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Acid caves formed crystals. Microbes evolve slowly bigger, into goo and bone, then muscle and skin.

each labyrinth has 4 levels maybe.. and each time a mob dies, a spirit spawns in a tomb. Each time a corpse decomposes, a bit of goo spawns. Spirit finds goo, can become level 1, 2, 3, 4 creature as they ascend. (So re powerup a body as you go! aka, spawning rare animals becomes rare combinations. Keep wandering up to planet.

Can find way through labyrinths by tracking light. Good creatures exit during the day, evil creatures exit by night. But can turn by killing species of opposite alignment.

Maybe you actually become -3 up to 0, then creatures evolve by eating other creatures.

Players can choose to just return to their corpses, but have to find their way out of the labyrinth, or choose to decay their corpses and fight/eat their way up.

I had a thought just now.. oh, climb/fly/jump/swim out of each labyrinth.. so 4 exits for each level. maps to .. {'str':'jump', 'int':'fly', 'wis':'swim', 'dex':'climb'}

Each tick is an hour, etc.

Doors are important and show up as objects - they are Exits between areas.

Beings get one special skill per each exit they find?! room types = plains/flat, water, trees/forest, mountains, so each special skill can move in an extra set of rooms for each region. So choosing first gives skill, choosing second gives +1 stat, choosing third&fourth gives +2 stat.

Hmm.. a little brainstorming there. Work progresses on the combat system. next step is to tweak how the specials work in the code, then link the results of rounds to the Body()'s stats - i.e., Death.

Palin claims Alaska "produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy." That's not true.

Alaska did produce 14 percent of all the oil from U.S. wells last year, but that's a far cry from all the "energy" produced in the U.S.

Alaska's share of domestic energy production was 3.5 percent, according to the official figures kept by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

And if by "supply" Palin meant all the energy consumed in the U.S., and not just produced here, then Alaska's production accounted for only 2.4 percent.

A pretty thorough article pointing out the downsides to a McCain presidency, and numerous times he's been caught trying to tell people what they want to hear.

Plus, there's the whole torture thing.

From Maverick to Prostitute: The Untold Story of John McCain

As a prisoner himself tortured during his Vietnam captivity in the Hanoi Hilton, John McCain has been an outspoken opponent of torture by the United States during the global war on terror. But when that position put him at odds with both the Republican leadership and GOP primary voters, McCain turned his tail and fled.

With his "no" vote in February on the Senate bill to ban waterboarding by the CIA, John McCain caved in the face of yet another betrayal by George W. Bush. President Bush, after all, stabbed McCain in the back with a 2005 signing statement that defanged the Detainee Treatment Act the now-presumptive GOP presidential nominee championed in the Senate. But in his never-ending quest to appease his party's conservative base, McCain revealed that no humiliation at the hands of George Bush is too great.

So. Do you remember what the Bush Doctrine was?

Funny enough, it's a recurring theme on this website:

"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously who came and talked about such a thing." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Did you hear about how Barack Obama wants to have sex education in kindergarten, and called Sarah Palin a pig? Did you hear about how Ms. Palin told Congress, “Thanks, but no thanks” when it wanted to buy Alaska a Bridge to Nowhere?

These stories have two things in common: they’re all claims recently made by the McCain campaign — and they’re all out-and-out lies.