Hello all. You might be expecting me to be writing in Spanish, that if you expected me at all. Well, that was for two reasons: I'm much less confident in my English skills than I used to be, and I wanted to help growing the Spanish “sector” of the Gemini-verse. Yet the thing is that the Spanish Gemini-verse is not growing and might be even stalling, IMHO. So, without forsaking the Spanish language completely, I'll be posting much more often in English. So help me God, and all that.
Not too many moons ago, I had this game world that I'm retro-actively calling Yretek. Yretek, by the way, used to mean nothing, I was just desperate to find a domain name, and this one the first one that came available for the taking. Anyway that game world was meant to be as a setting for short length, somehow low fantasy stories. By low fantasy, I mean, perhaps deviating for the usual term, a world which is not too far away from the rules of physics. In other words, I'm not going full frenzy with magic, dragons all over the place, portals and so forth.
First, there was a glorious human Empire of ancient memory. Then, came the dynastic wars. And, finally, orcs and goblins. To the west of the continent the surviving human nations have formed an Alliance which works for most purposes as a Federal Republic under another name, only a tad less democratic. In essence each city is free to run itself as it wants to, as long as it keeps the rules of the Alliance when trading and dealing with other cities. And, despite some internal disputes from time to time this arrangement has worked out well.
Some say it's because of the orcs. Because, eastwards, beyond the mountains, lay the orc kingdoms, ready to raid, plunder and conquer at the slightest opportunity. And beyond them, well, we humans know next to nothing. Except the books of ancient history telling us how glorious this region, as the core of the Empire, used to be and, maybe, what this map shows, which is not much, I'm afraid.
I don't know if you are familiar to Solo Role-playing. Well, it's exactly what it says on the tin. You play on your own with some rules and tables taking over the place of a game-master and, to some extent, game-mastering yourself. This approach can be easily applied to writing, combining gaming and literature. The procedure is rather simple: a solo gaming session is documented into notes and these can be further developed into a novel. I won't go as far, restraining myself to some (many? / a few?) posts, for you all to enjoy and, maybe, inspire you for your own game-writing.
This is a small band of explorers to be, civilized humans, passionate enough for the old history in the empire to risk limb and freedom. The plan is to cut through the ranges, sneak past the orc kingdoms, explore through the untamed wilderness with the ultimate goal of finding Alamanca, a rumored surviving human nation, far, far in the East.
That ultimate target can take generations to accomplish, but they hope to bring back relics from the Empire, and intelligence about the orcs, back into civilizied lands. These, they hope, will kindle interest in the whole venture, attracting investors which will finance better equipped and led expeditions until, one sunny day...
And that's the whole thing. I hope to have you on board.
Helper files for my game, in .txt format
