#o.m.e.g.a.

[axelwolf8109]

O.M.E.G.A. AND ROYAL PAIN LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME

[hivefleetdiscordia]

30 Day Worldbuilding Challenge #14: Precious Materials

What mystical material is valued in your world?

[IMAGE ID: A legion of goofy robots with cyclopean eyes on the march across a mechanised landscape; a party of adventurers huddle beneath the floor this legion march on trying not to be found. End ID.]

“Alphenhagen’s really gone to the bots...”

The most precious material in Groppa goes by a few names: Arlion (named after Arlia, where it was first found), Omega (named after O.M.E.G.A., the god-machine it leaked from), Miasma (named for its wispy, ethereal quality), Warpstone (named for its reality-warping traits when distilled and solidified) or simply Grog (named by the mutants of Arlia who consume the stuff like alcohol). 

It is a potent magical fuel that runs through the veins of modrons and warforged alike. Since modrons have invaded Groppa not once but twice in the last thousand years, about a quarter of the continent is covered in their ruins and debris. The upshot of having so much land just being barren wasteland of discarded cogs and sewage is that there is plenty of miasma to go around, provided you have the stomach to harvest it. From there it can be used to make the most fantastical inventions - it’s almost like devices powered by miasma want to function. Given that miasma grants warforged sentience in high doses, is it possible that a watch powered by miasma also has a limited capacity to think and feel?

Stop, listen carefully. Can you hear it?

Tick, tick, tick, tick.

Oh, take your ear off your wrist. How foolish of you to think your watch is alive!

Don’t check again.