I voted for myself. I already have some ideas for my own paradigm, so it was an easy choice.

We know that the universe was a singular point of everything at once. Eventually that was broken out into sections, including the ordered sections of time, and for everything to exist in the structure of time, it must have edges of "is" and "not is". This is true also of things e...

Once, there was a beautiful Amazon girl. No maiden was she, but then the Amazons never cherished that trait in their girls. But this day, she came across a stranger hunting in her jungles. All know that Nyx' beasts hunt the evils of the world and destroy them. We've heard the story of plantation own...

Deep in the jungle, unguarded except by the jungle itself, is the Great Temple of Nyx. Rising high above the ground, the top of this great stone pyramid is nonetheless below the canopy of the even greater trees who guard it. link to image The stones of the temple are old, and worn. The jungle has ea...

So, is there any particular restriction on when we can post stories of the People? One the one hand, what we do in our turns means little unless the People are talking about it in the threads. On the other hand, I suppose there's some kind of advantage to be had for a more prolific writer. Though......

"Just last week, it was. You know where the southern stream lets out into the grasslands, and those herders got that village set up? Well, one of the herders, the big fat one who thinks he's better than everybody else," The listener interrupts, "You mean Chief Nymon? Nieman? Whatever?...

Hippolyta held the baby up for the village to see. "It is a girl!" The mother, strained and exhausted nonetheless reached for her daughter with a fierce pride. Far off tribes tell of the Amazons dashing their boy children against the roots of the Tree, as sacrifice to those evil things fou...

Think of that as Nyx winking at you.

Several days after Surya and Virelai performed the consecrations on their temples within the Rotunda, the first evening of the new moon arrived. That evening, as many others, Theresa spoke at the Sunset Sermons. As always, she spoke of the Unity of the city, and the community (and individual) benefi...

Indeed, it is pretty much entirely a political creation, not a faith-based one. But, anticipating some Acropolis variant of Nietzche coming along and claiming that our loss of faith has undermined all of the social benefits of religion, we're covering that angle as well. Maybe it's more like an Inte...

That's fair; I just would like to not use "temple" with two different meanings.

First Church of the City?

Also: turn sent.

Might I suggest a minor adjustment to our lexicon? Since the word "temple" has specific rules-based meanings for the game, I would like to call the larger multi-faith building that Surya, Viralei, and I are having built "the Unification Church" instead of "the Unification Te...

I'm afraid the most I can do to help light a nightime performance would be to not be offended when Surya started putting sunlight into the middle of my realm.

My .sig comes from Simon and Garfunkel's " A Poem on the Underground Wall , though the full song isn't really appropriate for the Acropolis setting. The last train is nearly due. The underground is closing soon. And in the dark deserted station, Restless in anticipation, A man waits in the shad...

If I had to guess, I'd say it was the Fibinacci Sequence, or Golden Spiral . I'm no music theorist, but I believe that there's something about the mathematical relationship of one musical note to the next, being somehow based on that pattern. That's what I remember from the old Walt Disney thing. (S...

I edited (can't delete, since others have posted since I did) my contest entry to something different.

Virelai, it seems awfully convenient that you claim no control over a group almost entirely filled with those who prefer you over all others. That they may act against the interest of other gods of this city, without oversight by you, simply because they are not officially your church. You make many...

Not that I mean to accuse anybody, but... perhaps it should be pointed out that the Barbarian horde had been to the north of our city for several months, not doing anything, until Virelai sent her dancers up there, and then sent her own priest to talk to them. Now they're using song to escape us. An...

Theresa strolled through the marketplace, near the artisan's guild. She saw the refugee women staying there, now visibly with child from their barbarian rapists. Barbarians, some of whom even now, were prisoners of the city. Some of the women had the stereotypical 'glow' about them, happy in the new...