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Work in Progress / Re: The Shapers of the First Continent - Chapter 3

« on: January 10, 2018, 07:50:03 AM »

I'll do my best with words then:

I was planning on writing more about this in the City States story, but I imagine an epithet for the area is the Hundred Islands, though it's not precisely a hundred.  Thankfully for mapping purposes, almost all of them would be too small to register on a map the scale we are using, so the main islands that would show are the central island (basically the big island of Hawaii), roughly bracketed by four other islands roughly looking like Kahului (north west), Kauai (north east), Honolulu (south west), and Moloka'i (south east).  I don't much care about the shapes, honestly, the important thing is the big central isle with the four around it and the south east island being noticeably smaller than the other three.

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Work in Progress / Re: The Shapers of the First Continent - Chapter 2

« on: January 10, 2018, 05:39:04 AM »

I'm not at all familiar with the mapping software, but I was imagining something like the Hawaiian islands except many more little ones (roughly a third the size of the Philippines), with the big island roughly in the middle where Quaranis herself fell.  Location on the attached.

Sheesh, Zakky, give me a minute to get it all out there (grins).

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Work in Progress / The Shapers of the First Continent - Chapter 3

« on: January 10, 2018, 05:32:02 AM »

Blood pumped.

Metals flowed out, molten rock poured back.  As Quaranis calmed, she began observing.  Considering.

Learning.

Her first conscious efforts were small, tentative.  The many-colored gemstones of her tears were beautiful, but...Isolated.  She could do better.  Combining the colors, swirling star-stuff into them, she brought forth diamonds.

She was so pleased with her success that she was took stock of what else she could do.  Her precious lava and glorious metals were much, much better than the pure earth that had existed before, and she wrapped it around every inch of herself.  But a nagging itch (she reveled in it only being an itch, rather than the grinding agony of before) presented itself.  She had gathered the flow of water, the heat of fire, and the solidity of earth...But had none of air.

She tried calling the air to her.  Cracks formed above her, but let in only water.  Air pockets and bubbles formed in the earth nearby, but were quickly consumed or befouled.  Bringing the air to her seemed doomed.

But what of bringing her creations to the air?

She gathered, and built.  Magma gathered around her in a vast flood.  And she pushed.

Up.

The sea boils.  Water and lava meet in a vast explosion of steam.  Rock hardens in vast tubes, blooming across the emptiness [Create archipelago: 3 Purity].  And for one grand moment Quaranis blossomed in fire and glory into the air, her blood reverberating with the near-Primal union of the elements once more.

And then...Quaranis learned of gravity.

And everything fell.

Thus the Keahi Archipelago was born.

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Work in Progress / Re: Active Stories

« on: January 09, 2018, 05:45:24 AM »

Bones of the World

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Legends of the World / Bones of the World: Chapter 1

« on: January 09, 2018, 05:44:22 AM »

Had she been more capable of thought, perhaps a better solution might have been found.  Had she been less-crippled, perhaps her effort would have gathered together all four of the...Elements...and restored them.

Perhaps.

But the agony of imbalance flaring through her was too great, her mind reeling as she writhed deep beneath the...Earth...and only three were brought together, bound with her own blood.  It was not the beauty, the eternal truth of Prime, but it soothed like a balm.

Fire, melting earth.  Earth, running like water.  Water, burning like fire.  And thus did the bones and body of the world gain veins [Create Lava, 3 Purity]+[Create Ore Veins, 3 Purity].  Hidden deep, far from the air.  And Quaranis wept in relief at the diminishment of her pain.  Her tears scattered throughout the veins [Create Gemstones, 1 Purity] as she wept for an unguessable time, lending their brittle beauty to the new blood of the world.

For a time, that was enough.

For a time.

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Work in Progress / Re: Creation Myth: The Shapers of the First Continent - Chapter 1

« on: January 06, 2018, 10:10:14 PM »

My understanding, apparently not correct, was that the "Creation Myth" was the story, and "The Shapers of the First Continent" was the name of the chapter.  My chapter was definitely part of the Creation Myth of the world.  If that is not how this works, then certainly I can start another story.

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Work in Progress / Re: Creation Myth: The Shapers of the First Continent - Chapter 1

« on: January 06, 2018, 06:02:56 AM »

I was assuming each thread was a story, so multiple chapters would be multiple posts in the same thread.

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Q&A / Re: Floating Islands

« on: January 06, 2018, 06:00:38 AM »

Pretty sure you can do it with a constant expenditure of Prime, but since we don't have sources yet that would be a problem.

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Work in Progress / Re: Creation Myth: The Shapers of the First Continent - Chapter 1

« on: January 05, 2018, 03:28:32 AM »

Had she been more capable of thought, perhaps a better solution might have been found.  Had she been less-crippled, perhaps her effort would have gathered together all four of the...Elements...and restored them.

Perhaps.

But the agony of imbalance flaring through her was too great, her mind reeling as she writhed deep beneath the...Earth...and only three were brought together, bound with her own blood.  It was not the beauty, the eternal truth of Prime, but it soothed like a balm.

Fire, melting earth.  Earth, running like water.  Water, burning like fire.  And thus did the bones and body of the world gain veins [Create Lava, 3 Purity]+[Create Ore Veins, 3 Purity].  Hidden deep, far from the air.  And Quaranis wept in relief at the diminishment of her pain.  Her tears scattered throughout the veins [Create Gemstones, 1 Purity] as she wept for an unguessable time, lending their brittle beauty to the new blood of the world.

For a time, that was enough.

For a time.

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Work in Progress / Re: Creation Myth Chapter 2: Veins of the World

« on: January 04, 2018, 03:21:15 AM »

Added my best guess as to the Purity costs of what I was doing, I figured 3 each for lava and ore veins as both widespread things on par with thunderstorms, and 1 for gemstones as a rarer, specific thing.  I'm happy to change any/all of those, however.

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Work in Progress / Re: Creation Myth: Animals and Men

« on: January 01, 2018, 06:25:59 PM »

There we are then.  I like the idea of the first one out helping the others, that's quite an interesting opening myth.

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Work in Progress / Re: Creation Myth: Animals and Men

« on: January 01, 2018, 06:20:30 AM »

Creation of elementals?  Seems like a thing that could happen, but not sure what that's like rules-wise.  They certainly can't be intelligent, but I guess non-intelligent elementals are possible.

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Work in Progress / Re: Creation Myth Chapter 2: Veins of the World

« on: December 29, 2017, 12:11:02 AM »

Lava and ore veins, the tears being gemstones, yep. 

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Work in Progress / Re: The Color Green

« on: December 28, 2017, 11:32:57 PM »

I like it.  The blurred line between metaphor and reality is appealing.

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Work in Progress / Re: Creation Myth Chapter 1: Mikazuki, the First Continent

« on: December 28, 2017, 08:35:04 PM »

I'm just hopping on today so I missed the voting, but it seems like a good story to me.  It all fits, seems like it has good flow.