1. the initiator makes the first move.

2. a move at least starts with an asterisk, but may also end with one

   1. example a: * JNKabi punched you (15 DMG)

   2. example b: *I slither towards you swiftly and wrap myself around your legs, preventing movement*

3. you start with 100 HP and 10 SP in each battle

   1. Soul Points (SP) are like HP but you deal less damage if you have less SP and you only lose SP if your HP is very low (<1%) or if you have a low LoV (<2 LoV)

   2. other kinds of points like DP or TP do exist, but usage is unlikely and inconsistent

4. 2 moves total per turn is the limit, attacks (dealing damage, aka DMG) and blocking (mitigating damage, or -n% DMG) are the main moves, but healing (negative DMG to self or party members), dodging, and using items count as moves too

   1. you can squeeze in a third move, but only if your opponent is very slow

   2. a heavy attack (close to half of your own HP worth of DMG) can only be done in certain situations and will render you unable to make any move next turn

      1. an undodgeable attack counts as doing x2 as much damage than it actually does.

   3. blocking more than 50% damage is limited in use to once every 5 turns and passive blocking is limited to 50% at the top end and can be combined with active blocking. active blocks occur after the associated move, passive blocking always occurs

      1. passive blocking above 20% will cause you to be very slow

   4. an active heal counts as an attack with negative DMG and will also render you unable to make any move next turn if more than 50% HP is healed

   5. dodging has a 50% success rate when all is equal, guranteed if your opponent is very slow, and has 10% success if you are very slow

   6. if you’re gonna use an item, you are limited to things you took from the battlefield (likely a city or a grass field unless otherwise stated by the initiator)

5. a grab will reduce damage of the opponent by 1/5 for every 1 grab strength (GST), and >3 GST will disable the opponent entirely

   1. struggling will reduce grab strength by 1 GST each

   2. regardless of form, the grabber cannot make a move if the GST is greater than 5, even if their GST can go higher 

   3. goo creatures cannot be grabbed unless they're using a defensive move. a grab for a goo creature counts as 2 moves, but can go up to 10 GST rather than 5

6. 1 message per turn is good practice, but isn't strictly necessary

for 8 bit file usage add C0 to the start to each 6 bit section

01/00 e | 09/08 c | 17/10 g | 25/18 m | 33/20 ( | 41/28 # | 49/30 } | 57/38 4

02/01 a | 10/09 l | 18/11 h | 26/19 q | 34/21 ) | 42/29 $ | 50/31 " | 58/39 5

03/02 r | 11/0A w | 19/12 j | 27/1A . | 35/22 / | 43/2A % | 51/32 < | 59/3A 6

04/03 i | 12/0B y | 20/13 k | 28/1B : | 36/23 - | 44/2B & | 52/33 > | 60/3B 7

05/04 o | 13/0C u | 21/14 z | 29/1C ' | 37/24 = | 45/2C * | 53/34 0 | 61/3C 8

06/05 t | 14/0D p | 22/15 x | 30/1D , | 38/25 [ | 46/2D _ | 54/35 1 | 62/3D 9

07/06 n | 15/0E d | 23/16 v | 31/1E ? | 39/26 ] | 47/2E + | 55/36 2 | 63/3E capNxt

08/07 s | 16/0F f | 24/17 b | 32/1F ! | 40/27 @ | 48/2F { | 56/37 3 | 64/3F lneBrk

encoding

1: make the length of each word (including punctuation, not including capNxt or lneBrk) as numbers as large as 63/3E, add

   64/3F to the end, and place it in the result

  {ignore the part before the first "," if only 1 word long}

  [text limit => 040564 / 03043F|text. => 64 / 3F]

2: replace characters with corresponding numbers as shown above, and

   place it in the result after the existing numbers

  [64 / 3F & text. => 640601220627 / 3F050015051A]

<ignore the following steps if you wish to not encrypt and decode

 the text>

3: square the whole resulting number*

  [640601220627 => 410369923868802330273129]

  [3F050015051A => F837623595500BDD65E06A4]

4: initialize the numbers for decoding (A for dec, B for hex)

   A: go through each pair of digits, if the number is too big (max: 63 initially and finally, 64 anywhere else), or if you feel like it, add

      a ~0 before the number, and jump forward only one digit

     [410369923868802330273129 =>

      41 03 ~06 ~09 ~09 23 ~08 ~06 ~08 ~08 02 33 02 ~07 31 29]

   B: convert the whole thing to binary, add 00 to the beginning

      of the number and between every group of 6 bits, and convert

      back to hex

     {if the amount of bits isn't originally a multiple of 6, add an

     amount of ~s to the end corresponding to the amount of pairs of

     bits needed to make it a multiple of 6, treat the ~s as "10"

     [F837623595500BDD65E06A4 =>

      00111110 00000011 00011101 00100010 00001101 00011001 00010101

      00010000 00000010 00111101 00110101 00100101 00111000 00000110

      00101001 0000~~ =>

      3E 03 1D 22 0D 19 15 10 02 3D 35 25 38 06 29 0A ~~]

5: replace all of the pairs of digits with their corresponding

   characters as shown above**

  [4103~06~09~0923~08~06~08~08023302~073129 =>

   # r ~t ~c ~c v ~s ~t ~s ~s a ( a ~n ? ']

  [3E031D220D191510023D35253806290A~~ =>

     I , / p q x g r 9 1 [ 4 n $ w ~~]

         i  l o v e  y o u  

        04 10052301 125013

       |  /       /     /

010403640410052301125013

0108235733781673212295350152558337625454250169

01|08|23|57|33|~7|~8|16|~7|32|12|29|53|50|15|25|58|33|~7|62|54|54|25|01|~6|~9

 e  s  v  4  ( ~n ~s  f ~n  !  y  '  0  "  d  m  5  ( ~n  9  1  1  m  e ~t ~c

esv4(~n~sf~n!y'0"dm5(~n911me~t~c

*it is possible that the number starts with one or more 0s, if it does, ensure that the 0s are conserved between the two forms (see second example)

*hex and dec are not compatible in any way

**if you run into a 00 in dec which can’t be removed with ~, replace it with any of these four characters: `;\|

decrypting:

1. follow the first two steps in the “encoding”

[t/'*~ne'u

.z~t~c_~t~s)i7a~c~n~s&?~nl~sw~n~c~t4~n~s$(8~c~n-~sn~nwoj?'

=>

06432945~07012913642721~06~0946~06~0834046002~09~07~084431~0710~0811~07~09~0657~07~08423361~09~0736~0807~071105193129] (example is DEC)

2. initialize for decrypting, this step is different between the two systems (A: DEC/B: HEX)

A: remove all the ~0s found in the number

[0643294570129136427216946683404600297844317108117965778423361973680771105193129]

B: remove all the 00s from the start of each byte and remove the ~s, if present

3. take the square root of the resulting number and ensure the result is a whole number, take care to preserve leading 0s

[0802056463180203060208040204082401200627]

• if the result is not a whole number it’s either in the wrong system or you messed up somewhere.

4. replace the pairs of digits with the letters, do not do so with or before the first 64

[0802056463180203060208040204082401200627

5. =>08020564 H a r t a s i a i s b e s t .]

6. separate the result given the widths of each word

7. [08020564Hartasiaisbest.

8. =>

9. Hartasia is best.]

• Cliqqcumber (click-cum-ber)
  A long, yellow-green fruit with a similar texture to honeydew or similar melons, with cucumber-like seeds which make clicking sounds when chewed (hence, cliqqcumber). The taste is often described as semi-sweet with an undertone of lemon and apple, with an inexplicable aftertaste of lightly charred wood. These fruits are often very nutritious for Poyoans, but are known to be lethal in large amounts.

• Hoenbiekma
  A cube-shaped black fruit with a ceramic-like shell and a gooey inside which contains blueish round seeds whose hardness is comparable to that of an avocado’s skin. The taste can range anywhere from lemon, to orange, to ananas (pineapples), to chocolate, to pure sugar; depending on how ripe it is. The seeds can be eaten, but the taste is indescribably terrible. The seeds are often used in medicine as a stimulant and pain killer. The shell is crushed for use on roads to make the roads last longer.

• Sciiba (stsi-iba)
  A round yellow fruit with a soft, edible peel, an oddly creamy inside, and orange seeds (which are also edible). It tastes like orange or lemon cheesecake, depending on the soil it is grown in; the seeds also taste like cheesecake. This fruit is known to have 100-150% daily value of all known nutrients per singular fruit (based on a 2500 calorie diet) and have over 4000 calories, therefore it is very important not to eat more than one per day, even if you are particularly active.

• Salmuttotabreabbitlecochicarrochopotatie Pie Cake™
  All foods that exist in one, infinite density pie cake. It also has every nutrient that can be useful to organic life forms in infinite amounts. As expected, it tastes like everything that exists, at least before it kills you in 1E-72902 seconds (.0(~72900 zeros)01) with a heart attack. You can get it in rituals requiring half your soul. This is the only thing that can “kill” inanimate objects. Commercial about this thing.

• Traditional sphere bread (+QeePQaKiHa-Qa)
  A spherical, often sweet bread-like cake with no less than three meats inside, which include beef, goat, deer, pork, squirrel, sheep, or anything else a poyoan can get his hands on, along with hoenbiekma fruit; all coated in sugar and cheese. Traditional Sphere Bread is made with an open flame under the bread, with your bare hands manuvering the bread to be round and cooked evenly; the bread is then sprinkled with sugar, and coated in cheese. Before the bread is cooked, the meats are seasoned with salt, cinnamon, pepper, and ripened hoenbiekma, and cooked thoroughly; then the cooked meats are put in the bread with more hoenbiekma, and the bread is wrapped around the filling and cooked without hesitation. The bread is eaten at traditional celebrations, and is stood on an egg cradle. The sphere bread is the size of the poyoan who cooked it, which is often 100cm tall, which is ~3’ 3⅓”, which doesn’t fit through human-sized doors.

• Phoenician Curry
  An inexplicably perfect curry created in the Western Mediterranean a little less than half a century before the Roman Empire. There is no consensus on who actually made it and what they made it with, but what is known is that there's exactly one, it's currently displayed in a museum in Gibraltar Strait City, and you would never know it was that old