I'm really really bored right now...

[Oroigawa Koreyasu]

Hey Ari, is there a sanct you have no plans for that I can be Count of (or...whatever)? I want something to do within Straylight and Blavatsky is probably the wrong place to do it. Perhaps I can just bring it under my jurisdiction when it's ready, but I need something cultural to work on at the moment. I have too many ideas and no outlet for them.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Ay, I guess it is best to do this... so... tell me what you want to do . You know, nothing specific, just give me... keywords or something. What characterises the place you want to work with? (I just want to do this because I want to see if I can find something in Straylight that matches it)

[Oroigawa Koreyasu]

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I dunno...really...I'll work with anything...I'm have far more interests than most people expect...

[Oroigawa Koreyasu]

Hmm...having taken the initiative to look into some sancts on the wiki (the ones that are there, anyway), I find McCallavre to be fairly...appealing. "infamous for their views on social order which tend to equate location with prosperity" sounds kinda nice.

(If I'm interrupting some long, thought-out post, please post it anyhow. I noticed you went off the active users thing with "Replying to message in Duchy of Straylight" after your name [yeah, I pay attention to that] and I don't want to be a pest or anything. You'd probably have something that'd change my mind anyway.)

EDIT: (Perhaps not, don't mind me)

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[Ari Rahikkala]

Heh... sorry... just my ego working against me, I guess.. uh...

OK, how about Wave Manifold? That's one sanct that I never really had much to say about. Well, OK, there's something. It's... mathematical. You know, not the Egan-style "so these guys never amounted up to anything except they found some really nifty theorems" (pdf), but something more like "you know, maybe we should take new math and actually keep hacking at it until we get kids that mathematics is a natural thing for".

You don't actually have to mention a single lemma if you don't want to, of course, it's the consequences that matter: With a good basis in mathematics, the locals are going to be a little bit more analytical than the common guy, and since the HONIS is most often a mathematician (in-simulation the HONIS is chosen from a pool of Straylightian academicians, although I haven't yet figured out how) the place is going to be a bit of a rarefied "seat of Straylightian power"-ish thing sometimes (with a lot of people descending from previous HONISs and such), and people are probably going to be a little bit more musical than elsewhere (since there's a lot of links between music and mathematics). And on the other hand, the locals might prefer stable, rigid social structures, etc.. That kind of thing.

Could you work with that? I just want to set some kind of a recognisable theme for each sanct, so even if you just do random micronational/Shirithian/Straylightian stuff, I want there to be *some* kind of a background to cast it against. The stuff I just wrote basically just came out of the word "mathematical" and how I'd expect a sanct that could be described as mathematical to turn out.

* looks at your new post *

Oh, McCallavre! That one came out of the proximity with Kildare. Basically a succesful "huge pointless merger" personified. You know what it's like... well, actually, you weren't around when the Apollo sector did those things so you aren't... so: Mismatched, overlapping, sometimes incoherent, but then again the merger *did* succeed, so it's really getting quite solid. Still, there should be a whole bunch of infighting, strife, oppression of the lower class through economical means, that sort of thing. Agony over the fundamental meaninglessness of life in the richer parts, tonnes of fish guts in the poor parts. Oh, and do me a favour and put in some theme park depictions of Shirithian culture, please. You know, the kind of thing where a local would come on board, look at it and go "wow, they sure got that wrong". No particular reason for that, I just thought the idea would suit that place

[Ari Rahikkala]

Oh, and do change the names of those platforms, they're kinda generic fantasyish stuff that I came up with on the spot. The kind that you read in the beginning of the sentence and have forgotten by the time you get to the end. I do like Heavenly Towers (but then again I took that one from somewhere else), but the rest... yeah, they've got to go. Just say you want to be the count of McCallavre, or whatever you want to call the place, and I'll decree you into the position and give you a subforum

[Oroigawa Koreyasu]

Just say you want to be the count of McCallavre, or whatever you want to call the place, and I'll decree you into the position and give you a subforum

Can I ask in the MiniInt forum? I want a nice gift.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Nahh, I think I can just hand those out here too...

[Oroigawa Koreyasu]

Hurray! Then let the counting commence!

*one two three four so on so forth*