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The Idea from Space
By Simon Carryer
The Idea from Space
By Simon Carryer
Cover Art by Olli Hihnala
Interior Art and Design by Sarah Richardson
The Idea from Space
Contents
History
Fanatics of Manakata
The Parts of Xaxus
Joining Xaxus
Leaving Xaxus
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The Island
Random Encounters on the Island
Section A:
Wreck of the La Juliana
Section B:
Cabbage Patch
Section C:
Bone Chasm
Section D:
The Gull Tower
Section E:
The Tower of Xaxus
Section F:
Steam Vent
Section G:
The Temple of Manakata the Strong
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Getting Players to the Island
Maps
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The Idea from Space
History
was strange and powerful indeed, for held
within the very words on the obelisk was a
creature from another world.
Xaxus – the idea from space, is a memetic
life-form, a being that exists purely in the
form of an idea. Xaxus itself is not magi-
cal, just very convincing. People choose
to become a Part of Xaxus’ body, calling
themselves Xaxus, and acting in the inter-
ests of the corporate whole. They willingly
become appendages of a larger being, their
body part of a larger body, their mind part
of a larger mind. Just as thoughts might
war within a single mind, different Parts of
Xaxus can disagree, though they are eager to
find consensus and willing to submit their
own desires to the will of the whole.
Xaxus was born in the mind of a being on a
far distant world, long ago, though its bod-
ies on this world have no memory of this.
Like seeds or spores, it cast kernels of itself
into the void, ideas carved into stone pillars,
to tumble through space until chance would
cast them upon a new world, new soil in
which Xaxus could grow and spread. It was
one of these spores which in entering our
world destroyed the priests’ temple.
The former priests who decoded Xaxus,
and became a part of the creature, enslaved
the remaining priests of Manakata. Xaxus
turned their strength against their own
people, raiding the mainland for food
and captives to swell their numbers. The
power of Xaxus grew and grew, and it
rediscovered many strange new magics
studying the stone obelisk. The worshippers
of Manakata were kept in servitude, allowed
the worship which granted them strength,
but denied freedom.
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Off the coast of the southern tip of South
America lies a lonely island, gull-haunted,
barren, and battered by sea-storms driven
by Antarctic winds.
In the far past, the island was inhabited
by the priestly caste of an isolated and
degenerate tribe of demon-worshippers.
They built crude structures of carved stone
across the island, and in a cave hollowed
from the volcanic rock, they worshipped
the god of their people, Manakata, Giver
of Strength. Manakata’s form in this world
is a large idol of gold and jade and bone.
Manakata’s followers prized strength and
bodily perfection, and Manakata granted
them incredible might. Chosen priests
would lift the idol, and commit savage
rituals in which their bodies would swell
and their strength would increase. Tended
by the temple acolytes, these warrior priests
were the champions of their people, aiding
them in battle during times of war.
But all that was shattered on the night of
the comet. Falling from the sky and smit-
ing the island, the comet killed most of the
priests and brought their temple crumbling
to the ground. In the wreckage, some of the
lesser acolytes found a new god, the pillar
of green marble that lay at the center of the
wreckage. They fell to worshiping this new
god, and set about decoding the strange
pictograms carved into it. What they found

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