Kintsugi: The Breakening! (ooc Chat thread)

Also, if I keep getting ideas for @O.V.I.R i'll probably make a spin off thread for them to keep from cluttering this one up.

were there any other ideas for the breakening? There's always nuclear, tech stops working, and one of my old favorites to toy with: Oops, we accidentally the laws of physics.

[Edit:] Also, if I'm posting too much in here let me know, my brain is sperging with the shattering right now, because its similar to a story I've had in my head for ages, and has made me think of how that happened, instead of just the aftermath.

 

Hm - I'm mentally poking 'nuclear' with a stick a bit; I'm not really sure what to do with it, I think. 'Tech stops working'...which tech? Are we being reduced to hunter-gatherer levels? Is it anything that didn't exist before a specific era? (If so, which era?) It's an interesting concept, just needs refining, I think?

"Oops, we accidentally the laws of physics" is also getting poked at with a stick, for the same reasons as nuclear.

 

if we do nuclear can we have it like
do comic book style things that are definitely impossible and give people powers and mutations

 

It's always fun to accidentally laws of physics, and then we could have magic. I'm liking the breakening thing too, though. Would it be most everyone on one big shard, or groups of people on a bunch of smallish shards?

 

Maybe start out with everyone on one big shard and try to agglomerate and bridge to other shards as we go on?
+possibly sailing shards as per @QuotableRaven

Also, I like that all the places we're thinking of setting it are somebody playing's home territory -- it gives that advantage of knowing the lay of the land on a meta level.

 

if we accidentally laws of physics or we nuclear I am begging for magic and mutations and powers
can we somehow combine one of these with the breakening

 

basically I just really want powers and magic and mutations

 

Magic would be really cool! And it'd provide a convenient handwave for "okay, so how did the breakening happen but still leave things at all habitable", too.

 

yessssssssssssss
I need to start thinking about my character and what I want them to be like. also magic.

 

Dammit, this sounds incredibly fun but I'm about to have to spend a week packing and then driving across the country. Why, real life.

With the shattering thing, how exactly are you visualizing it? not the event, but the way things are afterwards. Are the fragments mostly close together, or scattered far apart? Are they floating in a single layer, or multiple distinct layers, or as randomly floating chunks? How big are they? Maybe the most valuable/contested areas are islands a few miles across or areas with big, close clusters of islands, since they'd be easiest to set up shop in. And there could be places that got so thoroughly shattered that they're just impenetrable dust clouds now.

 

I feel like we should have some places where chunks are farther apart, and other places where they're close together. and I don't think they should be uniform or close to uniform in size--I think that there should be some that are like, super tiny pieces of land, hardly big enough to do anything on, and then others that are a few miles big.

 

Fun bonus question: How well is magic doing at keeping atmosphere stuck to the chunks? Do we get moon-chunks?

 

..................yes.
MOON CHUNKS MOON CHUNKS MOON CHUNKS

 

That would make sense, yeah - when something breaks, it usually doesn't break into uniform chunks unless it's designed to do that. (So, safety glass. And...idk what else, possibly just safety glass. Definitely not planets, tho.) There'd be large chunks - ones big enough for a large village, maybe a small town - and ones that can hold maybe one person, a house, and a farm. Or just, like. One person.

...now I'm wondering if it'd be possible to enlarge chunks with rope bridges and nets to drag some of those tinier bits or turn the shattered dust clouds into something useful again. (Maybe we could stick vine-growing seeds into the dust clouds, let that do the work?) But that's probably something that should be worked out in play, idk.

I feel like probably everyone who's in the initial starting group is on the same chunk? Just because that way, no one who's in the initial group needs to sit around and wait for the rest of us to be able to get to them. Which means we're starting out with one of the larger chunks. It might not be big enough to support all of the initial group, which would provide some pressure to get bridges built out to other areas.

What if: the magic's dependent on how many living creatures are on a given chunk? So the atmosphere's more reliably stuck to places with people, or lots of animals; it's a bit thinner, but still manageable, in places with very few people or animals, but lots of vegetation. In chunks that didn't start out with people or animals in them and have sparse or no vegetation? Increasingly moon-like! (The dust clouds might be moon-chunks forever.)

 

I was thinking anywhere from a few meters to maybe a dozen kilometers across (so plenty of room for the kintsugi settlement), some above and some below, drifting closer and farther apart

 

ooooooooooooh, that'd be cool!!

.....question: how are we planning to communicate across distances? 'cause I mean, not everyone here, or even everyone in this thread, is from the US.

 

Idk, how much of the internet would still work and what if any would be salvageable?

 

see, that's what I'm wondering about, 'cause like.....would cell towers still work? would radios work? would wifi work? I'm going to assume cars are out, because gas would be hard to get to, and after a while it would run out anyway. the water at my house is based on electricity, so if we lose power, we don't have running water of any kind, so there's a question of whether electricity would still be a thing at all, and if so, for how long. heat here works based on how much gas is in the tank in the basement--that would run out eventually, and I really, really doubt anyone's gonna come around to my island chunk to fill it back up. but I don't know a lot about how radios, cell towers, and wifi/internet work, so....

 

also, if we've got no electricity in homes, that kind of automatically rules out wifi, now that I'm thinking about it.

 

Something that could be possibly done if one has the equipment is rig up solar panels for energy on a very small scale.