The CBB

I'm sorry, but I can't make head or tail of the runes in your crystal. Can your box not speak? Because when you speak Buonavallese, the sound of it reminds me of the Rumeliards. Runes?! That's all Roman letters. Runes have been used by the Goths... my Gothic peoples a long time ago, until they conv...

I hope you understand humble Latin, still an important language for scholars on my planet. You're not overly curious at all - curiosity brought my species to the point where we can travel to space, and now also, as it seems, through time. My species has its origin on a planet inhabited by humans, b...

Spacecabdriver: Oh, wow! Uh, hi, guys. We were just introducing ourselves. My name's Spacecabdriver. The male, with intricately braided hair, doesn't take his eyes off Spacecabdriver and Canash as he asks the woman "What are the demons talking about?" He wears a long, sleeveless gambeson ...

Oh, you can call me Canash -- I've gone by that name so long now it seems like I've always worn it! Spacecabdriver: Thanks, Canash -- did I pronounce that right? Spacecabdriver thinks: we're in Auntimoany? where's that? Yes, you pronounce it very well! Um. Where do you think we are? I know my frien...

"And hello, uh, Brass-Spoon Rattles-Jar … sorry, is there some shorter version of your name I can call you? Or what would you like me to call you? 'Spacecabdriver' is my family name; it's also the name of an occupation. It's only a couple centuries old as a name, and only a few centuries older...

(Spies Canash's Box, and Canash) (thinks "Oh, there's an AI! And it seems to be friends with that interesting-looking feathered person. Maybe I can strike up a conversation?" ) (rolls off seat without spilling drink, walks over on the six legs that happen to touch the floor.) (Addressing ...

Argenzu steps out of the bathroom, no longer shivering, with his laptop under his arm. He looks around, avoiding to look Zedata. He quickly returns to his seat, stuffing the large ring back under his cloak. He continues working, swiping through hexadecimal numbers, typing lines. "Ugh, I need s...

Meta wrote:…. the artificer Stephanos Laboriosoi …. Steve Jobs?

Meta answers: You're halfway there!

[tick] First time I've seen mention of Darennallie. What is that place? It is one of the countries of Narutanea, the Eastlands, beyond which are the countries of the western marches and the wilds of Siviria beyond. I'll give you a quick geography primer. The great axis of orientation in Eosphora (th...

[tick] UT-SI-LA — UT-RE-MI — UT-SI-LA — UT-RE-MI. Our "Three Blind Mice" tune starts: Do-Ti-La, Do-Ti-La, Mi-Re-Do, Mi-Re-Do. Or Ut-Si-La, Ut-Si-La, Mi-Re-Ut, Mi-Re-Ut. To have the second element be Ut-Re-Mi would be very weird -- *here*. Quite so. Though quite ordinary *there*. I think th...

eldin raigmore wrote:The closest I came to accomplishing something in conlanging or con-X-ing today was that I managed to sign on to the CBB.
(I've lost the CWBB again.)

Any idea what happened? I noticed it was down yesterday and earlier today!

[tick] A random bit of ancient lore... Very little is known of the Shadowfolk , except that everyone and everything in our world has its unique Shadowtwin. They are said to be shy, dark and featureless; airy and insubstantial. Yet they are steadfast, always tagging along with us wherever we go and t...

I have re-done the official leopard (Waku) flags. What did they look like before? Why did you settle on just a single colour for each? Saves on printing, a blue-on-blue flag. Plus, citizens no longer have to wrack their brains trying to remember which order the colours are named. How much easier wo...

looks at Argenzu and his laptop Oh, you have an old laptop! It looks like it was made some 100 years earlier on our planet, but that brand! That brand! Old? That's the newest technology available all across my planet. Ok, the design is an old hat, but this laptop here has... A 3 GHz PowerPC process...

Never quite understood color myself... How can her colors be of the wrong sort? Ought she be a different sort of color? "To be one of the nomads of whom I speak? Yes. I always thought the nomads were pale, but she is to them as snow is to coal. Quite striking actually." Yes -- Pecweshte's...

Such as flags, seals, mottos, anthems and national floral and fauna. Post your conculture's here! Hm. To my knowledge, none of the countries of the Eastlands of the World have national anthems or even flags. To say nothing of national birds or crustaceans. There are, of course, seals. Those are not...

P'xwth stands resolute, and stares the demon before her directly in the eye. "Three times, the nations of the south have united to cross Quul'shxw'ay'm into our lands and try to conquer us. Three times, we did not even bother to fight them. And three times, they failed. Winter came and took th...

I think the prose style of the thread has had the unintended effect that we're worried about spoilers. :P I suppose one question I have is how did a little girl strike up a friendship with the king of all wolves? I think perhaps she's nòt just a "little girl"... I think she's rather more....

So, a question to those whose histories stop at a mundane tech level -- have you given any thoughts about what your distant future would look like, even if you don't plan on making it a part of the conworld proper? If so, what does your future-conworld look like? Depends on what you mean by "d...

The door of the lonely British phone box opens again, Argenzu enters the inn again - with his fully-charged laptop under his cloak. He goes back to his seat near the window, starts the laptop (which makes a quiet "kloom" upon startup) and resumes working on things only he can comprehend -...