Summer Camp Prep 26
Week 1
We're going to go for Diamond this year, but it will be split across two worlds.
However, one of those worlds is much further developed than the other, so I'll be doing my posts from the world I'd like to give a bit of a boost to, hopefully it'll motivate me!
The first will be this world, Arkadia. The second will be Glassonia.
This should get to be ~16 prompts per world and hopefully smooth out some areas for storytelling.
Let's go!!!
Hopscotch
I rolled a 3 on pseudo-hardcore mode, because I don't have much CSS or homepage customization for either of my worlds.
Arkadia Status
Homepage: Fairly bare, and needs an updated banner. I want to wait until I feel inspired for it, though. Banner has been updated!
World Primer: None yet. I have to kind of wait for the right time to write primers. My creative energy is fickle with them.
Maps: I've uploaded a Penumbrian Circle map to work with over the summer.
Timelines: I wrote an article on Arkadian Timekeeping. But I have no timelines active, because I don't have much recorded history.
Meta: Nothing significant needed updating.
Glassonia Status
Homepage: Also bare bones and currently a placeholder where I list my projects. Waiting for the right idea.
World Primer: I started writing smaller primers with Tegid for certain locations, such as Tegid's Guide to The Ainslie. This summer camp's goal is to get enough prompts to build a "Tegid's Guide to Eskern Forest".
Maps: I have my updated map of Eskern, which is the region I'm focusing on here.
Timelines: Let's not talk about the timelines.... it's a disaster over there...
Meta: Made some small updates.
Warm-Up Prompt: Love
I wrote an article about Tega Alpana, which is a city where many illicit love affairs are had away from prying eyes.
Week 2
Thankfully I have a pretty solid idea of what my area of focus is going to be, both timeline and region wise for both worlds. I have ongoing novels for each world that I'm hoping to smooth out with some additional world building and assets over the next month.
For Arkadia, I am working on the Penumbrian Circle as it is the setting for my novel in progress, Vegoia's Throne.
For Glassonia, I am working on the Eskern Forest region as it is the main setting for a novel that came about from the Adventure April challenge, called The Midnight Washerwoman.
I rolled a 3 and am attempting hardcore mode...
Arkadia
Lilah and Soma, the protagonists of Vegoia's Throne.
Why did you choose this area to focus on?
I migrated Vegoia's Throne, at least the plot and characters, from a noir cyberpunk story I wrote in college. It had an underdeveloped setting, and importing to Arkadia gave it a fresh breath of air.
I also finally have to reckon with the lazily-written magitech I'd thrown in that is actually central to the story •⩊•;;
Current Relevant Articles:
Aort
Firn
Stratos
Volaris
Vox
These are the materials associated with Exomancy which need to serve as the base for equipment, spells, manifestations, etc. as I wanted this magic to provide for cinematic battles. I don't know if the articles themselves need to be expanded on, but the way the materials are used definitely needs to be explored.
How does your area of focus interact with the rest of the world?
Exomancy is something only used by the military in habitable zones, but in the Penumbrian Circle it's a little less regulated and definitely part of the illegal arms supply chain. It's expensive to use and requires at bare minimum, basic military training with firearms or projectiles. The equipment is almost always custom made.
Glassonia
Rauma Latrodecta, Asherah Ichna, and Gaap Tenodera; Yan Kube Maur's fellow Godsibbs (divine beasts).
Why did you choose this area to focus on?
During last year's Summer camp, I developed an area called Threatening Valley which borders on Eskern Forest. Eskern is the penultimate "enchanted forest" of this world. Some of the ideas from Summer Camp manifested into Adventure April, when I plotted out the adventure of Carid Taranicna and her beastly husband Yan Kube Maur.
Since that adventure takes them through Eskern Forest, it is time to map out more of it in tandem with their story.
Current Relevant Articles:
Eskern Forest is the main article, but there are so, so many interlinking articles of the various species, cultures, historical events, and biomes. The key is to focus on prompts that will help me bring this all together cohesively, and maybe exploring some hidden threads I hadn't considered.
How does your area of focus interact with the rest of the world?
Eskern is a very important and central part of the world, being the penultimate enchanted forest where time works differently. There is a worldwide tournament every nine years that determines the fate of nations, and so what happens in Eskern affects everyone in Glassonia.
Warm-Up Prompt: Growth
I created an article for Orok, which has a unique ecosystem among the crater states due to the nature of the beast which preserves it. Morvek has an alicorn water-horse based on Morvarc'h. Orok has an eight headed dragon, which is based on Yamato-no-Orochi. Its eight frozen heads allow Orok to be one of the few places in the planet where trees can grow to their natural height.
Week 3
Planning my writing time is something I haven't tried in awhile because of how my creative tempest operates. I will explain...
I also tend to naturally be all-or-nothing. I'll go all in on a project and get tens of thousands of words or several art pieces done... and then I burn out, and don't return to it for awhile. This has been how I've worked ever since I got sick and am at the mercy of whatever my body feels like doing on a given day. At least I'm consistent with this cycle though.
All this to say that I have to set aside some breaks in between the waves to let myself burn out and recuperate, I can sometimes force a soft reboot by reading a book or watching anime or something. Right now I'm reading Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, and finishing up watching Hell's Paradise so I have those to look to.
Now that I've over-explained myself, I rolled a 2 and am attempting hardcore mode. I pretty much did Step 1 up there, haha.
As for Step 2, my favourite worlds to escape into are found in Pokemon or Harvest Moon games, because I feel like I can live a different life. I've been replaying Tale of Two Towns between writing lore-heavy scenes in my novels, harvesting crops and such things to decompress.
Warm-Up Prompt: Loss
I wrote an article on Early Common Arkadian, which is the only ancient language I had written anything in for Vegoia's Throne. I should know better than to play such games with language reconstruction. I am sorry, linguists, I am just an amateur who thinks the Etruscan alphabet is super cool! Give me a month and I can hopefully come up with a proper language progression from whatever this is, to something plausible :-D
Week 4
What are my goals... well, both of these worlds, Arcadia and Glassonia, are settings for novels I've written.
An early concept design for Morvek
In Arcadia's case, I imported an old novel's plot and characters into the setting. Written between 2012 and sitting at 122k words, the original is a huge mess, but I liked the character designs I came up with. I think the characters have grown from being one-dimensional noir tropes into more complex people, and shine in this new setting. So the goal is to build the world in a character-driven direction.
This is different from Glassonia, where the world kind of builds the characters. So it should make for a good contrast.
Early designs for Glassonia's Brimstone magicians
Glassonia already has some completed novel drafts, but set really late in the world's timeline. I've been working on the earlier epochs for the past two years, building a much-needed foundation that was missing in the original novels. The goal is to see what sort of characters and societies will emerge, from a world I'm deliberately throwing everything but the kitchen sink into.
I rolled a 3 this time. Now, I get to excitedly plot out all the stuff I have to come up with.
Arkadia
Elka and Lilah
Orgs/Countries:
Governments of the Crater States (Morvek, Orok, Pythos, Augisky, Nacken, and Typhon)
Bacco Sisterhood chapters for each Crater State
LUNED needs creation and development
Geography/Buildings/Landmarks:
Pythos, Augisky, Nacken, and Typhon
Locations in Tega Alpana such as Tellu After Midnight and several hotels
Each of the Green Halos around the Crater States
Item:
Exo-ray gun
Hand of Glory
Radiation detectors
Spectroscopy items
Species:
Subspecies need to be better defined.
Plants and animals that live in the Crater States and Green Halos
Vehicle:
The metro above the surface (monorail? light rail?)
The cybertruck model used for civilian vehicles
Glassonia
Divine Beast Yan Kube Maur
Orgs/Countries:
Territory of the Marches (North and West)
Eskern North
Guild of Herdstalkers (needs a major overhaul)
Geography/Buildings/Landmarks:
Lake Weird
River Inana
River Andrasta
River Clutodia
Cypress Islands
Fertile Devils' Villa
Caer Inana
Caer Andrasta
Caer Clutodia
Caer Corotica
Caer Cordelia
There are a lot of Caer (fortress)
Items/Documents:
Pretty much every character has a magical weapon of some kind
Documents relating to Heno occupation in Eskern
Documents relating to Locii sovereignty
Documents related to the Catu Samonii
Grimoires for the different courts
Jellow dishes
Species:
Really need to work out the species under Mared's jurisdiction.
A lot of big ass trees.
Ethnicities:
Amblisii
Agriopa
Tannoci
Vehicles:
Eskern's Monorail system (Mieri Mared?)
Settlements:
Caer Inana
Caer Andrasta
Caer Clutodia
Caer Corotica
Nine Village Settlements
Warm-Up Prompt: Family
I created The Mirror Maiden, which is a warning story about the dangers of filial piety, as family kindred concepts are highly discouraged in the societies of Penumbria.
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