Carmen met with his stable master in order to facilitate his plan to get to know the horses. There was something strange about the man he couldn't quite put his finger on beside the obvious equine head and the roan fur covering the body.
At the socially appropriate juncture the stallion introduced himself "Your grace, I am Red Rum, formerly one of his majesties studs."
As Red Rum rose from his position of deference it became obvious what the strange feature was, he had a tauric body plan like the centaur of English myth though it had been less obvious given the portion that was normally human was a horse folk in his case.
"Well stable master, I am here to meet you and the horses, see which of them are open to being ridden and when as well as getting to know them."
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Asvar, the world core and god of construction (not creation, that honour belonged to the multiverse core) was considering implementing a dwarven avatar for when he needed to interact with the outside world. He sent out a prayer to his own deity, the universe core Thalia, who he worshipped as godess of gods since she took a feminine name even if he was unsure of her real gender.
The prayer was responded to and a window with the default body appeared, the first thing Asvar did was change the species to Dwarf. He then increased the length of the beard to reflect his social standing as a lesser deity.
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Asvar started considering the rest of the physical appearance of this avatar, muscle and fat mass; skin, hair and eye colour; height and proportion; hairstyle. In the end the only other true change from the default was that his hair and beard were made up of pebbles of granite matching the standard skin tone and his eyes were orbs of solid gold. It was locked in as a body he could use should he ever need one.
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Imuel was one of the few beings that had begun with taboo skills at measurable levels, most had been brewers but he was a gambler and had ranks in a number of dice and card games to reflect that. Still, as a dwarf he'd been offered the patronage of several deities who'd wanted to help him by distracting him with other projects but he had a problem, he'd been an addict and he thought the plan conducted by the god of chance to substitute more acceptable uses for those skills was best. The god also covered games with more practical uses and proposed turning the dioramas some generals set up into a simulation using dice to reflect the possibility of injury or death. The English had several such games they'd be able to, well plagiarise was the closest word but the relevant copyright laws didn't actually apply. Still he'd been furnished with a map of their world, divided into the major regions, such as was used for the game of Risk and had been practising using those rules but felt it was time to move on to something more complex with varied units and not just quantity to consider. Maybe, once the gods felt he was ready, he could again have his own body. At least in the meantime he could watch over the four remaining members of the clan that had also come over.
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Astria was considering what she had seen, could she really look anywhere in the world, she'd been spying on the most interesting people so far, at least in theory. She was going to try looking somewhere without.
The empty expanse of the deep ocean was a sensible target, no people here but there might be animals and monsters. Was that something cresting the wave? Yes, a slimy tentacle. Astria looked closer, it belonged to a jellyfish like being with a heart shaped crystal. English artwork often depicted heal slimes in this manner. She tried to call up its status, she was wrong, a heal slime it was but it was also a person since it had the target attributes, it looked like it qualified as a cleric under the new class system she had been implementing though it lacked the reading and writing skills.