Unlike most of my fellow technophilic friends, I'm not enamoured particularly with science fiction and fantasy. I abhor it, in fact, to a great extent: as a person for whom logic, clarity, truth, and process are constant goals, I can't really understand why anyone would like to indulge in reading and creating second-rate sci-fi and fantasy except as a surrogate for a lacking artistic side. Sweeping generalisations, I know, but I do in part believe it, and it sets up a nice irony given what I'm announcing here:
With Morbus Iff, I've founded a new multiplayer world-creation game with a difference: it's based on a wiki, and the aim is the creation of a lexicon for a new world which we will be defining. As the title of this post suggests, it's called Ghyll. If you want to go straight to the action, you can check out the Ghyll wiki. There's an announcement on gamegrene.com too, which provides some more details.
I've decided to dispense with the usual pleasantries of this genre of game, such as the use of a character name. Morbus, though a seasoned practitioner of this kind of thing, is doing likewise.
What I'm hoping is that the scope of Ghyll is broadly defined enough for me to explore various topics that I like to pursue external to technology. In other words, I'm hoping that it can encompass those things that I'd like to write about but don't otherwise have a good peer-review based conduit for. My very first entry is a good example of that: Andelphracian Lights is a clear derivative of my work on Anomalous Luminous Phenomena. Morbus's first entry on the other hand, Agony uncle, exposes his love of narrative and mystery. We've been wanting to produce some literature together for some time now, and Ghyll is hopefully the best possibly consummation of that desire.
I'm not too sure why I use the possessive Morbus' on IRC but Morbus's elsewhere. Strictly, I believe the latter is required since the only general exception to the usual possessives rule is for archaic names ending in -es and -is. Enjoy Ghyll, anyway.