Lore Team Meeting Notes 16MAR24 Agenda as planned: Review of the Lore Bible Review of personal projects of each Lore Maintainer Murphy: * Personal items * Joint Systems Defense Force * Eridani Alliance (faction) * Managed items * Interplanetary League of Workers * Hivebots * Mikoyan, Rye-Egress War * Vetalans! Merne * Personal items * Hegemony page * XAM (Unathi corp) * Managed items * None Fol * Personal itsm * Epison Eridani Culture * Map (on hold) * FTL (waiting on dev) LordME * Personal items * Xenomorphs/Xenomorph Hybrids (general) Shirumic * Keisani (the forever WIP) Sentre * Lore Bible * Wiki Maintenance AuraKnight Plume === Silicons’ points: * Shadekin * Paracausal * Cults (natural phenomena) (include clock cult stuff) * Xenoarch (use exotic particles at the sources of the power, and don’t elaborate as to the technical details) === Actual Meeting notes: Lore bible * Areas to work on: * Space Weather, Medical Tech, Galactic Resources (Sentre) * Major & Minor Races (needs filling out) --- Shadekin discussion * Comparison of the Luminea lore from Alina, versus the concept from Keekenox of making them more of a Bluespace fauna entity * Have Keek and Alina work on this together * The consensus is that we would like to pursue the tribes route, turning them into a sort of “benign ‘dark wanderer” entity * A possible limitation on abilities mechanics wise, turning the phasing into more of a ‘blink’ of several tiles to escape from danger, and reducing the healing ability. * Their communities being able to perform a long range teleport, either through group effort or through the senior leader of a group. * A “White-Eyed” shadekin that is admeme spawned with the full abilities as we have now, versus the reduction of power (fine, nerf) of the standard version, which would not be solely “Black-Eyed”. * These ‘standard’ Shadekin would be likely still whitelisted, with discussion about removing this need at a later date and where other whitelist species stay * Back end lore wise, Saying that NT finally found a way to heal them would allow Black-Eyed Shadekin players to heal their character if they want to, instead of having to make a new character who just looks the same and has the same name but has colored eyes. * Their own name for themselves would be Lumelea, while they accept that all the other races/species call them Shadekin --- Paracausal lead (tabled) --- Consideration of a long-term event planner/ ‘game master’ for developing long-term storylines’ * Trojan mentioned the issue of it going badly or poorly if put into the hands of a single controlling person. * Perhaps a planning session on where we want things to go with our plot, with a small team (Sentre to follow up) * Would be a good thing to look at when we move to the big ship map.