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Post by Leaf on May 6, 2015 1:44:50 GMT
I can't speak for anyone else, but don't worry about it on my account, Prism. I'm not upset. If anything it's nice to hear that there are worlds out there where people live much longer than I'm used to.
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Post by Dispersive Prism on May 6, 2015 1:48:12 GMT
But it is sad and it's not enough time and you guys are cool and you shouldn't die in a century, that's awful can we fix it? I can go look up stuff about blood craft and we can maybe get you longer lifespans, that is alarming!
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Post by Andrew on May 6, 2015 1:53:57 GMT
I am also not upset; I’ve always known that there were beings who lived forever. I’m glad to hear there are more beings who live for more than humans, although I’m disappointed at the state of Leaf’s world’s (should we start naming our worlds) medical technology.
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Post by Leaf on May 6, 2015 1:54:54 GMT
I mean, I'm all in favour of knowledge exchange. And I'd be fascinated to hear about blood craft, although I'm not sure how much of it will apply.
(Addendum) Naming worlds seems like a good idea. Let's call mine... Nexus.
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Post by Dispersive Prism on May 6, 2015 2:02:43 GMT
Okay, I will go ask about blood craft and maybe find a starter brochure or something, I don't actually know much of anything about it but if you can use it to live more than a measly century then I will go pester the healers for how things work.
I don't know if I have the authority to name my world! The planet has a name, MESSAGE HAS BEEN SCRUBBED FOR SECURITY REASONS, but I don't think that's a world name, that's a planet name. I don't want to name the world and the planet the same thing, that could get confusing. I will see if anyone knows a thing to name my world.
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Post by Leaf on May 6, 2015 2:03:49 GMT
(Oh boy...)
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Post by Andrew on May 6, 2015 2:06:06 GMT
Then I’ll call mine Daevinity.
And, yes, I am very alarmed by the short lifespans of humans in Nexus. I thought that medical technology would advance much more. I’m used to lifespans here so am not nearly as alarmed, but I am all for the sharing of technology too.
On a only-slightly-related note, I work to basically exchange information and goods between Earth and the concordant realms, especially since communication using the actually concordances can be difficult. I basically publish a cross-world newspaper to daeva (and, to a lesser extent, in-the-know humans). During the course of this, daeva have told me some things that even most summoners don’t know, and asked me to keep it secret; I of course have done so. Some of it is private information which I of course will not be sharing, but some of it is not private and I have permission to share that. As such, my post about how my world works will be much more complete than originally intended.
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Post by Fortunomancer on May 6, 2015 2:13:12 GMT
My planet is called Mysis, and I find that an acceptable world name.
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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 6, 2015 3:10:54 GMT
Huh. My time measurements don't match those. It's 125 seconds to a shade, 25 shades to a color, 25 colors to a day, 5 days to a week, 5 weeks to a set, 5 sets to a net, 5 nets to a shine, and 25 shines to a cycle. We normally live to somewhere between 1 cycle and 1 cycle 15 shines.
How do so many of you wind up with fractions of a day in one year? That seems extremely inelegant.
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Post by Leaf on May 6, 2015 3:15:20 GMT
In our case, it's down to the fact that a day is one rotation of the planet Earth and a year is one orbit of Earth around its sun, and the one doesn't happen to go neatly into the other but they both have plenty of significance for the inhabitants of the planet.
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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 6, 2015 3:22:59 GMT
Why would a planet's day be related to rotation around something? A planet rotating sounds very alarming! How would people stay on it?
Also, the word "sun" is not translating?
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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 6, 2015 3:38:42 GMT
(I am not sure whether it is allowed to write twice without another person writing between?)
I am working on trying to increase human lifespan. However, it is taking a while in order to avoid doing things that are illegal or profane. Also, humans are very complicated, and I do not want to make mistakes if I do anything.
If I have done my calculations right, humans in Andrew's world live about 2 cycles, 15 shines, and humans in Leaf's world live about 3 cycles, 2 shines? So that actually gives me a lot of hope, because it is at least possible for humans to live longer.
Diversiveprism, if you can find out a way to use magic for humans in my world (and others too!) to live anywhere near 263 cycles, 17 shines, that would be extremely helpful. It would be important to be cautious to avoid sacrilege, and make sure that the appropriate authorities knew about it and could distribute it to everyone, or as many people as possible.
My planet is called Garden. My world (the set of all planets and their surroundings) does not have a name. We have not met any other sentient life in our world, though, so I think it is probably acceptable to call the world Garden as well.
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Post by Dispersive Prism on May 6, 2015 3:42:55 GMT
I will try to avoid sacrilege where I can! Except I don't know what counts? What constitutes as sacrilege for you, how can I avoid it?
(Still looking up stuff! It is very confusing, I am working my way through it slowly.)
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Post by Fortunomancer on May 6, 2015 3:53:22 GMT
Botanical Engineer,
I find your mentioning other planets besides your own curious. Enviromancers in my world have unanimously classified the area surrounding Mysis and its atmosphere as "unlivable space." Thus, we have been operating under the assumption that there is nothing worth discovering beyond the limits of our own planet. It's interesting that this seems to be different in your world.
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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 6, 2015 4:13:17 GMT
Dispersive Prism, It is sacrilege and illegal to edit the patterns of humans' seeds before they grow. It is sacrilege but not illegal to do things likely to cause someone to grow in a way other than the way their pattern would dictate, except when it is unambiguously necessary. Those are the only cases I think could be applicable. It is sacrilege and illegal to knowingly cause someone else to be exposed to something that would interfere with the patterns of themselves or their future children. It would be extreme sacrilege to give humans an inherent ability that is contrary to human nature.
I think that a longer lifespan would be clearly necessary, although I would want to check with a scribe to make sure.
Anything non-harmful that happens after a person is old enough to talk is fine. I think any magic you used (which did not affect a person's patterns) at that point would be classified the same way as medicine, and clearly acceptable.
Thank you for your efforts!
Fortunomancer,
We sometimes see other planets passing overhead at night. Obviously, there is not any visible life growing on the bottoms of these planets, so we can't know for sure what is on them. But I have read that people who live closer to the edge have sometimes seen planets passing below ours, and that they have things on their surfaces. It is hard to tell from their drawings whether the things growing on them were plants at all. They could only see the biggest things, though, so it's possible that there was sentient life on some of those planets who they were just too far away to see.
I'm not sure how any space could be truly unlivable, as long as there was soil, rain, and light. Unless there were really hostile life already there, but then it would be unlivable to humans, but not to everything. How are the planets around yours unlivable?
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