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World Building June, Day 3: Who lives in your world?
So, standard fantasy races like Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs did exist on Creation at one point. Humans lived alongside the noble forest-dwellers and mountain kings for generations.
It’s a shame they died out.
Well, I suppose the better word for it was that they were bred out of existence. See, Humans, being the little scamps they are, were the only race capable of *cough* successfully copulating with the other races. So, humans inter-married and *cough* copulated with the various other races, and produced their half-blood offspring at a rate far faster than any other race on Creation. The other races were eventually outnumbered by, integrated into, and subsumed into the soon overwhelmingly Human genetics,
The does mean that non-human traits occasionally crop up in the modern nay descendants of those Human kingdoms. Some people exhibit these traits more strongly that others. For example, people from Askedelos, like Perez’s father, carry the physical strength of their distant Orcish bloodline. There’s never enough to drastically change someone’s appearance, so at most you might see someone with a pair of pointed ears, nubby horns, or hairy feet.
...Except, that’s not quite as true anymore. In the last few generations, those buried genetics have begun interacting in ways that they were never suppose to. Elf and Dwarf genes were never designed to mingle, but when connected by way of Human bits, they started having some... weirdnesses. Case in point, Fara Iokiend.
Fara was born as the unfortunate loser of the genetic roulette. Pale-white skin, pointed ears, and an eye that faintly lagged behind the other would have given her enough self-image issues, but those are almost forgotten when compared to the fully functional third arm sprouting from her right shoulder blade.
Fara isn’t the only one, either. Fur-covered wolf-men, shadowy figures with curved horns, and cat-eyed women in the night are all the subject of whispers. Not like boogeymen or demons, mind you. No, they’re the subject of gossip and hearsay. As in “Did you notice that the politician’s wife always wears a hat? I bet she had horns removed and is hiding the scars.”
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World Building June: Religion
I know I know, I’ve been a disappointment this year!
To be honest, worldbuilding june is just a regurgitation month for me so if you’re interested in what I’ve said about my world and setting so far, you can check them here.
This instance, I’ve had a bit of a breakthrough with my worlds set religion. For some brief context, Winged Cat series takes place in a higher spiritual plane called Eden. Yes, that Eden.
The people there are essentially angels in training, living out humanish lives and when they die, they will ascend into the angelic ranks. Their “gods” so to speak are angels who they look up to as role models oh how they should act and live their lives.
This belief structure is truth and created the religion that the majority follow in.
This religion focuses on teaching those of Eden theology and philosophy both from the human word and their own. They strive to be vessels of perfect judgement, empathy, compassion, and humility. Showing loyalty to both God and the Angels who rule over Eden. Doing so will put you on the right path and strengthen yourself against falling into demonism. So in the other life, you’d be there to do the same for humans.
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WBJ2019-Diaries of Straud: Prompt 2
Day Zero: Emergency Landing Successful by which I mean we didn’t blow up on the way down.
(What’s the Geography of your world?)
Turns out the ship had more damage than we thought. We had just set our selves up in orbit when the engine’s fuel alarms started to sound. I have had it explained to me hundreds of times, and I still don’t get it beyond the big picture. So the big picture i’ll have to write here, the ships engines use power to make our thrust, by plasma ion somethings, in any-case we generate the electricity to do that via a special chemical mix we then cause to- Oh gods I’m losing myself and I’m trying to write this. Summary: the ships need a special fuel and we had almost run out, no fuel=no movement, and the ship had been leaking fuel sense it took the damage that broke the nav systems. Ergo limited time to set the ship down. We threw our probes at the planet and hoped if there were sentient aliens they wouldn’t mind us suddenly moving in.
The captain picked what seemed to be the best site on the largest of the main islands and set the ship up to land there as we threw all of the satellites into orbit we could and then prayed that the leak didn’t drain the fuel too soon and cause us to smear ourselves over the land, or not drain fast enough and we blow up due to the frictional heating. Well I’m still writing in my new diary so yay we didn’t all die horribly.
Also yeah I’m writing in a good old fashion bound paper book now, they are worried about the ships reactor and any more hidden damage. So systems usage is heavily restricted. At least until they’ve checked things. I’m sort of getting some pleasure from this, so I might stick with it for a while... at least until I’m done being mad about my criminal hand writing and lack of spell check.
Anyway satellites, of the fifty we have we managed to get about ten or so of them launched before the window closed. Give that the captain focused on getting weather and communications satellites. He had one geological survey sat go out but most of what we know geologically comes from the sensors as we came down. We got a nice look, but the survey sat will hopefully fill in the holes and resolution we lack currently.
What we do know is that this world holds three major landmasses about two thirds the size of Australia according to calculations. And another about the size of Lander’s Island, which I've heard the Earther’s say is a bit like Ireland and Britain smooshed together. The rest of the land is broken chains of islands from what we’ve seen. A lot of shallow shelves, and plenty of deep water. Also ruins, a lot of alien ruins all over the world. The smart ones are busy trying to get the sats to filter the signals we’re getting from ruins allowing us to actually communicate with them when not right over head.
So far we’ve not seen any locals, but if the signals are any indication they might be all hiding in the deep oceans. We think we’ve spotted entire cities found built in the shallows, not built then flooded later. If the fly over’s are indictative of anything it looks like they were built in the ocean and raise out of it on purpose. The biologists have been speculating wildly about the nature of the aliens. Amphibious is the leading odds right now, and yes of course they’ve started a pool.
We landed in a large clear valley in the middle of one of larger continents, we don’t have a name for the whole island, but we decided collectively to call where we landed Twilight Valley. Apparently something in the air causes the sun to really turn gold, orange and red during sunset. The Valley was bathed in fall colors. I don’t think there was a pair of dry eyes when we saw that. For me it was a combination of having survived our dangerous journey and thoughts of if we’d ever be able to see home again. I wonder if they’ve begun looking for us yet or if they’re just waiting to see if we’re late. Welp, I just blew the good feelings I had, screw it I’d better stop now before I ruin this dairy with tear stains.
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WBJ2019-Diaries of Straud: Prompt Eight
Year 1 Day 67: Vote today for a better tomorrow.
(How is your world run? Who’s in power?)
I voted.
Not like there was actually a lot to vote for at this time. Most positions in the government had one runner and they were unopposed. The few who were running against others usually only had two candidates. Interestingly the top position was one of the unopposed, most people didn’t wanna be in the first run because they either just wanted to do their jobs, without having to also do their government tasks as well because right now, most jobs are considered critical and while you can do anything you want, you gotta do that task as well. So you can be a professional shoe shine, but if you’re a precision electronics engineer you still gotta make our circuit boards too... feel free to polish them nicely though. Also if the whole thing falls apart or doesn’t work no one wants to be label-able? Labeled? Shoulda been a linguist One of the ones pointed at for who’s to blame.
As for how well we’re keeping it simple, kinda a basic democracy right now, everyone directly votes for people running for office and for any laws constitutional changes and that kind of stuff. We got the top dog called a Presidential Overseer, then we have the Council who can override the overseer, and vice versa. And then we have a third set called, well unofficially the watch dogs, officially the position is called the court, who watches the other two and in addition to making sure they follow the laws, acts as a tie breaker should the other two positions deadlock.
And we have the secretaries nominated by the Preseer(I’m trying to coin this as the short term of Presidential Overseer) and confirmed by the Council. Their task, make sure the stuff they are secretary of is running smooth and be ready to make recommendations and answer questions as the need arises. So if we need to know how the farms are doing we go to the secretary of agriculture. Don’t know why we didn’t just call them Overseers, ask the guy really into United States history.
We’ve drafted a constitution and put in legal ways to change it as the colony grows and stuff, kind of the standard for most colonies, and yes we added in alien’s rights to the constitution.
But yeah possible change in the future, right now we went with direct democracy because the colony is still fairly small, we’re planing to change to a representative democracy at some point in the future, I’ve heard a few with political learning throw around a hundred thousand as the magic number. I don’t know personally, I’m just the blue collar heavy cargo shuttle pilot who majored in underwater welding. I also got a certificate in underwater basket weaving... No seriously, I got a cert in it. Why? Because I already had all of the credits I needed for it, and how could I not participate in the joke.
As for the aliens well we’re not sure, we think we found some art of some kind of significance but we don’t know. Maybe of a leader, or of a religious figure, a god of some sort. Some suspect they might have been independent city states for the most part, kinda like ancient Greece. Due to the lack of visible communication or travel lines, then again those could have grown over and rotted away a long time ago. Some say some kinda kingdom, or autocracy, or democracy even. We probably won’t ever know unless we find a library and a way to translate their language. To figure or find any of that we need to find functional tech for that first. Time will tell.
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World Building June Day 3
3. Who lives in your world? The world is nearly entirely populated by humans-citizens of all the countries of the world. Humans are as varied as stars in the sky, but all are hardy, strong, and adaptable.
Before the humans spread across the world, the Vampyrs hunted. The Vamyprs are pale, slender humanoids with unnatural strength and speed that feast on blood to survive. If Vampyrs do not feed, then they devolve into little more than beasts. The Vampyrs were driven underground centuries ago by the Unseen Order. They still lurk in the depths of the world, mad, starving. Miners must always be watchful of Vampyr lairs-every mine is equipped with a depth striker, which smashes the earth, producing loud vibrations which keep the Vampyrs away.
Before humanity, and before the Vampyrs, were the machine fathers, who lived in what is now Cursed Narram’h. Nothing is known about them, save that they were masters of technology and science. The catastrophe that destroyed Narram’h wiped out the Machine Fathers utterly. Nothing remains of them save corrupted ruins and
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World Building June, Day 4: What’s it’s history?
(Do ya get it?)
There are a few historical events that are important to the story of The Game We Play. The first took place over 200 years before the start of the story, and that is the Aquiland Revolutionary War. While it’s called a war, it was really a coup by the Aquilish people to depose the monarchy. The king’s loyalist troops were fought, and eventually overwhelmed, by the revolutionary army. After six years of bloody combat, the revolutionaries won out, and executed the king, his family, and all other members of the nobility they could get their hands on. From this, the seeds of the modern Electoral Republic were sown.
Of course, with a couple hundred years of distance, there are now Aquilish people who believe that Aquiland should return to a monarchy; either headed by surviving member of the former ruling family, or a newly chosen king. These monarchists mainly keep their opinions to themselves, as in recent times the rest of the Aquilish have been taking a “Punch the Monarchist” approach to dealing with them.
The next historical event of note is the invention of the Focus; a device that uses mana to produce specific magical effects. The first of these devices, created by Aquilish native Adam Turnam, was a pair of connected crystals; one drew heat from the air around it, and the other converted that energy into light. Before the Focus, magic mainly took the form of single-use items, such as scrolls, potions, and rituals. The Focus both provided a reusable method of using magic, and opened up the use of magic to everyone; both of which lead to a technological and magical boom.
The final event known as either the Askedelian Civil War or the Askedelian Conflict, depending on who you ask. This was a war in Askedelos between two successor governments after the previous government collapsed, fought between the Independents and the Unifiers. The independents wanted to form a loose federation of states, while the Unifiers were seeking an absolute dictatorship. Multiple nations provided support to the three sides: the Independents, the Unifiers, and the rapidly crumbling former government.
This support grew into armed troops and fleets being sent to fight on behalf of their respective sides. Notably, Aquilish forces fought for the Independents, while Rhos (formally known as the Federation of Rhosan Republics) did the same for the Unifiers. At the end of a 4 year bloody war, the Unifiers claimed victory, executing the majority of their former foes and closing the country for the next 3 years. Those who were not killed became refugees, with many of them seeking shelter in Aquiland.
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World Building June, Day 8: How is your world run? Who’s in power?
Remember that Council thing? With the representatives and the Princes/Princesses? Well, they might in charge, but they’re not always who’s calling the shots. Let’s talk about the guilds.
On Creation, a guild is what we would consider a corporation or company. There’re big guilds, small guilds, and guilds that cross international borders. Guilds tend to specialize in a particular field, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t multiple guilds catering to the same customers. For example, agricultural guilds include names like Universal Goods, Hordsen & Sons, Montanos, and others.
Entry into a guild isn’t mandatory, but most business owners tend to get pulled into them due to an inability to compete with them. A Ma & Pa corner store just can’t supply enough goods to break even with a major guild, so they get bought out and incorporated. Aquiland has laws against foreign guilds buying out Aquilish businesses, but that doesn’t stop them from getting eaten up by Aquiland’s own guilds.
The most powerful of these guilds are the Magic Development Guilds, who invent and produce Focuses. These range from HASIA to Rosen-Gunn, from Kannonmench to Talpasis Arms & Armament, and the big boys themselves: United Business Magic, which makes its living producing Focuses fro other guilds.
Why cover the guilds in a prompt about who runs the world? Well, it has to do with Aquiland’s laws concerning patronage. A representative, or even a Prince/Princess, can become a patron of any individual or organization, essentially representing that person or group as well as the people they were elected by.This was originally developed to allow subgroups, like Hemfall’s Love United movement, more play in Aquiland’s politics.
The result, however, has been more representatives becoming patrons of guilds, who just happen to also donate large sums of Scrip to their election campaigns and projects. Some have argued that the guilds are buying power in the Aquilish government, but the representatives assure the populous that the guild’s views align with their own.
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World Building June, Day 2: What’s the Geography of your world?
Yep, that’s the best you’re getting. Made with Inkarnate so I’d have an easy way to visualize how far apart everything is.
This is a rough map of Aquiland, the country in which The Game We Play takes place. The rest of Creation is, roughly, equivalent to Earth: ice caps at either pole, a hotter equator, one sun in the sky and one moon circling it. Bam, done.
Aquiland is south of the equator, so the northern coast with cities like Talpasis and Port Mordan are the hottest parts. Cities to the south, like Hemfall, are colder, with heavier forests and hills the more south you get. That band in the middle of the country stays fairly comfortable all year round; not too hot in the summer, not too cold in the winter.
The capital of Aquiland, Aqui City, is built into the base of Mt. Oriad, the tallest mountain in the country. On the opposite side of Mt. Oriad is Melas, a center of magic and engineering advancement filled with counter-culture, organic foods, and piping hot stimulants.
So basically, it’s fantasy Seattle with wizards instead of techies. No wonder both of our protagonists live in or around it.
To the north of Aquiland is the nation of Askedelos, whose already scorching equatorial landscape has been blighted by weapons used in a violent civil war several years ago.To the east is Xerstra, one of Aquiland’s few remaining political allies. And far to the north, past Askedelos and the Midland Sea, lies the Federation of Rhosan Republics, an oligarchy who’s relationship with Aquiland can best be described as “peacefully antagonistic”.
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WBJ2019-Diaries of Straud: Prompt Ten
Year 2 day 1: happy founding day, aka yay we didn’t all die in cryo sleep
(What holidays & traditions are observed in your world?)ten
Two years, hard to believe we’ve been here two years well two local years, it’s been about two and an eigth Earth years. Hopefully the celebrations will be a little more joyous than they were the first years. Now that everyone’s settled in and things are still progressing well, the future looks bright and the accidental stranding we’ve experienced won’t weigh as heavily on every one.
Normally founding day is a happy day meant to celebrate the colonization of the world we’re on, and the bravery and tenacity of those who came before us and gave their lives to make our lives possible. Honestly it almost takes on a Dia De Los Muertos vibe in most of the older colonies, and on some of the younger colonies as well, because they won’t just celebrate their founding but the founding of the colony or colonies that they sprung from you know.
Kinda like how the Beta Siganus colony celibates the founding of Fortuna it’s father colony, and the founding of the Alpha Centauri colony which fathered Fortuna. And Earth for being the cradle we all grew up in. Here we’ve chosen to celebrate the safety and the luck, good design, or gods that got all of us to the colony alive. As well as our lack of issues in setting up the colonies and the lack of aliens who want us dead for suddenly intruding on their world.
Some said it wasn’t the brightest idea making our founding celebrations make note of the misfortune that’s left us cut off from the rest of humanity and many of us to never see any of our loved ones that didn’t come with us. But several also argued that we should to remind us to be cautious so we can try to survive to see our loved ones again because we won’t stay out of contact for ever. We have the ships logs and once we can repair and refuel it we can retrace our steps. The captain also argued that we had to confront those feelings less we leave them to fester into something greater.
So yeah the founders day celebration happened the first year but it was a hard sell, and tended to be more muted than the planet wide three day party some of the older colonies have had. A lot of us got to try some local flora that the scientists were sure was safe for us to eat now. I hope I’ll get to try some of that blueish purple nebula berry... I have got to find out the name of that thing... or maybe name it myself, that would be fairly cool.
Of course founding day shouldn’t be confused with founders day, which is usually the day the last original founder of a colony dies. The day the last member of the first group of colonists to put it more clearly. It’s typically way more somber and is usually left to more local cities towns and neighbor hoods what they do. Usually the government will have some speeches or shows talking about it run on the radio and government channels.
It’ll probably be a long time till we can celebrate launching day, those tend to be a lot more informal and also tend to stop being celebrated after a few years. Basically when your colony is the starting site of a new colony ship, the day the ship launches is launching day. The day your colony gave birth. It’s more focused on as a sign that your colony has grown and hit a new point of maturity that it’s generating it’s own colonies.
Ah, that sounds like the band is starting, guess the celebration is starting now. Write to you later future me, book, people snooping in my diary.
No cake for the rest of the week for people in the last party mentioned.
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WBJ2019-Diaries of Straud: Prompt Seven
Year 1 Day 1: Money, Coming Soon.
(How does the economy work in your world? What sorts of currencies do they use?)
It’s been one year, we haven’t seen or heard anything from the rest of humanity surely they must be looking. If only to see if they can salvage the ship. But they haven’t found us yet, and we haven’t had any luck contacting them. Our local area has plenty of the basic resources for us to find, but some of the more specialist materials are not as local. So it’s gonna be a while longer till we can relaunch the colony ship or even build our own scout ships.
Despite that we’re still trying to stick to the plan. We’ve got all of the prefabs built and we’ve gotten the industry set up. Officially we’ve colonized the planet, our first harvest was completed a bit ago. Going by the milestones we’d be earning money now for our work, course we can’t actually really do that considering we don’t have contact with the rest of humanity or the colony sponsors. So the captain with some help from various other specialists has introduced our own little currency, work credits. Yes that wasn’t the only name they came up with, no that was the best name they came up with, trust me.
In anycase, they’re still hammering out how it’s gonna work. But they’ve announced the currency. And they are hoping to have it in place at or hopefully before they set up the first elections. I’m hoping before if only so we can vote on a better name for the money, then again if it comes after, we can vote everyone out in disgust... Hmm, decisions, decisions.
Well horrible name aside, it’ll be nice to switch out of the setup phase, no more flying people around for bricks of algae feed or shooes. SHOOOOOOES~ They were nice shoes though, wearing them now actually. Once the switch happens I’ll be getting paid, then I can buy what I want and not have to hope someone is making what I need and they also need a lift. Or I get early pick on the request lottery.
Oh yeah, normally we have the basics covered by supply ships. Can’t do that here, so we’ve kinda been doing a barter system as well as common goods. Barter works on you doing stuff on your own time with your own work. You can trade those freely, you gathered or traded for spare resources, spent the time turning those resources into something so yeah, you get to pick what you do. And then common resources, you take resources provided by the colony management, turn them into goods or refine them and then give them back. Finished goods are stored and every week or so some lot of people get to go and take x items from the store house. First come first served.
Actually having an economy again will... well we probably won’t have a full one we still have very limited production but with time that's only gonna get better. And we can probably save some building materials by eventually moving into the alien’s cities. Eventually the common resources will probably stop being more than emergency supplies.
They’ll probably still pay people for working for or donating towards the common resources to incentives it. From there the prices will probably be set based on the wadges as well as any prices on goods sold from the common resources. And being a pilot to one of the only three heavy shuttles we have... well I’m gonna need a lot of money to get what I want and need. Some old video I remember watching talked about how barter only works if both parties have something the other wants at the same time. Not a lot of people needing bulk cargo moved from one spot to another.
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WBJ2019-Diaries of Straud: Prompt Four
Day 56: In the present, perched on the edge of tomorrow, looking back at the dust of yesterday.
[What’s its history? (How did it come to be?)]
Hahah, don’t even know why I wrote that, barely even relates to what happened today. Sounds profound though. I must be feeling poetic because I’m sitting here on top of the ruins at the head of Twilight Valley. Get a hell of a view from the ocean up here. I wonder if this is how people always feel when they climb to the top of ruins. Just sitting there staring out towards the horizon and trying to figure out what those who came before saw, and thought. Wondering if your sharing their thoughts as you share their view... nice redundancy me.
In any case, it was nice to get to do my primary mission today. I’m a heavy cargo shuttle pilot, but like so many other’s on the Straud’s crew we had primarily served on smaller ships and had a lot of cross job training. Basic Medical Treatment, Engineering and Cooking if you were wondering diary. But today I got to fly a cargo shuttle. Took a bunch of our expert Xenologists—as much as any human can ever be anyway—to the nearest major alien ruins... though looking at the place it feels like ruin’s doesn’t fit all of that well. For as old as they look and over grown as they are around the base. They are almost pristine.
I guess the scientists are trying to lock down dating methods for this world. Surprise, surprise, methods developed on Earth, don’t perfectly work on other worlds. Sometimes the worlds have other sources of carbon fourteen or things that produce more of it when we don’t expect it. The decay is the same thank whatever, so yeah they are taking a lot of samples of stuff and trying to get a better hang of it. Also this is all alien worked materials so they are trying to avoid bias towards human made materials and the results they’d expect from them. Possibly different tools and methods leading to possibly different results.
So far their best estimates suggests these ruins are about as old as humanity or at least parts of it are. As do some of the other close sites they’ve sampled, the sunken cities seem to be a bit older. Then again they might have been a bit slow to leave the oceans. Or maybe they didn’t fancy on building outside of the oceans until later. Truth be told we aren’t sure how much older or younger than us they might be. At least in terms of when they came to be, jury’s still out on if they’re still alive somewhere or not. I’d put them a bit before human’s they might have been slower to tech up than we did. Or maybe they got help. Aside from things I’ve already suggested about what happened to them, I can’t think of any reason for them to not be here mad about the louts who just dropped in unannounced.
We haven’t found any bodies. I guess that counts for something haven’t found much beyond some furniture and technology. We think we found some writing or some kind of written language but who knows if we’ll ever figure that out. Short of them showing up, this is probably gonna be one of those mystery’s that hangs unsolved over humanity’s heads. I can’t wait to hear how the alien’s were actually the Atlantian’s or that they were human’s before they fled to earth and became us and we were the alien’s all alon
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WBJ2019-Diaries of Straud: Prompt Three
Day 22: Five more minutes then I’ll get up and dressed.
(Who lives in your world?)
It’s amazing watching the prefab shelters going up, the foundations take the longest a day or two to fully set. They can do the walls for eight structures in a day. And roof six of them, an thats only gonna get better as they wake up more of the colonists. The nice thing is we should have food for up to two years with rationing. Three if we’re strict about it, and are careful with how many colonists we wake up. Including the crew there’s twenty thousand of us here, about two hundred of us were crew everyone else was frozen. It won’t hold for long term weirdly—some side effect with the chemicals used or so I’ve understood—But we could keep everyone on ice for a year.
Oh yeah good news the ship isn’t compromised well beyond nav, stellar coms and engines. We could in theory resupply the ship but right now we figure it’s best to settle in. Set up farms and housing, then the non ship industry and from there well... then we can start worrying about ��phoning home’ as he put it.
we’ve mostly only woken up the work crews so far, so they can do what’s needed to make it easier for us to wake the rest. So homes, a hospital and tower green houses. Of course the captain has broken some of the procedures. He had us thaw several scientists anthropologists, archaeologist, biologists and anyone else he felt might have useful knowledge where the alien structures are concerned.
Most of us have just kind of been ignoring the alien ruins and what they mean, we haven’t seen or heard any indications of them still being here. The planet is still in good condition, so they weren’t killed, unless it was viral... fun to think of. We don’t see any signs of them still hiding in the deep, Either their using courier, they are all in the same place or they just aren’t talking to each other. Because none of the signals have changed. Those of us who are talking about them have kinda settled in on them having just left, which is weird for how much they seem to have built on this world. I highly doubt this was just an outpost, why build all of this if the world was just an outpost. If your here for that long you have a small team get that board you’ve basically just moved in at that point.
In anycase it’s weird to think that soon I’ll be living in a house, and every day the ‘village’ I’ll be living in will probably grow by several houses and dozens of people every day. I wonder if I’ll notice when it passes a thousand people or even five or ten thousand people. I guess only time will tell, maybe the aliens will even show up again.
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WBJ2019-Diaries of Straud: Prompt One
Real quick, first off Yeah I’m a little late but I figure better late than never, I might catch up and I might fall further behind. Mostly because I want to try something different to both get myself back into writing but also I don’t really have a world I want to develop for a book. So I’m going to try to make this kind of a story, by having all of my entries be the Diary entries of a colonist of a colony ship that ended up emergency landing on the wrong planet in a system they weren’t aiming for.
A little bit of a story a little bit of world building. I don’t know how strong both elements will be but I’m going to try my best. So in any case allow me to welcome you to Diaries of Straud.
(Todays Topic: Tell us about your world, what’s it about?)
Mission Day:57 Real Day: 72 Situation: Worrisome.
So I think it’s safe to say mistakes were made, The Straud—named for the kingdom of a popular fantasy series back in Alpha Centauri in which the entire kingdom is moved to another world—has just made planetfall. We dropped into the system and were immediately woken from stasis—what us crew members were placed in rather than cryo we still have to be woken up periodically but we had to anyway—several alarms blaring and the ship barreling towards a planet. Our navigation systems had been damaged while we were out, our best guess was a dark object drifting in extra stellar space between jumps. Or maybe hyperspace isn’t as empty as we thought it was.
In any case we were not where we were supposed to be. If the lack of correlation between early survey records and what we were currently seeing, or the lack of contact with any colonization pre-phase ships or settlements weren’t enough of an indication. The strange readings from the planet the ship started us towards are more than enough. It’ll take us a few days for us to get there but everyone is nervous, Humanity has found minimal evidence of aliens. Small settlements or indications of sentient life that never got much beyond where our own primitive ancestors reached. We’ve maybe found evidence of a race that might have also reached beyond their own home. But it could also just be eerily similar natural stone outcroppings.
So to have a planet never touched or even seen by a human, throwing off detectable signals like we’ve found... well it’s got several of us crew worried. About ourselves, and those we still watch over. Who trust us to wake them up safely. We aren’t soldiers, we aren’t diplomats or even language experts... maybe some of the colonists are, I should bring that up with the captain. In any case, we’re none of those... but we are the tenacious ones chosen to settle a new untamed wilderness. We’ll pull through I’m sure, even though we don’t have any of the pre-colony set we should have everything we need to found a colony from scratch.
The hardest part will probably be finding a place to settle. While the ship picked well, aiming us towards the only easily settle able world in this system. Our far scan’s are showing more water than land. But at last the atmosphere is breathable so we don’t have to live in the ship while we build Envo-Domes. At least it doesn’t look like we have to build any, ah cool another new alarm. I wonder what this one is, back to work I guess.
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World Building June, Day 1: Tell us about your world
So I once described the plot of The Game We Play as Banksy’s underground rebellion vs. medieval fantasy Trump. In the spirit of that, welcome to Creation; modern day Earth as viewed through the lens of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
To be more specific, and accurate, The Game We Play is a fantasy novel that exchanges swords and sorcery for politics and... well, more politics. But the aforementioned game is not one of thrones, but rather of a society slowly realizing that maybe their political system that elected a nationalist, supremacist, racist, sexist moron might have a few flaws in it.
Like I said, medieval fantasy Trump. No, I will not keep the real world out of my escapist fantasy. What else am I suppose to shout from this tiny soapbox I found?
The story follows two main characters. On the one hand there is Fara, the daughter of a well-liked elected official who, in the middle of her own election campaign, finds herself in the middle of a power struggle involving both figurative and literal backstabbing. On the other is Perez, a farmer with dreams of becoming an engineer, whose curiosity into a grassroots movement catapults her into the very real danger of their peaceful protest turning into an angry mob.
Look, it took a long time to find this soapbox. I’m not getting off of it any time soon, so buckle up.
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World Building June, Day 30: What’s the weather like in your world?
Like the sky, the weather on Creation is very similar to that on Earth.
Yeah, sorry to end this on a low note, but Creation has the same general weather systems as our world. It’s hot in the summer, cold in the winter, it rains water when the clouds are out, and sun shines when the clouds aren’t.
Is there anything weather-wise on Creation that doesn’t exist on Earth? Well, there is one, and it’s what happens when people try to control the weather with magic. Let’s take a look at the Eye of Ruin.
Hans Gemrick was a contemporary to Adam Turnam, who wanted to use Turnam’s principals on a broader scale. The idea was simple: a Focus that would draw its power from ocean waves in order to clear the clouds from the sky. The idea was that this would allow farmers to avoid any weather they didn’t want effecting their crops.
The first test took place miles away from shore, and the most charitable description is that it worked a little too well. Gemrick’s Focus moved not just the clouds away, but everything that was above the ocean’s surface, with residual force moving the wind around it in a ring.
The result? A massive cyclone powered by the ocean’s waves, which in turn are kicked up by the very same cyclone.
To date, no-one is sure if the storm is still powered by Gemrick’s Focus, or if it’s just feeding into itself. In either case, the Eye of Ruin has been a fixture just below the horizon for over 20 years now. Analysis taken at a safe distance shows that entropy is taking effect, and the Eye is slowing down. That said, the rate is glacially slow, so chances are that sailors will have to avoid sailing near the Eye for decades to come.
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World Building June, Day 29: How do people communicate- Wait, didn’t we do this already?
Yeah, I kinda talked about how people communicate over distance back on Day 11. So instead, I’m gonna take today to talk about the two women I kept mentioning in other prompts. Let’s take a look at the two protagonists of The Game We Play: Fara Iokiend and Perez Vahl.
Fara Iokiend is the only child of Gale and the late Martel Iokiend. You may remember from Day 3 that Fara has some physical differences when compared to the average young woman, with the more obvious one being a third arm. This is the source of some serious self-image problems, which in turn has lead to self-confidence issues and anxiety. The latter, Fara has been able to treat with Ambrosia tinctures. The former has been... more of a problem.
In spite of this, Fara has decided to follow in her parents’ footsteps and run for public office, making her one of the youngest people running to become a representative in Aquiland. Fortunately for her—or from her viewpoint, terrifyingly—the Council had voted to expand both the number of representatives for each province, but the number of people on the Council as well. So now, Fara finds herself running not just as a test of her own self-confidence, but for the place of the second Princess of Melas.
Perez Vahl, on the other hand, is a farmgirl living mainly on her family’s farm outside of Melas. While she works hard on the farm without complaint, her passion is in creating Focuses and her dream is to work for one of the development guilds. While her father, an immigrant from Askedelos, has encouraged her to follow those dreams, the growing pressure from agricultural guilds has made it difficult for her to chose between the farm and the city.
That didn’t stop her from learning how to build Focuses on the side, usually from second-hand parts. The same curiosity that made her learn how to build Focuses has also gotten Perez in trouble, though. Investigating one of Resistance’s displays got her questioned by Melas’ local guard, which only heightened her interest in the group of subversives.
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