Globos (pronounced Glob-Os(like the cereal)) are one of two magics provided by The Kata Wing, appearing as small basketball-sized, semi-firm blobs (or Globs) of a clay-like material. They are universally nonhostile and are commonly found in every part of The Kata Wing, though of varying rarity for different types. Each room in The Kata Wing has anywhere from 2-30 Globos somewhere in them, either walking around in the open or behind puzzles and in difficult to reach spots. Their behavior consists of walking along floors, tables, walls, and sometimes ceilings with seemingly no direction, though they sometimes scuttle away from delvers, most are indifferent to their surroundings, and their base forms make outrunning a delver a humorously unlikely possibility.
Once a delver touches a Globo, they are now bonded to that delver. Delvers are aware of all Globos they have bonded with and their general location, with it being described as a very vague feeling of proprioception. Once bonded, a delver can give commands to their Globos either verbally or mentally, though most find it easier to just do both, and they can freely reshape their Globos into any form they wish without injuring them. Base Globos are capable of most simple commands with no problems (move here, push this block, pick up the can), but struggle with fine motor control, complex/vague commands that require prior knowledge, and commands based on senses, since Globos seem to possess a fuzzy blindsight in a 10ft radius, they lack other senses such as hearing and cannot act on commands that require these senses. All of these deficiencies can be remedied with the proper color and combination of Globos.
It should be noted clearly that, after rigorous testing, experimenting, and philosophizing, it is not believed that Globos possess an interiority or sophancy, and that it is morally okay to keep using them. While they are ”alive”, there is no contesting of wills that’s been observed in other magics with their bonding and their behavior does not suggest they are in distress. Its even been theorized by our head Globo engineers (Globomancers) that they are actually a living form of magic made by The Kata Wing, like the slivers in the Arborium or the crystals in Sierpiński’s Cul-De-Sac.
Globos also have the magical property of selective malleability with their bonded delver. If their delver acts on them with creative intent, the Globo’s body will act and feel like soft clay and the deformations caused by the delver will not harm the Globo. However, if anyone else tries to touch a globo, their skin will feel like tense muscle and is quite hard to dent, though any deformations made will not go away and are actually damaging to the Globo, with enough eventually causing them to melt and become inactive.
Globos can be shaped into any number of forms or features, with them naturally acting in the way their delver intended as far as their body is capable. Examples being; a Globo formed with hands and feet will walk on the correct limbs and when told to pick something up will prioritize using their hands first, a globo made with a serpentine body will move in the winding motion of a snake even if their delver doesn’t fully understanding the mechanics or weight distribution of how real snakes move, but a globo made with wings will not fly unless their body is already capable of supporting flight.
Globos can also be freely combined and disassembled, as when two or more globos from the same delver are pushed together, their flesh merges and they now act as one. This gives delvers near limitless flexibility in the types of Globos they can create.
Grey
Red
Blue
Yellow
Green
Purple
White
Pink
Sigil
Senses
Giga
Integrated
Grey Globos are the base Globo and found in almost detrimental frequency. They possess no special abilities and have big greenshell koopa energy, prone to walking off ledges or bumping into walls. Though globomorphs made of them aren’t great at most tasks, they are perfectly suitable for grunt work or for adding mass to a larger globomorph.
Red Globos possess greater force exertion, able to move their bodies and limbs further against opposing forces before being stopped. In short, they’re stronger. A single grey Globo is capable of pulling a twenty pound weight on a flat surface, but a red Globo tied to a rope can pull against a grown human actively resisting it. Useful for heavy loads and combat morphs.
Blue Globos possess much higher durability, able to resist damage and the wear and tear that degrades most other Globos. A grey Globo is minimally damaged by a hammer swung at nail-driving force, and can be sliced into with some difficulty. A blue Globo is minimally damaged by a 9mm pistol and requires a nail gun to be pierced. Not useful as the main mass of a Globo, it is suggested delvers should use a rolling pin (acquired from Globo workshop 1 in the basement and NOT the kitchen) and roll the globo to a thickness of 1/2 inch before applying it to the main morph, ensuring there are no air bubbles.
Yellow Globos are much faster than other Globo types. Grey Globos in a standard quadruped morph can run at speeds of 8 MPH while a yellow Globo in the same form can reach speeds of 30 MPH. Their main uses are as locomotive limbs and mixed into fighting limbs to increase effectiveness, but a sizable amount of our stock are used for courier morphs to run totem supplies across town.
Green Globos are much more dexterous than standard Globos. While grey Globos are not particularly clumsy or prone to dropping things, they have difficulty at delicate tasks such as pouring an exact amount of liquid into a container or if told to align two pieces of paper, will be unable to get the edges to line up within 4 degrees. Green Globos have the fine motor control of a surgeon and can exercise millimeter precision if given the form to do so. Useful for housework morphs and the hands of firearm wielding Globos.
Purple Globos are strange, as for a while it was thought they were a smart Globo. Purple globos are capable of performing tasks that, while doable by any adult human, are out of reach of most Globos. If told ”Clean the room”, a grey Globo morph would probably pick up a mop and starting doing what we would call ”cleaning”, but it would not sweep the floor beforehand, would not clean the water bucket before using the mop, would use the mop for tables as well as floors, and would pour bleach and ammonia into the same container. A purple Globo would know which cleaning supplies to use on which stains and which ones not to mix, would know where to get towels to dry the tables, and would spray an air freshener after its done. At first we thought purple Globos were contributing intelligence to the morph, but after testing them against those psychic cards with the wavy lines and shapes that were in Ghostbusters, we now understand their effect better. Purple Globos have to ability to perform tasks correctly, magically ”knowing” information that they shouldn’t know otherwise is actually them simply moving in the specific way that accomplishes the task, as while other globos when told to pick the correct card without seeing it got it right as often as random chance, purple globos always picked the correct card despite this being impossible with the knowledge they would know. Useful in morphs for complex tasks and housework, application for combat is uncertain.
White Globos possess the ability to naturally float. They can control their buoyancy to be anywhere from walking on the ground like a regular Globo to exerting enough upward force to carry a 150 pound weight. Applications for all forms of scouting morphs, personal transportation morphs, as well as integrating into larger morphs that would be structurally unstable without the added support.
Pink Globos possess the ability to naturally provide electric power to all devices touching them. A pink Globo, averaging 10 pounds, is capable of providing a constant supply of 1000Ws of power to any device its physically connected to. While use in a morph is still in testing (see Integrated Globos), they have seen use in being split up into small chunks and placed into devices as a practically infinite source of energy for cordless appliances. An ongoing project is amassing enough pink Globos to provide a sufficient source of power for the Eskewed Estate as a whole and to take us off the grid.
Sigil Globos are the rarest Globo ever found, with only two known to exist. With a grey Globo base, they have a glowing sigil carved into their body that contains a spell. The sigil cannot be disrupted by creative force from the bonded delver, feeling as immovable as Globo flesh normally is. If added to a morph, the delver can activate the sigil at any time with a mental command, then the sigil will turn dark for a set amount of time and become unusable. The two sigils currently in the estate’s possession can teleport the Globo to where it was 27 minutes ago with a cooldown of 1 1/2 hours, and the other can turn the Globo invisible for five minutes with a two hour cooldown.
Sense Globos are a variety of Globos grouped together by a common theme between them. Each has a grey Globo base, and a sensory organ that is tied to different senses such as eyes for hearing, ears for hearing, etc. If added to a Globomorph, these organs not only give the Globo enhanced senses and the ability to act on commands based on them (e.g. follow that scent, pull the lever if you hear that noise), but they also can be perceived through by the bonded delver of the Globo. They find use almost exclusively in scouting morphs, with the realtime intel of an eye in the sky that can’t be jammed being invaluable.
Gigas are an experiment into the limits of Globos, specifically what is the largest stable Globomorph possible. This is the result, and several important findings came out of it. Firstly, it was discovered that only 100 base Globos can be amalgamated into a single Globomorph, with additional Globos simply sliding off and failing to bond. Secondly, was the nature of Globo endurance. The Gigas is, put simply, inefficient. It requires a hexapodal form to just support itself, can only reach speeds of 5 MPH, can’t fit into most buildings, can’t fight, and if broken into 10 smaller Globos they could probably do all those things better. But what the gigas excels at, is never stopping. It can carry around 6,000 pounds of cargo on its back, around the same as an elephant, and can pull wheeled loads of 20,000 pounds, but while an elephant may get tired, and other Globos do slow down after periods of high effort, the Gigas never does. It was discovered that while a Globo’s strength is proportional to its limb’s cross sectional area (much like real muscles), a Globo’s endurance is proportional to its volume, which practically means that the Gigas can never exert itself more than its endurance regenerates. Although field use has been limited to cargo transportation so far, the Gigas is the only current Globo candidate for project Roving Temple as a mobile totem support structure.
Integrated Globos were recently discovered and their potential is still being explored. Although the story of their discovery may be apocryphal (someone tried putting a silly hat on a Globo), it is nevertheless true that when a globo is equipped with a piece of external protection or similarly integrated material, the bonded delver gains points relative to the complexity, effectiveness of the equipment, and scaled to the amount of Globos in the morph. While it may seem tempting to put silly hats on all your base Globos, delvers can only keep those points as long as the Globos are equipped, so if you need that Globo as part of a larger morph you would
lose the point and potentially deactivate a beacon attachment somewhere. As such its better to make more permanent choices in what you give your Globos, and to make it good. The morph listed here is the Rollaround, a rather efficient morph by only needing three Globos and eight identical metal plates that can be picked up in Globo workshop prime. It can either turn 3 grey Globos into something that’s worth taking to the field, or optionally add 1-3 red or yellow Globos to the mix to really pack a punch.
