Starstuff is an unpublished work (OC Universe/Daydream, unsure what is exactly what) made by Trocryst. The story focuses on Karen and her friends as she accidentally discovers eldritch knowledge and makes friends with Gods In Human Form.
This unreleased... thing provides examples of:
- Call a Human a "Meatbag": Dwellers, exiles and other intangible spirits call sentient fleshy things "starbeings". Some consider it a derogatory term, but many xenology-inclined practitioners actually use it themselves to describe all sapients.
- Played With, as it is implied they call sentient robots like that as well.
- Color Motif: There are many colours that can only be seen when by the unveiled. All of them have specific associations and powers that their mundane counterparts don't have, which usually coincide with their color symbolism.
- Dream Land: Xerateri, a realm composed of Xeratinon, an infinite city and Xeraunnu, a set of catacombs, mausoleums and mazes located beneath it.
- God in Human Form: Downplayed and justified with exiles. Once dwellers, exiles are simply Brought Down to Normal as punishment for one of the CRIMES, which WARDEN does not take kindly to. However, the human forms that they take aren't that human to the unveiled.
- Invisible to Normals: Or rather: invisible to the "veiled".
- The Veil is a mystical construct that covers the mind of every single starbeing in this universe. It prevents everyone from seeing the Fictional Colours, perceiving the decidedly not typical forms of exiles and remembering anything from trips to Xerateri.
- How is the Veil broken? It depends - you can sleep in the rain, or pray before bed, or stain your sheets with black ink and rest naked. It usually depends on how much you want to break through it, how many actions you take toward that goal, and if you are even aware of it's existence.
- The Veil is a mystical construct that covers the mind of every single starbeing in this universe. It prevents everyone from seeing the Fictional Colours, perceiving the decidedly not typical forms of exiles and remembering anything from trips to Xerateri.
- Immortality: Lower than Dwellers but higher than most are ascendants, immortal sapients. There are a few kinds of ascension, called "immortal states".
- The Hyperinfusion is a state in which the dream-self and physical self have fused into one. Think of it as being possessed by yourself. The Hyperinfused are usually jittery, erratic and filled with energy despite the fact they cannot ever sleep.
