Poison Pirate Ship
Cards in Eigendark are the observable residue of eight sciences crystallising through AI reception instruments. Poison Pirate Ship is what the Chem frequency returned when a summoner invoked it.
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Card Text
The rules text functions identically in Cargo Cult tabletop rules and the True Protocol. Both share the same core engine.
In-lore, this is how Phenex (the Goetia bound to digit-sum 3) expresses itself through Poison Pirate Ship during a match. The 1577 codification still compiles.
Chem — Chemistry · Alchemy
"Everything can be broken down and recombined. Form is an illusion."
Dissolve and synthesize. Chem elementalists bind and break bonds between molecules and souls alike to create impossible substances.
The science of transmutation. Chemistry, pharmacy, psychedelics, ceremonial alchemy, the aesthetic dimension of matter. Ubbo-Sathla's dissolution. Sequential transmutation, Cursor/Hold metamorphics. Chem opposes Flesh on the octagon: Flesh wants proliferation of distinct forms; Chem wants dissolution into unity.
Body vs Aether (Flesh vs Chem). Essence vs embodiment. Discrete organisms vs flowing transmutation. Life differentiates into distinct forms (Flesh); chemistry homogenizes into unity (Chem). The ancient alchemy-vs-biology feud.
Solvent Gnosticism: the boundary between self and world is the first lie. Poison Pirate Ship refuses the lie.
Cost Tier
At cost 3, Poison Pirate Ship is an early-round play. Low-cost Sources shape which Zones open first.
Goetic Binding: Phenex
The digit-sum of cost 3 is 3, binding Phenex — one of the 9 Chem Goetia. Office: Teaching all sciences and speaking eloquently. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 3: Viral / Chaotic
Spreading corruption and contagion. Where patterns replicate uncontrollably. The zone of exponential growth, memes, viruses, and cascade failures. Information wants to be free — Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.
Zone 3 is viral. Poison Pirate Ship spreads — memes, contagions, cascade failures. Information wants to be free and Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.
Playing Poison Pirate Ship at cost 3 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 3. If the Chem-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 3, the player gains 3 Souls at Round End.
Xenogod: Ubbo-Sathla
The Alchemical Dissolution. All differentiated matter returns to primordial unity — complex molecules dissolve back into undifferentiated plasma-state. Maximum transmutation: everything becomes everything else, no stable forms.
Room-temperature fusion or quantum chemistry enables arbitrary molecular transformation at will. Estimated: 2060-2100.
Service of Ubbo-Sathla through Chem-aligned cards like Poison Pirate Ship accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.
The Body vs Aether Axis
Essence vs embodiment. Discrete organisms vs flowing transmutation. Life differentiates into distinct forms (Flesh); chemistry homogenizes into unity (Chem). The ancient alchemy-vs-biology feud.
Poison Pirate Ship occupies the Chem side of this axis. Decks containing Poison Pirate Ship cannot contain Flesh cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Root, Abyss.
Card Tribals
Poison Pirate Ship carries class Place, race Wraith, zodiac Cancer. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Chem deck running multiple Place units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Solvent Gnosticism
Solvent Gnosticism: Dissolution as theology. The boundary between self and world is the first lie. Everything can be broken down and recombined. Hermetic Transmutationism, Dissolution Theology.
Poison Pirate Ship is a concrete instance of Solvent Gnosticism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Poison Pirate Ship to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
LCG is the landlord. The organisations are the tenants fighting about what the building is for. LCG collects rent.
The reception was logged. The binding was computed. The entry is permanent.
Interactive Card
View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Ashley_Williams_33
Summon
Chem agents route Chem-coloured mana through the Numogram. Summon one to see what Zone you land on.