Thread by @DBrainenstein

Probably one of the best pencil drawings I've ever done. Lt.Cmdr. Amanda May Lusenkya of the Seekers, an offshoot of the Interplanetary Space Exploration Service. The space-stranded astronaut survivors after WW3 nearly completely obliterated life on Earth. Seekers were all born

and raised among the ramshackle space stations, asteroid colonies and rundown ships of the ISES survivors. Trained since birth, in a quite literal military dormitory, the Seekers would be the first humans to finish developing and then use experimental Wormholes drives to travel

Beyond the Sol System. Nearly All the Seekers are born psychics who would use their powers to ensure the survival of their race And to explore the Ancient Alien and First Humans relics and artifacts found scattered across both the Sol and Alpha Cee systems. The tunnels of Luna

City, the Europa Colony, and the Phobos Station that are inhabited by the survivors are all reclaimed ancient facilities - these secrets were part of the reason for the WW3, called the Desecration by the Seekers - who are Not happy with Not having a homeworld due to the actions

of their parent's and grandparent's generations. Discovery of an alien ship frozen in a stasis trap near the heliopause of the Sol system would introduce the Seekers to the Anacreoux. A race of dino-bird type creatures "native" to the Alpha Cee system who were allied to the

First Humans, the Textrans, who had come to the aid of their allies against an attack by unknown insectoids. A new, experimental Textrans device misfired and trapped their ship and a few Textran escape shuttles inside a stasis field until Lt. James Grey, another Seeker, disrupted

the field after nearly 14,000 years! Approximately a thousand Anacreoux and nearly 200 Textrans suddenly find themselves thrust into a struggle for survival, stranded with the ISES and Seeker survivors in a hostile future they don't understand. Strangely, some of the Seeker/ISES

crewmen would discover a strange sort of Mind Bond with one of the Anacreoux, like Amanda Lusenkya herself being bonded with Lyrrha of Clan Spentas and sharing each other's entire memories - this proves especially strange where parents and childhood friends from the Other member

of the Bond get the "remember when we..." kind of conversation from a being of an entirely different species they've never laid eyes on before. Somehow, the few Bondmates were able to keep the rest from shooting each other long enough to get communications established at least.

Eventually these three separate groups would join forces to investigate What happened to the system and would discover a sort of subspace bubble around the Sol System apparently controlled in part the binary dwarf planets Chronus & Tempus which had been entirely hollowed out and

extensively reshaped and equipped with all manner of bizarre generators to both generate and project a "Mass Shadow" - an area of gravitational effect without any actual matter in that area causing the gravity - as well as capable of literally being flown themselves as these

technologies would be nearly identical to the Contra-Grav technologies found on the Phase World setting and would give the Seekers/ISES a huge boost in technological capabilities. Using the Mass Shadow Generator the Seekers, accidentally, expanded the Subspace bubble, which they

would name the Seeker's Rift, to include the Alpha Cee system and they could begin to explore it and investigate what happened to their peoples as they simultaneously scrounge the ruins for what they need for their very survival. What they won't discover would rock them to their

cores. It seems an ancient war had been fought against an enemy known as the Enslavers, insectoids who use psionics to dominate the minds of their captives and a combination of psynetics and cybernetics to enhance their fighting potential, literally using those captured as new

warriors and slavers to hunt down their own race. The ancient Textran had both Contra-Grav and limited Phase Tech and the entire Anacreoux race possessed psionics and developed a sort of Solid-Psychokinesis psi-tech, and they were Still beaten by the Enslavers , what can the

Survivors of three disparate, broken civilizations do against the ancient enemy? I wrote up what originally was a pair of short stories written in HS as a game module, both in the Palladium system (pictured) and in a Star/Pathfinder d20 system. Sadly, my d20 setting was

destroyed a few years ago when a tornado threw a tree at my house and made the roof leak. Both books contained custom art, all done by me, the wife or son, and that book's art is impossible to replace.

What they *Would discover. Stupid autocorrect.

The first is done by my wife, who played Amanda and tried to breach the Seeker's Rift subspace bubble and was launched into elsewhere only to be pulled out later by herself(?) The second pic is by my son a few years ago, he'd have been like 9 I guess, & that's Zion he played once

Amanda would find herself summoned out of elsewhere(?), non-existence (?), the astral(?), by an alternate reality version of herself - Maybel Amanda Lusenkya-Grey aka the Grey Lady

The Grey Lady was a masked mage who wandered the Magic Zone harassing the necromancers and servants of Nxla and rallying psychics and mystics to join Psyscape. The Grey Lady's husband James Grey, yes, an alternative reality version of the same James Amanda had grown up with, was

devoured by Nxla and she herself had had her mind wiped and sold to a Temporal Raider. At this point she was 11th level Psi-Ghost but after being wiped she herself only knew she was approx a 3rd level major psychic (yes, my wife ran this all solo after James and the other party

members died - I'm the mean GM, lol, who am I kidding she enjoyed it especially after I let her use Id Self to summon Amanda and have Amanda and Maybel both for a bit). Eventually, after being trained as a Temporal Wizard for seven years and buying her freedom she would regain

some of her memories, enough to track down who she was and recruit James sister Destiny - a Nightbane style Astral Mage with major psychic sensitive powers and both Astral & Temporal spells - to help her to recruit extradimensional alternats of themselves to help rescue James,

and others, from Nxla itself by storming it's dimension. Unfortunately the second alternate, Amandine, was evil, a Mystic Knight as found in Federation of Magic, and she discovered they were Id Immortals - think Highlander or better yet, Jet Li's The One. Amandine wants to be the

One and Maybel barely escapes with her life. For a quickening they were getting 1/12th the PPE, 1/10th the ISP, 1D4hp, and one single lesser psi-power or, preferably, other ability - like when Amandine was defeated Amanda herself gained the Channel PPE ability of a Mystic Knight

From killing Amandine with the Runeblade Aetherwisper. Eventually, Maybel (Grey Lady), Amanda, Another alternate version of themselves And the weird Phase Mystic Blink (Terra Anna Petrova, an alternate reality version of Anna Terra Petrova who grew up with Amanda), a trio of

renegade Magi, 1 Controller Battle, 1 Lord, and 1 High, a young Promethean Phase Adept on their Test of Maturity, a Temporal Raider (Maybel's former master and sort of ally) Askalon and the D-Bee Temporal Warrior Tris'stria (Askalon's apprentice) would beach Nxla's dimension

while the Greater Sphinx Goddess Myrrantha anchored the portal open open from within the Temple Pyramid of her Stone Master Naga minions and free thousands of souls from the eternal torment of being devoured by Nxla, including capturing James' soul within a Necro-tech device

designed by Myrrantha herself and returning to his soulless body kept in the same alien stasis pods that their parents had been found in, both their mothers were out of time people rifted to the Rifts Earth and found within strange stasis pods from somewhere else entirely.

Restored but still aged by the stresses James was confronted by a wife who'd lived through twenty years of hell and hadn't aged a day and her doppelganger and with the knowledge they were immortal and he wasn't. His twin sister Destiny was as old as he remembers their mother

being and his mother older still, everyone he'd grown up with aged - and while he Had aged physically he had no memories of it, and thankfully, basically none of being "devoured" by Nxla, only it happening and then being rescued from it instantaneously. James, a Techno-wizard,

Maybel, Amanda, and few of their rogue's gallery with the help of Myrrantha's Naga Stone Masters would attempt to hide a pair small Dimensional Pyramids in the far NE corner of the Magic Zone and anchor the Fade Town Maybel had grown up in and allow it to grow. Haven would be

be renamed Greyhaven and at first Greyhaven and Greyhaven Industries, a TW manufacturer, would just begin to make a name for themselves when the Coalition War Campaign would just get rolling in earnest and they would rush the creation of the second pyramid. As the capstone was

lowered into place Amandine would attack, disrupting the ritual first and as they struggled to finish it Amandine and Maybel would begin to throw Temporal spells at each other, including the Spell of Legend The Slowness and spells like Time Maelstrom, warping the fabric of time

and space even as the unknown, unidentified golden tetrahedron necklace that Blink had found in another dimension began to glow and she and it began to float along with every other smallish thing and she wasn't effected by The Slowness! As she slides the capstone into place, by

stomping on it, the entire valley would lurch and jolt, rifting away to the location where Blink had found the item in the ruins of a cliff dwelling similarly to those of the American SW but in another dimension known as the Skystone Realms. Further exploration of the Skystone

Realms would reveal it to be a dimension of three immense, super continent-sized landmasses, and numerous smaller ones, orbiting a trio of magical "suns." The Serpent Lands orbited one sun and were the homes of the Serpent Kingdoms, seven kings ruled by a "council" of bickering

dragons, former hatchlings who've been at this for a few millennia. The Wolf Lands are the domains of Kreshka the Dread Wolf, a Dragon-Wolf who's mastered some dark magicks and been altered by those magicks And bio-wizardry into a true monstrosity, and it's Fenry and lesser

Dragon-Wolf and Za minions. The Greenlands are the domain of the Father Tree and his druids, known as the Seyer. The Greenlands are home to the People, or Skystone Peoples, refugees from both prehistoric America, a pre-Adena mound builder people, Quorans from their homeland, and

Syssthen, a serpent like humaniod people, also dimensional refugees who Revere the Father Tree, his Rootspring children, and the Seyer Druids. This is a Rootspring, not the Father Tree himself.

Using Palladium's existing Mystic Herbology system as presented in Rifts England and the Book of Magic I fleshed out a Seyer Druid who has limited spells and slowly learns Mystic Herbology formulas to make more brews and stuff as they advance. I think we ended up with 9 new items

made from existing plants and the like a half dozen or so from the Rootspring trees themselves and few others from a few new plants. Upon meeting Aya Aveela a young Seyer on her vision quest, Amanda and Blink and Lord Magus Yah-Me would travel with her to meet her Elders, then to

the Father Tree itself where the Legend of the Purple Haired Moongirl is told to Blink and she is seemingly shown proof that another alternate version of herself has arrived here nearly a century ago & led an expedition to the Eye of the World Mother - a sun-sized blackhole-like

anomaly at the heart of the Realms that looks like an eye in the sky from the Lands, where supposedly exists the means to "awaken the World Mother and destroy the Wolf and Serpent Lands. So, of course, Blink immediately did the same thing, but with newly rifted in TW gear from

Greyhaven Industries and off world help like the Lord Magus Yah-Me. Aya Aveela would be appointed Speaker for the Trees and represent the Father Tree itself on the expedition.

After sailing a flying ship across the face of the Skystone Realms and defeating, Kreshka, the Dread Wolf, revealing him to be the puppet of something greater - something that lurks in the heart of the Eye of the World Mother, they would reach it. A bizarre island-sized landmass

with objective gravity, where gravity pulls you down towards whichever side you happen to be on. A pair of five-sided pyramids mirrored each other, one on each top and bottom. Immediately the dimensional travellers would recognize that these were dimensional pyramids, just Very

Very powerful ones. Inside they would defeat a Malcolm Howlette, an ancient Nightbane Sorcerer from the 1850's who had discovered that the Mounds his ancestors had built had incredible magical power and tapped into them to steal even more power, similar to the evil Beast-Spirits

from the Spirit/New West campaigns. To prolong his life and drain her powers he had captured the older, alternate reality Blink and has been draining her slowly for a century or so as he studied how her mutant abilities powered the pyramid. After releasing the older Blink they

began to tamper with the Pyramid's control mechanisms. High Magus Odysseus would be pulled into the machine and his mind merged with that of Elsensenswen, the World Mother. Elsensenswen is actually an elder elemental intelligence, one of the rare non-evil ones who had hid from

the Old Ones by taking shelter among the Elder Races of the Three Galaxies where it would accidentally become trapped within the Pyramid, which had been meant as like a suit or ship kind of device Not to bind it, but mistakes were made and a portion of is forever bound within it

on a manner similar to the dreaded rune weapons. Another portion has performed a sort of Alter Primal Diefic Manifestation to become the World Mother Elsensenswen as known by the Skystone People. When the Elsensenswen fragment is Awakened and merged with the minds of High Magus

Odysseus, Blink, and Grey Lady/Maybel it triggered the initial function of the Pyramid, to build planets, habitable worlds out of debris fields like asteroid fields in star systems. The entire Skystone Realms would be reshaped, but by sacrificing himself and staying connected to

the device Odysseus was able to ensure that the Serpent and Wolf Lands were hardest hit and the Greenlands of the Skystone People and the area around Greyhaven were largely untouched by the chaos of the reshaping. When the dust cleared Greyhaven found itself on the surface of a

new planet in the Three Galaxies, specifically the Thundercloud Galaxy where the Minion War is about to erupt.
Floating majestically above the poles of the new world, Jestra, are a pair of mirror image five-sided pyramids woth approximately 33 mile diameter base & 55 miles tall

These resemble the pyramid-like space stations of the UWW to most people unfamiliar with them and, indeed, the northern polar one Does double duty as a space station for the space forces of Jestra. The southern one is the exclusive domain of the Elder Blink, a Psychic and Mage of

largely unknown powers who appears to keep yet another fragment/avatar of the greater Elemental intelligence asleep and prevent further shaping of the system. At each pole, below each pyramid lies an immense, hurricane-like storm at the heart of which lies a portal to the

remaining Skystone Realms. Only two continents and "suns" remain within the Realms, the Greenlands and the ruined, struggling remains of the Serpent Kingdoms. These polar Pyramids are Living Pyramids, relics of an Elder Race known as the Illarrie.

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This new world is located in the Thundercloud Galaxy near the TGE/Kreeghor and Bushi Federation and nearly immediately Amanda would find herself drawn into dogfights with Kreeghor Special Forces to free the neighboring Rhalra system and it's Rhal inhabitants. All too soon, the

Minion War would erupt with the events at Kotus Point and the arrival of both Cormal, the Destroyer and the Kel Velacos. These Living Pyramids have the capacity to return Amanda home, but risk both leaving a sort of dimensional trail that could be followed back to her world And

actually rupturing the Seeker's Rift subspace bubble which Amanda has come to believe is sort of a solar system-sized energy field generated by the artificial dwarf planets in both the Sol and Alpha Cee systems and May be a sort of force field erected by the Ancient Textrans to

protect their worlds from the Enslavers eons ago. Rupturing it and leaving a trail could draw the likes of Splugorth and Demon Fleets to her home dimension.

If anyone read this insanely long #Palladium #TTRPG thread. What would you do? Would you risk your world by attempting to return home? Would you stay and fight, defend the friends you've made and abandon your fellow Seekers?

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