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Dear Mr Curly,
I have done little travelling lately because I have been so dreadfully weary. Can it be true as the old Ecclesiastes said; that all things lead to weariness? Surely not. Perhaps the opposite is true: that all nothings lead to weariness. I have a peculiar feeling, Curly, that I am worn out from something I haven't yet done and the more I don't do it, the more exhausted I become. How strange. Could it be something I haven't realised? Perhaps it's something I haven't said? Something I haven't finished! It must be very large and true whatever it is and a lively struggle in the doing but I look forward to it immensely. I know I need it. First, however, I must curl up in my chair and sleep deeply with the duck. Perhaps I'll dream of this thing and wake up refreshed and do it. My fond wishes to you Mr. Curly, and to all Curly Flat.
Yours sleepily,
Vasco Pyjama
xxx
P.S. Not having breakfast can make you weary. That's for sure!
Michael Leunig. The Curly Pyjama Letters.

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"Indeed," Fendros said. He had no desire to argue when Meesei had clearly already put the requisite thought into the plan. He held a hand out low beside him. "Come along, little one. Let's go home."

"Okay, dada." Rhazii took Fendros' hand on the way out. His height was up to his father's chest already.

Now secure in a warm coat and recovered from the disorientation, Sabine walked up alongside Meesei and drew her into a quick, one-armed hug. "This is amazing, Meesei," she said with a smile.

Once Janius had Leaps equipped and the guards updated, the pack began to make its way to the nearest entrance to Blackreach.
@Double Capybara Damn. Those empty places are prime! Especially those central bits.

If anyone wants to make their own hain civilisations, those would be the places to start.

Oh yeah, and I have just one more suggestion for a new map: the flooded south ought to be covered in an ice cap to some extent. I mean, it'll be smaller than it needs to look due to the effect of flattening a sphere (see Antarctica on a flat map), but it still makes more sense than a perpetual thaw on one of the coldest spots on the planet.
Hey! I'm moved in. I'm exhausted. I still don't have that map with the Rovaick settlement names...

@Muttonhawk Shrinking back to the old map sizes would be interesting, but I think the main problem in here is that Inkarnate is a pretty map make that is actually very trashy mechanic wise.

We also need a larger map because soon we will have more and more named important cities.

And what is up with you and the creation of more and more oceans? Are you team aqua?

If anything we need islands is the seas (exception being Jvan's since she is a islaphobe.)


We can try! Really, the map's scale as it is functions fine as an abstract representation of the main things on the planet. It's just that we could use more regional maps to really punch in the scale of Galbar, like Termite suggests and like you did with the Mesathelassan hain tribes. Without that kind of stuff, the valley of peace is still bigger than the Black sea.

Speaking of seas, that cataclysm was just a half-joke. I thought it would be interesting to have some naturally separated communities so cultural growth can diverge and cause clashing value systems to react when those barriers are overcome. Though, the more I think about it, Acalya, oceans, mountains, the Changing Plains, and Piktaraika could feasibly stand in as those separators already.

By the way, I'm all for islands. Feel free to pop them up around the metatic ocean. That was a transmutational clusterfuck that could have resulted in any number of isolated archipelagos. Except near Cornerstone. The water is rather universally deep there.

Anyway, the one main thing I want to emphasize is that I really, really don't think we want or need those land bridges. Land bridges don't make the world more accessible. Seas and rivers make the world more accessible the minute you invent the sail. Once you start thinking of oceans as a way to get around, land bridges are actually just giant walls that block you from sailing where you want to go. There's a reason people dug canals through Panama and Suez- Just a thin stretch of land in the way can add massive amounts of time to a voyage.


Some enterprising folk could probably dig canals with tollways or some 'reverse ferry' rackets until dynamite is invented. All these new bodies of water formed by the landbridges need names, too. First come, first served!

I'm more amenable to the landbridges, not for making bits of the world more connected, but because we as the god characters could make cool moments out of opening them up and they do seem like something sailors would curse Vestec for. It's a bit of a selfish opinion. I'm easy about what happens to them.

I'm also all for adding new terrain features. However, not every single one has to be visible from the world map. Regional maps can deal with that kind of stuff.

At any rate, thanks for adding to the map. Now I have to remember what happened at Metera Valley.

EDIT: Oh, right, it's Phi's pad. That damn, race-integrating spin-doctor.

>Someone finally revises "Capital" into "Alefpria"


I got you, fam.

-To correct Mutton's edit: the Oath of Stilldeath and the Chronos Portal lies, I believe, beneath Old Bark-Skin rather than in the ruins of the Solitary Mount


Fair 'nough, I wasn't too clear on that myself.

It feels out of place that Zephyrion would fix the land bridges, if and when he returns. No promises from me.

[...]

Alas, my reign of trolling shall come to an end at your request. I was actually starting to think that the collection of maps was getting ridiculous, but nobody complained and so I let them pile up

I'll consign them all to a hider somewhere at the bottom of the post.


"Hey Zephyrion! Those earth djinn down on the land bridges think you're dumb and ugly! And they don't respect your authority!"
Instant landbridge destruction, courtesy of Zephy!

As for hiders, they don't seem to stop the images loading for me, regardless of whether they are actually in hiders. This is the main reason that I moved my sheets over to a separate thread.

Also, again, regarding map size/things getting crowded. We just need to shrink down many of the sites and their accompanying names, and make it so the map has very high resolution and we can simply zoom in on particular areas to sea details.


I swear, if this RP gets its own custom google map...

@Kho
I'd like to request an island chain for no particular reason. Is their an inbox I put this request into or....


Just write that something that at least one of your characters is doing is being performed on an island chain without explaining how the islands appeared. We're not real estate agents here.
All I can think of right now is a conversation between Meesei and the agents Maroc and Lunise from the Empire and the Dominion respectively. I imagine that Saras would bring her up to date as soon as he could.

I'll respond tomorrow. I'm moved in, but it's left me pretty worn out.
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Well, not quite! The conscious perception bit really is important here.

Imagine the day when Jvan expands her telepathic network until she can see into the deepest, strangest phobias of mortal men, and take inspiration from them, drawing power from human horror until she can reach out through their dreams and make them real.


Well, I'll give you that. You go straight to the source for what you want to do, and that's respectable. You might have to ask Ilunabar nicely to step into her demiplane every now and then, though.

I feel like I read too much into it when I see the word 'anxiety,' however. I have a counsellor in my family and the definition of the anxiety is certainly broadened when you talk to such people enough. In a scholarly way, anyway. If you're just doing phobias or unease with alien stuff, though, I'd say horror speaks for itself as a word.

In other news, I have to move house tomorrow, so I'll just dump my graffiti'd map of Galbar right here without patiently waiting so I can sleep...

It'll be in my profile images for future reference.

EDIT: Before I forget!

To whomever decides to.make the next pretty iteration of the Galbar map, please consider shrinking down many of the geographical features. Things are beginning to get crowded and we are still meant to be working on a huge, Earth-like planet.

I would also suggest moving the map edges more westward, closer to the changing plains. Mesathelassa is better developed at this point.

And hey, an idea for a cataclysmic event? Sea level rise. We could actually have separated continents to work with if that happens :D
I haven't spent any might on anything horrific yet!
A straw man rendition of Antarctic Termite from implications following the most recent post.


Uhuh...
Does anyone have the map with the names of the major Rovaick settlements in the Ironhearts? I've been searching furiously for about an hour and cannot for the life of me locate it.
@BBeast Please tell me that you have a voice in mind for Sharon. The only other Sharon I know was a large, hopeless romantic netball player character acted by Magda Szubanski and I just can't get that out of my head.

I need a different voice in my head.
"This solves so much." Janius still had amusement occasionally bubbling up his throat. "We could move troops, we could move supplies, we could evacuate clans out of danger, it's..." He shook his head and held his palms out in front of him. "It means so much, it's-"

"Not so. At least, no need to get that excited," Fendros raised a hand to Janius and continued as he shouldered on a coat. "If these things are going to be secret, we probably can't use them to do anything too big. Also, Meesei," Fendros turned and gave her a curious look. "You said they were set up in a circuit. Are we going to do the same? Wouldn't that isolate any clan caught between two damaged or captured pillars?"
So, I'm moving out to another house tomorrow. Reply's will be sparse from now to a couple of days from now.
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