User contributions for Lurker

27 December 2025

• 13:0013:00, 27 December 2025 diff hist +1,078 N Erickson Created page with "Erickson is the small Texas town that the Dewfall lands in. Rather, a park outside of town. It's just large enough to justify the presence of a small college. The residents are very protective of their little guests, and it's largely thanks to them (and their many, many guns) that the missionaries remain unmolested. The town was historically an ethnic enclave for Lebanese immigrants who arrived in the US via Galveston. After WWII and the proliferation of air conditionin..."
• 01:0001:00, 27 December 2025 diff hist +12 Colossus No edit summary current
• 00:5800:58, 27 December 2025 diff hist −22 Colossus No edit summary
• 00:5800:58, 27 December 2025 diff hist +1,474 N Colossus Created page with "A colossus is a cynoidomorphic structure with a full-sized lighthouse on its back. The word for these structures in all major yinrih languages has gone on to mean giant or titan, and is used to indicate anything imposing or intimidating. The first Colossus was built at Moonlitter by the Knights of the Sun as a war memorial honoring the knights who joined the Pious Dissolutionists at the plea of Iris the Hearthsider. It's a fully working mech, much larger than normal, po..."
• 00:5300:53, 27 December 2025 diff hist +93 N Star hearth Created page with "A star hearth is a ceremonial nuclear fusion reactor used in liturgies of the Bright Way." current
• 00:5100:51, 27 December 2025 diff hist +4,554 N Lighthouse Created page with "A hearthkeeper's duty is to bring physical and spiritual light and warmth to her congregation. This is accomplished through lighthouses, places of worship of the Bright Way. They evolved out of the open bonfires tended by shamans prior to the Theophany. These bonfires grew into sheltered hearths as the yinrih's society advanced. With the discovery of electricity the hearths evolved into small power plants distributing electricity to the homes of the faithful. The..." current

25 December 2025

• 02:1002:10, 25 December 2025 diff hist −1 The Tornado No edit summary

22 December 2025

• 15:5015:50, 22 December 2025 diff hist +202 N Kit Created page with "A kit is a juvenile yinrih or tree dweller between the time of conception until the age at which it is weaned. Afterward they are referred to as pups or puppies until they reach sexual maturity." current
• 15:4815:48, 22 December 2025 diff hist −14 Womb nest No edit summary current
• 15:4815:48, 22 December 2025 diff hist −1 Womb nest No edit summary
• 15:4715:47, 22 December 2025 diff hist +419 N Womb nest Created page with " A womb nest, also spelled womb-nest, is a highly derived egg-sac with its own simple heart and circulatory system. A central bus artery feeds oxygenated blood to the Kit, and returning veins pass through a semi-permeable dermal layer to allow for gas exchange. The arrangement of kits in the womb nest is what gives Womb Ship their name, as suspension capsules are arranged in a similar manner."
• 15:4715:47, 22 December 2025 diff hist +4 Womb ship No edit summary current
• 15:4315:43, 22 December 2025 diff hist +11 Tree dweller No edit summary current
• 15:4315:43, 22 December 2025 diff hist −2 Tree dweller No edit summary
• 01:5201:52, 22 December 2025 diff hist +7,768 N Meanwhile, in an Alternate Universe... Created page with "”Where’s your bathroom?” I think this was the third time any of us had heard him speak since we met. Brightstar and Moonglow had found him on the tram from the city center, his snout buried in a claw-written notebook. We needed a second sire besides myself to equal the two dams, and he smelled of age. Moonglow was never one for subtlety. She came right out and asked if he was looking to join a childermoot. “Yes” was all he said, and “OK” was his answer to..."

16 December 2025

• 16:2616:26, 16 December 2025 diff hist +7 The Void No edit summary current
• 16:2416:24, 16 December 2025 diff hist +1,120 N The Void Created page with "The Void, also called The Blind Void, is, according to Claravian doctrine, the realm of the afterlife where the souls of the lightless are sequestered. The damned are devoid of all sensation, including proprioception, with only their own regrets for company. The void is not separate from The Empyrean where the souls of the blessed dwell in the Uncreated Light. The difference is in how the realm is perceived. One is not sent to the Void, rather, they consign the..."

15 December 2025

• 22:3622:36, 15 December 2025 diff hist +2,453 N Tree dweller Created page with "Tree Dwellers (Commonthroat <qgKq-dq-g> /huff, early rising strengthening growl, huff, short high weak whine, huff, short low weak growl/ literally "forest yinrih") are a non-sapient species closely related to the yinrih. While humans often compare them to chimps, they're more closely related to the yinrih than chimps are to humans. It's better to think of them like early hominins. They're clever, can use simple tools, and have complex hierarchical social structures, but..."

13 December 2025

• 20:1920:19, 13 December 2025 diff hist +14 Uncreated Light No edit summary
• 15:3915:39, 13 December 2025 diff hist +1,819 N Uncreated Light Created page with "The Uncreated Light is the most common designation for the incorporeal exocosmic super-intellect worshiped by the Bright Way. According to Claravian theology, it dwells outside of space and time and is responsible for bringing the universe into existence. It lacks a name, as that would imply there are more than one of its kind that would need to be distinguished with names. ''The Uncreated Light'' is thus considered a descriptor rather than a proper name. Various ot..."

7 December 2025

• 01:3901:39, 7 December 2025 diff hist +489 The Artificer's Litter No edit summary

25 November 2025

• 01:4201:42, 25 November 2025 diff hist −1 Everybody Poops Together No edit summary current

22 November 2025

• 00:1900:19, 22 November 2025 diff hist −20 RTFM No edit summary current
• 00:1100:11, 22 November 2025 diff hist −427 RTFM No edit summary

21 November 2025

• 20:1520:15, 21 November 2025 diff hist −492 RTFM No edit summary
• 18:4218:42, 21 November 2025 diff hist +139 N Ludd Laws Created page with "Ludd Laws are laws put in place by various governments throughout Focus to regulate the introduction of yinrih technology to Earth."
• 18:4018:40, 21 November 2025 diff hist +58 N High Hearthkeeper Created page with "The High Hearthkeeper is the leader of the Bright Way." current
• 18:3818:38, 21 November 2025 diff hist +167 N Sophont Created page with "A ''sophont'', also called a ''sapient'', is an animal capable of language and self-reflection. There are only two known species of sophont, yinrih and humans." current
• 18:3418:34, 21 November 2025 diff hist +415 N Order of Farspeakers Created page with "The Farspeakers are a Claravian order historically associated with maintaining telecommunication infrastructure such as interplanetary ansible networks and planet-wide realspace internetworks. Farspeakers believe that telecommunication infrastructure constitutes the "body" of the noosphere, analogous to the brain and nervous system that upholds the consciousness of an individual sophont."
• 18:3418:34, 21 November 2025 diff hist +23 Noosphere No edit summary current
• 18:2718:27, 21 November 2025 diff hist 0 Noosphere No edit summary
• 18:2518:25, 21 November 2025 diff hist +175 N Knights of the Sun Created page with "The Knights of the Sun (Commonthroat <code>rGHqg</code> lit. 'Armored ones' or 'mech pilots') often simply ''Knights'' are a Claravian order of warrior monks." current

20 November 2025

• 00:4500:45, 20 November 2025 diff hist 0 Noosphere →Agentivism

14 November 2025

• 02:0202:02, 14 November 2025 diff hist +1,207 RTFM No edit summary

13 November 2025

• 21:5721:57, 13 November 2025 diff hist +1,019 RTFM No edit summary
• 13:5413:54, 13 November 2025 diff hist +896 N Hearthside Created page with "Hearthside is the innermost planet of Focus. It is tidally locked, and its capital, the City of Eternal Noon, is located at the substellar point. Hearthside is the center of religious government of the Bright Way. Hearthside was founded as an experiment in ecclesiastical utopianism. The government was set up to reflect the ancient power structure of a yinrih shire, where a group of male patriarchs governed secular affairs while being advised by a female sham..."

9 November 2025

• 18:1218:12, 9 November 2025 diff hist +34 Everybody Poops Together No edit summary
• 01:1501:15, 9 November 2025 diff hist +1,576 RTFM No edit summary

8 November 2025

• 21:0021:00, 8 November 2025 diff hist −2 RTFM No edit summary
• 16:2616:26, 8 November 2025 diff hist +1,207 RTFM No edit summary
• 13:0813:08, 8 November 2025 diff hist +482 The Farspeaker's Apprentice No edit summary

6 November 2025

• 15:3815:38, 6 November 2025 diff hist 0 Beating the Heat No edit summary current

4 November 2025

• 00:1500:15, 4 November 2025 diff hist +42 N File:Pascal.png Portrait of a piebald yinrih

2 November 2025

• 18:1318:13, 2 November 2025 diff hist +351 Noosphere No edit summary

1 November 2025

• 22:2922:29, 1 November 2025 diff hist +2,302 N Noosphere Created page with "The noosphere, also spelled noösphere, pronounced /'no.ə.sfir/, also called the mind sea, is an important philosophical and metaphysical idea in most yinrih religions. Different religions define the noosphere differently, but a common thread running through all its conceptions is the progression from inanimate matter to living things and eventually to sapience, and the interconnections between individual sapient minds. == The Bright Way == In the Bright Way, the..."

30 October 2025

• 14:4114:41, 30 October 2025 diff hist +86 N File:Transit.png An orbital monastery of the Knights of the Sun silhouetted against Focus current
• 01:4601:46, 30 October 2025 diff hist +5,720 N Human for a Day (Part 1?) Created page with ""I got some reeeeeaaal good stuff this time." My dealer glances furtively to either side, then pulls a clear baggie with bright yellow powder from his wallet. I reach for the goods, but he pulls the baggie away. "Nah-uh! You already got your first hit for free." I draw a polymer note from my wallet, but he slaps it out of my paw. "Get out of here with those mineral notes. It's AW tokens or nothing." I sigh and hand over a few coins. He sniffs them and brushes them aga..." current
• 01:4501:45, 30 October 2025 diff hist +7,656 N The Angel and the Ape Created page with "Fr. Shaheen took a drag of his cigarrette as he stared up at the night sky. A few stars were just bright enough to shine through the gray haze cast by the street lights in town. Just at the edge of the trailer's porch light sat an old foundation where a sizeable rectory once stood. It had been far too large for a single resident, so he had it torn down and was now living in a much more modest mobile home. At one point a youth center was planned to take its place, but th..."
• 01:4301:43, 30 October 2025 diff hist +11,663 N First Contact Created page with "I'm floating down the main axis, letting the air current push me along. I'm feeling every one of my four hundred years. My left knee crunches each time I grasp a paw cable to push myself forward. I've only got four limbs, and my rear paws have had to pull a lot more weight, literally, compared to someone with his tail intact. I count my blessings that nobody can see how gray my muzzle has become thanks to my white fur. It's been 250 years since I last saw Iris and the..."
• 01:4101:41, 30 October 2025 diff hist +12,069 N First Contact Created page with "We stand in silent awe for a moment. Sunshine is quietly weeping as the beeping continues. It seems to strain against the noise, a lonely soul crying out for someone, anyone, to respond. _Dah di dah dit, dah dah di dah. dah di dah dit, dah dah dih dah. dah di dah dit, dah dah di dah. Dah di dit, dit_. Stormlight flicks his tail, tuning the radio to a random frequency. For a moment the static resolves into an alien voice before fading back into the noise. "They're eati..."