Editing Roshi Log in to edit. Anyone can read. Title Text '''Roshi''' (one roshi, many roshi) are the small creatures that live on [/plot the Plot] — a member's own stretch of the village — and, later, in the Wilds and the Commons. A roshi is not a character and not a chatbot: it has a '''genome''' (two copies of every gene, one from each parent, the dominant one expressed), a '''chemistry''' (a hundred and twenty-eight humours in its blood, organs that make and break them, seventeen drives — hunger of three kinds, thirst, sleepiness, boredom, loneliness, fear, pain, and the rest), and a '''brain''' that learns what to do about them. The words it says are the ones it was taught. == The Plot == The first visit plants '''two seeds''' in the straw, with a tin of biscuits, a bowl of water, a bowl of beans, a straw bed and a red ball. A seed hatches when there is room. The member is the hand: pat, scold, drop a biscuit, carry, teach a word, ask ''what?'' (it answers in its own babble, or in the words it knows) and ''why?'' (the drive behind it). The '''Vetti''' — a character of the member's own, one of the races of man — comes later and takes the chores; for now the orders are three checkboxes. The Plot lives at '''two ticks a second''' while someone watches and at a tenth of that while nobody does; it catches up when you come back. A roshi's life is about nine Plot-days, which is two to four weeks of ordinary visits. Six roshi and four seeds at most on a Plot. It can die: of hunger, of injury, of old age, or of eating the wrong thing. It is remembered. == The kinds == The first kind is the '''Pibbi''': round, soft, big-eyed, with feelers that follow its mood. Other kinds come with their sheets. Kinds do not interbreed. Two roshi of the same kind that have come to like each other make a seed, and the seed's genome is a shuffle of both parents' with a little mutation — a child can carry a colour neither parent shows, and a line can lose a gene or gain one. == The lineage == The deep story, as far as the record goes: a ''proto-bipedal'' several million years back split into the Pibbi's line and the ''proto-men'', from whom the races of man descend — the Orci on one branch, and on the other the elves, western (the Golden High Elvi and the Dark Elvi, parted fifty thousand years ago) and eastern (the dwarves, the wood elves and the gnomes). The Pibbi is a cousin of the races of man, not their ancestor: alike in the face and the stance, never an exact match. Which is why a Vetti understands its roshi without being one of them. The rest is '''Theory'''. == See also == [[nuxtre|Nuxtre]] · [[nux|the nux]] Summary Status: Confirmed — your edit makes it a Theory until an editor looks again Save page Show preview Cancel By saving you agree that your text can be edited and reverted by others and read by everyone. The help page has the markup. Secrets go in a fold; Rex reads this wiki.