{"id":799,"date":"2004-02-23T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2004-02-23T11:30:34","modified_gmt":"2004-02-23T11:30:34","slug":"finito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2004\/02\/finito\/","title":{"rendered":"Finito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sweetest phrase I&#8217;ve typed in awhile: <i><b>This is a Z entry in the <a title=\"OceanOfStoriesWiki - Lexicon Of The Second Age\" href=\"http:\/\/www.respectstartstomorrow.com\/oceanwiki\/LexiconOfTheSecondAge\">Lexicon Of The Second Age<\/a><\/b><\/i>. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nI want to publically thank Jere for the opportunity to work\/play on this game\/project; it opened my mind to a world of possibility in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.20by20room.com\/2003\/11\/lexicon_an_rpg.html\">Lexicon<\/a> format, to Wikis in general (I didn&#8217;t have any when the Lexicon started &#8212; now I have two), and to Nobilis. Also, it exposed me to some great writing from other folks that really made me stretch my mind to match.  It has been great.<br \/>\nIt has also been hard.  We started the &#8220;A&#8221; entries right around Christmas and just wrapped the &#8220;Z&#8221;&#8216;s&#8230; well, technically it was supposed to be yesterday, but it was today for me.<br \/>\nStill, I may not have always been on time, but I never missed a letter:  my personal list of contributions are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.respectstartstomorrow.com\/oceanwiki\/DoyceTesterman\">here<\/a>, or you can just look at this list:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anaxam &#8212; psychotropic metal\n<li>The Baikal &#8212; &#8216;flimy&#8217; connections between world-fruit\n<li>The City Of No &#8212; home of the Poet-Bakers\n<li>The Demesne Kalon &#8212; garden chancel of Beauty That is More than Skin Deep\n<li>The Eidolon Tapestries &#8212; Mad patterns of creation\n<li>Florilegium Requiescat &#8212; The Book of the Dead for destroyed Flowers\/Estates.\n<li>Gliriform Masque &#8212; Not to be confused with the Gliriform <i>Mask<\/i>\n<li>Hallow The Eater &#8212; just what he sounds like\n<li>Iluac, Garden of &#8212; the virtual world\n<li>Jewel Of Markov &#8212; in which we learn that Math Hurts\n<li>Kaldath &#8212; my favorite Power of the Dark\n<li>The Lorists &#8212; Second Age pseudo-historians\n<li>The Mandala Principle &#8212; in which Creation bitch-slaps time-travelers\n<li>Nephtarya &#8212; the Tragic Mountains\n<li>Order For Irresponsible Behavior &#8212; Buckaroo Banzai meets Nobilis\n<li>Plimorath &#8212; adversity creates&#8230; beauty\n<li>Quumyagga &#8212; the last and best of the Powers of Kalon\n<li>Rite of Air-Speaking &#8212; banned in 48 of 50 states\n<li>Scaraboids &#8212; yeah&#8230; pretty much like they sound\n<li>Teggnukan &#8212; one of only four Powers to survive to the current day from the Second Age\n<li>Unknown Benefactors &#8212; love hurts\n<li>Vilphori &#8212; a good argument against the right to public assembly\n<li>Wulfaben Mushrooms &#8212; Free Your Mind\n<li>Xylotomous Parasites &#8212; See also, Scaraboids\n<li>Yantiburum Monks &#8212; Jedi meet the Nobilis&#8230; and <u>DIE<\/u>\n<li>The Zeroth Age &#8212; saying goodbye to the project\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also created references to these other entries, which other authors were then obliged to make sense of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drenveldin Larkspur &#8212; my new favorite Wildlord EVER\n<li>Ellerophon &#8212; every game needs a decadent pleasure world\n<li>Fleet of the Yu Ketch &#8212; little, green, different\n<li>Genun &#8212; he makes Evil fun\n<li>Glantri Shelf Fungus &#8212; Trippy, Jumbo-sized\n<li>Kalon, Estate of &#8212; more than skin-deep\n<li>Omnifarious Fruit &#8212; Everything to Everyone\n<li>Q&#8217;san-Drin &#8212; hosts of the Pleasure World\n<li>SpinWolves &#8212; Destruction and Zero-Point energy <s>rolled<\/s> spun into one\n<li>Supernal Surculation &#8212; pruning the World Ash\n<li>Ys, City of &#8212; it really is the Thought that Counts\n<li>Zendix Prime &#8212; The second-age-about-the-first-age version of the Lexicon we just finished writing\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sweetest phrase I&#8217;ve typed in awhile: This is a Z entry in the Lexicon Of The Second Age. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}