MoonSilver

a brief synopsis of the city of Moonsilver from the perspective of a bunny person.

MOONSILVER from the moonsilver archive of the High priests author unknown

Once in the long ago this city was a crowning jewel of our gods achievement. The temple we now reside in pierced the clouds at night where the pedestal of Luna would allow our god to be as close to her as possible. The buildings near the city center were made of an imitation of the goddess's holy metal and would flow and shift at the touch to form walls, ceilings, doors, and furnishings for our gods to amuse themselves with. Mines of pure holy metal were delved deep into the earth brin- ging forth a rich bounty of Moonsilver for the Kivsungai and other lesser gods to work their wonders upon the world.

In the caverns adjacent to these mines lay the most holy of all places, holier even than this temple. Pools of pure magical Luna touched energy flowed like water in massive springs and gave up their bounty to power the artifacts and the city. So great was Luna's blessings on these moon pools that at night the moon beams shine through the ground and bless these holy waters with their kiss.

The rest of the city was no less resplendent in it's glory. Streets, and buildings made of silver hardened to cobblestone strength lined the boulevards of the lesser areas. The city glinted in the sun, and glowed at night proclaiming our devotion to our mistress mother moon and the achievments of her chosen consort Kivsungai. And of course all throughout the metropolis, and even in the villlages supporting it, could be found wonders and miracles brought forth by the teachings of the great ones.

But alas that city is no more.

Weep my sucessors for you have inherited a heavy burden and a broken home. The spire of Luna is broken no longer rising and falling with the moon. Once verdant mines are now possesed by evil driving even us the holy high priests back with a foul magic. Liquid metal buildings slowly sink into the ground or have stopped responding to the ancient signals and commands leading some to frustration and the most foolhardy trapped within for eternity. And the humans, oh the greedy humans, they come to our city with their sacriligeous ways and tear apart the common areas for the blessed silver contained there.

But yet there is hope as there is life even in the most inhosptable of climes.

The temple is still active allowing us to continue to manufacture and repair the wonders taught to us by the maker. Some of the Moon pools are still pure enough to provide the stones and the power we need to operate the defenses. Our people are hardy and strong living uncomplicated lives free of the human desires of greed and avarice that destroyed this city.

Yet there is one more thing even a young one knows but which cannot be stressed enough even to my succesors. Kinvsungai's spirit lives on in other gods and he and Luna have not abandoned us to a dark fate. Though we face trials, fight wars, and die if we must we've never once questioned the path they've layed before us. For you see they will always come to us in our times of great crisis. But this you need not be told so I will digress to other more important matters.

THE TEMPLE This is the heart and soul of our culture and it contains two very important items which must be protected over even our own survival. The first is the hearthstone known as Luna's tear sadi to have been cast upon the earth when the first Lunar fell in combat. It provides a living memory of the gods who have worn it and so Kivsungai's knowledge is preeserved and handed down to each sucessor. Even you young high one may use it in emergencies to gain the wisdom of the elders.

Besides the holy stone Luna's Avatar is the only other sacred relic we must defend at all costs. By now you have seen the massive sentinels gods used by the warriors in combat. The avatar is the penultimate god of that pantheon and holds powers only Kivsungai may use.

All other relics are replacable and the temple is well defended by it's Moonsilver octopoids who have slain many an intruder with their tentacled blades. Rely on these and the master of arms to see to the defense of the manse and Luna's will be done.

THE VILLAS OF THE GODS

Arranged around the temple in what was once a perfect moon shaped cirlce lies the homes of the lesser shape shifting gods. As has alredy been said to you in the scriptures above these are made of a liquid like substance that also holds it's shape or forms holes with the proper knowledge. Inside lie many relics of the past and some of a more modern time. Beware allowing anyone to explore these ruins for they are haunted and difficult to enter. more than one foolish lapine or greedy human has entered only to never be able to leave.

COMMONER AREAS

At last we come to the areas most devestate by the humans. Streets once shining silver and forming concentric rings around the city now lie broken and mud caked. Buildings and temples once raised up in imitations of our lords lie in ruins. yet here the humans chooce to spend most of their time for you see this si where these fools beleive the easiest treasure is. The silver that was used to raise the city was made to endure the passage of time like stone and so was valuable as building material but that is all. For you see only a sorceror can shape the metal now, and the ruins are haunted by those who died in the great plague nearly a thousand years ago. So the humans come and die and we salvage what we can before retreating here to the temple or returning to our burrows.

FINAL WORDS

This brief treatise should be only a reminder and a source of inspiration to you my sucessor. Remember your history, remember what we once had, and always remember that Kivsungai will restore it one day.

STATS FOR Luna's avatar

Luna's Avatar. artifact level 5 or NMoonSilver/A at STs say so

Manufacturer: presumably a Kivsungai or Luna herself

History and sundry bits As recounted by Franseco to the latest Kivsungai

This machine was forged by the grace of Luna and the genius of the first maker who lives on in you. It's weapons are the purest moonsilver and can assume any of the mundane means of attack you require. The arms will extend with a whim to grasp your enemies. The armor, oh the armor, is as thick as a fortress wall and will protect you as nothing else in this life.

Motion is as easy as moving your own body thanks to the superior rune circuitry this marvel will connect dierctly to your body when you take up Luna's mantle and place it on your brow. Shapeshifting will be as easy as it is now and you will even find it enhanced due to the turbines built into the back.

Also if you lack the charms of a warrior it will give you the breath and power of one for a limited time to smite armies of Luna's foes.

Game rules: Luna's avatar is a very special royal warstrider with several unique features. soak: 26Ll/25b, mobility:0, fatigue:-2 attunment:22 essence

One power is the fact that it repairs itself and it's owner at the rate of one lethal a round.

additionally it shapeshifts with the wearer even allowing flight or swimming if in the proper forms.

Another power is it's "battery" of twenty essence points. In addition it provides the charms fortitude of the aurochs, spinning blade attack, lightning sword method, and foe-driving attack but only when involved in mass combat using the S&M rulesset.

Finally it comes equipped with two proteus gauntlets that can be extended up to the wearers essence*10 meters to make a full dice attack

This power does come at a price. First the avatar is useless without the Crown of luna. The rune circuits cannot be activated and the user's blood cannot be taken by the machine to use it.

Also it inflicts one level of lethal damage for five turns upon activation which cannot be healed by the machine's own self-repair mechanims.

Finally only a lunar of a lapine or related totem can pilot this machine and even then it requires a sucessful prayer roll(3sucesses) from a no-moon to get it to activate