#singural hyperion

[ariswolfram]

Gods Dont Bleed

Gods dont fear

Gods dont die

Even if somehow defeated, they will come back. Their bodies arent them, their bodies are mere vessels which help physicalize who they are.

Gods are Essences

Gods are Elements

Gods are the Forms of Reality

Gods make up the physicalities of existence. There is a god for all things you see. God of the forge controls the metals in the ground. Goddess of nature controls wildlife and hunting. God of Annihilation controls what stays and goes.

Gods Arent Temporary

Gods Arent Weak

Gods Cant Be Swayed

If one is removed, even if its deemed "permanent", they aren't ever truly gone forever. They are merely weakened. Weakened to such a degree they need a few days to recover. Maybe even months. Though those days pass easily for the god, for us mortals a month to a god is but 133 years. For you Terrans, thats 547 years. Just for one month to a god. And thats for the weaker deities. The "stronger" a deity is, the more time it takes for them to rebuild power. A full year for a god, is 8745 years for a human on Terra.

Gods Will Return

Gods Dont Forget

Gods Forge our World

In the event a god returns, one which has been muddled down to its lowest state of essence, reality changes to fit the deity back into place. When a god returns, its essences, domains, and likeness becomes active again. And in doing so, gaps are filled. If Null is killed, so is chaos. You may never see his return in your lifetime, though when he does return he will bring chaos back to reality. Normally seen as odd deviations in behavior a day before their arrival.

So when ██████ returns, we dont know what to expect. So expect nothing more than the anger of an ancient primal being. For it was killed in the first era, and is overdue for their return. As it has awakened over the years, its domain has slowly seeped back into reality. We have seen evidence of its return, but never seen it.

And when it returns, we will see the anger of a god who doesn't forgive.

[karmasystem]

Karma and Perks

I believe this should be be the first mentioned thing; Karma.

As you progress through the game, instead of XP or Milestone leveling, you will get Karma.

Karma is gained after completing tasks or encounters, and can be spent at any time to get perks from a perk tree. This removes the traditional class system normally seen in TTRPG's like D&D, and allows for more customization.

These perks range in cost depending on how powerful it is. Though the maximum amount of karma (to start) is 10.

Ascension perks are the only kinds of perks which have no listed cost. The reason is because every ascension perk costs your current karma maximum, and naturally increases your karma maximum by 2.

Ascension perks are powerful, not only granting several abilities and bonuses, but also unlocking access to several other perk trees locked behind the ascension perks.

Im still making the perk trees, so I'll post the main details of these perks later when i make them.

When getting a perk, sometimes it will either increase your maximum health, or your manapool.

A character's health increase value is gonna be equal to their constitution modifier + species bonus (described next post) • 2.

The same goes for a characters manapool increase value, though instead of constitution, its their willpower modifier

So far this seems to work well for me. I'll post an update if i change anything

[ariswolfram]

Cheesemonger

A cheese wheel rolls into the room and clatters to the floor against the wizards feet. Naturally, the wizard leans down and investigates it with curiosity. Its not everyday someone witnesses a wheel of cheese just randomly entering the room.

"Whats this?" He says to himself. He picks the wheel up, feeling it wiggle slightly as he does so.

"Is this thing alive?" His question is immediately answered, as the wheel of cheese smacks into his face, breaking his nose.

He stumbles backwards and reaches for his very wizardly battleaxe, though he is too late. The cheese has already won the fight. The wizard feels himself freeze in place, and shrink down in size. Something he failed to notice—despite his proficiency in the arcane—were magical glyphs etched into the rind of the cheese wheel. One which transfers an afflicted curse from one person to another on contact.

As the ex-cheese wheel grows back into a full sized [[Alviri]], the ex-wizard shrinks down into a defenseless wheel of cheese.

The Alviri, now back in their true form, picks up the unarmed cheese wheel and whispers into its earless-ears, "Get cheesified, bitch."

The cheese wheel tries to fight back, but alas, it is cheese.

The Alviri tosses the wheel of cheese out of the very tall tower™ and flips it off in its descent, most definitely killing the cheese in the process.

"Revenge is cheesy as it is sweet."

This was a prompt from my prompt chest... I am not elaborating further.

[ariswolfram]

Who the fuck am i?

Guess what, this post is here to explain that.

Side blog focused on TTRPG details: @karmasystem

As a reminder:

You can use my stories, species, and lore as long as you give credit to me.

Hello! I am Aris!

I am the writer and storyteller for a very extensive setting, which i like to call either the Singural Hyperion, or (most recently) Asterium Prima.

Every story, book, and other piece of media i make is intertwined into this story in one way or another. Always leading back the main crew you might find me talking about a lot.

I have over 600 characters (its a problem, i know), each with their own background and storyline.

Alongside that, i have hundreds of different factions/empires that interact with each other in different ways. And, just about 100 Deities in a self-made pantheon called the "Hyperion Astra" (including Athena, though she has a very different domain).

My setting works with possibilities and change a lot.

It has a fully functional timeline (with the current "present" year being in the 18,900's), with time travel being a common factor in everything.

Alongside that, i have made a planescape for factors determining how the "material plane" or "mortal coil" functions, and a Dimension system, for even more chaos cause why not :)

My setting is a mixture between Sci-fi and fantasy, while also heavily being Xenofiction in nature.

Most of the time, you will see the setting interacting with its self in space, across various different systems, sectors, galaxies, universes, and multiverses.

BUT WHY STOP THERE??

Ever heard of the omniverse theory?

Its effectively a group of space that is a collective of multiverses together.

Each Omniverse is inherently different than another, as if a different type of story all together. For instance: Singularity (the main omniverse i work with) is like our real world, only if it was heavily reliant on magic tech.

Meanwhile, Wylrin is effectively completely comprised of the Fae, and Fae entities.

Each omniverse is a different story medium.

If you cant tell, i like changing my stories up. I like writing different things.

Another thing that helps, is the timelines.

The main timeline which is considered "cannon" is called the "Major". This timeline is effectively the master branch for all others. Changes done to the Major changes all other timelines.

Every event done by every person creates a split in the timeline, one split being one result of their actions, and another split being a different result.

This can range from small things, like choosing between tea and coffee. Or large things, like choosing to betray someone or not.

This gives me infinite timelines, and infinite possibilities. Which i personally find a lot of fun exploring.

I like to expand on and build my story. And so you may see me posting a lot of random things based around it.

One thing you have to keep in mind though, is i love to take suggestions, and i love to use prompts. Ask me anything or give me a prompt, and i am sure to answer!

Anyways, that is all for now. Though i may update this in the future. Cya!

[ariswolfram]

Uplink: Plague

“In life, no one believes they are doing the wrong thing. In their own mind, everything is justified in one way or another. Even in the minds of those mentally broken, their motives are justified in their own special ways. This twists morality into a theme; what a collective believes is bad, what a collective believes is good, and what is universally determined as such for both.”

- Althea Nrasin

Jovil enters the room, blue veins not being well hidden as he points at Akhrin, "YOU BITCH!"

"Im... Sorry, what did i do?" He turns to look at Jovil, recoiling slightly at the sight of infection on his... “friend.”

"I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!" Jovil slams his fist on the desk, leaving a dent in its wake, "YOUR WANTING TO TAKE CONTROL OF THEM ALL ARENT YOU?! THIS WHOLE THING IS JUST TO TAKE CONTROL, ISN'T IT?!"

"My friend, I think it is best you calm down about this situation. You obviously got the wrong idea—"

—Jovil grasps the edge of Akhrin's shirt and pulls him closer, "I know what you did with that tesseract... over in singularity. You shut it down..."

He sighs, pulling Jovil's hand off of his shirt in awfully-hidden disgust, "I needed to, the files were getting corrupted. If i didn't do anything they all would've been killed."

"Then how is this project going to work in our favor then? Hm?" He steps away and starts to pace around the room, glancing out a nearby window to the slums below, "You look out there and you think they would want to uplink themselves to a simulation that you made, after you caused all of that ruin? After you decimated billions from that AMAZING experiment?!"

"Experiment...? What do you mean?"

"Oh, don't you dare even try and cover it up. I know you made that disease. I know you did this! I BET YOU HAVE A CURE!"

"The cure is uplinking yourself to—"

"—AND THERE IT IS AGAIN! ITS BACK TO THIS DAMN UPLINK TECH!" Jovil rushes back over to Akhrin, nearly punching him in the face...

... before stepping away to take a breath...

The air is tense, and although speaking at this point isn't what he wants to do, Akhrin knows its needed, "Listen... Everything has gone... horribly out of control. The Union is in ruins, you said it yourself. And yes i made the disease, but it wasn't..."

Akhrin swallows a lump in his throat, averting his eyes away from Jovil's piercing gaze, "It was supposed to be genetic mutation therapy. And it got out of hand."

"Oh yea, you think?" Jovil snaps back.

Akhrin takes a deep breath before continuing, straightening himself in the process, "I just want to ensure everyone is perfectly fine in there. Once they are all uplinked, we can forget about this world. We can shape the simulation to fit our needs!"

"What about the needs of the people? And what is stopping you from shaping them? what is stopping you from shaping the people?"

"I put a rule in place that prevents that!"

"You made this thing though, who knows what kind of backdoors you've installed."

"Jovil, you need to trust me on this—"

"—Trust you?! You killed thousands after a failed attempt for “gene therapy,” and now you want to become a god! You keep repeating the same bullshit, “we can shape the world to how we want it, we can do anything we want in there. just trust me!” I haven't trusted you at all. I didn't even know you made the fucking disease until TODAY!"

"You... Weren't ready for that yet."

"How was i not ready? I'm literally your second in command. Your right hand man. HOW WAS I NOT READY?"

"Because i knew you would freak the fuck out when you discovered the truth!"

"Oh, and what does that mean?" Jovil crosses his arms and leans against a decrepit painting on the wall, "Go ahead, what does that mean, Akhrin?"

"... I wanted to assist the masses. I wanted to give them a golden age—"

Jovil interrupts once again in a condescending tone, "—Its one hell of a golden age..."

Akhrin pauses for a moment before continuing, "So the gene therapy was being made as a way to make people... stronger. Both physically and mentally. They would become much easier to work with. It was going to bring peace to this stupid ass war finally!... but then one of the subjects got out, and the pandemic started."

"So all of that money you stole was for nothing then... Wasn't it?"

"No, it wasn't..." Akhrin takes a sip of his coffee before continuing on, "The simulation was my second attempt at it... And now everything is perfectly set up. It will be mandatory to have one in a months time, as i know that's when the disease will be striking the hardest."

"Now wait wait wait, your making it mandatory?" Jovil has a surreal look on his face, finding it harder to breathe.

"Good people are going to die, Jovil!"

"THEY ALREADY ARE!"

Jovil pushes away from the wall as Akhrin finally rises from his seat. Their yells echoing throughout the building.

"THATS WHY I MADE THIS, SO THEY DONT DIE!"

"YOU SAY ITS TO MAKE A BETTER FUTURE, YOU SAY ITS TO BUILD A WORLD PERFECT TO YOUR VISION, YOU SAY ITS TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE. IT CANT BE ALL OF THOSE THINGS!"

"YES IT CAN, AND IT WILL!"

"SPIT IT OUT, DAMMIT! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!"

"THESE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING UNLESS THEY HAVE SOMEONE TO CONTROL THEM! WITHOUT A LEADER THEY ARE FUCKING NOTHING!!!"

Jovil stands still as they both steady their breathing... the silence is practically deafening...

"... Jovil, please..."

Jovil turns away and rushes out the doors of the room, bumping into someone on his way out.

Akhrin then sits back down in his chair, and rests his face in his hands. Seeing some of his own veins faintly turn blue.

[ariswolfram]

Fading Derelict

[1,326 P.D.] [3RD ARC: DARKBLOOM]

"Dude, these things always have the most loot in them. You'll see!" Ailin uses her multi-tool to blast the Freighter's doors open, depressurizing the ship with a loud hiss.

Gage feels uncomfortable, but follows behind anyways, "How long do these shields last us again?"

"About an hour, we have time." She shoves some floating boxes off to the side, revealing a massive frost-bitten storage room, "Jackpot!"

"Oh, that's a lot… What's our goal here anyways?" Gage looks around nervously, keeping an eye on what is outside the windows.

Ailin opens up a crate and starts to fill up one of her bags, "Loot the place! We will sell it all when we get back to the station. OH! keep an eye out for the manifest and any logs you may find. Those things are valuable as all hell."

Gage moves over to a crate and struggles its lid open, before stuffing its contents into his own bag, "This feels illegal…"

"Well, technically it is. But that's just because the government wants to take the loot instead. Would you rather give the government the money, or take it for yourself with a little work?"

Of course that was rhetorical, Gage just sighs into his comms and continues his looting spree.

By the time the two scavengers have entered a hallway, Ailin has filled five bags. While gage has only filled three. They walk through a glass corridor, viewing off into space. Ailing pays more attention to the doors of the derelict, opening one to loot one of the dead crew's quarters. Gage drifts his gaze off to the sun, which seems to be getting oddly dim…

"… Uh… Ailin? The sun is setting…"

"HAH! Nice one. Now help me over here, i think i found the captains log."

"No, seriously… The sun is setting…"

"… What?" Ailin looks out the window to witness the odd phenomena alongside Gage. Both watching as the systems star dims in brightness… Gradually, and steadily. Some parts completely darkening faster than others, as if it is being covered up by something.

"What the fuck is going on??" Ailin rips the captains log out of the corpse's hands and stuffs it in a bag. Just as the last bit of fleeting light leaves the suns body. Putting the two in total darkness; with exception to the freighter's warning lights.

Gage quietly grabs his pistol and checks to see if it is primed, "… Should we leave?"

"… Im not sure. This is the biggest haul i have seen."

"And yet the system's star is literally gone…" the ship shakes ever slightly, as the stars outside in space begin to vanish… as if something massive is covering them up.

Ailin grabs her loot and starts to head back toward their ship, as Gage follows suit behind her. The ship shakes once again, as something begins to wrap around it. Making the entire thing creak and quake under stress.

"GAGE, YOU SLOW BITCH, CMON!"

"IM TRYING!"

The ship then gets tugged, as both Gage and Ailin are shoved into a wall. Feeling something wrap around his legs, Gage begins to scream in fear. He pulls out a knife and slashes at the thing, just to feel more of these odd “tendrils” wrap around his torso.

Ailin turns toward Gage and shines a light onto him, seeing massive black and white vines wrapped around her friends body, forming some sort of harness and tether. Before she is able to say anything, Gage is yanked into the darkest depths of space, screaming through the comms until he leaves its range.

"GAGE?? GAGE?!" Her heart is racing, getting harder to breathe. She cries out again in hopes to hear a response, "GAGE!" … But she hears nothing back. Just static over the comms channel.

She decides now is not the time to mourn. She continues to make her way back to her ship, pushing off of the walls to gain more momentum. While in mid-push, her arms get caught up in something. As she tries to pull away, the vines begin to wrap up her arm and across her torso.

She screams out, "HELP ME! PLEASE!" She clicks through the emergency channels, and continues to yell for help. All while the vines wrap around her entire body and yank her toward the ships center, "ANYONE PLEASE! HELP ME! THIS IS AILIN DANILA! I AM CURRENTLY AT THE COORDINATES TX 2977+337— G— AAG—"

A loud crash is heard, before the line suddenly cuts to static…

[FATE: UNKNOWN]

[ariswolfram]

Lore dump

...currently i am spiraling. For my lore i wanted to make dishes unique to it, as most of the people don't know what earth is, let alone the sol system. So people making things like Udon, Burgers, or literally any other dish makes no sense at all. So i began to make the dishes. But then i came across the first problem: What do i name it? That's easy for me to solve, i can just link the dishes to a faction and use the conlang i made for that faction to name the dish. but what about the ingredients? Now its more complicated.

what does each ingredient look like in its raw form? where is it found? what does it taste like? is it common or uncommon? can things that aren't supposed to be ingredients be used as them anyway? because we use tree bark as an ingredient. Tree bark: Cinnamon

well, okay. Now there is stuff like Star Gais, Sacrem, and Blaxkov. But mixing every ingredient wont work, as some of them clash in unexpected ways. Especally the spices. So what is the history on it? How did people find out exactly how to use this stuff? Im not talking "They spent time and researched it." No, that's lame. I want the entire ass history behind Anchalah. How in the divine hell did snake people figure out a bush that takes disguize as a literal ass rock makes roots going down hundreds of feet into the ground, to literally grow more "rocks"? Why would they do that? why would they eat it? I need every bit of information behind each ingredient as to how it was discovered.

But, what about the poisonous ingredients? For instance, here on earth we have a mushroom called Fly agaric, which is both Poisonous and Psychoactive. Well, guess what. We eat shit like peppers, which literally gives us the sensation that out mouth is on fire when we eat it. and we seek that sensation- Some species in singularity is going to wanna seek out ingredients that are poisonous to another.

Especially given the fact every species is different. The Hyperion isn't made completely up of humans after all. we have people who find sugar just as poisonous as arsenic is for humans. Well, given this, we can just make it so some ingredients are poisonous to others. Stuff like Elir is poisonous to most Mammalian species, but beneficial to almost every insectoid/fungoid species. Screw humans, its poisonous to them as well.

but what about the Lithoids?

OR THE MACHINES?????

machines are easy to solve. They simply need power. and if a machine is given the proper tech, it can eat food just like any person and convert it into more power. Or maybe analyze it to see its properties.

But what about the Lithoids? What would a species like the Bzadi eat? saying a lithoid only eats rocks is lame. We know they are made of rocks, but them eating rocks is as stupid as the fae is annoying. There has to be flavor, there has to be reason. I am talking rocks, minerals, metals, gems. But i am also talking more natural things like bones, chitin, keratin, or even plastic! Imagine a lithoid species that eats plastic! Although the stench of cooked plastic would be horrible to us, lithoids would either not smell it all-together, or smell it and find it amazing.

Okay, but now we get back to the whole "ores and rocks" thing from before. I need definition, i cant just say "oh, steve stevenstonon jr the XVII prime ate a rock for dinner", that is lame, that is boring. i need the specifics What rock did they eat? what are its properties? how was it discovered? why did lithoids decide to eat it? what to they cook it with? what temperatures are needed to melt it? What if a lithoid ate a strategic resource, like Carrium or Laronate? to them what do these things taste like? Does limestone taste like citrus? or do they find it spicy?

What kind of dishes can i make and produce with these metals and ores? What is the entire cooking process for these dishes??? We aren't even getting into the language root for the names of these dishes! for instance, the name "burger" came from Hamburg, Germany. After German immigrants made the "Hamburg Steak". i need as much information behind the things i am making as possible, even if no one will ever know about it a day in their life. if someone is eating "Çaaėn Koevar", what do each of those words literally mean? Why was "Çaaėn" used in it? is that a specific type of food, or a cooking style? if so, then would adding the word Çaaėn before the name of another dish like "Paruue" make it completely different? I mean, we do the same thing with our dishes all the time. Cause saying something like "Can i get chicken and pork?" will give you a much different dish than if you asked "Can i get chicken and pork dumplings". and then there is stuff like the Steakburger and shrimp fried rice... we use name combinations all the time to describe what these dishes are.

But most importantly, what meats are there? well, in the setting, i have already built a large catalogue of beasts. so why dont i just use the name of those beasts? Dungeon meshi type shit. I want dishes made with cuts of Recagra meat, pan fried with mesri or oeiia.

and this brings me to my next thing. people wont just cook in the same way from one culture to another. I mean, one species is literally made of fire. How do they cook? so now i need more cooking styles. Names for these cooking styles. Where did they originate from? who used it first and why? What was the first dish made with this cooking style? was the food good? so then maybe Çaaėn is another word for fried or sautéed? or an entirely different thing? What if a species cooks with radiation? or cold instead of heat?

The previous was a draft, and now that i have expanded on this a little bit more i would like to return to it. Previously i mentioned Recagra meat. Recagra meat would be hard to cook with, let alone gather.

The Recagra is a dangerous creature, effectively a massive flesh-tentacle meatball. If you get inflicted with its venom either through getting attacked by it, or touching its blood, you will become a Recagra over the course of one very painful year.

But lets say you manage to kill it. The meat needs to be prepared properly in order to prevent getting poisoned. Doing so requires multiple things:

The cut of meat must be cured and drained of all bodily fluids. Mainly being blood and/or venom.

The meat must be left to dry for about 3 days (180 hours, or about 7 and a half Terran days)

After drying, the meat must be marinated before cooking. Otherwise its just gross.

When cooking, it must be done in a very specific way as to cook out the rest of the venom in the meat that didnt come out during the first step.

Now you can see how much it takes to even get the meat to be edible, yes?

This makes it difficult to eat. But with this, it will probably become the Pufferfish or Wagyu of singularity due to the amount of effort it takes to properly cook.

We will be using the Çaaėn cooking method for this, which originates from the Kingdom of Brass, an empire comprised with entities of fire. This cooking method, due to the entities being made from fire, requires the food to be wrapped in a a special cloth, before being dunked into lava very slowly and carefully. Usually done on meats.

When done properly, the meat should come out very flavorful, but a little dry if not prepared properly beforehand. Luckily, we marinated our cut of Recagra for two days beforehand. The moisture from that should be able to keep it juicy, and even make it a bit tender.

After this, all you need to do is plate it with some other things like mashed dineja or a nice Blaxkov beverage, and your all set!

Happy dining!

[ariswolfram]

I finally made the stat sheet for the Plagued species, but i made sure to censor the big spoilers for the novel; cause that's just not fun now, is it? I like how it turned out! I'll update it later on when i reveal the Blink Variant for the Plagued.

also, @sansthepinecone beware. You might need to study this sheet for next session.