Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
Knivesout no more
Here's a chat where I attempted to explain the premise for our lexicon game to Caladan Brood, a little better than in my rather opaque precis :
CB:
urm, so could you explain to me your idea for this collaborative thingy... I am totally lost
JP:
ahhh
JP:
the Xenotheic/Exogenic bit?
CB:
aye
JP:
ok
CB:
and the rest, really
JP:
well the game itself is a bit involved...
JP:
we are a group of cantankerous scholars compiling a reference work ona historical event
CB:
ok
JP:
in this case, in the year 3150 (or something), humanity made first contact with alein life
JP:
which turned out to be very similar to us
CB:
right
JP:
and there was this sort of world religion
JP:
which underwent a split
JP:
some believed that the aliens were gods and made us in their image (Xenotheists)
CB:
ok
JP:
others, that the gods made both us and the aliens elsewhere and depisted us in seperate worlds (Exogenists)
JP:
and the factions went to war
JP:
makes as much sense as any holy war, i trust
CB:
as you do
CB:
yeah
i wanna be sedated says:
and there were several martyrs in these conflicts
JP:
but each side, years later, claims many of the martyys for their own side
JP:
so the dictionary hopes to chronicle the doings of these amrtyrs and fgure out which sides they were on
CB:
ok
CB:
sounds good
CB:
now i understand it it sounds a lot better
JP:
heh
JP:
what we have to do next is create our scholar personas - whch angle we are going to interpret the facts from
BC:
ok
CB:
urm, so could you explain to me your idea for this collaborative thingy... I am totally lost
JP:
ahhh
JP:
the Xenotheic/Exogenic bit?
CB:
aye
JP:
ok
CB:
and the rest, really
JP:
well the game itself is a bit involved...
JP:
we are a group of cantankerous scholars compiling a reference work ona historical event
CB:
ok
JP:
in this case, in the year 3150 (or something), humanity made first contact with alein life
JP:
which turned out to be very similar to us
CB:
right
JP:
and there was this sort of world religion
JP:
which underwent a split
JP:
some believed that the aliens were gods and made us in their image (Xenotheists)
CB:
ok
JP:
others, that the gods made both us and the aliens elsewhere and depisted us in seperate worlds (Exogenists)
JP:
and the factions went to war
JP:
makes as much sense as any holy war, i trust
CB:
as you do
CB:
yeah
i wanna be sedated says:
and there were several martyrs in these conflicts
JP:
but each side, years later, claims many of the martyys for their own side
JP:
so the dictionary hopes to chronicle the doings of these amrtyrs and fgure out which sides they were on
CB:
ok
CB:
sounds good
CB:
now i understand it it sounds a lot better
JP:
heh
JP:
what we have to do next is create our scholar personas - whch angle we are going to interpret the facts from
BC:
ok
