ship will help you

[starbound-aria]

Were the eyeball people Glitch by chance? I've always wanted to meet a member of the All-Seeing Crusaders and ask them a few questions! Which way did they go?

I had to look this group up, so thanks for the lead, but no, they aren't these all-seeing crusaders. Or if they are, they're an off shoot. From what I can yell, the crusaders seem to hold in the crusaders like beliefs from when they were still in the simulation, or maybe be in a very strange version of it?

The creeps om dealing with seem to been over zealous cosplayers. And while I haven't got my hands on one of thier guns, they look like they were ripped off of an atopus planet, which should say a lot about thier overall mental state

[starbound-aria]

I give your muse a: ᓚᘏᗢ

Oh, a kitty. While small ambush predators are common, few make good pets, cats are the exception. Though, despite them being popular, and for good reasons, they tend to be rare outside of human worlds. But a cat is always welcome as round crops, well ones they won't hurt them that is

[shiromemes]

Give my muse an item and see how they react!

Things may or may not be added to their official inventory

[starbound-aria]

So, the agritower is doing it's job well, any my new... tenants? Settlers? Workers? Not sure what to call them, are settling in well, despite the winds. Though more expansion will be needed, while I don't intend on staying here for long, at this point I feel the need to make sure who ever takes over isn't picking up my scraps to make do. But either way, funds are flowing, and I can set aside more than enough to start either getting the materials I need my self, or seeing if the ship mechanic has contacts and better deals than what I know.

That being said, things haven't been all A-Okay here, and I might need to see if I can find some mercs to hang around as guards. They aren't raiders, but several groups of strange people, wearing helmets resembling eyeballs have shown up tp cause trouble. Harassing the people here, and attempting to threaten me. Despite being fans of the occult, they seem to not understand my staff is in fact real, and does in fact hurt. Thankfully they are bullies AND cowards, its getting to the point if I show up, they beam back to their ship, and hot jump away before I can get back to mine to tag them. I guess I'll need combat specs on my ship... (OOC: Yeah no, my tentants like spawning the "group of mobs quests" and every time it has been eyeball cultists? Also, no pictures because of building block)

[starbound-aria]

Examine! The kitchen on the top floor of the tenant building and the shocking lack of a fridge. (ooc, the red appliances are adorable. What mod are they from?)

It's a rather basic kitchen, we aren't making anything super fancy right now. The lack of cold storage is a bit of an oversight, but as it stands, we have fresh crops always on hand, and me and most of the tenants are currently eating a lot of sweet breads that aren't hard to make, but I do need to get one set up (ooc: CN farming I do believe is the mod, its a major overhaul so beware)

[starbound-aria]

For the character appearance meme: ☼, ✍, ♔, 👠, and Ұ?

Bunch of these, okay Rolling theses into one, how do I normally dress? I normally wear my protectorate uniform if I'm working, they are meant to be multiple purpose anyway. If I'm off, I'll admit to wearing as little as possible, I do enjoy using my wings when I can, and clothes are heavy. What jewelry do I wear? Very little, though when I do feel like it, I do have a small collection of light beads I wear as a necklace What shoes do I wear? Either some simple boots if I'm working, or some light athletics shoes if else

How tall/short am I compared to my peers? The protectorate as a whole, Saturnians are rather short, but among saturnians I am neither tall or short

[starbound-aria]

Have you tried flying a kite during one of the hurricanes? I did last time I was on a planet with one. Great fun! Until the kite was ripped out of my hands anyway.

I have not. During most days it would be manageable, but with how quickly the wind whips up sunddenly kite would be gone rather quickly, its one of the reasons the outside of the buildings lack any decorations, they'd be gone rather quickly

[starbound-aria]

So, apprently, this planet has a hurricane season. Now, if you've been reading you might think "grate, the wind storms are a seasonal thing" you'd be wrong, that was the calm season. Which make it really fun because now that people have moved in, more people want to move in, and they of course ask about the wind, which my best awnser is "nornaly, it's only sometimes this windy" so yeah. Progress on structors have been slow, might need to move some of my ulitiy plans underground.

In other news, a high mage stopped by after hearing about me, he had his own stuff to handle, but he did give me the blueprints for some high grade robes, so with thoese I should be sage to venture and go get better resources for both this little colony that's sprung up and my ship.

Issue is, it needs amber, a specific type of amber at that, thankfully it's not hard to make artificial samples of the stuff, but the only base that has been found is specialized honeys. Geuss I'm a bee keeper now as well

[captain-mantas]

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[madampince-rph]

Character Appearance Meme:

A faceclaim only goes so far, and even then sometimes their accuracy next to the vision in your head is only so-so. Send a symbol for a clearer picture!

☼ How does your character usually dress in daily life?

♔ How does your character usually dress for a fancy event?

✍ How does your character usually dress when going to work/school?

✂ How does your character usually style their hair?

♔ What (if any) jewelry does your character usually wear?

∇ What (if any) make-up does your character usually wear in daily life?

▼ What (if any) make-up does your character usually wear for fancy events?

👠 What kind of shoes does your character usually wear in daily life?

👓 What kind of mobility or assistive devices (if any) does your character use in daily life? (Glasses, canes, hearing aides, wheelchairs, etc.)

✗ What (if any) scars does your character have?

♠ What (if any) tattoos does your character have?

☾ What (if any) birthmarks does your character have?

Ұ How short/tall is your character compared to their peers?

■ How thin/heavy is your character compared to their peers?

[musesgonnamuse]

Send ☁ to give my muse a stuffed animal.

Feel free to describe the stuffed animal in as much or as little detail as you like!

[starbound-aria]

Right, I need help, people need housing, so I guess I'm a landlady now? Won't be the first time a protectorate became one. Atleas for now, some of my kin have taken up residence in my little set of apartments, though not sure how long some of them will hang around though. About the time they all got moved in with their basics, a hurricane hit. Well, I say "Hurricane" they're more like super intense wind storms, few clouds in the sky, rarely any rain, and if there is, it seems happenstance. These windstorms are strange. (ooc: So something intresting I have discovered, I think doors count as racial blocks for housing? I meant to only spawn one saturian tenant, but every room spwaned one. I knew the light should have counted, but even with them taken down and a simple torch inplace, a saturian spawned)