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 Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 5:16 pm
Community members may make suggestions or list concerns here.
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Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 10:05 pm
I think we should do what we are doing with the continents, but do the same with things like 'cosmology', 'history', 'lore', and perhaps even smaller cities and settlements.
If we are going to go with Gaia Canon, I wouldn't be against directly copying some settings from Leviathan and using them here.
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Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 1:34 pm
Once we get a few more ideas going and a map chosen, should we maybe ask a few threads if they would let us advertise? Like give them the link to the discussion thread or here ...Or a banner (Not sure if we are still doing that or not.) To put on their front page?
It also starts getting people, whose threads we might want on the map, interested.
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Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 2:37 pm
Darkest Silver Once we get a few more ideas going and a map chosen, should we maybe ask a few threads if they would let us advertise? Like give them the link to the discussion thread or here ...Or a banner (Not sure if we are still doing that or not.) To put on their front page? It also starts getting people, whose threads we might want on the map, interested. Yes.
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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:01 pm
Darkest Silver Once we get a few more ideas going and a map chosen, should we maybe ask a few threads if they would let us advertise? Like give them the link to the discussion thread or here ...Or a banner (Not sure if we are still doing that or not.) To put on their front page? It also starts getting people, whose threads we might want on the map, interested. Since the HOH isn't happening, perhaps we all can come together and pool our resources to create a kick off roleplaying event. I think the best way to do anything, is just to bite down and -do it- . So with that being said, perhaps we can do an Opaj style event to really introduce the 'world of gaia' to roleplayers. Any ideas for what kind of event we could do? Or even if this is a good idea.
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Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 8:53 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:42 pm
Setting Idea...
Basalt City
______Basalt City had once been a great city-state forged by sorcerer kings whom settled near the foot of the volcanic mountain. They settled there to harness the immense fiery energies of the nearby volcano and were for a time successful. With conjured salamanders and potent blast of fire, they were able to subjugate neighboring nations. They amassed wealth and slaves from the armies they laid low. The sorcerer kings put them to work gathering volcanic rocks to build a wondrous city of fire and magic.
______But as the sorcerers grew more decadent they became careless. As time slipped by, gradually they lost control of the volcano upon which they drew their strength. The day finally came when the Volcanno rebelled against their masters, burying the grand city beneath a torrent of magma, fire and Ash.
______The slaves who were able to escape the destruction of the city, ended up settling on the mound of volcanic rock left behind by the Cities destruction. This settlement eventually became Basalt City.
______Basalt City is a City-State about the size of modern day Rome at the foot of a giant volcanic mountain. Most of the buildings are built with a combination of obsidian and Basalt. The City has a theocratic government, dominated by the local religion who revere the Volcanic mountain as a god of freedom that broke them from their chains.
______The cities economy is based on a export of Basalt Rock, Obsidian Glass, and magical artifacts, all mined from the city buried beneath. While mining for Rock and glass is relatively safe, mining deeper into the underground city to find magical objects is dangerous. However, these support Basalt City, making it a rich, healthy, and populous city.
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Just an idea.
Might be what I try after Sigil.
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Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:49 pm
I like the general outline. smile
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 2:04 am
That actually sounds pretty neat.
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Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 1:33 pm
Okay just gonna start jabbering.
A good start: We take the topographies of the Levi-verse and Gaia Prime (barton, durem, etc.) and have them border each other in a way that makes sense. Fill the blanks and clear out all the grey areas and once that's done we're working with a pretty hefty piece of land with (potentially) a whole lot of locations.
The number of locations is pretty important, because we don't want half a bajillion different threads to pick from. Let's say G-prime and the known Levi-verse together, as one 'Region' (buzzword), gives us... oh... 10-15 key locations that are made into threads.
'Region' <---- Regions are the different sub-forums. Each contain a dozen or so threads that are all interconnected. Belonging to a region means that you feel the effects of events in your region before the rest of the World of Gaia.
Your typical 'Region' sub-forum might look like this...
'Gaia News Network' (sticky) <------ Each region has its own news network, where denizens of the region can tune in for updates. This will help provide the feeling of oneness. There will probably have to be some sort of 'Gaian World News' or sumpin'.
'Map' (sticky) <---------- A map of the region, description of the climate and all that jazz. Descriptions of locations. I think we should keep these fairly simple, nothing to fancy, so that we can easily edit in explosions and craters and death-stars or whatever. Fun!
And then just a dozen or so key locations.
What designates a place as a key location? Well, its significance. Of course. And.... not being too small or specific of a place will help. If we aren't going to have a multitude of threads that we can't keep track of, and we lose interconnectedness, then we'll need to put 'Yojimbo's Mountain Retreat' in a thread called 'The Mountains'. And 'Yojimbo's Mountain Retreat' can be a location within the thread. Duh. Pretty much like how Sigil is a city, with multiple parts of the city being played in one thread. No problem.
But yeah. TASKS.
- Get on MS paint and combine the levi and g-prime topographies. Because that's a lot of land already plotted out for us. I think these two together are an ideal starting point.
- Pick a couple handfuls of the places we'll be using. Spread 'em out good. I suggest all major cities and then the geographical areas in between em. We'd have like ..... a handful of cities and then the connecting geography: Big 'ol Field, Big 'ol Mountains, and Big 'ol Water, and even Big 'ol Forest. You catch my drift.
- Make the corresponding threads for that stuff. The sub-forum for the region, and then the map thread, the news thread, and the thread for the locatons.
- Get started?
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