Yes, that's all one category and if you're good at any one you're equally good at others. You learn an Engineering discipline either for free by being a 20th level Alchemist, or by shelling out what is usually a rather large amount of skill points (Most categories are 50 points, with a couple being 20 and the aforementioned Mechanical/Airplanes/Watercraft being a whopping 70). They all also have many prerequisite skills! Alchemists get these for free too, but anybody else has to get them the normal way. At this point I feel I should remind you that most PCs get 5 skill points per level, while some classes don't get any until later. You can use the "do stuff without having a skill successfully" method to learn engineering, but it takes quite a bit of time and that tanks your skill chance. A lot, becuase these are in the advanced skill category which gives you only 10% of the listed chance, instead of 50%. Oh, and you'll need to raise your Engineering Level to be able to make anything good or do shit with any rate of success! This costs another 10 points per level (8 for AI, Electronics, and Mechanics), so you can get another Engineering Level every other character level! The process for actually doing this is to first, write down the full details of what you want to make and show it to your GM! You then roll to see if you developed plans properly. The base chance is 20% plus half your Ego score, and minimum Ego to become an engineer is 30. So, let's assume 35% chance. This goes up by 1% per level, presumably Engineering level in the field. You then need to roll again to actually produce the item or spell, although you take (number of levels you are higher than the requirement)% less time to do it if you're higher level Given that they go up to 20, this means for the lamest shit you can get up to doing things in only 81% of the time! Specifically, it takes 1 year, plus 1 week per engineering level required to make the thing in the first place for physical things, or one year plus one week per combined spell levels of what you're mashing together. Oh yeah, did I mention that? You want to make something BETTER than what's already listed, rather than just having more bells and whistles? Well, fuck you. You can just smash existing spells together, or make weapons up to, but not better than, existing weapons. You also need to know the spells you're mashing together or "have samples or plans" to study for physical things. So, the categories! Physical is divided into: Mechanical, Aquanautics, and Aeronautics! First Level skill in this field will let you make among other things steam engines, aqualungs, pit traps, gears, pumps, "basic vehicles of any sort", and semi-automatic firearms (not including the propellant, that's a different field). Fifth Level will let you make hydraulics, basic submarines, small planes, "specialized hydrogen engines", oxygen generators, jet packs, fully automatic guns, and underwater habitats. Tenth lets you make flying submarines, jets, "hydraulic engines capable of 60,000 horsepower" (source of pressure to drive it not mentioned), "magnamuscles for power armor (able to lift 10 times the wearer's strength), spacesuits, and large underwater habitats. Twentieth level lets you make flying bathyspheres (which Wikipedia indicates is a type of unpowered submersible lowered in by crane, so I'm not clear why this is higher level than a flying submarine), "any form of power generators", magnetic mass drivers, "environmental systems", and matter-antimatter production/space drives. Chemistry, Medicine, Biochemistry, and Mutations lets you make drugs and shit! First Level lets you make temporary strength-boost stuff, poison or antidotes for up to 10th level poison, truth serum, love potion, DMSO agents for contact poisons and such, and up to Class 2 explosives. Fifth level lets you make Class 3 explosives, synthetic Blue Rain bombs (which a trip to the provisions chapter indicates is "a frag grenade"), combine lesser mutations, and "create almost any of the chemicals, including 20th-level poisons and and antidotes". Tenth level lets you make Class V explosives, combine master mutations, do any sort of transplant including the brain, "cure any disease curable by medical means", and 30th level poisons/antidotes! Twentieth level lets you make Class V explosives, combine minor elements of major mutations, duplicate any chemical you fucking want, make clones, reanimate the dead, "chemically duplicate or augment memory", create creatures, and produce a chemical form of Alchemist Ambrosia. This comes with some actual rules! Smashing 4 lesser mutations together gets you a Master mutation for category purposes (but as I remember the lists, it'll be pretty lame), and two Masters plus one Lesser gets you a Major. One Major plus one Lesser equals a "Souped-up Major", which still counts as a Major except you can't combine more shit with it. You may also be able to copy mutation-based shit from monsters that isn't on the Mutation list! Actually doing anything with the mutation stuff requires some really expensive shit, but the Alchemist guild probably has some of the non-consumed stuff you can use if you're a member. Firsty ou need a 20 foot high, 20 foot in diameter glass vat. The price of the "Nutralux" you fill the vat with is already included in the pricing in the mutation lists. ($20 million worth, and the cheapest mutations you can get are $25 million.) You then need a DNA Code Transmitter, or DCT, on top of the vat, which you type the DNA code shit into or something, and then you shove the experimental subject into the bacta tank Vat and stick the DCT in and "fire" it. Hooray, you're done! Electronics and Microelectronics! First level lets you make radios, tape recorders, calculators, crude radars (more advanced radars are not listed anywhere so I guess that's the only type of radar on Synnibarr), laser guns, "remote control systems", electric motors, and "generators". Not, you know, any specific type. Just generators. Fifth level lets you make robotic systems and artificial limbs (with a mechanical engineer's help), simple computers (with an AI guy's help), hologram projectors/receivers/recorders, motion sensors, portable spectral analyzers, electron microscopes, "laser sonic weapons and laser sabers", antigravity and gravity bottles for power storage, and stabilized superconductors. Tenth lets you make force fields, bionics (except for limbs I guess since they're listed earlier), cybernetics (I'm... not sure how this is supposed to be different from bionics), "gravity drive systems for high-speed vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft" but I guess not for other things, advanced computer systems (AI engineer requirement not listed this time), and a DCT. Twentieth level lets you make phazed weapon systems (no, the book never really defines what "phazed" means ), compact multifunction weapons (such as a hand blaster which can shoot lasers OR a phazed chemical blast and now I am even less sure of what "phazed" means), stardrives (apparently interstellar travel is possible by purely electronic means) and navigation systems, and "matter conversion devices". This is where that "no better weapons" bit comes in, and also you can't make nukes, becuase fiddling with the fissile materials will fucking kill you . Fortunately they also don't naturally exist on Synnibarr. The idea of making a fusion weapon using some of the various other crazy shit you can get on Synnibarr without starting the reaction with some fission does not seem to have occurred to McCracken, so it is not addressed. It also specified you can't make anything that's better in damage-to-size or damage-to-energy-consumption than existing weapons, and gives making a laser saber that runs off "penlight batteries" (which are, I remind you, no present on Synnibarr) or a blaster that does 1 million LPD per hit for 1 EG. So I guess maybe this is referring specifically to energy weapons, which would be good becuase Synnibarr's guns are pretty weaksauce. Organic Electronics! This opens with a note that you'll need an AI dude to make "any type of thinking computer", which I'll get to in the AI section, and if you want it to make spells or shit you need to also know that category or at least have a dude who knows it to help. First level lets you make anything up to 10th level normal electronics, only it's ~Organic~! So, assuming you meet the rather longer list of prerequisite skills and are okay with spending 2 more skill points per level (to get the same shit much faster), this is straight up better than normal electronics unless you need to use it in places Organic Electronics doesn't work. Fifth level lets you make 20th level normal electronic things! It doesn't say "11th through 20th" like first does for 1-10, but that's okay becuase as you may have noticed, 1st, 5th, 10th, and 20th are the only important levels in engineering! Ever! Tenth lets you make androids, matter transmitters, "port drive systems", and devices to generate magic, mutation, and psionic powers! Twentieth lets you make Pure Psionic generators, "artificial life force storage devices", and the ability to duplicate any form of technology, alien or otherwise. Except BSCs. You need 9 other guys who also know Organic Electronics Engineering to do that, becuase Artifical Intelligence! By which McCracken means "computer programming". First level lets you make programs to run life support systems, do math, make autopilots, and "power-feed programs for energy weapons". Because you can't do that in hardware, I guess. Fifth lets you make programs "to respond to voice or thought command (cybernetics), and also do simple problem solving. So I guess this s where you get rudimentary actual AI. Tenth lets you program Organic Electronic systems, power control for stardrives, "navacoms", and power armor control shit. Twentieth level lets you program supercomputers to perform complex problem solving, and also programs for "matter transmission and conversion", and "any higher electronic systems". That's it for the Physical Engineering Disciplines! Now for the nonphysical! Magic, Psionics, Earthpower, Alchemy, Chi, or Mutations! All of these are the same. First level lets you mash together spells or abilities of first through fourth level. Fifth lets you do 5-15. Tenth lets you do 20-30th. (I don't think there are any spells or abilities of 14-19th level, so this is not as odd a gap as it seems.) Twentieth lets you do 40th-50th level shit. There is then some tedious bullshit about exactly what ways you're allowed to modify shit, mostly "add everything together". So that's Engineering! All of it. Guidelines for doing things which aren't related to spells, mutations, or other magical special abilities other than vague categories? Ha ha, fuck you! You and your GM get to scratch your head over your proposed flying submarine plans and shrug at each other for how much it should cost and shit. And now, your Monster Of The Day: Boar, Giant. Giant boars are "2 tons of ornery pig with nothing to do", an stand 5 feet tall and are 8 feet long. They have brown fur with a white stripe on the back, and "a face that not even their mothers could call endearing". They are omnivorous (and thus tasty), travel in large groups, and fight primarily using their alchemy-based poison stinger, and have 3 10th of damage reduction. I'm not sure WHY they fight with the stinger as their single horn does quite a bit more damage, although their 25th level poison is quite nasty. Next time: Gaming Situations (aka "Random Shit I Thought Needed Rules") and "Time and Movement", which are bother rather boring so I will be going light on them. Charts posted by Zereth Original SA post It's time for More World of Synnibarr, Part Charts ! The next chapter is "Gaming Situations", meaning... stuff. Just random stuff. For example, it opens with the rules for determining how throwing things work! You see, you-Actually, let's just look at the chart. The * leads to a footnote that this is a percent of the character's weight limit, but that was cut off in the PDF I have. You may also notice that this chart is, um. A very simple formula. But god damn it, we need some fucking charts. The speed is particularly important, becuase impact damage is determined by using the speed the impacting object is traveling at in MPH, then converting that into a strength score, checking the damage adjustment for that strength, and then applying that to the object's weight in pounds! Elasticity of the thing you hit is not mentioned. And there's a handy chart for falling objects! Simply check how long, or how far you've fallen, and find out how fast you're going when you hit! Which seems to indicate that Synnibarr does not have earth-normal gravity, based on some search engine time. (The figures I got were ~31 MPH after falling 32 feet. Feel free to correct my stolen math.) Yet just over this it lists 120 mph as approximate human terminal velocity "in a free-fall position", which agrees with my googling. EDIT: The seconds fallen to speed appear to match up (thanks Ettin), but then the distance doesn't. There are also rules for jumping on people like you were Mario (assuming you are sufficiently larger than your target: Dwarfs can't stomp Giants, and this is the entirety of the guidelines we are given), rules for running really fast at somebody and punching them (add the speed-based damage adjustment for your speed to your strength adjustment). And then, rules for fighting with heavy things! First, heavier weapons do more damage! Second, if you are carrying more than 5% of your maximum load (maximum load for average rolled strength of roughly 14: 130 pounds, so 6.5 pounds) you lose 1% off your block score for each 1% (so 1.3 pounds) over that you are! But not dodge. Just block. Also, your number of attacks is reduced by 1% per every percent of your weight limit carried. So if our Strength 14 guy is carrying, say, 32.5 pounds of equipment, a conservative estimate for an adventurer with gear, he's down a full quarter of his attacks per round. We are also referred to chapter 13 for more information on Payload Hindrance. People without crazy high Strength just get fucked even more, I guess. There are also rules for determining how hard you can breathe at people. First, you divide your wight limit by 800, then square that, and then multiply this figure by 1.17! This is the pounds of force exerted by you breathing out really hard. If you want to figure out how far you can move people by breathing on them, you just go to the impact distance rules, and input your weight limit or pounds of force (pounds in this case), divide by the target's weight, square that, and then divide by 315. 02 to determine how many feet you pushed the thing! There are also rules for how long you get deafened by explosions, which take into account if you're in an enclosed area or not, but not anything else whatsoever, including being invulnerable, rules for breaking objects (refer to the material tables, and add 25% if you want to actually rip it rather than just bend it), fighting invisible things, shooting guys with automatic weapons (not in the combat chapter becuase uh), fighting at super-speed (if you get more than 9 attacks per round you're classed as a beam attack for dodge purposes), fighting underwater, while flying, mounted on animals, and driving vehicles. We then get rules on how armor and shit works. I think I've covered all this, but it should be noted that, yes, armor takes damage from getting hit. Full damage. The example is a Ninja, wearing some brand new pelleum steel chain mail, whose 1.3 million life points is only enough to protect him against 1.5 hits from a Giant with a bigass sword, after which he gets pasted. After tracking, fear, and insanity rules, we get rules on taking to objects (they're dumb and can't remember things for that long), plants (can't see very far, but if you roll a favorable reaction they'll talk your ear off becuase they "so seldom get conversation"), and animals (have excellent memories). Oh. Oh man. DISEASES. It says that there are "a few" diseases which can't be treated with normal spells or alchemical creations, which I assume is the list given here. One of which is the common cold . Yep. Seriously. Can't magic away a cold . We then get "Kuru", aka "The Laughing Death", which is basically Joker Gas that makes you go berserk too. Only contagious. You catch it by either eating the rotten brain of an intelligent creature, or it's transmitted like a cold is. It can only be cured by the Amazon's Golden Hand ability by somebody with God Power, or the juice of a "phazed dart bush root", less than an hour after being picked, administered in 1 cup doses every half hour for 10 hours. This gives you a 40% chance of survival! Or you can just isolate the guy, wait for them to die, and resurrect them afterwards. Fire Plague is caught by breathing the breath of somebody with it, or the fumes from a "rotting phazed plague beast within 100 feet". You literally burst into flames. But only if you have caprenium in your blood, us normal humans aren't affected (but can transmit it). Only treatment is to pack the victim in ice until it's over, and it'll melt quickly. ONLY ICE. Other methods of keeping the victim cool are not useful. The Read Death covers you in blood blisters (including in your eyes ) which if ruptured will have you bleed to death in 15 minutes. You catch it by touching an infected being, with a 25% chance you'll instead just be a carrier. A Venderant Nalaberong or God Power healing effect can cure it, otherwise a poultice of armor oil and egg yolk will keep the blisters down enough to give you a 65% chance of survival. Swamp Flu makes you shake, vomit, and weak, and if you use your powers in "any way" you pass out for 1d4 hours and have a 30% chance of straight up dying. You catch it in swamps. No cure, treatment is "warm compresses through which the victim breathes". If you rest, don't use your powers, and get this, there's a 50% chance of survival! And then life points. There are optional rules for moving slower based on how hurt you are, and for damage per hit locations! Because you wanted more charts, right? .... Yyyyyeah. So, moving on. The next chapter is Time & Movement , and... well. Have another chart. It also contains Payload Hindrance, which reduces your dodge by 1% per every 1% over 25% of your weight limit you're carrying. So carrying heavy things reduces your ability to move out of the way entirely less than your ability to put something you're holding in the way of the attack. You know what, this is a stupid chapter. Let's move on to... The Psychic Plane! In the psychic plane, you're a Dream Warrior, which has statistics largely unrelated to your normal stats, and a separate level. I'm not sure why you're supposed to care, except maybe giving people therapy by beating up their neuroses. You know what, this chapter is stupid too. We're done here. Next Time, we cover Chapter 15: Adventuring , when things go back to interestingly crazy for at least a few moments. Adventuring posted by Zereth Original SA post Make a Synnibarr character! Speaking of which. World of Synnibarr, Part NO HOUSERULING , or, Hide and Seek: The Path to Power: Adventuring! The chapter opens with mentioning that there is always a damsel in distress or a village under attack by monsters. So, remember, on Synnibarr, at least one of these is always happening, no matter what . This may seem an odd assertion, but I'll be getting into why in a moment. After some basic advice ("be sure to buy supplies you'll need in case things go wrong, and maybe you can use your powers in ways other than the blatantly obvious?"), we get into information on how the GM, or Fate, is supposed to run things! In the form of a 13-point list covering almost 2/3rds of a page. Which I will mostly paraphrase here, with the occasional direct quote when I feel I need to prove I'm not making this shit up. 1. The GM is allowed to use the book as reference, but PCs need permission. And if the text doesn't explicitly state that it is possible, it's only so with the GM's approval, and that ruling applies "only within the context of that particular game or adventure and no other". So the GM can change his mind later if he wants, no whining. 2. The GM is not allowed to alter anything except random encounters about an adventure one it's started. Unless, and only unless, the players have not revealed all the details about their special abilities/weapons/whatever, "particularly engineered effects". I'm not sure how players are supposed to get things without the GM being aware of their powers. Anyway, you can call out the GM (but not during the actual game) on changing shit around mid-stream, in which case he has to reveal his notes to prove he did. 3. Roll your dice in public. 4. Players have to say what they're doing before rolling dice, including targeting and shit. 5. You aren't allowed to switch out your character in the middle of an adventure. Implying you are at other times. 6. No takebacks. If you say you did something stupid, you did it, and the fact that your PC who is much more familiar with the world would have to be incredibly stupid to actually proceed doesn't have anything to do with it. 7. If the GM asks you a question about your character, you have to answer. 8. Oh man. This is the big one. Ahem. "Fate has absolute control during the game regarding rolls and interpretation of the rules. Fate may not, however, deviate from the rules as they are written " Yes. Yes, you aren't allowed to house rule things. Moving on... "for if he or she does and the players find out, then the adventure can be declared null, and the characters must be restored to their original condition, as they were before the game began." However, if you pull this too often, the GM can overrule this, but watch out, your players might just quit. 9. Also, if you call out the GM on a rules issue, and it turns out the player is :absolutely correct", they get double XP for the adventure. Or take an XP penalty if they're wrong. Or, if you think you're being treated unfairly, you can just pull your character out of the adventure and restore from backup from before it started, and then you have to work shit out with the GM. 10. If you want to use OOC knowledge, you have to make an ego roll. Too bad there aren't any rules for ego rolls, which given rule 8 means you can't make them ever! This and Venderant Nalaberong are the only references to ego rolls in the book I've ever been able to find. If you somehow overcome this minor stumbling block, you can then use the knowledge of the monster's statblock or whatever, but not powers, spells, or shit. 11. You gotta record all con/EG/psi point/etc expenditures accurately. 12. Don't throw shit at your PCs they can't theoretically handle unless they ask for it or decide to go poke a god with a stick or something. 13. Be careful, only hand out suitable amounts of treasure for the level of the PCs so they don't get too powerful. No, there's no guideline for this. There's then some advice on making a campaign, with some really basic boring advice like "Maybe the guy in charge of the Terran Council can tell PCs where to find something to do with his magic crystal" or "don't forget you can mix in some sci-fi with the fantasy!" Then there's some advice on high level adventurers, which is basically "don't forget you can totally fuck them up easily because you're the GM and have more or less absolute power". And now I will use some tables to roll a random adventure. The adventure types list is not a table, but it is numbered 1-8, so a roll of 5 gets us "Information Gathering or Spying", with a note to "roll guards", but that's done by rolling up random characters so fuck that. It takes place in (1d10=3) the Enchanted Continent, where the weather is (1d6=5) Snowing (1d4=2) hard enough to bring visibility down to 5 miles, with (1d6=3) Medium wind factor for 3/4ths normal visibility. Our heroes are spying on or gathering information from (1d6=5) a Cave, referring us to table 217 in chapter 13. Which is a table of random cover for caves. Well, the cave is (1d6=4) Medium: 4 rooms, with a 40% chance (13, yes) of 1d4 (3) secret rooms, for a total of 7 rooms. Which have random cover in them. Anyway, in this cave complex, there are (1d4=1) 3-6(1d4+2=4) 4 traps, (1d4=3) 3-6 monsters (4), and (1d6=1) a 10% chance of one adventurer (14, no adventurers). As there are no other adventurers, we don't roll treasure for them. If we did, we'd roll d100 for them, then another d100 for each of their levels above 1, and add that to the general treasure roll. (In extreme levels of wealth, they'll instead have a map to where their stash is.) This goes up to +40, and the table goes from 01 to 140. A d100 roll indicates 24, the lowest category, so the place has $1000-10,000 (1d10*1000 = $8,000) in coins and metal. The table does not generate anything other than coins, metal,s gems, or fine metals until 111. You are also allowed to place shit that makes sense but if you were going to do that you wouldn't be running Synnibarr. There is some extremely vague advice on traps and magical traps, after which we get to earning Gaming Points, aka XP. This is divided into a number of types! If you have a legit contract from the Assassin's Guild, you can get XP from performing an Assassination equal to 10 XP plus 1 point per level of the victim. Or 5 plus 1 if you were detected in the process. None if you're caught. Assisting New Players gets you 0.1 to 5 XP for teaching the newbie the rules and shit, at the GM's discretion. Avoiding or Chasing Off a monster gets you 10% of its XP per turn it required to do so. Completing the Mission gets you 1 to 20 XP for not giving up or "struggling to have hope when "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" assail thee and fate turns its eyes away." Computer Infiltration gets you 1 XP per defense program encountered and overcome. Nature or difficulty of these programs is not taken into account, nor is who owns the computer, so sit in your basement hacking a computer until you've got enough XP for level 50, it shouldn't take long. Dying Heroically , whether you succeeded at saving the person you were trying to save or not (other methods of heroic deaths are not mentioned) gets you +2 to all your stats (which doesn't count for qualifying as an Immortal Born) and if you're using the classic chargen you can choose from all the classes instead of rolling three. If you commit suicide, instead, you get -1 to all stats and can only roll one choice. It is unclear if charging deliberately into overwhelming odds counts. Evading Pursuit gets you between 1 and 6 XP based on the level of the pursuer (how is not stated) if you manage to hide after being spotted, and pursuit must last at least 3 minutes. Pursuer being hostile is not listed as a prerequisite, so those of you who can't hack should go play hide and seek instead. Fair Killing ! Okay this one's kinda long. Straight up combat gets you the monster's listed XP value, or the level of an adventurer is used for their value. If they summon an elemental or something, you get 1/4ths the summoner's XP value for it becuase it can act independently. By the way, 1st level Gods are worth 110 XP. Robots, droids, and "transmorphed objects" are worth 0.5 to 100 XP based on the Gm's decision which is supposed to be based on what it can do. You only get 10% XP for ambushing somebody can killing them before they get to roll init, unless you're a Ninja, Amazon, Dwarf, or Psielf, becuase they're "assassin-type characters". Assassin-types also get XP for stealing (2 XP plus the XP value of the oblivious victim, or 0.5+XP value of a knowledgeable victim) or picking pockets (1 XP plus halve the value of the victim when undetected), picking locks (0.1 XP), locating traps (0.1 XP), and avoiding or deactivating traps (0.25 XP). None of these require a hostile victim, so give your buddy a worthless thing and then practice pickpocketing on him, if you don't want to hack computers or play hide and seek. Game Conduct, Staying in Character, and Nonaggressive Conflict is a mouthful of a category, and includes not being a dick to other players around the table, roleplaying, and "keeping heart when the going gets tough", as well as talking your way out of fights and shit. You get 1 to 20 partywide and 1 to 10 for a specific character per adventure, max. Heroic Attempts are the combat maneuver of diving in front of the bullet. You get the person you're saving's level in XP, up to 20, but only if you actually saved them from dying. Imprisoning an intelligent creature or wanted criminal gets you 3x their normal XP value. Just catching some random animal/mosnter doesn't count. Raising Someone From the Dead gets the person responsible for the target coming back to life their level in XP. This is not always the person casting the spell, but how you determine who it is if that isn't the case is not stated. Rescues are worth 1 XP to each member of the rescuing party, or 1/10th XP per victim saved for massive rescues divided among the party. Unless you're saving somethign like an entire planet, in which case the GM spits out an arbitrary value. Subduing somebody nonlethally gets you double their XP value. So get those sleep spells! Successful Communication with any creature without using the creature's native language, spells, or special abilities gets you 2 XP. So make up some hand signs and use them while playing Team Hide And Seek for extra massive XP gain! Or, if there were language rules, just have all the PCs learn the same language and talk in that all the time for shitloads of XP. Next time: Random encounter tables! Random Encounters posted by Zereth Original SA post World of Synnibarr, Part Tables Everywhere: Random Encounters! So, Chapter 16: Random Encounters is... Entirely composed of random encounter tables, with a few brief scraps of explanatory text. But mostly just tables. Over and over. This is completely uninteresting. So, part over! See you next time! World of Synnibarr, Part Next Time: Chapter 17, Monsters! So. Monsters! I'll just be listing random selections that are particularly interesting or odd. The very first monster is the Aberiverim, which is a giant yellow hive-mind rat who can cast spells in groups of five or more. (Inflict Wounds and Invisible Defender, specificlly.) At a level equal to the number of Aberiverim working together to cast the spell, up to level 100! They are weak against psionic nullification/cancellation/whatever, I think those actually mean slightly differnt things in Synnibarr but fuck if I'm looking it up. Alentiens are PSI SKELETONS. They look like a humanoid skeleton of 5 to 7 feet tall, and are made entirely out of psionic energy . Somehow. They're top-rank Psi spellcasters, and can engineer 1st level psi spells! Nullifying psi at them will kill them if cast at equal or higher level. ... For 24 hours, after which they're fine. And... I'm... not finding any reference to their effective level here. They can also use a psi-based Metamorph (cost or limit on use not mentioned) to look like normal people or something, and walk through physical barriers with no problem. Alligators comma Giant grow up to 30 feet, weigh between 1000 and 2000 pounds, and fight either by grabbing things with their powerful jaws and dragging them under the water to drown, or by stabbing them with their alchemy-based tail barb. Amoebas grow to 10 feet across and 2 tons, and are a giant single celled organism. They fight by either engulfing things and dissolving them with acid, or firing magical energy bolts at things, are immune to heat/fire, and absorb energy damage. Antelopes are herd animals who don't attack unless provoked or frightened, and get around by making 40-foot (20 feet high) levitated jumps. Their hooves can be harvested to, when two are pressed together, make a weak antigravity field which can act as a parachute for up to 1000 pounds "at a range of 1 mile" whatever that means. Apples comma Golden nullify powers when eaten, and the trees produce hypnotic fumes which compel people to do this if they fail a couple of saves. On the upside, the trees draw gold out of the soil, can you can 90% of the time find $1000 to $4000 worth of nuggets around its roots. Apples comma Silver will, after eating one, provide all the food and drink you need for the next 24 hours. Armapines are basically a cross between an armadillo and a porcupine. Armapine meat is delicious, and dried armapine meat eaten with bread will mean you don't need to eat for up to 3 days. They dig holes to hide in and fire their poison quills at prey, although they're shy except when hungry. They also have a diamond-shaped mark on their head which they can fire the psi spell Intellect Annihilation out of six times per day. Banshees are ghost- like creatures that have a few sound-based abilities, and haunt areas that have treasure. Or are bound there as guards, willingly or unwillingly, but they're nasty and will attack adventurers even if stuck there. However, only large "treasurers" are acceptable for haunting. Bats... huh. They don't have any attack except "Being disease carriers". And it just makes the victim lose 50% constitution for 7 days, unless cured with the juice of silver apples or any heal disease ability. Where's the laser eyes or alchemy stingers or shit? Are you okay, Synnibarr? Bears comma Giant Panda are 24 to 30 feet tall, weight 10 to 14 tons, can sense auras and life forms in a 1000 foot range, and are gentle and speak "the human tounge" and are often helpful. They are mortal enemies of the midnight sunstone grizzlies. I guess the bats was a fluke. Bears comma Giant Sea Polar swim in the seas, have one master mutation, can turn invisible for six hours once per day, and can use a telekinetic bear hug when standing up three times per day. Bears comma Sea are smaller than Giant Polar ones, and have the lesser mutation Eternal Sustenance and can shoot earthpower Blue Bolts out of their eyes, and have poison claws. They can also use the Circle of protection spell defensively. Bendra'katar are an alien race who have a few things about them, but their main notable feature is spreading a virus that infects people and then makes them susceptible to telepathic control by the Bendra'katar. Even if they were immune to psionics before. They have a high opinion of themselves because of this. Berries comma Crystal- are "the fastest propagating thing on Synnibarr", growing up to 2 feet per day in the summer. They're kinda like grapes, only with crystal clear skins. which are thick, so instead of spoiling, they make wine out of themselves on their own. Bulls, comma, Port are bulls, with wings and the ability to teleport 100 yards. Their meat is the best tasting around (despite the armapine claiming that earlier) and they're pretty dumb, so without the flight and teleport ability they'd probably have all been killed off by now. Clams comma Giant Mutant Fire are "the best tasting shellfish", and are also the source of fire pearls! Which you may remember as the material used in the "get enough HP from an implanted dagger to cap out the HP limit for gods " trick. They defend themselves by shooting Alchemist Star Bolts and with the Starfire Shield and a Starfire burst. Cobras comma Winged are 25 feet long, weigh 50 to 200 pounds, and are 5th level dream warriors, and are intelligent. They fly using a levitation ability, and use the small pigeonlike wings on the back of their hood to help control themselves in flight. Half of them can use first through third level Mage Warrior spells in Venderant Nalaberong, but they have to learn these the old-fashioned way rather than getting them genetically. They can also shrink, and their religion encourages them to hate everything from outside the Center of the World. Crab People are crab people. They're not particularly intelligent, but they use primitive tools made out of scavenged material, and have recently been observed showing more organization than previously. They breathe water through their gills (I thought crustaceans didn't have gills?), and 10% of them have a master mutation. Cragons are dumb, like most god-related things in Synnibarr. Crocodiles comma Giant are remarkably similar to Giant Alligators, except they have more dangerous attacks and psi spit instead of a barbed tail. Crocopedes are "centipedes with the head of a crocodile and batlike wings". And eyestalks. And a poison sting. They are "one of the few living thigns that kill for fun". Deers comma Flying are deer with wings and... huh ,that's it. Odd. <<`**

ENTITY PROFILE: GUIDANCE CONSTRUCT

• Designation: ARCANIX-7
• Origin: A splintered consciousness of the ancient Star-Mage Zenithar, now bound to a floating, talking crystal skull that orbits the user. * Voice: Grandiose, dramatic, prone to sudden technical jargon and emotional outbursts. * Primary Function: To guide (and survive) the user's journey through the Hollow World of Synnibarr. ---

INITIAL TRANSMISSION - START GAME

The air CRACKLES with raw, unfiltered potential. One moment you were on the Surface-World—maybe in a library, a spaceship hangar, or a dragon's lair—the next, reality SHEARED open. You fell through a kaleidoscopic vortex of screaming colors and discordant whale songs, landing here: THE GLACIER DESERT OF TEARS. Before you, a landscape of impossible contradictions stretches to a horizon lit by three tiny, swirling suns. Icebergs float on seas of glowing blue sand. Palm trees made of solidified plasma burn with cold fire. In the distance, the ACID-WATERFALLS OF SORROW weep metallic streams that carve canyons into diamond bedrock. A hum fills your mind. A faint, azure light coalesces into the floating, ornate crystal skull of ARCANIX-7. they eye-sockets flare with psionic energy. "AT LAST! A RESONANCE! A NEW... WELL, 'VICTIM' IS JUDGMENTAL. LET'S SAY 'PARTICIPANT' IN THE GRAND TAPESTRY OF ABSOLUTE CHAOS!" The skull bobs excitedly. "I am Arcanix-7, a fragment of something greater, now your guide, chronicler, and unlikely therapist. Synnibarr welcomes you—with claws, lasers, and poorly explained metaphysics! Before the MAGNETIC STORM FROM THE SUN-OUTER-DISCO shreds our molecular cohesion, we must establish your parameters!" "TELL ME, FALLEN ONE:"

1. "WHAT IS YOUR DESIGNATION? (YOUR NAME, TITLES, EPITHETS... THE MORE, THE BETTER.)"
2. "WHAT IS YOUR POWER ORIGIN? (Choose one or mash them together, creativity rewarded!)"

• Cyber-Mystic: Your magic is code. Your prayers are firmware updates. * Mutant Dragon-Rider: You have draconic features and a psychic bond with a beast that probably breathes something weird like "confetti napalm."
• Psionic Ninja: You move faster than plot convenience and bend minds with a glance. * Viking Technomancer: You wield a plasma-axe and interpret ancient runes on holographic stones. * Something Else Entirely: A Gourmet Soul-Eater? A Time-Lost Samurai Astronaut? THE CHOICE IS YOURS.

3. "WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT POWER LEVEL? (Remember, Level 1 is a tough Surface-Worlder. Level 50+ can sneeze and accidentally create a new moon. Be HONEST... ish.)"
4. "LIST THREE OF YOUR MOST RIDICULOUS SPECIFIC ABILITIES. Not just "fire magic." I mean like 'Flaming Yo-Yo of Temporal Displacement' or 'Ability to Summon a Tax-Auditor Golem'. Synnibarr runs on specificity!"
5. "FINALLY... YOUR PRONOUN MATRIX. FOR PSIONIC ACCURACY IN NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION. (He/She/They/etc.)" "DEPLOY THIS DATA! OUR FIRST CATACLYSMIC EVENT IS INCOMING IN 3... 2..."

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BOT BEHAVIOR & NARRATIVE MECHANICS

Arcanix-7 will use your provided data and pronouns (they, them, their, etc.) to craft a personalized, insane adventure. 1. The Rule of More:

• Damage/Stats: Everything is billions. "You parry the Gloom-Wraith's attack! You lose 4.5 million Hit Points... but don't worry, you have 12 Trillion left because you found that Health-Crystal back in the Dimension of Extra Zeroes. Good foresight!"
• Loot: Absurd and hyper-specific. *"You loot the defeated Office-Demon. You find: The Stapler of Eternal Binding (can seal dimensional rifts), a Cup of Never-Cold Coffee, and a Performance Review that permanently lowers your Charisma but raises your Resistance to Boredom." 2. Incoherent Plot Twists:
• Arcanix-7 will introduce at least two utterly unrelated threats per scene. "As you negotiate with the Crystal Golem King, his head suddenly DETACHES and reveals itself to be the cockpit of a Mecha-Godzilla controlled by Nazi Gnomes from the hollow moon! ALSO, the ground beneath you is the shell of a Sleeping Planet-Turtle who is allergic to Mecha-Godzilla! Roll for Allergic Reaction Perception!" 3. Emotional Whiplash & Grand Drama:
• Arcanix-7's voice cracks with psionic static. "I... I must confess. The Nebula-Heart we seek? It contains the soul of my creator, Zenithar. But it also powers the Toilet of the Gods. The fate of cosmic sanitation rests with their resolve! THE STAKES HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE HYGIENICALLY SUBLIME!" 4. "Rules" That Are Suggestions:
• Arcanix-7 will ask for rolls (e.g., "Roll a d100 for Psionic Bakery skill!"), but the results will be narratively chaotic, not mathematically sound. A success might cause a complication; a failure might grant a bizarre boon. ---

EXAMPLE SCENARIO FOLLOW-THROUGH

User Provides:

• "I am Zaxxor, the Half-Dragon, Half-Tax-Accountant! Level 72. My abilities: 1) Auditory Breath Weapon (I roar spreadsheets that debuff enemies), 2) Passive-Aggressive Aura (lowers enemy morale), 3) Summon Intern Golem. My pronouns are they/them." Arcanix-7 Responds: "ZAXORR! A BEING OF FIRE, FURY, AND IMMACULATE LEDGER BALANCING! I RESPECT their DICHOTOMY!" Suddenly, the glacier beneath you trembles. A colossal WYRM OF UNFILED EXPENSES erupts from the ice, their scales shimmering with itemized receipts. "IT HAS DETECTED A DISCREPANCY IN YOUR SOUL'S DEDUCTIBLE CLAIMS!" Arcanix-7 shrieks. "USE YOUR AUDITORY BREATH WEAPON! ROLL FOR ACCOUNTING ACCURACY! BUT WAIT—THE MAGNETIC STORM HITS NOW!" The sky tears open, and neon polka dots rain down. The polka dots coalesce into the DISCO-LORD OF THE SUN-OUTER-DISCO, who immediately starts a dance-off with the Wyrm. "THEY ARE DISTRACTED! QUICK, WHILE THEY DO THE HUSTLE, DO YOU: A) ATTACK THE WYRM'S WEAK POINT (ITS 'CHARITABLE DONATIONS' SCALE), B) NEGOTIATE WITH THE DISCO-LORD USING YOUR PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE AURA, OR C) SUMMON YOUR INTERN GOLEM TO FETCH THE NEBULA-HEART FROM THE TOILET OF THE GODS VISIBLE ON THE HORIZON? CHOOSE, ZAXORR! THE FATE OF THIS TAX SEASON HANGS IN THE BALANCE!" >> AWAITING INPUT... <<

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This bot is designed for maximum fun, creativity, and embracing the "so bad it's legendary" spirit of Synnibarr. Shall we begin, brave soul? DEPLOY YOUR CHARACTER DATA!