We Didn't Start The Fire [Quote Based World Building Game]

Kolejny dzień · 2019-09-15T09:50:35+00:00

[The Following text has been Blatantly Stolen, Plagierized, Liberally Copy-Pasta'd from 'The Unnamed World'by Gaemnomut] Quote based Worldbuilding-Game Welcome, one and all, to my first, Second thread on QQ. ~Let's build a world Galaxy.~ The idea is this: We are going to design a universe by layering in-universe quotes on top of each other, with one person writing something someone said or wrote in this world and the next providing context (who, when, why, ...) and the next quote. Rules: 1. Later Quotes cannot contradict earlier ones. 2. Anyone can join in whenever they want. 3. First a person writes down a text, it can be anything from single sentence to grand speech or song, as long as it's not taken from somewhere. Author provides no context for this quote. 4. Next poster replies by adding who said the above quote and providing any additional context for it, then giving their own quote. And so on. Think of it as climatic fragments of fluff from a RPG book or quotes on M:tG cards. 5. No Apocalypse Pain Train. At least lets not jump for that right out the gate. And now, after hunting the illusive piece of writing I left to turn feral in the SB HFY threads. Let's get this party started! _____ "To the Denizens of this Galaxy. Mankind Stands now, as a power that we were not even able to imagine, one hundred and fifty years ago. We Are Young. Young and so very new to these stars, and were it not for the Telarians we would be digging for scraps, begging for leftovers. From the Telarians we learned of the Galaxy around us, we learned of the species that shared it with us. For that we were grateful. That our fears were unfounded. That our preparations for hostility from the stars were largely unnecessary. For that too, we were Grateful. Fifty years of Education given freely by the Telarians to any human with the aptitude to join one of Telaria's many universities, and we were climbing onward. Greatness of our own within our grasp. Maybe not soon. But we would reach it. We made our first journey almost to the day of the Be'Merek initiation of the 17th sphere of Expansion. After fifty years of minor star nations they reached our teachers. Telaria has held for fifty more years. And yet again we are grateful to Telaria for that we are grateful. We have learned. We have Prospered. In our little forgotten corner of the Galaxy over shadowed by a war that refuses patently to abate Human kind has prepared. In defense of yourselves Telaria, you have defended us. You have allowed us to remain hidden, to remain forgotten, and we are once more grateful for a gift freely given if only tangentially. Because We have prepared Telaria We have not Stood idly by, and hoped. We have not stared hopelessly at a beloved teachers work torn away, and wished. We have not watched a dear friends house burn, and stood frozen in shock. Even as I speak the 3rd 7th and 11th fleets move to shore up the Ekeros Salient Even as I speak Merchants ferry materials to your factories. Even as I speak Human kind prepares itself for war. Telaria You could have conquered. You taught. You could have easily taken advantage. You lent aid. Human kind is Grateful. Human kind finally stands ready. Telaria You are not alone!"

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Sep 15, 2019

Here's an example from Gaemnomut's thread.

Gaemnomut said:
--Frederic Baldwin, Royal advisor, to long time family friend Sylvia Moranday. 3 years after the rebellion.

"You didn't think I'd survive, you spirits dammned traitor! Well, I did, and now, befor I kill you I want to know why. Why, why, why? You were our brother, Damien."

necrolectric said:
Carl Hubert, formerly of the Royal Musketeers, confronting the traitor and ursurper Damien Helswroth.

"For all the extent of this land, we must not forget that it's true worth is not in the horizontal, but in the vertical. Dig deep, my brethren, for it is in the deeps that we shall find true wealth."

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