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When you start a new Chapter, you should know where it goes already. For clarity, when you start that new chapter, you should title it according to the accepted thread on the Legends board it will be part of, with the next sequential chapter number. If the Party legend has two accepted chapters, and you're going to write the next one, title your WIP thread as "Party, Chapter 3", not "Beer Bongs in the Front Yard, Chapter 1". This will make it easier for everyone to know where the chapter belongs, and what stories are open for new chapters.

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Development / Re: Hi.
« on: January 04, 2018, 01:14:05 AM »
Fairly well, thanks. How about you? Still working at the same place? (IT for... Colgate University/College?) I see your Facebook posts occasionally. Those Diwali pictures were cool.

It occurs to me, though, that I posted waaaay to much on this forum. I've been gone two years and still have the highest post count by a stupid margin. o_O

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I understood it to be that non-human heroes would have animal level intelligence. That's pretty much fine for what I'm going for here. At this point in its existence Reis is more of an evolving "concept" rather than a completely evolved being. Reis here is not really using power to its best use, but the use that it thinks it needs right now. What I was trying for is more of a companion animal than an autonomous entity.

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Here is the map. Hope it works.

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(Note: If I have this correct, since Zakky wrote the first chapter of the Shapers of the First Continent, someone else has to write the second chapter. Looking over the WIP board, it looks like no one started it, and no one has "claimed" it that I can see. So here it is. Hope I’m doing this right.)





That which was Reis wandered the newly created continent of Ardein. It was vast and wide. Reis would need help to explore such a place.

An exercise of will caused that help to exist. It had wings to carry it fast and far. Bright eyes to see all that could be seen. Keen ears, to hear all that could be heard. Piercing claws with which to defend itself, and a sharp beak with which it could capture prey for sustenance. Unto it, Reis bequeathed the name "Shuran". [Create Hero: 1 Prime] Shuran flew far and wide, collecting the knowledge of the lands of Ardein.

Reis and Shuran explored all the lands of Ardein. To the most memorable, Reis bestowed names. In the far southeast was a lofty mountain of sheer cliffs upon which Shuran rested and surveyed the surrounding land. Upon this mighty peak, Reis bestowed the name Shuran's Perch. (Create Mountain: 1 Purity)

From a glacier-fed lake, high in the central mountain range flowed a fast, wild river that cut a chasm deep into the flanks of the mountain. The river Reis name the White Rush for its headlong flight over a riverbed strewn with jagged rocks. (Create River: 1 Purity) The chasm, with walls so high and narrow that light rarely, if ever, touched the bottom, disturbed Reis greatly. It was named the Dark Rift, and shunned by all. (Create Valley/Canyon: 1 Purity; Feature Feared/Shunned: 1 Prime)

When the continued influx of new experiences and new knowledge became too great, Reis retreated into a vast evergreen forest in the north. Reis caused the forest to be covered in a blanket of unending snow so that none would disturb its rest. (Create Forest: 1 Purity) Over time, the unmelting snow would bring the forest the well-earned, if unimaginative, name of the Frozen Pines.






More Notes: I am doing this from my phone, mostly, so I don’t really have access to the mapping tool. I will upload a graphic showing where I think these features would go. The Green blob in the north would be the Frozen Pines. The Red spot in the southeast would be Shuran’s Perch. The White Rush and the Dark Rift would come out of the Tom’s Central Mountains, wherever that gets placed on the map. I’m not particular about it, so it can just be placed wherever, or I can provide an updated graphic after Tom places his mountain range.

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Q&A / The Story Process
« on: January 03, 2018, 03:22:25 AM »
Let's see if i have this right:

1. If I want to start a new story to tell about something, I stat a new thread on the Work In Process board, with a name like "The first Horse, Chapter 1" or something.
2. I write a bit about it, listing the cost of the things I do, if necessary.
3. Other people can comment, asking for clarification. I update the original post as required.
4. After 3 days (?) comments stop and we vote.
5. If 2/3rds agree, it is approved and moved to Legends of the World board. Otherwise, revise and try again in a new thread?
6. After Chapter 1 is done, we can start Chapter 2 in the same way? We have to wait for Chapter 1 to be done before we start posting Chapter 2? Who starts the next chapter, the same person, or anyone?

I think we can add to a Chapter started by someone else, right? So if I wanted to create horses, and I was here when Zakky started his chapter Animals and Men, I could have added on my own part to that, right? That way I don't need a whole new story just to make some horses.

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Development / Re: Hi.
« on: January 03, 2018, 03:10:25 AM »
I wish i could. I played for almost exactly ten years. No time, now, really.  Life is busy, and I can no longer play from work. Blocked by the proxy. BM never had a good mobile experience, and my play style is to get way too heavily involved with things. I tried playing "casual", bit it didn't work.  I'm pretty sure at least one realm died because I couldn't keep up anymore.

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Work in Progress / Re: Fear The Gods, Chapter 1
« on: January 03, 2018, 02:57:22 AM »
You have spent Purity to create a mountain range, the central mountain range, but did not name it. Intentional or oversight? Does that mean you get to name it later?

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i have questions.  :-[ Sorry I am just reading through the rules and trying to get my bearings.

Several named things appear to have been created. Don't these have to be paid for in Prime/Purity? Shouldn't that be listed where needed?

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Characters / Re: Reis
« on: January 03, 2018, 02:41:42 AM »
* Indirik thinks...

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Characters / Re: Reis
« on: January 02, 2018, 08:40:54 PM »
Benefit (penalty?) of coming late to the party.

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Characters / Reis
« on: January 02, 2018, 08:18:07 PM »
"Ardein"

The word rolled across all of creation. The power contained within that single word wrought changes. The rising of a continent upon the face of the world. The separation of one element from another. The introduction of ... difference. The distinction of one thing from another thing.

The creation of difference out of the unending sameness wrought changes unforeseen by that which caused it to be. For the creation of difference brought with it the need to understand that difference. To explore all of its parts. To understand it in all its glory. The need to know. To know everything.

However, knowing could not simply happen by itself. How can knowledge of the unknown be gained with nothing to do the gaining? How could knowledge of such a far-flung thing as all of creation happen without something to go there and do the learning? This could not be accomplished without ... a journey.

And with this, a second word rolled across the world.

“Reis”

This word was much softer, less overt than the brutal power that had raised the land from the seas. That is not to say that it contained no power, for it did indeed. Rather, it was a different power. A different need that drove it. A hunger for knowledge. A drive to explore to seek out that knowledge however far away it lay.

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Notes: Since this is a personal creation myth/story, I have taken a slight liberty with the exact ordering of events. But really, this all happened a long time ago, so who’s to say this isn’t how it really happened after all?

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Development / Hi.
« on: January 02, 2018, 04:57:57 PM »
Wandered by to see if I could add my two cents to Tom's new protect. Thought I'd drop in and give a wave or two. It's been almost two years. I see several new names, and a couple familiar ones.

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East Island / Re: Kingdom of Alara
« on: March 02, 2016, 04:01:09 PM »
Judging by past experience, in sure that lots of people will be willing to help ...  Xavax. :(

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BM General Discussion / Re: Thanks and Farewell
« on: February 22, 2016, 05:50:00 PM »
It's been great having you here. Thanks for making the game more fun for everyone.

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