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shifted_ooc2010-01-10 10:16 pm
realitymods) wrote in shifted_ooc2010-01-10 10:16 pm
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This is your last weather update
The fog has cleared. The distant and occasional song has stopped. And the snow is gone too, in its way. Or rather, it, with the fog, has achieved its final stage.
Scattered about the Plane are small stars the size of baseballs. While they are spread across the Plane, there are also clumps in certain places – where snowmen were built, where snowball fights were had. If someone had they chance to measure the masses, they would have learned that the mass of the fog combined with the mass of the snow equals the mass of all these tiny stars.
And they are stars. To all scientific tests, these are true stars, except that they will not burn anyone who holds them – and, of course, people can pick them up. They are all white main sequence stars. One could hear (if one listens) a faint hum in them, the frequency of a turning star.
These are also wishing stars.
When someone picks up a star, they feel, somewhere beyond the back of their mind, a small sense of encouragement. They feel like they want to wish on the star. And they can. If they wish on a star and their wish is successful, the star in their hand will turn to gold dust. They can only make one wish. After that, all stars they pick up turn to gold dust, like the gold that is made in a supernova.
After wishing on a star, the next time someone sleeps will be a very peaceful rest.
For the rest of the week (until the 16th) these stars will light up the Plane. They can even be brought home to realities for experimentation. At the end of the week, they will all collapse into gold dust, and that dust will eventually be scattered away by the Plane's occasional winds.
Boring technical things:
Not all wishes are within a machine's power, so comment here with your character's wish and mods will approve/not approve. This post is screened, because for wishes to work, they have to be kept secret, right? Of course, you can tell whomever you like about the wish, as can your characters, but we're keeping the post screened just to add that bit of wishing magic. If a wish doesn't work, a character can still try to make it, but the star won't turn to dust, so they can keep making wishes until they think of one that works.
(Any comments or questions can be direct here, and we'll just unscreen them.)
Happy second anniversary, guys. Perhaps the machine thinks it owes everyone something after all it's put them through.
Scattered about the Plane are small stars the size of baseballs. While they are spread across the Plane, there are also clumps in certain places – where snowmen were built, where snowball fights were had. If someone had they chance to measure the masses, they would have learned that the mass of the fog combined with the mass of the snow equals the mass of all these tiny stars.
And they are stars. To all scientific tests, these are true stars, except that they will not burn anyone who holds them – and, of course, people can pick them up. They are all white main sequence stars. One could hear (if one listens) a faint hum in them, the frequency of a turning star.
These are also wishing stars.
When someone picks up a star, they feel, somewhere beyond the back of their mind, a small sense of encouragement. They feel like they want to wish on the star. And they can. If they wish on a star and their wish is successful, the star in their hand will turn to gold dust. They can only make one wish. After that, all stars they pick up turn to gold dust, like the gold that is made in a supernova.
After wishing on a star, the next time someone sleeps will be a very peaceful rest.
For the rest of the week (until the 16th) these stars will light up the Plane. They can even be brought home to realities for experimentation. At the end of the week, they will all collapse into gold dust, and that dust will eventually be scattered away by the Plane's occasional winds.
Boring technical things:
Not all wishes are within a machine's power, so comment here with your character's wish and mods will approve/not approve. This post is screened, because for wishes to work, they have to be kept secret, right? Of course, you can tell whomever you like about the wish, as can your characters, but we're keeping the post screened just to add that bit of wishing magic. If a wish doesn't work, a character can still try to make it, but the star won't turn to dust, so they can keep making wishes until they think of one that works.
(Any comments or questions can be direct here, and we'll just unscreen them.)
Happy second anniversary, guys. Perhaps the machine thinks it owes everyone something after all it's put them through.