World-Spheres - a Community Campaign Setting (Discussion Thread)

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

Lot to go through there, though you're going to have to explain this one to me:

Or as a collective rather than individual dream, does Kyuumu not provide for or even actively inhibit any form of lucid dreaming (is this in fact the source of the hostility towards the belief that the world is yours - the first step in lucid dreaming and apotheosis in a dream-world?)?

To start of with Kyuumu isn't a dream world like the kind that other settings posit thinking beings visit while asleep, so it doesn't follow rules like lucid dreaming.  It has its own rules.

But you'll have to give me a few hours to write them up.

[Steerpike]

Yeah I understand it's not a literal dream as in a world created through collective sleeping or whatnot.  But since you're incorporating a dream-like logic to the world, and one of the ways that dream-logic is being implemented is that the Dreamtime and its residents resist the idea of someone "possessing" the dream because dreams must normally be negotiated with rather than directly controlled by the "dreamer", I was interested if there was an equivalent mechanic for the "lucid dreamer" - the individual who achieves mastery over his or her dreams by recognizing the innate malleability of the dream-world, allowing the dreamer to manipulate the dream with much greater facility.  Looking forward to more on the "rules" of Kyuumu, whether or not any stylized form of lucid dreaming plays a role.

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

Okay, here's how it goes:

The forces behind Kyuumu should be thought of as one independent mind.  But it's not a sentient mind: it's like an intelligent animal with the creativity of a sentient mind.  So you can't communicate in any good detail.  So if you want to consciously control things you either have to teach it patiently to respond to you -- and even then you can't get much across (there's no communicate with Kyuumu spell) -- or try abusing it.  And like lots of other animals this one does not go down without a fight.

There is a third way to get things, but I'm not quite sure how to explain it yet.

[Superfluous Crow]

Since i used a lot of time opposing everybody's ideas for the framework earlier in this thread, i felt like i was obligated to write up some kind of material while coming up with a slightly more complicated sphere :)
So, behold: The Green God. Find it now in a thread near you.

[Steerpike]

So the Green God only attacks Spheres, not planes, right?

He's really cool, I sort of imagine this huge demonic cabbage floating through space.

[Superfluous Crow]

hehe, thanks for the praise. And i guess a demonic cabbage isn't too far away from what he would look like, although my image looks more like some tangled mass of gargantuan vines. And i think most planes are a bit too big for him (and he can't really find his way onto them without help).

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

Looking forward to more on the "rules" of Kyuumu, whether or not any stylized form of lucid dreaming plays a role.

Looking forward to anything from Kyuumu myself. :mad:

[khyron1144]

Ok, just to make sure I'm not stepping on anyone's toes, before I post the big writeup on the main thread:

Does anybody have any objections to a sort of planet of the kaiju where magic works being one of the planets in the main solar system?

[Superfluous Crow]

Hmm, now, i don't know a lot about all that japanese stuff, but according to wikipedia kaiju roughly equals great monster, yes?
So, are you going to fill a planet with the pre-created monsters, aka godzilla etc, or new ones?
(basically, i'm not really sure what you are asking)
But i'm completely okay with magic and big-ass monsters, that's kinda the point with this setting to be able to do stuff like that. I'd only have a problem with it if you took pre-made monsters. That just seems... uncreative/unoriginal. But i don't think that's what you're saying, no?

[Ghostman]

Kaiju planet... now that'd be a place to attract some Xiwi explorers. They'd be most eager to run some "experiments" on the local fauna.

[Superfluous Crow]

Hmm, it was a probably a good idea that we included planes; it seems to be what most people are making :)

[Llum]

Personally I didn't want to make a plane, but with all the planets being planetoids that really really limits almost anything you want to do that isn't just another planet.

Not that it matters, I tweaked my idea a bunch to fit it into the whole "meta" or framework. That's what a community project is all about isn't it?

[Superfluous Crow]

Well, yours could technically have been a planetoid except it would have been pretty out of context with all the time warped stuff going on.
And are you being ironic? can't tell?

[Llum]

No, at least not intentionally. Your right I could have taken certain battles and expanded them into a single planetoid. But I don't think I could have really done the air battle one well on a planetoid (maybe a gas giant but meh) so a plane seemed as the easiest thing. I am tempted to expand the Luxan Jungle into simply the Luxan planetoid. But I already have my plane so I'll work on that for now.

[khyron1144]

Hmm, now, i don't know a lot about all that japanese stuff, but according to wikipedia kaiju roughly equals great monster, yes?
So, are you going to fill a planet with the pre-created monsters, aka godzilla etc, or new ones?
(basically, i'm not really sure what you are asking)
But i'm completely okay with magic and big-ass monsters, that's kinda the point with this setting to be able to do stuff like that. I'd only have a problem with it if you took pre-made monsters. That just seems... uncreative/unoriginal. But i don't think that's what you're saying, no?

Yes.  Kaiju, I think it means monster, kaiju eiga means giant monster.  It's the genre of film that Godzilla, Gamera, and similar beasties belong to.

I would try to generate originals rather than copy established kaiju.