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Post by Aphelyon on Mar 19, 2017 15:59:39 GMT -5
Hm. Natural colors definitely, but probably a bit less pastel than what you have? So like, darker greens, duller browns, if that makes sense. Or possibly stone gray. I would say probably like forest green for the green part, dark brown for the border, and then a lighter brown for the text box? Idk.
Edit: Also I love the silhouettes! Idk how I'll use them but I will find a way, they're super awesome.
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Post by shades on Mar 19, 2017 16:07:21 GMT -5
I'll throw out another set or two of layout design once I finish making lunch.
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Post by Aphelyon on Mar 19, 2017 16:14:26 GMT -5
Awesome I appreciate it :) I'll update the first post with what information we have and start trying to fill in the rest of the blanks.
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Post by shades on Mar 19, 2017 16:37:53 GMT -5
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
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Post by Aphelyon on Mar 19, 2017 17:10:31 GMT -5
Ooh I like the middle one. I think that's probably what I'll go with.
Edit: I think I'll go ahead and start trying to piece together the actual thread. I'll post a link once it's up, though it'll be WIP for a bit.
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cptsisko
Pronouns: they/them/theirs
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Post by cptsisko on Mar 19, 2017 17:48:25 GMT -5
I'd love to help if you're still needing it, but if not, I understand! I'm definitely going to join though
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Post by shades on Mar 19, 2017 17:49:38 GMT -5
That's fine. I have an executive meeting in a bit. If you need me to help by making graphics or proofreading. I got your back.
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Bisexual
robin
Enfj--Gryffindor--Pukwudgie--Dog Obsessed--History Lover--Total Work in Progress
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Post by robin on Mar 19, 2017 17:54:48 GMT -5
I'd love to help if you're still needing it, but if not, I understand! I'm definitely going to join though Same here (:
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Post by Aphelyon on Mar 19, 2017 17:55:35 GMT -5
cptsisko: yeah if you have anything you want to suggest, go for it! We're getting towards the end of the planning but we're not done quite yet.
shades: yeah if you wanna look it over at all here's the page thus far. I also wanted to ask where you got the silhouettes from because if possible I'd like to get a few more of them.
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Post by shades on Mar 19, 2017 17:57:18 GMT -5
I made them. I'll make a few more! Also I suggest new paragraphs, particularly when you begin describing a new location in Camp and the Hunting Grounds. It makes it feel less like a block and more dynamic.
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Post by Aphelyon on Mar 19, 2017 18:08:25 GMT -5
Alright I'll try to break things up a bit more. Also is it alright if I request a couple specific animals then? Specifically I think a wolf, eagle (or similar bird of prey), and rabbit would be cool. Other possibilities could be salmon, weasel, lynx, mountain lion, fox, owl, and moose. Though the last three might not be all that distinguishable from wolf, eagle, and elk. It's up to you how many you want to make, idk how difficult they are or how much you enjoy making them. But I think they're super awesome and thanks a lot for making them :)
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Post by shades on Mar 19, 2017 18:23:33 GMT -5
I got them and a few more made up. Once I get to the building for my meeting, I'll upload them.
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cptsisko
Pronouns: they/them/theirs
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Post by cptsisko on Mar 19, 2017 18:29:59 GMT -5
I have to eat, but I'll be right back Also MyTribe was a great game
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Post by Salted Squid on Mar 19, 2017 18:34:13 GMT -5
I love all of these ideas so far!
If you'd like, I could try to work up a list of names to go with the animals you picked? That way we have a basis for "spirit names" for characters?
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Post by Aphelyon on Mar 19, 2017 18:41:27 GMT -5
For the most part I was going to just let people come up with them on their own, but if you wanna come up with a few sure, go ahead. There would also be spirit words for things other than animals, so if you wanted to come up with some that would probably be fine. I'd mostly want to leave the animals open for people to pick for themselves for the names, but doing some words that probably won't be used in names could be good because it'll set a general sound or style to the names.
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Post by Salted Squid on Mar 19, 2017 18:55:49 GMT -5
Alright, I could do that xD
I'll probably end up making a list of stuff like sun, moon, river; that sort of thing. If you have other suggestions for things you want, I can add those in too
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Post by shades on Mar 19, 2017 18:56:11 GMT -5
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Post by Aphelyon on Mar 19, 2017 19:08:29 GMT -5
Nice! Adding those in now!
And yeah Aviva just anything like that you want to put up works. When you're done I may go through and nit-pick and adjust a little just to make sure that it's the style that I'm really wanting but that probably won't be much, if at all. I hope you won't mind XD
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Post by Salted Squid on Mar 19, 2017 19:14:12 GMT -5
Of course I don't mind! It's your roleplay, after all!
totally not just translating everything into a bunch of obsolete sounding languages and picking what looks good
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Post by shades on Mar 19, 2017 19:19:35 GMT -5
If you need more you'll have to wait until after this executive meeting.
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Post by Aphelyon on Mar 19, 2017 19:19:38 GMT -5
Hm. I generally avoid using real-life languages but if it's obsolete and fits the style, mostly using that and then maybe changing a syllable or two should be fine, even with my pickiness lol.
Edit: Okay sounds good. Like I said, go ahead and make as many or as few as you want.
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cptsisko
Pronouns: they/them/theirs
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Post by cptsisko on Mar 19, 2017 19:29:37 GMT -5
I had a few ideas about rituals, such as death and marriage, as well as birth. And maybe there should be a sort of coming of age test before they get their tattoo at 16?
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Post by Salted Squid on Mar 19, 2017 19:37:00 GMT -5
It's not working as well as I would like it to, though there's a few that I like: Sun--Sol Moon-- lua spring-- leim fall-- erori winter-- negua mother-- aika (or asa maybe, for Asa-kel?) father-- ilta nature-- laatu
I also wrote down the languages that I translated them into, so if you see a certain style that you like I can try to find more words that fit that sort of style for you. and of course you can feel free to edit or to toss out anything you don't think fits
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Post by Aphelyon on Mar 19, 2017 19:40:58 GMT -5
Yeah let me hear 'em catpants. I actually did still need a marriage and death ritual in particular, and coming of age and birth ceremonies would be cool as well.
Aviva: I do like most them- the only one I have any kind of problem with is sun, since sol is a pretty common word for that. As for the rest, I will probably keep most of them, though I think I may slightly change the spelling of one or two (I like words that look pretty as well as sound pretty lol). But overall, the style of the words fits pretty well. I'll go ahead and record those ones into the spirit language category on the main page.
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Post by Salted Squid on Mar 19, 2017 19:52:33 GMT -5
alright, cool! I've got a few more words that I thought to look up so I'll keep that in mind when I do
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Post by Aphelyon on Mar 19, 2017 20:00:09 GMT -5
Alright, those- as well as Asa-kel and Jek-durr- are recorded. I also gave them symbols. They're just essentially random unicode symbols I took from a character list lol. 'Bout half of them are hiragana, the rest are a mixture of like, Cyrillic, Arabic, and other such foreign writing styles. I also just made up a word for sun.
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Post by cptsisko on Mar 19, 2017 20:06:14 GMT -5
So for marriage, the two people are decorated by their respective families in paint or markings that symbolize Asa-kel and then they stand on opposite sides of a huge fire with people in a circle around it. They then walk around the circle and meet each other in the front of the fire where they're blessed by the shaman and the chieftain and given their marriage tattoos.
For births, when a child is born, the shaman will bless the baby by marking them with a small smudge of white on their forehead. And this could be optional, but maybe they don't name their children until after a certain period of time? A lot of early civilizations used milk names which were cutesy { or rude and mean } names until a baby was given an actual name, because infant mortality was so high. It'd also give shamans time to understand what animal spirit they have
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Post by Aphelyon on Mar 19, 2017 20:21:47 GMT -5
Well the shaman are supposed to be able to inherently know what a person's animal is, so they would be able to identify that as soon as they were born. And names are easy since it's just that animal in the spirit language. But babies don't get their first tattoo until they're a year old, due to the infant mortality rate.
However, I do like the idea of blessing them somehow, and perhaps there's a public naming ceremony after the baby is born? Perhaps they wait a few days, like three or something, to see if the infant will actually survive, and then at the end of the third day if the child is still alive and healthy they publicly name it in front of the entire tribe? As for the blessing, I think that would probably take place right after birth, but what precisely it would entail I'm not sure. Probably painting them with something, though, since tattoos are so important to the tribe... so the white mark could work in that regard.
As for the marriage ceremony, I like it. I think I'd want to add a bit more to it and perhaps expand on what the symbols of Asa-kel would be, but overall I think it's cool.
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Post by Aphelyon on Mar 19, 2017 20:24:36 GMT -5
hi sorry for the poof so what if anything still needs to be done? Well we could expand on the marriage and birth ceremonies a bit, plus we still need a death ritual and perhaps a coming of age ceremony. Other than that, I think really the only thing I need is some kind of introduction. Currently I have that box marked as "history" but I'm not really sure what it will actually be.
Beyond that, I guess y'all can start claiming roles if you want. I'm torn on whether I want my character to be shaman or a shaper. If someone else really wants to be shaman I'll let them but otherwise I think I'll probably go that direction. Chief is open though.
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