Welcome to Gaia! ::

Introduction

The bony ghoul begins discussing something in roundabout terms, often going on a tangent, sometimes pausing and gazing off into the distance... Crazy cackling is frequent.

Perhaps you should look in those boxes she seems to be gesturing to. Roll 1d6 to determine it's contents!

1. You have a glass foot stool, a bag of dirt, and a vial of... gross water.
2. You have a fish tank, some muddy bottom soil, and a tube of de-mineralizing serum!
3. You found a clear box, some dirt, and something you do not want to drink.
4. You found a bizarre helmet, some protective padding, and a strength potion.
5. You have an empty terrarium, dark earth, and just enough dirty water for a little stream.
6. YOUR CRYSTAL BALL IS WEIRD-SHAPED AND- a beanbag stand and magic wand?

Start tallying up your "learning" points! If you rolled 1-4, you get +1 point, and if you rolled 5, you get +3 points. If you rolled six... Cymbeline is wondering if you are the crazy one!

Setup

Now the heir is talking about plants. Unlike the half-mad babbling from the initial explanation, this is not insane rambling. This is science jargon! You still can't understand what she is talking about in between the simple words like "plants" and "weeds" and "pesticides", but you attempt to follow her example as she sets her own terrarium up.

It is more complicated than it looks, the 'glass' sides slide, fold, and rotate until the cube has morphed into an enclosed rectangular tank with two semi-separated compartments.

Roll a 6 sided die to figure out how well you did.

1. That isn't so b- Maybe this way... Erm... OKAY, your terrarium is set up, although it seems a little lopsided.
2. You set out to figure it out yourself. And after much fussing and an unhealthy SNAP, it appears... mostly right.
3. You aren't half bad at this whole Famine-technology-assemblage stuff! You are only 1/4 bad.
4. It only took you three tries, but your terrarium looks okay!
5. You seem to follow her example to the letter, maybe she's not a bad instructor after all!
6. You... cracked your box. Maybe she won't notice.

How well did you do? Take your "learning" points from the previous stage, and calculate your new total. If you rolled 1-4, you get +1 point, and if you rolled 5, you get +3 points. If you rolled six... Cross your fingers.

Selection

Cymbeline is now handing out bags... of seeds? And her ramblings have turned to a delightfully nonsensical spiel on the similarities and differences of humans and insects and students (which still might fall under the "insects" category) and finally, plants. She brings you the box, and expects you to select one brown bag and one tan bag.

Roll 2d6. The first number determines which tan bag you select. Apparently these are common and useful Human plants.

1. Oats
2. Sweet Corn
3. Asia Strawberries
4. Sugarcane
5. Cherry Tomatoes
6. Vanilla Bean

The second number is which brown bag you pick out. These are plants, weeds in particular, you might be familiar with. They are all FEAR-based varieties that are known for their ability to produce herbicidal toxins, or irritate the skin, or spread like wildfire and choke out other living species. None of them are very pleasant plants, to be sure. You might now be starting to understand what Cymbeline was getting at with all that crazy science babble.

1. Noxious Ivy
2. Hunchback Beggarweed
3. Strangling Knotweed
4. Fiery Spurge
5. Weregoose Grass
6. Bindweed

Evaluation

Now that you seem to have everything you need, you begin to set up your tank. It is all very self explanatory at this point. A bit of dirt in each of the semi-separated compartments, human seeds in one side, FEAR seeds in the other, and voila! Time to add the magic ingredient.

Following Cymbeline's wildly graceful example, you pour the small vial's fluid into the soil in each compartment. And then... BAM! Suddenly you have two fully grown plants. And in the time it takes to wonder how half the Famine clan is still as thin as a rake, you begin to notice a dark, misty substance leeching from the FEAR weeds into the healthy-looking human plant.

Cymbeline begins to walk between the tables, examining the terrariums.


For this section, you will have to compare your two plants on the scale below. This represents how compatible the selected FEAR weeds are with human plants. The closer they are together, the better the resulting hybrid!

Hunchback Beggarweed <-> Oats <-> Strangling Knotweed <-> Cherry Tomatoes <-> Weregoose Grass <-> Sweet Corn <-> Fiery Spurge <-> Asia Strawberries <-> Noxious Ivy <-> Vanilla Bean <-> Creeping Bindweed <-> Sugarcane <-> Hunchback Beggarweed

For example, if you have Strangling Knotweed, it is more compatible with either the Oats or the Cherry Tomatoes than it is with the Asia Strawberries. This can be represented by distance. The oats and tomatoes are only 1 place away. But the strawberries are five points away. (Notice the Hunchback Beggarweed is on both ends of the scale, it can be imagined like a circular scale after all.)

For a distance of 1, you get +3 "learning" point and pass the course!
For a distance of 3, you get +1 "learning" point and pass the course!
For a distance of 5, you fail the course. Oops. =(

[ Horsemen Points Distribution: ] (Select only one option based on your results)

TO OBTAIN 3 HORSEMEN POINTS: YOU MUST HAVE 9 "LEARNING" POINTS

TO OBTAIN 2 HORSEMEN POINTS: YOU MUST HAVE BETWEEN 4 AND 8 "LEARNING" POINTS AND PASS THE COURSE

TO OBTAIN 1 HORSEMEN POINT: YOU MUST HAVE BETWEEN 2 AND 3 "LEARNING" POINTS AND PASS THE COURSE, OR FAIL THE COURSE WITH MORE THAN 3 "LEARNING" POINTS

Setup

Now the heir is talking about plants. Unlike the half-mad babbling from the initial explanation, this is not insane rambling. This is science jargon! You still can't understand what she is talking about in between the simple words like "plants" and "weeds" and "pesticides", but you attempt to follow her example as she sets her own terrarium up.

It is more complicated than it looks, the 'glass' sides slide, fold, and rotate until the cube has morphed into an enclosed rectangular tank with two semi-separated compartments.

Roll a 6 sided die to figure out how well you did.

1. That isn't so b- Maybe this way... Erm... OKAY, your terrarium is set up, although it seems a little lopsided.
2. You set out to figure it out yourself. And after much fussing and an unhealthy SNAP, it appears... mostly right.
3. You aren't half bad at this whole Famine-technology-assemblage stuff! You are only 1/4 bad.
4. It only took you three tries, but your terrarium looks okay!
5. You seem to follow her example to the letter, maybe she's not a bad instructor after all!
6. You... cracked your box. Maybe she won't notice.

How well did you do? Take your "learning" points from the previous stage, and calculate your new total. If you rolled 1-4, you get +1 point, and if you rolled 5, you get +3 points. If you rolled six... Cross your fingers.

Evaluation

Now that you seem to have everything you need, you begin to set up your tank. It is all very self explanatory at this point. A bit of dirt in each of the semi-separated compartments, human seeds in one side, FEAR seeds in the other, and voila! Time to add the magic ingredient.

Following Cymbeline's wildly graceful example, you pour the small vial's fluid into the soil in each compartment. And then... BAM! Suddenly you have two fully grown plants. And in the time it takes to wonder how half the Famine clan is still as thin as a rake, you begin to notice a dark, misty substance leeching from the FEAR weeds into the healthy-looking human plant.

Cymbeline begins to walk between the tables, examining the terrariums.


For this section, you will have to compare your two plants on the scale below. This represents how compatible the selected FEAR weeds are with human plants. The closer they are together, the better the resulting hybrid!

Hunchback Beggarweed <-> Oats <-> Strangling Knotweed <-> Cherry Tomatoes <-> Weregoose Grass <-> Sweet Corn <-> Fiery Spurge <-> Asia Strawberries <-> Noxious Ivy <-> Vanilla Bean <-> Creeping Bindweed <-> Sugarcane <-> Hunchback Beggarweed

For example, if you have Strangling Knotweed, it is more compatible with either the Oats or the Cherry Tomatoes than it is with the Asia Strawberries. This can be represented by distance. The oats and tomatoes are only 1 place away. But the strawberries are five points away. (Notice the Hunchback Beggarweed is on both ends of the scale, it can be imagined like a circular scale after all.)

For a distance of 1, you get +3 "learning" point and pass the course!
For a distance of 3, you get +1 "learning" point and pass the course!
For a distance of 5, you fail the course. Oops. =(

Determine which miniature environment Ktur has chosen for you.

Roll 1d6.
1: The box Ktur directed you toward looks a lot like the surroundings outside: bleak, bright, and sandy.  You will be working with a desert environment.

2: You can barely make out a tiny mountain and a stand of snow-topped pine trees through the mess of whirling snow.  You will be working with an arctic environment.

3: A heavy mist hangs low in this box, but the treetops that blanket its highest points are a bright cheerful green under the sun.  You will be working with a rainforest environment.

4: Your box seems almost boring compared to some of the others left on the table.  Inside stretches a large field covered with tall grasses that wave in the breeze.  You will be working with a prairie environment.

5: You've seen fish tanks?  Well, Ktur hopes you like this one.  You will be working with an underwater environment.

6: Woo!  You're on fiah!  Or at least your box is.  You will be working with a volcanic environment.

Each environment has 30 HP, except for the prairie which has 40. Roll 1d12 and follow the prompt corresponding to your roll.  Continue rolling until you have either obtained three Horseman Points or your environment runs out of HP.

1: FIRE! Something catches fire inside your diorama. Try channeling a little bit of FEAR in there. It might help. Or maybe not. You lose 5 HP in desert and rainforest environments, 10 HP on the prairie, and none underwater, in the arctic, or on the volcano.

2: Whatever you tried this time, nothing happens. Ktur looks at you as if you're close to one of the most worthless things he's ever seen. Then he goes back to picking at his toenails with a grungy stick.

3: There's too much water! You lose 5 HP in the volcano and arctic, 2 HP in the rainforest and prairie, and none in the underwater and desert environments.

4: What's that? Whatever you just did caused a tiny, colorful flower to sprout in your environment. The landscape is so small you can barely see it, but Ktur seems impressed. You earn one Horsemen Point.

5: Did you fall asleep? It sure seems that way for all the good you're doing. Luckily, nothing happens.

6: A swarm of vicious looking bugs appear out of nowhere and burrow into the ground, ruining any progress you have made and leaving a bunch of giant holes in their wake. You lose 15 HP.

7: If you are working with the underwater environment, suddenly your whole diorama goes black. When the water clears, all the tiny plants and animals are gone. You lose 5 HP. If you are not working with an underwater diorama, nothing happens.

8: In a moment of frustration, you shake, kick, yell at, or even look at your environment wrong. You lose 5 HP.

9: You have no idea what you did wrong, but your environment is suddenly looking worse for wear. You lose 3 HP.

10: A tiny animal scrambles into view, then disappears back into hiding. Ktur deems the appearance of the beast a wild success! You earn one Horsemen Point.

11: Ktur approaches you and tries to assist. His attempts do absolutely nothing. Maybe that's why he asked you to help in the first place.

12: A pack of what look like little gnomes appear in your diorama. They light a tiny bonfire (yes, even underwater) and generally mess up the joint. The desert, volcano, arctic and underwater environments lose 2 HP, the prairie loses 10, and the rainforest is unaffected.

- Match your dice roll to the results above while playing. You obtain points according to if it declares a win on that roll

Determine which miniature environment Ktur has chosen for you.

Roll 1d6.
1: The box Ktur directed you toward looks a lot like the surroundings outside: bleak, bright, and sandy.  You will be working with a desert environment.

2: You can barely make out a tiny mountain and a stand of snow-topped pine trees through the mess of whirling snow.  You will be working with an arctic environment.

3: A heavy mist hangs low in this box, but the treetops that blanket its highest points are a bright cheerful green under the sun.  You will be working with a rainforest environment.

4: Your box seems almost boring compared to some of the others left on the table.  Inside stretches a large field covered with tall grasses that wave in the breeze.  You will be working with a prairie environment.

5: You've seen fish tanks?  Well, Ktur hopes you like this one.  You will be working with an underwater environment.

6: Woo!  You're on fiah!  Or at least your box is.  You will be working with a volcanic environment.

6: A swarm of vicious looking bugs appear out of nowhere and burrow into the ground, ruining any progress you have made and leaving a bunch of giant holes in their wake. You lose 15 HP.

5: Did you fall asleep? It sure seems that way for all the good you're doing. Luckily, nothing happens.