Patrons of the known Galaxies - The White Serpent That Gives Wisdom

 

Lightbearers of The White Serpent

Patrons of the known Galaxies

 

The White Serpent That Gives Wisdom

Has seen so many civilizations rise and fall,  across a thousand worlds legends speak of a great sinuous form, often covered in feathers, that descends from the sky to teach wisdom.  A million names for a million worlds.   The White Serpent, the Serpent that Gives; the Wisdom Giver, the Air Worm, the Glory of the Sky, the Star Father, etc. etc.  For hundreds of millions of years, a variety of being or beings with certain aspects in common have come to primitive or recovering worlds from the stars and inspired civilization or it’s renewal. Some say these visitations are follow ups to older even more primordial voyages that tinkered, or perhaps even placed life, upon many of these worlds initially.

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Patrons of the Known Galaxies: Ur-Noo-Polis

 

Patrons of the known Galaxies

Ur-Noo-Polis (Urnopolis)

The spirit of City

 This thing that haunts the Ur-metropolis seems a contradiction, an ill wind, or oily elusive shadows?  A long serpentine wind winding between buildings and threading its way into even the most hidden spaces.

Possession of Splinters Sailing on the Seas of Probability will greatly enhance the utility of this patron, but it is by no means essential.  

 The Ur-city, the Omnimetropolis,  is known by billions of names throughout the omniverse. The “All-City” is a reflection of the First City and of course of all cities in some sense.  A concept so important in the Collapsing Universe that the Noosphere emanation of the concept of City has long since become self-aware, hungry, and watching.   All cities are it’s body and equalmuch it’s memory.  City transcends time and space, and many Great Cities of Legend, seem to reincarnate in other times and places under names more fitting to their new environments. Through all of these places, from Los Angeles to New Chicago, Myris Ithil, the City of Brass, or transcendental Urath, through each window, into each home and business and office and street does the All City’s Sentience watch, self-absorbed, obsessed with the parasites that live within it and make up the greatest body of its spiritual energy….

Ur Noo Polis is both aiding and malevolent.  It will help but it may require you to allow an innocent to be murdered, both the act and your complicity, sacrifices to the All-City.

Tap the Urnoplis and Invoke the Spirit of the All City here 

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Cutting Room Floor - Psychic Insights of the Noosphere

 

Cutting Room Floor

Psychic Insights of the Noosphere

 - Splinters – Sailing Across the Seas of Probability

 

Both Book II (https://dreaming-gynoid.itch.io/galaxy-black-ii-magic-metaphysics-and-psychic-power) and Splinters (https://dreaming-gynoid.itch.io/splinters-sailing-the-seas-of-infinity) may be useful in understanding and utilizing this material;

However, Book VI https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/372544/Galaxy-Black-VI-Judges-Guide-to-the-Collapsing-Universe will be essential to proper use of either spell, esp. the second.

 

“Slow your mind.  Here we cultivate deliberate thought and eliminate reactive thought.  Stop thinking.  Stop reacting to things.   Let go of meme-thoughts.  

With stillness we begin.”

 

During Psion training,  as the nascent psychic’s training evolves their mind and inner eye, they repeatedly test their psychological fortitude; Would-be psychics confront their repressed nature, their shadow, and learn to transcend their own dualities. 

At the end, a period known as consolidation begins, whereby the adept fuses and overlays their conceived inner world with the physical world outside.   Until they complete this process they cannot leave the temple or training space as Manifesters.

As psions develop their inner eye (gain levels and grow in power) their orgonne or inner self, their Subtle body, becomes very powerful, slowly the planar energies they commonly channel will become like unto a series of tiny capillaries running to them at all times.

Most psychic disciplines  (and especially those of third level or higher) are powered by transplanar energies; most commonly what is called variously orgonne/kundalin/the yang realm/positive material energy, though there are exceptions.   Possibly  at some point in the distant past this was not always the case save perhaps as a (faintly) emergent quality however that’s now changed for other reasons.

However, the medium through which almost all psychic activity seems to flow primarily will always bee the Noosphere, the Plane of Thought.

CHANNEL THE UNIVERSE HERE

 

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Cutting Room Floor articles are literally that – pages of material that in whole or part were removed or did not make the final cut of a release, sometimes complete, sometimes very briefly stated.   

(Blame my good friend T.R. Williams for the title, as I ripped it off from him whole cloth) 

Paying Charon’s Toll - Magic of the Forgotten for Galaxy Black and the DCC RPG

 

 Paying Charon’s Toll

two new spells for

Splinters – Sailing Across the Seas of Probability

 

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 QUEST FOR IT.

For those few who can find and would dare (and yet could survive) a confrontation with the Prince of Black Waters will find that their steadfastness, their sincerity, and their determination……or perhaps their deceptiveness, their craftiness and sense of trickery will be put to the test.  

Charon themselves can teach the Memory of Nothing…if you can convince them.

The foolhardy attempt to learn it themselves by sipping of the Black Waters of Nothing.

If you would know the secrets of the Wyls, the Wild Women, or any other of the Forgotten you must penetrate the black waters and seek beyond into the Erasure itself, but beware!  Those who enter the Erasure and do not return are lost forever. 

ENTER THE BLACK WATERS HERE

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Isle of the Dead: Third version, 1883

Arnold Böcklin

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-isle-of-the-dead-arnold-b%C3%B6cklin/0wFgMTIQ3kZCpg?hl=en

Spring update from the Gynoid

The response to Galaxy Black and especially the last few quite unorthodox releases has been simply fantastic – especially for a dense, digital only publication - and enough time has passed for me to be able to analyze a few things and figure out some tweaks to “the way forward.”  Worry not, nothing bad.  At all.

 Let's talk about Print on Demand 

The process of converting files over to allow for Print on Demand (PoD)is now well underway.   Part of the holdup thus far, has been that some books, especially the older ones, do not transfer over well and the degree of degradation is such that recreating from source file(s) is required.   Both the Book of Scarlet Abomination (BoSA) and the first issue of Sub-ether are being recreated as we speak. Tammy’s book is near done.   I hesitate to say more until I am holding a successful test copy in my hands, however.  

That said the newer stuff should be much less hassle to import SAVE that they are So Damn Long.  

The priority (I assume) most people would prefer is that I get Galaxy Black out first and basically everything else second.  

I would _really_ prefer to clean a few of the XXs up before doing so but I freely admit that will add time to things and greatly increase the likelihood of my tinkering further which could only make it come out that much later.

But if the feedback is there I will change tacks and get those out as absolutely soonest.   Tell me here, or dreaminggynoid@gmail.com but if you want those sooner, as is, TELL ME as I can totally make that happen if there is enough demand.

Left to my own advice and devices the books will come out in the rough order of how useful the print copy for that particular book will be at the actual gaming table v. how quickly I can get them converted over. 

 Sub-ether 04 should be finishing up in the next few months.  With any luck it will drop in both ansiblecast (digital) and maker (PoD) options at launch.  AS a lot of the material therein is of a relatively experimental nature (most of the Legion stuff just does NOT play well outside of that sandbox) rest asssured there will be a plenty of non-specific Collapsing Universe content for your DCC and Galaxy Black games.   A long form article unpacks the Space Gods from Book V as explicit power players in the campaign setting.   A class of noosphere wielding loremasters inspired by the works of John Varley and a rundown on the State of Imperial Conflict rounds out the issue, with lots of ways to use this material with Colony Black and prior Sub-ether issues.

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Sub-ether 03 is here!

 Riding on some savage speed of light lag, the latest Sub-ether transmission has been received.

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Sub-ether 03 Age of the Spice Pirates

takes you to Canopus, head of the Imperial Spice Commission

A complete future crime campaign!  The Age of the Spice Pirates will take your criminal band of zeros to second level and beyond.

 

Serpent Men conspiracies of the deep future

Saurid heresies of the ancient past

Robing  the ultra-corrupt Spice Commission right there at their doorstep.

Spice Smuggling! Ancient Conspiracies!  Can you survive the Eve of a Dozen Vipers ?

 

It’s not about fuel.  It’s not about rebellion. It’s about Spice. It’s about Crime.

It’s about coming out ahead of your enemies.

The Age of the Spice Pirates begins in Sub-ether 03

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