《The Floating Dungeon》Chapter 48
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The main environment that she decided to work on is the floating mangrove island. The island was already built, and the mangrove oak trees had already grown, but that was not the only thing that she wanted to incorporate onto the island. She wanted to have plants, creatures, and if she designed a monster, a monster. But for now, she would circle through each major environment placing the plants, adding the creatures, and summoning and creating monsters.
In reality, Amy did not have a lot of plants that were meant to be above water or would work in the environment that she imagined the mangrove floating island would. Since there are limited options, it means that she has to experiment.
Amy already had a couple of ideas about what to experiment with, like the spiral orchid seed and the water pad pod.
In her mind, the island needed more flowers. Unfortunately, there were very few flowering plants within the dungeon that she could potentially cross-breed the orchid with. As Amy searched throughout the floors, she spotted one that would be perfect, the crystalline seagrace.
The crystalline seagrace was a marine grass that flowered, and it had the influence of the will of a crystal. So if she could cross-breed or take traits from the seagrace to the orchid, then she would be happy with the results.
The first experiment was with an orchid seed and the seagrace. Amy took two mana strings, inserted them into the plants, and started circulating the strings around a small section of seagrace, and the other was circulating around the seed. After a bit of this circulation, she took the end of the mana string from the seagrace and inserted it into the orchid seed. With it inserted, Amy started pushing the mana string from the seagrace into the seed itself.
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As the string was added to the seed, it started to glow slightly. After the mana string was entirely inside the seed, the glowing stopped. Amy took this as a sign that whatever happened ended, and it was time to see her new plant.
She took a tiny amount of the fertile soil from the ground, placed it in a small nook on one of the mangrove trees, placed the new seed in it, and started growing it.
The seed started growing three vines that dangled down to the ground and were attached to each other at the beginning of the plant, where the roots started. As the vines grew, a large flower started to grow right where the three vines were attached. The flower that grew at the base of the vines was a lot larger than the spiral orchid flower. It was around 30 centimetres in length and was very delicate looking. The petals of this flower were a light periwinkle colour and looked very delicate but were secretly very sturdy. It seemed that the flower took the crystalized aspect of the crystalline seagrace and made the flowers a lot more sturdy than a regular flower.
Along with the large flower, the three vines started growing flowers that got smaller the further down the vine it went. When the vines stopped growing, the flowers on the vines were ten centimetres on the top and went all the way down to one centimetre in length.
When it stopped growing, Amy pulled up its description.
Crystalline Flowing Flower
A type of flower with one central flower produces multiple vines that support many smaller flowers. The purpose of the large central flower is to produce the seeds. All of the flowers have a certain sturdiness due to crystalline petals that make the flowers a lot sturdier and less likely to be damaged.
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With great results, Amy decided to share traits from one thing to another with all of the plants that she originally wanted to be on the floating island. The plants that she decided on were the glowing moss, spiral orchid, hanging pitcher plant, hanging moss, arctic moss, and two aquatic plants, the crystalline seagrace and water pad pod.
Through doing this a bunch of times, with a bunch of different combinations, Amy was satisfied with the end results, and she pulled up the descriptions for all of her new plants.
Hanging Umbrella Vines
A type of vine with a very solid and robust leaf shaped like an upside-down umbrella that hangs down from the vine and is attached to the vine in the middle of the leaf. This leaf can grow very large and can collect water in the bowl-like leaf.
Glowing Orchid
A species of orchid that produces a faint glow in the shadows.
Sticky Hanging Moss
A type of moss that produces a sticky substance that can trap insects and small mammals onto it.
Chilled Grass
A species of grass with a resistance to cold weather can be used in cold resistance potions.
Freezing Pitcher Plant
It is a type of hanging carnivorous plant that lures and freezes its prey with ice mana.
Water Grass
A type of grass that is common around large bodies of water.
Arctic Orchid
A rare species of orchid that thrives in chilly and cold environments. The flowers of this plant can be used in different types of potions.
Travelling Vine
A species of vine that will continuously grow across canopies and will only stop when there is not enough space to sustain it.
Rock Moss
A species of moss that grows in a spherical shape. It has taken on the traits of a rock, and as it grows, it gets harder and harder.
With ten new plants and the original five plants that she already had, Amy decided that it was time to grow them all over the floating island.
As she placed everything, the floating mangrove island started to really have that forest, somewhat tropical look. The flowering plants were all blooming and hanging and growing off of the trees. Along the ground was where most of the moss and the chilled grass grew. The vine species that she now had were also making their home within the canopy of leaves.
With satisfaction about how the mangrove floating island turned out with the plants, Amy turned her attention and started working on the rainfall forest.
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Sidewalk. Lamp post. Void. Red eyes. White hair. Droid. In my. Rapid. Breaths. Pray tell. What comes. Next.
8 192A Nation of Distances (possibly a dystopian love story)
Michael lives in a toxic macho world with extreme male hierarchy. When he gets a weird rating that makes his place even more problematic he's forced to choose a fiancée at a Wife School, and he slowly discovers more about the other side of the great divide between the sexes in The Nation. If only the world would stop being so complicated... On the other side there's Megan, who's more interested in books than in marriage, and the unpredictable Eliza who seems to have a connection with Micheal already. Will they be able to cross the distance and become friends against all the rules of their own world, or will they just be crushed? Are positive relationships between men and women even possible? And is there a way to change the world or is that just a naive thought of a silly wimp? 'A Nation of Distances' is a slightly dystopian dialogue-heavy drama set in a low sci-fi future setting about the war between the sexes, disconnect and friendship. The genre will fluctuate in between more slice-of-life parts and soft sci-fi drama with possible romantic elements, with alternating lead and switching perspectives once more of the main characters are established. Content Warning: Certain concepts and scenes might be disturbing and/or triggering to some, even though the story itself won't be extremely heavy most of the time. Sexism as a double-edged sword destructive to both sexes is an important part of the story, but so is friendship.Note that all descriptions of persons and places are purely fictional and made up by the writer, and any resemblance with anything in the real world is a coincidence, since the real world is not supposed to be dystopian anyway!
8 206A Truly Bizarre Collection of Flash Fiction
A collection of flash fictions that range between 100-300 words in length. Some are happy, some are tragic, and some I truly do not understand! Read at your own risk!
8 178The legend of the sun guild.
Durning the age of darkness it was said that four people of great power were born. The first man of great might. Who hunted the monster and saw them as know more than a means to an end. He fought to simply feed his hungry for blood and power. He challenged both the heavens and the darkest depths of hell. He made the world know meaning of the word fear. He was a strongest swordsman of the world. During his time their were few who could say otherwise and by his end their was know to be only one who claimed to be his better. There were none who love the sword like him. And there would be none who his blade would love like him. They said that number did not matter to him. That all who face him blade would die without exception. They is a legend of him bringing death to an empire so he could claim the life of widow of a soldier who died of his own blade in the face death so that the sword man would not now the satisfactory of taking his life. They called him the sword of death. The second was a man of great rage. An noble avenger to the weak and and terror to the strong. He was a berserker but unlike most who would attempt to control they rage he would reveal in the through of it controlling him. He would streak across the battlefield ripping both friend and foe apart alike and he would do so with nothing but his bare hand. They called him an immortal they said the more be bleed the more his power would grow. And they spoke of the power to he he could trade his blood for death. They said that no mortal weapon could kill him and that he would rise to fight no matter the injury. There was a legend of him ripping off his own head and using it to club his enemies to death. They called him the immortal wrath. The third was a woman of madness and magic. She was a hated witch. They say that her only objects was to spread misery and hate. It said she lead many a good man from the right path to one of great evil just to she if she was capable of such things. Her experiments left only detestation in their wake as she tainted the lands in some way worse than the worse then the void or darkness ever could. Her magic was a foul and dangerous thing that saw all her enemy become her enemy. That she enter the territory of both the formed of order and the gods of Chao us would not go. That she played with the energy of the void. Legend speaks of a place where she corrupted the very darkness that that claim both the land and the people. Some say light would flee from her presence in fear of the shadows fate for that was her name she was the fate weaver. The forth was a man. He was simply known as… the hero of the world. But this is not his story. No this is a story that speak of the other three The unrelenting swords man The undying wrath The unquantifiable desire But it mainly speaks of their second life. For the age of darkness has long since pases and the age of fire is coming to a close. But as the age dies a new one must be born. ( the idea is that this story will be told from the perspectives of the bad guys. Their motives ,objectives, rise to power, struggles and what they want to achieve. But yes they are the ‘bad guys’ of the story it’s also probably important to note that for the time being it’s going to be written on my phone then edit later when I have the time and feel like it but you should probably think of whats here as a draft until further notice. )
8 74The Fourth Friend (An Amphibia Story)
Transported to the mystical world of Amphibia, Skylar and Sasha Waybright must fight through all the challenges of this new world full of frogs, Toads and the occasional giant bird.As well as joining Skylar on her journey join me as I try to use my few remaining brain cells to write my first proper story fanfiction. ⚠️⚠️⚠️!!!DISCONTINUED!!!!⚠️⚠️⚠️I DON'T OWN ANYTHING EXCEPT MY OC
8 191Badass Luna
Elisabeth Walker, NYPD detective. Ryan Barnes, Alpha of the Red Steele Pack. Elisabeth never expected to run into a creature that was yet to be discovered when she took upon her case. Ryan never expected his mate to be a human. Much less a cop. A badass cop. A kickass cop and a feared Alpha.They say opposites attract. What about identicals?
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