Gaming, Wiki, Lexicons and the rest

After some starts and stops and stops again peaseblossom and I have finally decided to try 1:1 gaming again. I think one of our problems was trying to develop a world and a game system (even if a variant) at once and that we would be better just starting with something we know. Since peaseblossom has been thinking of Nobilis a bit lately, and because I'm always up for a game of Nobilis, we've decided on it. Which should be fun.

In doing my prep I decided to go look at the old Lexicon of 500 years (yes its relevant). Now I have a zip of the wikli at the state it went down, butthese are txt files and a pain in the neck to read. Is there a way for me to get these in a better format? Maybe point a wiki at them on my computer? Or some such? Its in PhpWiki 1.3.4 if it makes a difference.

Darnalia, a starting world

Darnalia is a world on the World Ash, not that the average inhabitant knows that. To them it is a system around an average enough star that at some point had strange gravitational anomalies which caused the various planets to crumble so that know the system is a series of asteroid belts with large planetoids (Pluto size) scattered about. All surrounded by an extensive Oort Cloud-Sphere. This system, if it ever developed life, had none when it was colonized by the brave aether ships of the Terra 300 years ago. But then the aether ships fell from the heavens and civilization became a lot harder, fragmenting into a million different enclaves, most barely scrabbling to survive. Over the eyars technology has grown, altering as it takes advantage of the unique metals and crystals of the system. The humans have developed nanotechnologies and more, splintering and combining in heady combinations. Even striving to step beyond their system. To them earth is but a dim dream of a fallen state.

The Miraculous: I’m just barely sketching this here as more will be discovered in play. First a general principle of this world is potential. Thing of it in a hermetic light, the metals and crystals have potential and can be used in ways that earth substances can only dream of (crystal growth are used in a similar way to flowers by the Nobles of this world-fruit). There are Imperators, but fewer than on earth. From Heaven and Hell, the Wild and the Wyrm most certainly; and ancient, barely recognizable True Gods. But there isn’t any correlation to Light and Dark.

A long road to when

This Nobilis game (stealing from peaseblossom's playbook) is about a member of a Noble family from earth (the Power of Breath I believe) who died on a world far from earth and was re-Nobled in an inhabitant of that world. Said inhabitant was sort of human, a vestige of a lost colony from the Lost Five Hundred Years (and yes time issues is important here). She must find out what is happening, without aid of Imperator of Familia and navigate a long way home.

This will be a game of exploration. Exploration of the physical world of the Ash, of the social worlds of Nobilis and of the interior landscape.