Riskail

Psilocybrian (Theracytes)

2011-09-29T15:30:00.000-05:00

Psilocybrians are fungi-derived parahominids who were originally designed to serve as living pharmacologically-integrated therapist-forms--theracytes. The Psilocybrians are fungus-derived and only mimic a vaguely humanoid form, and in truth they only ever partially occupy any sort of actual...

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Virotyrant

2011-08-16T18:24:00.003-05:00

From out of the fetid and foul Deep Wastes of Romthule, the Virotyrants stride forth, spreading contagion and calamity in their dread wake. Some seek to make the black pilgrimage back to Old Earth, following the various River Networks such as those that criss-cross their way from world to world...

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...it will not be humans...

2011-07-28T11:09:00.000-05:00

"I'd like to widen people's awareness of the tremendous timespan lying ahead -- for our planet, and for life itself. Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4bn years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is...

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Lunar Mansions

2011-07-12T01:13:00.001-05:00

By Tradition, the Lunar Gates of most Living Solar Systems are modeled upon the patterns established around Sol and Old Earth. Thus it is that these gates tend to be sequenced into twenty-eight sub-sections that correspond to the ancient scheme of the so-called Mansions of the Moon. Each of the...

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Cosmogrottoes of Riskail

2011-07-08T12:54:00.001-05:00

Within the very midst of Inner Drukhai, between the Void Forests that stretch across the inner-system towards the sun and the Veil Jungles that sprawl outwards to entangle every last bit of debris and available matter even unto Udesh (and somewhat past it even), one will find the Cosmogrottoes....

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Cintamani

2011-06-15T12:48:00.000-05:00

The gift of the Veil-dwellers and the Deep Infrastructure, the Cintamani are wish fulfilling jewels, lenses of creation and liberation that dispersed the forces that enforced the constraining lies of scarcity and opened-up the vast potential of the material worlds for all humanity. But that was...

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Something...Moving...Down There

2011-04-16T07:01:00.001-05:00

Out along the winding channels that lead off from the River Senube into the various Esturaries, subsidiary canals and the less well mapped or explored gates scattered along them, there is talk of something strange going on. There's something out there. Some of the Riverfolk are a bit concerned....

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Core Concepts: Arcologies

2011-02-10T15:23:00.009-06:00

Arcologies are defined by Wiktionary as: "Urban development theory proposed by Paolo Soleri involving three-dimensional building methods and efficient use of space and resources; An extremely large habitat or settlement, sufficient to maintain an internal ecology as well as an extremely high human...

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Harquo:

2011-02-10T01:28:00.001-06:00

Harquo is an Old Power within Riskail, preceeding even the formation of the Twelve Greater or Ascendent Houses, even pre-dating the Confluence. They have been active within and upon Riskail nearly as long as the Leiru have been, or so it is claimed. Harquo is a House that holds within it the...

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Gilpoy

2011-02-09T18:24:00.001-06:00

Disreputable and sparsely populated, Gilpoy is little more than a clandestine shanty-town cobbled together around the pararail terminal situated in the heart of an ancient, heavily eroded crater, one that pre-dates the massive terraforming of Riskail. Gilpoy is not the kind of place one is...

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Vedamyar

2011-02-09T17:23:00.001-06:00

Not every world that gets claimed, colonized or settled necessarily remains integrated within the established Networks of the Connected Territories. Some worlds are claimed that never get settled or colonized. Others are colonized but never truly settled. One world that is not exactly claimed,...

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Politics As Unusual

2011-02-09T15:00:00.002-06:00

"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be." Marshall McLuhan Politics is a filthy business. Lucrative, but filthy. People who devote centuries of...

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Near Worlds: Dhaleur

2011-02-09T13:05:00.001-06:00

Dhaleur (Dah-Loor) is a cold, wet world covered with dense, dark forests and deep, tarn-like lakes. There are no large oceans or seas on Dhaleur, only millions of scattered lakes, though some few are of substantial size, enough so to invite favorable comparisons with the legendary Great Lakes of...

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Outworlds: Shaadrim

2011-02-09T01:30:00.004-06:00

Shaadrim (Shah-Drim) was a dry, desolate world past the Thirty-Sixth Spiral outwards from Riskail. Few people ever came this far along the pararail, especially since even the Aquaduct causeways terminated after the Thirtieth Spiral. So far. There were too many worlds in-between Riskail and a dusty,...

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Garteil

2011-02-07T16:50:00.001-06:00

They descend in ferocity and force, these blazing angels who cascade down from the airless heights of the near void. Children of humanity and its integrated machines and intimate technologies, the Garteil are custodians of worlds as yet to be named or claimed. The Garteil are living, breathing,...

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Neologism of the Week: Ribofunk

2011-02-07T16:16:00.001-06:00

Ribofunk is a neologism coined by Paul Di Filippo who offers a brief introduction to the concept in an interview with Wired. Notice that in most instances the term is shifted to 'Ribopunk,' and not Di Filippo's intended RiboFunk, such as the entry at Glossary(dot)com, and if you try to pull up the...

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Tenement Towers

2011-02-07T12:26:00.001-06:00

During the pogroms and excesses of the Third Regime, one of the more heinous abuses of power that took place was the deliberate construction of a series of arcological Tenement-Towers within the grotto districts within the Fifth Arrondissement of the Third Tier. Buried and isolated beneath the main...

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Omnidirectional Halo of the Fullerites

2011-02-03T17:18:00.003-06:00

Image based on Buckminsterfullerene model released into the Public Domain by Benjah-Bmm27 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Buckminsterfullerene-2D-skeletal.png Orthodox, or Fullerite Synergetics, as interpreted by the adherents of Buckminster Fuller, presents the thinking process as a...

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Need To Know

2011-02-02T14:52:00.000-06:00

In the course of the chaos and turmoil that swept Old Earth at the close of the Toxic Age, during the final hours of Prehistory, many old systems, regimes and beliefs crashed. Some burned. All found themselves faced with the dilemna of having to reformat themselves or face being deprecated as...

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The Present Will Be Documented

2011-01-28T17:32:00.003-06:00

"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication." Marshall McLuhan At the bitter edge of Prehistory we are left with the legacy of our ancestors that has come to be regarded as the Toxic Age. Before the Deep...

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Gene Banks

2011-01-28T12:18:00.001-06:00

Gene Banks are the ancient and accepted licensed, bonded, chartered, and duly established Repositories of Record for all forms of genomic refinements, biological templates, and all related and subsequent research, experimentation and development based upon the Inherited Human Genome. From the...

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Neologism of the Week: Extropy

2011-01-28T12:18:00.000-06:00

Extropy is the opposite of Entropy. It is a measure of the overall diversity, energy, experience, growth, information, intelligence, life, and opportunity within any system. The term was coined by T. O. Morrow in 1988. Three Quick Links: Encyclopedia of Human Thermodynamics, Wordiq, and an older...

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Two Musical Instruments

2011-01-28T01:48:00.000-06:00

Two musical instruments that are very popular/commonly encountered in Riskail that aren't necessarily so common hereabouts are the Theremin and the Diddey Bow. Theremin ---and--- Or check out Carolina Eyck's website for more Theremin goodness. It's not just for Trekkies. A...

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Exocultures: Seimgress System-State

2011-01-27T17:00:00.004-06:00

Overview Seimgress is the central city-state of the planet Lajedda and the primary sociopolitical nexus of the Uydro system. It was terraformed by a clonadic faction registered only as 'The Founders.' All registered outsystem gates are located within the political boundaries of the...

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Greenstreet Canal

2011-01-26T14:08:00.002-06:00

During the civic unrest following the heavily-armed vote of no confidence in the highly unpopular Retroclastic Regime an unidentified party detonated a Eutrophication Bomb within one of the lesser canals of the Twelfth Tier. What was once a thriving waterway leading from the Left Bank of the River...

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