Mutants & Masterminds Mutants & Masterminds: Struggles of Iannin - SOI Chat

Rebekka Van der Vyse · February 14, 2011

The Naming Process...

Click to reveal..

And this is just for The Magus... there was more...

Forge · February 14, 2011

I like Elan...and he's dead anyway. Nale doesn't have enough of the 'fantasy' feel.

And Nale was a jerk.

Dawn OOC · February 14, 2011

*reads the chat log*

Apparently, I am world-building with madmen.

*puts on her crazy hat* All hale hael haal hail the great Elan!

Forge · February 14, 2011

And Chosen did reach into the Chaos burying himself in the swirling depths as he strained to pull back. Imposing his Will upon the entropy, he emerged. He shaped the mass, bending it to his whim and then stood back...

I WILL CALL THEE FORUM

...and it was good.

Ouroboros · February 14, 2011

In other words. Thanks, Chosen.

Forge · February 14, 2011

Assuming we got out sh...stuff nailed down. I'll put up the creation thread on Wednesday and take the first turn as an example.

As I will show, fancy isn't necessary and this is a very 'broad stroke' phase, so don't worry about making minute channels or hidden glens, worry about big stuff.

You are also free to work against someone else's turn, but I would recommend against action that would directly cancel someone's turn...

If someone makes a forest and then you come and burn the entire thing down with volcanic eruptions, it'll irk someone. Mind you, if you guys talk stuff like that out, and are okay with it, have at it...just make sure I know.

Ouroboros · February 15, 2011

What else do we need to nail down?

Forge · February 15, 2011

Nothing that I am aware of...but I was leaving it open in case someone still had questions/concerns/comments.

Ouroboros · February 15, 2011

I think Joani is still working on the Justice god but we shouldn't need that during the map/world building phase I think (at least for the first dozen go 'rounds).

I'm working on something for the calendar but that's not crucial either.

Sounds like we're ready steady go.

Joani · February 15, 2011

Hey guys,

yeah, sorry about my lack of posts. Ankassar is practically finished, just need to put it down in pretty letters. Unfortunately I have 2 sick kids at home which reduces my online presence over the next two days at least.

Ouroboros · February 15, 2011

No worries Joani, nor any rush, we don't need Ankassar's write up to move forward. Thanks for letting us know your situation.

Ouroboros · February 15, 2011

The Calendar:

First Cycle: Kaer

Second Cycle: Wulkyn

Third Cycle: Beltok

Fourth Cycle: Zahan-Thaya

Fifth Cycle: Tal & Len

Sixth Cycle: Azath

Seventh Cycle: Konsea

Eighth Cycle: Siponak

Ninth Cycle: Quaress

Tenth Cycle: Ankassar

Decades, centuries, and millenniums follow the same pattern. The common terms for the preceeding are:

Year: Twist

Decade: Grand Cycle

Century: Grand Twist

Millennium: Ring

Thus a common written date might read:

In the Ring of Beltok, in the Grand Twist of Azath, in the Grand Cycle of Konsea, and the Twist of Wulkyn, on the 5th day of the Cycle of Siponak ... formally at any rate.

Translating to: 5th day of the 8th month in the year 3671, or commonly the Fifth of Siponak 3671.

Thoughts?

Forge · February 15, 2011

What is your basis for your naming scheme? I can see cycle and ring..but where does twist come from?

I also would rather have unique names for each period instead of using 'grand'

Edit:

Also the months of dual names...It probably wouldn't be Tal & Len, but just called Talen or Tallen or even Tal-Len. Same with the Life Goddess.

Ouroboros · February 15, 2011

try to not laugh but they come in part from my old Transdimensional TMNT sourcebook for the Palladium TMNT RPG. Plus they just sound cool IMO.

But that is why I was looking for feedback, we can change twist to something else if there's a better suggestion. Likewise I just thought "Grand Cycle" sounded cool.

I figured that the actual month names would not be so literal but I didn't have a ton of time this am so I put up what I could for discussion since this is more of a collaborative method and "I suck with names"

Forge · February 15, 2011

Alright, then how about something like this:

Month - Cycle

Year - How about just keeping year.

Decade - Ring

Century - Age

Millenium - Dawn (perhaps just numbered)

So, lo and beholden unto us in the Age of Tal-Len of the Fifth Dawn. In the Ring of Konsea and the Year of Azath, this, the 7th day of Kaer.

Translated 7th day of first month of year 5576.

Dawn OOC · February 15, 2011

Year could be Turn - a pretty common description since its a turn of the seasons.

Ouroboros · February 15, 2011

Month - Cycle

Year - Year

Decade - Ring

Century - Coil

Millenium - Age

Coil goes with the circular motif of cycle and ring, and Age feels like it needs to be longer than just 100 years.

Forge · February 15, 2011

Originally Posted By: Ouroboros

Month - Cycle
Year - Year
Decade - Ring
Century - Coil
Millenium - Age

Coil goes with the circular motif of cycle and ring, and Age feels like it needs to be longer than just 100 years.

Add Turn to that and it sounds good to me.

Travis Kincaid · February 15, 2011

So ...

Month - Cycle

Year - Turn

Decade - Ring

Century - Coil

Millenium - Age

Aye?

Forge · February 15, 2011

Officially...aye

Dawn OOC · February 15, 2011

Groovy to me. Asa and Joani only need to give their agreement.

Joani · February 15, 2011

I nod in agreement.

Rebekka Van der Vyse · February 15, 2011

I officially give this Calender my blessing. Let it be so.

Forge · February 16, 2011

I'm putting up the creation thread today, we have been warned of another outage today without a known time (at least currently) so I would advise saving any replies you make just in case.

Ira Sagebrush · February 16, 2011

FOOLS

Forge · February 17, 2011

*scoffs at Chaos* Better than the representation of anti-reality with an attempted witty avatar. pff

To everyone else: please don't be offended if I change your post tag. I'm just very OCD about them...and dislike baby blue.

Travis Kincaid · February 17, 2011

Just a heads up. I'm unable to see the map here at work (I didn't even know that your first post had a picture until last night). I don't need you to change your image hosting or anything a drastic as that just know that I will have to shift my posting into the evenings for this portion of this game where I am able to view the photos on my home PC.

Forge · February 17, 2011

Through discussion, found out Jim can view DA, so I will be moving the map and link there, then continue to upload them there.

Forge · February 17, 2011

I lied. I'll update the map at my whim, but a MINIMUM of every round.

Forge · February 18, 2011

I was thinking that as we wind down out of these major changes, but before we start into races and such, people might want to do more minor changes.

What I am proposing is that during your turn, you may make three smaller changes instead of one large one. For example...

I could create a large mountain chain at the south pole or..

I cleave a valley into Joani's range, create a branch in the main river that flows towards the forest and create a lake on crescent island.

Also of note, as we get more detailed, I will make sure the map is larger so that you can zoom in and see a bit more detail.

We should also decide how large the planet is...I really don't want to detail out an entire planet the size of earth...not all at one time anyway.

Comments questions concerns?

Kakita Zoyu · February 18, 2011

3 minor or 1 major change sounds good to me. As for how large the planet is, how 'bout we just say pretty much what we can see is half the planet. We can leave the 'backside' undefined for now, adding stuff as we or the story need it later.

We can also take a page from most fantasy books nowadays. If you haven't noticed, the ones that have maps generally don't have a legend. This is on purpose so nitpicky readers don't get in a snit about how long it takes characters to get from place to another. This way, travel takes as long as we need it or want it to... mostly.

Also, when we get to God Turns, will the gods themselves be able to change the face of the planet, or at least a small piece of it? I was planning on having one of my Gods to create a mountain-ringed desert as a place to forge and temper the race he creates.

Travis Kincaid · February 18, 2011

1) I'm cool with the 3:1 ratio.

2) How many more turns of this are we thinking?

3) I agree with Asa and think we should be allowing the Gods to shape the world on their turn as an option for their action(s)

4) Pharg.

5) Scale: I'm pretty flexible, I had figured that this was the whole world and that as things progressed some areas of the world would become focused on and more developed and the rest would be open for later use. I agree that defining everything would be teh suck.

6) Pharg. Again.

Forge · February 18, 2011

2. I had figured on until everyone just takes a 'pass'.

3. Was always the plan, but the Gods would be limited to 'minor' changes instead of the broad brush strokes we are doing now.

4. ditto

5. I would prefer this be 'whole planet' and we don't have to have a definitive scale, but I want to know in my mind if the gaps in the continents are traversable by the tech we will have eventually in game, or if they are basically isolated. Something about the size of our moon would be fine with me.

6. Phargo, ND

Ouroboros · February 18, 2011

About the size of the moon would put that map as being roughly 6700 miles (~10,900 km) across.

Eyeballing from there the big continent was probably roughly 2500 miles wide when it was still just a disc. That would put most of the small continents at roughly 1000 miles across (give or take).

As a real world comparison the US East coast is about 2000 miles from Key West to Fort Kent, Maine (US Rt 1 runs 2,377 miles).

This size is fine by me. With travel being limited to sail, horse, or plain old foot for most people (unless we have magic carpets blotting out the sun ) That's a good size, IMO, especially given that road quality will further reduce travel speed for ground.

It also means that the main continent(s) (the big formerly round one and the smiley one) will be home to several races/nations while the smaller 3 may conceivably become solely controlled empires. Of course that depends on how things play out too.

As for running until we all pass, that sounds good to me.

Forge · February 19, 2011

How is everyone else on the size of Iannin?

Also, heads up, I tend to spend not as much time at my computer during the weekend as I am out running with the fam (as most of you know), but as a reminder, should Joani post, mine might not come until Monday, especially since I need to work on the map quite a bit (TY Asa heh, j/k).

How is everyone on the map size? Do I need to make it bigger so you can describe more finite changes?

Dawn OOC · February 19, 2011

I'm good with the size; the only question I have is what is the line of white biseting our upside down S. America?

Kakita Zoyu · February 19, 2011

That's no Moon!

That's Iannin.

I'd prefer it somewhat bigger - I'm just used it, is all, and it gives us a bigger sandbox to play in. Hell, the Vikings crossed the Atlantic in a Longboat - but I'm perfectly fine if the consensus is Moon Sized.

As for the size of the map, I'm fine with it for now, but later on, when we get to God Turns - who presumably can't make as far reaching changes, maybe blows up the various continents/areas would be good, so we can be more precise.

Forge · February 19, 2011

Originally Posted By: Dawn, OOC

I'm good with the size; the only question I have is what is the line of white biseting our upside down S. America?

Answered in chat, but that is Joani's mountain range, it looks more like mountains in the map I haven't put up yet.

If we honestly ever need more room, we can melt some of the ice cap and 'discover' a new continent/island. This is already bigger than we will probably ever explore completely.

Forge · February 19, 2011

Map is updated. All the images are now clickable for full size. As always, if there is an issue, let me know and I can correct it if it didn't fit your vision.

Forge · February 19, 2011

Derived month names (just brainstorming)

First Cycle: Aera

Second Cycle: Kyne

Third Cycle: Bel

Fourth Cycle: Zaya

Fifth Cycle: Talen

Sixth Cycle: Zath

Seventh Cycle: Kahn

Eighth Cycle: Sion

Ninth Cycle: Que

Tenth Cycle: Ahnk

First Cycle: Kaer

Second Cycle: Wulkyn

Third Cycle: Beltok

Fourth Cycle: Zahan-Thaya

Fifth Cycle: Tal & Len

Sixth Cycle: Azath

Seventh Cycle: Konsea

Eighth Cycle: Siponak

Ninth Cycle: Quaress

Tenth Cycle: Ankassar

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