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Apr 5 2016, 05:25 PM
Welcome to The State!

"Are you tired of the hustle-and-bustle of city life? Want a place to unwind? To find yourself? Well, pack up the car, and head on down to The State!"

Where exactly The State is is uncertain. On the one hand, in the north there's tundra and a border with Canada, but too the south there's Desert and a border with the chaotic Freestate of Veracruz. It's the only places in the world where one can enjoy Lobster and Pacific Octopus in the same day. Only state that was host to both a Civil War Battle, and a landing by the Japanese. It's east and west, north and south, urban and rural. It's America, from the dusty town of Firebrand to the frigid heights of Thunderhead. From the hippies of San Fortunato to the rednecks of Turkey County. From the staunch minded puritans of Arkham to the bustling metropolis of Union City.

One thing the State has in spades is teenagers, and boy oh boy do they love to tell stories. Sometimes ghosts, sometimes axe murderers, but most of all, monsters. Giant mammoths, Bigfoot, lizard men. Things that have been talked about since the State was first discovered, but people shut up about when the modern world arrived. But it turns out, these darned kids might not be so wrong after all.
Hey flash, may I work on that project with you?


Sorry bout the double posting, people.
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a species of canid that's always male because the females are in Hell, that commits blood rituals on unborn souls, and assimilates others into its flesh belongs in a competition meant to foster a sensible and mature discussion of evolution.
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Apr 5 2016, 05:25 PM
Welcome to The State!

"Are you tired of the hustle-and-bustle of city life? Want a place to unwind? To find yourself? Well, pack up the car, and head on down to The State!"

Where exactly The State is is uncertain. On the one hand, in the north there's tundra and a border with Canada, but too the south there's Desert and a border with the chaotic Freestate of Veracruz. It's the only places in the world where one can enjoy Lobster and Pacific Octopus in the same day. Only state that was host to both a Civil War Battle, and a landing by the Japanese. It's east and west, north and south, urban and rural. It's America, from the dusty town of Firebrand to the frigid heights of Thunderhead. From the hippies of San Fortunato to the rednecks of Turkey County. From the staunch minded puritans of Arkham to the bustling metropolis of Union City.

One thing the State has in spades is teenagers, and boy oh boy do they love to tell stories. Sometimes ghosts, sometimes axe murderers, but most of all, monsters. Giant mammoths, Bigfoot, lizard men. Things that have been talked about since the State was first discovered, but people shut up about when the modern world arrived. But it turns out, these darned kids might not be so wrong after all.
Interesting. I would like to see this. I would be more than willing to help you out with it.
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Hm... I'm probably going to make about 2 of these.

Darwinia- a land where animals from the past and present were put onto a planet similar to earth.

Mythologicon- like Cryptozoologicon with mythical creatures.

Avigea- a world where birds are the main animals.

Anyone got any preferences they'd like to vote for on this?
Just for future reference, don't do this sort of repost where you keep asking people to chime in. Unless there are like two or three pages since you made the post. Just so you know- we all did it at one time.

But while I personally would most enjoy reading a Mythologicon, it's been done to death. Darwinia sounds like it would have the most broad appeal (though I believe there's a famous spec project that already has that name. Maybe name it Carolus instead, for Charles?)

As to working on the project (this goes for you,crop GlarnBoudin); send me a PM with some of your thoughts and ideas, and we'll talk. Though it may be a while before I get to it- I want to crank out a few more updates for The Library.
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D'Oh! I was thinking of Sagan 4. Guess it's just my inner fedora conflating the two.
Travel back through time and space, to the edge of man's beggining... discover a time when man, woman and lizard roamed free, and untamed!

It is an epoch of mammoths, a time of raptors!

A tale of love in the age of tyrannosaurs!

An epic from the silver screen, brought right to your door!

Travel back to
A Million Years BC

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Proceedings of the Miskatonic University Department of Zoology

Cosmic Horror is but a dissertation away

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Just for future reference, don't do this sort of repost where you keep asking people to chime in. Unless there are like two or three pages since you made the post. Just so you know- we all did it at one time.


Yeah.

Paleo_Specs, the best thing you can do is what YOU want to do. Try to find one concept or premise you are excited about and just work on that for a little while. Trying to do things just because you think other people will like them and not because you are truly interested is bound to lead to lacklustre output and disappointment. And don't get angry or offended if people offer criticism - think about what they said and why and you'll get better, and it might lead to some really fun new ideas too.
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Browsing through old topics the other day, I found an image of Earth as depicted in the bible, posted by JohnFaa a while back. This gave me the idea for an alternative universe based on the world as described in the Bible. So it would be like this:

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That would give loads of things to investigate, with lots of areas. There's Earth, the Underworld, the foundations, the immense seas above and below the firmament, the divine dwelling, and the heaven of the heavens.
Earth would be very much like our normal planet, but with a different variety of life, and the Underworld would be a massive cavern dimly lit by bioluminescent organisms. The foundations jutting on the edges of Earth could be a very remote and dangerous place to live, splashed by the waves, and covered in hardy seaweed. The waters below the foundations of the Earth could be an immense abyss inhabited by leviathans, and above the firmaments, the waters near the Divine Dwelling could be vibrant, life-filled reefs. Meanwhile, the Divine Dwelling could be an immense structure made from an alien material, and above that, there would be the heaven of heavens (or I might just call it heaven), which could have aerial ecosystems of flying plankton, etc.
I would imagine that much of these structures would be built by some mysterious, long extinct alien race.
When you think about it, the whole thing messes with your head. The firmament has the stars, the sun, and the moon it, but above that there's a sea, then the Divine Dwelling, then the heaven of heavens, and then . . . another firmament? By the sounds of it, there's another atmosphere above the firmament with the stars, etc, in.

Anyway, I think that this would make an interesting project.

Edit: I'd like to note that I wouldn't be doing this project anytime soon.
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Browsing through old topics the other day, I found an image of Earth as depicted in the bible, posted by JohnFaa a while back. This gave me the idea for an alternative universe based on the world as described in the Bible. So it would be like this:

Posted Image

That would give loads of things to investigate, with lots of areas. There's Earth, the Underworld, the foundations, the immense seas above and below the firmament, the divine dwelling, and the heaven of the heavens.
Earth would be very much like our normal planet, but with a different variety of life, and the Underworld would be a massive cavern dimly lit by bioluminescent organisms. The foundations jutting on the edges of Earth could be a very remote and dangerous place to live, splashed by the waves, and covered in hardy seaweed. The waters below the foundations of the Earth could be an immense abyss inhabited by leviathans, and above the firmaments, the waters near the Divine Dwelling could be vibrant, life-filled reefs. Meanwhile, the Divine Dwelling could be an immense structure made from an alien material, and above that, there would be the heaven of heavens (or I might just call it heaven), which could have aerial ecosystems of flying plankton, etc.
I would imagine that much of these structures would be built by some mysterious, long extinct alien race.
When you think about it, the whole thing messes with your head. The firmament has the stars, the sun, and the moon it, but above that there's a sea, then the Divine Dwelling, then the heaven of heavens, and then . . . another firmament? By the sounds of it, there's another atmosphere above the firmament with the stars, etc, in.

Anyway, I think that this would make an interesting project.
What bible are you reading?
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Apr 8 2016, 11:57 AM
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Apr 8 2016, 11:40 AM
Browsing through old topics the other day, I found an image of Earth as depicted in the bible, posted by JohnFaa a while back. This gave me the idea for an alternative universe based on the world as described in the Bible. So it would be like this:

Posted Image

That would give loads of things to investigate, with lots of areas. There's Earth, the Underworld, the foundations, the immense seas above and below the firmament, the divine dwelling, and the heaven of the heavens.
Earth would be very much like our normal planet, but with a different variety of life, and the Underworld would be a massive cavern dimly lit by bioluminescent organisms. The foundations jutting on the edges of Earth could be a very remote and dangerous place to live, splashed by the waves, and covered in hardy seaweed. The waters below the foundations of the Earth could be an immense abyss inhabited by leviathans, and above the firmaments, the waters near the Divine Dwelling could be vibrant, life-filled reefs. Meanwhile, the Divine Dwelling could be an immense structure made from an alien material, and above that, there would be the heaven of heavens (or I might just call it heaven), which could have aerial ecosystems of flying plankton, etc.
I would imagine that much of these structures would be built by some mysterious, long extinct alien race.
When you think about it, the whole thing messes with your head. The firmament has the stars, the sun, and the moon it, but above that there's a sea, then the Divine Dwelling, then the heaven of heavens, and then . . . another firmament? By the sounds of it, there's another atmosphere above the firmament with the stars, etc, in.

Anyway, I think that this would make an interesting project.
What bible are you reading?
None, I've never read the Bible nor have any interest in doing so. I am going on numerous sources on the Internet.
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Apr 8 2016, 12:02 PM
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Apr 8 2016, 11:57 AM
Beetleboy
Apr 8 2016, 11:40 AM
Browsing through old topics the other day, I found an image of Earth as depicted in the bible, posted by JohnFaa a while back. This gave me the idea for an alternative universe based on the world as described in the Bible. So it would be like this:

Posted Image

That would give loads of things to investigate, with lots of areas. There's Earth, the Underworld, the foundations, the immense seas above and below the firmament, the divine dwelling, and the heaven of the heavens.
Earth would be very much like our normal planet, but with a different variety of life, and the Underworld would be a massive cavern dimly lit by bioluminescent organisms. The foundations jutting on the edges of Earth could be a very remote and dangerous place to live, splashed by the waves, and covered in hardy seaweed. The waters below the foundations of the Earth could be an immense abyss inhabited by leviathans, and above the firmaments, the waters near the Divine Dwelling could be vibrant, life-filled reefs. Meanwhile, the Divine Dwelling could be an immense structure made from an alien material, and above that, there would be the heaven of heavens (or I might just call it heaven), which could have aerial ecosystems of flying plankton, etc.
I would imagine that much of these structures would be built by some mysterious, long extinct alien race.
When you think about it, the whole thing messes with your head. The firmament has the stars, the sun, and the moon it, but above that there's a sea, then the Divine Dwelling, then the heaven of heavens, and then . . . another firmament? By the sounds of it, there's another atmosphere above the firmament with the stars, etc, in.

Anyway, I think that this would make an interesting project.
What bible are you reading?
None, I've never read the Bible nor have any interest in doing so. I am going on numerous sources on the Internet.
I think that one is from a couple hundred years ago.
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That really is what a cosmology based on literalistic interpretations of the Old Testament would look like

This'd be interesting, really... Tannins (the Mesopotamian sea serpents, not the chemical found in wood) in the sea), the different sorts of angels (if you plan to go that way)
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Has there ever been a project speculating future life on an Ice-Free Greenland before? A lot of people go for Antarctica being ice-free but I don't think anyone's done Greenland yet to my knowledge
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That really is what a cosmology based on literalistic interpretations of the Old Testament would look like

This'd be interesting, really... Tannins (the Mesopotamian sea serpents, not the chemical found in wood) in the sea), the different sorts of angels (if you plan to go that way)
Yeah, I planned to use some creatures and beings from the Bible and general christianity. I'm thinking leviathans and behemoths, angels and demons. I hadn't heard of Tannins, but thank you for the idea.
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Well, tannins are the order of creatures that the leviathan belong to in Jewish mythology...
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