tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post1083921953763727824..comments2024-03-28T18:55:38.829+11:00Comments on Middenmurk: On FantasyTom Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-37971443864922460502021-07-02T17:02:42.434+10:002021-07-02T17:02:42.434+10:00When it comes to Radon Testing Pocahontas, we know...<br />When it comes to <a href="https://hawleyhomeinspectionsllc.com/" rel="nofollow">Radon Testing Pocahontas</a>, we know it is crucial to decide because first thing is that it is a very alarming situation when you feel like the air around is making you and your family sick but one thing that concerns the home owners is to let someone inside their house. The security of the house is the first thing that comes in the minds of the residents when it is about letting a stranger come inside your house and inspect everything in detail. 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Everything has renamed with as deliberately guttural and weird phonemes as I can muster but it is set in the landscape around me, only with the poles flipped and the Earth spinning backwards and insane post-singularity headfuck stuff. The morality and worldview I have been trying to derive from Bronze Age sources like:<br /><br />"I erected a wall in front of the great gate of the city. I flayed the chiefs and covered this wall with their skins. Some of them were walled in alive in the masonry; others were impaled along the wall. I flayed a great number of them in my presence, and I clothed the wall with their skins. I collected their heads in the form of crowns, and their corpses I pierced in the shape of garlands..My figure blooms on the ruins; in the glutting of my rage I find my content" -Neo-Assyrian inscription for Ashurnasipal I<br /><br />I think that murderhoboes gravitate towards an otherness of their own accord. I recently read Pizarro's conquest of Peru and was startled at the similarities. That event was amazing amoral and it was obvious that they were in it for the XPTom Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-33641008473281380742015-08-28T20:45:16.723+10:002015-08-28T20:45:16.723+10:00Thanks, Gus. It is my intention to eventually do s...Thanks, Gus. It is my intention to eventually do something wholeheartedly, I do hope that writing will be that thing.Tom Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-79528831851578096362015-08-28T02:56:38.906+10:002015-08-28T02:56:38.906+10:00Very nice - you don't do stuff by halves. Wil...Very nice - you don't do stuff by halves. Will have to reread and contemplate before maybe adding a longer response.Gus Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14872819206286105195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-64010620325249272672015-08-27T22:26:12.928+10:002015-08-27T22:26:12.928+10:00This dovetails nicely with the notion that fantasy...This dovetails nicely with the notion that fantasy-fiction, particularly secondary world fiction, is essentially parasitic in nature. Anything that is not redefined by the author (or in the case of a roleplaying game, the worldbuilder) must necessarily be assumed to be "just like" its equivalent in the modern world.<br /><br />This strains the powers of the creator, while also providing an easy fallback. Too easy, I think, since any serious historian would point out that things decidedly WERE NOT like the modern world in a truly medieval setting. Thus, great care must be taken to Other the world and make it strange. That's one of the things I strive to do with my own setting, which is one of the reasons I use a bevy of made-up words and languages. The stranger the setting is, the less parasitic it will seem as players are forced to grapple with completely alien histories and mindsets.<br /><br />Of course, this is draining in the extreme, both in the planning and execution phases. First you must design the other world with an eye toward reducing its inherent parasitism (not eliminating, for that would be impossible, but confining it to the most mundane) and second you must embody that otherness each time you play, remind the players of social mores that they don't understand or find repulsive, and remember the strange medieval motivations of yours NPCs.<br /><br />It's a challenging, but often rewarding, game.JDG Perldeinerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07632961831809544262noreply@blogger.com