>>3916406
>>Decoration
a potted plant would do nicely

>>3916406
>>Decoration
A rug would really make things more comfy

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>>3916410
>>3916414

You, the black void grow impatient, bored.
You start jutting out beams of light that break up the vast landscape of your black nothingness.
You look at the colors extend from your center and dissapear into your infinity, this is the first time you've done something.
But just looking at the colors you emmit isn't enough, maybe these beams of color should do something.

>Sphere
>Rifle
>Tourist

>>3916419
>Rifle

>>3916419
>Sphere.
The natural evolution of the BEAM.

>>3916419
>>Sphere

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>>3916426
>>3916428
You push the colors out, this time you give them a purpose, before the colors faded into your infinity, or your nothingness, you're not sure.
Now they stop at random points, the energy pools itself into spheres, after this, you notice they stop being a part of you, this is the first thing you've seen that isn't you.
But you're the one that created them, this is exciting for you, do they have a mind of their own? will they do something?
What should you do with them?

>Approach
>Continuous
>Duty

>>3916437
>>Continuous
What's this do?

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This is fascinating

>>Duty
show us

>>3916437
>Approach
This should be interesting

>>3916437
>Duty
Abstract options get my juices going.

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>>3916441
>>3916457
This was your hardest decision yet, you develop strong feelings towards your creations, you considered every path you could think of with your limited knowledge to make sure it's the best for the colored spheres.
You swear to do right by them, you only create a limited amount to be able to care for them all the same.
These are your first feelings.
You name the spheres.
Zev
Mfx
Xlz
Ysw
Zyb
Syt
You realize the spheres don't do much, they don't seem to be nearly as complex beings, or objects as you are, what even are you?
Maybe you should do something to make them more complex.

>>3916469
>Highway
>Clue
>Matter

>>3916469
>Clue
Also Syt is our favorite but don't let the others know.

>>3916471
>Clue

>>3916469
>>Clue

>>3916469
>>Clue

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>>3916511
You decide to give each of your spawn a little bit of your conciousness, you don't really understand most of the concepts yourself so you hope for the best.
You give each of them a main concept to guide their thoughts and smaller bits of spare information.
Their main concepts are:

Zev: Mathematics
Mfx: Refuse
Xiz: Title
Ysw: Peak
Zyb: Attack
Syt: Reproduction

It takes some time for your creations to understand their new minds, slowly they manage to reach a new state of conciousness.
But as soon as Zyb does this, he starts moving in Ysw's direction, he starts colliding with him, Ysw has no concept of what to do, it seems Zyb is the only one that got any physical capabilities to control themselves.
Zyb clashes against Ysw, breaking off large chunks and shattering Ysw's physical body.
Ysw's fades.
Seeing this sends you into despair, the promise you swore to upkeep, the duty you felt pains you to your very core.

You need to do something about Zyb

>Wolf
>Damage
>Code

>>3916539
>Code
Zyb knows not what he does, we cannot blame him overmuch for following his given nature. Is Ysw salvageable at all? The poor lass (Ysw seems like a feminine name I dunno).

>>3916539
>>Code

>>3916539
>>Code
Poor Ysw, maybe Syt can make a replacement?

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>>3916541
>>3916542

You need to make sure Zyb doesn't hurt any of the others, but as he's not part of you, and is slowly developing into an entity wholy of it's own your options are limited.
You aproach Zyb and remove it's main concept, it's only left with the extra bits of information that will allow it to still form a mind.
But as the conciousness was already in the middle of being created, you can't give it another main concept re-coding it's mind is a much more complex task than you would've thought,

At the end you feel like you failed Wyb and Ysw both, you swear to do better from now on, it's your duty.

The others are left to keep figuring out their conciousness, make sense of the information you've given them, you should probably leave them alone for now, soon enough they'll become much more complex.

In the time being you put your focus back into Ysw, it's body is shattered completely, you don't know if anything is left of it's mind, what should you do?

>Public
>Brush
>Dance

>>3916569
>Code
Zyb is to only to attack in protection of the other creations. Syt should go about attempting to reform Ysw

>>3916584
>>Public

Guys this quest went from trippy abstract creation fun to feels really quick :(
One of our children is maybe dead and we just lobotomized the other

>>3916584
>Brush

Brush of creation, or sweeping stuff away to clean up (destruction)?

>>3916584
>>Dance

>>3916584
>Dance
Give our child some modicum of joy in its short tragic existence if possible.

>>3916593
We stumbled into the sad truth of a flawed god trying its hardest. The feels are there for sure. We must do better from now on.

>>3916584
>>Brush

>>3916598
Worst thing is what we're going to tell the kids and subsequent worshippers when they start to exist?

We can't just let them twist events to suit their needs, and paint one of the kids as the pinnacle of everything good, and the other a jealous immature child when neither of them finished becoming complete beings.

>>3916617
>The kids start complaining the other's touching them incessantly.
Don't make me turn this void around!

Nah but I suppose we'll have to see. Gotta own up to our mistakes unlike that Eru Iluvatar guy that let his son take the fall for him, god what a dick.

>>3916617
We could just tell them that we made a mistake and what happened was a tragic accident?
That might lead to complications though.

>>3916584
I'll go with dance because it sounds like brush could be like brush under the rug/hide

>>3916584
>Dance

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>>3916595
>>3916598
>>3916627
>>3916628

There's so much you still don't know
You don't know if Ysw's mind or body is still salvageable, and if they are you wouldn't know how to save them anyways.
You reach to your subconcious and one of the many millions of concepts that make up your confusing conciousness jumps up at you.
Dance
You let your physical existence collide with what remains of Ysw, but not in a harmfull way.
You spiral with Ysw in amazing hurricanes
You condense Ysw's body into electricity in breathtaking storms
And you condense her shape into astounding fractals, making a display that all your children watch atentively.

This is the first time you've seen beauty

At the end Ysw's body is too weak, too sparce, barely a mist, in moments it will fade completely.
You don't know what "Peak" meant, but if Ysw's mind was aware during those last dancing moments, you hope that it helped Ysw get closer to the concept that would've drove it had it's life not be cut short.

You watch your children, they are manifesting themselves in unique ways.
Zev is calm, lost in thought
Mfx seems to have drifted far from the group, orbiting at a distance, always in motion.
Xiz aproaches it's siblings and does some sort of primitive comunication.
Zyb seems to move in small circles, slow motions.
Syt's sphere shape seems to change from time to time, it looks like it's experimenting with something.

You want to bring them together for an activity, hopefully helping their growth, their complexity.

>Heir
>Knowledge
>Dismiss

>>3916665
>Knowledge
Right now we do not need a succession crisis after all that has happened.

>>3916672
Agreed with this anon for sure. Poor Ysw.

>>3916665
>Knowledge

I think we may have also inadvertently created the start of Chaos and Order.

Zev is probably just calculating absolutely everything since math is essentially an aspect of Order, while Mfx could be Chaos since their Refuse could mean rebellion, free will, etc.

I'd keep my eye on the two of them.

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>>3916672
>>3916679
>>3916682

You exert physical force to draw everyone together, you want your creations to share what they've learnt from exercising their unique minds.

Xiz seems the most excited as this is what it was doing already, it seems like Xiz has developed much more advanced comunication skills, Xiz acts as an interpreter when two other spheres want to "talk".
Zev, Xiz and Syt comunicate, creating bonds, and fpassing information that might be best suited for another in the group.
Mfx seems to ignore the activity altogether, it pushes against the physical force that draws everyone together, when Xiz aproaches to comunicate it drifts away, something it didn't do before,
The group tries to get Zyb to join them but it's mind is way too primitive, Zyb bobs up and down, spins in it's own axis and does all sorts of movements close to the group.
Syt joins Zyb, colliding in a warm gentle way, by the time the activity is finished it seems that Syt has taken to guiding Zyb, playing with it and very slowly sharing information.

You're pleased with the result of the activity, but you know that only interacting amongst themselves and exploring the limited information they have will not have them reach their full potential, you need to create something they can interact with, they need experiences.

>Storm
>Excess
>Dog

>>3916753
>Storm
Pleasant rain... I hope....

>>3916753
>>Dog
Not sure between this and storm but I'm worried what storm might do. Maybe we should try some one on one time with Mfx.

>>3916753
>Dog

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>>3916766
>>3916768

You start focusing your energy into a singular point, far away from your creations, a crystaline energy cluster is formed, having learnt from your previous mistakes you realize that experience dealing with another living creature is best.

Your first instict was to give small bits of information to the creature without a main concept, to give it primitive instincts only, but then you realized that is mostly what Zyb's mind is right now, this brings you great shame.

Instead you'll give it a main concept with little other information to create a simple lifeform with narrow understanding of the world and little room for growth.

You'll give it the concept:

>Majority
>Wealth
>Sugar

>>3916803
>Sugar
Majority makes me fear it'll try to outnumber our original children. Wealth makes me fear it'll be greedy. Sweet things are good usually and our children can love sweets the adorable little dickens.

>>3916803
>Sugar

>>3916803
>Sugar

>>3916803
>Sugar

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>>3916803
>Sugar
Oh boy! I hope this doesn't end up being some twisted fucked up meaning of sugar!
It is the secret element... The fifth element.... The most important element......

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>>3916806
>>3916810
>>3916819
>>3916840
>>3916845
You give the creature the concept of sugar, this decision is almost instantaneous, like the decision is completely obvious, you don't even entertain the idea of giving it any other concept.
You hope this is a good sign
The pet seems to create it's primitive mind really quickly, not that you have any semblance of time, wait, what even is time?
The crystaline cluster travels rapidly to your creations, it has little power but an almost endless supply of energy to accomplish it's simple tasks.
For a moment seeing the crystaline cluster advance rapidly towards Zev brings you memories of Zyb crashing violently into Ysw, you grow preocupied.

This is the first time you feel scared

But this is no time to doubt yourself, this is very new to you.
After all you barely know anything.
You watch the crystaline cluster rapidly aproach Zev and....

It starts rubbing gently against Zev, it moves almost hypnotically, Zev seems excited, first time it looks out of his cold calculated shell.
The crystaline cluster moves around interacting similarly with everyone, even Mfx enjoys looking at the creature running around, even though it tries to hide it.

You watch for a while, everyone seems happy, maybe sometimes the easiest decisions yield the best results.

You distance yourself, you've spent so much time nurturing your spheres that you haven't had the time to introspect on your situation, you've been thinking so much about the creature's growth that you didn't realize you've changed so much, you wish Ysw was here, but there's no point in dwelling on the past.

Maybe you should spend some alone time, do something by yourself, explore some concept of your own.

>Training
>Simplicity
>Story

>>3916886
>Story

>>3916886
>Story
Sugar a rousing success, Void labelled best parent in existence.

>>3916886
>Story
Perhaps a world...?
Things living on a small round aspect of existence, Sometimes the things pair up with other things to create more things, and those things go on to create more things once the things that created them cease to be. Sometimes the all the things living cease to be, only for new, different things to take its place. Sometimes a light erupts, and burns the aspect into ash, so that the aspect can reform anew.

>>3916904
>We turn the lobotomized Zyb into the world
>Poor lad consigned to being the earthbones for a mistake he couldn't control.

; _ ; we can't fail you Zyb.

>>3916909
At least Zyb has Syt with them.

Perhaps the latter can teach them something to compensate?

>>3916915
>Zyb is the sphere of Attack
>Syt is the sphere of Reproduction
I feel like this can only spiral into weird, unhealthy kinks for the both of them down the line.

>>3916922
We removed Zyb's main concept so I don't think Attack would be bred thankfully. He's sadly in a limbo state of being nothing. Hopefully the others can give him purpose and direction while we help where we can.

>>3916924
Still possible for Zyb to gain a Demeaning fetish from being literally nothing, a sad husk.

>>3916927
I know, we have to see about giving him some purpose really, ugh. Poor lad.

>>3916929
What do you suppose the aspects of reproduction and "nothing" can do together?

It seems like Syt is developing more into compassion. It would be bad for everyone if something were to happen to her, especially for Zyb.

>>3916950
Maybe the offspring would in general take on Syt's passion but with the memories of Zyb's growth. Basically a slight influence from Zyb based on his interactions with others?

>>3916929
Maybe we can give him some form of loyalty.

>>3916967
I was thinking maybe something like our attendant or helper. On one hand he gets special time with us but he won't be able to do the cool independent stuff the others do so it's a bit balanced.

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>>3916891
>>3916897
>>3916904

You, the black void get some time to get your thoughts in order, you pick one of your concepts and let it guide your mind for a bit.

Your thoughts and memories take the form of compact streams of information, some unrecognizable to you, some just shy enough of the truth to be astory.

"The man took the cue, he placed his fingers gently on the violin's strings..."
"First there was darkness, then there were beams of colored light..."
"In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind..."

And millions of other passages of text, takeing the shape of miniscule specks of information took flight, traveling at incredible speeds, to elsewhere, somewhere, nowhere, everyone.

Even though they came from your mind, they seem completely alien, maybe it's just something you're not used to, you'll have to keep in mind, that you don't really understand much of anything.

This wasn't quite what you expected from this experience, but sometimes growth comes from the most unexpected of places.
Regardless, something's very clear from this experiment.
The things you're capable of and the things you understand are very different.

What should your next course of action be?

>Devote
>Speech
>Worry

>>3916984
>Devote

Though Worry could be good, too. It helps ground beings to keep them from doing dangerous things.

>>3916984
>Devote
Our time into helping Zyb

>>3916984
>>Devote

>>3916984
>Worry

I just don't want Zyb to end up as a scapegoat for every bad thing their siblings encounter.

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OM amirite

>>3916986
>>3916987
>>3916999

You decide you'll go spend some time helping your spheres, helping them.
In the time you've been gone not much has changed, Zev and Mfx are still engrossed into their usual activities, Xiz is currently playing with the crystal chunk.

You turn your attention to Zyb and Syt, it seems since Syt started taking care of Zyb it hasn't had enough time to nurture their own skills as the others have.

You know Zyb has limitations because of the mistakes of your past, it's not fair to him, you shoul make it up to Zyb by finding something for it to do in order to grow, and you'll help Syt get some time to itself.

What will you try?

>Compound
>Exchange
>Coffee

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>>3917079

>>3917079
>Exchange

So what will we do when we inevitably must expose them to something they must fear, or any other negative emotion?

https://www.cognizant.com/contact-us

>>3917079
Hmmm
>Compound
I assume this means he'll become the first mix of creations. Like attack and something else

>>3917079
>Coffee
Cause I'm tempted but I'm fine with any of these to be honest.

>>3917092
Support

>>3917079
>>Compound

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>>3917092
>>3917098
>>3917123

You aproach Zyb directly, right now all the other spawn are at a point where their mind is the major source of growth, you're wary of reshaping Zyb's mind directly again but you'll have to do it if you don't want to arrest it's development.

It's conciousness is too developed to recieve a primary concept, and without one the connections to the information it gathers are loose and dissorganized, maybe you can craft a sort of primary concept by adding a few concepts in less advanced and complex forms, simple enough to not harm it's mind but with enough depth to connect all the information in Zyb's brain.

You hope for the best

Concepts come floating to the top of your mind, ready to be shared, you hope 3 will do for this task.
You're nervous

>Mosaic
>Brainstorm
>Layer
>Tolerant
>Dirty
>Stereotype
>Error
>Criminal
>Rage
>Expenditure

I'll be going to bed now, will resume tomorrow, I apreciate the discussion a lot btw

>>3917163
>Expenditure
>Brainstorm
>Tolerant

Thanks for running it's quite interesting, have a good night.

>>3917163
>Layer
>Brainstorm
>Tolerant

Here's hoping.

>>3917170
+1

>>3917163
>Mosaic
>Tolerant
>Hope

>>3917163
I guess you could say that you're saving it
For Tomorrow
Heh
I'll leave now

>>3917163
>>Tolerant
>>Error
>>Brainstorm

I think Error would be useful provided we give them the right support. Wisdom can only be learned, not given. And the best way is to acknowledge your mistakes. I still hope Syt will show the same support for Zyb as before.

>>3917163
>Mosaic
>Brainstorm
>Tolerant

>>3917163
>Mosaic
>Brainstorm
>Tolerant

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>>3917170
>>3917171
>>3917174
>>3917187
>>3917201
>>3917241
>>3917462
>>3917498

You feed the three concepts, brainstorm, tolerant and Mosaic to Zyb, you know this method won't achieve the same result as with your other creations, but you're optimistic.
You feel Zyb's conciousness start to drastically change, these alterations on a developed yet stagnant brain will probably need a long period of introspection to bind everything into a coherent system.
Zyb stands motionless and starts a process of learning.

You divert your attention to Syt, she keeps company to Zyb at the start of the hybernation, giving warm gentle collisions of support, but with time Syt makes a bit of distance and starts once again reshaping it's body, growing and shringking, expanding and contracting.

After a while two small orbs of energy break off of Syt, you try to analize them but it seems it's a completely different lifeform from you, so you are left to only observe from a far.
Syt gently presses against the small orbs of energy, providing motherly love, but you can see Syt is tired, weak after this process, Syt probably needs some help.
You know how confusing and challenging parenthood can be.

>Compound
>Exchange
>Coffee

>>3917639

Wait, no, those aren't the concepts that came to you, you must be a bit tired.

>Royalty
>Relate
>Scrape

>>3917641
>Royalty

>>3917641
>>Relate

>>3917641
>Relate

>>3917641
>>Relate

>>3917641
Changing to royalty >>3917648

>>3917641
>>Relate

>>3917641
>>Relate

>>3917641
>>Relate

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>>3917650
>>3917652
>>3917656
>>3917680
>>3917684


You're not taking any chances, you aproach Syt directly and create a bond to it, you replenish it's energy using your own, you can't comunicate with Syt directly but you still send a few bits of information it's way to guide it.
You're briefly scared this might be persieved by the others as some species of favoritism, but this is probably just a bit of paranoia, they wouldn't fault you for helping Syt when it's physical body was low on energy.

Syt swiftly relates the energy you give it and goes back to nurturing it's own spawn.
Syt pushes the orbs of energy, helping them refine their motor functions, it relays information so they can automate and understand the causes and effects of their movements.
Syt moves them a bit far away and waits for them to make their way back, giving them gentle contact as positive reinforcements.
Overall it looks like Syt is doing a good job.

As you observe Syt you're suprised as you realize that Xiz has aproached the physical point in space where you're manifesting your senses to watch over Syt, you can feel Xiz trying to convey information to you, but even though it's comunication capabilities are much more advanced than the other's, you can't quite make out what it's trying to say.

>Resign
>Mud
>Intensify

>>3917696
>>Intensify

>>3917696
>>Intensify
Here's hoping we don't accidentally harm Xiz

>>3917696
>>Intensify

>>3917696
>>Intensify

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>>3917699
>>3917703
>>3917704
>>3917771

You decide you should help Xiz directly, you're gonna amplify it's ability to comunicate, helping Syt in it's ability to explore the nature that it's main concept brings out worked really well.

You strengthen the bonds on the information that grew directly from Xiz's main concept "title", wich seems to be the cause of it's interest on comunication and social interest.
You notice that Xiz's supplementary information gets weaker by this, it only has a limited amount of processing power so if you're intensifying it's focus on it's main concept it's logical that somewhere else something's gonna give.

It takes some time for Xiz to get used to these changes, but suddently it makes contact with you
"Father".
You feel a surge of emotions, this si effectively your child's first words.

It seems to be eagerly be waiting your response.

>Beautyful
>Alive
>Assertive

Sorry for the delay I had a meeting

>>3917836
>>Alive

>>3917836
>>Beautful

>>3917836
>>Beautyful
B E A uuuuuuuutiful

>>3917836
>>Beautyful

>>3917836
>Assertive

>>3917851
>>3917852
>>3917872

You respond to Xiz's message, you want to comunicate the concept of beauty to it.
You associate the concept of beauty to Ysw's final moments, the bittersweet storm, you convey the images to Xiz, it answers in abstract bits of information telling you it remembers seeing this, it wants to know more.

You call back one of the small stories you sent travelling to the edges of your being, you show him one of the stories.
"...the father took his dying daughter's hands, guiding her lagging steps in a hypnotic sequence of twirls and turns, the father wants nothing more than to make the daughter happy on her final moments ..."
Sharing this information brings you peace of mind, Xiz comunicates thankfulness, it's a question Xiz and his siblings have had for a long time.

Xiz goes in turn to comunicate to everyone, you notice it's movements are really sluggish, primal, like it's being carried by the winds rather than excitedly pushing it's mass.

You turn your attention to Mfx, you see his physical movement capabilities are really advanced, it travels further and further at increasing speeds, orbiting the area where the spheres live.
You're worried about this behavior, you know this is natural, a part of it's primary concept, but you know not every primary concept is good, like Zyb's was, maybe you can guide him to experiment with it's nature in another way.

>Inject
>Case
>Craft

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>>3917929

>>3917929
>>Craft

>>3917929
>Craft

>>3917929
>Case

>>3917929
>it's a question Xiz and his siblings have had for a long time.
This touches the heart.

>>Craft

>>3917929
>>Craft

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>>3917933
>>3917940
>>3917950
>>3917957

Xiz has always been an outsider, it doesn't seem content just by interacting with the others or introspecting, you've seen it interacting happily with the crystal cluster, though that may be because nobody can resist the crystal cluster's charms.
You decide that maybe Xiz needs some different kind of stimuli, it travels around, maybe it's looking for something?

You should make something for him, something not living as you don't want to spread your attention too thin.
You should start small in this venture, create something simple, only relying on one concept, if the others decide to interact with it this could result fruitfull as an experiment on how everyone's main concept has them facing against something unknown.

>build
>solution
>can
>hold
>essay

>>3918016
>solution

>>3918016
>>solution
This will be interesting. Hopefully Xiz isn't too lonely.

>>3918016
>>3918022

You mean Mfx?

>>3918016
>>essay

>>3918025
Oh yes you're right anon, I was thinking of Mfx.

>>3918016
>build
I wish for this void to be filled

>>3918016
>Solution

>>3918016
>>essay

>>3918025
Oh yeah, huge mistake on my part, sorry everyone
I'll try to do better with stuff like that

>>3918016
>>build

>>3918016
>>Solution

>>3918016
>>build

So, as the Black Void, should we make a more tangible(?) form for ourselves in the future?

>>3918568
I think we should be hands-off and let our children fill creation, with us.

Nah, we should be like Demiurge and cripple our children and then trap them in the physical

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>>3918021
>>3918022
>>3918035
>>3918234

You've decided on a concept, using it to fill some of the void, some of yourself, it was a simple task, mostly worked on subcociously, you let the concept of "solution" take lead in your mind and start creating matter.

In your vast open black nothingness at random intervals, splashes of black liquid substance start appearing, some of it is light, barely feeling any different from physicaly interacting with the void, and some of it is thick, condensing into smaller pools.

This is quite a strange feeling for you, it's like in the blink of an eye your whole existance in the physical realm has shifted, it's like everything about you, or atleast-
everything around the part of you that processes stimuli.

You watch Mfx aporoach the puddle closest, it's one of the light ones.
Mfx without much consideration plunges, and comes out swiftly thru the other side, distorting the substance's shape, sending out splahes from entry and exit point.

You see it go far into the distance, plunging thru thick and light liquid puddles alike, sometimes slow, sometimes fast, sometimes staying in the middle of them submerged in the new matter.
That'll keep him occupy for now at least.

You watch the others react, Syt seems busy with it's offspring and Zyb is still in a state of introspective sleep, trying to grasp the concepts you've instilled into it's mind.

The most intrigued is Zev, that swiftly stopped his usual activity of pondering and started following Mfx, but instead of diving into the liquid, Zev is content merely by observing Mfx interact with the black ooze.

Xiz follows Zev momentarily, but he moves slow, too slow to catch up to Zev, that used to be the one with the least tendency towards movement, he returns to spend time with the crystal cluster and his siblings that didn't goexplore the new environment.

You wonder how you should conduct the rest of this "experiment", Zev and Mfx's behaviors and motivations have always seemed the most opaque of the grooup, should you leeave them to explore for themselves? or try to get as much of this experience by direct imput.

>Major
>Modest
>Stake

>>3919016
>>Modest

>>3919016
>>Major

>>3919016
>>Modest

>>3919016
>>Modest

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>>3919049

You're content with the current situation, no need for drastic steps, you feel like you've struck a good balance in your involvement as of late.

You detactch yourself a bit, letting your conciousness take a less lucid form, you're content with watching the pieces you've set up fall into place.

Mfx and Zev start working together experimenting with the liquids, Mfx handles the gruntwork, using it's more refined involvement in interacting with the physical plane to move the liquids, to test the way they react to all the different things it can do to influence them.
Meanwhile Zev guides him, recommending different kinds of tests, Zev's calculated, cautious nature allows him to decide the most effective tests and to analize the information they gather in a way that opens new ideas.
Together they experiment, first with one liquid, then with the other, then Mfx starts combining them together, in different quantities each time, Zev reverse engineers the way the new substances behave to find new paths to information.

Back where the others are Xiz is helping Zev and Mfx's comunications from a distance, it seems it's only taking a very passive road, providing help as an interpreter rather than providing imput to their investigation.
Zyb is close, still dormant,Syt close by sends her energyorbs to go interact with the liquid ooze, Syt aproaches the crystal cluster and sends it to give company to Zyb, the three of them huddle together, spinning slowly in the nothingness

This gives you a warm feeling.

As everything unfolds everything starts to get hazy, you don't know the bounds of your energy but you feel like you've used up a lot of it as of late, you're no good to your childen if you overwork yourself, though you're not quite sure how, or if you can replenish energy.

>Ridge
>Expression
>Pause

>>3919666
>Pause

>>3919666
>Pause

Time for a break.

>>3919666
>>Pause

>>3919666
>>Ridge

>>3919666
>>Pause, express that we are going to rest for a time.

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>>3919761

You can feel the concept you've picked will manifest in a very tangible way, it very rapidly makes you give in to the blurryness, very shortly most of your conciousness is shutting down, you manage to send Xiz a message, you're quite a distance away but you've seen it has improved it's range.
Rather than comunicating the concept itself, that you nor Xiz can understand just by name, you scan the stories you've created and scan it for a passage that your mind links up to the early stages of the concept that's overtaking your mind.

".... the father fell asleep on the couch in front of him the tv shows static, a glass in hand and ...."

Ditch

Suddently you find yourself in the form of a small quadruped being, you feel totally differerent laws of physics to the ones you're used to, you're currently in a hole, the walls around you are too steep for you to climb up.
You have a vague memory of seeing some orange object and getting closer only to find when you stepped closer the cloth the object was resting on had no floor underneath, thus plunging you into the situation you find yourself.

Statement

"Hello?" You call out "I seem to find myself in quite the pickle!"
This makes your mind snap into a state of suspicion, you feel disjointed from what is currently happening.

Develop

Suddently you start growing and growing, everything starts to shift around you, your shape becomes more abstract, you're changing into something else.

Canvas

You feel like you're a shapeless ball of a material not too disimilar form the fur that coated you until recently, there's some thick substance that coats half of you, in small, precise, harp movements you're being pressed against a soft surface.
But looking closer you realize you're not just the fluffy material, you're also a stick attached to it, and you're also the arm holding it, and you're also a bipedal creature guiding the movements with a brain, the ball of fluff is just an extention of your body, the part you're paying the most attention to right now, kinda like when you focus on a concept.

Marathon

And then you suddently start running and the ....
Wait, the concepts, these sudden shifts in reality is your mind changing from one concept to another, generally you'd get to choose between the, something's different.

You see in front of you and there's another biped running, a crowd of creatures similar to you is making loud noices, and something drives you to get in front of the other running creature before you ....
Collide into some kind of tape?

How do you want to do this?

>Visual
>Faith
>Variation

>>3919896
>>Variation

Looks like we're back to our usual trip.

>>3919896
>>Faith

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Focus on a concept, that's how you work, you just need to focus.
The other mammal is running in front of you, you drop down to your knees and put your hands together, this action is closely linked to the concept of faith, though you don't know why.
You watch as the other biped crosses the tape and puts his hands up in the air, victorious.
It seems your efforts didn't pay up, but you don't seem to care that much, why should you care?
What's this all about?

You're left on the floor pressing your palms together but there's no answer, you feel like something powerfull should be answering.
Wait, something powerfull ....
Aren't you something powerfull?

From the stands you see a small creature similar to you, similar features, like a mirror of you just slightly distorting the image, it's trying to say something to you, you try to focus but the noise is too loud.
You focus, everything else starts to become static, you can almost make it out
Static
Static
"Father .... Syt .... weak"

You wake up from your slumber
This was your first .... dream.

Xiz is comunicating to you, distressed.
You hurry moving your conciousness close to your children, Syt is being orbited by half a dozen orbs of energy, her children.
Syt's barely got enough energy left to keep her mind alive, it seems it used all it's energy to create more spawn, but used up all her energy as you weren't able to replenish her energy this time.

>change
>critical
>brick

>>3920687
>>change

>>3920687
>>change
We need to help her understand her limits, for her own safety

>>3920687
>>Change

>>3920687
>>critical

>>3920687
>change

So while we're waiting, which of our kids do you think are the most capable of being left alone without any sort of intervention?

Because at this rate, we may need some one on one time with every single one of them so they don't accidentally destroy themselves, or each other.

>>3923787
Everyone but Zyb can handle themselves just fine

>>3923797
Except that Syt is disappearing because she used too much of her energy on her main concept

Also
>change

>>3923787
Everyone is growing so quickly, I'm sure they'll learn to support each other soon if they haven't already.

Mfx, Xiz, and Zev seem almost independent, though I wonder about them sometimes... Syt will need our help or another's for now. Zyb too though perhaps enough time has passed that I'm not sure.

>>3924007
I'm debating whether or not we should introduce the concept of food to them. Especially with the ramifications of making life specifically fated to be nothing but mindless cattle.

>>3924545
I just hope Zev doesn't pull some shit just to experiment.

>>3920687
>>change

Are we dead in the Black Void?

>>3931559
It would seem so, it's sad really I liked this quest it was unique in a good way.

>>3932340
Yeah, I was waiting to see what Zyb would become.

Hello everyone and sorry for dropping off completely
There's a huge fire in my town and the apartment I've been staying at kinda went up in flames
Is anyone still checking here?

>>3932712
Well shit.

I hope you're alright.

>>3932735
Yes, the fire started far away so I had time to get all my stuff out, only lost half a month of rent.
I hope that people come if I make another thread, I hate not finishing stuff

>>3932750
Ever consider archiving the thread for posterity/rereading?

>>3932781
Just uploaded it to the archive, I'll probably start another thread tomorrow and hope the week hiatus doesn't kill interest, thanks for sticking with me.

>>3932803
Damn man just read your update, you have my condolences and sympathy man. Yeah, I would love a follow-up thread to this one. keep on kick and don't let life keep you down.

>>3932803
I love your quest, please don't end it!
I'll be at the next one whenever you start it.