“Honor is dead, but I’ll see what I can do.”
KAAALLAAAADDDIIIIIINNNNN OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
The Engineer, chapter 38. Varic slinks into his chair. I imagined that he also scrunched up his hood like a sweatshirt/hoodie so that it hid most of his face.
[Image ID: A shoddy, pixel-y rendition of Varic from the book series The Last Horizon. He is slinking into a chair, with his hood covering almost all of his face. He’s holding a little coffee cup, and the cape of his hood is pulled around like a blanket.
/End ID]
I slumped in my chair, guzzling coffee and staring into the holograms. I was looking forward to the next part.
This was where Shyrax would tell me how I’d failed.
“Next is myself,” Shyrax continued, and I slid down even further. I preferred to get bad news over with quickly.
The Engineer (The Last Horizon Book 2), Will Wight
there’s a website where you put in two musicians/artists and it makes a playlist that slowly transitions from one musician’s style of music to the other’s
it’s really fun
Hey so I’m scared now
I’m on early Rhythm of War, no one spoil future stuff!!!
I’m genuinely baffled what the hell Shallan is suppressing that could possibly be worse than what she already remembers. Like. What. What the fuck. How.
Aaahhhh, Eugenics. My least favorite part of this series.
Oh! Suggestions, can’t say I really expected those, but this is super fun!!
Here’s my thoughts
1 - good idea all around. I think the block the character would represent could be altered to be one more relevant to the series, though! I tried to keep the language consisting of references almost entirely, so good idea with the crystals!
Something like:
X = Crystal = Quotation mark
(?# = Single Quotes)
(^# = Apostrophe)
(v# = Asterisk)
Yeah!! I like that!! Ty <3
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2 - Useful shorthand! No notes, but I wanna push that whenever you’re doing something for display purposes, the script was written the way it was for the aesthetics! One of its primary design principles is the language being *actual parkour you can do.* This gets muddled when ya use verticals, but for most sentences?? You can literally build a sentence. I’ve put some thought into how to delineate flourishes without muddying or making the language too complex, but if I come up with something I’ll probably release a guide with examples of how to build sentences! (Currently you can just put signs with what flourishes it has and the language is totally buildable… but that’s kinda lame)
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3 - Oh! I actually prepped something for this exact thing! “-“ for chain blocks! This is preferred to barriers (despite the lesser series-significance) because I honestly just value the buildability of the language more!
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4 - tbh! I don’t think this is a necessary addition to the system. It only applies if you want to make an entire system of [] capital, as numbers would take the negativity of their first digit. I suppose if you wanted, you could perhaps do:
?vu8[]____C[]__OC[]vu
I believe it’s best to try and use existing things to address a problem as opposed to introducing new things to keep track of.
(As it’s impossible to place more than one of the (?,^,v) set of Flourishes on any given block, the ? becomes a floating Flourish. This, paired with the vu pair makes the ? distribute the every block inside)
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Thanks for the feedback~!
So… I may or may not have written an entire Conlang based on a single joke in Minecraft Parkour Civilization 2. That would be ridiculous. Aha. Hahahaha. Ha.
*cough*
You add these in front of blocks to change their meaning. There’s a key at the bottom containing the Parkour alphabet which demonstrates how the space, 180°, 360°, and 720° Flourishes are used to refer to specific English-Letter analogs.
_ = Space
C = 180° Flourish = 5 spaces
O = 360° Flourish = 10 spaces
8 = 720° Flourish = 20 spaces
? = Reverse = Reverses input
^ = Vertical Jump = Raises Intensity
v = Drop = Lowers Intensity
These are the building blocks (lmfao) of the language and are what would be counted as an “input” or “letter”. Also included are short legends under each block describing what each flourish does to each block!
(Note! _,C,O, and 8 cannot be applied to any block other than [ ] and H)
[ ] = Block = Grammatical Value
(?[ ] = Capitalized)
(^[ ] = Impassioned)
(v[ ] = Depressed)
H = Fence = Numerical Value
(?H = Negative)
(^H = Exponential)
(vH = Square Root)
u = Pot = Period
(?u = Comma)
(^u = Hyphen/Equality)
(vu = Parentheses)
I = Pane = Question
(?I = Exclamation)
(^I = Command)
(vI = Sarcasm)
% = Brewing Stand = Addition
(?% = Subtraction)
(^% = Multiplication)
(v% = Division)
a = [ ]
b = _[ ]
c = __[ ]
ch = ___[ ]
d = ____[ ]
e = C[ ]
f = _C[ ]
g = __C[ ]
h = ___C[ ]
i = ____C[ ]
j = O[ ]
l = _O[ ]
m = __O[ ]
n = ___O[ ]
o = ____O[ ]
p = OC[ ]
r = _OC[ ]
s = __OC[ ]
sh = ___OC[ ]
t = ____OC[ ]
th = 8[ ]
u = _8[ ]
v = __8[ ]
w = ___8[ ]
y = ____8[ ]
0 = H
1 = _H
2 = __H
3 = ___H
4 = ____H
5 = CH
6 = _CH
7 = __CH
8 = ___CH
9 = ____CH
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?8[ ]____C[ ]__OC[ ] ____C[ ]__OC[ ] OC[ ][ ]_OC[ ]__[ ]____O[ ]_8[ ]_OC[ ]?I
____CHH% _HH ^u _HHH
?C[ ][ ]____OC[ ] 8[ ]C[ ] _OC[ ]____C[ ]___[ ]^I
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Big thanks to my friend PrismaticKoi for giving me the idea and helping me figure this all out! Working with her made this process super fun!!!
Enjoy Parkour-!!! I’ll be coding an English<—>Parkour translator at some point, so stick around to find that!!
All of you need to go watch Minecraft Parkour Civilization though. It’s seriously fantastic.
Rhythm of War/Mistborn Era One Spoilers
I- wait. Is. Is the Shard in the Interludes. Is that. Is that fuckin SAZED.
P…. Pattern… I don’t think I can handle this. What the fuck.
Oh hey Actual God appeared and he gave you a funny coat and some guns. This means we’ve hit the Sanderlanche.
AAAAAAAAA ADOLIN IS UNWILLING TO BECOME A RADIANT BECAUSE HE BELIEVES HE CAN HELP HIS SHARDBLADE RECOVER!!!!! AAAAAAAA HE’S SO CUTE AND WHOLESOME AND I LOVE HIM AND I BELIEVE IN HIM.
I also went ahead and drew my 5e character, Solace! I gave them a whole new haircut and re-placed their scars and such! I think they look pretty great!