I Love You All

Morti · 2020-02-29 17:09:51

Had a wonderful life repopulating Qin Town, after a lot of full lives in towns, interestingly, southeast of them; single family towns just getting on their feet.

Made a few roads towards the nearest single bells, but no clear sign of Qin's bells emerged. Then I was born in a town a vaguely recalled, about 2000 meters southeast of Qin, and as soon as my hair came out, I ran. Made it there in less than 5 minutes, and there was no one; no fire was alive. So I kept my yum going up, gathered firewood and kindling, leaf and tinder, and started her up again.

Rang all the bells, got on the radio and found at least one other town, populated, that had one as well.

Had a lot of kids, lot of early quitters, but three boys and three girls stuck around.

Thank you.

It means a lot to me, to see you kids bring a town like that, back to life.

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Get those bells up in those new towns, let's get the roads connected, and tie them all into the network.

You all know what you have to do.

Look after each other. Get all the industries up and running. Let's make some great new homes together.

Grim_Arbiter · 2020-02-29 17:41:46

Oi thanks for finding qin.

We all got pushed about 2k away at reset yesterday, and the towns we found weren't familiar enough to find our way back.

Morti · 2020-02-29 17:46:23

Maybe one of these days some of you can put on a play in the theatre?

It be nice to see that place painted in black and red; those seem to be two of the more common colors I recall in most thetres.
Maybe turn the audience area into a nursery for awhile, with fire and food, so mothers and their kids can watch the show while the kids grow up?

Could even get the kids in on the acts, with masks and costumes.

Morti · 2020-02-29 18:05:13

Grim_Arbiter wrote:

Oi thanks for finding qin.
We all got pushed about 2k away at reset yesterday, and the towns we found weren't familiar enough to find our way back.

From what I gathered, from 4-5 hours played this morning (in the last 7 hours) the bells were all coming from the north. For the last week the 'Eve Spiral' has been pushing us WNW and now it seems to have pushed us mostly SSE of where we were. I'm not certain of all the new homes, but most bell from those towns, rang in a mostly northerly direction. I started and added onto existing roads, going north and northeast (one the bells were ringing northeast, but I think that area was around where we were spawning in a full week (or two) ago, so, Qin is more north than anything, from those new towns.

Speaking of new towns, I'm looking forward to the one with the single, giant, adobe enclosed, structure, with the well and farms just northeast of the kitchen corner.
I lived while the outer walls and the floors were going in. Everyone was so busy. Thing of beauty, to see that structure take form from the landscape. Good on you, everyone involved.

bpskotch · 2020-02-29 22:26:44

Morti are you talking about after the first update or the second one with the server crash fix? If you’re talking about the first, I know the first bells to be rung were will town and the other town just ~500 tiles west of there. Those are roughly 1.5k southeast of Qin town. The only town that has a functioning radio besides qin town is will town I’m pretty sure so it must have been people there.

Also, were you a brown girl? I may have been your daughter. Think my moms name was Emily but I could be wrong.

Also you seem to hold a lot of the same sentiments about this game that I do. I wish we had more players like you.

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Morti · 2020-03-01 08:02:16

bpskotch wrote:

Morti are you talking about after the first update or the second one with the server crash fix? If you’re talking about the first, I know the first bells to be rung were will town and the other town just ~500 tiles west of there. Those are roughly 1.5k southeast of Qin town. The only town that has a functioning radio besides qin town is will town I’m pretty sure so it must have been people there.
Also, were you a brown girl? I may have been your daughter. Think my moms name was Emily but I could be wrong.
Also you seem to hold a lot of the same sentiments about this game that I do. I wish we had more players like you.

People passed through there, sure, but no one repopulated it. Maybe an attempt was made that I was unaware of, but if so... how would I know?

It was actually more like 1,320 meters, to be more precise...

I was born in the red town in the prior life, having grown loads of milkweed in the field west of town, I explored west with a load of 4 ropes and 4 boards, and placed a few boxes along the road. Why? I don't know. Something different to try out? Maybe people would put food and clothing in them, as they found them, and mothers could feed and clothe children born to them, along the journey. I died that life, playing around with snow; admiring the temp meter, while standing inside a snowy doorway.

NEXT LIFE, I was born just north of that, but I'm not sure I was aware of how close I was to where I started, the previous life. That town, I fully recognized as connected to Qin, via the path that ran through the town I'd started, just southeast of Qin, at -9880, 2320. By the way, I don't name my towns, I just start them and support them. It has a sign in it that says Lovely Town, but the Love signs, are in many places.

I was an An, that life.

It was apparently after the second update. I was asleep when that update occurred. I do that sometimes... sleep. But only after I am satisfied with what I have done, awake.

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Regarding the sentiments. What I hold for this game, is comparable to what I hold for reality. Life, is absolutely, fucking mind bogglingly beautiful. But it is a subset of the Earth, which is itself, a subset of the Universe as a whole. When I was in second grade, 8 years old, I'd made up my mind and decided I wanted to be a Zoologist, just because I was so fascinated with life, but by the time was in sixth grade, I'd decided I wanted to understand even more; everything, after the magnitude, of what I'd witnessed, in the middle of the night, in the spring, some 32 years ago, had fully set in. An aurora borealis, unlike anything I'd ever seen before.

My little brother and a friend of ours, were leaving our house that night, to peak in the windows of a girl we knew from school. Call it creepy, but we were horny little kids; it was normal for us. We did the usual, sneaking out of the back door, jumping the fence, and just as I landed, I looked up and was shocked, by what I saw. The entire sky was glowing green, with threads of purple, and other colors, waving, like windsocks, in a breeze, I just could not comprehend.

I had seen many auroras, in my, nighttime excursions, but this, this one was by far the greatest yet.

I had to understand it, and in so trying, I learned a lot, about the limits, of human knowledge, the educational system, and why libraries are free. Physics and Astronomy, became my adopted parents that night, and by the time I was thirteen, I realized how much they really loved me. In giving birth to chemistry, mother of biology, they made me possible. Before that I was one of six kids, after that, I was one of everything.

I cannot, convey in words, how much I love what you are. You are the universe to me, every one of you. To talk to you, feels like talking to myself. I don't feel versed, enough, to put it all, any, other way. So when you say to me, that we share sentiments, I think I understand.

The sciences have taught me a very positive, reassuring, form of doubt. Life, is a very intricate, very sensitive, thoroughly so complex, web, of strings. It is so complex, any complexity we can imagine, merely, resides within it. So, to say I know what happens when I tug on this string here, when this string is connected, to everything else, via, everything else... I don't know.

But I do feel that tug.

I appreciate, and acknowledge, that you are all here.

I am not "Role Playing" when I tell you I love you.

I do love you.

Every thing about you, life, is beautiful to me.

;What went into Jason, to start this game.
;What has come from him.
;What you put into this game.
;What comes from us.

Every. Thing.
Connected.

and bp, when you say you wish there were more...
we are here.

We're all here.

AmberA · 2020-03-02 20:34:56

Morti wrote:

Maybe one of these days some of you can put on a play in the theatre?
It be nice to see that place painted in black and red; those seem to be two of the more common colors I recall in most thetres.
Maybe turn the audience area into a nursery for awhile, with fire and food, so mothers and their kids can watch the show while the kids grow up?
Could even get the kids in on the acts, with masks and costumes.

I remembered seeing this post then the other day I came across the Theatre! I decided I'd try to bring it to life. The town had a radio and I was female so I was going to put the word out. I would regularly go to the radio and put out a casting call for actors. I found one woman who was interested and she started collecting costumes and wood for tables to be concession stands. We built a bunch of tables in the back and filled them with pies, drinks and popcorn.

I introduced each of my kids to the theatre but none were interested but one. Rather than putting on a play, my son gathered dice, cards and a goose and was a magician. He performed some tricks for me and it was really cute. Unfortunately we never had an visitors because it's too far away from the city center. It needs a more natural way for people to come inside such as a radio inside, maybe a bell, or a baby fire.

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