#aktosha

[starcunning]

me: does this make sense biologically? normally, roots don't regrow trees because they require the energy from photosynthesis, but if they receive energy another way, this could possibly work. it's kind of questionable.

also me: who gives a shit. it's the warp, normal scientific truisms don't apply, and this is awesome. embrace it, ben counter.

[starcunning]

Logging on Aktosha is a dangerous endeavor. The trees of that world grow quickly and become incredibly vast, as large as mountains and taller still. Some of the native fauna have adapted for arboreal life and live their lives in the relative safety of the canopy, as the understory is fraught with snares and pitfalls of the trees’ own making. Most saplings are outcompeted or cannibalized by older trees, but when a seed falls far enough from the edge of the forest for a new tree to grow, the plains fauna will usually uproot and trample it if found. Juvenile trees can be as large as mature Terran species, and attempts by the wildlife to fell it often meet with failure--the root structure is simply too entrenched (and, additionally, too responsive). Human and abhuman loggers may be able to fell the tree at this stage, but run the risk of root entrapment even among juvenile trees.

Most wood on Aktosha is either reclaimed, scavenged from destroyed saplings, or harvested from roots in a dangerous process that entails inciting a root-snare response and cutting off the root stalk when it breaches the soil to claim its prey. This work would be performed by servitors on more developed worlds; as Aktosha has none, the forestry industry claims a number of lives per year.

[starcunning]

NPCs I have made:

a flight rising gijinka who’s like, a dandy

just eyes everywhere

dude with birds where his brain should be

hot chaos drider with an aura of Charm Person

sue perkins but a pugilist philosopher

i love all of them so much