The Associated Worlds

@Unknown sidling over to the shiny new correct channel, sadly I am going to go to bed in a few minutes and not finish it right now, but I have 'very clearly first draft and I haven't written the beginning' if you're desperate enough for a fix

Let us wait til final writing, I sad.

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*say

Reposting so I can pin it here, too:

16:53

Fanfiction policy: Well, first, I'm rather gratified to discover that I need a fanfiction policy... 1. I don't have any objection to fanfiction per se . Content-wise, however, I would like to politely request that fanfic writers write in, or respect, the spirit of the original work and characters, and somewhat less politely request, for the love of gods, spare us badly-written porn. Apart from that, feel free to enjoy yourselves. 2. If publishing it anywhere people other than you can see it, please include (a) a disclaimer that it is fanfic, (b) a link to the original Eldraeverse site, and (c) a note that it is licensed under the Creative Commons as derivative, non-commercial fiction. You also specifically grant me all rights to reuse any or all elements of it that I might wish to, such that in the event that I stumble across it on the Internet or just happen to write something similar in future, you can't sue me. 3. If talking about it here, please do so in the #fanfic channel to avoid confusion.

Overmind 08/13/2018 4:53 PM

@Morgrim Moon "I really can't put you back in that, it has holes in it!" made my day, that.

Thank you :D

But overall man, solid (first) Fanfic of the Eldraeverse? Congrats, and solid man!

I'm kind of surprised, honestly, I thought someone had to have done some sort of author-approved crossover by now, there's been enough "but what if" questions

@Morgrim Moon I've been on-off playing with the idea, but I've not been finding a good hook. Something like yours works really well, but that... kinda feels about like what it could be. I suppose the "successor" to your story would be: "Uploaded Baseline 2: The Killbot Sleevin' Bagolou"

That is something I could maybe take a shot at. (edited)

I am a compulsive worldbuilder, I can toss you stuff on the arboreal repto-mammal squirrelish thing the unnamed baseline is

Descriptors got cut when I switched to dialogue-only fic, alas.

Eh, from what I have fermenting in my head the revenge would be exercuted in physical nature through the power of a high-powered modular Killbot. And it be pretty revenge fantasy-ish due to the power an uploaded and connected and generally aug-enabled sophont has, but shrug I suspect he wasn't exactly shot by transophont people either? (edited)

08:33

Though, question: Ques-qe ce a splinter-shard?

That I never figured out. Maybe ordinary run of the mill piratish types? It's the Expansion Regions, there are uncivilised brigands about, and a culture that has 'established in orbit' spacetech but not interstellar is probably a decent mix of "has things worth stealing already outside the gravity well" without the "has big enough guns and defence to make this suicidal"

fires up Scriviner

splinter-shard = close friend/family group, chosen family, the set of people who would get invited on a road trip/pay bail for the ones that went on the road trip. A smaller subset of ones shard, or clan

Your Eldrae have a name in the drafts?

08:38

(yes, I am taking a shot at this right now.)

sadly no, I am terrible at naming things

Darn. So am I. (edited)

08:39

~~Has Fantasy Name Generator an Eldrae category already?~~

~~feed canonical names into a neural net and see what comes out?~~

How much effort would that be?

or just a markov chain

I can almost imagine myself going through the old works collecting names.

no idea, I'm a chemist not a programmer

But to my shame, I don't think I could set up a neural net.

08:41

(and here me theoretically doing a comp-sci degree) (edited)

08:41

(well, elec eng/comp sci double. Same diff)

A thing likely to muck up such a neural net, of course, is that eldrae names come from more'n a few different ethnic naming traditions; say, the Azikhanian Vitremarvis and Vidumarvis as compared, say, to the Selenarian Oricalcios, the Cestian Cyprium, the Ochale Tsurilen, and so forth. So you've got an interestingly disjoint set to deal with.

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@morgrimmoon#0077

Looks like the only practical solution would be for the author to drop a list of canonical but unused names.....

Or you get fascinating messy hybrid names such as you get when several naming tradditions have to share a culture.

Well I’m pretty sure that “Takeshi” is a given name and “Kovacs” is the guy’s surname.

Since all the eldraeic naming tradditions are pretty far from English, and in roughly the same direction, I'm not sure anyone is gonna notice.

Except if the author ever wanted to borrow some of this as he’s entitled to, he’d have to fix the names, And I know I at least would feel better knowing I’m writing as close to canon as possible without doing a fusion with Cerebrate

Fair enough. I mean, the kinda eldraeverse fic I'm ever going to consider writting is much more on the line of a Worm crossover than a meaningful expansion to the 'verse, so I'm not a concerned by that.

22:45

Of course, naming is always hard, so if we get a good source of cannonical names, or a good way to make new ones.

22:45

That'd be awesome.

I’m slowing discovering how much of a thing Worm is. I’m only just now working my way through it for the first time (edited)

Ah, I haven't even read it. It's just the circles I move in have a lot of Worm-fic so I end up with a few different ideas for crossovers/alt-powers for it.

22:48

The actual thing is way way to grimdark for me.

Unless it gets way darker after the halfway point, it’s not that dark

22:49

It’s about on the level of a gritty detective show, so far

well, uh, spoilers. But it's a story which always seemed to me to be intended to maximise the suffering of the protagonist.

22:51

And that comes across as really undesirable.

I’d say try reading the first few parts. It’s relatively quick, and should give you a good feel. I’m avoiding saying anything specific, though

I have read like, a bit. Up to, like the undersiders meeting? I might read it eventually.

If nothing else, read the interludes because they provide a really interesting look into the world with minimal spoilers

Uh, you heard what I said about reading a lot of fic of it.

22:53

I am quite well-acquainted with both the plot and the world-building. (edited)

Well nevermind then

Where are you up to?

I created a thing. It's about eldraeic funeral rituals... in a sense.

00:13

https://pastebin.com/f973q49U

To Serve Self - Pastebin.com

00:13

Feedback would be greatly appreciated.

00:42

Very good one, @xandeross.

https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Associated%20Worlds%20Series%20-%20Alistair%20Young Well, someone that reads your works is clearly an AO3 tag wrangler

Associated Worlds Series - Alistair Young | Archiv...

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

should I be getting a 404?

er, no

11:59

Fully formatted Fandom Category already having a disambiguation tag? That's not the automated system, someone's done that by hand.

tragically Morgrim's story appears to be the only one on that site using the tag "this is humor not angst"

Random fanfic idea: Taylor (i.e. protagonist of Worm) gets a link to the Eldraic Transcend as her power.

"Oh dear, your world really has some problems does it?"

Yeah.

00:29

I'm assuming it would assign her several therapists, and then subsquently several uplift specialists.

00:29

(I don't know how the transcend would react to that kind of anomaly, though) (edited)

Part of the reaction would be “oh , hey, that’s where greenlife and ourselves originated from”

"are those Pseudoeldrae?"

Probably.

Apocalypse in 10.. 9... 8

"what have you done to your bandals?"

And it makes for an interesting power to actually use.

00:33

Beyond some fascinated commities.

00:33

(I'm assuming the transcend would keep things mostly secret)

“Hey guys lets ship her a Legion, she sounds like she could use one”

(At least until both worlds are properly connected)

00:34

I'm assuming the connection is purely mental.

7... 6... 5

It's a data-pipe in her brain.

00:34

But otherwise very yes.

“May take 10-15 business centuries for delivery”

In the short-term, what's the best stuff they can do for her?

00:35

Shipping through plans for cool post-tech is one.

"Hey you should probably keep an eye out for those precursors. They seem like jerks, from the archaeological evidence."

"Hmm. How can we turn a 21st century hardware store into a vector-drive as quickly as possible"

The problem is most of the Empire’s nice tech requires a massive pile of “build the tool to build the tool to ...” They could give her really, really good counseling though, and some fun get rich quick ideas

Also, taylor having, like, function (post)human relationships.

00:37

Get rich quick!

00:37

Good plan!

>taking an engineering exam >"ooh ooh we know this one"

I have a mental image of her trying to badger armsmaster into letting her use tinker-tech to bootstrap herself.

Would have to play it carefully, else people will get suspicious.

I mean, if she's going down the non-powered route.

Or just sit down with Dragon, and be best buddies

But she could just say "I have a thinker power which gives me advice and information"

(incidentally I have no idea what the setting is)

Worm is an internet serial novel, I’m about a third of the way through

It's a grim-dark superhero setting.

ah, okay

It’s a very ... I don’t want to say realistic, but logically approach to superheroes

with the grittyness and the physics-toy powers and the horrible emotional trauma.

They feel much more like a coherent whole than usual

00:40

And I’d argue it’s noble-dark, actually

"Hey, your bully? We‘re going to basilisk the bitch."

00:40

"Just show her what comes out of this nifty algorithm."

I mean, that seems implausible, and also not a good plan.

00:41

Like a really not-good plan.

Restazoni in peacazoni Earthazoni

You do not want to be the next parahuman with a killer power.

Also yall do realize that in Worm the reason parahumans even exist

Because the shit that goes down in a certain chapter, yeah that amplifies it ten fold

(Also super OOC for taylor)

Basilisk hacks don‘t have to kill.

(Still super OOC for taylor)

Besides that, right to fucking self defense.

ooh