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Post by Hamuu on Jun 13, 2010 4:20:02 GMT -5
Wait, I am confused, I thought the middle, between the two land masses, was "the endless"... where's the endless know if it's not. I just assumed it was since I saw what appeared to be floating rocks in the middle.
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 13, 2010 12:20:52 GMT -5
With the mist that no one ever comes back from, people would just assume the Endless is endless. My illustration doesn't show this, but the rocks should be getting more and more sparse as they get closer to the middle, though maybe there's a bigger cluster inside the mist that no one sees.
I don't understand your question of "where's the endless". Do you mean physically? They'd be between the mountain-land and the middle mist. Can't get past the mist to the volcano.
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Jun 13, 2010 12:46:08 GMT -5
The Golaudrin destroy foreign objects automatically, unless they're told not to by a Tolt. The Tolt are smarter, but not by much (maybe a bit smarter than your average dog).
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 13, 2010 16:15:46 GMT -5
We need an official name. I'm not feeling Vast, really. It was just a placeholder.
ch00bsland sounds pretty cool tho.
this spot reserved for whenever i get around to drawing a map of ch00bsland if no one else world builds.
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Jun 13, 2010 20:47:08 GMT -5
Hmmm, names names names.
________ Irigo Aun Virenia Esiea Tostado
Also, I'm not too sure how much disbelief we're going to suspend here... but in truth, two suns in this world's solar system will render the planet about as habitable as a tortilla chip. Forget 'really hot summer' - no fauna will survive. There's a reason Tatooine looked like it did.
However, if the two suns are just for decoration, then I have no objection.
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 13, 2010 21:33:54 GMT -5
I feel like you just smashed your face into the keyboard to make those names. Except Tostado.
As for the suns, maybe... the world orbits a gas giant? idk how that would work. Except lots of radiation from the gas giant. I mean, this place is already flat. I'm pretty sure there's plenty of disbelief already suspended. Maybe the suns orbit the world.
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Post by Lady Kara on Jun 13, 2010 22:07:01 GMT -5
Question = Is this stuff related to RPs in any way, or is it just the whole awesome fun of collaberating together on making a world?
Curious to know, since I've been highly interested in having an info topic concerning all of the stuff I've come up with (the Todoroku Islands, and also my parts of the other dimension world called "Emerra", that was made by my bud Salina... a.k.a. Chibi Vegeta at Pokeschool and spatterpunk briefly here; I'm thankful that before I lost touch with her, I created a text with all the information she's jotted down about her place and its inhabitants).
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 13, 2010 22:35:33 GMT -5
This is all the fun of creating a whole new world. Nothing to do with current RP canon.
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Post by ericnox on Jun 15, 2010 3:29:21 GMT -5
This is a great thread from what I have managed to pick my way though so far. I am enjoying it and thinking we should use it for making of worlds to RP upon, as well as expand and share any ideas we have thus far.
I like your idea of the mists. It could be added upon that the mists are not natural by any means, say made by a machine or via magic, to keep people out for as long as possible until they reach a point of power, like get a rare magical item that parts the mists, or points them in the right way.
Within it, it could be an advanced city, someone who showed up or a group of simply powerful people, who are like the Dark Powers of Ravenloft, they observe or even perhaps make small things happen and help push people in a direction.
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 15, 2010 11:31:02 GMT -5
I'm always a little wary of "Great power hiding in obscuring _______ trying to keep away those pesky mortals." Although, actually having God/gods there would be interesting. Maybe that's just the lore of the land? Also, yeah, this world will become its own RP board in the future. Once I stop being lazy, I guess. And I guess once I figure out some conflict. A little iffy on whether or not we should all collaborate on the conflicts because there have to be some twists here and there for everyone. PS. here is a map that took too long to make before I gave up and slapped a texture on it. Feel free to move around landmarks/areas/continents. img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/Andurin/worldcopy.jpg
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Post by ericnox on Jun 15, 2010 11:46:40 GMT -5
Always remember that this is your world and you lay down the rules for it. Don't say 'I don't like this idea, but 129374793 people do, so I will include it.'
I did that and ended up having a war of mages on my homebrew world, resulting in 1/3 of a landmass the size of North America being turned to vapor.
Lore of the Land is a good route to go, its safe in the aspect of you can do anything with it. Heck, do something like the Source Wall from DC, where it is protecting something beyond our understanding. Anything is neat really.
Now, on to the map. It seems you have one main landmass, with a few outlying sections, like this was a rag tag map pulled together from reading/seeing things in the world. Its great for a player base because it can create a lot of mystery about the great beyond. What really lies beyond the sea to the west? What creatures hide there? It can allow for a lot of plots and interesting gaming ideas.
The thing that really pulls my eye the 'Mount Olympus' like section in the center. Is that a drawing mistake? Or was that aimed to be a super massive mountain of win? Either way, its a good idea none the less.
I can start spouting out a lot of geek questions because I remember having to build my world on my own, and stumbling a lot though the creation.
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Jun 15, 2010 11:50:45 GMT -5
what's the grey stuff, water?
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 15, 2010 11:57:41 GMT -5
Yeah grey stuff is water. anything beyond in the parchment texture is SPACE.
Mount Olympus was intentional. I guess you skimmed over it, but at the very top of Mt Olympus is a great waterfall from the sky, which is contained in a giant sphere by monks. It's the source of all major bodies of water. There's a smaller peak to the south, but it does not have an aquasphere on top, and it's just being an asshole and blocking water from entering the desert.
Also, I know it's my world, but I want to lay out the geography and people and stuff by letting everyone fill stuff in. I'm very whimsical like that.
Kind of considering splitting that giant landmass into two separate continents, but it's kind of hard what with that bigass mountain.
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Post by ericnox on Jun 15, 2010 12:02:08 GMT -5
It might be easier to introduce a second continent on the other side of the water, perhaps discovered at a later date by explorers, or even an adventuring party who comes back to tell the tale. Or if you wanted to split it anyways, part it between the large mountain and the small one. That small gap would be perfect for it.
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 15, 2010 12:03:50 GMT -5
Hmmm... yeah, beyond the little crescent hole because no one's bothered trying to sail across it yet.
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Post by ericnox on Jun 15, 2010 12:06:15 GMT -5
Your world is still in the base stages of all this, so you have a lot of room for expansion, change, and awesome editing ftw.
You can do a lot with it, make it into a place of mystery that would suck a player in, and make them want to discover as much as they can while their character is physically able to.
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Post by ericnox on Jun 15, 2010 12:11:26 GMT -5
An issue I do want to bring up is the multi suns. In almost all scifi ideas I have seen in recent memory that have planets in with more the one sun, end up looking like Death Valley, which does make sense, it would be nearly impossible for life to exist, now if you wanted to make it different in a way, a single sun, but several moons perhaps, or a ring around the world perhaps.
And as for the idea of it being in orbit of the gas giant, that too presents its own problems. There would be a time of pure darkness, day and night, for who knows how long until the sun returns, the world would need a lot of adaptions to make that work as well.
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Jun 15, 2010 12:27:48 GMT -5
We already discussed the sun issue. We determined they are decorative and have no real physical effect on the planet other than a source of light and pleasant heat.
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 15, 2010 13:17:15 GMT -5
One could be a real sun and the other could be a decorative source of light/heat that orbits around the world.
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Jun 15, 2010 15:36:57 GMT -5
I will have a detailed writeup of the Isayoshindika later tonight, now that I know where it is on the map.
(It's the southern desert.)
That mountain peak at the northern point - where the river coming from the mountaintop splits - will be touched on. It seems to be the thing that prevents water from reaching the desert, and that's important.
I can possibly do something with the northern desert as well, maybe have a second tribe, or some exiles.
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Jun 15, 2010 15:46:14 GMT -5
I have a group of people set up for the small island just to the east of the desert. I don't have the info with me, so I'll post it when I'm back at my own comp.
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Jun 15, 2010 16:32:15 GMT -5
Also I think we could use an arcitc region. Perhaps a landmass that once was a continent/large island that was "north" of the main continent earlier in the "world's" existence, but was cut off when a force, magical or natural, caused the water to stop spreading to it, the land then began to freeze because it wasn't being warmed by the water from the south. I think it should be a little bit to the direct north of the archipelago to the northeast of the archipelago in the north-eastern corner of the map.
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Post by Hamuu on Jun 15, 2010 21:17:40 GMT -5
Alright I had an idea. I like the idea of a ring around our disc world, what if the endless was an asteroid like ring around the world instead of under it. Same rules still apply, each Rock has its own up and down, large massive rocks and smaller crumbly rocks everywhere. The Company came to it long ago, found the tribe already living there.
How close do we want it to the world though?
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 15, 2010 21:22:50 GMT -5
my only issue with the asteroid belt idea is that there is no way for them to get to the mainland or vice versa.
and then what do we do with the bottom area/volcano-land/mist-land? Scrap them? Make bottom-land unpopulated? Monsters?
Oh look, I think I found a potential conflict later on. write up coming later maybe, might have to change the southern border of the desert.
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Jun 16, 2010 23:13:38 GMT -5
Okay, so we have one race of people - how about ideas for the others?
Are there cities on the overcontinent? Who lives in them? What's the tech cap there?
How many of these walking cities are there? Are they the same or very culturally different?
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 17, 2010 0:22:36 GMT -5
yeah there are cities and villages and such around. swords and arrows are the norm. gunpowder is forbidden. i'd say transportation... magic steam driven trains possibly. electricity? i'm on the fence for that. like i said, steampunk tech could be brought in, or that could be kept to the high mountains with the monks.
Okay! Stream of conscious time!
there are a small handful of the giant creatures, but each one has a city/village atop. each group of people is different due to living in relative isolation, but they share common practices that more relate to the practicalities of living on the back of a giant living creature. haven't really come up with many besides deep respect for the animal and not using shelves. small ecosystems do grow on the turtle's backs, but fauna mostly consists of birds. because these ecosystems are small, there won't be a huge number of people living there; just whatever the bare minimum for a sustainable population is. due to lack of farm space, they don't live exclusively off what's on the turtle-back and hunter-gatherer groups regularly make trips to the surface to get resources.
water is siphoned whenever the turtle comes across a natural aquasphere. I'm thinking that on that seasonal migration, when it comes time to lay eggs (external fertilization, just to give the guys living there a break) they drop the eggs in the water run off of sufficiently large aquaspheres. These spheres tend to grow in the desert. The turtles return to the rainforest so that they can eat. Hm. They might also look for mates and travel in a pair until breeding time. Gives reason for two turtle villages to work together.
thought of another cultural practice they share with each other: due to low resources and space, they practice lots of birth control, probably a one child per couple thang. once enough children reach a certain age, they are sent as a small group to brave the rainforest/desert to find another turtle village. some of them either assimilate into the other surface cities, some die, etc.
magic practice on the turtles is limited since they don't have access to prestigious higher education. since they travel mainly between the rainforest and desert, both very isolated places, their contact with "normal" civilization is minimal. Possibly they have an agreement with the Imaoeunaoiasckcitji.
that's all i can think of for now. i'll make a formal write up eventually i guess. i'll eventually make up a name for the turtles, too. something like Auts or something equally retarded.
back to cities on the overcontinent: i'm thinking there will even be kingdoms with borders and such. Mostly they'd keep to the plains in the northern and western region. Smaller villages in the mountains and northern forests, too. this allows for some good ol' warring kingdoms and stupid peasants and evil tyrants.
if bulbs wants to move his people to the asteroid belt, then i was thinking the underside is populated with monsters and crazy shit. that little bit of land on the eastern edge occasionally gets attacked by monsters that wander up. so whoever lives by that edge is crazy prepared for warfare.
PS. I just realized that the turtle people stop by magic crystal outcroppings regularly due to the turtle seeking them. So maybe their magic is pretty extensive, although i see them living simply mostly due to resource management. Probably the extent of what they do is controlled fire for utility as well as stimulation of natural plant growth. Or possibly, the reason why plants grow so well on the turtle is because it eats the crystals and the essence is deposited in the shell, making them very valuable to poachers.
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