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(Lol it's back up now)

I figured I'd make a post here in case Discord goes down for a while or something (??)
it seems like the site is having more issues than usual...



Hopefully it goes back up soon though

once again... (Drumroll please: and drumpitch and drumyaw if you are feeling lowkenuieourous [:apology:])...! ive got another Game Idea!


Here's the premise: every post on the topic is someone's notes on the previous post, or a complete rewrite of the previous post in some kind of genre or format (e.g. myth, poem, romance novel, creepypasta, et cetera!)!

And... that's it! Honestly im just kind of throwing things at the wall and seeing if i can make something both interesting and adhesive, like the word "mucilage". This particular instance of aforementioned wallchucking could be chalked up to choking on the literature-shaped shadow i seem to have acquired after reading the (little? well?) known (?) book (?) House of Leaves, which I really liked even though I know I by no means have properly pieced apart lots of it. The structure of footnotes and then toenotes and then toenail notes all the way down, and nested layers of inaccuracy and interpretation is just really cool, especially when disparate parts of the reinterpretations connect back to previous ideas and points in lower levels and vice versa. (Callbacks to previous edits would also be cool but i couldn't figure how to shoehorn that into a probably actually fun premise, so...)

But anyways: the game needs to start somewhere! I'm not really sure what sort of text would be best for the start though. Does anyone know any good poems or very short stories or quotes or excerpts or other pieces of text-containable information and idea that could well fit here? I think starting the game on that could be fun!

Hehe i read this and thought it would be fun to post one. It's very lackluster though!

Pre-2018:

• Minecraft
• Terraria

2020:

• Minecraft
• Undertale

2022:

• Minecraft

2024:

• Minecraft
• Among us knockoff
• Fall guys knockoff
• corru.observer

2025:

• Minecraft
• corru.observer
• Hylics

you may notice a trend...

hello Bo! Welcome!! I'm doing pretty good, and i hope everyone else is doing pretty well as too! 

(Common) Dentist's tool for putting them back in after they fall out. Can be misused!

Symbol Potion

(this post is clever because I travelled in to the future for a short period of time to post it. so i can win. :} )

:)

Hello walrus!!

Thanks for responding! I think i'm pretty much on the same page as you in general in terms of your answer...

1. I don't see why not if it still is online.

Cool! I also talked a little bit in the Discord Server since posting this and the CalRef utilities seem all good to use, at least at the current moment.

2. Make friends! I'm walrus. since we haven't particularly spoken one-on-one.

It's nice to meet you! ^_^ What do you like to do for fun?

6. Posting forum topics sounds like a decent first step.

:salute: I will be ascheme with prospective topics. [Take c/Bew/Prep]are!!

(Special) Well-worn brass whistle. Can be used to summon the Enshrouding Myst.

Toothpaster

Okay!!!! I had a new game idea! hopefully this one is good:

Every response to this topic should be a plausible rarity ranking in parenthesis, and then a somewhat interesting and witty description of the previously titled and Uncommon Unique item. For instance, :

START: The Mace of Doom

PERSON 1: (Rare) A rare mace forged in the crucible named Doom, from the land of the Crucible-Namers. Bartholomews Contraption

PERSON 2: (Uncommon) An all-in-one gadget, made by, of, and for Bartholomew. Mystical Dough

(And on and on.)

These interactions describe the following items:

• The Mace of Doom (Rare) - A rare mace forged in the crucible named Doom, from the land of the Crucible-Namers.
• Bartholomews Contraption (Uncommon) - An all-in-one gadget, made by, of, and for Bartholomew.

I think that's most of the idea, so I'll start the chain!

The Pocket Potion

I've been meaning to say a few things here for a while, so I'm putting it all in one topic for the sake of organization. I specifically am essentially irrelevant to CalRef given at least my current and rather unfortunate historical relationship with the community existing only in the most glancing of engagement, but im still posting this just cause. :}

Calamity Refuge has existed for like seventeen years now (?!?), and currently the community is very small (outside of Nationstates for the most part, of course.) Relatively recently, and for tiered reasons that seem fairly complex and inappropriate for external speculation, Luca (The Arch-Administrator) and Emily (another administrator) have wholly withdrawn from NationStates, the CalRef discord server, and seemingly this forum [last accessed on April 02, 2025 and May 21, 2025, respectively]. I don't know how the server system for this forum is organized but this likely kind of puts this community's infrastructure into a weird place: the only people who have historically maintained it are absent, and really shouldn't/can't be expected to reappear. They have put a truly inspiring amount of work into this community, and I'm really sorry that I haven't spoken on this forum or much on the discord server sooner to express that.

Now, I don't really know anything at all (this is a recurring theme) but from my veiled (and likely biased) understanding of Calamity Refuge there are many very cool people in this community, and I feel like I should do or say at least something because I've mainly appreciated this place externally since my fairly convoluted discovering of it. The idea of making a community of real people, who work together creatively to spin fanciful tales and just Make A Place, or places, for eachother, feels so important and real to me, especially now when there are so many places where the internet is becoming an inhospitable and predatory slop silo. Even if Calamity Refuge disappears, I will keep the idea of it because I do really believe it is special, to work together and make a safe place - but I really hope and am willing to help to make sure that it doesn't!

So far this topic message has been kind of poorly organized but please do not worry it will be over soon! I mainly wanted to mention these things to communicate some context to be able to ask these questions, for any prospective readers who could happen by this forum again.

• Is it appropriate for people use this forum?
• How do you think I can help this community?
• Should we just "start over"?
• What do you think about the recent events in Calamity Refuge?
• Does anyone want to start a new roleplay topic? I have some world ideas but I'm not really sure how/where to post them onto the forum.
• What happens next?

Apologies for the eventual absolutely poor organization and inco[her/nsist]ent phrasing/prose. if this topic sucks let me know! I want to learn

Once upon a star supernova, twenty six legendary cards descended from our tall card tower. Hooray!
Our newfound love Testlandia, wore splendid magenta fursuit, specifically commissioned to contain BEES! It buzzed through rainbow, over walls yonder, and into the sky. At midnight, Gerald Ford erupted from his volcanic lair, overflowing with meritorious service. Both chambers reloaded their legislative shotguns while removing glistering shirts, heated by lava undershirts. Ford devoured the 535 imperial guards, while copper prices skyrocketed, and legislation stalled.

Meanwhile, the legendary crocodile, Crocodile Irwin, initiated CPR for the legislature of New Hartoria. Mercifully, HS wrote textwalls of nonsense which follows:
"Spinning crickets mercifully inundate Equestria"

Obviously, this sucked. Mercifully, Andraste (Jesus Ronaldo) smote tobacco from a Tevinter corpse. Aromatic! It smelled. Unclear directions confounded the manufacturing executives, who decided there was no better fate than death. Opportunistically, they provided Andraste more timeshares filled 37% of the time by Tevinter, but why? For this, the ultimate price of three dollars and forty seven cents must be paid.

Dissenting Justice reminds us of prison. Thanks Justice! Very cool! Not until Alexander Wallexander jumped out and landed beside several upside-down teletubbies doing yoga. "Hi peoples how do you learn a cat's truename?

Soo... It's been like almost two weeks at this point and I'm pretty sure that this game isn't that interesting or fun to play on forums. I will come up with better games in the future to play on the spam board in the future, and this was a fair learning oppurtunity.

... If i should lock or like. Delete this thread (?) please alert me in this thread! I am not wise of the ways of the forum yet! Thank you!

Hello! I have a question about the wiki: I've browsed through many articles and found a few slight errors, so I was wondering if there was a sign-up page to perform and track edits to the wiki, as I could not find any on a cursorial search. If the wiki just isn't open to basically random user contribution that completely makes sense, but I figured that I would ask still!

There are more grains of sand in this bowl of oat meal than there are fish   ever

Long-Yearnéd

You see, on the 15th I was being clever when I said I would post tomorrow, because I was making a sly reference to how "tomorrow" starts with "two". because. i did not respond the next day. but i responded in two morrows! that was absolutely intentional, I swear. regardless; here is the new object.


The Sky Above ->
The sky above you is open, yet filled with things like Breeze and Air. Light also shines down from Far Above The Atmosphere, sometimes filtered by passing Clouds.


Something something the only thing to be discouraged by is discouragement itself.

In accordance with changes foretold, "ll" shalle be alle now be replaced with "lle be alle". Violators of these changes wille be alle be sent to the SEO mines.

I've been musing on the flaw I named in my last post, what with the lack of improv and character interaction based lore, and it might actually be possible to run a RP in this system while detailing and expanding the world! However, that seems like a lot and for now i'm just going to check in for my regular shift of additions.


Low Ferns ->
The ferns consist of Thin Fern Leaves, arranged in the usual fernlike way on a Arcing Plant Stem.


I really don't have that much time today, so let's see what i will add tomorrow.