3x7 (tentatively Gateway)

[Kappa]

You do not ever end up with a different amount of Green from your amount of Life!

[DanielH]

No

[Bluelantern]

I would like to know more about the powers: farsight, darksight, telepathy (its only comunicative?), metamagic and what is the difference between using aerokinesis or weather control to control the wind.

[Kappa]

Aerokinesis will only let you move air around. Weather control lets you change what the weather thinks it is doing.

Farsight lets you see things that are far away and/or not within your normal line-of-sight at all. Darksight lets you see in the dark as clearly as in the light, and potentially see through solid objects (although not particularly well). Telepathy is primarily communicative and definitely does not do mind control or anything like it. Metamagic lets you sense and manipulate magic, but not in arbitrary "hey I want this thing to start working like that instead of this" ways; you are somewhat constrained by the characteristics and limitations of the system you're trying to work with.

[PlainDealingVillain]

How planned was the Gateway having a voice and rules to how it speaks?

[Kappa]

I planned for it to have a way to communicate; the exact rules of how it speaks (in this iteration) were more improvised.

Gay stargate speech rules

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It can say one thing at a time. Most nouns are things. Some other words are also things. Yes and no are not things.

Also, it has to mean the thing it says, which is why the consonant/vowel trick doesn't work. It can say "elephant" to mean "elephant" but it can't say "elephant" to mean "yes".

Its vocabulary is not technically restricted outright, but it can't always think of a word for the thing it wants to say.

[DanielH]

What about true, false, truth, falsehood, correct, incorrect, right, wrong, reality, or fiction?

Edit: Spoilered

[Kappa]

'Yes' and 'no' are not things that can be meant in the correct way, so you can't dodge the problem with synonyms.

[Shoal]

not having caught up on that thread since yesterday yet, it seems that with these rules it would be easier to communicate with the gateway if you do shorter sentences? instead of writing a paragraph and it can only reply with one word, just a short sentence would give it less to respond to so it's response could be more complete? I mean that if it only has one word and that word has to respond to any/all of 10 clauses then that sounds a lot harder than if the one word needs to respond to a single clause.

[Kappa]

There's a simplified gay stargate now! 3x5 instead of 3x7.

Here's the rundown of its rings:

The red flower is the Rose. Its element is Earth. Its sign is Creation.
The red bird is the Cardinal. Its element is Spirit. Its sign is Change.
The red jewel is the Garnet. Its element is Fire. Its sign is Destruction.

The yellow flower is the Sunflower. Its element is Fire. Its sign is Change.
The yellow bird is the Goldfinch. Its element is Earth. Its sign is Destruction.
The yellow jewel is the Topaz. Its element is Air. Its sign is Creation.

The green flower is the Hellebore. Its element is Spirit. Its sign is Destruction.
The green bird is the Hummingbird. Its element is Water. Its sign is Creation.
The green jewel is the Emerald. Its element is Earth. Its sign is Change.

The blue flower is the Iris. Its element is Air. Its sign is Destruction.
The blue bird is the Swallow. Its element is Fire. Its sign is Creation.
The blue jewel is the Sapphire. Its element is Water. Its sign is Change.

The purple flower is the Lotus. Its element is Water. Its sign is Destruction.
The purple bird is the Martin. Its element is Air. Its sign is Change.
The purple jewel is the Amethyst. Its element is Spirit. Its sign is Creation.


And for powers:

Red once lets you sense metal, twice gives you metallokinesis, three times gives you a whole lot of metallokinesis.
Yellow once lets you sense mass, twice gives you telekinesis, three times gives you a whole lot of telekinesis.
Green once lets you sense life, twice gives you biokinesis, three times gives you a whole lot of biokinesis.
Blue once lets you sense weather, twice gives you weather control, three times gives you a whole lot of weather control.
Purple once lets you sense magic, twice gives you metamagic, three times gives you a whole lot of metamagic.

Fire once lets you sense fire, twice gives you pyrokinesis, three times gives you a whole lot of pyrokinesis. (Symbol: flame)
Air once lets you sense air, twice gives you aerokinesis, three times gives you a whole lot of aerokinesis. (Symbol: spiral)
Earth once lets you sense earth, twice gives you geokinesis, three times gives you a whole lot of geokinesis. (Symbol: rock)
Water once lets you sense water, twice gives you hydrokinesis, three times gives you a whole lot of hydrokinesis. (Symbol: wave)
Spirit once lets you sense emotion, twice gives you telepathy, three times gives you a whole lot of telepathy. (Symbol: star)


The change/creation/destruction signs and their balance work the same way as in the 3x7 version.

(Note: This arrangement has been updated once since it was originally posted. I wasn't satisfied with the original configuration of signs/colours/elements, and somebody prompted me to shuffle it around, so I did.)