"A Nation Frees Itself From Social Shackles"

Players: Dominic & Luke

Palette: No Robots, Off World Travel, Oceans, Humans

The 7 Foci:
1) Duke Spruce III
2) "The First Sin" Pollenating, book 1:1
3) Conservotorio
4) The climate of early Arbre
5) The end of Plant Kind
6) The Great Underground Rootmind of the West
7) Vertibrates

The Two Legacies: Parasites (Dominic) & Plant Kind Religion (Luke)

First Age: First Plants Appear On Land (light) "A hot ball of rock greets its first inhabitants"

• Heavy gas clouds break and shed sunlight on a newly oxygenated planet (light)
• Dictated Scene: why did the clouds retreat? The heavy elements catalyzed with each other and the rocks below to create a lighter atmosphere w/water vapor. (light)
• World united under peaceful theocracy of The One True Sun (light)
• Plants grow un-evenly on Arbre's surface, changing local heat absorption rates and invent wind. (light)
• Plants adopt a two part reproduction as opposed to cloning due to solar radiation causing random mutation. (dark)
• Wind technology runs wild, creating a "Great Eye" storm which circles the globe causing massive destruction worldwide for a long time. (dark)
• Theocracy of The One True Sun excommunicates all non-photosynthesizing entities. (dark)
• Photosynthesizers genocide on mushrooms using nutrient stealing and anti-fungal genetics. (dark)
• Stellar radiation creates an immortal plant, later to become the Underground Rootmind. (light)

Age Of The Two Dome War (dark)

• Disease threatens to kill off the above-ground plant w/connected root system (the immortal plant). It becomes the Underground Rootmind to survive culturally. Functions like a cult, and survives by expanding to healthy areas or stealing nutrients from healthy plants. (light)
• Above ground plant life enslaved by gargantu-onmivores. (dark)
• Rootmind issues famous broadcast "fertilize or be burned" (dark)
• Rootmind subjugates eastern hemisphere, drains soil nutrients. (dark)

Age of Animals (light)

• Unified ant colonies attack the Underground Rootmind, but are defeated by his fungal bodyguard, who use poison. (dark)
• First flowering plants appear on the surface of Arbre. (light)
• "Winds of Change" spread flower-culture across the globe, causing social upheaval. Flowers are designed to be interacted with by animals (bees and the like). (dark)
• Small mammals appear as result of a minor ice age. (light)
• Mistletoe develops a way to mind control animals, using air-borne chemicals. (dark)
• First voluntary animal/plant symbiosis. (light)
• Herbivore suicide cult rocks the plant world. "Advancement through being eaten". (dark)
• Carnivorous plants ally with carnivorous animals to destroy herbivores. (dark)
• Last vertebrate (a carnivore) sacrifices itself to the carnivorous plant lobby. (dark)
• Scene: Why is there only one vertebrate left? (players: Carnivorous Plant Lobby) Gluttony of the carnivorous plants, plant life in general. Animals not competitive on Arbre.

Golden Age of the Fern Lords (light)

• Fern Lords destroy underground root-mind, ban global root networks. (light)
• First trees created by the Ferns as "City-titan constructs" (dark)
• Scene: Who was the first tree? Conservotorio! (think Optimus Prime + Gandhi) (light)
• Fern's put a tree to death for dissidence after kangaroo court. (dark)
• Conservotorio leads peaceful protests against slavery by ferns (light)
• The council of the Fern Lords sentences Conservotorio to death as as political prisoner. (dark)
• Conservotorio is the first free city/tree for coniferous trees.

Locust Swarm Wars (dark)

• Conservotorio persuades locust swarms to invade (dark)
• Scene: What leads Conservotorio to ally w/ the locust swarm? (Players: The Open Plains of Nirom, Conservotorio) To save the world from a worse fate. (light)
• Redwood Congrove of the Northern Hemisphere decimated by locusts. (Conservotorio lives in the Redwood Congrove of the Northern Hemisphere) (dark)
• Locusts eliminate last flowering grasses from Arbre (so "flowers" but not flowering bushes or trees) (dark)
• Duke Spruce II personal kills last locust warrior publicly. (light)
• Scene: Why does the duke kill the warrior publicly? ("Conservotorio, last city of the Northern Redwood Congrove", Duke Spruce II) To restore faith in the government.

Age of Coniferous Trees (dark)

• Duke Spruce III cures pinecone eating fungus through strength. Made President. (light)
• Conservotorio named patron saint of The Church of the Evergreen posthumously. (light)
• Duke Spruce III subjugates all fruit-bearing trees. (dark)
• Duke Spruce III creates apocalypse fungus to destroy all plant kind (just in case) (DARK)
• Dictated Scene: What effect does the apocalypse fungus have on the environment? (Location: Remains of Conservotorio) Fossilizes plants upon death, preventing biodegradation and reincorporation of nutrients. (dark)

War of the Twice-Green Leaf (dark)

• Vines and ivies massacre trees en masse, as a rebellion against the dominion of the taller species. (dark)
• Ivy Destroyed by Kudzu in internal struggle. (dark)
• Decimation of plants in the war leads to disastrous drop in oxygen levels. (dark)

Last Age: Nuclear Winter "A darkened sky overlooks the last days of life on Arbre" (dark)

• Last Descendant of Duke Spruce III prophesies coming destruction of Arbre. (dark)
• Peanuts sacrifice species to re-nitrite soil of Arbre in a desperate last ditch move. (light)
• World United under peaceful Theocracy of The Sun's Judgment. (dark)