I'm just blogging some notes for myself about what I intend to do tonight. (Saying tonight in my head brought the Phil Collins lyrics to my head, hence the blog title. Could have been worse. I could have quoted something from the West Side Story song "Tonight" instead.) My wife is going out with a friend, so I've got the house to myself. I'll blast some music, probably not really blastable music actually (I'm thinking I'm in a classical mood, to be honest), ramble into my phone to get the audio for at least one, possibly two Youtube videos, go ahead and edit at least one Youtube video, and then if I still have time and energy, work on another map. Ta-da!
Let's get a bit more into the details.
1) I've been threatening for weeks if not even months already by now to make the next column of my Shadows Over Garenport 5x5 matrix. This one will be the one associated with the Tazitta Death Cults. I'll probably sorta read (with a few annotated comments) from my supercut blog post, and just turn that into a video with lots of AI images of the characters and places. I haven't been able to get a really great image of the Prophetess, but maybe I'll play around with Bing's DALL-E 3 a bit prior to this and see what I can get. This shouldn't take long to record, and it should be be too difficult to edit, so I anticipate that within a couple of hours of starting, I'll have it uploaded.
2) That front ends with a brief introduction to one of the Heresiarchs; the "supervillains" if you will of my setting. I've also been threatening to make a video about the Heresiarchy. However, I'm not quite sure that I'm ready for it. Some of the Heresiarchs have enough material I've created about them that I could vlog about them, but some of them are just a concept and after a few sentences, I'm not sure where to go with them. In order to do this, I'd probably need to spend a little bit of time fleshing out the characters just a bit.
3) I've been less happy with the label Porhomok for the jungly area. I'm actually thinking of taking some old Terrasan names from the Mk. IV version of the setting, and repurposing them to rename and rework this already poorly defined area. This implies that there's a whole Terrasan population down there that I haven't done jack squat with and didn't even consider. The Terrasans, if you recall, are kind of based a bit on the old thalassocracy of the Crown of Aragon, a dynastic union that preceded the creation of Spain as a political entity, but which certainly consisted of very European para-Spaniards; Aragonese, Barcelonans, but also Mediterranean islands like the Balearics, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, much of southern Italy, much of Greece, and even parts of what is now southern France. So Spanish-ish, but not at all in the Latin American context. Although geographically Terrasa would be similarly situated to Mexico relative to the main part of the setting (to the extent that the main part of the setting is America-like geographically) it really shouldn't have any of the native Central American cultures as a substrate. No Aztecs, Mayas, Toltecs, etc. heavily modifying the criollo culture; this is pure Medieval pre-Spanish Spanish, if that makes some sense.
But, of course, it is also quite maritime. It's on a coast, the Corsair Coast is a huge part of what I'm using Terrasa for. I can't assume that borrowing the names of my old Terrasan places will work exactly like borrowing their context, because rather than a fading empire, more like very late western Roman Empire being the model for Terrasa, it's going to be much more independent and scrappy. I'm not sure that the criollos and other Spaniards of New Spain in the Americas really can compare to the attitude that the Americans had towards being British, exactly. Sure, they had their revolutions and became the independent countries of South America, but I'm going to be using them in a context that is much more like America to Great Britain, in spite of the fact that the culture will be Spanish-ish rather than English.
In any case, I'm a fan of developing by noodling, so making a map even if I don't really have a clear plan of what I'm making right now is fun, and when I'm done, I do have a clear plan of where to go. This will replace the map I made back in October where I added Porhomok, Easternesse, and some other features to the map, and I'll likely concentrate on developing those newer areas just a bit.
4) Not going to do this tonight, but I'd like to do three things in relatively short order. I guess it's time for a nested list...
a) finish youtube videos for the rest of the Shadows columns.
b) finish fleshing out the Cult of Undeath 5x5
c) add two or three more potential campaign outlines for future 5x5 development
5) Am I ever going to fulfil my vague promise to do some kind of solo play Shadows Over Garenport? I haven't decided not to, but I have more "important" things that have taken priority, so it's not imminent, that's for sure. Even the stuff that is "imminent" is taking longer than I intended, so I'm behind.
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