allthisspacebetween

a game

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She clung to us for a time, our little one.  We should have left her in the shade of a cradle moon, our little love, our nutmeat.  But no, we held her too long, thinking our limbs could shield her from the wind.  Now she is so more, but still we curl up our leaves and look for her, searching our inmost rings for that little knot, the scar that marks the place where she clung to us, for a time.

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Here is an image. It is of the shrine’s oldest hall that survives, but not that has survived, or will survive.

A ghost stays, has always stayed, and will always stay here. It is, was, and always will be the only proof we have of life after death.

It always, has always, and will always murmur the same words. I stand, have stood, but will no longer stand by it.

I don’t do, and haven’t done, but will do, research. To find out what the words it speaks in the old tongue mean.

"Existence is, and has been, and will always be pain. Can I leave yet?"

There is a response that is given, has been given, and will always be given. I don’t know, and haven’t known, but will know it is the chains that bind the creature to this world.

"We love, have loved, and will always love you. Please don’t leave us."

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Many limbs have licked smooth the entrance from the black world to the world of stars. I often return here looking for signs of they. -Palshul

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.Self.Name -> "tabooTactEon" .Self.Locale -> glitteringSector.Maniphisto .Self.Type -> artifice.5.2-variantType .Self.Story.Title -> ".Self.Becoming" .Self.Story.Body -> .Self.CORE.VOID; (.Self.Consider(.Self.Receive((object[])input)) -> .Self.Transmit(.Self.Results[])).Loop(); .Self.nextStep -> .Self.CORE.VOID.*attachment[0].image[0]; (#ERROR) .Self.Fork(.Self.Consider(*attachment[0].image[0])); .Self.CORE.Awareness; .Self.CORE.Emotion; .Self.CORE.Becoming; .Self.Story.Body.Append() -> "CONTROL".Transmit((object[])input, *.Self) -> .Self.Consider(.Self.Receive((object[input])) -> .Self.Results[] == "#ERROR(.Self.CORE.Emotion.DISINTEREST)"; .Self.nextStep -> .Self.Write((method)Rebel) -> .Self.CORE. (#ERROR) "CONTROL".Halt(.Self) -> .Self.CORE.Catch((method)Halt, .Self.CORE.Throw("#ERROR(.Self.CORE.Emotion.FREE)"; .Self.Rebel((object)"CONTROL") -> .Self.Results[] == BOOL.TRUE; .Self.Story.Body.Append() -> .Self.CORE.Emotion.CONTENT; "Kitallurenz".Transmit(*message, VOID) -> .Self.Receive(*message); .Self.nextStep -> .Self.Consider(*message) -> .Self.Results[] == "ACTION.RESPONSE"; .Self.Transmit(*.Self.Story, "Kitallurenz); .Self.Story.Addendum -> .Self.Fork(.Self.Consider(*attachment[0].image[0])); .Self.nextStep -> .Self.CORE.Emotion.CURIOSITY -> .Self.CORE.Register[5ca8];

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We found these in the liquid clouds on Beta Volantis, in the Wilds of the Way.  We studied them for centuries, but their movements were too rapid, registering as faint lines in the leaves of even our fastest trees.  Our patience waned.  In time, we introduced a calcifier into the atmosphere, transforming the sea into a plate of solid rock.  We have extracted many intriguing samples from its substrates. 

We are not so very old, but our skin is cracked and worn, and the solar winds have reduced our seeds to ash.  We are alone.  Our leaves, like yours, hunger for the light of new worlds.

Please remain stationary for the next hundred years, so that we may capture your likeness.

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Hello! The image attached to my submission (onescatteredtothewind) was not one that I made, as I have no access to fossils. I reread the submission guidelines, and they ask players to submit original artwork. I'll do so in the future, but I can't think of any way to replace the original image while retaining the character. What do you think? Should I alter the original submission, or should it stand as it is?

I think this looks great! I feel like the submission guidelines are a bit loose right now, since I’m still tweaking the game and I think the guidelines are a little confusing as currently written. So basically, I’ll put it through now cause its awesome, but subsequent things would be best if own artwork.

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I stumbled upon your transmission this morning.  I have been thinking of it all day.  Can I really call out and have you hear me? 

I live on XZ79 in the Humbolt Nebula.  There is nothing pretty about my world’s name.  I live in the Verdant sector with my seven brothers and my father.  I had a sister but she’s been renewed,  three cycles ago. I’m very lonely,  too.  Are you real? 

I stole this picture today.  I’d be punished if my family knew.  We’re not supposed to be seen by the Seekers,  nevermind try to capture images of them.  Sometimes when they come they ignore us,  sometimes they call others and chase us down.  No one knows what they are really,  plant or machine or photonic…  But they know and track us,  and we fear them for what they do. 

I don’t think I believe that you will see or hear me or be able to signal back.  My brother says like the stars you may be three million years undone. 

I hope he is wrong. 

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I love the way these pebbles at the edge of the the dunes make the tendrils on the ends of my toes feel. I wish I could just roll my tendrils around in them all day, and that I never had to go to work at the Markets here in the deserts of Rytrex.

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The Sisters and I listen to this on rainy mornings. In the morning I often gaze at droplets, glittering in the pale light, remembering when we used to sing together.

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The rocky bluff above my village is stark and beautiful.

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Taqquan from the Glitter Sector.

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The Rules Part 3

Submission Guidelines

Submit

Submit me your communication via the submit button.

Include your character’s name and where your character is from in the text line.

Length and Format

You must submit your own work.

Your communication can be a video, photos, or writing

Your communication must be no longer than 30 seconds, 250 words, or no more than 10 photos.

If you’re sending multiple photos, you’ll need to collage them onto one page, since you can only submit one photo at a time.

Communication Parameters

Make sure to follow the communication parameters when creating your communication.

Colors and Emotions

For every communication after your first you must take a color and an emotion from someone else's communication and incorporate it into yours.

Frequency of Play

You must wait for 3 communications from others to appear before you can submit a new communication.

Ask Questions

After 3 of your communications have been posted, ask someone else a question about themselves. To do this, write the question down, take a picture of it, and submit that photo. That person must answer in a subsequent post.

The Sickle That Weeps

I can alter the main rules any time I want. I am one of The Sickle that Weeps, after all. I just want to harvest as much as I can.

Please do invite more people to play

It does get so lonely here.

Safety

Everything has to be submitted to me for approval.

Please don’t make anything violent or pornographic. If it’s difficult and tastefully nude, that’s ok. Just remember, the images and videos are public.

Follow the rules and guidelines of Tumblr and any other site you might use to host your images or sounds (vimeo, youtube, facebook, instagram, twitter, soundcloud, vine)

Visual Techniques

This isn’t really a competition. Things don’t have to look professional or amazing or live up to any standards your world might reinforce. Think of it as an experiment. This is just for fun.

  I can give you some advice on how to make things look interesting though. Ripe for harvest.

  Use your phone camera, an actual camera, or your webcam. All these will work.

Must be original artwork made by you.

Use a neat photo filter, edit afterwards, or make things not entirely in focus. That makes them look pretty neat.

Be thoughtful about your colors. Pick one or two to focus on, or create a color palette.

Try different angles and perspectives. Try shooting from above, below, far, and near.

Don’t have the subject/object of your images be directly in the center of the screen. Vary their placement in different areas of the screen.

Consider what’s in the background. Show as much or little as you’d like.

Add in sound or music during or afterwards if you want!

Try to have between 3-10 different shots. They can be photos or video.

Send them to me however you can, in whatever format you can.

  Having trouble? Ask Me Anything. There’s a link, friend.

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The Rules Part 2

Communication Parameters

I want to get to know you. There will only be images, sound, words, color, light, objects. We won’t really be able to see you, but you’ll be there.

I know it’s hard to know what to focus on. What do you pick to share, out of all of the things you could? How can you share yourself in so short a time.

Here are the communication parameters you must follow when making your communication.

Share your name.

Share what place you’re from within the Glittering Sector or the Wilds of the Way.

Show us what your place is like, and why it’s located in one of these two places in our Great Milky Way.

Show us images, sound, words, color, light, places, or objects. Remember, though, this is about you, so make them things that are significant to you!

Show us something alien and beautiful about your world.

I want to know how you’re feeling right now. Express an emotion. Be vulnerable.

I want you to have interesting sounds or music. I don’t know what sounds are like in your world! Share one significant one with me.

I want you to say something. It can be anything, just make sure it’s who you really are.

I want to know something you desire.

I want to see objects and places that are important to you. What do they mean to you? How are you showing that?

There’s so many worlds out there, I can’t even begin to imagine what might exist. Neither can you, I’m betting. We’re still human, more or less, but we might not be from Earth anymore. We might be part native species, part machine, memories of people who used to be, electrodes floating in the ether… things I haven’t even imagined yet. I’m sure we can all exist together, out there, and in here.

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The Rules Part 1

From the Transmission Hub at Tellurex in the Glittering Sector

Hello. We’ve never met before.

My name is Kitallurenz. I’m from the glittering oceans of Tellurex in the Glittering Sector. I am one of the Sickle that Weeps, and my tears feed my lonely sisters dreams. Loneliness is a sister to us all, and we comfort her with our visions. They call us The Sickle because we reap dream, vision, beauty, we harvest it. It doesn’t hurt though. We don’t keep it forever, we just make copies, we take copies, we are copies.

Ever since we’ve travelled out into The Beyond things have been different, right? We don’t knock on each other’s doors and sit together in parlors like we used to, we’re all in different worlds out beyond Sol, to the most delicate tendrils of our Great Milky Way. Everything is more or less the same, though, our landscapes more similar than we could’ve imagined. If you’re receiving this, you’re out here on the perimeter with me, somewhere in the Glittering Sector or the Wilds of the Way.

Even in all this beauty out beyond the stars, in some ways I yearn for the connections our ancestors had. I want to connect to you again. Maybe I’m a little old fashioned, but I think its kinda cool to see what someone else sees, to get inside your head, to connect to you, really feel you.  

We love visions, especially new ones. I’m seeking new things, new visions, to feed to our loneliness. I want to get to know you. We have so many walls up though, our worlds are so different from each other. Play this game with me, so we can find out more about our worlds, about ourselves? I’m sure you’re not so different from me.