{"id":11625,"date":"2011-11-11T10:14:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T15:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=11625"},"modified":"2011-11-11T10:14:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T15:14:20","slug":"the-geography-of-blackbloom-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/11\/11\/the-geography-of-blackbloom-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Geography Of Blackbloom, Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week’s challenge has borne fruit:<\/em><\/p>\n

THE GODS OF BLACKBLOOM HAVE BEEN CHOSEN<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

(All Blackbloom entries are here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.)
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

I thought initially we might leap in and do some creation or other divine myths surrounding the gods we chose, but then I thought, well, it’d be nice to have a greater sense of what these gods create.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thus, it’s time to examine the physical world of Blackbloom.<\/p>\n

What is<\/em> this place?<\/p>\n

What does it look like?<\/p>\n

Where can you go? What vistas and nightmares can one explore?<\/p>\n

We know a few things.<\/p>\n

We know that seas of sand exist.<\/p>\n

We know the place is fairly diverse.<\/p>\n

We know it’s subject to three seasons (rainy, dry, dark).<\/p>\n

But we don’t know much else.<\/p>\n

So, you have 100 words.<\/p>\n

With those 100 words, describe a place in the natural geography of the planet — think about how Earth has Everest or the Grand Canyon or the Hawaiian Islands or whatever. Go nuts. Go big. Go weird. Blackbloom is not a world for timidity. Note, however, we don’t want to talk about cities. The cities of Blackbloom — which are sentient and can communicate — will get their own challenge. For now: think geography, not man-made (though certainly divinely-made and feel free to incorporate the gods if you feel it’s valuable). Give us the names and the places and the madness of this new world writ large.<\/p>\n

You’ve got two weeks. Till Friday, 11\/25, noon EST.<\/p>\n

Post your 100-word entries below.<\/p>\n

Please: only one entry per person.<\/p>\n

Further, again, you’re likelier to have your entry chosen if it’s written more like an entry from an encyclopedia (or, for more salient reference, from a roleplaying game book).<\/p>\n

I’ll pick — well, I dunno. However many helps us start to cobble together a map of the planet. Because that’s what we want. Not a whole map, not yet — we’ll still have those Here There Be Dragons portions — but enough so we start to see the world in all its splendor and terror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With those 100 words, describe a place in the natural geography of the planet — think about how Earth has Everest or the Grand Canyon or the Hawaiian Islands or whatever. Go nuts. Go big. Go weird. Blackbloom is not a world for timidity. Note, however, we don’t want to talk about cities. The cities of Blackbloom — which are sentient and can communicate — will get their own challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78],"class_list":{"0":"post-11625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-blackbloom","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-31v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11629,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625\/revisions\/11629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}