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>Flunked out

Look I'll have you know that she just has a very specific sort of ether. *melodramatic flounce*
Watch Ziotea be the one that masters this weapon before the other Omestrians. WITHOUT any help from Indira! *huff*

*snickers* In all seriousness, Ziotea lagged behind the others in her control of her ether for quite some time.

I have a question, @lovejoy. Drakey, in some of the backstory we were writing, headcanoned that those two had snuck down into some restricted library area at some point...I'm guessing it was part of the catacombs shown here. Is that in the realm of possibility? How badly were they punished, if discovered? Any chance they got away with it?

I have some other questions, but I'll take those to PM. ^.^

This is SO EXCITING. Definitely I wonder about wtf Omestrians are doing, and this information...odd that Varya's people would keep it. I'm feeling echoes of Serei no Moribito, here. *wriggles*

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@Lovejoy YESYESYES

he was on a couple days ago, but he's having trouble obtaining access. I know he doesn't have it on weekends. Holding onto hope that he can still play. I was enjoying the start of Rodion and Ziotea's dynamic.

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@Lovejoy Well I figured the "warm" season was warm ONLY by comparison. Given that normal for them is probably freezing or below, they'd notice the difference more than we would if we visited. Also I was figuring that was the growing season. And there's probably some sort of storm-related festival on the equinoxes...equinices? whateverrrrr.

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@Draken I love the idea of dawn and dusk seasons! AAAH! Not sure about bright or light season...but I'll go with the popular opinion there.

the whole thing with day names is precisely why I favor naming them by number, actually.

[@CollectorOfMyst I think it's because of conservation of detail, in part. They're the only one that's NOT us, and is also recent.

Or there could be a curse, sure. =P I kinda figured there were a lot of disasters in Leviathan, though it's explicitly stated that no students died in training activities in Phoenix so that kinda rules them out.

@Lovejoy I have to say yet again that I love the thought that's gone into this, and I love helping to build this world. <33 In fact, everyone has such great ideas. I'm just the noisiest. ^.^;;

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we could rename everything. if we're going to name days, I suggest just numbering them and them maybe throwing in something like "rest day" or "Varsday" as either the first or seventh. Alternatively, I can't remember the number of remnants, but the days /might/ be named after them. Still, keeping track is simpler with numbering.

Varsday
Tsarsday
Mursday
Lansday
Omsday
Sunsday/Sunday

That's six. Now, we could go with six, and make months thirty days each -- five weeks. It'd come pretty close to an earth yearh, with 360 days instead of 365/366. I dont' want to get into leap years. Might be they have a leap month, like the Jewish calendar, or maybe their calendar matches up better. Iunno.

Anyhow, that's name ideas. Now for order. I feel like Varya should be first, if only because the Varyans won...only it's been only 130 since the victory of Varya over Omestris and the rest, even discounting Lanostre. Actually, just a hundred years...I keep thinking that's awfully fast to entirely destroy Omestrian culture, and that things moved really fast. Like...there's people whose grandparents were alive while Omestris was still around. That doesn't feel like "ancient history" the way it feels when it's discussed IC. Iunno, maybe that's just me. Or maybe that's when Muraada fell -- only no, because we have folk that are alive from when T'sarae fell and such, and I'm sure it's relevant. EHHH. x.x I guess major oppression works wonders, eh?

Anyhow, given that the titans died ages ago, I think the remnants probably did have days named after them. many days are named after the gods of pantheons. Hellenic, and I think Norse days were similar. Thor's day, etc. The moon often had a day, and it's possible there's a holdover from when the moon could still be seen. The sun usually has a day as well.

And if we make Omestris' day bad luck on a certain day of the month, it'd line up with friday the thirteen as a superstition!

Firstday
Varsday
Mursday
Lansday
Tsarday
Omsday
Sunsday

if you want seven, or remove Firstday if you like six better?

On second thought, here:

Firstday/Varsday
Secondday/Mursday
Thirdday/Lansday
Fourthday/Tsarday
Fifthday/Omsday
Sixthday/Sunsday

numbers to remember them by, and actual name-names for fancy! They can be called whichever is simpler for the individual. yeah?

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@Lovejoy I figure there's the stormy season -- that's winter. Bitter cold, blizzards, etc. Long nights, that sort of thing. And then summer is more "the warm(er) season". I'm going off of the concept of a rainy season and a dry season, like in deserts, only with the cold and lots of snow being an issue.

Although actually if it's cold enough snow doesn't form! But we can totally handwave that. Alternatively, there can be the first stormy season, the dark season, the second stormy season, and the warm season, where storms happen when it's cold but not TOO cold -- so spring and autumn. Warm season is still summer, and dark season is based off of the longer nights. Although I am sure that axial tilt is far less related to the changing temperatures here, or that it would at least work very differently.

I think drawing solid parallels to earth and the world we players are familiar with helps keep things grounded. Yeah, the odds are low, and it's fun to come up with some complicated system. But it's not really necessary for enjoyment, and this serves to help us keep things straight. Seven day weeks, twelve months in a year. Sun rises in the east, stuff like that. I've played with multiple moons in my writing, but that would in turn affect the way locals marked the passage of time, if you think about it. Of course you don't /have/ to...but I often like to. ^.^;;

Then again, I don't know if these guys can see a moon, so...I know there's no stars, so the concept is somehting from pictures and stories, most likely. Is there a moon?

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@Lovejoy I remembered it coming up, but I had to look it up in the glossary in the first OOC post. Which is there for exactly this reason! PSA~

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Also I have an update on this commission I'm having my friend do of Ziotea and Rodion and AAAAAHHHHH. I need @Drakey to see it first, and then I am going to show THE ENTIRE PLANET because it's amazing. I really can't right now.

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@Lovejoy *screeeching*

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@Lovejoy I second @collectorofmyst in general.

I may need this scene now. I don't even know /why/ you're reacting this way. But I need it.

I can haz? *hopeful* Maybe not right away, but eventually?*