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<blockquote data-quote="Kilroy" data-source="post: 2440680" data-attributes="member: 5299">Long ago, when the rules of existance were young and Magic-Users were no mere wizards, Immortals walked the earth.&nbsp; The wisest among them walked gently, because they knew the the true nature of the earth upon which they walked.&nbsp; The world was no random ball of dust and snow, tumbling through the cosmos.&nbsp; It was a creature, asleep beyond memory, covered in the dust of eons.&nbsp; Should it ever wake, it would shake off the dust of sleep from its million eyes and begin its day anew, and with that, all the works of men and gods would be undone, without it ever noticing.I speak of course, of the living planet creature from the original D&amp;D Boxed Set 5, Immortals Rules, last seen new when I was just a child.&nbsp; I know PC's a sucker for the D&amp;D relics. ;-)How's this - The world is alive, not as a spirit, but as a creature of flesh and blood, and the worms are parasites that infested it when it slumbered, feeding off its nightmares.&nbsp; The Traveller Gods themselves were created from its Dreams, to heal it, and the primordial terror they fled from was the stuff of nightmare itself, but this truth even the Gods themselves do not know.&nbsp; Now that the worms have returned, its nightmares have begun anew, and as they grow and multiply, they will begin to manifest from the Dream Planes into waking, for the worms create much through the channeling of nightmares, the last of which being their true and final spawn.&nbsp; Should the world awaken, the gods will fade as dreams at dawn.&nbsp; Should the worms breed, the world will thrash and die as it is devoured from within, and the worms will again spread across the blackness, looking for new hosts.The earth must be saved, both in body and in mind, and the worms driven from its dreams and its heart, without it ever growing awake enough to know.It would also be an excellent chance to shake up your pantheon if the world nearly woke, and went back to sleep.&nbsp; It's hard to pick up a dream right where you left off - it's always changed just a bit by whatever woke you.[Yes, I did just read all of Sandman for the first time.]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kilroy, post: 2440680, member: 5299"] Long ago, when the rules of existance were young and Magic-Users were no mere wizards, Immortals walked the earth. The wisest among them walked gently, because they knew the the true nature of the earth upon which they walked. The world was no random ball of dust and snow, tumbling through the cosmos. It was a creature, asleep beyond memory, covered in the dust of eons. Should it ever wake, it would shake off the dust of sleep from its million eyes and begin its day anew, and with that, all the works of men and gods would be undone, without it ever noticing. I speak of course, of the living planet creature from the original D&D Boxed Set 5, Immortals Rules, last seen new when I was just a child. I know PC's a sucker for the D&D relics. ;-) How's this - The world is alive, not as a spirit, but as a creature of flesh and blood, and the worms are parasites that infested it when it slumbered, feeding off its nightmares. The Traveller Gods themselves were created from its Dreams, to heal it, and the primordial terror they fled from was the stuff of nightmare itself, but this truth even the Gods themselves do not know. Now that the worms have returned, its nightmares have begun anew, and as they grow and multiply, they will begin to manifest from the Dream Planes into waking, for the worms create much through the channeling of nightmares, the last of which being their true and final spawn. Should the world awaken, the gods will fade as dreams at dawn. Should the worms breed, the world will thrash and die as it is devoured from within, and the worms will again spread across the blackness, looking for new hosts. The earth must be saved, both in body and in mind, and the worms driven from its dreams and its heart, without it ever growing awake enough to know. It would also be an excellent chance to shake up your pantheon if the world nearly woke, and went back to sleep. It's hard to pick up a dream right where you left off - it's always changed just a bit by whatever woke you. [Yes, I did just read all of Sandman for the first time.] [/QUOTE]

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