Tasks / Ethereal Cartography
Make a map of something that does not exist physically.
1 to 100 players
15 points
Level 1
In the zone of: EquivalenZ
Created by Pip Estrelle
61 completed :: 117 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
Comments
Does it HAVE to be the internet though? Surely there are other intangibilities to map... Emotions, the supernatural, what have you...
Ah, but EquivalenZ does not and never has limited itself to the internet. This is the group, remember, that had the tasks Simulated Personal Artifact (about duplicating an item you own), Sports Basement (creating homemade sports equipment), and Cure Female Hysteria ("Reverse-engineer a pleasure").
yes, the internet is just one very very small part of this. very interesting task
This task is perfect for EquivalenZ. The VR world is simulacrum of society, and the task states: to create a copy, in abstract form(in this case I believe that a map is abstract), of something that does not exist physically, i.e. VR. This does Not limit us to the internet. On the contrary it seems that EquivalenZ is anything that can be expressed in the digital/VR world.
Think of an MMORPG (Massive Multi-player On-line Role Playing Game) and try to come up with any way to make it more realistic. This task takes the possibility for any physical element and completely discards it, which leaves us with only the most incorporeal of circumstances. If you can imagine it, but not put any of the seven senses to it (yes, there are seven) then it is fair game.
Taste, touch, smell, hearing, sight, vestibular and common?
this could be something like a fantasy map no?
Praxis
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