Vor'Pa

This is a Vor'Pa, a semi-amphibious triped from the swampy world of Nero. The Vor'Pa's anatomy is fairly easy to understand. Many of the vital organs are stored in the torso, the brain in the head. The brain extends back through the center of the crest, shielded by rubbery flesh and a bony disc. What makes a Vor'Pa peculiar is that on the underside of the crest, extensions of the brain project in fleshy tendrils that cling to the underside of the crest. Tests have shown that damage to these tendrils does not affect the rest of the brain, nor do they grow back if severed. The removal/damage sustained will cause near-unbearable pain, which is why a Vor'Pa custom with criminals is to amputate their tendrils. This renders them unable to manifest their peculiar ability: Vor'Pa are capable of mind control through the engulfing and gradual absorption of a victim's consciousness through a method not fully understood. This is enough of a problem by itself, but the Vor'Pa have also developed an extremist religion that requires them to subjugate all other races to their influence. This has led to near-constant warring with neighboring races, in particular the Anthricids and Humans. All members of the Vor'Pa race observed so far have been devoted followers of this religion, with the exception of the criminals. Vor'Pa prefer to take prisoners alive, for obvious reasons, with the exception of Anthricids. Due to the unique nature of the Anthricids, Vor'Pa warships fire on ships bearing Anthricid design patterns or symbols without provocation or warning. The generally accepted hypothesis is that Vor'Pa religion dictates that they destroy anything they cannot take control of.

My "this is me" speech

There are going to be a lot of good speeches you'll hear in your lifetime. Mine will not be one of

them. I might as well start off my speech by telling you all that I'm horrible at speeches, since I'm

going to tell you about myself anyway. Now that that's out of the way, I guess I'll start.

I have never truly been accepted as part of a school community. Nor have I really wanted to be.

Due to an odd condition, I started off my life with an absolutely horrible temper, and a violent

disposition. Needless to say this got me in heaps of trouble at my elementary school in Nevada.

Suffice to say that the teachers, my parents, and me did not see eye to eye. At all. So my parents

made the decision to put me in homeschooling, where they managed to do the best, most efficient

job of botching it as was humanly possible. Nothing against my parents, but they didn't know

anything about running a homeschool.

So after about a year of putting up with my stubborn, asinine behavior, they packed everything up

and moved here to Ames. I started at Sawyer school, under the assumptions that the Ames

district could adapt to anything I threw at them. I put a stop to that theory pretty fast. My next

school was Fellows, where I was placed in the BD program. They handled me better, so I made it

through fourth and fifth grade. Somehow. I continued to be a part of the BD program right up into

sixth grade, where I once again proved my inability to handle school. So my parents put me in

homeschool. I think there's a pattern going here...

They learned a lot from the earlier attempt, and I was homeschooled for the equivalent of two

years. One half of sixth and eighth each, and all of seventh. It was during this time that my parents

found out that the cause of my bad behavior was an allergy to wheat, milk, eggs, and peanuts. It

didn't manifest physically, only behaviorally. Anyway, so after about a year and a half of going

without these, my mom's cousin said she might have the possible cure. Acupuncture. Of course

my imagination instantly filled with needles the size of ice picks protruding from my skin, but when

we started, I got the accupressure treatment instead, which is basically a massage. Very nice deal

out of the whole thing. It's clearly worked, as I am no longer violent or belligerent at school and

can eat all of the foods but peanuts, which we are still working on.

And now my visual. It's a lightbulb, which symbolizes one of my favorite presents from God; my

imagination. Lightbulbs mean ideas, and I have a lot of them, including Anthricids, Vor'Pa, raoni,

and philotic weaponry. I can't really go into those without a lot of technical terms, so I won't try.

Anyway, hopefully this has been around the three-minute mark and I'll get a good grade. Please

remember not to use my speech as an example for the sake of your GPA, and always remember

that.....um.....you should have something deep-sounding prepared in advance or else you'll look

like an idiot like I'm doing.

..:::NEW RUIN:::..

an Event Horizons Role Playing Game

sponsored by POLARIS Productions

created by Jeffrey D. Packard of the EHRPG

Centuries ago, the powerful empire of Eranos spanned almost the entire realm. However, the forces of an evil necromancer named Zaecki waged war on them, and overwhelmed the armies of Eranos. As the undead legions approached the capital, Tanis, the king and queen sacrificed themselves, creating a powerful magic protection over the city and annihilating Zaecki and his troops. Since then, there has been peace for the residents of Tanis.

...Until now.

A drow nation sprang up in the far north. Seeking ancient texts in the ruins, they happened upon a failsafe Zaecki had placed in the event of his death. The drow unwittingly activated it, releasing Zaecki from death as a lich, an undead sorcerer of unparalleled power. Zaecki quickly destroyed the drow, transforming most of them into undead. Now, he wars constantly against neighbouring Thoroth, and Sorlois, seeking victims to be turned into undead for his final revenge against Tanis.

Meanwhile, the enchantments around Tanis have begun to unravel. The relentless march of time has eroded the barrier between the city and the harsh outsiders, and now it threatens to fail completely. The king has turned to you, the finest people Tanis has to offer. He has tasked you with going out into the surrounding area, subduing possible threats, and creating a map of the outside world (The last maps were lost long ago). Will you succeed, carving a name for yourself in the history books, or will you fail, fighting to the last against those who would do your people harm? The choice is yours, in NEW RUIN.

This is a roleplay created by me. Still waiting to test it.

NEW updates from Project Timeline

New updates: The IGF has been replaced by the IGCF (InterGalactic Congressional Federation)

The IGCF Armada consists of a few select craft at this time:

Thunderbolt-class destroyer: These ships are the backbone of IGCF armadal (totally a word) strike forces. They have two foreward-mounted fusion cannons with enough raw power in them to blow apart a small moon. The craft seen at left is the Tremor, which was modified with special belly-mounted cannons for clearing areas to land its troops. Tremor is painted in the colors of the IGCF 72nd Airborne Corps, the most feared marines in the galaxy.

Viper-class patrol boat: These multi-use craft are often seen harassing enemy shipping or patrolling near planetside bases. They lack the firepower to take on anything larger than a cruiser, but make up for that by being some of the most annoying craft the Anthricids have ever been up against. They use their greater speed and agility to dodge out of firing range of enemy guns and then pound them with the large side-mounted cannons. For defence against fighters, they also are equipped with three dual antifighter turrets.

The Anthricids have also been updated. In their current form, they are an insectoid race with several different "castes," each of which has a different purpose. Certain castes produce genetic spores that, when introduced into another race, will proceed to turn that creature into a half-Anthricid, half-other creature hybrid.

Also, a world has been developed.

Planet name: Cassini

System name: Helios - golden star

Geography/Notable features: Cassini has an orange-gold colored sky with black clouds. Most of the planet is boggy, with swamplike oceans.

Sentient species: Cassinian (native), Human

Life: Cassini is a reasonable world. It supports several types of tree-like lichen, as well as various highly evolved mollusks, arthropods, and echinoderms.

Project: Timeline

Project: Timeline is a new creation of mine, where I will be creating a possible future for our society, leading up to the events of the 41st century and the Millenium War. So far, possible events have included the Solar Wars (6-way war between Mercurians, Venerians, Humans, Martians, Jovians, & Cassinians), the Great War (a.k.a. The Big One, huge war between Communism and democracy that rages indefinitely), & multiple other overused scenarios. It will borrow events from the Taethosian Idea Workshops and my private universe, even using some of my roleplaying characters in the process. So far, The Big One is more likely to take the place of the Solar Wars, due to the ease of moving the Solar Wars-style combatants to a different time & place.

If anyone knows of a site/application that allows you to edit the world map, please tell me because I will need to change country boundaries and make new ones etc.

School

Me and my dad are planning on sending me back to regular school. The reason for this is that my dad is now having problems staying ontop of me and doing his work at the same time. If he gets a good situation at school, I will still have a good education, he won't be driven nuts by me (that'll be the teachers' job) and he will be able to do his work without distraction. It's a win-win situation, especially since my social skills have been greatly improved since my last encounter with public school. That means that I won't get into trouble as much (yay). In conclusion, sending me to school will be a giant step forward in our family.

Bendarian Brain Borer

The Bendarian Brain Borer is a small, leech-like creature found in the fungal forests of Bendaria, the planet nearest to the star Idris. Bendaria is shielded from the intense radiation of its star by a thick, reflective atmosphere prone to powerful electrical storms. The Brain Borer lives in hives mostly in the gills of the smaller carnivorous mushrooms. It is a small creature, six inches in length with a slimy, lumpy body that tapers off at the rear. It has a "mouth" which is a ring of teeth surrounding a long, sinuous "tongue". They also have stubby feet in 4-5 sets of two. They hunt by hiding in the undergrowth not far from their home, usually a small mushroom 5 feet in diameter just visible above the grass-like molds. These mushrooms have a spongy substance growing on their cap, which the Borers use as hives. They will leap out from their hive by quickly flicking their bodies rather like a spring. After latching on with the teeth, they inject a powerful paralizing agent, then crawl up to the head and latch on again. Their "tongues" will then burrow into the victim's brain using a sharp pincer at the end. They then suck out the gray matter after "chewing" it with the pincers. Then the fungi they use as a home (Lethifold mushroom, Necros vegitans narcus) will uproot its root net and envelope the corpse and devour it. These fungi are often found near campsites, as they will not hesitate to smother and ingest a sleeping person.