[✗] [World Lore] Murmurite

[FlareGunCalamity 210]

Murmurite

 

Background:

Discovered during the travels of a field geologist. Deep within a cave, the geologist stopped beside a spring to rinse the sweat from their forehead. In the center of the waters stood an imposing column of dark blue rock, arranged in strange tubes and vesicles like some alien pipe organ. The rock seemed to be causing echoes far louder than possible with the acoustics of the cave. Samples of this rock, alluring in physical appearance but seemingly inert, laid dormant in a collection for many years, until the discovery that they could be attuned to each other and regain their sound-amplifying abilities.

 

(Pictured: A cut slab of Murmurite, exposing its beautiful deep blue-green color)

 

Material Name and Description:

 

Found in volcanic hot springs and in cave springs, Murmurite is formed when water flows through the earth and springs forth through fissures through the ground, collecting tiny particles of crystal that are then deposited at the mouths of springs. Where these rock deposits form, a power is imbued into the forming crystals, granted by the whispering of the water that carried it to its perch. These crystals form a type of rock called a Tufa, which has hollow tunnels and channels through which sound can pass. The rock resembles a flute in its hollow tube shape, caused in part by the precipitation of rock into the water and in part by small organisms living in the rock boring the holes. When sound enters one side of an opening in this rock, it can pass out through the opening of another rock that isn’t connected to it, as long as those two samples of Murmurite have been attuned to one another.

Murmurite is brittle rock with a visual texture similar to a sponge, filled with holes and thin tube-like channels. When held, it has a texture to the fingers much like pumice or chalk, seeming delicate and grainy. The rock forms upward in large columns from the floors of warm water springs. The rock is overall a dull greenish blue in appearance, sort of like a deep sea green or a dark teal, but upon close inspection of the rock one would find its made of many tiny, pearlescent, glittering grains of blue-green crystal, each no larger than a grain of sand. 

 

Applications:

 

If you can harvest a sample of Murmurite, the channels will keep their ability to transmit sound and can even transmit sound across vast distances, through walls without windows and even underground, as long as they are attuned to at least one other Murmurite rock to which they can transmit. To attune two Murmurite rocks together, they must only be submerged in warm running water together, connecting the two samples to each other. A sample of Murmurite rock can transmit sound to any number of samples and there is no limit to the number of times a Murmurite can be attuned to other Murmurite rocks.

 

A guide for attuning your stone to another person’s stone:

-Find a source of warm moving water, like a river bank, the waves on a beach, or in a bubbling hot spring. Submerge both of the stones in the water together. After a few moments, the stones will start to glow together in light following the pattern of the moving water. This indicates that the stones have been successfully attuned to one another. Now you can send a message to the other stone.

 

Murmurite can only transmit sound to other Murmurite rock if both of the rocks have fully enclosed, intact channels which run all the way through the rock to make an open tube like a straw. If the stone is crushed, it loses its ability to transmit sound to anywhere. The rock is very easy to crush and can even be crushed in one’s hand with enough force. Dropping it on the ground accidentally may not destroy it, but throwing it against the ground will cause it to burst into a pile of blue powder and shrapnel.

To send a message through the Murmurite stone, you must first conjure a clear image of the message recipient in your mind, then speak into the hollow channel within the rock. When sending a message, the rock will begin to softly glow with ripples of blue-green light, like waves across the surface of a still pond. When the message has been sent, or if the message cannot be received, the rock will stop glowing.

 

Here is a roleplay guide to sending messages with a Murmurite stone:

Emote 1- conjure a clear image of the person you wish to contact in your mind.

Emote 2- the rock will start to glow in rippling patterns of light, like oscillating waves on water.

Emote 3- speak into the stone to send your message to the intended recipient (through /msg). You do not need to emote the contents of your message out loud, but can simply say ‘[character] whispers into the stone’ the same way you would say ‘[character] writes on paper’ to send a message with a bird.

 

(Pictured: A bleached tufa rock, containing little to no Murmurite as evidenced by its color. This is an example of the shape of the tubes one would find in an ideal sample.)

 

Red lines:

 

-It takes 3 emotes to send a message with the Murmurite stone. Similarly, it takes 3 emotes to receive a message. This is the same rule for emoting message sending as for birds.

-Do not use a Murmurite stone to metagame. The messages sent through these stones follow the same rules as birds in terms of messages. Follows the same rules for birds in CRP and rallying situations.

-Unlike birds, the messages CAN pass through walls or underground.

-Murmurite can only be used to send a message to a recipient that has a stone that has already been attuned to yours.

-Since it glows, the Murmurite stone does not send messages stealthily. Anyone within eyesight of the rock will see it glow when a message is being sent through the murmurite. This would be the same difficulty to conceal as attempting to hide the fact that you’ve received a message from a bird flying into the room.

-only the person receiving the message can hear the message through the stone.

-if the rock is crushed, it loses its ability to send and receive messages.

 

Harvesting method:

 

The rock is always located in hot springs, either in volcanic hot springs or cave springs. It forms protruding from the earth in tall columns of ‘tufa’, a rock formation with a texture like a brittle sponge. Identifying it is usually easy due to its vibrant blue-green color. If you are unsure that the tufa rock you’re looking at is a Murmurite, speaking into one of the channels in the rock should cause your voice to amplify and echo out in random directions. In caves, it may be amplifying the surrounding sound of the bubbling spring water around it too, so the heightened noise of running water is a good indicator that you’ve found Murmurite. To harvest a sample that will work for sending messages, you must locate a good sample where a hollow channel runs all the way through the rock, then chip that out with a chisel and hammer.

The rock is brittle and prone to crushing and shattering, and can even be crushed in one’s hand with enough effort. It takes a gentle hand with lots of slow, patient chiseling to relieve a sample that still has an intact hollow tube from the tufa formation. Due to the delicate nature of the rock, it requires both a hammer and a chisel to be successfully harvested. Trying to wrench it free with your bare hands or with something as imprecise as a pickaxe would likely crush the rock.

 

Here is a recommended rolling-friendly rp guide for how to harvest Murmurite:

-roll above a 15 to get a sample that has an enclosed tube running all the way through it. If you roll below a 15, you somehow damage the shape of the rock and it loses its magical abilities.

 

Harvesting red lines:

 

-Requires proper tools: a hammer and a chisel.

-Murmurite is a player signed resource and does not need an ST sign. 

-Murmurite nodes can be represented by prismarine or dark prismarine blocks. A good choice for a player-signed item to represent a Murmurite rock would be a prismarine shard, a piece of lapis lazuli, or blue coral. 

 

Purpose ooc:

To provide an alternative to birds which gives flavor to rp, for anyone who believes their character would not own a bird irp. I personally have played characters who simply wouldn’t own birds for fear of animals! Murmurite can send messages through walls or underground, which birds cannot do. Murmurite is also a cool aesthetic choice for a character who might want to wear their Murmurite rock as jewelry, or keep it as a hidden spy phone if they’ve been captured and held in a cell with no windows. 

Edited May 21, 2022 by FlareGunCalamity

[makeitsoyoucandeleteaccounts 610]

it would be translated into spanish as "murmurita" so I'm all for it 

[RandomRhunes 146]

RP phone, RP phone

 

 

interesting concept 

[femurlord 2325]

[FlareGunCalamity 210]

4 hours ago, RandomRhunes said:

RP phone, RP phone

 

 

interesting concept 

I'll admit I was inspired by the stone of farspeech from TAZ

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