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Post by Dispersive Prism on May 5, 2015 23:36:17 GMT
So earlier in another thread we were talking about stuff about our worlds, and we realized it got a bit off topic, so I decided it'd be a good idea to create this thread so we can still talk about where we're from and specifics of what the world's like without being off topic. Talk about whatever, here, not just specifics about your species! I'll start us off by talking about mine! So I live in the Sunrise Empire, which is the largest country in my world. We don't have any contact with other worlds like I've seen mentioned on here (Besides this, obviously, but I'm not even sure this counts?), but I think we're working on it! We're pretty advanced when it comes to magic, too, I think our country's the leader in crystal craft? I know there's a ton of universities for it. That one's how I'm talking here, it does crystal networks and stuff. Crystal craft's a branch of arcany, and arcany's done by arcanists and basically amounts to all magic ever. I'm not an arcanist, didn't pass the evaluation for it, so I can't give specifics, but there's a lot of different kinds? Crystal craft's just the famous one, there's aura craft and stone craft and blood craft! Aura craft does things like spelling an area to be safer or only let a certain amount of light in and keep burglars out. Stone craft is like, building? Construction? And blood craft does healing and medical stuff. There are more, but those are the ones I've actually interacted with and I don't really want to make a hash of the others with awful explanations and guesswork. Anyway! Main population's elves, and a lot more rarely there are MESSAGE HAS BEEN SCRUBBED FOR SECURITY REASONS, but I don't know any of them and they only show up on the news, so I can't really give specifics about them. But elves I can do! We live around six hundred cycles (Short, I know, but we're working on it! Blood craft gets better every day!) and we've got lots of different ethnic groups and cities and stuff. I live by the Edarenarn ocean, but I'm not going to be specific because like. Creepy stalky people are a thing? MESSAGE SCRUBBED FOR BOTANICAL-POLITICAL REASONS are also a thing, so. Safety! I've noticed there are a lot of humans here, and that there's been a few mentions of an 'Earth'! That's really exciting! I feel like a fangirl who's fallen into a magical fantasy land! It's really cool! I would love to hear all about you guys! If you have any questions about my world let me know, it's kind of hard to cram information about my entire world into a single post! But I am much better with questions! I think!
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Post by Leaf on May 5, 2015 23:45:25 GMT
"Six hundred cycles"? And how long is that?
Quid pro quo, my world's standard time measurements: The smallest unit is a second, of which there are sixty in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour, and twenty-four hours in a (standard) day. There are approximately 365 days in a (standard) year (it's slightly more than that, but to keep things manageable we throw in an extra day every few years or so according to an algorithm I don't know off the top of my head), and the current year is 2995 ECE (Earth Common Era). All that "standard" stuff is measured relative to Earth; other planets have different day and year lengths, but everyone keeps time according to the standard calendar in addition to whatever local measurements apply, because otherwise galactic travelers would all go insane.
I apologise for my ludicrous abuse of parentheses.
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Post by Dispersive Prism on May 5, 2015 23:52:46 GMT
Oh, right, of course you wouldn't know what cycles are, you don't have world trees. Er, we have these things called world trees! About every seventeen years they bloom, it's very pretty. Those are called cycles, so six hundred of them's abooooout... 10,200? Years? Or so, give or take for diet and fitness and how healthy you are. It sounds much more impressive when I say it like that, I should say it like that more often!
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Post by Leaf on May 5, 2015 23:59:14 GMT
Now I'm curious, though - do the rest of your time measurements correspond with mine? I wouldn't expect them to, but what do I know about interdimensional goings-on.
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Post by Dispersive Prism on May 6, 2015 0:04:35 GMT
Actually, yeah, they do! Except for the cycles thing, obviously. That's kind of weird, you'd think it would work out to be something completely different. Dunno, maybe there's a spell on my crystal network that converts time for sanity's sake. That'd be really convenient!
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Post by Leaf on May 6, 2015 0:07:30 GMT
Now I'm tempted to try to figure out whether it's the coincidence or the conversion spell... there should be a way, if the conversion spell isn't absolutely determined to hide itself.
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Post by Dispersive Prism on May 6, 2015 0:09:47 GMT
That sounds really complicated and I have no idea how to actually go about doing that thing, but I can follow instructions pretty well! So if you think it's important to check I can help if you tell me what to do. Since, like, I'm kind of necessary for that.
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Post by Fortunomancer on May 6, 2015 0:28:20 GMT
I, too, have the standard time units.
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Post by Leaf on May 6, 2015 0:29:50 GMT
Okay, I'll give it a shot.
The number of corners on a square is four and the number of corners on a triangle is three. Three times four is twelve, which is the number of hours in half a day.
The number of sides on a cube is six and the number of sides on a pentagon is five. Six times five is thirty, which is the number of minutes in half an hour and the number of seconds in half a minute.
Now can you quote that back to me, tell me which shapes I mentioned, and try to come up with something like that yourself? (In theory, unless the time conversion spell is alarmingly extensive, either all the numbers will come through unedited or you'll tell me I was talking about icosahedrons or something and we'll notice the discrepancy.)
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Post by Mother Starlight on May 6, 2015 0:51:13 GMT
The translation is a feature of the forum. I won't claim that it's totally flawless, but it shouldn't mess with numbers or systematically conceal meanings. Natural time units like "day" and "year" may refer to different amounts of time in different worlds, since the basic natural meaning of (for example) "year" is a cycle of the seasons, which isn't necessarily the same amount of time everywhere. I can't make any promises about intentional censorship or messing-with-meanings by world-specific forces outside of my control, but at a guess it seems unlikely that geometric circumlocutions like that would be both necessary and sufficient.
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Post by Dispersive Prism on May 6, 2015 1:01:38 GMT
Okay, I'll give it a shot. The number of corners on a square is four and the number of corners on a triangle is three. Three times four is twelve, which is the number of hours in half a day. The number of sides on a cube is six and the number of sides on a pentagon is five. Six times five is thirty, which is the number of minutes in half an hour and the number of seconds in half a minute. Now can you quote that back to me, tell me which shapes I mentioned, and try to come up with something like that yourself? (In theory, unless the time conversion spell is alarmingly extensive, either all the numbers will come through unedited or you'll tell me I was talking about icosahedrons or something and we'll notice the discrepancy.) Four corners in a square, three corners in a triangle, three times four is twelve. This is the number of hours in half of a day. You mentioned a square and a triangle. Six sides to a cube, five sides to a pentagon. Six times five is thirty. This is the number of minutes in half an hour, and the number of seconds in half of a minute. You mentioned a cube and a pentagon. There, quoted. Okay, now to come up with something like that myself! The number of edges on a hexagon is six. The number of sides on a square is four. Six times four is twenty four, and this is the number of hours in a day. The number of edges on a square is four. The number of sides on a pentagon is five. The number of sides on a triangle is three. Three times five times four is sixty, which is the number of minutes in an hour, and the number of seconds in a minute. Well, that all worked out fine for me, but I don't know what you got.
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Post by Leaf on May 6, 2015 1:07:52 GMT
Four corners in a square, three corners in a triangle, three times four is twelve. This is the number of hours in half of a day. You mentioned a square and a triangle. Six sides to a cube, five sides to a pentagon. Six times five is thirty. This is the number of minutes in half an hour, and the number of seconds in half of a minute. You mentioned a cube and a pentagon. There, quoted. Okay, now to come up with something like that myself! The number of edges on a hexagon is six. The number of sides on a square is four. Six times four is twenty four, and this is the number of hours in a day. The number of edges on a square is four. The number of sides on a pentagon is five. The number of sides on a triangle is three. Three times five times four is sixty, which is the number of minutes in an hour, and the number of seconds in a minute. Well, that all worked out fine for me, but I don't know what you got. Six edges on a hexagon, four sides on a square, six by four is twenty-four and that's the number of hours in a day. You mentioned a hexagon and a square. Four edges on a square. Five sides on a pentagon. Five sides on a triangle. Three by five by four is sixty, and that's the number of minutes per hour and seconds per minute; you mentioned a square, a pentagon, and a triangle. Okay, I think that's sufficient to establish that if there's anything screwing around with our messages about time measurements it's very VERY seamless. And now I'm very very curious about how many other people also measure time by this same system.
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Post by Andrew on May 6, 2015 1:37:28 GMT
I have time units that match the ones Leaf mentioned, except since we have not yet left Earth we don’t bother calling them “standard” years and days.
Right now, the algorithm for leap days is that one is added at the end of the second month of the year (February) every four years, EXCEPT that once in every hundred years this does not happen, EXCEPT that once in every four hundred years it happens anyway. Conveniently, these are when the year numbers are multiples of four, one hundred, and four hundred, respectively. Thus we will have a leap year next year (1996) and in five years (2000, which is a multiple of 100 so you’d think it wouldn’t get a leap day, but it is also a multiple of 400 so it does). I don’t know if this algorithm is still in use for Leaf, or if it’s been updated (I also don’t know if the people who know this kind of thing here expect it’ll still work in 1000 years).
Humans generally live much shorter than that; 100 years is old but not unheard of for me. I would expect most people live well over 100 in Leaf’s world, but I don’t know how much more. Daeva are completely immortal: they do not die of old age and are not killable or even significantly injurable by any known means.
I will work on a post with more details about my world, but it isn’t ready yet.
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Post by Leaf on May 6, 2015 1:42:08 GMT
I checked; the leap year algorithm still holds as described.
Life expectancy varies here, but humans living on the more civilized planets can look forward to a good 120 years before they start dropping of old age.
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Post by Dispersive Prism on May 6, 2015 1:42:23 GMT
One. One hundred years? A century. But. You're. But. But. I AM SO SORRY I WON'T BRING UP MY ABSURDLY LONG LIFESPAN AGAIN THAT PROBABLY IS AWFUL CONSIDERING OH NO I DIDN'T MEAN TO I'M SORRY!
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