Terrea Introduction Thread - Start Here!

Hello! Welcome to here. You seem to have found yourself on Terrea, the forum home of an art, writing and role play community that hosts player-interactive events that help shape its story and universe. We use the Proboards forums to host our events and store our information, though we also operate through our Discord. Please message one of the admins for an invite!

Terrea also happens to be the name of the planet where our story takes place. Terrea is a planet made by the Life Goddess Ichor. Its main inhabitants are called bloblings, who are mochi-like creatures that can transform into anything and everything as long as it's an Evolution Phase. Evolution Phases will be explained in more detail soon, but basically, an Evolution Phase is a period of time where bloblings are at their most malleable.

BLOBLINGS:



This is a blobling.

Every player who joins Terrea will be asked to fill out a form to get one of these in the Get A Blobling area. Other than reading this thread here, that's the first step! You may choose between a happy, sad or neutral expression for your blobling, its body and eye colours, and its personality.

A blobling is a soft, bouncy creature that's somewhere between the size of a baseball and a basketball. You may choose where yours falls on that scale. They start off with a mouth and eyes and they may hear, speak, taste, roll around and more! Blobs can levitate a few feet off the ground, though in times of great urgency that number can go higher.

Inside of every blobling is an ooey, gooey sack filled with blood that matches the colour of its eyes.

Everybody's first blobling begins their journey in the world being spawned in at a predetermined location in a Terrean desert called the Smiley Sands. A newbie adventure that helps to ease new players and bloblings into the world is in the works!

EVOLUTION PHASES:
Evolution Phases are periods of time that happen on Terrea that allow bloblings to grow new parts and grow closer and closer to how they feel they should look.

On the site/out of character, these are month-long periods where the player may add up to 10 new Vouchers to a blobling to change their appearance. A regular Evolution Phase will allow players to apply for mod-drawn art that will be personally drawn for them! A DIY Evolution Phase allows for a player to hire an artist for the task or do their blobling's new art themselves.

Vouchers are purchased from the Shop tab in the navigation bar above using on-site Coins earned through role playing, posting on the forums and participating in events. And more!

BLEEDING SEASONS:
Bleeding Seasons happen on Terrea when an Evolution Phase is not happening. When the blood of two or more bloblings combines, new bloblings called droplets are born from the blood pool!

On the site/out of character, these are two-month-long periods wherein players may 'bleed' their blobling with another blobling on the site to make new bloblings!

Like Evolution Phases, Bleeding Seasons require Vouchers that are purchasable using Coins or USD under the Shop tab in the navigation bar, or in the Paid section of the forums.

THE MAP OF TERREA:


This is a map of Terrea. Terrea is a round planet with a red sky that floats in an empty, largely starless version of space, but this accurately represents its layout!
Terrea is quite a lot smaller than Earth, but it continues to grow in size each time a new biome is added.

- The Smiley Sands:
The Smiley Sands is a dry, wind-free desert biome. It was the first biome to ever exist on Terrea! In fact, Terrea started out as a giant, featureless ball of sand. Roughly in the middle of this biome, between the Snekkitti City and B's City, is where all new bloblings will begin their new life.
- Created By: Ichor, as Terrea's very first biome.

B's City:
B's City is a city erected by B, an orange blobling with a talent for building things. While it was originally quite shoddily built, it's come a long way and looks rather sturdy now, if quite utilitarian.
- Created By: B.

The Snekkitti City:
The Snekkitti City was created to house the snekkitties, otherworldly creatures who appeared through one of Yume's portals. The Snekkitti City was created to mimic what their own planet looked like and even boasts the only 'sunlight' on all of Terrea.
- Created By: Ichor, after the snekitties were brought to Terrea.

- The Sourglow Swamp:
The Sourglow Swamp is a wet, murky swamp filled with mud and many shallow pools of water. This biome was created by Ichor and was made collaboratively with the world's very first bloblings.
- Created By: Ichor and the world's first bloblings.

The Tar Pits:
Later, the Tar Pits were added to this biome by Eris in an effort to make Terrea feel more like home. The Tar Pits are a section of the Sourglow Swamp with black earth and wide, bubbling tar pools that reach out and grab all those who do not follow CHAOS.
- Created By: Eris, to make Terrea more closely resemble his own planet.

- The Mossy Mountains and Climate Caves:
The Mossy Mountains and Climate Caves are a section of Terrea with mint-flavoured moss covering the land. This biome is frigid and is dotted with mountains, many of which have caves in them. Inside these caves are pools of lava, which warm the small spaces and make them pleasantly habitable for most blobs.
- Created By: Ichor, in collaboration with the world's bloblings.

Reinala's City:
This city was created by the half-blobling child of Themis, the setting's Goddess of Order. This half-blobling is named Reinala. Reinala created her city near a mountain range in an attempt to erect a safe, controlled space where she could keep any blobling inhabitants safe. Even just entering the city requires a personality test administered by Reinala's personal assistant.
- Created By: Reinala.

- The Colourwave Coasts and Dampwater Darks:
The Colourwave Coasts and Dampwater Darks are a pleasant biome filled with long, white grass. Eating this grass is said to have medicinal qualities. At the center of the biome is a giant, floating orb of water and a pool that lies beneath it. A circle of soft, hexagonal rainbow tiles surrounds this pool, which is dark and shadowy due to its position under the orb.
- Created By: Ichor, in collaboration with the world's bloblings.

THE DEITIES OF TERREA:
Ichor, Eris and Themis are the main Gods and Goddesses of Terrea. Each blobling that gets created on Terrea is asked to choose Life, Order or Chaos, though Neutral is also certainly an option - the Gods and Goddesses are the faces of these ways of life.


ICHOR:
Ichor is the Goddess of Life, and the creator of Terrea and the bloblings. She's known for her wanton desire for blood, her quirky personality, and her long rashes of absence. Sorry, bloblings.

ERIS:
Eris is the God of Chaos, and the creator of the Tar Pits on Terrea. He's known for being loyal and duplicitous almost at the same time. He appears in a slightly different form each time he shows himself, but common themes are his many red eyes and a long, flowing lion mane.


THEMIS:
Themis is the Goddess of Order on Terrea. Themis is a withdrawn, tidy Goddess who values rules and structure. She tends to stay away from Terrea at Ichor's request, and is therefore the most difficult of the three to form a relationship with. She's mostly seen trying to correct whatever nonsense Eris has gotten up to.

Hopefully, this should be enough information for you to get started on making a blobling and joining in on all of the fun! There's more information on everything mentioned here in the Guides and Information section, which I encourage you to read when you're feeling ready.