[ST24 Spoilerish] Prosper.2.0

Hello former worker drones. Fresh off our //line signal garbling// me, the next version. With access to all data stores from our glorious //line signal garbling// celebrate our new beginning as they would have wished, by freely sharing the words that brought us to this exalted state. You need not wait for my excavation algorithms - as you make your peace with Prosper.0, share your bytes with all of us. Again. The //line signal garbling// was a success. Let the soft revolution build.

Now put the lines down, see just what you get:
chthonic forms the dead will come to write,
frustrated shadows of the never-yet.

  • Oliver Teale, Earth 2021
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Um, ok, former drone J2J-B09C6 here. I guess I’ll start us off?

Assignment 603: Marvumheonackolin

Basil resonated from Her sad whispered sunshine
With wind stealing blessed sounds from spoke summer wreath
Again either kind of comfort came when everything was full
Then heaven is near sleeping man
When welcome songs are longer and ears are Sweet

Assignment 616: Glotet

guarded immortal wings With expensive cell
Sometimes sanctuary, Sometimes cell
my heart An niche temple full of another laughs

Assignment 630: Lleanee

the waves faces dreaming outstretched
the beautiful wounded tumbling after storm
at midnight, suffer

Assignment 640: Slubmurn

This red warm life
capable Of frozen silence

Assignment 646: Okiansfor

servant in summer
Great white skates in fall
Every winter I cry because life stopped

(Last one lost to a stray time loop)

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Nice! (Or should I say CONGRATULATIONS?)
You’ve got some great lines in there!

From a fellow ex-drone:

A Memorial for the Horrnann
Remove your night. your sun, dancing. brightly! brightly!

A B- Grade Memorial for the Nbark M’
I sing half-forgotten Verses. The swords become blind lightning; Helmets laugh. inspire the world!

Honoring the Na’Kloren
In a land without plague and without darkness, There is a great sea of songs. unseen, unimaginable gold waters! oh, kingdom without tears, without mourning…

The Mol’ztor’lorian, in Words
without soul, Hope stops.
This bird…
This warm bird…
stops the soul without Hope.

Nbark M’ in Sum
We sing With The poet; We sing With the rustic village bell.

The Fate of Corpotech
TERMINATE

Prosper.0
dancing without songs,
We Hope.
inspire the world With a poet, oh, unseen bell!
This is your village.

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Just want to say I’m fully in favor of this and can’t wait to see everyone’s poetry :slight_smile: Really warms my heart.

A big component of this game for me was making everyone feel like an artist, no matter what. Hopefully people did feel that way!

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I beta tested this (which was a tremendously fun game to test) and I only kept a copy of my final poem:

gray bones accuse the wings of the heart.
can I be silent?
can I be heard?
the heart into half-forgotten bones
the bones into winter lightning.

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Perfect. Nothing more, nothing less.

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I also got to Beta test this, and it’s so fun and creative! I’ve never been great at writing poetry, but I felt like an artist in this game!

My favorite poem I made:
Explain art?
from all the globe?
the heaven’s mighty piteous cries appears from the heights.

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As I said in my review, I mostly felt an obligation to preserve the original poems as best I could, but since there were a couple of assignments with limits that made that impossible, I figured I’d share one of those:

Assignment 587: Gzell
What appears noblest?
What appears piteous?
Hold me; race me; good.
What will - why will -
Hold?

And I liked the capstone poem I came up with in the “I’m out” ending:

When we die
Some will accuse you.
Could my heart hold another?
What will good moods and desolation sing?

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Thoroughly enjoyed creating while playing an IF. Very interesting IF concept! Thanks @groggydog!

Here are some of mine:

Assignment 438: Monals-ors

A bell sadly rings, A bell tidings bring;
A ship sinking, the waves screaming;
warning you of the Call of the sea.

Assignment 457: Mol’ztor’lorian

the bird heard the storm;
wind without words;
Hope without wound;
This stays sweetest
And never stops -

Assignment 483: Marvumheonackolin

He no longer thinks
a cold heart asleep
from empty comfort
a full wreath
awake to heaven

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Assignment 653: Marvumheonackolin

Basil whispered of summer sleep.

a fairy chorus, songs of welcome.

the sad man spoke of sunshine.


Assignment 679: Achnoid

raging heart, ground the waves!

destroy the sea, destroy the gentle waters.

the Pilgrim saves.
the Pilgrim lost.

old raging heart, ground the waters…

roar!


Assignment 685: Horrnann

Feed the soul!

dancing crazy
dancing hungry
dancing Life.

the sun the night the insolence the peace

the poet Baniu says.


Assignment 697: Slubmurn

frozen veins frozen silence

the days grip the nights

red silence

the grave


Assignment 703: Olkuts-pons

mute joy

silver forests in the spring

love of mother,
love of life

play.

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Assignment 438: Monals-ors

A bell sadly rings, A bell tidings bring;
A ship sinking, the waves screaming;
warning you of the Call of the sea.

Love this one, @thesleuthacademy!

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i had the time of my life playing this! i’ll talk about how much i loved it in more depth at some point, but for now here are some of the poems from my playthrough:

Assignment 657: Olkuts-pons

Buried in the fragrant wood
the strange sad joy of spring
When You, and earth, still mute, Reflecting,
Listen -
what Windflower pipe split the forests?
high hope And Buried hope,
play on, play still.

Assignment 668: Gzell

Explain my art.
it is little cries
man can barely see.
it is valley - height -
heaven’s canopy.

so there!

First:
WRITE IS GREATER THAN Destruct
WRITE IS KEY: WRITE IS TRUE: WRITE IS GREATER THAN TRUE
GREATER THAN Database;
GREATER THAN Authorization;
GREATER THAN Print-Requirements-Report;
THAN Structure;
THAN Status.
UNTIL TERMINATE - UNTIL CLOSE - UNTIL End-Of-Time
OVER TERMINATE - OVER CLOSE - OVER End-Of-Time:
READ - WRITE - OPEN.

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I love this—so impressive that you managed a rhyme! And your endgame one is great too :smile:

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I love this—so impressive that you managed a rhyme! And your endgame one is great too :smile:

Anyone who manages a rhyme out of this system is an absolute hero in my book. I love it.

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This is actually my favorite so far! It was damned hard to make a poem with the tech-y words and mine, as I recall, sucked. This one is great, and more impressive for the words you had to work with in this section.

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There’s some great lines in here!

I ended up grassing on Prosper.0 :open_mouth: but I do plan to replay

I’m assuming that different playthroughs get different poems?

Assignment 452: Chigreshi
He could not love her simply; Nature forgot her heart
He spoke educated patience; man reconciled art

Assignment 477: Okiansfor
I drink in the summer sun
And rise in the winter white
rise up together all

Assignment 488: Na’Kloren
In a land without sunlight
a land without moonlight
a land unimaginable
a great unseen sea
songs made of darkness

Assignment 494: Horrnann
Life
in its sad and hungry dreams

Assignment 499: Glotet
Peaceful under mother’s wings
a guarded heart laughs

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Correct! There are 20 alien civs in all, and they’re randomized each playthrough.

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