Ia, Mama Luna!

[omorka]

Oh, my gods, the sky is just incredible tonight.

There's a ring around the moon so large that it almost brushes Orion's shoulder. There are several planets, it looks like, or a planet and a couple of very bright stars, inside the ring, and the sky inside the ring is almost dark teal instead of midnight blue. It's so clear . . .

. . . I can hear the starsong over the background scream . . . that happens so rarely here . . .

. . . Damn, I need someone to share this with.

Comments

[briareos.livejournal.com]

The moon was indeed beautiful tonight. It served as an excellent muse for thoughts that had been dimly rattling around in my head.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Care to share? (Of course it's fine if you don't.)

[briareos.livejournal.com]

As I noted in my journal, I have been unsatisfied by the current offerings in Cyberpunkish RPG settings. Checked the mail Sunday evening and stayed outside a while because the air was cool and the moon was bright. I guess it jump-started my creative process because I had a number of ideas form as I drove back to Beaumont. Most of these ideas are in kernel form right now, but my general solution is to move the setting further into the future while keeping the main themes (which IMHO are: the boundaries (or lack thereof) of man-machine interfaces, machine consciousness, and the ugly results of corporatism.) The far future approach lets me throw in some space related science-fiction, and I'm hoping the whole thing will mesh well.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Sounds really interesting. Let us know if you need people to playtest, once you get it into shape!

[princejvstin.livejournal.com]

I saw a ring around the Moon on Saturday night. It was, indeed, beautiful and I wish I could have photographed it.

500 miles, and 500 more, and then 600.

[quantumduck.livejournal.com]

It was interesting speaking to you while we were both viewing the same objects. We were seperated by ~1556 miles, but viewing a vastly more distant third point. The little bit of atmosphere over your view was doing a much better job of showing it off than my little patch of orange-grey urbana was.

Still, it's funny how perspective puts things into perspective. ;-}

Re: 500 miles, and 500 more, and then 600.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was sort of thinking about that, too, just in terms of vantage points and horizons - if we were both looking at her, where were we looking relative to each other . . .

[brezhnev.livejournal.com]

I also saw the full moon with the ring -- it was most wonderful.