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6e/index.gmi

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 => ./langs Languages I've sketched out for this
 
+## Tools
+
+=> /dice Dice rolling
+=> /tools/character_gen Character Backstory Generator
+
 ---
 
 => .. Go back

journal/08-05-2020-lewa-development.gmi

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+# L'ewa Development
+
+In May I created a draft of L'ewa[1], a draft for a conlang that I was going to use personally/in my diary. This ended up not happening like I would have liked, but I have actually found a good use for this language. I want to use it to help build out a fantasy world for a novel I want to write. As such, I'm going to treat L'ewa as a protolanguage and then start evolving it into a more ornate and detailed language.
+
+=> http://lewa-book-devel.kahless.cetacean.club:43001/ [1]: L'ewa: A Personal Language
+
+One of the main things I want to write about in the novel is how hierarchies corrupt meaning from the pure into a distilled form of its former self. I would like to have L'ewa be a part of this. I built L'ewa to be a more freeform magicky language, but I would like to try and bake a few things into it:
+
+* A formality system that inflects nouns into formalized forms (with some irregular forms to spice things up)
+* Moving some things from an analytic system of particles to a case system that works on agglutination (like Esperanto or Russian)
+* Make kirta (Creator) and other spirituality terms into swear words
+* Maybe introduce a gendered grammar system
+* Use a Latin-inspired script instead of the more witchy pictoral one
+
+## Case Marking
+
+Right now, sentence role marking is done with the ka, ke and ku marking the subject, verb and object of the sentences. I'd like to change it to something else like:
+
+* -ka -> marks a nominative argument (all parts of the noun phrase get marked like this)
+* -ku -> marks an accusative argument
+
+I need to rejigger the pronoun system for this. I may also reintroduce binary gender as a concept and make part of the core conflict of the novel be related to the gender (or lack thereof) of the main character Divae (name still WIP).
+
+## Tense Marking
+
+By default, every verb is seen as either past, present, future or perfective with the actual meaning either specified explicitly or inferred via context. Consider this sentence:
+
+```
+mi madsa spaloku
+```
+
+This could be "I ate an apple (in the past)", "I am eating an apple", "I will eat an apple" or "I ate an apple", but which one it is would be inferred from context.
+
+The old tense markers are qu (past), qa (present), qo (future) and qe (perfective). Perfective doesn't really make sense to me as a tense anymore, so I'm going to drop it. This should end up with a system like this:
+
+* -qa -> present tense
+* -qu -> past tense
+* -qo -> future tense
+
+So the following sentences would be something like "I am eating an apple", "I ate an apple (in the past)" and "I will eat an apple":
+
+* mi madsaqa spaloku
+* mi madsaqu spaloku
+* mi madsaqo spaloku
+
+This is still all a work in progress, and I will probably change this a lot to make it a bit less bad in the future. Right now this is a set of ideas I've been thinking out, and I'm going to work at making this better for the future. I need to do some reading up on languages with case systems.

journal/08-05-2020-rpg-backstory-gen.gmi

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+# RPG Character Backstory Generator
+
+I have made a little RPG character backstory generator and hosted it on this site. It is available at /tools/character_gen[1].
+
+=> /tools/character_gen [1]: RPG Character Backstory Generator
+
+It uses the standard Rider-Watte deck and generates a fresh reading with a newly shuffled deck on each view to that page. In current testing it renders the backstory details in less than half a millisecond on average (even considering the fact that I'm being fast and loose with memory use).
+
+Feel free to use this in your game night planning!

journal/atom.xml

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-  <updated>2020-08-03T00:52:24.069749+00:00</updated>
+  <updated>2020-08-05T20:22:56.094476+00:00</updated>
   <author>
     <name>Cadey Alicia Ratio</name>
     <email>cadey@firemail.css</email>
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-    <title>The Sumerian Creation Myth</title>
-    <updated>2020-07-27T14:48:08.346482+00:00</updated>
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     <title>The Beginning</title>
@@ -67,7 +55,19 @@
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     <id>gemini://cetacean.club/journal/mara-castle-charon.gmi</id>
     <title>Mara's Ransack of Castle Charon</title>
-    <updated>2020-08-03T00:52:24.069749+00:00</updated>
+    <updated>2020-08-03T00:55:52.657968+00:00</updated>
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+  <entry>
+    <id>gemini://cetacean.club/journal/08-05-2020-lewa-development.gmi</id>
+    <title>L'ewa Development</title>
+    <updated>2020-08-05T16:31:21.232005+00:00</updated>
+    <link href="gemini://cetacean.club/journal/08-05-2020-lewa-development.gmi" rel="alternate"/>
+  </entry>
+  <entry>
+    <id>gemini://cetacean.club/journal/08-05-2020-rpg-backstory-gen.gmi</id>
+    <title>RPG Character Backstory Generator</title>
+    <updated>2020-08-05T20:22:56.094476+00:00</updated>
+    <link href="gemini://cetacean.club/journal/08-05-2020-rpg-backstory-gen.gmi" rel="alternate"/>
+  </entry>
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journal/index.gmi

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 => 07-29-2020-flavortext.gmi 7/29/2020 - Some Hacks for Writing Scenery and Characters
 => 07-31-2020-newsbook.gmi 7/31/2020 - Newsbook Experiment
 => 08-01-2020-hosted-with-maj.gmi 8/1/2020 - This site is hosted with Maj
+=> 08-05-2020-lewa-development.gmi 8/5/2020 - L'ewa Development
+=> 08-05-2020-rpg-backstory-gen.gmi 8/5/2020 - RPG Character Backstory Generator
 
 ## Stories
 Occasionally I write little stories that are not really connected to anything. I have not really had a good place to publish these in the past. This place seems as good as any.