WorldEmber 2023 Pledge

Writing the Colonies.

The Time to Expand

A few articles in Linebound are about the colony region such as Outpost 13 and the Sinking of Outpost 4. This WorldEmber, I will expand upon the colony region, writing articles for most of the outposts since they have not yet been written (or thought about).
Before I could review any of the relevant articles, I had to first find them. See below all articles about the colony region that exist before WorldEmber 2023.

Furahnzata

Line's Edge

Outpost 13

Outpost 4

Sinking of Outpost 4

The Barle

Colony Region Meta

The colonies are an opportunity to introduce a bunch of different isolated settlements with different moods and themes. I don't yet know which moods or themes each one will have but what I need to remember most is to keep them distinct from each other. Each should inherit a mood or theme from the nation that founded it but should be altered in some way to make it familiar but different.
There are thirteen outposts and I want to write about all of them. I will write related articles as well when inspiration strikes. Speaking of inspiration I have only a few ideas about what I want to do with the region. One outpost will rely on scaling the sides of their island and climbing back up with food. Another will involve a process of refining a specific plant into several different goods. These communities are also all young, each being under sixty years of age, and their structure should represent that.
I also want to create (at least) one character for each of these colonies. My reasoning for this was to make it better for playing a tabletop game but I accepted years ago that Linebound is just the result of worldbuilder's disease. Nonetheless, one character for each colony.

Inspiration for Organization

I looked at several worlds for ideas on how to organize Linebound. While I have yet to make many of the big picture changes (such as making a home page as nice as Dark-Fall or Ethnis), I have gone through and made sure that all articles are properly tagged (so that they appear in the index) and categorized, altered the categories by creating the Cloudborne Encyclopedia, and made sure all articles that have been brought up to the new standard have icons. Finally, Solaris gave me the idea to use The Sky, Breharan, The Colonies, and Beyond as categories for the locations.

Making Linebound Welcoming

This year I have redone the main page and created Welcome to Linebound!. While the home page still needs some work, inspiration for the current state has come from Alana, Istralar, Vellikka, and Tel'Eryon.
The newest changes include a few features articles, some big book covers (even if two don't actually do anything yet), and yet more changes on article organization.

Article Ideas

Settlements

Outpost 1: Furahnzata
Outpost 2: Wrendat
Outpost 3: Siirun
Outpost 5: Ustwol
Outpost 6: Tundra town.
Outpost 8: The Undertown.
Outpost 9: Cloudhaven.
Outpost 10: Titan's Heart.
Outpost 11: Bog town.
Outpost 12: The Monument.
Outpost 13: Rework old article.
Outpost 14: The Bral colony.

Characters

The Artist
Larris Narrum
Trader Toron
The Foreman
Meatminer Fizski
The Architect
Dera Ortoh
The Slayer
Herbhand Heiro
Professor Paranpur
The Liberator
Surveyor Jodah

The Year So Far

Things have been very slow since Summer Camp on the worldbuilding front. I have taken a few days off here and there to recharge but have worked on an article or done some tabletop prep every day. Running out of time to make a map so I am going to end up with some scribbles in MS paint.

Goals Finished

Redo the meta for Linebound.
Change the appearance of the world using CSS.
Reorganize the world.
Make an adequate timeline. I added quite a few things but realized that I am waiting for some improvements to Chronicles.
Create at least a basic map of Breharan. This may be quite different from all the previous ideas of the size and shape of the continent.
Write a new short story in the setting. Alternatively: Create an interactive story on Linebound.
Write the important articles like nations and cultures and expand from there. I wrote the articles for all of the nations, the regions of the nations anyway. That is a win this year.
Redo the world main page (twice, apparently).
Create an introduction page for new readers. It isn't perfect and I will definitely improve and refine it later but for now it is fine.
Complete Summercamp.

Goals Ongoing

Complete World Ember.
Do something towards these goals every day or at least write something.

Extra Prep

I have filled my water bottles, made a bunch of curry and a bean salad so that I can spend more time writing instead of cooking for the first few days of WorldEmber, cleaned my house, taken care of laundry, and gotten a bunch of other things out of the way so that I can focus on writing, working, and tabletop games this December.