"Spurgle" Florans

So, in the past, Myself, TD, and Malachar did this thing, where we let other folks in on the whole Spurgle floran thing, playing the spawn of Mucklurk/Traptooth and Mucklurk/Petaldancer, back when Muck had thoroughly infested Tetanus Fields sewer/undergound.

I am.. Cautiously, trying this once more, but on this go around, it's more along the lines of "converts."

Basically, Mucklurk is attempting to branch out and infect other florans with the Spurgle.

What is spurgle?

Well, it's an Agaran spore. I've talked it over with Mugwump to flesh out some details, and such (Mugwump is smart )

Basically, the spore is symbiotic for the most part. It is related to the spores that plagued Alioth Prime, whether it is the same or not, will be discovered later, if at all. Florans that are infested will begin to show fungal growths on their skin/hide in patches. The longer it's allowed to grow, the more it spread, deeper as well in some aspects. It causes the infested to floran to have an aversion for places that are either bright, dry, or a combination of the two. When in dark, moist/humid, and relatively warm places it's safe to say they may feel a sense of comfort or euphoria, the spores approval of a suitable region that promotes it's growth. It's a bit fluffed over, but I've always gone with the idea that the spores allow the floran to forego or do without photosynthesis, adopting a far more meat heavy diet, the spore using the floran as a sort of foodsource, in exchange rendering it capable of living for extended periods of time in the darkness or underground.

Now, recently in the Starbound Chronicles, there was a little blurb about an avian ship infested with Agaran spores. Turns out these spores are apparently sentient, and kill off the host, and eventually resulting in a batch of newborn Agarans. What's this mean for a Spurgle Floran? Well, as Mugwump suggested, these florans devotion to the Spore, essentially pleases the Agaran spore, leaving it content to remain as it is, as opposed to completing it's incubation and killing off the host.

Now, as far as the spores sentience goes, I absolutely love the idea of their being some rudimentary communication between the spore and it's host, and perhaps a sort of 'network' of nonverbal communication between spore-infested florans that is enabled by these spores when in relatively close range (Say, ten to twenty feet maximum?) This could play into the reverence and borderline religious attitude held by the Spurgle florans for the spores.



Some mundane notes on spurgle florans...

They are not you're run of the mill, happy go lucky types. Mosst embrace savagery on some level, but that does not make them utterly halfwitted. They are like most florans, simply at a lower stage of civilization. They still have a system of morality reflective untainted florans, and they have a series of titles, words, etc. they use that are floran in nature but of a very specific dialect. Think of the variations in different languages based on region. Ggogblat, Rugathumbor, Spurgle, are the only common ones at the moment, Ggogblat being a sort of Shamanic Chief, Rugathumbor being a sort of Rage/Bloodlust, and Spurgle being essentially a term for a concept which is often explained IC.

If there are any takers for this, feel free to post. If you want to throw in new word things, feel free

Mucklurk is currently trying to gather up his old brood as well. He currently only has 15-20 of the feral brood left (npcs), out of the hundreds that burned beneath Tetanus.

As far as the prior pc's go, his primary search is for those whom he was around the most, which he managed to teach. Mudspike, Narfball, Sludgelick.

He currently has Phlegmgil in tow, as Muck, Flem, and Tar had escaped TF together.


Regarding the Petaldancer Brood: I am extremely, extremely hesitant to bring these back in. For the sole fact that the prior issue of a few being roleplayed as toddlers, was extremely offputting, and the cause of me burning out on Mucklurk. I will be fairly stringent about which of those is essentially brought into the fold.

A quick guideline: If you're not sure about a floran, the very best examples I've seen and RP'd with outside of the little muckgroup, would be Firedrinker, and Sen (And Traptooth). If your floran rp is anything like there's, just "muck it up" a bit, and your spurgle floran would fit right in.

 

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To clarify the Agaran point Terr brought up, This ain't a route to playing an Agaran. Think of it as a failsafe. The ones who are basically derptastic, wind up dead, via agaran birthing. Said Agaran is an npc.

 

There are some constraints, like the SB Chronicle blurb had shown, it's not instantaneous, and likely depends on how deep the infection/infestation is. I don't expect many takers on this, but I'm also trying to keep like, a solid grip on it this time, and be a bit more clear about certain constraints, to avoid last time's fiasco.

 

http://playstarbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/sparrow3.html

It's even quoted in this thread...

 

Hylotl cannot breathe underwater in-game. This does not mean that Hylotl cannot breathe underwater.

 

Players can carry 720000 tonnes of steel blocks in their inventory in the game.

Lore has higher canon than game mechanics.