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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 7, 2015 1:10:46 GMT
My world is Garden. It does not contain Earth. It is 6218 cycles, 5 shines since time began to be recorded. (more specifically, Net 1/ Set 2/ Day 24). The world contains magic which is used by humans, some similar magical abilities in simpler ambulatory plants, and gods with associated powers.
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Post by Andrew on May 7, 2015 1:29:58 GMT
The world of Archangel, with SCP-335-149/Dave, is named Keter. It has an Earth and is in the early 21st century. It might also be useful to list users who haven’t identified their world. I’m not sure of any way to do that which doesn’t put pressure on them to share more than they would like, though.
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Post by ArtlessIlluminator on May 7, 2015 1:36:17 GMT
The dwarves' name for our world is Lerron. I have not heard a reference to it (or any other plane) as Earth, but I do not know all cultures and so perhaps one does use that name. (It is certainly a better name than most choose.)
I am not certain how to specify a date that would have meaning to those not of my world. I live in the 53rd year of the reign of Derethk Tharstone, but that would mean little even to inhabitants of Arathon-across-the-Sea, much less to those of another plane.
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Post by Fortunomancer on May 7, 2015 1:51:30 GMT
Andrew, I don't see the point of keeping a list of members who have not claimed worlds. I have found an updated list of forum members attached to each letter, in between the personal profile sheet and the surprisingly-detailed index. That ought to serve our purposes.
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Post by Archangel on May 7, 2015 2:08:51 GMT
It's not really accurate to say Keter has no magic. Many of the anomalies would be considered magical by the general population. The Foundation does not use the term, but a wide variety of extranormal effects can be accomplished by someone or something. Preventing these from causing mass destruction is what we do.
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Post by Fortunomancer on May 7, 2015 2:29:03 GMT
Archangel, Would you prefer I classify your world as magical or non, considering that you don't use the term?
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Post by Gray Librarian on May 7, 2015 3:01:05 GMT
I am located in the Library of Babel. It is more accurate to describe the Library as magical than nonmagical. The Library does not contain an Earth.
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Post by Archangel on May 7, 2015 3:02:11 GMT
For this purpose, classifying what types of functions exist, magical is closer. If someone goes around later and asks the same question to rank worlds by useful resources or something, I might tell that person it's not.
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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 7, 2015 3:12:01 GMT
For the description of what time it is, it might be more useful to say it is Cycle 6218/ Shine 5. It will not be the 24th day for very much longer, but it will be same cycle and shine for a long time.
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Post by Fortunomancer on May 7, 2015 3:17:43 GMT
Gray Librarian, Does the Library of Babel have any standard measurement of time? If so, what is it?
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Post by Andrew on May 7, 2015 3:52:27 GMT
For this purpose, classifying what types of functions exist, magical is closer. If someone goes around later and asks the same question to rank worlds by useful resources or something, I might tell that person it's not. I can understand that most of the anomalies might be dangerous and not usable, but I find it hard to believe that none of them are potentially useful. If nothing else, you have a copy of the contents of the Intenet; that has to have some value. Fortunately, magic is so different between different worlds that its mere presence or absence would not be a good determiner of useful resources. I find it odd that Daevinity’s entry in the index matches the others, when Daevinity is more properly a cluster of worlds (unless you think the name should just be the world I’m from and not the others, but then Heaven, Hell, Fairyland, and Limbo should get entries too). Perhaps there’s some way to indicate whether an entry is a cluster or not, or would the borders break down for other potential types of cluster?
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Post by Fortunomancer on May 7, 2015 4:00:04 GMT
Andrew, I am about to retire for the evening, but I will ponder a better classification system for world-clusters. Anyone who would like to propose a system, feel free to do so.
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Post by Gray Librarian on May 7, 2015 4:25:13 GMT
Gray Librarian, Does the Library of Babel have any standard measurement of time? If so, what is it? No. Andrew, I am about to retire for the evening, but I will ponder a better classification system for world-clusters. Anyone who would like to propose a system, feel free to do so. It seems reasonable to treat the natural unit as the set of locations or persons that can interact sufficiently to form a civilization. If this civilization-unit spans a world-cluster, then the world-cluster should be named and described. If a world contains multiple such units, such as separate inhabited planets in a world that lacks practical interplanetary travel, then each such civilization-unit should be named and described separately.
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Post by esthfora on May 9, 2015 15:30:43 GMT
My world doesn't quite have a name of its own because it isn't quite separate from me, so you can just call it Esthfora too. It has magic, or maybe it is magic, or maybe it isn't the sort of thing where that question has a sensible answer at all. But for most purposes you can probably say it has magic. There isn't a calendar here. I wouldn't have anywhere to put one.
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Post by Undrained on May 11, 2015 15:16:03 GMT
World name: I'll go with Haywire, after the man on my world who opened a portal to another universe. Contains Earth: Yes. Year: 2009 AD Contains magic: Probably not. There are a few people who think it does, but general consensus is that it doesn't, and nothing I've personally seen has convinced me that the general consensus is wrong.
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