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| Topic Started: Jan 26 2016, 01:52 PM (558 Views) | |
| Beetleboy | Jan 26 2016, 01:52 PM Post #1 |
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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Jacksonia Jacksonia is a strange world inhabited by unusual creatures, characters, and locations. The same laws of physics do not apply here, allowing for phenomenons such as shape-shifting, walking cities, and intelligent trees. Mostly, this is a rather personal thing, and many of the events, creatures, and characters are based on things that have happened to me, places I've been, and people I've met. I will mostly be focusing on races, creatures, and unusual/note-worthy location. Humans are not as common in Jacksonia as they are one Earth - there are a number of nomadic tribes, and a few large cities, but not many. Even the cities are nomadic, moving around on immense legs to find new resources. Mostly, it is other beings that play the main role - mycelium-men, shapeshifters, and reeders. Habitats and envioroments vary greatly on Jacksonia - from Hel, deep beneath the ground, where fish swim through rock as if it was water, and lava cascades in fiery 'waterfalls', to the abandoned tower which never ends, and has been overtaken by the local wildlife. Animals and beings must adapt to strange habitats that wouldn't exist anywhere except in the twisted, impossible reality of Jacksonia: coral-reefs on land, underwater forests of aquatic trees, and floating mountains. The wildlife of Jacksonia is as strange and twisted as the habitats and peoples of this world. Quadrupedal birds (oh, yes), aquatic primates, flying penguins, arboreal seahorses, and giant carnivorous molluscs. Here fish swim through rock, birds can change their shape and colour, and a cuttlefish would beat you in an IQ test. Welcome to Jacksonia. Just don't expect it to be realistic. |
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| Nyarlathotep | Jan 26 2016, 05:29 PM Post #2 |
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The Creeping Chaos
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Wow, passive aggressive much? |
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| Martin | Jan 26 2016, 05:34 PM Post #3 |
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Prime Specimen
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Not really. |
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| Beetleboy | Jan 27 2016, 10:02 AM Post #4 |
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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What do you mean? I know what 'passive aggressive' means, but I don't know why this applies here. |
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| Nyarlathotep | Jan 27 2016, 10:54 AM Post #5 |
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It sounded like some kind of spoof of that Jackson user, that's all. If not, then never mind. What is it supposed to be anyway? |
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| Beetleboy | Jan 27 2016, 10:56 AM Post #6 |
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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Exactly what it says it is.
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| GlarnBoudin | Jan 27 2016, 11:24 AM Post #7 |
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Disgusting Skin Fetishist
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Interesting. I hope to see more of this soon. |
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| Beetleboy | Jan 27 2016, 01:17 PM Post #8 |
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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Thanks! I'll post an update soon(ish). |
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| Beetleboy | Feb 9 2016, 12:13 PM Post #9 |
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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Jacksonia is split into sections, known as Lands (with a capital L), by habitats, rather than cultures (as with Earth). These Lands are not owned by any particular group or person, but smaller areas may be divided by cultures. Most of these minor divisions are with non-human sapients, as humans, except for Herders of the Grass Lands, live in moving cites, and own nothing but their own city. They can come and go as they please, except where they step into the territory of mycelium-men or shapeshifters. The second-largest Land is the Frigid Land. It is at the very north of Jacksonia, beyond it is the Nothing. This is where Jacksonia ends, and suddenly there is only the blackness. The wall of darkness splits the ice of the Frigid Land, and ghostly voices whisper wordless nothings from the shadows. Nothing exists in Nothing - or rather, things do exist, but not in any pane of reality we understand. As far as we are concerned, there is nothing - but what is nothing to us is everything to them (whoever 'they' are), and unreality has manisted itself in the form of Nothing. Inside it is nothing real, but many things that don't exist, but do, in confusing ways that we struggle to understand. Invisible, non-existant souls haunt the nothingness, their meaningless whispering the only thing humans can detect other than the blackness of Nothing. No man can go there, for as soon as you step into the inky darkness, you blink out of existance and become nothing - merging with the non-existant reality of Nothing . . . The Frigid Land is cold and unforgiving. There are no sapient beings with a permanent settlement there, but life still lives here. The frozen wasteland may not seem to harbor much wildlife, but if you look up, you will see chunks of ice floating in the sky, while animals of all kinds fly above. The ice varies in size from immense glacial chunks to tiny chips. Exactly how this ice floats is a mystery, but during the summer, they melt into floating orbs of water - some of these are tiny droplets, others are the size of large lakes. Inside these floating orbs of water a variety of plankton and small fish swim – these animals hibernate in the ice during the other seasons, shutting down their whole body, and only waking up when the ice starts to melt. Some fish can fly. There scales have developed into branching, feather-like structures (please ignore the implausibility, this is a fantasy world), which are particularly noticeable on their wing-like pectoral fins, and they have strong muscles attaching to an enlarged pelvic girdle. These flying, feathered fish are preyed upon by penguins – which can fly. Externally, they do not look much different from an ordinary penguin, except of course from the fact that they are flying through a landscape of floating ice and water orbs. They hunt in small groups, preying upon the shoals of feathered fish, and sleep on ice or while floating on the top of water orbs, depending on the season. They breed on floating glaciers in large, raucous colonies. Predatory seals prey upon penguins and fish, but they cannot fly, so must glide down from ice or water orbs, snatching up its prey in mid-air, and crushing it beneath it as it falls. In the east is the Grass Land – which is exactly what it says it is. A wide expanse of temperate to tropical grassland, inhabited by Herders, a race of nomadic people who herd tempermental animals called lekkas. These hooved herbivorous animals have bulbous incisors which protrude from their mouth, and can spit a caustic saliva at those who displease them. 4-winged predatory birds soar through the air on thermals, swooping down and snatching up lekkas, and sometimes Herders. Just below the Grass Land is the Sand Land. Here immense dunes and dust storms rule, dotted here and there with hardy trees covered in armour plating-like bark, and tall stacks of rock. Large, spiny flightless dragons belch flames at predators (and prey), and featherless, flightless predatory birds hunt down their unfortunate victims. In the south there is the Forest Land – a tropical, steaming rainforst, filled with some of the most unusual and vibrant life in Jacksonia. Seahorses hang upside down from branches while birds flutter above, capable of changing the form and colour of their plumage. Large flightless toad-like dragons, and large rhinos with plants and small trees growing on their back, and other wonderous creatures live here. Some mongooses can become smaller to evade predators, and a race of sapient, multi-tentacled beings live deep in the forest, resembling strange cuttlefish. The Coral Land exists close to the Forest Land. Here corals and other marine animals have moved onto the land, and an immense terrestrial coral reef, vibrant and bustling with life, grows at the edges of the forest. A variety of life such as terrestrial and flying fish, floating jellyfish, large predatory sea spiders, and burrowing stingrays burst out of their ground upon their hapless prey. To the west is the largest Land of all – the Bamboo Land, also known as the Oriental Land. Here sapient foxes, wise monkeys, and human priests live in peace together, searching for the answers to the universe and going into deep, meditative trances to discover impossible questions such as the appearance of taste, and the sound of a bad smell. Bamboo forests, tranquil mountains, and beautiful lakes fill the Bamboo Land, inhabited by giant turtles, giant elephants which hold ponds on their back, and wise, whiskered dragons. |
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