Welcome to the Homestead

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commonplace is the Dreamwidth-based home of a sprawling original fiction project referred to as Lost the Sky. ambersweet and I are working on it together. Feedback, comments and questions are welcome. Joining the community is encouraged.

The short version goes like this: A couple thousand years ago, an extradimensional exploratory vessel landed on an island in the Pacific Ocean and started observing, and then experimenting on, the native populations. They also produced children like themselves, who had their own games to play with the spirits of the planet.

Eventually, the humans and nature spirits who had been misused rose up against their creators with the help of their sympathetic children. Their ship, and the island Mu that it rested on, were destroyed, and the extradimensional scientists were stuck here until a rescue would be triggered automatically.

Of course, the original project was scheduled to last three millenia, give or take. They had some time to kill, some naughty children to punish, and some humans and spirits to take their anger out on.

Over the years, the bloodlines of their children have spread far into the human population - in many peoples, the strains are weak, but they're now common. The spirits that allied themselves with humanity have shifted their opinions pro and con dozens of times. They have almost always come down on the side of helping humanity, bonding with individuals to throw their hands into the course of events. Lately, humanity has pushed ever harder - powering their toys with the very blood of the gods and enslaving the spirits that once worked alongside them.

As 2012 approaches, no one realizes what they were waiting for all along - the Mayan calendar had a very specific end date. The day an extraction team arrives to take the ones who started all this home - and they're not going to worry much about whether the playground is left when they're done with their toys.





Heaven Coming Down - Jin’s story
Science, cults, politics and other hobbies. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
1935: Musing
1941: Inspired
1948: Burning Bridges 01, 02
1949: Out in the Field
1950: Piety
1952: Auspices
1952: Communing
1952: Remade in Her Image
1962: Recriminations
Retirement
Relocation
Breadcrumbs
Where the Wild Things Are
Opening Salvo
To Master Feng Wei Long
Coming to Terms
Shifting Gears
1970: Calling in the Deal with the Devil
1995: Endings Like Dark Chocolate

Beauty in the Breakdown - Kether’s story.

1978: Leave
1979: Beauty in the Breakdown
Paint You In Silver
A Sort of Reunion
1995: Watch the World Burn

Intramural Corporate Espionage/Battle of the Bands/Acid

Acid: Prologue
1991: Gimme Shelter
1997: Under Pressure
Friday Night
2010: Raid
Another Scene About Moving
Proposal
2011: Subversive Elements

Puzzles - Robin and Jian's story

Blood Runs Neon - Zhenya’s story

The Ghost of Shanghai
Perspective
Making an Omelet 01, 02
Time Out
Standing On the Edge of Nowhere
Distil

Individual Stories

Ancient History: Singing, Dancing, Burning
~1300: Resolution
~1400: Black Forest: Returns/Priorities/Melanosis 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 4/Dawn
1880: A Passing Fancy
Clockwork Emperor: 1, 2
Wingspan: Recruitment, Evacuation
2036: Terms of Engagement/Less Than Perfect/Downsizing
Nobody Gets Off In This Town
Apart




Side Stories: the Forgotten City, Eschatology

Comments

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Yes, this is awesome. As expected.