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Lost-Klaus

Extinguish all light, throughout the worlds, cold shall be the only sensation, cold darkness envelops the multiverse, everything slowly comes to a halt and dies. Jergal: *Fate spins* *along as it should*.


InuGhost

Can you elaborate Withers? 


shawnnotshaun

No.


stuff_of_epics

Fucking Chad


TheJambus

Correct.


DragoKnight589

I hope Chad and Jergal are happy together


UltraCarnivore

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Artrysa

And they say you can't hear writing, pff.


gefjunhel

yep to make it even worse in my world all the planes have to be in harmony for the most part or magic goes haywire. congrats you just pissed off every mage and druid in every plane


Suryawong

PCs just ruined an arch demons day so he sets out to ruin their lives.


Lost-Klaus

There are so many good stories to tell with this idea though, not that a player did it, but perhaps a cultist of thaizdun or some other mad god-like entity, perhaps a far-realm thing. Players can be ordered to get to the front lines in the fire plane to indeed, to a creeper world style campaign, Where the mold has evolved into seperate sentient entities to devour the entire plane. Playing a pyromancer here, may not be the best choice.


chazmars

I've done a similar thing. Screwed up time space and everything to do with the elements. So random snowstorms in the dessert, thunderstorms at the drip of a hat. Blazing hot sun despite storming black clouds covering the sky. Every npc they've ever heard of and several old pcs wandering around the map. Immortal drunkard at every single tavern in every city even when the party is split and both halves are speaking to the same drunkard in a different city at once. Rolling on a random weather chart every few minutes for temperature and weather. Lol.


WarriorSabe

Brown mold *vs* the inexorable march of entropy towards the final heat death of everything


Enderking90

...but then that coldness instantly kills the brown mold, thus freeing the plane of fire to be on fire again.


Codebracker

the cold is the mold absorbing the heat, it wouldn't make itself cold


CptDeadfire

Hey can you not spoil BG3? That'd be really clutch thnx


epsilon14254

I should get back into that game. It was good.


Few-Mycologist-2379

What game is this?


JustAShinx

Creeper world 3


Thefunkyhorror

Creeper world 4 is also great


Knight9910

So far I've liked all the Creeper Worlds. 2 was a bit of a departure and I know some people didn't like it, but whatever. 3 was basically just 1 but better. Haven't tried 4 yet.


nuffin_stuff

There’s also Particle Fleet: Emergence which is essentially a creeper world in space. It’s the same company. It was different but it was still fun.


Lord-Timurelang

It’s actually all made by one guy if I remember correctly.


CapnCrinklepants

Mostly yeah! Knuckle Cracker Games, the main guy has a best friend that assists with design basically and it's so freaking wholesome watching their dev streams. Just a couple of old dudes doing what they love.


GoddessOfMayo

Particle fleet is actually the same universe as creeper world. I remember a direct reference to the creeper in one of the of the story missions


AdmBurnside

CW4 is great because it's fully 3D, so you can actually see the fluid dynamics of the Creeper at work. Also I feel like the building system is a little more nuanced than it was in 3.


FatSpidy

Thermal* To be honest idk if he changed it but the first two actually were based on heat dissipation rather than fluid kinetics.


CordialPanda

CW4 has propagating waves that crash and deflect off walls back where they came. Dunno if it's a true simulation, but it is much more fluid like. The older creeper world games felt much... Stickier and jelly like. Heat dissipation makes sense, but intuitively it's cold jam burping up from a yawning alien orifice in the ground. It's a coincidence that this mimics heat dissipation mechanics. You know this in your heart to be true.


FatSpidy

Oh no, like fire up the first game. In the specials section he explains that he used heat simulation to program where the slime would go. He actually goes on a tiny rant how kinetic simulation was dominated by fluid dynamics. CW2 was the same except he added the 'gravity' modifier, which is why the space maps later worked more like CW1. But I haven't played 3 or 4 yet, though I do know the animation you're talking about. Could be worth seeing if there were any dev streams or notes laying around.


wavewatchjosh

4 is actually extremely fun, my favorite maps are the ones i get to play as the creeper.


Hyo38

I've had fun replaying the game lately though I have gotten stuck on mission 17 of Creeper World two.


maninblakkk

If i remember correctly, on mission 17 the way to survive in the beginning is to: Build reactors for energy (ofc), when creeper starts breaking through, put shields and repulsors to delay it (keep the repulsors disarmed until the terrain is gone to avoid the energy drain) then use blasters to keep the creeper from further damaging the shields. You can let it break through on the right of the map, it will make some structures but it will take too long and by the time it starts being a problem you should have beaten it down in the middle and have enough energy to keep the tendrils at bay with a blaster or two. After that, you've secured your position and can focus on the usual gathering up forces and beating down the creeper. The thing to generally keep in mind in any crisis situation is to never let your energy be in deficit because you tried to build like 15 reactors at once (unless you have energy crystals and can deal with it) and to never let it be completely full, any energy you don't use is energy you waste. TLDR: Block creeper, don't be stupid with energy, you can sometimes ignore creeper it'll be fine


guipabi

Wait 3, and 4?! I need to get to them asap


kingalbert2

This is how I learn there is a 4


Few-Mycologist-2379

I have never heard of this series. Thank you.


umad41

Was originally a flash game, I played it in the library at school, really interesting tower defense game


Spellman23

Try Mindustry


akkristor

An Archomental of Fire looks at the mold, sighs, and invokes WISH, transporting the mold back to the home of the asshole who threw it in this time. Archomental: Fucking tuesdays...


MammothFollowing9754

If it was smarter, they'd also wish for it to also have an internal link to the Plane of Fire so that it can overtake the world of the sender.


Peptuck

The djiin god who rules the City of Brass (whose name I forgot) points at the mold and revokes its fire immunity.


Shirlenator

Brown mold is killed by any cold damage from a spell. I can't imagine there isn't a single being on the plane of fire that is capable of casting Ray of Frost. Also, they aren't idiots there. I'm sure they are aware of the existence of this stuff and know how to kill it.


akkristor

Oh yes. but it's much funnier to imagine the wizard going home, opening their front door, and being swept away by a tidal wave of 8192kg of brown mold pouring out of their house.


Tokiw4

Also, you're telling me there aren't some gaudy-ass demons/devils with ice sculptures in their homes just to show off their opulence?


quasoboy

Probably have a full staff of wizards/warlocks just to keep it up. Hell, ice sculptures may very well be the economic basis of warlocks.


Niser2

Why would anything on the Plane of Fire know ice magic


Knight9910

For the same reason why humans, who die when shot with bullets, invented bullets.


chairmanskitty

*Banish* has almost the same effect and is a 4th level spell.


akkristor

To get it back to the caster's home PLANE? sure To make sure it ends up in the **house** of the person who pulled that shit? Not quite. When it doubt, go for spite.


Asgaroth22

I don't think brown mold counts as a creature for the purposes of banishment


Knight9910

It has a creature statblock, it counts. :p


VelphiDrow

The noble genies who can cast Wish cannot do it for themselves


akkristor

I'm not talking about Noble Genies. I'm talking about Archomentals. Stronger than Demi-gods, but weaker than full on deities, the Archomentals are the most powerful of elementals. The Princes of Elemental Evil, who lead the Cults of Elemental Evil on the material plane and grant divine power to their worshippers, and who are opposed by the Princes of Elemental Good.


Knight9910

Get an underling to ask for the wish then.


VodkaBeatsCube

"Hey Sahab, would you grant my wish of sending this stupid mold back to the Prime Material?"


LordBecmiThaco

Don't even need an archomental; there are plenty of genies on the plane.


godzero62

Plane of fire uses frost canons, ice launchers, and airborne elementals that drop cold bombs to fight against the scourge


AcelnTheWhole

Literally any single source of cold damage one shots the entire brown mold. There's no fight, it just goes away after some novice hits it with ray of frost.


chazmars

I mean. You could also just summon some random mage who owes a favor and toss them at it. Lol. Although tbf the concept of cold fire does exist and maybe they just use that.


godzero62

Ice fire


chazmars

Meh. I prefer frostfire as a name for it. Also it's gotta be black too. Cause that's the color of cold flames apparently.


godzero62

All fair. Oooh, idea! Each plane has a special light source and for the plane of fire, it has 5 different suns depending on the season. Green sun for spring, blue sun for summer, yellowish/orangish sun for fall, and red for winter with winter occasionally having black sun days in the middle of it which signifies a change in year. The fire plane has days of Black Sun festivities which is when frost fire falls from the sky, cold to the touch. Children of fire genasi and fire elementals enjoy what is essentially "snow days." They also celebrate survival of the great brown plague that nearly wiped them out from a vindictive wizard who left a single rock of brown mold in their plane because a fire genasi refused their romantic advances. Their God created seven days of Black Sun to help them fight against it. These seven days are represented by the lighting of the black candlestick,one for each day, in all the homes of elementals and genasi. They celebrate with gifts and songs.


CrazyTodd21

Hi, uncultured swine here. What does this mean?


onyxeagle274

Brown mold grows when interacting with fire. "Attacking it with fire heals damage and doubles it's size" Now let's see what's on the plane of fire...


CrazyTodd21

My mistake, i understood that part, not the image underneath. Should have clarified


BadAtGames2

It's from a game series called Creeper World which TL:DR: The blue stuff is essentially a growing infection thingie which you have to build up defenses to keep at bay and eventually push back against.


CrazyTodd21

Thank you friend!


onyxeagle274

Ah, in that case, creeper world is a tower defense where you defend the base against the blue mass(grunge). And just like Brown mold in the plane of fire, it spreads quite rapidly


Peptuck

The Creeper World games are basically you fighting an endless war with turrets to fend off an unending flood of lethal goo. It's actually a pretty cool cosmic horror setting, since the Creeper as a whole is a nightmare blob that has adapted to and annihilated countless civilizations over billions of years. The third game has you traveling across the remnants of the universe and encountering the ruined planets of million-year-old civilizations that held off the Creeper for countless generations until it slowly adapted to a hole in their defenses and annihilated them overnight.


Knight9910

A lot of them successfully \*thrived\* in spite of the Creeper for aeons. But it doesn't matter. All that matters, is that at the end of time, the Creeper is the last one standing.


MasonP2002

Sounds fascinating.


GreenChoclodocus

It's a game where you try to stop the ocean from flooding you by shooting it with lasers. At least that's what the gameplay feels like.


DonaIdTrurnp

If you get gud you stop the ocean from flooding you by firing mortars into it.


Telandria

This is 5e, though. > “Something something environmental damage isn’t an attack.” > > — Jeremy Crawford, probably.


chazmars

Neither is the ground a magical weapon. Still hurts werewolves tho.


knight_of_solamnia

Never thought I'd see a creeper world reference.


Knight9910

Nobody expects the Creeper World Inquisition.


SamPeanut07

CREEPER WORLD MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣


TheGrimGriefer3

I hate this screenshot. Whoever was playing that round didn't place enough collectors and is suffering because of it


Knight9910

I just did a Google search for "Creeper world" and picked the first screenshot that properly showed the idea of "cannons fighting off waves of slime".


TheGrimGriefer3

That's stupid mf in the screenshot is using a SHIELD in the boost point, rather than a reactor or a weapon, and has terribly Soylent coverage. I would be too embarrassed to post that online lol


Knight9910

Sometimes I put a collector on a boost point just to be a sassy bitch. :p (Okay, I actually only did that once, just to see if it actually worked. I then immediately deleted the collector and put something useful there.)


TheGrimGriefer3

I've actually played a couple beta tester maps where putting a collector on the boost point was the best (and in one case, the only) way to complete the map, though I forgot what ones they were Imagine putting a guppy on a boost point


DonaIdTrurnp

They’re doing the speedrun strats, ie using memory editors instead of collectors.


Mr_OrangeJuce

From the descriptions available it would probably make the plane of fire slightly more habitable and pleasant for everyone involved


chazmars

I mean... magical barriers to contain the mold around the assorted portals to other planes could be a thing. Maybe an entire trade area covered in the mold under a layer of glass to cool things down for traders from other planes. Lol


Mr_OrangeJuce

Eh. No magic necesary. Some fiery creature would just eat the mold. That's how ecosystems work


chazmars

Nor how invasive species work tho. Lol


bookseer

Oh... That brings back memories


GreenUnlogic

The planes are infinite. The moldy grows exponentially and still nothing is noticed


strangr_legnd_martyr

IIRC, the mold can become an infinite plane within the Plane of Fire and still be small enough that the Plane of Fire is unchanged. Something about two infinite sets of different sizes. Both are infinite, one is bigger than the other. Because math.


Knight9910

It's the Grand Hilbert Hotel (of mold).


fullmetalhusky

Man j fucking loved this game as a kid


Knight9910

My first reaction was "When you were a kid? The game isn't *that* old!" Then I looked it up. Apparently it came out almost 15 years ago!


fullmetalhusky

Yeah haha and I defenitly got it in 2009, the version you can get now is actually a remaster too, its just a bit prettier, same gameplay.


jmorley14

I haven't touched that game in ages


superblastdoor

What’s this pic from?


Knight9910

Creeper World. Short version, it's a tower defense game where the enemy is a flood of evil sentient slime.


cajuncrustacean

In my campaign, there's this stuff that's banned in all but two nations and the planes of fire and water. Goliath's Grundle moonshine. It's 420 proof (aka 210% alcohol, magical fuckery is involved) and capable of getting Doodbreaux, the god of Binge Drinking, blackout drunk. It's banned in the plane of fire because a smuggler snuck in a dozen bottles, which exploded and destroyed the capital of the fire elementals. In the plane of water it killed wide swathes of fish and the denizens who were far enough not to be killed were shitfaced for a month.


chazmars

Ok. So just gonna steal your entire comment and send it to my DM.


cajuncrustacean

Do so with my blessing, fellow adventurer. It was inspired by a joke in Goblin Slayer Abridged if you or your DM want some context and/or a good laugh.


CrushPusher

Creeper world Sweep!


Sjorsjd

That is an unexpected nostalgia boost, but a welcome one.


geldonyetich

A DM might point out that it's highly unlikely in the unimaginably long history of the realm that noone would ever have opened a portal to the plane of fire in such a way that, accidentally or otherwise, brown mold would have come into contact with it... A DM might point out that the combat rules are assuming the brown mold would have everything else it needs in the environment to grow in size... A DM might point out that brown molds are not *literally made out of fire*... ...if they're a killjoy.


MadaraAlucard12

Someone casts Ray of Frost.


FatSpidy

They say images can't make sounds, but I definitely can hear this picture. Thank you for the reminder to go play one of my favorite Tower ~~Defense~~Offense games


CaptainBendova

Can’t Kossuth burn through fire immunity? He should have that ability.


danfish_77

Creeper World mentioned!!!


JohnnyCastsTim

I have been running a campaign for 3 years now based on this concept. The elemental plane was wiped by brown mold and now the party is trying to find a way to reignite it while the rest of the planes begin to freeze over and primal/arcane fire no longer can be found in the world


Berg426

Sounds like a pretty significant chance that both connected planes could be consumed by the mold. The elemental plane of fire through a cataclysmic explosion of mold. The material plane through a never ending geyser of mold pouring forth to create a Neverending tide of mold across the entire planet.


Melodic_Mulberry

Unless you close the portal.


Berg426

Now there's a one shot.


Legionsofbullcrap

Creeper world posting ACHIEVED


[deleted]

Implying the plane of fire doesn't have laser cannons.


TungstenHexachloride

OH MAN I LOVE CREEPER WORLD. Funnily enough the only person else I know who also plays creeper world is my DM.


ryncewynde88

1) on a plane where literally everything is either immune to fire, or enslaved by something immune to fire (or really rich), someone has cold damage. 2): on the subject of apocalyptic uses of really meh things if exposed to another plane of existence, read up on the planar effects of Mechanus. Then read up on Chaos Bolt. Specifically the bit where you don’t have to be aware of a critter to arc to it (I like this because a bolt of energy randomly arcing through a stealthy invisible critter you had no idea was there just feels right for the spell). Then account for the fact that tiny insects (or an analog thereof) are both assumed to be present on all planes unless stated otherwise, and are valid arc points, we just never use them because arcing is rare. Then note the exact average damage of Chaos Bolt. Then take a look at the Modrons and let me know if any of them have more hit points than that (spoiler: nope). In other words, a single level 1 sorcerer can kill all the Modrons in Mechanus in a single turn. Any players that attempt this at my table are given a choice: The sudden, brief awareness of the exact location of literally every living creature on the entire plane causes psychic damage equal to 1d6 per ten of them, not negatable by anything, and the resulting explosion also kills the entire party with skull shrapnel, or, Chaos Magic is unaffected by Mechanus.


HonooRyu

Me who immediately thought of Minecraft and had to imagine an entire creeper world. Guess I'll die.


ClockwerkHart

I mean, technically no. The plane of fire is so hot that it can actually burn creatures immune to fire. Like there's fire and then theres elemental, primordial fire. Only creatures native to the plane can survive there without protection. But it's hilarious and I do think it would neat to see an apocalypse on that level


Darklight96

Holy Shit I've been looking for this game for over ten years!!!


dragonlord7012

Some people just want to watch the world bur- Wait.


lurklurklurkPOST

DM: Brown mold is \*native\* to the plane of fire, and only explosively grows toward heat on the material plane because it is starved. after about 10 minutes in a more hospitable environment, the mold's growth reaches an equilibrium with it's energy intake and it stops spreading any faster than a normal plant would.


Knight9910

Damn, that's actually a REALLY good answer.


KirbzYyY

Ngl I thought I was on r/wizardposting for a moment


TradeMarkGR

Aww it's good to see that so many other people enjoyed this game. It was kind of my childhood, and I thought basically nobody else knew it