01-10-2017, 09:50 PM
(01-07-2017, 06:14 AM)Amaterasu Wrote: -Would it be acceptable if I made several jumps, during which I briefly describe the day's events, spanning 3-4 days over a single post?
-Could my travel time from my starting point (Dwarfholm) to the foot of the mountain be cut from weeks to months, to ca. 9-10 days on mounts - in other words, having my characters reach the mountains after about 3 posts of 1500+ words each?
-This may be pushing it but would I be allowed to space out those 3 posts over a potentially shorter amount of real-world time, than 9-10 days (for instance, 6 days if I make one post every 2 days), or would respecting a 1-1 ratio of real-time to Omniverse-time be the bare minimum?
Also, a semi-related question to this:
-As Failz mentioned, the mountain with the void gate is not one of the Mountains of Madness. Does that mountain have any canonical name, then (I could not find any searching the Frozen Fields thread), and if not could I suggest that it be named the "Roof/Ceiling of the world", because it is the highest point of the Frozen Fields, and possibly one of the highest locations in the entire Omniverse?
On the note of time I have revised my posts in this thread and come to think that 3-4 days to ascend the mountain is too short. I'll lengthen it to at least a week to balance things out.
Time is fluid in the Omniverse, so how you portray it in your posts is up to you. I've had days travel in small posts, and I've had 4,000 word posts that only involve a few days. As long as it's not, you know, absurd, which would ultimately impact the judge more so than anything else.
I think it's fine to refer to the mountain as 'the roof of the world' (since I did that in the descriptor), but I think giving it a name implies that it's been somehow tamed or civilized, like a Mount Everest. Plus, there's not a specific place where the Void gate is (just that it's in a mountain in the same range where blue dragons inhabit). That was done deliberately to give subsequent people who do the same quest some creative freedom to not have to follow in the footsteps of others. (plus who said gates are static, anyway?)