Our habitat landers are designed to fit in to natural environments.
Here, the thing looks as out of place as I would at a Founders’ Ball. It needs more square edges.
In one week here, we have found three edible-to-human plants, although one of them requires processing twice – once with an alkaline plant which grows near it in most circumstances, and then again with heat – to not give horrible gas.
We have also found animals. Square animals. Square, fluffy, adorable, taller-than-humans animals.
This place cannot be for real.
Archive | March 2018
Tootplanet: Captain’s Log Sector 7, Subector 25
Star Log, Sec. 7, Sub 25-1
It had been so long since we saw a technologically-advanced planet that we were momentarily stupefied.
This planet is perfect for humanoid habitation – large oceans, medium-sized continents, ideal atmosphere.
And to the south, it looks like it is only populated by machines, big ground-sweeping agra’bots.
To the north, though, huge, dense, sky-scraping cities crowd what looks to be a rocky, inhospitable continent, and north of that is a sinking mass of industrialization.
I applaud their specialization, but I’m not sure I’d want to live in it.
We sent down a greeting probe. I’m sure they’ll have something to talk to us about. Continue reading
Another word for Edally / Reiassan
Eseme put herself in Textiles House, so I needed a title.
Okay, this one is going to get a bit complicated.
We’re looking for a broad term for textiles-maker.
In the looking for this work, we found, ah, embroidery:
from tyek, a word for drawing.
you end up with benyentyek, bentyek, art-with-a-needle, embroidery.
Tootplanet: Explorers’ Logs Planet 7-9-1
Planetary Day 393
Summer here is a riot of color, most of it pink (but there’s some purple).
We’ve managed to domesticate or at least sort of tame several of the pink-yaks and a litter of the Red Cats. Because of the yaks — they make a really nice yarn, if you’re okay with everything being pink — we found two more edible plants, one of them a starchy root that has to be boiled but is surprisingly tasty, and one a spinach-like leaf plant.
Torvi is developing pink-screening glasses.
Tootplanet 7-24-5: Another Viewpoint
Star Log, Sec. 7, Sub 24-5 – Another View
Salek and Elkel saw the Strange Beings come down from the sky.
They spent four hours tucked in the boll of a tree arguing if they were the Malevolent Wings or the Beneficent Wings or, because they showed no literal wings on their bodies, if they were not Wings at all but some other creature.
Elkel bounced into their magical shield.
Tootplanet: Captain’s Log Sector 7, Subector 24
Star log Sec.7 Sub.24-1
From a distance, all you can see is the rings. The planet is impossible to land on, but we managed to get one probe through the mess.
It found ruins on ruins and in the middle, a society of child-looking humanoids.
I don’t know if rescue is even possible, but we got a message pod through, and, based on discrete sampling by our probe, an aid packet.
Where are the adults? What can we do for these kids?
A Digression to figure out a word in Calenyen – Written for Patreon
All right, today we’re figuring out the word for Diplomat, the title for many people to graduate Estiessyaa house.
Let’s see, the English etymology of the word… is one of those weird ones, where state papers come from the Greek word for folded paper.
I’m thinking blunted-spear is the word for diplomacy.
And it looks like I have:
paiterz, snow-spears, with the quote “The Cālenyena call almost everything long and pointy a spear. When all you have is a hammer, etc.”
The Arran/West coast word for spear-leaf: adavijamin (Spear-blade is adavi in that language) Continue reading
Edally Story 2 – Just Good Enough
Chapter 6-11, Book One: Saydrie
The monitor had come down from somewhere in the north, escorted by two soldiers and walking as if she thought that the ground in the enclave would stick to her and ruin her boots.
The biggest building in the enclave was the Temple of the Three, but instead of that room, she had called them all into the town hall, every child of the appropriate age, past the changing of the voice but before the full adult growth had been reached. Not that most of them weren’t already taller than the monitor, Saydrie noticed, not without some rather unkind pleasure.
She had a list of names and read them off – or attempted to. “Genkee. Zadree. An- Tanton. No, I said Zadree.” Continue reading
Who are you In Edally Academy?
For a little fun, I’m going to go back to something I did a long time ago:
What would your name be in Calenyen?
But more than that, what student would you be in Edally? What house would you be in? Talk to me, and we can come up with your Edally/Reiassan name and student!
Here’s one version of Clare’s:
and @rixScaudu’s
Edally Academy Houses II
Every one of the nine houses of Edally Academy has its own tower (which serves as a dormitory and social area), its own classroom building, its own uniform colors, and its own sigil.
Kaarson House covers Economics and Agriculture: the business, as their current Head of House has said more than once, of living and then of thriving.
Their uniform is fully in the realm of Rienaasanun (Reiassannon in the Bitrani): neutral brown, forest green, and grass green adorn these student of life and the living.
Their sigil is a parsnip, Reiassan’s signature starch crop, a stubborn root that will grow anywhere, even on the side of a mountain, and which can survive most of the natural predators to such things; the parsnip is crossed over the horns of a goat, the animal which serves the Calenyena as meat, milk, and wool source as well as serving as a riding beast.
Bapzhoom House houses those who wish to learn about anatomy and medicine. This school has existed from the very first days, and its uniform being almost entirely in the realm of Mindfulness. Tienaabaa (Bitrani: Tienebrah), the deity of mindfulness and change, cold and thought, is still a matter of some dissension among various groups. After all, Rienaasanun is the deity of healing… Continue reading