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Ethereal Cartography by Captain Cutthroat
January 8th, 2009 8:02 PMOff and on since I was a young lad, I've dreamed of writing an epic science fiction / fantasy novel. Merciless villains of tragic origin; flawed heroes of peerless valor; a quest of terrible urgency and awful purpose, settings of mythic beauty and fearsome horror, you know, the basics.
Several years ago I began writing many of these ideas down, and have since filled up a notebook and then some with handwritten materials...
... and am amassing a fair amount of digital data.
When I saw this task I immediately thought of the geographic nightmares that are my first attempt at mapping my semi-coherent locations in relation to each other.
You, my fellow players, will be the first to see any of these images, blurry and hastily taken though they be.
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Rough sketch of the geographic region dominated by the Twelve Cities. Note the important-looking arrow!
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Map with notes describing the invasion of Helkor. I think the coffee stain is meant to be a destroyer-class warship. :)
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Waldo Cheerio
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posted by rongo rongo on January 15th, 2009 6:21 PM
Very fitting. Good luck with the epic novel.
posted by evilweavil on January 28th, 2009 11:42 AM
an impressive amount of effort has gone into this task!
Welcome to our game, you've set a respectably high bar for your introduction, and I look forward to your future. Do let us know if another version or incarnation of this madness makes it onto paper.
~Waldo