…a deck of playing cards, in the typical Imperial style used for ómith and for some sub-games of kírasseth, contains 96 cards. 72 of these make up the six suits of twelve cards each, each with its particular elemental association: the suit of clouds, representing air and steam; the suit
Chess Motifs: Not strictly, since there isn’t chess, but the locals can and will treat you to a generous selection of larileth, iandaër, and kírasseth motifs – as seen, in the third case, in the title of “Princess of Clouds to Archetypes, Gilek-Four – Your Move“.
First there was the Adaptech Adventurer’s Pistol, and that was bad for those us who believe in trying to exert some sort of control over the proliferation of arms in our countries. Usually you can try and regulate the ammunition, or the fuel, or the high-density energy cells too,
“‘What is reality?’, you ask. Beneath all the photons and leptons and baryons and gluons, underlying space-time and quantum fields, out there in the realm of fundamentals where the natural ontologists and the ontotech engineers play, what actually is the world made from? What is underneath it all, what can
Sorry for the lack of fic-a-day in recent days. Unfortunately, I’ve been sleeping really badly and possibly have some sort of low-level plague, either or both of which have done quite a number on my creative faculties. Normal service (and catch-up) will be resumed as soon as possible.
The Chains of Commanding: The reason, especially given the circumscriptions around your power to actually effect change for the better, why it sucks to be a rúner.
Casual Interstellar Travel / Casual Interplanetary Travel: It’s a little complicated. Technically, yes, you can travel interstellarly fairly casually, since while you have to drag one end of your wormhole at subluminal speed to wherever you want it, interstellar travel to places where you have one already is pretty damn
Cargo Cult: This happens ALL THE TIME. It is very much against IES First Contact rules, and EMBARRASSING.
“No-no-no-no-no,” Arúaz Váriz Xinak Laníc Kúran viKoriaz said, hsis heads moving in some agitation. “Absolutely not, never. We and our crew cannot be paid enough to take you to Vonis Prime, no. The kalatri do not like visitors of our kind, no-no-no. Cause us/us/ours too much trouble, risk,
Car Fu: If Tank Fu counts, and they’re vehicles, so it ought to, most of them are designed for this. (Although usually intended for use against fixed obstacles and, well, buildings, it still works.)
“What do you people want from me?” “Just the usual. That you should continue to be exceptional, live forever, join a transcendent hyperconsciousness, and evolve into a demigod – or at least the closest thing the physical universe has to offer – sometime in the next few millennia. You can make up
Capital City: Of the Associated Worlds as a whole, that would be the Conclave Drift, the giant habitat in which the Conclave of Galactic Polities is situated. It’s also a major commercial and cultural hub, it being – due to the room it sets aside for every polity in the