A Very Snowy One Card Draw
Feb. 2nd, 2011 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wyld_dandelyonEDIT: This draw has been unofficially closed since lunchtime; I suppose I should make it official. Since this is still (barely) the first day of the lunar new year, I'll honor all requests to date, over the next day or two. Unfortunately, though my throat is better, my sinuses are now trying to imitate fountains, and I'm out of energy for this evening. Thanks again for your patience and for your tips!
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I've been trying to hold off a sore throat all week, with limited success, but it is Imbolc, and there's so much snow the City is basically shut down, so I'm going to do a Card Draw. Since I've got lots to do, even if we could ignore the snow, which we can't--I should have to go in to work tomorrow--I'm limiting this to one card.
Rai Kunabei thinks this is a very strange, outlandish way to do things. However, since she was a child, she has always wanted to travel and try new things, so she's willing to give it a try. She does ask, however, that if you want a Torn World disk reading, you should please either ask a question or indicate which of the three aspects your question or concern is rooted in--natural, artificial, or abstract.
I also offer readings from the Faeries' Oracle. I always find them inspiring, and I get the feeling that they'd be happy to be out playing on such a wild, snowy day.
For a third deck...hmm...I really don't feel a particular draw to any of my other decks today. If you want something else, give me an idea what you are seeking and I'll compare it to what I have, and try to pick something appropriate.
As always, these readings are for entertainment and inspiration only, and you are welcome to ask about your creative endeavors as well as more traditional questions. See my new "Dandelyon's Readings" page if you have questions.
And please consider dropping something in the case! Readings take time and energy, and temporary workers don't get paid just because the office is closed due to a blizzard. If you can't tip, signal boosts are appreciated both for these readings and for Torn World. However, I understand all too well that sometimes people don't have the spoons to reciprocate, and it is generally during those times when people most need inspiration!
I hope you will consider voting for Torn World in the top web fiction poll (you can vote for all of your favorites, and your vote will affect what shows up on their landing page for a week). Finally, the Rose and Bay Award nominations are now all up over in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
crowdfunding , and assuming that the organizers' internet connections are working despite ice storms and blizzards, there should be voting polls up in all categories. I hope you'll check out the nominees and consider voting for one of my projects.
But whether those things interest you or not, if you'd like a reading, please ask!
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I've been trying to hold off a sore throat all week, with limited success, but it is Imbolc, and there's so much snow the City is basically shut down, so I'm going to do a Card Draw. Since I've got lots to do, even if we could ignore the snow, which we can't--I should have to go in to work tomorrow--I'm limiting this to one card.
Rai Kunabei thinks this is a very strange, outlandish way to do things. However, since she was a child, she has always wanted to travel and try new things, so she's willing to give it a try. She does ask, however, that if you want a Torn World disk reading, you should please either ask a question or indicate which of the three aspects your question or concern is rooted in--natural, artificial, or abstract.
I also offer readings from the Faeries' Oracle. I always find them inspiring, and I get the feeling that they'd be happy to be out playing on such a wild, snowy day.
For a third deck...hmm...I really don't feel a particular draw to any of my other decks today. If you want something else, give me an idea what you are seeking and I'll compare it to what I have, and try to pick something appropriate.
As always, these readings are for entertainment and inspiration only, and you are welcome to ask about your creative endeavors as well as more traditional questions. See my new "Dandelyon's Readings" page if you have questions.
And please consider dropping something in the case! Readings take time and energy, and temporary workers don't get paid just because the office is closed due to a blizzard. If you can't tip, signal boosts are appreciated both for these readings and for Torn World. However, I understand all too well that sometimes people don't have the spoons to reciprocate, and it is generally during those times when people most need inspiration!
I hope you will consider voting for Torn World in the top web fiction poll (you can vote for all of your favorites, and your vote will affect what shows up on their landing page for a week). Finally, the Rose and Bay Award nominations are now all up over in
crowdfunding , and assuming that the organizers' internet connections are working despite ice storms and blizzards, there should be voting polls up in all categories. I hope you'll check out the nominees and consider voting for one of my projects. But whether those things interest you or not, if you'd like a reading, please ask!
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Date: 2011-02-03 10:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-05 10:58 pm (UTC)The village is small, though you've heard it is the center of Kuleilyi society, such as it is. This small tribe has been at least nominally part of the Empire for some time now, but it looks like a group of purists to you. There's not a single person in sight wearing scientist's robes, though you understand the teacher wears her robes of rank, at least while teaching.
In the center of the village there's a huge old oak tree. Underneath it, on a blanket, sits a teenager with long, unruly brown curls. She is cross-legged, wearing an old leather skirt and a sweater, and she is juggling three metal disks, iron, copper, and silver. They flash in the sunlight; the new oak leaves are only big enough to make the branches look fuzzy, though in the lowlands, the leaves are nearly hand-sized.
Your guide, the Chief of the Kuleilyi, gasps. You reflect that that's another reason to believe them purists at heart--they call their Mayor the chief of the tribe, rather than using the proper Empire title. "Rai! You'll crack the enamel!"
You look at the teenager again. This is the Rai--the bright one, who her people turn to for wisdom?
The girl laughs. "These are blanks! I'm supposed to be deciding which design Yomelo will make for me next."
The Mayor frowned. "We have a guest from the lowlands. You should be offering a reading, rather than playing with the blank disks."
"They're pretty, all plain, gleaming metal."
"They're prettier with the enamel!"
"But I can't juggle them then! I'd risk chipping the enamel." Gracefully tucking her feet under her skirt, the girl stood up without placing a hand on the ground. She bowed formally, "Welcome, visitor. Would you like a reading?"
"I--" You hesitate. Can such a slip of a teenager, so obviously intent on teasing the Mayor, really offer helpful advice?
"If you're not sure, that's all right. I'll be here all day. But would you do me a favor?"
Curious, you nod. "Probably. Depending on what it is."
With ease, she lifts a sack that must hold at least a hundred of the palm-sized metal disks, holding it out to you casually. "Pick one. If Yomelo has not made it yet, it will be my next choice--and I'll tell you what it means, too.
You reach in and pull out an iron disk with an arc of color across it.
She smiles brightly. "Rainbow! Oh, good. That's one of my favorites." She stands straight, as if reciting in school. "The rainbow is the distant aspect of water. When you gather water all together, it's invisible, see? She picks up a mug that was sitting on one of the twisted oak roots. It's full of water. "When it's pooled together, water nourishes the body--or drenches it. But if you spread it out into the air, the water nourishes the soul instead. You can see and cherish all the different colors separately." She set the blank disks down, and takes the rainbow from you.
"You know what's funny? If you mix water with air, you get clear beautiful colors, but if you mix paints of all colors you get just what you'd get if you mix water with earth--a muddy brown. I wonder if that's why none of the disks is an image of mud? Maybe that's because the mud is a part of the meaning of the rainbow?"
She runs her fingers across the clear enamels of the rainbow disk. On it, the rainbow is depicted with just hints of clear blue sky above and below.
"I think I'll ask Yomelo to do mine with a rainbow over a muddy field, a field full of flowers in the same colors as the rainbow. What do you think?"
"That sounds more challenging for Yomelo. But I am no Rai, I am just a simple tribal Chief."
The teenage Rai looked at the old woman suspiciously, before turning back to you and bowing again. "Thank you, visitor. Will you touch the disk that will become my very own rainbow, and lend a bit of your distance to it?"
Suddenly, you wonder if perhaps this irreverent priestess has a clue just how very far away your home is from hers. Still, you smile and touch the disk, thinking on the symbolism of the rainbow, both in her world and your own.
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Date: 2011-02-07 07:13 am (UTC)You're welcome!
Date: 2011-02-07 07:53 am (UTC)There's more stories set in this world at tornworld.net--Rai Kunabei is introduced in a story called Dance to Fend Off the Sky, which is here: http://www.tornworld.net/storypageview.php?id=193 You're welcome to check it out, if you like.
Thanks for coming by!
Re: You're welcome!
Date: 2011-02-08 07:02 am (UTC)Re: You're welcome!
Date: 2011-02-08 07:07 am (UTC)Re: You're welcome!
Date: 2011-02-08 01:35 pm (UTC)Though I also have other characters whose stories need finishing too!
It's a big world, and we're exploring it one story, poem, and work of art at a time. Feel free to ask questions. The sidebar on each story page will give you links to related stories and articles, though not necessarily all of them. The chronological links could take you anywhere in the world; each story (though not each myth and poem) has a specific date (or dates) they happen on.
You can also go to "creators" and pick one writer/artist's work to explore, or go to "characters" and see what stories they're in.
And there's also a Torn_World community in LiveJournal, with weekly features on the language, notes about new stuff, and, of course, the Muse Fusions, where people offer prompts and Torn World writers and artists listen. We don't usually get to all the prompts, but we do usually get to at least a couple of the prompts from each prompter. And at least once, a prompt stuck with me for several months until I wrote a story using it. You're welcome to join the community.
If you have suggestions about making exploring Torn World easier or more fun, please let us know.
The readings are non-canon (they're a crossover, between this world and the Torn World; the Kunabei in the stories won't remember meeting all the odd people from this world, though she may have had similar experiences with denizens of Torn World--your story in particular might lend itself to that.)
Sadly, I now have to run off to a doctor's appt., and then (not so sadly) the day job. More time to write would be wonderful, but paying bills is necessary!