fellowship season two - eltelia Fellowship of the Thing - Eltelia Research Team

[Channelknight Fadran]

"There's a somewhat legendary flower that grows atop a distant mountain. The complete story behind it is somewhat long, but a couple of those might get us the cactus."

[The Aspiring Archivist any pronouns]

Just now, Channelknight Fadran said:

"There's a somewhat legendary flower that grows atop a distant mountain. The complete story behind it is somewhat long, but a couple of those might get us the cactus."

"And... how dangerous would this quest be?"

[Channelknight Fadran]

"For the climbers? Quite. For everyone else? Not much at all."

[The Aspiring Archivist any pronouns]

1 minute ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

"For the climbers? Quite. For everyone else? Not much at all."

"What would everyone else do?"

[Channelknight Fadran]

"Prepare our plant magic teleporters."

[The Aspiring Archivist any pronouns]

Just now, Channelknight Fadran said:

"Prepare our plant magic teleporters."

"Our... what?"

[Channelknight Fadran]

Kris grinned a little. "Sounds like you guys are about ready for a lesson in houseplant magic."

[The Aspiring Archivist any pronouns]

4 minutes ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

Kris grinned a little. "Sounds like you guys are about ready for a lesson in houseplant magic."

"I guess I need it."

[Channelknight Fadran]

“Basically,” Kris began, “all plants generate a chemical called Vange during the photosynthesis process here. That’s uhh…” he glanced at the children in the room, “how plants… how they turn the sun into food. The sunlight has energy, and they use that to combine carbon dioxide and water into sugar. At least, that’s how they do it in most universes… but here the sunlight carries tiny charged particles with it that combine with the same stuff to create this extra chemical.

“It doesn’t do much on its own. Without a catalyst, it’s almost entirely inert. Once emitted it just hangs around the plant for awhile before eventually decaying. And usually that’d be fine and dandy but it turns out that animals in this universe - including people - do react to Vange. How and in what ways is… really too complicated for right now, though. Basically, creatures like us can use this chemical to do plant magic.”

Kris scratched the back of his head like he always did when he got a little nervous. “Anyways… that’s just how the magic works. The bare basics. Other than that it really doesn’t make much sense chemically. Because each kind of family of plant’s Vangaic properties are unique, carrying different kinds of energies and properties for even individual species. So by using different combinations of plants and interactions, you can do… just about anything, really.”

He let out a satisfied puff. “And that’s how it works.”

[The Aspiring Archivist any pronouns]

Just now, Channelknight Fadran said:

“Basically,” Kris began, “all plants generate a chemical called Vange during the photosynthesis process here. That’s uhh…” he glanced at the children in the room, “how plants… how they turn the sun into food. The sunlight has energy, and they use that to combine carbon dioxide and water into sugar. At least, that’s how they do it in most universes… but here the sunlight carries tiny charged particles with it that combine with the same stuff to create this extra chemical.

“It doesn’t do much on its own. Without a catalyst, it’s almost entirely inert. Once emitted it just hangs around the plant for awhile before eventually decaying. And usually that’d be fine and dandy but it turns out that animals in this universe - including people - do react to Vange. How and in what ways is… really too complicated for right now, though. Basically, creatures like us can use this chemical to do plant magic.”

Kris scratched the back of his head like he always did when he got a little nervous. “Anyways… that’s just how the magic works. The bare basics. Other than that it really doesn’t make much sense chemically. Because each kind of family of plant’s Vangaic properties are unique, carrying different kinds of energies and properties for even individual species. So by using different combinations of plants and interactions, you can do… just about anything, really.”

He let out a satisfied puff. “And that’s how it works.”

"Okay, then. So how does this apply to the quest?"

[PyroPhile]

On 1/19/2023 at 8:57 PM, Channelknight Fadran said:

 

"For the climbers? Quite. For everyone else? Not much at all."

 

“I’d like to be a climber.”

[Channelknight Fadran]

"I... oh." Kris's face fell. "I didn't actually tell you what the plants do, did I?"

[xinoehp512 he/him]

28 minutes ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

"I... oh." Kris's face fell. "I didn't actually tell you what the plants do, did I?"

"That depends on which plants we're going to use, right?" replied Silver, clearly interested. "What are the plants we're going to use?"

[Enter a username]

“Wait, has anyone tried artificially synthesizing this chemical?”

[PyroPhile]

2 minutes ago, Enter a username said:

 

“Wait, has anyone tried artificially synthesizing this chemical?”

 

“That’s a greAAAA-“ Pyro said as he fell through the seemingly solid floor.

[2EmLee2]

3 minutes ago, PyroPhile said:

“That’s a greAAAA-“ Pyro said as he fell through the seemingly solid floor.

“Pyro? What’d you do that for?”

[PyroPhile]

A loud sound and a bright light momentarily appear, and Pyro appeared in midair and fell on his face.

[Channelknight Fadran]

11 hours ago, xinoehp512 said:

"That depends on which plants we're going to use, right?" replied Silver, clearly interested. "What are the plants we're going to use?"

"Quite a few. It's... it's something I really do need to explain first." Kris kept thinking of how best to do that.

21 minutes ago, Enter a username said:

“Wait, has anyone tried artificially synthesizing this chemical?”

"Yes, of course, but no methods are anywhere near as cost-effective as simply raising the plants."

[The Aspiring Archivist any pronouns]

16 minutes ago, PyroPhile said:

A loud sound and a bright light momentarily appear, and Pyro appeared in midair and fell on his face.

"Um... are you okay?"

1 minute ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

"Quite a few. It's... it's something I really do need to explain first." Kris kept thinking of how best to do that.

"Yes, of course, but no methods are anywhere near as cost-effective as simply raising the plants."

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Think there's anything Tacien could draw that would be helpful?

[xinoehp512 he/him]

3 minutes ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

"Quite a few. It's... it's something I really do need to explain first." Kris kept thinking of how best to do that.

Silver waited expectantly.

[Channelknight Fadran]

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I'm working a big post for it. But imma go eat some food and let my computer charge first for now.

 

[Channelknight Fadran]

“Plants… well, I guess I’ll start with the basics. Plants on world evolved from a kind of bacteria, and have since split into thousands of new groups, but all really follow one main evolutionary line. Past that bacteria were the first green plants, introducing chlorophyll to… pretty much every plant from there. Then there’re small multicellular forms like algae, and later down the line you get moss and ferns and things. Really you don’t get too much variety until the evolution of angiosperms, which split off into dozens of other classes of plants, which in turn have dozens of splitoffs of their own, and so on and on until you get each individual species.”

Kris raised a finger. “The first photosynthesizer - that bacteria - was the first to produce Vange. However, it’s a very unrefined version without any real potential for usage. Wealthy vangari sometimes use it as a general supplement to their spellcasting, but you need actual tons of that for it to do much of anything, really. It’s not until you start getting more complex plant forms that the vange output starts to increase or become somewhat distinct.

“The line of general-use vange continues, for the most part, up to angiosperms.  While each type of plant like ferns and moss and a few other things have little evolutionary trees of their own along the line, they all only really serve to build up to the flowering plants that people use most often in their spellcasting. Ferns, for example, are limited to acting as supplementary agents in most spells used to redirect vange energy or stuff like that; meanwhile magnolias are used directly for conversion of matter between energy states.”

He let out another breath. “Does that all make sense so far?”

[xinoehp512 he/him]

1 hour ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

“Plants… well, I guess I’ll start with the basics. Plants on world evolved from a kind of bacteria, and have since split into thousands of new groups, but all really follow one main evolutionary line. Past that bacteria were the first green plants, introducing chlorophyll to… pretty much every plant from there. Then there’re small multicellular forms like algae, and later down the line you get moss and ferns and things. Really you don’t get too much variety until the evolution of angiosperms, which split off into dozens of other classes of plants, which in turn have dozens of splitoffs of their own, and so on and on until you get each individual species.”

Kris raised a finger. “The first photosynthesizer - that bacteria - was the first to produce Vange. However, it’s a very unrefined version without any real potential for usage. Wealthy vangari sometimes use it as a general supplement to their spellcasting, but you need actual tons of that for it to do much of anything, really. It’s not until you start getting more complex plant forms that the vange output starts to increase or become somewhat distinct.

“The line of general-use vange continues, for the most part, up to angiosperms.  While each type of plant like ferns and moss and a few other things have little evolutionary trees of their own along the line, they all only really serve to build up to the flowering plants that people use most often in their spellcasting. Ferns, for example, are limited to acting as supplementary agents in most spells used to redirect vange energy or stuff like that; meanwhile magnolias are used directly for conversion of matter between energy states.”

He let out another breath. “Does that all make sense so far?”

"Hold up. The common ancestor for every plant on this planet is still alive?"

[Channelknight Fadran]

"Yeah. Cytoplankton? It's everywhere."

[xinoehp512 he/him]

1 hour ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

"Yeah. Cytoplankton? It's everywhere."

"Huh," muttered Silver. "So as plants evolved, they also developed new ways to use the extra chemical from photosynthesis?"