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<blockquote data-quote="Bohandas" data-source="post: 9407558" data-attributes="member: 7015707">The Macrocosm- Partially crossposted from <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/creative-exercise-worlds-in-a-word-planes-in-a-paragraph.180373/page-7" target="_blank">Worlds In A Word, Planes In A Paragraph</a>. The PCs are anthropomorphic rats in a setting where the intelligence and scale of everything in the world is increased. Takes place in a planetary system where each planet corresponds to one of earth's continents. Possibly Africa, Europe, and Asia are all moons of a single (uninhabited) gas giant*, and north and south america are a double-planet system. The setting's intelligent equivalent of animals have a red-in-tooth-and-claw society vaguely like the one in the webcomic Kevin and Kell, and a late-20th-century to modern level of technology (they can with great difficulty get between planets and moons but not from planet to planet) but they are not the dominant lifeforms in the system (the greys are, see below). The PCs are the ship's rats in an interplanetary spaceship built by setting's equivalent of humans - grey alien type creatures with an interplanetary civilization (verging on becoming interstellar), frightening levels of individual intellignece, a language too complicated for anyone else to speak, cat and dog servitor races that worship them as gods (and who will try to sacrifice the PCs to them), and a cthulhu-like disregard for the other creatures of the system.*(edit: as a matter of fact, just name the Europe moon Europa after the jovian moon)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bohandas, post: 9407558, member: 7015707"] [B]The Macrocosm[/B]- Partially crossposted from [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/creative-exercise-worlds-in-a-word-planes-in-a-paragraph.180373/page-7']Worlds In A Word, Planes In A Paragraph[/URL]. The PCs are anthropomorphic rats in a setting where the intelligence and scale of everything in the world is increased. Takes place in a planetary system where each planet corresponds to one of earth's continents. Possibly Africa, Europe, and Asia are all moons of a single (uninhabited) gas giant*, and north and south america are a double-planet system. The setting's intelligent equivalent of animals have a red-in-tooth-and-claw society vaguely like the one in the webcomic [I]Kevin and Kell[/I], and a late-20th-century to modern level of technology (they can with great difficulty get between planets and moons but not from planet to planet) but they are not the dominant lifeforms in the system (the greys are, see below). The PCs are the ship's rats in an [I]interplanetary[/I] spaceship built by setting's equivalent of humans - grey alien type creatures with an interplanetary civilization (verging on becoming interstellar), frightening levels of individual intellignece, a language too complicated for anyone else to speak, cat and dog servitor races that worship them as gods (and who will try to sacrifice the PCs to them), and a cthulhu-like disregard for the other creatures of the system. *(edit: as a matter of fact, just name the Europe moon Europa after the jovian moon) [/QUOTE]

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