Tweets 3, Cuddles and Sunshine

by Xenthos

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Sylphas2011-06-24 22:13:55
I kind of want to give Laurelin Razor Leaf as a custom attack, but they're crazy expensive.
Enyalida2011-06-24 22:41:53
QUOTE (Tetra @ Jun 24 2011, 01:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Just submitted my custom beast. smile.gif

Name: Anakim

Short: Anakim, the crystal automaton

Long: Anakim, the crystal automaton hovers here, suffused in harmonic energies.

Extended: Combining science with the arcane arts, this relic of war heralds the technology of a forgotten age. Huge, finely etched tiers of crystal ramparts comprise the segments of this automaton, reinforced with gold-plated diamond and turquoise. Fretworks of the same material entwine the geometric contours that define his blocky figure. Taking on the shape of a star-formed, Anakim's many-jointed limbs have been engineered for dynamic movement, affording optimal mobility. His towering frame ascends peerlessly towards the firmament, beryl eyes and carved glass features devoid of any emotion. Cannon-barreled chambers inlaid with jade and onyx extend from his massive palms, palpable dregs of energy seething from their gilt grasp. There appears to be no external interface or controls, moving of his own volition, and with shockingly swift reflexes for one his size. Filigreed wings of aureate plumage crest his hulking frame, a steady stream of harmonic force coursing through the latticed airfoil. Emblazoned across his chest cavity, a fractal mandala resonates with the rhythmic pulses of diamond, ruby, and sapphire - thrumming like a quiet heartbeat.


Dregs?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dregs
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Also look to be some run on sentences in there.
Eventru2011-06-24 23:06:48
QUOTE (Daraius @ Jun 23 2011, 04:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I don't get the sense that this Czigany Coast civilization really had any interest in art like the lore implies. Seems more like they were just in the business of mass-producing expensive, fragile toys.


Perception of art is relative - as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Who knows what the predecessors of the Czigany viewed as art - even now, all people find are more or less bits and pieces dug out of the ruins. I remember watching a documentary a few years back for a european studies course, and one archeologist spent a full two hours going on about the contents of a trash pit. Quite literally he spent thirty minutes dissecting what a broken toy meant in relation to the people who lived in a roman outpost, the perceived state of the culture, population and beliefs relative to the toy's shape, size, material, etc.

The best you can do is look at the people who have descended from that culture, what's remained of them, and get only a sad glimpse of what might have once existed.
Daraius2011-06-24 23:18:28
Sounds like a fun project for some Hallifaxian scholar to tackle.
Qistrel2011-06-25 08:54:35
Winter. Court. Festival.

Yay!
Tetra2011-06-25 10:37:43
QUOTE (Enyalida @ Jun 24 2011, 11:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Dregs?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dregs
confused.gif
Also look to be some run on sentences in there.


3. last vestige of something, usually plural. dregs.

Also, on the topic of run-on sentences, have you read the entry that won Beauty this year? Poetic license. tongue.gif
Jack2011-06-25 11:00:35
Run-on sentences are haute couture.
Shiri2011-06-25 13:39:04
A better question than the one about the definition of art would be, how come this Czigany stuff is producing images of unicorns and demons and so forth?
Jack2011-06-25 13:59:47
QUOTE (Shiri @ Jun 25 2011, 02:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
A better question than the one about the definition of art would be, how come this Czigany stuff is producing images of unicorns and demons and so forth?

Why not? There's no indication they didn't exist back then, and the iconography of the Czigany surely differed greatly from that of the modern civilizations. It even makes sense that we modern day scavengers would focus on salvaging these icons in particular, as they're more familiar to us.
Shiri2011-06-25 14:29:25
Demons didn't exist back then because Nil didn't exist back then, for one thing. The unicorns put pressure on the timeline involved to explain how they were aware of their existence too, since they're ethereal creatures.
Lendren2011-06-25 14:34:46
In the histories there were advertisements inserted into the aetherbroadcasts. I wish I could think of a way to do that today, because it's looking like getting my play produced, if I don't give up, will put me in the hole almost a quarter million gold. But what is there to advertise, and who would pay to advertise it, really?
Enyalida2011-06-25 14:36:23
They are timetravelers, which is how the faire comes in and out. Alternately, it's the same way we've got unicorns in art , because someone was daydreaming. That they exist in the flesh could simply be a marvelous serendipity.
Jack2011-06-25 14:39:05
QUOTE (Shiri @ Jun 25 2011, 03:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Demons didn't exist back then because Nil didn't exist back then, for one thing. The unicorns put pressure on the timeline involved to explain how they were aware of their existence too, since they're ethereal creatures.

I think you're getting too hung up on the terminology. Nil-born demons might not have existed back then (though as Enyalida says, the Institute and their screwing around with temporal causality opens up some doorways for time travel), but creatures monstrous enough to earn the moniker "demon" certainly did. And it's assumed that it's our characters referring to the demonic-looking toys as demons, rather than the Czigany - and so they'll be drawing from their own knowledge of Nil to do so.
Eventru2011-06-25 15:32:31
The mysteries of the Czigany Cultural Province... smile.gif
Diamondais2011-06-25 15:37:20
Lolly also mentions demons from a story. As far as we know, there are no physical manifestation of what we all perceive a demon to look like, but demons really are just frightening things we don't know or understand.
Unknown2011-06-25 21:36:00
Heh, for the first time confusion about a character's age almost got me in trouble. I saw the current Leader of Glomdoring, as I honoured her and saw she was 18 years old, so I didn't even read the rest of the Honours line, and thought she was just an over-zealous novice. Oops! blush.gif

Makes me think of the days past when I worked in retail and would card 40-somethings when they tried to buy cigarettes.

Although I wonder how many characters now use age-reversing techniques.

And while I am tweeting, that always reminds me of how the one disadvantage to a text game is that you don't notice changes sometimes unless you specifically look for them. People changing race on you, for instance.
Kaia2011-06-25 21:41:48
QUOTE (Phred @ Jun 25 2011, 05:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Heh, for the first time confusion about a character's age almost got me in trouble. I saw the current Leader of Glomdoring, as I honoured her and saw she was 18 years old, so I didn't even read the rest of the Honours line, and thought she was just an over-zealous novice. Oops! blush.gif



Roar. Roar, I say!
Arel2011-06-25 21:55:20
QUOTE (Phred @ Jun 25 2011, 05:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Although I wonder how many characters now use age-reversing techniques.

Probably not a huge number since on Glom can use Penumbra to deage themselves back down to 18 and only Institute and Sentinels can change someone's age and I don't see requests for it very often. Also, both guilds hunt down enemies who've had ageing done and put it back to their natural age so it's probably not very widespread.
Talan2011-06-25 22:01:30
QUOTE (Arel @ Jun 25 2011, 05:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Also, both guilds hunt down enemies who've had ageing done and put it back to their natural age so it's probably not very widespread.

All the more reason for it to require an 'AGREE' to confirm it. That's somewhat interesting though. For those people who have been aged or de-aged to fit into the family system, does it do a secondary check and refuse the adoption if anyone's age no longer qualifies at the completion?
Arel2011-06-25 22:04:28
QUOTE (Talan @ Jun 25 2011, 05:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
All the more reason for it to require an 'AGREE' to confirm it. That's somewhat interesting though. For those people who have been aged or de-aged to fit into the family system, does it do a secondary check and refuse the adoption if anyone's age no longer qualifies at the completion?

I can't see why it would do a secondary check, since the system was built before it was possible to change an age. You never know, though.

Also, if it was non-reversible (without agreement), you'd probably find people getting (de)aged even more rare.