Cream Starlight
Living Tree
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Here's a part of it.
If you have any suggestions or want to contribute, feel free to post it here!
This thread is always open.
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Limbo Encyclopedia update 202601032144 said:# Limbo Encyclopedia
## Metainfo
This encyclopedia is for SJ!Limbo by Cream Starlight, which is inspired by and partly based on Limbo by Im_ConfuzzledCobalt.
### Related works
| :-- | :-- |
| Work | Creator |
| Starlit Journey | Cream Starlight |
| Limbo | Im\_ConfuzzledCobalt |
| Undertale | Toby Fox |
### Contributors
| :-- | :-- |
| User | Role |
| Cream Starlight | Creator |
| Im\_ConfuzzledCobalt | Limbo Creator |
| Asternove | Ideas |
| TheManWithTheFlannel | Ideas |
## World
### Overview
Limbo is a place much simpler than Earth. To say, it has no super-tall mountains, and complex climates also is non-existent here. The terrains are rather mild - plains, forests, rivers, lakes, hills, caves, and a lot of wildlife that doesn't wield human intelligence. If might look wonderful, but if wildlife exists, of course there will be predators. While being a minority, they're most of the time very dangerous. The place doesn't look THAT peaceful.
It is known that some people who entered this place (either involuntarily or deliberately) for the first time developed some special abilities, and all of the abilities have something to do with magic or technology. Some bizzare things will also happen naturally, but that's another topic.
### Chronologic
A day in this world scales differently from Earth. One day here is around 30 hours, or to be exact, 30h 01m 55s 255ms ± 14m 15s 101ms.
In this world, seasons exist. Still your average spring, summer, autumn and winter. Each lasts for 125 Limbo days, meaning a year is 500 Limbo days long.
### Features
E=mc²? Screw that, who need that here? The physics here is almost the same with the Earth's in disregard of magic, and if you add magic in? Laws of thermodynamics are blown into shreds. Energy can be generated, and can vanish. And energy in magic form can work in 100% efficiency. Get that?
## Characters
### Li Shiyu (Chn. 李诗雨)
Pseudonym: Cream Starlight
#### Overview
A 16 y/o girl with dark brown hair and a lighter Asian complexion. Wears a cyan sweater with two blue strips on it (Sort of like Frisk except for them it was cyan and magenta), long blue trousers, and a pair of pink sneakers with white bottoms. On the right side of her head there is a star hairpin.
Mostly kind, and can be very sympathic. Tries to be reasonable, but can be slightly blunt when a problem arises. Can be analyzing when serious. More focused on strategies in combat. Have little mercy for those she hates.
Can use pyro/hydro/cryo/anemo/light/starlit magic. Mainly masters at pyro/hydro/cryo/starlit.
English expert, due to having played a lot of English games from a young age and having social accounts on non-Chinese sites.
*Secretly blessed by the Goddess of Stars... Without Shiyu knowing the fact.*
#### Backstory
Before coming to Limbo, Shiyu was actually pretty your average highschool student who had a semi-high score, but, due to academic stress and parental problems, always wanted to escape reality for a while. When a portal opened right beside her while she was having a Chinese class in the morning, everyone in the classroom was shocked. Shiyu wasn't, and was ready to jump into it.
Her deskmate tried to pull her, but she politely refused, saying, "Sorry I have to leave, thank you for all your care, but I'm outta here! And do remember to tell my parents about it.", and jumped into the portal anyway with her schoolbag.
Well, she used to have a happy childhood before 12, where she's mostly free (primary school aside). She could explore freely and dig into things she was interested in, for example, astronomy. Things changed when she went to junior high school, and her parents started worrying more about her academics. She didn't dislike studying, but found extracurricular classes and materials boring and annoying.
...At least here in Limbo, all her actions don't have to be overseen, and she can feel her own consequences in a realistic way.
#### Physical stats
Gender: Cis. Female (she/they)
Wt: 52 kg / Ht: 162 cm
Allergic to ink, thus she does not use roller ball pens.
### Lin Xueqing (Chn. 林雪晴)
#### Overview
A 13 y/o girl with dark brown hair and a lighter Asian complexion. Wears a white T-shirt with cyan sleeve cuffs and a green nerdy text on her shirt saying ">hello, world.\_". And also short jeans and a pair of pink sneakers.
Mostly kind, and can be very sympathic. Tries to be polite normally, but when a problem arises, she can be very straightforward and blunt. Can be very analyzing when serious. More focused on exploiting weaknesses in combat. Have little mercy for those she hates.
Can use pyro/cryo/starlit magic. Mainly masters at cryo.
Very good at programming.
*Secretly blessed by the Goddess of Stars... Without Xueqing knowing the fact.*
#### Backstory
Xueqing had a happy childhood with her parents and neighborhood until she was 9, when a genocide, conducted by a large organization and specifically targetting the town she lived in, broke out only because a townsfolk owed money. She was able to survive and escape with a chest wound that seemed almost impossible to survive, and went on a tense trip. Her parents and most of her friends didn't make it.
After having travelled around the country/nation she was in for 2 years, learning all kinds of skills from treating wounds to surviving in the wild, she finally settled down at a friend's house in a big city. From then on, she tried to live normally, which she succeeded, and developed an interest in coding. She studied about IT on her own, and ended up developing a small indie game.
When she was debugging a program at night, a portal opened right beside her, and she fell into it frightened. With her laptop.
#### Physical stats
Gender: Cis. Female (she/they)
Wt: 49 kg / Ht: 159 cm
Has a heart condition where if she's suddenly scared very bad, her heart has a chance to arrest.
### Michael Windwood
Pseudonym: Bright
#### Overview
A 13 y/o cowboy that looks a lot like Clover in Undertale Yellow. He is rather selfless, and in general is a nice person. Also pretty nerdy. Doesn't know when to quit sometimes.
He can make weapons (usually pistols, more specifically a six-shooter) out of light. He knows a few proper spells as well.
#### Backstory
**!! Michael POV !!**
"Well, I spouted it out in the fight, and I realized that hiding it isn't doing anyone favors. There are four important people in this tale, all of whom I've lost or are in danger of losing."
"First was my biological mother. She was loving, caring, and everything else you could ask in one. Was she perfect? No, but no one really is. Anyways, my family was relatively wealthy, and a thief came in one day. She was shot before my very eyes..."
(Bright holds back tears.)
"The gun jammed before shooting me, which gave my brother, the second important person, a chance to fight back before any further harm was done. He grabbed his favorite hunting rifle and shot him dead. Two bodies lay on the ground in the span of half a minute. The court didn't like that, so instead of giving him the just 'self-defense' sentence, they charged him with 1st degree murder and sentenced him to life in jail. They wouldn't let us bail 'em out, either."
"My dad, the third important figure, went from a successful business man to giving up on life after this singular event. He started alcoholism and other rather bad things like that. I had lost the life of my mother, the freedom of my brother, and the will to live of my father in one day."
"There was only one light in my life left. My best friend, Anne Marie. I called her Dark, as she was 'the Darkest Bandit.' We dressed up as Wild West folk to try to escape our problems. It wasn't a great life, but good enough to not become my father. Cut to a year later, I come home from her house, and my father informs me that I am being sent away. He was dubbed 'unable to properly take care of a teenager,' and I was planned to be sent to foster care."
"That was all I could take. I ran away, into the forest. I don't know where I planned to go from there, but all I knew is that I couldn't take it anymore. I passed out under a tree…"
#### Physical stats
Gender: Cis. Male (he/him)
Wt: 116 lb / Ht: 5' 6"
### Xervaitexem, the Rope God
A humanoid man aged 24-ish, wearing Leinfor's Set from Terraria, with a brown laser eye glow that he turn on and off at will. He's missing an eye, but can still see through his eye glow, or, his "Auric soul's eyes."
He's bashful, proud, confident, and persistent. Kinda a jerk. Like, shenanigans bordering on Terrorism jerk. And he firmly believes he can do anything.
He can conjure and control infinite rope and/or barbed wire at will. He's the Rope God, after all.
#### Backstory
One of the Tyrant Gods of Calamity, he's technically the god of control. After narrowly escaping being slaughtered by Yharim, he laid in hiding for a thousand years before trying to go back to his former power. He only got to the Slime God before getting yoinked by Limbo.
#### Physical stats
Gender: Cis. Male (he/him or He/Him)
Wt: 180 lb / Ht: 6' 2"
### Chis
- Special thanks to Im_ConfuzzledCobalt, an OC-creation maniac overly obsessed with trauma.
A kind and sweet (pun) brown candy woman with a red snail-like shell, which is hard to break. Perhaps due to the heavy shell, she doesn't run very fast.
She was made in a failed experiment at a pastry shop, but no one knows how.
Under all known laws of biology, there is no possible explanation as to how Chis functions as a living being. However, Chis simply does not give a damn about science, and despite being 99.99% sucrose, she can talk, walk, and possess human emotion and thought.
Tethin's wife, on very good terms with him, even if he's a bug.
### Tethin Colak
- Special thanks to Creeper326.
A mostly black bipedal bugfolk who wears a duster coat and wide brimmed hat. Often very polite with his speech. Robust and sometimes mischievous. He might appear stern, but is very caring for those he cares about. We don't know how, but he lacks care for self image and cannot feel humiliated.
It takes time for him to trust people, but if he does, he can be very loyal. In this case, they might rely on them too much, making their betrayal devastating for him.
He can shoot acid out of his forearms. This will cost him some blood and takes time and food to recharge.
It is unknown how he was created, and he himself theorizes that his parents were mutalated bugs. He was born/hatched in a desert and grew up learning life the hard way. With this, he's very great with climbing and intimidation.
Chis' husband, on very good terms with her, even if technically he can eat her.
## Creatures
**Note that pretty much every of Earth species also exist here, but due to the impossibility of recording them here (What do you expect? A 15 gig+ Earth creature encyclopedia?), I'm saving up space for the acual unique species here. This article is not finished.**
### A#0001 - Butterbunny
A kind of rabbit that grows a pair of butterfly wings. The bunnies are usually white, but pink variants can appear. Their wings can have vibrant colors and look pretty, much like the butterflies on Earth.
The wings grown on their back are actually functional, and with this they have a greater chance of avoiding predators who are not able to hunt down something that's out of their reach. When they fly, their wings give off yellow particles, which if seen at night, can be a beautiful sight. They are only able to fly continuously for ~5 minutes, and they will need some recovery after getting exhausted from flying. At this point, it's very easy to catch them.
Wt: 400g ~ 2kg mature / Sz: 8 cm ~ 18 cm from hind feet to head
### A#0002 - Aerosheep
Sheep that is as light as clouds, can fly. More to be added.
### A#0003, A#0004 - Starry and Code
These two are the materialized form of Shiyu and Xueqing's imaginations, and only appeared in Limbo after the two girls' arrival.
Both of them have flight abilities, with Starry's being a pair of cyan celestial wings and Code's being a green code-styled jetpack.
Starry appears as a chibi version of Shiyu, and is usually energetic and sympathic, while Code appears as a chibi version of Xueqing, usually stable and analyzing. Both of them are intelligent as humans, and while they can't speak (even if they have mouths), they can express themselves via bodily gestures. You can rarely see them separated.
The two small cuties are very rare, and currently there's only 2 pairs of them in the entire Limbo.
If one in a pair dies, the dead one will dissipate into starlight, waiting for the one still alive to collect. Upon collection, the one still left will desperately look for a Birithin to revive the other one.
Pair 1
- Starry: Wt 85 g / Ht 6.5 cm
- Code: Wt 80 g / Ht 6 cm
Pair 2
- Starry: Wt 95 g / Ht 7.5 cm
- Code: Wt 90 g / Ht 7 cm
### A#0005 - Astermoth
- Special thanks to Asternove, a moth lover.
Saturniids with astral energy. More to be added.
> Probably a Saturniid… could be a hawk moth but Saturniids are bigger and cuter so yeah. -Asternove
### A#0006 - The Fossil
A living skeleton that seems like a beast. Predator, hostile.
It does not need food to be alive, its physical structure doesn't allow it to digest physical food. Instead, it feeds on life energy. Don't be bitten, as not only would you be hurt, but also would you feel tired. This might put you at a disadvantage, and if you aren't able to make it out before you pass out, the Fossil will eventually make you succumb to death.
How to beat it? You can try to immobilize it by breaking its legs (no pun), then when it can't move, strike its skull until it breaks.
When it dies, its absorbed life energy not yet consumed will be released, healing everything and everyone near by and growing a few plants. In extreme cases, this can pull a person with heart injury back to life or make you feel younger than you should be.
Has priority, and usually hunts for those who have a lot of life energy. (humans > big fauna > small fauna, doesn't eat plants)
### P#0001 - Glowing berries
As their name describes them, they are literally glowing berries. There are many kinds of glowing berries, each with different colors.
If you plant a berry, it will grow into a bush within 15 Limbo days. Needs 45 Limbo days to be ready to bear fruit, and will bear likely 2~125 berries per bush per 20 Limbo days (which largely depends on insects).
- Red berries: Edible, tastes like tomato. Can enhance strength slightly.
- Orange berries: Edible, tastes like cheese. Eating too much upsets your stomach.
- Yellow berries: Edible, tastes like mint. Can be used as a medicine treating common Earth diseases or applied as first aid.
- Green berries: Upset stomach guaranteed, might cause delusions. Still edible if you don't mind tasting poop.
- Blue berries: Edible. Glowing blueberries. Helps with calming down.
- Purple berries: Not edible, bitter and venomous. Eating just one causes delusions and bodily pain - and with this it's very rare to see it around Limbo, few would help with spreading its seeds.
### A#0007 - Pyrofox
- Special thanks to TheManWithTheFlannel.
Fox that has the ability to make itself on fire to protect itself and scare away predators. Fire resistant, but weak to water. Will hunt down butterbunnies.
### A#0008 - Eerie spirit
This shadowy figure looks like Chara from Undertale except they're completely black save for their eyes glowing red.
Wt ??? / Ht 155 cm
### P#0002 - Likeomancer
- Inspired by IThinkQueenSlimeIsBad's behavior of reacting a "like" over almost every post he sees on Terraria Community Forums.
A tree that grows fruit that looks like a red hand doing a thumb up. Very bizarre, right?
The fruit is sized around a sphere of 8cm diameter, and tastes like apples. Can make people feel a little bit better emotionally when they eat it. Contains 4~12 seeds at its core.
When you plant the seed, it will need 15~45 Limbo days to grow into a sapling. It'll need 120~200 Limbo days to be ready to bear fruit, but once it matures, it ISN'T GOING TO STOP PRODUCING FRUIT UNTIL ITS DEATH. (6/Limbo day)
Ht: 6 m ~ 32.5 m mature
### A#0009 - Technopig
- In loving memory of Technoblade, the Legend of Minecraft.
A pig that has human intelligence and high battle intelligence. Has a red cloak and a crown decorated by gems over it. Doesn't like being governed, and can raise a revolution *all by itself* if violence is deemed necessary.
Immune to death energy, life drain and cancer.
### F#0001 - Yahooshroom
The average mushroom you can see in... Super Mario Bros? YES, it's literally a mushroom grown this way, but instead of making you bigger, it heals you to some extent.
Can be eaten raw, made into dishes or made into soup. When eaten raw, it has some special effects - when you receive a fatal wound in 5 minutes, it will revert your physical state, effectively nullifying the attack.
Doesn't have a special flavor, the best that can describe its flavor is... plain noodles.
## Ores
### M#001 - Birithin
Rare ores that contains life energy in its purest form. Can be used to resurrect the dead - as long as their souls are still there not severely damaged.
ρ = (4.2~8.8) g/cm³ (Life's density.)
### M#002 - Ultranite
(TBA!)
### M#003 - Pitite
Minerals that have lives. Human emotional intelligence. Does not usually move around despite alive, and are found more in pits. They can build a community on their own.
Usually soft, but will harden themselves in response to physical trauma or potential threats. Upon death, they become soft again, and are great for making pillows.
ρ = (0.05~0.5) g/cm³
## Structures
(TBA!)
## Zones
(TBA!)
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