Feeling Free Again (Like the song off of Crystal Logic by Manilla Road, y’know?)
Preliminary notes: check out that album if you like a little metal with some fantasy flavor to it. Anyway, finally finished out that semester, chilling now on this beautiful holiday season. I say that, but there hasn’t been any snow in my area. As of late snow isn’t a consistent phenomena. The forecast says snow on Friday, so I hope that’s accurate. Man, I’m feeling all over the place though; I’m tired and lazy and a little upset in general, but whatever, I have a month to recuperate for now. How about I talk a bit about luck? Isn’t that something interesting? Like, what’s the deal with that stuff? I think I have a lot of luck, but I don’t know if I could really explain it. I catch a lot of really fortunate breaks and stuff, and not really with any obvious causal link to mental or physical skills; thinking of it another way though, maybe luck is, like, a meta-mental skill? I don’t believe in this particular conception, or at least not as the sole manifestation of luck, but part of it is just a mindset, a lens through which you see everything good that happens as part of a chain of good things that come to you regularly. I think luck in reality is something sort of mystical, like there’s a real factor in situations that determines whether chance-based events will occur favorably for you, and that can be affected in some way; the “luck mindset” is a bonus on top of that. I might actually use the “luck” tag on this post, usually this is just an online diary or something, but I guess I kind of want to know what other people think about the pseudo-mystical and stuff, and luck is my “in” with that whole topic. Before I close out this post, I want to say that just today I’ve been playing the game Dreamwild; really awesome music and fun movement-based gameplay. It’s an indie game on Steam, and it’s less than $10, well worth the price.
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Known Life-Bearing Planets
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There are hundreds upon hundreds of known life-bearing planets in our universe, of which said universe is also called the Forever Ocean. Specifically, these are planets with life on them that can house souls and minds- beings capable of thought and magic. Bacteria-like organisms may exist on several thousand times more celestial bodies, but the ones of obvious interest to us are the ones with creatures.
And while there are hundreds of those life-bearing worlds, we'll only be going over a small selection of them for now. The Forever Ocean is massive, after all...
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Keratasa
(CARE-ruh-TAW-suh)
Keratasa is a large rocky world, with a moderately sized atmosphere, an intricate system of plate tectonics, and extremely variable weather systems. It is known for its lavender skies, periwinkle oceans, and forests of all sorts of colors. Oh- and also its most obvious feature, as well. It is a rocky planet with massive rings!
Its continents can be broken up into four supercontinents and a small straggler continent. There is the western hemisphere's Shibeilai, consisting of the northern, tropical-and-grassy Beilai and the southern, taiga-like Shilai. Connected to Shilai is the nearly entirely frozen tundra-and-mountainous supercontinent, Essel, and the much smaller (and not frozen but still chilly) Ouvru, both of which encompass the southern hemisphere.
To the far north is the icy yet volcanic Vilaak, and nearby, the tropical jungle continent of Javra, resting to the north of the eastern hemisphere. The largest supercontinent is called Peraraksa, consisting of the southern forest realm of Peraa and the northern realm of Raksa- a massive, harrowing desert of grey sands and perpetually clouded skies. This desert is also known as the Echo Vault. This supercontinent nearly entirely encompasses the eastern hemisphere.
Along with several non-continental islands, there is a single, small, lone continent called Gangaal, consisting of a series of massive mountains surrounding a main, gargantuan mountain. This mountain realm rests in the center of the central ocean.
Keratasa has two moons, nicknamed the Steelwild and the Dreamwild. The Steelwild has visible, artificial lights on it, so it can be assumed there are some sort of civilizations on it. The Dreamwild, however, is entirely mysterious, despite being physically closer.
Due to how many wormhole portals (called Links) are built upon this world, leading to other life-bearing worlds... some tend to refer to Keratasa as a sort of "crossroads" world.
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Frukkua
(froo-KOO-wuh)
Frukkua is an interesting planet of pink waters and sugar-based lifeforms. Imagine a real-like Candyland, with landscapes of candies and sugars and chocolate and sugary fluffs... but, within those landscapes, lives a nature just as vicious as any other. Endlessly, creatures of Frukkua will battle and hunt each other for the life-sustaining substance that is pure sugar.
But not everything is sickly sweet. A relatively large moon, nicknamed the Saltwild, orbits Frukkua in a tidally locked fashion. Killer geysers of magma and salts jettison out, directly towards Frukkua; these jets are so massive that they can cause odd salt rains upon the sugary surface.
It's said, however... that the Saltwild may even have inhabitants on it. Inhabitants who originated on Frukkua's sweet surface. Being devoid of its sugary essence may even warp the new inhabitants...
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The Wanderwild
A mysterious and chilly planet with many names, about two thirds of the side of Keratasa. Some of these names include the Wanderwild, the Snowball, Terrokasa, and Earth. Despite only having one sapient civilization, it is a world with an identity crisis, infested with pollution and storms and beasts of a seemingly archaic mindset of basal natural instincts. Most odd of all, that single civilization- they endlessly chase materials and a sign that they are not alone. What is wrong with them; were they always destructive like this?
And do they not have a portal to the other worlds? Is it truly that isolated? Just a lonely little planet, constantly freezing and melting... Wanting to be a beacon trapped in the past.
Some call it Keratasa's abandoned, plastic twin.
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Nanobey
(NAH-no-bay)
The smallest known rocky life-world, at only between an eighth or seventh the size of Keratasa. It has only underground oceans, as its crust is nearly entirely covered in grey dust, rocks, and crystals. The largest animal on the planet is less than three feet long, nose to tail. The main lifeforms of this seemingly desolate planet are extremely intelligent microorganisms, who can work together in colonies to equal the intelligence of a sapient being as a singularity.
These six-foot-tall cities work to drill for water and underground plants, and have for millions of years. The two-foot-long animals are like kaiju to these tiny cities, hunting to eat the intelligent microorganisms like an anteater.
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The Scorchwild
Probably the life-world that exists under the most peculiar circumstances. It is a desert-like world, scorched by its blazing hot-white moon. Its days are marked by the rising and setting of its moon, while its nights are cast in shadows by its distant, cool, dim red star.
Creatures come out to bask under the cool of the sun, and hide in the caves and tunnels during the night. It's unknown why the moon is the way it is; it isn't a star, but contains the heat and light of one.
Could someone even set foot on that moon?
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Seseri
(SESS-suh-ree)
A yellowish planet with long, thin continents, and an unbelievably massive atmosphere. Every creature on this unique planet evolved to be able to seemingly levitate, and can seem to swim around the massive atmosphere as if it were an ocean. There is ground to land on as well as clear waters devoid of any color. Life exists in every biome, but it is the sky that flourishes. There are even natural floating islands, of which creatures live on.
As for if alien life could float if they arrived here, that is currently unknown. The current theory is that they may be far too heavy. The native creatures all seem to be made of drapes and lightweight tendrils, and seem to act like jellyfish...
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Kezelvi
(KEH-zuhl-vee)
A planet about the same size as Keratasa, comprised of multiple and incomplete vertical layers of crust, each accessible from the other either going up or down. The true surface is entirely aquatic, with a deep ocean spanning a couple miles. The multiple layers of land crust arc out of the ocean and are supported by massive pillars, and each rest about half a mile above the other. There is a total of five crystalline layers, each one thinner than the one below.
The crystal supports crystal-based flora, fungi, and- of course- fauna. This world also supports a small ring, made entirely of extremely fine crystals. It often snows crystals on the surface, as well; not rain, snow!
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Kraizenia
(cry-ZEN-nee-uh)
Probably the most ancient of all life-bearing worlds... and currently, the most mysterious.
What was known about Kraizenia is currently lost.
We know only that it was the first life-world.
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