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Re: Castle World - a new site. (time)
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lugnet.castle
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Sat, 4 Mar 2000 01:37:30 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Craig Hamilton writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Paul Davidson writes:
> > I agree -- if we want to mimic the "real world", we should start with Year
> > 1. (when you count apples, do you start with number 0?)
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> but _before_ you begin to count, there _are_ 0! actually, if ballads can
> be set anywhen, shouldn't our timeline have a 0 pivital date in the middle?
> (jeff j's idea, not mine, but i really like it) a timeline bookended with
> the "indefinite past" and the indefinite future". our stories can keep going
> in either direction without ever leaving the castle genre time-period. the
> forward advances would have to be scheduled with our real time. something
> like 5 CW years = 1 real world year or such. the past could stretch back
> hundreds or thousands of years as balladeers write it.
Right! Stories that occur in the 'past' would have to be placed in the past...
However, in my storyline, the present has to come before Itell about the past,
and I'm sure I'm not the only one...
So, question ahead: will I have a page of my own ballads, in the order I like
them to be? (Which would be seperate from the 'history' page in which ballads
would/would not (?!) be in chronological order)
> instead of A.L., though, what about A.B.S.? not only is it what lego
> bricks are made from, it could stand for "After Balladeers Started"! tales
> from the past could creatively be translated from ancient texts or written
> down from oral tradition.(the original balladeers!)
Love it!
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> uh... before year 0 though, i'm drawing a blank. B.B.S?
Um, maybe Before Ballads Written? (BBW)
I dunno...
-Shiri
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